Self-cultivation with a plate of tomato scrambled eggs

Not long after the relationship between the two showed signs of healthy development, Li Tianqi waited from five o'clock in the evening until it was dark, but Song Xiaowu's figure still did not appear, and he couldn't help feeling a little annoyed, so he closed the door early and locked the shutter door Go out to find Song Xiaowu.

Song Xiaowu's school is really not close to here. Li Tianqi thought it would be faster to take a car, but he was afraid that he would miss the kid on the road, so he had to walk all the way to watch, until he saw a group of half-grown children surrounded by the construction site outside the side door of the school. Li Tianqi took a closer look and saw that Song Xiaowu was in the center of the encirclement. To be exact, he was knocked down on the ground with a mess on his face and school uniform, but he continued to swear. With two legs, if anyone wants to get closer and have an attempt on what he holds in his arms, he straightens his legs and wants to greet people's faces.

This level of fighting is really not that good.Li Tianqi couldn't stand it anymore, stepped forward, and called out in a deep voice: "Song Xiaowu." Seeing an adult coming, the group of boys scattered like birds and beasts, and a fat man with weak legs who didn't run far was caught by Li Tianqi. While trembling all over, he was still confident: "He stole! He played truant!"

Only then did Li Tianqi see that Song Xiaowu was holding a bundle of steel bars in his arms, and as soon as he let go, the little fat man slipped away with oil on his feet, leaving Li Tianqi with a cold face watching Song Xiaowu struggling to stand up from the ground with one hand , the other hand was still tightly hugging the bundle of steel bars, rolling and rubbing for a while, finally it was done.

Song Xiaowu got up, first patted the ashes on his body, then grinned at the wounds on his hands, then raised his head, and smiled flatteringly at Li Tianqi: "Well, Big Brother Li, look at me like this ...Hey, can I go back to the restaurant tomorrow? I promise to make up all the work that needs to be done today..."

"Where did you get the thing in your hand?" Li Tianqi interrupted him impatiently.

Song Xiaowu stretched out his hand and pointed to the back: "This is a newly built teaching building in our school. I got acquainted with an uncle who is in charge of it, and he gave it to me."

Li Tianqi didn't believe his words at all. The people on the construction site gave a student the necessary and valuable steel bars on the construction site?This lie is too perfunctory.

He frowned, and ordered Song Xiaowu: "Go back."

Song Xiaowu became anxious: "Really! Don't believe what the fat boy said just now, he has a grudge against me, and he framed me!"

As soon as these words came out, it reminded Li Tianqi that this kid still plays truant.Li Tianqi's face became more serious, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth: "You said someone sent you? OK, then let's go and ask."

"No!" Song Xiaowu refused straight away, and he knew in his heart that even though the uncle gave him some scrapped steel bars for the sake of running errands for them, carrying water and buying cigarettes, and for the sake of flattering others, he also knew in his heart. After all, this was against the rules of the construction site, and he must not go back and confront him.

Seeing his expression, Li Tianqi was obviously guilty, and he was even more angry. He was about to teach him a lesson, but he heard someone shout: "That kid! Put things down!"

As soon as Song Xiaowu looked up, he saw a few workers wearing hard hats coming out of the construction site. One of them was as tall as Li Tianqi, with a fierce look on his face, his legs subconsciously wanted to turn back, but there was no time?Li Tianqi grabbed the shoulder and pulled it back again. Facing these people, Song Xiaowu muttered, "I..." The steel bar in his hand had already been snatched back, and Li Tianqi was still apologizing: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, the child is naughty, I didn't really want to take it away...I will take care of it..."

Song Xiaowu only felt that the anger, disappointment and all kinds of inexplicable emotions in his heart swelled to the point that his entire chest would burst. With red eyes and gritted teeth, he shoved the unsuspecting Li Tianqi back After a few steps, he rushed over and grabbed the opponent's arm and bit it down, as if treating a sworn enemy, he actually bit off a piece of flesh from Li Tianqi's arm, and then turned around and ran away desperately.

