The world is taken over by crazy and sick people

In the blink of an eye, by the time he reached junior high school, Chen Shizi had become a far superior student, ranking first, far ahead of others, and had won certificates, exercise books, and a red bicycle.

Grandpa and grandma are proud.

Relying on her absolute strength in studying, Chen Shizi has reduced the bullying and discrimination a little, but it still continues vaguely.

She didn't tell anyone. She just turned her back to everyone, wiped the blood and tears, and licked her wounds alone.

A few kind female teachers would give her old clothes and say a few words of concern.

Chen Shizi was grateful in her heart.

Suddenly, one day, the phone call came.

It’s the dad I haven’t heard from for ten years.

***

He wanted to divorce the woman he had called mom before, but he was too lazy to go home, so he asked his grandparents to go to the court to help him.

Chen Shizi had never come into contact with this before and was shocked.

Isn't the court a place where bad people go?

Their family of three, old and young, is poor but innocent, so how could they get involved in this thing?

However, this was just the beginning of the panic. Half a year later, my father got married again, and the woman ran an antique shop.

Grandma wanted to see her son, so she asked the boss to help her video chat at the internet cafe. The father and the woman kept laughing, and the mother kept saying "mother" and the daughter "daughter"...

The woman was pregnant, and the father opened up in a video on the computer, saying, "The only child I love most in my life is Jiaojiao. No matter whether this child is a boy or a girl, Jiaojiao is my only irreplaceable daughter."

Favorite? ?

Chen Shizi was confused again.

What is parental love?

***

A few months later, the woman called.

But he was asking for money from his grandparents.

When my father was jailed for gambling, my grandmother said pitifully, "Where can we get the money..."

Half a year later, Dad and his new family of three came back.

When Chen Shizi saw it as soon as she entered the room, she was stunned, feeling unfamiliar and unable to move.

"Jiaojiao~Don't read so closely."

"Oh."

……

"Don't worry, you are my favorite child. I will make money to pay for your medical treatment in the future!"

Chen Shizi stared blankly without saying anything.

Naturally, there was no further development of the matter.

***

It's hot in the summer and my grandfather has high blood pressure, so he has to make money. He said he would sell everything he had to send her to college. Every day he goes to the market to set up a stall and repair cars under the scorching sun. The owner of a nearby clinic will give my grandfather free Huoxiang Zhengqi water and persuade him not to come.

But grandpa insisted.

In August, my grandfather had a stroke and was paralyzed in bed.

Chen Shizi sat by the bed and cried silently.

I don't know what to ask.

I just said, "Grandpa, don't worry, I will study hard and bring honor to you in the future."

***

The following year, on the eve of the high school entrance examination, I was as busy as a summer cicada.

One night during self-study, her cousin who she hadn’t seen for several years came to pick her up and said, “Grandpa is dying.”

Chen Shizi burst into tears.

When I returned home, my grandfather was as thin as skin and bones. I didn't get to see him for the last time.

Dad came back alone, crying so hard that it moved the world.

He even hugged Chen Shizi to comfort her, saying, "You'll have a dad from now on."

Chen Shizi broke free from his embrace and suddenly vomited.

Many people came to the funeral from all over the place, saying that Grandpa was a highly respected and virtuous man, and they all had received support from him.

Chen Shizi didn't understand.

According to the old burial tradition, the eldest son is buried first, followed by the eldest grandson holding the portrait, and the rest of the filial sons and daughters follow in order.

My cousin didn’t come back because he said he was busy with work. He is the only boy in the Chen family.

The eldest uncle said, "Your grandfather loves you the most, even his own children don't love you as much as he does. You are just like holding a photo."

The old man's portrait looked naive. It was placed in his hand, heavy as a mountain, and it made Chen Shizi burst into tears.

***

In the high school entrance examination, although Chen Shizi was affected by grief, he still got into the best high school in the county and ranked among the top.

She studied hard, obsessed with it, wanting to earn money and give her grandmother a good home.

During the three years of high school, that father came back from time to time.

He's divorced again!

Grandma was sad, like a sculpture by the sea that had been weathered by wind and rain and had accepted its fate.

During the summer vacation, my father always talked about the past and boasted about his experiences, saying how he had joined a pyramid scheme and how he had cleverly escaped, how he had experienced ups and downs in horse racing in Hong Kong, and that his last wife took drugs and he had tasted them and found them choking... In addition, he knew a young man from the neighboring village who was caught selling drugs...

Chen Shizi's face turned pale and he was stunned.

Dad looked proud, as if he had seen the world.

Grandma patiently advised her son to mend his ways and be down-to-earth beside the bed, and the father responded with a smile on his face.

Chen Shizi's almond-shaped eyes were dull and he felt panicky.

