(15) Accompany mother Zhao Jie.
When Zhao Jie came for the first time, Honghong was startled, and so was Grandma Fan. There is a simple reason. Hong Hong hit a classmate at school this morning. Although the girl was not seriously injured in the fight, the two of them talked and laughed again after apologizing. However, this is also a school violence. How can you not let her and grandma Fan, as grandma's guardian, worry?
Trump, with short ear hair, thin shoulders, plain long-legged old-fashioned dress and serious and kind expression, is a bit like a teacher.
Sister Zhao has come to look for a house. She did work as a teacher. After graduating from the regional normal college, she returned to a third-line factory in the mountainous area where her parents lived and became a substitute teacher in the children's school. A few years ago, when the factory was at its peak, she was transferred to the factory office to do administration. Her son is 12 years old. He is only in the first grade. He won the children's table tennis championship in the county factory several times in a row when he was in primary school. The coach of county sports school praised him for his talent. After making a total at home, he listened to the coach's arrangement and sent his son to a transfer class in a middle school in Chengdu. It is said that the traditional event of this middle school is table tennis. But after all, the child is still young and the only daughter in the family. Old people on both sides are not at ease. After careful consideration, they asked her to leave her job without pay and rent a house near the school to take care of her son's life.
When the house is empty, it is natural to rent it out before you have money, not to mention a renter with such clean net assets and simple motives. Grandma Fan is very happy. I heard that Zhao Jie still lives in the guest room. I was too busy to persuade her to go back and pack up and move here early, without even mentioning the usual 100 yuan reservation deposit. Sister Zhao said that the luggage is nothing, but if it is booked, she will call home and find a car to drag the daily necessities from home the day after tomorrow. Grandma Fan repeatedly said that it was no problem. The day after tomorrow is the day after tomorrow. I will wait for you for three days. By the way, I will take her to the door and tell her how the car should come in.
Timidly following Grandma Fan, I looked at Zhao Xiaomei from time to time, and felt that Zhao Xiaomei seemed to have found her, and she was busy hiding behind Grandma. The dignity of teachers in children's hearts still exists at least in the 1990s.
Two days later, a small Chang 'an covered in mud drove into the yard. The license plate is indeed from the county Zhao Jie said, and the words * * Machinery General Factory are sprayed on the door. Besides Zhao Jie and the driver, two people got off the bus, a man and a boy. Zhao Jie said that the boy was his son, with a strong body and firm eyes but a little dull. He can call whoever he wants and then stand still. Hong Hong is afraid of teachers, but she is not afraid of boys. She greeted her brother, generously handed him an apple, and then led her new brother upstairs to watch TV. That man is Zhao Jie's husband. He is good-looking and tall. It is said that he is a hollow worker in the factory. He is a technical expert. He doesn't like talking Let Zhao Jie introduce him. He is busy moving things into the room. There were not many things, so they all moved away after two or three trips, then sat in the house for a while and drove away. When cleaning up the house, Zhao Jie explained to Grandma Fan that a mountain had collapsed and she had to go back early, otherwise it would be difficult to leave after dark.
Sister Zhao's life is simple. Get up at 6 o'clock every morning, cook eggs and milk, then wake up my son, watch him finish his meal, help him tidy up his racket and schoolbag, send him to school, and watch him come back to heat up the leftovers from the previous day after he enters the school gate. After tidying up the dishes and chopsticks, Grandma Fan, who went out to exercise, came back with soy milk fritters. Then they send Honghong to school together, and then they go to the food market to buy food together. Go home and tidy up. It's almost 12 o'clock. She ran to school to pick up her son from school. After lunch, his son took a nap. She just took a book and sat at the door and flipped through it. When the time came, she woke her son up on time and sent him to school. When I come back from school, I either wash clothes and do some cleaning, or get a big dish to mend my son's body. It's not stewed chicken with Radix Adenophorae, nor stewed ribs with lotus rice. At about five o'clock, I will take my son home. After dinner, I helped my son finish his homework while cleaning up the dishes. Then, watch TV with my son (mostly CCTV 5' s video of table tennis match or national players' match), or send him back to school for professional training (it is said that schools usually adopt the education method of studying in regular classes, but only professional students regularly conduct professional training in the morning and evening). Pick up my son at around 9: 00 pm, and turn off the lights at around 10.
Everyone in the corridor shares the kitchen, and Zhao Jie is a good cook. Every time she and Grandma Fan are away, we secretly grab one or two pieces, or scoop up a small bowl of soup and hide it in the attic where I live, and have a good taste. Honghong will learn to shake his head at TV advertisements. Mmm, it is delicious. You should also know, because once Hong told me in panic that when she went to scoop soup, the person who went out to buy food looked downstairs and seemed to find her. Later, she sometimes smiled and took the initiative to fill a bowl for me and Honghong, but she didn't steal the fragrance herself.
