between clouds and mud

Chapter 7

The first day of junior high school is approaching the summer vacation, and Primary Six has officially entered puberty.At that time, the menstrual belts were all sewn with old cotton cloth, and some were wrapped in plant ash.

The little girl has grown up and she has her own room.The layout in the room is very simple, a small bed, a desk, a chair, and the only electric fan in the house.

The sound of the electric fan was loud, whistling, and Xiao Liu liked to blow it close to his forehead, with his mouth open: "Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah."

Sometimes Fang Nier and Hong Nier would come to her house, and Xiao Liu would close the doors and windows with ease, and they would hide in the room and secretly play cards.

In the beginning, Xiao Liu didn't understand how to play, and was always frustrated. Later, when he got familiar with the rules, he could always convince the two sisters to play. .

Every day after school, Zhang Zhijun drove Xiao Liuman around the streets on a bicycle. There were more new things in the town than in the village.There are only old popsicles in the village, and mung bean popsicles can be bought in the town, and the price is more expensive.

Xiao Liu didn't have that much pocket money, but Zhang Zhijun couldn't help being extravagant, he would sometimes treat Xiao Liu to eat a popsicle, buy candy-wrapped slices, and even went to restaurants several times, which made the little girl's mouth hungry.

Junzi is very good at holding grudges: "I'm not like you. I'm so stingy. When I was young, I wouldn't even give me a kite."

"You want to call me Brother Junzi, does Brother Junzi treat you well?"

Xiaoliu always called Daxiang brother, Cheng brother, and Junzi after her. She has been talking to him since childhood.Now the two fire sticks go to school together every day, and Xiao Liu bites the sweet popsicle and calls several times: "Brother Junzi, brother Junzi, brother Junzi."

After a long time, Xiao Liu became curious, why did Junzi have so much pocket money?

I can't stand Xiaoliu's softness and stubbornness. It is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish.

You stole money?
At first it was shock, then contempt, then peace of mind, and finally complicity.

After a brief battle between heaven and man, Xiao Liu's superficial morality was still defeated by her inner greed. For the first time, she took a dime from the money drawer at home, and after a taste, she took another [-] cents.

Xiao Liu was not greedy. Fifty cents was already very rich at that time, and she could buy two mung bean popsicles. She ate one and asked Junzi to eat another.

At that time, MP3 players became popular in the class, but very few people could afford them, and only one or two people in a class had them, so others envied them.

Xiao Liu didn't take it seriously, and didn't flock to her. One time, her deskmate stuffed the earphones into her ears, and she opened her eyes wide, and the melodious singing voice and melody
That small MP3 player, no bigger than a palm, immediately became a treasure in her eyes.

Although it is far away in the remote countryside, technology has also penetrated imperceptibly.

For example, when Xiaoliu's family bought a TV, Zhou Laoliu originally planned to go to the store to buy a radio.

Because the Junzi's house next door had already added a TV two years ago, the activities of the villagers every night were to gather at Junzi's house to watch TV. This treasure is very rare.

Although it was still a black and white TV set at that time, when the wind blows the signal pot on the roof, black and white snowflakes flashed on the TV screen, so in those two years, Junzi practiced a good ability to climb the roof. At first, he just climbed up and down. , Sometimes the signal is too bad and the army has to stand on the roof and hold the signal pot all the time.

The person watching TV at the bottom signaled him: "It's gone, it's gone, you can go back a little bit."

With the lessons learned from Junzi, Xiao Liu doesn't expect to buy a TV set for himself.Until she went to buy a radio with her father, she saw a color TV in the store, with vivid cartoon characters on the screen, Xiao Liu sat in the store and refused to leave, her father said that she did not have enough money, Xiao Liu just lay down on the ground and rolled about, saying that he wanted a color TV.

Dad lost his patience and slapped her ass on the street angrily.Xiao Liu has a thick skin, he refuses to leave no matter what he says, and he will have to buy it even more if he is beaten, otherwise the beating will be for nothing.

Dad originally wanted to buy a radio to listen to Huagu Opera, but finally bought the TV set on credit.

You can also listen to Huagu Opera on the TV, and you can still watch it, Xiaoliu thought happily.

But Father seldom turns on the TV, Mother said it was too much electricity.

Xiaoliu continued to use the method of buying a TV to challenge Dad, but she fell to the ground before she started to mess around.

Dad took Xiao Liu to the room with the look of a knowing girl, Mo Ruofu. When the tablecloth was lifted, a shiny and shiny computer was placed squarely on her desk.

