warm and deep

Chapter 59
On the second day after Guo Zisu left Qingshi Village, Minrou went to school with the money Mr. Guo gave him in his hand.

Some children saw him coming without even carrying his schoolbag, and teased him mischievously: "Minced meat, didn't you go to the town? Why are you still here? Are you not accepted there?"

Min Rou didn't say a word, and without looking at them, he walked silently to the school's toll office.

Li Yimin was sitting at the toll booth when he saw the minced meat coming, and said, "Minced meat, Mr. Guo agreed with your father? Did you bring the money?"

Min Rou spread out his hands, showed the one hundred yuan bill, and said in a low voice, "Teacher Guo said this is money for my lunch."

Li Yimin looked at the one hundred yuan and said, "You haven't paid your tuition yet. The school's policy is to pay the tuition first and then pay for lunch."

Minrou lowered his head and thought for a while, then raised his head and said in an almost inaudible voice: "Then pay the tuition first."

Li Yimin looked at him and said with some hesitation: "Your tuition fee is 160 yuan, and there is still 60 yuan short, what should I do?"

Minrou reached out and untied his old cotton coat.The onlookers burst out laughing when they saw his anxious look.One of the children shouted loudly: "I don't want his torn cotton coat. I know there is no pocket in this cotton coat!"

The other kids laughed even harder.

Minced Meat blushed, and gave Li Yimin a pitiful look. Li Yimin glared at the other children, and the child held back his laughter, but with a mocking smile on his face, he watched Minced Meat.Minrou unbuttoned all his coats, and took out the piece of paper with Guo Zisu's phone number written on it from the pocket of his close-fitting clothes. The 50 yuan change she gave was wrapped in the paper.

Minrou cautiously stretched out his hand, and Li Yimin took the 50 yuan ticket and said, "It's still ten yuan short."

Minrou lowered his head, looked at his toes, and said nothing.

A child reached out and snatched the note in his hand, and said while running, "Is this an IOU written by your father? Let me see."

Min Rou yelled: "Give it back to me, give me back the phone number." He rushed to grab it, but the child glanced at the note and threw it to another child who called him.They threw it back and forth, breaking the note and scattering it all at once.

Minrou stood in the middle of the playground and cried loudly.

At this time, Li Yimin had already collected the money from the toll office, reprimanded the children loudly, and walked over.

Xia Lian also ran out of the new house when she heard the crying. After hearing what Li Yimin said, she took Minrou's hand and said, "Minmin Rou, come, go to the classroom with Teacher Xia." She turned to Li Yimin again. Said: "The last time Guo Zisu came to a wedding and got a big red envelope, she asked me to take care of the minced meat. The ten yuan owed by the minced meat should be paid in advance as a way of doing her a favor. You give him the textbook first."

Li Yimin put together a set of books, found a plastic bag for him to put them in, and said: "Minced meat, study hard, go back and tell Dad, we will advance the ten yuan for you, and he doesn't have to pay it." .”

Minrou took the book and walked to the door of the classroom. A child with a winter melon face immediately ran out of the seat and shouted: "Minrou, you signed up? I knew you would come, and I have been occupying the side for you all the time." seat, come and take a seat.”

Min Rou happily smiled, and said in a low voice, "God, I thought you were sitting with someone else."

Goudan tilted his head and said, "They want to sit with me, so I don't want to sit with them."

Although his father didn't come back for several days, minced meat went to school on time every day, cooked by himself, cleaned up and went to bed, and he was peaceful.

It's just that at noon every day, seeing other children either bring meals in porcelain bowls or take meals in the school cafeteria, he is the only one who is hungry and sits in the classroom.

Sometimes when Goudan came home for lunch, he would give him half of the baked potato he brought. He took the baked potato and really wanted to eat it with the skin.

He wanted to make a phone call and tell Mr. Guo that he had already gone to school, and the meal money had paid off the tuition fee.But he didn't feel embarrassed to say that, as if he was asking her for money.Moreover, the note with the phone number is long gone.

He had no choice but to take chances and comfort himself. Teacher Guo said that she would come to see me again. When she came, she would know that I didn't eat Chinese food.So he counted with his fingers every day, two yuan for lunch, and one hundred yuan for fifty meals.A Friday meal, a total of ten weeks.Teacher Guo will definitely think that she will have no money for lunch in ten weeks, and she will definitely come, as long as she survives ten weeks.

Every day at noon, when the other children were busy eating, minced meat sat on the seat, counting on his fingers expectantly, how many days until Teacher Guo would come.

However, he hadn't waited for Mr. Guo to come.His father came with a floral dress.

Shi Shi returned to Qingshi Village in the morning with a long floral dress.He was dressed new, his hair was neatly cut, and he was clean-shaven.The floral long skirt also wore a bright red new cotton dress, and underneath was a woolen skirt embroidered with large golden flowers.

When they came, minced meat happened to be carrying that plastic schoolbag to school.Seeing his father coming back, the child immediately ran to meet him, and called out "Dad" happily.

Shi Shi glanced at Hua Changqun, and said to Min Rou, "Call me Mom."

Min Rou glanced at Hua Changqun, and saw that she was looking at him with distaste from sideways eyes that were more or less white than black, so she didn't speak, and looked down at her toes.

