Chapter 1 A life of humiliation
My father is a cripple and makes a living by picking up garbage. I was picked up by him in the garbage dump. My appearance made him, who was already struggling to live a difficult life, but for me, he worked hard and said that his greatest wish in his life was to raise me into a human being!
Since I was a child, I could only wear the torn clothes my father picked up from the garbage dump and live in a small house full of rags. Seeing other children wearing new clothes, playing with toys, and eating snacks, I was always envious and filled with gaps in my heart. Gradually, my personality became very inferior and introverted. I knew that I stayed at home every day and didn’t go out and didn’t talk.
When I was seven years old, my dad used the savings he had saved to sign up for me in elementary school. After he came back, he said to me deeply: "Child, you must study hard and be a promising cultural person in the future!"
When I was in school, because I was always dressed in rags and didn’t like talking, my classmates didn’t like me, and no one wanted to play with me. I didn’t make a friend in both elementary and junior high school.
In high school, there was a girl in my class named Wang Shiqi. She was pretty and had a very rich family. She came to class with an LV bag every day. Many boys in the class liked her, including me, but I just thought about it in my heart and didn't dare to show it at all.
When I was in the first year of high school, the head teacher separated me and her, thinking about being at the same table with Wang Shiqi. I was very excited, but when I walked to her, Wang Shiqi suddenly stood up with her nose covering her nose, pointed at me and shouted: "Teacher, he smells so smelly, I don't want to sit with him!"
One sentence made me froze there in an instant, my face was getting hot, and my heart was so excited that it hurts very much. I usually take a shower, but because the house I live in is full of rags, I inevitably have a weird smell on my body. However, others don’t tell me through it, but Wang Shiqi doesn’t give me any face at all and says this in front of the whole class.
With Wang Shiqi's lead, other students also started to make fun of it, saying that I was too smelly and didn't want to sit with me. In the end, I could only sit alone in the corner behind the classroom.
Wang Shiqi hates me and looks down on me from the bottom of her heart. Every time I pass by her, she will cover her nose with disgust. She will not go to the activities I participated in. Even the homework book, she asked not to be with me. Because Wang Shiqi, other classmates in the class began to stay away from me and isolate me. I became more silent and came and went alone every day.
In the first semester of my second year of high school, during the National Day holiday, my dad picked me up a white T-shirt. The material of the clothes was very good, and there were 90% new. This was equivalent to the first new piece of clothing in my life. As soon as the holiday ended, I wore it to school. However, as soon as I walked to the seat, a book suddenly hit me on the head. Then, Wang Shiqi's angry voice sounded in the classroom: "Chen Xiaotian, are you fucking crazy?"
Wang Shiqi called out, and the whole class looked at me. Everyone was inexplicably surprised. I didn’t know why I messed with Wang Shiqi. I was even more confused. Recently, I have been very careful. I was afraid that Wang Shiqi would like me, so I kept away from her and didn’t even dare to look at her. I really don’t know where I offended her, so I stood up innocently and asked Wang Shiqi aggrievedly: “What’s wrong with me?”
Wang Shiqi walked directly to me, pointed at my clothes, and asked for a crime: "Why are you wearing my clothes? Are you perverted?"
Her clothes?
I looked at Wang Shiqi and said frustratedly: "This is not yours, it is my dad for me!" I originally wanted to say that it was bought by my dad, but I was so inferior that I couldn't say it at all.
After hearing this, Wang Shiqi became even more angry. She spat at me and said, "This clothes are famous brands, worth thousands of yuan. Your family is so poor. Can your father afford it? And this is a female style. Will your father spend thousands of yuan to buy you a female T-shirt?"
I don’t know the brand style. I only know that these white clothes are the same for men and women, but Wang Shiqi is so righteous and I don’t know how to refute her. I stood here, my face was swollen and red. If I could, I really wanted to find a hole to crawl into it. After holding it in for a long time, I said, “Why do you say that this clothes are yours? Do you have any evidence?”
Wang Shiqi pointed to the collar of my clothes and said sternly: "When I was eating hot pot, I accidentally splashed a drop of oil here and couldn't wash it off, so I threw it away. Look, this is the evidence, how dare you say it's not mine?"
I looked down and saw that there was indeed a very conspicuous oil stain on the collar. This is the evidence that I was wearing Wang Shiqi's clothes. I can't make any arguments now. Actually, I knew just now that the clothes might be Wang Shiqi's, otherwise she wouldn't care so much. I just didn't want to admit it, but at this point, I can deny it. I really don't know what to do.
I stood there with difficulty, my feet trembling, my heart trembling, and my face was almost red and bleeding.
At this time, Wang Shiqi spoke again, and she said to me word by word: "Take off my clothes quickly. This clothes are so disgusting when worn on you!"
