Chapter 7: A New Life?
"Dad said that as long as you keep thinking and thinking all the time, you can do anything on earth. I felt like he lied to me. Under the lamp, Ma Fei wrote the last line of the diary and drew a full stop with a ballpoint pen. He closed his notebook, sighed, and walked out onto the balcony.
Mom had just finished cleaning up the dining table, and when she inadvertently looked back, she found that Ma Fei's back on the balcony was very strange. He was leaning on the brick wall, his right shoulder staggering, as if he was drawing a strange arc with his arm.
"What are you doing?"
Ma Fei was startled, and hurriedly turned around, holding a small flashlight in his right hand. It turned out that he was shining in circles with a flashlight at the starry sky.
"Dad said he would come back by rocket, and I was afraid that he would fly too high to find our house. He doesn't come back, is it because my flashlight is not bright enough that he can't see? ”
The flashlight spun and turned, shooting at the moon in the sky.
Under the same moon, among the mountains, are the spotlights of the prison that are also constantly turning.
The spotlight swept over a row of cells to the east, and in an iron window at the end, Ma Haowen was looking out intently. He held a small apple in his hand, which was covered in zigzag lines. If you look closely, you will see that they are the outlines of the world's continents, and the equator and the north and south poles are also carefully marked.
On the bed next to him lay on all fours on the bed, a giant man as big as a mountain, and there was a deafening snoring. After a wave of whistled snoring, the giant man made a gurgling sound in his throat and woke up. He rolled over and was about to go back to sleep facing the window, only to find his fellow inmate in the neighboring bunk writing a letter while doing push-ups.
Ma Haowen muttered in a low voice: "Dear son, how are you ......"
On the way out of school, Ma Fei was walking tightly holding the globe, which was barely a sphere with adhesive strips glued horizontally. He turned the corner and was confronted by four boys.
Ma Fei was nervous for a while. He knew one of the children, who was an upperclassman at their school, but often did not come to school and was always criticized by name at school assemblies. The other three, as he also knew, attended a nearby school. The four of them always appeared at the gates of various elementary and middle schools at the end of school, stopping the students who were going home alone, sometimes robbing two or three cents, sometimes teasing. The children of the whole city are afraid of them.
The tallest of the four boys in the way waved his arm and shouted, "Missing a string!" It was his father who collapsed the bridge. Get him. Ma Fei didn't say a word, turned around and ran. The bad kids scattered and surrounded and quickly chased after them.
In the large brick kiln of the prison farm, Ma Haowen is walking with a brick cart. He turned the corner and stood at the starting point, suddenly feeling that something was wrong with the atmosphere. Ma Haowen was nervous for a while, he turned his head to look, and found that the giant prisoner and the other three burly and fierce prisoners were also pulling the brick cart, standing around him to the left and right, with a hostile light in their eyes.
The prison warden blew the whistle and shouted, "Whoever pulls the seventy carts first will be ten ten." ”
Ma Haowen mustered up all his strength and pushed the brick cart forward with all his might. The four prisoners on the left and right were proud of their strength, and they didn't take this swarthy and thin man in their eyes, but watched him run out of the way, and hurriedly pushed into the car and followed closely behind. Ma Haowen listened to the sound of chasing after him in his ears, and his feet moved faster. He gritted his teeth, his eyes bloodshot, and finally left everyone behind.
Ma Fei was surrounded by bad children, and the globe had already been snatched away. The short boy in spiked shoes smiled wickedly at Ma Fei, deliberately threw the globe high, and drove out with his big feet. The globe flew around in the air like a football, and the freshly glued tape gradually collapsed.
Ma Fei rushed around in a hurry, but he couldn't pounce. The globe suddenly flew head-on, and he jumped up with all his strength to catch it, but just as his fingers touched the edge of the ball, he was robbed by a boy. Ma Fei fell heavily to the ground. In the upside-down horizon, the globe was inserted into the inflating needle. Expanded, expanded, the strip cracked and fell off, and the globe exploded.
A boy in a baseball cap stepped forward, his buckteeth were so strong that he spat out as soon as he spoke: "Come on! Come on! If you want your globe, just get under the crotch of your uncle's pants! The big bucktooth spread his legs and pointed defiantly at his crotch.
