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"Squeak~", following the sound from the door, everyone in the class immediately looked at the door in unison.Seeing a fluffy head poking in, the students immediately booed.

Someone whispered at the bottom: "It's him again! So why come to school if you are late!" Another person immediately echoed: "Yes! The grades are not so good, and the class is always lagging behind!" Some people even shouted: "Latecomers are not allowed to come in! Go out and stand!" The boy just whispered to the teacher: "Report." He went back to his corner.

The teacher coughed, motioned for everyone to be quiet and continued the lecture.

As soon as the bell rang for the end of get out of class, the boys raced to play basketball, while the girls went to the bathroom in groups.

When passing by the boy, the girl with the butterfly hairpin said loudly in a casual tone: "A mouse poop ruined a pot of soup, how annoying~" The girl with the pink hairpin immediately echoed: "That's right~ If I were someone I hid at home a long time ago and never came out again, so how can I have the face to come out and humiliate people?" After speaking, he glanced at the boy, only to find that the boy just lowered his head and didn't move, feeling frustrated.So he deliberately knocked down his desk, and the books and stationery on the desk fell to the ground in a mess.They walked away with triumphant expressions and laughed loudly: "Oh! What a pity, what kind of shit table hit us so painful!"

The boy was originally just a little transparent in the class. He usually doesn't like to talk or interact with his classmates. The most common thing he does is to stare at something in a daze. Occasionally, he listens to the teacher when he is awake.Middle school students always like to be lively, and they rarely talk to him because they think he is withdrawn.

But one day, the boy was no longer transparent, because he was on the news TV station!The reason is not very bright, although he just happened to get into bad luck, but they don't care so much, they only want to have gossip for entertainment, so they spread it to ten, ten to a hundred, and the more it spreads, the more outrageous it is.In the past, I just ignored him, but now I just blindly squeeze him out, thinking that I am "doing justice for the heavens" and doing "bad things" for those rumors.For these, the boy has always ignored, anyway, still alone.

But now the boy is lying on the table silently looking at the lines in his hands, twists and turns, remembering what A Niang said: "The lines in the hands indicate a person's life, and they are all arranged in the dark." The boy thought This is quite embarrassing.

Ah Dad went out to work early and there is no news. He and A Niang have lived together since childhood, but last year A Niang suddenly fell ill and spent all the savings in the family.The situation at home is getting worse day by day.Every night, I have to help A Niang get up at night. I have to get up at dawn, help myself and A Niang prepare food for the whole day, and then walk two hours to the town for class.

Since I was a child, I helped my mother share the housework and did what I could to reduce her burden, so I only had a little time left to study, and my academic performance has been in a state of barely repeating grades.Naturally, I don't have any playmates, the only one who can be called a friend is the little mouse "Zhizhi", but a mottled wild cat came out of nowhere two days ago, and this morning I found the little mouse's body lying by the side door , the boy dug a hole to bury it and was late again.

When A Niang was ill, she was always late because she was busy taking care of A Niang.

The teacher asked him to talk, but the boy was silent, he didn't want others to look at him with sympathy, he had had enough.After finally passing the exam to study in the town, no one knew about his family affairs, so he was even more reluctant to talk about it.The teacher waited impatiently, and said: "If you are late again, ask your parents to take it back! And go back tonight and copy the text of Lesson [-] five times!" and let him go.

From then on, the boy got up earlier and was never late again.But it was also because of the lack of sleep that he always felt drowsy, but he didn't dare to lie down to sleep openly, so he just kept his eyes open. Over time, he developed the ability to sleep with his eyes open.People who didn't know thought he was in a daze, and sometimes he wouldn't respond to calling him, so they called him "idiot" in private.

Originally, life was just like this, but recently the family really couldn’t get rid of the pot. The rice planted has been eaten up, and the vegetables in the vegetable garden are also poor due to poor management. I have no income, so I have to go to the vegetable market to pick up vegetable leaves and pair them with two sweet potatoes. It's been a day.

Just last month, when he passed by a vegetable vendor who was carrying vegetables, he bumped into it somehow, and the vegetable basket was overturned.The vegetable vendor was very angry, yelled at him, grabbed his clothes and demanded that he lose money.He stared at the ground in bewilderment, without saying a word.The noise attracted the surrounding spectators, and someone in the crowd shouted: "Look at the green leaves in his cloth bag! I have seen this kind of wild child a lot. He likes to bump into others and then pick up the leaks. Don't let him go!" The vegetable vendor became even angrier and wanted to do something.

