4. Humans and animals
"Smack!"
The water cup in his hand rubbed Lin Zheng's hair and fell to the wall, shattering.
"What nonsense are you talking about, apologize to your sister!" Pillow Quan slapped the table and yelled at Lin Zheng.
"What are you doing, Lin Zheng didn't mean it. Lin Hui also yelled at Pillow Quan, then turned his head and said to Pillow Creek:
"Dandan, brother didn't mean that, you won't be angry with him, will you?"
Lin Hui coaxed her with her mouth, but it was not like that in her eyes.
Pillow Creek nodded, and when she looked up again, a large tear fell down her cheek and smashed on the table.
She looked at Pillow Quan and said, "Dad, do you think I'm a cheap person like my brother?"
Pillow Quan's eyes dodged, and he said, "Don't listen to him." ”
"But my brother said that going to work as an apprentice is lowly, and it is only suitable for lowly people like me. ”
Lin Hui came over and hugged Zhuxi in her arms, wiped her tears, and said, "Your brother is talking nonsense, don't take it to heart, what does he know." ”
Pillow Creek raised his head and looked at Lin Hui, his eyes burning, and asked:
"Then why don't my brother and sister go?"
Lin Hui looked down at Pillow Creek, Pillow Creek's eyebrows and eyes were exactly the same as her dead mother, her pupils were large and dark, reflecting her whole face.
Bai Xun also looked at her like this back then, and said, "Lin Hui, seducing someone else's husband will be retributed!"
Lin Hui hurriedly let go of the pillow stream, took a few steps back, and after a while, he said, "Their age is not suitable." ”
Pillow Brook ignored her words and said to Pillow Quan: "I'll go when my brother and sister go, I don't want to be the only one who becomes a lowly person." ”
Pillow Quan sighed, and the words that came to his mouth were interrupted by Pillow Creek, who looked at him and said:
"Dad, I don't understand, why is studying a useless thing? My mother used to be a teacher, so I also want to be a teacher, I don't want to work, I don't want to be an apprentice, I just want to study!"
He didn't say anything, he looked at her for a moment, got up and left the table, and said, "Whatever you want." ”
Lin Hui hurriedly shouted, "Old pillow!"
Pillow waved his hand and said, "Let Dandan settle down first." ”
Lin Hui threw the luggage of Zhuxi on the ground, pointed to the small and dark space in front of him and said, "You can rest here first, our family is too small, so we can only live with you." ”
Pillow Creek slowly looked at the corner in front of him, the narrow bed, the unpainted desk, and the rickety chair. It was the place where she had slept for years in her previous life, dark, damp, rotten mildew and the pungent smell of dust, exactly as she remembered.
This was originally Pillow's room, because her arrival was separated by a third of the partition, and Pillow was against the window, and the sun was shining, bright and warm. Her side was not so bad, it was always sprinkled on her bed in the back, and Lin Hui never changed the bedding and cotton wool for her, and over time, it became moldy and dusty, dirty and dark, and she didn't even want to step into the pillow.
An electric lamp on the top was completely drawn into the realm of the pillow by the partition, and at night, only a little light leaked from the gap in the partition.
Pillow stood aside with a smile and said to her, "Sister, the two of us will live together in the future, I'm so happy." ”
Pillow Creek also smiled and said, "Yes, I'm so happy." ”
Good days are yet to come.
That night, Pillow Creek and Yi slept on the damp little bed, and although the weather was not cold now, she still felt like she was lying on the ice.
She couldn't sleep, she didn't know what Lin Hui would do next, in her previous life, Lin Hui asked her to be an apprentice, she stupidly agreed, and later her grandmother found out and hurried to stop her fate of being sent away.
She was not at home at the time, and she didn't know that Lin Hui was blackmailing her grandmother with her studying, saying that Pillow Quan's income could not support Pillow Creek's study, so the lion asked her grandmother for 10,000 yuan in tuition and miscellaneous fees, and later asked her grandmother for money many times under the pretext of studying in Pillow Creek.
At first, my grandmother sold the land in order to make up the 10,000 yuan, and then handed over the money to Lin Hui, and asked Lin Hui to use the money to buy all kinds of beautiful clothes for Zhenyun, go to various expensive interest cram schools, and finally use my grandmother's life-saving money to stuff Lin Zheng, who couldn't get into high school, into a technical school.
Thinking of this, Pillow Creek couldn't wait to take a knife and stab himself a few times.
My grandmother died of a cerebral infarction and was found dead at home for a few days. In her last life, she was called back from class to send her grandmother to the end, and the funeral expenses were all made up by the villagers.
"Your grandmother has high blood pressure for a long time, and she has been taking medicine for a few years, and then she was reluctant to buy medicine when you were studying. The three meals a day are porridge mixed with water and some pickles from the neighbors, and your mother still asks her for money twice a day. ”
The village chief pointed to the roof that had been leaked through and said, "This roof has been leaking for a long time, and your grandmother can't afford to repair it." Pillow Creek, your grandmother is dead, and you are the only one in this world from now on. ”
At that time, Zhuxi was still not convinced, and shouted to the village chief: "I still have my parents, brothers, and sisters, how can I be alone?"