Ma Fei looked at the fragments of the globe behind the bucktooth foot, held back tears, and knelt down. He crawled slowly, blood pounding against his temples, clenched teeth throbbing his jaws.
"Yo! Yo ho! ”
The bad boys clapped their hands loudly, Ma Fei saw the right time, raised his head with all his strength and slammed it, and his buckteeth covered his crotch with an "ouch" and fell down. Ma Fei took the opportunity to pick up the fragments of the globe and ran away.
In the misty loess, bricks flew around like footballs. Ma Haowen stood on a high slope and took the thrown brick from the hands of his fellow inmates. "Strength! Velocity! Responsiveness! He said to himself in his heart. Sweat trickled down his arms, and he became more and more proficient in his movements.
The four prisoners on the same assembly line not far away looked at him together and exchanged glances with each other. The giant man at the head narrowed his eyes and let out a meaningful sneer.
The day's work is over. Ma Haowen unloaded the car from the destination and pulled the empty car back. The other prisoners were exhausted, shuffling their feet and slumping, eager to sit on the ground and rest at any time. Only he was still running as hard as he came.
The giant man who sneered just now glanced at the other three, pretending to pass by Ma Haowen casually, and deliberately stretched out a foot. Ma Haowen didn't expect this sudden obstacle, and even the people and the car fell heavily to the ground. The prisoners who were playing tricks on him were about to laugh, but they found that he had gotten up on his own without saying a word.
His face was covered with loess, and his eyebrows couldn't be seen clearly, but he didn't wipe it off. He pulled up the cart and ran again. The giant man with his feet stretched out did not stand firmly, and was knocked into the pile of bricks next to him by him, and he did not look back, but just pulled the car and ran, and finally reached the end of the line first.
Ma Fei had already run to the end of the road, and there was a pond in front of him. The pond is dark green in color and viscous in texture, and there are colorful garbage floating on the surface of the water, which is thought to be a place for surrounding residents to discharge their pollution.
The footsteps behind him were getting closer and heavier.
"There it is! Catch him! ”
Ma Fei held the globe tightly, staring at the pond, thinking quickly. As if he had thought of something, he suddenly leaped into the air like a bird, and jumped into the water at an incredible height.
The pursuers came violently, stopped by the pond, and looked at the rippling water ripples, all dumbfounded.
After a while, far from the pond, a small head popped up against the withered leaves. Ma Fei pinched his nose, gasped for breath with his mouth, turned his head to look at the four bad boys standing on the opposite bank stunned, spat viciously, and swam away.
It was late at night.
Ma Fei, who was drenched in water and smelly, finally moved to the door of his house. He looked up at the light from his window, wrinkled his nose, and tried to wring the water out of his clothes.
Ma Fei walked to the door of the house, suddenly heard loud laughter from inside, and was surprised to forget to continue wring out his clothes. He looked around and entered the house, where everything was packed. The sound of a heavy fall came from behind the shabby sponge couch in the living room.
"Don't make a fuss!" Mom got up from behind the sofa with a smile, suddenly caught a glimpse of Ma Fei, hurriedly restrained her smile, and cut her hair in a panic.
"From today onwards, Uncle Meng and I will take you to a new place."
The chubby man known as Uncle Meng also stood up from behind the sofa, smiled wryly, and lit a cigarette.
Ma Fei has always felt that his mother's good friend Uncle Meng is the most flexible fat man he has ever met. Although he was round in everything, his face, his belly, and his fingers, they were all round and round. If someone pushes him in the chest, he will never spread out like a pile of meat, but will surely spin like a globe.
"Where?" Ma Fei asked vigilantly.
The light could not shine on Uncle Meng's face, and he could only see smoke rings growing in the shadows.
Uncle Meng, who was as round as a globe, said kindly, "Wonderland! A place where you can be reborn. ”
In the dim light, my mother and Uncle Meng walked to the door of the dormitory building with their luggage.
Ma Fei looked back at the gray dormitory building where he was born, and his eyes reluctantly circled on the number seven on the outer wall.
When the man he'd been waiting for returns, he won't be able to see him here again.
Mom forcibly grabbed Ma Fei's hand and took him away.