Chapter 29 I've Been Watching You Go
She only believed that Wu Yu would keep watching her walk, so she was not afraid of anything.
Ju Nian returned to his aunt's house, and the tricycle used by his aunt and uncle to pull fruits had already stopped at the door. When the aunt heard Ju Nian's footsteps, she scolded her while walking out of the kitchen.
"It's not okay to expect you to do a favor at home during the summer vacation. Why is the girl so playful? I warn you not to get along with Wu Yu anymore. I have said that he is not a good seed. I'm right now. At noon, I beat your uncle Henggui to the point of bleeding for a bottle of soda. Your uncle has already gone to the hospital. This time, he has to send the little bastard to labor camp... What's going on with you?"
My aunt talked, but finally found something wrong with Ju Nian standing by the threshold. Ju Nian's clothes had buttons off, cuffs were torn, and the legs were covered with gray, not to mention that the hair was messy.
As a woman, my aunt instinctively felt a trace of ominousness. After all, Ju Nian was her niece. She walked to Ju Nian who didn't say anything, pulled her arm and asked, "What's wrong, Ju Nian, how did you do this... Did someone bully you... Say, child, tell my aunt who bullied you... Is it Wu Yu's bad baby? I have to tear him."
"It's not about Wu Yu's business!" Ju Nian held back her hand and was about to rush out the door. "It's Lin Henggui, aunt, it has nothing to do with Wu Yu. Wu Yu fought with him when he saw Lin Henggui bullying me. I also beat Lin Henggui's back of his head."
"What did you say? You mean..."
My aunt didn't believe it at first. But she had been married to her uncle for many years and had heard of her uncle's cousin's character. Lin Henggui could indeed do such a dirty thing. Besides, Ju Nian was still a little girl, so she couldn't make up such a big lie.
"You're a sin, that inhuman beast, want to piss me off!" My aunt sat on the threshold and whispered in a low voice. However, after a while, she calmed down from her initial shock and anger, pulled Ju Nian into the room, closed the door, and took out the clothes for her niece to change.
"I'll go out to find your uncle. Stay at home and don't go out, do you know?" the aunt reminded. Before leaving the door, she touched Ju Nian's hair, and there was a long-lost heartache in her eyes.
About three hours later, Ju Nian leaned against the head of the bed, and the passage of time did not mean much to her. There were too many things that happened this day, and there were the ugliest and the most beautiful in the world. She was willing to believe that all ugliness was just to lead to beauty.
At about nine o'clock, my aunt finally found my uncle. At the same time, there were Ju Nian's parents. The four adults surrounded Ju Nian in the center. Ju Nian's impression was that she rarely received such attention. She was a little embarrassed and could not answer anything.
Later, my mother pulled her into the room alone and kept asking: "Ji Nian, where did he touch you? Does he have that... Is there any?"
Ju Nian hasn't talked to her mother alone for a long time. When she first came back, she longed for her aunt to be her mother, and wanted a woman with warm arms to hold her, but she suddenly didn't think so. Maybe her rest period was too long, and she had already passed the most confused time while waiting. She is now more worried about Wu Yu and doesn't know how Wu Yu is doing.
"Jinian, you're saying, don't scare your mother." Mom's hand pinched Juinian's arm and hurt.
Ju Nian understood why her mother was anxious. She wanted to know whether Lin Henggui had succeeded and whether her daughter's chastity was still there?
"He pulled off one of my buttons and touched me, and then Wu Yu rushed in." Ju Nian said.
My mother obviously breathed a long sigh and put down the big stone in her heart. It seemed that things were not as bad as she thought.
Is there a qualitative difference between the harm caused by Lin Henggui's previous molestation before the last step? Ju Nian is confused.
Next, the mother went out and whispered a few words to her father. The four adults approached her aunt's bedroom and closed the door. They should be discussing what adults only understood, and Ju Nian did not need to participate.
