Bai Chen knelt in front of the tomb, closed his eyes, folded his hands, and bowed a few times reverently: "Mother, I'm back." ”

But what he hated was not the backward and poor life in the family, but the man's ruthless abandonment.

Bai Chen's mother's name is Bai Jinmei, and his father's name, he probably forgot himself, so even the surname is with his mother.

Eighteen years ago, Bai Chen's father, Xu Shenghan, abandoned his wife and children and left Guanlin Village, leaving them orphans and widows, without relatives.

"Mother, where did Dad go? Does he not want us anymore? ”

In Bai Chen's memory, her mother always liked to stand under the poplar tree in front of her house, as if the poplar tree was her life.

He ...... I went to a far, far away place, but one day, he will come back......" Every time, Bai Jinmei just said that, but after so many years, Xu Shenghan has never heard from him.

Bai Jinmei was widowed, and at the beginning, some people in the township persuaded her to forget the negative man, remarry as soon as possible, and don't suffer herself and her children. But she didn't listen, and insisted that Xu Shenghan would come back one day and come back to pick up their mother and son.

Gradually, there were fewer people who persuaded her, but more people who maliciously slandered.

"My mother said, your mother is a vixen, seducing men everywhere! You're a little bastard too! ”

"Little bastard! Little mongrel! ……”

"Haha...... It's disgusting! ”

…………

"You talk nonsense! My mother is not a vixen! ”

Because of the poverty of his family, the young Bai Chen was very thin and small, and was often bullied by children of the same age.

It's not about the good or the bad of sex, it's the environment that creates their bullying behavior.

The words and deeds of parents have always played an enlightening role in the child's heart, if it were not for the envy of the mothers of those children, and even said such vicious words in front of the children, how could the children themselves say such things?

The men in those villages were just out of kindness, seeing that their mother and son were both weak, they couldn't go to the fields, couldn't do rough work, and helped take care of them, but it was okay for a day or two, and after a year or two, the more and more ugly infamy spread throughout Guanlin Village.

His mother is a vixen who seduces men, and he is a little bastard with no tutor.

And these are all because of his father's ruthless abandonment, if his family is perfect and his parents are both here, where will these gossips come from?

Every time he returned home, Bai Chen always had a wound all over his body, but his mother just cried and secretly wiped his wounds at night.

He hated, hated his father's cruelty, and hated his mother's cowardice, if he couldn't give him a complete home, why should he be born to endure such pain?

Until a rainy night ten years ago, he could no longer endure such ordeal. God has no eyes, obviously he has taken away so much, but he still does not hesitate to destroy what little support he has left.

On that day, three bandits came to the village, and it was clear that as long as the villagers carried their hoes and shared the same hatred, it was enough to drive them away, but those so-called "simple" villagers closed their doors one by one, allowing him to cry for help everywhere, kneeling and crying, and no one came to help.

The raging flames engulfed his home, including the poplar tree in front of it, which was also ignited by the flames, and in the night, the red light obliterated him all.

At this time, the villagers came out one after another, shouting "fire fighting", but they were only afraid that the fire would spread and harm themselves.

He cried and shouted as he went mad into the fire, and in the precarious little hut, his mother lay on the couch in disheveled clothes, covered in bruises, and with red and piercing blood at the corners of her mouth.

"I ...... I want to know you...... Longevity...... Mountains without edges...... The river is exhausted...... Winter Thunder Quake...... Summer rain and snow...... Heaven and Earth ...... Dare to fight with you...... Dare to ...... with you"

Bai Jinmei's hand hung on the side of the bed, her hand seemed to be holding something tightly, her eyes were blank, her face was full of tears, and her tears seemed to have dried up, no matter how sad she was, she couldn't shed a single tear. Through the raging fire, she didn't know what she saw, but her voice was hoarse, and she called her husband's name affectionately over and over again: "Shenghan...... Shenghan ......"

"Ahhh Mother! ”

At that moment, Bai Chen seemed to feel that the whole world was collapsing, and it was his mother who was lying there! That cowardly mother who still loves him!

Wang Li, who rushed in, grabbed Bai Chen, wanting to drag him out.

"Let go of me! Mother! Mother! Bai Chen's hands waved in the air, struggling on all fours, "You let go of me!" Mother! ”

The thatched house began to collapse, and the line of fire between him and Bai Jinmei became wider and wider, and through the tongue of fire that kept rising, Bai Chen seemed to see his mother smiling there.

Shallow, safe ...... It is not sad or joyful, but it makes those who watch despair......

That's a farewell laugh.

"Chen'er...... Live well. Mother...... I'm sorry you ......."

The thatched house collapsed the moment Bai Chen was forcibly taken out, and everything he had was gone......

"Nope! Mother! ”

The thatch was not burned in the first place, and the villagers kept fetching water to put out the fire, so the fire was quickly brought under control, except for some damage to the neighbor's fence and a few fruit trees, and the entire Guanlin village hardly suffered any damage due to tonight's incident.

After Bai Chen cried and shouted, he lost his voice, squatted in the dark, and looked coldly at the woman who was screaming because the fruit tree was burned out, and those who watched all this happen with cold eyes, but were unwilling to lend a hand......

They are all accomplices.

When he suddenly stood up and walked into the crowd, everyone lowered their voices, pointed at him and whispered, saying those words that were still unpleasant to him.

Everyone's voice was once a dagger, cutting his heart to blood, but now, his heart was completely burned by this fire.

Without saying a word, he walked past the crowd and into the charred ruins, touching the scorching temperature with his bare hands, just to find his mother's remains.

"Xiao Chen......" Wang Li just shouted, but was stopped by his wife, who scolded him for being nosy.

The fire stopped, no one wanted to stay here, and the crowd gradually dispersed, for them, it was just one more activity in the night, and they went back and slept peacefully, without the slightest guilt, and they didn't even really pity their mother and son.

The night continued, and only the intermittent barking of dogs, mixed with the cold wind, was a little strange and terrifying.

When Bai Chen pushed away the layers of ashes, all he saw was a charred corpse, unrecognizable, that kind of despair, that kind of sorrow, suddenly filled every part of his body.

Why? What exactly did he do wrong? Why is even the last hope so ruined?!

He hates this indifferent world! He even wished that the world would be destroyed!

"Ahh ……”

The cries of despair, mixed with the cool breeze and the barking of dogs, gradually dissipated into the dead silence of the night......