Hu Xinzhou held her sister's hand and walked in the sea of people.
"Xincheng, remember, no matter what happens when you go home, you just have to do your homework. Unless your sister calls you." Hu Xinzhou bent down and warned her sister a few more words.
"Yeah." Xincheng, who was happily eating sweets, was also a little worried.
Hu Xinzhou put their schoolbags on their backs and walked quickly home.
The Hu family is located on the fourth floor of this multi-story demolished house. The front door looks the same as any other home. The edge of the dark red door is covered with various small advertisements, and there is a couplet in the middle.
The first couplet is: Spring rain brings silk to all things
The second line is: Red plum blossoms embroider thousands of mountains
Hengpi: full of spring
If you look carefully, you will find that this couplet is a little crooked. It was posted by Hu Xinzhou and her sister standing on a stool together on New Year's Eve. She values this sense of ritual. Even if life is such a mess, she still needs these.
Beautiful pictures to survive sleepless nights one after another.
Hu Xinzhou sometimes feels that her life is like a difficult Mathematical Olympiad problem, which is frustrating and frustrating. But she firmly believes that this Mathematical Olympiad problem will not be unsolvable. No matter how difficult it is, she will be able to solve it confidently. And the solution can be solved.
The answer must be spring and hope.
But, when will this mystery be solved? What kind of mystery can be worthy of this journey of wandering?
Hu Xinzhou took out the key and opened the door. She saw her mother sitting on the sofa knitting a sweater and her brother stacking blocks on the floor in the living room. She breathed a sigh of relief and felt that the atmosphere at home was quite peaceful.
Li Dahua was not at home. As long as he was not at home, Hu Xinzhou felt the ubiquitous oppression and fear reduced a lot.
So she helped Xincheng do her homework, while she put down her schoolbag and hurried into the kitchen. She first cleaned the rice cooker that she had not had time to wash before going to school in the morning, and then washed and cooked rice.
After seeing the cooking indicator light on the rice cooker, Hu Xinzhou opened the refrigerator. This refrigerator looked very old at first glance. It was bought by his parents when they got married. It was short and shabby, but it was relatively clean and had good internal performance.
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Hu Xinzhou took out vegetables and tomatoes from the refrigerator and soaked them in the sink. She also took out egg dumplings from the freezer and set them aside. This move was quick and smooth. She bought the vegetables at the market on the weekend and made the egg dumplings at home in advance on the weekend.
. This week, I’ll have vegetable, tomato, and egg dumpling soup at night.
After returning home from school, she really doesn't have that much time to cook properly. She is in the third year of junior high school, and her time is too precious.
While waiting for the rice to be cooked, Hu Xinzhou paced back and forth in the four-square-meter kitchen, studying a physics and electricity problem in his hand. He also went outside the kitchen from time to time to check on his sister's homework.
About forty minutes later, dinner was finished. Hu Xinzhou called her mother and sister to come over and wash their hands, and put the food on the table. Then she went to hug her brother, washed his hands, and settled him on a baby stool.
Although there is only one dish, the portion is very large. The freshly cooked vegetables are green, the tomatoes are bright red, the egg dumplings are golden, and the aroma is emitted with the steaming heat.
Hu Xinzhou put a saliva towel around her brother, scooped some soup to soak the rice until soft, then crushed the egg dumplings and put them in the rice. Then she fed her brother small bites. The little boy caught the rice that leaked out and played with it.
Then he wiped it on Hu Xinzhou's clothes. Hu Xinzhou didn't care at all.
Hu Xinzhou seemed to be performing her job, with neither joy nor disgust on her face. She just fed her patiently mouth after mouth without any expression.
The draft paper for the physics problem was placed on Hu Xinzhou's lap, and she glanced at it from time to time.
Suddenly Hu Xinzhou's heart trembled. She saw several long and thin red blood marks on her mother's cheek. Obviously, these were the marks left by something that had just been slapped hard.