The discussion lasted for more than ten minutes. Ju Nian sat alone on the bench by the gate waiting for their results. How to deal with Lin Henggui's bad guy and how to clean up Wu Yu's dirty water poured on him was what Ju Nian was most concerned about. As for what responsibility she should bear on Lin Henggui's forehead, she was willing to do so.
Parents, uncles and husbands came out of the bedroom one after another.
It was my father who spoke first: "Ji Nian, your mother and your aunt, I have a discussion together. This matter cannot be made public. We all agree to settle it privately."
"You guys? Have settled privately?"
Dad sat next to Ju Nian and lit a cigarette. The smell of smoke made Ju Nian want to cry.
"The meaning of private settlement is to solve the problem of family members in private. Do not make it public. Lin Henggui is not a guy, and he is not as good as a beast, but he is your uncle's cousin. Your uncle treats you well. Thanks to him and your aunt over the years. This matter is going to be exposed, and your uncle's family can't even raise his head as a human being."
"Dad, are you saying that... that person doesn't have to go to jail?"
When the aunt heard this, she said, "Silly child, what benefits did you get when he was in jail? You beat him as well. He didn't have time to do anything to light the sky lantern? Your uncle would go to the shameless person and don't think about medical expenses. Whether he has a concussion or a broken head, he deserves it."
"That beast deserves to die." Mom also cursed.
The uncle who had been silent said, "Don't worry, the beast has to pay for the mental compensation he should give."
Ju Nian was stunned: "I don't want his money."
"Ji Nian. You are still young and don't know anything. Let it pass on this matter." Mom comforted her.
"No, I want him to go to jail." Ju Nian's voice was very small, but his attitude was extremely firm. "I want to sue him!" Thinking of the nightmare at that moment of noon, in the narrow and dim small room, Lin Henggui's disgusting hands, Ju Nian blinked his eyes and tears fell.
"Stop!" Dad threw the cigarette butt on the ground, "You have no brains at all? When this matter spreads, how can you be a human being, a girl?"
"I'm not afraid of this." Ju Nian spoke timidly.
"You are not afraid of me. Our Xie family has never attracted those unreasonable gossip. I have told you a long time ago that girls should love themselves, and your aunt also said that you follow those unreasonable boys all day long, who would think you are a serious person? Otherwise, why didn't the beast attack others? Don't cause trouble for me. Recently, there have been enough things. I support you a few of you, running outside all day, as tired as a dog, and you are still fucking trouble for me. This matter is settled. If you dare to tell me, I won't have a daughter. Also, if you pack up your things, you have troubled your aunt and uncle for too long. From now on, you will move back home."
In this way, the unforgettable thing that was remembered in Ju Nian ended silently. No one mentioned it again, as if it had never happened. She finally returned to her parents. It was so strange that she lived with her aunt six years ago and felt that the sky was gone. Six years later, she returned to her parents six years later, and there was no star of joy in the sky. In fact, she just turned around and returned to the origin, but everything was different. Life was like a kaleidoscope. You thought it was just a gentle twist, and it had changed a lot of changes inside, and it had changed a world.
The adults have repeatedly reiterated that they would not let Ju Nian and Wu Yu play together again, and they would not even speak. Dad said that if Ju Nian was disobedient, he would ask his uncle to break Wu Yu's leg. During the days of packing up, his aunt also stared at her very tightly, always afraid that something would happen to happen before completing the task, so it would be difficult to explain to her parents.
The parting comes too quickly, making people completely unprepared.
In such a melancholy, the admission notice from No. 7 Middle School was officially issued to Ju Nian. She went to a junior high school in the suburbs of the city, and the teaching quality was not comparable to that of the key middle schools in the city. More than 200 fresh junior high school students took the high school entrance examination, and Ju Nian was the third in the grade. Those with higher scores went to the technical secondary school. In that era, the technical secondary school was more expensive than the high school. In the end, the entire school had received an olive branch of No. 7 Middle School, but Ju Nian was only one, and Wu Yu was admitted to a vocational high school.
