flawed

Just finished working at noon, Qi Nuliang was tidying up the back kitchen, the boss opened the curtain and called him: "Xiao Qi, call."

Qi Nuliang walked to the front counter, picked up the phone and put it on his shoulder, busy all morning, just in time to smoke a cigarette.

Before he clicked, the other party immediately asked, "Are you Jiang Yu's parent?"

"Yes."

"I'm his class teacher, you come to school right now."

Qi Nuliang stuffed the smoked cigarette into the cigarette case, and held the microphone with another hand: "What's wrong with Jiang Yu?"

"He beat someone, you come here quickly."

"How could he hit someone..."

Before he could finish speaking, the other party had already hung up the phone.

Qi Nuliang held the phone in a daze, then turned to the restaurant owner and said, "I'll take half a day off in the afternoon."

Before the boss could speak, Cheng Tuzi stuck his head out from the back kitchen and asked, "You're gone, how can we get here at night?"

Qi Nuliang just took off his apron: "Master Jiang Yu asked me to go, saying that the boy beat someone. I will try my best to come back at night."

Upon hearing this, everyone chatted in a hurry.

"How could Jiang Yu beat someone? He is so obedient."

"Boys, who doesn't want to fight."

"Xiao Qi, hurry up and bring the child here at night."

……

Qi Nuliang borrowed Dunzi Xiaoding's motorcycle and ran all the way to Rihua Primary School.

He also wondered.Don't dare to say anything else, he really knows what kind of person would take the initiative to pick things up, fight and bully others.When he was a student, he often dealt with the school's hooligans, and he saw more in those "inside" years.

Jiang Yu is not that kind of child, he definitely wouldn't be the one who did it first, maybe he was beaten by others, and he was bullied by a child who had seen this area before.Thinking of this, Qi Nuliang gritted his teeth and stepped up the accelerator.

Panting and sweating, he rushed into the office, and saw two distinct teams of people.

Jiang Yu stood alone on the left, bowed his head and said nothing.The other three boys stood on the right, each with painted faces, tear stains and snot scabs.The homeroom teacher sat in the middle with a gloomy face, pointing the pointer in his hand at Jiang Yu, and his scolding was interrupted by Qi Nuliang who had just pushed the door in.

The female class teacher twisted her eyebrows with thin tattoos, and turned her eyes to the man: "Who are you?"

"I am Jiang Yu's parent."

The homeroom teacher was a little suspicious, he probably didn't expect such a young man to come to Jiang Yu's house.She did know that Jiang Yu was an orphan.

Qi Nuliang said that he had already stood beside Jiang Yu, put his arms around his shoulders, bent down and asked him, "What's going on?"

"What's going on?" The homeroom teacher snorted, "Jiang Yu snatched lunch from his classmates in the cafeteria at noon, and even beat them when they were done. See how he beat those classmates?"

Qi Nuliang glanced at the unlucky appearance of the three children opposite, but he thought in his heart that he really couldn't see that Jiang Yu still had such ability.Although he is taller, he is slender and slender. It is not easy for a one-on-three to win a battle.

Thinking so, he put away the expression on his face and said seriously: "You hit the classmate first?"

Jiang Yu still lowered his head, silently, not saying anything.

Seeing that the parents still questioned her, the head teacher said angrily: "Who else is it if it's not him? It doesn't matter whether he admits it or not. During the lunch break in the classroom, the whole class saw it. He was the one who hit it first." The head teacher looked He said harshly, "We've all seen children fight, but we've never seen Jiang Yu being so ruthless. He insisted on not giving up until he beat someone up. Several female classmates cried in fright."

Jiang Yu didn't argue, the teacher in charge said it firmly, and Qi Nuliang's face became embarrassed.

Then the office door was pushed open again, and the parents of other children also came.

Seeing their child's miserable appearance, the parents immediately started arguing.Some even rushed over to slap Jiang Yu a few times.

Qi Nuliang just kept the child behind him, stretched out his hand to stop him, and let others tear and insult him.

The female head teacher couldn't stop the fight, so other teachers came to help, and finally made a noise, which alarmed the principal.

In front of the old principal, everyone restrained more or less.The principal intervened to mediate, and Qi Nuliang admitted compensation for medical expenses.It's just that when Jiang Yu apologized to his classmates, he still looked like that, with his head down, no words, no expression, just like a stone in a latrine, smelly and hard.

There was no other way, Qi Nuliang had no choice but to apologize to several parents on his behalf: "I am really sorry, we will pay for the medical expenses, and I will take the child back to take good care of it, and promise that this kind of thing will never happen again in the future."

"You have to take good care of it. Don't worry about it now. In the future, the police will take care of it for you."

"Isn't it such a virtue to have no father to control and no mother to teach?"

Hearing this, Qi Nuliang gritted his teeth, veins appeared on his forehead, if it wasn't for school, he would have shut up these two old women with two slaps.

"We admit we were wrong, so don't take your words too far..."

"Okay." The principal interrupted them, "Let's take all the children back first. The school doctor has seen them all, and it's nothing serious. If you don't worry, you can take them to the hospital for a look." Then he instructed Qi Nuliang, " You also take Jiang Yu back first. It’s not right to hit someone, and you wait for the school’s notice about medical expenses and punishment.”

He wanted to leave a long time ago, but when he heard the principal's words, he took Jiang Yu's arm and turned around to leave.

Since the old principal said that the school will deal with it, it should be dealt with fairly.He can't trust other people, but he can trust the principal.When Jiang Yu was admitted to school, it was the principal who nodded and transferred his student status.The principal is a good man.

