Open the door, and the living room lights are shining.
The TV was turned off, and Ji Yi was still noisy inside when she took the key to open the door. When she actually walked in, she quieted down instantly. The living room was full of people, the royal family, grandpa, second uncle, second aunt and cousin, third uncle and third aunt... And Zhao Xiaoying and her mother, everyone, countless pairs of eyes looked at her.
She put down her schoolbag and walked over. When she saw Wang Xingyu's mother wanting to talk, the latter had already rushed up, pushed her to the sofa, and started beating someone.
Ji Yi fell on the sofa, dumbfounded.
"How can I do it?" The third aunt wanted to stop, but the third uncle grabbed her arm. "What's the matter, it's the Ji family kid anyway..."
"No one is allowed to care about her!"
The most authoritative person in the Ji family spoke up.
Grandpa turned around, walked into the study, and slammed the door.
With that said, no one really dares to stop.
On the contrary, Wang Xingyu’s father took the initiative to block his wife: “It’s already like this. It’s no use beating you!” Wang Xingyu’s mother swollen eyes and looked at Ji Yi bitterly: “What’s wrong with my child? You dare to find a bunch of little gangsters. Fight to death?!" She said, and threw a ball of paper on Ji Yi's face, which was a checklist.
Ji Yi stood up slowly, with his legs close to the sofa behind him, not daring to pick up the paper ball that fell on the ground.
Zhao Xiaoying was in her mother's arms. She had obviously been reprimanded before she came back. Looking at Ji Yi with a pale face, she finally mustered up her courage and said in a low voice, "Wang Xingyu wanted to hit me, Ji Yi helped me..." Her mother squeezed her arm hard and whispered, "Don't talk nonsense, those Does the gangster have anything to do with you? Ah? How dare you say anything!"
Zhao Xiaoying's eyes were red, biting her lip, and she didn't dare to speak anymore.
Ji Yi thought he still had room for explanation, but he didn't expect to face a unilateral questioning.
Zhao Xiaoying was guarded by her mother, and Wang Xingyu's parents sought justice for their children. The second aunt also took her cousin to the study to hide in fear that her son would be frightened. Only Ji Yi leaned on the sofa, alone and helpless.
She wanted to clarify the ins and outs of the matter, but no one gave her a chance to say it.
Wang Xingyu’s father had already taken the lead, using a military accent to reprimand Ji Yi in front of everyone. He understood very well that Wang Xingyu was beaten very badly, and even after being rescued, he almost died on the operating table. Even now he was rescued and he was going to take a leave of absence from school and recuperate. I don't know if he can take the college entrance examination.
Wang Xingyu’s father repeatedly emphasized, righteously saying: “This matter must be investigated to the end, especially the main culprit who gathers a crowd to fight!”
He continued to talk about how to pursue and how to make compensation. Ji Yi listened a lot, and only remembered one number, four hundred thousand. The moment she heard this amount, the whole person was empty, as if being pushed to the edge of a cliff, with her heels hanging in the air. Don't dare to exert force, don't dare to think, don't dare to think about anything.
With her life experience, she couldn't cope with this kind of scene at all.
Regardless of the beating and scolding of the victim's parents, there are also this series of investigations, which are terrifying conditions.
All she can do is keep listening. The two hands were tangled together desperately behind him, so that he wouldn't cry.
Nuan Nuan said that Fu Xiaoning's family conditions are particularly bad, and his parents are not together all the year round. This time, it was all because of me that I was locked up at the police station and had to pay compensation.
She used her nails to pick her hands unconsciously, and no matter what they said, she didn't listen.
It wasn't until Wang Xingyu's parents left and Zhao Xiaoying was pulled by her mother and left here. Zhao Xiaoying rushed over and grabbed her hand to talk. I didn't say anything, and wept bitterly. Zhao Xiaoying wanted to apologize, but she didn't have the courage to say anything in front of her mother. She just watched her cry until she was dragged away by her mother.
Ji Yi looked at her family sitting on the sidelines in the dining room, did not speak, and returned to the room from the living room.
She locked the door.
Soon I heard the third aunt complaining outside the door: "400,000 yuan is enough to buy a house a little bit away. I really dare to speak."
"I didn't let you out. What are you doing with so much talk? Be careful Dad gets angry again." The third uncle's tone was unhappy.
"I'm telling you, it's a toss about this matter. The Wang family and that little bastard cost 400,000 yuan, and they all said, that group of children are still 20 years old, where will the money come? Then the little bastard parents will have to pay for it. Come here, you wait. Hey, if such a big thing happens, Xixi's parents won't come back," the second aunt couldn't help it either. "What are we? Nodding and bowing all night for the Chinese New Year. It's really bad luck. Hurry up and call Dad. Come out, let’s eat, I’m going to warm up the meal."
"It's normal if you don't come back. Do you know what her mother said when she received the call? I was so angry with the old man," the third aunt learned. After coming down, a lot of people said that her birthday is to kill her parents, but she still didn't hide her."
"I can't hide it. She is just sixteen years old and wants to let go of her responsibility? Wait two more years."
"Looking at a very well-behaved child, I really didn’t expect that I would have mixed up with people in society. You said that for her, people really dare to kill and set fire, how terrible. It’s better for our child to be better, usually skinny, but dare not. Cause something big." The second aunt continued to sigh.
…
Ji Yi turned on the lamp, took out a stack of math papers that he hadn't done before, and started to do the questions. She never knows the date and time of her birth, and has long been characterized as a parent.
