Chapter 2: Turning Point
It was already two o'clock in the afternoon, Xiao Ye was still awake, this was the first time he hadn't taken a nap since he came to this house. He looked at a very ordinary purple rhinestone necklace in his hand and didn't know what to do with it. The necklace was picked up by him, snatched by someone else, and finally returned to him.
The door clicked, Xiao Ye quickly turned around and stuffed the necklace into a box in the drawer, and then watched in surprise as Xiao Han pushed the door and walked in. He was not afraid of Ye Quan and Ah Xin, but he was always afraid of Xiao Han, so he subconsciously shrank his body.
Xiao Han stood beside his bed for a while, not knowing how to tell him, so he had to let out a long breath and sit down beside him, and after a while, he reached out and patted him on the shoulder, asking, "Did someone bully you at school yesterday?" β
Xiao Ye didn't speak, and his body shrunk into a ball and let Xiao Han hold him. There was silence in the room again, and Xiao Han asked again: "Didn't I teach you before, why didn't you fight back?" β
Xiao Ye hummed and said, "But you said that you can't do anything with others casually." β
Xiao Han didn't seem to be very good at communicating with him, and waited for a while before saying, "I said it, but ...... If you don't say that someone else is doing something to you, you can't fight back. It's their hands that make the first move, and of course you can do it too. β
Xiao Ye's shrunken body finally loosened a little, tilted his head to look at Xiao Han, lowered his head again, and still buzzed: "She's a girl." β
Xiao Han's voice suddenly brought some anger: "What's wrong with the girl?" Should the girl ask you to let it go? She should bear the consequences if she dares to do it. Xiao Ye, you remember, the person who beats someone doesn't care if you are a man or a woman, you don't care if the object of the fight back is a man or a woman, as long as he dares to touch you, let him pay the price. β
Xiao Ye looked at Xiao Han with tears in his eyes, and after a while, he said, "I remember...... Father. β
Xiao Han was stunned for a moment, and finally reacted that Xiao Ye was calling him.
When Wang Jie came back from school, her home was usually an ice pot and a cold stove, and she habitually took out a carton of milk and a packet of biscuits from the refrigerator, sat numbly by the refrigerator and ate it. After eating, she got up and touched a lighter from the edge of the sink, and smoked a shoddy cigarette from the pocket of her school uniform and expertly lit it.
Wang Jie has been living like this for five years. She took a deep breath, took half of the cigarette in her hand, and examined the contents of the houseβit was ridiculous that the woman had come back last night, and she had packed her things up, and had fumbled around her own house like a thief, thinking that she knew nothing, when in fact she had been awake all the time.
The house was very clean, but in Wang Jie's eyes, it was another hideous scene.
It was when she was in the fourth grade, four years ago, and she came back that day and didn't know what was wrong, but she remembered that she was very disappointed, and bought a dozen beers at the store at the door, and drank them intermittently, and the woman came back and saw the empty beer bottles around her on the ground, and began to fuss and mutter. She was in a bad mood that day, and she had drunk too much, and she scolded and scolded, and she didn't want to listen to the woman nagging her anymore, so she staggered to her feet, and during this time, she took a few things and threw them everywhere, and as soon as she entered the small bedroom, she slammed the door from the inside.
It was from that time that the woman never came back while she was sober, and her relationship with the woman seemed to have deteriorated. But she didn't care, her relationship with that woman had broken down since a year ago, and she didn't want to see such a disgusting person when she was awake.
Wang Jie pulled herself back from her thoughts, the cigarette in her hand was about to burn, she threw the cigarette butt on the ground, and stepped on it when she walked out of the door.
Wang Jie always remembered that her father was a police officer, and she wanted to use herself to protect others like her father, instead of waiting for others to protect like that woman. Wang Jie? It's really disgusting, she wants to be a hero like her father, and the name should be taken back by that woman to disgust herself.
Out of the old alley, a light rain fell on the gloomy street, Wang Jie couldn't help but speed up his pace, those boys who don't know the height of the sky and the thickness of the sky are looking for the stubble of her subordinates every day, and they have been indulged for so many days, and it should be solved today.
