In October, the creeper at Bei Yao's window withered. There was a voice coming downstairs from the corridor, and then the woman outside the door shouted in a shrill voice: "Zhao Zhilan!"
Zhao Zhilan replied loudly: "If I don't go to work today, I'm asking for leave. You can go."
The woman muttered, "Say it sooner." Then she twisted her waist and walked away.
Bei Yao raised her head to look at her mother, who was really calm.
The woman's name was Zhao Xiu, and Zhao Zhilan used to be in the same village. By coincidence, the two women later married in City C and became neighbors, working in a garment factory. After two years of pregnancy in the same year, the twins gave birth to daughters in August. People around them can't help comparing Zhao Xiu and Zhao Zhilan.
But Zhao Zhilan is nothing compared to Zhao Xiu.
Zhao Zhilan's husband, Beiyao's father, works in a brick and tile factory. The work is hard and the salary is not high. Zhao Xiu's husband is an elementary school math teacher, respected, and decent job.
In this way, Zhao Zhilan is not stingy, mainly because of her daughter.
Zhao Xiusheng’s daughter is Fang Minjun, who is half a month older than Bei Yao. Fang Minjun’s powder is tender and cute, without the roundness of her peers, but she is delicate and upright, like a little girl. Everyone said that this child grew up beautifully!
By comparison, Bei Yao became the crushed one.
The four-year-old Baiyao has round cheeks and big eyes, but when he was a child, Baiyao ate a lot. With two small pinches on his head, he was round and cute. Every time Zhao Xiu saw Xiaobeiyao, she covered her mouth and smiled: "What did Yaoyao eat? Little hands are more fleshy than my family's Minmin."
Praise clearly, taunt in secret. Because Zhao Zhilan is fat, she is alluding to genetic problems.
Beiyao sighed slightly when she saw her mother's face was not good.
Her family has always been in a very ordinary family, and her luck is really incomparable. In her memory, Fang Minjun's family moved out in junior high school and bought a new house. The new house was demolished after two years, so she was divided into two suites. Fang Minjun’s family passed the better, but Beiyao’s family lent money to his uncle and was still poor.
There is only one point, Pei’s complete counterattack—
By the time of the first year of high school, Fang Minjun was crippled, and the "Little Jade Girl" became a mean look.
But Bei Yao, after drawing the strips, seemed to stretch out the tender leaves, and she was thrilling, becoming the school flower of No. 2 Middle School in C City.
But Bei Yao couldn't comfort her mother, she would become very attractive in the future, even if Zhao Zhilan said nonsense as a child. Bei Yao stared and stared all night last night, rebirth is too mysterious. She is grateful for everything she has once again, so she intends to obediently be a four-year-old girl and stay with her parents to provide for them. Even if she does not marry in this life, she will not cause her parents to be middle-aged for her. Things are exhausted and desperate.
After she finished her meal obediently, Zhao Zhilan wiped her mouth.
Bei Yao's little milk said: "Mom, I'm going to kindergarten."
Zhao Zhilan smiled and said, "You usually don't go out when you rush you. You don't need to go if you are sick today."
Bei Yao was sick, and her voice was soft: "I want to go." Her eyes were earnest and wet.
Zhao Zhilan felt soft and touched her forehead: "Go back that afternoon."
Bei Yao remembered what her father had said in the morning, but Pei Chuan hadn't picked up all night, and felt a little uneasy. However, a four-year-old child can't twist his arms, so he can only listen to Zhao Zhilan's words.
In the afternoon, Bei Yao was sent to the kindergarten smoothly.
There were a few stink trees planted at the entrance of "Evergreen Kindergarten". In the garden, several plum blossoms are planted, which smells fragrant in winter. The equipment in the kindergarten in 1996 was so simple that there would be no such equipment as a slide.
There are only two seesaws made of wooden boards, all alone in the yard.
The weather changes rapidly in summer. As soon as the sun comes out, the hail melts and wets the seesaw, and it can no longer be used for the time being.
Teacher Xiao Zhao is organizing children to play games.
Teacher Xiao Wu will come next week, and Teacher Zhao is very busy alone.
When Zhao Zhilan handed Bei Yao's soft little hand to Teacher Xiao Zhao, Bei Yao looked into the classroom, and the children were throwing away the handkerchief. Everyone is clapping their hands and singing, only one person doesn't—
Pei Chuan turned his head and met Bei Yao's eyes.
There was nothing in his eyes.
But for a short while, he turned his head and stopped looking at her.
Pei Chuan was also placed among the children. He is undoubtedly the most special child in the kindergarten because he does not have double legs. Teacher Xiao Zhao felt sorry for him, and the children were afraid that he would hate him. With such contradictions, he seemed to be a burden to the entire kindergarten.
Therefore, Pei Chuan is incompatible with everyone else.
The children sang songs in their immature voices, and Xiao Zhao smiled and placed Bei Yao among the children. Pei Chuan is opposite Bei Yao.
