I still don't want to go to school today

"Elementary school graduation album?" There was not much food left, his mother put down the chopsticks, fished out a cold egg from the basin, and knocked it on the corner of the table. "I don't know where it is, you didn't put it away yourself? Why are you looking for this all of a sudden?"

"It just occurred to me suddenly."

The slightly runny egg yolk was put into his bowl. "Eat some of this to supplement calcium."

Fu Luojia endured the discomfort and swallowed the sticky thing.His mother fetched a paper towel and wiped his hands clean, then took his mobile phone on the table, and turned on the screen. "Why is there a password, how much is it?"

Fu Luojia didn't struggle: "5656."

"What are you doing with the password?" His mother swiped twice on the main interface with her fingers unskilled, and finally clicked into the text message.Seeing that there were only a few notification text messages, she quit again, and clicked in an icon that looked a bit like a text message.

Fu Luojia wrapped the uneatable egg yolk in a paper and threw it into the trash can, and saw her open each message in the message column one by one, and then flip through each chat record to the bottom.

It didn't take long, and after being cleared by him, there were only three messages in total.Every question and answer is clean and neat, without any extra details.

She didn't look at the extra contacts.

He waits for his mother to give an evaluation.However, after she put down her phone, she just said, "What do you want to eat this afternoon?"

Nothing to eat. "Last time it was fish, this time it's stewed beef." So far, the beef stewed by his mother has never been cooked enough to bite the teeth.

"Well, I will buy it when I come back in the afternoon."

Fu Luojia was silent.It's dangerous to push the topic forward now - don't give the fuck too much time to think about it, because if the fuck goes too far, it will eventually come to the conclusion that "are you impatient to spend time with me?" ""I don't want to live with me, go find your dad and see if he doesn't want you, that aunt wants you."

"Go take a nap." His mother collected the eggshells on the table and threw them into the trash can.The trash can was turned upside down, and the egg yolk that he threw in before was exposed from the middle of the napkin, and the unsolidified core still dripped a little.

"Did you throw it away?" She put the trash can on the ground heavily, "You just say you don't eat it, what do you mean by throwing it away?"

Fu Luojia lowered his eyes, "...it fell on the table and got dirty."

"Stop lying, I don't know you yet? I boiled eggs specially for you to eat, and then I peeled them for you hard, so you just throw them away like this?" She took off her apron and threw it aside, and sat down on the sofa.

Fu Luojia: "Hey, as I said, it really fell on the table..."

"It's dirty if you drop it on the table, right? Do you think the table is dirty? Do you think this house is dirty?"

Fu Luojia stared blankly at the confiscated empty dishes on the table, and a drop of muddy yellow oil fell from the gap on the edge of a bowl.

"I'm too lazy to talk, anyway, you've been impatient with me for a long time, you won't listen to what I say—" She turned around and went straight into the master bedroom, slamming the door hard.After a while, another muffled voice came out: "Go and take a nap!"

Fu Luojia sat for a while, then got up to wash the dishes.The weather was already a little hot, and he was sweating in bed.When the sweat was almost dry, the alarm rang, and he realized that he was not asleep.

He continued to lie down and wait for his mother to knock on the door. He couldn't help but took out his phone and looked through it, and then clicked on the time and address—it was exactly the same as what he just said while lying on the bed.

His mother just opened the door and walked in. "Get up - why are you lying down and playing with your phone? No more eyes? Get up!"

Fu Luojia sat up, rubbed his hair, and took advantage of the lingering drowsiness to ask boldly: "Mom, can I not go to grandpa's house with you?"

"Don't go? Why don't you go?" His mother opened the curtains, and the mid-afternoon sun poured in. "Why can't you go?"

"I have a classmate's birthday this afternoon and I want to celebrate it."

"Why did my classmate ask you for his birthday? Does he have no family?"

"Just invite some students to play together..." Fu Luojia asked himself to put down a strong tone, but failed. "It's in our school. Everyone invites classmates for their birthdays."

"What kind of classmate are you inviting? Really, what does birthday have to do with classmates? Don't you thank the mother who gave birth to you, do some housework for your mother, beat your back, and go mess with your classmates outside, is it reasonable?"

This sentence is a bit like telling him.Fu Luojia immediately shut up.

His mother turned around, "If you really want to go, I won't stop you."

When Fu Luojia was washing his face in front of the sink, he accidentally saw a blister on the corner of his mouth, and he just thought it was funny: he seemed to be angry because of this.The result is still...

Grandpa's house is at the east end of the county, which is even more secluded than here.There are only two buses in the county, which have been replaced by pure electric vehicles in recent years, which make almost no noise when running.Fu Luojia got into the car and chose a seat near the front door.

The front windshield was wiped clean, the air conditioner was turned on cold, and the sunlight that came in was completely filtered out of the heat.

There was no one in the car.His mother sat in the back row and called him: "Fu Luojia, sit here!"

"I'll just sit here." Without looking back, he looked down at the time.Getting out of the car at this time can actually catch up - he began to think wildly.

But the question is, is Xu Zhilian considered his friend?Forget it, because Xu Zhilian obviously sees himself that way, even though they have known each other—or reacquainted—for about a week; does Xu Zhilian take his birthday seriously?I can't see it, but Xu Zhilian should want him to go; and most importantly - did Xu Zhijian send him such a friend?Was he sent from someone who was "always quiet" to wish him a happy birthday?

Thinking of this, Fu Luojia seemed to relax a little.

When he got out of the car and was walking, his mother caught up with him from behind: "Are you trying to make fun of me just now? Why didn't you refuse after I asked you to sit?"

"No way." He even put on a smile, but it didn't work. His mother continued to question: "Are you unhappy because I don't let you go? Which classmate is it? Why haven't I heard you say it before?" ?”

