Memoirs of a Mortal

Yang Lin

After another week at home, the sutures on my left hand were removed at the hospital. Apart from leaving a centipede-like scar and the wound on the back of my hand, it had no impact. The head doctor said that he was attacked from behind and hit with a brick. As a result, the middle skull injury could not be restored to its original shape, leaving a depression, but it has also recovered.

One fine morning, I started carrying my schoolbag again and returned to school. The different eyes at the school gate, and the puppy love couple kissing in the corner as soon as they entered the class. Well, these are nothing to me now. "Xiaowen, are you finally willing to come back to class?" The math teacher came in from outside the classroom speaking Mandarin with a local dialect. This was the first time I took a closer look at him after being transferred to this class. A thin man who looks to be in his twenties, fair and wearing a pair of glasses, has always been nice to me since I came to this class. Because his surname is Wang, everyone usually calls him "Teacher Wang" respectfully.

"Come out with me for a moment." Teacher Wang put the textbook in his hand behind the podium and tapped me with his hand.

I followed him obediently to the corridor outside the classroom. "What happened to you recently, your father talked to me on the phone last night, and I also heard about it from other students. This thing has happened, even if the school is partly at fault, but now the matter has passed. You are a smart person My child, I believe your academic performance will not be affected by this matter!" I can't describe Teacher Wang's expression at that time, but he looked a little serious with those eyes.

It’s just that ‘the matter has passed and will not affect learning! 'These words seemed a bit understated to him, but I knew that saying anything to him at the time would not do much good except that it would make me have another person who has opinions about me in the class in the future. Maybe he thinks I am a bad student now. So, I just nodded perfunctorily and returned to my seat in the classroom at his signal.

Just when we were out, the classroom was already in a mess. Paper balls being thrown around, men and women hugging each other, the sound of snacks being eaten in the back seat.....I spent half a month like this as if nothing happened. On the last day of summer school, I saw an acquaintance at the school gate.

"Do you still remember me?" The figure is getting closer to me, Yang Lin! The girl who was with Sun Quan and the others at that time. Wearing a white T-shirt, black tight jeans, and a pair of white sneakers, she looked particularly tall and curvy, with her hair tied high into a ponytail. If I had met her for the first time, I would never have combined her with school bullying and student trafficking.

"You still dare to come to me?" I looked at her blankly.

"Why don't you dare? Don't forget, I saved you the last time you were alive!" She smiled at me, "Don't be afraid, I just miss you and came to see you! After all, we know each other. , acquaintance!”

Her smile reminds me of a poisonous snake，"Do you really miss me? Where do you want to take me this time?"

"Why don't you believe it? I really came to see you and see how your wound is doing!" She sighed, continued to smile, and her eyes fell on my left hand.

"You suddenly became so kind? Honestly, why did you come to me? The police found Sun Quan last time. Do you think you can run away?" I stood on the side of the road, but it seems that I didn't interact with him last time. Her family talked about her.

"Sun Quan? Haha, the police will arrest him? Are you kidding me?" She laughed suddenly.

"Why are you laughing?" I looked at her, feeling that she was a little confused, and I tried my best to control the anger in my heart. "Why won't the police arrest him? Everything he did is illegal!"

"You don't have to look at me like that! If I want to do something to you, I won't be the only one here today!" She put away her smile and put a hand on my shoulder, "I have something to tell you!"

"Really? What can you do to me? Do you want me to join your gang?" I pushed her hand away and walked forward alone.Usually at this time, my father has already got off work and will pick me up on his bicycle. I look at the intersection in front of me and don’t want to talk to this girl anymore.

"Don't you want to know why Sun Quan is fine? Don't you want to seek revenge from Yang Chen?" She continued behind me.

"Is Sun Quan okay?" I stopped and looked back at her.

"Aren't you going home after school and are you just here chatting with your classmates?" Dad's voice came from beside me, and he took the schoolbag on my shoulder with one hand. I looked at my father beside me, nodded silently, and sat on the back seat of the bicycle.

"I have a holiday tomorrow. I will visit you when I have time!" Yang Lin said to me with a smile.

"Is she your classmate? It would be nice to have a friend!" My father was riding in front of me, but I just sat behind and watched Yang Lin getting further and further away from me without answering.

After dinner, my parents and grandma were watching TV in the room (before my grandfather passed away, he was a local paper factory director. Because of his grandfather, my father became the leader of the electrician team in the factory. After my grandfather passed away, the factory Inexplicably, it became a state-owned enterprise, and the only thing left in our family was this old house with three bedrooms and one living room. It was said to be three bedrooms, but it was actually only two and a half bedrooms. Since the living room at the entrance was only large enough to accommodate a dining table for two, our family had to eat. Relatives would always go to grandma's big room to solve the problem when they came, so the only TV in the house was also placed in grandma's room). I went back to my small room, put on my headphones, and played the tape in the Walkman over and over again. Play the most popular campus songs at that time.