When I left the teaching building, it was the afternoon class time. Behind me, there was the sound of books in the teaching building. There was no one in the huge playground, and the concrete floor was scorched hot by the sun.Qi Nuliang lifted up his T-shirt to wipe the sweat off his face. Seeing that Jiang Yu's forehead was also sweaty, he went to wipe it for him, but the child turned his face away.

Qi Nuliang clicked his tongue, rummaged in several pockets, and took out half a pack of flat tissues for him from his butt pocket, and "One Puff of Incense" was printed on the package.

"Wipe your face."

Jiang Yu took the tissue and squeezed it in his palm without wiping off his sweat.

"I'll walk you home?"

The child does not answer.

"Then you're going to a restaurant with me?"

He still kept silent and didn't know what he was thinking.

Passing by the school cafeteria, Qi Nuliang remembered that the class teacher said that Jiang Yu robbed his classmates for food.

Based on his understanding of Jiang Yu, this kid has been wandering outside for so long, and he has never heard of him stealing or begging. He is also a very arrogant character. How could he go to grab his classmates for food?But Qi Nuliang also knew that the child was hungry and frightened during the two years of wandering, and his obsession with food surpassed everything else.Could it be that the meal ticket was finished ahead of time, and I didn't tell myself that I lost my mind because of hunger?

Qi Nuliang walked into the cafeteria with only a few dozen yuan in change in his pocket, and he took out all of it and handed it to the window selling meal tickets.

Only then did Jiang Yu say the first sentence of the day: "I still have the meal ticket."

The meal tickets and food tickets ordered inside have been handed out, this time in two stacks tied with rubber bands.Qi Nuliang handed it to him: "Anyway, by the way, this will not expire, you just keep it."

After leaving the cafeteria, Qi Nuliang said again: "Eat what you should, don't worry, you are growing up now, you have to eat enough, be careful not to grow taller."

Speaking of the tall one, more than half a year has passed since he first stopped Jiang Yu in the corridor.Qi Nuliang looked at him carefully, he seemed to have grown taller, but he was still slender.Dun Dun eats a lot at home, and doesn't know when he will grow some meat.

He stood close to Jiang Yu, put his hands on top of the child's head, and made gestures on his chest, estimating his height.

"Aren't you scolding me?" Jiang Yu suddenly asked sullenly, pressing his forehead against his chest.

"What are you scolding... scolding you for beating someone?" Qi Nuliang laughed suddenly, and rubbed the hands on top of his head twice, "You kid is much smarter than me, you must have your reasons for doing that, I I don't bother to scold you.

"But I really underestimated you before. One hit three, it's quite capable."

He used to think that Jiang Yu was a coward who would only cry when he was bullied, and he was worried about it.He can't protect him for the rest of his life, what if he is bullied outside?Now I feel relieved, this kid can beat people with his fists, at least he is not afraid of being bullied, which is good.

Qi Nuliang was about to praise him a few more words, but when he lowered his head, he was startled.

I saw Jiang Yu's tears fell on the road like a broken thread, followed by the sound of sobbing and sniffling.

Now Qi Nuliang panicked, and quickly raised the child's face, only to see a pair of tear-filled red eyes, not to mention how pitiful it was.This was what he couldn't stand the most, he hurriedly took out a tissue from Jiang Yu's hand and wiped his tears.

"What's the matter? You were beaten too? Does it hurt anywhere?"

The tears wiped more and more, and the child had grinned and stood on the main road of the school, crying.Although there were few people coming and going, everyone who passed by looked at them sideways.

"...What's the matter, tell me, don't just cry...was it broken somewhere..."

Qi Nuliang was so anxious that he scratched the back of his head, what to do, he had no experience in coaxing people.

Anyway, get people out of school first.But Jiang Yu just stood on the side of the road and cried, crying so much that Qi Nuliang felt uncomfortable and anxious.He had no choice but to squat down, separate the child's two arms, let him hug his neck, then hold his buttocks, and hug him up.

This kid looked thin, but unexpectedly he was quite heavy.

Qi Nuliang hugged him, Jiang Yu buried himself on his shoulder and cried, tears soaked the thin cotton T-shirt in a short while.

I don't know why he started crying all of a sudden, Qi Nuliang could only comfort him thoughtlessly: "It's just beating someone, what's that? , Reading the self-criticism in front of the whole school, it's no big deal...

"Others are crying when they are beaten, why are you crying after winning the battle?

"Okay, little ancestor, don't cry, go to the city and buy you ice cream, okay?"

……

Qi Nuliang planned to put Jiang Yu on the back seat of the motorcycle, but the child hugged his neck and did not let go.He had no choice but to let Jiang Yu sit on the fuel tank and ride a motorcycle like a koala.

"Sit in front and don't move around."

The car started and flew out like an arrow. Fortunately, the man hanging around his neck was sitting in a well-behaved manner.

The hot wind of more than 30 degrees dried the sweat on the faces of the two, and then poured it into the clothes. The clothes bulged, and they were like two balloons flying away on the road.

Not long after getting on the motorcycle, Jiang Yu's crying stopped.At the intersection into Hongcheng, Qi Nuliang suddenly turned around and drove straight towards the road scorched by the sun. He wanted to relax and make the child feel better.

He tried to find something to divert Jiang Yu's attention, so he asked him, "Do you know where this road goes?"

After waiting for a while, Jiang Yu finally said sullenly, "I didn't steal my classmates' meals."