post middle age

Chapter 227 No Dad No Mom
The time of reunion is short and happy, but the time of parting seems very long, full of longing and anticipation...

After the new year, amidst little Ren Shuxia's cries and grandma's sighs, Ren Shuxia's father and mother picked up their bags again and continued to walk out of the house to the electrified railway construction line thousands of miles away. Their sacred work...

Year after year, how many springs, summers, autumns and winters, for the families of electrification engineers, the long years, countless days and nights, are spent in silent thoughts and persistence, because no matter in a foreign land father and mother.Or the children who stayed at home, their life, everything they experienced, in the eyes of outsiders, how much is it a secret?Outsiders don't understand, and they don't want to understand this unique group of people who are ignored by the world, because in the hearts of ordinary people, this is all because of the different division of labor in society, but do they all serve the people in the same way? These ideas, my lord She understood everything, but in Ren Shuxia's young heart, she couldn't understand how many times she went to and from school, she was picked up by her grandma or grandpa, how many times she held a class meeting, and faced the strange eyes of the head teacher and other students. During the trip, she faintly felt that her father and mother were different from other people's fathers and mothers. Their fathers and mothers all worked in this city, and they could come to school to pick up their children every day. Class meetings, other people's fathers or mothers, can also attend on time, but to her, this seems to be a very common phenomenon, but to them, the children of engineers, it is a very extravagant hope, and it is also impossible to achieve Yes, because their father and mother work far away, like clouds in the sky, drifting in the distance all year round along with the wind.

Therefore, this was a painful thing for the young Ren Shuxia. No, during a break between classes, a chubby little boy in the same class tilted his head and smiled strangely in front of her. In front of other students, ask:

"Ren Shuxia, where are your father and mother?"

"My father and mother, where are they far away?"

"What are you doing in the distance?" the little boy asked reluctantly.

"In the distance, in the distance, in the distance..." When Ren Shuxia said this, her mind suddenly went blank. At such a young age, she really didn't know what her father and mother were doing in the distance.

"I don't know, you don't even know what your father and mother do?" The little boy raised his head and shouted proudly to the children around him:
"My father is a doctor and my mother is a teacher!"

When the little boy said this, he suddenly asked the children around him loudly:
"What do your father and mother do?"

The children around me replied one after another;
"My mother is a barber!"

"My dad is a policeman!"

"My mother is a judge!"

"My dad is a truck driver!"

"My father is... and my mother is..."

When the children around her finished talking about what her father and mother were doing for work, Ren Shuxia still stood there in embarrassment, with her head lowered, thinking hard about what her father and mother were doing in the distance. When she bowed her head and said nothing, the little boy suddenly walked up to her, laughed at her and said:
"You won't be a child without a father and a mother!"

"I have a father and a mother. If you talk nonsense again, I will beat you!" Little Ren Shuxia clenched her fists angrily when she heard this, and yelled angrily.

"Then tell me what kind of work your father and mother do?" the little boy asked.

"My father, my mother is, yes, yes..." Ren Shuxia lowered her head and thought hard.

"Look, you still don't know!" The kid beside him burst into laughter.

Ren Shuxia was really anxious. She looked at the children beside her who were laughing at her. She was anxious, and suddenly remembered the electrification that her grandma often said, so her little face suddenly turned bright, and her face was bright loudly replied:

"My father and mother work in electrification!"

"What, electrification!" Hearing this, the little boy laughed so hard that he couldn't straighten up.I saw him clapping his little hands while muttering loudly:

"Electrification, electrification, what is electrification?"

Seeing his disdainful face, Ren Shuxia became anxious, and she stuttered when she spoke:

"Electricity, electricity, and electrification mean building railways?"

"What, electrification is the railway, bragging. If you say that your father and mother are building railways, then I will say that my father is a pilot. It's a lie?" The little fat boy became more and more proud.

"I'm not lying. I heard from my grandma that electrification is about repairing railways." Ren Shuxia couldn't help crying when she was anxious.

"Look, you said you didn't lie, why are you still crying? I see, you are a child without a father and no mother. Tell me, every time you pick you up and drop you off from school, you don't see your father. , Where's mom?" The little fat boy continued.

"Yes, yes, it's the class meeting, and your grandma is here too. I see, Ren Shuxia is a child without a father or a mother!" A little girl with a ponytail beside her clapped her hands, Talk vigorously.

"Yes, yes, Ren Shuxia is a child without a father or a mother!" The children beside her shouted in unison...

"I, I, I..." Ren Shuxia's eyes were full of tears, she choked up and said, but couldn't continue.

At this time, the class bell rang, and the children beside them rushed away. When they left, the four little boys who led them ran to the classroom, and at the same time they did not forget to shout at Ren Shuxia:
"Ren Shuxia, you are a child without a father or a mother!"

"I have a father, I have a mother!" Ren Shuxia looked at their backs that were gradually going away, and shouted and cried loudly behind them.

When school was over, Ren Shuxia hid in the classroom by herself, and waited until the end to leave. When she was carrying a small schoolbag and walking slowly to the school gate alone, she saw her grandma alone in the distance. He was anxiously standing at the school gate, looking around in the direction of the classroom.

Ren Shuxia came to her grandma full of thoughts. As soon as she saw her, she took her hand and asked:
"Shuxia, why are you leaving school so late today? Look, grandma is waiting anxiously!"

"I, am I cleaning?" Ren Shuxia made up a lie and said.

On the way home, grandma saw her granddaughter's unhappy face, and couldn't help asking worriedly:
"Xia, at school today, did you have a conflict with other students, tell grandma, who bullied us?"

"No, grandma, I'm fine!" Ren Shuxia lowered her head, only thinking about her own thoughts, but she replied extremely firmly.

Before going to bed at night, Ren Shuxia suddenly asked her grandma:
"My father and mother don't want me anymore!"

"Silly girl, who said that your father and mother are outside building electrified railways for the motherland. They really like you." Grandma replied with a smile.

"You lied, if they like me, why don't they usually come to pick me up and see me off? The father and mother of other children not only pick up and drop me off when they go to school, but also come to accompany their children every time they have class meetings. Why don't my father and mother come, they, they just don't want me!" Having said this, Ren Shuxia burst into tears.

Seeing her uncomfortable appearance, grandma couldn't help shedding tears. She said fiercely:
"Hey, don't let your mother go, your mother insists on going, what kind of electrification is repaired, look, what's going on to make the child uncomfortable?"

Grandma was talking, she took Ren Shuxia into her arms, hugged her tightly, and sang a nursery rhyme to her softly. There were still a few teardrops on Ren Shuxia's red face, and she listened to her. Grandma's nice nursery rhyme, muttering aggrievedly with her small mouth:

"I want daddy, I want mommy!"

(End of this chapter)