Still tide

I don't know if it was because of the words Chen Chao said at the time, but the motorcycle and that person never appeared on that country road again for a long time.Although Chen Chao didn't know anything at the time, his few words made people feel that he already knew everything. A middle-aged man who molested junior high school boys, in this small village, as long as someone said it, he didn't have to live. up.

The other party probably didn't expect Miao Jiayan to tell others about this kind of thing. After all, children of this age are afraid of such things.So even though Chen Chao didn't say anything at the time, just the conjecture that "someone already knew about it" was enough to make the other party worry.

Chen Chao tied Miao Jiayan to his body every day, even though that person never came again, it didn't make people feel at ease.

Miao Jiayan's parents are not there, and there are only grandparents at home. He himself is thin and small, and he is a very weak person.After Chen Chao's initial anger passed, he gradually realized many things.

Miao Jiayan's special nature made it inevitable that he would encounter such troubles in the future.

"Miao'er." Chen Chao looked at Miao Jiayan, who was picking out the trademark on the paper, and called him.

Miao Jiayan's back straightened suddenly, and she was caught for deserting, she said "hmm" with a guilty conscience, bowed her head and continued to do her homework.

Chen Chao tapped on his homework and asked, "Have you finished writing?"

"It's almost..." Miao Jiayan bowed her head in seriousness, "It's coming soon."

"Immediately what? Immediately, you didn't write a few words in total." Chen Chao pierced him, opened his first paper and looked at the bottom, there were still several blank homework papers under it.

Miao Jiayan smiled shyly. He wasn't concentrating on his homework, and it was only Saturday morning, so he wasn't in a hurry.

"Wrong writing." Chen Chao clicked on his last big question, "Can you take a snack?"

Miao Jiayan looked at it, and the calculation result clearly calculated "1", and wrote "-1" at the end.

"Oh," Miao Jiayan quickly ticked off and rewritten, "Copied wrong."

Miao Jiayan ticked off the little "-", and Chen Chao said, "Don't tick half of it, tick it all and rewrite it."

"Okay." Miao Jiayan had no choice but to tick all the boxes and write "1" again.

It wasn't because of this that Chen Chao called him. Seeing Miao Jiayan's dazed look here, Chen Chao said, "Why don't you go back to your parents' place."

Miao Jiayan didn't even realize it, she was stunned for a moment, and raised her head: "...Huh?"

"You look like a left-behind child here." Chen Chao said, "You have no parents and everyone bullies you."

"I have... I have parents..." Miao Jiayan said innocently.

"You have parents but they are not here," Chen Chao said again, "It doesn't matter, if others bully you, no one will support you."

Miao Jiayan looked at Chen Chao, and didn't say "I have you", because they all knew that Chen Chao would not be here forever.

He never belonged here.

"You can't stay here all the time, you have to leave sooner or later." Chen Chao said.

Miao Jiayan didn't like to hear about this at first, but since Chen Chao was talking to him, Miao Jiayan could still listen to it.

"What will you do when you go to school after I leave?" Chen Chao thought about the long country road with cotton fields on both sides. There are not many lights on the whole road. Next year Miao Jiayan will start to study by herself at night. At that time, only himself.

Miao Jiayan was lightly pricked by the words "Wait for me to leave", her eyelashes trembled indistinctly.

"When someone blocks you, what do you say?" Chen Chao frowned, "Aren't you afraid?"

"Scared." Miao Jiayan said honestly.

"You are getting bigger and bigger, and you don't want to cut your hair, then all kinds of people will come to you." Chen Chao said again.

"I can take the school bus..." Miao Jiayan lowered her head and said softly.

"Then why don't you sit down now?" Chen Chao asked directly.

Miao Jiayan stopped talking.

No matter where he sits on the school bus, the side next to him is empty, and no one sits with him, preferring to sit crowded with others.The students in the car always pointed at Sang, scolded Huai and insinuated and said some nasty things. The first time Chen Chao saw Miao Jiayan on the road, it was because Miao Jiayan couldn't sit still in the car, so he had to get out of the car.

"Schools in the city are actually like this, and they may not be better than here." Chen Chao didn't have any expectations for the schools in the city. "It's just that no one will block you and provoke you, and you will be much safer."

Chen Chao has always seemed like a very reliable brother. Although he is only in the third grade of junior high school, there is always a kind of "differentness" in him from the children here.He patiently told Miao Jiayan these things, and Miao Jiayan answered him very seriously.

"I don't want to leave my grandparents, and I don't want to go to my parents' place," Miao Jiayan said in a low voice, "My mother hates me a little, and so does my father."

