Chapter 14: The Cultivation of Ignorance
The next morning, Leng Mian had breakfast at home, and was ready to go back to school, and when he left, his mother shouted, "Carry two more cakes and put them on your body, if you are hungry on the road, you can eat them." β
Leng Mian grabbed two more flatbreads, and said goodbye to this family, and his mother looked at Leng Mian's back when he was running, and sighed with relief: "No. 1, it seems that our family is going to touch this kid's light." β
After thinking about it, she remembered the business, and said to herself, "Oh, by the way, it's time to bring some goods to the street and sell them." β
She packed up the new items at homeβ A few pieces of cloth, with these goods, also grabbed a piece of bread and stuffed it into her mouth, and hurried out into the street, about a quarter of an hour later, she arrived at the rented shop, when she arrived, Aunt Ma and Luo Niang had already come, and when they arrived, the cold face mother and their shop were next to each other, so it was not surprising that they were here, but strangely enough, these two people were lazy people, and usually came very late, but why did they come here early today, and when they saw the cold face mother, they covered their mouths and snickered, as if they had eaten sugarγ
The cold-faced mother first put the cloth away, and then went to talk to them: "Sister Luo and Sister Ma, you came early today!"
"That's right, I'm in a good mood today!"
"Oh, what a pleasure, let's hear it!"
"It's nothing, it's my son Hei Niu who is studying in Yandu, not the penultimate one. After saying that, the two of them snickered again.
"It's not that the penultimate one will make you happy like this, but since it's your son's business, why does Ma Mei follow suit?"
"Thisβ" The two of them were speechless for a moment.
"Forget it, you don't want to talk about it, but I have good news for you, that is, my son Leng Mian won the first place in the school Alas, he died of joy, but it was also something I expected. After the mother finished speaking, she smiled proudly.
When the two of them heard this, they couldn't help laughing, at this time, they lost the restraint that women should have, and looked like shrews, which was not in tune with the peaceful environment around them, so a sense of disobedience struck.
"What's wrong with you?" asked the mother, puzzled.
"It's not much, it's just a smile, but I heard that Sister Lan Xiang, you seem to have been deceived miserably today. β
"I was deceived, I don't exist, I've been a businessman for more than ten years, who can play with me. β
"Not in that regard. β
"That's?"
"Let me tell you the truth, your son lied to you, he is not the first at all, on the contrary, he is the penultimate one, Sister Lan Xiang, I can tell you, you can't be angry. β
"What nonsense are you talking about, can my son lie to me? Besides, Leng Mian has been watching him come since he was a child, don't you know what his situation is?"
"Tell me what, the whole city knows about your son's penultimate matter, if it's not true, how can it spread so quickly. β
"That's it, what I heard was the same as what Sister Luo said. β
The mother was so surprised that she couldn't speak, and Luo Niang continued: "Hey, I thought your cold noodles were good, and you were a genius, but after a competition, I knew that I was a lame person, I heard that he was in the school, and even girls could bully him." β
When the mother heard the news, she was so angry that she couldn't even stand firmly, and her whole face turned purple, and then, she slammed her fist on the door and scolded: "What a back cub, see if I don't kill you today!"
When she yelled, she smashed the door of the shop shut, then went to the neighbor Tomoko's house, borrowed a slender bamboo strip from Tomoko and his mother, and went straight to the pineapple school.
Aunt Ma and Luo Niang hurriedly came over to stop her, and said: "Sister Lanxiang, don't beat the child, this will affect the child's learning, don't worry, we definitely don't look down on your family because of this kind of trivial matter, it's a big deal, I don't want you to return the things that were sent to your family before." β
"Get out of the way, old lady, I have to go and kill him on the back today!"
I don't know if it's intentional or not, as soon as the hands of the two people stopped, Lan Xiang broke free from their obstruction and went straight towards the martial arts hall.
Two quarters of an hour later, the mother appeared outside the door of the martial arts hall, at this time, Leng Mian was standing in the team, on the field was Chu Zhengchun and Youzi's wonderful competition, suddenly, the door was pushed creak, everyone glanced at the door, Leng Mian too, he glanced at it, found that it was the mother, and was immediately stunned, and at this time, the mother came murderously, staring at Leng Mian with her eyes, and the teachers on the side were ignored by her.
The teacher looked at her, and didn't know which parent she was, so she walked over and asked, "Hello, eldest sister, who are you looking for?"
"Cold noodles!" the mother walked straight away angrily, the teacher had a hunch, so she was about to hold her, but she limped and let it go, "Don't stop me!"
Seeing this, Leng Mian had a premonition that something was wrong, but he just stood there in a daze, and later, his mother walked by, dragged him out of the team, and suddenly pressed him to his knees on the ground, and then began to beat him with a bamboo stick, and scolded in his mouth when he hit: "You are useless, you are the first to last, you have developed your skills, and you have learned to lie, haven't you?"
The whipping one by one, the blood on the back of the cold face was dripping, and the torn clothes were stuck to the long strip-like wounds, and the mother scolded even more fiercely at this time: "Just like you, it's really vain that I raised you so big, I thought you could let me get naked, but as a result, it really didn't benefit at all!"
The cyan bamboo strip swept across his back, causing a faint, high-pitched snapping sound.
was beaten so hard, but the mother didn't take into account the self-esteem of the cold noodles at all, and in full view of everyone, she just beat more and more hard.
At this time, Leng Mian is in his heart, in fact, he already has a deep resentment, after all, it is embarrassing enough to make a fool of himself in public, then again, who can treat this humiliating punishment as a pleasure?
The rest of the people became bystanders, silent, not knowing what to do.
Zhongzi, who is very happy to watch, if he doesn't care about the image, he will applaud directly!
Suddenly, the teacher stepped in to stop him, he grabbed Lan Xiang's wrist and said in a heavy voice: "Don't hit the child, it's just harming the child!"
Finally, the bamboo stick slipped from Cai Lanxiang's hand and fell onto the blood-stained dirt.
The mother leaned over to look at Leng Mian, touched his face, and whispered: "Leng Mian, I hope you can understand that this world doesn't need waste materials, and I don't need it either, even if you are my son." β
After speaking, the mother picked up the bamboo strip and left without looking back, the last words she said when she left were indeed vicious enough, but I have to say that that is the law of survival in this world.