Chapter 18: Change
When I heard that something had happened at home, I hurriedly bought a ticket for the nearest early morning train despite my family's dissuasion not to go back. Sure enough, it really responded to the old saying, the house leak happened to rain overnight, and the unlucky things always came together, and I caught up one after another.
My home is not close to the city where the school is located, and it takes two days and two nights to take the train, and because the transportation is not developed, it is not possible to take the plane and high-speed rail, and after getting off the train, I need to take a bus to our town, and then go to the town for half an hour to take the fire three wheels to the township, and then have to walk for half an hour on the dirt road to our house.
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I got on the train home, and I never got a good night's sleep during those two days and two nights. When I arrived in the city where my family was, I rushed to my father's hospital all the way.
When I arrived at the ward, I was almost stunned by the scene in front of meβI saw my father lying on the hospital bed with a hanging bottle hanging above his head, his eyes closed, the bandage on his forehead and a cloud of dried blood. The room was eerily quiet, except for the rhythmic sound of the heartbeat meter in the room.
When my mother saw me coming home, she hugged me and began to cry. Seeing my parents like this, I was so distressed that I stomped my feet. After comforting my mother, she finally calmed down for a while, sat down in her chair, and told me the details of the previous period.
It turned out that a few days ago, Ma Ergou in the village recently started a muck business with the support of his family, this kid used to be a well-known idle man in the village, not to cause trouble and fight, but to tease the young girl in the village, the people in the village hated him, but his father opened a foot-washing city in the county, and he also knew some powerful people, Ma Ergou relied on his father's power and didn't take others in his eyes at all. And just a few days ago, in order to save a few costs, this guy directly poured the muck into our field, before my mother didn't care about it, thinking that the wind and sand buried the crops, until one day, my father came back from working in the city, and happened to see it. I went up to reason with others, but I knew that people couldn't listen to them at all, and in the process of arguing, the two sides clashed.
"I don't blame your father, the work in the city has been sluggish in the past few months, and the harvest of these acres of land at home is not bad, and I can rely on it to subsidize your tuition and living expenses for the next month." The mother cried and said, "Hey, your father too, don't you just have a little crop and lose a few dollars, now it's okay, you have to fight with others, there are many things." β
When I heard my mother say this, I remembered my performance in school, and I cried tears of discouragement, I had been struggling with whether to tell my family about my expulsion, but now I am really ashamed of myself when I look at my family like this.
At this time, a few relatives came to the house, bringing fruits, vegetables, eggs, etc., big bags and small bags, saying that they came to visit my father. Seeing that my dad was injured like this, they discussed it indignantly on the side.
"Mom, my dad was beaten like this, why didn't you go to the police?" I asked.
"Ouch, my baby, have you forgotten what happened to Lao Zhang's family before? When the son of the old Zhang family was beaten by them, the police came to deal with it, and the people also went in and squatted for more than ten days, what was the result? The mother said, "But has anything changed since they came out?" Not only did it not change, but it also intensified its efforts to target the old Zhang family everywhere, making his family restless now. β
"Your mother is right, in my opinion, when your father is healed, he will give someone a good gift and keep him safe, right?" At this time, my brother-in-law said. I was really shocked by his words, why, why did he provoke our family first, and injured my father, and now we have to apologize to others.
At this time, I remembered what my father taught me, telling me to learn more knowledge, otherwise, when I was bullied, I would not even find a way to fight back. Seeing my brother-in-law say it to me with a serious face, I wanted to refute it, but I found that what I wanted to say seemed so pale in front of this reality.
"I don't care! I'm going to have to make a difference! At this time, I sat up from my seat, and my mother and relatives saw this and quickly pulled me back.
"Mu'er, what do you want to do? Don't you think it's too big of a problem, look at what has become of your dad, you can think clearly! My mom said.
"I know what I'm doing." I stopped and motioned for them to go back, "Don't worry, I won't do anything out of the ordinary, I'm just defending my legitimate rights and interests." β
"I'm going to go home first, and if anything happens to our dad, remember to let me know." After that, I walked out without looking back, and I didn't care how they called me.
When I returned to the village, I did not go directly to my home, but turned around and came to the office of the village committee, and I planned to find the village committee to make decisions for my family. I walked to the village chief's office and knocked on the door, however, after waiting for a while, no one came to open the door for me.
