Devil’s Warmth

Chapter 10: 10. Stuffy

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With the sound of firecrackers, the new year is coming.

It snows every year in the winter of City C, which is the most pleasant time for the children.

The sky was overwhelmingly silvery white outside. Chen Hu was beaten a year ago. His dad was so violent that he beaten him when he read his paper and held it down.

Chen Hu scored fifty points in the exam, and they were the last one in the pre-school class.

Xiao Pang Dun'er's wailing like killing a pig was almost heard by the entire community. Zhao Zhilan shook her head, a little amused: "This child's voice is too penetrating."

The New Year became a death-free gold medal for Chen Hu's child. He was deducted from the New Year's Eve money, but somehow his violent father stopped beating him.

Chen Hu took a group of children from the community out to play, and followed six or seven boys in a mighty manner. Two of them were two years older than him, but they weren't chubby and strong.

Li Da said, "Let's go find Minmin."

Chen Hu thought for a while: "Catch the birds and shoot the cannons, don't play with girls." However, after thinking about Fang Minjun's beautiful and noble appearance, he agreed, "Well, let's go find her."

All the boys in the old quarter are here, except for Pei Chuan. The building here is very old and has special features. It is a bit like a large courtyard, but the floor will be higher.

The wall on the south side will be overgrown with creepers in summer, and now it has formed a layer of ice crystals.

It's very easy for them to find someone. They just stand downstairs and let go of their voices and shout: "Fang Minjun—"

The children's voices one after another downstairs, after shouting Fang Minjun, Chen Hu remembered that he had eaten Bei Yao's apple. So he led everyone to continue shouting: "Bei Yao—"

The crisp and tender voice was heard throughout the community.

Pei Chuan was making dumplings with his mother Jiang Wenjuan in the opposite building. Jiang Wenjuan only let him have something to play with. After all, Pei Chuan finished his preschool homework for winter vacation in two days. Other children would not take the initiative to bring a "cumbersome" to play. Jiang Wenjuan was sad and had to spend some time with his son.

However, Pei Chuan looked down, his pale fingers pinched the folds of the dumplings as if they were. He always does this and learns everything quickly.

Jiang Wenjuan felt even more uncomfortable. On the night when Pei Chuan returned with the paper, she cried in the middle of the night with a muffled voice in the quilt. Pei Chuan is the only one with 100 points in the preschool class. Her son was so smart and outstanding, but he was deprived of his legs, and he was ruined for most of his life.

Originally, Pei Chuan was making dumplings seriously, but when he heard the ups and downs calling Bei Yao, the dumplings in his hands broke a little.

His black eyes looked at it lightly, and then pinched the gap.

Jiang Wenjuan had been observing him and found out all of a sudden. No child will take the initiative to look for Pei Chuan to play. After all, the children are like brisk birds. They can't push, and they won't be willing to push a heavy wheelchair to Pei Chuan.

Jiang Wenjuan was afraid that her son would feel uncomfortable: "Stop making dumplings, mommy will take you outside to play?"

Pei Chuan's lips moved, he wanted to refuse, but in the end he didn't say anything. At the age of five, he still has expectations and yearning for the world, and he also wants to go out and see the snow.

Jiang Wenjuan washed his hands and pushed Pei Chuan out.

A hundred meters to the north of the community, there is a teahouse with a smell of smoke, and some people will play mahjong here.

Jiang Wenjuan was not going to play mahjong, she just pushed Pei Chuan to see the excitement, and the children would also play around here.

The tall cypress trees were covered with snow, and the children under the trees were cheering and laughing.

Pei Chuan's wheelchair was placed on the side, and someone in the teahouse greeted him: "Dr. Jiang came over to play?" The light and fluttering gaze passed Pei Chuan, and he would call out Xiao Chuan pityingly.

"Yeah, you play, I'll take a look."

Pei Chuan's gaze crossed the cypress tree and fell on the little girl who was covering her eyes.

