rain trail

The class selection soon came along with the art festival. Without any suspense, Liu Yanzhi and the others passed the selection and will perform at the New Year's Eve party.

On the eve of the stage, the instructor of the rehearsal found them.

"You can't wear a mask during performances, but you also know..." The teacher pointed to Luo Jiayi's right cheek embarrassingly.

Luo Jia said nothing.

"Teacher, what do you mean, just tell me directly." Liu Yanzhi frowned.

"That is to say, we can play the accompaniment directly. If you don't want to, you can also play it on the curtain. Look..." The teacher smiled apologetically and rubbed his hands.

"Why? The three of us came together." Zhao Fangfei burst into temper, and said directly: "If it doesn't work, then don't want us in the first place!"

"The teacher doesn't want to either. Then, there are masks in the background, you..." The teacher knew that he was wrong.

Zhao Fangfei wanted to say something, but Liu Yanzhi stopped her with her eyes.

"Jiayi," she held Luo Jiayi's hand: "Would you like to show your face?"

Luo Jiayi lowered his head and seemed to be thinking hard.

"Listen to you," she said finally.

"Okay." Liu Yanzhi turned to the teacher, with a firm yet gentle voice: "Teacher, we believe that anyone can be behind the mask, but Luo Jiayi, she has her own look."

The teacher hesitated.She is not an unreasonable person. Finally, she sighed heavily: "Okay, you can go ahead like this."

"Nowadays, young people take friends very seriously..." She turned around muttering, and went to arrange other things.

"Luo Jiayi, it's okay, we'll just go on like this, who dares to say something bad, I... I'll curse him!" Zhao Fangfei's voice became more and more emboldened as she got further behind.

"Take care of yourself, your legs are shaking from nervousness!" Liu Yanzhi laughed at her.

"Wow, no way!" Zhao Fangfei yelled and looked at her lower body.

"There's no shaking! Liu Yanzhi, you lied to me, I, I curse you for drinking yogurt without a straw!" Zhao Fangfei ran away after Liu Yanzhi.

As soon as Luo Jia stood where she was, her heart suddenly felt warm.

At the end of the performance, they held hands and bowed to the audience.There was a tidal wave of applause from the audience, and they could still see the instructor sitting in the front row clapping desperately.

The curtain was pulled back little by little, and everything Luo Jia could see returned to darkness.

Only this time, there was no dark place in her heart anymore.

It is said to be a party, but it is actually held in the afternoon.When they went back, it was still dark.Zhao Fangfei said goodbye to them at the intersection, leaving the two of them walking in the same direction.

"Are you still wearing a mask?" Liu Yanzhi was encouraged by her classmates to drink some beer, a little drunk.Luo Jia turned her head to look at her, and saw a thin blush on her face.

"No more." She replied in a calm voice, and then took off the mask.

When she finally took off her mask, tucked her long hair behind her ears, and walked frankly on the street, she found that no one was staring at her.Occasionally, one or two people would look at her face, but they would look back with her sincere eyes, and they would look away in panic.

No one was looking at her with strange eyes, but she was looking at them.

Liu Yanzhi was still leaning against her, hugged her arm, and muttered something.Looking at her slightly red face, she couldn't help but smile.

It would be great if we could keep going like this.

Waking of Insects and bad news come together.In the middle of the class that day, the head teacher suddenly called Luo Jiayi out, and she didn't come back for the rest of the time.Liu Yanzhi left school and hurried to Luo's house.When she pushed aside the crowds in the courtyard of Luojia, she saw Luo Jiayi was kneeling on the ground, in front of her mother's pale body on a stretcher.

"It's so pitiful. I heard that he was crushed to death on the construction site, and he lost his breath on the spot."

"The girl is still so young, this mother has left, how will I live in the future."

"What's so pitiful, destroying other people's families and suffering retribution."

"I heard that it has harmed people, so report it now."

"Didn't the family members be harmed by her, and the retribution is not good."

The crowd behind was discussing, and their voices were getting louder and louder, with no intention of restraining themselves.

"My mother never harmed anyone!" Luo Jiayi suddenly turned around and yelled at the crowd.

Her hair was already tied up, revealing her entire face frankly.

"She's the best person in the world." She choked out.

The crowd was quiet for a moment, and then they became noisy again regardless of their care.

"Look at that child's face, it's retribution."

"The second wife's child is also shameless, and he is the best person, so it's not embarrassing to say it."

"Can you stop talking!" Liu Yanzhi shouted.

"Who are you? It doesn't matter to you."

"Dogs meddle with mice."

……

Liu Yanzhi stood in the middle of these rumors, looked at Luo Jiayi who was kneeling in front of the stretcher, neither advancing nor retreating.

She dropped her schoolbag and rushed straight to the back room.

The next moment, Liu Yanzhi appeared at the door with two kitchen knives.Her eyes were red, and she looked rather mad.

