Xinyiwu: Originally

Chapter 8 Butterfly Wings After Death
Not long after the second semester of the third year of high school started, the school arranged a parents' meeting. In addition to summarizing the performance of the students in school, the rest was a general mobilization before the college entrance examination.

Although everyone attached great importance to this parent meeting, Su Yunjin was still very surprised when she saw her parents appearing at the school at the same time.You must know that her father was almost in bed during the winter vacation, but his health was deteriorating, and the family's Spring Festival passed hastily.It takes about two hours by car from the county town of her hometown to the city. Seeing her father's sallow complexion and thin body, Su Yunjin felt distressed and sad.

According to the usual practice, parents first gather in the school auditorium for a meeting, and then go to their children's classes to discuss with teachers.In the first half, there were no students. Su Yunjin sent her parents to the entrance of the auditorium and returned to the dormitory.On the one hand, she was afraid that her father's health would not be able to take it;

Just after washing a whole bucket of clothes, Zhou Jing came back from outside and told Su Yunjin and Mo Yuhua to go to the auditorium to help move the tables.At that time the mobilization was over, the parents all went to the classroom, the task assigned by Zhou Jing to Su Yunjin and Mo Yuhua was not easy, they had to carry a large and heavy table back to the warehouse.

The location of the warehouse is quite remote. It was a weekend, and there were no people on the way. When they walked near the warehouse, they were shocked when they suddenly heard the harsh sound of glass being knocked.Mo Yuhua motioned for the table to be put down first, and she went to see what happened, while Su Yunjin waited on the spot.

A moment later, someone hurriedly ran over from the corner of the road ahead, but he looked like a boy. When he got closer, Su Yunjin realized that the person was Zhou Ziyi.

Su Yunjin met Zhou Ziyi's "parent" this morning. She was a fashionable girl who was not much older than them. She drove a cool car of unknown make. It seemed very expensive and attracted countless eyeballs when she appeared.But Su Yunjin had never seen Zhou Ziyi's face so ugly, his signature smirk disappeared.I heard that the woman was Zhou Ziyi's father's secretary, but Zhou Jing said with a smile in the dormitory that she knew that she was not an "ordinary secretary". It is not certain that he will really become Zhou Ziyi's "parent" in the future.

What is he doing in this corner?Su Yunjin was a little puzzled, she believed that no one could send Young Master Zhou to be a porter.Zhou Ziyi also saw her when he passed by, with an unnatural expression on his face.

After a while Mo Yuhua turned back, Su Yunjin asked her, she just said "it's okay", the two continued to carry the table and walked forward with difficulty, after passing the curve, several cars parked in the open space not far away, the most eye-catching The car belonged to Zhou Ziyi's house. When I got closer, the front windshield was smashed with a big crack, and the broken glass was scattered all over the floor.

"Mo Yuhua, is this..." It was hard for Su Yunjin not to connect the scene in front of her with Zhou Ziyi's abnormality just now, but Mo Yuhua should know better than her what was going on.

However, Mo Yuhua shook his head and said, "I didn't see anything." There was no expression on her plain face, but the more she was so clean, the more she seemed to be hiding something from her.After all, Su Yunjin is not a troublesome person, even if she still has doubts in her heart, others don't want to talk about it, and it's not her own business, so she can't ask.

The big wooden table was sent to the warehouse, but the hard work was not over. The warehouse manager said that the table was not under his control at all, and asked the two of them to carry it to the teaching building.The two of them secretly complained, Zhou Jing must have misheard the message, causing them to toss back and forth, but what can they do, carry it!

Both of them are not people who can't bear hardships, but the table is really heavy. When they returned to the teaching building, their backs were sweating.There was a lot of voices on the stairs, and it turned out that the parent discussion meeting of individual classes also broke up.Seeing them, Zhou Jing, a staff member, repeatedly expressed embarrassment. In fact, this table belongs to the Academic Affairs Office, and she has to "trouble" them to make another trip.

No matter how good-tempered a person is, they will inevitably get angry when they hear such words. Su Yunjin wanted to quit, but couldn't find a reason for a while, and was sulking, and suddenly felt a pain in the back of her head.She turned her head, and a piece of chalk fell at her feet. Not far away was Cheng Zheng who was standing in front of the rockery pool pretending to be okay.

Needless to say, no one would do such a boring thing except him. Su Yunjin gave him a blank look, and turned around to argue with Zhou Jing, but she was hit on the arm again. Although it was not very painful, it was also very annoying.

"Is it over?" She said to Cheng Zheng with a serious face, "I don't have time to talk to you right now."

Cheng Zheng sneered, "Why don't you just be a porter? What's the air?"

"You can move it if you have the ability!"

"Do you think everyone is as stupid as you, being treated like a monkey. If I had changed it, I would put the table in the middle of the road and see who the teacher troubles with." Throw it at her, "Maybe you are really a monkey, look at your stupid look!"

Su Yunjin stretched out her hand to block it, and the chalk dust spilled on her clothes: "Try throwing another one."

"That's what you said!"

Really angry, Su Yunjin picked up the nearest piece of chalk and wanted to throw it back.Cheng Zheng suddenly let out an "ouch", and his ear was pinched by a woman who came down from upstairs.

"What are you doing, it hurts to death!" he yelled, rubbing his ears.

The woman said angrily: "You are so brave to say, I saw it upstairs. Who taught you to bully girls, you worthless guy, go back and let your father deal with you."

"Then you're justified in bullying boys?" Cheng Zheng retorted awkwardly, feeling very shameless in front of others.

