Marvel Road to Survival

Chapter 154 Suffering

Qiao Qi used a flashlight to shine at Xiaomei's window outside the compound they rented. He had been there many times and often fed Xiaomei some late-night fruits and the like.

Xiaomei has grown a lot, but compared with Qiao Qi, she is still a dwarf. Carefully catching the gift thrown by Qiao Qi from the wall, Xiaomei opened the gift box:

"That greeting card of yours is very interesting. Please teach me how to make it later. I'll make one for Jieyi, and she won't fall in love with me immediately." Qiao Qi was full of lies, but he was the goddess of all the boys in the school. Although he had never looked like his friends They are equally chasing after each other, but they are also obsessed with it.

"You are too stupid to learn." Xiaomei carefully took Qiao Qi's gift from the wall and opened the gift box:

"Yeah, dress"

Qiao Qi secretly went to the city to choose this for her. At that time, there was no online shopping, and people living in the countryside had to go to the city to buy a piece of clothing.

"Xiaomei, what do you think the Academy of Fine Arts is like?" Qiao Qi leaned against the wall, but his thoughts were far away.

"It's just like that. It's beautiful, quiet, and the people are different from those outside." Xiaomei's voice was full of hope and hope, and she became very excited when she mentioned this.

The two of them leaned against the wall and said a few words. Qiao Qi was worried that she would be discovered leaving home, so she left in a hurry.

They rented the house of his sixth uncle. Qiao Laoliu's house was a compound. The old house was not demolished. The bungalow was rented to Xiaomei's mother and daughter, and he built a three-story foreign-style building in front of it. When Qiao Qi passed downstairs, he saw the lights on on the third floor, which was Uncle Six's bedroom. He remembered that he also left the party early, thinking that something happened to him, but who knew that he went home instead.

The window was covered with curtains, and figures behind the curtains flashed. There was a sound of something falling to the ground, followed by a woman's suppressed cry of pain, and then a woman's low cry.

"The old bachelor has found a partner." Qiao Qi smacked his lips, expressing his relief.

When school started that year, Qiao Qi and Xiaomei went to the city's high school together. He finally got rid of the endless tutors. The reason was that the tutors he invited thought that the high school courses were too stressful and should not add to his burden. Qiao Qi For the first time, I thought these teachers who went to remote mountain villages for money were great.

Studying in high school is very stressful, as if you have already embarked on the college entrance examination battlefield in your first year of high school. Qiao Qi and Xiaomei are in the same school, but not in the same class. He majors in science. Although he is not divided into arts and science, but for this special Eugenics was assigned to a small class in the first year of high school.

Xiaomei chose the art specialty class. She had told Qiao Qi a long time ago that her goal was to be admitted to the National Academy of Arts. That was her dream. During the days when she was wandering around with her mother, she worked as a child of migrant workers in Hangzhou. Studying in school, once walked into that campus

The two met less and less, and Qiao Qi was overwhelmed by the heavy study pressure. For his studies, the fourth master of the Qiao family installed a school district room in his own building for him to use. At school, Qiao’s mother is responsible for three meals a day.

In the key class, Qiao Qi no longer occupies the top spot. He is always in the top ten or so. This makes every Sunday a nightmare. Grandpa Qiao and Father Qiao will criticize him every weekend. At the conference, sometimes there will be fist fights.

This was a lot of pressure, but Qiao Qi was very adaptable. He studied hard almost day and night, and worked crazily on questions. Finally, after a summer retreat, he took the test at the beginning of his second year of high school and got the third place in his grade. The first place was Xiaomei.

The Qiao family naturally praised her for a while, and praised Xiaomei by the way. Grandpa Qiao once again held a family dinner, invited Xiaomei and her mother to eat, and asked Xiaomei to help Qiao Qi study, and the two of them worked together to improve their academic performance.

"Everything is fine. If nothing happens, I may be admitted to the university that grandpa expected, fall in love with Xiaomei at the right age, and inherit the family business before I am forty." Qiao Qi finished smoking Wen Qing's cigarette unknowingly, The whole person feels a little lonely.

