It was a gloomy evening.

The classroom was very quiet, the sound of squirming rolls and brushstrokes, everyone was studying at night, but Cheng Ruo's mobile phone suddenly shook in his pocket.

For a long time, she trembled.... Nervously speaking, "I..... My mom seems to be sick and I'm going back. ”

She looked up, her eyes reddened, and clutched her phone, which was a text message alerting her mother of the accident.

Tan Zi'an and Gu Chen secretly played cards, and when they heard it, they immediately put away their slapstick looks, "What's the matter, do you want me to go back with you." ”

"yes, it's safer that way."

Now that the college entrance examination is coming soon, the time is pressing, and besides, everyone has vaguely heard that Cheng Ruo's stepfather is very virtuous, and the neighbors in Zhouchong County know very well.

"Save you from being bullied and suffering a loss."

Speaking of that greasy old man, Tan Zi'an has seen it once, it seems that he teased a young girl in the town who came back from going out to work, and his reputation is very bad, she wanted to beat him up a long time ago.

This kind of person, if he doesn't fight and is not honest, he just doesn't clean up.

Her nose was sour, and she could only thank her again and again, "I'm sorry for you, Zi'an." ”

Cheng Ruo's mother had a stroke, and the two of them took the bus for more than an hour, and as soon as they entered the door, her stepfather asked for 10,000 yuan, saying that it was the cost of treatment back and forth during this time, as well as various medicines.

Tan Zi'an was a little angry at that time, "Damn.... Cheng Ruo is still a student, where does the money come from? ”

"If you don't have money, you won't earn it yourself? Lao Tzu worked hard for her to study, and he has done his best, and he didn't see her express it! I'm easy for me, her mother is sick, and it costs more money to go to the hospital! ”

Cheng Ruo bit his lip and didn't say anything, but just took out five hundred yuan from his pocket.

This is the money she usually transfers from her part-time job in the bookstore, five hundred yuan, not too much, not too little, for her, it is definitely not a little, at least it can subsidize the family.

He immediately stopped, "You said that you went to the hospital for treatment, but you took out the medical card or something, there are always records, big and small, and medicine, no vouchers and no money, who knows if you are a lion with a big mouth." ”

"Who the are you? Mind Lao Tzu's business? ”

The stepfather glanced him up and down, and suddenly let out a lewd and meaningful laugh, "Okay, you, Cheng Ruo, you also got a man back outside." ”

"I said that when I saw me now, I didn't even say hello, it turned out that there was a man leaning on me and walking sideways."

"You keep your mouth clean, what kind of indiscriminate man, who is indiscrete, you don't have any points in your heart?"

Tan Zi'an raised her eyebrows, staring at her stepfather with a pair of eyes.

Probably looking at his imposing momentum, he was young, tall and thin, the old man was a master who bullied the weak and was afraid of the hard, and after being shocked by a fierce god, he only dared to lower his voice and muttered a few dirty words on his mouth.

"Uncle, he's my classmate."

Cheng Ruo still gave him face, although she actually didn't want to see this man again in her life, since she was thirteen years old.

The tone was as calm as possible, but in fact, he was already anxious, "What happened to my mother?" Are you in the hospital or at home now? ”

As she spoke, her mother staggered out of the back room, she was in her forties, but her temples were already gray, as withered as a paper man, and she was shaky when she took two steps.

Cheng Ruo's tears immediately fell, and she quickly helped the person to sit on the seat, her stepfather only held a cigarette and snorted as if he were not looking.

"Mom, do you feel sick now? Isn't it better? If not, go to the hospital immediately. ”

Her mother smiled weakly, "It's a little problem, it doesn't matter." I went to the hospital to see it, that's it, I took the medicine, I can delay it for a day, but it's you, why did you come back? Will it delay your studies? ”

"I heard that you fainted from a stroke, the sky is about to fall, what do you care about studying, I just want to come back and see how you are." Cheng Ruo finally breathed a sigh of relief.

She stuffed five hundred yuan into her mother's pocket, and this money was naturally stronger in her hands than in her stepfather's hands.

Cheng's mother shook her head, "I'm distressed, you save the money, keep it for yourself, don't spend it on my mortal body, that's it for my life, you're still young, study hard." ”

Then she glanced at her stepfather again, sighed, and clenched her daughter's hand.

The stepfather took a puff of cigarette, and the corners of his mouth trembled greasy, "What did you say, have I still treated your mother and daughter badly in the past few years?" Didn't I pay for the medical bills? You fainted, didn't I push a small cart to take you to the hospital? Besides, who brought a drag oil bottle, and who was sick and affected me. ”

"Don't worry, I will make money by my own efforts, and when I go to college, I will take my mother away, and we won't drag you down anymore."