It was the policeman's father who hoped that Wang Jie could take over his class and become a policeman who served the people since he was a child, and because Wang Jie was a girl, the interest classes that Wang Jie enrolled in were all taekwondo, judo, which were related to martial arts. has had a foundation since he was a child, and Wang Jie is still very good at cleaning up people.
The other party's thin strips of cheap mouth bones are really not as powerful as their mouths, and they lie on the ground and beg in three or two strokes. Plentiful. Wang Jie pulled his coat over his shoulders and whistled to go home.
Her whistle stopped suddenlyβthe woman stood at the door of the ruined factory, looking at her with the most hated expression of pity. Wang Jie walked out with a cold eye, and when he heard the sound of the woman walking behind him and couldn't lift his feet, he was upset when he heard it, so he quickened his pace.
The rain kept falling in the hair, and there was no big sign of it, so Wang Jie walked to the door of the house and it started to fall like a scoop. She went into the house and wiped her hair less than two inches with the coat in her hand, threw it away, sat on the only sofa in the room, took out her cigarette and smoked it again.
The woman walked slowly, she came back drenched, she didn't change her clothes, she didn't get her hair, she saw the cigarette on the corner of her mouth, and she cowered in front of her and persuaded: "Xiaojie, stop smoking, you are only fourteen years old, and smoking is not good for your health." β
Wang Jie spat out a smoke ring: "What's your business." He got up and walked to the bedroom in a sullen manner.
The woman muttered behind her, "Xiaojie, mother...... Unemployed. β
As if she wanted to scare someone, and as if she wanted someone to know who she was sorry for. Wang Jie said coldly, "Who wants you to feed", and went into the bedroom without paying attention.
Wang Jie locked the bedroom door, went to the small cabinet at the head of the bed and took out a shoe box, which was the living expenses that the woman had given her since she was in the fifth grade, and she was not able to support herself in the third or fourth grade, so she could only grit her teeth and close her eyes and use it with a clear conscience. Since she was in the fifth grade, she and a group of buddies can find a way to make money, sell some girls' gadgets at the school gate, or, help in the back kitchen of the restaurant during the winter and summer vacations, she can spend money much, and the money she transfers on her own is enough.
Lying on the bed, Wang Jie was very tired from moving his muscles and bones, and he wanted to sleep for a while, but the woman was outside, even if she didn't make a sound at all, Wang Jie seemed to be able to hear her walking around, tinkling and clanging, which annoyed her.
Wang Jie lay on the bed for a while and didn't fall asleep, but felt more and more annoyed, turned down and hugged the shoebox containing the money, opened the door with a "bang" and rushed out, threw the shoebox to the woman, and walked out in a huff.
It was raining heavily outside, Wang Jie had already rushed out, and dimly heard the woman shouting mournfully: "Xiaojie, Xiaojie, where are you going?" Bring the umbrella, Xiaojie! β
The sky is getting dark, the street lamps are lit up one after another, the rain has stopped, and from time to time there is the sound of raindrops falling into puddles.
She has no home. Five years ago, she didn't have a father, and now, she doesn't have a home again. Although this home is just a small dilapidated house that she sees as shelter from the elements.
Wang Jie walked on the road with her wet body in her arms, she was tired and hungry in the dead of night, but whether she was tired or hungry, both of them prompted her to find a place to shelter from the wind and rain as soon as possible to sleep.
She walked tremblingly, and saw a few men in front of her, probably the little gangsters in this area, she didn't want to provoke these adult men, so she pretended not to see it, and continued to walk with her head down, but turned a corner.
It felt as if the people were coming at her, and she crouched down and pretended to tie her shoes, but she felt a brick in her hand. Hearing the sound behind her, she grabbed the brick and turned sharply, and froze.
