Chapter 55
"Let's go."
Wu Qian was still looking at the mother and daughter teaching each other the technique of love letters on the bed. Lu Xiaoguo had already turned around and left. It turned out that the door behind him had opened at some point.
Wu Qian hurriedly followed, thinking that this door seemed to be able to be opened without any chanting, as long as they could finish watching the plot.
But regardless of whether the scriptures are effective against this kind of illusion, at least they can stabilize the mind.
The moment I stepped through the door, I arrived at Nanjiang No. 1 Junior High School. After evening self-study, students came out of the school gate one after another.
Fourteen-year-old Lu Xiaoguo has grown tall and thin, with a ponytail. She is wearing a blue and white summer school uniform, which is very refreshing and clean. She follows her classmates to the kebab stall next to the school.
Several students ordered a lot of food. The boss was grilling skewers. Three girls came over and ordered a few skewers of food. Then they crossed their arms and looked at a girl from Lu Xiaoguo's team who was hiding in the back.
"Isn't your family so poor that they don't even give you four dollars a day for bus fare? Why are you eating skewers with Lu Xiaoguo and the others? Oh, you didn't order anything? Are you just watching Lu Xiaoguo and the others eat?"
The other two companions laughed.
"Maybe Lu Xiaoguo and the others invited her to dinner. No wonder she always hangs around Lu Xiaoguo. It turns out she can get free food."
"Isn't that a beggar? He relies on charity..."
The girl did walk to and from school every day, and Lu Xiaoguo and his friends always went to school and went home with her.
She lowered her head and stared at the gray uppers of her shoes.
Lu Xiaoguo rolled his eyes and said, "Don't poop in such a fragrant place. It stinks."
"Lu Xiaoguo, are you sick? Being friends with a thief shows that you are a good person, right? She stole our things at school, everyone knows it, and the surveillance cameras caught it, so she can't deny it, right? You guys are the only ones who are willing to be friends with her, be careful that she steals your things too!"
The girl whispered, "I didn't steal... your things fell from the drawer to the floor, and I put them back..."
"You're still full of lies!" The provocative girl pushed her shoulder, "Then why did my things disappear after you touched them? It's because your hands are dirty, and you want what you don't have!"
The girl pushed and spoke, pushing the girl back step by step.
Once the physical conflict started, Lu Xiaoguo couldn't stand it anymore.
"You want to fight, right? Come on! Come on!" The male classmate next to Lu Xiaoguo rushed to the front.
What followed was a scuffle, with seven or eight people fighting each other.
The boss didn't even bother grilling the skewers and hurried out to try to stop the fight.
In the chaos, one of the girls in the trio took chili powder from the barbecue grill and threw it at Lu Xiaoguo and the others.
Chili powder flew everywhere and got into people's eyes, hurting both friends and enemies. A girl in the three-person group squinted her eyes, and Lu Xiaoguo and the male classmate at the front couldn't help but touch their eyes with their hands, and they were choked and tears came out.
"Don't rub it, don't rub it." said the boss.
A bystander ran back to the school gate and told the police on duty that there was a fight at the kebab stall. The dean of studies nearby grabbed the person who reported it and asked, "Is it from our school?"
The student panted tiredly and nodded.
The police and the director rushed over and sent several people to the hospital.
Outside the emergency room.
While the doctors were treating their eyes, the police had already learned about the situation from several other students who were unharmed.
However, the husband said he was right and the wife said she was right. The police sighed and asked, "Who started it first? Who threw the chili powder?"
Lu Xiaoguo pointed at two of the three people in the group and said, "The kebab boss can testify that they were the ones who pushed people first."
The girl who sprinkled the chili powder widened her eyes and said, "It was obviously her who stole things first! Uncle police, I want to call the police! She stole my things!"
"It's all misunderstanding, misunderstanding! Do you really want to stain your classmates' lives?!" said the dean of studies.
The police officer did not follow the principle of making a big deal out of a small matter, and asked: "When did it happen? Do you have any evidence?"
