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Chapter 15 "mua!"

Dou Tianxiao thought that his skipping class would definitely usher in a stormy meal, but instead of being scolded, his mother even cooked a bowl of noodles for him, and his grandfather also stayed by his bedside to coax him. sleep with him.

When he woke up early the next morning, there was still a big bag of his favorite white rabbit toffee on the bedside table.

At that time, Dou Tianxiao didn't know that the family was about to be torn apart, and he was forced to face the first major turning point in his life.

At the end of the first half of the third grade, Dou Tianxiao went to the red flag podium once.

That precious land is the place where teachers "chant scriptures" and outstanding student cadres receive awards or speak during the morning meeting every Monday. He never dreamed that one day he would be able to stand on that platform to receive a huge bonus.

It was a sum of money donated by the school to the family of the little boy he met on the day he disappeared as a token of gratitude.

The little boy's family had been busy with litigation and disputes before, so they didn't have time to reward him in person. After the matter was over, they found Dou Tianxiao's school through the police records, and wrote a letter of commendation thanking him for his brave actions.

Of course, the content of the thanks was not fully explained, but he was only praised for his fearlessness in the face of danger, and calling for help for his son in time to save him from harm.

Dou Tianxiao didn't have a deep impression of the little boy, and it was dark at that time, so he had forgotten many details, and he always thought that he helped the little boy escape from the hands of traffickers, so when the head teacher asked about this When this happened, he just said that he saw a man covering the little boy's mouth and wanted to kidnap him.

With an open mind, the homeroom teacher automatically created a heroic drama in his brain, and praised Dou Tianxiao in the Monday morning meeting.

The flattered Dou Tianxiao looked at the eyes staring at him under the stage, almost peeing his pants again nervously, his little face was flushed, and he took the two envelopes awarded to him by the old principal with trembling hands—one of which was It's a small idea of ​​the school leaders.

At the end of that semester, he got the first certificate of honor in his life as a three-good student.

His classmates called him from "little murderer" to "Dou Daxia".

However, his winter vacation was not as happy as he had imagined.

On the night when he finished the exam, his mother sat on his bedside and solemnly announced: "Your father and I are going to divorce."

Dou Tianxiao didn't understand the definition of divorce, so my mother communicated with him in the most easy-to-understand way-do you want to be with your father or your mother?

This is why Li Qingning dared to take Dou Tianxiao to see Dou Guangmao, because he believed that Dou Tianxiao would choose to be with his mother after seeing his father.

Adults can't predict the profound and irreversible impact that "divorce" will have on the whole family and children, let alone Dou Tianxiao, a kid who peed his pants last year.

He didn't understand why his parents had to separate. Grandpa said that his father would be back soon, and their family would be like Jiang Ran and Ye Xi, with a father, a mother, and support.

Why can only choose one?

It's a pity that his doubts and lack of cooperation can't stop Ye Xiaoyue from running towards happiness.

At the beginning of July, Ye Xiaoyue went to the prison in person and asked Dou Guangmao to sign the divorce agreement again. Dou Guangmao didn't pray for anything this time, and he didn't have the ability to fight for custody, so he signed his name numbly.

When Ye Xiaoyue apologized to him, he turned around indifferently without speaking, like a walking dead, dragging his tired body and disappearing from her sight.

Dou Tianxiao didn't participate in these matters, and he didn't know about them, but the evening before he and Jiang Ran made an appointment to go to the town to watch the lantern festival, his mother suddenly announced that he was moving.

"When the new semester starts, you will be able to go to school in the urban area. You can meet a lot of new children, and you can go to KFC every weekend." Ye Xiaoyue sat on a small stool and persuaded her earnestly.

"I don't want it, I want to be in the countryside, and I have to go to the lantern festival tomorrow." Dou Tianxiao said.

"You can also watch the lantern festival in the city. Mom has seen it before. The colors are so beautiful. Mom can also ask Uncle Li to take you to Ocean Park. Haven't you always wanted to see what dolphins look like..."

In the end, Dou Tianxiao couldn't resist the temptation of eating, drinking and having fun, so he followed his mother to the moving company's big truck early the next morning.

