The swarthy old-fashioned popcorn machine made a loud bang, and snow-white corn pearls sprayed out. The children, who had already gathered around them, rushed up to the ground, picked them up from the ground and ate them.

The madman at the school gate also followed the robbery, and suddenly looked up and saw Ma Fei coming out of the school, and quickly got up and stuffed the corn flower in his hand to him. Ma Fei waved his hand lazily and pointed left and right.

The madman found that there were two more people around Ma Fei, the woman on the left had a gloomy and angry face, the man on the right was red and overjoyed, and there was a fat man not far away, holding the big brother and talking on the phone. The madman grunted and ducked.

"Ten in the grade, why don't you go to heaven? Peeing photo, do you see that he looks like the face of the top ten in the grade? Xinyu counted in anger.

Ma Haowen Yile: "What face should the top ten in the grade have?" Round-faced, square-faced, or shoehorn-faced? Anyway, I remember beating him up and others praising him - my nose and eyebrows follow me, and my face shape is especially with you. ”

Xin Yu was angry, and she didn't know how to refute for a while, so she could only stare dryly. Ma Fei simply covered his ears and ran to the corner to stand.

Ma Haowen glanced at his son's back and whispered: "Even if it's a dog, he doesn't want to go out after shaving." It's okay to criticize him, but you can't humiliate him in front of people. Would you say that to your friends? Who is it who doesn't turn against you? ”

"I ...... I'm for his good! Xinyu argued.

Ma Haowen said softly: "There is no more terrifying excuse than 'I am for his good'." Then you are also good for yourself, why don't you scold yourself in the mirror for two hours every day? A child can do without anything, but not without self-esteem. ”

Xinyu was speechless.

She felt like she was back in girlhood. It's been like this since she fell in love, no matter how justified she felt at first, she always couldn't talk about him in the end, and she was always educated by him. It's breathtaking! However, there is some truth in his words...... He always speaks so reasonably, didn't he take a fancy to him at the beginning......

Before Xinyu's thoughts drifted away, she suddenly saw her current husband hang up the phone in a lawsuit and came over: "Oh no." Lao He's wagon still didn't understand, and he yelled at me. It was scheduled to leave the day after tomorrow and it would be too late, so we had to leave for Guangzhou immediately. ”

"Now? It's the same as last time, and it's going to be the same for another two months? Can't you go alone? ”

Before Xinyu finished speaking, she saw that her husband's face suddenly appeared with an expression that seemed to have just eaten a lemon and turned his teeth, his eyes glanced at her, and he kept glancing at her ex-husband. She was angry and funny.

"Ouch, even if I marry him, I will be blind once, and I can be blind a second time? I'm worried about what to do with Ma Fei. Xinyu paused.

Xiao Meng looked at Ma Haowen, Ma Haowen looked at Xinyu, and Xinyu looked at Xiao Meng. In the subtle gaze of the three people, each other's intentions are already clear; Ma Fei, who was originally standing facing the wall, couldn't help but turn his head secretly.

Ma Haowen couldn't hold back the expression of wanting to laugh, and took the child's coat in the crook of Xinyu's arm without giving up.

With a "bang", the popcorn machine next to it burst again.

"Son, son? That's just the two of us. Wonderful world for two. Ma Haowen followed behind Ma Fei with a smile on his face. Ma Fei buried his head and walked so fast that he had to trot all the way.

"You've grown so tall, huh? I'm in junior high school, and adults don't care about me, right? Would you like to look back at your most beloved father? Tsk, such a big schoolbag ......" Ma Haowen flatteringly untied the schoolbag from his son's shoulder, Ma Fei suddenly turned around and bit him hard, and then ran away without looking back.

"Oops...... Where are you going? Ma Haowen was in pain, screamed, and couldn't care less, so he hurriedly chased after him.

It's the evening rush hour.

In the alleys, bicycles, tricycles and pedestrians acrobatically intersect and stagger each other. Roadside stalls have been set up, and smoky stoves and improvised plastic tables and chairs have crowded the road, making the road even more difficult.

The streets are filled with an army of bicycles, and the bells are ringing one after another. Between the convoys of bikes from north to south are busy lanes, blue and white buses are crammed with people coming home from work, and open-top trucks follow the buses, spitting black smoke out of the air.

Ma Fei walked through the streets and alleys, shuttling among the crowd and vehicles, at a very fast speed, and there was a kind of energy that did not care.

Ma Haowen chased after him wildly, and his vest was soaked with sweat.

Catching up from the alley to the street, I saw a car coming......

"Be careful!"

In an instant, Ma Fei rushed from the front of the car.

Ma Haowen let out a sigh and was about to take a step, but his body was slammed into the cargo surface behind him. The contents of the large bag were scattered all over the place.

The driver's legs were weak, and he got down from the cockpit tremblingly, and scolded nervously with a crying voice: "Blind? You okay? Where did you hit your two-ball? ”

Ma Haowen was stunned for a moment, and got up with a bone, half of his face was covered with dirt. Hundreds of people quickly gathered on the street around the place where the accident occurred, and the flow of people and vehicles was stagnant. He didn't look up at the little commotion he had caused, but was busy kneeling on the ground and picking up the books that had fallen one by one.

"It's okay, it's okay. I'm fine. You go yours. ”

The driver came over to help him, his voice was still trembling: "Let's go, I'll take you to make a film, right?" In case something happens to the bones, you're a two-ball. ”

Ma Haowen straightened up and looked into the distance, Ma Fei was gone.

He hurriedly pushed the driver's hand away, took two steps forward, and suddenly caught a glimpse of the shadow of a young man flashing at the next street corner. He grabbed his schoolbag, limped over, and grabbed his son.

