Chapter 5 I don’t have a mother, my mother is already dead! "Illegitimate child", that's what the children in the alley who were about the same age as Jiang He called her at that time.
"Go, let's go! What nonsense are you talking about? Go play somewhere else!"
Jiang He and her grandmother once happened to see Jiang He being bullied by five or six half-year-old boys at the entrance of an alley. She waved a big broom and drove the children away. Then she pulled Jiang He with a stern face and quickly Walk home.
"Grandma, what is 'broken shoe'? Why do they call my mother 'broken shoe'? Is my dad really dead? Then why do they say my dad is still alive and in Wuhan!"
Jiang He, whose two braids were torn out in a mess, raised his head and asked. Grandma just looked at her with a sad expression and said nothing.
When Jiang He was a child, every time she asked her grandma about her parents, her grandma would either say angrily, "Your dad died a long time ago, and your mom is busy making money in the city," or she would look at her blankly and say, He didn't say anything either.
That night, Jiang He woke up after holding in her urine. She got up and went to the latrine in confusion, only to hear her grandma hiding in bed crying secretly.
From then on, Jiang He seemed to have enlightened himself and started to learn how to fight.
She would beat anyone who called her an "illegitimate child" and anyone who called her "a child born from broken shoes" or "a thing without a father and a mother."
She felt that her grandma cried that night because she thought she was useless and that she didn't know how to fight back after being bullied so badly.
The little Jiang He secretly swore in her heart that she would never be bullied or make her grandma cry again in the future! For a long time, Jiang He came home from school every day with bruises on his face, and his schoolbag and uniform were in tatters.
"He'er, let's not get along with them, okay?"
Grandma first tried to persuade her in a nice voice, and then yelled loudly and loudly, but Jiang He was very stubborn and would not eat anything soft or hard. Grandma had no choice but to wear reading glasses and carefully apply red lotion on Jiang He every day. Mend school uniforms and make school bags for her over and over again.
Jiang Xiaoping appeared suddenly.
Jiang He remembers clearly that on New Year's Eve when she was in fourth grade of elementary school, Jiang Xiaoping walked into her small courtyard wearing a fluffy mink coat, accompanied by the dark night and heavy snow like goose feathers.
Jiang He timidly hid behind Lao'er, warily looking at the uninvited guest in front of him who was as beautiful as a calendar model.
"Don't be afraid, He'er. Don't He'er miss your mother? She is your mother. Call her 'Mom' quickly!"
Grandma grabbed Jiang He and pushed her in front of Jiang Xiaoping's eyes. Jiang He stuck out his butt and tried to back away, wishing he could fold himself in half. He kept shouting, "I don't know her! I don't have a mother, my mother." He would have died!"
"What nonsense are you talking about, kid! Who told you that!" Grandma raised her hand to hit him, but Jiang He was not afraid. He held his neck and went up to meet her.
"Mom, forget it, don't scare the child." Jiang Xiaoping advised, and grandma's slap did not fall on Jiang He's butt.
Jiang He took the opportunity to break away from his grandma, and before running back to the house, she glanced at Jiang Xiaoping secretly, which coincidentally collided with Jiang Xiaoping's gaze as she looked at him. Jiang He keenly noticed that there was an unconcealable look in Jiang Xiaoping's eyes as she looked at him. Disgusted, immediately began to hate her without any then, Jiang Xiaoping has come back from the city two or three times every year.
At the beginning, Jiang Xiaoping would bring Jiang He beautiful clothes, delicious snacks, and secretly give her money, and they were all big tickets, either 50 or 100.
But Jiang He was very stubborn and wanted nothing. No matter how fashionable the clothes were, she would not take a second look at them. She would throw them aside without even unpacking them. The snacks were even past their expiry date and she refused to take a bite.
Jiang Xiaoping was disappointed by her and simply didn't bring her anything. She just stuffed money into her grandma's hand. Jiang He sneered at this, but felt inexplicably disappointed.
But at that time, Jiang Xiaoping was just a very thin shadow to Jiang He. She was beautiful, distant, and dressed in a foreign style. There was always a vague smell of tobacco floating around her body. She might as well have been given to her by the aunt selling chicken soup and tofu skin in front of the elementary school. Leave a deep impression.
Jiang He only started living with Jiang Xiaoping in the second semester of his second year of junior high school.
"Auntie, I know it's not easy for you to raise a child by yourself at such an old age, but no matter what, you have to teach her and take care of her. How can you just keep her fed and clothed?"
Just two days after the summer vacation of that year, Jiang He took the lead and beat up a boy who was two years older than her in the alley next door. The boy turned around and sued his parents, and came with his mother to find Jiang He and her grandma. Settlement of accounts.
"She's already in junior high school. What a girl. She's as wild as a mountain monkey. Look, she scratched my son's face. If it leaves scars, how can we get a wife in the future?"
"He deserves it! Who asked him to peek at girls going to the toilet!" Jiang Hete, who was protected by his grandma behind him, shouted at the woman.
"You...you fart! You damn girl, you have a life and no one can teach you!"
The woman immediately became anxious. The pair of thick black eyebrows that were tattooed with a brush dipped in ink jumped up and down on her face with a strong presence. "I knew that you and your mother are the same thing. You are so sexy." I have no limits, I go around trying to seduce men, and when I succeed, I get beaten up again... ah!"
Before Jiang He could finish scolding her, he used all his strength and bumped into the woman's stomach. The woman was knocked upside down and lay on the ground like a bastard, unable to get up for a long time. She was so beaten by Jiang He The son, who was scratching his big face, didn't know how to give it a hand, and actually laughed with the people watching around him.
Jiang He glanced at him silently, and he immediately covered his mouth nervously. He was as frightened as a wet quail, trembling into a ball and not daring to say anything.
"He'er, you are getting more and more outrageous, and you still haven't apologized to your sister-in-law of the Chen family!"
"I'm right! She was the one who scolded me first!" Jiang He dropped these words and ran away quickly, refusing to look back no matter how much his grandma yelled from behind.
Jiang He "ran away from home" for the first time in his life. He could barely survive until dark before being driven back home by Gulu's hungry stomach.
As soon as she sneaked into the courtyard with her waist bent and sneaky, she found that there was an uninvited guest in the house, her mother Jiang Xiaoping.
(End of this chapter)