Snow scene

winter day.

On a cold and windy night, I escaped from the house.I packed my luggage carelessly, and I was so anxious that I didn't even put on my coat, so I dragged my luggage and got on the last bus.

On the way to the train station, I could only send a message to Li Lulu, who is as close as my sister. She is 9 years older than me and takes good care of me.I told her the reason of the matter, and she immediately sent me a list of addresses outside the province, saying that I could live there.Without the slightest hesitation, I bought a ticket and boarded the train.I left the place where I lived since I was a child, without any souvenirs.I was amazed at my determination, maybe I wouldn't want to go back to this place again, after all, I left with the feeling of running away.

After getting off the train, the outside was covered with snow, and passers-by said that the snow fell too early this time.I sat on the bus for more than two hours, and by the time I found the address Li Lulu had provided me with heavy luggage in the face of heavy snow, it was already past eleven o'clock at noon.I am hungry, my stomach is protesting, and I have no extra money. My only hope is on the owner of the house in front of me.

How ridiculous, the future in the hands of a stranger is like a toy that can be thrown around.I hate who I am now.

This is a three-story single-family house with a simple and clean appearance.There is a small yard. From the outside, you can only see a bare ginkgo tree planted inside. The thin branches are covered with a thick layer of snow, as if they will break off at any time.Shaking off the snow on my shoulders, this is the first time I have seen so much snow, but whether it is heavy snow or light snow, I hate it very much.

According to Li Lulu, the owner of the house is Li Lulu's childhood friend, a 27-year-old preschool teacher who now runs a cram school for children at home because she is too lazy.It's the first time I've seen Li Lulu have a child, and I'm a little curious about the other party's character. In my opinion, if Li Lulu can be a child of Shen Jingbing, then there is a high probability that she is also a child of Shen Jingbing.

After knocking on the door for 2 minutes, the owner of the house came out.It was a woman with disheveled hair, wearing a red and earthy nightgown and strangely patterned cotton slippers, and I had a bad feeling.

"Who are you?" The woman's tone was not friendly.

"I'm Li Lulu's friend..." As I said this, I didn't want to call Li Lulu a friend at all. To me, she is not so much a friend as a distant cousin?I wanted to explain a little more, but I didn't know how to explain it. I thought about the appropriate words, and then said to the woman who was about to fall asleep standing up: "Li Lulu said that you can rent a house here, so I..."

"Huh? What did you say?" The woman looked puzzled. She scratched her hair, looked at me with wide eyes for a few seconds, and then brought me into the room.

Through a few conversations with her, I learned that she didn't know about this matter, I just heard from Li Lulu last night that she would visit her house at noon today.Sure enough, besides painting, Li Lulu had never done anything reliable.The owner of the room is He Mujing. As a young girl, she knows Li Lulu better. After hearing Li Lulu's name from me, she quickly decided that the person who made up the moth was her own.Normally, I would definitely agree with her idea, but unfortunately, I was the one who made the mess this time.

He Mujing poured me a cup of hot tea, and I covered the body of the cup with my hand, which was already too cold to feel, it was very warm.She brought out another plate of desserts to cushion my stomach. After I expressed my gratitude, I ate it regardless of the image, and took another sip of hot tea. I felt like I was alive.And He Mujing called Li Lulu when I was wolfing down my food. I don't know how much Li Lulu told her about me, but from the dirty words she uttered from time to time, it can be seen that Li Lulu is trying to die again.

After I finished drinking tea, He Mujing just happened to be hung up by Li Lulu. She threw her phone on the sofa angrily, glanced at the empty plate in front of me, her tone of voice was completely different from her rude gestures, "Do you want more?"

I nodded and shook my head, embarrassed.

She nestled on the sofa and kicked the living room table with a cotton mop, "There is a key to the guest room on the table. There is a door on the second floor with a golden doorknob. You can live in that room."

I didn't expect things to go so smoothly. I thought she would not agree to her impatient look. "Thank you." I thanked her from the bottom of my heart.I can't live here for nothing, I have to find a part-time job right away, my savings can't afford the rent.After thinking about it, I negotiated with her: "Can I pay the rent next month, I will find a part-time job to pay the rent immediately..."

"Are you looking for a part-time job?" She suddenly regained her spirits.

"Yes, what's wrong……"

"what is your major?"

"I... I didn't go to college..." When I said this, I bowed my head in shame. I didn't study hard in high school, and elementary school students would laugh when they saw the college entrance examination results, and I didn't want to repeat it.I have been working part-time for the past five months, in order to save money to enroll in comics training classes, I have quarreled with my family more than twice because of this matter, let alone being kicked out of the house because of that matter.

Mu Jing frowned slightly when she heard me say this, and she continued to ask: "How old are you?"

"18 is old."

"I'm an adult." She said this in a weird way, and I couldn't hear it. She snapped her fingers and said, "You can do the housework instead of the rent. It's snowing today, and the children don't come to class. It's just that I am short of someone. Hand, I will teach you how to manage children later."

It took me three seconds to digest the meaning of these words. Things went so smoothly that I couldn't believe it. I didn't expect that she would directly give me a part-time job.I couldn't repay her, thanked her from the bottom of my heart, and felt sorry for thinking she was a strange person before. I bowed to her again and said loudly: "Thank you! Sister He!" This is my respectful name for her.

Since that day, I have lived in this room.Every morning, I go to the vegetable market to buy vegetables and pack three meals a day. Sister He teaches the children to dance on Mondays, Wednesdays and Friday nights, and the piano on Tuesdays and Thursdays.I have to say that Sister He really looks like a kind big sister when she combs her hair. She usually looks rough, but she always has a gentle smile in front of the children.

