those people and those things

Chapter 35 Chapter 31

It is said that after Aiolia sent Yihui home, when she thought of reuniting with Mu, her deadly enemy in elementary school, she felt aggrieved: in elementary school, there were many people in the class and the classroom was small, and the seats were arranged according to height. He and Mu were taller, Sitting in the last row, stepping on each other's shoes all day long in order to grab the [-]th line*.Mu could always go to school the next day wearing white shoes that had been cleaned, but he was beaten by his father as soon as he got home because the shoes were dirty; Earn more "living space" for himself; what bothers him the most is Mu's stinginess, he doesn't pay for food and beverages, and he doesn't pay for ice cream when everyone buys ice cream in summer. I don’t even take part in it, even though others ask for money, but I’m confident: I’ve given you a lecture, cleaned it up for you, and asked you to copy your homework, and you’ll have to charge money.

Aiolus was rubbing his temples while listening to his younger brother nagging about things in elementary school: "You just remember the bad things about him."

"He doesn't have a big heart, he's not open-minded at all, he will definitely not be able to accomplish great things!" Aiolia bared his teeth and claws on the bus, and his brother held him down: "Only you have a big heart, only you are open-minded, you are still here Preoccupied with things that happened ten years ago. I've become a teacher, and I'm still like a child."

"Yes, I've become a teacher now, and I should educate him from the perspective of a teacher, so that he can know what an irritable and rotten child I was back then!" Aiolia said while clenching her fists.

So on the second day of the Lunar New Year, Aiolia went to an Internet cafe.Shaka was still sitting behind the counter with his eyes closed, when he saw Aiolia rushing in through the door, he stood up and greeted him: "Teacher Xiao Ai."

"Where's Lao Mu?" Aiolia slapped the counter: "I want to educate him!"

"He didn't go to work until the fifth day of the new year," Shaka said.

"Where does he live? I'll go to his house to educate him!" Aiolia slapped the counter again.

Shaka said take it easy, our counter made of prefabricated panels cannot withstand your giant palm.You said you want to educate Mu, why?

Aiolia then babbled about the shitty things about herself and Mu when they were young. Shaka nodded while listening, and then wrote an address to him: "Mr. Ai, people can't be too one-sided. This is Mu The address of my home, you go and have a look, and you will probably be able to understand a lot of things."

Aiolia was confused by Shaka and didn't bother to ask, grabbed the note and ran out.When I touched the ground, it turned out to be the one-story house near the No. [-] Middle School during the Japanese Puppet Period. The nearby residents nicknamed the old red brick buildings "Batanglou".Standing under the electric pole at the corner of the street, Xiao Ai saw Mu squatting at the base of the wall knocking coals. There was a big word "demolition" in the background. After a while, a six-faced man with similar eyebrows and eyes similar to Mu ran out of a certain room inside. The seven-year-old child, holding a hot towel in his hand, wiped the soot off Mu's face. The two of them were like the poor brothers who depended on each other in the movie. Aiolia's heart twitched suddenly. After a moment of nervousness, he quickly turned around and ran back to the Internet cafe.

Shaka seemed to have known that he was coming back a long time ago. Two cups of tea had been made by now, and Aiolia handed them over as soon as he entered the door: "Everything happens for a reason."

"He never said..." Aiolia held the teacup in a dignified manner, "I remember that all the people living in the place of 'Batanglou' are small merchants from other places, and sometimes there are gangsters occupying it. Empty room, now everyone lives in the building, and coal is still burning there, so there must be no heating in the house, it seems that the bathrooms are all public..."

"He doesn't want to show weakness." Sha Jia sipped his tea and said slowly, "Mu's mother has been missing since he was a child, and his father is haunted all the time. He only appears five days a year. He had to be half self-reliant, and when he was in junior high school, his father gave him the brother Gui Gui, and from then on he had to work to take care of the children."

The teacup was hot, but Aiolia clutched it unconsciously: "He always wore clean clothes when he was in elementary school, I thought... so the shoes are cleaned by himself... If you tell us about the situation at home , we can help him."

