Xia You Arbor: Looking to Heaven

Chapter 68: Behind the Angel (1)
The sky is blue and the wind is clear, with white clouds.

It was the first time that Xia Tong was accompanied by someone on the way to school. The usually long one-hour journey suddenly became shorter on that day. Get light and become jumpy.

Along the way, Xia Tong didn't talk much, and Qu Weiran didn't talk too much. The two walked one after the other, and occasionally had a few conversations. Every time, Qu Weiran asked and Xia Tong answered.

After Xia Tong finished answering, she always wanted to find something to say, but after much deliberation, she didn't know what to say. She was a little annoyed why she was so inarticulate.

"Have you memorized the English words to be dictated in the morning reading class today?"

Xia Tong said with some guilt: "I've recited half of it."

"You only memorized half of it? Then you will be slapped by the teacher again today."

Xia Tong blushed and felt ashamed, because she had never learned English in elementary school, so she memorized words very slowly. Every time everyone memorized a unit word, she only memorized two lessons, and the English teacher was extremely strict. If the dictation is wrong, the wrong one will be slapped on the palm of the hand. Every time after the dictation is finished, she will be called to the podium and beaten with tears in her eyes.

"Then memorize it now, memorizing it while walking is very effective."

"Really?"

"Of course, I'll teach you."

In this way, Xia Tong and Qu Weiran began to get acquainted. When the children in the class were boys and girls, they went to and left school together every day. Sometimes Xia Tong was detained by the teacher, and Qu Weiran would still Wait for her outside the classroom.

Although Xia Tong always told him not to wait, he remained the same.In the beginning, Xia Tong was very embarrassed, feeling that she was delaying his time to go home, but later, she gradually discovered that Qu Weiran was not in a hurry to go home, he even did not want to go home just like herself.

At that time, there were many unfinished buildings at the back door of the school, which were their secret bases. They would go around to the back of the school every day after school, and then climb into these buildings.There are no doors and windows in the building, and all sides are cement-colored. In the empty rooms, the wind is particularly loud. They like to climb from one room to another, from the first floor to the sixth floor, from the first building to the second building. , They never take the stairs, but the external wall ladders temporarily built by the workers for the convenience of construction.

Those ladders were built with bamboo, with bamboo flats in the middle, without handrails, they even wobbled a bit when walking on them, and often made a dangerous sound of "crack, clack, clack".

Qu Weiran likes to come to such a dangerous place. He likes to climb to the highest floor, stand on the bamboo poles outside the building, and listen to the thrilling "crack bang bang". Xia Tong dances with him.

Several times, Xia Tong felt that those bamboo flats were about to fall apart for them, she told him to stop dancing in panic, but Qu Weiran danced even more vigorously.

"Qu Weiran, stop dancing, you're going to break up." Xia Tong squatted on the bamboo flat and shouted in fear.

Qu Weiran smiled: "If we're going to leave, why don't you run away?"

Xia Tong shook her head: "If you don't run, I won't run either."

After saying this, both Xia Tong and Qu Weiran were stunned. Xia Tong hurriedly lowered her head, and her face began to burn hot again. She scratched her cheek, looked around, and then pointed to the front and said, "Look, that's Our school playground."

Qu Weiran stared at her flustered expression for a while, smiled lightly, and turned around to look: "What's so interesting about the school playground, it's so small."

"Hmm..." Xia Tong pouted and stopped talking.

Qu Weiran also squatted down, squatting side by side with her, looking at the same direction with her eyes, over there, it was just sunset, the sun's brilliance gradually disappeared from the horizon, gradually, only one Little orange edges, the birds in the sky fly by in the orange sunset, and the two children change from squatting to sitting.

They sat side by side on the dangerous bamboo flat, their feet dangling slightly in the air, and they raised their heads to look at the setting sun in the distance.

Xia Tong asked blankly: "Tell me, isn't the sunrise so beautiful?"

"I don't know." Qu Weiran had never seen the sunrise.

"Hmm..." Xia Tong was a little disappointed, turned his head, and stared at the sunset again.

After a while, she felt that Qu Weiran beside her moved. She turned to look at him, and saw him take out the long box from his schoolbag. Xia Tong's eyes were full of surprise, and she asked anxiously, "What kind of flute is this?" ?”

"It's not a flute, it's a harmonica."

"Harmonica?" It turned out that it was called a harmonica, and she finally knew it.

"Yeah." Qu Weiran smiled, and handed the harmonica to Xia Tong, "Do you want to try it?"

Xia Tong opened her eyes wide, looked at the beautiful silver harmonica in his hand, pursed her lips and shook her head: "I don't know how to play."

"It's okay, the harmonica sounds good even if you play it carelessly."

"I can't play it randomly." Xia Tong looked at him embarrassedly, but when she saw Qu Weiran's encouraging eyes, she couldn't help but raised her hand to take the harmonica, played with it for a while, and put it on her lips, After a little blowing, the harmonica made a cracked monosyllable, which was very strange and unpleasant.