Hua Changqun clapped her hands and said with a strange smile: "Yo, I don't dare to have such a son. Look at his brows and eyes, he is as ugly and vicious as his tigress."

"Don't talk about my mother." Min Rou said loudly.

"Yo!" Hua Changqun dragged his voice, and said while pulling the hand of the stone: "Look, you still want him to come to our house, look at his cannibalism, I can't afford to provoke you. "

Shi Shi kicked the minced meat and cursed: "It's useless, you're disobedient, you can't blame me for starving to death."

The minced meat was in tears, and did not dare to cry out.

Shi Shi glanced at the plastic bag in his hand, and asked strangely: "Why do you have a new book? Who sent it to you? Did they try to send you the book and force me to pay? There is no way."

Seeing that Minrou didn't make a sound, he became furious, grabbed Minrou's ear with one hand and rushed straight to the school.

As soon as he entered the school gate, he yelled loudly: "Who distributed the book to the minced meat? Come out to me."

The principal and Li Yimin and others ran out quickly.

The principal saw him grabbing the minced meat vigorously. The poor child was dragged forward by him in this way, his face was distorted and distorted, it turned the color of pig liver, and bloodshot eyes were oozing from his ears.He hurriedly shouted: "Shitou, if you have something to say, let go quickly, what if the child's ear is broken?"

"Cut it off and get rid of this curse." Shi Shi said, grabbing the plastic bag in Minced Meat's hand with one hand, shaking it vigorously, and said fiercely: "Who sent this to him? I told you very clearly, I'm going to send him to school in town."

The principal looked at him and said lightly: "It's been two weeks since school started, and you didn't send him there, so I'm ashamed to say it here."

"I'm busy." Shitou said, "I came back today to apply for a certificate, and I took him away by the way. Who sent this book to him? I won't pay a penny."

"Didn't you give him 150 yuan to pay the tuition?" Li Yimin said coldly: "You still owe us ten yuan. We wanted to pay it in advance. If you make such a fuss, the ten yuan will not be less , I see if you dare to give it?"

Stone's eyes widened: "I gave him 150 yuan? When did I give it?" He rushed over and grabbed the minced meat that was sitting on the ground crying, slapped it several times, and cursed: "You Stealing my money? How dare you steal my money!"

Minced Meat burst into tears and said, "That's the money that Mr. Guo gave me for lunch. I didn't steal your money."

Xia Lian said: "Don't beat the child, I know that Guo Zisu gave him the money, she was going to put the money in my hands, but I didn't take it, so she gave the money to the child."

When Hua Changqun heard this, she said angrily, "Hey, she's here to do good deeds? Why is she so stingy, she can't bear to give even ten yuan less. She is a good person and will do her best to the end."

Xia Lian said dissatisfiedly: "What are you talking about? Your child expects others to send him to study."

Hua Changqun said resentfully: "Didn't you stand up for that dead woman last time? You have the ability to continue to stand up for her. Get her husband back for her, and want me to send her son to study. Pooh! nothing."

Xia Lian rushed up and grabbed her by the collar: "Smelly woman, don't think I won't dare to hit you now. Get the hell out of here!" After speaking, she pushed her a few feet away.

The flowery long skirt splashed and screamed: "Stone, you cut off your head, my mother is following you to be angry, don't go back to my mother's house today."

Shi Shi glanced at her impatiently, and said to the principal: "I can't afford such a favor as Mr. Guo." He stuffed the plastic schoolbag into the principal's hand and said, "I'll return the book to you, and you give me the money." Give it back to me, and I will go to Teacher Guo to refund the money later.”

The headmaster took the plastic schoolbag and weighed it, and said, "Shitou, we get along very well, and you also attach great importance to children's studies. Why is it like this now?"

Shitou said: "Principal, how could I know what happened today? Now I have to rely on others to give me a foothold. How can I control so much?"

The principal secretly said, Chunhua is gone, but you hold the money. It is not easy for you to gain a foothold in this Qingshi village, and you don't want to pay.

Seeing that the principal was silent, Shitou urged again: "Principal, return the money to me quickly, I have to go to the village to issue a certificate to get a marriage certificate."

The principal persuaded again: "Shitou, Teacher Guo also paid the tuition money for the child for Chunhua's sake, so don't make trouble about it. You also know that you can't send your child to school in the town, so why bother in front of us?" It sounds nice."

Xia Lian also persuaded: "That's right, Mr. Guo didn't bring too much money with him that day, otherwise we wouldn't have missed the ten yuan. And we didn't intend to ask you for the ten yuan. You and Sister Chunhua After all, you are a husband and wife, she is gone, and the child is your flesh and blood after all."

Shitou lowered his head deeply and sighed for a while.Seeing that Shitou was about to be talked about, Hua Changqun twisted the scarred face and said, "Shitou, I will leave my talk here today. That dead woman beat me and ruined my face. Today you want to read her Don’t come home with me.” After speaking, he left in a huff.

Shi Shi hesitated for a moment, and said to the principal: "Principal, you don't want to see my family go home, do you? Please don't embarrass me. Return the money to me quickly, and I will come to take the child away in a few days. He About going to school, I will discuss it with her slowly."

The principal said helplessly: "Mr. Li, you can return the money to him." After speaking, he walked towards his office.

(End of this chapter)