Chapter 12: I Like Daddy
Zhou Heng and Hu Jinhua are classmates in high school, that is, the high school in this town.
Hu Jinhua's home is in the town.
At that time, they were playing well, and they were both good students with excellent character and learning.
Hu Jinhua talked to a friend, and when he graduated, he met the opposition of the woman's family. But the girl's heart is towards him.
Later, on the summer vacation after the college entrance examination, another person pursued the girl, and even tried to kiss him when he sent her back.
A young man with strong blood, where can he stand this?
At that time, Hu Jinhua seemed to have drunk some wine, picked up a brick and hit it, and as a result, he was a problem.
Moreover, the other party's family conditions are very good, and he has been prosecuted for the crimes of "intentional injury" and "picking quarrels and provoking trouble", and has always demanded that he be severely punished.
Hu Jinhua was sentenced to 10 years.
It's unlucky to hear it, but in those years, it was expected that he would be sentenced to six years, no way.
Not to mention that at that time, now there are all those who are caught in the face of righteousness and bravery.
Zhou Heng counted the days, but in fact, it hadn't come yet! It was also possible that he behaved well and commuted his sentence.
However, just look at the way he looks now to know how he's doing.
Zhou Heng thought about the days when the two of them studied and played together in the past, and he was really sad.
After the accident, he also went to Hu Jinhua's house to see his wife several times and gave some things. His wife lost her hair in half a year and sat at home crying all day.
Later, after graduating from college, he went to the south to work, so he didn't care too much.
I really didn't expect that meeting again would be this scene.
In fact, even if he didn't ask, Zhou Heng knew that Hu Jinhua's history of imprisonment was known to almost the whole town, and it would definitely be difficult for him to gain a foothold after he came out.
As for this errand of moving goods in a fertilizer store, it must have been obtained by relatives entrusting relatives and relatives protecting relatives.
With the extent that the boss slammed the door, the salary must be only a few hundred.
Not to mention their small town, even if he wants to go to a big place to make a living, it must be difficult.
In these days, who cares about a guy who has been in prison for 10 years, and why did he get in? In short, if he has a criminal record, he is judged to be a dangerous element.
For a while, Zhou Heng couldn't think of any words to comfort him except that he was uncomfortable.
In fact, what is the use of words that comfort is too pale?
He didn't say anything, and Hu Jinhua didn't say anything, just smiled wordlessly.
Zhou Heng finally spoke: "Where's your WeChat ID, come, let's add one, and have a meal together when we have time." ”
It's definitely not going to work now, he's still working.
It's a bad job, but it's a serious job.
Hu Jinhua didn't seem to expect that he was like this, and someone took the initiative to ask for his contact information, and he was stunned for a moment.
In the past half a year, his former acquaintances have basically not contacted him.
He took out a mobile phone from his trouser pocket, pressed the password, and clicked on WeChat.
The mobile phone is probably the old guy from a few years ago, the Internet thief is slow, click on WeChat and go there for half a day.
Hu Jinhua smiled and said, "This is my father's old mobile phone, I used it, and the network is very slow." ”
Zhou Heng said: "Don't worry, slow is a little slower." ”
When I finally added WeChat and exchanged phone numbers, it was already a few minutes.
Zhou Heng noticed the boss's expression, because that person was always looking this way.
The boss was very strange, he didn't come over to urge Hu Jinhua to hurry up, but his expression was not very good-looking, probably because he talked to people for so long at work and didn't work, but he didn't dare to come and talk about him, because he had been in prison, afraid that he was a ruthless person, and that he was afraid of provoking him.
If it was another clerk, this boss would have scolded him directly.
For Hu Jinhua, this kind of look is tantamount to an insult, but what should I do? I have indeed been in prison!
Do you want to stretch your neck, go and reason with the boss, and ask him to have a better attitude?
He couldn't make his mother sad anymore.
Zhou Heng saw his difficulties, and also said: "Okay, you are still busy, then I won't say more." Anyway, we all have contact information, see when you are free, let's have a meal together. I'm available at any time. ”
Hu Jinhua smiled astringently, nodded without speaking, put the mobile phone in his trouser pocket, and then went into the store to work.
Zhou Heng kept seeing him walk in, and his emotions did not recover.
In my memory, I still remember that sunny and handsome young man, and in a blink of an eye, it became like this.
He also didn't know if Hu Jinhua would call him. After all, the two are now far apart.
Zhou Heng didn't care.
But for Hu Jinhua, his former classmates later went to university, had decent jobs in the south, and there was no one to criticize him for taking leave to go home, and he could chat with anyone at will.
And the college students are still very respectable in the village.
What about him? A man who has been in prison for nearly 10 years, when he comes out, he sees his mother's blind eyes that are about to cry, and he is pointed at wherever he goes, and he can't find a job.
Now I have seven relatives and eight relatives, and I have found such a job, a few hundred yuan a month, and the boss doesn't take it seriously.
The gap between the two is too big, so big that it makes him feel inferior.
And after nearly ten years, even if two people sit at the same table, what can they talk about?
Now that the world is changing so fast, the president of the United States is not Ohei, and Ohei only took office at that time.
He used to be in the 2G era, and now he is almost 5G, and even with smart phones, he has to learn from scratch.