The woman was very kind when she faced Su Yunjin: "I'm sorry, classmate."

Su Yunjin saw that the woman's eyebrows and eyes were somewhat similar to Cheng Zheng's, and observed their demeanor and conversation, knowing that she was probably Cheng Zheng's mother.Cheng's mother is well-dressed and well-maintained. It's really hard to believe that she has such a big son.Su Yunjin didn't expect that the other party's parents would bump into this farce. Although Cheng Zheng was at fault, she felt a little nervous in her heart. The hand behind her back unconsciously rubbed the end of the chalk. When she came to her senses, it was already her own white ash.

"It's okay." She replied quietly.

At this time, most of the parents had arrived downstairs, and Su Yunjin saw her parents at a glance, and hurried forward a few steps.

"Dad, are you okay? Mom, you are too, why don't you persuade my dad and let him come here for a while."

"Why didn't I persuade you? Your dad has to come." Su's mother also looked at her husband's scary face worriedly.

Father Su squeezed out a smile on his skinny face: "I should come."

"Did my grades disappoint you again?" Su Yunjin said sadly.At this moment, she wished so much that she was Cheng Zheng, with outstanding grades, flying high, even if his ears were twisted occasionally for doing something wrong, his parents must be proud of him in their hearts.

They said as they walked, Su's father walked very slowly, but he was panting quickly: "Silly boy, your Teacher Sun praised you for your progress!"
It’s very big, and I usually study very seriously, and I can... also humbly ask other students for advice..."

"Hello Uncle, Hello Auntie!" The loud voice that came out of nowhere scared the chalk in Su Yunjin's hand to the ground, and when she looked up, she saw two rows of big white teeth.

Su Yunjin's parents were also taken aback, standing where they didn't know why.

"I'm Cheng Zheng. I'm sitting behind Yunjin. We often learn from each other. She is very modest..." He deliberately emphasized the last two words, for fear of missing the point.

Su Yunjin's head was full of black lines, her face was red.No one cared who he was, and no one thought about greeting him. What kind of weird etiquette is this?

Su's mother is also an honest person, and without knowing the situation, she quickly smiled and said: "Oh, thank you so much..." She wanted to say a few words of politeness, but suddenly noticed her husband shaking.

Cheng Zheng also said in surprise, "Uncle, are you not feeling well?"

"It's...it's okay..." Father Su's body softened as soon as he finished speaking, and Mother Su's hands couldn't bear the weight of her husband's falling body for a while, and Father Su fell in front of Cheng Zheng in an instant.

The following plot was like a movie full of chaos, screaming, crying, calling for help... The people around her quickly ran around, Su Yunjin only had time to see Cheng Zheng's terrified face, and then she kept on tight before the ambulance arrived. Holding Dad's hand, the remaining white chalk dust was wet by the cold sweat of Dad's palm and her tears.

Later, Su Yunjin understood why her father insisted on coming here despite being sick, because he knew that this would be the last time he would attend his daughter's parent meeting.

Father Su suffers from liver cancer, which is at an advanced stage.Mom knew it, and everyone in the family knew it, but it was hidden from Su Yunjin, because she was afraid that she would delay the college entrance examination due to sadness and worry.No one thought that he didn't last long enough to leave the school, and he didn't know the personnel on the spot. Not only could he not hide it from his daughter, but almost everyone in the school knew about it.

After the onset of the illness, Su's father had been staying in the hospital in the provincial capital. Su Yunjin took two days off to accompany him. The school also sent Lao Sun as a representative to send flowers, fruits and some condolence money.

For a patient with advanced liver cancer, the hospital's greatest effort is to alleviate his pain as much as possible. Su's father has been asking to give up treatment since he woke up, but as a family member, how can he watch him go through the last journey in pain? Those expensive injections and pills finally bought the patient a short sleep.

It was also at this point that Su Yunjin realized that not only did her family have no savings, it would not be an exaggeration to say that her family was heavily in debt.For my father's illness, my mother borrowed all the relatives and friends that could be borrowed.Lao Sun also learned about this situation. After Su Yunjin returned to school, the school youth league committee took the initiative to launch a fundraising campaign for her family.To this end, the class also specially organized a small ceremony.

Su Yunjin stood in front of the podium holding a big red donation box, and the students lined up in a long line to put money into the box one after another.Ten yuan, twenty yuan, one hundred... Even Mo Yuhua, whose life was also struggling, gave her 20 yuan in change.Cheng Zheng donated the most, he didn't say anything when he came up, and Su Yunjin didn't look up, just watched the money in his hand being clumsily stuffed into the box, and then fell down one after another, like the wings of a dead butterfly.

Su Yunjin also bowed deeply to him.

In the end, Meng Xue, the group secretary in the class, handed the condolence letter to Su Yunjin herself. She comforted Su Yunjin in a low voice, so kind and sensible, and specifically mentioned that her good friend Cheng Zheng had donated all the pocket money.

"In fact, he is a very kind person, and he can't see other people's pity the most. You know that."

Su Yunjin nodded, of course she understood, because she has always been so pitiful in the eyes of others.After Meng Xue finished speaking decently, she smiled and stood beside Su Yunjin. The flashing lights flashed in front of her eyes, and the white flowers made people want to cry.

Members of the news agency specially invited by the Youth League Branch recorded this warm moment with a camera, and the photos hung on the school's bulletin board for two months.In the photo, Su Yunjin's eyes are drooping, and no one knows what is hidden in those eyes covered by long eyelashes.

(End of this chapter)