"Xiao Kai, it's not too early, you go back to do your homework first."

Lin Sikai, who was sweating profusely, had just walked out of the warehouse when he heard the supermarket owner talking to him.

He glanced up at the electronic wall clock on the wall, and it was indeed time for him to leave work. As usual, the boss gave him a bottle of drink before leaving and told him to stay safe on the road.

Lin Sikai, a 12-year-old who works at the small supermarket every day after school, is technically a child laborer. He was born in D, Long Province, a small city known for its oil proliferation and many large oil production plants. Nearly one-third of the city's households depend on oil mills for their livelihoods, and many work in oil-based jobs.

Lin Sikai had a tragic childhood. His father was originally a regular employee of the oil production plant, which was the city's famous iron rice bowl, but in Lin Sikai's memory, from the time he can remember, his father has only done two things:

Drinking, drinking non-stop, hitting people after drinking.

As long as Lao Lin is drunk, he will do it for any reason, even Lin Sikai, who is old and has excellent character and learning, will be beaten, so that the father and son have not communicated normally since they were children.

Other people's old sons will be regarded as treasures, but Lin Sikai is like a burden to the family.

Every time after beating someone and sobering up, Lao Lin would be very remorseful, and sometimes even cried to admit his mistakes to the mother and son, kneeling and begging for forgiveness, Lin Sikai had long been used to it. As for his mother, in Lin Sikai's impression, she has always been a very indifferent person, who never seems to care about herself, and even looks indifferent to being abused by her father.

In the year when Lin Sikai was promoted to the third grade, Lao Lin was fired from the factory because of a serious work accident due to drinking. On this day, there is less than a year left before the year of his retirement.

Lao Lin, who had no job, became more and more degenerate, and was addicted to alcohol all day long, and finally rolled down the stairs after a drunkenness, fell halfway, and became crazy from then on, and was directly sent to a nursing home after being discharged from the hospital.

Lin Sikai's mother divorced his father that year and moved out.

Lin Sikai didn't have no resentment towards his father, but even if he was resentful, he was still his biological father, and he couldn't ignore him.

Lao Lin's nursing home has to pay 2,000 yuan a month for living expenses, and he doesn't owe it on credit, otherwise he will be killed immediately. Fortunately, Lin Sikai's family is in a special situation in the factory, and he will pay some retirement salary every month, which is just enough for the expenses of the nursing home. By rule, workers who have been fired as a result of an accident are not eligible for a pension.

But Lin Sikai himself still has to go to school and live. As a minor, his custody was awarded to his mother, but after the divorce his mother disappeared and never came to see him again, and he had to live alone in his father's house.

For Lin Sikai, money is not everything, but no money is everything.

The supermarket owner is an old neighbor of Lin Sikai's family, and out of kindness, he also took the risk to let Lin Sikai come over after school to help, and then pay his salary as usual. If someone reports it, I'm afraid the supermarket will be closed.

Lin Sikai returned home with a sad face, returning to this old house where the roof would seep water and the moldy wall skin would fall off when it rained on a cloudy day.

There is no trace of warmth in the room, the heating of the old house has not been good, the heating pipe has long been old, and I don't know who to repair it.

Lin Sikai was on his back

Lying on the bed, looking at the roof full of spider silk and tattered roof, my mind felt like a mess. He didn't have the heart to do his homework, and his livelihood was his biggest problem. He also wanted to apply for government subsidies or sue his mother for not fulfilling his support obligations, but he was reluctant because he was afraid that his mother would be arrested by the police because of this.

"Is it really useful to study hard? If you can't get by, how can you get ahead? ”

Lin Sikai was thinking wildly in his head, feeling very confused and helpless. I don't know when it began, his life is like a gamble that is destined to lose, and there is no hope in sight.

"God, I'm just a junior high school student...... Lin Sikai closed his eyes and shouted in despair.

"Tick! Tick! The sound of water droplets interrupted Lin Sikai's thoughts,

"Hey...... What's leaking again? Lin Sikai muttered, reluctantly got up from the bed, and followed the sound of the water to find it.

Water leaks out of the heat, which is a common occurrence, but the heating is hidden under the floor, and the only way to fix the heating is to pry the floor open.

For these jobs, Lin Sikai has long been familiar with the road. He found tools to pry the floor, and if it wasn't repaired sooner, the old house would have been flooded.

This work was not troublesome, and Lin Sikai did it in less than two minutes, but after prying open the floor, a small space was revealed underneath, and an old cardboard box was quietly placed there. It's the kind of old cardboard box for fruit, and I don't know how long it's been in it, and it's covered in dust.

Lin Sikai was very puzzled, why did he hide a fruit box in such a secret place?

He took the cardboard box out and blew the dust on it, which was so moldy that it even smelled weird.

