Confessions of a retired star

After school that day, Zhu Shisi and Fang Shuyun came home very late, and they chatted for a long time.

On August [-]rd, Zhu Shisi left Fang Shuyun's house and rode his bicycle through the green shade in front of the family compound. At the end of the road, a group of adults gathered around the door of the unit, buzzing and talking.

Zhu Shisi recognized several people from the trade union of Zhu Mingchang's unit, and one of the aunts stopped Zhu Shisi, hesitating to speak, hesitating.

"Your father... something happened. The work unit has already picked up your mother. Are you going to follow us by car, or wait at home..."

Zhu Shisi couldn't hear or remember what the aunt said later.

He only remembered that summer vacation started in August, it rained all the time, almost no day was sunny, the gloomy morning was connected with the gloomy afternoon, the night was extremely long, the day was muddled, and it was as dark as eternal night.So he stayed at home and didn't go out for a long time. When he recovered, it was already September.

Zhu Shisi gave the Galaxy Cube designed by father and son to the boy in the garden. At the same time, Zhu Mingchang was stabbed in the lung by gangsters during the arrest mission. The rescue failed and he died in the line of duty.

An ordinary family has undergone earth-shaking changes overnight.

Regardless of the great pain caused by Zhu Mingchang's death to the orphans and widowed mothers, the mainstay is gone, the source of income is cut off, Meng Tang is unemployed and has a sister who is bedridden with a serious illness, and the cost of maintenance is very high. , The expenses are not small, and the days are stretched.

Half of Zhu Mingchang's pension for his death was given to his parents, leaving more than [-] yuan, most of which was reserved for Zhu Shisi's aunt's medical treatment, leaving only tens of thousands of yuan for the mother and son.

Fang Shuyun noticed that Zhu Shisi only made up the late tuition fees a week after the start of school. When he got the receipt, he stared at the numbers on it for a long time.

"Take cram school?"

"not going."

"attend competition?"

"not going."

"Come to dinner?"

"not going."

"Going to sing K?"

"not going."

Zhu Shisi began to frequently miss various activities and gatherings, retracting into a narrower volute than before. Except for Fang Shuyun who took the trouble to invite him, all the classmates who had warmed up with him before gradually alienated him.

"Go to my house to study, do you want to go?"

Fang Shuyun asked Zhu Shisi, and then dragged him back to his home involuntarily.

Summer has been away for three months, and it is another early winter. Stepping into Fang Shuyun's house, stepping on the dry leaves and the withered meadow, he remembered that he had lost important things when he came last time, and he cried, Fang Shuyun Wiping away tears with him, the two entered the room in silence.

Grandma and grandpa are still kind and friendly. The middle-aged men and women I saw last time were not at home. The two old people cooked a lot of dishes, which were rich and even deliberately. Zhu Shisi ate a lot and wrote for a while in Fang Shuyun's study after dinner. Homework, and fell asleep for a while on my stomach.

While Zhu Shisi was sleeping, grandma quietly called Fang Shuyun downstairs.

"These clothes are all new, so you say they were bought for you, and if the size is too small, give them to him."

Grandma cut off the tags of the clothes and trousers, folded them and put them in a bag. Grandpa shook his head aside: "Boys have the best face at this age, and they won't pick up clothes that others don't want."

"Didn't you see that he wears so little? Face is not as important as body," grandma glared at grandpa, and stuffed the bag to Fang Shuyun. "I bought a size 180. He should be able to wear it, right?"

Fang Shuyun was a little embarrassed: "Grandpa is right, Shisi won't want it, I understand him."

"Really?" Grandma frowned, "I went to the parent-teacher meeting in the middle of the semester, and I saw that his school uniform and school pants were all too short. Even if the family is in trouble, parents shouldn't let their children stay cold..."

Grandma lamented, Fang Shuyun comforted her for a while, she was better, but Fang Shuyun himself was not feeling well.

There are quite a few boys in the class who are taller, only Zhu Shisi didn't get a new school uniform because it costs money.

Fang Shuyun observed him silently, and found that he only ate a vegetarian meal in the cafeteria. He used a pencil to write a layer on the draft paper and then a gel pen to write another layer. He used to love sweets, but now he turned his head away when he saw sweet things. , Said it was too tired, I didn't like it.

"Grandma, don't worry about him. With me here, I won't let him suffer."

Fang Shuyun persuaded him like this, but he didn't know what to do.His pocket money is still plentiful, which can improve Zhu Shisi's life, but it's another matter if the other party doesn't appreciate it. Zhu Shisi has always been arrogant and has a strong self-esteem. The way of showing favor to him is wrong and counterproductive.

Grandpa and grandson sat downstairs sullenly. Upstairs, there was a gap in the study room. After Zhu Shisi listened to their conversation by the door, he went back to lie down on the table, buried in his arms again and his eyes were red.

Later, Fang Shuyun went upstairs, carrying the bag of clothes, Zhu Shisi deliberately talked to him about something, to distract him from his thoughts, until he left, Fang Shuyun didn't give him the clothes.

While chatting, Zhu Shisi wanted to ask where his younger brother was, but when he asked, it revealed the fact that he had visited Fang Shuyun's house on August [-]rd and saw them quarreling, so Zhu Shisi related this matter to this person. Forget it all.

Therefore, 11 years later, Fang Ting suddenly said that the two had met and received a token, Zhu Shisi had no such impression.

