18. The past of the summer solstice

Xia Zhi was lying in bed in a daze, and finally he didn't know when he fell asleep again, he woke up before dawn, and after changing his clothes and washing briefly, he went downstairs and sat in the living room and waited. At about eight or nine o'clock, Xia's mother went downstairs with her luggage, and when she saw Xia Zhi, she still didn't say anything. Qin Zijin helped his sister take down her luggage, but Xia Zhi was still indifferent.

Mother Xia changed her shoes and just reached out to open the door, but she still couldn't help but look at Xia Zhi, "Aren't you sad at all?" Xia Solstice lowered his eyes, "Pay attention to safety on the road." Xia's mother left angrily, and closed the door very heavily when she left. Xia Zhi still didn't have much reaction, and after a long time, Xia Zhi bent down, buried his face in his hands, and cried silently.

Xia Zhi's father Xia Zhijiang's family is three generations of poor peasants, Xia Zhi's grandparents are veterans, and their roots are red, although Xia Zhijiang is playful since he was a child, he is not good at studying, but he still entered the state-run factory, and in that era, the workers were very popular. Xia Zhi's mother Qin Yajie's family is different, although it is in a small county town, it is a famous landlord, and it is quite educated, and it can be regarded as a scholarly family.

Qin Yajie's uncle didn't survive in that era, Qin Yajie was not born at that time, the family fell suddenly, and her father also fell ill, so Qin Yajie's family environment was not good when she was born. Qin Yajie's academic performance is very good, high school has been completed, and the future is bright when she is admitted to college, but just when she graduated from high school and was about to take the college entrance examination, Qin's father, the pillar of the family, passed away, and there was still a younger sister and younger brother in the family who were still in junior high school, and the four sisters in front of her were already married.

The Qin family's side line also survived, and after the college entrance examination resumed, they relied on the exam to change their fate, and Qin Yajie has a cousin who is such a person. The cousin first arranged for Qin Yajie to enter the state-run factory, and it was there that Qin Yajie met Xia Zhijiang. In fact, Qin Yajie is really a very smart woman, and there are many people chasing her, but at that time, in that case, the only person who could give her a local hukou and was willing to accompany her to study for her younger siblings was Xia Zhijiang, so Qin Yajie married Xia Zhijiang.

After Qin Yajie married Xia Zhijiang, the burden of supporting the family was suddenly halved, she took the night school entrance examination, and worked hard day and night, in fact, the couple was very enviable at that time. But the difference between the two of them is really not a little big, and later the state-owned factory was restructured, Xia Zhijiang was laid off, and he went to learn from others to do business. When Xia Zhi was just three or four years old, Qin Yajie was successfully admitted and started her political career with the help of her cousin.

The summer solstice only went to kindergarten, and the two began to fight for their respective careers, completely ignoring the summer solstice, the summer solstice was raised by this family for a few days, and that family was raised for a few days. When Xia Zhi was in elementary school, Xia Zhijiang's business collapsed, and it is said that during that time, he once committed domestic violence against Xia Zhi, and because of this, the two almost divorced. But at that time, the summer solstice was still too young, so Qin Yajie endured it. Qin Yajie also learned that Xia Zhijiang was addicted to alcohol after getting married, and the wine was extremely poor. Around the time of the second day of the summer solstice, Xia Zhijiang and a few friends turned over in business, and Qin Yajie also began to rise, and the two of them were not at home at all.

Finally went home, and because Xia Zhijiang was drunk and fought, between their disputes, they overturned a big box on the cabinet at home, not overturned, it was the kind that fell quickly, but it has not yet fallen, and it is about to fall, the two of them slammed the door and went out after the fight, but Xia Solstice was unlucky, he was scared half to death by his parents, and finally they left, and he was hit by the box before he came out.

Xia Zhi happened to be hit in his right leg and fainted directly, but there was no one at home to save him, and Xia Zhi's aunt heard that the two of them quarreled again, so she didn't worry that Xia Zhi went to his house to take a look, otherwise Xia Zhi might die there directly. The person is fine, but it was too late to send to the hospital, and the whole leg of the summer solstice was deformed, and the doctor said that he could only be lame in this life, and there was no other way.

