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The speed of the bus is not fast, and the scenery outside the window reverses very slowly.

Lu Ling likes to sit in the last row of the bus by the window.

It is often said that if you want to know a city quickly, the best way is to take a bus around the city and sit from the starting point to the ending point.

Lu Ling has been here for a year, but he still has no idea of ​​understanding it.

"Next stop, Jiamo Community."

The bus announcement recalled Lu Ling who was staring out the window in a daze.

He put the backpack on his chest that he took off and put it on his back again.

"Jiamo District is here."

After the mechanical female voice finished broadcasting, the door opened and Lu Ling got out of the car.

This is an unprosperous area, far from the city center, as if it had been forgotten and abandoned.The pavement bricks on the street are dirty and old, plastic bags, paper towels and other garbage can be seen everywhere, and it has not been cleaned for an unknown period of time.

The shops next to the entrance of the community are all hardware stores and electric car dealers.On weekdays, there are not many customers, and several shopkeepers often get together to play cards.

A small simple folding table, a few small horses, and a deck of cards are all they have.

They squeezed cards with one hand and smoked cigarettes with the other. When the ash fell on the small table, they patted it casually with their dirty black and yellow hands, and when it fell to the ground, they sent another dirt to the street.

Spitting casually, swearing and speaking in a dialect that Lu Ling could not understand, making a lot of noise.

It is true that the environment is very dirty and messy, but it is the only place Lu Min can afford to live in.

When I got home and opened the door, no one was there.Deserted and empty.

There are two bedrooms, one living room, one kitchen and one bathroom. Although the space of each part is not large, it is enough for Lu Ling and his mother to live together.

The living room is simple, simple to the extreme.A couch, a coffee table, a TV, nothing else.

Lu Ling took off his schoolbag, sat on the sofa, fell back limply, and stared blankly at the ceiling with empty eyes.

After a while, he sat up, took off his glasses, took out the glasses case from his school bag and put it away, and put the glasses case back into his school bag.

Then he went to the bathroom, fixed his hair in front of the mirror, and pushed the hair covering his eyebrows from the middle to the side, exposing his forehead.

Without the cover of glasses and bangs, the whole picture of him in the mirror is fully displayed.

If he was gentle and clean just a moment ago, then he is cold and abstinent to the point of being elegant and handsome.Putting aside any cover-ups, he thoroughly brought out the extreme purity and coldness in his bones.The appearance is getting more and more beautiful, and people can't help but want to touch it.

Lu Ling returned to the bedroom, changed out of his school uniform, casually changed into casual clothes, and went out.

Lu Min is a single mother who raised Lu Ling alone.Since Lu Ling was admitted to Nancheng High School, Lu Min followed him from the small town to the city.

Because he had no education, no technical skills, and couldn't find a good job, Lu Min spent a sum of money to set up a small shop in a vegetable market near Jiamo Community to sell steamed buns.

It's not very far away. When you leave the community, turn left, enter an alley, turn right again, and there is Lu Min's steamed stuffed bun shop on the corner of the street.

In a small shop less than ten square meters, no one is employed, and Lu Min is busy all by himself.

Every day, Lu Min would wake up before dawn, knead the dough to make the stuffing and roll the buns. He was busy until 09:30 in the evening, and when he went home to sleep for about six hours, he would wake up again.

Lu Ling knew that Lu Min worked hard from morning to night, so he would go to help whenever he had time.

The vegetable market was buzzing with people, and there was a steamed stuffed bun shop at the corner of the entrance. The middle-aged woman with her long hair tied on top of her head, still charming, was Lu Min.

"Give me two siu mai."

"A drawer of steamed buns."

......

During the evening rush hour after get off work, there are more customers.There are many people in the front row of the bun shop.

Lu Min was busy taking buns for customers while collecting money, and also took time to check the situation of the steamer on the other side, very busy.

"Son, come here and help." Lu Min was overjoyed when he saw Lu Ling, and assigned him a task, "Look at the pot, bring it over when it's cooked. Also, the buns wrapped in advance are almost gone, you Be quick and pack a few more. I put all the fillings on the table."

After Lu Min handed over the rest to Lu Ling, he felt much more relaxed, and was in charge of collecting money and taking the buns.

There is a white apron specially for Lu Ling on the wall. After Lu Ling put it on, he began to skillfully roll out the dough and make buns.

He is tall, with fair skin and good facial features. Some women who often come to buy buns know Lu Ling.

There is such a handsome son, and I heard that he is still studying in Nancheng High School. Many people are envious of Lu Min.

"Hey, your son is here to help again?" A regular woman said with a smile, "I want four mushroom bags."

Lu Min glanced at Lu Ling, smiled back and nodded, "Yes, it's after school, isn't it?"

"You are so lucky, like my son, who doesn't do well in school and knows how to play games every day." The woman sighed and said, "How can you be so obedient and obedient like your son?"

Lu Min smiled, quite proudly, "My son is indeed more worry-free."

After the wave after wave of guests were all busy, it had been an hour before Lu Min asked Lu Ling, "Son, have you eaten yet?"

Lu Ling was silent for a while, then lowered his head and replied, "I've eaten."

