A corner of ten years

The exhaust fan in the kitchen vent was humming. Cheng Lu skillfully cracked the eggs on the edge of the pot, cracked them on the pan, and turned them over when one side was cooked. Turning over the porridge pot, steam was rising His little face was flushed red.

Prepare breakfast and ask parents to wake up, and wait until they are full before they wash up and sit at the dining table.

It’s not that they are bad parents who deliberately make things difficult for their children. Cheng Lu has to go to morning reading and get up early, and his parents have to go to work. Every day is very hard. Can't go back to sleep, and have nothing to do, wasting time in vain.

The sensible Cheng Lu took over the job of making breakfast and let his parents sleep a little longer.

He never mentions being bullied at school, studies hard, doesn't let his parents worry about him, doesn't know how to act like a baby, only keeps his mouth shut when encountering difficulties, and is precocious and independent among children of the same age.

The careless adults never noticed the bruises on the son's back. The pressure of life forced them to pay attention on the spiritual level and couldn't keep up with the growth of the boy.

For those violent beatings, Cheng Lu felt that he could handle it and passed it with patience, but what really made him anxious and overwhelmed was the pressure from his family.

My father is honest and introverted, low-key in his work, and doesn't know how to please his boss. Although he has worked in the company for more than ten years, he is still just a small clerk. He has a stubborn temper and admits death. For this reason, I often disagree with Cheng's mother.

"Look at Lao Li, who is several years younger than you. He just got a new house in the back, and he got a set as a gift from Director Liu. Now it's the most cost-effective to buy at the employee price. Don't be ashamed to ask for help, and it will be up to you when you wait for the baby and marry a wife in the future.

"What sin did I do? No one in the unit who is as old as me works desperately overtime. As long as you show a little bit of manliness, you won't let us orphans and widows be bullied."

Whenever Cheng's father sat on the sofa and kept rubbing his hands, he kept slandering Cheng's mother for using the words orphans and widows...

Cheng's mother who spoke like this was quite polite. Usually, there was a small quarrel at home for three days and five days. At this time, Cheng Lu would put on his earphones, go back to his room, pick up a paintbrush, and paint. That was his world.

It's not easy for my mother. My father has a meager income and needs her to go out to fill the household. We have been married for more than ten years and don't even have a decent set of clothes. The aunts in the same unit who are about the same age as my mother will have some gold necklaces, gold rings, etc., but my mother I have never asked for this. It is not easy for a beautiful mother to marry a poor father who has worked hard for so many years. There is no reason to blame her.

This weekend is over, and the campus is filled with a festive atmosphere on Friday afternoon. Cheng Lu was called into the office by his teacher, and it was his grandma who called.

At that time, mobile phones were not yet popular, and even adults would use a BP machine at most. Touch screens and sliders were invisible, and communication was usually done by landlines.

Grandma explained the meaning euphemistically. My parents fought fiercely in today's war. My mother went back to her natal home, and my father didn't come home at work. I spent the weekend at my grandma's house in the past two days.

Cheng Lu comforted grandma obediently, and hung up the phone, feeling as heavy as if he had gambled with a plumb weight.

The one who loves me the most since I was a child is my grandma. When there was a lot of trouble at home, my grandma's house became his shelter from the typhoon. The kind old man tried his best to comfort his grandson who was still in shock, and found some gadgets in the drawer beside the bed. Things like malt candy, Ultraman's mask, and a small pistol that shoots marbles... This is Cheng Lu's favorite. When he was a child, Cheng Lu felt that grandma's drawer was a mysterious magic box, and he always looked forward to what would appear next time.Anxiety is put aside.

But as she got older, grandma was a little bit powerless with those little tricks, and it was difficult to fool her grandson who was already in high school.

But the phrase "baby, how about going back to grandma's house" makes Cheng Lu feel warm at any time.

Walking out of the office, Cheng Lu rubbed his red eye circles with his hands, took a breath to comfort himself, it’s no big deal, today is the weekend, let’s go back to grandma’s house and have fun for two days, I don’t know if the figs in her yard are still available eat.

Back in the classroom, all the classmates left, only his schoolbag was left lying on the table alone. He lifted it up and carried it on his back. He heard a ticking sound after taking two steps, and suddenly felt something was wrong.

He looked at the ground and saw that drops of ink were scattered all the way along the place he walked, and he quickly opened the schoolbag. Sure enough, two bottles of unscrewed ink bottles were lying innocently inside.

Cheng Lu hurriedly took out the textbooks, but it was too late, the textbooks were soaked, and the words covered by the large swathes of ink were hard to discern. .

At the end of wiping, big tears rolled down and fell on the thick black paper, blurring a large piece.

Finally couldn't help sobbing.

Li Xun stood outside the classroom, leaning his head against the wall, and sighed heavily.

It was strange to see Zhao Kai and the others discussing the sale of ink just now, and I vaguely heard Cheng Lu's name in their conversation.

The bike rode a long way, and I didn't know why, so I told Chen Dudu that I had something to do and asked him to go back first, turned around and rode frantically to school, but still missed it, and when I returned to school, I saw Cheng Lu crying with his schoolbag in his arms As he sobbed, Li Xun felt his chest constricted...