I didn't want to go, but who knows what will happen if I go? I've had enough of things lately, but looking at the girl's pleading eyes, I feel that I can't say no, maybe I'm her last hope, thinking of this, I nodded at her unconsciously, and said, "Okay." The girl listened to my words, looked at me in surprise, I didn't want to see her earnest eyes, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, I didn't dare to promise that I would agree to her request after going to the place she wanted me to go, I looked at Zhu Liu and asked her, "You want to go with us." She looked at me, stretched, and said, "Just go, I'm bored to death now, just go and see the excitement." ”

Seeing that we all agreed, the girl did not want to delay for a minute, she walked far ahead to lead the way, and said to me, "Teacher, let's go quickly." ”

"What's the hurry, it's like rushing to reincarnate." Zhu Liu seemed to dislike this girl very much, and said to her dissatisfiedly, the girl was embarrassed and stunned, I quickly covered Zhu Liu's mouth, smiled comfortingly at the girl, and said, "Don't pay attention to you Teacher Zhu, she has reached menopause." Zhu Liu scratched me with his paws and screamed at me, "Who do you say is menopause, Miss Ben is young, okay?" Did you find a middle-aged woman as beautiful as me? I amusedly pushed her out the door and said perfunctorily to me, "No, I have never seen a middle-aged woman who is better looking than you, not even a young girl who is prettier than you." Listening to my words, Zhu Liu really smiled, she proudly stepped out of her long legs in high heels, stepped out of the office door, and finally got her out, I breathed a sigh of relief.

Unexpectedly, the female student took me to the place is too far away, in the suburbs, and there is no taxi willing to go, only a dilapidated bus runs twice a day, the female student took us to the bus, embarrassed to apologize to us and said: "Teacher, I'm sorry, we are too far away, only this car can go, you will be settled." I waved my hand at her and said, "It's okay, it's not your problem." Zhu Liu looked at the dark, greasy seat, and screamed to get off the bus: "I want to go back, it's too dirty here." I grabbed her quickly, pressed her to the seat, and said to her viciously, "Since you are here, you will be done." Zhu Liu was held down by me and couldn't break free, so she just sat on the chair that she had just been disgusted by her late shift with a sad face.

Settle Zhu Liu, I looked at the female student with anxiety, for fear that her emotions would be any more excited, fortunately she didn't move now, just sat quietly in her seat, looking out the window with a numb face, from her expression, I couldn't tell whether it was joy or sadness, only the dead calm, this look should not appear on the face of a young girl, at least 5 or 60 years old can have this kind of numb expression on the face. What exactly did she go through? I'm really starting to get curious about her now, where is she going to take me? Is there someone there she's going to let me kill?

Fortunately, it didn't make me wait too long, and after three hours of steady driving, the bus finally stopped at a junction in the suburbs, and I woke up Zhu Liu, who was sleeping on my shoulder, and reminded her: "It's here, get up quickly." She opened her eyes in a daze, thought for a while, and finally understood what I was talking about, and squeezed me away as if she was running away and rushed out of the car, and the female students were already waiting under the car, and now I was the only one, and I quickly got out of the car to follow them.

The female student said to us, "Teacher, come with me. "It took us on a small road, and as soon as we walked on the path, we could see a group of scattered bungalows in the distance, the height of the houses, the size, and the pattern were different, and they looked completely unified. At first glance, I felt that it was a very poor and dilapidated place, this is where we are going, the female student was silent and led the way in front, Zhu Liu was also concentrating on dealing with the mud on the ground, and I was not in the mood to speak, and the three of them approached the small village in silence.

I don't know if it's lucky or unlucky, the road is not long, the three of them walked for a while, I took a closer look, it really looked dilapidated, there were no young people in the village, all old people and children, and some middle-aged people who were working. Seeing the three of us walking in, someone greeted the female student: Zhang Xiaoxi, come back to see your parents? It turned out that the female student's name was Zhang Xiaoxi, Zhang Xiaoxi nodded at him silently, and walked directly around him.

"What do you call parents? They also speak too strangely. Zhu Liu complained.

Zhang Xiaoxi listened to Zhu Liu's words, his body stiffened for a moment, and in order to ease the atmosphere, I said to Zhu Liu: "Why is there your business anywhere, can you stop talking nonsense?" "Zhu Liu is about to come over and beat me.

At this time, Zhang Xiaoxi said lightly: "It's here." Zhu Liu and I listened to her words, immediately stopped, looked up, only to see that we have come to a bungalow, this is probably the most broken bungalow in the village, said to be a bungalow, is it barely a bungalow prototype, but the red bricks of the house are still exposed outside, there is no decoration at all, the wooden door is open, from the outside you can see that the inside is still mud, this year, you can also see that the house is still mud, it is really strange, there is a woman sitting at the door of the house, her hair is gray, she looks very old, It should be Zhang Xiaoxi's grandmother, she is buried in her head weaving straw shoes, straw hats, and a lot of finished products are piled up at her feet, many women in the countryside can't find a livelihood and can only make a little money by making these handicrafts for others, and she is completely using time to repay the money, her hands are busy, her mouth is not empty, and she yells at the chickens she raises from time to time, for fear that the chickens will steal the vegetables she planted at the door.

