Chapter 590 Deformed Family 1
The group walked away triumphantly from the Lu family's car.
When Song Fang and Wang Yu saw Mother Zhou standing not far away, they said 'emmm' in their hearts, feeling that a storm of disapproval was about to come. In the end, they patiently said, "Hello, Aunt Zhou."
The voice was very well-behaved, and I didn't dare to raise the volume.
Mother Zhou, holding the backpack on her arm, looked straight at Zhou Zihuai who was walking beside Song Fang, her eyes slightly fixed, and ignored them.
Wang Yu and Song Fang were not embarrassed either. They were used to it and waved in Zhou Zihuai's direction. "Let's go. See you tomorrow morning!"
Zhou Zihuai's voice lowered, "Yeah."
The Lu family's car slowly drove away from the crowd.
Xu Wei's dazed voice could be vaguely heard, "Yu Mo's friend, the one that mom likes very much, her name is Song Fang? Or is it Song Fangfang? Mom wanted to ask before, does his family also favor girls over boys? Do they dream of having a daughter? When you have time, bring your classmates home to play, don't always play games..."
The sound came out through the black car window, and then dissipated into the air bit by bit...
"Is Fu Zhi's family very rich?"
Walking on the long road in the dark night, Mother Zhou unscrewed the lid of the thermos and handed it to Zhou Zihuai.
Zhou Zihuai glanced at the rear of the car driving away, hummed, and took the cup.
Mother Zhou was a little envious. "Nowadays, there are not many children whose families are rich and good at studying. They know how to make progress. But her last name is Fu, so why is she in the same car with Yu Bai? Mom remembers that Yu Bai's last name is Lu, right?"
Seeing Zhou Zihuai lowering his head and not wanting to talk, the woman frowned uncomfortably and changed the subject: "By the way, Mom asked her to teach you about school tonight. Did she teach you? Did she share study skills with you? You are already seventeen years old and will take the college entrance examination soon. The most urgent thing is to study. Communicate more with these top students. Follow them, and you will learn more knowledge."
Zhou Zihuai said in a low voice: "I have learned it."
Mother Zhou was relieved, but after a moment's fear, she became a little nervous again, "Zi Huai, it's good that she can teach you. Classmates should help each other. But I always feel that Fu Zhi is a smart girl, her eyes are whirring, and she is calculating. If you are with her, she will definitely be reserved towards you, so you must not teach her all the learning methods. Isn't there an old saying? Teach the apprentice only to starve the master."
"Mom! Stop talking about my classmates like that!"
Zhou Zihuai couldn't stand it and tried to control his emotions. "Fu Zhi is not that kind of person. She doesn't study at ordinary times. She plays games when she has nothing to do. She is a very good person and won't scheme against others."
"You can only know a person's face but not his heart! There are only a few places for Tsinghua University in the college entrance examination. You and she are in competition. How do you know if she is hiding something? You are just young now, and you believe everything others say! She just told you a few useful study methods in exchange for your useful knowledge points. Can you see that?"
At this point, she had to say one more thing, "Zi Huai, don't bother your mother. When you were in Class 1, you were better than anyone else. Even the kids from rich families couldn't compare to you. But now, you've been to the worst class. Your grades have plummeted from third or fourth in the school to fifth or sixth."
"You said Fu Zhi didn't study, so she must have secretly gone back to study at night, but you just didn't know. Her eyes were red from studying, and she lied to you the next day that they were red from playing games. Mom has lived half her life and knows everyone. Zihuai, you are my only hope. I have spent so much money on you since you were a child. Didn't you say you would take me to live in a big villa? How can you repay me like this?"
"I'll support you, Mom."
The door of Zhou's house was opened by Zhou's mother with a key. The building built on the muddy road had been in disrepair for many years. The building was crumbling in the wind and rain, and it seemed that the whole building would collapse with just a little force.
The light in the kitchen flickered on and off.
Mother Zhou walked to the kitchen and cleaned the table. "It's not very efficient for you to stay in school to study at night. Mom has already discussed it with Teacher Wang. You can go to his class tonight."
The fish soup was brought out of the pot. "Drink some more. After you finish, mom will take you to give some fish meat to Teacher Wang. You can't take advantage of others for nothing."
Mother Zhou took out the textbooks from the schoolbag and placed them aside, while she held the exercise book in her hand.