"Then you can live on campus," Chen Chao said, "you don't usually go home."

Miao Jiayan didn't respond.After Chen Chao finished speaking, he suddenly felt that if Miao Jiayan left the familiar place he had lived in for more than ten years, and went to a strange and indifferent environment, it might not really be better than it is now.

Summer has passed, autumn has passed, and when it snows in winter, people shouting through the windows will no longer be heard.

Chen Chao often picked up a few small stones and put them on the window sill. If he wanted to call someone, he would knock on the opposite window with the small stones. As long as the window rang, Miao Jiayan would know.

One day, when Chen Chao rushed over, Miao Jiayan's window was cracked.

Miao Jiayan looked at the slash, opened the window and whispered to the other side: "You broke the window for me."

Chen Chao said, "Impossible."

"Really," Miao Jiayan stretched out her arm and gestured for the stripes, "it's cracked."

Chen Chao squinted his eyes and took a closer look, there were really fine lines facing the light.Chen Chao couldn't laugh or cry, Miao Jiayan gave him a "shh".

After that, Miao Jiayan put an empty flowerpot outside and asked Chen Chao to throw it into the flowerpot for fun, so that even if he couldn't cast correctly, he could still hear the bumps of small stones.

After a long time, a shallow layer of bottom was laid in the flowerpot, and there were small stones inside.

The heating in the village is self-fired. Grandpa Chen is always afraid of the cold tide, so he burns enough in winter.Even on such a day, it is only hot after the afternoon, and cold in the morning and mid-morning.When he woke up in the morning, it was still dark outside, and it was cold inside. Chen Chao became a household with difficulty getting up in winter.

Miao Jiayan got up early and washed and dried her hair. After tidying up, she came to wait for Chen Chao to go to school together. Grandma Chen said, "I haven't come down yet."

"Huh?" Miao Jiayan glanced at the wall clock on the wall, very surprised, at this time, Chen Chao should have almost finished his breakfast.

Miao Jiayan went upstairs with her schoolbag on her back. Seeing that Chen Chao was still sleeping, she hurriedly called him, "Brother Chao!"

Chen Chao opened his eyes and realized immediately, "Pu Leng" sat up from the bed.

"What's wrong with you?" Miao Jiayan reached out to touch his forehead, "Are you feeling uncomfortable?"

"No, I've slept through it." Chen Chao stood on the ground and put on clothes while talking.

Miao Jiayan handed him the trousers and asked, "Are you still wearing long johns? It's cold."

"No, I don't have long johns." Chen Chao had already put them on, ran to the bathroom, stood in front of the toilet and shouted to Miao Jiayan, "Put the book on the package!"

"Okay!" Miao Jiayan helped Chen Chao pack the book, and an envelope fell out while packing the English book.The envelope is sky blue with cartoon little clouds drawn on it.The glue on the envelope has not been torn, obviously it has not been opened.

Chen Chao has always been attractive and often receives love letters from girls.

Miao Jiayan quickly put the envelope back into the book, and put them together in the schoolbag.

After Chen Chao quickly washed up, he went downstairs, and Miao Jiayan followed with his schoolbag.

It was obviously too late for breakfast, so Grandma Chen specially got up early in the morning to bake sugar cakes for them to eat before leaving.

"Time is running out, come back to eat at night." Chen Chao said.

"Then take two with you?" Grandma Chen asked.

Miao Jiayan quickly said: "Take it, eat it on the way, if he doesn't eat it, I will eat it."

"I packed them all. I packed them separately for you two. Put them in your schoolbags and eat them in the classroom later?" Grandma Chen came over with two bags of pancakes and handed them to them.

Chen Chao had already left, and Miao Jiayan was still talking about cakes with Grandma Chen behind, so Chen Chao urged from a distance: "Hurry up!"

"Here we come!" Miao Jiayan followed with two bags of cakes and Chen Chao's schoolbag.

Chen Chao didn't eat anything on the road, but Miao Jiayan ate deliciously next to him. One mouthful of pancakes and one mouthful of soy milk. The scent of sugar pancakes was extraordinarily soft on a winter morning.

Miao Jiayan tore off a corner and handed it to his mouth: "Try it?"

Chen Chao subconsciously raised his head to avoid it, and Miao Jiayan said, "There is no one around, no one is looking at you."

It may be that this sentence played a certain role, or it may be that Miao Jiayan ate too deliciously. In short, Chen Chao ate that piece of cake in the end.

This is the two and a half years since he came here, the first time Miao Jiayan saw him walking and eating outside.Miao Jiayan smiled and asked him, "Isn't it very fragrant?"

Then he handed over the soy milk.