The man did not hesitate to pull the five hundred yuan in his mother's hand, stuffed it into his clothes pocket, bit his cigarette, and continued to scold, "What you say is really funny, why, the wings of college are hard, and you have forgotten the grace of parenting for so many years?" Your mother is gone, who will do the work at home? Oh, I forgot when I made my hard-earned money to support you a few years ago, what a white-eyed girl. ”

"Are you still a human being! Didn't you see that her mother was sick like this, and she still had to let the family work? ”

Tan Zi'an rushed over, almost like taking this shameless old man to his eyes and beating him, but he was stopped by Cheng Ruo in time, and he couldn't get angry, so he could only scold a few more words.

Seeing that he was stopped, his stepfather became bolder, "Nonsense, I move cement every day, who will come if she doesn't come to the house, did I make her sick?" Phew, what's it, people have lived to this age, who hasn't been sick or sick, what's the matter, is she broken hands or feet, disabled, can't hold a broom? ”

"It's okay not to work, then go and hire a nanny, can you ask for it? I'm glad you give me money! ”

Where is the money to hire a babysitter.

This sentence is simply deliberately said to respond to people.

"Don't think that if Cheng doesn't let me beat you, I really won't move you, you should go to prison and squat in prison if you did those things before, and let the prison teach you how to behave. Oh, I forgot to tell you that that place can peel people from the inside out, I know very well, because Lao Tzu came out of it not long ago. ”

Tan Zi'an made a gesture to threaten him.

The old man paused, a stirring spirit.

What does Dare Cheng Ruo have to do with a little rascal?

This person doesn't look like a friendly stubble, and I don't know where the little slut surnamed Cheng recognized a gangster as an elder brother or a younger brother, but he has two brushes.

Cheng Ruo's mother is a typical "mourning his misfortune and being angry with him", she clearly knows what kind of virtue he is, but she can't let go of it here, she can't let go of it there, she always wants to live like this, she has a weak temperament, and she can't go out to find a job, so she can only rely on men to support her.

"Ah Ruo, don't quarrel here, in the past few years, your uncle has not been easy."

"Mom-"

Since she was a child, Cheng Ruo didn't know how many times she had heard this kind of words, but if she could be tougher, earlier, she would not have to suffer those unspeakable grievances.

It's not that her mother doesn't know, but she's afraid that she will be pointed at by the neighbors, which is not good, and she is afraid that this man really won't support them, so she can only choose to endure it, if it weren't for this grievance, her stepfather wouldn't have intensified.

Heaven guarded against him, and lived in fear with trepidation.

She never seemed to be able to get out of such a deformed environment.

"Cheng Ruo, you don't have to be in front of me, don't think that if you find someone in society, I'll be afraid."

Cheng Ruo wiped away his tears, stared at the old man, and asked seriously, "Will you take my mother to the hospital where she is serious to see a doctor?" If not, you're not qualified to say those things. ”

"You're thinking too simply."

The stepfather sneered, his face was piled with three layers of horizontal meat, and he changed the posture of Erlang's legs.

"I know that in the beginning, you really liked my mother, at least you really treated her."

"Your mother has been sick and taking medicine for almost 50,000 or 60,000 yuan in the past few years, and I have no credit and hard work. A few years ago, you couldn't even eat a bite of food, did I help you? Is this house for you to live in, Cheng Ruo, if you want to count, can you figure it out? How much manpower, material and financial resources I have lost, if you don't give me 150,000, I won't let your mother go. ”

"One hundred and fifty thousand? Where did I get 150,000? ”

Her eyes widened, and the lion opened her mouth?

150,000, how many years can you save enough without eating or drinking?

Cheng Ruo set her eyes on her mother again, but her mother just sighed and said, "Your uncle, it has not been easy in the past few years. ”

It's always been this phrase, and she's been disappointed.

The stepfather suddenly showed a triumphant smile, and calculated that the woman was useless, "Look, your mother has a lot more conscience than you, unlike you, as if you are amazing, and I don't look at what kind of goods you are, I raised you for a few years and didn't get half of the benefits, but now I am justified in front of me, phew." ”

Tan Zi'an tried to scare her stepfather again, but Cheng Ruo just stopped with red eyes.

If you really want to look at him, it is her and Zi'an who suffer.

And she also knows that now she can't even support herself, and she lives in Sister Feiyu's house, so if she takes her mother over, it will undoubtedly cause trouble for everyone.

It's just that my mother's physical condition is getting worse and worse, and if it drags on like this, I really don't know how long it will last.

After some disputes, only exhausted people remained, Cheng Ruo took out the last bit of money from his bag, "Mom, you can keep this money, buy something delicious, don't treat yourself badly." ”

It's just a hundred or so pieces scattered.

Her mother shook her head no, saying that she wanted to leave the money for her, but this move fell into the eyes of the old man, and he snatched it quickly, "Your mother doesn't want it, you give it to me too." ”

"You're stealing money right under my nose?"

Tan Zi'an immediately blocked his way, and the tall man suddenly covered the faint light that came in from the broken window, and his legs trembled immediately, but he heard Cheng's mother shouting, "Young man, don't be impulsive!" ”

Tan Zi'an swore that he had never been so depressed and depressed.