The playground was white and it rained heavily. It doesn't look like rain at all. It is the sluice in the sky that opens the sluice, not the raindrops, but the water column with thick fingers that runs through the world. It began to wind in the afternoon and suddenly thundered after school. There is a splash on the water in front of the teaching building, as if someone had left a large amount of ink on health promotion. At the beginning, people in the school engineering department were still running around the playground wearing raincoats to check the drainage system, for fear that the rain would soak the turf and the granular plastic runway imported from the United States.
Now, the turf has been completely overturned by the rainstorm, revealing patches of mottled black soil. On the plastic track, the water is not up to your feet. Horizontal tearing left staggered marks on the soil. Parents who can't stop the doorman from picking up people, and private cars drive to the playground and wait. Just half an hour ago, it was as lively as a market, and everyone was honking their horns. In the rain, the students didn't recognize their car and turned around like flies.
Finally, everyone was taken away, and there was no one over the playground. The sky-blue flag of Shi Lan Middle School flutters against the background of the sky.
Chu Zihang stood in front of the glass, staring at the outside. He is the only one left in the classroom. It was as dark as midnight, everyone in the classroom was on, and the pale light shone behind him.
He took out his cell phone and dialed. After a few beeps, the phone was connected. He put the receiver close to his ear.
"Hang, is it raining there? Oh, my mother and her sisters are shopping in Jiuguang Shopping Mall. It's raining here, too, and the car can't take it. Let's have a coffee before we go. Take a taxi home quickly. Didn't your father give you money? Or call your father and ask him to send a car to pick you up. Be a good boy, and your mother will bang. " There was a clear "bang" in the microphone, and then the phone hung up.
Chu Zihang silently closed the phone. He didn't say a word from beginning to end, and he wasn't ready to say it. He's used to it. It happens every time.
He just asked where his mother was and told him that he had nothing to do to reassure her.
But Chu Zihang didn't want to call his father. He knew that his father would ask the driver to pick her up in a top-class Mercedes S500. My father is a well-educated and high-quality person. He likes his beautiful mother very much as a dancer. He loves me, loves my family, and treats him well. I always say, Zihang, if you need anything, just let me know. I am your father. I will do my duty to you.
Sounds great, having a rich father do his duty to him.
But Chu Zihang didn't mention any need.
The door of the classroom is open, and the cold wind in autumn is pouring in with rain, which is a bit biting. Chu Zihang wrapped her colorful coat, fastened Burberry plaid scarf, and copied her hands in her pockets.
"Chu Zihang? Let's go together, the rain won't stop. The weather forecast said it was a typhoon, and the Meteorological Bureau issued an early warning! " The charming girl with long hair stuck her head in, saying that a silver Hello Kitty hairpin hung on the tip of her long hair, and her delicate smiling face turned slightly red, and she lowered her eyes and dared not look him directly.
"Do you know me ... my name is Liu Miaomiao ..." The girl didn't get an answer, and her voice became smaller and smaller, like a mosquito buzzing.
Actually, Chu Zihang knows Miao. Liu Miaomiao, a junior, is still in junior high school, but he is also quite famous in high school. Liu Miaomiao has passed the tenth grade of the third grade piano competition and performed his piano solo at the annual gala. There are also some boys in Chu Zihang's class who are fighting for Liu Miaomiao. Chu Zihang wondered if he could help.
"I'm on duty today and I'll leave later." Chu Zihang said flatly.
"Oh, I'll go first." Liu Miaomiao said softly, her head shrank back.
Through the glass window covered with water droplets, Chu Zihang looked at Liu Miaomiao's driver and lifted the huge black cover over Liu Miaomiao's head. Liu Miaomiao took off her sandals and the driver squatted down to help her put on her rain boots. Liu Miaomiao followed the driver, stepping on the stagnant water to the black BMW with "Angel Eye" headlights in the rain.
"Hey, Liu Miao Liu Miao, you can take me!" A junior high school student shouted at Liu Miaomiao under the eaves.
"Ricardo Milu, go by yourself. My home and yours are not in the same direction! " Liu Miaomiao also don't back.
In fact, Chu Zihang's home and Liu Miaomiao's home are not in the same direction. Chu Zihang's home is the first Peacock Mansion in the east of the city. Liu Miaomiao lives in a famous California community in the west of the city, and the largest single-family in it is the Liu Miaomiao family.
Junior high school boys squatted under the eaves, silently watching BMW slide into the rain curtain, the taillights flashed, the engine roared and left.