Seeing a paper of 'Song Fang' in the schoolbag, with his son's notes on it, he looked unhappy, "What is this?"
"My classmate's test paper."
"I'm asking you, did you explain the problem to him?"
"Well, I told him after I finished my homework."
"Have you reviewed? Have you reviewed the knowledge points of Grade 12 and Grade 13?"
“…”
Mother Zhou pinched her brows and said, "You don't want to hear me say it, so why don't you tell me? You can't manage your own time well. I can't always control you, but my future and our family's future all depend on you, right? If you do something wrong or get one less point on the test, it will bring a devastating blow to this family..."
"I know, Mom. I know everything."
He knows everything.
His family was poor and his father passed away early, so it was his mother who raised him with great difficulty.
He understands it all.
When my mother reached this age, she no longer had any hope in her life, and all her hopes fell on his shoulders.
At the age of seventeen, Zhou Zihuai understood everything.
Mother Zhou touched her son's head, then took out the fish from the kitchen, put it in a plastic bag, and ran back and forth between the kitchen and the living room. "It's cold outside, put on some clothes, and I'll take you to see Teacher Wang."
The woman took the black cotton jacket off the clothes cabinet, then bent down to put on her shoes. There was probably two or three pounds of fish meat on the red cabinet by the door.
Zhou Zihuai put on a black cotton-padded jacket and was about to open the door when he suddenly felt a huge force coming from outside.
In the sense of smell, there is a pungent smell of alcohol under the nose, accompanied by strong smell of low-quality tobacco.
As the world spun, a large dark hand grabbed the boy by the collar.
Without waiting for a reaction, he punched down.
With a "dong" sound.
The wrist bones and facial bones rubbed against each other, making a dull sound.
"ah--!"
Screams pierced the old building.
"Zhao Wu, you are crazy!"
The woman standing inside the door instinctively rushed towards her son who was lying on the ground.
"Zihuai, Zihuai, how are you?" Mother Zhou's face was full of tears. She held up the boy's face in fear and anxiety, and looked him up and down. When she saw the blackness at the corners of his mouth, she looked up angrily at the man in front of her, "Zhao Wu, you're drinking again! Did you go to gamble again? Didn't you promise me that this would be the last time you gamble? Zihuai is your son! Why are you--?"
"Shut up, you bitch!" The man slapped her, making her palms hot. Her drunken face swayed under the light, her eyes wide open, "My last name is Zhao and his last name is Zhou, you bastard, I don't have a son like that!"
The woman turned her head to the side, and her fair face quickly became red and swollen.
He was a little unsteady on his feet, so he put his hands away coldly, turned over and saw the fish on the counter.
"Are you planning to use my money to subsidize the Wang family again? Make up lessons! You were born to collect debts!"
The man grabbed the fish on the counter and turned to leave.
Mother Zhou reacted quickly, stood up and rushed over, pulling the man's arm like crazy, "No! This is a gift from me to Teacher Wang. Even if you lose the bet, you can't take your son's tutoring stuff! Zhao Wu, are you still a human being? Zhao Wu!"
"Get out of my way, bitch!"
Zhao Wu grabbed the woman's hair tightly and slapped her again.
"You beast, let my mother go!"
Zhou Zihuai stood up from the ground and clenched his fists. Before he could raise his fist, the man was quick-witted and dragged Zhou's mother to him. The moment Zhou Zihuai hesitated, he kicked her out, "Damn it, you bastard, you've grown wings and dared to yell at me!"
Zhou Zihuai was kicked one meter away, his stomach churning.
"Why study? When you get old, you can go out to work and support your children! How much money will it cost me to go to college? You want to study? Dream on!"
"I'm spending my father's money!" The boy's eyes were red.
"What did you say?" Zhao Wu's face changed, and he pushed away Zhou's mother who was holding his waist and trying to comfort him, "I am your father! If you are not convinced, who are you glaring at?"
He walked step by step towards the young man who was sitting on the ground holding his stomach.
"I said you are not my father, you are spending the pension given to my father by the construction site, the country, and the insurance company!"
“Zihuai, Zihuai, stop talking!” Seeing the man’s increasingly horrified gaze, Zhou’s mother could no longer hold back and rushed over, “Zihuai, why are you so ignorant! Mom married him, he is your father, stop talking!”