The lamp is turned on to its brightest light.
She began to do multiple-choice questions one after another, seeking speed but not quality.
I don't know what to do, and I don't know what will happen tomorrow.
Soon, there was the sound of TV in the living room, and the annual Spring Festival Gala, which was routine every year, began. My cousin was screaming hungry, and the family members ate soon after. She heard the third aunt say to let her go out to eat, but grandpa stopped: "Hungry, let her reflect."
…
Ji Yi lowered his head and continued to read his own papers.
The tears that had been holding back all night finally came out, and fell on the paper with a crackle.
She didn't know at all, someone was separated from her by a wall, always waiting for her to go through this unilateral censure.
In the dark corridor, Ji Chengyang stood at the corners of the buildings on both sides, listening to the Wang family downstairs leaving.
He took out the cigarette case from his pocket, took out a cigarette, and placed it gently on the tip of his nose. I vaguely heard some noise and crying just now. There was a little girl crying, not Ji Yi.
The familiar smell of tobacco calmed his mood until he was completely calm.
How many people were in that family just now? Ji Yi's family, the boy's parents, he guessed, there should be that good friend of Ji Yi's. The origin of this incident is very simple. In the final analysis, it is someone else’s family affair. If the son beats his daughter, there will be no money and lawsuits how to extend it.
But for Ji Yi, it was an unsuspecting disaster.
He is very familiar with the school rules of the affiliated high school, even if this fight is not led by her. But because of the close contacts with young people outside the school, and the police came to the school to talk in person, this alone is enough for the school to deal with this outstanding student.
And... this is just a matter of school.
That boy...
Ji Chengyang was a little uncomfortable.
He broke the cigarette and put it on the window sill, where there had been a lot of broken cigarettes, as well as straw yellow tobacco fines.
The boy was beaten violently from outside, causing extensive bruises, multiple fractures of his right forearm, left leg, and right ribs, a ruptured liver, and congestion in the abdominal cavity... The child is now in Xiehe. The doctors all lamented that the delivery was timely, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous.
…
Ji Chengyang suddenly thought that when he was a teenager, he had witnessed the death of a few students a few steps away at the gate of the junior high school. That was the first time he saw a fresh life die in front of him, and he was also frightened at that time.
After a long time, he finally took out the phone in his pocket, touched the 1 button, and held it down for a long time.
Because of professional reasons, there are too many numbers in his mobile phone. Sometimes he is afraid that he can't find Ji Yi's phone, so he simply sets her phone number as a fast dial, and the number 1 button is her.
Soon, the call was connected.
He heard Ji Yi give a feed. The voice is very low and seems to have some nasal sounds.
"It's over?" he asked in a low voice.
"Um."
He just wanted to talk again.
There was a deafening sound of firecrackers outside the window, the left ear was the sound outside the window, and the right ear was the sound from Ji Yi. Two people, one in the room on the first floor and one at the corner of the corridor on the first and second floors, did not speak because of the loud firecrackers. When the surroundings gradually calmed down, Ji Chengyang asked, "I heard Nuan Nuan in the car just now, there will be fireworks in the square in a while?"
She replied: "There will be fireworks around eleven o'clock, and they will be set off for an hour every year."
"I remember that before I went to study abroad, Beijing hadn't banned it," Ji Chengyang laughed. "Nuan Nuan just met me. After the ban, the courtyard will be put on the square every year."
Ji Yi hummed again.
Not very talkative.
The pain was extremely speechless, and the smile was extremely silent.
In the past, when two people called, Ji Yi said more. Sometimes they told, sometimes they reported their living conditions, and sometimes they asked for some confusion. She is a precocious little girl, but no matter how precocious she is, she is not strong.
Her experience is only on campus.
Ji Chengyang said a few words with her as much as possible, feeling that her mood was much more stable than he had imagined, and was finally relieved.
He has to go home. This thorny problem, the most thorny thing is that he is about to have an operation. The location of the brain tumor is not good, leading to a great risk of surgery. He was thinking about whether he wanted to confess to Wang Haoran and follow up the follow-up process. Standing in this dark corridor, he is also dark in front of him, and he has an eagerness to take care of the funeral. He was afraid that he would not be able to come down on the operating table, leaving her alone to face a lot of troubles.
She was only sixteen years old, just sixteen years old.
Ji Chengyang grabbed the last cigarette from the cigarette case in his palm, squeezed it into a ball, and threw it on the window sill.
The two did not speak for a while, and the second wave of New Year’s firecrackers sounded.
"There are fireworks," Ji Yi told him by amplifying the sound of firecrackers from the window, "Fireworks are starting to be set off in the square."
Ji Chengyang laughed: "Happy Chinese New Year, Xixi."
"happy New Year."
"Get a good night's sleep, and the new year has begun.
"Um."
"goodbye."
"goodbye."
Ji Yi hung up the phone and glanced at the call time: 9 minutes and 21 seconds.
Later, Nuan Nuan mentioned that when Ji Chengyang arrived home that night, the family had already eaten the New Year's Eve dinner. Nuannuan's grandfather was originally picked up by his second son for a New Year's Eve dinner, he would be picked up to participate in other activities. But Ji Chengyang unexpectedly returned home. He took the initiative to ask to talk to Nuan's grandfather, and the old man followed him into the study in surprise.
As for what the two people said in the study, no one knew. Including the Ji family outside the door did not know.