Chapter 49: Mother and Son (1/2)
Seeing his son's rejection, Teacher Xia didn't mention it again.
Xia Ye still has one week of exams before summer vacation, but this time he had a nightmare.
He would repeatedly dream of this incident that had happened a few years ago. He dreamed that his father was apologizing because he was in the hospital because he was working too hard. He also dreamed of that woman, even though she was standing in court, and whenever she looked at him, her brows would furrow slightly, and that face that was covered with makeup showed a bored look…
Teacher Xia blames himself very much for this. He has taken care of his son for so many years and knows him too well. Xia Ye's mental state was not good. On the outside he may look fine, but he knew at a glance that Xia Ye was affected by this incident.
When Xia Ye was about to take the exam the day before tomorrow, Teacher Xia put a new mobile phone on the table and said carefully: “I’ve thought about it, I’ll listen to you, I will change my phone…”
Xia Ye glanced at the table. It was still the most common phone, his father used to own a blue one, but now it's black.
Teacher Xia sat across from him and still assured his son: ”We will not contact her.”
Xia Ye drank the last sip of the porridge in the bowl, his tone lightened a lot: ”You can just change the card, you used to have that phone before, so you don't need to change it specially.”
Teacher Xia smiled and said, ”I didn't throw the old one away, I use it as an alarm clock.”
Xia Ye laughed when he heard this, his father was used to frugality, which is not very much like a musician. He would always appear noble on stage, but he was not willing to throw anything away at home. When the battery in the alarm clock was dead, his father used the battery of the remote control for a while, and it also made his brother follow along with this, like a little money fan.
After Xia Ye finished eating, he put down his bowl and went into his room to study.
The father and son had an agreement that when Xia Ye is studying for his exam, or when Teacher Xia had something important at work, and one of them will be responsible for cooking and washing dishes.
They have done this for so many years.
Although life was rough, the father and son haven't had any conflicts with anything, but the only thing that can't be mentioned is that woman.
Xia Ye prepared himself well for the exam, and handed in his papers ahead of time.
The invigilator is the leader of the second grade math group, and he was very tolerant towards him, since he was one of the top students. He saw Xia Ye answer his questions when he was walking around the room, and didn’t persuade him to check over his answers, and just nodded his head and let him go.
Xia Ye math score only had one point deducted during his high school exam. Since then, he hasn’t had any points deducted, from the beginning of the school year all the way to today.
A treasure held by the school's math teacher.
Xia Ye left the school gate and rode away quickly. Today, he agreed to buy Tang Jinyu back a new picture book. He wanted to take a trip to the bookstore.
When he was heading there, he suddenly felt something was wrong.
Not far behind him, there was a silver-gray car that kept following him. Xia Ye speeded up and the other party drove faster. Xia Ye slowed down, and the other party also slowed down and followed.
After four o'clock in the afternoon, there are still a lot of vehicles on the road at this time, but a car like this didn’t particularly look conspicuous.
When Xia Ye waited for the traffic lights, he glanced at it from the corner of his eye. It was an unfamiliar license plate, and not from the city.
When the green light came on again, he turned the front of the car without hesitation, drove across the sidewalk, and walked out of an alley.
The car was still in the main driveway, and it seemed that it couldn't follow.
Xia Ye circled a big circle and turned to the bookstore he usually goes to. The bookstore owner knew him. He saw him and said with a smile: ”Are you here to get the ”Fairy Tale King”? Here take it, this is the last one.” While handing the book to Xia Ye, he asked again, ”Where's your brother, he didn't follow you today?”
”No, he is at home.”
”Oh, that’s really rare, he sticks to you so much at ordinary times and follows you around like a little tail.”
Xia Ye laughed and gave him money, but didn't ask for change, and bought a box of big bubble gum.
He was about to leave when a silver-gray car stopped at the intersection. A beautiful woman in her thirties got out of the car. She stepped on a pair of high heels, dressed beautifully, with her hair rolled up, as if she would be attending a meeting at any time. She did not wear much jewelry, and only wore a diamond brooch on her chest.
After seeing her, Xia Ye immediately pushed his bicycle to leave, but the other party stared at him from the moment, and she got out of the car, and shouted, ”Xia Ye!”