After visiting relatives and elders for a day, He Jin listened to his mother boasting to everyone that he was well-behaved, obedient, and received scholarships every year. Someone asked, when will your son graduate? Is he so smart that he should continue to study and go abroad? At this time, his mother would say, what kind of country to go abroad, look at whose children go abroad, their parents don’t know when they are sick, and now there is no way to send their sons abroad, isn’t that stupid, I must be To call him back to work, the unit has already agreed...
After hearing this, He Jin thought to himself, whoever told you, I don't want to come back to work!
That night, He Jin, who had been traveling all day, came home and didn't want to do anything. He just wanted to go online and play with Fire and Tangyuan, as if only in this way could he feel better.
After dinner, He Jin locked himself in the room, but there was still movement outside, he didn’t have the guts to put on a helmet now, and took a copy of “Water Margin” from the shelf to read, his mother wouldn’t let him read serious textbooks Other books, including all kinds of novels, except for the four great classics, so He Jin can only look through the Three Kingdoms Water Margin pastime that he has read countless times.
But after a while, there was a sudden sound behind him, and He Jin complained, "Why didn't you knock on the door?"
As soon as he turned his head and saw his mother bringing him a glass of freshly squeezed juice, He Jin instantly felt guilty again because of his not so good attitude just now.
Mother He glared at him, and put the juice heavily on the table: "You still knock on the door at home, why are you so busy!"
She turned her head to see what book He Jin was reading, and was relieved when she saw that it was only Water Margin.
He Jin picked up the juice and took a sip. Seeing that his mother hadn't left, he raised his head and asked, "What else do you need?"
"It's okay, can't I let mom look at you?" Mother He curled her lips, as if she also felt the alienation between her son and herself. She had a dull personality like her wife since she was a child, and she didn't know What is going on in my mind.
She rolled her eyes and tentatively said, "Hey, your aunt told me about a girl a while ago, Master Q from Fan University, today I saw the picture of the child, she looks pretty cool, I heard..."
As soon as his mother started talking, He Jin guessed the follow-up, and at this moment, there was a thunder in his head-fuck, it's really coming, isn't it!
The guilt just now dissipated, He Jin looked up at his mother impatiently: "You want to arrange for me to go on a blind date?"
Mother He was stunned by He Jin's annoying eyes: "Yeah, what's the matter?"
He Jin put the book together: "Mom, I'm only in my third year of college, and I'm 23 years old, not a 32-year-old unmarried young man! Can you stop worrying about girlfriends, I will find them myself. !"
When Mother He heard this, she secretly thought that it was as she had expected, that there must be someone in He Jin's heart, and that's why he was so disgusted with this kind of thing!
"Then did you find it?" Mother He looked at He Jin and asked.
He Jin's eyes flickered, and he tilted his head and said, "Not yet. I haven't graduated yet and I don't have a job. I haven't settled on anything, and I don't want to look for it."
Mother He speculated for a while, and felt more and more that her son was lying to her, but she didn't have any evidence, so she couldn't say anything for the time being, so she could only care for a few words, and then went out.
He Jin breathed a sigh of relief and calmed down his emotions. He felt that every time he talked to his mother, he either gave up on himself powerlessly or was so angry that he lost his mind!
Finally, after twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, there was finally no sound from inside and outside. He Jin endured the tiredness and persisted until now. As soon as he put on the helmet, his whole body was refreshed, because he sent a message offline and agreed with Fire that it would be later. Come up, so the other party is still waiting for him.
Fire continued to take He Jin to PK in the fairy pet competitive rankings. In the past few days, He Jin had never lost a single match with real pets, maintaining a 100% winning rate all the way to the top 500.
Fire said: "Based on this momentum, it is estimated that you will be able to enter the top 100 in a week."
He Jin was full of confidence and was chatting with Fire when he suddenly felt the whole world shaking... No, it was his people shaking! He Jin's complexion changed, and he said, "My mother is here." The next second, "Ah Jin" in the game entered the offline standby state.
He Jin slid open the blindfold, and as expected, he saw his mother's face close at hand. He collapsed from nervousness, and only heard his mother ask: "What is this, why are you wearing this to sleep?"
He Jin forced himself to calm down, recalling the previous lie: "I told you, this is to relieve insomnia."
Mother He shouted: "Do you know how scary I just opened the door and saw your huge head lying there! What relieves insomnia, you wear it every day when you sleep recently?"
He Jin: "Well..."
Mother He quickly caught the loophole in He Jin's words: "Then I came to wake you up in the morning, why didn't I see you wearing this thing!"
He Jin: "I... took it off when I woke up in the middle of the night."
Mother He: "Take it off? You put it there, why did I only see it today?"
He Jin: "I'll just put it in my schoolbag..."
"Schoolbag? You woke up in the middle of the night and stuffed it into your schoolbag. You didn't want me to see it!? I don't know what you're hiding from me. I'll ask you tomorrow!" Mama He stood up angrily and scolded Said, "Quickly put me to sleep!" After finishing speaking, he went out with the game helmet...
