Extra: The protagonist's childhood (Part 2)
When having dinner at home in the evening, Meng Zhouping found that his daughter was in a bad mood. She picked up the rice in the bowl with her chopsticks but didn't pick up any dishes. She only picked up two or three grains of rice at a time and would chew them for half a day.
But she didn't look like she had a poor appetite. After all, she kept staring at the plate of spiced beef in front of her while chewing rice, licking her lips and swallowing her saliva.
After eating a few grains of rice, Meng Shuyu seemed to have made up his mind and finally reached out for the beef with his chopsticks.
But just as he was about to pick up a piece, he seemed to remember something, and turned his chopsticks and reached for the plate of salted shrimps farther away.
When she was about to get the shrimp, she pursed her lips again and took back her chopsticks.
"Why aren't you eating any vegetables?" Fang Manzhen asked curiously, "Did Xiaoyu have any snacks at the welfare home today?"
"No," Meng Shuyu touched his empty stomach, "Mom, I'm so hungry..."
"Why don't you eat if you're so hungry? These are all your favorite dishes."
"Because—" Meng Shuyu put down his chopsticks with a sad face, tears welling up in his eyes, "I'm too fat... Mom, I'm too fat..."
The couple looked at each other.
"Where are you fat? You don't have any flesh on your face at this age. Will you become a skeleton demon when you grow up?" Fang Manzhen frowned. "Tell mom, who said you are fat?"
Meng Shuyu lowered his eyes and shook his head.
Fang Manzhen put down her chopsticks and asked Meng Zhouping: "How do you manage your daughter? She didn't even know she was being bullied!"
"I'm in class, and she can't sit still in the classroom for ten minutes. She keeps running out. How can I keep an eye on her all the time? Xiaoyu, what's going on? Who bullied you?"
"No one bullied me—" Meng Shuyu sniffed, "It was me, I broke a trash can by sitting on it..."
"… "
When asked by the two, Meng Shuyu recounted what had happened.
Fang Manzhen was startled: "Did anyone fall in?"
"No," Meng Shuyu sobbed, "That brother pulled me up. I was so embarrassed..."
Meng Zhouping shook his head speechlessly: "He's not much older than you. He can pull you up, doesn't that mean you're not fat?"
Meng Shuyu stopped crying: "Really?"
"Did anyone tell you you were heavy?"
"He didn't talk to me..." Meng Shuyu recalled this and started crying again, "But he threw the trash can away, and I broke it!"
"That trash can wasn't meant to be sat on, so of course it would break." Fang Manzhen went to the bathroom and got a washbasin that was about to be discarded. "Xiaoyu, look at this washbasin."
Fang Manzhen snapped and broke a hole on the edge of the basin with her bare hands.
Meng Shuyu opened his mouth in shock.
"This is called plastic. Plastic will age after a long time and will break if touched casually. It has nothing to do with whether you are fat or not."
Meng Shuyu dried up his tears, wiped his face and picked up the chopsticks: "Great, then I'm going to eat meat..."
The next morning, Zhou Jun drank soy milk and ate steamed buns in the dormitory. After he cleaned up the garbage, he turned around and didn't see the trash can. Then he remembered that his garbage can had been put into the trash can.
He frowned, turned and walked towards the door, and just as he reached the door, he heard a knock.
When he opened the door, he saw a shiny and bright scene at first glance - a girl outside the door, who was a head shorter than him, was holding an iron bucket that was three or four times as big as her head and was covering her face with it.
As if she hadn't heard him speak, she poked one eye out from behind the iron bucket: "Good morning, I'm here to compensate you for the trash can..."
Zhou Jun blinked slowly and looked at the bucket which seemed very sturdy.
Meng Shuyu lowered the raised trash can and handed it to him: "My mother said that this trash can won't be damaged by sitting on it."
Zhou Jun took the trash can and walked back into the house, put a trash bag on it, and threw the trash in.
I heard footsteps behind me and turned around to find that she had followed me in.
"What else do you have to say?" Zhou Jun asked.
Meng Shuyu took out a piece of wrapped plastic from his small waist bag—stolen from the wreckage of the washbasin last night.
"look."
"?"