He knew that he couldn't beat Li Tianqi, he had to save his life to make money, and he still had his grandmother waiting for him.

Li Tianqi didn't go to the hospital, but went back to the restaurant clutching his bloody arm. When he was young and frivolous, his fights were much more ruthless than that of the half-aged boy now. No matter how severe the injury was, he didn't take it seriously. He turned around and bandaged it. Sooner or later it will be fine.

Sitting in the lobby, after taking out alcohol gauze and other treatment, Li Tianqi felt that there was nothing serious, but Song Xiaowu...he thought of Song Xiaowu's look before he bit him, and felt somewhat uncomfortable in his heart.

The more he thought about it, the more he doubted whether he really had wrongly blamed Song Xiaowu.That kid is a bit oily, and he didn't steal or play tricks when he helped me these days, and he gave him the money he took from the guests... The problem is, he wants such a bundle of steel bars in exchange for money what to do?

Li Tianqi regretted it a bit.

For two weeks, Song Xiaowu never came to the restaurant again.

The old grandson who came to deliver scallions to the restaurant asked Li Tianqi: "Oh, why didn't you see your brother come to help?"

Li Tianqi was stunned for a moment, then said: "He is in school, he has a lot of homework recently."

The old grandson smiled and said, "Go to school, go to school. Your younger brother is very smart. Every time I bring green onions, he is afraid that I will be short of catties. He will stare at me and weigh it. He has to borrow the scale next door." Say it again, this guy..."

Li Tianqi decided to go to Song Xiaowu.

He never asked Song Xiaowu where he lived. The kid looked at his hippie smiling face, and he was extremely defensive. If he asked him, he would definitely not tell the truth. Fortunately, Li Tianqi knew where his school was, and signed on the entry and exit registration book of the school gate guard room. After getting a name, I happened to see the little fat man last time when I came out, and I found out about Song Xiaowu's class. I was just about to go to the director's office to ask Song Xiaowu's home address, but the little fat man stumbled and said, "Brother, you can't find him in school. He doesn't have any parents, only a grandmother is hospitalized, he is either stealing money outside, or he is in the hospital."

Li Tianqi ignored the little fat man's eye drops on the ground, and was thinking about who to ask to find out which hospital it was. Suddenly, he remembered that there was a hospital more than ten minutes away from his restaurant, and then thought of Song Xiaowu. He ran out with two meals, and his stomach was gurgling with hunger after six o'clock in the afternoon. Li Tianqi immediately walked out of the school and got on a bus bound for the hospital.

Song Xiaowu smoothed out two crumpled hundred-yuan bills and handed them in through the toll window. In exchange for a thin blood transfusion order, he carefully folded it and put it on his chest. The sheet was handed over to the nurse sister, and the blood bag transferred from the blood bank was hung on grandma's infusion stand after a while. Song Xiaowu carefully reached out to touch it, ha, it was still warm, if it wasn't for his blood type and grandma's blood type It's not the same, he would think that he only sold it.

With an obedient expression on his face, he thanked the nurse sister who gave grandma the blood transfusion needle. Song Xiaowu moved a chair and sat down in front of the hospital bed. Watching the flow of blood, I was secretly worried: Oh, what are we going to eat today?

He actually knew that Li Tianqi was very kind to him.At least the last time when he went to the blood bank to sell blood, the staff thought he had too few cells and kicked him out, but after spending some time in the restaurant, he went again this time, He sold his blood and made money smoothly.What's more, grandma also likes the chicken noodle soup made by Li Tianqi, but now Song Xiaowu can only buy her the unpalatable and single patient meal in the hospital cafeteria.

But Song Xiaowu would never succumb to Li Tianqi again - even though he did feel guilty that his grandma had to eat these things.He never thought about relying on anyone, and this time he managed to regard Li Tianqi as a trustworthy person who was only a little worse than his grandmother, and turned his head around Li Tianqi's doubts and slapped him hard.

Forget it, who told people to meet me for the first time when I was so hungry that I lost my bones and ran to steal crispy noodles?Song Xiaowu thought openly.

