"Ouch, it's pretty heavy. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Shinkai, take it carefully. Remember, be careful not to knock your hand when you knock. Hold the nail in place with one hand and gently knock it down with the other. If you don't do it, come up to the fifth floor at night and call me, and I'll go down and help you get it. ”

The owner of the hardware store handed over the hammer that Wei Xinhai wanted to him, but he was still not at ease, so he handed Wei Xinhai over again.

The large hammer head made of pig iron, the yellow wooden handle is polished quite smooth, and the wood grain is still clearly visible. At the bottom of the wooden handle is a label with the word "New Dragon" written on it. Wei Xinhai couldn't suppress his happy mood, and quickly put the hammer into his backpack, and his big schoolbag fell a few points in an instant: "Okay, Uncle Kuang, I understand." I'm a junior high school student, so I'll do something as simple as that. ”

"Hey! You kid, don't come to my uncle if you're hurt then. Huh? I just remembered, didn't you buy a hammer in the last two months? How did you buy another one so quickly? ”

"My mom lost it a long time ago. I don't know what she took it back to work for, but in the end it disappeared without bringing it back. ”

"Well... If you go back, you can help your mother do more heavy work, and it is not easy for her to be a weak woman. Be careful yourself, you're still young, you really can't get it, just go up to the fifth floor and call me. Now, this hammer is given to you, and no money is charged. ”

"Hehe, thank you, Uncle Kwong. I'm leaving, goodbye Uncle Kwong. Wei Xinhai waved goodbye to the hardware store owner and trotted away.

Boss Kuang looked at Wei Xinhai's departing back and couldn't help but sigh: "What a well-behaved son, it's really worthy of her mother's hard work to bring him up alone." Hey, it's all the same alone, it's good that my son is so sensible, that rabbit cub will play games all day long, and his grades are so bad. ”

"Phew,. You've just taken a fancy to someone's mother. Boss Li from the grain and oil store next door also slipped over quietly, with a cigarette in his mouth, put his arm around Boss Kuang's shoulder, and pointed to a residential building not far away, which was where Boss Kuang and Wei Xinhai lived. You probably know that yourself, right? Rumors have spread throughout the street that there has been a strange man harassing her family lately. Don't blame me for not reminding you, as the saying goes, you live upstairs with them and help them get rid of the man, and people will naturally have a good impression of you. Besides, your wife has been dead for so long, and the child has no mother, so it's not good to say it. With that, he threw the cigarette butt to his feet and stomped on it to extinguish it.

Boss Kuang looked at it, took out a box of cigarettes from his waist bag, handed one to Boss Li, and helped him light it: "Seriously, I haven't thought about it." has a beautiful and gentle wife, and many filial sons. What a wonderful thing in life! It's just that I don't think people will be willing to. Although she is more than 30 years old, her figure and appearance have not changed, she can survive, she can run a house, and her personality is so good, how many men take a fancy to her! ”

"Hey, but she also has a son, who is in his teens, and not every man can accept it."

"Phew! Those fools, Xinhai is such a good child. If my son were like that, I would have to snicker at night when I went to bed! ”

"Look! See! Look at your smiling face, I'm a woman and I'm scared away by you! ”

"you! Only to find out that you are such a gossip from a majestic man! Whole woman-like! Boss Kuang pretended to be angry, picked up the wrench in the store and made a gesture to smash it at Boss Li.

Seeing that it was not good, Boss Li happily rushed back to his grain and oil store. After a few seconds, he heard his voice teasing Boss Kuang: "Eh, it's become a matchmaker money to remember to reward a small amount." ”

"Let's go, and be careful that I demolish your shop." Boss Kwong yelled at the store next door, a smile on the corner of his mouth.

Not only these two people were happy, Wei Xinhai was also extremely excited today, almost all the items he wanted to get were in his hands, and he was only one step away, and he was one step away from the pain. He trotted all the way back to the street where he lived, and at that time there was no so-called residential area, access lock and other protection, and the so-called residential area was only built on the side of the road in a dense residential building.

