Danqing

Tan Songxue's appearance made Chen Kezhi very worried.

Parents think that the child is young and doesn't understand anything, but they forget that the child's mind is actually the most sensitive. It is related to his parents. Qin Songxue, who has always been rough and nervous, has extremely accurate intuition this time, and immediately discovered a lot of things that were wrong. place.

"Qiaoqiu, don't cry..." Chen Kezhi pulled him up, hugged him again, and sat on the chair by himself.

Chen Kezhi seemed to be Tan Songxue's only reliance. Tan Songxue clutched Chen Kezhi's collar tightly, and hot tears fell on his chest drop by drop.

"Qiaoqiu, brother is here."

"Grasshopper... woo woo... I really want to call my dad..."

"Qiaoqiu, don't cry, listen to me, okay?"

Tan Songxue cried and didn't answer, and buried his head in Chen Kezhi's shoulder.

"You can't call Master now."

"Why... woo... why?"

"Listen to me... a patient was found in the place where Master lives. He is now with the doctor in that building. It's just that it's inconvenient to make a phone call. There is no major problem." In order to reassure Tan Songxue, Chen Kezhi half-truthfully said talking.

"Then they... woo...why didn't you tell me?"

"Master is afraid that you are worried about him, and so is Aunt Li. Also, Aunt Li is very anxious because there are patients at Master's side, so she cries. And she is also afraid that you will not be able to bear this matter, so she tries her best to hide it. looking at you."

Qin Songxue couldn't understand what the adults were doing at all, and asked why over and over again.

"Qiaoqiu, don't be angry with Mom and Dad because of this. Aunt Li is very sad now. If you get angry with her again, she will be even more sad."

"Then what should I do..." Tan Songxue asked with swollen eyes.

"Because Aunt Li and the others treat you as a child who doesn't understand anything, and will do stupid things when stimulated, you can prove to them that you are no longer a child, okay?" Chen Kezhi has been persuasive and has successfully diverted Tan Songxue's attention force.

"Grasshopper, you taught me..."

"First of all, you can't let them find out that you already know about it. Then they will be very worried about you. You have grown up, so you shouldn't let Aunt Li and the others worry about you, right?"

Qin Songxue nodded.

"Then you have to make Aunt Li feel better. You are the only man in the house without Master. You must protect Aunt Li, you know? She will be scared when she sleeps alone at night. You have to stay with her, understand?"

I can't sleep with Grasshopper tonight.Qin Songxue pursed her lips and made a decision.

"When the matter is over, Aunt Li will also know that you have grown up and are a man of indomitable spirit, able to protect other people. Do you think this is good?"

Qin Songxue has only one thought at the moment, that is, his father is not here, so he must protect his mother.

Today's handwriting could not be practiced, so Chen Kezhi washed the brush and inkstone, and then used a towel soaked in cold water to apply to Qin Songxue's eyes, so as not to let Qin's mother see that Tan Songxue had cried when she came back.

Qin Songxue was very cooperative.

When Qin's mother came back from Chen's house and saw Tan Songxue lying on the bed in the big bedroom with a small pillow in her arms, she was still a little puzzled, why didn't he go to Chen Kezhi?

Chen's mother pulled Qin's mother to talk for a long time, most of which were words of comfort.It was already late, and Tan Songxue was a little tired after crying. After Chen Kezhi helped him take a bath, he ran to the bed and lay down waiting for his mother to come back.

"Mom, I'll sleep with you today." Tan Songxue rubbed her eyes in a daze.

Mother Qin lay down on the bed after washing briefly. Qin Songxue crawled over to her side, kissed her on the cheek, and whispered to her, "Mom, don't be afraid, I'm still here if Dad isn't home."

Mother Qin almost burst into tears.

Father Qin didn't expect things to turn out like this.

Before the Spring Festival, there were only cases in Guangdong and Guangxi. He thought it was just a regional epidemic. City H was in the north of the small county, far away from Guangdong and Guangxi, so he went to school to report without thinking too much.It was only after I arrived at the school that I realized the seriousness of the matter. At this time, cases broke out one after another in first-tier cities such as the imperial capital. Within a month, SARS had spread across the country.

Everyone in the school basically wore masks, but the virus was still hard to guard against. On the second day of the Labor Day holiday, the fifth child in the dormitory went out to meet his girlfriend. On the morning of the fourth day, he developed a high fever, and the entire dormitory building was immediately put under martial law. , Father Tan couldn't go out to find a public phone, so he asked another roommate to borrow a mobile phone, and their entire dormitory had to be quarantined in the hospital.

Although I don't know what the condition of the fifth child is, but now that he has a fever, it may be more or less ominous.

Death is so close to them.

He didn't tell Qin's mother thousands of miles away about these things, but handed over all the property he left to her, and said that if he was worried, he could contact Chen Jianjun in the provincial capital. will suffer.After ten years of marriage, all he left her was those collections.

The days in the hospital were like years for Father Tan. Fortunately, he did not have a fever on the first and second day.

On the second day after he made the call, Chen Jianguo received news that it was confirmed that the patient was not Tan's father, and Tan's mother's uneasy heart finally calmed down a little.

