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Her Mountain, Her Sea - Chapter 40

Published at 13th of May 2022 06:54:40 AM


Chapter 40

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Chapter 40 – Scars

During the long holiday of November, Zhang Meng did not go back to the dormitory and stayed with You Yu in the dormitory. 

Chi Tang went back. She was so hot that she wanted to go home and hug the air conditioner for a few nights.

However, her hope of getting a good night’s sleep was finally lost.

As soon as she got home, she smelled the snorting smoke in the house. Her dad finally came back after being out for a few months. He brought a group of friends to gamble and drink at home.

Chi Tang tried his best to ignore those loud noises, went upstairs by himself, unlocked the two locks on the door, and locked himself in. But even if you close the door tightly, you still feel the smell of smoke in your nose, and you can hear the noise downstairs when you put on your headphones.

The bad feelings that haven’t appeared in a long time were coming back.

In the evening, when she came down to drink some water, her dad at the card table finally found her, smoking a cigarette, and ordered: “Get some dishes back.”

There were ten men and women in the room. They made up two tables of cards. They were going to play all night again. Of course, dinner was to be settled here. In the past, her father called his friends to come over to play cards, so he was too lazy to bother to order food. He would support her, and Chi Tang was used to it.

She was holding a glass of water and wearing long trousers. She didn’t dare wear a skirt like she did when she was alone.

“Give it money.” Chi Tang said indifferently as he stretched his hand forward.

Her dad just lost a game, spit out the smoke in his mouth angrily, and cursed, “Money, money, money! When you run out of money, ask me for it again!”

Chi Tang remained unmoved: “You have not been at home for a few months. Am I not going to eat? I have no money anyway. “

Her dad was so good-looking, he couldn’t hear her blocking him in front of his friends. Cursingly, he drew a few hundred yuan bills from the table and threw them at her.

Chi Tang sneered inwardly, then opened his mouth and said, “Not enough.”

Her father wanted to scold her again. Chi Tang first said, “Your friends are all eating here. I can’t be stingy with some cheap things. “

Holding a wad of money, Chi Tang pedaled upstairs, casually ordered a takeaway, threw the wad of hundred-yuan bills full of smoke on the carpet, and sat quietly for a while.

This time, her dad went out to do a rare project. It was estimated that he did not get the money. He may have posted the book. Otherwise, it would not be the reaction that he asks for the money. This kind of test was accurate, and his next time was estimated. He was a heavy drinker and called people to hang out at his home for a long time, creating a “drunken life and dream of death” appearance.

The food arrived soon, and there was a lively meal below. Chi Tang was lying in her room, blowing on the air conditioner. She did not go downstairs to eat, and no one came to ask her to eat.

Chi Tang felt he was hungry but didn’t want to face those people. Shee came out of the cabinet and chewed on a piece of chocolate, then picked herself up and put it on the ukulele in the cabinet.

Two notes popped out, and she put them down again. She suddenly remembered that during the summer vacation, You Yu was sitting here doing her summer homework for her, so she could still be lazy, holding the ukulele and sitting opposite her.

I want to go back to the bedroom for a bit, even if it does not have air conditioning.

The phone screen lights up. It’s a message from the dormitory group. Chi Tang had had no news of friends in his mobile phone communication software for a long time, but now there was a group set up by the head of the dormitory, Wei Xingxing. In the dormitory, everyone was there except for one, who did not have a mobile phone.

As expected, it was Wei Xingxing’s news in the group. She and her family were traveling outside and sent them photos as soon as they arrived at the hotel. The town was said to be a famous ancient town, but the photos were of all kinds of people. People in modern costumes were crowded on the antique streets. 

It’s impossible to make people yearn for it. I just feel a sense of suffocation.

Wei Xingxing typed swiftly, “It’s not as well known as meeting each other. It’s completely different from what we saw in the previous photos. So disappointed! “

Xia Yuanyuan also posted a photo of herself and her parents traveling abroad. Her mother was a fat beauty, standing in front of a sculpture posing with a silk scarf.

Xia Yuanyuan: “I especially took photos of my mother. I took over two thousand photos, so I was exhausted.”

Others continued to speak. After a while, hundreds of messages were sent through the group. Chi Tang also saw Zhang Meng’s photo. She had just taken a shower in the bedroom and was eating snacks. There was a corner of the photo and there was still some writing on the desk.

Chi Tang’s bad mood eased a little after looking at the news.

Every time his dad brought many people back, she was unspeakably irritable. Lying down until late at night, there were still people downstairs talking loudly. Chi Tang took a bath and checked that the door was locked before sleeping, and held it back with a chair.

The next day, there were still those people, and even two more. The first floor was smoky. Chi Tang was standing on the stairs and wanted to turn his head back to the room for a moment. However, she hadn’t eaten for two days and had only eaten two sticks of chocolate. Her hunger and twitching stomach prevented her from retreating. She still passed by those people and went out for a meal.

