Section 2 Absurdity of Mind and Living in the Ordinary
That night, despite being nervous, the tired Chen Yi still fell asleep. Until dawn the next day, she was woken up by her mother.
He still expected that last night's experience was just a strange dream.
"Your father beat me, and you don't help me. You are happy to let him bully me like this? I know you wish I could die early and he continued to bring back that stinky bitch with the woman named Fang, right? That woman treats you well and doesn't scold you and beat you..."
Chen’s mother’s complaint shattered Chen Yi’s fantasy that he knew was impossible. Her parents did quarrel and fight last night. It was always when her mother complained about such words to him.
Five years ago, Chen's father was assigned to the current house, and it was then that Chen's mother brought her daughter to settle down in this city. The woman mentioned by Chen's mother does exist and she has always lived with Chen's father in the past. The young Chen Yi didn't understand these at first, and she always wondered why that woman always took a bath and slept with her father.
Before Chen's mother came, Chen Yi told him not to mention this matter, but because of the omission of several photos of the group photos, Chen's mother finally found out. Chen's mother secretly asked Chen's father to make good friends, lying that he had detailed information, so she learned more.
But Chen's father never admitted it, and the situation of resolutely denying the facts to the end led to frequent quarrels. Chen's mother therefore doubted him more, and the trust between both parties gradually disappeared.
Chen Yi didn't like that woman. She just moved here five years ago. The woman lived in this house half a year before Chen's mother came. At that time, Chen Yi was in the first grade. One night, when Chen's father was taking a shower, the woman entered Chen Yi's bedroom. After teasing him for a while, she suddenly hugged him and kissed her deeply. It was not the kind of touching her lips tightly. He can still remember the tongue that penetrated his mouth like a wet snake.
"Good kid, don't tell your father about this! When you grow up, your aunt will love you even more." As she said this, her hand was still stroking the young Chen Yi's pants. Seeing that Chen Yi had no idea at all, she nodded and agreed. She bent over and kissed her lightly, praised "good kid", and went back to the room.
At that time, Chen Yi had no sexual desire at all, and she didn't know what these meant. She just felt a little disgusting when she stuck her mouth.
It was not until Chen Yi was in the fourth grade that he gradually understood. Some children had watched pornographic videos among his classmates and preached each other privately. He understood that he had lost his first kiss. Fortunately, the man's first kiss seemed not valuable, so he didn't mind it too much, but he just imprinted a lewd mark on the woman from his heart.
Chen Yi has never mentioned these things to anyone. He doesn't understand the relationship between the woman and her father, but he has never seen them quarrel.
Every time Chen's mother quarrels with Chen's father, she always complains about similar things, and Chen's father must go to work early.
"Why did you marry such a man? When he came to play in the past 1980s, he heard a few rumors saying that I was stealing a man in my hometown. I pressed me on the floor and used a belt to suck my body full of blood. I couldn't find any bastard who was talking nonsense. You know, I have taken you and your sister to sleep with me since I was a child. You are afraid of darkness. If you don't accompany you one night, I won't make trouble? It's simply a shameless bastard who said that I'm stealing a man..."
Chen's mother complained about these words many times. Chen Yi knew this and understood that her mother was really sad, but she might not need comfort. Perhaps all she needed was someone to listen. He didn't mind listening since he was a child. His father would complain to him about his mother's faults, and so did his mother. He never commented on the other one between his parents.
Although he lived with his father a lot since he was a child, for some reason, maybe because he understood the past things, he might be really considerate of his mother. In short, he thought his father was more wrong.
At first, Wenwen cried in fear when his parents quarreled, and Chen Yi, who was young during the fight, was also cried in fear, as if the end of the world was coming, as if there was a blood splattering between his parents in the next moment. He didn't know how to stop the fight, so he took his sister to cry on the balcony until he quarreled and persuaded the fight.
This happened many times. Every time Chen's father beat and scolded him, saying that he was known to everyone and embarrassing him. At that time, he didn't understand why he was noisy, and why he didn't care about the neighbors hearing such loud noises. But he didn't say these words.
As there were many quarrels and fights, Chen Yi gradually realized a fact that even if his parents were fighting until one had a kitchen knife and the other had a thermos bottle of plucked. The former threatened to kill the other party, while the latter threatened to burn the other party to death. In the end, the knife would not really cut down, and the hot water would not really be poured out.
