"Hongmei, your daughter needs to be taught well. She has only been in school for a few days, and she was called a parent by the teacher."
Jiang's family, Mrs. Jiang looked at her daughter-in-law and warned.
"Don't learn some random rules in the country."
This sentence means something. Mrs. Jiang is not used to a woman like Hongmei who clearly has a husband who still messes with other men, and finally brings her son to the throne and abandons her possibly disabled husband. This kind of infidelity and ruthless behavior in marriage made Mrs. Jiang think of her ex-daughter-in-law. She was afraid that one day her son would have an accident, Yu Hongmei would abandon her son just like her ex-husband.
This kind of woman is a standard person who can share happiness, but cannot share hardships, but she still has to cover her greed for wealth and honor with a coat of true love. Mrs. Jiang is looking at the face of her two unborn children. Leave her, wait for the fruit to ripen, and have a good life with her.
"Mom, Huakai is not sensible, I have taught her well."
Yu Hongmei looked at the old lady and said flatteringly, then tugged at her daughter's sleeve and asked her to apologize quickly, promising that she would never make another mistake.
"I am not wrong."
Jiang Hua lowered her head, her tears fell drop by drop into the rice bowl in front of her. She seemed to be eating the rice in the bowl mechanically, mixed with the salty taste of her tears, and her mood became even more depressed.
"Are you right, is it still the fault of those classmates, is it the classmates who are united to bully you for no reason?"
Yu Hongmei became impatient, "You were not like this before."
In the past, Huaqiao was smart and sensible, but not the little crying bag that makes people angry when they look at it.
Jiang Hua lowered her head and didn't speak, she thought to herself, mother was not like this before.
"I was right anyway."
She put down the bowl, ran upstairs with her face covered, and tightly covered herself with the quilt. Only in this confined and narrow space could she be temporarily relieved.
"This child!"
Yu Hongmei stood up and wanted to tell her daughter Jiang Hua to the past. Didn't she know that her unreasonable behavior was embarrassing her mother. Originally, the second elder of the Jiang family disliked her, but now her daughter With such a lack of tutoring, I'm afraid these two old people feel that she is not a good woman.
"Forget it, the child is still young."
Recently, the business of the disc store has been very difficult, and there are fewer and fewer people renting discs. The two websites he opened have been reported frequently recently. It is not that parents and teachers came to the Internet to find those underage people. Students, people from the fire brigade and the Bureau of Industry and Commerce came to check the safety hazards and business qualifications in the store. Because of these people, Skynet's business has plummeted.
Therefore, Jiang Tiancheng was in a very bad mood. He didn't want to listen to his current wife educate her and his ex-husband's children in the only rest time.
I am afraid that only Jiang Ruyi knew the whole story. Seeing Jiang Hua's sad and aggrieved appearance, she bowed her head in a guilty conscience, and it was rare that she did not find fault with Yu Hongmei during the meal.
*****
After eating, Yu Hongmei helped Jiang Tiancheng put up the bath water, and while Jiang Tiancheng was taking a bath, she still sneaked into her daughter's room.
"Cry, cry, cry, what's there to cry about? I've transferred you to a better school and still wronged you."
Seeing that her youngest daughter was mourning again, Yu Hongmei felt a little unlucky. She subconsciously covered her stomach, not knowing whether the two little babies she was carrying would be affected by this sister.
"Okay, since you are so wronged, tell me how your classmates bullied you. Don't just cry, but you can't tell the reason."
Yu Hongmei didn't believe a word of what her daughter said just now. The children in the city are very well-bred, how could she bully her, a transfer student from a township primary school, for no reason? It must be something her daughter did. not good enough.
"I am not wrong!"
Jiang Hua has endured for too long. Although she is young, she also knows that there are some things she can't say in front of the new grandparents, because it will not affect her mother well. She still loves her mother, so she is unwilling to say those things. She influences bad words.
But the incomprehension from her mother made her feel aggrieved. At this moment, only the mother and daughter were left alone. She finally couldn't help it and wanted to tell her grievances.
"They all laugh at me as the daughter of a junior, and say you are a bad thing, and I am a little bad thing. We laugh at me for being dirty and stinky, but I am neither dirty nor smelly. I take a bath every day. I am not a bad boy, nor Dirty boy."
Jiang Hua was hoarse, why did everything turn into what it is today, why did mother have to leave father, was their life not good before
She didn't like the new home at all, the villa and the new school, and she just wanted to go back to her old life.
