Little Assistant's Childhood Shadow

"Daughter-in-law, I think Nan Nan has been depressed recently. What's the matter?" Zhao Changming stood behind Wang Zhiyun, and the two of them looked into Zhao Nan's room through the crack of the door.

Wang Zhiyun pushed Zhao Changming away with his elbow, and then closed the door gently: "Why are you so loud, Nan Nan will be upset when she finds out later."

"The little boy has a lot of thoughts, unhappy and unhappy, has his little brain suffered?" Zhao Changming picked up the apple from the fruit plate on the table in the main room, and took a crisp bite.

"You can't say this in front of Nannan, children's emotions are more real than adults', and if we as parents fail to notice, it may hurt them, and in serious cases, it may even affect their lives. "As a gardener, Wang Zhiyun thinks about how to water the flowers of the motherland every day, and has read a lot of books about children's mental health.

"Hey, daughter-in-law, do you think it's because of Xiaofeng?" Zhao Changming put down the half-eaten apple in his hand and began to analyze it seriously: "That kid Xiaofeng hasn't come to our house for a while, I've been there several times. I saw Zhao Feng coming home alone after school. He used to come back with our family Nan Nan."

"It has something to do with it..." Wang Zhiyun seemed to have thought of something, and continued: "I also found out in school that Xiao Feng seems to have made new friends, and recently he has gradually become estranged from Nan Nan. But..."

"But what?"

"Nan Nan is lively and cheerful by nature, and he is very popular in the class. The teacher and classmates like him very much. It is said that Zhao Feng doesn't play with him very much, and it is inevitable for other students to play with him."

"Look, daughter-in-law, let me spread a piece of knowledge to you. We men have a kind of friend called a buddy, who doesn't need to ask for help, but is the kind who can do anything for each other at any time, and will never give up for the rest of his life. Xiaofeng Daxiao and Nan Nan grew up together with bare buttocks, and now they are suddenly alienated for some reason, it’s like suddenly digging out the flesh you’ve grown for so many years from your body, it hurts a lot.” Zhao After Changming finished speaking with emotion, he thought it was very good, but his mouth was dry, so he picked up the apple and continued to chew.

"But why, why did Xiao Feng ignore Nan Nan all of a sudden?"

Zhao Changming swallowed what was in his mouth: "Why is it so good? It has not been two months since Xiaofeng's father died, and Zhao Dong's family didn't recognize Xiaofeng as his grandson, let alone that he and Zhao Dong didn't even have a marriage certificate. Qu Wanting. Xiaofeng’s child grew up in such a family environment, and he has a heavy heart. No one knows what the child is thinking. Although we are elders, we can help in major matters. No matter how you can touch the child's mind, you may not be able to solve it if you touch it."

"Hey..." Wang Zhiyun let out a long sigh.

Not to mention Zhao Feng, even the dead Zhao Dong, Zhao Dong's parents were reluctant to do the funeral hastily, and they didn't even let Zhao Dong enter the ancestral grave.As for the cause of Zhao Dong's death, Zhao Dong's parents didn't pursue it, the police went through the motions to investigate, and finally came to a conclusion that everyone expected.

Zhao Dong stumbled and fell into the river after being drunk. Qu Wanting was scared because of being beaten and scolded by Zhao Dong. This time is indeed not the first time that Zhao Dong did not go home for several days.Qu Wanting did not call the police because she was afraid that the police would know that she had no registered permanent residence.

This death is like a northwest wind that everyone avoids in the long winter. It blows in a hurry, and the pedestrians on the road say a few words, and then leave without leaving a trace.

Two days before Guyu, Zhao Changming's family was in full swing for a big event: they were preparing to move.

The new home is in a newly completed real estate in the town. Zhao Changming transferred all the food baskets of the original branches, raised a sum of money to buy the largest shop on the first floor, and paid for the two rooms on the second floor directly above the shop. The full amount for one hall.

"Daughter-in-law, let's get rid of these, let's go back and buy new ones." Zhao Changming put down the half-moved sofa, and made an application with Wang Zhiyun again: "I just rented a car, and I can't put it down."

Wang Zhiyun looked at the cramped cargo compartment, hesitated for a moment, and nodded to Zhao Changming in agreement.