His mother didn't tell him that if he went to school in the city, he would rarely see his grandfather and the others. Instead, he made a vow to take him back to the countryside every weekend, winter and summer vacation.

Dou Tianxiao thought that he could have both, and felt that the decision to move to the city did not affect his entertainment life. Anyway, he didn't like the group of classmates in his class, so it would be nice if he could avoid them.

It's just that he didn't know why, on the day he left, he saw grandpa hiding behind the stove and secretly wiping away tears.

"Grandpa, I'll be back soon! I'll be back every weekend!" Dou Tianxiao said while grabbing Grandpa's big hand.

"Good boy." Grandpa hugged Dou Tianxiao to his lap as he did when he was a child, and the two of them touched their foreheads lightly, "You must come back to see us often, and call home after school, so that Grandpa Listen to the voice. Can you recite both the noodle shop and the phone at home?"

"of course!"

It was the first time in Dou Tianxiao's life that he took a long-distance ride, leaning his elbows on the window, feeling that the world was extremely novel, staring intently at the passing scenery outside the window, and kept asking his mother questions.

"Why are the trees receding?"

"Why are people backing away?"

"What's the sound of boom boom?"

"Why does the car keep dangling?"

"Why didn't that car back up?"

At first, my mother answered patiently, but she was annoyed by the question, so she said, "Don't look out of the window, you will vomit if you look too much."

Dou Tianxiao didn't take it seriously, he was like a newborn sparrow, staring out of the window with great interest, full of curiosity about everything outside the town.

Sure enough, after half an hour, he began to feel weak, dizzy, and complained with a mournful face: "Mom, my stomach is bloated and uncomfortable..."

"Don't look at it, don't look at it, you have to look at it, you still drank so much milk in the morning..." Ye Xiaoyue was afraid that the driver would blame him, so she quickly found a vest bag containing snacks from the suitcase, "Take it, if you feel uncomfortable, spit it on the Inside, it will be here soon."

In the next two hours or so, Dou Tianxiao suffered unprecedented and inhuman torture. He almost vomited everything in his stomach and started spitting again.

The two eyes were like a rabbit, red, and the tears were forced out of the eye sockets. He was so uncomfortable that he had no energy to speak. He hung the two handles of the vest bag on his ears, and vomited until he couldn't vomit anything. Just kept retching.

He heard the sound of stomach spasms and convulsions.

He began to miss home, grandpa, Ye Xi, uncle and aunt, and Jiang Ran. He wanted to tell Jiang Ran that taking a car was a very painful thing, so don't try it lightly.

At noon, Dou Tianxiao saw Li Qingning. He stood by the side of the road and gave his mother a big hug when he got off the car.

Dou Tianxiao also saw their lips touching.

My mother looked down and saw Dou Tianxiao who had a dazed face and opened his mouth, and quickly explained: "This is a kind of etiquette. If you meet a good friend you haven't seen for a long time, you should kiss him to show that you like him very much. You are very happy." miss each other."

"Oh." Dou Tianxiao nodded in confidence.

Xi Town belongs to a small town in the corner of City B. There was no high-speed rail at that time, so the journey can be said to be a trek through mountains and rivers. Dou Tianxiao's bumpy stomach was growling with hunger.

After the driver moved everything to his new home, he got his wish to eat KFC.

To be honest, he has no impression of that so-called new home at all. He only knows that after going out, he turns right and walks to the end. There is a shopping mall the size of an adventure maze. There are McDonald's, Pizza Hut, red bean cakes, egg rolls, and all kinds of strange Weird candied haws...

It was simply heaven.

Dou Tianxiao wakes up every day and looks forward to going to the "Paradise" for a stroll, but his mother and Uncle Li are always busy, and at first they would take him to the clothing store to play, and then they simply locked him at home. take him.

Every morning before going out, his mother would buy him food reserves for the day: a bottle of fruit juice, a glass of milk, a pot of boiling water, a piece of cake, and a few big meat buns.

Dou Tianxiao is like a hamster locked in a cage, leading a boring life.

There is a set of mahjong tiles in the new home. Dou Tianxiao lays down on the ground every day to play and build a house, and he also arranges the accommodation beds for everyone when he travels, "Ye Xi has a small bed, uncle and aunt have a big bed, and grandpa has a bed." Small bed, I have a small bed, Jiang Ran... oh, it's not enough."