School No. [-] started, and Chen Kezhi sent Tan Songxue all the way there as usual.

Tan Songxue didn't speak all the way, letting Chen Kezhi hold his hand.

At the door of the classroom, Chen Kezhi bent down and straightened his collar: "Don't think about it, uncle said that Master is fine."

"En." Tan Songxue nodded, still not in a good mood.

"Stop queuing up after school, tell the teacher, I'll come and find you, let's go home together."

Because there is no school bus, for the sake of safety after school, the school stipulates that students with similar routes home should form a road team. Before, Chen Kezhi could leave his class and follow Qin Songxue. After entering the sixth grade, the teacher liked to drag the class, and Qin Songxue was afraid of being hungry. Chen Kezhi let him go alone.

"Goodbye Grasshopper." Tan Songxue tiptoed to give him a hug.

Qin Songxue was not yet nine years old, and he never thought about what it would be like if he lost his father one day. He thought about it for a while, if his father contracted the disease and would never see him again, he felt very uncomfortable.

He couldn't describe the feeling, as if his internal organs were empty, and it was as if he drowsily saw that nothing was real after secretly drinking a glass of wine during the Chinese New Year last time.

The fat students in the class were called by the teacher to answer the question, and the whole class burst into laughter before they could speak. The teacher was so angry that he patted the podium directly and asked them to pay attention to the class records.Usually he was the one who booed the loudest, but now he couldn't laugh, he couldn't find any place to laugh.

But he was randomly selected in class, he didn't say anything, what's so funny?

Qin Songxue thought of the gentle and quiet female classmate in the class who used to be his deskmate. Last semester, she didn't come to class for a week. She heard from the teacher that her mother who was selling fried rice on a tricycle died in a car accident, and she called the whole class. Donate to her.

If his dad gets sick, will the classmates donate to him?

Probably not... Her father is a stall that repairs shoes and provides keys for people, while his mother is the deputy county magistrate... I don't know what mother is doing at home now...

"Qin Songxue!"

The teacher's angry words brought Tan Songxue back from his thoughts. Tan Songxue was so frightened that he hurriedly stood up. He was sitting in the last row, and even knocked down the chair, making a loud noise.

The whole class roared with laughter again.

"0 divided by any number is 0, isn't that correct?" The math teacher was very dissatisfied with Tan Songxue's distraction in class, so he asked a question casually.

"Yes... No, no!" Tan Songxue gave an answer, but then changed his words.

"Then why is it wrong for you to say that?" The math teacher frowned.

"Because 0 cannot be a divisor."

"Go and stand at the back!" The math teacher pointed to the corner at the back of the classroom and raised his voice, "If you don't listen carefully in class, I said 'divide by', not 'divide'! You are not destroying Classroom discipline is to harass other students! Next semester, you will learn linear equations in one yuan. If you continue like this, you will fail!"

Without saying a word, Qin Songxue picked up the chair and walked to the back of the classroom.

"You don't want any textbooks anymore? Do you still want to attend classes, are you a student?" the math teacher snapped.

Qin Songxue went back to get the textbook.

There was silence in the classroom.

The math teacher continued to talk about the true and false questions. She was very satisfied with the classroom discipline. This class should have been strictly controlled by now.

It is not the first time that Qin Songxue has been scolded. He usually does not feel much. Chen Kezhi told him that he does not need to care what the teacher scolded him, as long as he understands everything he has learned, and he does not lie, skip class or bully his classmates. It doesn't matter.

But why is he so uncomfortable this time?

Feeling empty in his heart, he was just thinking about his father, and he became "not a student" because he couldn't hear the teacher's question clearly.He wasn't the only one who booed in class, why did he just hold on to him?He was obviously very honest in class today.Moreover, he scored 98 points at the end of the mathematics test last semester. Is he going to fail the next semester after learning that equation?

Qin Songxue couldn't figure it out.

The eyes of the students just now were clearly gloating.He felt as if he had been abandoned by these people, and they didn't like him, including the teacher.

But why?

Why is this?

Tears that had been held back all night fell on the textbook, and Tan Songxue cried silently.Xiao Ke Grasshopper is not by his side, as if he is the only one left in the whole world, he is very helpless.

Xiao Ke Grasshopper said that he is a man and cannot cry, and he has to protect his mother.

But he is still suffering...

Just hide when you cry so no one will notice, right?

Qin's mother waited at home for a call all day, but Qin's father didn't call any of them.

The number of infected people in city h was on the rise, and Chen Jianguo did not bring any bad news.

In any case, if something happened to father Tan, the news from Chen Jianguo should be reliable.

It is better to have no news at this time.

The two elders of the Li family don't know about Father Tan's situation yet. If they knew, they might do something unreasonable. Urging Qin's mother to find a powerful man to marry.

The parents tacitly refrained from mentioning the word SARS in front of the children, and Qin Songxue and Chen Kezhi pretended nothing happened, eating and practicing calligraphy and doing homework as usual.

It's just that Tan Songxue is becoming more and more dependent on Chen Kezhi.

Only in front of Chen Kezhi can he vent his repressed emotions without any scruples.

All the grievances he has suffered can be told to Chen Kezhi.

No matter what happens, Xiao Ke Grasshopper will always protect him.