Chapter Twenty-Four: Under the Fence
[24] Under the fence
At this time, Tong Mu's house was a different scene.
"Tell me clearly, how can the school let you write a check, what bad things have you done?"
Tong Mu's aunt Tong Wen pointed at Tong Mu with one hand on her waist and hatred in the other, standing in the middle of the living room, glaring at her niece with hatred, that momentum, as if she was about to pounce on her at any time and tear and tear and eat her.
Aunt Tong Mu's family of three lives in the textile factory community of Guotai Road in the west of Hushan, a set of old husband's house, two bedrooms and a living room of more than 60 square meters, the master bedroom lives with aunt and uncle, and Tong Mu's cousin Ge Mingzhu lives alone in the second bedroom.
My aunt may be kind enough to make Tong Mu live more spacious, so she cleaned up the corner of the living room, built a single bed, and five doors in the living room, regardless of the kitchen, bathroom, master bedroom, second bedroom, and corridor, all came and went in the living room. If this is a commercial faΓ§ade, then this area must be the best market for people to come and go.
Tong Mu has lived in the living room for five years, and she feels much luckier than the orphanage or the beggars on the street, at least she has a place to shelter from the wind and rain, food to eat, and a place to go to school.
Although she hadn't worn a new dress in five years, hadn't bought a new pair of shoes, torn socks and patches, patches and patches, she had her only relative in the city. Tong Mu's grandparents passed away early, and her grandparents were old and weak and far away in Xi'an, so she actually had nowhere to go.
Tong Mu occasionally misses her original home, but she finds that the more she recalls, the more painful it becomes, and gradually she doesn't think about it, Tong Mu now sees herself as a small grass, growing in the flower bed at the crossroads, and gradually adapts to the bedroom in this living room.
Hearing her aunt Tong Wen's reprimand, Tong Mu only held her hands on her long legs, sat on the edge of the bed with her head bowed, and said nothing.
Tong Wen saw that Tong Mu didn't speak, and her heart was even more angry.
"Are you dumb? What the hell is going on? If you don't say it, don't eat today! If you don't study well at a young age, you won't have to lose all the people of our Tong family when you go out in the future!"
"Mom, your voice is soft! I still have to do my homework!" the voice of Tong Mu's cousin Ge Mingzhu came from the bedroom.
With the voice, Ge Mingzhu walked out of her bedroom, she leaned her back against the door frame, held a book in one hand, a pen in the other, and held it in front of her chest with both hands, looking at Tong Mu with disgust.
"Mom, you don't know yet, Tong Mu is now a news figure in the fifth middle school, she was talking to a junior high school student in the radio room, and was caught by their teaching director. β
I don't know when Ge Mingzhu stopped calling Sister Tong Mu, she always called her by her name.
When Tong Wen heard this, she was angry, stepped forward, and slapped Tong Mu in the face: "Tell you not to study well!"
Like a trampled grass, the child fell heavily on the bed.
Aunt Tong Wen's chest rose and fell, as if she had been greatly wronged, and pointed at Tong Mu vigorously, and said, "How old are you? Do such a shameless thing! Who did you learn so cheaply at a young age? Something shameless! Do you still want to be shameless?"
Tong Mu was beaten by his aunt and half of his face was red and swollen, and he was scolded so unbearable, he felt remorse and discomfort in his heart, holding the small wire bed with one hand, hiding his face with the other, and sobbing silently.
"You little vixen!
"You are a virtuous person with your mother, you pretend to be a dog on weekdays, and you are so shameless behind your back! What else are you going to school! Don't go to school as soon as possible!"
"Do you think it's easy for me to raise you? In the past five years, what has you eaten has not been saved between my and your uncle's teeth? We have worked hard for you to study, counting on you to have a good job after graduation and start a family as soon as possible, and I am also right for my hard-working brother. β
"You're good, you don't know how to study hard when you go to school, learn from your mother all day long, do you want to be a ** in the future!"
The aunt's scolding became more and more ugly, and every sentence was like a knife, piercing Tong Mu's heart, and the blood flowed like a river.
"If you want to learn from your mother to be a **, get out of this house as soon as possible, how far and as far as you can, our old Ge family can't afford to lose that person......"
Tong Wen gushed endlessly, scolding for more than half an hour, and finally stopped the fire.
Tong Mu's cousin Ge Mingzhu leaned against the door frame, looking at it with gloating cold eyes, and when she saw Tong Mu trembling and crying, she felt inexplicably happy in her heart.
After this week, Hu Yiting, Tong Mu, and Zhang Baiqi's inspections passed one by one, but Hu Yiting noticed that Tong Mu was a little cold to herself, and she wanted to talk to her several times, but she deliberately ignored her, and sent her home after school, and Tong Mu didn't say a word.
Hu Yiting wanted to ask the reason, but he didn't know where to start, and only sent Tong Muxi to the station silently every day after school.
He tried to take Tong Mu's hand again several times, but she broke away.
