Chapter 36 I'm Not a Good Person
Tang Xueli pondered for a few seconds and whispered, "Is the copy of Uncle Bangs wrapped in a book cover?"
Liu Zhengju looked at Tang Xueli cautiously: "Why do you ask that? Have you seen that book?"
Tang Xueli: "Is it wrapped in brown paper?"
"No." Liu Zhengju lowered her eyes, staring at the mottled texture on the desk, and said, "I helped Tian Xiaoyue wrap Uncle Bangs with the book cover. I used old newspapers with my and her names written on it."
Tang Xueli: "Did this book disappear with Tian Xiaoyue?"
Liu Zhengju nodded, "I haven't seen the ending yet..."
The person is gone, and the book is gone too.
But that doesn't mean anything.
Liu Zhengju added: "After Tian Xiaoyue disappeared, her schoolbag and other belongings were still there, except for this book. However, I didn't tell anyone, so no one else knew."
"Then why did you tell me?"
Tang Xueli's intuition told her that she had already glimpsed a glimpse of the truth.
But she didn't really want to get involved in this matter.
"Because I think you are a good person, a smart and good person."
Liu Zhengju always speaks in a very rigid manner, with a tone that lacks ups and downs and is a bit dry and stiff, but she is innocent, kind and emotional in her heart.
"Tian Xiaoyue is a very good girl. She studies well, is kind to her classmates, and likes to help others. She can't just disappear like this."
Tang Xueli smiled bitterly and said, "I'm not a good person."
She had already guessed that Cui Weishan was hunting Tang Limei, but she chose to be a cold-eyed spectator.
He even fantasized about throwing a bomb that would shatter Tang Limei to pieces when she fell into the abyss.
"You won't help either..."
Liu Zhengju couldn't hide her disappointment, and murmured to herself, "Why won't they help? Even Teacher Cui doesn't want to look for her now. Teacher Cui used to be so good to Tian Xiaoyue, and was very worried when she just disappeared. Later, she gradually forbade anyone to mention it, saying that it was a school rule that it was not allowed to spread rumors, saying that it would affect learning and the campus environment. But, clearly, a person just disappeared like that!"
It was almost time for class, and the students returned to the classroom one after another.
Liu Zhengju finally said to Tang Xueli: "If you knew Tian Xiaoyue, you would like her very much, and she would like you very much too."
After that, Tang Xueli kept wondering, is Tian Xiaoyue still alive?
If she is still alive, is she imprisoned somewhere and suffering?
Suddenly, Tang Xueli thought of herself being tied up and abandoned in the woods.
The dark night, the cold autumn wind, the hissing snakes...
Fear, helplessness, and pain.
"Are you not feeling well? Why do you look so bad?" Xia Jinhua immediately poured a glass of warm water for her daughter who had just got home from school.
Tang Xueli drank the water and said with a smile, "I'm not feeling uncomfortable. It may be because I studied too hard and digested the water quickly, so I'm hungry."
"If you're hungry, eat something quickly." Xia Jinhua quickly took out the biscuits stored in the cupboard.
This was what Tang Xueli bought for her a while ago. She tasted a piece and then said she couldn't bear to eat it at all.
Tang Xueli fed her mother one piece and ate another piece herself.
"Just eat it yourself, Mom is not hungry." Xia Jinhua ate two pieces and waved her hand to refuse to eat any more.
She does nothing all day, so it would be a waste for her to eat such high-end cookies.
"If you don't want to eat, I won't eat either. There's no point in eating snacks alone." Tang Xueli brushed off the biscuit crumbs on her hands and looked at her mother motionlessly.
Xia Jinhua smiled helplessly, "You kid!"
"Did Bai Lianxin come to see you?" Tang Xueli suddenly asked.
"What?" Xia Jinhua sat up straight immediately, "Did she go to school to cause trouble for you?"
"Mom, don't be nervous. I sent her away." Tang Xueli paused and asked softly, "She didn't bully you, did she?"
Xia Jinhua raised her eyebrows playfully, "Is your mother so easy to bully? I pissed her off and she ran away."
Tang Xueli burst out laughing, gave a thumbs up, and praised: "Mom is awesome."
Xia Jinhua was silent for a while, then asked leisurely: "Do you think your father was really kidnapped? They said that if you don't pay, he will be sent to dig coal."
Tang Xueli said indifferently: "Coal mining is good, working people are the most glorious."
"I think so too." Xia Jinhua thought that this kind of punishment was good, it was just one's own fault.
Tang Xueli hugged her mother, "Don't be sad, Mom. You still have four sisters like us!"
"I'm not sad for your dad at all. I just feel a little regretful and sad when I think about how I spent so many years in a muddle and wasted such a good time."
Xia Jinhua has been thinking a lot lately.
"I feel sorry for myself, but I feel even more sorry for you kids..."
Tang Xueli's nose suddenly felt sore. She didn't want her mother to see her tears, so she turned her head away and blinked hard a few times, trying to hold back the tears. Her throat felt sore and blocked.
Although the feeling of nose soreness and eyes hot was quickly suppressed, there was always a hint of sourness in my heart.
The room was quiet for a while as both mother and daughter calmed down.
"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore." Xia Jinhua said mysteriously, "Mom will take you out for dinner tonight."
Tang Xueli was slightly surprised, "Where are we going?"
"Limin Restaurant. I've already made an appointment with your second sister. Mom will treat you two to a meal."
Xia Jinhua took out a handkerchief and slowly opened it, revealing a pile of loose change inside.
This was the money she earned from pasting paper boxes and weaving fishing nets. It was not her husband's salary, nor her daughter's money.
The money was not much, but it was earned by her own hands.
"Mom said before that she would buy you a cream cake for your birthday, but Sisi was in a hurry to go out that day, so she didn't get to celebrate with you."
Xia Jinhua patted the money in her hand and said, "I'll buy a big cake for my precious daughter today."
"Thank you, Mom." Tang Xueli smiled happily, "Can you bring Sisi over too?"
Xia Jinhua shook her head. "I've already talked to Grandma Cao and asked her to help look after Sisi for a while."
In the evening, the mother and her two daughters sat at a small table in the corner to eat.
Tang Shuangshuang asked excitedly, "Is this the first time? Is this the first time for the three of us to go out to a restaurant together?"
"Yes, it's the first time." Xia Jinhua paused and said regretfully, "It's a pity that your eldest sister can't come."
"Is elder sister busy? Why can't she come?" Tang Shuangshuang asked while eating the braised pork ribs in her hand.
"Your elder sister was on the phone at work, so it was probably inconvenient for her to say anything. She hung up after just a few words."
Since it wasn’t my birthday and there were people around me, I didn’t light candles or sing Happy Birthday.
After chatting and finishing their meal, they happily cut the cake.
There were a few pink flowers on the cake, with some green leaves next to it, a circle of white icing around it, and a red "Happy Birthday" in the middle.
The old-fashioned birthday cake in my memory doesn’t have a very special taste, but it is irreplaceable by any other flavor.
"It's so delicious!" Tang Shuangshuang ate a large piece in three bites.
Tang Xueli also said, "It's delicious."
Xia Jinhua rubbed her second daughter's head, then rubbed her third daughter's head, her eyes full of love.
"Mom wants to tell you something."
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