Chapter 449 My Mother is a Fool (2)
"My dear boy, don't be afraid, don't be afraid, mom is here. Don't be afraid when mom is here." The woman saw that he was covered in dirt and patted him while shedding tears. "Does it hurt? Does it hurt a lot? Mom will blow on it and it will stop hurting."
"Go away. Don't bother me." The boy pushed her away and stood up from the ground, wiping his face with his sleeves. He had suffered enough of such grievances. One more time or one less time, it made no difference to him. What was different for him this time was that the fool actually came to help him.
He was walking quickly without paying attention to the road ahead. Suddenly, he stumbled and fell down. His nose hit the ground and he lost consciousness. He felt a warm liquid flowing to his lips. He vaguely reached out and touched it. The bright red color shocked his eyes.
"I'm bleeding..." He thought of a ghost story told by an old man in the village. The woman in the story died because she kept bleeding. He was bleeding now. Was he going to die too? After all, no matter how strong he tried, he was just a seven-year-old boy. Besides, basic scientific knowledge was not popularized in the village, so it was natural for them to be afraid of such things.
The woman had already caught up with him, and when she saw that his nose was bleeding, she quickly picked some Chinese chrysanthemum on the roadside, crushed it in her palm, and handed it to his face, "Son, put...put it in." As she spoke, her hands were already moving .
"Go away." Liu Zhanyan didn't think a fool could understand anything, he only knew that he was going to die.
The woman fell to the roadside without being prepared because of his push, and the Chinese chrysanthemum in her palm fell to the ground.
Liu Zhanyan could see that she looked a little sad, but something he didn't expect happened. The woman actually picked up a stone and hit her nose.
"What are you doing!" He wanted to stop her, but it was too late.
"Don't be afraid, dear boy. Mom will show you. Mom doesn't lie." The woman's nose was bleeding just like his, but faster and more urgent than his. There was a visible wound on her nose that was revealing white and red flesh.
"Look, like this, it won't bleed." The woman stuffed the chrysanthemum covered with dirt into her two nostrils, smiled and raised her head to look at him, as if to take credit, "Look, it really won't bleed like this."
"It really won't bleed, trust mom, trust mom." The woman staggered to her feet and pulled another handful of chrysanthemum, kneading out the green juice and handing it to him, "Trust mom, mom will stuff it in for you...stuff it in."
Her movements were very gentle, and Liu Zhanyan didn't feel any pain, but he felt a sudden coolness in his nose. However, it was his nose that was injured, but his eyes were sore, "Are you a fool?"
His eyes were sore, and crystal tears flowed down his cheeks. He didn't expect that the silly woman broke her nose just to show him how to stop bleeding. The silly woman is really silly, he thought so, but his actions were very sincere.
He hugged the silly woman, "Why did you get involved, you are a fool. There are so many of them, what if they beat you too?"
He felt even more miserable when he said it. The silly woman is indeed a fool. Only a fool would do something like hitting his own nose.
"They dare not hit me. I am an adult, I am strong." The woman carefully pressed his shoulders, wiped her hands on her body again and again before touching his face to wipe his tears.
"What are you wiping? It's not the first time they bully me like this." Liu Zhanyan got angry, but he didn't push her away just now, but turned his head away and didn't look at him. Many years later, when he became a parent and his child was bullied at school and went home to complain, he thought of this scene at that time and realized that he was not "angry" at all, he was clearly "wronged".
"No one helped you before, you must have been in a lot of pain." She looked at him with red eyes, tears falling faster, "Mom is in pain, it hurts here, it hurts so much." She patted her heart and curled up her whole body.
"A fool is a fool. How can the heart hurt?" He looked at her at this moment and choked up. Because he saw that her pain was not fake.
"It wasn't so serious before." He explained in a hoarse voice. For some reason, the fool mother he had disliked since he could remember did not make him feel annoyed at all by what she did today, but made him feel warm in his heart.
"Good boy. From now on, mom will go to school with you every day and won't let them bully you." The woman's eyes had long been red from crying, and her words now were like a vow, which suddenly made Liu Zhanyan feel at ease. He suddenly felt that he was really stupid. When others called his mother a fool, he also called her a fool, but only fools were sincere to him.
"Okay." He lowered his head and quietly wiped away his tears before standing up. He looked at the woman who was still sitting on the ground and reminded her in a childish voice, "Don't forget what you said."
"I won't forget. I won't forget what I promised you." The woman was anxious to prove this point and grabbed the stone again.
"Put it down." Liu Zhanyan was afraid that she would do the same stupid thing as before, so he almost stopped her with an imperative word. The woman really put the stone down obediently as he said.
"Stand up." He didn't expect the woman to listen to him so much, so he hurriedly gave the order again.
"Did I do something wrong to make you angry?" The woman twisted her clothes pitifully, and the panic in her expression made him feel sad. He remembered the scene where his father would beat her with a stick every time he came back drunk.
He was ignorant in the past, and his classmates laughed at him for having a fool mother, so he blamed her for all the anger he suffered. There were a few times when his father beat her, and he even wished that she would be beaten to death. Now think about it, he is the biggest fool. This is his mother, the mother who gave birth to him.
"You did nothing wrong." He touched his nose which stopped bleeding, and for the first time, he held her hand and walked together on the road in the village.
"Where are we going?" The woman trembled when he suddenly held her hand, and she took back the steps she had just taken.
Liu Zhanyan pretended not to know about her changes, looked at the long alley ahead, and replied in such a brisk tone for the first time: "Go home."
They are a family. He will not let others bully her again. No one can. Not even his father.
"Okay, okay, let's go home together. I'll cut military rations for you next time. They're big and sweet, and delicious."
He looked at the owner of his hand. At this moment, her face was filled with such an innocent smile. Through her smile, he seemed to see her more than ten years ago when she was young and not stupid. He heard everyone in the village say that his mother was bought by his father. At that time, she was still a normal person.
(End of this chapter)
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