Chapter 214, Cold Home
"Park, park!" I shouted in a hurry.
"You can't stop until you get there." The driver said with a straight face, and then refueled smoothly. I rushed to the front of the carriage and took out ten yuan and handed it to him: "Just stop, I have something to do!" The driver then stepped on the brakes, took the money and said, "I'm not looking for your money, I think you are in a hurry...... and then put the money in his pocket, and then opened the door.
I rushed down, and the driver's voice floated behind me: "Wait for you for five minutes at most, even is enough!" ”
After getting out of the car, I went straight to the corner. Zhou Mo didn't seem to expect me to come down, and was looking at me dumbfounded. I rushed over and hugged her with my arms outstretched, and said happily, "You're here to see me off, aren't you?" Zhou Mo seemed to be stunned for a moment and said, "That's right." ”
I let go of Zhou Mo, grabbed her shoulders and said, "I know that you won't deal with me with them!" ”
Zhou Mo looked at me stunned: "Why do you have so much confidence?" ”
I happily said, "Because we're good friends!" ”
"It's just good friends?"
"Hmm......" I said hesitantly, "that's a good buddy?" Good brother? In addition to Ye Zhan in Beiqi, I trust you the most! ”
Zhou Mo's body seemed to shake, and the expression on his face stiffened a little. I asked curiously, "What's wrong with you?" ”
"Not really." Zhou Mo smiled, but I always felt that her smile was a little bitter: "Go home quickly." When school started, we didn't know if we were friends or enemies. ”
"Huh?!" I looked at her in amazement: "Why? Did Hou Shengshuo force you? ”
"Nope." Zhou Mo shook his head: "No one forced me. It's just that our seven dragons and six phoenixes are a whole, one is prosperous, and one is lost. Wang Hao, our relationship is not good enough for me to tear my face with my brothers and sisters, do you understand? ”
I looked at Zhou Mo in a daze, and a sadness rose in my heart for no reason. Yes, I've only been with Zhou Mo for more than two months, and she and her brothers and sisters have been together for many years...... What am I in comparison?
"Goodbye." The corners of Zhou Mo's mouth twitched slightly, revealing a polite smile, and turned away.
I was looking at Zhou Mo's back in a daze, and the roaring voice of the bus driver came from behind me: "If you don't come back, I'll leave!" ”
I had no choice but to turn around and go, and before I took two steps, I heard a voice behind me: "Wang Hao! I turned around again, and Zhou Mo was rushing towards me. Before I could react, Zhou Mo had already thrown himself into my arms and kissed me on the lips.
fleeting, fleeting; Taste, stop.
With just a slight click, Zhou Mo's body had already retreated, three or four steps away from me. I was amazed, her face was already covered with tears! This scene is so familiar, that time in the old soup duck pot, I used my hands to remove the heavy fog, and I saw such a face full of tears! Only that time, I thought it was a hallucination!
"Wang Hao, goodbye." After Zhou Mo said this, he turned around and left.
I watched her back until it was farther and farther away. The girl with short, burgundy hair eventually vanished. But her sentence "Wang Hao, goodbye" and that gentle kiss are still lingering in my heart, entangled.
It wasn't until a long time that I turned around and the bus was gone. I walked along the road to the next stop, waited for a bus bound for Dongguan Town, got on the bus and sat down at random to find a vacant seat, my mind was completely blank.
I don't know how long, the conductor was urging Dongguan Town to get off the bus, I got off the bus in a dejected manner, looking at the familiar grass and trees around me, I didn't have time to hurt the spring and autumn, and walked quickly in the direction of home. It was still the same slum, with low bungalows lined up in an orderly manner, and as I walked, I suddenly saw a familiar figure in front of me, sweeping the street with his back bent and holding a broom. I remember my mother saying that she would get a job as a cleaner, but I didn't expect to do it so quickly.
"Mom!" I screamed and walked quickly to my mother. The mother turned her head and said with surprise on her face, "Haohao, you're back!" "My mother was wearing a blue cleaner's uniform, and she was holding a broom with a pair of gloves with holes in her hands, and several fingers were sticking out. After not seeing her for many days, my mother's gray hair has increased again, and her face has added a lot of vicissitudes.
"Mom......" My heart ached, and at the same time I made a decision, I must make money as soon as possible, so that my mother can get out of the current situation as soon as possible. Haohao, you go home quickly, it's cold outside. Are you hungry? I'll go back and cook for you when I'm done sweeping the road. "My mother pushed me and drove me in the direction of home. I snatched my mother's broom, "Mom, you rest, I'll help you sweep!" ”
"Hey, how can this work, you are going to go to university in the future, how can you do this......" Mother came to take my broom again.
