grass house

Chapter 1 Bald Crane
一
Bald Crane and Sangsang were classmates from the first grade to the sixth grade.

The bald crane should be called Lu He.But because he is a complete little bald boy from Yau Ma Tei, everyone calls him bald crane.The small village where the bald crane is located is a small village planted with many maple trees.After autumn, the maple trees turn red one by one, very red.But in this village, there are many bald men.They bald their heads one by one, and they walked under such a beautiful maple tree, which attracted the teachers of Yau Ma Tei Primary School to stop and watch quietly.Those bald spots were under the maple trees, glowing slightly red.When the maple leaves are densely packed, and there are occasional gaps, when someone walks by over there, they will shine brightly, like tiles in the sand.Those teachers who put their hands in their trouser pockets or crossed their arms on their chests looked at them and laughed, not knowing what they meant.

Bald Crane has seen this kind of smile many times.

But in Sangsang's memory, Bald Crane didn't seem to care about his baldness until he was in the third grade.This may be because he is not the only bald man in his village, or it may be because the bald crane is too young to remember that he should care about being bald.Bald Crane has been living happily.If someone calls him bald crane, he will happily agree, as if his original name was bald crane, not Lu He.

The baldness of the bald crane is very authentic.He used his long and beautiful neck to support such a bald head.There is absolutely no scar on this head, and it is so smooth and even.Under the sun, this head was as bright as wax, which reminded his classmates that it would also be bright at night.Because of being bald like this, children will often look at it in a daze, and will have the desire to dip their fingers in a little saliva and rub it lightly in their hearts.In fact, the head of the bald crane is often touched by people.Later, Bald Crane found out that the children liked to touch his head, so he regarded his own head as precious, and no longer let them touch it whenever they wanted.If someone touches his head secretly, he will immediately turn his head to judge, seeing that it is someone weaker than him, he will chase after him and let that person take a punch in the back; seeing that it is someone stronger than him, He will curse.Someone must touch it, that's okay, but you have to pay Tuhe something: either a piece of candy, or lend him an eraser or pencil for a long time.With a broken ruler, Sangsang got two touches in exchange.At that time, Bald Crane lowered his head obediently and put it in front of Sangsang's eyes.Sangsang stretched out her hand to touch it, and the bald crane would count: "Once..." Sangsang felt that the bald crane's head was very smooth, just like when he touched a pebble by the river that had been washed by water for countless years. almost.

When Bald Crane was in the third grade, by accident, it seemed that one morning, he became concerned about his baldness.Bald Crane's head can't be touched now.Whoever touches it, he will be impatient with anyone, and he will fight with his life.If people call him Tuhe again, he won't answer anymore.Moreover, no one can exchange things for a touch.Ding Si, a butcher in Yau Ma Tei, saw that the bald crane was staring at the meat on his meat table greedily, so he cut off a piece weighing two catties with a knife, poked a hole with the tip of the knife, threaded a piece of straw rope, and then put it on the table high up. Hold it in front of the bald crane: "Let me touch your head, and this piece of meat will be yours." Saying that, he was about to stretch out his greasy hand.The bald crane said: "Give me the meat first." Ding Si said: "Let me touch it first, and then I will give you the meat." The bald crane said: "No, give me the meat first." Ding Si waited until the door was closed After a few people who were chatting greeted them, they gave the meat to the bald crane.Bald Crane looked at the piece of meat—it was really a good piece of meat!But the bald crane slammed the door hard, threw the piece of meat onto the dusty road, and then ran away.Ding Si grabbed the butcher's knife and chased him out.The bald crane ran for a while but stopped running.He grabbed a brick from the ground, turned around, and faced Ding Si who was holding a sharp knife through gritted teeth.Ding Si didn't dare to take another step forward, he waved the knife twice in the air, said "little baldy", turned and left.

The bald crane is no longer happy.