"Father, you bought the wrong one. This is a learning machine, not an MP3."

"The white one can be held in a small hand." Xiao Liu added anxiously, "Let's go and see if we can change it now before it gets dark?"

"What is MP3?" The father and daughter obviously didn't expect to go together.

"For music listeners, Jay Chou's songs are really good. Several students in our class bought them." Xiao Liu explained.

"Don't the tapes sound good?" Dad took out the learning tapes in the carton packaging: "I want to listen to songs, Dad will sing for you, you said Jay Chou or something, can he sing better than Huagu Opera?"

For the first time, the two generations had a quarrel because of their different ideas. This time, my father refused to go to the store to replace the learning machine with an MP3 player.In fact, in those few years, there were very few families who could afford a learning machine. In Dengxinqiao Township, Xiaoliu was the first child to use a learning machine. Items that people spend a long time on a diet before they are willing to spend money on them.

Angrily, Xiao Liu spilled the tape on the table to the ground. Seeing such a rebellious daughter, Zhou Lao Liu slapped Xiao Liu's face hard.

This was the first time that Xiao Liu was actually beaten. After the atmosphere in the room froze for a moment, the father and daughter started a cold war that lasted for half a month.

When she was a child, Zhang Fang was the naughtiest girl in the village, so she received the most beatings. Every time she was beaten, she would grin her teeth for several days. Sometimes the beating was so severe that the bruises on her body took several days to disappear.

When Xiao Liu was disobedient, he was also beaten by his father. Once Zhang Fang asked Xiao Liu with deep understanding: Does it still hurt?
Xiao Liu said with a dead face: "It doesn't hurt, I'm skinny."

Zhang Fang swallowed back the words of experience that Zhang Fang wanted to impart.

Later, Zhang Fang watched the whole process of Xiao Liu being beaten, and concluded: Xiao Liu, you are so happy.

It turns out that your father always puts on a show and takes two shots.

But this time, Xiao Liu really hurt, her cheeks were burning hot, it turned out that the beating was so painful, the red slap marks on her face were clearly visible in the mirror, and it was swollen for several days.

For this reason, I took a few days off from school.Xiaoliu was finally on the mend, and Junzi had an accident again.

Zhang Zhijun's parents had already discovered that the money was not counted correctly. At first they found that it was a few dollars missing, and they wondered if they lost it while walking. During that time, the money in the wallet became less and less. Husband and wife together.The thieves outside must have taken all the money, who will draw one by one?
This is all precautions, it is hard to guard against house thieves.

The husband and wife first searched Zhang Fang's body, but there was no clue.Later, incriminating evidence was found in his son's schoolbag: an MP3 player and twenty dollars.

In the tragic scene of the beating of the beloved Junzi, Xiao Liu saw his bruised palms.My heart skipped a beat, completely empty.

Xiao Liu has always been in good health, I don't know if it's because of something wrong.As soon as the final exam was over, he suddenly fell ill without any symptoms. At first, he had chest tightness and angina pectoris, and then he developed a high fever.

The fever couldn't go down, and it rose to nearly forty degrees. That idiot in Wutong Village was stupid because he had a high fever when he was a child.

Seeing that the situation was getting worse, the couple rushed to the hospital overnight with their daughter on their backs.Xiaoliu was so drowsy with a fever that he seldom woke up for a moment.She was lying on Dad's back like she was when she was a child, and the skin she touched was soaked with sweat. Dad was staggering in the night, and Mother trotted behind them, holding a flashlight.

After hanging in the water for three days, Xiao Liu's health gradually improved.

In the town, father and mother took her to a store first, and the color TV facing the door showed Xiao Liu's favorite TV "Blue Mouse and Big Face Cat".

There are three exquisite and small MP3s in the boss's cabinet, black, white, and red.

Dad said: Xiao Liu, which one do you like?

Xiao Liu won again this time.

But how did she find out that her father's back began to bend, his hair became much grayer, and her mother's eyes could no longer fit embroidery needles, but she was reluctant to pay for reading glasses.

Xiao Liu's voice was still a little hoarse, and she said: I don't want MP3 anymore, it's outdated, and my classmates don't use it anymore.I didn't do well in the English test, so I'd better buy a few learning tapes.

In the summer vacation of the first year of junior high school, Primary Six began to learn to ride a bicycle.Junzi has graduated, and no one will take her to school in the future.

When I was just learning, I always fell down. She got up neatly when she fell, and she was about to fall off the bicycle. Xiaoliu's heart, liver, spleen, stomach and kidneys hurt.