The boy suddenly yelled, immediately picked up the cloth bag and rushed forward through the crowd recklessly, disappearing in an instant around the corner.The vegetable vendor and the crowd were taken aback by the unexpected yelling, and he ran away without defense, and suddenly became angry from embarrassment, threatening to beat such a little bastard every time they saw each other!

Although the boy was running away desperately, he still heard people's harsh words during the panic. After that, he never dared to go to that vegetable market again.When they couldn't find any food, they went up the mountain to dig wild vegetables, plan bark and pick wild fruits to satisfy their hunger.But somehow, the incident at the vegetable market was photographed and sent to the TV station, and it was reported on the news, which made him feel uneasy at school.

After finally staying up until noon, my stomach growled with hunger.The food beside him was so fragrant that he couldn't find the north!But he could only swallow his saliva, he was really hungry, so he ran under the faucet to drink water desperately.I also remembered that food has become more and more difficult to find recently. When I left in the morning, I only left a sweet potato and a glass of water for my mother, and I felt even more uncomfortable.I thought about going to the vegetable market secretly again in the afternoon, but I was afraid, so I was filled with shame and self-blame, and my stomach was full of hunger to pass the day.

When I got home, I found that my mother was not on the bed!I quickly searched around, and when I turned around, I saw my mother coming in from the courtyard with a radiant face.

His mother smiled and said to him: "For some reason, I feel much better today." She touched his head and said with pity: "I have dragged you down, I have worked hard for you, and I have suffered so much with me." "The boy still kept silent, just quietly enjoying A Niang's tenderness.

After a while, A Niang took out a stack of broken money from her pocket and stuffed it into the boy, telling him to keep it for himself and not move it unless it is absolutely necessary.Then he greeted the boy to eat, and let the boy wash up early after eating

Take a shower and go to bed.The boy slept soundly that night, and his mother seemed to be stroking his face with his mother's hands in a daze, whispering: "Take good care of yourself." The boy slept soundly.

When I woke up early in the morning, I rarely overslept, so I hurried to my mother's bed.

But as soon as I entered the door, there was a "click" in my heart.The boy walked over tremblingly, gently felt his mother's breath with his hands, and suddenly opened his eyes wide and fell to the ground.My mind was a mess and blank, as if I was thinking about something and sitting there as if I didn't think about anything until dusk...

His stomach growled louder and louder. He despised himself psychologically. It was ridiculous. Even though his heart was numb, his body could still feel hunger, longing to live.

The boy finally got up from the ground, helped Auntie tuck in the bed, and went out to find the uncle in Lincun.The moonlight seemed particularly dim tonight, and by the time the boy stumbled all the way to his uncle's house, they had already fallen asleep.He stumbled and explained the purpose of coming, and asked his uncle to buy a coffin for him, and he would repay him even if he worked as an ox or a horse in the future.But the aunt said sourly from the side: "Our boy has reached the age of going to school, and he is worrying about collecting money!" The uncle didn't speak, just touched his head silently, and said that he would send him a coffin the day after tomorrow .After listening to the boy, he knelt down and kowtowed to thank him, and got up and was about to leave. The uncle saw that it was getting late, so he stopped him and wanted to keep him for the next night, but the boy just said: "I'm afraid that my mother will be alone", so he had to let him go up.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, he finally returned to the door of the house. The boy took a deep breath and shouted into the house: "Mother, I'm back!", but the only answer he received was the sound of insects from all around.

He bowed his head and stepped into the house, walked through the hall, and walked into A Niang's room.Turning on the kerosene lamp, A Niang's face was very peaceful, as if she had fallen asleep.The boy who had lasted all day fell asleep next to A Niang.

Early the next morning, the boy woke up, took a small shovel, and climbed to the mountainside of the ancestral grave.I knelt down three times in front of my grandparents' graves, and then started digging beside them.It was the midsummer season, and the boy was sweating profusely, dripping drop by drop into the soil, but he ignored it completely, and eventually fell beside the grave due to dehydration.In a trance, he thought, why not just go with A Niang like this, anyway, he has no home and nothing to worry about, so why bother to stay in the world and suffer?Uncle's call came from afar...