He cocked his neck, pulled his head and walked slowly away along the eaves. Fingers parted the water curtain hanging on the ancient eaves. Chu Zihang looked at his back and suddenly thought that maybe he could give him a ride. But the boy suddenly shrank his head, wrapped his coat around his head and jumped into the rain like a lost dog. He runs really fast. Before Chu Zihang could call him, he was soaked through the water far away.
A loud thunder fell from the sky, and the ear exploded, followed by a blank. The rain seems to be getting heavier and heavier. Maybe Liu Miaomiao is right. This is no ordinary rain, but a typhoon.
Chu Zihang turned his mobile phone with his palm for a long time, then suddenly grasped it.
He entered a short message. It's raining hard. Can you pick me up? Then read silently, make sure the tone is correct and send it out.
In the next few tens of seconds, he clenched his mobile phone and listened to his heartbeat, drumming ... drumming ... drumming. ...
"Ding", a short message came in, and Chu Zihang turned on his mobile phone. "I just finished here, you wait at school and will arrive soon."
Chu Zihang looked at it for a while and deleted the information. I stood up and picked up the water at my feet. I splashed the whole bucket of water on the blackboard several times, and the water flowed downwards. Chu Zihang grabbed the blackboard eraser and wiped it hard.
The class teacher likes Chu Zihang not only because he is good at his lessons, but also because he never slacks off, including being on duty and doing things more seriously than others. People who have been wiped on the blackboard are covered with chalk marks. Chu Zihang wiped things like new ones from the store, and even the notes in the corners were wiped clean.
"Genius, one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent sweat! You can all be like Chu Zihang. I can wake up laughing in my dream. What are you worried about going to school? " The head teacher always says this to the whole class.
The head teacher never knew why Chu Zihang was always so serious, including such a trivial matter as cleaning the blackboard.
In fact, Chu Zihang doesn't like the black edition at all, but when he does everything seriously, he can make his mind empty and think nothing.
Rub hard, open wide and close wide, like a chivalrous sword without hatred. Water droplets splashed everywhere.
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I brushed it for the third time, and there was a low whistle in the rain. Chu Zihang turned to look out, and the xenon lamp pulled out the discerning beam, almost blinding the person he was looking for.
A pure black car, in a triangular frame at the front of the car, two M's overlap into the shape of a mountain. A Maibakh 62, luxury Maibakh, brand, the top car in the parking lot of Mercedes-Benz is several times more expensive than Dad's Mercedes-Benz. Chu Zihang doesn't know much about cars, which the people in the car boasted to Chu Zihang.
Wipers hang on the front windshield layer by layer like endless rain. Every half a second, Chu Zihang can see the face of a middle-aged man in the driver's seat and wave hard at him. Chu Zihang never understood why he always smiled so happily, as if he had a good time and had no worries at all.
Chu Zihang adjusted her collar, tied on her scarf, put on the Hermes bag her father bought for her from London, strode under the eaves, hesitated, and took a photo of her coat on her head like that loser in junior high school just now. The people in the car quickly pushed open the door and opened a huge black umbrella with the gorgeous plaid pattern of the Burberry family. He greeted him as politely as a driver in Liu Miao, and put an umbrella on Chu Zihang's head.
Without looking, Chu Zihang pushed open the umbrella, walked directly to the front of the car, opened the back door and got in. Now it's in the ivory Napapi sofa.
The man paused, turned his head back to the driver's seat, put away his wet umbrella and handed it to Chu Zihang behind him. "Insert it in the car door, where there is a hole for inserting an umbrella."
"Yes, you did." Chu Zihang silently inserted an umbrella, propped up his chin with his hand and watched the rain outside. "Let's go."
"The clothes are wet? I'll heat the seat behind your seat. Who knows, so comfortable! " The man began to brag about his car again.
"No, go home and change."
"Oh, oh." The man cleared his throat and said to the cherry wood console, "Go!"
The screen lit up, the instrument shimmered, and the powerful 6-liter V 12 twin-turbo engine made a silent self-test, and no vibration was felt in the car.
This car is started by sound.
"9 million cars, only three people's voices can be started when shooting, one is me, the other is the boss, and one person can you guess?" The men won.
"Don't care" Chu Zihang deadpan.
The man is bored, but he is not depressed. Maibakh retreated silently. After getting enough space, this super-large car with a length of more than 6 meters ran forward like a leopard driven by a large displacement engine, instantly split the rain curtain and drove out of the gate of Shi Lan Middle School.
Chu Zihang silently looked back, and the guard held out his chest in the booth, indicating the symbol of the car and his luxury.
Chu Zihang felt that he didn't really know what he respected, Maybach or something. You sit for a long time before you realize that he is just talking nonsense.