It rained heavily that day, and Bald Crane came to school without an umbrella.Although it was raining, it was not dark.Therefore, in the silver rain curtain, the bald crane's head is extraordinarily bright.Zhiyue and Xiang Toon, both holding a red-oiled paper umbrella, dodged by the side of the road, letting the bald crane pass by.Bald Crane sensed that the eyes of the two girls were staring at his head under the red oiled paper umbrella.He walked past them.When he turned to look at them, all he saw were two girls covering their mouths with their hands, hiding their smiles.Bald Crane walked towards the school with his head down.But he didn't go into the classroom, but walked into the bamboo forest by the river.

The rain "rustled" on the bamboo leaves, and then dripped from the gaps onto his bald head.He rubbed his head with his hand and looked out over the river in dismay.On the surface of the water, two or three ducks with plump feathers were swimming in the rain, looking very happy.

The bald crane picked up a tile and smashed it, startling the ducks flapping their wings and swimming away.The bald crane threw out another six or seven tiles one after another, and he didn't stop until his tiles could no longer disturb the ducks.He felt a little cold, but he didn't tremble towards the classroom until the end of a class.

When he got home at night, he said to his father, "I don't go to school anymore."

"Someone bullied you?"

"No one bullies me."

"Then why don't you say you can't go to school?"

"I just don't want to go to school."

"Nonsense!" Father slapped Bald Crane on the head.

Bald Crane glanced at his father, lowered his head and cried.

Father seemed to suddenly understand something.He turned around and sat down on a stool in the shadow that the light couldn't reach, and immediately, the bald head of the bald crane reflected the light of the flickering cigarette in his father's hand.

The next day, my father didn't force Bald Crane to go to school.He went to the town to buy a few catties of ginger: Someone taught him a secret recipe, saying that by rubbing ginger with ginger, hair would grow back in 49 days.He told Bald Crane this.Bald Crane just sat on the stool and let his father rub the sliced ​​ginger back and forth on his head without saying a word.My father polished it carefully, like a coppersmith trying to impress a customer polishing a piece of his bronze.The bald crane soon felt a burning sting.But the bald crane sat motionless, letting his father rub it with ginger slices.

When Sangsang and the others saw the bald man again, the bald man was still bald, but the bald head had turned red, as if he had just drunk wine.

I don't know if it's the paper moon or the toon, but when Bald Crane walked into the classroom, he smelled a nice smell of ginger, so he said softly: "The classroom smells of ginger."

At that time, all the students in the class were there, and everyone sniffed their noses together, only to hear a sound of breathing.Then they all said that it does have ginger flavor.So they smelled each other again, and it turned out that everyone seemed to have the smell of ginger, and no one had the smell of ginger.

The bald crane sat there motionless.When he feels that there may be one or several noses sniffing and sniffing along the way of the smell, he is about to smell him, and when he smells directly on his head, he says "I want to go to the toilet", and then I quickly pretended to be unable to hold back and ran out of the classroom.He ran to the river, picked up a handful of mud with his hands, applied it on his head, and then washed it off with clean water.This was repeated several times until I thought that the smell of ginger had been completely washed away before I walked back to the classroom.

Seventy-seven and 49 days passed, and there was still no movement on the bald crane's head.

Summer is here, when people try to remove something from their bodies and heads, but the bald crane wears a thin hat that his father bought back from the city, and appears in the eyes of people in Yau Ma Tei.

two

Sangsang is the son of the principal Sancho.Sangsang's home is on the campus of Yau Ma Tei Primary School, which is also a grass house.

Yau Ma Tei Primary School is a grass house.More than a dozen thatched houses seem to be connected in a regular and irregular manner.They are respectively used as classrooms, offices, teacher's dormitory, or activity room, warehouse or something.Before and after these grass houses or between these grass houses, there are always some arrangements, or a cluster of two bamboos, or three or two roses, or a canna with colorful flowers, or simply a small piece mixed with small flowers. grass.There is no trace of deliberation in these arrangements, as if this campus existed in the first place, and it was originally like this.These thatched houses do not look very tall, but they have big roofs and are very spacious inside.This grass house is actually very valuable.It is not built with ordinary straw or wheat straw, but with cogon grass mown from the beach three hundred miles away.That thatch grows luxuriantly on the beach, exposed to the sea wind and the unobstructed sun, each blade grows very resilient, shining like copper wire when the sun shines, and when the sea wind blows, it grows very resilient. It can make a metallic sound.A house built with this grass will last forever.Wealthy families here all save money to build this kind of house.The thatched house of Yau Ma Tei Elementary School, the grass is used very carefully and extravagantly. The grass selection is stricter than that of any other family here, and the roof is thicker. Therefore, the grass house of Yau Ma Tei Primary School is warm in winter. It is cool in summer.These houses, under the pure sky in the countryside, look simple and simple, but when the sun shines in the sky, the roofs of the houses are gleaming with gold, showing a sense of luxury.