Zhao Changming wiped his sweat with a towel tied around his wrist as if he had been pardoned, and ran to Zhao Nan who was squatting not far from the door.He sneaked closer and saw Zhao Nan squatting there, pinching a small yellow broken flower in his hand, pinching it down petal by petal, and muttering: "Go, Don't go, go, don't go..."

"Hey, son!"

Zhao Nan was so frightened that he threw the flower away.

"Let's go, let's move to a new house..." Zhao Changming carried Zhao Nan into the arms of Wang Zhiyun who was sitting in the car, and then he also got into the car, "Let's go!"

The car started and slowly drove from the potholed path to the only main road in the village.

Zhao Nan didn't know, when he looked all the way with empty eyes, at the door of their old house, Zhao Feng came out from the hidden back wall, silently picked up the half yellow flower he threw away, like a treasure Put it on the palm of your hand.

A week later, Zhao Feng skipped one day of class.It wasn't until this time that people realized that there was no Zhao Dong in the village, and Qu Wanting and their mother and son were related to Zhao Dong.

When did they gradually forget their mother and son?Did it start when Qu Wanting appeared on the construction site less and less time, or after Zhao Feng's [-]% score slowly dropped, and the teacher sighed helplessly a few times.Or when the two people gradually disappeared from people's sight, no matter day or night, they seemed to be nowhere to be seen in the village.

That's right, two people who had nothing to do with this village, suddenly appeared, and now suddenly disappeared, just like that Zhao Dong, it didn't matter if they were there or not, and when they were gone, the village returned to its original quiet, warm and peaceful state.

The only one who still has some thoughts about them is probably Zhao Changming's family.

Wang Zhiyun hurriedly finished grading the homework when the children were out of school, riding the brand new bicycle that Zhao Changming bought her, and was about to deliver the day's homework to Zhao Feng, and take a look at how the two of them were doing recently Sample.

After Zhao Feng and Zhao Nan became estranged, Wang Zhiyun's attention on Zhao Feng naturally decreased a lot. She hadn't visited Zhao Feng's house for more than two months.

"Mom, mom, are you going to Zhao Feng's house? I'm going too!" In the springtime, the children of other families ran up like wicker sprouts, but Zhao Nan was still a round one, wearing a new year's dress at the moment. The big red jacket I bought looked from a distance, rolling over like a big sugar ball: "Wait, I'm going too..."

He was out of breath from running, but still tenaciously pulled the back seat of Wang Zhiyun's bicycle, and climbed up with difficulty.

When Wang Zhiyun took Zhao Nan passing by the small shop, the nimble little fat Zhao Nan jumped out of the back seat of the car, broke into Zhang Tianyou's small shop, ignored 21 like a bandit, and thought it was suitable for him Snacks, stationery, and all kinds of weird gadgets were looted, and the pocket money he had saved for almost three months was spent.

He was so happy that he followed Wang Zhiyun to the door of Zhao Feng's house. When he saw the closed door, he suddenly felt empty in his heart. The several large plastic bags full of them in his hand slowly slipped from his fleshy fingers. , scattered all over the ground with a bang.

From that day on, Zhao Feng never came to school again, he seemed to have evaporated, and disappeared into Zhao Nan's life without notice.

"Nan Nan, let's eat..." Wang Zhiyun held Zhao Nan's favorite stewed pig's trotters in his hand, "You haven't had a sip of water all day, mother feels bad."

"That's right, Nan Nan, your mother stewed the pig's trotters all afternoon, and the bones fell off when touched. Don't you like this kind of food the most?" Zhao Changming persuaded.

Zhao Nan lowered her head and kept drawing something on the paper with a pen in her hand.As soon as Wang Zhiyun got close to him, he would lie down on the table, making it clear that he didn't want Wang Zhiyun and the others to see clearly what he was drawing.

"Nan Nan, be obedient, take a bite, just take a bite..." Wang Zhiyun took a piece of meat with his chopsticks, and took two tentative steps forward.

As if stimulated, Zhao Nan hurriedly leaned forward to protect the desk. He made a big movement, knocking off the pencil bag beside the desk, and the pencils inside were scattered all over the floor.

