? Not far away, Aunt Wang in the same village is moving a small bench to chat with Aunt Li. I saw two people shaking a big cattail leaf fan in one hand and picking up melon seeds from the basin in the other. The melon seed skin crossed an arc from his lips and fell to the ground with a bang. Summer afternoon is full of disturbing sultry heat, which makes the factors of anger and violence in people's hearts faintly breed.
? "What parents have done is a pity for such a small child ..." Aunt Wang took the lead. Since two days ago, she has repeatedly said this sentence to different people, and the initial sympathy has already turned into a mocking smile on her lips.
? "Yes," said Aunt Li, "Ah Wu's mother is also poor. She has been bullied by her man for so many years without saying a word. Estimated that she was forced to be nasty, and when she missed ... "Aunt Li's mind emerged the picture of Ah Wu's father lying on the ground with scissors in his chest. He held his chest in one hand, blood spilled wildly from his fingers, his legs twitched twice from time to time, and his eyes opened wide, not long after. Aunt Li's home is more than ten meters away from Ah Wu's, so she knows it in detail.
? "Oh oh mom is too weak. In that case, if he dares to hit me in my home, I will make trouble with him and smash everything that can be smashed at home to see if he dares to smash things ... "Aunt Wang is a notoriously provocative person in the village. When is Lao Wang disobedient and disobedient, and he dare not move a finger when his wife points to the east?
? "Ha ha, you are very good ... but strangely, Ah Wu Ma suddenly became so crazy, because she can't kill people just for children. She didn't do this before. She would cry in the yard. Once I passed the gate of her yard and saw a red palm print on her face, and she didn't work very neatly. I asked her what was wrong and retorted that it was nothing. I think Wu's father must have been drunk and hit her again. ...
? "How did I hear that her reputation is not very good? She told Master Zhao, the mechanic in our village, and Fat Xu in the village next door ... "
? "It's not easy to talk nonsense ..." Aunt Li looked around very seriously and lowered her voice. "I think oh mom is an honest woman. She doesn't even go out. Ah Wu and his father are her days and her land. Otherwise, she can endure not running with others until today? I think it's Ah Wu's father who is suspicious and says everything when he is drunk ... Alas, every time he scolds you so fiercely ... What do you think makes Ah Wu's mother behave ... Poor ... "Aunt Li probably really felt sorry for this thin woman when she said this, and it seems that Ah Wu's mother is washing clothes in the yard with tears on her face and arms.
Aunt Wang looked at Aunt Li's expression, but she didn't know how to proceed, so she had to turn the topic to Ah Wu. "I heard that Ah Wu has no relatives at home, and Ah Wu's mother got married outside. How will he live in the future? "
? "In the morning, the government came and said that it would take Ah Wu to any welfare home in the town, but he didn't go anyway. The child was ten years old and his ideas were exposed on the spot. Nobody can help it, but they can't drag it away. They went to the village head ... "
? "What would you say the village chief would do? And called on everyone to collect money for Wu to eat, clothe and go to school? But how can he take care of himself with such a small child? " Aunt Wang said, her eyes glanced at Aunt Li. At one point, "why don't you discuss it with Lao Li and adopt the child?" Your family is a big family in our village. Lao Li is doing business in the town, so he is popular. You have adopted Ah Wu, and you are such a good companion ... "Aunt Wang said this, and looked back at Aunt Li's three-story" mansion "with a face of envy.
"It's impossible ... it's not a question of money. I tell you, the foundation of the Awu family is not good. What should I do if I spoil my Mao Mao? "
? "Is the root not good?" Aunt Wang was quite surprised after hearing this.
? "Yes, I heard my mother-in-law say that Ah Wu's grandfather used to be a famous gambler in the village and often played tricks. When he lost money, he hit his wife. As a result, Awu's grandmother ran away with another man, and Awu's grandfather shouted insults all night. Everyone nearby heard it. Ah Wu's father was only a teenager at that time, standing beside him. You said it wasn't a bad root. What if general A Wu comes like his father and grandfather? What should I do? No, I can't let him be with Mao Mao ... "The woman who just showed sympathy and gentleness seems to be another person, but what's wrong with her? She just loves her children.
? Ah Wu has probably been squatting on the ground for a long time, and his feet are numb. He got up and sat at the only table in the room, looking at a sweet potato and a bowl of porridge on the table, which was the last dinner that Ah Wu's mother prepared for him to go home from school. A few nasty flies landed on the ground again, greedily enjoying this rare food. Wu suddenly became angry. He slapped a fly and killed one. In the past two days, he didn't shed a tear. He didn't want to say a word. He finally got rid of the endless beating, abuse and crying, and the home was finally quiet, but what about his gentle mother? What about the father who always regards him as the only hope despite his bad temper? They finally abandoned him, and he was the only one left in the world. "You can only rely on yourself," Ah Wu said to himself. "There is no one to rely on," he added. Ah Wu picked up the cooked sweet potato, peeled it off and bit it down, regardless of whether it had gone bad or not.
Awu doesn't know that more than 20 years ago, his father sat in the same position and his mother prepared dinner at the dinner table for the last time. She said goodbye to Ah Wu's father in tears, then left with her bag and never looked back. After many years, the figure remained in Ah Wu's dream. At that time, 12-year-old Awu's father took a hard bite of sweet potato. "She said she wouldn't leave ... no one could believe ... she was on her own ..." He said to himself silently.