Chapter 8 part eight

71 east of the city.closer to the river. The feng shui blowing from the surface of the river is always full of wet water vapor.Like soaking everything until it turns yellow and limp. As the evening approached, sirens sounded one after another on the river. Gu Senxi slowed down and rode quietly beside Gu Senxiang. The wind blew his buoy to the left and then to the right. "Hair is growing." Gu Senxiang turned around and said to his younger brother. "En. Got it. I'll go get a haircut tomorrow afternoon." Gu Senxi turned her head and smiled with her teeth showing.

The two stopped at a red light. "Sister, why did you come home so late today?" "I was called to the office by the teacher. He said that a new math competition was about to start again, and asked me to prepare." Gu Senxiang patted the dust on his skirt. "It's amazing..." Gu Senxi leaned on the bicycle, tore off the tie from his shirt, and stuffed it into his pocket casually, "I'm sure I won another prize this time." Gu Senxiang smiled, raised his wrist to look at his watch, and said, "Ah, it's so late." Then he stopped talking, anxiously waiting for the red light to turn green.

Riding through two main roads, then turning left, you enter a community without motor vehicles. When riding to the gate of the community, Gu Senxi suddenly remembered, "Oh, didn't my mother's cup break yesterday, are you going to buy another one for her?" "Oh yes, it broke yesterday." "Sister... I don't have any money with me." "Okay, then I'll go to the supermarket to buy it, and you ride home first, so that mom won't be in a hurry." Gu Senxi nodded, and pedaled hard twice, and the car disappeared after turning a corner. Gu Senxiang looked at his younger brother and smiled, then turned over the faucet and rode to the supermarket next to the community.

Gu Senxi took out the key, and before he could insert it into the lock, the door suddenly opened from the inside. It was my mother who opened the door. Her urgent expression and the half-sentence "Oh, why are you just now..." quickly collapsed when she saw the door. She poked her head out of the door and looked into the corridor , Then turned around, frowned and asked Gu Senxi, "Where's your sister? Why didn't you come back with you?" "Sister is behind." Gu Senxi bent down to change her slippers, "I'll be there soon." He walked into the living room, took his schoolbag off his shoulders, and threw it on the sofa.

"I'm back," my father came out of the room smoking a cigarette, "then come and eat quickly. Waiting for the two of you, I thought you had something to do." There are a few common dishes on the table, not rich, but not simple. Gu Senxi rubbed his belly, picked up the bowl and put the rice in his mouth. Father took out the bottle of white wine that he hadn't finished drinking for a month from the cabinet, poured a small glass, sat down too, and picked up a salted peanut. Mother turned her head from the door, frowned and said, "You father and son, you are reincarnated from starvation. Xiangxiang hasn't come back yet."

Gu Senxi didn't answer, just lowered his head and continued eating. Father smoothed things over with a "hehe", "It's all right, and there are no outsiders, you come over too, let's eat first. Sensi is probably hungry too." "You are the only one who is hungry, and no one else is hungry! You are the only one who has not eaten, and everyone else has eaten!" The mother turned her back, stood outside the door and looked around, throwing such words over and over again. Gu Senxi stopped the chopsticks in his hand, he was wondering who he said this sentence to.

There was a "ding" sound from the elevator arriving in the corridor, then the elevator door opened, and Gu Senxiang walked towards the door of the house. The mother rushed to greet her in two steps, holding her hand and a series of "Hey Xiangxiang, why didn't you say a word when you came home late, a girl, how dangerous this is, you are not Sensi...... " Gu Senxi didn't stop eating in the living room, but her mother's words came to her ears word for word. Father smiled "hehe", and put a piece of braised pork in Senxi's bowl. Gu Senxi raised his head and grinned brightly at his father.Then he stood up and shouted to the door: "Sister, come in quickly".

Senxiang sat down, and his mother closed the door. As soon as she sat down at the table, she got up and went to the kitchen.Senxiang turned around and shouted: "Mom, what are you doing, come and eat." From the kitchen came the mother's reply, "Come as soon as you come." After that, the mother came out with a big steaming plate, and after putting it on the table, she saw clearly that there were two carp inside. "Come on, eat it while it's hot. It's been heating in the pot just now, and I've been waiting for you to come back. I'm afraid it will be cold."