"Snapped-"
After listening to her daughter's words, Yu Hongmei's first reaction was not to feel distressed, but to slap her heavily.
"What nonsense!"
Thinking that such obscure things have become the talk of elementary school children, Yu Hongmei couldn't help feeling ashamed, especially when these words were relayed from her daughter's mouth.
The force of this slap was not small, Jiang Hua covered her face, feeling that half of her face was numb.
She stopped crying and covered her face, her heart was completely cold at this moment.
"I think you were really spoiled by your father. You dare to say anything."
Yu Hongmei avoided her daughter's gaze, "Okay, go to bed early, and go to school tomorrow with your sister one by one. As for those naive classmates, just ignore them, they are all naive children, the more you The more they care what they say, the more they will do it, and as long as you don't provoke them, they will naturally stop."
After all, Yu Hongmei didn't want to pretend to be a caring mother, so she left Jiang Hua's room and hurried back to her room.
*****
The next day, Yu Hongmei watched her daughter wash up quietly and eat breakfast quietly, thinking that her daughter was finally sensible after a sleep, she put down the big stone in her heart, and then watched the nanny put the two children on the bus .
After arriving at the school, Jiang Ruyi walked towards the junior high school with a schoolbag, while Jiang Hua, who was supposed to go to the elementary school, turned a corner after separating from Jiang Ruyi and walked out of the school gate.
According to her memory, Jiang Hua walked to the bus stop, and she remembered that she could go back to her home in the countryside by taking the bus.
It's just that Jiang Hua went out less often. The first bus on board was going in the opposite direction.
"Little girl, you're at the terminal, are you still not getting off?"
About half an hour later, the bus driver was about to get off the bus to pick up a cup of hot water. Seeing that Jiang Hua had not gotten off the bus, he asked curiously.
"Down, down."
Yesterday, Jiang Hua had been thinking about his escape plan all night, but she didn't sleep well at all. She just fell asleep while sitting in the back row of the car, only to be woken up by the driver's words.
Looking at this completely unfamiliar environment, she was a little flustered, but she hurriedly got off the bus with a headless fly.
Now she is at a bus terminal. Jiang Hua clutched the strap of her schoolbag tightly, and walked to a place with many people. This time she learned to be smart, and found that many people were staring at the bulletin board next to the platform. There are many place names written on it, and it seems that the bus stops at the same place as these place names.
She's just in the first grade, and she can't recognize a few words. In addition, many platforms on the bulletin board use written names, but Jiang Hua usually uses dialects when hearing people say these names. Yes, Jiang Hua got on a bus again.
Obviously, her luck was very bad today. She got one of the words right, but she didn't get the other word. The platform where she got off was still far from where she wanted to go.
Looking at the unfamiliar surroundings and the bustling crowd, Jiang Hua began to regret his decision to run away from home.
She should have left her mother's house after she figured out how to take the bus home.
"Goo-goo-"
In the morning, Jiang Hua only drank a bowl of porridge. She was already hungry now. Fortunately, she was not tall enough to buy a ticket. She didn't need to spend money on the bus. Now she still has 150 cents in her pocket. , This is the pocket money she saved before.
Jiang Hua used the money to buy three meat buns, and after eating half of them, she felt that her stomach was five percent full, and then started her own journey home.
Along the way, she did not dare to ask strangers for directions, because her father had said that many traffickers like to abduct and sell children her age. Although Jiang Hua was ruthless, she pretended to be confident on the surface, as if these shifts She is used to sitting, and the destination is like the person waiting for her.
In this way, when the sky darkened, Jiang Hua not only failed to find his way home, but made himself tired, hungry and thirsty.
It was getting deeper and the weather was getting colder. She was wearing a thin autumn shirt. Jiang Hua covered her arms and looked at the fewer and fewer pedestrians on the road, and finally panicked.
"Dad, brother."
The little girl wiped her tears and walked forward with heavy steps. Under the light, the huge shadow was like a monster, and it could eat her in the next second.
Jiang Hua began to miss the old days. At that time, my father was still healthy. She sat on my father's neck with a small windmill in her hand. My brother begged her to come down and ride on his father's neck. It's a joke, hugging Dad's head tightly and not letting go, begging her brother to let her sit for a while longer.
She began to miss the sweet and sour pork tenderloin and boiled fish made by Grandma Manchun. Compared with the food made by her mother, which had almost no oil and salt, it was obvious that the deliciousness of these thick oily red sauce made by Grandma Manchun was more in line with her appetite.
She began to regret it, Jiang Hua squatted down, hugged her knees and cried loudly.