Sangsang likes these grass houses, not only because he is a student in the grass house, but also because his family is also in this grass house.

Sangsang is in these grass houses, in front of, behind and in all directions to show herself, to tell people "I am Sangsang".

Sangsang is Sangsang, and Sangsang is different from other children, not because Sangsang is the principal's son, but just because Sangsang is Sangsang.

Sangsang's whimsical or unexpected behaviors are consistent.Sangsang thought that he had a good place to live, but his pigeons didn't have one... Many of his pigeons could only go through holes in the wall to spend the night or hatch young pigeons, so he felt pity in his heart and decided to improve the place for the pigeons.When his father and mother were not at home that day, he called Ashu and Zhu Xiaogu to collect all the dishes and other things from the cupboard at home and throw them in the corner, and then lifted the cupboard After coming out, according to his imagination of a high-grade pigeon cage, let A Shu and Zhu Xiaogu work together to modify it with a saw and an axe.Four legs are not necessary, saw them off.The glass door was not necessary, knocked.The cupboard originally had four layers, but each layer was huge and useless.Sangsang asked Ashu to steal a few boards from home, and divided each floor into three levels.Sangsang did some calculations, there were three "households" on the first floor, and a total of twelve "households" could be arranged on the fourth floor. She felt that she had done a great deed for the pigeons, and she felt very noble in her heart, and she was moved by herself.When the sun went down and the sunlight dyed the grass house red, the big pigeon cage was firmly hung on the wall after several efforts by him and Ashu.At night, when the mother looked at a disabled cupboard hanging high on the west wall and became the new home of the pigeons, she dragged Sangsang to the house, closed the door and gave him a solid beating.But Sangsang didn't have a long memory, and after only a dozen days, his old illness relapsed.That day, when he was playing by the river, he saw a fishing boat fishing with a net on the river, and each net could catch fish and shrimp, so he wished he had a net in his heart.But there is no net at home.Sangsang felt itchy in her heart, feeling that she must have a net.He turned around inside and outside the house, and saw the mosquito net on his parents' big bed.This is obviously a mosquito net, but in Sangsang's eyes, it is clearly a very good net.He tore off the mosquito net three times and two times, then found a pair of scissors, and changed the mosquito net into a net in three times and five times. Then he called Ashu and the others to make a net frame with bamboo poles to support He got a duck boat and went fishing on the river.People from both sides of the river came to see it and asked, "Sangsang, what is that net made of?" Sangsang replied, "A mosquito net."People on both sides of the strait are happy.The female teacher Wen Youju said worriedly: "Sangsang, you are going to be beaten again." Sangsang suddenly realized the seriousness of the problem, but with so many interesting eyes on both sides of the strait, he was still very excited to indulge in fishing. In joy and impulse.At noon, my mother saw two or three catties of fish and shrimp in the bamboo basket, and asked, "Where did you get the fish and shrimp?" Sangsang said, "I caught it." "You caught it?" What did you use to hit it?" "That's how I hit it." My mother was too busy cooking, so she didn't have the time to investigate carefully.At noon, the family happily ate fish and shrimp. As they ate, the mother became suspicious again: "Sangsang, what did you use to get the fish and shrimp?" Shrimp, deliberately hemmed and hawed.But the mother put down the chopsticks and refused to eat. When he finished eating the shrimp, she asked again: "What kind of fish and shrimp did you use?" Sangsang held the rice bowl in one hand and grasped the chopsticks in the other, and wanted to leave the table, but her mother couldn't use it. In a defiant tone, she said, "Don't leave yet. Tell me, what did you use to catch the fish and shrimp?" Sangsang retreated into the corner.Little sister Liuliu was sitting on the chair, chewing the prawns relish, while swinging her legs happily, while looking at Sangsang: "My brother caught fish with a net." The mother asked: "Where is he?" The net here?” Liu Liu said, “It’s made of mosquito nets.” Mother put down the bowls and chopsticks in her hand and walked into the room.After a while, the mother came out again and cursed at the back of Sangsang who had already run away.But the mother did not chase after him.At night, after Sangsang came back, his mother didn't beat him either.His mother punished him by taking off his mosquito net.The result of taking off the mosquito net was that he was bitten by the mosquitoes and had red envelopes all over his body, and his left eye was red and swollen and shiny.