Gu Senxi's chopsticks stayed in the air for a while, and then reached for the plate of hundred-burning lotus root slices. Gu Senxiang frowned and glanced at his mother, then stretched out his chopsticks to pick up a large piece of meat from the belly of the fish and put it in Senxi's bowl. Gu Senxi raised his head, still chewing on the rice, smiled vaguely "hehe", and said, "Sister, you eat by yourself, don't need to pinch it for me, I will do it myself." "Of course you know you're coming by yourself. You only know you're coming by yourself! You see how much my sister looks towards you..." The mother sitting across from her choked her throat.

"Mom!" Gu Senxiang gently kicked his mother from the table. Gu Senxi lowered his head and picked up the rice in the bowl without saying anything. After eating, Gu Senxiang stood up to help collect the bowls, but was severely rejected by his mother.The reason is "You don't need to collect it here, I will. You go to the room to read." Gu Senxiang nodded, walked towards the room, remembered halfway, opened his schoolbag, and took out the cup he bought, "Mom, I just bought it on the way back. Didn't your cup break when you poured water yesterday?" The mother wiped her hands on the apron, stretched out to take the cup handed over by her daughter, her eyes narrowed into a line with a smile, and when she turned her head to see Gu Senxi who was sitting on the sofa with her long legs stretched out on the coffee table, her face immediately It collapsed.She said to Gu Senxi: "Sure enough, people are right. A daughter is a mother's personal treasure. It is as warm and heart-warming as it is. It's not like giving birth to a son. How can I expect my mother..."