The road is very empty. In this weather with poor visibility, most cars have gone back to rest. Cars still running on the road have their headlights on, and the sky is as dark as ink, except for an occasional flash of lightning, like the sky were to fall, and it was raining in all directions, and the distance of 100 meter was blurred. Maibakh has embarked on an elevated road across the city.
"Your mother didn't know to pick you up in such a heavy rain."
"Fortunately, I didn't go to wash the car in the morning and didn't touch the car wash. Once in 80 yuan. After washing, I am in the water. "
"You haven't shown me the report card of last semester."
"The doorman in your school began not to let me drive in. I said I would pick up my son after school. What if you don't let me in after such a big bath? I don't know how much saliva I spent. "
"Finally, I told him that I bought this car for 9 million yuan, and no one stopped the city government from entering. Were you this old at Shi Lan Middle School? He suddenly went soft, haha. "
The man nagged while driving, and the car stereo echoed with the Irish band altan's "Everyday Up", and the vigorous female voice talked with the vicissitudes of male voice:
Their tall trees, their tall leaves.
Green growth,
My lover has seen me many times,
I've been watching him alone for hours,
He is young, but he grows every day.
Father, father, you made a big mistake,
You married me to a fat boy,
I am twice as old as twelve, and he is only fourteen.
He is very young, but he is slowly growing up.
The road surface is full of water, and the water splashed on the side of the vehicle is like a water blocking wall. Chu Zihang silently looked out of the window, and no one paid attention to what the man said. He is listening to that song.
"Not bad, not bad? They said it was a good disc, so I bought it. This is fatherly love! " When the man saw Chu Zihang in the rearview mirror, he immediately understood that Chu Zihang was always absent-minded when listening to music.
Chu Zihang for nervous man a little in distress situation, "didn't you hear it? This is a conversation between a girl and her father. It's not appropriate for you to play it to me,
"What's the difference between boys and girls? Are they all fatherly? " The man one leng, "can you understand? I heard that your English is the best in your middle school, and you won the prize in the competition … but your mother didn't tell me.
The tree has grown tall and turned green.
Many times, I saw his cuteness,
How long have I been staring at him alone,
He is still young, but he is still growing.
Dad, dear dad, you made a big mistake to your daughter.
You married me to an underage boy.
I'm 24, he's 14,
He is still young, but he is growing up.
Chu Zihang is satisfied with the lyrics of The Man with the Beat. "This song belongs to altan Band, and it is about a father who married his daughter to a young man of 14 years old. My daughter doesn't want to, and she is worried that her husband will grow up and she will be old. But my father said ... "
Daughter, dear daughter, there is nothing wrong with the arrangement I gave you.
I married you to the son of a rich family,
Once I am old, that will be the man you depend on.
He is still young, but he is growing up.
Chu Zihang went on to translate, "But then the girl's husband died before he grew up. The girl was very sad and knitted him a shroud with flannel on the grassy cemetery.
"What is this ghost song? It's not interesting at all. The girl's husband died like this. What is this? " The man finally understood.
"Nothing interesting, just Irish folk songs. Talking about life is not suitable for me anyway." Chu Zihang said simply, in fact, he liked this song very much and was very sad, but he really didn't know what he was talking about.
"If you don't want to listen, just turn it off. Let's talk. " The man turned off the stereo. "Did I tell you that a new building has been built in our company? The boss is in the dragon's steam bath and gym, and we use them for free, and the things in them are advanced XXX ... "He began to be repetitive.
Men are probably used to verbosity all their lives, otherwise they wouldn't have failed so much.
That's because he is too wordy, otherwise she has nothing, Chu Zihang silently.
Because of wordiness, I can coax my beautiful young mother around until I marry him. Chu Zihang is handsome enough to eat at Shi Lan Middle School because of his mother's genes. When his mother was young, she was a pillar of the city dance company. A silk road flower rain fluttered in Dunhuang, and many admirers crossed the river. However, this person actually took an exam to weave a better future. He charmed his mother, fascinated her, and finally agreed to marry him when she drove to Hangzhou. It was then that she became pregnant with Chu Zihang. It was not until I put my handprint on the marriage certificate that my beautiful and confused mother realized that the car was not a person at all. He is just a driver who drives for the company. ...
