Chapter 17: Reunion
What should I do now? My stepmother won't give me money, what will I give back to Wang Feng?
After a few casual conversations with my sister, we went back to my dorm room and pulled out an old box from under the bed, which contained my usual clothes and common items. Of course, I hid private money in it. This money was given to me by my mother, and I didn't spend it all to save.
When I counted them, there were only more than three hundred. I was going to use it to buy myself a birthday gift, but now I can only use it to pay it back.
Alas~ and the small treasury that I have worked hard to save for a few months, say goodbye.
I put the money under my pillow and prepared to take it with me early tomorrow morning. After putting it away, I went back to the room that didn't belong to me.
My sister and stepmother were eating when they saw me coming in, and my stepmother said to me, "The rice is in the pot, and I will serve it myself." β
I went to the table, picked up the rice spoon, uncovered the pot, and put the rice in the bowl. It's a little brown and hard rice on the bottom of the pot, but I like it.
Sitting at the dinner table, I saw that there was a chicken wing that my sister loved to eat, so I took one and put it in a bowl. When I looked up, my stepmother's meaningful eyes were staring at me. I turned my chopsticks around and came back with a green vegetable before she took that look off my face.
I ate in silence and listened to my sister chatting with her enthusiastically.
I'm used to this kind of situation, and I won't feel any discomfort.
After the whole meal, I ate a chicken wing, a bunch of greens, and didn't even drink a mouthful of pork rib soup, so I quickly ended the fight, washed my bowl, and went back to my dormitory.
Touch it with your hand, and the money is still there.
I took the medicine prescribed by the doctor and wanted to go out for a walk, for a walk.
I'm still a little dizzy, but now I don't have a fever and want to go out and get some fresh air.
In the courtyard, at this moment, the evening breeze is light, and there is no longer the cold of the day, and in the evening, there are still burning clouds in the sky. The hair was blown up by the breeze, and it felt very comfortable. The feeling of depression that I had just eaten disappeared in an instant.
I thought as I walked.
Dad loves me, but he's too busy with work to take care of me.
It is said that when my father divorced, the court divided me among my father. At that time, I was still very young, and although I forgot all about the specific situation, I still remember the situation of my mother holding and crying.
I haven't seen my mother for a few years, and although I miss her so much, there is a sadness called habit.
When my classmates laughed at me for being a motherless child, when my classmates laughed at me for wearing tattered clothes, I also reasoned with them in an atmosphere how could I be a rival of a few people. In the end, I lost, and they looked at me and laughed happily. In this way, I was ridiculed and scolded by them. At that time, I was in tears, disappointed, sad, and complaining...... But in the end, I chose not to care.
Only if you don't care, it won't hurt.
Later, my father and stepmother got married, I changed schools, came to a new school, met Chen Yingjie, and had new friends, so I slowly came out of that shadow.
It wasn't until I was in my second year of junior high school that my mom found my school.
I remember that day, just after school, I walked to the school gate, I heard someone call me, and when I looked back, my mother was smiling at me, but her eyes were full of bright tears.
I walked over slowly, my heart was actually very complicated, I don't know if this mother who has disappeared for all these years is real? I don't know if I should hug her passionately? I don't even know if she's going to disappear when she sees me?
My mother ran up to me with open arms and hugged me.
"Xiaoxiao, mom misses you very much."
I didn't speak, I didn't cry. Just let this long-lost mother hold me quietly.
After a few minutes, my mother finally let go of me and said to me, "Xiaoxiao, I'm sorry, my mother didn't take care of you, and my mother will compensate you later." β
I thought to myself: compensation? How to make up? How can I make up for my thoughts and worries over the years? Turn back the clock and want to come back? Or when I was bullied by my classmates a few years ago, you got me back?
However, she is a mother after all, and I cannot impose on her what I have suffered.
"Mom, don't cry, let's go, it's not good to look like this at the school gate." I pulled her hand away, took a tissue from my pocket, and handed it to her.
Mom took the tissue, smiled and wiped her tears. It can be seen that she is really happy.
On this day, we sat at the snack bar outside the school and ate a full two hours of meals.
She told me that she would come to see me often in the future, and took out two new clothes from her bag.
"Xiaoxiao, I haven't seen you for too long, and I don't know how big the clothes you are wearing before my mother comes, and I don't know if it's suitable, come, my mother will try it for you."
In the snack bar, there were not many people, and she took her clothes and put them directly on me.
"It's a little big, but you can wear it, Mom didn't expect you to be so thin, just buy it according to the average child's size, next time Mom will know how big it is."
I was wearing a beautiful plaid jacket and was so happy, I hadn't worn such a beautiful new dress in a long time.
"Xiaoxiao, don't you like it?" Mom looked at me and asked.
"Oh, love it very much, thank you."
"Xiaoxiao, it's good to like it, mom doesn't know what you like, I'm afraid you won't like it. Xiaoxiao is so beautiful to wear, come and try this one again. β
Mom took out a blue tutu inlaid with white lace, oh my God, it was so beautiful. This one is the same as the one with the school flower, except that hers is pink and my mother bought blue.
When I watched the school girl walk across the playground in this dress, I didn't know how envious I was, she was the only one in the school. It is said that this skirt is very expensive, and the school flower deliberately did not wear the school uniform in order to wear this skirt to show off.
Today, I also have the same dress, I am so happy.
Finally, a smile appeared on my face. I thought to myself, one day, I will wear it to school.
"Xiaoxiao, you can't try this skirt here, you turn around, and your mother will compare it with you."
I turned around, and my mom was holding the dress, starting from my shoulder, and after passing it, she said to me, "The dress looks like it fits, this mom bought the right one." β
"Thank you Mom, I love it."
My mom helped me pack my clothes into a big tote bag, then took out another 200 yuan and stuffed it into my hand.
"Xiaoxiao, you take this money, you can buy food, school supplies or something when you're hungry, but you can't spend it indiscriminately, you know? If you have any other needs in your life, you can call your mother, come and this is your mother's number. β
Mom wrote a small note and gave it to me together.
I nodded, and from then on, I was also a person with pocket money.
On the way home, it was completely dark. My mother walked very slowly with me, and when she was leaving, she told me that she would come back next week.
With this expectation, I said goodbye to my mother.
In the courtyard, the sporadic lights were particularly beautiful on that night.
I quietly took the clothes and money my mother gave me directly to the room where I lived in the kindergarten, hid it in the quilt, looked at it, there were no flaws, and then I came to the house next door with confidence.
I don't want my stepmom to know that I saw mom today. I was a little worried, afraid that she would be upset. As long as you hide your new clothes, you'll be fine.
I thought so, at the time, it was naΓ―ve.