Chapter 17: Conflict

When I took my mother to the station, it was already dark, there were not many passengers in the station, and the empty waiting hall was a little lonely.

When I got into the car, my mother turned back to me under the dim street lamp and said, "Dog baby, you must study hard and be a promising person in the future, so that you will not be bullied!" ”

Her tone was sad but firm, giving the listener a sense of unquestioning heaviness, as if this was the trust she had placed in me all my life, the only trust.

I nodded heavily, and my tears were shattered by the smashing of the marble floor.

After my mother finished speaking, she took out a small paper bag from her bosom and stuffed it into my pocket, turned around and got into the car.

The car drove away, and for a long time I stood still in place, my heart was like a mossy stone, so cold that I could hardly beat, until the shouts of the sweeping uncle told me to go out I did not come back to my senses.

I pulled out what my mother had stuffed into my pocket before leaving, and opened it to reveal a stack of loose money and a cold steamed bun.

I knew that she brought this steamed bun from home, and it was her ration for the day, but she didn't have a chance to eat it for a day, so she stuffed it into me before leaving.

I pulled a piece and put it in my mouth, and the tears flowed again.

On the way back to school, my mind was in a trance, my steps felt like I was stepping on the void, and everything seemed to become unreal.

When I crossed the street, a car whizzed past me, and the wind brought me backwards, and the people in the car poked their heads out and scolded: "Little bastard, looking for death!" "I didn't pay attention.

I saw an old man hunched over with a plastic bag next to the garbage can, looking for something to exchange for money, and pedestrians covering their noses as they walked by.

I saw a stray dog peeking in front of a hot pot restaurant, and was hit in the leg by the boss's unexpected stick, and limped away.

I looked into the distance at the streetscape, where neon lights hung high and a star on the horizon looked faltering. At that moment, I suddenly felt that the world was so strange, so strange that it made me feel afraid......

The rain was still falling silently, and I walked in the rain to feel the coolness, and my mood returned to the time when I said goodbye to my mother.

It dawned on me that my knowledge of the world had always been unfamiliar, and that I had lived here for years without really understanding it.

Sometimes I think I've seen through everything, but today's experience has made me realize that my so-called seeing through everything is just a superficial appearance, and I still can't be indifferent to suffering and indifferent to injustice.

Taxis seem to have forgotten about this place, and none of them have passed by for a long time.

I think so, taxis come like this in places where there are no people. I looked at the rain and wanted to call for a taxi, but I thought about it, what does it matter if I go back a little earlier or later.

Back at the company, the canopy had already darkened, and the rain had been filling the sky and the sky like a thick fog. My clothes were already soaking wet, but luckily the temperature had warmed up and I didn't feel that cold.

When I passed by the office area, my appearance made my colleagues talk a lot, Li Liang also ran over to ask, I ignored the colleagues who pointed at me, only smiled at Li Liang reluctantly and said I was fine, and walked straight into my office.

I took off my wet coat and sat down on the back of my chair, feeling a sense of exhaustion all over my body.

His already groggy head seemed to have a faint ache because of the rain. I turned my back to the sky and closed my eyes to relieve my exhaustion.

But just then the door to the inner office opened, and I didn't look up, or even open my eyes.

The sound of high heels stopped in front of my desk, and Mu Xichun's voice rang out: "How is the work?" Did that nail Huken move away? ”

I still didn't move, my eyes still didn't open, and the word nail household made me a little irritable.

"Heh, looking at you like this, things must have not been done, I didn't expect someone to make you a scumbag so miserable!"

It may be that my unreasonable attitude made her feel that she couldn't get off the stage, and her tone began to sneer.

I was impatient, and I really didn't want to dwell on her about it.

He looked up and said, "That family has promised to move out as soon as possible, you can rest assured, can you let me be quiet for a while?" ”

I tried my best to suppress the unhappiness in my heart, and wanted to send her away as soon as possible, and I really needed to be quiet for a while at this moment.

She looked at me and seemed surprised that I could fix the matter, but she had no intention of leaving.

I knew in my heart that the way I looked, in her opinion, must have suffered just now and was now depressed, as I said before, how could she give up such an opportunity to taunt me so well?

"Oh?" Her tone was raised.

"I didn't expect you to do something that so many people couldn't do, it seems that you still have something outstanding about this scumbag."

I only felt my head buzzing like a volcano that was going to erupt at any moment, and a ball of fire rushed up from my chest, but her words continued.