Just when she raised her head and shouted, she saw Zhang Xiaoxi standing at the door, she grinned happily, just when she smiled, I found that her age should not be too big, although there are wrinkles on her face, but those eyes are still bright, very sharp and cheerful woman, this is my impression of her. Zhang Xiaoxi had already greeted him, called his mother, and then said with some complaints: "What are you doing all this again?" Don't you have a back pain, there is still so much work to be done in the field, where do you still have time to do this? Although the tone was complaining, but it was for her good, the woman heard it, she smiled sadly at Zhang Xiaoxi, and then said embarrassedly: "How to make money if you don't do that, this month's medical expenses are not enough, and the little money your father earns is not enough." When she saw us, she didn't say any more, but looked at Zhang Xiaoxi questioningly: "Xiaoxi." This is? ”

Zhang Xiaoxi introduced us to her, she heard Zhang Xiaoxi say that we were her teachers, she excitedly took our hands, and couldn't stop saying: "Oh, thank you for taking care of me at school, thank you, teacher, let's have a meal here." I was pinched by her hand, as soon as I let go of my hand, she was busy preparing to cook, Zhang Xiaoxi quickly grabbed it, shook her head at her, and said: "Mom, no need, the teachers are here to learn about the situation in our family, and they will leave after understanding." For some reason, after listening to Zhang Xiaoxi's words, her expression became a little unnatural, she pulled Zhang Xiaoxi aside, as if asking about something, Zhang Xiaoxi said something to her, and she walked out.

Zhu Liu asked Zhang Xiaoxi curiously: "What did you say to your mother?" ”

Zhang Xiaoxi replied to her: "I told her that you came to my house to investigate the situation in order to help me apply for poor students, and to help me." Zhu Liu listened to her words and nodded, in fact, she just wanted to know why Zhang Xiaoxi's mother changed her expression as soon as she heard that she came to the house to understand the situation, Zhang Xiaoxi, she didn't say it, but we soon knew.

Because they have one more person in their family. Zhu Liu and I looked at this person lying on the bed, if you can still call it a person, her whole body is unnaturally swollen, her body is sallow and sallow, although it looks like the clothes are very clean, and the quilt is also clean, but her whole person exudes a rotten atmosphere, like a dead person, she is nested in a thick quilt, and the air around her is smelling of medicine. We walked in, but she didn't move at all, it was a patient, I don't know if it was a dead or alive patient.

We stood here silently looking at her, not knowing what to say. I don't know who this person is, he looks like a middle-aged man, and I don't know what the relationship is with this Xiaoxi.

At this time, Zhang Xiaoxi opened her mouth and said to me: "She has been paralyzed in this bed for 15 years, and she has not opened her eyes for 15 years, and she has to rely on my father to serve her for 15 years." Listening to her words, I felt very shocked, how much perseverance it takes to take care of a vegetative person for fifteen years, I don't know what to say, words of sympathy or admiration, it seems too light and fluttering I can only stand here in silence, and Zhu Liu didn't say anything unusually.

Then, in the next second, Zhang Xiaoxi said something that shocked me even more: "Her name is Zhou Yanping." She is the one I want you to kill. ”

I remembered what the people in the village said, and looked at the age of this woman, and couldn't help but guess, I asked her, "Who is this woman?" Is it your stepmother/? ”

Zhang Xiaoxi listened to my words, but smiled lightly, she shook her head, and said to me: "She is my biological mother, and the one outside is my stepmother." ”

Listening to her words, I was shocked and couldn't understand what kind of logic this was, why she wanted to kill her own mother.

She sat down on the edge of the bed and began to speak to us, "You must be curious why I would be so rebellious and find someone to murder my own mother. But I'm 18 years old this year, she's been like this since I was 3 years old, I don't remember what she used to be like, and I forgot how good she used to be to me, I only know that my life of taking care of me since I was a child is my current mother, she cooks food for me to eat, washes my clothes, earns money for me to go to school, has been with my dad to take care of him, and even takes care of his paralyzed ex-wife. ”

She wiped her tears, and then continued: "But how did she treat my father, she was paralyzed for 15 years, and there was no hope of waking up at all, and her parents kept throwing money at her, and the two people who were so hardworking and became the poorest people in the village, living in this broken house, not living a good day, and worrying about money every day, because of her, my parents didn't even have the right to be legally together." I just look at her like this every day, calling this wooden man Mom, I always feel that she is not as good as dying, good to herself, to everyone in our family, Mom and Dad are reluctant to let her die, they take care of her every day, just let me be this wicked person, only when she dies, everyone can be freed. ”

She looked up and numbly begged me, "So, please help me kill her." ”