Seamstress.

One

When I was 9 years old, there were new classmates in the class.

The new classmate is named Li Lei, the same age as me, small in size and idyllic, a bit like a girl.

It happened that there was a seat next to me, and the teacher arranged for him to be my tablemate.

At that time, I was frizzy and obedient, like a motor that was always noisy, taking time to take a few boys around the campus, wandering around we would be the first to find that the teacher's self-reserved land had added new vegetable seedlings, and there were graves with planed bones in the flower beds in the southwest corner of the campus.

When Li Lei came to his seat, I was leaning against the wall and holding my breath in front of the boys, and after he sat down, he took out a fruit candy from his pants pocket and quietly stuffed it into my hand, like a greeting and a kind of flattery.

After getting along for a long time, I found more advantages in Li Lei.

He has a docile personality, like he would never quarrel with anyone else.

He is endurance, the summer classroom is restless, and he can listen carefully to the exercises.

He studied well and often got full marks on exams.

In addition, he and his mother and son have a deep affection, and they always inadvertently mention their mother in their daily conversations.

Two

Li Lei and I slowly began to go to and from school together.

Li Lei and his mother lived in a tin house at the entrance of the village, and the house was not large, about ten square meters. There was a bed, some simple luggage, and a sewing machine with needles and threads piled up on the table and a roof full of sewn pants.

The tin house has been standing at the entrance of the village since I can remember, the house is not high, the outside is brushed with blue paint, the age is long, the paint color has become pale and white, it has not been used for a long time, and the door has been locked.

Every time I went to Li Lei's house, I always stood in the doorway, afraid to enter the house, worried that the space in the room would not be able to accommodate me.

Li Lei's mother is very enthusiastic and does not care about the environment. However, Li Lei's mother is obviously older than the mothers of other classmates, with a deeper tired face and more white hair on her head.

The heart of a teenager, the heart of curiosity.

When I learned that Li Lei was his mother's first child, I was even more curious, why did Li Lei's mother give birth so late?

Three

There are a few in the next class, stopping younger students on the road from time to time to ask for pocket money.

One day after school, Li Lei and I went back after doing our homework at school, and it was a little late, and we were stopped by those on the road asking for money.

The was holding a stick in his hand, and seeing this, Li Lei was ready to pull out the pocket money in his pocket, but I shouted at the time, Dad, you have come to pick me up. Taking the opportunity to pull Li Lei, he ran in the opposite direction.

Seeing that he was going to run out, I pestered the behind the palace and shouted for Li Lei to hurry home and call the adults to come.

The surrounded me, punched me in the face, and after the fight, I scattered, I only felt a sore nose, a stream of heat flowed out of my nostrils, and I touched it with my hand and it was all blood.

I walked slowly on the road, wiping the blood from my nose with my hands from time to time, and soon I saw Li Lei and his mother running towards me.

Walking to the front, Li Lei's mother exclaimed, "Why is there so much blood?" Hurry up and let my aunt see. Pulled me to the place where there was a light, and kept sighing on my lips.

"Go to the house with your aunt to wash your face first, and your aunt will pat you on the forehead to stop the bleeding." Li Lei's mother said without question.

When I arrived at Li Lei's house, Li Lei's mother used hot water to help me wash my face and stop the bleeding, while praising me for being brave, but also taught us not to be sad about money in that situation, and then told the teacher or parents to let the adults clean them up, otherwise it would be more unsafe.

Because it was too late that day, Li Lei's mother insisted that I go to her house for dinner the next day after school.

The next day after school, I was dragged hard by Li Lei to my home.

Li Lei's mother prepared the meal and placed it on a small folding square table, which was placed in the middle of the house, and it was warm and lovely in the compact.

During the meal, Li Lei's mother would joke about Li Lei's childhood troubles, and the atmosphere of the meal would slowly melt away.

It can be seen that the mother and son are intimate and calm, and Li Lei's mother is more open-minded than others, like a sailing ship on a calm lake.

After the meal, we continued to chat with a plate of fruits and frosted peanuts, and during the conversation I had no intention of asking: "Auntie, where is Li Lei's father?" As soon as the words came out, I felt abrupt and a little worried in my heart.

Li Lei's mother smiled slightly and turned her head to look at Li Lei and replied: "When Li Lei was four years old, we divorced, and I took Li Lei alone until now." ”

"Ah. Why? Surprised, I blurted out.

In rural areas, divorce is always rare.

Li Lei's mother paused for a moment, as if she was digging something, and like weaving something.

Four

Li Lei's mother said that when she first graduated from high school, she was sixteen or seventeen years old, and she was not admitted to college, and the university at that time was difficult to test, and the whole town and even the whole county could not produce a few college students a year, and young people went south to work after graduation.

Li Lei's mother on the train to the south, a young man wearing sunglasses and fashionable clothing took the initiative to chat with her, tiannanhai north flower world chat, Li Lei's mother was shocked, attracted by the world constructed by men's words, attracted by this fashionable young man.

The man said that he had a friend who had set up a large garment factory in the south, and the salary was good, and if he went with him, he could be paid a higher salary.

Li Lei's mother said that she just happened to go to the south to work and help her introduce her.

The man thinks about it and says that he can introduce it, but the friend is in a hurry to use people, the train is too slow, you need to get off the nearest car, and the friend will arrange for someone to drive to pick up.

Li Lei's mother got off the train with the man in the middle of the way.

At that time, in the evening, the man invited Li Lei's mother to eat a light meal, and also invited her to drink Coke in a glass bottle, which was the first time in Li Lei's mother's life to drink Coke, the black liquid with a strange taste seemed to have a sweet taste in Li Lei's mother's mouth, although she had just got off the train and was thirsty, she was reluctant to drink it all, but drank slowly, until she finished eating and leaving the hotel, Li Lei's mother drank the last bite of Coke.