"What is the saying...... One thing in the world descends one thing, the wicked have their own wicked people to grind, this nail household probably didn't think that we still have talents like you, if I had known that he would definitely not have agreed to move out until now......"

"That's enough......" The fire that had been suppressed in my heart could no longer be suppressed when she said this.

I stood up and yelled at her angrily: "What do you know, you will only sit here to show off your might, what do you think you are, you don't know anything, why do you comment on a person like this here, do you know that when you live in a high-end villa, some people are crowded in the public loft and sleep on the door panel, and when you drink tens of thousands of dollars a bottle of wine, do you know that some people are still begging for a living in the garbage heap!" If you take off this princess dress, if you don't have a rich father who knows what you are, I tell you that you will be nothing like them! ”

The more I spoke, the more angry I became, and I felt like my chest was about to explode, and I still couldn't fully release my anger after yelling at this paragraph, and I felt my blood rush up my head.

Seeing the office supplies stacked on the desk, I waved my arm and pulled it to the ground, the computer monitor was smashed to pieces, and the wiring inside was sparkling.

I didn't even look at Mu Xichun, who was stunned in place, turned around and slammed the door, brushing his sleeves away in the dumbfounded expressions of the company's employees.

I don't know when the rain had stopped, and I was soaking wet and walking aimlessly down the street, and passers-by threw curious glances at me, like looking at a fool.

Before I knew it, I had walked to Lakeside Park again, and it seemed that there was a magic in this place, pulling me with a force that I could not perceive, allowing me to give me a kind of guidance when I had no direction, and let me get closer to it unconsciously.

The lawn in the park is still shallow, but the pear trees planted on the lawn have been full of pear blossoms, the pear trees have not yet produced leaves, the pale white pear blossoms seem to stick to the bare branches, bare and swaggering, the breeze blows a few petals and blows a faint fragrance, it turns out that spring has arrived.

I came to the pavilion by the lake, and the old man who sold musical instruments was also there, but he didn't put the musical instruments out today, only took an erhu. He was carefully wiping his erhu with a handkerchief at the moment, probably because he had just been wet from the rain.

I sat down on the other side of the pavilion, and I knew he didn't like to talk, and besides, I wasn't in the mood to talk, so I didn't talk to him, I just sat and watched his movements.

I don't know if I'll be able to hear him play a piece later, I think.

"Young people have something on their minds?" The old man asked suddenly, and the movements of his hands did not stop when he asked.

There's no one else here, so he must be talking to me. I was a little surprised that this old man who was not good at talking would take the initiative to talk to me, and what surprised me even more was that he knew that I had something on my mind.

"Uncle, do you know I have something on my mind?" I asked, confused.

"Your footsteps have told me!" The old man said.

I was a little shocked that he could hear the mood of others from the footsteps, and I am afraid that no one would believe him.

"You're amazing!" I am truly amazed.

"It's nothing powerful, but it's something you bright-eyed people can't grasp, and only a blind man like me can hear it, hehe!" He seemed to be glad about it.

I have also heard that blind people's ears are very sensitive, but I am afraid that not every blind person can understand people's thoughts by the sound of footsteps, but I don't know the secret.

The old man put away his handkerchief and said no more, picked up the bowstring and tried the sound, and then pulled it up.

I sat on the bench across from him and listened to the music and thought about the day, and seemed to be in a less bad mood, but the thought of the stone and his mother made me melancholy again.

I never thought of myself as a good person, but this time I wanted to help the mother and son. I know they have no relatives here, and if no one is willing to help them, then they will have to go back to their hometown in the countryside.

I just think what happened to them is exactly the same as what happened to my mother and me, and if people can really change their fate, I think I should try.

My mother had a hard life, she had no education, she only relied on a few acres of land but she insisted on sending me to college, although she died before I graduated from college, although she never let me live a rich life, but in my heart she is an incomparably great mother, and she is the only person in the world who can take my life to defend.

History is always strikingly similar, seeing Stone and her mother is simply a microcosm of me and my mother, the difference is that if they do return to their hometown in the countryside this time, Stone will have a different fate than mine.

Although I still can't figure out my life at this age, I don't know how to face the road of life, but I think that if Shi returns to his hometown, he may have to deal with a few acres of land and a few animals in this life, and spend the four seasons of cooking and smoke with an ordinary woman, living a life of sunrise and sunset, and a life is not much different from a day.

I can't tolerate that, and although I know my abilities are limited, I feel like I should try once.