Home of Rebirth

On the way home that day, the two finished eating chicken chops, and Xia's mother at home had already prepared the meal. After dinner, Xia Yue gave his father a wink, and gestured at the snacks in his hand as if threatening. Xia Laosan felt that he had a trick in his hands, so he had to take out 300 yuan, falsely claiming that it was a bonus from the factory.

With the 300 yuan, Xia's mother's face eased a lot, at least it can solve the money crisis of their family for the past two months.

As for the relocation of Xia Yue's grandfather's grave, in the end it was shared among the brothers of the Xia family, and no one got any less points. Of course, don't think about anyone getting more points.

Because of this, Xia Yue heard her aunt talk about their family behind her back more than once.

Xia Yue doesn't bother to care about it, because justice is in the heart, and there are some things that you really don't need to mind, but Xia's mother has no time and mind recently. At first, Xia’s mother thought about it strangely. It may be that when the eldest aunt wanted to relocate Xia Yue’s grandfather’s grave, she felt very angry and unfair when she asked their family to take the money. Later, when she thought about Xia Yue’s grandpa’s Regarding the issue of support, it may be unfair to let his uncle's family take the lead.

Xia Yue couldn't say anything in the middle, the only thing he could do was try to earn more money with the few hundred dollars left over to buy shampoo, take care of his father every day and forbid him to drink, pick him up at the intersection every day, I hope he can get home safely, and remember to remind Mother Xia to take the medicine, and always say good things to reassure her, and I have to worry about Meng Huaiyuan's basic necessities.

He seems to be very busy every day, but every day is very happy.

In this way, when the summer vacation was coming to an end, the number of mud monkeys in the alley suddenly decreased a lot, because many of them found that they had not finished their summer homework, so they could only lie at home and busy with homework.

With Xia Yue's help, the Chen brothers successfully completed their summer homework. They still have the 50 yuan in their hands, because they are reluctant to spend it, and they will show it off every day.

Faced with their childish behavior, Xia Yue could only thank God, but fortunately, Meng Huaiyuan was not like this.

Meng Huaiyuan is not a very talkative child, and since he came back from the night market that day, he has been stimulated. He feels that he knows very little, and he doesn't know as much as Xia Yue, who is in the first grade. How can Xia Yue's brother protect him?

So this young boy rides his cousin Cheng Gang's unwanted bicycle to Xinhua Bookstore to read books every day.

Xinhua Bookstore was established in Yan'an in [-]s. It belonged to the state's official bookstore and was the only official bookstore in the city at that time. Although Xinhua Bookstore spread all over the country more than ten years later, after ten years in this city, Xinhua Bookstore's original two-storey storefront has gradually become decadent and has become a small room. It is still a very dark and dilapidated former city library.

For Meng Huaiyuan's sudden interest in reading, Xia Yue was naturally happy. In his previous life, Meng Huaiyuan had good grades, but because of family reasons, he didn't finish high school. In this life, Xia Yue will go to college with Meng Huaiyuan.

So he often went to the bookstore with him, and then went back to the street behind the Xinhua Bookstore to look at a hardware store, because that hardware store later quit and was rented by an old Chinese doctor to open a clinic. During the years, he was quite famous, but he was persecuted once, and his wife and daughter passed away, so after his redress, he hid alone in this small northern city for the elderly.

In her previous life, Xia Yue was forced by Meng Huaiyuan to go to him for a pulse check. He knew that this old Chinese doctor was a rare and strange person, so he wanted to wait for him to cure Mother Xia's illness.

In this way, on the last night of the summer vacation, the mud monkeys of each family had to calm down, pack their schoolbags, and prepare to report to school tomorrow. When they register, they still need to pay 36 yuan for tuition.

Just because of the 36 yuan tuition fee, the neighbor's child was beaten again.

It was a little boy in the third grade, named Kang Shixin. His mother ran away with someone else when she was two years old. He married a stepmother, who gave birth to a younger sister for him the next year.

How should I put it, being a stepmother in those years was actually very good, especially when the child was young, if you treat him as your own, he will respect you in the future.

It’s just that the patriarchal patriarchy of grandparents in those years was still very serious. Kang Shixin’s grandma was partial to her grandson, and felt that her grandson’s mother was not around, so she always loved him so much. In this way, her granddaughter didn’t care so much.