Lin Sikai opened the lid and flipped through it casually, and it turned out that it was full of some textbooks he had used in elementary school. Lin Sikai opened a book casually and flipped through it, and found that the pages of the book had been glued together, and there were notes written by him on it.

Lin Sikai looked at these crooked words, felt very funny, and sat on the ground and recalled the events of elementary school.

Lin Sikai was not happy in elementary school, in his memory, his father would beat and scold Lin Sikai and his mother like crazy every time he finished drinking, his mother never seemed to quarrel with his father, but her attitude was very indifferent, she didn't care about being beaten, there was never resentment in her eyes, but a kind of coldness that could not be described in words.

In addition, Lin Sikai's family does not have any relatives in D City, which makes Lin Sikai understand one thing since he was a child: he can only rely on himself in everything, and no one will help him. Therefore, Lin Sikai is very precocious and has a mind far beyond his age.

Lin Sikai rummaged through the box again, and found a book wrapped in a cartoon book cover, which was wrapped for him by the lesbian table in elementary school, and he remembered that the girl had also written love letters to himself.

There are a few crooked words written on the book jacket - "Elementary School Mathematics".

After seeing these words, a memory suddenly flooded into Lin Sikai's mind, but he couldn't form a clear context, as if there was a very important thing that he had forgotten.

Lin Sikai flipped through the book, the wrinkled book cover fell off because it had been too long, and a yellowed note floated out of the book cover.

"Is it a love letter?" Lin Sikai thought in his mind, opened the note and looked at it carefully.

When he saw the handwriting on the note, a long-sealed memory finally became clear in his mind again.

paper

Two lines of words were neatly written on the strip: "At one o'clock in the afternoon, see you in the warehouse of the oil production plant, take the bus No. 22 at 12 noon, sit at the terminal, you must come!" ”

The inscription is "Teacher Yu", and on the back of the note there is a map drawn, which marks the specific location of the gate, factory and warehouse in detail, even a primary school student can see it at a glance.

Lin Sikai looked at this note, his eyes rolled slightly, and that memory slowly woke up in his mind.

He remembered that this note was put into the book by himself, and the oil extraction plant written on the note was the unit where his father used to work, and then this branch factory closed down, and he was transferred to the main factory.

As for this located in the teacher's ...... Lin Sikai only remembered that he seemed to have a math teacher surnamed Yu, who was transferred later, and seemed to be the only one who cared about himself.

Lin Sikai couldn't remember his appearance clearly, but he remembered that Teacher Yu often called him outside the classroom, asked him about the situation at home, asked him what he usually ate at home, and asked some questions that he couldn't understand at that age. Later, Mr. Yu also asked him to be the representative of the mathematics class, although Lin Sikai's math results were really good, but he always felt that Mr. Yu let him be the class representative in order to have more contact with him.

The note in Lin Sikai's hand now was written to him by the teacher, it was during a recess, Lin Sikai was playing football on the playground in disgrace, and Teacher Yu called him over.

At that time, Teacher Yu was sweating profusely, and hurriedly handed the note in his hand to Lin Sikai and left, and when he left, he said with a solemn expression: "Remember, you must come!" ”

Lin Sikai felt inexplicable, and didn't know what Teacher Yu wanted to do.

Later, Lin Sikai couldn't remember exactly how he decided to go, maybe it was out of trust in the teacher. He only remembered that it was the first time he had gone to such a far place alone, and he had been in the car alone for a long time.

The oil production plant is located in the suburbs of City D, very far away from Lin Sikai's home.

In Lin Sikai's memory, the factory was abandoned at that time, and there was not even half a figure at the door, so he entered the factory smoothly and found the warehouse according to the map mark, and Mr. Yu was already standing there.

Lin Sikai remembered that there was an indescribable anxiety on Teacher Yu's face at that time, and he was very nervous, as if he was afraid that someone would chase him.

At that time, Lin Sikai had just walked to the back door and was about to open the door to call Teacher Yu, when a large truck suddenly rushed out of the air, and the speed was extremely fast, and the teacher crashed into the door of the warehouse.

Lin Sikai clearly remembered that he was standing behind the iron door of the passage opposite the warehouse, through a piece of glass, and the rear of the big truck was facing him, so he couldn't see what Teacher Yu was knocked into. But even elementary school students can imagine that at that speed, such a big truck, anyone would be smashed into pulp!

Then the truck overturned and many people rushed towards the warehouse gate, and no one noticed a child standing behind the door, witnessing everything.

Lin Sikai was suddenly frightened, and there was only one thought in his mind - running.

He made the most instinctive reaction of a small child when he was in danger. He ran and ran like crazy, and in his fright he couldn't even remember how he ran home.

But the next day, something unthinkable happened - Teacher Yu, who was hit by a truck, went to school again.