Protagonist, wake up

"You really decided to be this child?"

"Yes."

"Alright then." The dean nodded.

Jian Zhu hid behind the dean and pulled her clothes by the hem to poke her head out, with doubts and panic that couldn't be hidden on her small face.He looked at a man and a woman in cheap clothes in front of him. The man was tall and burly, while the woman was as thin as a stick, with thin arms and legs that looked very weak.She squatted in front of Jian Zhu, with a flattering smile on her thin face, "You are Xiao Zhu, right? Good boy, would you like to go home with us?"

Jian Zhu looked at her without speaking.

The woman smiled awkwardly and turned to look at the man.The man gave an impatient "Tsk", the muscles on Jian Zhu's fierce face trembled, and his two thick black eyebrows were tightly frowned.Then he saw the child dodging behind the dean as if startled, he stretched his brows again, and coaxed the child as softly as possible.

He really didn't notice the kid at first.Their family lives in a slum, and his wife is too weak to go out to work. The whole family relies on him to do manual labor alone to earn a meager salary.As he got older, his wife's belly remained silent, and she finally conceived a child but had a miscarriage. The doctor told him that his wife's body could not conceive again.Now it's all right, my mother-in-law didn't live up to it, so she had to adopt a child and come back to do labor.

The man originally planned to find an older and better-behaved one to go back to help with the work, but after looking around, he found that the older ones were all memorized, and he was really afraid that they were all unfamiliar white-eyed wolves.As a result, the dean recommended the child to the couple. The boy kept his head down and kept quiet, appearing very well-behaved.The man is quite satisfied, but he dislikes the gloomy feeling on Jian Zhu.Seeing the obvious pity on his wife's face, he curled his lips and said nothing more.

As for Jian Zhu, he was a little shy of strangers, but he still had expectations for a new life in his heart.

In this way, Jian Zhu had adoptive parents when she was six years old.

**

Dongxia District is surrounded by dirty land, and the smell of garbage can be heard in the air from a long distance away. People here are generally pale and emaciated.It was noon when Jian Zhu came, and the sun at noon was extremely hot.One of the consequences of the catastrophe is the drastic change in the global temperature difference between day and night, burning at high temperatures at noon and bitingly cold at night.

Jian Zhu's little hand was held by Jian's mother, and she quietly followed Jian's mother to walk under the shadow of the eaves.Passing the sewer ditch along the way, the doors of the houses beside the ditch were open, and a bony old man sat in front of the door to cool off.He looked over and found that they were also looking at him with cloudy eyes, and there was both kindness and malice in their curious eyes.

Where resources are scarce, competition is more likely to occur. The poor living in Dongxia District try their best to survive.But adults are always somewhat tolerant of little dolls.

"Successful, this is your baby? He looks very juicy." An old man asked, and even called the child to come over and stuffed a candy.

Father Jian nodded stiffly, then dragged the mother and son away.

Turned around the shed and entered the house built of yellow cinder bricks.Jian Zhu didn't feel anything when he saw the poverty at home. Where is life not life?Compared with money, he prefers the warm embrace of his parents.

At first he lived a relatively stable life.

There is a mother in the family who will touch his head, sew new clothes for him and make delicious food, and give him a real hug when he is sad.During the day, his father went to earn money, and he helped with work at home.Chopping firewood, carrying water, cooking, laundry, etc. all have to be able to do it, and you must do it well, because if you don't do it well, you will be scolded by Jian's father.

He also met some children outside. Although they would laugh at him knowing that he was brought here, they would also take him over walls and houses, looking for fresh fruit everywhere.

His drowsiness time decreased, but he knew that the brother he depended on had not left him.

When he first arrived at his new home, he was actually a little flustered and scared. Leaving the familiar environment suddenly made him uneasy.Lying on the cold bed tossing and turning in bed at night, unable to fall asleep, the nervousness made him miss Jian Lanzhou crazily.He didn't know when he fell asleep for the last time, but when he woke up the next day, he found a familiar letter beside his pillow, and his body was well covered with a quilt.

Jian Zhu was immediately injected with vitality, and Jian Lanzhou's company made him full of confidence in life.

But he was still very afraid of Jane's father, because after living for a short time, he discovered that Jane's father actually had a bad temper.Sometimes when he came back from a part-time job that didn't go his way, he would have a sullen face. If Jian Zhu made a slight mistake, he would be scolded and scolded, which made the children tremble with fright.Jane's mother is very soft-tempered, she lets her husband decide everything, and she dare not talk back to her husband at all.That's why Jian Zhu was very afraid of making mistakes. If he made a mistake, Jian's father would twist his ears and beat him.

Ears really hurt, he thought tearfully.

One night when he first arrived, he stepped on a small bench to get something from the cupboard, but accidentally broke a bowl.He jumped down and grabbed the pieces of porcelain together in a panic, almost crying when he saw them.He trembled even more when he heard heavy footsteps outside.He knew that he had made a mistake, but he really didn't want to be scolded, and he didn't want to be taught a lesson by Jane's father. When his father found out that he broke the bowl, he would definitely spank his ass with a broom.

