its life is floating

Chapter 11

Zhou Zitong returned home and opened the door with a key. It was still dark inside, but he could see a little light coming from his mother's bedroom.He felt that he was about to suffocate, and he thought that he must apologize to his mother this time, and must say that I love you.

He walked lightly to his mother's door, swallowed and pushed the door open. He thought he would see a gentle and smiling mother, but the person inside the door was not like that.

That person was wearing tattered clothes. Even in winter, she still wore a shirt and a long gown. The clothes were also dirty. She was not at all like her mother who loved to be clean no matter how poor she was.

What happened to you?

The mother was lying on the bed, panting weakly, she slowly opened her eyes after hearing someone coming back, and saw her son standing beside the bed, tears were about to overflow. "Don't cry, don't cry," she said in a weak voice.

"Mom, what's wrong with you? Why did you leave me? I, I'm really scared, I can't leave you." Zhou Zitong reached out to touch his mother, but her mother avoided it in horror.

"No, no, Zitong, don't touch me, mom, mom is sick, don't touch me." The mother's voice was flustered, but she cried first, it was a cry of collapse.

"Okay, I won't touch your mother, I won't touch you, but I also beg you, don't cry, don't cry." Zhou Zitong felt his body tremble, and his mouth began to tremble, with his vocal cords and his own hair They all began to tremble, "Mom, you go to sleep, you go to sleep, I will accompany you."

He looked at his mother, then slowly took out the quilt from the closet, gently covered her body while trying not to touch her, then sat down on the ground beside the bed, and then seemed to be Zhou Zitong started humming a sleeping song just like what his mother had done to him.

"Sleep, sleep, my darling. I love you, I love you, mother, I love you."

The mother lay on the bed and looked at her son, who left only the back of his head, and cried a little disappointingly while listening to his lullaby.Her hand wanted to touch Zhou Zitong's hair countless times, but she retracted it like an electric shock before touching a strand of hair.

Feeling the peace behind him, Zhou Zitong thought his mother was asleep, so he stopped humming. His throat was very dry and astringent and needed water to moisturize him, but Zhou Zitong didn't move. He just stayed there quietly, listening to the winter night. The silence, and the occasional car passing by the road can hear that sound, and there is nothing else.

"Zitong." His mother's dry voice came from behind him. Zhou Zitong wanted to turn around to see what was going on with his mother, but his mother stopped him.

"Don't look, Zitong. I want to tell you something about my disappearance for nearly a month." The mother's voice was a little heavy, as if she was talking about something unpleasant, but it was indeed unpleasant.

"I have AIDS, Zitong, I have AIDS."

Zhou Zitong asked for leave again, this time because of his own willfulness, he wanted to be with his mother, and said "I love you" that he hadn't said for so many years.

He was with his mother all day.The current medicine still cannot cure AIDS. This highly contagious virus makes people daunting. In order to prevent her own disease from infecting her son, the mother also bears her own wish to see him. Zhou Zitong brings her meals every day. The door, and then knocked on the door, the mother came out to get it.

Usually there is no contact, most of the mother is avoiding Zhou Zitong.

"It doesn't matter mother, it really doesn't matter, you won't infect me."

"No, Zitong, I need to protect you like this." The voice came from the locked door, "If you contract such a disease, your life will be over."

"Mom can't be so irresponsible for your future just because she wants to see you. But Zitong, you have to know that mom loves you the most."

"Me too..." Zhou Zitong leaned against the door, "You are the person I love the most in this world."

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"Zhou Zitong, where have you been after school these few days? I can't find you after class." Shen Feng looked at Zhou Zitong with a feeling of complaint.

"I got a job."

During these days, Zhou Zitong found a job, helping others in a milk tea shop.He learned to smile, to the guests, to the employees, to the boss, he began to smile.

"Child labor?" Shen Feng looked surprised.

"I'm already sixteen." Zhou Zitong felt a little helpless. The more he got acquainted with Shen Feng, the more he realized that he was a funny person in his bones, and he was not at all a person with the particularly bad temperament he showed when we first met him.

"Then I'll go with you after school!! I'll cheer you on, and by the way, with my beauty, maybe I can help you get some business."

"Thank you, no need." Zhou Zitong was worried that with his current personality, he could really attract guests, instead of all the guests leaving him?

"You don't have confidence in my face?" Shen Feng got very close all of a sudden, so that Zhou Zitong could only push him with both hands, and his heart began to pound.

"Confidence, confidence." He said casually.

"That's right." Shen Feng made a pose that he thought was very handsome, "Then I'll go with you after school, and I can help you attract some guests by the way."

After school, Shen Feng urged Zhou Zitong to go to the milk tea shop together.

Pushing open the door, there was a very sweet girl's voice inside.

"welcome--"

"Xiao Zitong, you are here!" The girl said excitedly, she is not very good-looking, she can only be regarded as pleasing to the eye and average, but she is born with a good voice.

"I told you not to call me by my name." Zhou Zitong smiled helplessly, then put the schoolbag under the counter regardless of Shen Feng, went into the locker room and changed into his uniform.Standing behind the bar, he was a cashier.

When Zhou Zitong went to change clothes, Shen Feng didn't feel neglected at all, instead he sat down on the chair in front of the bar very consciously, chatting with the girl.

"What's your name, your voice is beautiful!"

Hearing such a handsome boy in front of him praise himself, even a cheerful girl can't help but blush, it's really foul!

"You can call me Xiao Rui, as for the voice, thank you so much for your compliment!"

"Don't use honorific titles to me, I'm the same age as that guy! I'm his classmate, I heard that he works here, so I came to have a look, and I'll cheer you up." Shen Feng asked Xiao Rui to stick his head in a somewhat mysterious manner. Come over, lean into her ear and say, "Is it really okay for your place to accept child labor? I heard it's against the law."

"Ehhhhhhhh!!! But he clearly took out his ID card and said that he is over 16 years old! Otherwise, we wouldn't dare to recruit people."

"Xiao Rui, don't listen to his nonsense." Zhou Zitong came out, and when he heard Xiao Rui's exclamation, he knew that Shen Feng had said something bad. Sure enough, when he came out, he saw Shen Feng's malicious smile, " I'm over 16."

"My sister's reaction just now is very cute!" Shen Feng got cheap and good-looking, he showed a harmless smile, "Is my sister the owner of this shop?"

"Well, yes! Because I prefer a free life, so after graduating from university, I didn't go to work step by step. Instead, I borrowed money from my parents to buy a shop here and open this milk tea shop. However, now I have paid off all the money I borrowed from my parents. From that day on, I am a free man!" Xiao Rui's eyes were bright, and it was a color deeper than starlight, colorful and full of hope.It is precisely because of this that Zhou Zitong chose to work here.

How beautiful it is to be a free man.

The author has something to say: I tried my best to create an atmosphere between the two of them, you see, they are all blushing and heartbeating [shame