Chapter 8 Section VII

We finally lived a peaceful life for a while.In memory, that was the happiest day when I was with her.She doesn't seem to be in the wine business anymore, the wine on the balcony is slowly being emptied, and she no longer leaves early and returns late, and occasionally helps me with my homework or writes essays with me.Sometimes she couldn't control herself, and said foul words in front of me. After she finished speaking, she quickly covered her mouth, rolled her eyes, and looked like a child. Anan still comes here often.On weekends, he always brought a lot of food and cooked a table full of dishes for us to eat. After eating, he was busy cleaning the table and washing dishes, humming a song while busy.

"Damn, your shop is closed on weekends, how can you make money to marry a wife?" Every time he came, Lin Guoguo would say this, neither salty nor bland, but Anan pretended not to hear it. Lin Guoguo sometimes helps him cook, but she doesn't even appreciate her cooking skills, and every time she cooks it herself, she is the first to throw it away after the first bite. "Bah," she would always frown and spit out what she had just eaten, saying, "It seems that I really can't do anything but count money." She giggled alone at her silly joke, and Anan laughed too, but I knew that he was happy for her good mood.It's not easy for her to be in a good mood, and everyone cherishes it.

One day after dinner, she went downstairs to the supermarket to buy something.Anan is cleaning the portrait of her father she brought back. I sat on the sofa and couldn't help asking him: "Uncle Anan, will you propose to her?" He turned his head, looked at me with tender eyes, and said, "Ma Zhuo, why don't you call her mom?" I bow my head.I always remember the rules she gave me in the taxi from Ya'an to Chengdu. In fact, she didn't allow me to call, so I formed a habit. Anan looked at me with his head, and suddenly asked: "If we are a family, will it be good?"

I nodded vigorously. "Okay." Anan smiled, put his father's portrait away, raised his head and said, "I will work hard." "What are you trying to do?" I asked puzzled. Anan just laughed and didn't answer me.After a pause for a few seconds, he suddenly asked me, "Ma Zhuo, do you like Chengdu?" "It's okay." I said. "My hometown is in a beautiful place, a small town in the south of the Yangtze River." Anan said, "Your mother may agree to go there with me, will you be willing?" I nodded vigorously. I am willing to follow them wherever I go.

At this moment, she came in with her things and said loudly: "What are you two talking about mysteriously? Are you talking bad about me?" "How dare you." Anan hurried up to take the things in her hand.She smiled at her coquettishly, her face was radiant.Then she bent down, took out a box of beautifully packaged chocolates from her bag and threw it at me, saying, "Here you are, Marjorie!" I caught the chocolate falling from the sky, and for the first time, I truly realized that there is really such a beautiful and warm word "happiness" in the world.

I cherish this kind of life very much, and I also worked very hard in my studies. In the final exam of that semester, I got 95 in Chinese and 100 in math. On the day she got the report card, she was so happy that she drank half a bottle of wine by herself and said to me as if swearing: "Student Ma, I want to make a lot of money and send you abroad to study!" I really want to tell her that I don't want to study abroad, and I don't want her to work hard. In fact, as long as our mother and daughter can stay together every day, it is better than anything else.But she was completely immersed in her own imagination. She called Anan, reported my grades, and then asked Anan to find an English tutor for me during the summer vacation, her voice was high and her eyebrows were beaming.

At this moment, there was a scream from the next door.Lan Tu seemed to be doing badly in the exam, and she was beaten by her mother.She hung up the phone, took a bottle of nail polish and painted it slowly, and said to me while applying nail polish: "Don't pay attention to that family, the whole family is crazy!" I also really don't like blueprints, so throughout the summer, I would rather stay at home by myself than repeatedly reject her invitation to play at her house or hang out together.Lantu was very upset about this. I went to the supermarket to buy salt that day. When I came back, she was downstairs playing with some children with sandbags. I looked at them, but no one paid any attention to me. Walk forward on your own.As soon as I walked a little further, I heard her say behind me: "I don't know what I'm so proud of all day long."

I ignored her.But the sandbag hit me from behind, hitting the back of my head all the way.She used a lot of force, and I almost fainted. After a long time, I turned around, picked up the sandbag, and walked to her. She folded her hands behind her back and looked at my face with flickering eyes.I raised my face, put my hands behind my back, hid the sandbag behind me, and looked at her coldly. I guess my appearance must have made her a little scared, she reached behind my back and snatched the sandbag from my hand, pretending to be calm and said to the children: "Whose turn is it now?"

I just hope that this kind of thing won't happen again, otherwise, I won't be able to spare her. But what I never expected was that that night, when she was scrambling eggs in the kitchen and I was watching TV in the living room, the doorbell rang suddenly. I opened the door and found Lantu and her mother standing outside.Blueprint had a large bump on his forehead, which was swollen and shiny, and looked quite scary. "Why did you throw stones at my blueprint?" Blueprint's mother asked me sharply, "Are there any children like you who have no tutor?" "None of my business," I said.

Lantu's mother froze for a moment, and shouted at me: "Want to deny it? Lantu, tell me, did she smash it?" Blueprint the damn liar didn't say a word, just looked at me wronged with those big teary eyes. She took the spatula and ran out of the kitchen. After realizing what was going on, she slammed the door behind her.Pulled me and said, "Don't talk to them, watch your TV." "I really didn't do it," I said. She smiled and whispered in my ear, "I wish it was you." The doorbell rang frantically. "Never mind!" she told me, and turned the TV to the loudest for me.

Lantu's mother kicked the door of my house several times, cursed a few times, and finally left angrily. After dinner in the evening, I saw the blueprint when I was collecting clothes on the balcony. She was lying on the balcony of her house, and the bag on her head seemed to have disappeared.She glanced at me with a strange feeling in her eyes, and she couldn't tell whether it was resentment or guilt. I walked to the edge of the balcony, the closest to her, and asked her, "Why are you lying?" It could be seen that she was afraid of me, her eyes were dodged, her head was shaking from embarrassment, and finally, a very vicious sentence came out of her mouth: "Lin Guoguo is a prostitute." She spoke very softly, but I heard it very clearly. "Don't think everyone doesn't know that you are an illegitimate daughter." After saying this, she shook her body and walked into her room. I thought I didn't care what other people said.But in fact, I know, I care about it in my heart.In those days at school, I always went to and from school with my head down. I was always worried that the blueprint would spread something in the school. No matter what I was doing, I felt that her malicious eyes were following me.This makes me very uneasy. Anan came to pick me up from school that day, and I asked him, "When will we move?" "What?" He didn't understand. "Is that the small town you mentioned?" Anan looked at me worriedly and said, "What's the matter? Did something unpleasant happen at school, or what did your mother tell you?" I shook my head. "Soon." Anan seemed to be talking to himself. I didn't understand the specific meaning of the word "soon", but I didn't ask any further.