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He put the two packs of traditional Chinese medicine and the evening dinner in his hand on the somewhat dilapidated table, then took off the schoolbag on his shoulder and hung it on the back of the chair, listening to the subtle sound of the TV inside and the shallow With a coughing sound, he walked over lightly, lifted the curtain blocking the door, and said, "Mom, I'm back."

The woman sitting at the head of the bed was pale and thin, and her slightly messy hair made her look a little old, but from the faint smile on her mouth, it was not difficult to see that she was a beauty when she was young.

She picked up the remote control placed on the quilt and turned off the TV. While lifting the quilt as a gesture to get out of bed, she smiled softly and said, "Yu'er, are you back? You came back a bit late today. I've already finished cooking." After dinner, wait for Yu'er to buy vegetables and come back to fry."

Gu Yu hurriedly rushed forward, helped the woman who was about to get out of bed, and said anxiously: "Mom, what are you going to get out of bed for? I'll just do it."

She touched Gu Yu's head with her thin, skinny hand, swallowed and sighed, and said, "Yu'er, I want to see what vegetables Yu'er bought tonight, and I'll pick them up."

Gu Yu is of course aware of the loneliness and loneliness of his mother at home alone, and he also wants to accompany his mother in this small, warm world, because the outside world is too terrifying to him, and it scares his head. Has always been low, never dared to look up.

No one likes him. He has been bullied since he was a child.Now he is 16 years old and a high school student. When the scars on his body are about to disappear, they will be stained with bruises again.It's just that he has already learned to hide.Because he didn't want his mother who was sick at home to worry about him.Her mother, she just wants him to study hard so that he can apply what he has learned in the future to support himself.Therefore, he will study hard and will not disappoint his mother.

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After dinner, Shi Li urged Gu Yu to do his homework, and asked her to wash the dishes.

But how could Gu Yu let it go?Instead, he cooled the boiled water from the small kitchen under the eaves outside, brought it to Shi Li's bedside, pushed out the bath bucket, poured the water several times, and said, "Mom, didn't you say this morning? Is it itchy? Let’s take a bath. I’ll wash the dishes later. Don’t worry about my homework, I’ve finished it in the classroom.”

Shi Li endured the soreness in her eyes, nodded, and paused for a while before saying to Gu Yu who was carrying her behind her back and helping her find clothes from the old-fashioned closet: "Yu'er is really considerate, whoever marries Yu'er in the future will be very happy .”

That's right, her son is so sensible and considerate that it makes her feel bad!How could she not know about her son being bullied at school?If her son came back late without confessing, her heart would be aching!But she could only endure it, pretending that she didn't know anything!She didn't want her son to see sadness in her eyes, and she didn't want her son to be unable to hold his head up at home.Therefore, she has been enduring silently, telling her son with her tolerant heart and words, don't complain, good things will always come.

Those people are really superficial. They only see her son's disabled left leg and scarred face, but they can't see her son's kind and pure heart.

"Mom, what are you talking about!? I'm only 16 years old, and I want to stay with my mother all the time, so I don't want to marry someone else." Gu Yu said embarrassingly, blushing.Because of this, the hideous scar on the left brow bone where he took off his glasses when he got home became darker, so ugly that people couldn't bear to look at it again.

Shi Li continued to joke: "Oh, it would be nice if Yu'er was a girl. However, a boy is also fine, and it's also mother's caring little padded jacket. It's just that it's hard for Yu'er, a boy, to do things that girls are ashamed of. "

Gu Yu put the pajamas and underwear he found on the bed, and his face slowly returned to its original color, but his embarrassment could be heard in his tone: "Mom, you are my mother, and I am your mother." Son, no matter what you do for your mother, you will not be ashamed."

In fact, there is still a little bit, but it was too young at the beginning, only six years old, and I didn't understand it very well; later, I grew up and took physiology class. After knowing what was going on, although I was a little embarrassed, I was used to it at that time. including washing his mother's soiled panties.Only when he went to buy sanitary products for his mother in the small store of Uncle Huang's house at the entrance of the alley, did he feel a little embarrassed.

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Many times, Shi Li, who was lying on the bed, always thought that if she hadn't given birth to a good son, or if she hadn't looked back when the man left their mother and son, she would have died long ago instead of dragging the disease The haunted body has been lingering alive.That's because she couldn't let go of her son who was only a few years old in her heart!Fortunately, she lasted for ten years, but it was hard for her son, not only to go to school, but also to take care of her sick child.

She doesn't ask for too much, she wants to live even in a dragging way, she just hopes to see the day when her son grows up, and hopes that there will be a girl who doesn't look at her son's appearance, but walks with her son!But this is all her extravagant hope, because she knows that even if someone sees her son's kindness, they will retreat because of this dilapidated and poor family.

So, when her son said he would not go to high school, she scolded him severely, and then ignored him for three days until he "changed his mind" and agreed to her to go to school.

She doesn't ask her son to study well, as long as she is admitted to university in the future, she can rest in peace.At least, a son with knowledge can find a small job that doesn't care about his appearance and support himself.

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Gu Yu's grades are not good, just in the middle, not at the bottom, that's because he only has to study besides taking good care of his mother.But he didn't have a friend at school, and he didn't dare to ask the teacher when he encountered a question he didn't understand, so he could only flip through the books to understand.Fortunately, his eyes are not short-sighted because of always reading under the lamp.His glasses are just to cover the scar on his face and his low self-esteem and cowardly eyes.

Gu Yu put down the textbook in his hand, stood up and bent over to cover the damper of the small coal stove, then took a rag and wet it under the faucet, brought the medicine pot on the stove to the table in the house, and poured out a small half bowl He took the potion out, carefully carried it out to the floor under the kitchen cupboard, and went back inside with an empty bucket and a ladle, straight into his mother's room.

Shi Li was already lying on the bed watching TV, when she saw Gu Yu coming in with the scent of traditional Chinese medicine all over her body, she said, "Yu'er, if you are too tired, you can pour the water tomorrow."

Gu Yu shook his head, and while scooping Shi Li's bath water into the bucket, he said, "Mom, I'm not tired. I'll be fine soon."

"Well, slow down, Yu'er, don't mention too much, be careful of leg pain."

"I know."

After going back and forth several times like this, Gu Yu poured out all the bath water, brought in half a bucket of clean water, cleaned the bath bucket, wiped it with a clean towel and pushed it to the corner; The room and the water splashed along the way were mopped dry.

It was winter, and Gu Yu's forehead was dripping with sweat.

Shi Li watched her son go in and out, her eyes watered again, she was all to blame, if her health was better, her son wouldn't have to suffer so much.

After washing the mop, Gu Yu walked in with the cold Chinese medicine on the table and said, "Mom, the medicine is cold, you can drink it."

Without even frowning, Shi Li drank the medicine into her stomach in one gulp, handed the bowl back to Gu Yu, and took the towel from Gu Yu's hand to wipe the corner of her mouth.

Gu Yu waited for his mother to finish wiping the corners of his mouth, then took the towel stained with medicine juice, turned around and left, and walked to the door, he didn't look back, just said: "Mom, don't watch TV too late. I'll go wash I took a shower and went to sleep, tomorrow is Saturday, I will help Aunt Ye's restaurant all day long, just call me if you need anything."

"Well, I know, go take a shower and go to bed. Before going to bed, pay attention to whether the coal in the stove has been added." Shi Li confessed.

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In the early morning of the next day, Gu Yu finished his mother's affairs, drank a bowl of porridge made from last night's leftovers, said hello to his mother, and went to Aunt Ye's small restaurant to help.