Section 20 Getting Lost
All this gossip has to start with my father's car.
My father's office quickly moved away from Meiyuan District, where the school is located, so my leisurely days of rubbing the car every day stopped half a month after entering the Cao family.
I remember that morning, as usual, after breakfast, I sat at the table and waited quietly for Aunt Jean to finish. But after the time when my father went downstairs on weekdays, there was still no movement, and Aunt Qin tore a piece of bread and stuffed it into her mouth, and said to herself, "What's the matter? Why hasn't Cancan's dad come downstairs yet? With that, she told me to wait here while she went upstairs to take a look.
I saw Aunt Qin walking upstairs in a panic, shouting "husband" in a medium tone as she walked. After a while, I saw her come down by herself, and then hurriedly took me some change from her bag, told me to take the bus, and told me that my father would move back to a nearby building to work starting today, so I needed to go to school by myself.
Due to the time constraints, I carried the money that Aunt Qin stuffed into me, picked up my schoolbag and ran to the bus stop at the intersection outside the gate. Aunt Qin kept asking me behind me if I knew how many buses to take. Where do you get off and how many turns do you take? I was full of knowing, knowing, and then I disappeared into a shadow.
Actually, I don't mind if I can get in my father's car or not. Rather than the cramped and wordless embarrassment of being in that small space, I would rather take the bus to savor the joys and sorrows of the stranger.
However, in this world, there are always things that you don't want to do, and in the eyes of others, they have become necessary accessories.
Since the fact that my father was Cao Mu was known by the class teacher, I became famous in the grade, and the "goodwill attention" of the teachers of various subjects to me has gradually increased, so that I occasionally have the illusion that if my father can make the teacher's house receive more compensation for demolition with a stroke of the pen, then I may be closer than their son.
I relied on my memory of the two buses my mother took me to and from Cao's house, and I got on the bus in a daze. I sat down in a corner by the window in the car, looked out the window, and my brain drifted out again. Thinking of the big tree flying outside the window, is it in a hurry like me, but there is no end. When I dropped my mind to the ground in a whimsy, I was shocked! Where is this?!
I hurried out of the car, but I didn't know anywhere! I asked two passers-by, but they gave me two different directions, and I was even more confused.
The sun was dazzling that day, and at 8 o'clock in the morning, the traffic of people and people could not ridicule this annoying viciousness. I stood under the bus stop sign for a long time, and with the only shadow of the diagonal fork, I let the crowd hit me. Since I hadn't been on the bus a few times before, all the process and itinerary were unfamiliar. Growing up in an environment that made me incapable of dealing with strangers and unfamiliar environments, I completely choked the eggplant after I failed to summon up the courage to ask for directions twice.
The sunlight caught up quickly, and I gradually lost the darkness that allowed me to escape from reality for a while. When I opened my eyes and looked at the busy people all around, I once again felt that, God, I had forgotten my existence again.
My heart, from the beginning of the panic to the anxious, and finally to the present fearless, this short period of mental journey, is simply not as good as the direct use of these two related words.
I walked aimlessly along the street. One thing that puzzles me about the streets of Nanjing is that they are pretty much the same. In 1994, I wandered the road and felt like this, and in 2014, it was still the same.
The schoolbag was very heavy, I carried it on my back for a while, carried it in my hand for a while, and when I was tired of walking, I sat on the roadbed or at the bus stop along the way to rest for a while. When the sun was shining straight over my head and my hair felt a scorch, I guess it was noon. In this way, I wandered around the streets of Nanjing all morning. I didn't have the heart to think about what would happen if I didn't go to school this morning, not because I didn't want to, but because I knew that I was on the street, and I didn't know what else I could do but move my feet in the unknown direction step by step. At that time, I was young, and I lacked safety education as a child, and I never thought of asking my police uncle to help.
From time to time, people on the road cast surprised glances, as if they were thinking, how did they learn to skip school at such a young age? I'm noncommittal.
I was tired and hungry as the sun slowly slipped westward away from my head. Even though Aunt Jean gave me change in the morning, and enough money to buy bread to fill my stomach at a street store, I was reluctant to spend it.
Before I entered Cao's house, my mother would bring me lunch every day, although there were so many things in exchange, but in the noon time of this half month, it was a delicacy in the world. Cao Cancan's school provides lunch, and it is estimated that it must be a combination of meat and vegetables and balanced nutrition. I didn't tell anyone in the Cao family about my lunch meal, and no one in the family paid attention to it, so after being hungry for two noons, I began to drink the milk that I was not accustomed to, and occasionally stuffed slices of bread into my schoolbag for lunch when Aunt Qin was not paying attention. Coincidentally, I forgot about it this morning.
Just as I was helplessly sitting under a big tree on the side of the road and looking around, I suddenly saw a towering building. The reason why I am so impressed by that iconic building on my way to school is that it is so tall and so high, and every time I pass by, I have to think about the same question, that is, how do the people in the high places get up.
Thinking of this, I ran in that direction excitedly. I stood under the stop sign, tried to find the direction of the front of my father's car, and jumped up with the white bus in my memory. Happily, this time, nothing was wrong.
After explaining the situation to the janitor, I ran to the class with a smoke. It was the second recess in the afternoon, and there was a lot of commotion in the class, and everyone was so shocked that they opened their mouths when they saw me running with my schoolbag sweating profusely, and they probably thought in their hearts, what is this fool doing at this point!
Kan Tao looked at me: "I thought you wouldn't be here today." Tell the teacher quickly, she thought you had asked for leave, looked for your house, and heard that she also found your mother, at this time, it is estimated that the whole city will launch a big search. ”
I smiled awkwardly, and as soon as I sat down, I immediately reacted to Kan Tao's words just now: "Big search? Looking for my mom? Kan Tao was obviously taken aback by me, so he didn't answer, and nodded directly. I didn't care that I hadn't even breathed my breath and ran to the teacher's office again. The teacher in the same room told me that when the teacher and my mother went to Cao's house together, my head exploded with a "buzz".
I returned to the classroom in a daze, and after a hurried sip of water, I didn't bother to take my schoolbag, so I got into the car and returned to Cao's house along the same road.
When there were still two or three stops left before I got off the bus, I saw a woman outside the car through the glass on the bus, looking for something in a panic! Her hair was loose and covered in sweat, and her sweat-soaked sideburns were sticking to her face.