This also aroused the rebellion of the stepmother, who treated Kang Shixin openly and secretly very badly, especially this woman's heart was too bad, she not only beat and scolded Kang Shixin endlessly, but also urged her husband to beat the child.

Since ancient times, there has been a stepmother and a stepfather. Kang Shixin's father, Boss Kang, is really not a qualified father. As soon as he gets angry, he drinks some wine and starts to vent his anger on his son after listening to his wife say a few bad things.

Xia's mother heard Kang Shixin's cry outside the window, frowning and cursing: "This Boss Kang is doing his best, and sooner or later there will be a day when he regrets it."

After she finished cursing, she turned her head and educated Xia Yue: "Did you see that, if you get mad at me again, I'll be so mad, your father will marry you a stepmother, and he will beat you like this every day"

Xia Yue was particularly helpless: "Mom...it's unlucky to be dead or not"

"Anyway, as long as you remember." Mother Xia tapped her son on the forehead, then turned around and went into the room to change clothes and prepare to go out to play mahjong.

Mother Xia was right in saying something, that was the day when Boss Kang did have regrets. In her previous life, Xia Yue remembered that Kang Shixin went to junior high school at the age of 14, and also studied high school and college in other places, and finally bought a house in other places to marry a wife. Not going home at all.

As Boss Kang was getting old, he always hoped that his son would come back to see him, but the damage had already been done, and Kang Shixin was unwilling to come back no matter what.

Xia Yue knew that he didn't hate his father for beating him. Whose boy hadn't been whipped by his father with a belt.

If you hit me because I made a mistake, and you want me to correct it, then you are fulfilling your parental responsibility, because you love me so much that you will not let me go astray.

But I didn't make a mistake, you hit me just to vent your anger, to please your new wife, to get revenge on that ex-wife who abandoned you.

Later, in order to let his son go home, Boss Kang bought two houses on purpose, hoping that his son could come back and get married, but at that time, Kang Shixin had already praised the down payment and bought a house with a loan from another province. Boss Kang knew about it. In the future, I felt guilty and told my son very flatteringly that if he was willing to come back, he could still buy him a car and give him money when he got married.

But Kang Shixin just said lightly: "Leave it to your daughter, I don't want it"

This sentence has become the curse of Boss Kang in this life. Whenever he drank with a few old buddies in the neighborhood, whenever he was drunk, he would cry and say that he was too wrong back then. I live with my son.

Xia Yue packed a few cakes in a convenience bag, took them and walked to Kang's house in the backyard. He saw Kang Shixin squatting at the door with his head lowered, fiddling with his dirty hands, and sometimes wiping his hands. A handful of tears on the face.

There were red scars on the exposed legs and arms, and some of them were bleeding.

Xia Yue couldn't say that he was pitiful or sympathetic, but he felt very uncomfortable. He took the cake and wanted to give it to Kang Shixin, but when he came to him, he found that Kang Shixin was still holding a sharp piece of glass in his hand. He looked up Looking at Xia Yue, he said bitterly, "I'm going to kill him tonight."

Who to kill?My own father?

Xia Yue sighed, squatted in front of him, and said softly: "Come on, come with me to Meng Huaiyuan's house, I have cake, you haven't eaten yet, I still have the Three Kingdoms card, do you want it?"

That day Xia Yue brought Kang Shixin to Meng Huaiyuan's house, the two talked for a while, and finally coaxed Kang Shixin to stop crying, and asked him to wash his face and hands and eat cake for him.

But Kang Shixin cried when he just took the first bite, and burst into tears while stuffing it into his mouth vigorously.

He said that he was never allowed to eat their cakes, and they were always his sister's.

He also said that he was not asked to pay the tuition fees, but the school asked him to pay, so why did he keep beating him.

He kept holding the sharp glass in his hand. He said: "I picked up this piece of glass when I was five years old. At that time, I wanted to kill Kang Jian. I always wanted to."

Kang Jian is Boss Kang's name, and it is considered disrespectful for his son to call Lao Tzu his big name, but in Kang Shixin's place, he has not called Boss Kang Daddy for a long, long time.

Xia Yue watched, of course he knew that Kang Shixin would not kill Boss Kang, but it was probably this piece of glass that used its sharp edges to draw an irreparable scar between their father and son.