Strawberry Pops

"It's the family on the fourth floor? The two are remarried. The male is a beta and the female is an oga. The child in the family was brought by the female. His stepfather doesn't like him very much."

"No wonder, the last time I saw his forehead was swollen..."

"This child is so bored, his stepfather calls people to come to the house like this, he is indifferent?"

"Tsk, it's not my own father."

……

Han Yang, who had just finished school, walked into the community without saying a word, and everyone shut up.

"The child is here, don't say it, don't say it!"

His neighbor was annoyed by the noise every day, so he couldn't help saying "whatever he wears in winter, stepfather doesn't care, what kind of virtue is this mother."

Han Yang's footsteps stopped, and he slowly turned his eyes to the speaker, his face was still as calm as a pool of stagnant water, "Don't talk about my mother." His voice was hoarse, obviously he hadn't spoken for a day.

Everyone seemed to hear Han Yang's words very rarely, and the people who were chatting downstairs also dispersed.Han Yang watched his neighbor pass by him and entered the building, and muttered something, but couldn't catch it.

But Han Yang didn't care, it's not a good word after all.

He looked down at his old coat and stroked it vigorously twice, as if he wanted to smooth out the unevenness, so that it would look neater and cleaner.

But he couldn't organize it well.

The cold wind was blowing from a distance, and a figure slowly approached in front of him, "Han Yang?"

Han Yang raised his head, his eyes were dry.He saw Granny Zhang standing in front of him with a small bag of tomatoes, "Why are you standing here and not going home, where is your mother?"

"night shift."

When Granny Zhang heard this, she understood in her heart, "Then go to my house for dinner. The beef is marinated today, it is delicious. After a while, there is another kid coming over."

Han Yang wondered if the child Granny Zhang mentioned was Gu Nuan, but when he actually saw Gu Nuan, he felt a little disturbed.

Gu Nuan was completely a chatterbox with the motor on, and Han Yang was so annoyed that he had a headache and couldn't concentrate on his homework.

"Brother, why are you at Granny Zhang's house?"

"Brother, I came here specially to eat beef noodles! My father and father are working overtime!"

"Brother, are you in fifth grade? I'm only in first grade, but I can do third grade questions~"

"elder brother……"

"elder brother……"

Han Yang picked up his schoolbag and was about to leave.

Gu Nuan followed up "da da da" "brother, are you going home?"

Granny Zhang hurriedly took out two bottles of strawberry milk, stuffed them into the children's hands one by one, and deliberately said to Han Yang, "I'm going to cook noodles now, you have to take care of Xiaonuan for me, he is too skinny."

Han Yang took her strawberry milk and stared blankly at the door, hesitating.

After all, Granny Zhang always feeds him when he is hungry. She is a good person, and Han Yang has no way to refuse her.

Not only that, if he left now, he would probably be hungry for another night, and his stepfather would not let him touch any food at home.In the face of hunger, many things are nothing.In order to fill his stomach, Han Yang compromised very easily, just like the instinct of survival, he stopped the movement of his hands, took his schoolbag and put it in the corner.

Granny Zhang felt relieved, "Watch the cartoon for a while, and I'll cook the noodles. It will be ready soon."

"Grandma Zhang, I want to eat candy tomatoes." Gu Nuan said coquettishly.

"Okay~"

Han Yang sat back on the sofa. While Gu Nuan was looking for the remote control, he secretly put the strawberry milk in his schoolbag as food reserve.

The naive Gu Nuan thought it was Han Yang who was drinking too fast, and enthusiastically put the strawberry milk in his hand into Han Yang's hand, and thoughtfully inserted a straw for him.

Han Yang was dumbfounded.

"Brother, shall we watch "Rabbit Castle"?"

Han Yang couldn't answer the conversation, he hadn't watched any cartoons, and it was very difficult for him to eat and sleep every day.Seeing Gu Nuan who was completely different from himself, Han Yang's mind was almost blank. He is not good at dealing with children, even though he himself is just a child now.

Seeing that Han Yang didn't speak, Gu Nuan slapped himself on the forehead and suddenly realized, "Don't the fifth graders watch cartoons anymore?"

"..."

"Although I'm only in the first grade, I can do math problems for three years."

Han Yang lowered his head and took a sip of the milk, thinking what you said just now.

Gu Nuan took the initiative to say, "Can I read the fifth grade questions?"

However, Han Yang's sullen character responded very slowly, which made Gu Nuan a little bit wronged. He thought that Han Yang didn't like to play with him.Just as he was feeling lost, he saw Han Yang really took out a fifth-grade math book from his schoolbag, his voice was very soft, like a gust of wind, and like summer mint, "If you don't understand...you can ask me. "

Gu Nuan got excited, "Okay!"

