A Tooth For a Tooth

(1)

I don't know if it's Yang Ren's psychological effect, or the old man has become a little different today. He chatted with Yang Ren while walking, talking about things in the past.

"Our family has never changed places. We used to live in a bungalow here. After the demolition, we lived in a building here. When Xu Yao was a child, I took him to this vegetable market every day. Everyone in it knew us, father and son."

This kind of conversation without saying a word, if it catches up with the usual time, Yang Ren may still spend some time thinking about talking to the old man about Xu Yao, but today he is really not in the mood, so he just listens to the old man alone Come on, don't talk to each other very much.

The old man didn't care about his reaction, and said: "Our Xu Yao has been very smart since he was a child. When he was three years old, he could memorize the entire Three Character Classic."

Yang Ren finally took a look at the old man, and the old man continued: "When he was the same age as Tongtong, well, he should be a little younger than him. I remember when he was in the middle class of kindergarten, he had a high fever once, but It’s amazing, it burned for a whole week, and when he recovered from his illness, we found out that he couldn’t hear.”

Yang Ren looked at the old man in surprise, and stopped in his tracks. He didn't expect the old man to tell him this story. It was an experience that he couldn't ask no matter how he and Xu Yao got along.

(2)

Seeing that Yang Ren stopped, the old man touched him with his hand to remind him to go quickly, and then he started to buy vegetables while talking, in that natural state, just like telling stories about other people's homes, it didn't hurt or itch.

"The doctor said that fortunately Xu Yao can already speak at this time, and his language ability will not be completely lost in the future, but he still needs to wear a hearing aid as soon as possible to compensate for his hearing, but Xu Yao's mother has a different idea from mine. Every time she is at home , took off their children’s hearing aids, and even hid them.”

"I know that a good child suddenly becomes like this, especially when faced with neighbors and relatives, it is particularly difficult to accept, but after all, only by insisting on wearing hearing aids can the child's language not be lost too much. Later I simply Take Xu Yao to my work unit. I was a teacher in the middle school on the street in front. At that time, I left Xu Yao alone in the office to study every day. At noon, I let my students go to him. Memorizing texts can also be regarded as exercising Xu Yao's listening ability."

"Later, Xu Yao's mother left us. Xu Yao was very smart and sensible. He understood everything at such a young age. I often told him that it doesn't matter if you have bad ears. As long as you work harder than others, you will be fine. , Later, I asked him to practice the piano, and after inviting the teacher to our home, I told her that our child had hearing problems. At first, the teacher was very unsure, and asked Xu Yao if he could learn. Xu Yao thought for a while, and then said yes."

Along the way, the old man was talking to Yang Ren about Xu Yao's childhood. From the time he found out he was deaf to going to work, he was always accompanied by the old man. Xu Yao worked very hard, skipping multiple levels, and was even better than his able-bodied classmates. a lot of.

(3)

When he arrived at the downstairs of Xu's house, the old man handed Yang Ren the dishes in his hand, found the key from his pocket, looked at Yang Ren, and said: "Don't let Xu Yao know that I told you this today, I told you Speaking of this, I just want you to know that Xu Yao has such an irreversible problem with his body, and I have accompanied him here alone, not to mention that there are so many people who love him in Tongtong in your family. "

If it is said that when I first found out that Yang Yitong had this problem, I felt a huge weight in my heart, then Xu Yao's comfort last night relieved him of some of the weight, and the experience of Xu Yao that the old man shared with him today made him feel even more in his heart. It's a lot easier.

The three of them returned to Xu's house together, but they didn't expect that the food was already set on the dining table, and the bear haunting was playing on the TV in the living room, and Xu Yao sat next to Xiao Ai, not daring to leave.

"We're back." The old man raised his voice, and Xiao Ai ran over immediately, but his face did not have the joy of seeing Yang Ren and his son in the past.

"What's the matter?" Yang Ren bent down and asked her. She stretched out her hand to show Yang Ren. broken."

"What?" Yang Ren didn't even change his shoes. He put down Xiao Ai's hand and walked quickly to Xu Yao to pick up his hand to check. Xu Yao wanted to hide, but there was no time to react.

"What's the matter? Didn't you say that you won't be allowed to cook? How dangerous is it if you get angry at home alone?"

Xu Yao couldn't understand the little cannonball's words at once, but he could guess that Xiao Ai must have told him that his hand was injured.

(4)

Yang Ren saw a large area of ​​burns on Xu Yao's right hand, with blisters all over, and asked anxiously, "Why is it so severe? Is it scalded by boiling water?"

Xu Yao withdrew his hand and said, "It's okay, I washed it with cold water for 10 minutes."

Yang Ren still frowned, the skin must be dying, he grabbed his hand again and asked, "Why didn't you apply the scalding medicine?"

Xu Yao didn't speak, Yang Ren thought he didn't understand, and just about to repeat, he heard him say: "I can't tell which one is scald medicine, and Xiao Ai can't read."

Yang Ren was so uncomfortable that he pulled him up from the sofa and took him to the bedroom to apply the medicine. After changing his shoes, the old man went to the kitchen to peel the potatoes by himself.

After applying the medicine, Yang Ren found out that the old man had already been on the pot. Remembering that he was emotionally agitated just now, he felt embarrassed now, and rubbed his hands and said that godfather, I will cook. The old man waved at him: "Let me do it, you Go out and play with them."

Yang Ren with a hot face exited the kitchen and saw Xu Yao sitting on the living room floor playing a game of driving a train with the two children. Xiao Ai was sitting first, and Yang Yitong wrapped her arms around her waist from behind. Yao sat in the third place, wrapped his arms around Yang Yitong, and Yang Ren also joined in.

"Xu Yao, does what you said last night still count?" Yang Ren deliberately chose to sit behind Xu Yao, and then pressed his ear to confirm.

At such a short distance, Xu Yao couldn't pretend not to hear, sighed, and said to the front: "It counts."

Yang Ren's hanging heart finally relaxed, and he rested his chin on his shoulder.

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