warm and deep

Chapter 11
Liang Shi came over from his hometown and gave Min Rou a lot of school supplies, and bought him several extracurricular books, including a book of children's stick figures, which were full of black and white line drawings of cats and dogs, small flowers and grasses and Pots and pans. I like "Minced Meat" very much, and I fell in love with it immediately, and I took it to draw pictures all day long.

He didn't dare to draw with pencils all the time, so he would ask his father for money to buy it after the pencil was finished, but his father didn't approve of his drawing at all, thinking it was just a fool's play and worthless.But this didn't stop him, so he found a suitable small stick and drew on the soil.Sometimes I would pick up broken chalk stubs that Guo Zisu threw on the blackboard shelf and draw on the walls at home, turning the clean wooden walls into mottled painted faces.

Every time Shi Shi sees "Minced Meat" drawing, besides scolding himself loudly, he also severely blames Chunhua for not disciplining his son well and allowing him to scribble everywhere.This is someone else's house.If someone from Uncle Tiantang's family came back and saw the messy marks on the walls and floors, they would feel very uncomfortable.He scolded Chunhua: "You motherfucker, let him paint spirit plaques everywhere (the country's insult to painting portraits), and don't care about it. Be careful, I will beat you up one day."

Chunhua didn't dare to talk back, but just silently wiped the wall clean.

That night, Qingshi Village played a movie.In fact, many farmers now have televisions, and not many people go to watch open-air movies.But for children, playing outdoor movies is the most fun thing.The dark crowd was crowded on a large flat ground, the canteen was brightly lit, and a lot of delicious snacks were newly bought.Some villagers also brought sugar cane, peanuts, boiled corn and sweet potatoes from their homes, put them on the ground, and began to sell them.On this night, the adults usually give the children a little pocket money to buy something to eat.The children ran and fought on the field in groups of three, five, or eight or nine until the end of the movie.

After the minced meat finished eating, he ran to the flat where the movie was played, where some children were already playing.They were fighting, full of anticipation.

When it was dark, the projectionist came on a tractor, and the children gathered around to ask what movie to show and how long it would last.Then run home and report to your parents.

Minced meat was no exception. He rushed into the wooden house suddenly and called mother loudly.Chunhua has not come back yet.Guo Zisu came out of the miscellaneous room upon hearing the sound.

Min Rou hurriedly said: "Mr. Guo, the movie show is here, why don't you go quickly?"

"What's the rush? It takes a long time to prepare. You hurry up and wash your face and finish your homework."

The minced meat suddenly felt like a formidable enemy.homework?After finishing the homework, the movies were all over, and the sugarcane and peanut sellers also went back.

He rolled his eyes and said, "I'm going to find my mother." He ran out as if fleeing.

In the first class the next day, Guo Zisu asked the students in the class to put their homework on the desks for her to check.There are about 20 students in the class, except for a few female students who have finished their homework, they can't hand in the rest.

Guo Zisu had expected this to happen.But she still had a livid face and asked all the students who didn't have homework to stand up.Say: "You know that you are going to watch a movie at night, and you should squeeze in time to finish your homework before dark. Or, come to the classroom early today to finish your homework. However, you didn't do it or didn't do it, and you didn't think about it at all. Today Go back and do the homework for me. The homework assigned after school has to be done separately. If there are students who don’t finish it tomorrow, I will punish you more severely. Do you hear me?"

"Understood!" the children responded in unison in frustration.

At dinner time, Shitou and Chunhua came back and asked Guo Zisu about the learning performance of Minced Meat as usual.Guo Zisu talked about the fact that many children didn’t do their homework because of watching a movie last night. She also said that she came back to her mother when she saw minced meat yesterday, and asked him to finish his homework before going to the movie, but he found an excuse and ran away. .

"This kid is so cunning." Guo Zisu laughed as he spoke.

After Chunhua heard these words, her face darkened. She glanced at Shi Shi and said nothing.

Stone put the agricultural tools in his hand on the ground, and walked out with big strides.Chunhua followed a few steps, and was stared back by Shitou's stern eyes.

Guo Zisu immediately realized something. She wanted to catch up, but Chunhua said, "Don't go. He has a strange personality. The more you stop him, the more active he will be. It's useless for a child not to study, so teach him a lesson."

Chunhua sighed and walked into the kitchen.

