Chapter 452 My Mother is a Fool (5)
After leaving the house, Shi Yi immediately spat out the chicken shit in his mouth. Whatever happened to such a wretched man was worse than eating chicken shit! In order to prevent the man from having any thoughts about her again, she decided not to keep her body clean for the time being. Today, she also wanted to leave a good impression on the child, so she cleaned up a little.
"Go out and see the fool, where is she sleeping?" The man was a little sleepy after eating and drinking.
The family was poor, and there was only one room with a paint-peeled table, a broken cupboard, a few rotten benches and chairs, a fire pit, a wooden bed, and a brick nest with broken cotton wool in the corner. There was nothing else.
He and his son slept in the bed, and the brick nest with broken cotton wool was where the woman slept. Speaking of which, the woman's bed was not as warm as a doghouse.
He put the bowls and chopsticks on the ground and skillfully touched the bed. His son was always well behaved and would come back to sleep by himself. He was not worried at all.
"Where are you?"
The tender voice of the child made the woman's heart tighten. She hurriedly got out from behind the straw pile and said anxiously, "Why aren't you sleeping yet? You have to go to school tomorrow."
If the boy thought his mother was pitiful and pretending to be stupid before, he would have given up this idea after seeing her eating chicken shit. Now he heard her say that she would go to school tomorrow and thought she was really stupid. Tomorrow is Saturday, how could she go to school!
"Go into the house and sleep. It's cold outside." He stretched out his hand to pull her, and suddenly remembered that she had grabbed chicken shit with her hands and ate it, and her hand paused in the air.
His hesitation was seen by Shi Yi, who felt that this child was not easy. In order not to embarrass the child, she simply put both hands behind her back. Seeing this in Liu Zhanyan's eyes, he felt ashamed. He had just vowed not long ago that he must grow up quickly to protect her, but now he actually despised her again. She is his mother, and even if she is really a fool, she can't change this fact. This time he didn't hesitate and directly put his hand behind her back and forcefully held it, "Come in, it's cold outside and you'll get sick."
"Good girl, no need, go in and sleep." Shi Yi refused. The place where she slept inside was not even as good as a doghouse. It would be better to sleep in this pile of straw, which is warm and has no odor.
"Let's go." Liu Zhanyan continued to pull her. How could she sleep in such a strong wind outside.
"I really don't want to go. It's nice to sleep here."
He didn't expect the woman to be so persistent. He simply didn't go in to sleep and sat down next to her. "If you don't go in, I'll sleep here with you."
He then looked at the woman in surprise as she made the bed for him and found a quilt for him. Of course, the bed and quilt were made of straw.
"Try it."
He couldn't refuse the eager light in the woman's eyes, and tried to fall on the straw. It was not as prickly as he imagined, and it also had a special smell of grass and wood. It was more comfortable than the rotten quilt on the bed in the house. His eyes lit up.
"It's really comfortable." He said almost sighing.
"Kid, squeeze in. I won't be close to you because of my stinky body." The woman lay down on the outside of him, just to block the cold wind from outside. She was like an ordinary mother, pulling the "quilt" covering him tightly.
Liu Zhanyan turned to her direction, blinking and staring at her. He had a lot to say to her now.
"Kid, go to sleep. I'll take you to school tomorrow." The woman patted his back to remind him to close his eyes, but his eyes widened.
"I don't want to sleep." He stretched out his hand and pulled her to him, "Stay close, it's warm." His original intention was to keep her warm, but she was so concerned about her stinky body that she was afraid of stinking him, so he quickly added, "I'm cold, come closer to me to keep me warm." The woman really did what he said.
The moonlight tonight was not very clear. It hung high in the night, and people could only see some faint shadows of trees. The insects didn't sing loudly, occasionally they would scream a few times but soon died down as if they were going to sleep.
In the moonlight, Liu Zhanyan was very curious about his mother's previous life. He wanted to ask, what kind of life did you live at home before you came to Liujia Village, did your grandparents look for you after you were abducted, why did you give birth to me... He had too many questions, and he didn't know which one to ask. He thought about it again and again in his heart, and then he felt sleepy and closed his eyes to take a nap, but he fell asleep.
"Go to sleep. Go to sleep." The woman gently pulled the straw quilt over his shoulders again, but she didn't sleep herself. Instead, she stared at his sleeping face with a lot of thoughts in her mind.
No one is a qualified parent and child from the beginning. When she was a child, she felt that her parents were too strict and made her uncomfortable, so she tried her best to escape. Until she got pregnant, she hated the child and wished he would die. But as the baby in her belly grew up little by little, she softened her heart. She thought at that time that the adults were wrong and the child was innocent. As long as she educated him well in the future, he would not be the same as other people in the village. She let go of her disgust for the child and slowly experienced the feelings of being a parent. Only then did she understand how much harm her previous willfulness had done to her parents. Now, her parents must still be crying.
Liu Zhanyan turned over, and the woman came back to her senses and pressed the straw on him, then lay down and closed her eyes.
Tomorrow is not an easy day either. She must get out of here, and take her baby son with her.
Liu Zhanben slept until dawn, and the smell of food had reached his nose. He was a little surprised. Why has the silly woman been so sensible recently? Has her stupidity been cured? He sat up and saw that his son was frying eggs.
"Where is the idiot?" He was in a bad mood immediately. Although the fool is stupid, he shouldn't let his son interfere in such matters as cooking. His beloved son must study hard, get the first place in the exam, and go out to work in the mountains.
"She is feeding the chickens outside." Liu Zhanyan mashed the eggs and added the tomatoes that had been cut long ago. There was a crackling sound in the pot. He hurriedly began to stir it, and he kept frying the tomatoes until the juice came out before adding water. What he wanted to cook was tomato, egg and vegetable soup. She taught him how to do it when he got up in the morning. It is indeed much faster than stir-frying shredded potatoes.
"Call her in, I'll talk to her." Liu Zhanben put on a coat, got up from the bed, and walked slowly towards the fire pit. His dark and wrinkled old face looked even darker against the red firewood.
(End of this chapter)
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