Chapter 18: The Dark Marks
Jiang Kai walked into the classroom with his head down, his hair that had been raised before was pulled down a little, he was afraid that his classmates would see his slightly swollen eyes.
The classroom was noisy, and the classmates were almost there, and no one paid attention to him.
As he approached, he noticed that Miku had sat in the front row, swapping places with them.
Jiang Kai felt a burst of joy in his heart, "I can finally look at her openly, and I don't have to peek and squint."
The scars of Uncle Li's scolding in the morning are still there, but they don't matter anymore.
He stared at Miku's wavy curls, the dark brown sheen that shone in the light.
Meijiu's hair gently soothed Jiang Kai's injured heart.
Today, Miku wears a simple white T-shirt with a pair of high-waisted wide-leg pants, and despite sitting, her slender figure still can't hide her graceful appearance.
But what Jiang Kai didn't see was that under the shallow bangs, there were also a pair of melancholy eyes, as if there were endless worries.
Recess. Mu Zhi and Jiang Kai leaned on the railing of the corridor, watching several classmates on the playground, dribbling and dribbling back and forth.
"Jiang Kai, your dad was okay last night", Mu Zhi stared at the basketball shuttle with his eyes, and put his right hand on Jiang Kai's shoulder.
"Oh, it's nothing, it's good", Mu Zhi's inquiry hit Jiang Kai's heart directly.
He desperately held back the tears that wanted to burst out of his eyes, and said a little choked, "Look", he paused, endured the tears, and his tone was a little joyful, "Li Huan is so beautiful this brake, absolutely amazing, three points"!
Jiang Kai wanted to change the topic, and clapped vigorously with both hands. He wanted to use the opportunity of applause to pull back the strength in his heart and suppress the tears.
Mu Zhi beside him, because he couldn't see the change in Jiang Kai's face, he didn't expect that the matter would be so serious.
"Uncle Li is always disgusting and kind-mouthed. There are some things that don't take to heart", Kizhi is a qualified persuader, but things are far from what they see.
Some people are gentle gentlemen outside, but evil devils at home.
Jiang Kai has been for more than ten years, and finally figured out the meaning of "disgusting and good-natured".
He believes that "a man of good heart will not speak evil, for words are the voice of the heart." Neither does he who speaketh evil have a good heart, but his words are the voice of his heart."
"Disgusting and good-mouthed, just evil-mouthed people who hurt others without scruples under the guise of being good-hearted, and have a good reputation for good-heartedness. Outsiders really think that they are kind-hearted, so that they can continue to speak ill of them", Jiang Kai's words were analyzed very well.
"Perhaps, Jiang Kai has experienced this kind of pain many times, so he can analyze it so thoroughly and thoroughly", Mu Zhi did not answer, and he agreed
。 He clenched Jiang Kai's shoulder again, he wanted to give Jiang Kai the strength to overcome the pain.
Once the scar is revealed, the dark scar inside comes into view again.
The history of one's own growth is a history of suffering. It's always full of pain, and it's either beating or scolding.
Uncle Li can be furious because of the wrong sentence, and smash the dishes and spill the dishes. will also anger him with a look, and attract the baptism of sticks.
Running away from home is a game that teenagers often play. It's not that I like this game, but this family is too depressing. There are always endless fights and endless scolding.
In the second year of junior high school, because of doing homework, Uncle Li scolded him again. He glanced at Uncle Li because he was not convinced, and Uncle Li immediately turned around and copied a bamboo pole for drying clothes, and swept it towards his waist.
At that time, he was already 1.7 meters tall, and although his waist hurt very much, he still desperately grabbed the bamboo pole and pulled with Uncle Li.
Seeing this, my mother quickly pulled Uncle Li away, but was reprimanded by Uncle Li, "It's all what you're used to."
"Where am I used to him", a rhetorical question, Uncle Li was speechless.
People say that father's love is like a mountain. And Jiang Kai wants to say, "Father's love is a catastrophe". But when will this catastrophe end?
Looking at Uncle Li's face that was deformed by anger, Jiang Kai closed the door with tears in his eyes. Outside the door, there were still endless shouts and scolding from Uncle Li and his mother.
In class, Jiang Kai's mood was a little low, his nose was red, and his eyes were slightly red and swollen.
Maybe it's the melancholy aura that is contagious, Mijiu glanced back at Jiang Kai's melancholy expression, and suddenly felt a sense of sympathy in her heart.
Miku's sadness and dark marks come from her stepmother Anqi, known as the White Lotus. She squeezed out her mother, who was not wrong, and the disgraceful process of marrying her father.
One set in front of people, one set in the back.
In front of her father, she is a little sheep, in front of Miku, she is a big bad wolf, and in front of her own daughter, she is beaming.