"Then it's not too late for you to send me to Thailand now." Gu Senxi on the other side of the sofa answered without thinking. "You!" Mother took a deep breath, her face flushed instantly. "Mom! Sensi asked me to buy this cup for you. I didn't remember it at all. Senxi reminded me. He didn't have any money with him, so he asked me to buy it. Don't just slander others if you have nothing to do... ..." "Oh, don't protect him. Can he remember? If he can remember one important thing all day long, I will go to the ancestor's grave every day." Mother turned and went into the kitchen, chanting endlessly. "Mom..." Gu Senxiang wanted to follow in, but Gu Senxi interrupted the words. Senxi grinned at her and said, "Ignore her. Go and read." Gu Senxiang walked up to him and knelt down, as if someone had poured lemon juice on his heart. The younger brother reached out and took her hand gently. Gu Senxi saw that Senxiang, who had been squatting in front of her for a long time, did not respond. She lowered her head to look at her, and when she raised her head, her eye circles were a little red. Sensi stretched out his index finger to pick at her chin and said, "Beauty." "Handsome guy." Gu Senxiang smiled softly, raised his hand and rubbed his red eyes. This is a boring game invented by Gu Senxi. And at the end of the game, Gu Senxi always stretched out his finger, made a contrived pose, and said, "Eh? You know me?" But today Gu Senxi changed to a new trick, he flicked his bangs artificially, and said, "I'm sorry, I admitted the wrong person." Gu Senxiang stood up abruptly, and smashed the sofa cushions, seven in a row.Then turned and went back to the room. Gu Senxi took the cushion off his head, his grinning mouth slowly closed, and the smile disappeared on his increasingly sharp face. The eyes are piled up, I don't know whether to call it sad or sad. 72 Yi Yao waited until 8:30, and then went home with his schoolbag.Picking up the key and trying to open the door, it opened easily. Lin Huafeng sat on the sofa and watched TV. There was an indescribably disgusting smell in the room. There was another nausea in his stomach, and Yi Yao took a deep breath and suppressed it.She flicked her bangs and said, "Mom, I'm back." The leftovers of the meal are laid out on the table. Yi Yao went to the kitchen to fill a bowl of rice and came out to eat. Lin Huafeng looked at it, and then said, "Reheat up the dishes, they are all cold." Yi Yao just picked up a chopstick of lettuce in oyster sauce and put it down again. She raised her head and asked, "Mom, haven't you eaten yet?" "I've eaten it." Lin Huafeng lay down on the sofa, facing the backrest, "Go and eat it after heating it up. Eating cold ones in winter will hurt your stomach." "I'm fine, it doesn't matter." Yi Yao smiled, got up and went to the kitchen to serve dinner. When Yi Yao opened the lid of the pot, he heard Lin Fenghua roaring behind him. "What kind of bitter drama are you pretending? Who are you acting for? You!" Yi Yao raised her hand and poured all the rice back in the bowl. She turned around and walked out of the kitchen, and said to Lin Fenghua who was lying on the sofa, "I'll show you the show! You've watched it for several years and you still can't understand it!" Yi Yao looked out of the room and could only see a small area where the door was not closed. Lin Fenghua's face was facing into the back of the sofa, no expression could be seen.Her back is stooped, making her look very small. In her loosely tied hair, there was a strand of white hair, which jumped out dazzlingly from the black hair. Yi Yao raised his hand and covered his mouth forcefully. On the test paper spread out in front of him, the black handwriting was blurred by the splashing water droplets. 73 The air conditioner was turned on for too long in the room.bored panic.Moreover, it was already dry in winter, and the air conditioner was turned on for a long time, and the whole house was tense as if it was about to be torn apart. Gu Senxiang got up and opened half of the window.The cold wind from outside blows in. Much more comfortable. Turning around, the phone on the desk vibrated. Open the lid, the sender on the screen is "Sensi" Open the text message, there are only two words, "sister".No punctuation.But Gu Senxiang could still imagine his unhappy expression with his eyes closed. Sen Xiang raised his mouth and smiled, and typed a few words on the keyboard with his fingers: "What's wrong with you? Come here." After closing the phone, Sensi knocked on the door after two minutes. "Unhappy?" "No." Gu Senxi lay on the bed, and casually took one of the dolls in the row on the bed against the wall and played with them, "How old are you. You still play with dolls." "Dolls? Are all of you boys so silly? You can call them puppets, or dolls, or dolls." Gu Senxiang couldn't help but want to laugh. "I don't care about this." Gu Senxi rolled his eyes. Gu Senxiang turned around and pulled out a reference book from the shelf. "Actually, I can understand what Mom thinks." Gu Senxi said something thoughtlessly from behind.Then there is no text. Gu Senxiang turned around and saw him pressing the huge rogue rabbit on his face. "Don't think about you, what do children know?" "You just got out a minute or two earlier than me." An aggressive voice came from below the rogue rabbit. "If it were me," he took the rabbit away and sat up on the bed, "I like you too. One is a high-achieving student who is held in the hands of the school with a first-class scholarship; A bad student who doesn't touch the