He was so frightened that he closed his eyes and fell asleep...

Jian Lanzhou opened his eyes and looked around.Before he knew what happened, he saw a man walking towards him with a fierce face, still holding a broom in his hand.

He was still dazed, and his body ached, and the broom hit him like raindrops.He squatted down and hugged his head and hummed, his ears were buzzing loudly, and he couldn't hear what the man was saying at all.After a while the broom stopped, and the man threw him a dustpan and ordered him to clean it up.But Jian Lanzhou's tinnitus was so severe that she couldn't hear clearly at all.

He sat there with his head covered, his blank look enraged the man even more.Jian Lanzhou came to his senses at this moment, he glanced at Jian's father's ugly face, and slowly cleaned up the broken porcelain pieces.

Then he went back to his little room, which had been made out of a small utility room, with crates piled up around the iron bed.The headache caused by tinnitus made Jian Lanzhou very uncomfortable, and he wanted to sleep for a while now.

When Jian Zhu woke up, he found that he was no longer in the kitchen, and the expected punishment did not come, but he felt a little uncomfortable.He opened his clothes and looked, and there were red marks on his arms.He didn't know how he got to the room, but he was glad that he didn't face his father's anger directly.He is used to closing his eyes in one place, and then he will go to another place at another time when he opens them.He thought it was an ability that everyone would have, just like the Superman drawn in the comics, he once thought he was a hero who saved the world.

But in fact he failed to be a hero, instead he often needs to take responsibility for things he didn't do, or escape the source of his fear like today.Jian Zhu began to miss his friends and wanted them to be with him.It's just that he rarely feels lonely now, because as long as he closes his eyes when he is sad and bored, it will be fine when he wakes up again, and he will find that time has passed quietly.He would sit with Jane's mother in the sun, or receive a letter from Jane Lanzhou at night, as for the red marks and pain that would appear on his body, it didn't matter to him.

**

Jian Zhu found a very small guitar at home, and Jian's mother said that it was left to them by the owner when they moved in the early years.

When he mentioned it to Jian Lanzhou in the letter, he got Jian Lanzhou's response.

"Next time I think I might try it."

When Jian's mother passed by Jian Zhu's room, she heard pleasant music coming from inside. She poked her head in curiously, and saw her son lazily leaning against the small window, reaching out to pluck the strings of the guitar.The warm sunlight in the morning came in through the window, softening the boy's delicate face.

She smiled and didn't bother the child anymore.

After Jian Lanzhou finished playing, he pasted the note on the tape recorder, so that Xiao Zhu could listen to him play the guitar next time.Thinking of this, he hesitated, because he thought of going to school from teaching guitar.Xiaozhu has reached the age of school, but Jian's family is really struggling, and the most important thing is that Jian's father doesn't seem to have any plans for this at all.

go to school?Jian Zhu was a little dazed holding the letter.Jane's family is in a small remote village, and it takes half a day to go back and forth to the middle school closest to the village.Although he has received simple teaching in the orphanage, since he was adopted, he has been so busy doing housework every day. If he went to school, wouldn't those tasks all go to Jane's mother?

If mom doesn't do well, will dad beat her too?He wanted to ask Jane's mother, but he heard the couple arguing at the door.

"How can our family have money for that kid to go to school?" Jian's father looked impatient, "You don't see how much work is waiting for him at home! Besides, what's the use of studying, it's hard to find a job these days, Just who was that last time... oh, the baby from Li’s hometown in the east, who made old man Li look good back then, and now he’s come back in despair and can’t even get a wife.”

"Then, then we can't stop Yao'er from studying, in the future Yao'er will be laughed at when he goes out..."

"It's a joke!" Father Jian sneered, "He stays here honestly, and in the future, let's ask him a daughter-in-law who will get married early, no better than those kids? I'm spending money to raise a laborer, not to spend money to support an ancestor !"

Mother Jian was startled for a moment, then said, "No way!"

Father Jian became angry all of a sudden, "What? You don't even look at your body, how many years have I been dragged down by a pair of broken sacks! The big one won't work, so you want to add a small one? No way!"

"If I say no, I won't do it! I usually listen to you, and this matter is not allowed!" Jane's mother retorted with a stiff neck, and she couldn't help but flinch when she saw Jian's father's face livid, but she still insisted in a low voice, "Well, well, well Let Yao'er finish middle school... Besides, I inquired, the school now also provides subsidies..."

In the end, Jian's mother got a slap and settled the matter, and Jian's father promised to let Jian Zhu read it first.

Jian Zhu was eavesdropping outside the door, his eyes were a little sore for some reason.He also knew that the situation at home was not good, and it was really difficult for him to study.

He rubbed his eyes and made up his mind that no matter what the opportunity my mother gave me, I should read it hard and repay my parents by being outstanding in the future.

The author has something to say: Only two split personalities are really difficult to write

And I think the emotional line of my article is going to be off... I feel like it's about to end, I have to think about how to pull it back...