The current summer is an out-and-out summer.As soon as the sun showed its face, the sky and the earth were filled with invisible heat, and when the sun, like a golden wheel, rumbled and rolled towards the top of people's heads, the sky and the earth seemed to be ablaze.The leaves of the reeds by the river were curled in the sun, and all plants could not resist the attack of this heat wave, and lowered their heads drowsily.Occasionally people walked by on the main road, but they were in a hurry, as if they would be burned if they stayed in the sun for a long time.Children who could swim and those who could not were all forced into the river by the unbearable heat.Therefore, the river is full of noise.

Sangsang has been soaking in the water for several hours, now he comes to the shore to eat a melon, and he plans to go down the river after eating.He sat on the threshold and ate while watching his mother take a cane and beat the quilts and cotton clothes hanging all over the yard.He knows that this is called "exposure", that is, in the hottest dog days, the cotton-padded clothes are put in the sun to dry them. As long as they are left in the sun for one day, they will not get moldy until winter.Mother went back to the house.After eating the melon, Sangsang was about to go back to the river again, but was stopped by a sudden whim.He thought: In this weather, I put on cotton-padded clothes and trousers, what will happen to people?He remembered that when he went to the city, he saw the popsicle sellers covering the popsicles in cotton covers.He still couldn't figure out why the popsicle didn't melt even though he was covered tightly by the cotton cover.The thought haunted him.Sangsang is a person who is easily entangled in some thoughts.

Not far away, Zhiyue was passing through the field ridge among the corn bushes, coming to school.Zhiyue wore a beautiful straw hat, and walked all the way, gently stroking the corn leaves on the side of the road with her hands.At that time, the corn was spitting out red or green ears.Zhiyue is not like a little girl in the country, she is still so white in this summer.Her face and the arms and legs left out by the short-sleeved shirt and shorts were shining white in the corn bushes.

Sangsang glanced into the house, knowing that her mother had already slept on the bamboo bed in the morning, so she walked into the yard.He was dripping with sweat, but he picked out the thickest cotton trousers and put them on, and he also put on his father's thick thick cotton jacket. In a blink of an eye, he saw that there was also a big cotton hat of his father in the big wooden box. With a smile, he walked over, took it out, and put it on his wet head.Sangsang felt very strange, he looked back and forth, left and right, and immediately ran out of the yard to the open space in the middle of the classroom.

At that time, Zhiyue had also entered the campus.

But Sangsang pretended not to see her, just grabbed a bamboo pole, and walked in the open space in a big way.

It was Teacher Jiang Round who first discovered Sang Sang.At that time, he was taking a nap on a bamboo chair under the shade of a tree, and felt that there seemed to be someone walking in the open space, and when he turned his face, he saw Sangsang in such a dress.He watched silently at first, but finally couldn't help laughing, and let out a "puchi" laugh.Immediately, he got up and called out the teachers one by one: "Come and see Sangsang."

Classes will start soon, and students of all grades are entering the campus one after another.

Sangsang created a landscape for them.Sangsang often creates scenery for people.

Zhiyue hid her body behind a thick sycamore tree, poked her face out to look at Sangsang.

Sangsang seemed to see the pair of black eyes, but she didn't seem to see them.

Many people surrounded the open space, and everyone watched happily.I don't know who said "嗤", and immediately got a response. The sound of "嗤嗤" echoed under the fiery July sky, and it became louder and louder.Sangsang seemed to be inspired by something, dragging the bamboo pole, walking in this open space like a little madman to smooth things over.