It is also because of wordiness that the big boss of the Black Prince Edward Group took a fancy to him and asked him to drive a Maibakh. After divorcing his mother, he patted his chest and swore to Chu Zihang that he would make money every month and send it to her mother and son to support him. He is also very brave. He turned to work, quit his steady job as a driver and went out to find a decent job. It took about three or four months to find this job in the labor market. I still drive, but the car is good and the pay is poor. And the beautiful mother is full of capable, Lacrimosa sent Chu Zihang to grandma's house a few days later, bought cosmetics, put on exquisite makeup and went out to play with her sisters, and brought Chu Zihang a father in less than a week. This time, Chu Zihang's mother carefully chose a man, one in a thousand. The three companies under her father's name were divorced once and had no children. When she proposed, she vowed that she would never have children again and adopted Chu Zihang as her own son.
The students all thought that Chu Zihang's life was the best, but I didn't expect his life to be far better than others thought.
But it really can't be attributed to him, but his biological parents are so excellent.
"watching DVD? There is Toy Story ... but it is a gun version. " The man finally realized that his chatter was casting pearls before swine.
"No, we're going to see it together for three weekends." Chu Zihang said.
"Is the air conditioner in the back seat hot?"
"Come on, don't always talk like a driver," Chu Zihang felt a little tired. "I don't want a driver here."
"There is no shame in being a driver for my son," said a man with thick skin like a wall, or whose nervous circuit is slower than that of a turtle. "I used to ride a horse for you when I was a child."
Chu Zihang's heart twitched slightly, too lazy to say anything to men.
I always say something that makes people feel uncomfortable calmly, which is really annoying. I finally have time to get along. Can't I say something serious? Just say I could ride a big horse in that shack when I was a child, but don't ramble, Chu Zihang thought silently. It was dark outside the window, and through the heavy rain curtain, the light of the street lamp was as weak as fireflies. There are no cars on the road, and the elevated road is probably closed.
"How is your mother recently?" After a long silence, the man suddenly said.
"As before, I got up in the morning to get the cat, went shopping in the afternoon, had a drink with those aunts in the evening, came back to chat after drinking, and slept until nine o'clock the next morning." Chu Zihang hesitated. "Anyway, dad always goes out to socialize, and she is also very popular. She feels very good like this, and she is not bothered. Call back around 10 to ask if she is home. "
Chu Zihang feels much more relaxed. He knew that men would ask this question, and it seemed that he was relieved. Mom has a good life, but she certainly doesn't want him. Grandma said her mother was a heartless daughter since she was a child, but she was heartless and beautiful, so she could live a good life. With this light, she now thinks that "Dad" is her first husband and doesn't think about unhappy things before. Calling another man "dad" in front of this man also reassured him and made him less embarrassed. This is what Chu Zihang promised "Dad" to do. When he is mentioned, he will be called "Dad" instead of "Uncle" or other strange names, such as "Separatist".
After all this time, men should get used to it. Anyway, he didn't fight for custody of this son at that time.
"Take good care of your mother." The man said that from the rearview mirror, that handsome face had no expression. There was no response, so he was slow.
"Well, as you said, watch her drink milk before going to bed at night. If she chats with her sisters, I will give her hot milk. " Chu Zihang said.
This is the only thing that men tell Chu Zihang to do every night. It's weird. What's the use of remembering a glass of milk after losing all the women? Mother has developed the habit of drinking a cup of hot milk every night since she was a child, adding half a spoonful of sugar, so that she can sleep well, otherwise she will wake up from her sleep. But now she almost forgot that this man gives her hot milk to drink every night. Anyway, before this man, an old woman gave her hot milk to drink, and after this man, a son gave her hot milk to drink. There is always a lucky woman who was given hot milk to drink.
"Shi Lan middle school is a fucking cow. This year, 17 students have been admitted to Tsinghua Peking University. Son, work hard! Don't lose my face! " The man exposed the story of his mother drinking milk and began to pretend to care about Chu Zihang's study.
"Dad said he was not in the national college entrance examination and went abroad directly. I will take the TOEFL next month. " Chu Zihang replied coldly.
He doesn't like men's concern, because men always talk. The film "Dragon Raja" invested by Fox in the 20th century the year before last was shot here. Chu Zihang and several classmates were also chosen as extras in middle school. As the top aristocratic private middle school here, Shi Lan Middle School took the opportunity to hype the reputation of the school and put the news of actor selection in the evening paper. The man was very happy when he heard about it, and vowed to visit the studio.
"My son filming, I'll get tea and water! I want to drive this car, is it explosive? "
During the filming, Chu Zihang will look at the parking lot near the studio intentionally or unintentionally, but the cool man Maibakh never shows up once. It's "home" S500 lying there regularly. The driver always walks by with a pair of black super bodyguards. People are called "master" by Chu Zihang after their predecessors, which makes everyone on the set look askance at Chu Zihang.
