Chapter 23 Qiao Xiaojing jumped off the cliff
readx;? Mother Chunhua was busy working on the stove, and when she saw her daughter Qiao Xiaojing turn over and fall asleep again, she lifted her clothes and wiped her hands, and hurriedly came to the edge of the kang, shaking her daughter's body while nagging in her daughter's ear, and said: "You have to be diligent, after all, now is different from the past, you have to leave a good impression in your stepfather's heart......"
After her mother's chatter, Qiao Xiaojing suddenly became bored, completely lost her sleepiness, closed her eyes, sat up, her eyebrows were raised like knots, and she sighed and lifted the quilt......
Qiao Xiaojing finished washing and began to help her mother work. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Breakfast was soon ready, and my mother Chunhua sat in front of the stove, pulling the bellows with one hand and the firewood in the stove with the other, and said calmly: "You go and call your father to get up, tell him to wash his face, and prepare to eat." ā
"He's not my father, my father is dead, early dead. Qiao Xiaojing pouted, her face dark.
"This kid, you be quiet, he's not your father, who is it? That your father is already dead, regardless of our orphans and widows, this your father will pull you into an adult and provide for you to go to school, silly child, understand?"
"I don't understand!" Qiao Xiaojing said uncontrollably, "Anyway, he's not my father, my father is dead, crushed to death by the collapsed house." ā
"Okay, good!" Mother Chunhua was worried that the noise would reach Liu Ma's ears, so she lowered her voice and said helplessly, "Then you don't recognize this your father, we have to live together!"
"Okay, okay, listen to you, listen to you in everything. Qiao Xiaojing sighed, although she was very reluctant, she still walked towards the house of the man who was not her father with a basin of washing water, she hesitated at the door, and finally pushed the door open lightly, stepped into the door, and was startled by the snoring of the man on the kang.
Qiao Xiaojing didn't even look at the man, just put the washbasin on the ground, turned around and walked out of the door, with a straight face and a very reluctant expression during the whole process.
"The meal will be ready soon," Qiao Xiaojing had just stepped into the kitchen threshold, her mother lifted the lid of the pot, the white heat came out, and she turned to her daughter and said, "Did you wake him up?"
"Nope. Qiao Xiaojing sat on the threshold and said lightly, "The snoring sound is deafening, and he sleeps so soundly, I can't bear to wake him up." ā
"I don't know your mind yet," Mother Chunhua shook her head, "Okay, I'll wake him up, and if you're hungry, eat first, don't wait for us." Mother Chunhua held the apron in her arms and hurried out of the kitchen door.
"Hmph," Qiao Xiaojing sighed and said lazily, "I don't dare, I'm my stepfather's child now, eat early? That's too ignorant of the rules, there will be someone to support me in the future, and someone will provide for me to go to school?"
The mother, Chunhua, did not look back, pretended not to hear her daughter's words, went straight into the main house, and then closed the door at noon.
When her stepfather Liu Ma finished washing and eating, Qiao Xiaojing didn't make a sound, and Chunhua would say a few words to Qiao Xiaojing's stepfather Liu Ma from time to time, so that the family would not be too embarrassed to sit together.
Qiao Xiaojing just glanced at Liu Ma a few times through the corner of her eyes, and she found that this stepfather would look at her from time to time, and his expression was very natural, as if he was not aware of what happened before.
Qiao Xiaojing's understanding of herself began to loosen, she suspected that she might be thinking too much, maybe her mother was right, but when she thought of what happened last night, she still felt a little nauseous, and her body twitched a few times involuntarily.
The time of the day always passes unconsciously in the hustle and bustle, and the east and west seem very dull and calm. Dinner was ready, and her mother called Qiao Xiaojing to come over for dinner.
When Qiao Xiaojing came to this old dining table, her heart couldn't help but be a lot heavier, feeling that the air around her had weight, and it weighed heavily on her head, on her shoulders, on her chest, and on her heart, making her feel a little suffocated.
Qiao Xiaojing still endured it, lowered her head and tried to fill her mouth with food, but in the end, she didn't eat a few bites of a bowl of noodles.
At night, the light in her mother's room once again sprinkled on the window of Qiao Xiaojing's room, Qiao Xiaojing did not light the lamp, and lay quietly on the kang like a deer in the dim room, her eyes wide open, staring blankly at the roof.
Mother Chunhua was talking to this man who Qiao Xiaojing didn't admit to being her stepfather, and her voice was not loud, and she couldn't hear what they were talking about. Qiao Xiaojing wouldn't care about this, because she didn't think their conversation had anything to do with him.
After a while, the light swept across Qiao Xiaojing's face and disappeared into the dim night. Qiao Xiaojing knew that the lights in her mother's room were out, but lying in this room full of green onions and no light, she didn't feel sleepy at all, her eyes were like rings, and she was staring at the top where she couldn't see clearly.
"The child hasn't fallen asleep yet," suddenly Qiao Xiaojing heard her mother say, "Wait a minute, it's not good for the child to hear it, we're all this age, and we're still making a fuss......"
"How many days has it been? The children have already fallen asleep. Qiao Xiaojing, who was not sleepy, vaguely heard the man's words.
At this time, Liu Ma lifted his quilt and got into Qiao Xiaojing's mother Chunhua's quilt, and a calloused hand reached into Qiao Xiaojing's mother Chunhua's clothes.........
