第二章 失踪的女老师

不知为什么，今年的天气异常的寒冷。
走了几步，于芳芳看了看路上，出租车少得可怜，真是不坐的时候，出租车一辆一辆的从身边过，等到需要出租车的时候，干脆消失了，就算偶尔出现一辆，里面也已经有人了。
Yu Fangfang looked around on the road again for a while, but decided against it and hurried back home while the snow was not heavy and the road was not slippery.
Yu Fangfang ran away while walking. Although running in the cold wind would make the cold air enter the respiratory tract at a high speed, making breathing more urgent and uncomfortable, at least it could be faster than walking and return home.
Yufangfang returned home as usual, cooking and cleaning up alone.
After finishing everything, she turned on the TV, holding her phone, and snuggled under a thin blanket on the sofa, watching TV and checking WeChat messages.
She has a small hobby, which is to love reading the chats of the owners in their garden community group. Every day, there are reports of who didn't clean up after their dog in the elevator, who pushed a pregnant woman, whose sedan was scratched, whose car was parked in the wrong parking space, or just downstairs telling upstairs to not wear high heels around the house. Although the content is the same every day, Fang Fang finds it fascinating. She rarely participates in the conversations and mostly just observes.
Just as everyone was in the midst of a heated discussion about whether parking should be allowed in the community, suddenly a missing persons notice posted by a resident silenced everyone.
A female teacher from County No.3 Middle School had a heated argument with her family last night around 1am and left home, abandoning her two children. She disappeared after being captured on surveillance footage from the Binhe Bridge at 2:20am and has not been seen since.
As soon as the image was posted, Yuan Fangfang quickly clicked on it.
The woman in the picture had her back to the camera, her hair casually tied up, and was only wearing a thin cardigan. From the exposed part of her calf, it was clear that she was only wearing thin summer pajamas inside and was even wearing sandals with no socks.
The dim yellow light enveloped this thin and weak figure, making this back seem more desolate and helpless.
Seeing this scene, Yufang Fang, who was staying in a warm room and covered with a thin blanket, couldn't help but shiver, as if she was the one who left home in the middle of the night and was cold outside.
Yufang Fang got up from the sofa. It was such a cold day, and she couldn't help but shiver a few times. She was anxious to know what happened that made her run away from home.
此时群里已经沸腾了。
“多大的事情非得这大半夜的离家出走。”
“肯定是家庭矛盾呗。”
“穿那么少就出去了，肯定是被气的糊涂了。”
"She left like that, and her family didn't try to stop her. They just let her go."
"Can all the homeowners please help by reposting this in your WeChat moments and other groups? She has two children at home - one is only 1 year and 9 months old, and the other is only 4 months old and still breastfeeding. The children need their mother. If anyone sees her, please convince her to come home. This female teacher also lives in our residential area and is a relative of ours. Please help, neighbors." The homeowner who posted the missing person notice just sent another message.
This news caused an uproar in the group.
Yu Fangfang didn't care about what happened in the group, she just copied the information and shared it to other chat groups, and also shared it on her Moments.
What could have happened to make a mother abandon her two young children and run away from home in the middle of the night, wearing only thin pajamas and flip flops in below freezing temperatures?
等于芳芳在看群里的时候，群里已经炸翻天了。
“这样的女人配当母亲吗？有多大的气，自己孩子都不管。”
“现在的女人真矫情，说不得，骂不得，打不得。”
“This woman is too selfish, only concerned about her own feelings, leaving home when unhappy and leaving the children with her husband. She is not worthy of being a human being.”
“Women can be terrifyingly selfish, ignoring their children and husbands and only thinking about their own happiness.”
"This woman is too irresponsible."
"Her ability to handle pressure is also very poor."
"She's still a teacher, but she has no sense of responsibility. All those years of studying were in vain."
“这女老师肯定性格有问题，这样的老师怎么教育学生，以后还是不要当老师了，免得祸害别人的孩子。”
“这明显就是一个不合格的母亲。”
"This is purely a problem with one's own psychological resilience. Just three months after giving birth to our baby, my husband has not taken care of me, not even giving me any living expenses. I am busy taking care of the baby, taking care of my husband and also thinking about earning money. How can I have time to get angry and leave home? I think it's just indulgence and being spoiled."
“是不是抑郁了？”
“哎呦，谁还没生过孩子，别人没抑郁，就她抑郁了，我看就是娇气。”
“都结婚生孩的人了，哪来的毛病。”
"Even if you have depression, it's because of your own doing."
"Exactly, if you're constantly paranoid, fearful, anxious, and complaining, it's strange not to be depressed."
"Women nowadays live too comfortably. When my mother was raising several children by herself, she still had to do housework, take care of my grandparents, and work in the fields. My father never helped, and at night, my mother still had to heat up water to soak my father's feet after a long day of work. Nowadays, women are too comfortable, and they have more and more problems."
"Exactly, women in the past would give birth and then return to work on the fields. How come they didn't get depressed? Nowadays, women have so many things to worry about. Giving birth is just a small part of it. Why do we have to make such a big deal out of it?"
"Women are inherently weak, but become strong when they become mothers. If they can't handle little things like this, how can they be mothers?"
"Every woman has to rely on herself. If she relies on others, she will only end up disappointed and depressed."
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“This is not postpartum depression at all, it's clearly making a fuss out of nothing.”
Yufangfang looked at the discussion in the group and thought, "These two children are too pitiful. I hope this teacher won't get into trouble, otherwise the children will be even more pitiful." She had a miscarriage in April this year, and Yufangfang has been feeling guilty about the child she lost. She can't bear to see other children suffer in her heart.

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Yufangfang looked at it for a while, most of the messages in the group blamed the female teacher and there was no other news about her. Yufangfang found it uninteresting and went to bed to rest.
```htmlThe cold wind outside still roared wildly, sighing with sorrow.
Subconsciously, Yu Fangfang touched her belly, where another little life was growing. Although this little life brought her hope, the memory of the miscarried child made Yu Fangfang's heart ache again. The pain made it hard for her to breathe, and she turned over. She didn't know when tears had already soaked the pillowcase, and the side of her face against the pillow was ice-cold.```
她在心里默默祈祷着那个女老师不要出什么事，不知不觉她便在繁杂难过的情绪中恍恍惚惚的睡去了。