Chapter 58: Memories I

Song Shuren sat in the taxi, it was already night, and the light of the street lamp outside the car window hit the trees on the side of the road deeply and shallowly, and the light fell from the gaps in the leaves, exuding a dim atmosphere.

Neon lights pierced through the air, as if they were going to fall on his face.

Song Shuren propped his chin and looked at the front a little bored.

Su Sheng sat in front, leaving him only a car of silence.

The taxi drove for a while and finally stopped at the entrance of a complex.

"Thank you, master. ”

Su Sheng nodded at the taxi driver and slammed the door shut.

Song Shuren carried the bag diagonally, glanced at him, and walked directly towards the community.

Because they were old residents, the doorman greeted them with a smile and a hat in his guard uniform.

Song Shuren ignored him, but Su Sheng also smiled back at him.

It was already past 6 o'clock in the evening, and everyone had eaten dinner, and groups were all over the community, talking and laughing, and there were dogs barking from time to time.

Su Sheng walked behind Song Shuren and followed him into a building.

The incandescent lamps in the corridor emitted light, shining on Song Shuren's body, which made people panic.

After climbing the stairs for a while, as soon as Song Shuren opened the door of the house, an overwhelming scolding ensued.

"You still know how to come back!"

"The wings are stiff, aren't they?!"

Song Shuren blinked, and saw a middle-aged woman standing in front of him, looking at him with red eyes.

"Mom. ”

He spit out these two words indifferently, and when he heard these two words, the middle-aged woman's eyes turned red, and tears fell cracklingly.

With a wave of her hand, she wanted to slap it over, but finally stopped.

Song Shuren didn't hide, and after observing that the person in front of him didn't move, he glanced at her and returned to the room directly, leaving only the middle-aged woman who was trembling with anger behind him and Su Sheng, who had just come up.

Next door to Song Shuren's room was his grandmother's room, although these days, Su Sheng had been very careful not to let Su Qingmei know about her grandson's running away from home. But how can there be an impermeable wall in the world, although she doesn't say it verbally, she already knows it in her heart, and she can also deduce why he ran away from home.

It's nothing more than because of herself and Su Changqing.

Su Qingmei touched her face, which was covered with criss-crossing scars, and the scars were so hideous that they seemed to mock her incompetence and delusion.

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"If you have a child, let the people who choose their own wood, and those who are lame, blind, and severe, all think of them as they are, and let the beggars beg for money to fatten their wives. ”

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At that time, she was young, and her father was no longer in the army, so he opened a tofu shop at home.

The tofu shop had a good business and was able to barely make ends meet, while my mother went to work as a female worker with a salary of a few yuan a month.

I heard that their family used to be a rich family, and I don't know how it has fallen to this extent.

Dad likes to teach her to read, and every time he buys a book, he will teach her.

She still remembers what the first poem was:

Guan Guan Ju Dove, in the river island.

My Fair Lady, Gentleman.

Jagged wattles, left and right flowing.

My Fair Lady, I covet it.

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This poem is really good, and after reading it, he will teach himself to sing it.

His voice was clear and long, as if he was singing a touching love song to his mother, and his eyes were full of affection.

At this time, the mother would lie on the bed, smiling at them, even if she was tired, she would smile as always.

I heard my father say that my mother once saved him.

It was winter, and he followed his troops to a small village, where his companions were already hungry, and the people of the village brought them something to eat.

When it was his turn, a girl happened to hand it to him.

That girl was her mother, and her mother at that time was twenty-eight years old, a flower with two braids, a bowl of porridge in her hand, and a smile at him.

She smiled so beautifully, like a plum blossom in winter.

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This story is often told by my father, and when I tell it, I will suddenly laugh and read it slowly to my mother, "I don't know what to do, and I go deep." ”

Looking at their smiles, she was sometimes jealous, as ugly as a mouse hiding in a corner.

She thinks that her life will be so ordinary, just like the grandmother Wang of the next house, who will forget everything when she is old.

It's just that......

It was winter, and she followed her father out to buy vegetables as usual, and suddenly saw two beggar-like people leading a strange-looking big dog, smiling on the road, looking for a good piece of land, and directly beating gongs and drums, shouting loudly.

He said that his dog could talk and sing dittys.

Then he kicked the big dog again, and the dog shivered, and began to sing that little song, singing, "The street is long, and the fireworks are abundant." The voice was crisp like that of a teenager.

She felt strange, so she pulled her father's sleeve and begged to see the singing dog.

The people around all gathered around, but the two of them stood on the periphery, as if they were not from this world.

Dad didn't allow her to look at it, so he pulled her away at once, and only the constant bursts of praise behind her filled her ears.

It wasn't until later that she didn't know why.

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She was kidnapped. The person who pulled her emitted a strong sour smell, and from time to time someone was talking around her.

She was blindfolded and thrown into a dark place.

The place was as dark as a moonless night, and everywhere was filled with the screams of ghosts, like the shouts of the undead under the bridge.

Then, she was removed from the black cloth that covered her eyes.

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Su Qingmei touched her face and looked at the empty ceiling with a confused look.

Outside the room, the quarrel between the son and daughter-in-law could be faintly heard.

It's noisy and upsetting.

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This place is always beautiful with green mountains and rivers, and the surrounding trees seem to never change color, still a group of green, hanging deep and shallow on the mountain.

Su Changqing fed the chickens, and saw the little black cat that had been washed lying on the ground, surrounded by a big white dog, looking at her with interest.

"It's time to eat. ”

Su Changqing came out of the kitchen, smiled and picked up the kitten, followed by the tail wagging leaves.

The cat looks quite small, only 2 or 3 months old, and its voice is milky.

Su Changqing was afraid that she wouldn't be able to eat, so he specially bought a few bottles of milk and poured them into a bowl for her to eat.

The little black cat looked at the bowl of milk in a daze, meowed, sniffed again, and finally lowered its head, stretched out its pink tongue and licked the milk in the bowl seriously.

Leaves ate the food in the bowl and looked up at her from time to time.

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