don't let me go

"Lin Guozi, do you want to eat watermelon?" Duan Xu's voice came through the thin curtain, and Lin Guo, who was tremblingly looking at Lin Jianyi who was picking up the empty wine bottle, turned around and ran out, shouting as he ran, "I eat! "

Lin Jianyi stood still, staring sharply and fiercely at the thin figure passing by the window, smiled coldly, and smashed the wine bottle hard on the concrete floor, with a loud and crisp sound, the floor was shattered. Scum!

Hearing the voice, Lin Guo trembled. He stood at the door of Duan Xu's house and swallowed his saliva. Through the same thin curtain as his own, he met Duan Xu's eyes. The latter hooked his hands at him, "Come in."

Lin Guo sat on the sofa at Duan Xu's house, still trembling uncontrollably. Duan Xu looked at him while eating melons, and waited for him to calm down before saying, "If he does this again, come to my house and hide. He dare not come."

Lin Guo nodded and said yes, Duan Xu got up and went to get a clean spoon and handed it to him, and flicked it on his head, "What's the matter, how many years have I been talking about, I have to call you every time, how about I What about at home? Let him beat you to death?"

A bouncing on the head didn't hurt Lin Kuo at all, he didn't even rub it, just took the spoon and laughed.

"It's okay brother, my mother will be back in a while."

Duan Xu didn't say anything more.

Lin Guo stayed until Duan Xu's parents came back at night, he was a little embarrassed and wanted to leave, but as soon as he reached the door, Duan Xu called to stop him: "He will still beat you when you go back now."

Lin Guo lowered his head, turned his head and smiled at him, "Thank you Duan Xu, but if you don't go back, you will beat me harder."

The familiar sounds of beating and scolding sounded soon, and Duan Xu went into the back room and put on his earphones.

He couldn't hear Lin Guo crying.

But nothing can be done.

Lin Jianyi is a well-known scoundrel in this area, who is addicted to alcohol.

But drinking is not the reason for him to beat his son, because he beats whether he is sober or drunk, regardless of time or occasion.

Lin Guo would cry when he was a child, but he has stopped crying in the past two years, so he endured it.

If he couldn't bear it anymore, he ran out, and Lin Jianyi would chase after him and beat him, depending on who ran faster.

But for Lin Guo, it was useless to run fast, he would have to go back sooner or later, if he didn't go back... the wine bottle hanging in front of his eyes today would probably fall down.

"Guozi's mother doesn't seem to be coming back." Duan Xu's mother said.

Duan Xu took off his headphones and listened to his mother with Lin Jianyi's rough voice as the background.

"Why don't you come back? Don't you come back once a year?" Duan Xu's father asked.

"Today, someone in the factory said that we met in a big city and followed a rich man."

Duan Xu's mother squatted down and flicked on the watermelon, picked up a smaller one, put it on the table and cut it open, and frowned when she saw the flesh of the watermelon, "Don't buy old Li's melons in the future, these are the first ones. We are familiar, how many years have neighbors been so deceitful."

"Oh, what's the matter? If his mother doesn't come back, there is no hope for the fruit." Duan Xu's father took half of the watermelon, went to get two spoons, handed one to Duan Xu's mother, and then turned to ask inside the room, "Son?" , eat melons."

Duan Xu said no, Duan Xu's father continued to tell his mother: "At first, I thought this was an ordinary neighbor and I didn't have much friendship, and I never cared about it. If something really went wrong, I would feel guilty."

Duan Xu's mother glared at him, "Stop meddling in his family's affairs!"

Duan Xu's father used to do hard work all the time, he hurt his back, and he was hunched over when he walked.

The only thing that can help is to watch the child and give him a meal when he is hungry.

"Fuck not coming back?" Duan Xu came out at some point.

Duan Xu's mother also glared at him, "Don't meddle too."

Duan Xu pursed his lips, he wanted to meddle, but he couldn't.Now Duan Xu is just a 15-year-old student about to take the high school entrance examination.

After about an hour, the movement next door stopped.

I can guess - Lin Jianyi was tired.

There are two rooms in the family, parents sleep in the back room, and Duan Xu sleeps outside.

In summer, the door is not closed when sleeping, it is hot - there is no air conditioner, and the fan is reluctant to blow it all night.

Duan Xu slept very restlessly all night, and there was no wind at all tonight.

It's not that quiet outside, people who occasionally pass by outside the courtyard wall will always show their qualities in the middle of the night, talking about some irrelevant things.

And - very suppressed crying.

Duan Xu gently opened the door curtain and looked out, and by the moonlight, he saw a figure huddled in the corner of the wall.

He walked over and asked softly, "Does it hurt?"

Lin Guo raised his head, the night was too dark, he couldn't see Duan Xu's face clearly, he could only feel that the man blocked him in this corner with his slender figure, he somehow felt that he was safe.

But it was only for a moment, and he gave up this ridiculous idea in a flash. He has never been safe.

"It doesn't hurt..." Lin Guo's voice was heavily nasal.

"Why don't you sleep?" Duan Xu bent down while supporting his knees.

"He slept...in my bed." Lin Guo cried a little twitching, and it was difficult to say a complete sentence, "He won't let...let me sleep in his bed."

Duan Xu rubbed his head, straightened up and said, "Get up..."

Lin Guo didn't know what he was going to do, but he obediently leaned on the wall and stood up——

Numb legs.