The crowd was stunned by her inexplicable behavior for a moment, and then exploded again.

"Shut up, shut up and get out!" She held a kitchen knife and walked towards the crowd, and the crowd backed away.

"Get out!" She quickened her pace.

"Crazy!" Someone finally cursed, and the crowd scattered and fled.

Liu Yanzhi closed the courtyard door, threw the kitchen knife under her feet, walked towards Luo Jiayi, and hugged her from behind.

"My mother never harmed anyone..." Luo Jiayi muttered nervously.

"I believe, I believe." Liu Yanzhi repeated.

Luo Jiayi burst into tears.

"Luo Jiayi! Liu Yanzhi! Open the door!" Someone was banging on the door outside, and it was Zhao Fangfei's voice.

Liu Yanzhi got up to open the door, and Zhao Fangfei rushed in with her three older brothers. Seeing the empty courtyard, the anger on her face gradually faded.

"Where are those watching the fun?" she asked in bewilderment.

"They're all gone, I chased her away with a knife." Liu Yanzhi returned to Luo Jiayi's side and hugged her again.

Zhao Fangfei walked over silently and squatted aside.

Luo Jiayi's mother's funeral was organized by her colleagues in the supermarket. Many people expressed their puzzlement at their meddling, especially with a "bad woman".Colleagues didn't explain much about themselves, but insisted that Luo Mu was a good person.

Luo Jiayi fell silent again, every day besides preparing for the funeral, he sat in the room and played chess with himself, and he would be happy when he got a good hand.Zhao Fangfei leaned over once, and heard her repeatedly say "Mom, I must be better than him", and felt horrified.She relayed the incident to Liu Yanzhi, and when Liu Yanzhi heard it, she was silent for a while, and still went to see her every day.

At the funeral, Liu Yanzhi finally knew Luo's mother's name—not as Luo Jiayi's mother, nor as the woman who was extremely demonized by the townspeople.

Her name is Luo Bingxin, and a piece of Bingxin is in the jade pot.

On the tombstone, her face is smooth and vigorous, and she seems to be the proud dancer.

Until one month after the funeral, Luo Jiayi still did not go back to school.Zhao Fangfei went less and less frequently—since last year, her parents were constantly arguing about divorce, and her three older brothers worked every day, so she sometimes had to cook for them. This was the reason why she left early for many rehearsals.Before going to see Luo Jiayi every day, I missed a lot of things.Liu Yanzhi knew that she was having a hard time, so she simply told her to take care of her own home.

Liu Yanzhi arrived at Luo's house, took out the key to open the door, and shouted: "I'm back."

No one answered her.She walked nonchalantly to the bedroom, carrying the supper her mother had cooked.

Luo Jiayi didn't sit in front of the chessboard this time, she was dancing, the dance that the beautiful middle-aged woman danced when Liu Yanzhi saw her mother that afternoon.Her movements were not smooth or graceful, but they were like her mother.

In just a few months, heaven and man will be separated forever.Liu Yanzhi's eyes blushed when she thought of that gentle and kind woman.

"Jiayi, it's time to eat." She called her, and regardless of her lack of response, she sat down in front of the chessboard: "After eating, you can play a game with me, I think my level has improved. "

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw that Luo Jiayi had fallen to the ground in a slump.

She hurried over, squatted on the ground, and raised her arm.

"Even if I dance the dance she hates the most, she will never get up and scold me again." Luo Jiayi said to himself.

"It's ironic. I really don't have much talent for dancing, and I don't like dancing that much. In comparison, I prefer the Go game that she beat and scolded me to learn."

"They're right. I'm her retribution. I killed her." Luo Jiayi smiled nervously.

"You are not her retribution, you are her favorite daughter." Liu Yanzhi hugged her tightly.

"Why, obviously I said that I don't care about the birthmark on my face anymore." Luo Jiayi cried again, out of breath: "If it wasn't for saving money to treat my face, she wouldn't care about it." She'll work several jobs and she won't die."

"I killed her!" She wailed loudly.

"But Luo Jiayi, do you want to keep being so decadent?" Liu Yanzhi tightened her arms, but her voice turned cold.

"You are like this, I'm sorry for her." She said firmly.

Luo Jia fell on her shoulder, panting violently.

"I know, so I'll go back to school right away." After an unknown amount of time, she calmed down.

"It's just that in this world, I don't have any relatives anymore." She calmed down, and in a trance, Liu Yanzhi thought this was the original her, the Luo Jiayi who had never experienced anything.

"I am your relative." She held her face together: "My mother said, you can live in my house." She said mischievously: "Of course, living expenses will be paid."

"I don't deserve your kindness to me." Luo Jiayi wanted to lower his head again, but was forcefully stopped by Liu Yanzhi.

"You can't always hide, you have to learn to face it."

Liu Yanzhi stood up while standing in the light, and stretched out a hand towards Luo Jiayi: "Let's go, let's go home."