A lover (novella) Zhang Baotong 2017.8.6

The school held a parent-teacher conference before the holidays, which was the biggest headache for me. Because my mother is small-footed, I think it's very weird, so I don't want the teachers and classmates to know that my mother is small-footed, but I can't do it without inviting parents, so I wrote a leave note to my mother, saying that my mother is sick and hospitalized, and she can't hold a parent-teacher conference. But it was a coincidence, that day, when I was walking on the street with my mother, I met Lin Yuqing and her mother who also came to the street. The people in the family area know each other well. My mom was talking to her mom. However, at this time, Lin Yuqing said to my mother, Auntie, aren't you hospitalized? As soon as I heard this, I became anxious, and secretly waved my head at her, asking her not to ask my mother again. However, she ignored me and continued to say to my mom why don't you come to the parent-teacher conference. My mom seemed puzzled and said I hadn't heard of a parent-teacher conference. Lin Yuqing said that the school has sent notices to parents. My mom came to me and asked me why didn't you tell me about it. I said I put the notice on the table, don't you see? But my mom can't read at all. If it weren't for my classmates and parents, my mom would have beaten me with a broom. My mother glared at me, and then asked Lin Yuqing how Baocheng was at school. Lin Yuqing said that his performance was not bad, and the total score of this exam was the same as mine, and he was tied for first place in the class.

My mother said to the director's wife, you see how blessed you are, the eldest girl is promising, and the little girl is smarter, more beautiful and more promising than the eldest girl. The commissioner's wife also said, you see that your son is also very good, handsome and awake, and his eyes are bright. I've wanted a son for years, but I didn't. My mother said half-seriously and half-jokingly, no, just change my son with your daughter. As soon as I heard this, I immediately resisted and said, "I don't want to." Lin Yuqing said to me, you don't want to, I don't want to. My mom just played a joke on you, and you recognized it. As he spoke, he took his mother's hand and left angrily.

My mom hates lying the most. I told her such a big lie, and she certainly wouldn't spare me. However, strangely enough, when I got home, my mother did not lose her temper with me, nor did she even question me. Maybe it's because Lin Yuqing praised me, or maybe her mother praised me. Because my mother is uneducated, she has small feet, and she is a dead man, so she always seems to be very inferior in front of others, and she recognizes what others say very seriously.

My mom really started to take me seriously. She often cleaned me up and went out to take me with her. She was glad to hear others praise me. And usually in housework, my mother always asks my sister to do more, obviously favoring me. And my brother has been away from us because he went to middle school in Xianyang, Shaanxi Province.

I am a very low self-esteem and very withdrawn person. During my time at Luohe Bridge, I was always alone by the river, and there were no other children with me, coupled with the death of my father and the poverty of my family, I always felt inferior to others. I am very envious when I see other people's families talking and laughing and having fun together, and when I see other children being led by their fathers and pampered by their mothers, which is unimaginable in our family. I was always silent in the class, so many years later, many of my classmates couldn't remember that there was still me in the class.

Because I never cause trouble, and I don't provoke others, no one in my classmates bullied me. However, once, there was a classmate who was one year older than me, named Wang Baosheng, who was the most famous troublemaker in our class. When he saw that I was honest all day long, he wanted to bully me. At that time, Lin Yuqing happened to be in front of him, and he probably wanted to show that he was the overlord of the class in front of Lin Yuqing. He came up to me, played a strange role in front of me, and teased me and said, "Hey, your dad is dead, and you're a kid without a dad." With that, he slapped me on the head and ran away.

Lin Yuqing was a little surprised when she heard this, but she looked at me to see how I reacted. I was insulted in public, and it was more unbearable than a slap in the face, because my father's death was devastating to our family, and he used these words to speak of me, which hurt and irritated me the most. I gritted my teeth and didn't let the tears flow. If Lin Yuqing hadn't been in front of me, I might have swallowed this breath. But she's right there right there, and if I swallow it, what will she think of me? she'll think I'm a bear.

So, I gritted my teeth and endured, thinking that I must give him a riposte. The bell rang for class, and the students entered the classroom from the outside. Wang Baosheng also returned to his seat and sat down. The arithmetic teacher was already standing in front of the door, ready for class. At this time, I didn't know where I got the guts, so I suddenly got up from the back seat, walked to Wang Baosheng's side, and slapped him the back of the head. Hearing a crisp sound of "popping" in the classroom, Wang Baosheng was startled, covered his head with both hands, and turned his head to look at me. I thought he was going to fight with me, and I was fighting with him, and I was angry and trying to fight him. I don't care if it's class time or not, anyway, he bullied me first.

However, as I expected, Wang Baosheng didn't want to fight with me, he didn't even get angry, but looked at me with that surprised and ridiculous naughty face, and then smiled self-deprecatingly at the whole class and said, Yo, Gao Baocheng will also beat people. The other students laughed as if they were watching the two of us perform a burlesque. The arithmetic teacher frowned and looked at us with her eyes. Lin Yuqing shouted to everyone, class, don't talk. Listening to her words, the classmates fell silent. I returned to my seat, but I was still in a very bad mood, and I remembered the scene when I followed my mother to Xi'an for the funeral, and I was so sad that I wanted to cry. At this time, I saw Lin Yuqing looking back at me from time to time, her expression seemed to be comforting me and paying attention to me, which made me feel much better.