Meng Shuyu imitated what his mother did yesterday and broke the plastic into pieces with a snap.
Zhou Jun: “…”
"This is going to break, not because I'm... fat."
Zhou Jun looked at her silently for a while and nodded.
"Do you think I'm fat?" Meng Shuyu poked his chubby face.
Zhou Jun looked at her for a while and shook his head.
Meng Shuyu smiled happily and took out a planet cup from his waist bag: "Then this is for you."
Zhou Jun looked down and didn't answer.
Meng Shuyu took his hand and stuffed the Planet Cup into his palm: "Only those who can be friends with me can eat this."
Zhou Jun looked at her proud face and suddenly didn't know how to return the things.
"My dad criticized me yesterday, so I can't come out to play today. Tomorrow, I'll come and play with you!" Before he could decide whether to accept the Planet Cup, she ran out.
The boring day passed step by step in the dim light.
The next morning, Zhou Jun was sitting by the window reading as usual when he suddenly heard a knock on the door.
The knock on the door sounded familiar, and I could guess who it was without even looking.
Zhou Jun glanced at the planet cup on the table and didn't open the door for a while.
But the person knocking on the door was so persistent that it seemed as if she would keep knocking if he didn't open it.
When she knocked for an unknown number of times, he finally stood up.
As soon as I opened the door, I saw the little girl outside with a bright smile on her face: "I'm here! Have you been waiting for a long time?"
"No." Zhou Jun turned around and was about to go back to the house.
Meng Shuyu grabbed his arm and said, "I'm not coming to blow your wind today, can you come outside with me?"
Zhou Jun turned around and looked at her hand that was holding his arm.
Meng Shuyu immediately let go of his hand.
"Well... Sister Wen Yin and Brother Tan Qin are competing to see who can throw the plane farther. I want to compete, too, but the planes I fold don't fly far... Can you fold a really good plane?"
"Won't."
Meng Shuyu curled his lips, his eyes slowly turned around, clapped his hands and said, "Wow, that's great, you can't do it either, then you can compete with me, I won't be the only one who is embarrassed!"
"… "
"I will." Zhou Jun changed his tone.
Meng Shuyu: "Wow, that's great, then I'll be on the same team with you, and we can beat them!"
"… "
"I dont go."
"Why? Don't you feel bored staying in the house every day? Our neighbor's dog becomes listless if he doesn't go out for a day, and he has to go to the hospital for treatment if he doesn't go out for several days."
“… I’m not a dog.”
"It's the same for people. If you don't go out, you'll get sick. If you get sick, you'll have to get an injection, which is painful."
Meng Shuyu chattered on and on for a long time, and finally he grabbed the door handle and closed the door.
She continued to knock on the door, but he refused to open it.
Meng Shuyu sighed and left the dormitory building. When he walked outside the building, he remembered something, ran to get a stool and placed it under the west window sill. He stepped on it and moved the window with his hands.
With this move, the window really opened.
Meng Shuyu lifted the curtains and said, "Here I come again!"
Zhou Jun hurriedly put down the planet cup in his hand.
Meng Shuyu saw this with sharp eyes and remembered this: "Whoever accepts my Planet Cup is my friend, and friends should play together!"
Without waiting for Zhou Jun to react, Meng Shuyu climbed in through the window as if he knew the way, jumped to the ground, grabbed his arm and dragged him out.
Using all his strength, he dragged the man to the door. Meng Shuyu seemed afraid that the man would run away, so he held him with one hand and opened the door with the other. After opening the door, he continued to drag him out.
Zhou Jun followed her through the corridor, out of the patio, and through the garden. He saw the clear sky, blooming flowers, and shady green trees.
After wandering between black and white for a long time, my vision suddenly appeared with many different colors.
Walking to the front yard, I heard the people around me shouting and laughing. The chirping sounds and the buzzing of cicadas poured into my ears that had been silent for a long time, like a beam of light from another world.
Zhou Jun squinted his eyes and covered his ears, not quite accustomed to it.
Suddenly he saw the girl in front of him turn around and say something to him with a smile.
He didn't hear her clearly, so he let go of her ear and asked her, "What?"
