Yamakawa

Xie Qiujie's parents met each other on a blind date in the countryside. Both families felt that they were a match made in marriage, that they were so poor that no one could take advantage of the other.

It is said that at the beginning, his parents were still respectful to each other, and the two lived a pretty good life until the birth of his eldest brother Xie Qiu the following year.

The two families were ecstatic, and finally there was a fat boy in the family.

Both of them are first-time parents. After the initial surprise and joy, all that remains is irritability and impatience towards children.

The child always cried in the middle of the night, Xie's father was so noisy that he couldn't sleep, and he had to go to work on the construction site the next morning, and he was struggling every day.

After going on like this for a few days, that day he was scolded by his boss for a little mistake, and his wages were deducted for a day, so he bought cigarettes and alcohol and went home indignantly.

Xie Qiu was sleeping soundly at first, but when he smelled the strong smell of smoke, he immediately burst into tears, but Father Xie just became more irritable when he heard his crying.

Father Xie shook his cigarette, his face full of impatience, "Damn it! Cry and cry, you know how to cry! You can do nothing but cry, diapers and milk powder are damn expensive, I gave birth to a son just to beat myself Let's do it!"

The child's cries became louder, and Father Xie kept cursing.

"Damn it! Don't cry, believe it or not, I will throw you out today, what else can you do but cry!"

When Xie's mother Liu Li came home, the child was crying so hard that his voice was hoarse, his whole face flushed as if he couldn't breathe, and he hurriedly took the child to the hospital.

It is said that it is fever and hunger. The sickness of children costs money, and it costs a lot of money to go to the hospital. Because of the money, Xie's father and Xie's mother had a big fight.

That was the first time Father Xie did anything to Mother Xie.

There are only zero and countless times of domestic violence. In every subsequent quarrel, Liu Li will basically be beaten.

Later, Xie Qiu was sent to his grandparents' house to be raised. The couple worked separately and only returned home during Chinese New Year.

In the impression of Xie Qiu Festival, the weight of parents is not important, most of the time they live with the elder brother and grandpa, and every year when Xie's father comes home during the Chinese New Year, he will not even take the initiative to run to Xie's side.

The time he had the deepest impression on Father Xie was a few days after New Year's Eve, when Father Xie lost a card game outside and drank too much outside before returning home.

At that time, he was doing a general cleaning, cleaning up the red firecracker debris at the door and the skins of various melons and fruits in the house.

Father Xie blushed from drinking and reeked of alcohol, and suddenly became irritable when he saw him.

Raised his broom with one hand, and yelled at him, "What the hell are you sweeping? You're a prodigal! It's just you, a bastard who swept away my fortune. Don't you know how many days you can't sweep the floor during the Spring Festival? Did your grandma teach you?" Taught you!"

Xie Qiujie looked at his father who suddenly went crazy and didn't speak.

That day was the fifth day of the first lunar month, also known as Po Wu. Grandma said that she could sweep the floor. Cleaning meant that bad luck would be driven away and the family would have better luck.

"Are you dumb? Talk to me!!" Father Xie yelled at him, "I'm laughing and laughing with your brother, and I can't even give a fart to your father. Xie Qiujie, I am your father!"

Xie Qiujie explained in a low voice: "Mom said you can sweep the floor today."

The eldest brother and his mother went to dig vegetables in the field, and his mother asked him to clean up the house.

Seeing him like that, Father Xie became even more upset, Xie Qiujie didn't look like him at all, and that white appearance made him even more angry.

Liu Li and him live in two places all the year round, who knows if they are from other wild men.

Without saying a word, he slapped his face and roared furiously, "Who told you to talk back to me? Did your teacher teach you to go to school to teach you to talk back? Ah! I said you are a prodigal, but I said no. Sweeping means not sweeping!!"

As he spoke, he slapped him hard again.

As if discouraged, Xie Qiujie slapped several times and his face became red and swollen, with slap prints stacked on his face.

Xie Qiujie's mind was buzzing, only loud slaps and sharp buzzing could be heard in his ears, and his whole face was burning with pain.

Until Father Xie didn't think it was enough to hit him with a broom, even his arm started to hurt.

But he didn't dare to cry loudly. He had seen Father Xie beat Liu Li before. The more Liu Li made a fuss, the harder the hit would be.

"Section!"

When Xie Qiu and Liu Li came home, they saw their younger brother being chased and beaten by their father with a broom. The little Xie Qiujie choked up while hiding, "I dare not, I will not dare next time, Dad, I was wrong..."

"How dare you run away! Little bastard, you still hide! Next time, next time, I will beat you to death today!"

Xie Qiu hurriedly ran over to block Xie Qiujie, Xie Qiujie hid in his elder brother's arms, and said to his elder brother with tears in his face, "Brother, I won't do it next time..."

In the end, the three of them were all beaten by Xie's father, and it was not until a neighbor from the neighborhood came to fight.

The mother and son limped and dragged each other to the clinic to see the injury.

Xie Qiujie said to his elder brother, "Brother... I feel so hurt."

Xie Qiu patted him on the shoulder with trembling arms, "A man can't be afraid of pain."

The place where the big brother took the photo also hurt, but he just said, "My face hurts... my body hurts too, brother, am I a child picked up outside?"

Why was Dad so fierce when he hit him, even more fierce than when he hit his brother.

Liu Li couldn't bear it anymore, she just kept crying while hugging Xie Qiujie.

Xie Qiujie just looks more like grandma, how could he be a child picked up outside.

On the fifth day of the first lunar month, the three of them spent time in the clinic. Xie Qiujie had applied a lot of medicine on his body, and the swelling on his face would not go away. It hurt even if he touched it, and he didn't even dare to take the medicine.