"Blooming? Is it blooming?"
A familiar voice sounded from behind, Jiang Hua abruptly stood up, and then turned his head.
She didn't know if it was a dream or reality, but her father was standing behind her.
"Wow-"
Jiang Hua didn't have the brain to think about why her father appeared in this unfamiliar place. Her first reaction was to rush over, hug her father's waist tightly, and then burst into tears, as if she wanted to cry all the grievances she suffered. .
"It's all right, it's over."
When Jiang Liu saw that the locator he put on his daughter showed that her position deviates from the normal track from school to Jiang's house, he knew that his daughter should close the net, so according to the position displayed on the locator, Jiang Liu followed his daughter Jiang Hua early.
He watched her cherish the three small meat buns, and watched as she couldn't buy mineral water because she ran out of money. She was so thirsty that she ran to the park to pick up a tap to quench her thirst...
There must be some distress, but there are some things that have to be hurt before they can be remembered for a long time.
Jiang Liu didn't want Jiang Hua's beautiful image of his mother to remain in his heart, so he used this seemingly cruel method to tear open the bloody truth in Jiang Hua's heart.
"Dad, I want to go home, wow wow, I want brother, I want dad, I want to go home."
The little girl cried heart-to-heart, Jiang Liu picked her up and walked slowly to the station.
*****
"One by one, why didn't Huakai come back with you?"
It was time for dinner, and her daughter Jiang Hua hadn't come home yet, so Yu Hongmei couldn't help muttering in her heart.
"Ah, I thought she came back by herself."
Jiang Ruyi raised her eyebrows, was that mouse gut detained
"This child's heart is too wild, there is no one who doesn't go home after school, Hongmei, you have to teach that child well."
Mr. Jiang sat in the living room and shook the newspaper in his hand without raising his eyes.
"Dad, there may be some misunderstanding."
The more Yu Hongmei thought about it, the more wrong it became. She hurried to Loushan and took out her mobile phone. She opened it and found that there were seven or eight missed calls. These calls were all from the same number. Yu Hongmei quickly called back.
"Hello, who are you?"
"I'm Yu Hongmei. You called me several times today, but I didn't get the call because I didn't have the phone by my side. Who are you?"
"Oh, you are Jiang Hua's mother. Why didn't Jiang Hua come to school today, is he sick?"
…
Yu Hongmei couldn't remember what they talked about after that. She ran downstairs in a panic, grabbed Jiang Ruyi's arm and asked sharply: "One-one, Huakai went to school with you, didn't the teacher say she didn't go to school? School."
No matter what, it was a piece of flesh that fell from his body, and when he heard the news that his daughter was likely to have an accident, he was as cold-blooded and selfish as Hongmei, and couldn't help being nervous.
"Ah, you scratched me."
Jiang Ruyi frowned and cried out in pain.
"Yu Hongmei, what are you doing, you're hurting one by one."
Mrs. Jiang stepped forward and slapped Yu Hongmei's hand hard, then rolled up her granddaughter's sleeve in distress, and stared at Hongmei angrily at the red marks on her arm.
Being slapped and yelled by the old lady, Yu Hongmei suddenly calmed down a lot.
"Mom, I didn't do it on purpose, but just now the teacher called and said that Huakai didn't go to class, and Huakai didn't go home so late, so I was in a hurry..."
Yu Hongmei explained with a grimace.
"Hmph, the stepmother is really the stepmother, it doesn't hurt if it's not her own."
Madam Jiang didn't care about the oil bottle that Yu Hongmei brought, she was more concerned about Hongmei's attitude towards her precious granddaughter.
"It's gone, are you mad at us?"
Mr. Jiang is better than Mr. Jiang. He is famous for his reputation and doesn't want others to feel that they have treated the child brought by his daughter-in-law badly, so he pays more attention to Jiang Hua's disappearance.
"The county town is so big. Where can the child go, or you and Tiancheng will go to the neighborhood to find it later."
Mr. Jiang felt that this new granddaughter was really squeamish. His granddaughter had never left home like her.
"What are you looking for, I think she will know that she will come back when she is cold and hungry."
Mrs. Jiang glared at her husband, and asked her son to find the little girl. Isn't this a face to the mother and daughter? This is Yu Hongmei's plan to make them pay attention to their mother and daughter.
What's more, Mrs. Jiang really doesn't believe that a seven-year-old girl can do such a thing as running away from home.
"Mom, do you want to call the police?"
