Chapter 229 A Sky Full of Leaden Clouds

After Laba Festival, the snow stopped.

On a windless morning, Wu Yali went home without asking for leave. She didn't have the habit of asking for leave because she had been late and skipped classes so many times that she couldn't remember them all.

After taking a taxi to her residential community, Wu Yali got off the car and walked in. However, when she reached the door, she stopped and turned her head to look at the left side of the road. Perhaps it was because her eyesight was very good, or perhaps it was a subconscious behavior, but at a corner far away on the left side of the road, she vaguely saw a black Santana.

Wu Yali immediately turned around and left the community, found a hardware store on the street, bought a pack of sharp triangular nails, and returned to the community again. She walked along the road on the left side of the gate to the black Santana and sprinkled the whole pack of triangular nails under the two rear tires of the Santana.

After doing all this, Wu Yali returned to the gate of the community along the same route and walked straight ahead. After walking for a long time, she finally arrived downstairs of her home.

Wu Yali lived on the fourth floor. When she arrived at her home, she took out a key from her pocket, looked at it, and put it back into her pocket. She reached out and knocked on the door twice, as if she was afraid that the person inside couldn't hear her. Then she lit a cigarette and sat on the steps waiting.

After a very long time, a crack appeared in the door, and a head popped out from the crack. It was a woman's head. She called out "Yali". Then, the crack widened, and a middle-aged man came out. The middle-aged man was holding a briefcase, his hair was a little messy, and his face was uneven and pockmarked.

"Yali, you're back?" The middle-aged man seemed to breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that it was Wu Yali sitting on the steps. "I came to talk to your mother about some things about the English training school today. Hehehe... we just finished talking."

Wu Yali did not reply, nor did she even look at the pockmarked middle-aged man. She threw away the cigarette butt, stood up and walked past the middle-aged man to enter the door, then said, "You forgot to unzip your pants."

With a bang, the door closed.

"Daughter, have you eaten?" The woman who had just peeked in was standing in the aisle. She looked to be about 37 or 38 years old, with a standard oval face, tall and plump figure, thick wavy hair that was a little messy, and a look of inexplicable uneasiness on her lightly made-up face.

Wu Yali walked straight into the kitchen and took out a pack of instant noodles from the cupboard. When she turned on the kettle to make the noodles, she smelled a fishy smell, a strange one. She had smelled it before, the smell of a man.

She looked towards the trash can subconsciously and said, "It's quite cold."

Wu Ma, who was standing at the door, didn't understand what her daughter meant and said quickly, "Yes, is it cold to study in school? Bring some more clothes back with you. By the way, your school hasn't closed for the holidays yet, right? Why did you go home today?"

Wu Yali put seasoning in the bowl: "I have no living expenses."

Mother Wu quickly took out fifty yuan from her pocket and handed it to Wu Yali.

Wu Yali carried the instant noodles past Wu Ma and sat down at the dining table: "Put it on the table."

Mother Wu came over and sat next to Wu Yali: "Have you been to your father's place recently?"

Wu Yali lowered her head to eat instant noodles: "He is very busy."

Wu Ma said unhappily, "What can he be busy with?"

Wu Yali looked up at Wu Ma: "Then what can you do? Aren't you two the same? ******"

Mother Wu didn't expect Wu Yali to say such a thing. Her charming face turned red with anger: "How can you talk like that, kid?"

Wu Yali suddenly reached out and smashed the instant noodles and the bowl onto the TV screen with a bang: "So how do you think I should talk to you?"

Mother Wu was startled by this scene, and then a surge of anger rose in her heart. She couldn't help but slap her daughter: "Do you still see me as a mother?!" "I don't want to have you as a mother, and of course, I don't want to have that father. Let's live our own lives in the future, and let my uncle give me the living expenses on time." Wu Yali tore a piece of paper to wipe her mouth, picked up the money on the table, turned around and left the restaurant.

Mother Wu immediately ran out of the restaurant, holding onto the door frame, and watched Wu Yali's back as she walked out the door.

She never looked back once.

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After going downstairs, when Wu Yali walked to the gate of the community, she saw from afar the middle-aged man with pockmarked face lying under a Santana car, arching his butt and cursing.

Wu Yali withdrew her gaze and hailed a taxi outside the community.

Her home is not far from the No. 1 Middle School in the city, and it only takes about ten minutes by taxi. When Wu Yali arrived at the No. 1 Middle School, the morning class had just ended, so she went directly to the girls' dormitory.

As soon as she entered the room, Wu Yali saw that Sister Hua's bed was empty. Several girls in the same dormitory came over and told her angrily that Li Yufei found an empty bed for Sister Hua in Sun Qian's dormitory in Class 150, and Sister Hua moved there in the morning when they were not in class.

Wu Yali said nothing.

She went straight downstairs and came to the dormitory where Sun Qian lived.

There were two girls in Sun Qian's dormitory. She asked, "Is that bed made by Sister Hua?"

The two girls looked at each other, then pointed at a lower bunk bed near the window.

Wu Yali turned and walked into the bathroom, picked up a basin and filled it with ice water.

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A few minutes later, Wu Yali left.

The two girls ran out in a hurry to find Yan Shi.

After listening to them talk about what Wu Yali had done, Yan Shi was neither surprised nor angry. She politely thanked her two new roommates. At this time, the two new roommates became angry and stood up for her, chattering on and on about a lot of unpleasant things about Wu Yali.

In this school, there are not many people who can talk so much with Yan Shi, so Yan Shi listened to them quietly and even smiled until they finished talking, then she returned to the dormitory alone and hung the wet sheets and quilts in the corridor.

The snow outside the corridor was melting at that time and it was very cold.

After sitting down on the bare wooden bed, she took out a fountain pen and the piece of letter paper with many words on it from her pocket, spread them out on the desk and began to write. She didn't know why, but as she wrote, she remembered what Zhang Yunqi said: Everyone has such a treasure girl hidden in the mortal world in their heart. She may not be so eye-catching, but she can also soar in the blue sky.

Yan Shi turned his head and looked out the window at the sky covered with leaden clouds.

She doesn't know where her blue sky is.

She withdrew her gaze and continued writing until it was almost time for class. Then she put down her pen, folded the letter paper and put it in her pocket, got up and went out, locking the door.

However, when she turned around, she saw Wu Yali, Chen Xinyi and several other girls standing in the corridor. They stood crookedly with their hands in their pockets, and each of them had an indescribable smile on their face.

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(End of this chapter)