Omg!

Why did this scumbag have to ruin the innocent lives of their family of three!

Why not die!

***

In the past, when my grandfather was happy, he would occasionally call Chen Shizi "Little Tsinghua", hoping that she could go to this top institution of learning.

But during the three years of high school, Chen Shizi's mind began to become confused.

Grandma thinks about her son, and dad thinks about his eventful life, so they call from time to time.

She also said that he had a girlfriend whose daughter was about the same age as her, but she was fooling around with other men and now had a child...

Chen Shizi just wanted to cut off his ears.

She didn't want to hear any of the trouble this man brought into her life.

Until the college entrance examination, the man was still bothering her.

She misses her grandfather very much.

But she failed to get into Tsinghua University and was only admitted to China University of Political Science and Law.

***

Failures in life come without warning.

She was still thinking about her grandfather's expectations and wanted to achieve something greater.

After entering university, the current state of society dealt her a heavy blow.

She is a small town test-taker, while others around her are all wealthy, with insurmountable resources and class. Chen Shizi works hard but sees no hope for the future.

I work hard to earn money so that I can give my grandma some living expenses.

However, in the second semester of my freshman year, bad news came again.

Grandma also passed away due to illness.

The last pillar of life was broken out of thin air.

When Dad wanted to comfort and hug her at the funeral again, Chen Shizi spoke harshly to him.

"roll."

***

On the night of her grandfather's death in the third grade of junior high school, the night was cold and she saw a large golden bird flying in the sky. It was very obvious, like the legendary phoenix, and it kept following her.

It wasn't supernatural, it was real. She didn't dare to say anything. She just asked her cousin tremblingly when she entered the house, "Did you see it? The phoenix following us in the sky--"

"I saw it."

But when the aunts were called out, the golden phoenix in the sky disappeared in an instant.

On the night of her grandmother's funeral, she sat under the porch beside the walnut tree waiting, but she never saw the golden phoenix that guided her again.

That's her grandfather.

She recognized it.

***

Life is full of hardships, and university is another turning point. Future, work, money...

Chen Shizi was only 17 years old, confused, lonely, poor, and harassed by that father...

She was like a small tree struck by a thunderstorm, with only an empty trunk left, numb, hollow and in danger. She once again experienced the frustrations of a new round of social reality collisions. She had no intention of responding and just wanted the wind and rain to beat her to death. Then, she met Wang Xufeng.

This is another person who guides her destiny, her roommate, like another grandfather in her life, illuminating her darkness.

On a bloody and tragic snowy night, Wang Xufeng walked through the layers of darkness, squatted down, and helped her up when she was about to be crushed to death. He held her hand that was shattered by the ice and snow, and said, "Hold me from now on."

Four years later, he said:

"You are still so young, don't sigh all the time, go out for a walk more often."

"Be confident, you are good."

"My mother made egg tarts and rice dumplings, and I brought them to you."

"Just tell me if you have anything to say. I'm always here."

"Believe in yourself. Look how smart you are and how hard you work."

"You are my daughter~"

……

"Jiaojiao, can we still be roommates from now on?"

"Jiaojiao, let me hug you."

***

Tears often flowed in Chen Shizi's heart, winding like a rugged stream, intermittent but never drying up.

She often thinks of her grandfather, Wang Xufeng, and occasionally the man who hugged her in her dreams when she was a child.

She didn't know what to do.

To stand out?

Chen Shizi didn't want to be a servile person. She felt that people should be like her grandfather, upright and unyielding, regardless of wind and snow.

She lived here from childhood to adolescence, and after many setbacks in life, she was filled with resentment and sometimes had violent outbursts, but she never dared to cross the line, fearing that she would bring discredit to her grandfather. Perhaps, if Wang Xufeng had not appeared, she would have been tortured by that scumbag and some of the bad things that happened afterwards, and she would have turned evil long ago.

Grandpa was the golden phoenix from the sky, who taught her in the first half of her life with his own actions and guided her with his life and wisdom.

Wang Xufeng was like a white crane on the top of a mountain, looking at her from afar, paying indifferent attention, accompanying her, and then always helping her when she was in desperate situations, encouraging and comforting her.

They are all people she respects and admires, and she only wants to look at them and follow them.

However, Wang Xufeng held her hand and wrapped her in his clothes.

Only once, she was stunned.

She saw some kind of emotion in Wang Xufeng's eyes as he looked down at her with a smile.

I was so confused and didn't know what it was.

It took her two years to accept this obscure and distant attention from the same sex, and she responded with a proper gaze, gratitude, and admiration, like a teacher and a friend.

Sometimes I recall the person in my dream.

Maybe it was Wang Xufeng who would wrap her up with clothes.

It was destined.