Chapter XI
"Auntie, do you have a phone or anything here to borrow from me? Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ infoβ
"My old man really doesn't have this thing here, the one next door has a li, and the one next door has a son to make trouble, and the old man will borrow it for you."
"Don't, Auntie, I'll borrow it myself, don't bother."
"You sit, you just sit down, the old man walks in the dark, just a few steps."
Before Zhou Jing could speak, she saw that her aunt had already walked out, and she couldn't see her figure at the gate after a few steps. After a while, two minutes later, when he came back, he handed Zhou Jing a small mobile phone for the elderly.
"Girl, you call and put this foot in this hot tub first, and you can't move this swollen one."
"Auntie, thank you so much, I'll come by myself."
I don't know if I don't sit down, but as soon as I sit down, I found that after simply wiping off more than 20 scratches on my body with paper, Zhou Jing, who finished eating, found that her legs were swollen more and more from the root of her thighs to her feet.
Zhou Jing soaked her feet in the hot water basin, and her aunt also went to the kang and began to weave wool. She took out the phone and called Anja.
"Hey Anjia, I'm Zhou Jing."
"Zhou Jing, where have you been, there has been no news from you all afternoon, do you know that I am almost worried to death. Where are you now, there is nothing to do, why don't you come back, you have to take the exam tomorrow. β
"Anjia, listen to me, I won't be able to pass tomorrow's exam."
"What do you say? Do you know that this is a graduation exam, and you can't even get a graduation certificate if you can't pass it? What the hell is wrong with you? β
"I was thrown into the mountains by Xu Yang, and now I finally found a village to settle in, and I will definitely not be able to go back to tomorrow's exam."
"But......." At this moment, Anjia was already anxious and didn't know what to do.
"Anjia, listen to me, I'm fine. It doesn't matter if you can't go back to the exam, don't tell anyone else, especially don't let my parents know, if the teacher asks, you make up a reason, in short, don't let my family know, don't worry about the rest, take the exam tomorrow. β
"But ....... Zhou Jing." Anjia didn't know what to say to Zhou Jing. She knows what the consequences of not coming to the exam are, so what can she say.
"Anjia, promise me, okay?" This is not an interrogative sentence, but an affirmative sentence.
"I know, Zhou Jing, I'll take care of it for you here. All you have to do is come back safely. β
"Thank you, Anjia, then I'll hang up first."
After Zhou Jing hung up the phone, she turned her head to look at the aunt behind her, knitting a sweater with a smile, as if she hadn't heard a word of her own conversation just now.
"Auntie, I'm done with it, do you want to return it to others?"
"No, girl, I've told you everything, you can take it tonight, in case there is something important to contact, just give it tomorrow morning."
"Oh." Zhou Jing looked at the mobile phone in her hand with some depression. "Auntie, don't you want to ask me something?"
"Girl, what do you want to say? My old man and you are this side of the relationship, the old man doesn't know anything, he can only listen to you, if you want to say something to my old man, just say it, the old man will definitely listen carefully. β
"Auntie, I don't know what to say." Zhou Jing still looked down at the mobile phone in his hand, and the voice transmitted to the air was full of despair.
The aunt looked at the depressed Zhou Jing and put down the knitting work in her hand and said, "Why don't the old man tell you about me, wow, let you listen, and the old man can chat with people for a long time." β
"Well, Auntie, you say, I must listen carefully." Zhou Jing suddenly became interested, not because she was curious and gossipy, but because she felt that her aunt was really amazing, and she had a lot to learn.
"I, born here since I was a child, when I was a child, this village can be lively, there are many people, all have studied, there was a scholar from the outside holding a few books every day, telling people, at that time, 16 years old, wow, one day from the outside came a family of four, adults with a son and a daughter, living in the back of our village on the mountain. That son, at that time I saw the heart beat no, every day I wanted to play with this son, every day to do him, but he didn't say a word to me, and didn't play with the babies, at that time, in addition to this son there was also a baby boy since childhood, he has always been unaccustomed to me always looking for this son of an outsider, after he came for more than a year, finally couldn't help it, so he called the children in the village to block him on the back mountain, a few people beat him, when he came back, his head broke and bled out, but he said a word, Slowly the word spread, and finally it was known that he was actually mute. β
The faint light in the room sprinkled on the aunt's face, and Zhou Jing saw the tears flowing from the corners of her eyes and the smile on the corner of her mouth when her aunt was talking about him, which was a memory, a nostalgia and reluctance for him.