In fact, Lao Shunping always called him "Xiao Hang", but "Dad" told him, "You can't treat Zi Hang as a child on the set." "Dad" also invited director Mrs You to the Regent Hotel for dinner. When the director was happy, he gave Chu Zihang two extra scenes. This incident was heated up afterwards. For several days, Chu Zihang was criticized by the Evening News as "a young rich second generation hanging out in the entertainment circle". "Dad" was not happy, so he called someone he knew in the evening paper to get rid of those negative news.
Not to mention the graduation ceremony. For Chu Zihang, who studied in Shi Lan Middle School in junior high school and senior high school, the graduation ceremony was nothing, but he turned to attend classes in the high school teaching building. It also coincides with the wedding anniversary of "Dad" and "Mom", and they have decided to go to Northern Europe for their holiday. Chu Zihang thought for a long time, called the man and said, why don't you come? The man is also very happy and hesitant, saying, what about your mother and your stepfather? Chu Zihang was silent for a long time and said, "Call me uncle." . Hey, hey, the man agreed.
As a result, Chu Zihang was the only student who didn't stand behind at the graduation ceremony that day, and the first one who stood on the podium won the "excellent diploma" issued by the principal. He is the first in that link, and he wants that person to know.
"Alas, alas, I really didn't forget. The boss suddenly said that there were important clients coming to take a bath that day, and I had to drive them. I should have caught up, but they washed them until the next morning ... "The man muttered and explained.
Chu Zihang vaguely knows what a man's "boss" is like. He often goes to the evening paper and knows the place where a man says "take a bath". A classmate told Chu Zihang, "Last time I saw your McBarker stop at the entrance of the bath city, and then I lowered my voice." Is that a place to do bad things? "This is nonsense. Under the gable decorated like a Roman palace, seven or eight short skirts can't wait to be short to the waist, hips and low chest, and girls can't wait to dress up below the chest to welcome guests. All kinds of luxury cars come down and all kinds of uncles enter. Chu Zihang stood silently watching frontispiece in the distance, thinking about the man's boss and client in the dark. The man was smoking on his proud Maibakh, and the smoke filled the whole night.
This is the life of people like him.
"It's not good to go abroad", and men are still complaining. "If you go abroad, you can just play and play wild. Besides, what can you learn abroad? Just learn some English. Your English is already very good, isn't it? How fast is China developing now? There are opportunities everywhere. If you go to college in China, you can understand society when you go to school. Then I'll let your stepfather find you a relationship ... "
"Let your stepfather find you a relationship" is like a needle stuck in Chu Zihang's chest, which makes him unable to pass. Can a person have some dignity? Don't be so shameless, okay?
"You shut up!" Chu Zihang growled like a little leopard.
"What?" The man didn't hear you clearly.
"You shut up." Chu Zihang coldly repeated.
"You are so rude. I did it for your own good." The man paused. "You should listen to the opinions of adults more ..."
"Is it useful to listen to your opinion? In your opinion, can I find a girl to marry without divorce in the future? In your opinion, can I attend my child's graduation ceremony on time? In your opinion, can I send him to school on time? Listen to your opinion. I just want my stepfather to help me find a relationship. " Chu Zihang's voice was calm, without any ups and downs. He looked at the man's eyes in the rearview mirror, feeling a little happy and looking forward to seeing his reaction.
Is that enough? Every word is like a needle, right? So he can get revenge.
Maibakh continued to run at the speed of 120 mph on the viaduct, and the rain splashed on the front windshield. The man turned off the car stereo and kept silent. Chu Zihang turned to the window.
"You will understand later." The man suddenly said.
When Chu Zihang is in a daze, men always say things like "You will understand later", "You are too young to understand" and "It's not what you think". They lie to ghosts. When they were very young, they divorced, and Chu Zihang cried like the end of the world. The men comforted him by saying "it's not what you think", "Mom and Dad just don't live together" and "I'll take you out to play on Sunday". I believe that home is still the home of this man, that woman and three people. As a result, I followed my mother into the door of my new home and saw an uncle open the door politely, wearing a robe separately, revealing two furry legs. Chu Zihang didn't know who this person was, so he put the ice cream on his face in utter amazement. ...
After all these years ... are you still lying to ghosts?
"Don't go in when you get home, lest dad be unhappy." Chu Zihang said coldly.
"Oh, oh." The man said mercilessly.
Chu Zihang helplessly breathed a sigh of relief. He is too naive to look down on that man's face. If he sticks the needle down, the end of the needle disappears, but it is far from touching the dermis.
At this moment, someone knocked at the door outside.