Baby

After Li Ruxue returned to the staff dormitory after get off work, she found Tang Li sitting on the bed, the lights were off, and there was no sound in the room.

Li Ruxue smiled and closed the door: "Why don't you turn on the light? Come on, Xiao Li, I brought you some supper, do you want to see what it is?"

"Auntie," Tang Li's voice was so low that he could hardly hear him, "Can you return the phone to me?"

Li Ruxue changed her slippers and put the supper on the table, "Why do you want a mobile phone all of a sudden? Do you have something to say to Jiang Ye? Just tell me... Come on, my aunt turns on the light and gets you a spoon .”

Li Ruxue turned on the light in the dark at the door, Tang Li took a deep breath, knowing that it was impossible to get back the phone.

Tang Li clenched his fists, and said slowly: "Aunt, cousin won't come, right?"

The ceiling light just turned on, and the light reflected on the blue uniform on Tang Li's lap.Li Ruxue's smile gradually froze on her face: "...Tang Li?"

Tang Li put the uniform on the bed, Li Ruxue turned pale, and subconsciously took a step forward to grab Tang Li's hand: "Tang Li...I, I am for your own good, so that we can live together in the future—"

Before Li Ruxue finished speaking, Tang Li suddenly shook off her hand with all his strength, with an expression on his face that had never been seen before, which shocked Li Ruxue for a moment.Tang Li turned around to leave, but Li Ruxue yelled at him: "Son, what are you doing?!"

Tang Li didn't look back: "I want to go home."

Li Ruxue's complexion was like paper, smiling was uglier than crying, she stepped forward to catch up with him: "Silly boy, what are you talking about, this is your home..."

"You lied to me!" Tang Lihong glared at Li Ruxue angrily, "This is not my home, you have no intention of letting me go home!"

Li Ruxue still reached out to grab Tang Li, but Tang Li slammed open the door first, and ran out while stepping on Li Ruxue's screams.

Tang Li felt that he was a complete fool!He should have reacted earlier—but it was too late now!

When he finally realized the mistake he made, he had gone so far unknowingly, so far that it seemed that he could never go back.

This helplessness plunged him into deep fear.

The sun in the sky in August is so hot that it seems to be roasting the earth.But Tang Li's hands and feet were cold, and his heart fell into the abyss with the wind little by little.For the first time in the past few days, he rushed out of the dormitory building, stumbling and running desperately.He was wearing flip-flops, and the soles of his feet got sand on the road, which caused blood blisters from being worn out, and finally the pain was so painful that he could no longer move his feet.

Tang Li was sitting on the stone by the roadside, his nose was sore, and tears suddenly came down while holding his feet.In front of him was the station where he and Li Ruxue arrived when they first came here, and a dozen tourist buses could be seen parked neatly in the distance.There were people coming and going at the station. Occasionally someone noticed the boy squatting and crying on the side of the street and stopped, but left after a while.

Tang Li reluctantly stood up and followed the flow of people with difficulty, trying to attract the attention of passers-by.Li Ruxue took away his mobile phone, ID card, and the emergency cash that Tang Daihe had prepared for him. Tang Li was always shy and not good at talking to strangers. This was the first time he hated himself for being incompetent and stupid.

Tang Li was at a loss as he shuttled through the vast sea of ​​people. When he saw a young man with long hair and a friendly face, Tang Li mustered up his courage and stepped forward to stop him: "Excuse me...can you lend me your mobile phone to make a call?"

But the young man's face was full of doubts, he tilted his head to discern Tang Li's words carefully, finally he shook his head with a sigh, and spit out a long string of unfamiliar words from his mouth.

Tang Li's color turned paler.It was a dialect he had never heard before, and neither he nor the man could understand each other.

Seeing the young man gradually losing patience and about to leave, Tang Li's eyes turned red, he grabbed the man's arm and begged him: "Please, please help me! Please!" He gestured with his finger next to his ear, making a "call" gesture.The young man squinted his eyes for a while, and finally shook his head and pulled Tang Li's hand away.

Tang Li's face turned green and then pale. Looking at the man's back, his lips gradually smelled of rust.Countless people passed him by, but Tang Li felt that those strangers were so far away from him, that he never belonged to this place, and would never be able to integrate into it.

That evening, Li Ruxue searched several kilometers around the dormitory, and finally found Tang Li on the pier by the sea, shivering in the evening wind.

