Chapter 49: The Sky Falls, and the Tower Rises on Top (Part II)
49 The heavens fell, and there was a tower on top (below)
Wei Gospel, who was sitting on the sofa tremblingly, always paid attention to the most subtle changes in Li Yuehua's face.
The mirror hanging on the wall has always been just an ornament, at this moment, Li Yuehua looked at the weather-beaten face in the mirror in a daze, as if she couldn't believe that the woman with wrinkles at the corners of her eyes and frosty temples was herself, how long had she not looked in the mirror, her rough hands caressed her cheeks, and she took a deep breath of cold air: "How did I get old like this."
Wei Gospel looked at Li Yuehua's collapsed appearance, her eyes were already wet, her parents were the same age as Sun Tingting's parents, and even two years younger than Sun Tingting's parents.
Sun Tingting's mother was dressed elegantly and gorgeously, and last month she went to the barber shop to perm her straight hair into wavy curls, coiled it up elegantly, and carefully traced it with a brown eyebrow pencil under her faint eyebrows, and applied a mask once a week.
"I'm so busy every day that I don't have time to look in the mirror." Li Yuehua's resolute face stepped down, in Wei Gospel's heart, no matter what she became, she was still the person she loved and respected the most.
"Let's go." Li Yuehua was ready to go, thought for a while, as if she wanted to find someone to strengthen her courage, and said, "You come with me."
She pointed at Wei Gospel, tugged at the hem of her clothes, smoothed the folds on her clothes, as if she suddenly had the motivation to live, and came back to life, and said: "It's cold outside, wear more clothes, let's find someone to see how we can save your father, you can't cry at this time, it's useless to cry."
Wei Gospel stretched out his hand to wipe the tears that had dried up on his cheeks, stood up, and walked to a corner of the room, there was no wardrobe at home, usually Li Yuehua piled the clothes they often wore on a single bed in the corner, Wei Gospel found a thick cotton jacket in the pile of clothes, and put it on the outside of the thin school uniform.
This big-flowered padded jacket was specially made for her by Li Yuehua, pouring a stitch and thread into Li Yuehua, Li Yuehua said: "Why don't you wear the padded jacket I made for you, it doesn't matter if it looks good or not, just ease it, although there is heating in the classroom, but it is cold on the way to school."
Li Yuehua is a good worker, fast and quick, but it is because of the speed that she is not meticulous enough, the stitches on the cotton jacket are sloppy, and the red cotton thread is crooked along the eye of the needle from the collar to the hem, barely a straight line.
The padded jacket was carefully prepared by Li Yuehua, she looked at the weather forecast and said that this year was a once-in-a-century cold winter, and before the cold air arrived, she only took one day to make the padded jacket.
Li Yuehua persuaded her bitterly, and said: "I also wore it when I was in school, although it was ugly, it was not cold."
Wei Gospel secretly thought in his heart: "I won't wear it if I die", Li Yuehua persuaded hard, she was as strong as a cow, Wei Gospel also knew that she was warm to wear, but if she wore it at school, she would become the laughing stock of teachers and classmates, the students were still young and didn't understand the world, they just laughed and thought it was fun, but the teachers were different, their smiles were mixed with too many things, which made her afraid.
Pushing open the wooden door, Wei Gospel shuddered, shrunk his neck, put his hands into his sleeves, couldn't adapt to the darkness in front of him for a while, took a step back, and held on to the door frame.
Li Yuehua straightened her collar, turned back to Wei Fuling and Wei Siguo and instructed: "Don't be afraid, you two will come back with your second sister in a while, don't turn off the lights, don't open the door when you hear someone talking, how many pairs of eyes are staring at our house now, you don't have to be afraid, I'll go find someone to rescue your father, if it's really a last resort, I'll tell the police that the thing was stolen by the third child, let the police arrest him, he should go to jail, he should be shot and shot, it's none of your father's business, your father can't take the blame for him."
"Okay, don't cry, do you think I feel good, I'm a woman, how have I ever seen this kind of scene, when the police arrested your dad, I thought I was going to shoot your dad, calm down and think about it, the police can't arrest people indiscriminately, they may just arrest your dad and ask for questioning, and when the question is finished, it will be fine."
Wei Fuling and Wei Siguo stopped their tears.
Seeing that Li Yuehua had rekindled his fighting spirit, the stone hanging in Wei Gospel's heart finally landed, blinked, and only heard a "squeak", Li Yuehua pushed open the heavy iron door.
"Mom, will my dad be beaten, does it hurt to hit his body with an electric baton?"
Wei Gospel asked cautiously, and she and Li Yuehua walked on the uneven gravel road by the road in their memories in the dark.
"He deserved to be beaten."
Li Yuehua's tone eased a lot, she cared more about Wei Fuhai than complained, thinking of the catastrophe that Wei Fulin brought to this already stormy family, she said hatefully: "His good brother caused him trouble, let him remember it for a long time, and see if he can help him in the future."
"Will my dad go to jail?"
Li Yuehua did not immediately respond to Wei Gospel's question, and the result was not something she could have predicted.
"Mom, who are we looking for help?"
Wei Gospel's voice rang 10,000 times in Li Yuehua's mind like an alarm bell, she stopped her steps in a daze, and blood gushed up for a while, she didn't know who to ask for this favor.
When Wei Fuhai was proud of the spring breeze, there were many fox friends and dog friends around, and they could be said to be responsive, every time someone came, Wei Fuhai generously fished a few silver carp from the fish pond for them to take home, and now they are in trouble, and they don't raise fish anymore, and those so-called friends have evaporated from the world.
Now that Wei Fuhai has encountered such a hurdle, everyone can't hide, and they still expect anyone to help them, whoever gets involved will be troubled.
The surrounding silence was chilling, Wei Gospel looked up, and saw that the black and oppressive outline of the surrounding bungalow was like a lion with a bloody mouth in the night, she trembled all over, and reached out to grab the corner of Li Yuehua's clothes.
"Let's go, let's go to the water room to find Zhang Laosan, he is a local, there should be some way, ask him about your father's situation."