After a while, the sound of "嗤嗤" transformed into a very rhythmic "Sang Sang! Sang Sang!"

Sangsang walked around more vigorously, and even made some inexplicable movements.Sangsang used this open space as a stage, immersed in a kind of pleasure that swayed her whole body.Beads of sweat covered his face, and the sweat trickled into his eyes, making it hard for him to keep them open.If you can't keep your eyes open, you can't keep your eyes open.He just closed his eyes half-closed.Perhaps because of half-closed eyes, or because of endless smoothing, Sangsang felt a sense of intoxication, exactly the same as the feeling after stealing her father's wine that time.

Surrounded by countless naked upper bodies, in the middle is an image tightly wrapped in cotton clothes and trousers in the middle of winter.A few teachers laughed "giggling" in their throats while watching, and a few teachers bent down with laughter, and then ran into the room to drink saliva to moisten their throats that were dry from laughing.

Sangsang stole the show this time.

Just when everyone was watching like crazy, there was another good scene in Yau Ma Tei Primary School: Bald Crane came to school wearing the hat his father bought for him for the first time.

I don't know who saw the bald crane first: "Look, who is that?"

"Vulture Crane!" "Vulture Crane!" "It's Vulture Crane!"

At that time, the bald crane was walking along the road facing the school gate in style.

The bald crane was thin and tall, and the two long legs looked good, but they were a little thinner.Now, these two long legs are exposed to the sun because of wearing shorts.With such legs, he swung from the field into the campus like the wind.The bald crane is bare-chested and barefoot, but wearing a hat—this image is very vivid and funny.Maybe it's because people have been watching the scenery of Sangsang for a long time, and it's coming to an end, maybe it's because the image of the bald crane is even more wonderful, people's eyes seem to hear a password, and they follow Sangsang's scene in unison. He turned away from his body and turned to look at the bald crane, leaving Sangsang in the cold.

The bald crane walked over all the way.Seeing so many people looking at him, he was a little unnatural at first, but soon changed to a different feeling.He straightened his thin chest, strode his long legs rhythmically, and walked straight towards the crowd.The most attractive thing now is the hat: a snow-white hat, such white, it is very rare in summer, and it is extraordinarily conspicuous; a very delicate hat, with an elegant visor and fine and uniform mesh .It was worn on the bald crane's head like this, which made the bald crane a bit more handsome and radiant.

As if a noble person was coming, the crowd moved away automatically.

No one looked at Sangsang again.Sangsang saw Zhiyue behind the plane tree, and turned to look at the bald crane.Sang Sang is like a jujube, which was eaten with gusto, and now it has become a useless jujube pit and is cast aside on the ground.He had no choice but to drag the bamboo pole, and stood awkwardly outside the arena, but now it was a chic bald crane that came into the arena.

three

At that time, the pure white stunned all the children.Coupled with Bald Crane's confident look, the children had no other thoughts, but just watched silently.But after only two days, they were no longer willing to look at the bald crane respectfully, and they always had the desire to take off the hat and look at the bald crane's head again.They were not used to not seeing the bald crane's head for a few days, and felt that it was an indispensable embellishment in their life.

Sangsang not only has the general desires of those children, he also has his own thoughts: that day, it was the appearance of the bald crane that made him neglected by everyone, and he was always angry in his heart.

This afternoon, after the first class in the afternoon, the classmate of the bald crane finally couldn't help taking the hat off the bald crane's head.

"Wow!" First a girl saw it and exclaimed.

So countless pairs of gazes, like moths throwing fire at night, gathered on the bald head that had not been seen for several days.Everyone felt novelty as if seeing this head for the first time.

Bald Crane hurriedly covered his head with one hand, while reaching out to his deskmate, "give me a hat!"

The deskmate refused to give it, took the hat and ran away.

Bald Crane chased after him: "Give me! Give me! Give me my hat!"

At the same table, when the bald crane was about to catch up, he flicked his hat, and saw the hat flying in the air like a white dove with wings spread. Before the bald crane could grab it, a classmate climbed up the desk and grabbed it first.The bald crane chased that classmate again, and when the bald crane was about to catch up, the classmate followed suit and threw the white hat into the air again.Then the bald cranes chased around, and the white hat kept flying in the air.This "white dove" became a "white dove" that was chased away by many people, lost its foothold, had to stop for a while, and immediately flew into the sky.