He Jin was taken aback by what his mother said, and fell into an inexplicable panic, his heart beating with fear.
But he can't chase him out now and ask his mother to return the helmet to him. His mother will only intensify and ask him what the hell it is, why he must have this helmet, and they may argue, in the early hours of the morning, The whole family and even the people in the whole building are not at peace.
So He Jin endured it, sat on the bed, hesitantly, depressed, wanted to yell, beat someone, and even hurt himself.
Until the bracelet vibrated, He Jin raised his wrist as if seeing a life-saving straw. It was indeed a message from Fire—
Fire: "What happened?"
He Jin almost cried, he hurriedly replied: "The helmet was found by my mother, and now she has taken it away, what should I do?"
Facing He Jin's request for help, Qin Yang did not say, "Why are you being taken care of by your mother like a child in your junior year?" This kind of question is too naive. For He Jin now, it is not his mother, but his mother. His greatest enemy is also their common Boss.
Fire: "Aside from taking the helmet, what else did she do?"
Fire: "Did you beat or scold you?"
At this moment, He Jin was like a frightened child, unreservedly confided to the only person he trusted: "You scolded me, didn't hit me."
Fire: "That's good, don't think too much, it's okay, don't be afraid."
Ah Jin: "But she took the helmet away, what if she doesn't return it to me?"
It's all right if you don't return it to him, He Jin is afraid that the more he cherishes it and is nervous about it, the more likely his mother will grab his weakness, destroy it, destroy it, so that he will never have this thought, like eight years Before, the same fear, the same sense of helplessness... He Jin was shocked, and the memory seal seemed to be suddenly opened, and the fragments of the picture kept pouring out from the depths of his mind...
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"My mother worked hard to bring you up, train you to study and go to school, and give you the best in everything. If you don't study hard, you play games online without telling the family!" The woman poked his forehead with her finger and cursed fiercely.
He tremblingly promised: "I won't delay my studies, I only play for an hour a week, okay..."
The woman slapped him backhandedly: "Look at how much your test scores dropped last time, and you said you won't delay your studies!"
He tried his best to fight: "Only this time, not next time..."
"You are still negotiating with me! What qualifications do you have to negotiate with me!" The woman was so angry that she went to find a feather duster, and when she came back, she slapped him heavily.
"I won't play anymore," he was afraid, and couldn't help but want to beg the woman, "Mom, just let me go online and tell my friends again, I won't play anymore..."
The woman didn't listen to him at all, she took a feather duster and whipped him crazily, muttering a sentence repeatedly: "I told you not to listen to me, what kind of game are you playing, you are still playing with others in the game at a young age Marriage... Do you have dignity? Ah? Don't you know how to be ashamed! See if I don't beat you to death..."
It turned out that her mother knew everything, and He Jin didn't know how she knew it.
He didn't dare to get lucky anymore, and he didn't dare to explain. He could only promise over and over again that he would never play again...
He has been pain-resistant since he was a child, and he seldom cried, but that night he was beaten by his mother until he shed tears all night. The pain made him think that maybe death would be better than this.
His mother forced him to swear again that he would no longer lie or hide anything, and that no matter what he did, he would first report it to his family.
He Jin doesn't remember how long he was educated afterwards. Anyway, after the persecution, he didn't dare to talk to others for a long time. Whether he was awake or asleep, his mother's scolding words about him were always in his mind. He had no dignity. He is shameless, so even though he has excellent grades in school and is outstanding, he still feels inferior and humble in his heart.
But afterward, his mother apologized to him again, promised not to beat him again, and said that she lost control because she was too angry. She even applied medicine to him with tears, saying over and over again "" It hits you, it hurts in my heart", "Mom, this is for your own good, you have to know that mother's good intentions..."
He forgave the woman, but he knew something had changed.
He seems to have matured and grown up overnight, the superego activated the protection mechanism, became stronger in an instant, and maintained a perfect appearance, but the id remained at the age of fifteen forever, lost in the river of time .
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Recalling that experience, He Jin trembled all over, now he was playing games again, what to do, he also lied, that woman was going crazy again... He fell into this insecurity uncontrollably.
The three messages just sent by Fire are displayed on the bracelet projection—
Fire: "It's okay if she doesn't return it to you. Look at it, it's just a helmet. I'll buy you another one when the time comes."
Fire: "Don't fight her over a helmet, let alone let yourself be wronged."
Fire: "Are you still there? Do you want me to give you a voice call?"
Before He Jin could reply, Fire called. He Jin quickly removed the wireless bluetooth earbud from the bracelet and stuffed it into one of his ears. He shrank into the bed and wrapped himself tightly with the quilt.
Fire: "Ah Jin, did you hear me?"
The moment he heard Fire's voice, He Jin's tense nerves relaxed, as if being hugged gently.