"I say—it's so lively!"
lively
Zhou Jun looked around absentmindedly, not knowing what she was still mumbling. When he came to his senses, he had already been taken by her to the corridor in front of the classroom door.
Tan Qin and Wen Yin were squatting on the ground folding a new airplane.
Meng Shuyu pulled Zhou Jun forward and said, "My helper is here. Do you have any more paper?"
The two of them looked up and saw Zhou Jun as if they had seen a ghost.
"Yes, yes." Wen Yin picked up a piece of white paper and handed it to Meng Shuyu, still looking at Zhou Jun in disbelief.
Meng Shuyu handed the paper to Zhou Jun: "Fold it quickly, we can't lose!"
Zhou Jun took the paper and glanced at the half-folded airplane in Tan Qin's hand.
Tan Qin immediately blocked his plane with vigilance: "This is my latest developed plane. If you steal it, you are a scoundrel!"
Zhou Jun didn't say anything, he stood by the windowsill and folded his plane.
Meng Shuyu watched his deftly flying fingers from the side: "Your hands are also very beautiful!"
Zhou Jun looked at her.
"Hurry up, they are almost done!" Meng Shuyu urged.
Zhou Jun lowered his head and quickened his pace.
"I'm done!" A few minutes later, Tan Qin was the first to stand up with the plane in his hand, and waved to them generously, "You're late, so I'll let you fold it for a while longer."
Unexpectedly, Zhou Jun quickly grasped the corners and raised the plane: "Okay."
"You fold so fast, if you lose don't say it's because I took so long!"
"You first or me?" Zhou Jun ignored his question.
"Let me show you my power first." Tan Qin snorted coldly, picked up the plane, blew on the head of the plane, and threw it hard to the end of the corridor.
The plane glided forward smoothly for a long time before it began to stagger down, and the final landing point was only a dozen centimeters away from the wall at the end.
Meng Shuyu frowned and whispered to Zhou Jun: "His latest aircraft seems to be really amazing. Do you want to fold it for a while..."
Zhou Jun looked at her and said nothing.
"It's your turn." Tan Qin raised his chin.
Zhou Jun turned around and walked back, until he was a few meters behind Tan Qin, and threw his plane from the other end of the corridor.
The plane flew over the heads of several people in a superior high parabola and chased after Tan Qin's plane.
Meng Shuyu stared at the plane with his mouth open, his chin moving in an arc, and finally saw the plane hit the wall and was forced to fall to the ground.
Tan Qin stood there frozen in place as if petrified.
Wen Yin uttered an exclamation.
Meng Shuyu stared blankly at the two planes flying one after the other for a long time, then turned around and asked Zhou Jun in disbelief: "Did we win?"
"Of course." Zhou Jun nodded.
"We won, we won! We won!" Meng Shuyu ran towards him with a smile, jumping up and down and raising his hands to him.
Zhou Jun looked at her snow-white palm and did not move.
Meng Shuyu grabbed his hand and clapped his hand against his own.
A clear snapping sound vibrated the eardrum, as if breaking the last barrier in his ear.
Suddenly, someone came running over from a distance, pulled someone aside and asked, "Have you seen Xiaojun?"
Zhou Jun raised his head and looked at Chang Qiushi who was in a hurry: "Grandpa."
Chang Qiushi heaved a sigh of relief when he saw the man, and walked forward and said, "That's good, I saw your window and door were open, I was so worried, I thought someone took you away!"
Meng Shuyu smiled and waved at Chang Qiushi: "Grandpa Chang, I took him away!"
"Really!"
"I climbed in through the window and pulled him out, and asked him to help me with the competition!" Meng Shuyu pointed to the plane on the floor in the corridor.
Chang Qiushi was surprised: "Is our little Shuyu so strong?"
"Of course not! I'm very strong!"
Zhou Jun turned his head away: "Who said that?"
Meng Shuyu put his hands on his waist and said, "If I don't have much strength, how can I pull you?"
Zhou Jun didn't say anything else.
Listen to Chang Qiushi praising Meng Shuyu with a smile, and see Meng Shuyu raising his chin proudly.
He didn't know what was filling his heart at this moment.
All I know is that she really doesn't have much strength at all.
The author has something to say: (#^.^#) You can never pull someone who doesn’t want to follow you.