"Throw it, throw the handkerchief, and gently throw it behind the kid. Don't tell him, please catch him quickly, catch him quickly~"
The handkerchief fell behind Chen Hu. The little fat man did not react. After the children looked at him with a laugh, Chen Hu suddenly turned his head and saw the blue handkerchief behind him, jumping up like a small ball to catch people. As a result, the child in front had already returned to his seat.
Chen Hu depressedly became the person who lost the handkerchief in the next round, sang a nursery rhyme taught by the teacher as punishment, and then continued the game.
Four or five-year-old children in a circle clapped their hands: "Throw it away, throw away the handkerchief~"
In the children's immature singing, the little fat man rolled his eyes and looked at Pei Chuan in the wheelchair. Bei Yao's heart jumped. She had never been to kindergarten this day in her previous life, but after the next day, Pei Chuan never spoke, and even refused to come to kindergarten, completely becoming a taciturn boy.
So what did he experience
As the song continued to sing, Chen Hu Xiaopangdun'er dropped his handkerchief behind Pei Chuan. At this time, Teacher Xiao Zhao took a child with a stomachache to the toilet.
The audience suddenly fell silent, even if it was a child, he knew with emotion that Pei Chuan had no legs and he couldn't catch anyone.
Pei Chuan turned his head and lowered his eyes to see the handkerchief behind him.
Chen Hu made a proud face at him, and the children giggled at his funny appearance.
Xiao Pei Chuan gritted his teeth, leaned on the low wheelchair with one hand, and bent down hard at the same time.
Chen Hu pointed at him and laughed.
Bei Yao's heartbeat is fast, don't pick it up... Don't pick it up...
In the summer, cicadas sang on the tree.
Pei Chuan bit his lip hard and picked up his handkerchief with difficulty. His eyes were dark and heavy, like an abyss of silence.
Amid the laughter of all the children, his thin arms began to force the wheelchair forward.
It's a pity that he broke his leg when he was five years old, and he is not familiar with wheelchairs.
Every step that the wheelchair pushes is like a snail crawling.
The children's exclamation drove him forward. He didn't look at anyone. With the blue handkerchief on his mutilated leg, he chased Chen Hu in front of him.
Know the sound one after another.
Chen Hu deliberately ran very slowly, clutching his stomach and laughing.
Pei Chuan twisted his direction.
He can't control the direction of the wheelchair, and doesn't know how to use force.
In the summer of five years old, he was like a sleepy beast. He was irritable and desperate, driving the wheelchair to chase. Stubbornly refused to admit defeat.
The ignorant children were laughing at him.
With tears in his eyes, he wanted to grab something. So adjust the wheelchair over and over again.
Bei Yao stared at him blankly with Xing'er eyes open.
The more she grows up, she will forget many things in her childhood. In her memory, Pei Chuan was a disabled year without legs, but that was all. There is no place for him in her life. If he hadn't become a "devil" and had protected her expressionlessly, she might not pay much attention to him for the rest of her life.
He is the devil of the world, but he is Be Yao's benefactor.
I secretly liked her as a darling for a lifetime.
She realized that she had to do something.
When Chen Hu jumped and ran over, Bei Yao turned awkwardly and hugged Chen Hu's leg.
Chen Hu shouted, "Bei Yao, let go, what are you doing?" The little fat man beat his chest and feet, and wanted to throw Bei Yao away.
The four-year-old girl has no strength, and the little fat man is like a savage bull. When she was in a hurry, Bei Yao almost couldn't hold him.
Baiyao blinked, like a piece of brown candy, half-prone on the ground and tightly holding the little fat man's leg to prevent him from leaving. No matter how strong the five-year-old fat man is, it is impossible to run laps with "calf candies".
The kindergarten suddenly became a group.
In the hot summer of July, Bei Yao wore a pair of bean-green cloth shorts, which was knee-length long, and her bare calves were about to be rubbed red by the ground.
The child's skin was delicate and tender, and her Xing'er had a carelessly delicate look in her eyes, and she was almost lying on the ground.
Because she still had a fever, Bei Yao's little milk voice was a little dumb: "Don't go!"
Chen Hu couldn't get away, and went crazy, and finally cried with a "wow".
Bei Yao was stunned.
She looked up at the little fat man who was howling and crying blankly, then turned her head to Pei Chuan who couldn't see far away. He, how could he not come to catch him.
What if she made Xiao Chenhu cry
Pei Chuan took the blue handkerchief and looked down at her. She just raised her eyes. With a pair of Xing'er eyes that were so brilliant in the summer sun, she looked up at him blankly and bewildered.
Chen Hu cried loudly, with a high-pitched voice, like a plucked rooster, crying with nasal bubbles.
Pei Chuan looked at her wet eyes and Chen Hu who was trapped by her and jumped.
He pursed his lips, dropped his handkerchief on the ground, stopped looking at them, and pushed the wheelchair to the door laboriously.
The handkerchief fell in front of Bei Yao. She was still lying on her stomach, keeping a posture of trapping Chen Hu, not knowing whether to let go.
Chen Hu cried loudly, and the young children in the kindergarten also cried. Teacher Xiao Zhao saw this sight as soon as she walked in, and she hurried forward to hug Xiao Bei Yao.
Pei Chuan has reached the door.