As for the fists and feet, Chen's mother was also born in the countryside and left many years later than Chen's father. Although she was a woman, she was not weak. No time, both parties were really seriously injured. At most, they just accidentally scratched their skin, or after a few days, they complained about how painful the other person's punch was and how heavy the kick was.
Chen Yi stopped persuading the fight. During the fight, she took her sister to hide in the room and waited for it before coming out. At first, she was worried about the situation in the room, but many times later she saw that her parents' injuries were still not painful or itchy. Finally, she no longer even worried, as if she was numb, and she turned a blind eye to it and could not change it.
Wenwen is younger than him and has not been numb yet. He still hides in the room and is afraid, sobbing, and trembling.
Chen Yi once wanted to comfort her sister, but later found that he could not even comfort himself.
Listening to Chen’s mother’s nagging and complaining, Chen Yi led her sister to go to school.
The two brothers and sisters went to the same elementary school, and they were in the community. They walked for three minutes faster and only five minutes slower. Wenwen suddenly squatted down and looked at the ground while walking on the road. Chen Yi leaned over and asked her what was wrong. She faced her brother with a naive smile with a very serious expression.
"I heard the little ant say he was lost."
Chen Yi couldn't help laughing.
"You can hear the ant's voice, can you understand it?"
Wenwen was speechless for a moment and continued to walk with him. When he was about to arrive at school, he suddenly explained in anger, "I can just hear it!"
"Okay, but you don't know how to get to the ant's house, so you can't help it."
Wenwen was a little happy.
"The ant said that he has found his home now."
When he reached the third grade level, Wen Wen turned back and told him while heading to the classroom. "I have to wait for me after school."
Maybe he is still young and Wenwen talks less, but he is more afraid of loneliness than Chen Yi and always likes to follow him no matter where he goes.
But before noon that day, Chen Yi saw Wenwen again. Wenwen's companion friend ran to the sixth-grade classroom during class break and shouted Chen Yi anxiously.
"Wenwen fought with his male classmates, and Wenwen fought with his male classmates..."
Chen Yi was angry and rushed straight to the third grade classroom like a flying. Wenwen lowered her face, her eyes full of grievances. She stood outside the classroom, and several good classmates were comforting her, but she didn't say a word.
"Why fight?"
"Brother, he took my pencil case. If I didn't let him, he would throw my pen. I would throw his pen. He would throw my pencil case to the ground. I would throw his pencil case to the ground. If I wanted to throw his, he would push me to the ground..."
Chen Yi saw that Wenwen had a scratch on her face and learned that the other party was in trouble, so she rushed straight into the classroom. A student shout came from behind her. "The teacher is here..." Chen Yi knew that it would be too late, so she grabbed the boy's face and slapped it down without saying a word. Seeing that there was no obvious mark, she unwilling to point her finger over and snatch the boy's face.
The head teacher also came in and hurriedly grabbed him. The boy cried loudly on the spot.
A moment later, Chen Yi and the boy were taken into the teacher's office, and the head teachers of both classes came.
"Chen Yi, how can you do this? The sixth grade bullies the third grade classmate! Look, you can hurt others' faces. Do you know how serious it is if you leave a scar? That will affect his life!"
Chen Yi was not afraid of the questioning of the third-grade class teacher, but was justified instead.
"He was seriously injured on his face, but it wasn't serious if my sister was scratched by him? My sister was still a girl! I bullied him in the third grade because he relied on the man to fight with my sister!"
When the teacher of the two classes heard that Wenwen was injured on his face, he asked if he knew that the boy was wrong first and would no longer bother with the injury.
"We can understand that you have a bad relationship with your sister. After all, he has made mistakes first. But why do you have to hit someone without waiting for us to be a teacher to solve the problem? Do you think this is right?"
"I think it's right. When the teacher solves the problem, he just scolds him and calls his parents. But the punishment is simply unfair. He, a man, beats my sister and hurts her face. In the end, he just changes a few words of scolding. Will he be afraid? He will not dare to bully my sister again next time? It's great now. How can he hurt my sister? How can I hurt him? It's very fair."
Chapter completed!