At this time, a staff member passed by the corridor, and I hurriedly went up to inquire if Director Zhou of the village committee was here, however, I didn't expect the staff to say that Director Zhou went out to do errands and would not be able to come back for a while. So, I decided to stay at the door of the village committee office and wait for Director Zhou to come back.
Time passed minute by minute, however, Director Zhou still did not come back. Seeing that the sun was about to set, the staff in the village committee had already begun to pack up their things and were preparing to leave one after another.
I couldn't wait for Director Zhou, so I went to his house to wait! I thought to myself, so I stepped forward to stop a staff member and asked Director Zhou's address, apparently that I had something important to discuss with him. After learning about Director Zhou's residence, I trotted all the way to the door of Director Zhou's house.
I knocked on the door of Director Zhou's house, and after waiting for a while, a man in his thirties with eyes opened the door for me, still chewing something in his mouth, and seemed to be eating.
"Hello, I'm looking for Director Zhou." I said it politely.
"I'm just, why don't you come in and talk about it?" Director Zhou said. However, as soon as I was about to step into the door, I found a few people sitting at the table of Director Zhou's house, and under the table, there were a lot of empty wine bottles. One of them had a cockscomb head, sharp-beaked monkey gills, and was wearing a vest, and this person I knew very well was the Ma Ergou mentioned by my mother.
"Ma Ergou! Lao Tzu TM killed you! "Thinking that my father was still hospitalized with injuries, and Ma Ergou was drinking wine and eating meat, I couldn't get angry. Roll up your sleeves and go up to him for a fight.
"Hey, brother, it's okay!" At this time, Director Zhou grabbed me, but Ma Ergou continued to hold the dishes unhurriedly.
"If there is anything to say, let's say it well, right, how can we hit people as soon as we come up, it's not good, right?" Director Zhou said with a smile, but at this time I felt that his laughter was a bit hypocritical.
"Director Zhou, the one surnamed Ma...... He beat my father, and you said you wouldn't be the master for me! I shouted almost hysterically, gasping for air.
"Come on, come on, okay, give an explanation, wife, bring another bowl!" Director Zhou invited me to sit at the table. Sitting at the dining table, Ma Ergou glanced at me, and the two of us looked at each other, and a cold murderous aura was intertwined in the air.
Director Zhou brought a pair of dishes and chopsticks and opened me a bottle of beer, but I only felt that there had never been such a table of dishes so disgusting at this time. At this time, Director Zhou poured a glass of wine and said hypocritically: "Presumably you both know each other, I won't introduce much, a village is full of brothers, come, I'll do this glass of wine first, and the next glass should be one of you two gone." Without waiting for me to agree, Director Zhou filled the wine glass for me.
Director Zhou's words only made me feel disgusted, but I didn't expect that a parent official who was supposed to be the master of the people would also be mixed up with this gang of wine and meat scoundrels. Director Zhou saw that neither of us was steady, so he pushed me down with his elbow and motioned for me to take the initiative to toast Ma Ergou. At this time, I couldn't hold back any longer, slapped the table, and rushed out of the door angrily, I didn't expect Director Zhou to make decisions for me like this, a person who destroyed my land and hurt my parents, actually asked me to toast him, dream!
When I got home, my mother hadn't come back yet, she was still with my father in the county hospital, and she had been in the county hospital for several days in a row and hadn't gone home. There was already a lot of dust in the house, so I cleaned it up and threw myself on the bed without washing my face and feet.
One trouble after another has come and I'm already overwhelmed. At this time, I began to miss Jinx, and I seemed to suddenly realize that in the face of the cruel reality, my strength could not resist anything at all, and even when I was bullied, I had to rely on a little girl like Jinx to stand up for myself.
I began to miss Jinx, and I regretted a little that I had driven her away on the spur of the moment, remembering what I had said to her that day, when tears inexplicably flowed from the corners of my eyes. I covered my head with a quilt, and outside the window, the night gradually covered the whole sky. And just like that, the day passed.
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The next day, the sun slouched through the window. I got out of bed, sleepy-eyed. Today I have to go to the county again to see my father's situation, because of what I have experienced in the past few days, although I slept in my familiar cot yesterday, I also did not sleep well all night.
After washing up, I yawned and walked out the door. However, I was taken aback by the scene in front of me.
I saw Ma Ergou with five or six brothers blocking my door......