Chapter 45: The Best Listener
Is it easier for people to open their hearts in the dark? Is it that the less familiar you are, the more honest you are? Bi Shaohua and Xiao Ma began their own bitter juvenile memories.
"My grandmother, I've been sick for as long as I can remember, she always speaks with a crooked face and squeezes half of her facial features, and others can't hear what she says, and when she walks, she is also crooked, as if she is going to fall."
The pony's hand was lightened, and there was a faint sentimentality on the baby's face: "The children in the village always laugh at me, laugh at my grandmother, imitate her walking, and I fight with them......".
"So, you have developed the ability to fight?" Shaohua asked softly, and there was uncontrollable pity in her voice.
"No," Pony smiled: "When I was a child, I was really good at fighting, don't die, no matter how many people besiege me, I haven't been afraid, if there are too many people to beat, hold your head and admit it, next time I will tease them alone, until I am convinced." ”
"Sanda, I learned it in the year I graduated from junior high school, there was a high school physical education teacher who came to us to pick up special students, and the school called all of us mischievous children who disobeyed discipline to the playground and played basketball to the physical education teacher, we didn't take much physical education class at that time, and the teachers were all part-time, and they didn't even understand the basic rules of basketball, so they played under the basketball hoop, and the basketball was smashed by a classmate over the basketball baffle, and I was too lazy to pick up the ball from a distance, so I rushed out and hooked the ball back with my feet upside down......."
Pony recalls this with a smug look on his face.
"The physical education teacher called me over and asked me to do a few bouncing movements, and my classmates coaxed me next to me, saying Teacher, you don't know, Ma Guifu's most powerful thing is fighting, and a group of us can't beat him."
"Really? Try it with me? "The physical education teacher is interested, this is also fate, the physical education teacher's surname is Zhou, and the university major is sanda, but unfortunately, after participating in the work, I can't meet a good time to display my talents, and most of the time is spent on basketball students.
At the mention of fighting, Ma Guifu came to the spirit and only asked: "Can I really beat you?" Expel me from me? ”
It doesn't matter if Mr. Zhou assures him that he can fight casually, he also put on a set of "Buddha and Han Boxing" on the villain book that he touched from the stall, one leg arched in front, one leg kicked back, and his hands were slapped on both thighs, and he shouted "Hi-".
Applause was everywhere, but it was not necessarily for Ma Guifu, after his momentum was finished, he probed his claws forward, and was grabbed by Mr. Zhou with two wrists, Ma Guifu was not ambiguous, his hands were bound, and his feet were immediately stomped on the surface of the other party's feet, Mr. Zhou bounced off the foot, "poof", but was kicked by Ma Guifu to the other calf bone.
Teacher Zhou grabbed Ma Guifu with both hands, this kid was also hard, and continued to exploit loopholes to find opportunities, hitting his head and shoulders under his feet to make the tripping child do everything, until the old principal just turned the corner and screamed, "Ma Guifu, what are you doing?" Apologize to the teacher or you'll be fired! ”
When a man fights and fights to the point of interest, how can he be pulled away with two sentences? Ma Guifu took advantage of the opportunity of Teacher Zhou to turn his face to the old principal, and finally struggled out of a hand, his five fingers clenched into a fist, and Teacher Zhou quickly raised his elbow to cover it, leaving a flaw in his armpit, but Ma Guifu's punch was just an illusion, and his elbow slammed into Teacher Zhou's chest......
"Good boy! Follow me in the future! ”
Teacher Zhou made a final decision on this, Ma Guifu, who originally planned to work to earn money to support his grandmother after finishing junior high school, has undergone a serious change in the trajectory of his life.
This is a bitter child, a grandmother who walks with a crooked face and a diagonal face, lives by picking up the scraps in the primary and secondary schools near the village to buy old books and waste books, and the old house and small courtyard where the grandparents live.
It's not that there are no close relatives, at least there is an uncle in the village, and life is still passable, but it's a pity that the eldest lady has a bad temper, and she always asks her grandmother to send Ma Guifu back to his mother.
Although the children in the village have laughed at Ma Guifu's grandchildren, but the policy is good, the village has set up a subsistence allowance, and the boys who love to cause trouble are free of tuition and enjoy grants from kindergarten to high school, and Ma Guifu will also help his grandmother sort out the waste books and rotten bottles and jars on weekends or after school, and then gather them to sell, barely so that he will not drop out of school.
Teacher Zhou asked him to go to high school, but Xiaoma was very hesitant at the time, high school was far away, and he couldn't help his grandmother do work every day, even on weekends, and he could only loosen up once a month.
Grandma is also getting older, every day two hands grasp the mouth of a woven bag, it is a little difficult to carry it to the shoulder, and when she walks, it is more oblique.
But the arrival of Teacher Zhou opened a window to the world of this mischievous child, and made him discover that he also had excellent points, not all of them were useless.
When Mr. Zhou met for the second time, he said: "Fuzi, don't worry about tuition, I will apply for financial assistance for you, living expenses, I will give it to you, and when you graduate from college in the future and earn your own money, you can pay me back." ”
That time, Ma Guifu cried, crying sincerely and happily, his grandmother has always been in favor of him studying, and would rather eat bran vegetables for him to study, but he always thought that he was not born with reading materials, and he planned early to graduate from junior high school.
"You have to study hard and strive for more scores, and you can't be a duck egg for special students, when the time comes, even if the school can make an exception to agree to you to enter, it will be a shame on me, right?"
Teacher Zhou left such a small request, but for the first time in his life, Ma Guifu began to understand what the concept of "studying hard" is, there is hope and light ahead, and his life is meaningful, so grit your teeth and run forward!
From March of that year to the middle of June in the middle of June, Ma Guifu never had a fight, did not make the principal and teacher angry once, his English and mathematics, physics and chemistry scores were not able to catch up, this child played with his life to recite the knowledge that can be made up for in various subjects, devoured alive, and finally got three hundred and zero points, barely reaching the admission score of that ordinary high school.
Mr. Zhou was very happy, this result exceeded his expectations, the tuition-free bursary was handled smoothly, and Ma Guifu himself was also prepared for the living expenses.
"You know what? When I was a child, I hated my grandmother for picking up the rags and embarrassing people, I only dared to help her clean up at home, and at school, if teachers and classmates gave me discarded mineral water bottles and waste notebooks, I would be very angry and throw them out of the window ......".
The pony was still remembering, and there was a little more remorse in his eyes.
"But after the graduation ceremony of junior high school that year, I gritted my teeth and blushed my face outside the classrooms of more than 20 classes, greeting them one by one, asking my classmates to sell me the books I didn't want, and the classmates did not laugh at me, on the contrary, they helped me find bags to pack books and carry them back to my house on the back seat of my bicycle, and the teachers also cleaned up the office and told me to carry them."
Pony's summer vacation was also spent walking the streets, borrowing a neighbor's pedal tricycle, running between the village and the purchase station again and again.
"I showed Mr. Zhou the living expenses I earned during the holidays, which was very thick, and I said, you don't have to worry about me, I can earn my own ...... in the future."
A liquid that still had residual warmth fell on Bi Shaohua's left arm, she didn't speak, this night, the "female man" was just the best listener.