tenth year of teaching

Chapter 78
Li Na took the report card back home. As expected, her mother sighed at the report card and started complaining endlessly.

"Li Na, you have the same moral character as your bastard father, except for eating."

"Li Na, didn't you say you work hard every day? Why did you get such a low score in the exam? Didn't you say the teacher got the wrong score last time? Can the teacher get the wrong score again and again?"

"You damn girl, I just heard from your aunt next door that Li Hai High School was paid to go to. He is the child of her sister-in-law's brother. How come you can't even pass the exam for him? What's your score? All you have to eat is food?”

"I shouldn't have sent you to high school. What kind of high school should you go to? Why not come back and help me work? You can make money by attending a technical secondary school in two or three years. What do you think you are doing now?"

Li Na lay on the square table in the back room with her head buried in silence. She flicked the ballpoint pen in her hand little by little. What was she thinking?
"You damn girl, what are you pretending to do? I haven't seen you do anything like this. Hurry up, wash all the clothes in the basin, wrap all the peanuts hidden in the cellar, and peel the radishes. There is no work at all. You don't know how to do it, and you have to wait for me to tell you, and you are in a daze every day. You can't study well, and you don't know how to do housework. I'll see how you get married in the future, you girl. It's a waste." Mother Li slapped her hands. He put down his apron, put down his rolled-up sleeves, and hurried out the door, "I'll have the meal ready before I come back at noon."

Mom slammed the door and went out, and the house suddenly became quiet.Li Na raised her head and looked at the table blankly.After a while, she looked at the study schedule posted on the wall in front of the square table. It was densely filled with study tasks. She rubbed her eyes hard. Why were the words getting blurry?

She slowly turned around and looked around. This was a typical rural residence.The five rooms in the main house were renovated when my father was here, and life was a little easier at that time.It has become increasingly sad in the past two years. There is a [-]-inch old-fashioned TV in the house, an old-fashioned fire bed, a simple square table that she usually uses for studying, and several cabinets, which are as simple as they come.

She got up and went to the ground floor of the main room. There was a large basin of clothes that had been soaking for who knows how many days.There was also the school uniform she brought back from school yesterday. All the clothes were piled together. The white part of the uniform was dyed blue at some point and it would not come off no matter how hard it was washed.For this reason, she specifically asked Teacher Chu, who said it would be good to find some 84 bubbles, but what about 84?She stood up again in a daze, her hands full of foam and began to rummage through the boxes and cabinets to find them.

Furiously, she rummaged through all the cabinets in the inner and outer rooms. She seemed to be deflated and sat down on the ground, hugging her knees and started crying.Jingba in the yard started to crow when he heard the sound, and several chickens in the corner of the yard started running.

At noon, Li's mother returned home carrying a piece of pork ribs and Li Na's favorite garlic. She complained, but she still felt sorry for her children. She thought that the Chinese New Year was coming soon, so how could the family improve.After the man died, only the two of them were left. She didn't love the child, who would. Although she hated her for not living up to expectations, she was her biological daughter after all.

Pushing open the door, he put the things in his hand into the side room, seeing that the kitchen was still cold, he couldn't help feeling angry again.She walked quickly into the main house, and there was a big basin of clothes beside the stove, which was half washed.

"Li Na? Didn't I ask you to wash the clothes? If you don't wash them, what will you wear tomorrow? You damn girl." She searched around the house, cursing and thinking about teaching this disobedient girl a lesson.

I took cold medicine the day before in early summer and slept until almost two o'clock in the afternoon the next day. Dr. Zheng felt sorry for his daughter and secretly cooked lunch and stuffed it in a pot before leaving for work. He left a note telling her to warm it up before taking it at noon, and the medicine was gone. Once arranged, place it on the coffee table.She got up and sat comfortably on the sofa, enjoying the lazy feeling of the noon sun shining warmly on her body.He stretched out happily, picked up his mobile phone, turned on the TV, listened to the lively variety show, and started to heat up the meal.

The hot meal had just been put on the table and when I was about to eat, Ding Ling's cell phone rang loudly.

"Hello, hello?"

"Teacher Chu?"

"it's me."

"Teacher Chu, please help me. Do you know where Li Na went?"

"Li Na?"

"I came back after ten o'clock, but this girl disappeared, and she didn't come back for lunch at noon." Mother Li was a little anxious.

"Don't worry, she didn't call me. I'll help you ask the classmates if they have any news about her."

"Okay, thank you teacher. I just said a few words to her, and she left a note saying that she wants to go out to work to earn money by herself, but she can't learn well and wants to drop out of school."

Chu Xia was startled, "You should search quickly and ask all your relatives and friends."

"Yeah, okay, Teacher Chu, if you have any news, please tell me."

After hanging up the phone, Chu Xia lost her appetite looking at the dishes on the table.After thinking about it, I quickly put on my clothes, went out and got on the bus and went straight to school.

Half an hour later, she sat at her desk, flipped through the class teacher's workbook, and dialed the numbers one by one according to the student contact list above.

Li Na usually doesn't get close to anyone. After asking fifteen or six times, everyone said they had no contact and had no idea.What are you thinking about in early summer?The phone rang again.

"Brother Xia, one of my classmates went to the city and saw someone on 868 who said he looked like Li Na." Li Hai called.

"Hurry up and ask your classmates to go over and ask for confirmation."

After hanging up the phone, she thought about it, 868 went directly to Dongzhimen, where did she want to go?I'm almost [-] years old, and I can't find any land to work anywhere.

"Brother Xia, it's her who won't say anything when asked." Li Hai called again.

"Tell your classmate to keep an eye on where she is going when she gets off the bus as much as possible?" Chu Xia finished speaking hurriedly and called Li's mother to explain the situation.Mother Li was anxious: "Oh, how can this be good? It only takes me two hours to get to the city, and I won't be able to catch up with 868. What should I do?"

"Don't worry, I'll see if I can catch up with her, and you should rush to the city as soon as possible." Chu Xia hung up the phone, put on her down jacket and ran out, while calling Lao Chu and asking him to stop her at Dongzhimen. After a while, she told the boss to wait at the 868 site while talking about the child's characteristics.After hanging up the phone, he called Li Hai again, "Ask your classmates to hold Li Na at the 868 station and don't let her go. I'll get there as soon as possible."

An hour later, numerous phone calls were received.Chu Xia finally saw Li Na on the platform, who was stopped by Lao Chu and a male classmate. She was sitting on the steps beside the platform, holding her head and saying nothing.

Seeing Chu Xia, the male classmates and their parents finally breathed a sigh of relief. Chu Xia expressed her gratitude and hurriedly sent them off.Lao Chu was waiting nearby. She walked over and put her arms around Li Na's shoulders and said, "You can't run away from home no matter how hard you think about it?" She helped Li Na up and said, "Come home with me."

Li Na struggled to break away from Chu Xia. "I don't, if I don't go back, my mother will scold me! Call me stupid, call me stupid, I am stupid, stupid, and useless. I just can't learn, I don't hinder her in front of her, I leave "Can't I just leave?" She stood there and howled loudly.

Chu Xia held her hand, fearing that she would run away again.

There are bustling crowds on the roadside. On this winter evening, everyone is in a hurry to rush back to their warm little home, but some people keep trying to escape.

(End of this chapter)