like electricity

Chapter 21

The light in the living room was on, just as Jiang Shou entered the door, the woman on the sofa raised her head.

"You're back."

Jiang Suqing, who is busy with work, is rarely at home today.She didn't wear the usual heavy makeup, just plain face, wearing a set of beige polka-dot pajamas, her hair was loosely tied behind her head, but she looked good, much better than her usual sickly look.

Jiang Shou avoided the hand she reached out to hold his schoolbag, "Yeah."

"Wash your hands and eat."

Her hand stayed in the air for a while in embarrassment, and immediately found something else to do, and went into the kitchen to serve him a bowl of winter melon ribs soup.

"Drink soup before eating, it's good for your stomach."

As if to make up for the usual vacancy, she specially cooked a table of dishes.

"Thank you."

Jiang Suqing's craftsmanship is mediocre, but it is much better than the clear soup in the school cafeteria that cut corners and lacked water. Take this bowl of soup as an example, the ribs in the bowl are piled up, and a few pieces of winter melon are not visible. It is completely the opposite of the cafeteria. come over.

"eat more."

He took two bites, and suddenly felt that it was a bit strange for her to look at him like this, "Aren't you going to eat?"

"I've eaten. The bowl is put away. It's in the kitchen. If you don't believe me, you can go and see it."

The temperature of the soup was just right. After he finished drinking the soup, Jiang Suqing hurriedly took the bowl to fill him with rice, so quickly that he had no time to stop him.

Jiang Suqing filled him with a large bowl of rice, but he didn't say anything, just lowered his head and concentrated on grilling the rice.

During this period of time, he suddenly became very hungry, and his appetite was much larger than before. He used to eat at noon until he finished self-study in the evening without any problems. Now his stomach is empty before the third class, so he will buy some The bread is placed on the table, so as not to be able to concentrate in class.

"By the way, I ran into your Aunt Jiang when I was shopping for vegetables this morning. She told me that she saw a car taking you back a few days ago, and there was a tall boy with you."

Aunt Jiang is her friend, she lives in the building opposite, and occasionally Jiang Shou will go to her house for dinner.

"It's a classmate in school."

"You said you were going to have dinner with a classmate, is this classmate?"

"Yeah." He chose his words carefully, "I went to visit grandma's grave in the morning, and went back to the city in the afternoon, and watched a movie with him by the way."

"what is his name?"

His name is Zhuo Shuang.Jiang Shou originally wanted to say this, but she turned a corner and changed to another person's name, "Wei...Wei Zhixun."

Jiang Suqing had no doubts about him, "Oh, this classmate Wei...should be from a pretty good family, right?"

"Ah."

There is a private car to pick him up, and the family has a special nanny to cook. A random scarf is equivalent to a few months' salary of his mother. He is a person in two worlds.

"Don't owe others too much favor." Jiang Suqing is a person who cares about face, "Do what you can, don't compare yourself with others, you don't have this condition."

"Will not."

As if she felt that her speech was too blunt, Jiang Suqing put another chopstick of shredded fish-flavored pork into his bowl, "Eat it quickly, I remember you like this."

In fact, I liked it when I was a child, but I don't like it that much now, but Jiang Shou didn't say this, and silently accepted her kindness.

"By the way, your teacher Li said in the parent group that you will have a spring outing next week."

"mom."

"Ok?"

Jiang Suqing turned her face sideways, just such a small gesture added a bit of girlish demeanor to her, innocent and beautiful.

It occurred to him that she wasn't even 40 years old.

Would she be better off without those things?

He looked away, "I don't want to go."

He had to pay 80 yuan for the spring outing. After thinking about it, although he was a little sorry for Zhuo Shuang, he still didn't want to go.

Jiang Suqing usually works very hard, and every time he asks her for money, he feels very tormented.

"What if you don't go?" She reprimanded, "If everyone else goes, you don't go. Isn't that unsocial? I'll give you how much you want."

He insisted that he didn't want to trouble her, "I really don't want to go."

"That classmate of yours, what is Wei... is he going?"

"Should go."

"Won't he feel lonely if you don't go if he goes?"

For the lonely Zhuo Shuang, Jiang Shou suddenly thought of the boy who leaned his head on his shoulder that evening.

This was the closest thing to loneliness he had seen in Zhuo Shuang since he had known Zhuo Shuang for so long.

Uncharacteristically, Jiang Suqing didn't talk about him, but put it into action.

"Do you have enough money for meals? If not, I'll call you some more."

She took out her mobile phone and tapped it a few times in a strange way, Jiang Miao heard the mobile phone vibrate in her schoolbag.

"I gave you 500 yuan. In addition to paying for the spring outing, I went to the supermarket to buy some snacks by myself, and then I had something good for lunch. Yaoyao told me that you eat in the canteen every day, and that your canteen is like eating boiled water. Good point, I didn't work hard to make you pick and eat that kind of stuff in school..." She stopped, wondering, "What are you looking at me for?"

Jiang Choi said in a low voice, "I'm sorry, you're already very tired."

