Chapter 437: Falling Leaves Returning Home
Snowflakes fall, the weather in Mobei has become very cold, winter has come for a long time, calculate the time, it will not be long before it is the annual Chinese New Year's Eve, and the heart that was originally cold and indifferent has begun to be active.
Bronze Town is just a small town in Mobei, which was originally an excellent mineral area, but decades ago all the minerals here have been mined clean, and the originally lively city has gradually become empty, and many people have chosen to move out of here.
Now there are still some families and ordinary people whose ancestral homes are here, and they have become accustomed to the air here, the world here, and the people here, so they will not leave because of the prosperity or barrenness here.
With decades of reproduction, the bronze town can be regarded as a scale, the town of about thousands of people, is already a large place, many people here have lived for a lifetime, without quarrel with the world, free from the world.
"Xiao Hanghang, not big, seven and a half years old, can wet the bed"
The ridicule between children is always unintentional, they have no worries or sorrows, they just do what they are happy about.
One was dressed in thick linen clothes, but even so, the little guy's nose was red from the cold, but the look of not admitting defeat was real. A group of children in the distance laughed at the little one, but the little one looked at them with disdain.
Looking at the snowball in that place, it can also be seen that this little guy has no popularity.
The snowball fight was supposed to be a group game, but in the end this guy made a group of people alone, which is not good for many children to be cried by him, in order to save some face, these children remembered the embarrassment of this little guy.
At the age of seven and a half, wetting the bed was an inglorious thing, and the little guy suddenly became angry, grabbed the snowball under his feet and smashed it at the group of children one by one.
I have to say that this little guy is also a stubborn temper, and he has to deal with a group of people alone, but after all, his fists are invincible to his four hands, and he has suffered a lot of snowballs, if it weren't for the agility and intelligence of this little guy enough, it would not only be the pain of being smashed on his arm.
After a while, the children became wiser and surrounded the little one, each holding a fluffy snowball in his hand.
A big man at the head came to the front and smashed his fist on the shoulder of the little guy, and said condescendingly: "Du Hang, if you apologize to us, I will let you go." ”
The little guy named Du Hang was silent, just clenched the snowball in his hand and stared at the big man in front of him stiffly.
"Crazy for you!"
The big man was also polite to punch the little guy's head, but fortunately, the child's hand was not strong, but he still punched Du Hang to the ground.
Although it hurts, the little guy is still stiff and doesn't gnaw.
Looking at Du Hang, who was unwilling to compromise at all, these children did not have any sense of accomplishment, and immediately punched and kicked Du Hang.
The little one curled up after the first kick, and defended himself, but if you looked closely, you could see the child's eyes staring at the big man's feet.
The little guy who suddenly shrank on the ground hugged one leg violently, and then he tried to go down with a hard bite, without mercy.
The wailing sound suddenly sounded, and the little guy was not polite, and directly bit the big man's leg to bleed.
Now it's okay, the rest of the children immediately began to beat the child, and as a result, they were all entangled, and they couldn't beat him clearly, all of them had blue noses and swollen faces, and many people were beaten with nosebleeds, and the bleeding did not stop.
The half-grown children all turned into frightened birds the moment they saw the bright red blood, and ran away in a panic one by one.
The little guy immediately stood up, and received a lot of fists all over his body, he didn't cry or escape, and smashed the solid snowball in his hand at the back of a person's head, such a snowball was no worse than a stone, and the little guy who suddenly smashed it was hazy with tears.
After hitting one and not being satisfied, the little guy hit a few of them in the same way, and then glared at the big man who was still crying there.
"Crying fart, it's really useless, I didn't cry after being punched so much by you, it's a shame!" said the little guy sneering at the big man.
Listening to the little guy's ridicule, the big man snorted, looked at Du Hang with some fear, and pursed his lips aggrievedly.
"If you dare to say that I wet the bed, I will be polite to you next time, hum!"
Some twisted and ran to the mouth of an alley, and then while grinning and massaging the bruises on his body, he muttered about the local dialect, but it was not a good thing to say.
Witnessing everything that was going on, Su Li looked at the child in silence, and didn't know how to go up to say hello.
In the end, Su Li still chose to follow and followed the little guy all the way back to his house.
