Chapter 16: The Past

She didn't speak anymore, just kept wiping her tears with her hands, I didn't know what to say, I wanted to say a few words of comfort, but such sadness could not be smoothed out by a few words of comfort. There was a moment of silence in the room.

After a long time, her emotions slowly calmed down, wiped her face with her sleeve, looked up and said with a difficult smile: "I'm sorry, let Mr. Wei smile!" ”

I smiled wryly and shook my head, not knowing what to say.

She said again: "I don't know what happened to Mr. Wei when he came to my house today?" ”

"I ......" I wanted to say and stopped, and I really couldn't say my purpose at this time.

The way I looked made her a little confused, and she seemed to realize something instantly.

"So you're here to persuade me to move!" She silently turned her head to look at me, her tone sad.

I was stunned for a moment, but I didn't expect her to guess my intention at once after my slight hesitation. I knew that it must have been her experience during this period of time, which made her extremely sensitive to all the people who visited, and my heart ached faintly.

"No, sister-in-law Shi, I just came to find out the situation, I didn't know in advance that it was you who didn't want to move away!"

I was so busy explaining that I ignored the difference between the meaning of my words and those of the previous ones.

"It's okay! In fact, I knew from the first day of the demolition that I couldn't keep this house. I just hate why some people can live arbitrarily and treat the lives of the poor as if they were a careless, but they can't get any punishment. We just want to live the most simple and ordinary life, we just want our son to be able to read and have some knowledge, so that he will not be bullied like us in the future, but even these things we can't get. Mr. Wei, tell me, do we want more? ”

She looked at me with teary-eyed eyes, and there was a hint of weariness in her tone after giving up and persevering.

I didn't dare look into her eyes, her gaze was like a sharp sword that could reach into the depths of my soul.

Say out loud in your heart: You don't want much, you don't want much, it's not your fault, it's the world that is sorry for you! But I didn't even say a word.

They are right, the world is wrong, but who can be responsible for them, who can seek justice from the world?

"You don't have to be embarrassed, you are a good person, I will move out as soon as possible!" Her head hung slightly, and I could feel how powerless she was at the moment.

"And what are your plans for the future?" I asked her

"What else can I plan, I came here just to have a book to read, I thought that no matter how hard and tired we were, as long as we could use the stone for college, but now it seems that there is no way to do it. His father is dead, and now he doesn't even have a home, and the so-called city is a place where people eat, and I can't support it anymore, so I have to go back to my hometown...... Is this fate? No matter how much you struggle, you have to go back to where you came from. ”

She said leisurely.

She gave me a ride downstairs as I left, and when I had gone far away, I looked back and saw her still standing, the ruins around her making her thin figure look small and desolate.

I didn't expect what the result of this visit was, although Shi's mother promised to move out as soon as possible, I also unexpectedly completed the task assigned to me by Mu Xichun, and I was not treated by the previous people.

But I felt the slightest sense of joy, and I would rather be scolded or splashed with dirty water, than know about this naked human tragedy.

Some stories we always think are very far away from ourselves, and listening to others tell them is just a story, when the story suddenly tears through the shackles of telling one day, and really appears in front of us, we find that this is the truth of life, it is far more clever than we imagined.

Walking through the ruins, I felt that my legs were a little drifting, and the scenery around me became no longer real, like a dream, a sad dream.

As I walked past the old transformer, there was a chill on my face, and I looked up at the sky, and the rain that had been brewing for many days had finally fallen. Thin and slanting rains fell from the sky, obscuring everything around them.

At this moment, the world is quiet, as if you are sincerely accepting the baptism of the gods, and it is like making the most sincere repentance with the innocent......

I thought about what Mother Stone said, and every word was like a knife with an open mouth, slowly cutting across my heart, and my heart ached slightly.

She said she wouldn't embarrass me, she said I was a good person; Does she want me to tell her how much she wants? She said that she just hoped that Shi would be able to read and not be bullied like her in the future......

I suddenly remembered my mother, many years ago she was at the station in the county seat, under the sallow street lamp, in the crowd of people, she said to me: "Dog baby, you must study hard, and you will be a promising person in the future, so that you will not be bullied!" ”

At this moment, the mother's face and the stone mother's face overlapped again in my mind, and I finally understood that in fact, all mothers are the same, they just want their children not to be bullied.

It was when I was in high school, and because the end of the semester was approaching, the school had to make up classes, and the two-day vacation that was supposed to be a month was canceled.

Since my living expenses had been exhausted, I had to call my mother and ask her to send me living expenses, and my mother had always been very concerned about my studies, saying that she would send them to me the next morning, but the next day I waited for a day and did not see my mother's shadow.

At the end of school in the afternoon, the homeroom teacher came to me and said, "Your mother is in the urban management bureau, you go and see!" ”

I was taken aback and hurriedly asked, "Teacher, why is my mother in the Urban Management Bureau?" What's wrong with her? ”

The teacher looked at me for two seconds, and his expression made me unpredictable and said, "You'll know when you go, go quickly, come back early for self-study, I'll tell the English teacher." ”

The teacher's appearance made me feel faintly uneasy, and I didn't eat and rushed directly to the urban management bureau. When I came to the urban management bureau, it was already dark, and I was just in time to get to and from work.

