In winter, Wang Yu, who messed up his work again, crawled towards the tube-shaped building that was older than him with unsteady steps.
The iron door on the third floor was already rusted and even warped and deformed. Even if the key was inserted and the lock was turned, it still took two pushes to open it.
I drank a little too much that night, and although I still had the strength, I couldn't use it well. The door that usually could be opened with three pushes at most now still resisted stubbornly after four or five pushes.
bump!
Wang Yu lost his patience and kicked the door, causing the entire corridor to shake.
"Open the door for me!"
After shouting at the top of his lungs, he leaned his head against the wall and waited.
After a while, the door opened from the inside, and the trembling and frightened face of my daughter, Wang Xiaoyu, appeared from the gap in the security door.
After opening the door for his father, he slipped into the room.
bump!
Because of fear, Wang Xiaoyu failed to control his strength and the sound of closing the door was a bit loud.
As Wang Xiaoyu closed her eyes and prayed that her father would not be dissatisfied, she heard her father Wang Yu's curses from outside the door.
The sound of the door closing was just loud enough, and it touched some nerve in Wang Yu. It reminded him of the scene in the company during the day when he was scolded and humiliated by his boss.
At the age of 30, Wang Yu could accept being scolded by his boss, but what he could not accept was the fact that his boss was six years younger than him.
I'm already old, but I was scolded by a little kid.
When I got home, my daughter gave me the cold shoulder again.
The fire in Wang Yu's heart was instantly ignited.
Bang! Bang!
Wang Yu staggered and kicked the door twice. The first kick left cracks on the peeling wood. The second kick went through the door and got stuck in the middle.
After pulling it out twice, it was still stuck. Wang Yu punched the door and called out to his daughter inside, "Are you dead?"
Wang Xiaoyu inside moved tremblingly from the desk to the door, turned the door lock, and carefully helped to rescue his father's feet from the doorway.
Unexpectedly, the father who was rescued had no intention of letting her go. He lay on the sofa and continued to curse her.
"You little bastard, I provide you with food, drink and study hard, and this is how you treat me?"
After he finished speaking, he saw that his daughter had already poured him some honey water to help him sober up, and even considerately brought him a hot towel to wipe his face.
The scolding words had already been arranged, but when he saw his daughter standing in front of him respectfully like a servant, the scolding words were suddenly stuck.
After drinking the sweet honey water, he raised his sleeve and wiped it roughly, then asked while lighting a cigarette, "Are the test results out? How did you do? What place did you rank in?"
"First," Wang Xiaoyu replied in a low voice with his head down.
Although he was upset by his daughter's cowering and trembling appearance, Wang Yu nodded with satisfaction regarding her performance. "Have you been selected for the National Children's Mathematical Olympiad?"
"No..." Wang Xiaoyu lowered his head even more, and his voice became almost inaudible.
"without?"
Wang Yu finally found a way to vent his anger, and he picked up the cup on the coffee table and smashed it over.
Knowing that hiding would only bring more severe punishment, Wang Xiaoyu just instinctively shrank his neck and did not move to avoid it.
Fortunately, Wang Yu still wanted to keep her head for studying, so he hit the cup relatively low. The cup hit her little foot and fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.
"I'm working so hard outside, risking my life and losing my face. Who am I doing this for? What is this for?
You can't even get selected for the National Children's Mathematical Olympiad, are you worthy of me?"
"I'm... sorry!" Wang Xiaoyu's voice was shaking.
"If apologizing is useful, what do we need the police for?"
If saying sorry is useful, then what do we need the police for?
The leader also said this when he scolded him today.
Wang Yu was having dinner with a client. In order to make the client enjoy himself, he drank a little more. He said something wrong and irritated the client, causing him to decide not to cooperate with the company anymore.
Then the leader scolded him for half an hour in front of everyone in the company.
He thought that he would be fine after scolding her. After all, he was already 35 years old and it was hard for him to find a job. He was not qualified to resign in anger given his living environment.
Unexpectedly, he did not resign and his leader fired him first.
For the sake of his daughter and his family's life, Wang Yu apologized silently.
The leader’s reply was just this: If sorry is useful, then what do we need the police for?
On the way home, he was still thinking, if he lost his job, it was lost, but fortunately his daughter was still hardworking and would win a prize in the National Mathematical Olympiad.
Winning the award will qualify you for admission to junior high school, high school, or even college without taking an entrance exam. In addition to full tuition waiver, you will also receive a double scholarship.
He would not starve to death even if he did not work. Not only that, once his daughter got the qualification for admission to university, she would not have to focus all her energy on her studies.
You can then take time out to participate in competitions and win prizes, and maybe even use the prize money to buy a house or a car.
Who would have thought that something so disappointing wouldn't even be selected.
The more Wang Yu thought about it, the angrier he became, and the angrier he became, the more he wanted to hit someone. He put his hands on his hips, looked around, and went to the kitchen to find a rolling pin as thick as his arm.
As soon as he came out, he hit Wang Xiaoyu on the legs. The wooden stick hit her legs, which had little flesh, making a crisp sound.
"Dad, I was wrong, please stop hitting me." Wang Xiaoyu was beaten so hard that it hurt so much that she instinctively dodged and cried for mercy.
Wang Xiaoyu's dodging action angered Wang Yu again, forcing him to grab her arm with one hand to prevent her from running away, and hit her harder with a rolling pin in the other hand.
"You useless thing. I've sacrificed my dignity to get you into school, but you can't even get selected for a competition. Do you think you're worthy of me?"
"Dad, I know I was wrong, oooh!... Please stop hitting me, I will try harder next time..."
The more spineless Wang Xiaoyu acted, the angrier Wang Yu became. Fortunately, his mother Zhou Xue, who had gone out to play cards, came back at this time.
"Oh my god, what are you doing?"
Zhou Xue quickly stepped forward and snatched the rolling pin from her husband's hand, "You are so cruel, are you going to beat her to death?
If you kill her, who will you rely on for the rest of your life?"
"If I don't beat her to death, can I count on her for the rest of my life?" Wang Yu had just hit her so hard that he was breathing heavily while speaking, "She can't even be selected for a competition.
She is so useless, how can we expect her to achieve anything in the future?
What's the point of raising her? It's better to raise a dog or a cow, which you can sell for money or kill for meat."
"What nonsense are you talking about after drinking too much horse urine?" Zhou Xue glared at her husband, then turned around to check on her daughter. "Fortunately, you are not completely confused and didn't hit your head."
Wang Yu was a little drunk, so he sat down on the sofa and motioned for his wife to handle it.
"Xiaoyu" Zhou Xue tidied up her daughter's messy hair and asked, "Did you make the competition?"
"..." Wang Xiaoyu subconsciously wanted to hide, but was afraid of being scolded, so he stiffened his neck and didn't move. Maybe it was because he wanted to be abused, but Wang Xiaoyu didn't act scared at all, and he clearly said "No!"