Early the next morning, Xie Qiujie talked to him. Xie Qiujie's eyes were full of bewilderment and confusion. He stared at his elder brother seriously with wide eyes, but he didn't know what he was talking about.

He only saw his eldest brother opening and closing his mouth.

"Brother, I can't hear you, speak louder."

Xie Qiu raised his voice, "Mom said to take us to eat wontons and cakes."

Xie Qiujie became more and more dazed and confused, "Brother, speak louder."

Xie Qiu thought that he was too happy to react. Their poor family rarely had breakfast outside, and they never bought cakes for their birthdays, so he approached Xie Qiujie and yelled in Xie Qiujie's ear, "Let's eat cake!"

Xie Qiujie reacted for a while, finally heard clearly, and grinned.

He can be satisfied so easily.

Later, they found out that Xie Qiujie was deaf and deaf after being beaten.

The child's body organs are not fully developed and are vulnerable to injury. He can only hear loud sounds.

For a while, Xie Qiujie often went to listen to the whining sound of the tractor when it was turning. Although the black smoke smelled bad and the tractor was noisy, there were sounds in this world.

Because he could only hear loud voices, Xie Qiujie and Liu Li always had to yell when talking to him. Xie Qiujie sometimes thought that they could only hear him if he yelled, so he yelled too.

Xie Qiu would frown, but he didn't tell Xie Qiujie not to yell, but told him to turn down the volume appropriately.

Afterwards, the students said that he was very noisy when he talked, he yelled every time he talked to others, and he was always slow in doing things.

Since then, Xie Qiujie has learned to talk less.

When he was in junior high school, his family saved money to buy him a hearing aid, and he could finally hear like a normal person again.

Until the hearing aids didn't work.

Xie Qiujie woke up again.

His face was covered in cold sweat, and even his pajamas were wet and sticky to his body. The phone showed it was 4:48 in the morning. He sat in the dark, turned the volume of the phone to the maximum and put it next to his ear.

can not hear.

Still can't hear.

He lowered his eyes, ripped off his sticky pajamas irritably, walked into the bathroom and took off his clothes with a wave of his hands.

The warm and dense water flowed down the head, sliding over Xie Qiujie's pale and slender body, which had many dense wounds.

He raised his head to feel the warmth of the water, as if the pain could be reduced a little.

After taking a shower, he finally felt as if he had breathed again, that he was still alive.

Wearing the clothes he just changed, he went to the balcony to water his two pots of mint, and leaned against the railing to look downstairs.

He lives on the fifth floor, the sky is still black, only the street lamps are flickering small and faint lights, the city has not yet woken up, and it is as silent as him.

He held his phone and looked at the screen for a long time, and finally clicked into the chat box named Brother.

Tapping the screen, there was only one word, and it was sent successfully.

【elder brother. 】

Xie Qiujie went to the refrigerator again. He had run out of cakes and forgot to stock them up these days, so he reluctantly searched for a strawberry-flavored lollipop.

It seems that Yuan Yu bought it for his girlfriend, and gave him a few by the way.

At 06:30 in the morning, the city gradually wakes up.

The oven made a "ding" sound, and Xie Qiujie kept staring at the oven, watching his finished product slowly expand in the oven.

In the warm yellow light, the small milky white mochi swelled up little by little, and became plump, with a perfectly burnt surface. When the oven was turned on, the milky aroma entered the nasal cavity temptingly and obediently.

Xie Qiu Festival packed in a sealed paper bag.

He squeezed it, and the Q bomb was soft and waxy and still warm. When he pulled it hard, the inside of the mochi was still silky. The surface of the fat mochi was just crispy, and the rich milky fragrance made people feel like they were bathed in the autumn sunshine in the afternoon. With the aroma of cheese, it is warm like a milk hot spring.

When it touches the lips, it is warm and soft, and the dry and delicate glutinous rice flour has a gentle lingering feeling. Biting it will only make the lips and teeth fragrant.

One bite at a time, the rich aroma overflows the taste buds, and there will be a sticky light sound when chewing, which is tantalizing.

Xie Qiujie stopped after eating a few. Eating just the right amount of dessert is the only way to enjoy it. At least his mood isn't that bad anymore.

At seven in the morning, Xie Qiu worriedly sent a message.

He knew that Xie Qiujie couldn't hear him, so he never called, and he didn't make video calls with him. He felt that the videos of the two men gave goosebumps, and his communication with his eldest brother was basically text and voice.

[Brother: Little Festival, what's wrong? 】

[Subsection: It's okay. 】

[Brother: It’s fine, take care of yourself when you go out, don’t let people bully you, did that kid Xie Qiuri ask you for money again?Don't pay attention to him, he has two hands and hangs around at home every day, and he doesn't have a good study, he doesn't look like a man, that kid has been spoiled a long time ago, so don't spoil him. 】

Their family was overborn, so Xie Qiuri was raised at his grandmother's house before, and his grandmother was patriarchal and used to make Xie Qiuri lawless.

Later, Xie's father died, and when Xie Qiuri was in the first grade, Liu Li took him home, because Liu Li felt guilty towards Xie Qiuri because he hadn't been around him since he was a child.

[Subsection: Mmm. 】

[Brother: I won’t tell you anymore. Your niece made a fuss in the middle of the night last night, which made my brain buzz. Your sister-in-law didn’t recover after giving birth. She always had a bad appetite, and she lost a lot of weight. I wanted soup dumplings, so I lined up to buy them for her. 】

[Section: Brother, let me send you some desserts, sister-in-law and children can eat them. 】

Xie Qiujie knew that Xie Qiujie had studied as an apprentice in a dessert shop and was working in a dessert shop before. During the Chinese New Year, Xie Qiujie often brought home the biscuits he made.

[Brother: OK, you can watch the post. 】