Chapter 3 3. Mining disaster, the night is like water

In the evening, Bei Xiaowu's mother dragged Bei Xiaowu, who was almost disfigured, to our yard. The wrinkled lines on her face were more eye-catching than Bei Xiaowu's teeth marks.My mother kept serving tea and water, and kept apologizing. It was not until late at night that Bei Xiaowu and his teeth marks disappeared from my face.Before leaving, Bei Xiaowu's mother dragged a large bunch of red peppers from the wall of my house. I was beaten by my mother for being cold. This is the first time my gentle mother has done anything to me, she was crying while beating me with a cane, do you know that you are the needle in Wei Jiaping's eye!Let you be careful, how can you be so troublesome, insist that the whole Weijiaping know your existence?Why are you bullying people like this?

At that time, I didn't know that what my mother said was all for Liang Sheng.She is a kind woman, like the kind of abandoned woman described in many novels, weak and obedient. When the cane was pulled towards the wound bitten by Liang Sheng on my arm, I shivered into a ball.Liang Sheng, who was peeking behind the curtain, tightly covered his eyes. The moonlight is like water. Under the watery moonlight, the weak mother held up the whip helplessly.Hair loose, tears fall.And the four-year-old daughter will never understand her misery as a woman. That man named Jiang Liangzhi married her when he was just an incompetent and poor teacher in Weijiaping, and they depended on each other for life!In order to take care of his bedridden parents and not to put pressure on his livelihood, she had no choice but to give up after two pregnancies.Every time he hugged her and cried, saying, sorry.This man swore to her with tears in his eyes that he would give her a happy family and a group of healthy children in the future!Later, he really did it!When he was successful and became a well-known big reporter in the provincial capital, he found a new love outside, a female reporter who was as educated, leveled and knowledgeable as him!They are happy!Lingering!Sweet!Intoxicated!A peasant woman in the countryside suffers in the distant Weijiaping!Painful!Struggling!waiting!She knew he had a home outside and had children.But she didn't dare to make a sound, didn't dare to cry, and didn't dare to make trouble!She understood that he didn't divorce her because of her parents-in-law's love and need for her hard work and patience, and because she would never interfere in his flourishing private life.

A few days ago, the man named Jiang Liangzhi and his female reporter lover came to the coal mine in Weijiaping to conduct an interview and report, but they were buried underground by a sudden mine accident. The female reporter died, and the romance was gone.The man named Jiang Liangzhi is now lying in the hospital, life and death are uncertain.Only his next cousin was with him at the bedside.He told her to take her son to Weijiaping to raise him, and if he died, he should be brought up more easily.Yes, he didn't need to ask her, he just had to order.There is a kind of woman whose life is miserable.You can be deceived in life, and you can be deceived after death.

This miserable woman is my mother.At this moment, her hair was loose and she was crying, as if she had lost her soul.As for my father's matter, I didn't figure it out until I was thirteen years old, and I didn't understand it.Also since I was thirteen years old, I have had a very bad habit—opening my eyes in the middle of the night, dilating my pupils as much as possible, trying to see the ceiling covered with newspapers, curling up my small body, looking for that beautiful night, The night is like water!Moonlight is like water! Once, on this moonlit night, my mother beat me and cried while holding me. She said, Jiang Sheng, my life.

I was a mother who got a child after she was middle-aged. She cherished me so much. She never owned any gold, jade or jewelry in her life, but I was her gold, jade, and her jewelry.She channeled all her guilt over her first two unborn children into love for me.But today, after she finished crying, she still punished me to stand in the yard. That night, the moon was so lonely, I stood barefoot in the yard, only Xiao Mi's warm little body snuggled up to my feet. In the middle of the night, Liang Sheng ran out of the house secretly, calling me in a low voice, Jiang Sheng, Jiang Sheng. I looked at him with an aggrieved face, lowered my head, and my bare little toes kept turning up and down.

He pulled my arm, looking at the dark red tooth marks on it with distress, and the blood that flowed out congealed into dark red boils.He asked me, Jiang Sheng, is it still hurting? I shook my head, nodded again, then grabbed his arm and cried, wiping his clean sleeves with tears and snot. He bit his lip and said, Jiang Sheng, I'm sorry. When he said that, I cried even harder. He wiped my tears with his sleeve and said, Jiang Sheng, stop crying.It's all bad for Liang Sheng!Liang Sheng will never let Jiang Sheng be wronged again!Otherwise, let the moon in the sky crush you to death!

I stopped crying and called him brother. I said, don’t let the moon smash you to death. If Jiang Sheng is wronged again in the future, you can smash me to death with braised pork! As I spoke, I used my little pink tongue to fill the corners of my mouth, trying to recall the taste of the braised pork that I ate in the afternoon.The six-year-old Liang Sheng stared at me blankly for a long time and cried.Later, when we were in elementary school, the teacher asked everyone to talk about their ideals. Those little P kids would either be scientists or astronauts. Only Liang Sheng stood there for a long time and said that he would be a cook who could cook braised pork in the future.It caused a group of students to laugh wildly, and was punished by the teacher to stand at the door for a long time.The reason is to disrupt classroom discipline.

It was also that moonlit night, Liang Sheng took me back to the main room secretly, brought cold well water, and washed my feet without saying a word.My feet are small, and Liang Sheng's hands are also small.Liang Sheng said, Jiang Sheng, you need to wear shoes in the future, otherwise your feet will grow as big as boats, and no one will want them when they grow up. I sat on the bench and laughed, saying, I am not afraid, I have Liang Sheng, I have brother. Without saying a word, Liang Sheng picked me up from the bench and carried me back to the room where I slept. Mother had already fallen asleep, and she sighed in her dreams.I fell asleep next to Liang Sheng, with two small black heads together, like two mushrooms growing tenaciously.

Xiaomi curled up beside me, and I curled up beside Liang Sheng. I almost forgot that I had been whipped just now, and I smiled heartlessly in the shower, and Liang Sheng patted my head and said, Jiang Sheng, be obedient, go to sleep. When I was sleeping, I took a sneak peek at Liang Sheng, the moonlight was like water, and Liang Sheng's eyebrows and eyes were also like water.