A man who was in a flow of breath looked at her with a smile, spat out "phew", and said, "Little girl, do you know what this is in my hand?" Gun. Don't move, it's easy to get off. β
A red-haired man behind him said with a hippie smile: "I don't know what Brother Li asked us to follow this little girl for, this little girl looks tender with a face, but the more she looks at it, the more she likes it, is it possible that Brother Li has fallen in love with it again?" β
The man in front of him scolded: "You know a fart! She's the daughter of that tiaozi, are you blind? Little girl, my brother doesn't want to embarrass you, but who told your mother that she hasn't been very obedient recently, she ran into the bureau twice in three days, and the three of your brothers haven't slept peacefully for several nights, so you can go with your brother and let your mother calm down. β
Wang Jie is very good at cleaning people, but he has never cleaned up bullets, the man pointed a gun at her, she didn't dare to move, but the brick in her hand kept holding. She was thinking about countermeasures in her mind, there were few houses here, there was only one big factory, even if she shouted, no one would come out in the middle of the night to meddle in things, and in the end she might have to be shot, but if she turned around and ran away now, the gun would be on her, and she couldn't run faster than a bullet.
The man pointed a gun at her, lifted his chin, and said, "Let's go." β
Wang Jie regretted that he didn't hold back his breath and sleep in the bedroom today, but it was useless. She slowly resigned herself to her hand and turned around, feeling the gun behind her retract a little, and just as she was thinking of a bad idea, a woman's scream suddenly sounded behind her.
The three men squeaked and screamed a few times, and a thin figure blocked Wang Jie. Wang Jie turned around and saw the woman holding a half-worn umbrella with a black-red semi-thick liquid on the tip of the rusty umbrella. She tugged at her coldly: "It's none of your business, get out!" β
The three men were suddenly attacked, and the man with the gun had flowers on his head and was bleeding down, he covered his head and looked at the mother and daughter in front of him viciously: "Don't be ashamed, right?" Shame on the face, right? Don't you miss your dead ghost husband, Lao Tzu will give you a happy one, and send you two down to see him! β
The gun rang out with a "bang", and Wang Jie looked at the gun in a daze. The white smoke in his mouth, his arm was dragged by the woman, and he staggered to the side.
By the time she came to her senses, the woman had a lot of blood on her chest, a lot of blood, just like her father. She covered the bleeding place with both hands in a panic, and said in a buzzing voice: "You won't die, you won't die, Dad is gone, you are gone, no one will care about me anymore." You don't, you don't die, you don't die......"
"Oops...... Over there, what's going on? β
Gun. The sound attracted two night patrols. Ann, while chasing after him with a flashlight, while notifying the other security through the intercom. Quiet. The three men looked at Bao who had been brought over. Ann more and more, kicked his legs and ran.
Several warrants. An helped call an ambulance and take Wang Jie and his injured mother to the hospital. Wang Jie sat outside the door of the rescue room for the whole night, like sitting on pins and needles, like falling into hell. She never thought she was still so dependent on her mother, and if she could, she would even wish to turn back the clock and replace the dying person with her.
She sat on the ground and curled up, tears streaming from her eyes, but she bit her arm and let herself whimper like a dying beast. She was afraid that her mother would really leave her, and she was also afraid that she would really become an orphan.
The mother lay quietly in bed, and the doctor told Wang Jie that she might never wake up again.
One day three months after her mother woke up, Wang Jie confessed to her, crying with tears all over his face, begging her not to ignore herself, not to abandon herself. But now that his mother is really awake, Wang Jie can only kneel under the bed, kowtow again and again, and say: "I was wrong, I was wrong, it was my fault, it was my fault, I was wrong, I was wrong......"
With tears in her eyes, her mother stood up and pulled her up, but she looked at her like a stranger, and for a long time, she cried heartbreakingly: "Xiaojie, mom is sorry for your dad, mom has no more than your dad, and she can't live without you anymore." β
"Mom......"
Wang Jie threw himself into his mother's arms for the first time in five years.
After the mother was discharged from the hospital and returned home, the mother and daughter moved to another city so that the mother could find a job. Wang Jie quit smoking, stopped drinking heavily, and grew her hair, and after the college entrance examination, she was admitted to a major university with a score of 666.