post middle age

Chapter 34 A Quilt

In the twelfth lunar month in the north, even if the sun is out, people can't feel the warmth in their hearts. The sunshine at this time is indifferent. It lacks the brightness of spring, the heat of summer, and the exuberance of autumn.Facing the gray vicissitudes of dead trees and branches outside the window, Ren Shuxia felt an inexplicable melancholy in her heart...

She couldn't help trembling at this moment, a gust of cold wind mischievously penetrated through the gap in the window, and quietly invaded her body skin, a shiver reminded her of whether her daughter Ke Ke had the same scenery as her during her lunch break in the remedial class, thinking of this , she picked up a single quilt on the bed, packed it, and said to her mother Lilac:
"Mom, I want to see Ke Ke in the tutoring class and give her a quilt."

It's windy and cold outside, don't go, just ask your dad to bring the quilt when picking up the cocoa today. "Mom Ding Xiang looked worriedly at the strong wind blowing outside the window, and kindly persuaded her.

"I, I, I still want to send it in person, and learn about Coco's studies in the remedial class by the way. After the new year, in a few months, she will take the high school entrance examination. At that time, I may have to go to the construction site again. I want to see Keke, but I have no chance." Ren Shuxia sighed softly.

"Hey, when will you be tall? Tell me, when you were a child, your parents traveled all over the world to build electrified railways for work. You grew up with your grandparents when you were a child. In the generation of Coco, you don't listen to me. Advice, you want to get admitted to Railway University, and you are a postgraduate student, you can't go anywhere, and you are on our old road, running around all the year round. In the end, all this is your father's fault. What are you talking about? You are obedient to ask you to fulfill his long-cherished wish for him. Over the years, you have done a good job at work and did not embarrass your parents, but if you think about it carefully, you are just suffering yourself, and you have to pity my little Keke."

Mother Ding Xiang couldn't stop talking about the past.

After Ren Shuxia patiently listened to her mother's nagging, she smiled and said to her mother:
"Mom, I'm going!"

Ding Xiang glanced at her daughter distressedly, handed her a thick scarf, and said:
"You're too old, and you don't know that you care about your body when you go out. Come on, put on your scarf, it will protect you from the wind." Ding Xiang knew that the cocoa remedial class was not too far from home, and Ren Shuxia would not drive there. It's riding an electric bike.

Ren Shuxia obediently took the scarf handed over by her mother, wrapped it around her neck, picked up the quilt, and set off.

The cold wind roared "whooping", using its thick fingers to savagely scratch the pedestrian's hair, pricking the pedestrian's skin like a needle.Pedestrians had no choice but to button up their winter clothes tightly, put their hands in their pockets, shrink their necks, and walked quickly.But the pines and cypresses on both sides of the road stood upright in high spirits, proudly facing the gusts of cold wind, inspiring Ren Shuxia to ride an electric car and move forward bravely.

After a while, she came to the downstairs of the remedial class that Ke Ke attended. Although the distance was not far, Ren Shuxia still suffered a lot while riding the electric bike. On the way here, the cold wind suddenly blew into her In the skin, straight to the bone, and brought bursts of stinging pain.She parked the electric car, rubbed her cold cheeks vigorously with her frozen hands, then picked up the quilt and hurried to the third floor.

Arriving at the third floor, Keke was still in class at this time, so Ren Shuxia talked with the teacher in charge of daily life. In fact, the room was not cold, because the heater was turned on, and after a while, Ren Shuxia felt hot all over her body, so she untied her scarf , and then asked the teacher:

"Where is your temporary rest room? I'll bring a quilt to my Keke family."

Turn left and the third room is! "The teacher greeted enthusiastically.

Ren Shuxia came to the room and saw that there were three wooden beds inside, all of which were bunk beds. She was worrying about not knowing which bed was Coco, when the bell rang for the end of get out of class, Wang Xiaoke came quickly When I came to this room, as soon as I saw my mother, I asked in surprise:

"Why are you here?"

"I'll send you a quilt." Ren Shuxia said with a smile.

Wang Xiaoke did not speak any more, and went to the lower bunk of the bed near the window, picked up the thermos cup on the bedside table, opened the bottle cap, and gulped down the honey water.

"Ke Ke, stand up first, and mother will make the bed for you!" Ren Shuxia said softly holding the quilt.

"I'm not cold, what are you doing with so many quilts?" Ke Ke stood up impatiently and said.

"Ke Ke, you see that your bed is too thin. Use this quilt as a mattress." Ren Shuxia was busy making Ke Ke's bed while talking.

At this time, the teacher who came into the room saw this scene, smiled and said to Ke Ke:

"Wang Xiaoke, look how kind your mother is to you!"

"She's not my mother, she's just a woman next to me."

When Wang Xiaoke said this sentence, the teacher felt quite puzzled. She glanced suspiciously at Ren Shuxia who was busy beside her, and then said:

"How can you say that about your mother?"

Originally, as soon as Wang Xiaoke uttered these stupid words, she regretted it. She didn't know why she said such words. When she was regretting endlessly, she heard the teacher's questioning again, and she couldn't hold back. When she didn't know how to answer, Ren Shuxia smiled and said:

"You jumped out of the cracks in the rocks, you heartless, it wasn't your mother who raised you up, you grew up drinking the northwest wind!"

Wang Xiaoke looked at her mother with a smile on her face, but in her heart she misunderstood her mother's kindness as ridicule. When she felt anxious, she couldn't forgive others, and blurted out a more hurtful sentence:

"I was raised by my father!"

Ren Shuxia's face changed drastically in an instant, she looked at the extremely familiar but gradually unfamiliar daughter in front of her, her lips trembled with anger, pointed at Wang Xiaoke's face, and shouted loudly:

"You were raised by your father, good, good, good!"

For unknown reasons, the teachers and students on the side were stunned for a moment in the face of this sudden change, and stood there motionless one by one.

At this time, the class bell rang again, Wang Xiaoke ignored her mother, followed the teacher and classmates to file out, and went to class.

Ren Shuxia looked at the back of her daughter who was gradually going away, recalling her own hard work and hardships in the past few years, a burst of sadness welled up in her heart, and a line of hot tears quietly flowed down her red eyes to her cold face.

She stood there alone, wiped away her tears, and muttered:
"Father raised him!"

Then turned around and walked out of the room, and came downstairs, the wind was blowing more violently, Ren Shuxia's broken heart was bleeding continuously in the cold wind...

Her eyes were blank, and she came to the opposite Dennis Mall aimlessly, found a coffee shop, and sat down sadly.

(End of this chapter)