"Last semester! The surveillance camera caught it!"
The dean glared at her and said, "I told you that I only filmed her putting it back in your desk drawer. How could she have taken it away?"
"That's just her excuse! She must have hidden it in her sleeve when she put it in the drawer. We couldn't find it even after searching her schoolbag and body. She must have hidden it!"
Upon hearing this, the police officer sighed again and said, "I will ask your school leaders about this matter tomorrow, but as for the fight now, wait until the three of them are well and come back to the station with me."
This scared everyone. At the age of fourteen, they would not be frightened by adults saying "If you don't listen, the police will arrest you", but if they really went to the police station, it would still be very scary.
In their opinion, one will only go to jail if one has done bad things.
"Uncle! I don't want to go to the police station!" Several students sitting in the hospital corridor begged.
"Don't be afraid, I'm just asking for some details. Xiaolin, you watch over them. Director Huang, come with me and call their parents to come over."
"Wuwuwu, don't call my parents either..."
Lu Xiaoguo was helped out of the treatment room by a nurse, his eyes red and swollen, as he walked on the bench.
The girl who was accused of stealing came over and asked quietly, "Xiao Guo, are you feeling better?"
Lu Xiaoguo's vision was a little blurry, and he squinted his eyes and said, "I'm not in pain, but my eyes are a little dry and stinging. The doctor said it will be better in two days."
After waiting for more than 20 minutes, parents arrived one after another, some concerned about their children, some scolded them. Only the girl's parents came, first rubbed their oily aprons that they forgot to untie, wiped their hands, bent over and shook hands with the police and the director, saying, "I'm sorry to trouble you..."
Then he walked towards his daughter, slapped her hard in the face, and started cursing.
The girl covered her face and cried, her hair was messy, but she didn't hide.
There was another chaos. The three people in the group watched coldly as if they were watching a joke.
The man was still beating them. The police, the director, and even other parents were trying to stop them. The classmates around Lu Xiaoguo were all stunned. Only Lu Xiaoguo squinted his eyes and tried to protect the girl.
The anger of the girl's parents was finally calmed down. The police taught men not to commit domestic violence, and the director also said that it would affect the child's physical and mental health.
Lu Xiaoguo protected the girl and looked outside the corridor. Her mother had not come yet.
The doctors and nurses who were free in the emergency department suddenly put on their white coats and hung up their work badges, then hurried out and got on two ambulances.
Wu Qian heard the sound of scriptures again, Lu Xiaoguo was reciting them.
After several minutes, the door still hadn't opened.
Fourteen-year-old Lu Xiaoguo looked confused as the director spoke to her. The police called her parents again, but no one answered.
The 24-year-old Lu Xiaoguo's chanting became louder and faster.
Wu Qian looked at her colleague and had a bad feeling.
The ambulance came back, the transfer bed was moved down and pushed into the operating room. The doctors walked quickly to inform their colleagues of the situation: "There was a major traffic accident on Huainan North Road. A truck rushed towards the cars in the red light waiting area, and six cars collided in a chain reaction..."
The car owner and his relatives were covered in blood and howling in pain.
There were cries of adults, children, and babies.
The surgical light comes on.
The police called Mr. Lu, who was on a business trip in another province, and asked the director to come over to talk to him about something.
Fourteen-year-old Lu Xiaoguo had no idea.
The surgical lights went out.
A transfer bed passed in front of her, covered with a clean white sheet.
A wrist was exposed from outside the cloth, and a hand-woven colorful bracelet caught her eye.
Lu Xiaoguo stood up suddenly and ran over to block the bed.
The fourteen-year-old girl's face was pale, her red and swollen pupils suddenly shrank, and her trembling hands gently lifted the white cloth.
My vision was blurry, and I tried to open my eyes wide, as if I felt the stinging pain for the first time, to see the face of the deceased, but I couldn't see it clearly. I could only vaguely look at my mother's eyebrows, lips, and nose, but there was no sign of life.