Zhao Jie doesn't have many friends in Chengdu. As far as I can remember, only one woman has visited her except her husband who has visited her and her son several times. They are happy to talk. Zhao Jie said that this was her classmate at the Teachers College. Later, she was transferred to a school in Chengdu through connections. It is said that her son can transfer to that middle school, and her classmates have made some efforts. At this time, Jiang from the mahjong hall downstairs saw that she was idle and wanted to persuade her to play mahjong. She said she wouldn't, smiled and went straight upstairs into the house. But leisure is really leisure. Once Grandma Fan talked about a rich relative who wanted a tutor. As soon as she figured out that time and her son's time were not contradictory, she readily agreed. So she bought a bike. After dinner, after sending her son to school, she rode to the students' home for ten minutes and tutored for two hours. Then she rushed to school and took her son home. After a few months, she lost a lot of weight. Grandma Fan was very distressed and tried to convince her, but she was very satisfied. In recent years, the life of third-line enterprises has become more and more difficult. Although life in Chengdu is very cheap, two mothers and children are supported by their husbands' salaries. Although they have the support of both parents, they are still quite heavy. Although it is hard to be a tutor, 500 yuan's income in January is much higher than when he was a teacher in a children's school, which is enough to maintain the daily life of the two mothers and children. When she said this, her son was watching cartoons with Honghong. After listening to his mother, he didn't speak. He just tilted his head in his mother's arms and stared at the TV screen, not knowing what he was thinking.
Before long, the winter vacation is coming, and Honghong is very happy. As long as the exam results are not too bad, then the new year can be very happy. With good food and clothes, she can play with several cousins of my uncle's family. So I hummed a ditty all day, thanked you for your love, and gave me a ditty like a cup of forgetful water, so that Grandma Fan would always knock her with a cigarette rod. If she doesn't pass the exam, it will make you look good! But Zhao Jie and her son are very nervous. For ordinary students, this is just an insignificant final exam, but for sports students like her son, there is a professional competition besides the literature exam, which determines his ranking in the team. It is said that the ranking will determine the attitude of the coach, the level of bonus subsidies, and even the question of staying or staying. This kind of competition, in the county, originally doesn't matter. Anyway, her son won the first place, but this is the provincial capital after all, and it is said to be the transportation base for professional players who are famous in the national table tennis field. Zhao Jie relaxed in front of her son and encouraged him to get good grades, but at the same time, she turned down the job as a tutor, which made the food better and made her chat with Grandma Fan more often. When she separated from her son, she frowned and looked quite nervous. But this is just an internal informal game. Parents and outsiders are not allowed to participate, and even the time is not determined. Sister Zhao can only wait in fear and trembling. It was not until one night that she saw her son running towards her happily with a new racket that her heart was put down. In the first competition after coming to Chengdu, her son won the third place. The coach also called her classmates and said that the person she recommended was a good prospect. If you train well, even if you can't compare with Liu and Wang, you have a good chance to enter the provincial team. When the students were very happy to tell her about it, Zhao Jie happily put a chicken wing in the bowl of Honghong and her son. She cooked a table of dishes and invited several of our neighbors, the landlord and her classmates to celebrate her son's good grades. This is also a farewell party. During the winter vacation, they will go back to their homes in the mountains, and they will come out again when school starts in spring.
As soon as the New Year is over, spring will arrive, and people wandering in Chengdu will return to Chengdu from their respective hometowns to continue their work and life. Zhao Jie and her son also arrived the day before school started. They are still in Xiao Chang 'an, and the driver is still the same, but her husband didn't come. She explained that the factory was very busy and the production task was heavy. As she spoke, she stuffed a piece of bacon for Grandma Fan, saying it was from the villagers. Her son was very shy when he didn't come. He grabbed some apples and handed them to Hong Hong.
Life in Zhao Jie is as simple as last year, and it goes on and on. The only difference is that if her son trains at night, she won't pick him up every night. Because her classmates introduced her to two tutors, which is a bit far. One is in Yulin and the other is in ginkgo forest. It takes about 1 hour to go back and forth by bike. Plus at least 90 minutes of class time, I can't get back to pick up my son. The treatment is good, adding up to nearly one thousand yuan. Her son is very obedient, either doing homework with Honghong or watching TV at home alone, and she is relieved. With income, her mentality has also relaxed a lot. She calls Honghong from time to time to have dinner together and help her with her homework. Buy one or two good cigarettes once in a while and let people who come to Chengdu take them back to her husband. She said that her husband was a heavy smoker.