The village chief's words came true soon after, as soon as the grandmother died, the family was too lazy to deal with their attitude, Lin Hui confiscated her own house key, as long as the pillow was not at home, she had to wait outside the door for hours, and when the meal was ordered, someone needed to cook, and someone would come to open the door for her.
So later, when she took the high school entrance examination, she was admitted to high school with a high score and was forced to drop out, and the intuitive reason that Lin Hui gave her was:
"No money!"
However, not long after she dropped out of school, Lin Hui and Zhenquan discussed selling her grandmother's dilapidated house in the countryside.
When she gave birth, the whole family prayed to her in front of the delivery room, hoping that she would give birth to a white and chubby son, so that she could inherit Rao Liqun's meager family business in the future.
When Pillow Creek died, only the pair of dog men and women at the door were looking forward to the future, and there was a great joy that she was finally out of the biggest stumbling block in Pillow Creek.
The village chief is right, she has only one relative in this world, her grandmother.
The four in this house, all of them are white bone spirits that devour human flesh and blood, and their faces are covered with human skin, but they are actually rotten bones that have been buried in the loess for thousands of years, and they have a disgusting fishy smell.
With this skin, the devil knows whether it was a human or an animal when he was alive.
The next weekend, I didn't go to work, and the family gathered around for breakfast.
On the way to dinner, Lin Hui spoke again and said, "Dandan, I discussed it with your father last night. ”
As soon as Zhuxi heard her words, she put down the dishes and chopsticks, she couldn't figure out why Lin Hui liked to talk during meals, and rushed to disgust her.
"If you want to study, your father and I can't stop you, but the conditions of our family are really difficult, and the expenses for three years of junior high school are really a lot of money. ”
Pillow Xi looked at Lin Hui and secretly guessed her purpose.
"There is a placement test at the beginning of junior high school. No. 7 Middle School is also one of the most famous middle schools in the whole Y city, your father has inquired, this exam will be divided into two experimental classes, if you are admitted to the experimental class, we will study. ”
Lin Hui smiled and continued, "If you don't pass the test, your father and I don't think there's any need to waste so much time, energy and money." ”
The corners of Pillow Xi's mouth twitched irrepressibly, and Pillow Quan and Lin Hui might as well just say that she would drop out of school.
How can Pillow Creek, who has been studying in the village since childhood, compete with those children who have received elite education from a young age to compete for places in the experimental class? The experimental class is just a legend to the ears of the children in the village.
I have to say that Lin Hui's abacus is really good, which not only blocks the possibility of Pillow Creek studying, but also comforts Pillow Quan's ridiculous self-esteem, which is really high-sounding.
Lin Hui never thought that Pillow Creek would have the possibility of being admitted, and at that time, Pillow Creek would still have to work to make money, as for what kind of job she would find her, it was all up to her.
Pillow Creek carefully observed the expressions of Pillow Quan and Lin Hui. For her now, it is already a very good choice to be admitted to the experimental class and then go to study. Besides, it couldn't be easier for her to take the experimental class for elementary school promotion.
The crux of the question is, even if she is admitted to the experimental class, will Lin Hui and Pillow Quan fulfill their promise to let her study?
The premonition in Pillow Creek's heart is not very good, Lin Hui and Pillow are not people who do what they say, and they are afraid that they can make up for the sky if they lie about it.
Pillow Creek is very unhappy in her heart, since she is not happy, others don't want to be happy.
"Is my brother in the experimental class now? It's amazing, I don't know how to do my homework, can I ask my brother for advice?"
Lin Hui's smile didn't hang up all of a sudden, Lin Zheng didn't speak, and said gloomily: "How can he be admitted to the experimental class." ”
"Then why can't my brother study if he can't get into the experimental class? My brother is my father's child, isn't I?" said Zhuxi, looking like he wanted to cry again.
Pillow Quan's face turned from white to black and from black to green, and Lin Zheng's existence seemed to be to remind him how ridiculous he was.
Zhenwan pinched her hand under the table and said, "Sister, you should say a few words, Mom and Dad will quarrel because of you in a while." ”
Pillow Creek immediately turned his head to Pillow and said, "Sister, what if you can't get into the experimental class in the future, your parents won't let you study? Do you want to go to work? How can you go to work if you look so good?"
Lin Zheng really blew up again, slapping the table and shouting at Pillow Creek:
"How could my sister not be admitted to the experimental class. ”
Seeing that the purpose of the disgusting pillow had been achieved, and she knew that she would accept it when she saw it, she sank into her heart and said, "Mom, Dad, I will work hard." ”
Pillow Quan looked at her and sighed deeply, as if he was looking at a vexatious child.
Pillow Creek was completely chilled, Pillow Quan really never thought of letting her go to school, all his seemingly reasonable compromises were all expedient measures in desperation.