When Granny Zhang's beef noodles were served, Gu Nuan had already fallen asleep leaning on Han Yang's shoulder because the fifth grade math problems were too boring.

Han Yang didn't dare to move, and looked at Granny Zhang with a troubled expression.

"Oh, our young master Xiao Nuan..." She woke up Gu Nuan dumbfounded.

Han Yang was already overwhelmed by the smell of beef noodles, and as soon as he picked up his chopsticks, he devoured several pieces of beef in the noodle soup.This looks like a refugee who has never eaten meat.

Granny Zhang felt distressed for a while, "Eat slowly." Then, she got up and went to the kitchen to prepare some more beef.

Gu Nuan blinked, "Do you like beef very much?"

Han Yang knew that if he didn't answer him, he would definitely keep asking questions, so he simply nodded.

Gu Nuan was very happy when he got the response. He picked up the beef in his own bowl and wanted to put it in Han Yang's bowl.But his arms were not long enough, so he could only get off the chair and run over, stepping on his feet and putting the beef slices into Han Yang's bowl.

Han Yang's hand holding the chopsticks paused, and whispered, "Thank you." He took out a paper towel and wiped away the soup that Gu Nuan dripped on the ground.

The time for a meal passed quickly, and soon it was seven o'clock in the evening.

Han Yang stood in the living room with his coat aside.He inadvertently grabbed the corner of the new sweater on his body, as if he was shy, and stood in front of Granny Zhang with his shoulders shrunken, "Thank you for the sweater."

"It fits well. If you don't knit for a long time, your hands will be raw." Granny Zhang stuffed a lot of bread into his schoolbag, and hesitated to speak, "... If someone bullies you, come to my mother-in-law's house."

Hearing this, Han Yang pursed his lips, and left without saying anything.

Gu Nuan followed behind him and shouted goodbye, Han Yang ran into the corridor without looking back.

He saw that the door on the fourth floor was half open, and a familiar female voice came from inside. It was his mother Li Li who had returned early.

Han Yang hurried into the house, but half a minute after entering the house, a stainless steel washbasin slammed towards him with a "bang bang" and rolled on the ground several times.

Li Li rushed over rudely, tore a gap in the schoolbag on Han Yang's back, and rummaged through it vigorously.When she saw the bread inside, she pulled Han Yang outside the door and cursed loudly, "Where did these breads come from?!"

Han Yang used to protect his head with his hands, quickly curled up into a ball and knelt on the ground without saying a word.

"Are you dumb?!"

Accompanied by Li Li's roar, Han Yang was really dumb, he didn't even want to defend himself.

Because the quarrel was too loud, Granny Zhang and Gu Nuan downstairs, as well as neighbors who opened the door to watch the fun, were attracted.Granny Zhang is getting old, she can't see this kind of scene, she stepped forward tremblingly, "I gave it to him, I gave it to him!"

Li Li is only 30 years old, still very young, but already has a child as old as Han Yang.She finally let go of the hand holding Han Yang's schoolbag, and cursed angrily, "Mind your own business!"

Knowing that Han Yang did not steal the bread, most of her anger disappeared immediately, and she closed the door heavily.

Inside the door, the beta man complained impatiently, "What kind of strange child did you give birth to!"

"You didn't ask before hitting him? In his schoolbag, there are only a few broken breads in his schoolbag. How can you have your wallet?!"

"I'm helping you educate him!"

"Don't think I don't know, the wound on his back was all caused by you..."

Endless quarrels, the world outside the door is deserted, so cold that Han Yang is selectively deaf.

In the end, all the sharp and harsh curses ended in the woman's sentence "Do you think I want to give birth? Who would want to give birth to a rapist! I didn't do it voluntarily!" After she finished speaking, she remembered something sad , crying loudly.

Han Yang was driven out of the door. He knelt on the ground and reached out to pick up the bread.

Granny Zhang said with concern, "Why don't you sleep at my house today? Your mother..."

"She'll be fine in a while." Han Yang rejected her, after thinking about it, he explained, "My mother didn't drop that pot."

"Han Yang..."

"Thank you." Han Yang knew very well that Granny Zhang's care was only temporary.He is a big living person and a big trouble, both his parents are there, the orphanage won't take him in, and others can't adopt him formally.

If his mother doesn't want to take care of him anymore, he has to go back to that so-called "father". Han Yang would rather stay with his mother than there.At least here, he can still study, and there is still a little hope.

He wanted to cling to any sliver of hope, he wanted to escape from his own life.

Just the moment Han Yang raised his head, he saw Gu Nuan standing on the steps of the stairs.

The little one looked at him in fear.

Han Yang packed the bread into his schoolbag, got up and went downstairs.When passing by Gu Nuan, Han Yang didn't even fall on Gu Nuan from the corner of his eye.

They are people from two worlds.

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