Wen/Diao Ge Wang Xuexin
That morning I carried in my arms a memo letter written by my second uncle to the director of the Dongfanghong Central School, as if I had received a "talisman" given by the Jade Emperor, and I felt that such divine help would surely bless me to fulfill my little wish to leave my hometown to study.
Along the way, the sky is so extra blue, the wind is so exceptionally refreshing, the birds in the forest outside the car window keep singing...
The whole world seems to be a better place from today onwards!
However, this beautiful and brilliant vision, after I met the director of Ma Guangfuma, a "muffled thunder" became cloudy.
After getting off the bus at the Dongfanghong intersection, the "famous" Director Ma had already clearly told me the route of his house.
It was as if I were riding an auspicious cloud and I was falling in front of the half-open door. It just so happened that the director of the horse came out of the house with a plastic bucket in his hand.
"Hello! You're Director Ma, right? I gave him a polite salute.
The plastic bucket in his hand didn't put down, and he didn't mean to let me into the house to speak, and asked expressionlessly, "What's the matter?" ”
I hurriedly showed him the second uncle's memoto letter. At the same time, I added: "I also brought a transfer card."
It gave me the feeling that he hadn't finished reading the letter and said, with that kind of roomless expression, "No! Our junior high school here is not accepting foreign students... ”。
Thunderbolt on a sunny day, and the head hums like a thunderclap from the top of the head to the heels. I didn't hear him at all as he explained behind him...
At that time, I felt that the person standing in front of me immediately changed from the "savior" in my heart to the "devil" in my hand. My legs were soft and soft, and I was in a state of "confusion", like hearing "Three o'clock in the afternoon... Ichiguchi..." the same.
"He NN, I can't even think of such a small thing, and it's not begging you to find a job..."
He saw me like a wooden chicken pestle in front of him, and he reminded me, "If you understand it, go back!" ”
Lost and discouraged, stumbling, not knowing how to get out of his house, just vaguely remembering, because his legs were heavy, he couldn't move his feet and tripped over the high threshold of his house, and then he came out, and then a black wild dog ran from the west side of his door, barked at me twice, and it felt like he was saying again: "Send a guest, send a guest!" ”
This memory was deeply etched in my heart – if there had been a knife, I would have not hesitated to stab the heart of the black dog!
"It's over, it's over" The previous achievements were abandoned I didn't expect this bad news to come so suddenly...
Standing at the crossroads, I couldn't go back to my second uncle's house, and I had nowhere to go, and that terrible helplessness and loneliness made me suffocate, and I wanted to cry without tears.
The wind is blowing. I didn't want to see anybody, and I didn't want anybody to see me, so I hid in the big pit on the west side of the "Three Stores," and there was a broken wooden board sitting in the leeward.
"What can I do?" Was I hopefully 'sentenced to death' by that Director Ma in this way? ”
While thinking bitterly, I took out my mother's hair cake from my arms, took two bites, found that it was bad and smelly, wanted to throw it and was reluctant to do it, so I had to take some moldy and hairy places off little by little, and barely ate half of it with tears...
Do you know the true meaning of "all thoughts are gray"? I probably hadn't gotten there yet, because when my throat was smoking in the pit, even though I had nowhere to go, I knew to push open the door of the "three stores" again...
Although it was past noon, there were still three people sitting at the window table drinking liquor and beer.
I quietly walked over to the empty table in the corner and sat down with my face flushed inside. I knew I was embarrassed not to eat anything, so when the waiter asked me, I casually asked for a bowl of noodle soup. Halfway through the meal, I quietly took out the half of the rafa noodle cake that I had just left, hurriedly grabbed it, soaked it in a bowl and covered it with noodles, looked back, and no one noticed, only to be relieved. After eating a bowl of noodle soup, I wanted to drink another bowl of noodle soup, and the waiter said no, so I had to drink a bowl of cold water. There's no place to go, and you can't sit in someone's shop for long! So I walked down the road into the wilderness and all the way to the bridge at the head of the village...
"What? you! You just want to throw yourself into the river, I'm not so bad, you don't know, I'm not the little strong one who can't die! ”
The hand-held bridge stopped and looked at the babbling river, and I suddenly remembered a way --
I hurried to the Dongfanghong Supply and Marketing Agency to buy two packs of cakes and two cans (because when I went to Director Ma's house in the morning, I saw two or three children at his house).
I went into the courtyard again with my arms, but I still didn't let me in.
"How did you come again?" Didn't you make it clear to you? ”
I hurriedly put out the words I had made up on the bridge: "Director Ma, I just made a long-distance call to home, my parents said that after the harvest, the whole family will move 12 kilometers, so let me come and adapt to the school environment and curriculum progress here..."
I saw that he didn't make a sound and then continued, "Mom and Dad said that when the move came, they would thank you in person." ”
As I said that, I wanted to hand him what I had brought. He didn't have the intention of answering with his nose "um" at all: "That... Then listen first! ”
Thank goodness "Heaven and earth! Which is it..."
Before I could bow to him and thank him, the ancestor turned and went into the house and said, "Take things back!" ”
I stood there stunned for a while, just as I did the first time I left the courtyard, and I stood stupidly, but it felt like there was a difference between heaven and earth.
With a long breath, I turned back, walked in unison, walked out of the gate, walked to about the time when Director Ma couldn't see it, and I flew like I ran to the intersection of the "three stores" ...
【To be continued】
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(2022.10.17 noon at home)