When grandma finished her blood transfusion, Song Xiaowu said to go downstairs to buy food for her, but he couldn't really go there right away, otherwise he would be so hungry that he would be starved to death by those not-so-delicious meals!

Song Xiaowu first took out a cup from his old schoolbag that didn't contain a single book, went to the boiling water room to get a full cup of hot water, sat on the stairs, and ate a cold steamed bun left over from the morning .He bought the steamed buns from a noodle shop run by a Shandong couple outside the back door of the hospital. The couple are very kind in their business. Two steamed buns cost only one yuan and three. Each of them is a circle bigger than Song Xiaowu's face. It's really rare to be full of those who belong to Yankou.

Well, the doctor said that grandma just finished her blood transfusion and shouldn’t eat too greasy food. Let’s buy a bowl of fish soup today. Although the fish soup in the hospital doesn’t contain much fish, not to mention not many pieces of tofu... Song Xiaowu thought about it, I still feel the salivation is strong, and I feel a little unwilling: If Li Tianqi hadn't made trouble, the money from selling those steel bars would probably be able to support grandma's subsistence allowance golden hair, this is great.

Half of it was choking on the steamed buns, and the other half was despising Li Tianqi. Song Xiaowu rolled his eyes, and after he finished, he saw the person he had just despised appeared below a few steps: "Song Xiaowu."

To hell with it in broad daylight!Song Xiaowu got up from the ground very cleverly, and didn't forget to bring a water glass and a half-drawn steamed bun, stuffing it into the bag while running like hell.

Li Tianqi had no choice but to run after him, and finally caught Song Xiaowu before he almost bumped into a cart in the hands of a nurse: "Don't run away."

The nurse also recognized him, and said angrily, "Xiao Wu, you're running around again. Be careful, I'll tell your grandma." For you."

"It's useless to flatter." Xiaohui smiled and gave her a gouged look, and then hurriedly delivered medicines to the wards.

Only then did Song Xiaowu lose his face, and asked Li Tianqi, "Why are you here?" He glanced at the gauze wrapped around Li Tianqi's arm, and immediately became vigilant: "I won't pay for the medical expenses! I haven't asked you to pay for the steel bars yet. .”

Li Tianqi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and instead of answering his words, he asked, "Do you drink boiled water and eat steamed buns at noon?"

Song Xiaowu swallowed the words "None of your shit" before he could say it, knowing that the other party wasn't here to ask for money, so he bypassed Li Tianqi and prepared to go downstairs to buy food for his grandma.

"What's wrong with your grandma?" Li Tianqi followed him downstairs, Song Xiaowu couldn't help but raised his head and gave him a hard look.

Li Tianqi said: "Are you still angry? Then I... oh, I apologize to you, besides, you have bitten me, so don't be wronged, okay?"

Song Xiaowu stopped in his tracks: "I don't want to see you. Don't blackmail me, and I won't blackmail you either. Just do it."

"Then how do you treat your grandmother's illness?" Li Tianqi said, "Song Xiaowu, be more mature, you have to make money, support your grandmother, support yourself, and don't play truant all day long, you have to look like a human being in the future ..."

"Anyway, it can't be cured." Li Tianqi didn't expect that his earnest words would be exchanged for Song Xiaowu's answer, and then Song Xiaowu put himself down again, and ran away without looking back.

Li Tianqi finally found out from the doctor what Song Xiaowu's grandmother was suffering from: aplastic anemia.At that time, when the Internet information was far less developed than today, Li Tianqi could only understand that this disease was equivalent to a terminal illness—unless the bone marrow was replaced, but for the time being, regardless of Song Xiaowu's mother-in-law and his own savings, it might not be able to make up for it. Even if you really have that much money, you may not be able to wait for a suitable bone marrow.

Soon after Li Tianqi frequented the hospital and was treated as another grandson of the old man by the medical staff, Song Xiaowu's grandmother fell into a coma again for unknown reasons, this time longer than any time Song Xiaowu had seen before: two Days and nights.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, the grandmother who only gave a weak response when Song Xiaowu called repeatedly woke up, and what she called was: "Sky Qi..."