The bald crane cried bitterly: "My hat! My hat!"

The hat flew into Sangsang's hand again.Sangsang put it on her head, and dodged among the desks to avoid the bald cranes that were chasing after her.Sangsang is very clever, and the bald crane can't catch up.After a certain distance, Sangsang turned around, stood upright, and raised her hands in salute. Seeing that the bald crane was about to grab the hat, she turned around and ran away.

Later, Sangsang handed the hat to A Shu, and signaled A Shu to run away quickly.A Shu grabbed the hat and ran away. Bald Crane wanted to chase him, but Sang Sang happened to block him in the aisle.When the bald crane found another space to chase out, Ashu had already hidden somewhere.

The bald crane looked for A Shu from here to there on the campus: "My hat, my hat..." The footsteps became slower and smaller, and there were tears in his eyes.

But A Shu had already passed through a bamboo forest and returned to the classroom.

Sangsang whispered a few words to A Shu, A Shu nodded, grabbed his hat, and ran out through the back window.At this time, Sangsang emptied her schoolbag, rolled it up, stuffed it into her vest, ran out of the classroom, met the bald crane, and patted her bulging chest: "Here is the hat!" Turning to the field run up.

Although the bald crane had no strength, he still chased after him.

Sangsang led the bald crane far away.At this time, he turned his head to look at the campus again, and saw that Ashu was climbing the flagpole, and he had already climbed halfway up.

Bald Crane grabbed Sangsang: "My hat!"

Sangsang said, "I didn't take your hat."

The bald crane still shouted: "My hat!"

"I really didn't take your hat."

Bald Crane threw Sangsang on the ridge of the field: "My hat!" He lifted Sangsang's vest, saw it was a crumpled schoolbag, punched Sangsang, and cried.

Sangsang yelled "Ouch", but smiled, because he saw that the white hat had been worn by Ashu on the round wooden bump on the top of the flagpole.

When Bald Crane and Sangsang returned to the campus one after the other, almost all the students in the school had arrived under the flagpole, covering the sun with their hands and looking up at the white hat on top of the tall flagpole.The sky was very blue at that time, which made the white hat extremely dazzling.

Bald Crane found his hat.He pushed away the crowd, walked to the flagpole, and tried to climb up to take off his hat, but after trying several times, he slipped and fell to the ground after only climbing two or three meters, which caused many people to laugh.

The bald crane leaned against the flagpole and sat still.His head was tilted, his teeth were gritted, and tears were in his eyes.

No one laughed anymore and people started to leave the flagpole.

windy.The wind blew the white hat slightly swaying on the top of the flagpole, as if a person was feeling whether his hat was put on correctly.

Jiang Yuanyuan came, looked up at the hat on the flagpole, and asked Bald Crane, "Who did it?"

The children all dispersed, only Ashu was left standing there.

"What did you do?" Jiang Lun asked.

Ashu said, "Yes."

Bald Crane shouted loudly: "No, Sang Sang made people do it!"

Bald Crane stood up, intending to point Sang Sang to Jiang Lun, but Sang Sang shrank and hid in the bushes.

Jiang Lun ordered Ashu to take off the hat and return it to the bald crane, but the bald crane knocked the hat off Ashu to the ground: "I don't want it anymore!" .Entering the yard of Sangsang's house, Bald Crane turned his back to the sky and laid himself flat in the yard.

Sangsang's mother came out and asked what happened to the bald crane, but the bald crane didn't answer.Sangsang's mother had to come out to find Sangsang.Sangsang didn't find it, but after asking about the situation from the other children, she went back to the yard to coax the bald crane: "Good Lu He, get up, I can't spare him!"

The bald crane refused to get up. Tears flowed from the corners of both eyes to the ears, and then fell on the soil one by one, wetting the soil.

Later, Sancho, who had just returned from outside, persuaded Bald Crane to leave.

