Chapter 2 first quarter

My name is Ma Zhuo, and I am a Sichuan girl. The small town where I was born has a nice name, Ya'an.Some people call it "Rain City".The rain in Yucheng is well-deserved of its reputation, and it will be endless once it gets up.Grandma said that the reason for this is that a small piece of the sky here is missing.My grandma is a Tibetan. She is not really old, but she has many wrinkles on her face and a pair of mysterious eyes. I almost believe everything she says, because if I don’t believe it, I might suffer.My father is a living example. One night when I was two years old, he insisted on going out to meet someone despite my grandma's firm objection. As a result, he was stabbed into the heart with a sharp knife and died on the spot.

At that time, my mother was only twenty years old, and my father had not yet obtained a marriage certificate.After my father died, she left me and went to Chengdu alone, so I grew up with my grandma.When it was raining non-stop, grandma would sing to me, in Tibetan, with a different tune, floating up and down, as if floating from outside the sky, until she sang me to sleep. When I was nine years old, my mother finally came back from Chengdu to visit me. I came home after school and saw her sitting in the main room of our house. She had a round face, pointed chin, and big eyes. She was a standard beauty.She hugged me who was a bit baby fat into her arms, and she asked me in a brisk tone: "Are you Ma Zhuo?"

I called me too politely, as if I was just a long-lost kid next door.I gently pushed her away with disappointment, but she pulled me back into her arms and said, "Fortunately, I didn't buy you new clothes. You are much shorter than I thought." Grandma walked in from the outside, holding a piece of bacon in her hand. The bacon in summer lost its original luster and became dry, which made people lose any appetite.Mom let me go and called grandma softly: "Mom." "Get out!" Grandma threw the bacon in her hand to the ground.I shuddered. Mom said softly, "I'll come and see Ma Biao and Ma Zhuo."

Ma Biao is my father's name. "There is no one here that needs you to see." After my grandma finished speaking, she took my hand and said, "Ma Zhuo, go to the house and do your homework." I went to the back room as promised.The room was very dark, I didn’t turn on the lights, I finished copying the new words homework for the day in the dark, and when I looked up, I realized that it was raining again, and the rain was hitting the blue tiles on the roof, making this autumn dusk seem like a dream .There was no sound outside the house for a long time, I guessed she was gone, so I pushed open the door, stepped out on tiptoe, but unexpectedly saw her again, she was standing in the corner, there was a picture of her father hanging there, she put her foot Standing on tiptoe, she reached out to touch his face, a face that had been hanging there for so many years but I never dared to look at it seriously, her slender fingers caressed his face hesitantly and affectionately, in the air There was the sound of dust cracking, and the sound of dripping rain, which made me want to suffocate.

I squatted down, not daring to breathe.Until she turned around, saw me, came to me, picked up my two arms, lifted me up straight, and made me look into her eyes.Then I heard her say, "Ma Zhuo, how about I take you away?" "Uh oh." I made a short, weird syllable in my throat, and tried to break free from her. "You really look like your father." She said softly, "Be obedient, let me take you away, and we will never come back." I didn't dare to look at her, my eyes were fixed on her flowery skirt with small purple patterns on it, like some kind of animal's eyes.My God, I don't have a mother, how could this person who fell from the sky be my mother?But as soon as she pulled me, I couldn't break free from her.While the two of us were chatting, my grandma brought my uncle into the door. My uncle was so strong, he stepped forward, separated us, raised his hand and slapped her involuntarily: "Bitch, you killed my brother, and you still have the face to come back?"

She covered her face, blood seeped from the corner of her mouth, but she was smiling, just laughing, not pleading anything. "Get out as soon as possible." The uncle said, "Don't let me see you again, or I will hit you every time I see you." She didn't seem to be afraid, but turned her head and gave me a long look, and then said in a clear and unquestionable tone: "Yes, but I want to take Ma Zhuo away." The uncle gritted his teeth and said, "Ling Guoguo, believe it or not, I'll hack you to death!?" It turned out that her name was Lin Guoguo.

"I believe it." She continued to say with a smile, "then I will take Ma Zhuo away before you hack me to death." After she finished speaking, she stepped forward to pull me. The uncle turned around and ran straight into the kitchen. I saw grandma let out a low cry, and ran in, leaving only the two of us in the main room.She leaned down, made a face at me, and whispered in my ear, "Let's run!" As soon as she tried her best, I ran out of the door after her.The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and she dragged me to run fast, regardless of the mud spots on the skirt.There was a taxi parked at the alley, and I was pushed into the taxi by her, and then she also fell in like a shell, panting and said to the driver: "Go to the long-distance bus station!"

Through the dirty rear glass of the car window that was wet by raindrops, I saw my uncle running with a shiny kitchen knife gradually turned into an invisible black spot. She laughed and giggled in the car, her voice was as crisp as a silver bell. Then she turned to look at me, and asked me in a tone of surprise, joy and doubt: "Ma Zhuo, how can you look exactly like your father!?" It took me a long time to understand that when she came back that time, she just wanted to see me, but she suddenly decided to take me away because my appearance reminded her of her father and the good times she had with him but it was painful years.And I followed her to flee the home where I lived for nine years in such an unbelievable way, but there was only one reason, she was my mother.

I'm a kid who needs a mom. I know this better than anyone else.