"I have raised my salary, and my monthly salary is 700 yuan more than before." She brushed her hair and said with some pride, "I just want you to understand something, it's not that I won't give you food I bought you yogurt and milk in the refrigerator, drink a bottle every morning and evening, and take some beef jerky and dried fruit to eat at school. I heard from my colleagues that boys at your age should eat more every day , otherwise it won’t grow taller.”

She babbled a lot, and Jiang Shou listened carefully.

After almost finishing her meal, she began to clear the table to make room for him to do his homework.

When he was doing his homework, she was still watching.

"Can you do it?" She stretched her neck to look at the questions in the exercise book, and then smiled awkwardly, "I'm sorry, I don't understand. If you don't know how to do it, I can't teach you."

He replied curtly, "Yes."

Probably because the salary increase gave her a lot of confidence, she thought for a while, "Can you keep up with your studies? Do you want to hire a tutor or enroll in a class for you?"

"I can keep up. By the way, Mom, this is for you."

He took out a long note from his schoolbag.

"What is this?" Jiang Suqing took it over and looked at it, "Examination results? When did you get it?"

"Monthly exam results."

Because it is not a formal exam, the rankings are not announced in the grade, and they only say that if they want to see it, they can go to the class teacher to get it.

He went to get it, and Teacher Li gave him a lot of words of encouragement. In a word, he told him not to deviate from the subject as much as possible, so that he could make great progress.

Of the six main subjects, his Chinese and English tests were a little flawed, and his combined total score ranked sixteenth in the grade.

She looked at it for a long time, and then saw him doing his homework in the restaurant, "This is not a problem, next time I will see if there is a table that is mounted on the wall, and I will buy you one."

There is a wooden board in his room, and when Xie Shun is at home, he usually puts the wooden board on the bed and sits on the small bench to do homework.

"Not in a hurry."

"Don't worry, I just want you to have a slightly better learning environment."

He looked at her for a long time, making sure that she was in a good mood today, and tentatively said, "Mom, can I ask you something?"

"You ask."

For the first time he didn't know how to speak.

After all, they are not ordinary mothers and sons, and the gap of more than ten years makes them not know how to get along with each other most of the time.

Jiang Suqing was afraid that he might be in trouble, "You can ask, but don't ask about that person, I don't know."

Mentioning that man, in her tone

A little more disgusted, Jiang Shou quickly shook his head, "No."

He has passed the age when he would be curious about his biological father. To him, that man and that name are just a shameful past, and there is no need to worry about it.

"You and Uncle Xie, I have...heard you arguing in the middle of the night a few times." He observed the look in her eyes, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hear it."

Jiang Suqing suppressed her smile.

She came back again, that gloomy tiredness returned to her face, and Jiang Shou suddenly felt that she had done something wrong.

He shouldn't have brought up such a disappointment in such a rare moment of tenderness.

"You heard me." Jiang Suqing patted his head, "Okay, it's not your fault. This is what you want to ask?"

He nodded, "He... What's wrong with you?"

He thought that Xie Shun was drunk that day, and then rushed up to beat him up, which should also have something to do with this incident.

"You thank Uncle, he recently... The business may not be very smooth, and he lost some money, so he has not been in a good mood recently."

While speaking, she subconsciously stroked the gold chain in her hand.

Jiang Chou remembered that this was a birthday present given to her by Xie Shun last year.

Not only this gold bracelet, but he also saw a ring in the bathroom. He didn't know if the diamond on it was real or fake. If it was real, Xie Shun must have spent his life.

"Mom, is Uncle Xie treating you well?"

He didn't care about Xie Shun's business, or how he was feeling recently, he only cared about this issue.

This question seemed to overwhelm Jiang Suqing, the light in her eyes dimmed, sometimes she showed a smile, and sometimes she looked very bitter.

"You thank Uncle, he...is a good man, I am very grateful to him." Finally she said.

It sounds like Xie Shun should be good to her.

This was enough, and his heart that had been hesitating all this time suddenly had a direction.

He hated her, but that didn't prevent him from loving her too, except for the man he had never met before, she was the closest person to him in the world.

He owed her so much, so much that it would be difficult to repay in this lifetime.

He still remembers crying for his mother when he was a child, saying that his mother didn't love him, and it was the first time his grandmother lost such a big temper.Grandma reprimanded him severely, saying how difficult it was for his mother. He didn't understand, but he didn't dare to say that again.

When he grew up, he gradually realized that his self-willedness was ridiculous: Jiang Suqing, a woman with little education, was wandering outside, so what's the point of taking him with her?Apart from not being able to be by his side all the time, Jiang Suqing really didn't feel sorry for him. Even if she had been eating tea and rice for a month and a half, she would send money back on a monthly basis.

Even if Xie Shun treats him badly, he can leave the house in a year and a half at most, and he and Jiang Suqing are the ones who want to live on forever.

Some things are suitable to be rotten in the heart and become a secret forever.

He is a boy, he can protect himself well, as long as Xie Shun is good to her, as long as Xie Shun is good to her, then it doesn't seem to matter what happens to him.