Sangsang got out from the bushes of the school, and then into the cornfield outside the school, and did not dare to go home until dark.Mother didn't call him home, and said to Liu Liu: "Don't call him home, let him die outside!"

The wind picked up, and there was no other sound except the rustling of corn leaves and the croaking of frogs in the paddy fields.

Sangsang was frightened and walked from the cornfield to the ridge.He looked at the light in his thatched house, knowing that his mother had no intention of letting him go home, he was very sad and wanted to cry.But he didn't cry, turned around and walked towards A Shu's house.

Mother waited in the middle of the night, and seeing that Sangsang really didn't come home, she became anxious in her heart.He said that no one should call Sangsang home, but he went to the gate of the courtyard to look around.

Ashu's mother was afraid that Sangsang's mother would be in a hurry, so she came to Sangsang's house in the dark and said, "Sangsang is at my house. She has eaten and went to bed with Ashu."

Sangsang's mother knew that Sangsang had disappeared, and the anger in her heart suddenly rose again.Tell Ashu's mother to let Sangsang come back to sleep, but when she wakes up Sangsang from Ashu's bed and asks him to walk out of Ashu's house with her, only two blocks away, she grabs Sangsang with her hands. Caught Sangsang's ears, until Sangsang bared her teeth and screamed.

Sancho waited at the intersection early and said, "Go to Lu He's house now and apologize to him."

That night, the sleeping bald crane was woken up by his father, and saw the pitiful looking Sangsang in a daze, and heard Sangsang say "heck, heck, heck", "I will never take off your hat again..."

four

Vulture Crane didn't wear that hat anymore.The antagonism between Bald Crane and everyone is deepening day by day.Bald Crane changed his mind: I'm just a bald man, how about it? !Because of this idea, even if winter came, he could have worn a cotton hat like everyone else, but he didn't wear it.In the winter, with a bald head showing no hair, anyone who looked at it felt cold.He was just like this in the cold wind, in the rain and snow, with his head bare.He just wants to emphasize his baldness to everyone: I'm already bald, I don't need to hide it!
On the Wednesday morning of this week, the five elementary schools in this area (for one piece) will have an exercise together, and a ranking will be judged.This time, the parade is held at Yau Ma Tei Primary School.

Yau Ma Tei Primary School has devoted two classes every morning to practicing square formation, formation, and exercises since Monday.Sancho, who has always attached great importance to his reputation, kept a close eye on him, and yelled loudly and lost his temper from time to time.This image seems to be a bit out of tune with the usual image of a gentleman with meticulously combed hair, no dust on his body, and trousers folded as sharp as a knife.But as long as he encounters something related to the school's honor, he will change his gentle appearance and jump up and down on the campus all day long. Whenever he sees something he is not satisfied with, he will yell at the teachers and students .He often makes everyone at a loss, or makes everyone very unhappy, and they are passive and sabotage one by one.At this time, he went to do that thing alone, and was so tired that everyone felt sorry for it, so they joined in one by one.

Sancho is a well-known principal in the district.

"This time, Yau Ma Tei Primary School must take the first place. If there is a problem in any class, the head teacher of that class will be responsible!" Sancho called the teachers together and said seriously.

On the first day of the parade, Sangsang's class teacher, Jiang Round, called Bald Crane to the office and said, "You will stay in the classroom tomorrow morning."

Bald Crane asked: "Isn't it Huicao tomorrow morning?"

Jiang Lunlun said, "Just sweep the floor, it's too dirty."

"No, I want to participate in parade."

"Hui Cao has enough people."

"Doesn't everyone have to participate in the parade?"

"I said, you will stay in the classroom tomorrow."

"why?"

Jiang Round glanced at Bald Crane's head.

Bald Crane lowered his head and walked out of the office.When he was about to leave the office, he kicked the door hard with his foot.

The next morning, under the strict supervision of teachers, students from the other four primary schools filed into the playground of Yau Ma Tei Primary School from different directions.The singing came and went, and in the cold winter, it just rendered a scene of steaming.

Jiang Yuanyuan walked into the classroom and didn't see the bald crane, so he asked the classmates: "Have you seen Lu He?"

Some students said: "He is on the platform in the playground."

