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The next morning, it was still my mother who shouted two or three times, saying that Baby Shanzi was lazy Shanzi would not get up again, the sun would shine on his buttocks, and he would be late for school, Zhong Shan got up lazily from the kang, washed his face, glanced at his father who was reading the newspaper on the sofa and his mother who was serving rice porridge in the kitchen, and took advantage of the time to pour washing water out of the back door, secretly removed the broken bricks, and used a tree stick to dig out the 5 yuan buried behind the house the day before, held it in the palm of his hand, and quietly put it at the bottom of the stationery box.

Zhong Shan ate polenta, steamed buns, boiled eggs as usual, put on a half-sleeved shirt and shorts, and walked out of the house to go to school with his schoolbag on his back, but this time he didn't shout "Mom, Dad, I'm going to school."

Seeing her son walk out of the courtyard gate, Li Chunhua counted her husband while brushing the dishes: "The child has grown up, and the size is on your shoulders, you can't fight anymore, and if you fight again, you will hold a grudge in the future." ”

Zhong Shulin put down the newspaper, sighed, and said, "You think I'm willing to beat him, spank him, it hurts in my heart, but you can't watch him go downhill." You can't be a damn person who is used to him protecting him, you have to take care of it, no matter how big it is, it's even harder to manage. ”

After that, he got up and walked out of the door, saying as he walked, "I have a meeting tonight and have to get off work late, you don't have to wait for me to eat", pushing the bicycle out of the courtyard gate, and a series of bells rang from near to far.

Li Chunhua only found out that her son was missing when she was having dinner.

She stood in front of the courtyard gate and shouted to the alley as before, "Xiaoshanzi, go home for dinner", at this time in the past, Zhongshan heard the shout, he would not know where to say yes, and then jumped out, his face was covered with ash and sweat. Mom will say, where is the little enemy running crazy again, take off your clothes, wash your face and eat. Today, Zhong Shan's mother shouted three links, but she still didn't hear an answer, she was a little inexplicably panicked, and walked into the courtyard gate of Zhuzi's house with confused steps.

The Zhuzi family was having dinner, and there was a square table on the kang, on which were a handful of green onions, a plate of sauce, a few washed cucumbers, and a bowl of boiled eggplant mixed with potatoes. The 6 little heads are like 6 little pigs snatching food, and the parents are standing on the ground, eating the same sorghum rice, green onions, cucumbers, dipped in sauce, and eggplant mixed with potatoes.

"Zhuzi, didn't my family Shanzi play with you?"

A small head was raised, chewing food in his mouth, and his speech was a little unclear: "Your Zhongshan didn't go to school at all today, and the teacher still asked, saying that he wouldn't come to school or write a leave note, and he would ask him to write a review tomorrow." ”

Li Chunhua didn't say a word, she let go of her voice and shouted Xiaoshanzi, one after another, the tone was a little bad because it was too high, and everyone on the street could hear it clearly.

There was still no response.

Li Chunhua trotted to her husband's workplace. It was already past the end of work, the office was brightly lit, standing on tiptoe, through the long glass above the door, Li Chunhua saw Zhong Shulin standing in the middle of the ground talking to a room of people, occasionally supplemented by gestures, as if in a meeting. She waited anxiously for a long time, and when she saw that there would be no end for a while, she slowly pushed the door open a small crack and called out softly, "Old Bell".

Zhong Shulin interrupted his speech, and when he saw that it was his wife, he came to the door in surprise. Married for more than 20 years, Li Chunhua only went to the office to find him once, that time it was Zhongshan chickenpox, high fever all day long, Li Chunhua was anxious, so she went to the office to find her husband who didn't come home for a few days, about five or six years ago. This time, his wife came to him again, and the first reaction in his mind was that something had happened to his son.

"The mountain is lost!"

Li Chunhua tried her best to keep her voice low, but Zhong Shulin's head was still shocked. He turned around and said "let's go" to everyone, and hurriedly ran to the storage shed outside the building to pick up the bicycle.