"My father's last name is Zhou, and his last name is Zhao. Don't be afraid, Mom. If he commits domestic violence, I can call the police and sue him!"
"Zihuai!" Zhou's mother called out finally, helplessly and horrified as she looked at the man in front of her who kept shaking his hands, "Husband, husband Zihuai didn't mean that!"
"Don't help this bastard to quibble!" Zhao Wu punched Zhou Ma in the face again, "You are no good either! You're a slut, and you're carrying a burden with you. I'm so unlucky to marry you! You're a pair of debt collectors!"
Not satisfied with just talking, the man looked around and inadvertently saw the glass wine bottle on the floor of the house. He picked it up, and under the horrified gaze of the woman, he approached step by step, grinned, and smashed it quickly on the woman's head.
With a "clang" sound.
The glass bottle shattered into pieces all over the ground in an instant.
The woman fell to the ground, her legs weak, and she slowly raised her hands to cover her bloody head.
It hurts, it hurts so much...
His vision was enveloped in blood red, and he could hardly see the scene before him.
The finger was subconsciously hit and tilted to the left, piercing into the sharp glass shards.
Mother Zhou's tears flowed uncontrollably.
"Mom!" Noticing the condition of Zhou's mother, Zhou Zihuai's eyes were about to burst, "Zhao Wu, are you still a human being? I will kill you!"
The anger that had been pent up in the boy's heart for years filled him up, and he could no longer hold it in, and for a moment he even ignored the pain in his body.
The domestic violence in the boy's childhood memories kept reappearing before his eyes.
The kindness of Zhou's father and the cruelty of Zhao Wu.
He kept squandering his dead father's money and beating his mother and him hard.
Whenever he loses money, he drinks and acts crazy.
When he was young, he wanted to do business and urged his mother to make money every day in order to cheat his mother out of the pension left by his father.
After his business failed, he drank and gambled every day, and even used the family's money to go out and find women!
The boy punched the man in the face.
The man staggered after being hit. Because he was drunk, his eyes were a little confused. When he came to his senses, he punched back without any hesitation.
"Don't, don't hit me, Zihuai, don't hit me..."
Mother Zhou's words were drowned out by the father and son's dramatic movements.
Blood kept dripping down the boy's forehead.
"Hubby, please stop hitting me. Zihuai knows he's wrong. I will definitely teach him a lesson in the future. Husband, please believe me... You want money, right? Yes, there's money at home. I'll get it for you! I'll get it for you right now!"
The uncontrollable situation frightened Zhou's mother. Without thinking, she got up from the ground and went to get the remaining money in the house.
The family was unable to make ends meet and had to rely on the odd jobs Zhou's mother picked up at the textile factory to survive every month.
The only remaining 600 yuan was taken out of Zhou's mother's bag. Zhao Wu kicked Zhou Zihuai, and the boy's face was covered in blood. The place where he fell was covered with broken pieces of beer bottles, which pierced the boy's skin.
Zhao Wu grabbed the money, squeezed it, and then spat in dissatisfaction, "Waste, that's all!" Then he stepped on Zhou Zihuai's face with one foot and slapped Zhou's mother's face with one hand, "I tell you, tomorrow, five thousand yuan, I don't care what method you use, you have to pay it to me!"
"You lost again? Husband, please stop gambling. We can't win at gambling. Husband... We borrowed all the money from our relatives when you started your business a few years ago. Where can they lend us money?"
"Can't borrow it? If you can't, don't blame me for dragging your son out and selling him! I've found out that a kidney can be sold for hundreds of thousands on the black market. I've raised him for so many years, it's time for him to repay me!"
After saying that, Zhao Wu ignored the mother and son. He finally kicked Zhou Zihuai with a mocking look on his face, "Call the police? The police don't care about these family affairs. It's only natural for me to beat you. You are my son now. What parent wouldn't beat their son? If I find out that you called the police, you won't live past tomorrow!"
Zhao Wu grabbed the fish at the door and slammed the door and left.
Mother Zhou then remembered her son lying on the ground and rushed over in a hurry, holding her son and crying loudly, "Zihuai, Zihuai, what's wrong with you? Don't anger your father again. After all, he is your father!"
"He is not my father! Mom, I have grown up. After this year, I will be able to take the college entrance examination. After the college entrance examination, I can be a private tutor for other students and earn money. As long as I have excellent college entrance examination results, many families will choose me."
(End of this chapter)
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