Guo Zisu stood silently for a while, then went back to the miscellaneous room.She walked up and down the house restlessly, and looked around the door from time to time, hoping to see Minced Meat come back.

Suddenly, she saw Chunhua rush out of the kitchen and run out.She also ran out immediately, and heard minced meat crying.

Just when Guo Zisu was about to catch up with Chunhua, Chunhua stopped abruptly, turned her head and grabbed Guo Zisu, and walked quickly towards home.Chunhua said while crying: "Don't go, if he goes, he will kill the child even more, so you can't go."

Guo Zisu refused to stop, and said loudly: "I'm going, the child didn't do his homework once, so there's no need to hit him, just talk about it."

Chunhua still tightly clenched her hand and said: "He has long been dissatisfied with the child's scribbling all day long, and he has been going to beat him for a long time. Today's incident is the trigger."

While the two were tugging, stones and minced meat came over.Sure enough, when Shi Shi saw the two of them, he swung a long bamboo stick in his hand and beat the child fiercely. This kind of stick is not very heavy, but it is flexible. pain.While beating, he cursed furiously: "It's useless to call you! If you don't read all day long, you know how to watch movies and draw spirit signs. Will you still draw spirit signs in the future?!"

The child had nowhere to hide, and ran forward on half-rotten legs while yelling at his mother.

Guo Zisu broke free from Chunhua's hand and ran over, hugged the stone in her arms, and was hit on the head with a stick.Shitou wielded the bamboo stick and stretched out his hand to pull the minced meat over.

Chunhua grabbed Shishi's hand, cried and said, "Please don't beat him, the child's head and face are covered with blood, he will be beaten to death by you."

"It's all used to you, a dead woman. You can't kiss a cub at such a big age. Good boy, good boy, I will let you kiss! I will let you be good!" Shitou gnashed his teeth and snarled, hitting Chunhua.

Chunhua sobbed, but didn't dare to fight back, but ran towards the house.

"Stop! Why are you beating women and children like this?" Guo Zisu shouted loudly.

Shi Shi ignored her yelling at all, and continued to chase and beat Chunhua.

Guo Zisu went into the miscellaneous room protecting his bloody minced meat, and brought a basin of water to wash him.It was only then that Min Rou discovered that his whole body was covered in stick wounds, his face had several cuts, and there were seven or eight broken places on his head.

Chunhua walked over with a big bloody gash on her forehead, grabbed the child, and wept silently.Minced Meat was suffocating in her mother's arms, tears were streaming down her face, but she didn't dare to cry out.

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Guo Zisu really couldn't believe that such a person existed in the world.As a father, if the child didn't agree with him, he would beat the mother and the child severely, inhumane like a devil, and lose his mind like a madman.She squatted next to Chunhua's mother and son, with tears in her eyes, and said extremely apologetically, "I'm sorry, Minced Meat, I'm sorry, Sister Chunhua, I shouldn't talk too much and caused you to be beaten. I'm really sorry."

Chunhua shook her head and said, "I don't blame you. The child is disobedient. He needs to be educated. His father has a bad temper."

"You can change your temper." Guo Zisu said, "Sister Chunhua, you can't let him beat you, you have to reason with him."

Chunhua closed her eyes in pain, and said, "I tried, but he beat me even more viciously."

When Guo Zisu heard this, his heart turned cold.

"Then your natal family doesn't care? There are also village cadres."

"He said it was his family business, and scolded them away. My natal family is only an uncle, and I don't want them to worry about it. Besides, so what if some people are called to discipline him. In the end, I still have to go back here, and it's still his cutting board. meat on top."

"Then why don't you follow him?" Guo Zisu blushed and said angrily.

Chunhua looked at Guo Zisu in surprise, and hugged the Minced Meat even tighter: "You are talking stupid. If I leave, what will Min Rou do? I have a son here, and I am reluctant to leave here."

Seeing Guo Zisu's dejected look, Chunhua comforted her and said, "Teacher Guo, don't worry. As long as Shitou doesn't lose his temper, it will be fine for me and the child. He did this because he wants the child to concentrate on studying in the future."

"But his temper is too bad, and it's crazy enough to lose his temper. How can you endure it?"

"It's okay." Chunhua's tears flowed down, but her hands kept stroking the crying child in her arms.
(End of this chapter)