The man led Li Lei's mother to a dark intersection and got into the car.

It was a black car, which didn't seem to be very new, and there was only the driver, the man and Li Lei's mother on the car.

As soon as he got on the bus, the man greeted the driver, very familiar with the appearance, the two talked about the situation of their friends' factories, revealing that the situation was very good.

The road at night was too dark and the car was bumpy, and Li Lei's mother soon felt sleepy, and her eyes involuntarily narrowed together.

When Li Lei's mother woke up, she found herself lying on the bed, the sheets covered with pillows a big red, the wooden rafters, the roof supported by beams hung a yellow bulb, surrounded by a mud-compacted wall, a one-meter-square window on the clinical wall was pasted with white plastic sheets, with the word 囍 in the middle, and the wall at the head of the bed was also pasted with the word 囍.

Li Lei's mother's brain immediately lost, eased up and went to push the door, but found that there was a lock on the outside, and then heard the sound of someone walking around, and then an elderly woman's voice came through the door, "Female doll, don't shout, our family bought you as a daughter-in-law, it will not harm you." We are poor in this ravine, no female dolls are willing to marry in, my sons are in their thirties and have not yet married, our two sons have been worried all day long, forced to spend money to find someone to bring you, we have bought a lot of female dolls here, people here are also living very well. As long as you are willing to be a daughter-in-law to our family, we will be good to you, and my son will be good to you. ”

After listening, Li Lei's mother unconsciously cried, ripped open her throat and kept shouting, "I want to go home, I want to find my parents." ”

For three consecutive days, the family did not pay attention to Li Lei's mother.

Li Lei's mother kept crying and cursing, her voice was so dumb that she couldn't make a sound, and the tears kept flowing, and after the tears dried up, they formed a layer of crystals on her face. Remorse and fear intertwined, Li Lei's mother fell into the trap of prey.

On the third night, the door opened and a despicable man in his thirties came in, holding a bowl of rice and saying, "Eat, don't get hungry." Li Lei's mother only felt weak at that time, and did not have the slightest appetite, but when she saw the open door, she quickly stood up and rushed to the door, but she was pulled by the man and dragged to the side of the bed, and the rough fist fell like raindrops, and the man scolded while hitting.

This was the case for the next few days, the man came into the house, his parents guarded the door, and Li Lei's mother was beaten up with the slightest resistance.

Hungry and dizzy, Li Lei's mother, who was beaten and bruised, lay powerlessly on the bed, only to feel that if she continued like this, she would die and she would never be able to go out again.

So, when the man brought the meal again, Li Lei's mother took the bowl and swallowed it, and after eating, she wanted to come to a basin of water, wash her face and straighten her hair, and smile at the man, and the man immediately raised his eyebrows and danced, like a male dog in heat, and pounced on Li Lei's mother.

Every night when she shares the same bed, Li Lei's mother feels like soaking in the feces puddle of and urine and maggots crawling around, and when the sun rises the next day, Li Lei's mother will smile at the man and his parents.

Two months later, Li Lei's mother found out that she was pregnant, and the man and his parents were like picking up a baby, and immediately smiled at Li Lei's mother, and the meals they made also had meat and fish.

After pregnancy, Li Lei's mother will rush to help the man's parents do housework, no longer looking east and west outside the wall, sitting in the courtyard in the sun when she is idle, and no longer crying and struggling.

When Li Lei's mother was about five months pregnant, it was early summer, and it was late at night, taking advantage of the gap in the toilet, Li Lei's mother locked the door of the house from the outside, and then drew gasoline from the motorcycle to pour it on the house, and then lit a fire.

Li Lei's mother stood in front of the house that was burning and laughed.

When the villagers put out the fire, it was nearly dawn, the man was burned to serious injuries, and the man's parents were both burned to death.

Villagers said Li Lei's mother was crazy and then called the police.

Li Lei's mother was taken to the police station and learned from the police that the man had also died on the way to the hospital.

Li Lei's mother was eventually sentenced to fifteen years in prison and suspended for pregnancy, but Li Lei's mother decisively went to the hospital for an abortion and then went to jail, where her sentence was eventually commuted to twelve years for her good performance.

In prison, Li Lei's mother did special psychological counseling, and people gradually became cheerful, and followed their fellow inmates to slowly learn the craft of tailoring and making clothes.

Five

After being released from prison, Li Lei's mother, who was nearly thirty years old, returned to her parents' house, and the rumors in the village made Li Lei's mother and her family overwhelmed.

Under the introduction of relatives, Li Lei's mother married into a distant village, the person she married was divorced and childless, more than ten years older than Li Lei's mother, simple, sincere, loyal and kind, treating Li Lei's mother like a guest every day, never letting Li Lei's mother do heavy work, and later the two had Li Lei.

When Li Lei was two years old, Li Lei's mother gave birth to another boy, and the whole family was extremely happy. By the time Li Lei was four years old, the boy was more than two years old and would be able to talk non-stop, but Li Lei's mother suddenly chose to divorce Li Lei's father.

Li Lei's mother said that her heart had long been dead, and the rumors outside were constant, and Li Lei's father was a good man and did not want to drag him down.

When divorced, Li Lei was determined to follow his mother, so his brother left it to Li Lei's father.

The mother and son returned to Li Lei's mother's hometown for a few years, then came to us, rented a tin house, and Li Lei's mother picked up the tailoring craft again and earned a little money to live.

Li Lei was also transferred to our school and became my tablemate.