She had deliberately asked for more money before, and her father no longer asked her to help them order food. He didn’t care about her.

Of course, those people were still sitting firmly at the card table after eating a meal, wandering outside for a long time, and returning at dusk. Both men and women have withered yellow skin, little sunken cheeks, and elongated eye bags. They looked like some terrible creatures in the lingering smoke. Chi Tang quickly ran upstairs and ignored them.

When Chi Tang went upstairs to unlock her door, she saw a middle-aged man emerge from the other room, as if he had taken a nap in that room.

Seeing her, the man looked up and down, smiled, and greeted him: “Oh, it’s Boss Ji’s daughter. How old is she? You are in high school, right? “

Seeing him approaching, Chi Tang subconsciously crawled out of the goosebumps on his back, unscrewed the door handle and entered the room, closing the door heavily without saying a word.

Those friends of her father’s, whenever they met her, were probably weird and impolite, but Chi Tang didn’t care; she just wished to be far away from those people.

She was good-looking. She was a beautiful girl when she was twelve or thirteen years old. Her mother had already been away from home all year round. With such a father, the friends he brought back were almost as good as him. Five poisons were available, and the birth of some things was simply inevitable.

She still remembered the time when she went to drink water in the middle of the night and was suddenly hugged by a certain “uncle” when she returned to the room. She felt terrified and nauseous, with the smell of smoke and hot palms… I feel uncomfortable. She screamed, hit the head of the man behind with what she caught, attracted the attention of others, and let the man go.

After the incident, “Uncle Zhao” smiled and said something embarrassing to her dad, saying that he was drunk. Her dad also smiled and patted the man on the shoulder, saying that it was not a big deal, so he didn’t mind.

She was frightened and yelled at her dad, but he called her shameful.

His daughter was almost taken… She was so scared, but he said she was shameful.

“Other people’s fathers will protect their daughters. Why don’t you? Are you my father? ” She trembled, crying and screaming.

Her father’s face was ugly and bored, and he also yelled at her: “If I weren’t your father, I would have lost you! Isn’t there enough trouble? Got to your room! “

From then on, as long as her dad was at home, as long as her dad’s friends, those “uncles and aunts”, were there, she would dare not wear skirts, dare not show her body, dare not leave her room at night.

But she was awakened by the sound of unlocking one late night. She didn’t know who was trying to open the lock outside the door, only that the person failed to walk away quietly.

After that, her father’s “friend” came to the house, and she couldn’t even sleep at night.

The fear in the past has faded a lot now, but the marks left on her were as conspicuous as a scar on her body.

There was rain outside the window.

Wei Xingxing and Xia Yuanyuan posted today’s travel photos in the group again. In the photos, Wei Xingxing’s parents gathered her in the middle, and the three of them looked alike when they laughed. Xia Yuanyuan took pictures with her mother. Both the mother and daughter seemed to be short. She sent several messages to complain about her father’s poor quality of taking pictures.

They chatted. Chi Tang lay on the bed and watched quietly until Wei Xingxing called her into the group.

Wei Xingxing: “Why is @chitang not here?”

Wei Xingxing: “@chitang, come out to chat!”

Chi Tang sent a full stop to go out. Seeing her appear, several people chatted happily again.

Zhang Meng suddenly sent a message and said: “You asked me to greet her dear desk mate for her. Have you had a good meal at home in the past two days? Did you do your homework? “

Chi Tang stopped sliding the message, and the refreshed message below automatically swiped the sentence up, so Chi Tang pulled it down and looked at it for a while.

At the bottom, Zhang Meng posted a picture. You Yu sat at the desk in the dormitory, looking at the camera uncomfortably with a pair of glasses on her face.

She fit the glasses surprisingly well and looked lovely.

Zhang Meng continued to post: “You Yu wears glasses, and she wants to show her deskmate and ask how she is doing.”

Wei Xingxing issued a laughing face, “Good-looking with a 100% improvement in temperament!”

Then she cried again, “No, You Yu, you can’t be partial. Why did you just ask Chi Tang but not us! Are we not worthy? “

Xia Yuanyuan added one silently, “Are we not worthy?”

Zhang Meng also laughed. “I’m just a voice machine without emotion.”

Looking at the news, Chi Tang suddenly felt sore in her eyes and then sent out a voice saying, “I want to go back to the dormitory.”

Wei Xingxing asked her, “Is it boring to be alone at home? You guys don’t know what to do with the blessing. I want to go home and play on the computer and blow the air conditioner! “

They were all happy, and no one noticed her in a bad mood.

Zhang Meng’s face appeared again, and she had sent a voice message.

When she clicked it, it was You Yu’s voice. She said, “If you want to go back to the dormitory, please come back. It’s a bit late. Do you want me to pick you up? “

Chi Tang’s mood was like an arc being pushed up by someone. She typed quickly, and a new message was sent.

“No, I’m going back to the dormitory now and rushing back.”





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