Ma Fei won't run now.

All the grievances he has suffered over the years have reached a critical point at this moment, and the long-suppressed emotions have finally waited for an exit. He felt a shiver of pain run through his brain like an electric current, and at the same time he felt his heart feel lighter than ever.

He stopped, turned around, and cried loudly while squeezing his father with his arm: "Let you not come to see me!" Don't let you come to see me! Don't let you come to see me! ”

Ma Haowen's tears couldn't help but flow. He hugged his son and never wanted to be separated again.

The sun is setting.

The fluorescent light tubes behind the signboards of roadside restaurants are lit up one after another, and the words "fresh seafood", "cold beer" and "north and south food" are displayed one after another.

"Smack"...... The fly swatter in the hand of the owner of the Limin Hotel killed a fly. At the same time, Ma Haowen and his son walked into the Limin Hotel.

"You can order whatever you want. Let's satisfy our cravings......" Ma Haowen rubbed his hands and said excitedly, opening the menu thrown by the boss, and his smile disappeared suddenly, "Is a bowl of noodles so expensive now?" Didn't they all cost five cents a bowl before? ”

The boss stopped swatting flies, turned around and replied kindly, "Brother, how much was that before?" ”

"I ...... I'm going to the bathroom. ”

Ma Haowen got up and walked to the back of the restaurant. The toilet is a simple small house made of plywood and asbestos tiles, barely enough for two people. He looked left and right at no one, and struggled to find the money in his pocket, counting them one by one. After counting it, I was very dissatisfied, so I counted it again. In fact, there are not many gross tickets at all, and there are only a small handful of coins.

Ma Haowen looked at the money in his hand and sighed, and suddenly the toilet door "creaked", and a strong man came in. He pretended to be indifferent and put the money in his arms, but he didn't expect to be accidentally squeezed by the strong man, and all the coins fell into the sewer.

"Idiot! Idiot! Idiot! Ma Haowen was so anxious that he couldn't wait to pump himself, and when he looked up, he saw that the strong man was widening his eyes angrily, and he hurriedly smiled, "I said myself." ”

By the time he sat down again, he had regained his composure.

"Boss, get my son a bottle of orange soda first. Then two bowls of beef noodles. Add more chili peppers, more coriander, more garlic sprouts, and more soup and noodles. ”

The boss was very calm: "Brother, can you just ask for four bowls?" ”

Ma Fei looked at his father sympathetically, he had rarely seen such an embarrassed expression on an adult's face.

The noodles are coming.

There are very few people in the restaurant, except for the sound of the boss beating flies, you can only hear Ma Fei sucking soda and Ma Haowen sucking beef noodles.

The boss frowned, glancing disdainfully over each snort. Ma Fei felt the boss's gaze, stopped playfully, and stopped drinking soda. Ma Haowen still eats hard.

"Daddy?"

"Huh?" In the steaming heat of the noodles, Ma Haowen, who was sweating all over his nose, raised his head in a panic.

Ma Fei didn't say much, just poured most of his bowl of noodles into his father's bowl.

Ma Haowen glared: "What are you doing?" It's the time to grow your body, and you eat quickly. Oops, I'm struggling...... It's really holding on. As if to prove this fact, he let out a long, loud burp. The boss returned the salute again.

Ma Fei interrupted his father's muttering, "Dad! Do you have a place to stay? ”

"Huh?" Ma Haowen was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously wiped his mouth, "Hmm...... Yes, I was expelled from public office, but my father is so powerful, there is a long queue waiting for me to pick my unit, you know? Otherwise, how could your mother trust you to me? Haha, that's a lot to worry about. I really have a lot of friends, from the eastern suburbs and from the western suburbs...... are all very righteous. In short, why don't we sleep on the streets, right? ”

It was late at night.

The city has reined in the softness and warmth that the sun once shown, revealing its cold and hideous side.

On the beach of the Dongpei River, far away from the lights of thousands of homes in residential areas, there are large and small cement culverts. Even in the sunlight, looking through the hole can feel eerie; At night, it's more like a place where dangerous and evil creatures haunt. The water crashed against the beach with a terrible sound, and the dampness always covered the wild grass at the mouth of the cave with dewdrops.

There was a thunderclap and a torrential rain poured down. The rats in the grass ran like crazy.

In the dark culvert, a torch suddenly lit up, and the flickering light reflected Ma Fei's bewildered face. He looked around cautiously, not daring to touch anywhere, not daring to step on anywhere, and was hesitating to go out in the rain, when he suddenly saw his father coming back with a plastic sheet and a full of things.

"Feel it", Ma Haowen pulled out old cotton tires, styrofoam boxes and waste newspapers from his arms one after another, and exclaimed enthusiastically, "This warmth and this elasticity, how can Uncle Meng's Simmons compare ......"

He raised the torch and saw his son's face clearly.

"What's your expression? I told you, this culvert was also built by Dad, just to let you experience Dad's achievements. The soil is very loose, the load pressure is too great, they all said that they can't repair the culvert, but Dad thought of a wonderful solution, do you know what it is......"

Ma Fei suddenly buried his head in his father's chest.

Ma Haowen's gushing was interrupted. He was silent for a while, stroked the child's hair, and said firmly: "Son, believe in Dad, it will be fine." I swear I'll never do it again. I swear. It's going to be fine. ”

On the dark river beach, in the cold rain curtain, the torches glowed red like beans, smudging a ball of warmth.

The culvert in the world, which is hardly called "home", suddenly feels a little home.

In this bizarre home, one is the most incompetent father in the history of Dongpei City, who has just been released from prison for twelve hours; One is the son who was almost expelled from school and was considered by everyone to be "a little more stupid than the stupidest".

That's how their first day went.