"Yeah." Lu Min nodded, "You can go back when you finish wrapping up the dough in your hands. Don't think that you are being filial if you come to help me now. You are a scholar, you read the book to me well, and the exam Going to a famous university, that is true filial piety. Everything else is empty."

Lu Ling junior high school was studied in a small town, and the education level was relatively backward compared with that in the city.It is not easy to be among the top hundreds in Nancheng and successfully admitted to Nancheng High School. It is something that Lu Ling never even dared to think about.

Therefore, when the admission notice came down, Lu Ling was very surprised, and Lu Min was very happy.

Lu Ling never fell out of the top three in junior high school. Lu Min always thought that he was very smart and had a good chance of being admitted to a famous university, so he had very high expectations for him.

As the saying goes, the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment.After Lu Ling entered high school, his grades were not even in the top [-] for his age, and he was always in the middle and lower reaches of his class.

For a whole year, there was no ups and downs in study, but on the contrary, a few people fell behind.

Lu Min was extremely disappointed, she no longer thought that her son was very powerful as before, she had given up now.

"Anyway, my task is to make money for you to study. When you finish your college studies, my task will be completed," Lu Min said while kneading the dough, "I don't want to rely on you for the pension. You will not Money, it is impossible for me to give you the money after I am exhausted from eating or drinking.”

Lu Ling heard her say in her ear, "Let me tell you the truth, I have seen it through, you are a failure. In the end, I have to rely on myself."

It was this kind of thing again, he had heard it countless times.But every time I listen to it, I feel so cruel.Every time I listen to it, my heart hurts.

Failure?What a cruel word.

Is he that bad?It's too late to reach a conclusion.

My lord is really strange, obviously I was praising myself in front of others before, but I can change my face in a blink of an eye.

Lu Min was still babbling hurtful words, Lu Ling lowered his head and wrapped his buns in silence, he was afraid that he would choke up when he opened his mouth.

It's okay, Lu Ling, don't be sad, you will prove to your mother that you are a proud child.Lu Ling comforted himself in his heart.

In order to block those words he didn't want to hear, Lu Ling focused more on the movements of his hands, so after a while, Lu Ling finished wrapping a bunch of buns.

"Mom, I'm leaving first." Lu Ling took off his apron and hung it on the wall.

"Go back," Lu Min nodded, and finally a criticism was unavoidable, "It's not that I said you, can't you be more cheerful like other boys? You are always sad. I really don't understand why you are so unhappy. After you work, you will know the hardships of life..."

Lu Ling's footsteps when he went out paused, his whole body jumped tightly, and he left without saying anything.

Adults are always self-righteous, thinking that they know everything after living half their lives.

They always think that children can only laugh and laugh, have only happiness, no sadness, and can't experience the suffering of life at all.

I always think that children's troubles are nothing more than trivial jokes.

Perhaps, from the perspective of the future, the initial annoyance may be very small, but for those who are in it, it is indeed huge.

And people live in the moment, so those sufferings should be acknowledged.

When he came back for evening self-study on Sunday, Yu Chen arrived at school 15 minutes earlier.

Ten minutes later, Zhang Yu stepped into the classroom, "Brother Chen, are you here so early?"

Yu Chen folded the books in his hand heavily, "Well, come and catch the little liar."

"?" Zhang Yu was puzzled, "What liar?"

"It's nothing, it's none of your business." Yu Chen stretched out his index finger, shaking it left and right.

"Oh," Zhang Yu didn't ask much, but muttered in a low voice, "What, it's mysterious."

Two minutes before class, Lu Ling finally entered the classroom.

Yu Chen, who was always paying attention to the situation at the back door, immediately sat up straight.

Lu Ling opened his seat and sat down, Yu Chen sternly shouted, "Lu Ling."

Lu Ling, who had just taken out his homework from his schoolbag, glanced at him, then walked around him to hand in his homework.

"!!!" Yu Chen thought it was blatant ignorance and provocation, and stared at him with rounded eyes, from the time he went to hand in his homework to when he came back, from the back of his head to his eyes, his gaze never leaving, trying to make him feel His thick anger.

When Lu Ling returned from handing in his homework, the burning gaze was still there, he sighed imperceptibly, "Say."

It was fine if he didn't speak, Yu Chen was only five points angry, and when he opened his mouth, his anger index was pulled to ten points in an instant.

Say?

Days gone by, this ability to omit is growing day by day.And no matter how Yu Chen heard it, he felt that my situation was weak.

"Say? Say what, are you my leader?" Yu Chen crossed his arms unhappily, "Lu Ling, you are really good at making people angry."

"Yeah." Lu Ling wasn't actually listening to him, and felt that he responded casually after he finished speaking.

Now Yu Chen was even more unhappy, "Huh? It's okay? You shouldn't have called me when I called you, but now..."

Jingle bell—the bell rings.

The first three and 10 minutes of evening self-study are arranged for evening reading, and today is evening reading Chinese.The Chinese teacher has already walked in and looked around the classroom.

The Chinese teacher turned around and returned to the front of the classroom, standing on the podium to monitor the situation.

Lu Ling on the side had already started to recite the text with his Chinese book. Although Yu Chen, who was interrupted by the ringing of the bell, was blocked in his chest, but the teacher stood on it and stared at him, so he had no choice but to set up the textbook and pretend to read.

He secretly scolded Lu Ling: Little scoundrel.