In addition to housework, my other job is to help Sister He when she is teaching, and to clean up the classroom—actually, there are two empty rooms, both on the first floor, one with a mirror as a dance room, and the other with a A piano and an electric piano are used as a piano room.

I quickly adapted to life here, and before I knew it, a month passed.No one has ever called my mobile phone except Sister He and Li Lulu and fraudulent sales calls.As early as the second day after I settled down, I sent a message to my family to report that I was safe. After my father said something nasty, he never talked to me again. My mother would occasionally send a message, the content of which was some words to persuade me to "return to the good".There is nothing I can do.

I thought life would go on so uneventfully, but on Christmas Eve, something changed slightly, like the rice wine slowly fermenting in my hand.I cooked some rice wine, took a bowl back to my room and continued to practice drawing. Being a manga artist has always been my goal. I checked out manga training courses near here, but my meager salary is far from enough to pay for the tuition , I have to work harder.Sister He went out early today, and it wasn't snowing outside, so the weather was fine.

Just when I was full of fighting spirit and was about to lose my body all night, my cell phone rang, and the caller ID was a friend of mine from high school—A Lin.We haven't been in touch for a long time, I thought I had forgotten her, but her name was like a switch was turned on, and all kinds of high school life came out, and the memory was still so clear, as if nothing had changed.

I picked up the phone, and there was still a familiar voice on the other end.

"White Rain! Merry Christmas!"

"Merry Christmas!" I answered her in a raised voice and pretended to be excited. I didn't want to contact her because my situation was bad enough.

"how are you?"

"It's okay, I'm working part-time, how about you?" In order for her not to ask more about my situation, I immediately changed the subject.

"Actually... I'm repeating..." Ah Lin faltered, but I was surprised that she actually repeated it, because she was the most playful person in high school.

"Do you want to repeat it yourself?" I asked the key question. If she made up her mind, then everything is easy to say. If not, wouldn't it be very painful.

"Yes." She replied without hesitation, "After the college entrance examination, I knew that I didn't do well in the exam. The only options I had were college and work. My family said that I just need to find a man as soon as possible. This is too scary. Yes. I think of my junior high school classmate, the girl I told you before who dropped out of junior high school and became pregnant. After the college entrance examination, I went out to play and met her on the road. If she hadn’t greeted me, I wouldn’t have recognized her at all. Her whole body has changed, she has grown old and soiled, and she has become the same as those rural aunts. Seeing her, I seem to see my future self. In our village, you know, if you don’t study, you can only marry, even if If you go for a job, you may not be able to find a decent job that can support yourself. I am afraid, I regret it, I regret that I have been playing for three years in high school. I have thought about it for a long time, but I did not choose to go to a junior college because I look down on junior college , looking down on myself, I think I’d better try my best. Finally, I made up my mind, talked with my family for a long time, and chose to repeat.”

I listened to what she said quietly, she was surrounded by some gangster friends, these words must have been held in her heart for a long time.In my memory, she is a lively person who likes to play and mess around but is content with the status quo.Now she is obviously more mature than before, I feel relieved and envious.

"What about you? Are you going to repeat it?" she asked me.

"...No plan." I looked out of the window, not knowing when it was snowing.

"Did you quarrel with your family? When I went back to the village, all the neighbors knew about it. I don't know the reason why you quarreled with your parents. But think about it. You are only 18 years old now, and you are still young. You have many choices. Opportunity, why are you so determined to enroll in the comics class?"

"I like drawing." I answered her briefly, that's all I could answer her.

"It's never too late to paint. Going to college is different. Only this age group can enjoy it. The experience and knowledge in it can't be obtained through practice. And it's so difficult to get a job now. It's not easy to have a bachelor's degree. Guarantee yourself for the future. Didn’t you always murmur about wanting to be single for the rest of your life? Now that’s the case, why don’t you think about your own life?”

I bit my lip, not wanting to speak.I really want to tell her that you don't know anything, but can saying this change anything?Nothing can be changed.Her condescending tone as if she knew everything bored me, and I didn't want to listen to her ramblings, even though I knew she was worried about me.I responded perfunctorily to her words, and changed the topic several times in the middle, but she always brought the topic back abruptly.I have to tell her the experience of repeating her studies and the great principles of life she has learned, and put on a senior attitude and say what I should do.After listening to her long talk, I already knew why she suddenly called me after returning home after not contacting me for a long time. She just wanted to find her sense of superiority in a miserable person.

There was a broken sound, I thought, it was the connection between me and her.

She finally finished her performance, took a sip of water, and said to me in a bitter tone: "So, Bai Yu, you have to work hard."

"Well, you too, please repeat the study."

"Yeah, of course." Her relaxed tone returned to normal, and I was about to hang up her phone when she said again, "By the way, have you contacted Liu Feng?"

Hearing this name, my heart beat faster reflexively, and I became vigilant, and I tested her, "No contact, what's the matter, I suddenly mentioned her."

"When I went home this time, my mother said that she is very good now. She went to a double first-class university and her grades are also very good."

I clenched my fist, and something sprouted from my heart, and it grew wildly in an instant, occupying my whole body.It was very painful and uncomfortable. The memories that I wanted to bury were pulled out and exposed to the reality, leaving a torn wound that was bleeding.There was a noise at the door, it was Li Lulu's voice, I finally ended this call on the pretext of something urgent, if possible, I hope this is the last conversation between me and her.

Li Lulu muttered at the door, and I crouched and ran out to open the door.It turned out that Sister He was drunk, which is really strange.Judging from the more than a month that I have lived with her, she is a person who pays special attention to nutrition and health, not to mention drinking, she doesn't even drink drinks.As a gust of cold wind blew, Li Lulu and I shook our bodies, patted the snow off Sister He's body, and carried her into the house.

It was snowing heavily.

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