Moreover, the place where Wei Xinhai lives is not a comfortable place, the people who live here are all in the lower middle class of society, and it is a rare luxury to have an apartment of his own and a home to return to. Wei Xinhai is naturally one of them, his home was bought by his father before leaving, and without the difficulty of sleeping in the open air, his mother can now smoothly pull him up.

He ran through a damp and dirty aisle, lined with bags of household garbage, waiting for garbage trucks to come and collect them. He was already surprised by this, and he didn't feel how dirty it was, on the contrary, such an environment was all he had, and he would do everything in his power to protect the life he had now.

Taking out the key, from the door at the bottom of the building to the small wooden door of his house, Wei Xinhai opened the doors that had been opened thousands of times, and returned to his home all the way unimpeded. At this time, her mother was sitting on a small wooden chair, and the table was full of ropes and beads, and stringing them into a bracelet was one of Wei Xinhai's mother's three part-time jobs, and the family also relied on her various casual workers to maintain a normal life.

"I'm back."

"It's back, Shinkai. Why is it so late today? ”

"The school celebrates, and the class is preparing to hold activities, so the discussion is a little late."

Wei Xinhai walked up to his mother, picked up beads and ropes, and skillfully helped his mother string two strings. The mother looked at him, a filial child, and her heart was full of relief. As long as the child doesn't repeat his father's mistakes, then she won't interfere in Wei Xinhai's life. What's more, Wei Xinhai has been a perfect child in the eyes of neighbors, neighbors, and even teachers since she was a child, and she has no reason or need to teach Wei Xinhai a lesson. The mother always thinks that her role as a good friend of her son is enough.

"Laughing so happily, did you meet anything happy today? Tell your mother about it. ”

She tried to get up from the small chair, but the nails on the chair were already loose, and the whole chair was crumbling. As soon as she moved, she immediately lost her balance and fell to her side.

At that moment, Wei Xinhai threw down everything in his hand and caught her: "Mom, don't sit on this chair yet, wait until I make it firm, and then you can do manual work." ”

"It's okay, it's okay, don't be afraid. In a blink of an eye, you have grown up, and your strength is not small. Helped me up so easily. ”

"Mom... Don't do it yet, wait for me for half an hour, no! I'll be able to get it done in fifteen minutes. ”

"Kid, you don't have to worry about that. I've got to hurry up and do more, and make enough money to take you to eat something delicious on the weekend, okay? You, pack your bag and take a hot shower. I'll come over and get this chair when I have time for dinner, right? ”

The mother's kindness and optimism turned into a kind of irony in Wei Xinhai's eyes. The two-bedroom home now has only two wooden beds, two wooden stools, a small table, and some cooking utensils. The electrical appliances that could be sold have long been sold, and the TV sets and refrigerators in the hall have also negotiated prices with the neighbors, and they will be sent away in a few days. The only one that wasn't going to be sold was the water heater. Mother was afraid that Wei Xinhai would be cold on such a cold day, so she insisted on not selling it.

In fact, the family is not always surrounded by walls. As early as a few years ago, although their family was not rich and rich, they did not worry about eating and drinking, and they had everything.

"It's all that guy to blame! If he hadn't made a terrible mistake, the family wouldn't have fallen apart! Mothers don't have to suffer like that. ”

Wei Xinhai thought angrily, he looked at his mother's beautiful face that had been worn out by exhaustion, and finally couldn't suppress the resentment in his heart, and said viciously to his mother: "Did that person come today?" You don't want to give him the money again, do you? ”

The mother's face was full of grievances, she was reluctant to answer the question, but she didn't want to lie in the face of her son. I saw that her eyes were erratic, and she didn't dare to look directly at her son, so she said, "He... It's not here today, but... He said he would come in the evening. Maybe he won't come, you know his current situation, maybe there is something difficult and he has to change the location, and he won't be here tonight. Xinhai, don't resist him so much. ”

"With all that, you promised to give him money anyway, right?"

"Yes," the mother nodded reluctantly.