"White wine or rice wine?" Wen Qing called the waiter. She felt that Qiao Qi needed some alcohol at this time.

Finally, each of them put on a bottle, set up a small stove, and heated up the wine in late autumn. Qiao Qi poured himself a full glass before the wine was warm, and drank it all in one gulp. When people are emotionally unstable, they are most easily stimulated by alcohol, and his face turned red.

"At that time, although I didn't meet Xiaomei much, I went to their studio several times every week. The management there was very loose. I often brought her some food, but she actually gained weight." Qiao Qi used her slender fingers to test The temperature of rice wine was then filled with glasses for the two of them.

"Originally, I could take my clothes home and wash them on weekends, but Xiaomei said she was embarrassed for always taking advantage of me, so she wrapped my clothes, including the smelly socks."

The two of them clinked glasses. Qiao Qi drank very hard and drank very harshly. The expensive aged wine did not taste at all and went down his throat directly.

"My mother also said that I am becoming more and more sensible, and she also gave me an increase in my pocket money." Qiao Qi looked a little painful and fell into deep thought: "Until that day, Xiaomeito, who had not seen anyone for several weeks, brought me a letter. letter"

Qiao Qi has read the content of the letter several times. He can't believe it is true. There are some wrinkles on the letter, which are obviously tear stains. From this, we can see how painful Xiaomei was when she wrote the letter.

She is a single-parent family, and she has never met her father. She has followed her mother as long as she can remember. Wherever her mother worked, she went to school. Until she came to this village, her mother found a job delivering food at Qiao's mine. My family gave me a lot of money, which made me happy.

Qiao Qi's uncle also provided them with a low-rent house, and the couple settled down here. Not long ago, Xiaomei discovered something. Qiao Qi's old bachelor uncle was actually with her mother.

Xiaomei was initially happy about this. Her long-suffering mother finally found her own destiny, which made her truly happy. Xiaomei wants to be cheerful every day, hoping to make her mother, who is always frowning, happy. She wants to be friends with her classmates, so she lets everyone play pranks. She feels that this way she can get along with everyone.

It wasn't until Qiao Qi stepped forward to protect her that she realized that this is what counts as a friend, doing good for others rather than making others happy. She wrote in the letter that it was Qiao Qi who changed her.

It was Qiao Qi who let her know how to face the world. As the first boy to stand up and protect her, Xiaomei felt the warmth from other than her mother for the first time. She has no father and has never had this kind of warmth before. experience.

She looked forward to Uncle Qiao Liu marrying her mother as soon as possible, and looking forward to a man who could protect her mother just like Qiao Qi protected her.

But not long ago, Xiaomei overheard a quarrel between her mother and Qiao Laoliu. This man was unwilling to give a widow her proper status, and beat the woman violently during the quarrel.

There were many cigarette scars and belt whipping scars on her mother's body. In the past, Xiaomei refused to tell her mother no matter how much she asked, but now she realized that these were injuries caused by that man. He has been abusing his mother all these years and will fight her if she doesn't get what she wants.

Xiaomei was very scared. She didn’t know what to do. Her mother was actually very delicate and her skin looked like a girl from Jiangnan. She was a traditional woman. She felt that fame was more important than heaven. She collapsed when Xiaomei came to her for a showdown. , losing her remaining dignity in front of the people closest to her, she wanted to die.

What's worse is that just when she was trying to persuade her mother to leave, she was caught by Qiao Laoliu. She hadn't come to school for a long time. She was locked up at home, and the only thing she could think of was to ask Qiao Qi for help.

This was the first time Qiao Qi skipped class. He rushed back to his old house in a hurry and looked directly into his grandfather's eyes for the first time.

Facing his grandson's question, Uncle Qiao said lightly: "Don't listen to the gossips of the women in the village. They are outsiders and will inevitably be gossiped about."

Qiao's father rushed back and punished Qiao Qi severely. Uncle Qiao raised his crutch with his own hands and gave Qiao Qi some family punishment.