I saw the staff from the urban management bureau coming out of it talking and laughing, each carrying a plastic bag with a bag of eggs in it.

I asked the uncle at the gate and said that I was Li Zhen's son and came to my mother. The uncle pointed inside and said, "Your mother is in the duty room inside, you can go by yourself." ”

So I followed his direction and ran inside, and the uneasiness in my heart became stronger and stronger, and I secretly said in my heart: Mom, you must not be fine.

My hunch was quickly confirmed, and the moment I saw my mother, my body froze. Mother sat in the chair inside, her head bowed and her hands clasped tightly together.

As I got closer, I saw a faint slap mark on her face, and although the slap print had faded slightly, I was sure it was a slap print.

In addition, the mother's sleeve was also torn into a big mouth, and a few strands of her hair, which had always been unmessy, fell out, as if it had been torn by someone.

It was as if I had been pricked by a needle, and a piercing pain spread from my heart. I rushed to my mother and crouched beside her lap, only to notice that she still had two strings of tears on her face. I eagerly asked my mother, "Mom, what's wrong with you?" ”

When my mother saw me coming, tears flowed again, she touched my head, and before I could speak, the man sitting behind the desk next to me spoke first: "What's wrong?" He asked rhetorically, "Your mother is selling at will in a place where stalls are prohibited, and we will confiscate them in accordance with the law, but your mother actually interferes with law enforcement and pesters our law enforcement officers on the street." What's wrong, you say? ”

His tone was arrogant, as if they were the ones who had been wronged. A fire rose in my heart.

My mother wiped her tears and said, "I brought a basket of eggs to the county seat, I thought that the city would be a little more expensive, so I could buy a little more money for your living expenses, but as soon as I put down my eggs at the vegetable market, they came up to grab my eggs......

My mother was still talking, but I couldn't hear it anymore, and the fire in my heart burst out.

I can guess the situation without the mother telling me, how the living expenses she had prepared for her son could be snatched away by someone else, and she begged them to give her the eggs back.

They refused, and then there was an argument, and the mother was so anxious that she grabbed a person's clothes, and the rest of the matter naturally did not need to be talked about.

I stood up and walked over to the man and grabbed him by the collar, if I could see my own eyes my eyes would be blood-red.

I stared at him with these blood-red eyes and said, "How can you do such a thing to a woman? Do you still have a conscience? "I was already over 1.7 meters tall at the time, although I was a little thin, but it obviously shocked this man, a trace of panic flashed in his eyes, but he quickly calmed down.

"What are you going to do, do you know what this place is?" He shouted loudly. I knew he was a little weak-hearted, and he was screaming for help. I ignored him and still grabbed him by the collar and shook him so hard that I almost lost my mind.

Sure enough, his shouts attracted two people, and when they saw the situation, they probably understood the reason, and they broke me up without saying a word.

The man I grabbed by the collar saw that the helper was coming, and his arrogance suddenly rose, and he came up and kicked me in the lower abdomen.

I was kicked to the ground by him, my lower abdomen twitched, I was furious, I was holding back the pain and just trying to get up, I was kicked in the back again, followed by sharp pain in my thighs, chest, arms and all over my body, I could no longer get up from the ground.

In fact, it only happened for a few seconds, and my mother finally reacted, and she threw herself on top of me to protect my body, so three men kicked her together.

The mother cried and said, "Don't fight, I beg you to stop!" Her tone was pleading, making my anger a little sad.

A few more kicks stopped, and the man who was grabbed by my collar said, "The little rabbit cub turned against you, dare to go wild here?" ”

"Get out of here!" Another man said.

"What kind of Lao Tzu there is, what kind of kid there is, the family is unreasonable goods!" The third person said.

I lifted my mother, she grabbed my arm for fear that I would do something beyond my strength, looking at her teary eyes, I endured and endured and finally gave up.

I helped my mother to walk out the door, and when I passed the desk at the door, I saw a bag of eggs on the table, and I suddenly hated it.

How did the world become like this? Why do poor people do everything wrong?

I looked at the palm prints on my mother's face that had not faded, and finally said the words that I held back in my heart: "Mom, I'm not going to school anymore!" I'll go home with you! In the future, your son will take care of you and will not let people bully you anymore! ”

My voice trembled a little, she was working so hard, I really couldn't let her work like this anymore.

My mother was supported by me to walk with her head down, and as soon as my words came out, her thin body trembled violently, and I could clearly feel the trembling of her body with the arm that held her shoulder.

She turned around and slapped me in the face, "What am I doing all this for?" What are you telling me for? ”

My mother's tone became poignant, and she looked at me with some disappointment and sadness.

I expected my mother to disagree, but I didn't expect her attitude to be so intense. I know my words hurt her.

"Mom, I was wrong, don't be angry, I won't say such things again! I go to school, I will definitely go to school well! "I was a little scared, I was afraid to see my mother even a little sad, and every time she was sad, my heart was cut like a knife.

I know that her heart has been broken by another person, I can't afford to break it anymore, I am burdened with that person's failure to her, and I am the proof.