"I didn't show my face—" Fu Luojia's smile was about to collapse. "Just a classmate, and you don't know him."

The rhythm of the fucking little high heels is already angry, "You never tell me! I don't know your classmate and I am wrong?! Is it a boy or a girl, have you fallen in love? !"

"..."

There are few people passing by on this road, and the trees on the side of the road grow very wantonly, and the lower branches can poke people's shoulders.Fu Luojia reached out and pulled a leaf off, and rubbed it into strips.

"Speak up! Are you a girl? Do you dare to fall in love at a time like this?"

"...a man." He lowered his head and smelled it. The smell of this leaf was a very bitter fragrance. "I'm not in love."

His mother paused for a while, "You are very caring about him. He only invited you?"

"no."

"Then what's the matter if you don't go? Maybe they can't remember who they invited, and you are still here to be affectionate—"

Fu Luojia took a breath. "...I'm not upset about it. I don't think about it at all. Just stop talking about it, okay?"

The Family Court of the Land Taxation Bureau where my grandfather’s house is relatively old, there is no elevator, and there are not many people with air-conditioning. The creepers on the brick wall outside the concrete are a natural heat insulation barrier, so my grandfather’s house is so damp that I can sit on the wooden floor. Moss grows on it.

My grandfather had a cerebral hemorrhage last year, and he survived in the end. He can barely take care of himself, but his thinking is not as clear as before, and he spends most of the time in bed.After Fu Luojia knocked on the door, it was his aunt who answered the door.She moved here to take care of the elderly, and her mother and several other uncles paid for her living expenses.Fu Luojia greeted her, and went to the shoe cabinet to find slippers.

The aunt who didn't know who she was said behind him: "The slippers are gone, change the shoe covers."

His mother had just entered the door at this time. "Don't change, just go in."

That aunt: "I just mopped it clean, and you want to step on it again? I'm not afraid of labor, but I'm afraid of wasting water—"

Mom: "Are you the one who pays the utility bill?"

That aunt: "..."

Fu Luojia pretended not to see the aunt's eyes.Grandma was going to the toilet, and he went into the bedroom first.Grandpa was covered with two quilts and a gray wool hat.He closed his eyes, looking like he was trying hard to fall asleep.

Even if the room is not hot, this outfit can cause heat stroke.He turned sideways silently for his mother to watch, and his mother raised her voice two octaves: "Xia Ningyi——!!"

The aunt came over with a mop that was still dripping: "Dad, he's sleeping, what's your name?!"

"You also know that he is going to sleep?! Are you dressing him so much to make him develop heat rash?!"

Fu Luojia noticed that the sound of water in the kitchen did not stop, and it sounded like it was still running very loudly. "...Why don't you turn off the water?"

"I'm mopping the floor, I'm not in charge of the utility bill—"

The expression on his mother's face made Fu Luojia walk away involuntarily. "What are you not happy about?!! A big family will provide you with food and drink, and you will take care of the elderly. Aren't the elderly also your parents? When have you ever cared?! Do you have a conscience? ?!!"

"Just take care of it? Don't stand and talk without back pain. One who can't take care of himself is half-deaf. I haven't seen any of you take the initiative to take care of it?"

When they were arguing fiercely, Fu Luojia went forward to remove the quilt, leaned over to approach grandpa, and wiped the blurred eyes on grandpa's face with his hand. "Grandpa—?"

The old man slowly opened one eye, but the other one didn't open for some reason, and he looked a little playful: "Why are you arguing?"

"It's okay. Are you hot? Do you want to sit up and take off your clothes?" Fu Luojia supported his back, "Oh yes, unbutton the buttons, stretch your hands out - to the right, and then to the right..."

He hung a vest that his grandfather had taken off on the coat rack.Grandpa has been watching him intently.

Then his cell phone rang.

Incoming phone call, contact person: xzx

His fucking voice and his aunt's voice still echoed across the room.

"Why doesn't Xiaojia answer the phone?" Grandpa asked.

His fingers hanging on the red circle finally fell down. "It's nothing, it was a typo."

Grandma rushed in hastily, "Why are you making noise again, you just came back!"

His mother stood aside with her arms folded, and his aunt dragged the mop away angrily.After a while of silence, his cell phone rang again, and it was still Xu Zhijian calling.

His mother turned to look at him. "pick up!"

Fu Luojia stepped aside and cleared his throat: "Hello?"

Xu Zhibian was a little noisy there, he vaguely heard Xu Zhibian say "wait a minute", after a while it became quiet there, it seemed that Xu Zhibian had changed places.

"...I thought you wouldn't pick it up."

Fu Luojia originally thought so.He glanced at his mother, she was talking to grandma. "...I'm sorry I can't come, what's the matter?"

"I can't come..."

Fu Luojia thought he would say "it's okay", but the other side said: "I'm a little disappointed."

Fu Luojia was stunned.He glanced at the contact person again, and he was sure that it was Xu Zhijian who was right.He held back for a while and said, "I'm really sorry."

Xu Zhibian: "I went downstairs to your house and waited for a while."

Fu Luojia: "... When? Why didn't you call?"

Xu Zhibian: "I want to leave a surprise."

Fu Luojia thought for a while, and felt that there should be wine at this birthday party, otherwise everything could not be explained.It's not easy for him to ask his mother here, so he just gave a vague "um".

Xu Zhibian seemed to be calling him.Xu Zhiyan responded, and leaned closer to the receiver and said, "I'll call you when I'm done. I must answer it then."

Fu Luojia: "...OK."

Before the beep sounded, he quickly added "Happy Birthday", wondering if Xu Zhijian heard it.