"Then brother, just squeeze with me, I'm thin anyway."

However, in an empty room, no one responded to him—he was so bored that he finished his summer homework during that time.

One night he called home and told his grandfather about it, and the grandfather scolded his daughter on the phone, "It's not safe for you to lock him up at home alone, and the neighbors around you don't know each other, something happened. Who knows?"

The next day, the phone at home was "broken".

Dou Tianxiao got up in the morning and tried it, after breakfast, at noon, and in the afternoon, but each time he returned disappointed.

He tried countless times but couldn't hear his family's voice. He was so wronged that he was about to cry, and he even lost his appetite for dinner.

My mother comforted me patiently and said that she would wait for someone to fix it when she was free, but the wait was only a week.

Early this morning, Dou Tianxiao finally couldn't bear it any longer. While his mother was still sound asleep, he took out the house key and a ten-yuan bill from her pocket, and sneaked out of the new home like a hamster out of its cage.

The roads in the city are much wider than those in the countryside. It is also a scene of heavy traffic early in the morning, and the sidewalks are demarcated with white lines.

Dou Tianxiao had only seen this kind of zebra crossing in books before, and he crossed two zebra crossings according to the route he was familiar with.

When the sun rose, the street lights on both sides of the road went out in unison, and the loud sound of "bang bang bang bang" extended from the street to the end of the street.

Dou Tianxiao enjoyed this spectacular scene for the first time, then continued to bow his head, wandering aimlessly on the street, and finally chose to dial his home phone at a newsstand by the roadside.

Originally, he didn't intend to cry, but when he heard his grandfather's weak and hoarse voice, he immediately became anxious.

Ye Xi grabbed the microphone and said that grandpa was sick. During the day, he was in the hospital with salt water. He just sent him home at night. The doctor said it was very serious and would turn into pneumonia.

Dou Tianxiao was stunned when he heard it.

If you want to blame this kid, you can blame Ye Xi for not reporting good news. The doctor clearly said that "the fever is a little serious now. If you don't hang up the water quickly, it may turn into pneumonia." result.

When Dou Tianxiao heard the word "pneumonia", he immediately thought of the "SARS" that broke out worldwide last year, and mistakenly thought it was the same disease.

He suddenly remembered that his aunt had said that anyone who contracted SARS would die, and he wailed bitterly while holding the receiver.

When the aunt at the newsstand saw that something was wrong, she immediately walked over to appease and inquire.

Due to the incident of the missing child, Dou Tianxiao was always on guard against strangers, and would not say anything when asked, but was taken to the police station by the uniformed police uncle to chat with him again.

Coincidentally, Dou Tianxiao actually saw Jiang Ran's father in the urban police station. If he had to describe it, his mood at that time was no less than that of a peasant who saw the Communist Party during the Anti-Japanese War.Produce.party.

Since Dou Tianxiao didn't know the address and number of his new home at all, and was arguing to go home to see his grandfather, Father Jiang told the team to "send" him back to the countryside.

So, in less than a year, Dou Tianxiao climbed into the police car in a graceful and unrestrained way again—so much so that his uncle even joked later, it seems that this child has an indissoluble bond with the police station. ...

It was amazing that Dou Tianxiao didn't vomit at all in the police car this time.

It may be because the feeling of returning home made him feel excited, or it may be because his uncle explained to him that "pneumonia" does not mean "SARS", which made him breathe a sigh of relief.

Of course, it is also very likely that it is simply because I did not eat breakfast.

In short, when he jumped from the passenger seat of a police car whizzing by with sirens all the way, my aunt was so startled that her eyeballs almost popped out.

He also saw a large steak in Jiang Ran's mouth falling back into the bowl, splashing countless drops of noodle soup.

"Why are you back?" Jiang Ran hurriedly wiped his mouth, then lowered his head and wiped his trouser legs.

Just as Dou Tianxiao was about to speak, his brain suddenly turned around. He remembered what his mother had said, so he held Jiang Ran's cheek with both hands, and kissed him heavily on his moist lips.

"mua!" There was a loud bang.