Life is a Game

"What to eat, you bastard of the funeral family, you still have the face to eat and eat something that should have been strangled when you were born!"

Jiang Feng was still in the mist when he heard a sharp and somewhat hoarse female voice, speaking mean and vicious words that seemed to only appear in TV dramas, and he could faintly hear the crying of a child covered by the female voice.

Who is scolding the child? And scolded so unlike his own child.

Jiang Feng vaguely remembered that when the old man scolded them, he just scolded him and his cousins ​​for being piggies that they knew how to eat.

Something worse than a pig.

It might be a curse word in other places, but it is the truth in Jiang's house.

The fog cleared.

Jiang Feng found him in a room, a little girl's room. The decoration of the room is very simple, with white walls, a small and square desk, ordinary desk lamps, three-storey low bookshelves, and a single bed covered with pink sheets constitute the entire room.

Jiang Feng appeared in front of the bookshelf, and couldn't help but look at the bookshelf twice.

The bookshelves were basically textbooks, ranging from the first grade to the sixth grade, with one or two magazines interspersed among the textbooks, and some famous novels that Jiang Feng would buy on the recommendation of his teacher when he was a child.

There are textbooks from the first semester of junior high school stacked together on the desk. Apart from the textbooks, there is only a desk lamp and not even a pen. It seems that this small desk is empty.

The room is not big, you can see it at a glance. Jiang Feng guessed that this should be Ji Xue's room. According to the textbook on the desk, it can be deduced that Ji Xue should be in the first grade of junior high school now.

first day.

A turning point in Ji Xue's life.

Jiang Feng didn't know much about Ji Xue's family, but he knew a little about it.

Their family is a typical family that was dragged down by the disease. They used to live affluently with little money, but because of the successive illnesses of their parents, the loss of labor force, two young children, high medical expenses and the inaction of grandma and uncles, this The family was dragged down step by step, and everyone was dragged into the abyss.

Jiang Feng remembered that Ji Xue seemed to have dropped out of school in junior high school to work in Tan's restaurant. There were only textbooks on the desk but no homework for the winter vacation. Ji Xue must have decided to drop out of school and go to Tan's restaurant to work at this time.

It's just... Where is Ji Xueren?

"bump."

"Boom."

There were two loud noises outside, as if something had fallen, followed by the sharp female voice that Jiang Feng had heard in the mist before.

"Cry, cry, cry, you still have the face to cry, you are still crying, you are a thing that kills the whole family, who are you crying for when you are in the New Year, it doesn't count if you want to kill your parents, now you even want me Ke is dead, right? What an unlucky dog." The scolding can be called hard to hear.

Jiang Feng ran out in a hurry. He didn't hear the voice very clearly when he was in the mist. He thought it was someone next door to Ji Xue who was scolding the children during the Chinese New Year. But now, it was obvious that the voice came from the living room. here.

When Jiang Feng ran through the wall in three steps and two steps to the living room, he found a small dumpling sitting on the floor in the living room. Judging from his age, it should be Ji Xia. Thirteen-year-old Ji Xue was squatting next to the small dumpling, walking on the ground. Candy all over the place.

The age difference of 5 years may not seem obvious to the adult sisters, but for this kind of sisters who are about 10 years old, it seems that the difference is very big.

One can already be called a little girl, and the other is a child no matter how you look at it.

Scattered on the ground are very low-quality colorful loose candies wrapped in transparent plastic paper. There is also a plastic plate that was overturned on the ground next to the coffee table. It should be a plastic plate for candies.

Standing in front of the sofa was a middle-aged woman who looked to be in her 50s, wearing a bright red coat, with an angry face, pointing at the two sisters on the ground, talking very fast.

"What sin did I do? I gave birth to a son and raised him so big. I didn't please him. I didn't see him give me anything to be filial to me during the Chinese New Year. Instead, I let my old lady come over and take care of you two money-losing bastards." , and the other one is the Sangmen Star, which is really unlucky."

"Your sick old lady really knows how to calculate. She said it nicely. She said that she wants to accompany your dad to the hospital to see a doctor and has no time to take care of you two. What's the matter? Does she have no long hands, no feet, or no mouth? , Will I starve to death at home or what will happen? I don’t usually think of me when I have something good to do, but when I take care of others, I think of me, what is it!”

"You are not allowed to scold my mother!" Ji Xia sat on the ground and screamed, the voice of the eight or nine-year-old child was so penetrating that it even covered her grandma's scolding voice.

With Ji Xia's current knowledge base, she may not understand that the things about the Sangmen and the Keshi family are scolding herself, but she can still understand that the sick old lady is scolding her mother.

Grandma Ji Xia was extremely unhappy when she was called to take care of her two granddaughters for a long time, but now that Ji Xia dared to refute her words, she became even more furious and kicked the coffee table in front of her.

