Rebirth: Don’t be a coward and be a mother’s baby

The relationship between the two is ignorant and young, and they dare not go beyond the distance.

Another semester passed, and during the winter vacation, Zuo Liang couldn't hold back the longing in his heart. He got up early on New Year's Eve and used the money he earned during the winter vacation to support the village cook's wedding banquet and bought three kilograms of melon seeds and two kilograms of original peanuts. , I packed it in a sack and held it in my arms. I stuffed two plastic bags in my pocket, one with shells and the other with melon seeds and peanut kernels.

It kept crackling in my hands and peeled all the way.

Zuo Liang arrived at Zhou Chunyan's village near noon, but he didn't know where she lived. The village was full of neighbors. He was afraid that someone would gossip, so he ran to the entrance of the village to find a place to stay and continue peeling peanuts.

After peeling all the melon seeds and peanuts, Zhou Chunyan was not seen. It was not a problem to wait any longer. Zuo Liang planned to look around and wandered around the village with an armful of melon seeds and peanut shells. When he walked to the river, he saw Zhou Chunyan holding his hand. Holding a large basin of clothes, she walked in his direction with her head lowered, and immediately went to help her carry the basin.

When the two met, Zhou Chunyan was shocked.

Like a frightened little rabbit, she looked around to make sure there was no acquaintance and then pulled Zuo Liang to the back mountain. She asked Zuo Liang why he came here. The latter smiled honestly and put the peeled melon seeds and peanuts in a clean plastic bag. Hand it to her and say to give her a New Year gift.

Zhou Chunyan took the heavy plastic bag, and the fragrance of nut oil wafted from the untied mouth of the bag, which made people salivate. She couldn't help but look at the hands of the washing basin at the left end of the beam.

The boy's hands are not beautiful, and are even a bit ugly. The palms are covered with thick calluses from work, and there are scars on the backs of the hands from being splashed with hot oil when cooking. However, his fingernails are always clean, but now they are. Mixed with crumbs of melon seed shells.

Zhou Chunyan stretched out her hand to see if his fingers were injured.

Just by reaching out, the sleeves of the thin coat she had worn for several years shrank upwards with her body movements, revealing the fair skin on her wrists, and the marks that had not been healed after being beaten with a cane by Zhou Baijin were completely exposed.

Zuo Liang quickly freed up a hand to grab her hand that was about to be withdrawn.

Under Zuo Liang's repeated questioning, she learned that Zhou Chunyan was beaten severely because her mother discovered the clam oil and the handwritten letter he gave her and told her father.

Zuo Liang felt guilty and blamed all the mistakes on himself. If he had not sent anything or written a letter, these things would not have happened.

Zhou Chunyan didn't blame him, she just looked at him with crooked eyes and a sweet smile on her face.

She said melon seeds are delicious and so are peanuts. She is very happy

The two talked for a while and ate a lot of melon seeds and peanuts. Zhou Chunyan urged Zuo Liang to go back. It was New Year's Eve and he couldn't stay out alone without going home.

Zuo Liang didn't want to go back at all. He said he would stay in the village to stay with Zhou Chunyan and go back tomorrow morning. Anyway, the Zuo family was not as close to him as the dogs in the village.

Zhou Chunyan tried to persuade her, but when she saw that he was resolute and had no intention of going back, she simply took a step back.

The two made an appointment to meet in the mountains after twelve o'clock in the evening. She secretly came out from home with food. He used the time between now and evening to find a tricycle going home, and waited for her to finish the "New Year's Eve dinner" with him. , he has to go home honestly.

Just after twelve o'clock in the evening, the first firecrackers sounded. Zuo Liang hid in the crowd and caught a glimpse of Zhou Chunyan. The two were attracted by the gorgeous fireworks. They did not go to the back mountain immediately, but stopped and watched for a few minutes.

It was very cold in the back mountain that night. While Zuo Liang was eating the leftovers brought by Zhou Chunyan, he watched Zhou Chunyan eat the melon seeds and peanuts he peeled with his own hands, with his lover by his side, feeling satisfied.

Later, I became homeless and had no fixed place to live. Every time during the Chinese New Year, I would look up at the sky and recall the happiest Chinese New Year in my life.

After Zuo Liang finished speaking, he couldn't hide the smile on his face and sighed: "Even if my life stops on that night, I am willing."

Xie Jianjia stopped and looked at Zuo Liang.

"Yao Cui saw you two on New Year's Eve, followed you all the way, and heard your conversation."

Hearing this, Zuo Liang looked surprised, he had no idea at all. Xie Jianjia continued: "She learned about your family background through the conversation between the two of you and found that the conditions of the Zuo family were not as good as those of the Zhou family. After you started school, she went to Yizhou Middle School without telling everyone and found out your home address. , ran to advise your stepmother and find a way to 'sell' you out."

"What? It was Yao Cui's idea for that woman to sell me to the old man?!" Zuo Liang didn't expect that Yao Cui was looking at the short and weak person and she was actually the one who came up with the idea.

"Yes." Xie Jianjia nodded.

She made the matter clear because she wanted to see Zuo Liang's reaction. It would be bad if he knew the truth in the future, developed hatred for Yao Cui, and then spread his hatred to Zhou Chunyan.

"What a hard life your mother has lived these past few years. Her father always beat and scolded her. Her mother is also very evil and likes to scheme against people. I remember that she also had an uneducated younger brother. Now she can actually transform from a jackal to a tiger and a leopard. It is really difficult to escape from the nest."

Zuo Liang's tone was full of distress.

"You don't blame her?"

"Blame her?" Zuo Liang was puzzled, "What are you blaming her for? I obviously blame myself for accidentally running out to watch the fireworks, causing her to be discovered by her mother and forced to marry early by the Zhou family."

After getting along with each other for these two days, Xie Jianjia finally understood that the middle-aged man in front of him was a person who loved to apologize and take blame. When he made mistakes in everything, his first reaction was to take the blame on himself. As long as others asked him to do something, he would do it. Willing to do whatever it takes to help.

At best, it's called a soft-hearted person, at worst, it's called a bad person.

"Uncle Zuo, do you never refuse people?" Xie Jianjia asked.

Zuo Liang hesitated a little embarrassedly, "It doesn't matter. We all know each other. Now people ask me for something. What if I ask someone else for something in the future? I can help a little, and there will always be someone who remembers my kindness. , Everyone has difficulties, right?"

Xie Jianjia smiled and sighed: "If everyone in the world were like you, the world would be peaceful long ago. There would be no conflicts and disputes, and they would fight each other."

Ye Yong on the side couldn't help but look at Zuo Liang with admiration. He had never seen such a "selfless" person before.

Xie Jianjia's curiosity aroused again, "Uncle Zuo, since you can't refuse others, when you were in high school, did any other girls like you? How did you refuse them?"

With a childish face showing a gossipy expression, Zuo Liang looked at the little girl in front of him and said with a smile: "Why refuse?"

Xie Jianjia: "Huh?"

Zuo Liang: "Just pretend you don't know, don't come close, don't speak, don't pay attention, don't respond."

What a four-no principle.

Xie Jianjia: "Isn't there any girl who drags you along or asks you to go to some grove to talk?"

"I'd better pretend not to know. I'm not afraid of your jokes if I tell you. I have basically never had physical contact with women other than your mother. I don't know why if I meet other women, I feel sick. Maybe it was when I was a child. I was bullied so much by my stepmother that even the little daughter she gave birth to was disgusted, but I would never show it on my face."

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