"Oh, it's so ugly." Xia Tong stuck out her tongue, put down the harmonica, and wiped vigorously the place where she played it with her palm. When she felt that the silver body of the harmonica was clean, she raised her hand and handed it back to Qu Weiran. "Or... you can blow it to me."

Qu Weiran took the harmonica, lowered his head slightly, supported the silver harmonica with his white hands, and blew lightly, the melodious sound of the piano poured out, hovering over the high-rise buildings, and drifting into the distance with the wind.

Xia Tong watched and listened carefully. In her poor vocabulary, she didn't know how to describe the feeling now. She just felt that this boy was so beautiful that he seemed to fly away at any time. The voice was so clean that it was unbelievable. , this moment is like being endowed with magic, shining a little bit of light, permanently imprinted in her heart.

Since Xia Tong met Qu Weiran, she wandered outside after school for a long time every day, and had to go home until it was dark. It always took her a lot of courage to knock on the door of the house in the dark night.

Xia Tong stood at the door for a long time, finally raised his hand, and knocked lightly on the door, before the door was opened, there was shouting and cursing in the room: "You still know how to go home, Xiao Yezhong, you died outside alright."

With the sound of shouting and cursing, the heavy wooden door was slammed open, and Lin Xin cursed coldly, "What time is it now! Do you still know to come back?"

"Don't act like this, you think I want to scold you! I don't even bother to look at you! If you don't want to go home, you never come back! What do you mean? Come back so late every day, I think I'm right You are not good, are you? I abused you! Isn't it!"

"Ah! Speak!"

Xia Tong lowered her head and stood at the door of the house without saying a word. The more Lin Xin scolded, the more excited she was, pulling Xia Tong and pushing her out of the door: "If you don't want to come back, get out, get out, what are you doing here! "

Xia Tong didn't make any excuses, but just grabbed the doorknob forcefully to prevent Lin Xin from pushing herself out. Why would she want to go back to this home, but where else could she go other than here?Xia Tong raised her eyes and looked at her father who was sitting in the living room, with a hint of pleading in her eyes that she didn't realize.

"Okay, let her in first!" Xia Wenqiang finally couldn't sit still, he walked out of the room, pulled Lin Xin away, dragged Xia Tong into the house, and slammed the door shut, "What's the matter?" Close the door and say, what's the matter with you, you always open the door and make a lot of noise, are you afraid that people won't hear you swearing?"

"Your precious daughter, I will protect you whenever I scold you. She is with that crazy child all day long. You don't know if she will be killed sooner or later!"

"What crazy! I think you're going crazy!"

"That little boy in the west courtyard! His surname is Qu, his father is not crazy, his mother is not a bitch, there is no child in the whole yard who dares to play with him, your precious daughter is amazing, being with her every day is really like flocking, bitch Bitch's kids play with bitch's kids!"

Xia Tong, who had been silent all this time, opened his eyes suddenly when he heard this, and glared at Lin Xin angrily, the anger and hatred in his eyes were not concealed.Lin Xin became angry, and raised her hand to slap her: "You still dare to stare at me! Now that you have the guts, you still dare to stare at me! Giving you food and clothes, it's so kind to you, isn't it!"

Xia Tong's face was beaten aside, she slowly raised her hand to cover her cheek, and stared hard at her eyes, she didn't feel the pain, really didn't, because the anger and hatred that had been suppressed in her heart for a long time had completely overwhelmed her. It burned, and she couldn't hold it anymore. She raised her face and stared at Lin Xin fiercely. Lin Xin's heart trembled slightly under her stare. She froze for a second, then raised her hand to shake her. Slap: "You still dare to stare at me! If you stare again, your eyeballs will be ripped out!"

"Okay, just say a few words, kid! What are you doing? Who are you calling!" Xia Wenqiang grabbed Lin Xin's hand and scolded angrily, "Lin Xin, why did you become like this? You used to not like this!"

"What about me?" Lin Xin pushed Xia Wenqiang violently, "What do you think I was like before!"

"At least you didn't yell like a shrew before."

"This is not forced by your father and daughter! I am angry when I see you! I am angry when I see you! I can't live this life! Xia Wenqiang! Let me tell you, I can't bear it anymore, and I will not bear it any longer. And don't want to be in the same room with this son of a bitch..."

"My mother is not a bitch, no! Why do you scold my mother? What right do you have to scold her! You are the one who robbed someone's husband and destroyed my home, you are the third party, you It's..."

With a "slap", Xia Tong's face felt pain again, and there was a buzzing in his ears. Before he could utter the curse words, he was beaten back. Xia Tong covered his cheeks, and looked up in disbelief. At first, he looked at Xia Wenqiang with a dazed expression.

"Father..." Xia Tong couldn't help calling.

(End of this chapter)