With a loud bang, Grandma Ji Xia raised her voice: "What did I say wrong? When you were born, I asked a fortune teller to calculate it. You are the lone star of the Kefukemuke family. It's a funeral thing. I said I would throw you away. Your mother, who is sick and dying, still doesn't want to, and the non-laying hen who can't even give birth to a son still has the nerve to show my face. If it weren't for me How many Son, our Ji family is about to be killed by your mother's sick and dead ghost who doesn't lay eggs!"

"If it weren't for the fact that I've been covering you up all these years and not letting you, a catastrophe, come into contact with your cousins ​​and uncles, our family might be overwhelmed by you. Now it's all right, your father and your mother have been punished by you." Kecheng is like this, are you satisfied?"

"Okay, I see, your mother just wants you to beat me. I said, that sick ghost really didn't have a good intention, and he pretended to pick me up and stay here for a while. Pooh, you kind of ghost place Can people live in it?"

Jiang Feng, who was listening in a daze, said:? ? ?

What kind of patriarchal and feudal superstitions is this? It’s the 21st century. How can you live like a feudal society?

The more Grandma Ji Xia scolded, the more angry she became, and she kicked the coffee table again. Looking at her expression, Jiang Feng felt that it might be Ji Xia that she really wanted to kick, but he didn't know what he was worried about.

Grandma Ji Xia lowered her head and saw the small bag of Dove chocolates that she just kicked out.

A small bag, with only about 10 pieces of chocolate in it by visual inspection, could be eaten by any junior in the Jiang family except Jiang Feng, and he could finish it within 10 minutes.

"Hehe, you hid it here, and you hid things from me, right? You're really talented." Grandma Ji Xia stepped forward, picked up the bag of chocolates, turned around and was about to leave.

Ji Xia, who had been sitting on the ground, suddenly stood up, and rushed towards her grandma like a small cannonball, unable to reach the chocolate in her hand, so she could only hold onto her coat tightly.

"My mother-in-law bought it for us, you are not allowed to take it, you are not allowed to take it!" Ji Xia yelled while crying.

"Don't touch me, it's unlucky." Grandma Ji Xia shook off Ji Xia, maybe because she felt it was unlucky, she didn't want to have any physical contact with her, so she hurriedly slammed the door and left.

Only a mess is left.

Ji Xia sat on the ground and wept loudly.

Ji Xue, who just squatted on the ground the whole time and didn't say a word, finally got up and got up slowly, probably because her feet were numb from squatting for too long, and her movements were a bit inconvenient.

Ji Xue silently picked up the plastic tray containing the candies and put them back on the coffee table, and then picked up the candies scattered on the ground one by one, not even letting go of those that fell under the sofa and TV cabinet.

Finally, Ji Xue walked up to Ji Xia with a green candy, and stuffed the candy into her hand.

"Xiaxia, it's the same to eat candy without chocolate." Ji Xue said.

"My mother-in-law bought it." Ji Xia choked, "It was bought by my mother-in-law."

"I know." Ji Xue said softly.

"My mother-in-law bought it for us for the Chinese New Year." Ji Xia continued, as if he was speaking to Ji Xue, as if he was speaking to himself.

"My mother-in-law bought it." Ji Xia's voice became lower and lower.

For a child from a well-to-do family who has just entered the third grade of elementary school, it is too difficult for her to understand words such as breast cancer, diabetes, medical expenses, family financial difficulties, and high debts.

From Ji Xia's point of view, she just found that since she was in elementary school, the snacks at home gradually decreased until they disappeared. The smile on her mother's face became less and less until it disappeared. The less, the more and more times to go to the hospital. Mom and Dad are always away at home, the person who cooks the food has changed from father to sister, and the meat on the table is getting less and less until it disappears, and it becomes only seen during the New Year and holidays.

Some things can’t even be eaten during Chinese New Year, such as chocolate. The small bag of chocolates that Ji Xia's grandma took away just now was specially sent to their family by Ji Xia's grandma when they were young. Grandma counted the pieces, and Ji Xia and Ji Xue could eat one piece a day from young to Lantern Festival.

There are still 6 days until the Lantern Festival.

The chocolate is gone, and the year is gone.

"Xia Xia, can my sister tell you something?" Ji Xue squatted in front of Ji Xia, looking at her, as if she had made a decision.

"My sister is busy these days and needs to go out. You can stay at home obediently, okay? In the morning, my sister will leave you two more buns. You can heat them up at noon. In the evening, my sister will bring you food. You stay at home alone. Don't go out, and don't open the door to strangers." Ji Xue warned.

Ji Xia hadn't gotten over the grief of losing the chocolate and the New Year, and looked up at Ji Xue: "Sister, are you going out to play?"

"Yes, my sister wants to go out to play."

"When my sister is done playing, can I buy you chocolates for the Lantern Festival?"

"good."