Zhao Changming squatted down cautiously, picked them up one by one lightly, checked them one last time, and picked up a red and blue pencil from the corner of the table.

It was a pen with half red inner core and half blue inner core. The red end was covered with a paper roll case, and the blue end was almost used up. It was thrown on the ground, and the pen tip broke and fell out.

Zhao Changming picked it up and saw that the broken part was the last part of the blue end, and there was only an empty hole left on the barrel of the pen.

He subconsciously wanted to hide the broken pencil, but he was afraid of something. Zhao Nan was so impartial that he saw him secretly stuffing the broken red and blue pencil and a piece of lead into his trouser pocket. .

"Give it to me!" Zhao Nan rushed towards Zhao Changming like crazy, and snatched the pencil back.

"It's broken, it's broken..." Zhao Nan held the dying pencil and said in a trance, "The last piece is gone, it's gone."

Zhao Changming and Wang Zhiyun were so frightened by Zhao Nan's appearance that they almost broke out in sweat. In their eyes, Zhao Nan was always a happy bean. How could he be like this when he came back from Zhao Feng's house today?

"Ahhh, he doesn't want me anymore, he doesn't want me anymore, he really doesn't want me anymore...Ahhh..." Zhao Nan raised her small face, her eyes were tightly closed, and the big teardrops flowed down one after another. Lose.

As soon as he cried, Wang Zhiyun finally straightened up and let out a long sigh of relief: "Hoo... It's good to cry, cry, cry."

Zhao Changming looked dazed, took a bowl of pig's trotters from his wife, hesitated for a while, saw Wang Zhiyun put Zhao Nan on the bed, waved him out.

Zhao Changming, who was instructed by his wife, took the trotters to the kitchen and poured them back into the pot to warm them.An hour later, Zhao Changming tentatively pushed open the door of Zhao Nan's bedroom, and put the hot pig's trotters on Zhao Nan's desk.

"Hush..." Wang Zhiyun sat on the edge of the bed and patted Zhao Nan who was still sobbing in his sleep, motioning Zhao Changming to keep his voice down.

Another ten minutes later, Wang Zhiyun felt that Zhao Nan was fast asleep, so he tucked in the quilt for him, slowly got up and walked to Zhao Changming who had been staring at Zhao Nan's desk.

"What are you looking at?" Wang Zhiyun followed Zhao Changming's gaze to look at the table.

"Daughter-in-law, haven't you read so many books about children's mental health?" Zhao Changming continued with a trembling voice, "Tell me, our family Nannan won't really have any psychological problems, right? I think He still hasn't forgotten what happened last time, so I'm afraid he was really frightened."

On the desktop, on a piece of homework paper, was a picture that Zhao Nan had drawn all day.

In the painting, a small river divides the paper into two halves, and there are two children on both banks.Zhao Nan's paintings are very similar, so Zhao Changming recognized the two children at a glance, one is Zhao Nan, and the other is Zhao Feng who no longer knows where he is.

Zhao Nan was smiling happily, but Zhao Feng on the other side looked indifferent, as if he was not looking at Zhao Nan at all, his eyes were fixed on a person floating on the river.

According to reasoning, this person should be Zhao Dong, but Zhao Changming looked carefully for a long time, and found the strange thing that made him deny that this person was Zhao Dong.The people floating on the river were wearing the clothes that Zhao Dong wore that day, but their faces were blurred, as if they were covered by something.

Zhao Changming was startled, the faces around them were blurred... Only Qu Wanting wore a mask all year round!

He didn't dare to think about it any further, he shook his body, shaking off the goosebumps all over his body caused by the gloomy painting style to the limit.

"Otherwise, let's take Nan Nan to Mrs. Wang's place in the village and ask her to recite it?" Looking at this painting made people uncomfortable, Zhao Changming couldn't help thinking about feudal superstition: "Maybe just read a few sentences." ……young married woman?"

"Ah?" Wang Zhiyun's soul was taken away by this painting, and Zhao Changming only woke up from a dream when he touched it. She looked at Zhao Nan who was lying on the bed twitching, and nodded stiffly: "Okay, let's go tomorrow morning!"