sky—this is what my teacher said—I will like my sister even more." "That's not true, beatings are kisses and scoldings are love. In the future, I will always be the water splashed by the married daughter. Mom loves you the most. She is angry at you now. If it were me, you would be angry." God is so idle, I broke your leg long ago, so that you can complain here." "Then don't spill it out." Sensi stuck to it with a playful smile, hugged her sister's shoulders with both hands, and rubbed her forehead against the back of her neck. "Didn't you take a shower? You smell bad. Hurry up!" Just as Gu Senxi straightened up, the door was pushed open.Mother stood at the door holding a steaming cup, her eyes were about to burst into flames. "You don't study, don't come here to harass your sister!" "Mom, brother came to see me for something." "What can he do?" "I'm fine. I can come to my sister. She and I have been together since the womb. We are closer than you." Gu Senxi put his hands in his trouser pockets and shrugged. The mother put the cup heavily on the desk, and with a "bang", half of the water in it splashed out, "What are you talking about!" "Okay, Sensi, go back to your room and sleep." Gu Senxiang stood up and pushed him out the door. Mother turned around, pale.After a while, he regained his composure, took the cup and said to Sen Xiang: "Look, it's half spilled, I'll help you pour it again." After speaking, he turned and went out. Another glass of honey water came over, and after the watcher Senxiang drank it, the mother turned around and came out with satisfaction, and gently closed the door of Senxiang's room.Turning around, I saw the door of Gu Senxi's room next door was open. There were no lights on inside.The light coming in from the living room casts faint silhouettes in the room.Gu Senxi didn't take off his shoes, and the wearer lay on his back on the bed. "Go to bed early if you don't read a book. Don't disturb your sister." Mother lowered her voice. "understood." The answer came from the dark room. Can't hear any tone.Can't see any expression either. After her mother left, Gu Senxi turned over and buried her face heavily in the soft pillow. 74 After writing a whole page of the English test paper, Yi Yao raised his hand and rubbed his swollen eyes. He then turned on the desk lamp to make it a little brighter. The sound of watching TV next door comes from the other side with poor sound insulation. It is a rough Taiwanese romance drama. "Why can't you love me?" a woman cried hypocritically. "I love you so much, can't you feel it?" The man who answered was even more hypocritical. Yi Yao endured the nausea in his stomach, picked up the cup and got up to pour water, just as he stood up, he saw Lin Huafeng leaning against the door of his room, looking at him motionless. "Didn't sleep yet?" Yi Yao whispered, and turned sideways to go out to the living room to pour water. Yi Yao unplugged the thermos bottle, lifted the thermos bottle and poured it into the cup. "Did you use the sanitary pads in my cabinet?" Lin Huafeng said coldly behind him. "No, I'm useless." Yi Yao replied casually without turning his head. There was no sound from Lin Huafeng behind her, and the whole room was silent. When Yi Yao suddenly realized, her hands softened, and the hot water filled the whole cup with a splash, and a small red spot was burned on the back of her hand. Yi Yao corked the bottle and put the hot water bottle on the ground. She stood quietly in the living room where the lights were not turned on. The light from the alley came in through the window, shining on Yi Yao's pale face. She didn't turn around, Lin Huafeng behind him also didn't say a word. It seemed like a long century before I heard Lin Huafeng's calm voice from behind, she said, it's been more than two months, why don't you use it? 75 Just like this, any conversations, movements, eyes, and postures between each other have buried infinite and deep scheming in advance. This has been the relationship between mother and daughter for ten years. Inadvertent dialogue, inadvertent expressions, in the dark become needles scattered along a fixed route, and at a certain preset moment, they mercilessly penetrate into the opponent's body.Then go to confirm whether the other party's painful expression is as you imagined. Obviously, Lin Fenghua saw the same expression in Yi Yaoru's imagination.She leaned against the door motionless, waiting for Yi Yao. Yi Yao turned around, looked at Lin Fenghua, and said, you know. Lin Fenghua opened his mouth, but before he could speak, Yi Yao raised his face, and said, so what, I just went to him to get the money, I have the money to buy sanitary napkins, I don't need to use yours. Lin Fenghua walked over slowly, looked at Yi Yao, and said, do you think you are quite capable? The sudden slap in the dark was exactly as Yi Yao had expected. At the same time that the burning pain on the face was transmitted to the brain, there was a sense of relief in the body that quickly collapsed like a landslide. At the same time, what I didn't expect was that Lin Huafeng's hand suddenly stretched out, grabbed Yi Yao's hair, and suddenly pulled towards him forcefully. Facing him was Lin Huafeng's twitching, flushed face, and those eyes, which were still burning red even in the darkness. 