"Son, come down!"

The man looked at his son tenderly. The ten-year-old child got off the bus. There was still confusion and doubt in his eyes, and he had not yet come to his senses.

He let the man hold his hand and walk to the school gate.

Walked to the gate,

He let go of his son's hand. For some reason, his son often asked him to get off the bus in a secluded place near the school, and then go to school alone.

At most, I was sent to the school gate.

He knew that his son didn't hate him, it's just that he looked too scary.

His two eyes,

Only one eye was visible, and the other was empty, with nothing inside. The eye sockets were deeply sunken, and the area around the eyes had become hideous due to burns.

Even the area around the other good eye is covered with scars.

That battle at the beginning,

The flames engulfed his entire body, especially his head. All his hair was burned off, and one of his eyes was severely burned, with the eyeball necrotic.

In order to prevent the necrotic eyeball from worsening and affecting the nerves, the doctor dug out one of his eyes.

Both hands were severely burned.

The index finger and the middle finger on the right hand that pulled the trigger of the gun were severely burned and were amputated.

When he swung a sledgehammer at the construction site, he could only use his thumb, ring finger and little finger to do the work. He had to work harder than others to do the same job well.

He doesn't blame his son.

He only blamed himself for his hideous appearance that resembled a demon. Not only would others be scared, even if he woke up in the middle of the night and accidentally saw himself in the mirror, he would probably be scared to death.

Thinking of this,

He couldn't help but reveal a bitter smile, but the smile only pulled at the dense scars on his face, making it instantly even more frightening.

"Son, go in! If Dad doesn't come back tonight, you can heat up the dishes and rice in the pot and eat them yourself. Remember to lock the door when you go to bed at night and wait for Dad to come back!"

Perhaps because he knew that his smile looked scary, he immediately stopped smiling and looked at his son.

Looking at the many gazes around him, he subconsciously took two steps back, humbly stepped aside, and lowered his head.

Over the years,

He was used to other people's gazes, but he didn't want to scare his son's classmates and their parents in front of his son, otherwise his son would be angry again.

But,

The next moment,

A small hand grabbed him.

He was stunned.

"Dad, you have to take me to class today!"

The son raised his young face, which was full of guilt.

"Son...I..."

The man was stunned, tears welled up in his eyes, and his body began to tremble slightly.

He looked down at his worn-out Liberation shoes, which were the best and cleanest pair of work shoes he had, and had been washed so hard that they turned white.

There wasn't a trace of mud, but his eyes were still full of anxiety.

He hasn't come back to his senses yet.

The little hand gently pulled him to the door.

The security guard who had mocked and scolded him in the past silently put down his baton, pressed the switch, and the door slowly opened.

The little hand pulled him forward step by step, and then passed through the gate.

He stretched out his foot carefully, and the moment his toes touched the ground, he subconsciously retracted his foot.

He looked down at his son,

The son looked at his father's cautious, humble and fearful appearance, and his young heart couldn't help but twitch, his nose felt sore, and tears almost fell.

He swore that no matter what the occasion or the circumstances, he would never feel any dislike towards his father again.

because,

He is not qualified. No one is qualified.

The man looked up at the security guard again, and finally glanced around.

Seeing that no one opened their mouth to scold him as usual, and that there was no longer any malice or vigilance in everyone's eyes,

He carefully put his feet down and stepped on the ground of the school.

Feeling grounded, he slowly relaxed.

“Bang!”

At this moment, the security guard next to him suddenly put his feet together, raised one hand to his temple, and gave a standard military salute.

The man turned his head and looked, his eyes full of doubt.

But he still subconsciously straightened his body and returned the same standard military salute.

The security guard looked at the man with guilt in his eyes.

He was a retired veteran. When he saw the man for the first time, he knew that the man had a life on his hands.

Coupled with the man's ferocious face,

He kept the man outside the school every time. He didn't know the man's identity or his past. He was afraid that the man would suddenly attack and hurt someone after entering the school.

When the man hurried over to the parent-teacher meeting yesterday, he found out that the man’s child was a student at the school.

But,

Even so, all the looks she saw from men were still filled with vigilance, fear, and terror.

Everyone has gone far away,

Stay away from this freak of his.

There was resistance in everyone's eyes. In their opinion, such a hideous and ugly appearance must be hiding criminal genes.

But today,

When I saw the medals on his chest under that ugly appearance,

Everyone understood.

The tender little hand held his right hand with three fingers, and they walked briskly in the campus full of laughter and joy.

"Dad, this is our school's playground. Every Monday, we stand in the spring breeze and under the red flag..."

"Dad, this is our main teaching building......"

"Dad, this is the garden in our school. Every spring, it is filled with brightly colored flowers..."

"Dad, this sculpture is called Confucius. He was a great teacher with many great students. I also remember his saying: 'I examine myself three times a day...'"

"dad..........."

His son held his hand and walked through the campus.

He usually kept his head down and saw nothing.

Only today did he realize that his son’s campus was so beautiful... so beautiful that it touched his heart.

Along the way,

Whether it is students, parents or teachers,

When I saw the two of them,

Everyone couldn't help but stop and look at them with respect and admiration. As the two walked along, many children followed them spontaneously, their eyes full of envy.

"Dad, let's go in!"

The child pulled him to the door of the classroom.

He followed the child in.