"Tao Huainan...you can drink a cup of yogurt." The school committee came to sit next to Tao Huainan, pushed the yogurt towards Tao Huainan, and whispered to him.
"Thank you." Tao Huainan thanked him and said politely to the other party. He still has a cold and speaks with a nasal tone.
During the lunch break, the two of them sat quietly for a while, and there were still a few girls sitting in their seats scattered in the classroom.
After a while, the school committee asked, "Why didn't Chiku come?"
Tao Huainan was silent for a while before saying, "I don't know either."
"Why don't you know?" The school committee blinked and asked him, "Aren't you together every day?"
"I really don't know," Tao Huainan scratched the edge of the table with his fingers, and said with a slight smile, "I miss him too."
It had been several days since school started, and Tao Huainan came and went by himself every day, and the class secretly discussed Chi Ku. Some said that his grades were so good that he would skip a grade, and some secretly said that his family found out about his puppy love with the school committee and transferred him to another school.
Some people came to ask Tao Huainan in private, and Tao Huainan said that his younger brother just asked for leave and would come back in a few days.
Sometimes the two boys at the back table would knock on Tao Huainan's desk with their legs before going out between classes, asking him if he wanted to go to the bathroom, but Tao Huainan shook his head and said no.
I don't want to trouble others, and I don't want to move.
Tao Huainan is no longer angry with Chi Ku, not at all. As long as there is nothing wrong with being late, it's fine if you don't come back.
My brother encountered some troubles. There was a small accident in the exhibition, but it was not completed smoothly. Tao Huainan did not see him for two days, and it was Tian Yi who picked him up.
While Tao Huainan was worried about Chiku, he was also worried about his elder brother. But he can't do anything, he's just a blind little piece of shit, he needs to be protected, he can never protect them back.
There was no news about Chi Kui, and Tao Huainan was so worried that he couldn't sleep all night. He always thinks a lot, and every call he can't get through can make him think of a possibility, whether Chiku was called by his father or what happened. When I close my eyes, I seem to be able to recall the smell of blood in the van when I was a child, and a twitching child.
It didn't matter if Tao Huainan's eyes were open or closed, so he kept them open all night, his mind filled with all kinds of possibilities for why Chiku didn't come back, each of which made his heart skip a beat, and his soul gathered together up.
When the phone rang suddenly in the early hours of the morning, Tao Huainan shrank in shock, and immediately jumped up from the bed, his arms and fingers trembling when he grabbed the phone buttons.
"...Hello?" Tao Huainan's voice was unsteady, panicked.
"I."
A short "I", this voice came from the ear, and Tao Huainan's throat became hoarse almost instantly.
"Why did you go..." Tao Huainan tried his best to suppress his sore nose, squatting on the bed and holding the phone tightly.
Chi Ku said, "My phone is broken, so I can't make calls."
"What's wrong?" Tao Huainan held his breath and asked continuously, "Chi Zhide snatched your phone? Did he hit you? Did you run away?"
Chi Ku didn't respond to him, and just said to him: "The phone I borrowed won't last long. I'll be back in a few days, don't think about it."
"Did he hit you?" Tao Huainan didn't respond to his words, but asked himself: "Did he hit you? Did he?"
Chiku said "it's okay".
"Don't let him hit you," Tao Huainan still didn't hold back, buried his face in his knees, tears fell and hit his knees, "Don't mess with him, it's fine if you don't come back, I won't go to the school for the blind, I was scaring you before, and I'm still waiting for you."
"Hold back, don't cry." Chi Ku was still completely unkind on the phone, with his characteristic tone of impatience, and said to Tao Huainan, "If you don't want to go to school, don't go, anyway, you I can't understand anything."
"I can understand... I listen carefully every day, and I can tell you when you come back." Tao Huainan said to him in a hurry, "Don't come back in a hurry, don't provoke him. Brother has been busy these days We will pick you up, you stay away from Chi Zhide..."
"Don't come!" Chi Ku interrupted him, telling him, "Don't come, I can go back by myself."
When he spoke in a hurry, he coughed a little, and his voice was weak, as if he had no energy. After coughing a few times, he said fiercely to Tao Huainan: "Don't let brother come over, and let Chi Zhide entangle you later. I'll go back in a few days, don't worry."