When the other students onlookers heard this, they all agreed: "No matter how poor your family is, don't pick up other people's clothes to wear. It's so shameless!"
"Yes, he didn't pick all his clothes up before, it's so disgusting to think about it!"
"Why are you still standing there? Take off your clothes quickly!"
"Take it off, take it off!"
The sharp and harsh sounds shaking throughout the classroom. They were like mountains, pressing heavily on me, making me breathless. From childhood to adulthood, I have been sarcastic and disliked, but who knows that I am also a human being and I have dignity. I want to be a normal person, but God just made me so unbearable. At this moment, I could no longer hold back, tears burst out from my eyes. I took off my clothes crying, and ran out of the classroom with bare shirt.
When my dad saw me, he immediately frowned and asked, "Xiaotian, why haven't you been in class? Where have you got your clothes?"
I yelled at my dad with all my strength: "That's not my clothes!"
After that day, the news that I picked up girls' clothes and wore spread in school, and my family background was also exposed. Everyone knows that my father is a cripple who picks up garbage. I have become a laughing stock in the eyes of all the school people. No matter who sees me, I will point fingers at me. When I walk on the road, I dare not look up, for fear of touching other people's contemptuous eyes. My heart is more fragile and inferior than before.
Wang Shiqi's disgust towards me also increased a few degrees, especially after knowing that my father was picking up rags, she looked down on me even more. Every time she finished drinking, she would throw the bottle on me and joked with me: "Don't your father picking up trash? Give this bottle to your father!"
With her leading the way, other students in the class followed suit. They didn’t throw away the trash cans, but they threw them all into my seat, and everyone treated me as a trash can.
Later one day, after drinking half of Wang Shiqi's pearl milk tea, she threw the paper cup on me. The sticky milk tea in the cup spilled all over me. My clothes were dirty and wet, and my heart was extremely frustrated. All the shame I suffered these days accumulated in this moment. Wang Shiqi, she was too bullying!
In the past, she hated me and I could hide away from her, but now, I can't even hide. She humiliated me again and again, and became even worse. My tolerance will only make her more rampant and unscrupulous. So this time, I couldn't bear it anymore, so I took the milk tea cup and walked to Wang Shiqi's side, and then poured the remaining milk tea on her.
Wang Shiqi was caught off guard and was spilled with milk tea. She stood up in shock and screamed at me, "Chen Xiaotian, are you crazy?"
I pointed to my clothes and said to her in a deep voice: "You splashed me first!"
Wang Shiqi said angrily: "What's so great about your torn clothes being dirty? Do you know how expensive my clothes are? Can you afford to pay?"
Because I am poor, Wang Shiqi doesn't treat me as a human being. In her opinion, I am cheap and precious. Her contempt for me is deeply rooted. I can't change her, nor do I want to argue with her. After regaining my dignity, I threw the milk tea cup back to her and then returned to my seat.
Seeing me like this, Wang Shiqi was so angry that she stamped her feet. She wanted to come over to cause trouble for me, but the bell rang and she could only shout at me: "Chen Xiaotian, wait for me after class, I will not let you go!"
In a flash, the afternoon class was over. After class, I rushed home immediately. But as soon as I left school, I saw Wang Shiqi waiting for me outside the school gate, and there were more than a dozen boys following her.
I know the boy who leads the lead. His name is Zhou Hao. He is a rich second generation and a little overlord in our second grade. He is very good at making a fuss. He is Wang Shiqi's loyal flower protection messenger. With him, no boy dares to have a idea about Wang Shiqi. Many people think that Zhou Hao and Wang Shiqi are born together.
When I saw Wang Shiqi calling Zhou Hao, I felt instantly panicked. At school, what I fear most was the slutty students. I couldn't afford to offend them, so as soon as I left the school gate, I quickly lowered my head and walked around. But Wang Shiqi's sharp eyes were sharp and he noticed me at a glance. Immediately, she pointed at me and shouted: "It's that stupid fool!"
The next second, Zhou Hao trotted towards me, then kicked me to the ground, and then his group of dog legs surrounded me and punched me.
I curled up on the ground with my head in my arms, miserable and helpless.
There were many students gathered outside the school gate, but no one helped me. Everyone just gathered around to watch the show.
My body hurts very much, my heart is uncomfortable and painful. The sorrow of loneliness is infinitely widening. People like me may not be punished if they are beaten to death. Just as I was in despair, suddenly, a thick voice sounded: "Stop!"
The two words were shocking and powerful, and they immediately stopped Zhou Hao and others, causing them to stop. Then, everyone saw a man with messy hair, ragged clothes, and a sack in his hand limping towards me.
This cripple is my dad!
Chapter completed!