"Where is she better than me? 」
"She is not as good as you in every way. 」
"That you are still with that woman? 」
"At least in front of her, I am a man, a man who is worshipped and needed. 」
The boy who came home from school, with a fifth-grade Chinese textbook in one hand, reached out to ring the doorbell next to the gate in the other, but after hearing the sound from inside, he silently put down his hand ready to ring the doorbell and covered his ears with his hands, trying to make himself unable to hear the quarrel. However, the sharp sound kept passing through his eardrum, so that he could clearly hear what was happening in the room.
He doesn't know what "affair" means. He only knows that his father spends less and less time at home, and his mother cries more and more times to avoid him. Originally a house full of laughter, only alienation and indifference remained.
Suddenly, the door was suddenly pushed open, and the people who came out of the house just saw the boy standing outside the door. The boy stepped back unconsciously, with fear in his eyes.
"Even you look down on me, don't you? 」
The man made a self-deprecating remark, but forgot that a ten-year-old child would have any ideas that could be respected or despised. Finally, he took a look at the child and left the place where he had no value in his heart and didn't need to stay.
In the open door, the boy watched his strong mother sitting on the sofa in the living room crying. He didn't know how to comfort her, so he closed the door gently and turned and walked back to his most familiar school.
In the corridor next to the classroom, there are desks and chairs waiting to be replaced. On the steps at the end of the corridor, the boy secretly cried with his knees in his arms.
"Ah! What's the matter with you? Hurt? Are you okay? 」
Suddenly, a strange voice came from the front. A Taiwan Province and Japanese boy in a black coat walked up the steps and asked curiously about the boy who stayed in school after school.
「……」
After the boy looked up at each other, he buried his face in his arm again, leaving tears on the sleeve of his light blue shirt.
"Here you are. The little boy took out a handkerchief from his trouser pocket and sat beside him, tugging at a corner of his clothes and handing it to the other side: "Stop crying, tears and snot are all glued together. It's so ugly. 」
"It's none of your business. 」
The weeping man did not take a handkerchief, but stubbornly wiped his tears with his sleeves. "Why are you crying? 」
"My dad, he doesn't want me to talk to my mom. 」
At the age of ten, although he still doesn't understand many things, he knows the meaning of the word "divorce".
As a classmate of a single-parent family, divorce means that mom and dad should be separated, and children can only choose whether to stay with their dad or not. Still with mom?
But we can't live as happily as before.
"But you still have a mother, unlike me ..." The little boy looked down at the handkerchief he had been holding in his hand and said seriously, "My mother went to the Japanese embassy! 」
"What does it mean to be an angel? 」
The little boy patted his little friend on the shoulder and said a comforting sentence like an adult: "It means that you can still see your parents, but no matter how sad I am, my mother will not come back." 」
Looking at the sad expression, the boy finally took the white handkerchief from the other hand and wiped away the nose and tears on his face.
"Or so good, I give my father to you, anyway, I also nothing important good with him. 」
"No one will give his father to others casually. 」
The little boy listened to the opponent's rebuttal and nodded in agreement: "That's right, or I'll give myself to you. If you have anything unhappy, come to me and I will lean on you! " 」
"Poof bursts. 」
The boy who was crying with a runny nose and tears was made to laugh. The little boy looked at his little friend, who finally smiled and said in a childlike way, "Just laugh. My dad said that laughing can make you stronger than crying, because crying will only make you cry alone. If you laugh, the whole world will laugh with you. 」
"... laugh together? 」
The boy listened to what he didn't quite understand and was surprised at the person sitting next to him.
"Book escape, where are you? 」
Two children were just talking when suddenly there was a voice in the distance looking for someone.
"I'm here! 」
The little boy stood up, patted the sand on his ass, walked down the steps and came to the sound.
Run towards. Suddenly, he stopped, turned to look at the boy who was still sitting in the same place, gave a big smile and said, "Come to me if you want to cry. I lean on you." Oh, yes, my name is Zhou Shuyi. I am in Class 1, Grade 5, Sanqiaoguo Primary School. What about you? 」
The little boy standing under the backlight with his back to the sunset looks like an angel in a picture book, warm and kind.
The boy looked at the man standing in the sun with red eyes and replied, "My name is Gao Shide. 」
Zhou Shuyi nodded and smiled at his new friend. "Nice to meet you, Gao Shide. I will go home first! " 」
Say that finish, waved to Gao Shide, then turned to leave.
The man sitting on the steps looked at the fading figure in a daze. ...
Twelve years later
In the dressing room, Zhou Shuyi stood in front of the mirror to sort out his swimming trunks and caps, took down the pendant hanging on his chest from the necklace and kissing chain, put it in the locker, closed the locker and looked at himself confidently in the mirror.
My father often tells me that "failure is a matter of course, and success is human". It was with this attitude that he chased his mother from Japan to Taiwan Province Province and finally married her.
I'm sorry, Fang, if I want to take off the bill before you, as long as I win the first prize in the freshman P K competition of Swimming Club today, I will confess to the girl who has secretly loved me for many years.
"Today is my big day! If I win the first prize today, I will-"
The unfinished words were replaced by confident smiles.
He is sure to win the game.
Jiang Yuxin, wait to repent!
Before graduation, we became the envy of friends in love.
There is a conspicuous cloth at the entrance of the school swimming pool. On the white cloth with blue background, the words "new students join the club to inherit the P K. competition" are written.
"Senior! Senior! Senior! 」
"Zhou Shuyi! Zhou Shuyi! Zhou Shuyi! 」
As soon as the person wearing a blue towel stepped into the competition field, there were screams and cheers immediately. He naturally stood on the platform in the middle, just like a superstar who always stood in the C position. He was used to the envy and worship around him.
Look around the viewing area at the end of the pool until you see a familiar and beautiful face? Kong, indifferent face finally raised the radian of joy, looking at childhood friends who grew up together, looking at the girl who has secretly loved for many years, smiling.
Next to the swimming pool, Liu Bingwei, who is in charge of the competition, is a fourth-year law student. Seeing that my friend's name is school grass is so popular, I can't help but hook up my mouth and pick up the receiver and say.
"Swimming team old bird P K freshman orientation competition is about to begin. Senior members of the swimming club, please show your strongest strength and sprint! 」
"come on Come on! 」
In the audience, Jiang Yuxin put his hand around the microphone and shouted at the podium. Zhou Shuyi, who loves Jiang Yuxin and intends to tell her after the game, naturally thinks that the girl is cheering for herself, so she winks at her from a distance and smiles handsomely.
Standing on the platform, Fang, who was childhood friends with Jiang Yuxin and Zhou Shuyi, nodded at the girl who was screaming with excitement and smiled shyly.
Liu Bingwei raised his gun and shouted into the microphone, "Ready! 」
The players made a unified preparatory action before entering the water and suddenly roared past the crowd.
"Gao Shide! I love you! 」
The sudden confession of a fan sister not only made the students sitting under the stage laugh, but even Zhou Shuyi, who was standing on the podium, turned his head in surprise and stared at the players who were separated from him by three waterways.
"Gao Shide! Why are you here ... Oh! 」
Seeing someone standing on the competition platform, Zhou Shuyi straightened up at once, but because he pushed too hard, his center of gravity was unstable, his foot slipped and he fell into the swimming pool dedicated for the competition before he finished speaking.