On the day he left, Ju Nian woke up very early. The day before the big luggage, his father had already taken home, and then he ran a long distance transportation to another province. His mother was at home to see his younger brother and could not leave. His aunt and uncle also had their own affairs, so the adults asked her to sort out the last trivial things and take the bus home by themselves. Ju Nian was happy that he had to leave because he had to leave, but she had to tell Wu Yu some of them.
Thinking of this, Ju Nian was worried again. How could she find Wu Yu? There was no phone number at his house. If someone knocked on his door, it would be heard and it would be a storm in my aunt's ears. Just as she was undecided, the glass of the small window was ringing. This was a secret code that only she and Wu Yu knew.
Ju Nian was ecstatic about this spiritual touch. She opened the window and Wu Huguo stood outside with a smile.
Ju Nian also smiled. She felt that she had a lot of words to say to Wu Yu. But now she was a god-given opportunity, and it took her a long time to squeeze out a sentence.
"Wu Yu, I'm leaving."
She spoke more calmer than she thought.
Wu Yu also saw through the open window that Ju Nian had cleared a lot of rooms.
He said: "The No. 7 Middle School is better than here, and your family is better than here."
Ju Nian wanted to ask: "Will you go to find me? Will you forget me?" But she thought again, even if Wu Yu said no now, one day he really forgot, there is nothing he can do about it.
"I saw Lin Henggui's store open again." Fear was rooted in her heart. She had nowhere to say anything, only asking Wu Yu to understand.
"What are you afraid of? I'll watch you walk in the Martyrs' Cemetery and keep watching you. If he dares to do anything, I will definitely kill him."
This is the farewell between Ju Nian and Wu Yu. Ju Nian thought at least one of them would cry. After all, in recent years, there was actually only one other person in their world. Although she returned to her parents' home, she was not alone in the world, but she always had fewer opportunities to meet, and she could no longer be as close as she used to be.
But the facts were not as sad and sensational as she expected. They always smiled and everything was faint. Finally, Wu Yu told Ju Nian that he planted a loquat tree in his yard and did not know if he could survive.
Juice Year likes the fruits of loquats. No wonder Wu Yu asked her about the loquat kernels she wanted to spit out, which turned out to be the purpose. Her heart was filled with joy, as if she had seen the yellow fruits hanging on the branches when the loquats were ripe, protruding from the moss-covered wall of Wu Yu's parents.
What are you worried about? Maybe that day, she can sit under the tree with Wu Yu and carefully pick up the fruits on the ground.
Although Wu Yu’s pomegranate and Orange Year’s loquat are not together, they are also companions. Besides, one of them should be the fruit.
Wu Yu didn't understand why Ju Nian's face suddenly turned red. Ju Nian quickly covered up his embarrassment.
"A few more trees, otherwise one tree will grow in a yard, which will become a word 'sleep'? This is not good."
Wu Yu laughed so hard: "Master Xie, you are becoming more and more treacherous. According to what you said, should there be more people in the family? Otherwise, one person in a yard will become the word "prisoner"?"
No one is at home, their laughter can echo freely.
In the afternoon, Ju Nian packed up her things and said goodbye to her aunt's house.
No matter how much you like a place or not, over time, thousands of flesh and blood will grow, and you will always feel sad when you leave. This is a helpless thing.
After putting the key below the threshold, Ju Nian walked alone on the road with a big bag. Every time she walked a short walk, she looked in the direction of the Martyrs Cemetery. The terrain was high and she stood up. She could see the people, cars, roads, etc. below.
We were almost at the bus stop. From that angle, we could see a touch of red on the Martyrs' Cemetery. It was the blooming pomegranate flower and a white dot under the flower, which was Wu Yu.
Ju Nian can imagine Wu Yu smiling under the flowers, his head was shining and his white teeth shining in the sun.
Chapter completed!