There was the voice of Teacher Xiao Zhao coaxing Little Fatty.
He looked at the door. It was already the next afternoon, and his father and mother still hadn't come.
Behind him is a scene.
Pei Chuan never looked back. Although he never speaks, he knows many things. For example, the most popular children in the kindergarten are Chen Hu and Fang Minjun.
Because Chen Hu would be funny and would take everyone to play, Fang Minjun looked good and dressed beautifully.
For another example, the little girl who just looked at him with bright eyes is the youngest girl in the kindergarten. She was sent to the kindergarten early this month and lives in the same community as his family.
Crying, squeamish, easy to get sick.
They all call her Yaoyao.
She knew that Pei Chuan was lying, and their family background in the entire community was considered to be the most substantial. Other people don’t have that kind of sandwich biscuits, but they not only have biscuits, but also chocolate. Pei Chuan will not fight for a biscuit.
Even if the child didn't say anything, her eyes fell on Pei Chuan's legs, and tears suddenly appeared in her eyes. Jiang Wenjuan actually understands why, it must be because of his legs.
She hugged him tenderly, and then smiled: "Mom is going to cook, you can eat in a while, does Xiaochuan have something to eat?"
Pei Chuan shook his head, his black eyes looked at Jiang Wenjuan's busy figure quietly and sensibly.
Pei Haobin didn't go home until the evening. He was arresting a drug offender recently, and he was often busy late at night. After he came back, the atmosphere of the whole home was quiet for a second.
Pei Chuan's family has a color TV set in the living room, which was considered a rare thing in 1996. Jiang Wenjuan was watching a singing show with Pei Chuan. Pei Wenjuan did not turn his head, but Pei Haobin took the lead and said, "I'm back."
He first looked at his tired wife, and then touched his son's little head.
Pei Chuan raised his head to look at his father, Ming Che didn't have the slightest hatred in his eyes. Pei Haobin felt a slight pain in his heart.
Jiang Wenjuan blamed him for influencing Pei Chuan, and the two quarreled shortly after each other.
Some time ago, both of them were busy one night. Jiang Wenjuan was the chief surgeon for emergency surgery, and Pei Haobin was still working. They both thought that they had picked up Pei Chuan, but when they came back they realized that neither of them had gone. Jiang Wenjuan cried hysterically all night that night.
Although Jiang Wenjuan and Pei Haobin introduced their marriage, they were very sweet when they first got married. Especially after Pei Chuan was born, such happiness reached its peak, but Pei Chuan broke his leg later, Jiang Wenjuan couldn't help but hate Pei Haobin.
She hated her husband for harming her son because of his work, and let the child be cut off by criminals when he was four years old.
Jiang Wenjuan was heartbroken when he saw Pei Chuan covered in blood.
Pei Haobin found that the kitchen didn't leave him a meal, so he had a meal and finished a bowl of noodles by himself. After eating, he came to talk to Pei Chuan for a while, what did he ask, what did the little boy answer, he was very sensible.
Jiang Wenjuan looked at him coldly. At nine o'clock in the evening, she wiped Pei Chuan's face and told him to go to bed.
The boy's hand grabbed the corner of her dress.
"Mom." He looked up, "I want to take a bath."
"You didn't have much activity, it's not very hot today, and your body isn't dirty. Let's wash it another day."
Pei Chuan pursed his lips: "I want to take a bath."
He didn't tell Jiang Wenjuan the reason for the quarrel with Chen Hu. Jiang Wenjuan curled his eyebrows and boiled water for him after all.
She undressed Pei Chuan and put the thin boy in the tub.
Pei Chuan's black eyes looked at his ugly stump and didn't speak.
Jiang Wenjuan also saw it. It was almost an unbearable pain in her heart. However, she couldn't let her young son wash it herself. She patiently washed him, dried the water, and then took him to sleep.
Jiang Wenjuan still asked before going to bed: "Don't hold back if you want to pee, tell the teacher and mother, do you know?"
"I know." He said softly, "Mom, you can tell me a story."
Jiang Wenjuan just smiled and said okay, someone knocked on the door outside: "Doctor Jiang! Is Doctor Jiang there?"
Pei Chuan watched her mother hurry out and never came back.
He could not hear the story, and turned his gaze calmly to the other side of the wall, where the scale was previously marked with chalk. You can measure the height of a child. In the past, every year he was older, his parents would take him to measure with joy.
Later, Pei Haobin wiped it away with tears, leaving only a vague trace.
Pei Chuan opened his eyes and closed his eyes for a long time.
He understood that he would never grow as tall as his father.
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August 3rd is Fang Minjun’s birthday. Teacher Xiao Zhao took the whole kindergarten children to sing her birthday song.
Bei Yao sat in the crowd and sang her little hands. She looked around and found that Pei Chuan hadn't come to school. Of course, Chen Hu hadn't come either. She was very anxious, why didn't Pei Chuan come to kindergarten
Bei Yao asked Teacher Xiao Zhao, and Teacher Xiao Zhao said: "Mother Pei Chuan said that he will not come to kindergarten anymore. In September, she will send him to preschool directly."