Bei Yao wore her red cotton-padded jacket and covered her eyes tightly with her two small hands. Chen Hu led Fang Minjun with a cat's waist and went to hide in the alley. The little girl said in a clear voice: "3, 2, 1... I'm looking for you!"

She smiled and let go, but the first time she looked at the boy in the wheelchair.

He took the lead to remove his eyes.

Bei Yao's eyes were bright, she still couldn't understand the little secrets in her book, but it didn't prevent her from getting close to Pei Chuan in her heart. She wanted to talk to him, but Pei Chuan didn't pay much attention to her for the whole semester. Besides, she had to find the children first, so she had to walk her short legs to find Chen Hu and the others.

Chen Hu was also damaged. He took everyone into the warehouse next to the teahouse, which was full of nylon pockets.

The children squatted inside, and Bei Yao couldn't find the world.

She had a good temper and looked around, panting out of exhaustion. She opened the curtains and the grass to see, there was nothing inside. Pei Chuan looked indifferently.

Cypress trees fluttered, and the girl's face was covered with snow.

The cold snow touched her warm skin and melted away, and water flowed through her cheeks. She hid in embarrassment, her eyes were clear, as if she was being bullied and crying.

Pei Chuan buckled the wheelchair with his fingers, and waited for a long time for Bei Yao to pass by his side to find him, he whispered: "In the warehouse."

The voice was very soft, like a dumb dumb buried in heavy snow for a long time, pulling out a bit stiff.

Bei Yao looked back at him blankly, his face was cold, as if he hadn't said anything.

She turned and walked towards the warehouse, opened her nylon pocket with her little hand, and she squatted a row of children as expected.

Chen Hu met Xiao Beiyao's smiling face and was stunned for an instant, and then burst out a loud roar: "Beiyao, you must have peeked!"

"I didn't take a peek."

"I don't believe it, you shamelessly!"

The little fat man seemed to have been fired up, or Li Da glanced at the bewildered Xiao Bei Yao and said, "Who did you see first?"

Pei Chuan looked through the open warehouse door.

Bei Yao glanced at the aggrieved little fat Dun'er, and he burst into tears. She said softly, "I haven't seen anyone."

She thought to herself, she is a young lady with the memory of third grade, and she can't bully the children.

She covered her eyes: "You can hide."

Chen Hu breathed a sigh of relief, and ran away quickly, Fang Minjun also hurriedly followed, and the children scattered and hid.

Pei Chuan's lips were tightly pressed, and his heart was unbearable. He was troubled.

They didn't bring him to play, so he shouldn't say that.

Bei Yao let go and went to find other children. He glanced at Bei Yao coldly, and then held Jiang Wenjuan with his pale fingers: "Mom, go home."

Seeing Aunt Jiang pushing Pei Chuan away, Bei Yao blinked her eyes. What's wrong? She hasn't thanked him yet.

~

Zhao Zhilan played mahjong with Zhao Xiu at the teahouse. Zhao Xiu was out of luck today and always hit Zhao Zhilan. She was frustrated and took a sip of hot water: "Next year my Minmin and Zhilan Jia Yaoyao will also be in first grade together. This child grows up really fast."

The mahjong was rubbing loudly, Zhao Zhilan made a good card: "Yes."

"Zhilan, don't be discouraged. If Yaoyao can't keep up with the progress, she can go to preschool for one more year. Anyway, she is young."

Zhao Zhilan was stunned: "What did you say?"

"Yaoyao didn't do well in the exam at the end of the term? I heard that I just passed the exam. Don't hurry up, ask me to say that a solid foundation is the most important thing. I thought about Minmin the same way. If she didn't do well in the exam, she would study for another year , But as soon as the paper got back, Minmin passed 90, so it should be no problem to continue to the first grade."

Zhao Zhilan can be considered to have heard some ways, she glanced at Zhao Xiu sideways: "Who told you that my Yaoyao just passed?"

Zhao Xiu thought, pretend, just pretend.