Sha Jia put the teacup on the counter: "Help him? To show that you have parents, mothers, families, happiness, love and ability to care for your classmates, right? Put away the so-called sympathy, don't you just want to borrow others' How about showing your superiority in such a miserable situation?"

These words hit the nail on the head, and Aiolia's back was sweating coldly: "You...you think too much about elementary school students..."

"People are like this. They need someone who has had a much worse life than themselves, so that they can be content with the status quo. Whether they are primary school students or adults, this subconscious will not change for a lifetime." Sha Jia touched the rim of his teacup and said, "Equality is talked about everywhere, where there is no equality, everyone is comparing, and they are all secretly happy because others are living worse than themselves. Equality is not about you condescending to give Mu Mu, but 'bullying' Mu without prejudice. This is the truth Mu knew it when he was a child, so he didn’t say anything, so he fought against you, so he insisted on exchanging lectures for money, instead of begging for something by saying how miserable his family is.”

"I..." Aiolia didn't know what to say, "Mu... really has backbone."

"He's so stupid." Shaka laughed suddenly, "It's good to cry with you about the mess at home, people want to live a good life, but they have to lose face, isn't this taking a shortcut and not taking it to cause trouble for yourself?"

At night, Aiolia lay on the bed, tossing and turning, unable to sleep. The more I thought about Mu, the more I felt that I was sorry for him when I was a child, and I wanted to make up for it. Thinking of the sense of superiority that Shaka said, I felt that it was disrespect for others; so be it, But in my heart I feel terribly uncomfortable.After tossing around like this all night, watching the luminous watch reach 05:30, Xiao Ai turned over, put on her clothes, and decided to go for a run.

In the morning of the third day of junior high school, it was still dark, the street lights were shining on the ground, and the air quality was still very poor. Walking around kicking the empty cannon barrel on the ground, he suddenly heard a voice from behind: "Can you stop making trouble?"

Aiolia looked back and saw that Mu was wrapped like a rice dumpling and was sweeping the street with a big broom. This shocking appearance suppressed the counterattack that Aiolia was about to blurt out, and he took two steps back , looking at Mu Gan work: "Don't you work in an Internet cafe?"

"Our street cleaner went home for the Chinese New Year and asked me to take over. Anyway, I don't want to leave relatives. Of course I have to earn extra money." Wearing a mask, Mu said vaguely. He thought Aiolia could say a few words to make money. I didn't hear anything for a long time, but when I looked back, the physical education teacher was standing on the curb*, with red eye circles and nose.

"Fuck, what show are you acting in?" Aiolia made Murray uncomfortable, "You're choking on the smoke?"

"I...I'm sorry for you." Aiolia rubbed her eyes fiercely, "It's not easy for you, but I always step on your little white shoes..."

"Wait, wait." Mu trembled twice, "What kind of white shoes, did you come from a TV series about suffering."

"In short, I understand your situation, Mu, I know that I treated you badly when I was a child, and it seems that our status is unequal if I say this now, but I really want to be friends with you." Aiolia took a step forward, with both hands Wrapping Mu's hand holding the broom: "Let me help you without feeling superior, I think I can do it!" Then he ran away.

"Where is this going..." Mu looked at Aiolia's back, and shook for a long time before uttering a sentence.

*Thirty-eighth line: When two people share a double long table, they often quarrel because the elbows occupy too much space. The final solution is to draw a line in the middle to show that the table space is equally divided. Play at the same table.Originating from the truce line at 38 degrees north latitude on the Korean peninsula, it was later used by elementary school students at that time to describe the line of the desktop.

*Breakfast: Elementary schools will provide a snack between breakfast and lunch, or between lunch and school, such as bread, cakes, bags of milk, etc., which is the abbreviation of "breakfast food".

* Diaphragm response: Northern dialect, refers to making people feel unhappy and uncomfortable.

* Curb: The long strip of stone bricks used as a separation between the driving road and the walking road.

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