Chapter 457 My Mother is a Fool (10)
The boy felt that he was really lucky. Not long after he ran out of the village, he saw his teacher Wang. Teacher Wang was from the city and would go home once a month. Everyone in the village knew this. He was so lucky that he ran into her.
"Teacher Wang, Teacher Wang." He shouted in the direction of the motorcycle. He believed that Teacher Wang would not ignore them.
Wang Jianguo, who had just returned to the village from the city, heard a familiar child's voice and thought he had misheard. He pricked up his ears and listened carefully a few more times. Wasn't it Liu Zhanyan, the most sensible student in the class? He quickly stopped the motorcycle.
"Slow down, I'll wait for you."
Liu Zhanyan ran forward with the woman, panting and said, "Teacher Wang, please take my mother and I back to the city."
He couldn't imagine what he and his mother would face if his father really caught up with him.
"Is this your mother?" Wang Jianguo glanced at the adult standing next to him. He was stunned at once. Although the woman in front of him was in ragged clothes and her hair was like a mat of dry grass, her skin was nothing like the people here. More importantly, the woman's facial features were exactly the same as the missing cousin he had seen in the family album of his ex-girlfriend in Province M.
"Do you know Wang Shasha?" He couldn't help asking, and then the woman's tears gave him the answer.
"That's my cousin."
"Yes." He really didn't recognize the wrong person, "Hurry up and get on, I'll take you away now."
He was panicking now. He didn't expect that the world was so small after going around in circles, and he actually met the cousin that his ex-girlfriend and family had been looking for for several years. He was even more panicked about how to face Wang Shasha when he saw her again. He was too cowardly to give up on her at that time, and he regretted it countless times afterwards, so he came to this remote place to volunteer to teach. In a blink of an eye, four years have passed.
The motorcycle rushed forward like a gust of lightning, and the boy felt real freedom for the first time. He was no longer afraid of unknown places, as long as the person behind him was always with him. That would be fine.
"Free, finally free." He heard his mother's whisper, turned his head to look at her, and was protected by a pair of rough hands. He felt very relieved because it was his mother's hands.
It was already past two in the morning when they arrived in the city. Wang Jianguo drove the two of them to his rented single apartment on his motorcycle.
The door opened, and he immediately began to order: "You two go to the bathroom to take a shower, I'll pack my things, and we'll go to the station to take the train at four in the morning."
He left at night because he was afraid that the people from Liujia Village would catch up and he wouldn't be able to get away.
"I don't have an ID card." The woman's whispering voice woke him up.
"Don't worry about it for now, take the baby to wash and dress up, don't let the people from Liujia Village recognize you. I'll take care of the rest." He rubbed his chin with a gloomy face, thinking about how to solve the problem of taking a bus without an ID card. From here to Wang Shasha's house, taking a train is not the most convenient, but it is the safest.
"Okay." The woman's trusting eyes gave him unlimited motivation.
Wang Shasha once told him in detail about her cousin's experience. What he still remembers is that her cousin disappeared on the way to a train when she was 20 years old. She was still a 20-year-old girl when she left home. Now, she looks about the same age as the women in their 30s in the village.
"Okay, you guys wash and dress up, and I'll be responsible for packing. Everyone hurry up, otherwise it will be difficult to leave." He locked the door vigilantly and packed up in an orderly manner.
However, the reality was not as he imagined - the whole Liujia Village came after them.
Liujia Village is now in a state of complete chaos, and no one cares about the fool and her son who ran away. They all gathered at Liu Zhanben's house to clean up the aftermath.
"Alas, who would have thought that Liu Zhanben would be so angry, and Zhang Guier explained that he was making up stories to deceive people, but he still killed him." The two people carrying the body had no fear at all, and directly discussed what had just happened.
"Only you would believe what Zhang Guier said. The knife was already at his neck, how could he not beg for mercy? He deserves it. He got away with it."
"I think it's unlucky. I came here to join in the fun, and this happened to me. Alas..."
"Liu Zhanben is really pitiful. Don't you think about it? He was cuckolded when he was alive, and he lost his life for this."
"Don't worry about it. The old village chief has come forward. The officials will decide how to solve the problem. It's really not worth it."
"But you say..." The person who was helping just leaned over and was about to talk about it, but was twisted by the person behind him.
"The dead are the greatest, don't you know?"
He turned around and saw that it was Liu Laizi or someone else. He quickly slapped his hand away and said unhappily: "Good boy, you come here to show off your power."
"The person is dead and you are still complaining here. Aren't you afraid of retribution?" How could Liu Laizi not be sad when his best friend passed away. What made him even more sad was that his good friend continued to be the topic of conversation among the villagers after his death. It was a pity that he came late tonight, otherwise he would have come earlier to stop Liu Zhanben.
"Okay, okay, let's stop talking, okay." Zhuzi, whose ear he had just twisted, turned his back and exchanged glances with the others, rolling his eyes at the same time.
Liu Laizi looked at the two corpses lying beside the house, and he couldn't tell what he felt in his heart, but his legs suddenly softened. He took out the small white cloth in his pocket and solemnly covered the faces of the two people. "Death is the greatest, mourn for the deceased," he told himself, but he couldn't hold back his tears and kept flowing down.
He fantasized that if Zhang Guier hadn't come to take advantage of the fool. Then everything that happened later would not have happened. But he also knew clearly that this was just a fantasy.
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"Can I wash you first?" The woman's voice was gentle, and she gently pushed the boy into the bathtub.
"This is big enough for one person to lie down." The boy's surprised voice was heard by Wang Jianguo who was packing in the living room.
Silly boy, my bathtub is actually very simple. Bathtubs that cost tens of thousands of yuan have all kinds of strange functions.
He smiled and shook his head, picking up a black hooded sweatshirt.
"This is a bathtub, for lying down and taking a bath. You are right." The woman put her hand on his arm, ready to undress him, but the boy became awkward, "Tell me how to wash, I can wash myself."
He didn't want to leave her with a bad impression of his lack of hygiene. He had only taken a few baths since he was born, fearing that the dirt on his body would be washed out and scare her. It wasn't that he didn't like to take a bath, but his father didn't allow him to. His father always told him that taking a bath every day was useless and that it was just because city people were so particular.
(End of this chapter)
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