Zhao Zhilan grabbed the card and smiled openly: "She is very good this year, only one point is short of 100 points, ninety-nine in the exam!"

Zhao Xiu was stunned.

The other two women at the poker table were surprised and praised: "Oh, this kid will be promising in the future."

Zhao Xiu's expression changed: "Zhao Zhilan, don't you need to make up this to deceive people?"

"Do I need to lie to you? If you don't believe me, ask Teacher Yu, the teacher has score records."

Zhao Xiu also understands this truth, saying that such a panic can be dismantled at once, and Zhao Zhilan would not be so stupid to use it to deceive her. Does that mean that little girl Beiyao really got 99

Zhao Xiu thought of what she had just said, and felt very faceless. However, the other two women at the card table didn't understand the winks, and after looking at Zhao Xiu with weird eyes, they praised Zhao Zhilan's daughter for her cleverness.

Zhao Xiu was so angry that she frustrated Mahjong in a muffled voice. This is the first time Zhao Zhilan has beaten herself since childhood.

This feeling was shameful and aggrieved. She couldn't wait to catch Fang Minjun who was playing outside and ask what was going on.

~

The year passed very quickly, and the taste of the year when I was a child was very full.

Eating candies and melon seeds, watching TV can be beautifully bubbling. Bei Yao is very happy every day, but sometimes she looks at the opposite house with her little hand on her cheek and thinks, why didn't she see Pei Chuan come out to play today

Fang Minjun was scolded by her mother, and her face was lost from crying. She sobbed and defended: "90 points are a lot, Chen Hu is only 50!"

"I want you to win Bei Yao in the test!"

"Mom, I'll do it next time." She sobbed, "Except for Bei Yao, I got the best in the exam."

Zhao Xiu was right to think about it. Fang Minjun is ninety or so. The rest of the community are all monkeys. The only one who doesn’t know the score is the broken leg of the Pei’s child. But such a child can count on him to take more exams. good? Maybe it's not a pass.

Zhao Xiu had to poke Fang Minjun's head: "Do you know if you work hard during the Chinese New Year?"

Fang Minjun nodded quickly.

In the beginning of spring, the semester class also began to read after the semester, and childhood always passed away happily.

In Xiaobeiyao's eyes, Fang Minjun was still cold, chubby Chen Hu's devilish voice pierced her ears, and Pei Chuan in the corner did not take the initiative to speak to her, as if she whispered that the person in the warehouse that day was her illusion.

In the last month of the preschool, the school issued a policy-future preschools cancel exams!

In the class like Chen Hu, the joy was overwhelming.

The rest of the children know that they don't need the final exam, and most of them are happy. Only Fang Minjun thought melancholy, if he doesn't take the exam, he can only surpass Bei Yao in the first grade

It was summer when Teacher Yu Qian sent these children away, and they all looked like newborn young seedlings, one by one, young and green.

I don't know what they will become when they grow up, or where they will go.

She waved to the children: "Come on, elementary school kids!"

From the children who didn't understand anything to already understand the rules, they all answered obediently.

Pei Chuan is six years old.

His legs failed to be like what his mother said,'When he grows up, he will grow back.' He would look at them before going to bed every night, but they didn't grow out.

Before going to the first grade, he heard Jiang Wenjuan and Pei Haobin arguing.

Jiang Wenjuan sneered: "There is no teacher in the first grade who can help Xiaochuan go to the toilet!"

"I said I would ask the teacher to give gifts and ask them to help!"

"I can ask for a year, and then, the fifth and sixth grades of elementary school! Junior high and high school! You can ask for a lifetime! I will find the hospital to give Ogawa an prosthetic limb, and I will let him stand up again after the bankruptcy!"

"Juan'er, don't be impulsive, Xiaochuan is still too young..."

Pei Chuan looked at his empty trouser legs.

He wants to say that since the kindergarten, he hasn't asked the teacher to help in the toilet.

He doesn't understand what a "prosthesis" is, but he understands "stand up again".