A dilapidated wooden house, it can be seen that the conditions of this family are not very good, there are only some winter cabbages in the small yard around the door, looking at the dilapidated wooden house, the little guy smiled and shouted loudly: "Mother, I'm back!"
didn't get a response, the little guy ran in quickly, pushed open the door, but saw three men swaggering on the stools in his house, and then said to his mother: "Mrs. Du, if you don't pay your protection money this month, don't hang me to buy you to Yingchun Building." ”
The woman standing on the side looked like she was from everyone's girlfriends, although she had lost her smooth skin and beautiful face under the polishing of the years, and her sideburns and graying hair could see that her life was not easy, but the nobility in her every move could not be taken away by the years.
"You are not allowed to bully my mother!" said the little fellow who had just entered the house before she could speak.
The three men laughed, and one of them said in a dark voice: "Mrs. Du, you'd better agree to our request, otherwise I don't mind buying your child first, and looking at the guy, you should be able to buy a few dollars." ”
Hearing the man's words, a trace of anger appeared on the woman's originally calm face, and she pulled her child over and said coldly: "If you dare to touch our mother and son, you will never want to get what you want." ”
"You" The man was about to say something when his companion interrupted him.
"Okay, I know that Mrs. Du is tough, I will give you three more days in the end, if you don't give the things to our young master, I don't mind playing with your old body, let's go!"
The three men kicked off the stool at their feet, and then walked out of the door in a flash.
The little guy hiding in his mother's arms bit his lip and hugged his mother so hard that he didn't say a word.
The woman gently touched the little guy's head, and said softly with soft eyes: "Xiaohang, my mother is fine!"
He lifted his head buried in his mother's arms, and for the first time since he was three years old, he asked his mother, "Mother, they all said that there was a victory outside, but why didn't Dad come back?
At the end, the little guy's tone became very light, as if he was afraid of disturbing something, and his stubborn eyes became wet at this moment.
Tears rolled in his eyes, and he didn't let them fall.
The woman hugged the little guy up, and said with extremely gentle eyes: "Why doesn't your father want you, aren't you still making a baby waiting for your father to come back, how can he come if you are there." ”
"Then why hasn't he come back yet?"
"Maybe, yes, there must be something. ”
"The father of the dog cub in town has returned, is he okay?"
"Your father is a big official, so naturally there are more things!"
The young child is only a child even if he is shrewd and sophisticated, and everything he knows is because of what he has seen and learned, so naturally he cannot see his mother's clenched left hand, nor can he see any bruises on his Mai.
Su Li, who was standing not far from the door, lowered his head, the tears in his eyes fell gently, he really didn't want to bring the final blow to this already dilapidated family, they always need an expectation and work hard to live, but he promised the man to send him home, he has been delaying for so long, so long.
Knocking lightly on the door, Su Li appeared at the door.
The knock on the door interrupted the communication between the mother and son, the little guy and the woman looked over at the same time, the woman's eyes flashed a trace of strangeness, and then there was a trace of unease, but the little guy in his arms looked at Su Li with a wary face, he had seen a lot of Su Li's dress, those sons of the town's families were like this, and none of them were good things, if it wasn't for his mother's side, he wouldn't have a good face.
"This son, I don't know who you're looking for?" The woman's voice trembled a little, as if she felt something in the dark.
The little guy has lived with his mother since he was a child, and he is naturally the one who knows his mother best, and he can feel the tremor of his mother's arms, as well as the thick sadness, and before he knows it, his eyes are red.
Su Li walked into the door with a gloomy expression, looked at the orphan girl and widow in front of him, took out the long knife behind his back, red eyes, and roared loudly: "Yufeng Sanlian is all Su Li, send, Brother Du go home!"
The waiting and worrying in my heart When I saw the long knife that was sent back, all my thoughts and expectations collapsed.
Even in the face of the torture of life and the reprimands of others, the woman was still able to grit her teeth and survive little by little, but in the face of the long knife, listening to Su Li's words, she was strong and could no longer hold back the tears in her eyes.
Holding the child in his arms, the tears could no longer be stopped.
The snow outside the house was falling down, and the people inside were crying silently.