This [-]-bar bicycle has been around for some years, but his father is so tight that he looks like a lifeblood. Other people's bicycles are locked in the yard, and Xiaoliu's bicycles are locked in the house.

Let's understand it this way, as much as Xiao Liu likes color TV, Lao Liu loves his bicycle as much.

Xiaoliu remembered the time when Zhang Chengnian tore up Brother Xiangzi's textbooks when he was a child.

She specially bought an old popsicle, and then went to push Junzi's bicycle out. She said sweetly, "Brother Junzi, my father's bike has broken chains all the time, but your bike is easier to ride, so comfortable."

Hearing that Xiaoliu opened and closed his mouth, it was Brother Junzi, and his yelling became louder and louder, Junzi felt relieved. He not only gave her the bicycle, but also taught Xiaoliu himself by eating a popsicle.

However, Xiaoliu's sense of balance has been poor since she was a child. Although she can walk and run without any problems now, it is difficult to learn to ride a bicycle. Even the bell was thrown crooked by her.

Junzi blew his nose and stared angrily at the side, looking at his bicycle, it really hurts his heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys.

But Xiao Liu looked at him pitifully, and said "Brother Junzi" in his mouth, and the anger in Junzi's heart was extinguished, but another fire burned.He looked at the girl's slightly swollen breasts and pretty figure, and his heart began to agitate. The sound of the drum beat louder and louder in his heart, and he realized that Xiao Liu was also growing up slowly.

Zhang Zhijun's heartbeat accelerated uncontrollably, but he was just a young man who didn't know much about the world.How can it be?Xiao Liu is the younger sister, Xiao Douding who walks unsteadily and follows behind his companions.

This feeling that he didn't know how to face made him run away.

Xiao Liu was pushing the bicycle by herself, and she stumbled and stopped. There were several bruises on her elbows.But she knew that Junzi was narrow-minded, so every time she fell down, she tried to use herself as a human cushion, and she didn't care if she was hit by a car.

When dusk was approaching, the golden light shone on the earth, and the fields shimmered in the sunset glow in the sky, covering the little people on the road with a halo.

Xiao Liu's stepping speed was not fast, but she became more and more stable.So I rang the bell, and my mood was as leisurely and comfortable as the scenery at this time.

After crossing the Wick Bridge, Xiao Liu no longer rode forward, but turned around while pushing.

The young man on the bridge looks like a pine tree. He is wearing a neat blue and white school uniform, standing with his back in the sunset. At that moment, the countryside has lost its color. Zhang Chengnian expressed his praise: "Yes, I have learned it."

"You supported me?" Xiao Liu realized, "It's not worth it."

"Hold on the first half, and step on the back by yourself."

Xiao Liu was not stable when she got into the car, and Zhang Chengnian was the one who supported her to get on. He guided her patiently as he did when he was a child, until it was too dark to see the road, and the two slowly pushed the car home.

Zhang Chengnian just had his summer vacation today. On the way home, he came across Xiaoliu learning a bicycle. He picked up his schoolbag under the old camphor tree by the roadside and put it in the basket of Xiaoliu's car. The basket was slightly deformed due to the pressure.

"When Xiaoliu was young, his mouth would puff up when he touched her. Why doesn't he cry now?" Zhang Chengnian looked at the bruise on the girl's arm and said slowly.

"It doesn't hurt." Xiao Liu scratched his neck.

Hearing this, Zhang Chengnian squeezed her wound lightly again, and the painful Xiao Liu grinned: "It hurts, hurts, hurts."

"It's not important for anyone to have a bicycle. Next time, don't use it as a cushion for human flesh." Zhang Chengnian let go of his hand and reminded her.

"This is Junzi's. I just threw the bell crookedly and he ignored me angrily." Xiao Liu rang the bell, the sound was still clear, and there was nothing wrong with it.

Zhang Chengnian nodded: "Then you come to ride my house tomorrow."

He has always been generous to his friends. When he was a child, he would give half of a biscuit to Xiao Liu.

Xiao Liu shook his head: "I ride Junzi, he ate my popsicle, so he has to ride for me."

This sentence invisibly drew the boundary between the two. Xiaoliu and Brother Cheng were the closest when they were young, but when they grow up, they play better with other friends.

Not only Xiao Liu, but also the other partners already had a faint feeling in their hearts that Zhang Chengnian was different from them.Zhang Chengnian is like an eagle, he is destined to fly out of the lampwick bridge.And they are birds, living in the valley in this life.

Eagles and birds?How to keep pace?

Although they are still friends, they are not the same person anymore.

(End of this chapter)