Hu Yiting attributed the reason to his impatience and frivolous behavior, but he failed to detect the sadness hanging between Tong Mu's eyebrows.
During this time, Hu Yiting was proud of the spring breeze.
Learning top-notch, winning awards in science and technology competitions, harmonious family atmosphere, classmates around him from time to time to make fun of him with radio incidents, boys sincerely show him the admiration of the five bodies, this kind of thing, after all, is not something that ordinary people can do, as for the live broadcast in the radio studio, it can be said that there is no one before or since.
Now all the boys in the whole grade and even the whole school know the name Hu Yiting, and think it is the most awesome talk in the fifth middle school recently.
After school that day, Hu Yiting ran to the kindergarten teacher's downstairs early.
The two groped out of the school gate, and although they were not watched along the way, they could hear whispers wherever they went.
"Look, that's Hu Yiting. β
"It's the third love saint of the first year, my idol!"
"You see, those two are the ones who were on the radio studio last time. β
"Wow, that's a good punctuality!"
"If I can soak in the school flower, I'd rather eat a punishment in exchange. β
Hu Yiting and Tong Mu walked out of the school gate and walked all the way to the station.
After walking for a while, Tong Mu suddenly stopped in the shade of the tree and said leisurely: "Hu Yiting, don't come to me again after school in the future." β
Hu Yiting didn't come back to his senses, and said to himself: "Tong Mu, let me tell you, I am thinking, I will go to Shenzhen this summer vacation and find a home for the chip design drawing in my hand." You were right last time we chatted, since the song can be submitted, the design can also be sold. You say, when you make money, whatever do you want? I'll buy it for you.
Tong Pastor: "That's not what I meant. β
Hu Yiting: "Huh?"
Child Shepherd: "Let's stop here. β
Hu Yiting was excited: "Hey, Tong Mu, you, what are you talking about? We can't just ...... because of the opposition of the family." Besides, some time ago, didn't you say that you love me, and you will always be mine. But now?"
Tong Mu felt cold all over, her heart seemed to be hollowed out, and she said bitterly: "Yes, I said that as long as you love me, I will always be yours." β
Hu Yiting: "Then you now?"
Tong Mu lowered his head and turned away: "But I can't be with you now." β
Hu Yiting hurriedly turned to the front of Tong Mu and asked anxiously, "Why?"
Tong Mu remembered his aunt's scolding, and said coldly in his heart: "Don't ask, you're still too young." You go home, I'll go back myself. β
After that, Tong Mu hardened his heart and didn't look at Hu Yiting's face, and walked straight away.
Hu Yiting stood in place, stunned.
He has no experience in feelings, and his brain is blank at the moment.
He stood in place, looking at a log telephone pole on the sidewalk, the brown-black old thing was shiny and mottled with age, one end grew on the side of the sidewalk, and the other end was as tall as **, straight into the leaf crown of the plane tree, and it was covered with sexually transmitted disease advertisements with a strong atmosphere of reform and opening up.
Ever since an elderly man drew a circle on the South China Sea, the power poles in first, second and third-tier cities across the country have been occupied overnight by STD advertisements and those similar to STD advertisements, and the sanitation workers are not surprised and do not bother to tear them off. The old advertisements on the telephone poles are dry and yellow, and they will crumble when touched, and the new paste advertising paper will continue to suppurate and be eye-catching like sores in the rain, and finally the sun-scorched yellow, crisp, and weathered into powder.
Hu Yiting felt extremely heartbroken, his brain was also extremely chaotic, his eyes were wide open, and even a feeling of despair swelled up.
"How could this happen?...... Did she lie to me before?...... No feelings for me?...... Or does she look down on me?...... Is it because the rich and powerful Guo Dapeng went to chase her again?...... Why didn't she suddenly get along with me?......"
Hu Yiting's chest was suffocated, and he felt that he had to find a target to distract himself so as not to go crazy, so he read these small advertisements attentively, in 1995, the amount of information in the small advertisements was already very large, no longer as monotonous as in the past, in addition to venereal diseases, there are also tailor classes jointly opened by the Cultural Palace and local technical schools, new films are released in the Eastern Suburbs Cinema, and Sichuan giant pandas come to Hushan Zoo for three months to exhibit.
In the advertisement, the old Chinese medicine doctor tried his best to ensure that "a needle will work" and "invalid refund"; the tailor class followed the trend of the times and shouted "cultivating scarce garment processing talents for reform and opening up"; the new film of the cinema in the western suburbs was marked "not suitable for children" for ten years; Hushan Zoo screamed sadly in a small advertisement and called on the people of all ethnic groups in the city to save this starving panda, and repeatedly hinted that spending 15 yuan on a ticket alone to see a fresh one is definitely a super-value pastime worth remembering for a lifetime. The tone of the advertisement is surging and full of emotion, which makes people suspect that it is not a panda who comes to the cave, but the author's father who has been separated for many years and has been living in the rivers and lakes.
Hu Yiting watched under the shade of the trees, and suddenly felt that he wanted to vomit, so he looked away from the small advertisement.