Yu Hongmei summoned the courage to ask, this child did not go to school, and it was not necessarily because he ran away by himself, but there may be an accident. Thinking of the children who had been kidnapped from the neighboring village before, Yu Hongmei worried that her daughter was also being trafficked. Abducted.
"What are you calling the police? You think our family hasn't been getting enough limelight recently, don't you?"
Mrs. Jiang glared at the daughter-in-law, the police came, and when she saw the victim, she would probably think of the news not long ago, and then their Jiang family would have to go to the TV station again.
As far as their mother and daughter are concerned, they disturbed their Jiang family.
Yu Hongmei always loved herself more, because Mrs. Jiang was not happy, and finally she chose to go to school and around her home with Jiang Tiancheng to search around, but she still came back without success.
"Old Jiang, if you said that something happened to Huakai, it's all my fault. I shouldn't have scold her yesterday. How old is she, I should be more patient."
This cry, part of the sincerity, part of the ambition.
Yu Hongmei created the image of such a good wife and mother in front of Jiang Tiancheng. Now that her daughter is missing, she should be extremely sad.
"It's still more reliable to let the police find the child."
Jiang Tiancheng comforted his wife in a low voice. They had been searching for more than an hour, and they had not seen any trace of Jiang Hua's child. Now they can only call the police.
"Humph."
Madam Jiang snorted coldly.
"Grandma, still call the police."
Jiang Ruyi felt a little guilty, because she knew that the trigger for everything was her and her good sister's plan. If she hadn't transferred her resentment towards Hongmei to the innocent Jiang Hua, she would not have been unhappy with her classmates. , will not be scolded by Yu Hongmei, and will not go to school because of being wronged, so that no one can be found now.
No matter how self-willed, Jiang Ruyi is only a thirteen-year-old junior high school girl, and her heart is not yet vicious to the point of staring at a girl younger than her to death from cold and starvation.
So when the grandmother, Mrs. Jiang, was unhappy, Jiang Ruyi spoke up.
"We are all good-hearted, unlike some people."
The old lady looked at her granddaughter lovingly, and then hummed in agreement.
Yu Hongmei endured the embarrassment and was about to call the police on the landline, but before she could dial 110, her cell phone rang.
"The flowers are blooming with me. I will come to discuss with you tomorrow about transferring custody of your daughter."
The call was from Jiang Liu, and his tone was very indifferent. Although he said that he was discussing, his tone was very decisive. Obviously, he was going to decide the custody of his daughter. This sentence is only a notification, not a discussion.
"What, who's calling?"
Seeing his wife's pale face, Jiang Tiancheng wondered.
"It's my ex-husband. He said the flowers bloomed with him."
Listening to the beep on the other end of the phone, Yu Hongmei replied in a daze.
Transfer of Daughter Custody? She has already married Jiang Tiancheng, and in eight months, she will welcome another pair of children of her own.
It's not that she doesn't hurt the flowers, but this child is too naive and disobedient. Maybe Jiang Liu is right, and the child's custody can indeed be returned to him.
"Hmph, you mother and daughter are really amazing!"
Mrs. Jiang sneered, "The little one went straight to her father's house, what's the matter? We even made her feel wronged and let her stop reading and go back to her father's house to complain? Our Jiang family can't afford such a child. ."
The whole family made a fuss because of her behavior, and it was so late that they hadn't had dinner yet. That little girl was able to bear it.
Mrs. Jiang doesn't like such selfish children, not to mention that the child is not the blood of their Jiang family.
"Since you're gone, don't come back."
Mrs. Jiang glanced at her son and daughter-in-law: "It's a big deal, let's give some money, anyway, we can't afford that little alimony."
"Yuhong."
Mr. Jiang glared at the sharp-toothed old lady, then looked at his daughter-in-law and said warmly, "The child may not be able to adapt to the new home, you mother also have to consider the child, maybe the child is more willing to be with her father and brother. Life."
Obviously, the old man's attitude is the same.
Now Yu Hongmei has firmed up her previous thoughts, and it doesn't matter if this daughter is returned to Jiang Liu.
*****
That night, Jiang Hua slept extraordinarily sweetly. She dreamed that a group of monsters wanted to eat her, and her father and brother, wearing armor, cut through obstacles and rescued her from the monster's mouth.
She sat on Dad's shoulders and watched the sun slowly rise from the east.
Its daybreak.
Jiang Hua rolled over on the bed, the smell of quilts that had been basked in the sun, and the familiar scent of washing powder.
She opened her eyes suddenly and looked at the surroundings.
It's not a dream, she's really back!