76 Lots and lots of aquatic plants. Densely packed, floating like hair under the dark green water. Qi Ming walked forward with one foot deep and one foot shallow, the boundless waters glowed eeriely under the moonlight. There is an indescribable smoothness that clings to the soles of the feet. The sound of splashing water is coming from a distance. It seems that there is a huge tide ahead. At the last step, the bottom of the foot suddenly became unfathomable, and the water that rushed into the nostrils and ears at that moment rushed into every part of the body like mercury. The last sound in the ear was a sharp cry. _____"help me." Qi Ming struggled to wake up, but the noisy sound of water still remained in his ears. At first it was just a splashing noise, and then gradually formed a distinguishable sound. It was Yi Yao's scream from next door. Qi Ming lifted the quilt, wrapped in thick pajamas, opened the door of the room, walked through the living room, and opened the door. The coldness of the night made Qi Ming seem to have fallen into the unfathomable bottom of the dream just now. The door of Yi Yao's house was locked tightly, and there was a loud scream from inside. When Qi Ming raised his hand to knock on the door, his hand was suddenly grabbed. Before Qi Ming could turn his head, he was pulled back. Li Wanxin put on a blanket and stood shivering behind her, with a straight face, and said in a low voice, "Why do you worry about other people's family affairs!" Qi Ming's hand was tightly grasped, and he didn't know what to do. Another scream was followed by the sound of breaking glass. Lin Huafeng's scolding pierced into his ears, and it was sharper than the glass. "You are a slut! I raised you to be such a slut! Yes! He gave you money! Which man are you going to find! You bitch, what are you doing when you come back!" There seemed to be the sound of something being knocked down, and Yi Yao screamed and cried: "Mom! Mom! Let me go! Ah! Don't hit me! I was wrong! I won't look for it! I won't look for it anymore ......" The door next door to Qi Ming also opened, and a middle-aged woman came out wrapped in a pajamas. Seeing Li Wanxin standing at the door, she pouted at Yi Yao's house and said, if you do evil, you don't know if there will be retribution in your next life. Li Wanxin curled her lips and said, I don't know who did the crime, didn't you hear what Lin Huafeng scolded, saying she was a slut, it must be Yi Yao who did something shameful... Qi Ming threw Li Wanxin's hand away, and shouted: "Mom! What do you know about the family affairs!" Li Wanxin was frightened by her son's sudden roar, but when she came back to her senses, she became angry: "I don't know, you know!" Qi Ming ignored her, threw away the hand she was holding tightly, and slammed it on the door of Yi Yao's house. Li Wanxin grabbed Qi Ming's clothes and pulled back: "You are crazy!" Qi Ming stiffened his body, Li Wanxin was a head shorter than his son, even if he pulled hard, he couldn't move. When Lin Huafeng pulled the door open from the inside with a bang, the woman next door quickly closed the door and went in. Only Qi Ming and Li Wanxin were left standing at the door of Yi Yao's house, facing Lin Huafeng with disheveled hair. "Is someone dead in your family? What's wrong with you? What kind of door do you knock on in the middle of the night?" Li Wanxin didn't want to say anything at first, but when she heard Lin Huafeng coming up, she frowned, and got angry: "It's your family that's going to kill you, right? It's so noisy in the middle of the night, why don't you let people sleep?" "Oh, Li Wanxin, aren't you the one who usually pulls like a donkey? Isn't your family rich? You can't stand it! You can make as much noise as you like, even if the house is demolished, it's mine!" Li Wanxin pulled Qi Ming back, pushed in the door, turned around and said to Lin Huafeng, "Make trouble! Make trouble as you like! You better tear up the slut you gave birth to!" After finishing speaking, she slammed the door and shut it to death dead. Lin Huafeng picked up a pot of cactus in front of the window and threw it at the door of Qi Ming's house, and it fell apart with a bang. The soil scattered and fell on the door to make a small pile. Qi Ming sat on the edge of the bed, his chest heaving violently. He held his breath hard, with several blue veins popping out on his forehead, before he suppressed the crying that was almost bursting his throat back into his chest cavity. Tears flowed down like an open sluice. Mother's angry voice sounded outside: "Qi Ming, you sleep for me. Don't let me go out again." There was a clattering sound outside the door, obviously Li Wanxin locked the door from the outside. Qi Ming wiped the tears off his face. The images left in my mind kept reappearing like explosions. In the dim room, Yi Yao sat on the ground motionless, his hair was disheveled covering his face, and the torn clothes on his body drooped into several pieces. Glittering shards of glass all over the place. 