Fluttering his eyelashes, the boy suddenly woke up.But he was told that A Niang was going to be buried today, and if he had to go quickly, he might be able to see her for the last time.He didn't have time to put on his shoes and ran away, and when he arrived coughing and panting, everything was ready.

Seeing A Niang's coffin lying quietly in the hole I dug, the soil has been half filled.He snatched the shovel, turned around and said to everyone that the rest should be done by himself, and no one was allowed to take a step closer.Seeing him like that, everyone didn't want to make fun of themselves, so they gave a few words of symbolic comfort and then left.The uncle patted him on the shoulder, left without saying anything.

The boy remained silent, shoveling the soil with shovel after shovel, buried his dear A Niang, and broke his heart.He thought that after he finished the first seven days for A Niang, he would let her go.Unexpectedly, a major change occurred in his fate during this period.

On the last day of the first seven days, he was kneeling in front of the tomb when a voice suddenly came from behind him. He turned around and saw his uncle and a strange man walking towards him.The man walked up to him, didn't say anything, just handed him a letter with red eyes, signed by his mother.

It turned out that the boy's parents had an arranged marriage back then, and his father had studied in a private school and valued freedom of love, so he always disagreed.But he was too young at that time, and he succumbed to the pressure of his family.But less than a month after the child was born, he couldn't wait to go out and work hard.

Two years later, he returned with a pregnant woman and filed for divorce from his mother.Grandparents therefore do not recognize his son.The mother has seen the matter so far, and in order to preserve the last bit of dignity for herself, she agreed to the divorce.I just want him to swear that during her lifetime, she is not allowed to set foot in this village again, nor can she meet each other again.

He was ashamed of her and really never came back.Even at the funeral of his grandparents, he dragged his wife to kneel at the entrance of the village all night and did not come in.

But a few days before A Niang passed away, she asked her neighbors to ask her uncle, contacted him after several contacts, and told him that he was running out of time, and he couldn't bear that the boy had no support, what should he do so that he could take care of himself.So he came, to take the boy away.When the boy saw him, his body trembled with hatred as soon as he saw his eyebrows and eyes. He thought of A Niang's suppressed crying in countless nights. He wanted to take revenge and seek justice for A Niang.So I agreed.

The boy followed his father to the new home. They were greeted by a gentle-looking woman and a surprised little boy about eleven or twelve years old at the door.

As soon as he appeared, the woman looked at him with sobs. Back then, she and her husband were too young and too impulsive to stab the boy's mother. The gossip and rumors at that time were all borne by a weak woman. , have always felt guilty about it.

The boy couldn't bear her expression, and when he looked down, he saw the little boy shouting shyly: "Brother." The boy ignored him and turned to look at his father.His father said: "Li Yao, this is Aunt Wanxin, and this is your younger brother Mingxuan, we must get along well in the future. If you need anything, just tell us." After speaking, he called the little boy to lead him to the room .

Mingxuan was very happy. Recently, there was a bully Wang Meng in the class, and he was arrogant because his brother was a senior.Whenever someone dared to "resist" him, he would call his brother if he couldn't control it.His brother was on the school basketball team, and when he stood there, he was so frightened that no one dared to speak.This is great, I finally have a brother!Although a little darker and thinner, I am still very happy!

He wanted to talk to his brother, but his brother kept his face stern and silent, and he was a little timid.Hesitantly not knowing what to say, he just kept staring at his brother.Hey~ my brother is so pretty!It looks seven points like my father, but not as tough as my father's outline, which is much softer in comparison.Sword eyebrows flew up, high nose bridge, thin lips, and pitch-black eyes, as if they were going to suck people in. Looking at it, I couldn't help being dazed...

And Li Yao who was at the side was already very impatient, he hadn't figured out how to take revenge on this family.My mind was in a mess, but that "brother" who didn't know where to come from stood beside me motionless.I can't even think of being alone.He suddenly turned his head and glared at him, feeling amused when he saw the little boy shrink back as if startled.He also remembered that it was he and his mother who took away his father, but brought endless regrets to Ah Niang's life.The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, he pulled him fiercely to the door, threw him out, and locked the door behind him.

In the quiet space, looking at the strange furniture and smelling the strange smell, I felt nausea in my stomach.Lie on the floor, staring blankly at the ceiling.

And Mingxuan outside the door didn't know what was going on, his brother was suddenly aggressive towards him, but he didn't feel scared, instead he wanted to get closer to him.So he also sat on the floor by the door.