Seeing the wound on Tang Li's foot, Li Ruxue was heartbroken. She squatted down and touched Tang Li's red eyes: "Silly boy..."

Tang Li didn't speak, and didn't even look at her.Li Ruxue sighed, then turned around and went to a small shop nearby to buy a new pair of shoes, and brought them back for Tang Li to wear.Tang Li moved his foot, and Li Ruxue forced him to put it on.

Putting on the new shoes, Tang Li's tears started to flow again.In this strange city full of strange accents, he doesn't even have the right to choose what shoes he wears.

He wanted to go home and see his brother.

Tang Li yelled at the sea, wishing that the familiar and stalwart figure in his teary eyes would come to his side to save him as usual, but this time Tang Li didn't get his wish, and only the cold sea water responded. Voice.Tang Li finally got tired of shouting, and fell down on the beach with a hoarse voice, his tears quickly melted into the fine sand and disappeared.

Li Ruxue went to buy drinks for Tang Li again, Tang Li's tears kept falling, Li Ruxue sighed while sitting with him by the beach to blow the night breeze.Li Ruxue's health is not very good, and she has accumulated a lot of hidden illnesses from working all year round, and when the night wind blows her head, she becomes dizzy.Not long after sitting, Li Ruxue took Tang Li and stood up: "Okay, have you calmed down? My aunt's head hurts, and she will faint if she doesn't go back. What's the matter, let's talk about it when we go home, okay?"

The dormitory was filled with a damp stench.Li Ruxue was wearing an apron in the kitchen heating Tang Yuan for Tang Li, while Tang Li was lying on the upper bunk staring at the ceiling in a daze.

While turning over the soup with a spatula, Li Ruxue said helplessly, "Xiao Li, I have spent a lot of time finding you a job in this seafood factory. I wanted to tell you a few days later, but since you saw it, Then I'll just say it directly. Starting tomorrow, we will train with the foreman for a few days, and we will be on the job soon. The work is very simple and the salary is good, but it is a bit hard. But young people have to endure hardships, you are right wrong?"

Tang Li was lying on the bed, his eyelids twitched suddenly.

"Auntie, I'm starting school soon."

"What are you going to study?" Li Ruxue suddenly smiled, "The real ability is to make money these days."

"As for me, I work in the factory next door to yours. In this way, every month, we can save a lot of money for our wages. In a few years, we will buy a house here to live in... Li Ruxue looked at the glutinous rice balls tumbling in the boiler, and said with a smile, "Auntie is really looking after you and has thought a lot about you. Xiao Li, I will definitely give you the best within my ability." of."

Tang Li didn't say anything, he lay on the bed looking at the spider webs on the ceiling and thought for a long time.He thought of Jiang Ye, his family, and finally his own future.Tang Li thought about it for a long time, the more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable he felt, and the more he thought about it, the more confused he felt.He turned over and suddenly said to the kitchen: "Can I call brother?"

Li Ruxue didn't make a sound anymore, only the sound of the glutinous rice balls sliding in the air.

Seeing that Li Ruxue didn't respond, Tang Li's eyes suddenly became cloudy.His face turned pale with anxiety, he leaned half out of the bed and grabbed the railing, begging bitterly: "Auntie, please, I want to say a few words to my brother, just a few words, please... "

With a snap, the gas stove was turned off.Li Ruxue came out of the kitchen with a bowl of glutinous rice balls, without looking at Tang Li, said calmly: "Don't lean out, the bed is high, be careful not to fall off. The glutinous rice balls are ready, come and eat some. "

"aunt……"

"Auntie has a headache, please stop talking!" Li Ruxue suddenly interrupted Tang Li violently, "I just had a wind blowing, and now I feel very uncomfortable, can you stop saying things that make Auntie uncomfortable? Xiaoli—— —Do you understand Auntie’s heart? Auntie has brought you to a new home now, and we will start a new life amiably, and stop talking about the ‘old home’ from now on, okay?!”

The blood on Tang Li's face gradually faded, he closed his lips and never spoke again.

Li Ruxue sighed, stretched out her hand to serve Tang Li glutinous rice balls, and muttered to herself while serving:

"Xiao Li, don't blame me too much. I left my hometown to work to earn money and married a man from another place. After a few years, the man kidnapped a woman from outside and wanted to divorce me. I didn't Solution, my parents don’t want me, and my husband’s family doesn’t want me either. I don’t earn much money, and now I really have nothing. But besides you, Xiao Li, you are my only relative...Xiao Li, do you remember? You like playing with your aunt the most, our relatives want to be together, right?"