For Chunhua, who has already been married once, she knows too well what this greedy man next to her is thinking. However, she knew better that her daughter had grown up and was no longer a two- or three-year-old child, and she was lying on the kang in the kitchen at this time, so she repeatedly refused Liu Ma's actions, and repeatedly advised the man next to her to wait.
This old bachelor Liu Ma has been waiting for a long time, waiting for decades, the most energetic and passionate time has been spent on the cold bed, he doesn't want to wait for a moment now, it seems that he is going crazy, he doesn't pay attention to his mother Chunhua's request at all, he puts his bearded mouth on his mother Chunhua's mouth......
Qiao Xiaojing vaguely heard her mother's painful ** and itchy screams, although she didn't understand why such a sound appeared, but she had a feeling of inner emptiness, and she covered her head with a quilt.
Since that night, his stepfather Liu Ma seems to be very energetic, getting up very early every day, always pulling the little hair very smoothly, and when necessary, he will wet the curled hair with saliva.
Mother Chunhua also looks much younger, her smile is more, and her skin is not as dull and colorless as in the past, but now she looks very shiny.
Qiao Xiaojing saw that her mother and the man were living in full swing, and found that her stepfather liked her mother, and his arrival brought happiness to her mother, and she was naturally happy in her heart, but she felt a little lost, she felt as if she was invisibly squeezed to the edge of the family, she felt that her mother gave her own care to her stepfather, and she felt that she lacked the care of adults.
Qiao Xiaojing, who felt lost, didn't like to stay at home, she felt that there was no place for her home.
One day, the bored Qiao Xiaojing went up the back mountain alone, and she went to the cemetery of her biological father Qiao Liang.
The grave sits in a relatively flat depression, with no headstones, and only a few small trees that were planted after my father was buried, and which have now sprouted new shoots and green leaves on their fingers. There, you can see the rolling mountains.
Qiao Xiaojing cleaned up the weeds and small stones on the grave, held the loess in her hand and filled the hole in the grave that had been beaten by rats and weasels, and then sat down on the edge of the grave.
"Dad," Qiao Xiaojing clenched a few small stones in her hand, gurgling, and said in frustration, "You know, I haven't called that man until now, no matter how my mother persuades me, I always feel that that man is not from our family." It's good now, I seem to have become an outsider, my mother and that man always have endless things to talk about, there are always things to do, and I ......"
"They are getting closer and closer, as if I can't get close to them, and even farther and farther away from them. Qiao Xiaojing breathed a sigh of relief, and then said, "I don't know why, my eyelids have been jumping all the time lately, and I always feel as if something ominous is going to happen, but I just can't figure out what will happen?"
"Also," Qiao Xiaojing seemed to suddenly think of something, straightened up and said, "I will soon reach out to that man to ask for money, I will take that man's money to go to school, and I will inevitably see that man's face in the future, thinking of this, I am very distressed, and even lose confidence in my future, alas, if I had known this, I really shouldn't have gone to school in the first place......"
That day, Qiao Xiaojing nagged a lot on her father's grave, and when she said that she could no longer be coquettish and lose her temper in her father's arms, she cried, the more she cried, the more sad she became, the flesh on her face twitched a little, and her body trembled......
Seeing that it was getting late, Qiao Xiaojing stood up, walked to the ground, and looked into the distance, in order to calm down some loneliness and excitement, suddenly a back appeared from behind, she instinctively dodged it, but fell off the ground.
The so-called back in Qiao Xiaojing's eyes, seeing Qiao Xiaojing falling, also jumped down in a hurry, the two rolled down the mountain one after the other, and finally on a sheep intestine path, the two collided together, originally Qiao Xiaojing had grabbed the artemisia grass, but was knocked away by this latecomer, and finally the two fell into a depression.
Qiao Xiaojing, who was almost faint, collapsed in the artemisia grass, and the latecomer who was almost fainted lay on Qiao Xiaojing's body impartially, and the sky turned to regain calm, and the latecomer was the first to wake up, he rode on Qiao Xiaojing's body, shook Qiao Xiaojing's head vigorously, and slapped Qiao Xiaojing's face from time to time, and kept saying: "Wake up, wake up......"
Qiao Xiaojing opened her eyes with difficulty, saw a man riding on her body, pushed him away with a palm, sat up suddenly, rubbed her waist and said, "Shuangxi, are you crazy, why are you scaring me behind your back?"
"I'm not trying to scare you, but you're scaring me. This person is Qiao Shuangxi, he said in a simple way, "I was herding sheep in the back mountain, and when I heard someone crying, I quietly came over to take a look, and found that it was you, I didn't dare to come." Just as I was about to drive the sheep home, I saw you standing on the ground, thinking that you might have to jump off the cliff, in order to save you, I pounced, who would have thought, I also jumped down. ā
Qiao Shuangxi knelt beside Qiao Xiaojing, smiling innocently as he spoke.
"Who said I was going to jump off the cliff?" Qiao Xiaojing asked Qiao Shuangxi to help her up, patted the dust on her body, glanced at her and said, "It's all your fault, you made me so embarrassed, I feel pain all over my body." ā
Qiao Shuangxi didn't say anything, ran up the mountain to drive the sheep, and Qiao Xiaojing sat on the side of the road and rested for a while.
After that, the two went all the way back to the village.
On the way, Qiao Xiaojing asked, "Double Happiness, why do you want to save me?"
Qiao Shuangxi lowered his head and replied, "I like it." ā
Qiao Xiaojing was stunned for a moment, and then lowered her head, her face instantly turned red like a ripe apple.
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