Xia You Arbor: Looking to Heaven

Chapter 64: Starting Junior High School (1)
The first dinner here was made by my father. It was a simple pot of noodles, put a few green vegetables, and served it to the table. Xia Tong was at a loss and wanted to help, but she didn't know how to do it.People in the city don't use a stove to cook, but it's strange to use a big iron box to make a fire.

Xia Tong took a few sneaky glances at the strange big iron box, and when her father wasn't paying attention, she reached up to touch the switch, turned it lightly and made a "click" sound, and the fire started, and she was startled. Jumping, turned back quickly, the fire was turned off again, she took a step back in a hurry, retracted her hands into her pockets, stared at the big iron box, but couldn't figure it out, there was no wood, why would it be Is there a fire?
"Tongtong, take out the bowls and chopsticks." Xia Wenqiang's voice interrupted her thinking.

"Oh." Xia Tong agreed quickly, turned around and looked into the cupboard, tiptoed and took four bowls and four pairs of chopsticks from the cupboard, and carefully brought them to the dining table.

After Xia Wenqiang arranged the bowls and chopsticks, he walked to the door of Lin Xin's room, knocked a few times, and called her and Minmin to come out for dinner, but no one paid any attention to him after calling for a long time.

Xia Wenqiang frowned impatiently, and muttered, "Forget it if you don't eat."

He turned around and went back to the dining table to sit down, filled a bowl of noodles, put it in front of Xia Tong and said, "Come, eat."

Xia Tong looked at the noodles in the bowl, her stomach became more and more hungry, but she still opened her eyes and asked, "Don't wait for auntie and brother to eat together?"

"Don't wait, let's eat first." Xia Wenqiang filled a bowl himself, and began to eat it wheezingly.

Xia Tong swallowed her saliva, carefully picked up the chopsticks, picked up the noodles, and ate them in small bites. The taste was not good, but it was not bad. The door was jerked open, and Lin Xin came out aggressively from inside, staring at Xia Tong with a murderous coldness in his eyes.Xia Tong pursed her mouth in fright, lowered her eyes and did not dare to look at her, and did not dare to swallow the noodles in her mouth, so she just held it.

"Lin Xin, bring Minmin out for dinner." Xia Wenqiang looked at Lin Xin and said flatteringly.

Lin Xin glared at Xia Wenqiang with the same eyes, turned and walked into the kitchen. After working in the kitchen for a while, a scent spread into the living room. Xia Tong chewed the noodles carefully, and smelled the smell of braised pork. When I was a child, my mother burned it once, and she still remembers the fragrant and greasy taste.

After a while, Lin Xin came over with two dishes and put them on the table. Xia Tong secretly glanced at them. There was a large plate of scrambled eggs and a large plate of braised pork.

Lin Xin called out to Minmin, and Minmin bounced to the living room, sat at the dining table, she filled him a bowl full of rice, and Minmin started to eat big mouthfuls.Xia Tong looked at the braised pork and swallowed a mouthful of noodles with some difficulty.

Xia Wenqiang stretched out his chopsticks, trying to grab a piece of meat from the plate, but Lin Xin pushed it away with the chopsticks. She said coldly, "What right do you have to eat meat?"

Xia Wenqiang ignored her, and forcefully stretched out his chopsticks to pick out a piece of meat, but was still beaten down by Lin Xin with the chopsticks.

"I don't want to quarrel with you." Xia Wenqiang said, frowning.

"I want to quarrel with you." Lin Xin looked resentful.

The atmosphere at the dinner table was tense, both Minmin and Xia Tong lowered their heads, not daring to make a sound.

In the end, Xia Wenqiang backed down, took back his chopsticks, took two mouthfuls of noodles vigorously, threw the bowl on the table, stood up angrily and walked out of the house.

As soon as Xia Wenqiang left, Xia Tong's hand holding the rice bowl began to tremble slightly. Lin Xin kept staring at her bitterly, without saying a word, like a beast staring at its prey. He jumped on her and tore her to shreds.

"Mom, don't you eat?" Xia Min gave her mother a strange look. Why did she keep staring at that sister?

"Mom is not hungry." Lin Xin softened his expression when facing Xia Min.

"Oh." Minmin took a mouthful of rice half-understood, then raised her head and asked, "Mom, will she live in our house from now on?"

Lin Xin gave a gloomy "hmm".

Minmin looked at Xia Tong and asked, "Then can she play with me in the future?"

"No."

"why?"

"Because she's dirty." Lin Xin said coldly, "If you play with her, your whole body will rot."

Minmin was frightened, and cried loudly with her mouth pursed: "I don't want to eat with her, don't live with her, I don't want my whole body to rot."

Seeing Minmin crying, Lin Xin quickly hugged him and comforted him. Xia Tong bit her lip and looked at them helplessly.

Lin Xin turned his head, stared at her viciously and shouted, "Get out of here! Dirty thing!"

Xia Tong's hand trembled, and the bowl she had been holding in her hand fell off. She hurriedly stood up, turned around and ran out of the room, she was so scared and wanted to escape, that house made it difficult for her to even breathe.

Xia Tong frowned, and ran to the gate of the courtyard in one breath. The path leading to the road outside the courtyard was very long and dark, and he couldn't see anything. Looking at the darkness, Xia Tong didn't dare to run out, hesitated, and then Turn around and walk back into the yard.

In the yard, the lights of each house were turned on, and there was a sense of peace and tranquility.

Xia Tong found a dark but not very dark corner, squatted down gently, and buried her head in her knees.

After a long, long time, she heard her muttering full of grievances: "I'm not dirty... I'm not dirty..."

But her voice can only be heard by herself.

The night gradually thickened.

The night in early spring was still a bit cold. Xia Tong hugged her legs and squatted in the corner for a long time. When she was about to fall asleep in a daze, the music that she had heard in the afternoon came to her ears again. Whispering gently in her ear.

(End of this chapter)