"Mom!" I pushed her away: "What does this have to do with going to college?" You've worked hard enough every day, so let me sweep it for you for a while. ”
My mother stopped and stood watching me sweep, commanding, "This way, that way." ”
The road is actually not dirty, just sweep the remaining ashes. I scanned while chatting with my mother first.
"Where's my dad?"
"I went out to work, saying that I found a job on the construction site and could earn 50 yuan a day."
"Where?"
"In the North Park." Mother said: "He has never looked for you, saying that he has no decent clothes, and he is afraid that he will lose face when he goes to school, and he can't let your classmates look down on you." ”
My heart hurt even more, but I said, "What's the matter, he has too many concerns, how can my classmates casually look down on me because of this." "It's really like this in the current school, where students compare with each other, whose father is rich and whose father is an official, and they can stand out from the crowd and be proud among their classmates; And those fathers are ordinary people, or the family conditions are worrying, and they can't hold their heads up in front of other classmates. This situation is especially true in schools, because everyone is a teenager and does not know how to restrain their words and deeds, everything is naked and more cruel than society.
My mother asked me again, "This is the winter vacation, how did you do in the exam?" ”
I had already figured out how to answer, so I said, "I happened to have diarrhea during the exam, so I didn't take the exam." The head teacher said that if the school started, it would be enough to take the make-up exam. Don't worry, Mom, with my current level, it's absolutely no problem to be admitted to the top three in the class. "That's not bragging, in that class in Beiqi, it's very easy to get into the top three, but if you are in the city high school, you won't be so sure.
The mother smiled like a flower: "I know that you must have the ability, it is gold, no matter which school you go to, it will shine." ”
Seeing my mother's happy appearance, I felt ashamed in my heart, and quickly changed the topic: "When will Dad come back?" ”
"It's the end of the year." "It's winter," said his mother, "and the construction site has stopped, so he is in charge of looking at the factory. ”
After sweeping the area that my mother was in charge of, the sky was already dark, and my mother and I went home with our tools. When I got home, my mother didn't rest for a while, she cooked for me, and after a while, she brought me a bowl of steaming somen soup, and there were two poached eggs lying at the bottom of the bowl. On the other hand, my mother, nibbling on steamed buns and pickles, said with a smile: "I'm used to eating this!" ”
I snatched my mother's bowl and put the somen soup in front of her, turned my head and devoured it. "Why do you ...... child" Mother wanted to change the bowl back, but I naturally refused, so I finished eating the steamed bun in two bites, turned my head and said, "I'm full, Mom, eat quickly." Then he turned on the TV and watched. My mother had no choice but to eat the noodle soup.
I looked at the small color TV at home, which was more than ten years old, and then at the wardrobe that was slightly yellowed because of age, and the dining table that could only hold four dishes at most...... It's cold at home, it's winter, and you can only keep warm by burning briquettes. There was a stove in the middle of the living room, and I went over to open the lid to see that a briquette was dying. I quietly picked up the tongs and added a briquette. I also know that no matter how hot the stove is, this home is always cold, because the surrounding walls are full of wind, and the heat can't be collected at all. The house built by one's own family is, of course, not as warm as in the building.
I opened the damper of the stove so that the briquettes could burn a little faster. The mother saw it and said, "That's a quick cost!" ”
I turned my back to my mother, and I tried very hard not to cry. I have to endure it, I have to endure it, my father is not here, I am the pillar of this family. "Mom, take out the 50,000 yuan that Dad won last time and buy a house to live in."
"No, no, no." My mother immediately rejected my opinion, "That's for you to go to college." ”
"I don't have much money to go to college, and besides, I can still work and study, and now this is popular in college."
"And a daughter-in-law." Mother said: "Don't be like the child of the old Zhang family, who is in his thirties and hasn't married a daughter-in-law, isn't it because he has no money?" ”
I laughed and said, "How old am I." I'm only in my first year of high school now, and I'm going to university three years later. It takes four more years to go to college, and then come out to work for a few more years, which is almost ten years later, and you are too anxious. Besides, it's not like we're not making money, maybe I'll be able to make a lot of money in the future! ”
"It's called prevention before it happens." Mother said: "Anyway, the 50,000 yuan can't be moved, that's our family's old capital." ”
I know that I can't talk about my mother, their generation has been poor all their lives, and they don't dare to think anything wrong, and they live life step by step. I fumbled into my pocket, and there were still 8,000 dollars in it, and I had to find a way to give it to my mother so that she could lighten some of the burden.