Tao Huainan just squatted down and didn't speak.
"Did you hear that?" Chi Ku asked impatiently.
Tao Huainan then nodded, and after nodding, he remembered that Chiku was not out of sight, so he said, "I heard that. Why are you coughing?"
Chi Ku still said "It's okay", and then said: "I hung up, I have to return the phone."
Tao Huainan subconsciously wanted to stop it, but he still didn't. He felt that there was still a lot to say, but there was no need to say it.
Because of this phone call, Tao Huainan's heart fell to the ground for a short while, having any news was better than having no news at all. Chiku borrowed his mobile phone to call him, which made Tao Huainan seem to have recharged his battery and regained his strength. Although my nose is still stuffy and my head hurts a bit, at least my heart doesn't hurt so much.
Tao Huainan listened carefully to every class, and was afraid that when Chiku came back to read, if he couldn't understand something, he could explain it clearly, although this situation may not really happen, Chiku is too smart, he can read everything .
After all, the delay is extremely severe.
People's mentality is subject to change. Before Chiku left, Tao Huainan felt that his life alone was unimaginable, it was the end of the world. However, after Chiku had really gone for such a long time, even though it really looked like the end of the world, it had come. I even felt that it would be fine if it lasted a little longer, as long as Chiku stayed well and didn't get beaten.
Tao Huainan hadn't seen his brother for several days, so he called him when he was picked up by Brother Tian Yi after school at night.
Tao Xiaodong thought that something was wrong with him, so he worriedly asked him what was wrong.
Tao Huainan said, "It's nothing, I just miss you."
"Miss me?" Tao Xiaodong smiled on the phone, tiredness could be heard in his voice, "Brother should be back tomorrow, I'll take you to pick up Xiaochi."
"Xiao Chi called me." Tao Huainan comforted his brother on the phone, and also called "Xiao Chi", "His mobile phone is broken, and he called me from someone else's mobile phone. He won't let you go, which is terrible." gone."
"Is he all right?"
"It's okay, let's not worry about it." Tao Huainan said.
Tian Yi said here: "I heard you two talking on the phone in the middle of the night. When I heard the noise, I thought Xiao Nan was secretly in a relationship. After listening for a long time, it turned out to be Xiao Chi."
Tao Xiaodong heard it on the other end of the phone, and said to him: "Why do you still listen to people's calls? You are not a brother, let you take care of our children and let you eavesdrop on our calls?"
Tian Yi smiled and said, "Our Xiaonan is not afraid to listen."
Tao Huainan cried when he answered the phone that day, but now that he thought about being overheard by Tian Yi, he felt embarrassed, so he smiled and said nothing.
Tao Huainan went to school by himself for a week, and Brother Zhou found that he had a bad cough, so he took him to hang water for two days.
Tao Huainan's body is average, and his resistance has been weak since he was a child. He often caught colds and fevers when he was a child, but he has improved a lot in the past two years. Let other children get a little cold and they should be cured in a few days without injections and medicines, but it took him a week to procrastinate. It wasn't too uncomfortable, so I didn't care at first.
Who knew that the injections would actually arouse the illness completely. It may also be that Tao Huainan was worried that Chiku could not eat well and sleep well, and his health has been poor recently. I was miserable for two days over the weekend and felt much better on Monday morning.
Tao Xiaodong asked him Monday morning if he wanted to take time off.
Tao Huainan shook his head, and while tearing the bread sticks into his mouth, he said, "I feel better now, my nose is breathing."
"You have your mobile phone with you. If you feel uncomfortable, call brother." Tao Xiaodong told him.
"Okay." Tao Huainan nodded obediently.
When I went out in the morning, I didn't lie at all. I really felt better, my nose was clear, and my head didn't hurt anymore. But at noon, Tao Huainan felt chills while lying on his seat. The surrounding windows were closed, but it was still cold.
When I was half asleep and half awake, I almost blurted out a vague sentence of "slowness, I am cold". Just as the sound of "Chi" was about to be pronounced, he suddenly remembered that Chiku was not there, swallowed the last few words peacefully, and continued to lie on his stomach.
Headache, cold, no energy all over. If Chiku was here, Tao Huainan must have been humming lazily at this time, and he was alone at the moment, so he didn't think it was a big deal, took a piece of paper to wipe his nose, and lay down for half the afternoon.