"Mom, mom, what's wrong with you, wake up... wake up quickly!!" She stroked her mother's cheek which was beginning to feel cold, shook her head, and a tear fell, followed by more tears falling.
The nurse pulled her away upon seeing this.
The transfer vehicle was taken to the morgue. The girl knelt on the ground exhausted. The nurse supported her upper body for fear that she would faint.
Lu Xiaoguo lowered his head, bit his lips to swallow his sobs, and only tears fell.
The other students, parents, three policemen and the director stopped talking and just watched the scene.
Finally, the director and the police officer helped her up. The police officer said, "Her father is coming back from another place. Your school should keep an eye on her and hand her over to her father safely."
The director nodded and said yes.
The others took their children back, and no one dared to make a sound as they left.
The 24-year-old Lu Xiaoguo stopped chanting. When Wu Qian looked over, her eyes were red and filled with tears. She would cry when she chanted again.
Fourteen-year-old Lu Xiaoguo stopped talking and kept crying until her father Lu came over, squatted down and hugged his young daughter.
"Daddy is here, cry it out."
She finally burst into tears, and her tears soaked her father's shoulders.
The father and daughter hugged each other and cried on the hospital bench that had witnessed countless separations of life and death.
After Lu's mother's funeral, there was one less person in the family. For as long as a week, the two of them couldn't speak a word.
In the past, it was Mr. Lu who cleaned the house, so now the house was a mess and no one cared.
There were only three meals a day, and Dad Lu insisted on cooking them, and they were very sumptuous, just like when Mom Lu was still alive. However, the father and daughter could only eat enough to barely maintain their life functions, and most of the time the food was thrown away.
During sad times, they just survive.
Lu Xiaoguo fainted during physical education class. The school doctor found out that he had hypoglycemia. When Lu's father rushed to the school clinic, the doctor was frightened by the man with messy hair and stubble on his face.
"Mr. Lu, I've heard about your family. I'm sorry, but people always have to move forward to make a living. There's no point in being stuck in the past." The school doctor was shocked when he blurted out this, realizing that his frivolous words might also cause harm to the family. He immediately said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Now let's talk about Xiaoguo's condition. She has hypoglycemia today, but she's underweight. I suspect she has malnutrition and anemia. You can take her to the hospital for a check-up first. I'll give the sick note to her teacher."
Mr. Lu didn't mind the first half of the school doctor's sentence. He just bowed slightly, said hello and thank you several times, and took his daughter to the hospital.
After returning from the hospital, Father Lu helped his daughter back to the room, "Xiaoguo, have a good rest."
After closing the door, Dad Lu cleaned the house from top to bottom. He collected the clothes that had been drying on the balcony for a long time, folded them and placed them on the clean sofa. He also mopped the floor spotlessly clean. Then he took a shower, shaved, and went out again.
Lu Xiaoguo came out of the room and saw his former home.
Dad was dressed neatly, wearing an apron and had short hair. He was cutting vegetables in the kitchen. When he heard the door open, Dad Lu turned around and looked at his daughter with the same smile as always. "Are you awake? Dad has marinated the ribs. I'll make you your favorite steamed ribs with rice flour later."
Lu Xiaoguo looked at the gorgeous golden rose in the middle of the dining table. That was Lu's mother's favorite flower.
She was half conscious, and then convinced that the past few months were all a dream. "Where's Mom?"
Cai Dao paused, and Father Lu sorted out his emotions, then smiled and said, "Mom is just like your grandfather. She has returned to heaven and become a god."
Lu Xiaoguo knew it was not a dream.
The father and daughter were eating, and Lu Xiaoguo still didn't say anything. Instead, Dad Lu kept talking a lot while picking up dishes. Some of the words and tone were obviously something that only Mom Lu would say.
Some things are difficult for a father to say, but Mr. Lu wants to show through his actions that since Mom is gone, he will take over Mom's role and take care of the family.
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