After a while, she held a bamboo basket full of green cucumbers and said to Yun Hua, "Are you interested in hearing a story?"
"have."
"I put this basket of cucumbers outside the vegetable field, and I want to pick another basket of tomatoes, help me pick them?"
"good."
Yao Xixi brought an empty bamboo basket over again, entered the tomato garden next to him, and started picking tomatoes.
"My parents are dumb, and they treated me very well." Yao Xixi's voice was low and sweet, "But when I was in junior high school, they passed away. My family is in Linshi, and I live in a shantytown in a village in the city. Dirty and messy is synonymous with it. But later, the city developed faster and faster, and the renovation of urban villages was put on the agenda, and our side also had to be demolished. Our small tin shed could pay hundreds of thousands of compensation after demolition.”
"My parents didn't die accidentally."
"My parents are both dumb, and life is difficult on weekdays. They rely on selling vegetables in the city to pick up junk to maintain the family's livelihood. All relatives hide away."
"When I was young, I had a fever of forty-one degrees. I had a fever for a week. The doctor said that the cause could not be found, and I had to be hospitalized for a major examination. My parents had no money, so I borrowed it from relatives...but even if they knelt down, they couldn't borrow it. to a dime."
"Later, my parents went to sell blood and earned more than a thousand yuan to see me in the hospital. Later, it was diagnosed as encephalitis. If I didn't treat it in time, I might become a fool or die."
"The group of relatives never wanted to get in touch with our family, but when my house was about to be demolished, they all came together and said that the house belonged to them..."
"My parents were killed by them."
Yao Xixi sneered, "They thought they could take care of me if they killed my parents. Ha ha, what a joke. None of them can live a good life!"
"Then what happened to Jian's family?" Yun Hua asked.
Yao Xixi was silent for a long time, and then said in a low voice: "After my parents passed away, I refused to go to the orphanage and lived alone on the 200 yuan monthly relief from the government. Some people thought I was a bully..."
"It was raining that day. After the evening self-study and school, when I finished packing and left the school, it was almost ten o'clock. I wanted to take a shortcut to go home, but I was stuck in an alley..."
"I was struggling to ask for help. Someone clearly passed by the entrance of the alley. I could hear their footsteps, but no one came in to save me."
"My voice is hoarse from crying."
"I'm desperate."
"They ripped my clothes..."
"Just when I was about to collapse, Jian Shizhong appeared."
"He took a big broom like a sanitation worker's and knocked down one person, but there were several!"
"They let me go and beat the nosy Jian Shizhong instead."
"Jian Shizhong suffered several broken ribs and was stabbed."
Yao Xixi picked tomatoes while talking, his tone was so calm as if he was telling someone else's story.
"You should all know what happened next."
"Jian Shizhong is dead."
"And I, afraid of rumors, dare not let people know that Jian Shizhong is trying to save me, because then, I will have to tell the truth about being blocked in the alley by those gangsters..."
"I'm afraid that people will know that I've been bullied, so I only dare to secretly send money and things to Jian's family. But Jian Shizhong is dead, so what's the use of those belongings?"
"I called Jane's mother and said that I was the goddaughter of Jane's father. Jane's mother didn't expose me. She knew everything in her heart, but she didn't expose me. She also accepted everything I sent because she knew that It will ease the guilt in my heart."
(end of this chapter)