Coming back from Fang Shuyun's house as a guest, Meng Tang was also at home, washing Aunt Zhu Shisi's dirty clothes.Mother and son, you look at me, I look at you, and both have something to say.

Meng Tang said first, "Wish, do you have something to tell mom?"

"Hmm..." Zhu Shisi put down his schoolbag, which contained mung bean cakes and peach cakes stuffed by Fang Shuyun's grandma.

"I want to go to a vocational high school," Zhu Shisi thought for a while, then changed his words, "No, I want to drop out of school and go to work."

Meng Tang's eyes turned into crescents with a smile: "Silly boy, mom is just trying to tell you that mom has found a way to make money. You can study at ease, go to cram school, go to university, study your favorite major, and do the job you want to do." , everything went according to plan.”

"...the doorway?"

"Yes," Meng Tang nodded, and continued to rub the dirty clothes in the basin, "That's something my mother is good at, and it's something I like to do."

In the evening, Zhu Shisi found out that the way Meng Tang said verbally was actually to set up a mobile supper stall.

Meng Tang is indeed good at cooking, and also cooks a lot of late-night snacks. As for whether she likes to sell late-night snacks, Zhu Shisi thinks she doesn't like it.

She has been a middle school teacher for five years, and a housewife for another 16 years after she got married. Her living radius is very small and her environment is simple. She has to deal with all kinds of customers at the night snack stand at the event, and she also has to hide from the city management. It is really difficult for this introvert A taciturn woman.

After the supper was spread out, even though he worked day and night and was entangled in trivial matters, Meng Tang never complained, and he was still as peaceful and peaceful as before.

She gave Zhu Shisi enough living expenses, hired a nurse for her younger sister, and silently handled everything properly and orderly.The only visible change was that her hands, which were as soft as satin, became as rough as sackcloth, and her knuckles were as thick as foamed sugar cane.

Under the protection and comfort of these hands, Zhu Shisi dispelled the impulse to drop out of school.He thought of the August when his father passed away. He didn't see his mother shed a single tear. She just kept flipping through the old photos, finding and mending Zhu Mingchang's old clothes, or looking at the planet Zhu Mingchang made all night long. The model is in a daze.

Zhu Shisi could do nothing but listen to Meng Tang and study harder.

Fang Shuyun was with him all the time, they were always in the same class, were at the same table, studied together, and went home together.

The heavy schoolwork overwhelmed the pain, winter went to spring, and after the summer, he was promoted to the third year of high school. The ordinary life had waves in a morning self-study in the first half of the third year of high school.

"I received a call from my younger brother yesterday. It's so rare." Fang Shuyun said to Zhu Shisi while helping him with his homework.

Zhu Shisi nodded, indicating that he heard it. Fang Shuyun buried his head in sorting out the exercise book, but didn't notice that Zhu Shisi leaned against the podium and held his forehead.

Fang Shuyun continued: "He asked me if I knew a person named Li and Shu, and I said no."

Zhu Shisi leaned aside and listened silently, his impression of Fang Shuyun's younger brother was almost gone.

"I said that there is no one with this name in my acquaintance. He also said that the elder brother had red spots in his eyes. I wondered about spots? I told him I didn't know. I only remembered you after I hung up the phone. It was in your eyes. The red mole, I wanted to call him again, but his side was shut down."

As Fang Shuyun said, he picked up dozens of exercise books and walked towards the door. Zhu Shisi followed slowly, looking not very well. Fang Shuyun was waiting for him in the corridor.

"How does my brother know you?... No, why is your face so pale?"

Just as Fang Shuyun finished asking, Zhu Shisi tilted his body, and the exercise book in his arms fell suddenly, and he also fell down, and fell asleep in the corridor with a "boom".

In the morning, when Meng Tang rushed to the school infirmary, Fang Shuyun was taking leave of absence to guard Zhu Shisi for infusion.

Zhu Shisi only woke up for a moment, answered a few words in a daze, and continued to sleep under the quilt.

This was the first time Fang Shuyun and Meng Tang met. She was lying beside the bed with a gentle and beautiful worried face, quite similar to Zhu Shisi.

Fang Shuyun should have seen Meng Tang during the summer vacation more than a year ago, but he didn't expect to see her now for this reason. Thinking about what happened in the past year or so, Fang Shuyun took off his glasses and rubbed his sore eyes.

"Don't worry, auntie, it's just hypoglycemia. It's nothing serious. He didn't eat in the morning and he has worked too hard recently." Fang Shuyun persuaded softly.

Meng Tang raised his head, the fine lines at the corners of his eyes curved into gentle arcs: "You are Shuyun...? May I always mention you."

"Wish?" Fang Shuyun froze for a moment, then nodded, "It's me, I'm Fang Shuyun, hello, auntie."

"Thank you, Shuyun, wish...Zhu Shisi has caused you trouble, thank you for taking care of him."

Realizing that Zhu Shisi's nickname was unintentionally spoken, Meng Tang changed his mouth, gently held Fang Shuyun's hand, and thanked him repeatedly.

"If it's convenient, can I ask you to go outside? Auntie wants to have a few words with you alone."

Meng Tang's soft voice reached Zhu Shisi's ears, and his eyelids moved. Fang Shuyun had already turned off the light at this time, and opened the door. The cool wind from outside came in, and Zhu Shisi woke up.

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