The first step has already been taken anyway, and it doesn't matter what comes after. Chen Chao lowered his head slightly, biting the straw and taking a sip.

But that's the most Chen Chao can accept. If he doesn't take it himself, Miao Jiayan has to hand it over. It seems that this way can be a little more foreign than eating a piece of cake by himself.Miao Jiayan was very happy to take care of his brother Chao's urban airs, and remember to grab a piece and pass it to him after taking a bite. After walking a country road, both of them were full.

Miao Jiayan was taken by Chen Chao to go out early and return to school every day, and her life became calm and slow.

Gradually, they almost forgot about that incident, and that episode was never mentioned again.

Until one day after school they heard the sound of motorcycles on that road again, before Miao Jiayan could react, she was dragged between him and Ding Wentao by Chen Chao.

It was only then that Miao Jiayan came to her senses and grabbed Chen Chao's arm.

"It's okay." Chen Chao said.

It turned out that this time it was really just someone else passing by, and the rider on the motorcycle was an aunt who had just returned from her natal home.

After the motorcycle passed by, Chen Chao rubbed Miao Jiayan's hair and said, "You can take the school bus after I leave."

Miao Jiayan didn't speak, but Ding Wentao asked, "Where are you going? Brother Chao, where are you going!"

"Go to school." Chen Chao said.

"Are you leaving?" Ding Wentao looked disappointed, "Aren't you going to high school here?"

"No," Chen Chao put his hand back into his pocket and said, "I have to leave after high school."

Ding Wentao's reaction to Chen Chao's departure was much greater than Miao Jiayan's.

Every day he quarreled and refused to let Chen Chao go, saying that he would have no friends if Chen Chao left.

Chen Chao made him feel helpless and said, "I haven't left yet."

"Isn't that fast!" Ding Wentao looked unhappy, "I'm going to fix you when you leave! What do I do every day! Who will eat with me at noon!"

Chen Chao said, "I didn't do anything with you here."

"That's different!" Ding Wentao sat at the table behind Chen Chao, shaking the table and said, "I have no friends after you leave!"

"Aren't your friends everywhere?" Chen Chao picked it up casually.

"Then do you see that I ate with them?" Ding Wentao tapped his fingers on the table, "Don't we all eat together?"

Chen Chao didn't speak anymore, and he couldn't appease the frustration of the school bully brother.After a few seconds, he turned his head and called "Xiao Tao".

"What?"

"I'm leaving, can you watch for me?" Chen Chao asked.

"What are you looking at?" Ding Wentao asked with a straight face.

Chen Chao said: "My little brother. You don't need to do anything, just go with him."

"Your daughter-in-law? I don't." Ding Wentao shook his head neatly, "If I don't go with him after you leave, what do people think of me? Besides, I feel uncomfortable walking with him."

Ding Wentao didn't know whether he really didn't want to or because Chen Chao wanted to leave because he had a temper, but he didn't agree.

Chen Chao asked him: "After walking together for so long, you still think there is something wrong with him?"

Ding Wentao said: "I think he is quite normal, but I think it is useless, others still think he is bian..."

Before he finished pronouncing a word, Ding Wentao stopped in time.

But because of the word he didn't finish, Chen Chao thought of Miao Jiayan lying on the floor of his room that night and said sullenly, "He thinks I'm the same kind".

In this small town, Miao Jiayan seems to never be able to get rid of the identity of "pervert", even though he has done nothing, just because he has long hair and occasionally wears skirts in summer.

The snow-covered road surface is very dirty, and there will be muddy water on the ground after the snow melts.

Miao Jiayan wore small white shoes and walked cautiously.Chen Chao didn't pay attention when he walked, and the soles of his shoes filled his pants with mud.

Although Miao Jiayan was already two steps away from him, she was still thrown to the bottom of her trousers.

He looked at the mud on his pants, didn't say anything, but took another step out.

Chen Chao didn't know what he was thinking, and asked, "What are you doing?"

Miao Jiayan didn't say that you dumped mud on me, she just said: "The ground is too dirty, it splashes mud when you get close."

"I'm completely covered in mud," Chen Chao said, "It's not that bad."

Miao Jiayan thought that Chen Chao was asking him to come back, so she moved back and said, "It's okay, I'll wash it for you."

Chen Chao watched Miao Jiayan walking in front of him step by step, the shoes were still clean.In fact, Miao Jiayan is really sensible and obedient, much more sensible than other "normal" children.

Chen Chao suddenly reached out and pressed his head, scratching his hair.

Miao Jiayan looked up at him, and seeing that Chen Chao didn't want to talk to him, she turned back quietly and continued walking.