In midsummer, it rains heavily.
Manyang No. 2 Middle School, at eight o'clock in the evening, I just finished evening self-study.
Fifteen-year-old Chu Zhi pushed a dilapidated black bicycle and followed the crowd out of the campus.
Next to her is her best friend, Chen Shanshan.
That year, compact folding bicycles were particularly popular. Most girls rode folding bicycles, while more boys rode mountain bikes.
It is rare to see someone like Chu Zhi riding an old-fashioned black bicycle.
Both of them are day students, and their homes are close to each other. They ride home together almost every day.
Girls develop early, and Chu Zhi's height has exceeded 1.7 meters in her third year of junior high school, so even an old 28-bar bicycle is not stressful to ride.
At this time, the difference between a folding bicycle with small wheels and a large 28-wheel bicycle became apparent. Chu Zhi only needed to pedal once to run a long distance, while Chen Shanshan had to pedal two or three times to keep up on a bicycle with small wheels.
At that time, there were not that many cars in the county town, and the streets were a little deserted after eight o'clock.
The two of them were riding side by side. Chen Shanshan said angrily, "I don't know why this so-called folding bike is so popular! You can't say it's light when riding. It's not light at all."
At that time, Chu Zhi was still very young and wore the school uniform, with a white short-sleeved upper body and dark blue sweatpants on the lower body.
Her moderately long hair was tied up high, swaying gently in the evening breeze.
She smiled crookedly, raised the corners of her lips and said, "If I remember correctly, you have been asking for your folding car from your parents for a long time."
When she mentioned this, Chen Shanshan's face showed embarrassment at first, and then she became angry and said, "Ahhhhh, stop talking."
"Who knows what shit was in my head at that time."
It was time for the two to separate soon. Chen Shanshan's home was closer. At the gate of a newly built community, she waved goodbye to Chu Zhi, and Chu Zhi continued riding to her aunt's house.
Chuzhi went to elementary school in her hometown village, and she ranked first in grade every year, not because of her good academic performance, but... there were too few students in her hometown school.
Every household is desperately trying to move to the county town, not only for the convenience of work, but also for the study of their children.
Even if they don't have a household registration in the city, parents still want to pay hundreds of yuan in tuition fees every year and go to great lengths to send their children to schools in the county.
Chu Zhi's grandfather also wanted to send her there, but she refused.
It was okay in elementary school, with dozens of students in one grade, but not so good in junior high school. The conditions of every household have improved, and when they have the conditions, they are all rushing to send their children out.
Such behavior resulted in the fact that by the time Chu Zhi entered junior high school, there were no more than ten Murakami students in the three grades, so the school was simply shut down and asked to attend schools in the town.
It was quite a long distance from the county to the town. Although it was possible to stay there, Grandpa was reluctant to do so. In the end, he lost his temper and sent Chu Zhi directly to the county town to go to school.
At that time, there was only my aunt's family, and they had just bought a house in the county. Chu Zhi naturally decided to stay at her aunt's house.
As of this year, Chu Zhi has lived here for three years.
The weather in summer is so strange. It was fine one second, and then suddenly it started to rain with thunderstorms the next.
The raindrops as big as pea grains just hit her body. Chu Zhi was thinking about the books in her schoolbag and had to kick her feet hard. Finally, she arrived before her clothes were soaked. Aunt's house.
Chu Zhi pushed the bicycle into the corridor and locked the bicycle on the railing on the first floor with a lock. After making sure it was locked, she carried her schoolbag and walked upstairs.
As a renter, she naturally didn't have a key. After she slammed the old security door a few times, there was a sound of footsteps in the house.
The person who opened the door was my eldest uncle, who had already fallen asleep with their eldest daughter, who was more than three years old.
There is a small utility room in the two-bedroom house, which is her room.
It was a very small utility room, with only room for a small bed measuring 1.2 meters, and nothing else.
At that time, all the small tube buildings in the county were like this. They were not large in area. The toilets and bathrooms were all together, and there were no so-called partitions.
After the door in front of her opened, Chu Zhi lowered her head, grabbed her schoolbag strap, and walked quickly towards her small room.
Recently, I don't know if it's my misunderstanding. I always feel that my uncle's eyes are particularly weird when he looks at me.
Although she was still young at that time and didn't know what such a look was, she already felt intuitively that something was wrong.
Therefore, since then, she has always avoided contact with the other party alone.
The heavy rain soaked Chu Zhi's clothes, revealing the shape of a small vest underneath.
The wet short sleeves not only revealed traces of the inner garment, but also revealed a narrow waist.
Chu Zhi hurried back to her small room, took her change of clothes and rushed into the bathroom.
As soon as I took off my school uniform and was standing there wearing only a vest and shorts, the bathroom door was opened.
"Wait, I'm taking a shower." Chu Zhi panicked, although she didn't know why she was panicking.
"Tsk, open the door, let me go to the toilet!" the man outside said persistently.
Chu Zhi frowned. After all, she was relying on someone else. She didn't want to cause trouble to her aunt's family, because in this case, her grandfather would be in trouble in the end.
"Right away." In desperation, Chu Zhi could only put on her wet school uniform again, and then opened the bathroom door.
After the door opened, Chu Zhi subconsciously wanted to go outside, but she didn't expect to be pulled back directly.
The ugly and wretched man twisted his face and said dirty words.
Chu Zhi was so frightened that she froze in place for a moment. Oh, it turned out that that strange look in her eyes was actually like this.
After a brief moment of daze, a frantic struggle followed.
My eldest uncle drank a little wine tonight. As the saying goes, wine makes people bold.
He took action at Chu Zhi.
She was frightened, and the moment her scream came out, it was muffled by the man's big palm.
Chu Zhi cried helplessly under his restraint, she was about to vomit.
Taking advantage of this moment, Chu Zhi stretched out her legs to kick the man behind and escaped.
Since then, Chu Zhi has applied for accommodation and has never returned to that home.
But she didn't expect that after so many years, when she came back here again, the same pair of dirty hands would reach out to her again.