Li Tianqi leaned over to her ear, and could only hear her mumble: "Xiao Wu...you..."

Li Tianqi held the old man's hand: "Grandma, I promise you, I will take good care of you..." Song Xiaowu, who was standing beside him, suddenly reacted, and stretched out his hand to cover Li Tianqi's mouth desperately: "Don't agree! Don't agree!" However, grandma still Hearing that, she closed her eyes in peace, and the hand in Li Tianqi's hand gradually became cold.

Grandma Song Xiaowu's funeral was handled very quickly. The husband of a cleaning worker in the hospital is a one-stop funeral service. After negotiating the price, he quickly cleaned and dressed the old man and carried him to a car tied with white flowers. The van drove to the crematorium.Because the invited Feng Shui master said that the best time for burial is [-]:[-] tomorrow morning, and the body only stayed in the funeral home overnight.

The cemetery is a joint tomb bought by Song Xiaowu’s grandfather when he was still alive. The urn has already been ordered. Li Tianqi is busy arranging a series of matters such as wreaths and elegiac couplets. Song Xiaowu has been quietly helping him, even in the early morning After the farewell ceremony for the corpse, he also brought two pots of boiling water, soaked a box of instant noodles and gave them to the funeral team.

Until they put the ashes from the incinerator into the urn, and then drove it to the cemetery on the mountain for burial. On the way down the mountain, Song Xiaowu lay on the window of the car and looked at the wild grasses and wild flowers on both sides of the mountain road. , turned his head and complained to Li Tianqi: "Sneaked out so early, and I have to make up excuses for grandma when I go back later..."

He suddenly became dumb when he said this, and it wasn't until then that he really realized that no one would nudge him all day long that he was fighting again, and he was always in charge of listening carefully in class, and he didn't have to tell anyone What excuses do you make up? For example, the bank interest rate has risen again, so the subsistence allowance has increased so much in a short time; for example, the profit of small stationery is the highest, and he can make a lot of money by selling refills and notebooks in class; for example …

His expression was dull, his mouth was slightly open, and he was stiff in his seat like petrified.Li Tianqi stretched out his hand to hold him in his arms: "It's okay, just cry." Song Xiaowu grabbed his clothes, feeling uncomfortable as if he was stuffed with a lot of old cotton, but he still couldn't make any sound.

Li Tianqi led him back to the restaurant, went upstairs and dragged out a folding wire bed left by the landlord from the corner, washed it and dried it, put cotton sheets on it, put pillows and quilts on it, pointed to it and said to Song Xiaowu: " Sleep here from now on."

Song Xiaowu suddenly threw himself into his arms with a cry of "wow", tears and snot streaming down his nose, he was out of breath, but he was busy calling him: "Brother...Brother..."

Li Tianqi gave a "hmm", even though he didn't want to hear someone call him that, he still stroked Song Xiaowu's back: "Xiao Wu, I will pass."

All the gloom will pass.What's more, Song Xiaowu is such an optimistic guy who makes people jealous.He did not pass the high school entrance examination as expected. Li Tianqi originally wanted to send him to repeat for another year, but he had to give up this idea when he heard that Song Xiaowu had recruited his grades from elementary school to the present. Run a small restaurant.

Song Xiaowu lived happily every day. Except that his body started to suffer from cramps when he was 16 years old, and he was prone to pain all over his body after skipping a meal or two of bone soup. He never even had a cold or cough.Every time Li Tianqi stood in the kitchen, chopping pork bones and making soup for him, he would always laugh at him: "You are so late in development."

Song Xiaowu developed really late enough.Until one night when he was 17 years old, he woke up from the bed and found that there was cold between his legs. He knew why, but he still sat on the bed with the quilt until dawn, feeling ashamed, not only because it happened to be the day when his grandmother The anniversary of his death was also because the person pressing on him in the dream was Li Tianqi.