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I just moved here yesterday, and today I had an unpleasant quarrel with a neighbor who doesn't know which floor, which is also luck.Thinking of that dog, Zhou Mingchen was deeply worried about the safety of entering and leaving the building in the future.

Opening the door, there was no one in the living room, and there was the sound of spatulas colliding in the kitchen. Zhou Mingchen yelled, "I'm back."

Zhou's mother took the time to glance at him. She was wearing a light brown bib, and her long curly hair was tied into a high ponytail. She was not as lively as a young girl, but she added a bit of neat, capable, mature charm and calmness.

"The meal is not ready yet. Seeing that you are sweating all over, go take a bath first, and be careful of catching a cold."

Zhou Mingchen grabbed the cup and raised his head to gurgle to drink water. He drank a large cup like a cow, and the dryness in his throat was relieved, so he responded, "Got it."

After taking a shower and changing into clean clothes, the body does not feel the fatigue after exercise, only carefree and comfortable, every cell is lazily telling the enjoyment.Zhou Mingchen dried his hair and went to set the bowls and chopsticks for the rice.

He is now like a young tree sprouting seedlings. It is an exaggeration to say that his size changes every day, and his appetite is correspondingly large.At the dinner table, neither mother nor son spoke. Zhou Mingchen lowered his head and kept picking up vegetables. He swallowed dates like he hadn't eaten for three days. Most of the three dishes and one soup on the table went into his stomach.

On the sofa in the living room, Zhou's mother answered the phone and was cutting the fruit after dinner. She said to Zhou Mingchen, "I have completed the transfer procedures for you, and it is also a key high school here. The school is not far from here. Take a taxi for 10 minutes." arrive."

This matter has been discussed a long time ago, Zhou Mingchen just nodded: "Understood."

"School will officially start on the [-]st. Register two days in advance. Do you plan to live on campus or go to school?" Mother Zhou thought for a while and then said: "Auntie will come to work tomorrow, so you don't have to worry about no one taking care of you at home."

Home?This warm word made Zhou Mingchen laugh.

Mother Zhou lowered her head and didn't see it.

"I live on campus, it's more convenient to study, and it's easier to make friends." Zhou Mingchen said the reason he had thought about for a long time.

Zhou's mother was not surprised to get this answer, but at the same time, a trace of guilt welled up in her heart.She is in the period of career development, and she is usually busy with work, so there is nothing she can do about it.The son grew up and became more sensible. He didn't have to worry about life and study, and he didn't even have a so-called rebellious period. Sometimes Zhou's mother felt uneasy because of it.

Colleagues and clients have complained in front of her. The children in the family are too old to control, skipping classes and fighting, drinking and having early sex, and all kinds of troubles.Mother Zhou couldn't intervene, and didn't know how to comfort her.When it comes to her son, she only knows that her grades are good, he is well-behaved and sensible, and if she goes into details, it will be gone.

At the beginning, she returned to the workplace less than half a year after giving birth to Ming Chen, and the differences between her and her husband have become more and more serious over the years. The problem between the two is not just as simple as the fading relationship.

They didn't want Zhou Mingchen to be affected, but now it seemed that his son was getting farther and farther away from them after all.Thinking of this, Zhou's mother felt sore, her throat was sore, and she couldn't help but choke up a little: "You, your father should come over then, have a meal together, and then send you to school."

Zhou Mingchen stared at the TV that was broadcasting some entertainment program, and said in a relaxed tone, "Well, I know."

On the TV that took up a large part of the wall, several well-dressed show guests were playing trick games and making exaggerated expressions at the camera. The audience cheered, screamed, and laughed from time to time. The sound came out from the screen, filling the whole room. Strangely, it couldn't get rid of the unspeakable embarrassment of unfamiliarity in the room.

Zhou Mingchen fled back to the bedroom early, closed the bedroom door, and the invisible high walls around him were automatically retracted, making him feel uncomfortable all over. Zhou Mingchen slumped his shoulders and sat on the edge of the bed in a daze. After a while, he turned to the soft bed behind him. Falling down, the chandelier on the white ceiling was dazzlingly bright, Zhou Mingchen raised the back of his hand to cover his eyes.

A faint light leaked from between the fingers, and there seemed to be distant laughter coming from the ear.The bedside lamp emits a dim yellow light, which is gentle and not scorching to the eyes. Grandpa and grandma are sitting on both sides of him. The five or six-year-old boy falls behind and is caught by the big soft/soft bed. When the old man pretends to exclaim In an instant, he laughed out loud.When I was young, I was always naive, and I didn't know what fear was, what was the sense of uneasiness about falling, because there was always something to rely on behind me.Being pulled up again and again, falling down again and again, never tired of it.

On the bedside table, the phone rang several times, reminding him of new news.Zhou Mingchen got up and took it over to look at it. Sure enough, there were several missed calls and many unread messages.

[Green Pepper]: "I/Damn, it's not true about your parents, is it? Are they really divorced?"

[Preserved egg]: "Are you okay?"

[Glue]: "I met the head teacher when I went shopping today, she said you transferred???!!!"

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The rest of the news is similar, and they all have the same problem.Zhou Mingchen simply turned off the phone, ignoring any of them.

He has seen many examples of family discord. Although the versions are different, the content is similar. The friends around him, the classmates in the class, and which family has no stories are still the same.

It's not that he never thought that there would be such a day, but even so, when this day really came, he still felt a momentary collapse, even though that home never brought him warmth.

What impresses me the most is the quarrel scene, which is completely different from the decent image outside the house. Their indifferent, ferocious, and angry faces make people feel cold, and even if their words are not enough, they start to smash things, and finally just wave Fist.

When he was ignorant, he would still be afraid and at a loss, and slowly become a habit. In the embarrassing sight of them after they found him, he turned a blind eye and went back to the room, closed the door and put on headphones. In a closed space with good sound insulation, the loudest volume singing background, so the whole world is clean.