"How much more does he want!" Wei Xinhai's emotions exploded all of a sudden, "There is no end at all!" Come a few times a year, and take everything you can from the house every time! Is he still a human being? ”

"He's your father anyway! Xinhai! You can't say that about your father! ”

"Father? Since that time he has changed, he has become careless, he has become afraid of everything. If he were still a man, a man, would he run away for so many years? He didn't even have the courage to face it! ”

Wei Xinhai's mother was speechless, and her tears finally couldn't help falling under the coercion of her son. Her husband did give her too much unpleasantness, how could she not know? Year after year, she could only silently swallow all the bitterness into her stomach, the household appliances were sold out, the lime on the walls began to peel off, and the "dilapidated" subtly entered this home. Five years have passed like this, and she, except for stupidly believing, what else can she choose?

Wei Xinhai looked at it, and couldn't bear to continue to project his anger against that person on his mother. With maturity beyond his years, he held his mother tightly in his arms, and silence was better than sound at this time.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Suddenly, there was a sharp knock on the door to break the silence of the moment, Wei Xinhai's mother wiped away her tears with her sleeves, gently rubbed Wei Xinhai's hair, and said with a cheerful face: "It should be him here, you really don't want to see him go to the room." ”

"Yes." The door flowing with tenderness in Wei Xinhai's heart suddenly closed, and indifference returned to his cheeks. He stepped into his room, closed the door, and twisted the lock on.

"The farther away from that person, the better."

Wei Xinhai even felt that it was torture to breathe the air in the same space as that person. He threw his bag on the desk, climbed onto his plank bed, and scurried into the bed. Darkness enveloped him, and the air became humid and stuffy, and he tried to avoid the man's voice in this way.

It's a pity that the sound insulation effect at home is far worse than Wei Xinhai thought, from entering the door to talking to his mother, Wei Xinhai's father's rough voice can always pass through the wall, through the thin quilt, and reach Wei Xinhai's ears. He couldn't help but tremble all over, cold sweat and fear gushing out of his skin from the depths of his body. He was not afraid of his father, he was afraid of the irrepressible anger in his own heart.

Not ready for everything, I can't .... I can't...

He bit his lower lip and hid his murderous aura in his heart, but his father's voice stimulated him again and again.

"No, I'll put on my coat first. You go and close the door and see if anyone is following me. ”

"Towers", that was the characteristic sound of the door lock closing, and Wei Xinhai knew that his mother was soft-hearted and easily put that bastard into the house. The father's disgusting voice always echoed in this space, compared to the mother's weakness was blocked out of the wall, hazy and inaudible.

"Ling Xin, are you feeling better today? Usually take a break early, what do you do with these jobs that earn so many pennies, it's a waste of time and energy. ”

......

"Mmmm, it's okay, there's something wrong. It's been five years, and those damn cops have been looking and looking, and they don't know how to stop for a while. Fucking stupid, and I don't know how to give up, it's..."

......

"Hey, don't talk about it. Come, take it, and add some food to you and your son tonight. There was a brief silence, "then, I want you to be ready, you..."

......

"Five thousand, a lot? Why didn't I say too much when I bought these and bought those for you? You have to buy a dress for thousands, I have to say half a sentence about you? Now, I don't want you to give me five thousand. ”

......

"Sell! Sell! Sell them all! Isn't there a TV and a refrigerator? Yes, and water heaters. ”

......

"I bought these things back for you with money! I can't decide whether to sell or not? Are you afraid of the cold? I sleep out every day! Who's going to care about me?! ”

......

"I don't care! When I didn't, I called my son out, and I took him to my friend's. As long as he is obedient, the money will be as much as he wants. ”

Wei Xinhai's mother finally couldn't help but roar: "No! I would never let you take your son to that kind of place! Enough of your own depravity! Do you still want to kill your son? I was so dumbfounded when I married you! ”

When the father returns, quarrels are essential. Wei Xinhai's mother has always been obedient, believing that his father will change, and believes that he will eventually bring peace to this family. "Roaring" means that his mother is completely disappointed in that bastard, and the shackles on Wei Xinhai's body seem to be released in an instant, no matter what he does, his mother won't feel sad, right? He sat up from the bed, grabbed his bag and flipped the contents out.

"You slut! It wasn't for the money to marry me in the first place! Get lost! Don't pull me! ”

"What money do I want from you? Haven't you spent all your money on this home? What have you given me? ”

"What about the jewelry? Scold? Didn't you show it off everywhere at the beginning? (To be continued.) )