Life is simple, the days pass quickly, and the final exam is coming soon. After nearly a year of formal training and understanding of his teammates, Zhao Jie's son seems relaxed, but Zhao Jie is not only nervous, but also has a hint of sadness in his brow. Grandma Fan is very sophisticated and comforted her several times, but she didn't get to the point. She didn't say why, but she just mechanically prepared for her son and encouraged him to cheer.
My son has made progress again in this competition. Although he still ranked third, he didn't lose until his score reached 265,438+0 in the third game. When he was unconvinced and complained to Zhao Jie, he relaxed and perfunctory, and then asked Grandma Fan to help take care of her son for a few days, saying that there was something urgent at home and she had to go back and deal with it. Of course, Grandma Fan readily promised.
The next morning, after taking her son to school with Grandma Fan, she left.
Who knows when she left, she left for a whole week. Grandma Fan said nothing, but her face was a little worried. She's not worried about the room rate or anything. Zhao Jie gave her three months' rent before she left. She won't come back because the table tennis team has to train in the summer vacation. After all, her son is a boy of 12 years old, and Mu Heng feels a little again. On one occasion, he was seen dialing from a public phone and yelling like his mother-in-law.
The way Zhao Jie came back surprised everyone. She has no temperament as a teacher. Her clean and tidy hair became messy and fluffy, her kind face became haggard, her eyes became dull and dull, and her clothes were the same as when she left. There is still a faint scratch at the opening of the clothes. Other people's greeting, she just callous little, one-way to his room upstairs. Grandma Fan shook her head, snuffed out the cigarette coldly, knocked out the cigarette rod and followed her upstairs. Soon, there was a faint cry from upstairs.
In the evening, Uncle Hong came over for dinner. Grandma Fan asked me to drink with him and saw Zhao Jie go to her classmate's house. That's when I talked about their husband and wife. Zhao Jie's husband looks honest, but in fact he is a playboy. Plus, he is tall and square, and now he is also the striker of the basketball team in the sub-bureau. Very popular with factory women workers. When Zhao Jie was here, she was relatively restrained. But after Zhao Jie came to Chengdu, she hooked up with several former lovers and even took a good sister from Zhao Jie home for the night. Zhao Jie didn't know how to get the news. She tried to wait for her son to finish the exam before going home. She quarreled with her good sister and turned against her completely, but her husband vowed never to do this again, but she vaguely felt that another friend might be related to her husband. She loves her son and husband, but she doesn't know what to do. Her son's table tennis is getting better and better, which is very promising. It's really right to come to Chengdu. But if you want to keep your husband's heart, you must go back and watch it, otherwise, the two will only go further and further. She asked Grandma Fan what to do, but Grandma Fan didn't know how to answer. Although she is the captain of the iron girl team in the commune, she also robbed Uncle Fan. However, it was much easier to raise a son in those days than it is now. As long as he eats well and sleeps well, his morality is regulated by society, and his future is arranged by the state, he doesn't have to think about his work, housing and marriage as he does now, but he must worry about everything himself.
In the next few days, in addition to picking up her son, cooking and washing clothes, Zhao Jie shut herself in and turned on the TV, but there was no program on the TV station on Tuesday afternoon, and she still turned on the TV. Grandma Fan was worried about her, so she knocked on the door to call her out and went to Funan River with her.
Sister Zhao's craft has also become worse. A stewed pig's trotters, Honghong went to scoop a bowl of soup, only took a sip, and then threw it back, saying it was very salty and had some pig hair. From now on, we will never steal to eat again.
After the summer vacation, Zhao Jie's husband came twice, once stayed for one night, played with them for one day, and left quietly the next day. It is said that he came to apologize, but Zhao Jie refused. The other time was in mid-August, when the team's summer training had ended. He came to take his son home, but Zhao Jie didn't go back, saying that he had two tutors and couldn't leave.
Later, when I moved to Zhao Hua, Zhao Jie and her son still lived there. Once I went on a business trip, and Zhao Jie was not in. Fan Wei said. Zhao Jie's classmates advised her to go back, saying that her son was so old that she could help take care of him, and suggested that Zhao Jie go back to look after the house. Zhao Jie still refused. She thinks her son had better take care of himself. She found another job and is ready for her son to take it to school after lunch in the morning. Although the salary is not as high as that of a tutor, it's easy. I can pick up my son from school in the afternoon, which is relatively stable. Plus the income from tutoring. Enough for their mother and son to live in Chengdu. Occasionally, there are calls to the public phone downstairs. She always says a few words lightly, then hangs up and says it's her husband. But whether there is a divorce or not, Grandma Fan doesn't know.
In retrospect, it was nearly ten years ago, and the China table tennis team is still so strong that people in China are worried. I just don't know whether there is such a player from Chengdu in the national table tennis team, even in Sichuan province. His mother's name is Zhao. She abandoned everything for him.