His expression was so numb that he couldn't help but let out a "hiss".

Duan Xu looked back at him, and moved his eyes to his legs. Although he couldn't see clearly, he could tell by his standing posture.

"Slowly..."

"It's okay, my mother will be back in a while." Lin Guo said.

Duan Xu didn't respond.

There is no word on this matter, but Lin Guo is completely hopeless if he mentions it, he has to hide it.

Duan Xu has been silent, and Lin Guo will not take the initiative to bring up any issues - he does not know how to socialize.

Except for Duan Xu, no one paid attention to him.

He didn't ask until his legs had fully recovered, "Brother Duan Xu, I'm fine, I..."

Duan Xu said "hmm", "Let's go..."

Lin Guo didn't understand, "I can't go back."

Duan Xu stopped, "I didn't ask you to go back." He turned around and stretched out his hand to Lin Guo, and smiled lightly, "Sleep with me."

There was no wind at night, Lin Guo couldn't fall asleep, turning around would bring up a little heat, Duan Xu raised his hand to press down his arm, wrapped his arms around him, and whispered in his ear: "Don't move... "

Lin Guo ran away at dawn, he was afraid of being seen by Duan Xu's parents.

He knew that no one wanted to have anything to do with him, and he represented Lin Jianyi.

He was afraid that Duan Xu would be scolded because of him.

"Lin Guo, how many times have you missed homework?" The class teacher is a female teacher, not gentle, but reasonable.

She knew about Lin Guo's family, including his drunken father and mother who didn't come home all the year round.

"The teacher knows about your family situation, but if you don't do your homework, what should I do when the school checks your homework?"

The teacher got a little angry and rubbed the space between his eyebrows, "Besides, if you can't write at home, why don't you write at school? Why don't you use the time between classes?"

Lin Guo lowered his head and said nothing.

"Report..." A familiar male voice came, and Lin Guo lowered his head subconsciously.

"Which class?" the head teacher asked.

Duan Xu: "September [-]st..."

The homeroom teacher understood, and pointed to the desk full of homework, "Let's put it there."

The head teacher is a Chinese teacher, who recently gave a substitute class to the third grader.

Duan Xulin went out and looked back at Lin Guo again, the latter shrank back as if he could feel it.

Duan Xu frowned, "Goodbye, teacher."

Lin Guo often doesn't hand in his homework.

I often don’t hand it in for about three days a week, and the remaining two days are copied in the morning.

Duan Xu went to the door of Lin Guo's house at night and knocked on the window frame. Lin Guo stood up with a "whoosh" and walked out to meet Lin Jianyi's gaze.

"Brother Duan Xu." He whispered.

Duan Xu: "Go get your homework."

Lin Guo was stunned for a moment, and just about to do it subconsciously, when he turned around, he realized, "Ah, I won't write."

Reading is not a way out for him, it is torture.

As soon as he took out his books, Lin Jianyi would rush to beat him, roll up his homework or exercise books, and hit him on the head.

Don't give up until the book is broken.

While typing, I asked him, is it useful to read this shit?Why didn't I see you get the money back?Spending my money every day to buy this crap, just to save face? !

The corner of the book was hard, and his head was bleeding from the blow.

"Don't study at all?" Duan Xu asked seriously.

Lin Guo nodded firmly.

Studying is too much torture for him. He started looking for a job after graduating from junior high school. He has no requirements for the future and just wants to leave Lin Jianyi.

"Then you come and wait for me at the door of my class after school." Duan Xu said and went back.

Lin Guo didn't know why, but he waited obediently.

The third year of junior high school had one hour longer evening self-study than them, so he just sat in the corner and waited for an hour.

When Duan Xu came out, he saw him at a glance, walked over and said, "Don't sit down, the floor is dirty."

The school is tiled, Lin Guo thinks it is clean.

He stood up obediently, "Stop sitting down."

Outside the courtyard, Duan Xu took off the schoolbag from Lin Guo's shoulder, "I will write your homework for you in the future."

Lin Guo was stunned for a few seconds, and hurriedly followed, "This is not good...it will disturb your study, bro..."

"Why do you bother me from studying? It's very bad to write one more homework and reduce the exam?" Duan Xu smiled, "If you don't want to write, then don't write it. Brother will do it for you."

"Did you remember your homework?" Duan Xu asked.

Lin Guo nodded, "The language is on the second page, the one with the red circle."

He memorizes his homework every day, and as long as Lin Jianyi is not at home, he can write.

"Hmm..." Duan Xu walked in, "If he still sleeps in your bed, you can call me at the door, my bed is big."

Lin Guo blushed a little, scratched his head and responded in a low voice, "Oh, good."

"Then I'll write it." Duan Xu lifted his schoolbag and signaled to Lin Guo.

Lin Guo was beaten again today.

Being beaten was as common as eating, and he didn't make a sound.

The only thought is that his mother will come back after a while.

But he didn't know how long this "later time" was, as it used to be summer.

It's already halfway through June, and there's no news yet.

But as long as summer isn't over, there is hope.

June NO.20 Duan Xu's high school entrance examination, Lin Guo got up early in the morning and moved a small bench to sit at the door and wait.

Duan Xu saw him as soon as he came out, "Good morning..."

Lin Guo smiled at him, very happy, and he waved his arms, "Come on for the high school entrance examination! High score!"

Duan Xu smiled back at him, "Okay, get a high score."