In Miku's heart, Angel is the chameleon stepmother.
Alas! I don't want to, let's go to class. If you have a good future, you can escape the clutches of your stepmother.
But the devil's claws always appear in his mind, and even if the math teacher is very attentive, he still can't capture all of Miku's mind. Because of the uncovered dark marks, she fell into a whirlpool of sadness, and it was difficult to climb out for a while.
"Miku, I have something to do and I'm going home soon, so I won't accompany you to dinner. You can go home too", Wei Ling said to Mijiu as she sorted out her school bag.
Miku said she wouldn't be going back to dinner tonight.
"Alas! Let's go back and face the big bad wolf", Miku was extremely reluctant in her heart.
"Maybe the big bad wolf has changed? After all, I haven't been back to eat for so long", Miku's heart is full of anticipation for going home.
"Will the big bad wolf turn into a jubilant? Wolves don't turn into sheep, only wolves in sheep's clothing", Miku's mood became boring again.
The evening sky is beautiful, and the sunset stains the sky. The glow was reflected on the milky white curtains at home, and a touch of warm color grabbed Miku's heart, making Miku speed up the pace of going home.
As soon as I arrived at the door, I smelled a strong smell of meat.
Miku opened the door, and the scent wafted from the table again. She stepped over to the table in a few steps, "Wow! It smells so good!"
The braised pork ribs soaked in oil were steaming hot, and the fragrance hit Miku's nose, and Miku swallowed her saliva.
"Ouch! Didn't you say you wouldn't come back for dinner? The coarse tea and light rice at home, where can it compare to the delicacies of the mountains and seas outside"! Angel suddenly stood behind Miku, and the yin and yang weird sarcasm made Miku's ears tighten and her back was numb!
Miku left the table, glanced at Angel, and didn't say anything.
She walked into the bedroom and took "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" out. She leaned back in her chair and rested her feet on the wooden coffee table.
Miku often uses this way to express her dissatisfaction and protest against her stepmother.
The sour aroma of scrambled eggs with tomatoes hit Miku's taste buds again. She swallowed again.
Huang Rong's smart and well-behaved, and Brother Jing's stupid persistence, made Meijiu envious in her heart, "Where is the person who protects me?" Judwart, no. Mu Zhi, ignore me", Miku had to shake her head.
"If I love the person who saved me, I will immediately fly away with him", Miku's mood was carried away by the plot of the novel.
"Mom, I'm back", her sister Xiaoqian shouted at the door.
Angel came out of the kitchen with scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and when she heard her daughter's cry, she quickly put the plate on the table.
"My dear dear, you're back. Come, mom hug you", Angel hugged Xiaoqian and walked around the house.
The laughter of the mother and daughter drifted from the living room to the window.
This kind of joy and beauty have been lost for a long time, and the mother's arms have lost their warmth, even if they existed in the past, they have faded with the dilution of time.
Mijiu misses her mother very much, "But her mother has another home, and she doesn't have time to come back to see her." I am like a duckweed, I don't know where to go"?
"Miku, go and serve dinner, are you full of novels"?
Miku put all three bowls of rice on the table.
"Mijiu, go pick up some ginger, in the sauce jar, my good daughter likes to eat it the most."
Miku picked out the good boy ginger, put it on the table, and sat down.
On the table, only mashed potatoes and chopped tomatoes remained.
The bowl in front of Xiao Qian was piled high, like a small hill. Akane was gnawing on the mountain with relish.
"Such a big piece, don't you know how to cut it smaller? If the pig's brain is not turned", Angel's taunt and scolding made Miku "snap" and throw down the chopsticks.
She no longer had a bit of an appetite.
With a blank face, she left the table and left the house.
When I came to the lake, I didn't want to enjoy the beautiful scenery for a long time. But the winged egret flew her heart, and she wanted to fly farther, fly to her father's side, be with her father, and never leave again.
Twilight lingers around the lake. The evening breeze is also telling the beauty of the year. Two egrets flying and playing, igniting Miku's desire for love, "Where is my he"?
"If he is with me, I will never be alone again", Miku's eyes flashed in front of Mu Zhi's figure, but this figure did not turn around.
"It's better to study hard, only by reading will you change the difficult situation", Mijiu doesn't want her stepmother to spoil her mood all the time. She wants to come out, embrace the landscape, and embrace the future.
"The scenery on the lake is vast. Autumn has twilight, red and fragrant. The water and mountains are close to people, and there are endless good ......", the beautiful words and sentences that I once memorized are surging in my brain at this moment, and they come out of my mouth.
"The lotus seeds have become lotus leaves, the green dew is washed, and the apple blossoms and grass are ......", and the autumn fruits will surely go through the bitterness of summer. Life should also be bitter and then sweet.