He can't afford this phone, and his father used to buy it.
If two people really sit together, how can they have a common topic to talk about?
Zhou Heng looked at his back as he entered, and he didn't have much taste in his heart.
He changed the battery on his tricycle and turned to go home.
Along the way, he was sighing in his heart, life is really fucking changeable.
Back then, Hu Jinhua was handsome, his grades were good, and his home was in the town, his family conditions were much better than Zhou Heng's, and he had a cheerful personality, and he had a girlfriend in high school, which really made Zhou Heng envious.
Who knew that overnight, there was nothing.
As far as Zhou Heng is concerned, when he can help, he must still want to help him, after all, Hu Jinhua is not a big traitor.
Like him, he has basically been abandoned by society, and if there is no one to help him at all, he really can't imagine his life in the future.
Don't look at his current vicissitudes, in fact, he is less than thirty.
But how?
Hu Jinhua's self-esteem must be very strong now, and how to help is also a problem, he doesn't want to embarrass people.
When I got home, it was already sunset, the smoke was already rising in the house, and Li Yunlian was cooking dinner.
Zhou Heng unloaded the fertilizer, put the tricycle, and went to collect the wheat, and the meal was already on the table.
Wang Siqi hurriedly put his own exclusive dishes and chopsticks on the table, waiting for the meal to start.
The little girl couldn't wait, and urged one after another: "Mother, uncle, grandpa, hurry up!
Although she cried loudly when her brother left in the afternoon, after so long, she was completely out of her emotions.
What is my brother?
At this time, it was also the time when the big rooster led a group of harem people to return from shooting, and after Zhou Heng sprinkled feed on the chickens, he scanned it again and earned some experience points.
The marked chicken is becoming more and more oily and pleasant, Zhou Heng looked happy, quickly took out his mobile phone, and took a small video.
When he washed his hands and ate on the table, Wang Siqi had already begun to eat, and his small mouth was oily.
She likes to eat shrimp, so Zhou Ying peeled her shell. The little guy eats fast, the shrimp balls are chewed one by one, and the mother is slow to peel them.
"Mom, hurry up and peel it, I'm done eating. She pouted.
Zhou Ying peeled it in her hand and said in her mouth: "After eating, you can eat other dishes! Why do you have to wait for me? ”
So, the little girl went to eat other dishes, and stared at her bowl from time to time to see when there was another shrimp ball, and quickly picked it up and ate it.
Even Zhou Heng looked at it, and he also felt that this child was so happy, if only someone peeled shrimp for him to eat.
Li Yunlian saw Zhou Heng staring at Wang Siqi, so she asked him with a smile: "You ask Qiqi, do you like her father or mother?"
Zhou Heng said: "Then you still need to ask, you must like your mother, only your mother is good in the world." ”
"Then you ask. ”
So, Zhou Heng turned his face away and asked, "Qiqi, do you like your father or your mother?"
Wang Siqi blurted out without hesitation: "I like Dad." ”
Zhou Heng: "......"
You eat shrimp balls, you can't wait for the next bite, who is peeling them for you? Do you still like your father? Your father, you haven't seen each other for a few months?
Wang Siqi's father, who is Zhou Heng's brother-in-law, works as an expatriate salesman and often only comes back once in a few months.
In Zhou Heng's thoughts, this kid doesn't even remember what his father looks like, right?
Zhou Ying peeled the shrimp shell and said: "Of course she likes her father! Her father never urges her to get up, does not force her to learn to dress, does not force her to eat by herself, no matter that she is not allowed to eat snacks, once in a few months, she either buys her this toy, or buys her that food, everything follows her, she doesn't like her father, who does she like?"
Wang Siqi interjected at the right time: "Dad doesn't tell me to drink medicine." ”
Zhou Ying couldn't help but scratch her nose and said, "You little conscienceless, I don't care if you drink medicine, how good is it when you are sick? ”
Wang Siqi grinned and said with a hippie smile: "Little conscienceless...... Little conscienceless ......"
She didn't know what it meant, so she learned the new words.
Zhou Ying put down the shrimp and said, "Okay, I know you like Dad, so now you let Dad peel the shrimp for you." ”
The little guy quickly changed his words: "I still like my mother, I like my mother the most, I love my mother, only my mother is good in the world......"
By the end, she was singing.
This is also a guy with a nimble mind and a rudder. Zhou Heng couldn't help laughing.
People say that three-year-olds are older, seven-year-olds are old, and I don't know if that's the case.
Li Yunlian had already finished eating quickly, and as soon as she put the bowl down, she said, "Xiao Ying, you eat, I'll help Qi Qi peel it." ”
Zhou Ying has a quick temper and has a bad relationship with her in-laws, so almost all of the two children are brought up by her grandmother.
Usually it is the case that one person eats first and then takes care of the child instead before the other has time to start eating.
Zhou Heng looked at his bowl and thought to himself, I really want someone to peel shrimp for me! I'm just three years old.
At the dinner table, Zhou Heng talked about meeting Hu Jinhua in the afternoon.
For him, a classmate, everyone in the family knows that they have come to their house to play once before, and they know that something happened to him later.
Now that it is suddenly mentioned again, the whole family is embarrassed.