Later, the children in the village began to laugh at him, and slowly, people began to gossip, and the situation was that their family was dumb. At that time, this was also a major event in the village, and I hadn't seen him for half a month when he was beaten. Later, I also got angry, and I went and quit my family. The matter of quitting relatives, both families are in trouble, but the matter is serious, basically for me alone, that time is the most difficult and the most beautiful. β
Zhou Jing gently took out the basin with her feet, stood upright against the wall, listened to her aunt's story quietly, and her heart followed her aunt's tone.
"When I saw him for half a month, I went to withdraw from my relatives, and then I was locked up in the south by my family for half a month, and I lay on the window every day, just looking in the direction of his house. Half a month has passed, and another month has passed. I finally saw him. He was standing at the window, smiling at me, that smile, I will never forget, and then he made a gesture to me, I couldn't understand it, so I saw that he was pulled out by the family after the gesture. I cried, I was afraid, and I knew then that he would come back. β
Auntie didn't have flowery words to decorate her emotions at that time, but this also made this relationship seem more real and beautiful.
"Sure enough, the night came, I don't know what time it was, it was dark and I couldn't see anything, he suddenly appeared in front of me, and then took my hand and was about to leave, he looked at me, wanted to speak but couldn't speak, I could see how anxious he was, but, let's go."
"Auntie, why don't you leave?"
"Where can I go, I asked him at the time, let's go, what are they going to do with your family. No one spoke, and after a while, he let go of my hand. It couldn't hold me up at once. I continued to ask him if I could secretly like him like this way. He cried too, then nodded at me. β
The light bulbs overhead were surrounded by black spots, and the little bugs were quietly listening to the story.
"It was the best and the worst during that time. The two of us secretly met every night, he brought me a lot of things, with straw flowers, strange shapes in stones, he couldn't speak, so he took a stick to draw on the picture, told me what was going on outside, he took my hand, I leaned on his shoulder, looked at him and smiled, I was distressed when I couldn't speak, and later, I didn't speak, although the day was very short, but I was happy. β
"Auntie, can't you talk to the family?"
"You are now far away from young people who do not understand the concept of the countryside at that time. It doesn't take long for the good days to be known. That night, it was fifteen, the moon was big, he came to me, I wanted to give myself to him, suddenly, they came, the family that set the baby kiss, as soon as they came in, they didn't say anything and started to fight, he kept holding me, no matter what the fight was like and didn't let go, for a long time, in the end, I couldn't even make a sound, I was tired, he hugged me tighter and tighter, and when they stopped not fighting, I saw that his whole face and whole body were already full of blood, and later, he died. β
Speaking of this, Zhou Jing suddenly felt that the air was cold, and she held her breath to see her aunt constantly wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes.
"He died, and the whole family was kicked out of the village, and I was forced to marry someone else, and gave birth to two babies, and in five years, I smiled at him once, and talked to him seriously, and then everyone went out to work, and he went, and never came back. The two dolls were also gone. β
"Auntie, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked you to talk about these things."
"It's good to tell me about it, so that I don't forget him."
"Auntie, do you hate it?" Zhou Jing asked cautiously.
"I hated before, but now I don't pull. Why do you want to hate Li, that is, what a person wants is different, you hate that they don't give you what you want, they also hate you for not giving them what they want, wasting feelings, I don't want anything, I just want him, I just want to live and continue to think about him. β
Sleepless all night, Zhou Jing tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep, she looked at the silhouette of her aunt in the dark, and the words just now were still repeated over and over again in her mind.
Who's life isn't spent in such a stalemate?