After waking up, I wanted to go to the toilet, and when I stood up, I felt limp. Tao Huainan shook his head, wanting to wash his face by the way. There are few people in the toilet at this moment, and none of the smokers come. Usually, there is no one in the toilet during the lunch break.
Tao Huainan stroked the wall to go to the toilet, thinking that if he was still in this state tomorrow, he would ask for a leave of absence. It's too uncomfortable, it's better to lie down at home, and I won't be able to attend class when I'm in this state.
When Tao Huainan was suddenly torn off his clothes in the water room, Tao Huainan really didn't react at all. It is reasonable to say that there was no one in the toilet at this time, so he was not prepared.
"Who?" Tao Huainan asked after bumping against the wall to stabilize himself.
The other party didn't make a sound, but just sprayed smoke on his face.
Tao Huainan was already uncomfortable, but this puff of smoke made him feel sick. Suppressing the rising nausea, Tao Huainan frowned and said "Get lost".
Maybe it was his word that angered the other party. Tao Huainan heard a mocking laugh, and then felt himself wet, as if he had been splashed with water.
At such a time, he couldn't escape, Tao Huainan knew it very well. The best thing he could do was stand still against the wall and wait quietly until the prankster had had enough fun and walked away.
However, recently he has been accumulating deep melancholy, worries about Chiku and the discomfort he has brought today, which made Tao Huainan's irritability break through the top, and he couldn't hold it down at all.
He cursed at the front: "The garbage that dare not make a sound."
Another smear of water hit his face, and when the strip of cloth scraped across his face, Tao Huainan knew that the other party was holding a mop, and it should be the same one who threw his water.
"I can only look for a sense of superiority in front of the blind, like a maggot that dares not see the light." Tao Huainan felt dizzy for a while, and he pressed his hands back against the wall.
With a slap on his face, the other party cursed the standard three-character curse. Tao Huainan couldn't hear the voice, it wasn't someone he knew.
Tao Huainan was drawn so that his face was turned sideways, his brows were furrowed, but suddenly he wanted to laugh.
Brother and Chi Ku had protected him so well since they were young, they wished they could carry him in their pockets and put layers of protection on him. However, because of his disability, whenever they can't protect him, he is a child who can't protect himself at all. Just now he said that others are trash, but in fact he himself is a small trash.
Tao Huainan smiled again, licked his white lips, and continued to speak: "You are more useless than the mop you are holding, dirty and smelly."
Tao Huainan was not a very peaceful person in his heart, he was forced to accept many rules of survival that belonged to him since he was a child because he was blind, but he still had the axis of the Tao family in his bones.
You can't dodge it anyway, just fight if you can, at most that's it.
Tao Huainan scolded very happily that day, venting all the negative emotions in his heart by cursing. Swear and take a hit, it seems that he hasn't been beaten for a long time. When my parents were still there, my father would occasionally pat him twice because he was naughty and disobedient. After the parents left, my brother never beat him, and my brother was very used to him.
Tao Huainan's mind was no longer clear, he was shivering from the cold. When his forehead hit the wall and he was dragged into the toilet cubicle, Tao Huainan felt that he was so dirty that he could suffocate.
Chi Ku estimated that he would have to throw him in the shower for two hours.
In a state of pain and cold, Tao Huainan thought, it hurts so much when he was beaten by a boy in his teens, and when Chiku was so young when he was beaten by an adult by his father, what... like.
Tao Huainan didn't have any strength at all, and even had a hard time breathing, which might be caused by his squatting posture.
With the mobile phone in the pocket of his schoolbag, Tao Huainan seemed to have nothing to do except squat here and wait for someone to come. Yelling that he doesn't have the strength right now and doesn't intend to.
Although it's embarrassing to be bullied, don't be so embarrassing that you have no dignity at all.
Time is pulled very slowly, every second feels like ten minutes.
It sounded like someone was beating a drum in his ear, and Tao Huainan's headache was about to explode due to the noise. Before he completely lost consciousness, he didn't know whether he had been thinking too much about Chiku being beaten when he was a child, or whether he had passed out and had a little dream.
He seemed to vaguely... He heard Chi Ku calling "Tao Huainan" from a distance.