At that time, Xia Zhi was only two months away from the high school entrance examination, and because of this incident, Xia Zhi did not take the high school entrance examination, and since then, he has not gone to study. Xia Zhi has always had a serious stomach problem, and his stomach disease was almost made since he was a child, he didn't eat or drink, and no one cared if he ate the last meal or not. From that day on, Xia Zhi hid in the room every day, drew thick curtains, refused to go out when he saw anyone, and the whole person was so thin that only bones remained.

When Xia's mother saw her son, she was already like this, Qin Zijin thought that her sister would wake up and treat her child well in the future, but she didn't expect that her sister would actually start playing Xia Zhi, she pulled Xia Zhi to cheer Xia Zhi up, but Xia Zhi was at her mercy like a rag doll, and she didn't react at all.

Qin Zijin was frightened, she hurriedly contacted her college classmates and invited several psychiatrists for Xia Zhi, but to no avail. Until Qin Zijin happened to see a very famous emotional column, basically everyone can write a letter to the column, the column will not disclose the content of the letter, but will reply to the person who wrote the letter in the form of publication, important information will be pseudonymized, and important things will not be mentioned, it is said that the response is very good, and it has solved many couples, parents and children and some more prominent youth problems. Qin Zijin wrote a letter to the column with the mentality of giving it a try, briefly explaining his own situation.

Qin Zijin thought that the most he could do was to reply, but he didn't expect the deputy editor-in-chief of the column to come to the door. The pen name of this deputy editor-in-chief is Inawaka, and she is not only an editor but also a writer, and she also minored in psychology in college. She was writing a novel about the conflict between teenagers and families at that time, and she saw Qin Zijin's submission, not only for the sake of material, but also moved by compassion and wanted to see this poor child. Daohuaxiang told Qin Zijin that a small percentage of children born with autism will be accompanied by intellectual problems, but the situation of Xia Solstice is acquired, he just resists and rebels against reality, and through enlightenment, he can get back on track.

Mother Xia was resistant at first, this was a family ugly in itself, plus that time was really important to her, but Qin Zijin was angry, this was the first time she was angry with her sister who was studying for her, she said that if she let her sister and brother-in-law go out to live for a while, she would take care of Xia Zhi personally, Mother Xia looked at the sleeping Xia Solstice and made a compromise.

On the first day of Daohuaxiang's arrival, she invited Qin Zijin out, then closed the door and placed a small table lamp at the bedside of the summer solstice, and the warm yellow light made the entire gloomy bedroom a little warmer. Xia Zhi opened his eyes in a daze, and was covered by a warm hand. It was the warmest voice heard during the summer solstice, and the warm voice said, "Shhh The voice seemed to have a hypnotic effect, and Xia Solstice didn't open his eyes. Daohuaxiang sat by the window of the summer solstice and began to read him one story after another, some of which were fairy tales, some of which she collected or created, without exception, all of them had a very happy ending.

At the beginning, Xia Zhi's mental state was very poor, and Dao Huaxiang didn't react after reading Xia Solstice for half a month, but Dao Huaxiang knew that Xia Zhi heard it. So she changed the theme, and she replaced the story that was beautiful from beginning to end to the story of a beautiful beginning, a miserable middle, and a reunion at the end. After reading for two days, with the lamp that never went out, Xia Zhi's brows were furrowed, and on the fifth day, when he heard the heart-wrenching passage, tears slipped from the corners of Xia Zhi's eyes. Daohuaxiang breathed a sigh of relief, there was still hope...... Another month passed, and Daohuaxiang replaced all the stories with tragedy, although it was a tragedy, but it was full of inspirational positive energy.

Daohuaxiang lived in Xia Zhi's house for more than three months, and when she was leaving, she covered Xia Zhi's eyes again, "Dear angel, I'm leaving, I leave this lamp to you, in addition, I also left you an address, starting tomorrow, write to me, write one every day, tell me everything you want to write, I hope this time next week, I will receive your letter." ”

Daohuaxiang left, and she closed the door for Xia Zhi.

Xia Solstice gently opened his eyes, and the orange light that was not dazzling at all, warm as the words left by that person, lit up hope for his dark and directionless life.