Chapter 6 The fifth chapter is better than a stranger (No.24 - No.26)

When I got home, I stood at the door of the house and opened my schoolbag, only to find that the key had fallen into the crevice of the small pocket, out of reach no matter what.I cursed in a low voice, and suddenly I heard someone in the room wearing slippers walking towards the door limply. The footsteps sounded like my mother. She opened the door and I opened my mouth in surprise. "Why are you standing there, come in quickly, there's a rush of heat outside." I am not dreaming.She still speaks so quickly and decisively, with a natural drive. "Why are you here?" I was pleasantly surprised, but there was something wrong as soon as the words came out.

I stood at the door of my house and asked myself why my mother was here. Thankfully she was unconscious.She's never been as thoughtful as I am. "Nonsense, of course there is something to do," she threw the slippers at my feet, "Hurry up and go inside to wipe off your sweat!" I went to the bathroom to wash my face, dried it, then opened the refrigerator and took out a can of iced Coke, which was snatched away as soon as I pulled the tab. My dad put it on the coffee table: "It's cold, it's not good for the spleen and stomach. It's best to drink some warm water when you come in from the outside. Let this one hang out here and drink it when it's warm."

"Dad, you're the first person I've ever seen who said that Coke should be warmed before drinking." I picked up the Coke from the coffee table again, tilted my head back and downed it. So fucking comfortable. He stopped nagging, and suddenly sighed. "You... If your mother said so, you wouldn't dare to talk back with ten courage!" "I drink a hundred cans of Coke, but she may not meet once." After I finished speaking, the three of them were silent.My dad lowered his head, and my mom appeared at the door of the living room with a blank expression on her face. I held up the Coke, not knowing whether I should continue drinking.In the living room, only the bubbles in the Coke can scrambled to burst, making rustling noises.

"Geng Geng," my dad suddenly said after a long while, "Reporting for duty today...how is it?" "It's good," I said, "There are quite a lot of people. Classes have been divided, and teachers have been selected by lottery. The teacher said that there will be fees... various fees on the first day of school." I sat on the single sofa, and my parents sat on the couch opposite. The state was very similar to the tribunal. "Drink some to quench your thirst. Can your stomach take it? If I don't say anything, you can't finish drinking! Put it on the coffee table and drink it later!"

My mother suddenly broke in a sentence, her eyes were wide open, her voice was sharp and sharp, and my little heart contracted in fright, and Coke almost dropped her hand and flew towards them. I curled my lip and put the Coke back on the coffee table.My dad sighed helplessly beside me, not knowing whether it was for me or for himself. "What does the teacher teach, men and women, how old are you?" My dad began to change the subject in a pleasant manner. I went down the donkey: "Male, college student, just graduated, teaching physics, his name is Zhang Ping." The math teacher is Zhang Feng.I braked the second half of the sentence and held it back in my stomach.

"College student? A man?" My mother didn't know what to imagine again, "Is it reliable? I am a child, how can I be the head teacher and lead the class?" She suddenly took out her phone and started flipping through her address book: "I happened to meet one of your vice principals at dinner two days ago. I asked her whether to change teachers or classes. What's the deal with this, the lottery must be tricky!" My dad frowned and tried to resist: "Don't listen to the wind and the rain. The teaching level of young teachers may not be as good as that of older teachers."

My mother suddenly laughed, and said slowly: "Young, of course it's good to be young." I couldn't figure it out at first. I saw my dad turned a little blue, but he didn't speak.However, I know it's not that he doesn't want to talk, it's just to save my face. Then I understood what she was talking about. Aunt Qi is also very young. "You were the one who insisted on getting a divorce back then." I said softly, not knowing why. I finally saw a little bit of her jealousy and dissatisfaction with my dad's remarriage.It didn't really matter.But not this way, nor should it be.

It's not that two people live alone until they grow old, torturing each other. My mother stood up suddenly, and I looked up, and there was anger and sadness in her eyes that I had never seen before. I can't tell, but it just made me feel uncomfortable. Then she calmed down and said, "Anyway, I'll talk to you about transferring classes or changing teachers. Don't run around and play around, and review your books a few days before school starts. I think many of them are going to high school. The children have already started to learn mathematics, physics and chemistry in advance in supplementary classes, so you should also pay attention!"

After finishing speaking, he walked to the entrance and put on high heels: "Let's go first, I have a meeting in the afternoon." Until the door was closed with a bang, my dad and I were still sitting on the sofa facing each other, like two dull stone statues. My dad rubbed his hands, not knowing what to say for a long time. I was the one who spoke first: "Dad, if my mother says she wants to get back together with you and doesn't want you to get married, will you still be together?" He looked at me in surprise, and after a long time, he smiled: "Silly boy, how is it possible?"

This is how grown-ups answer questions.He only said it was impossible, but he didn't tell me whether it was impossible to be together, or it was impossible for my mother to compromise and turn back. However, my courage has bottomed out, and I can't continue to ask. He stood up, turned his back to me and started pouring water.I slumped on the sofa, as if I had just suffered a serious illness. "dedicated?" "what?" "You...I marry your Aunt Qi...do you really mind?" I bowed my head and smiled. It's not what I most want to see. I don't want them to get married because I have my own wishes.

"I don't mind." I said. He put the glass on the coffee table in front of us and said, "Let's drink some warm water." Lying in bed at night, my mind is full of images of our family of three being together when we were young. I quietly picked up the extension in my room.My dad is watching TV in the living room, so he shouldn't be able to hear him. I dialed, and just after the dial tone ended, I was picked up. "Hello," my mother's voice is still very energetic.But I think it's weird, doesn't her phone have a caller ID?The caller was either my dad or me, what did you say "Hello"? "mom?" There paused for a while: "Oh, it's you." It turned out that she was waiting for a call from a client, and as soon as the phone rang, she picked it up without looking at who it was. "What's the matter, what's the matter?" I hesitated again and again, and finally said the words of apology: "Mom, I was wrong today, I..." She interrupted me: "Okay, okay, what do children know, if you just do it for this, then there's no need. You don't understand the things of adults, and you just need to pay more attention to your own things. I'll hang up first Well, I still have something to do here, I'm afraid that the customer's call will not come in for a while." I sighed, my mother is still my mother. Maybe because she felt that she was speaking too fast, she slowed down her tone: "I don't have time today, I'll call you home tomorrow, about your school start... I'll see what I can think of before I tell you. You go to I’m in high school, I’m not a kid anymore, whether it’s a remedial class, or my future development and goals…” She paused many times, as if her thoughts were confused, anyway, I didn't understand what she wanted to say. "mom." "what?" "I have something to tell you." "Say!" I was in a hurry again. "I don't want to change shifts. Our class teacher is also very good. Can you not worry about it?" She didn't speak for a long time: "Okay, you can figure it out, we will talk another day. I hang up." I let out a sigh of relief. What appeared in his mind was actually Yu Huai's face. He smiled, as if joking, very casual, but very sincere. Let's sit at the same table. I don't know what my parents each want, or what they want me to be, and maybe that doesn't matter anymore.As a lucky person, I entered a school that did not belong to me, and the family behind it would soon be reorganized into a family I was not familiar with, and myself, it seemed that I fell through the widening gap all of a sudden. Didn't notice I was missing. The easiest thing to warm and surprise is a stranger, because you have no expectations of him. The people who are most chilling and sad are your loved ones because you love them. I just had a sudden urge to grab a stranger.