77 The morning fog was too thick to dissolve. A thick layer of frost had formed on the windows. Yesterday's news had predicted that the temperature would drop in the next few days, but the temperature was still lower than expected. The spring that had just warmed up was suddenly swallowed up by pale loneliness.It is still the depressing pale sky light, evenly and lightly smeared on the blue sky. When Qi Ming walked out of the alley, he turned his head to look at the door of Yi Yao's house, it was still closed tightly.Can't hear any movement.Behind him, his mother and several women stood at the door and talked long and short.Qi Ming took out his bicycle and turned the corner out of the alley. "Oh, I see that Qi Ming is becoming more and more talented. I didn't think that when I was a child, but now I really look good. In the words of their children, I am really handsome." The woman with curly hair flattered her. "Children nowadays don't say they're handsome, they all say they're cool." Another woman took the conversation, appearing to keep up with the trend. Li Wanxin laughed so hard that she couldn't see her eyes. "Yeah, I see him going to school with Yi Yao every morning, and Yi Yao is next to him, like a little daughter-in-law." The door of the opposite house opened, and a woman who had just come out took up their conversation. Li Wanxin's face collapsed, "What nonsense are you talking about!" After speaking, she turned around and slammed the door. The few remaining women gloated at each other and smiled. ——I don't think Qi Ming and Yi Yao are normal. ——Yeah, that morning I saw Yi Yao squatting down at the entrance of the alley and throwing up all over the floor, while Qi Ming patted her on the back with a distressed expression, just like "being a father". ——If there is such a thing, I think Li Wanxin should go crazy. ——It’s better to have something like that, this alley is lifeless, it’s better to be a little lively. 79 When passing by the small shop in front of the school, Qi Ming checked that it was still early, and got in. Two or three girls crowded in front of a row of machines. Qi Ming was embarrassed to squeeze in, so he stood behind and waited. The row of machines in front of the store are new to the store, and they are very popular gashapons in Japan.Put in the money, and then immediately fall out of the egg, which contains various series of toy models.The attractive part is that you never know which model you will get. When the girl in front turned around, Qi Ming said "Ah", and immediately greeted politely, "Good morning." "Morning...good morning." Tang Xiaomi's face blushed quickly under Qi Ming's gaze. "You want to buy 'this'?" Qi Ming pointed to the machine in front of him, because he was not sure what to call it, so he used "this" instead. "Well... I want to buy it." Tang Xiaomi lowered her head slightly, her face blushing slightly. "You girls like this kind of thing?" Qi Ming touched his head, expressing a little incomprehensible. "Girls, of course, are different from boys." Tang Xiaomi smiled, with a charming smile like his signature. Qi Ming stared at Tang Xiaomi for a few seconds, then stepped forward and said, "Oh, let me do it." With his back to Tang Xiaomi, he stretched out his hand and twisted the knob on the machine. Inside the egg that fell out was a panda.Qi Ming took it and walked towards the cashier. He didn't notice Tang Xiaomi who suddenly started short of breath behind him and became tense. Tang Xiaomi took out his mobile phone with an uncontrollable excited expression on his face. —— Qi Ming and I were in the small shop in front of the school. He saw that I wanted to buy a gashapon, so he bought it himself. I don’t know if he wants to give it to me. What should I do? The content of the text message sent back quickly is: You buy something else, and when he sends you a gashapon, you take it out and give it to her.Haha, miss, did he take the wrong medicine or did you poison him? Tang Xiaomi ignored the second half of the message. He turned around and took out a few blue tape wristbands from the glass window next to him. Recently, several prominent boys in school are wearing these. Picking up a nicer one, she walked towards the cashier and stood quietly beside Qi Ming with her head bowed. The people inside were looking for money, Qi Ming turned around, and smiled at Tang Xiaomi: "I heard Yi Yao mention this a few days ago, and I was still wondering what it was, but I happened to see it today, and I bought it for her. After finishing speaking, he looked down and saw the wristband on Tang Xiaomi's hand, and said, "Is this for boys? You bought it as a gift?" The smile on Tang Xiaomi's face was as touching as a blooming flower, "Yes, my classmate's birthday is coming soon, he's from the basketball team." "Well, if that's the case, I'll be leaving first." Qi Ming took the change he got back, waved his hand and said "goodbye". "Yeah." Tang Xiaomi nodded.Then take the money out of the wallet and hand it to the person who took the money. When Qi Ming opened the hanging curtain at the door of the store and walked out, Tang Xiaomi's face darkened instantly. She quickly opened the cover of the phone, typed a few words, and then closed it forcefully with a "snap". The teeth were clenched together, and the muscles in the face were so tense that the outlines showed through the skin. 79 Seeds that are accidentally blown by the wind. fell on the atrium. Has been asleep.fell asleep. but.It will definitely wake up in an instant at an appropriate moment.In less than one-thousandth of a second, the shell was quickly broken, and the huge intertwined root system was planted. Then, with a shake, dense branches and thick branches and leaves that covered the sky and covered the sun stood upright. Then, in slow motion, the bloody huge flower disc slowly opened. such seeds.has been sleeping in everyone's heart. Waiting for the day when something that cannot be defined in words breaks the spell of the seal. 80 The phone on the table buzzed. A hand painted with colorful nail polish reached out to pick it up, and all kinds of complicated pendants hanging on the phone jingled together. "Sender: Tang Xiaomi." was displayed on the phone screen. The information was opened, and the very simple three words were clearly reflected on the glowing screen. "Fuck her!"