Tang Li had a strong rebellious mentality, and had a stalemate with Li Ruxue for more than three days, refusing to say a word to her, and refusing to eat the food she gave her.Most of the time, Tang Li would do nothing all day, just sit on the bed in a daze, like a puppet who lost his mind, and murmured someone's name in his mouth.At first Li Ruxue was very worried, but after thinking about it, she should completely stop the child from going home, so she decided to fight him to the end.Tang Li went on a hunger strike for three days, lost a lot of weight from hunger, and his mental state was much haggard.Li Ruxue was so distressed that she almost softened herself, but Tang Li couldn't hold on and collapsed.

Watching Tang Li drink the hot porridge he cooked, Li Ruxue suddenly felt a sense of happiness in his heart.

In the next few days, under Li Ruxue's supervision, Tang Li finally participated in the factory's induction training.Whenever Tang Li showed an expression of reluctance, Li Ruxue pretended to cut him off.Originally, it was just to scare Tang Li, but Tang Li never expected Tang Li to take it seriously. Every time after the quarrel, Tang Li would hide in the garbage dump next to the dormitory and cry secretly, crying until his eyes were swollen and he was out of breath. gas.

When Li Ruxue came to look for Tang Li in the end, every time she encountered this scene, she always felt bitter and helpless in her heart.She reflected that perhaps she had indulged Tang Li too much, otherwise why did Tang Li not understand why she was so kind to him?

Li Ruxue finally decided to be ruthless and put away her doting attitude towards Tang Li. When Tang Li talked back, she punished her.Tang Li didn't want to go to work in the factory, so she forced someone to drag Tang Li to the workshop.She hoped that Tang Li could get in touch with society earlier so that he could gain a better foothold in society.Suffering now is to adapt to life better in the future.She hoped that Tang Li could see her kindness sooner.

Finally, Li Ruxue's hard work paid off.Half a month later, Tang Li finally learned to go to work on time and work hard, even without Li Ruxue's supervision.After observing secretly for a few days, Li Ruxue finally breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that Tang Li was obediently working in the factory. Her nephew seemed to have finally compromised with her.

On this day, Li Ruxue purposely finished her work tasks ahead of schedule, cooked a pot of porridge for Tang Li in a good mood, and wanted to pick him up from get off work, and the aunt and nephew went shopping after a long absence.As a result, when Li Ruxue came to the workshop where Tang Li worked, he couldn't find Tang Li's figure for a long time.

Li Ruxue felt a little uneasy, and after asking his colleagues around, he found out that Tang Li had just said that a friend was looking for him, so he went out temporarily.But Li Ruxue knew in her heart that Tang Li had to bite the bullet before acquiescing that she came to work here. He has a withdrawn personality and doesn't want to communicate with strangers, so he hasn't made any new friends here until now.He is not in the workshop, where can he go?

Li Ruxue suddenly realized something, and hurried back home without stopping. With trembling hands, she took out the key from the crack in the wall and opened the cabinet door. She found that the temporary ID card she gave to Tang Li and 200 yuan were missing from the wallet.Li Ruxue's eyes darkened, and she almost fainted.With a livid face, she smashed the rice bowl hard, spilling the hot porridge all over the floor.She almost burst into tears, and ran on the main road regardless.

Five minutes before Tang Li got on the bus, Li Ruxue rushed to the station, her hair was messed up and panting, she was crying like a lunatic on the street, clutching Tang Li's hand.

"Auntie is wrong, Xiao Li, please forgive me, I shouldn't have lied to you, I shouldn't have lied to Brother Jiang and Sister Tang, I shouldn't have lied to your brother, I was really wrong..."

"Xiao Li, don't go, please, don't go! I promise you, I really promise you, I will never lie to you this time! I promise you, I will send you off after you have worked here for three years Go home, go back to Jiang's house, okay?"

"I also promised you that I will help you to send a message to your brother! How about this, you, you write a letter...you write the letter, and then I send it back, okay? You write the letter home, and they will see it when they see it I will write back to you, maybe I will come here to see you—do you think this is okay? Xiao Li? Xiao Li—"