After Jiang Yuan heard this, he immediately ran to the playground, and he saw Bald Crane sitting on the chair that was originally prepared for the principals of those schools.He immediately stepped onto the earthen platform and called out, "Lu He."

The bald crane didn't look back.

Jiang Lun raised his voice: "Lu He!"

Bald Crane reluctantly turned his head away, but after glancing at Jiang Yuanlun, he turned his face to look at the students from other schools below the stage.

The students in the audience were pointing at Bald Crane and laughing "hee hee hee".Jiang Lun patted Bald Crane on the shoulder: "Go, follow me back to the classroom."

Bald Crane never gave in: "I want to participate in the parade."

"Are you going to take part in the Parade too?" Jiang Round unconsciously let out a laugh in his throat.

This laugh hurt the bald crane, and made the bald crane very strange. He stood up, walked to the platform, bared his teeth at the students below, and deliberately smirked.

Jiang Yilun hurriedly chased to the entrance of the stage: "Come back to the classroom with me, did you hear that?"

"I want to participate in the parade!"

Jiang Yilun had no choice but to say: "Okay, okay, but you come back to the classroom with me now!" As he spoke, he dragged him off the stage.

"I want to participate in the parade!"

Jiang Lun said, "Then you must wear a hat."

"I don't have a hat."

"I'm going to find you a hat. Just stand here and don't move." Jiang round hurried back to the dormitory, took out his unused cotton hat from the box, and hurried back to put it on for the bald crane up.

Bald Crane took off the cotton cap, touched his head, put the cotton cap on again, then smiled sarcastically and with a bit of viciousness, and stood in the assembled team.

The parade began, and the principals of each school sat on the stage with the word "one", showing a pair of complacent and critical eyes.

All schools are carefully prepared to come to Yau Ma Tei Primary School to have a showdown, one by one, and each family appears to be disciplined and meticulous.Although those children are limited by their conditions, their clothes will inevitably be long and short, or too fat or too short, but they are still neat and tidy.Children in the lower grades, nine out of ten, have trousers drooping, as if they may slip off in public at any time, showing bare buttocks in the cold winter months, but their eyes are wide open, with a serious look.The levels of each are similar, and laymen can hardly see the difference.But those principals quickly wrote the scores in their hearts.

Yau Ma Tei Primary School is the host, the last one to play.

When the fourth elementary school was halfway through, an imperceptible smile appeared on Sancho's face.Because based on the level of the top four schools he saw, Yau Ma Tei Primary School took the first place in the parade this time, which is almost a bag.Sancho has thoroughly understood Yau Ma Tei Primary School and knows exactly what level it is.He no longer planned to watch other people's performances, and turned his eyes away, looking at the big team of Yau Ma Tei Primary School who were preparing to enter the arena outside the arena, eager to try.Sancho is stingy with honor, even if it is a little bit of honor, he will never let it go easily.

As soon as the performance of the fourth primary school was over, the team of Yau Ma Tei Primary School quickly occupied the huge playground.

Poplar trees are planted around the playground.They stand upright under the blue-gray sky.After the leaves are gone and only the brown trunk is left, the poplar looks more vigorous.

The performance of Yau Ma Tei Primary School started.Everything is working, even super-performing.Sancho's smile could not be restrained.He couldn't sit still anymore and wanted to stand up and applaud the students of Yau Ma Tei Primary School.

When the performance was about two-thirds in, and the whole process had reached its final climax, the bald crane, with a solemn face, suddenly took off its hat and threw it into the distance.It was a black hat, and when flying over the head, it was reminiscent of a shot black crow falling from the sky.This caused a small commotion in the ranks.Immediately afterwards, people outside the arena, as if they suddenly saw a bright light in the darkness for a long time, they were immediately attracted by the bald head of the bald crane.At that time, children went to school, and their ages were uneven. Bald Crane only entered the school at the age of ten, and was already a head taller than ordinary children. At this time, that bald head was particularly prominent.The other boys all wore hats and had good hair, but he was bald with not a single inch of hair growing.This dramatic effect is produced very quickly.The laughter outside the venue immediately drowned out the voice of the girl standing on the platform shouting the password. The students of Yau Ma Tei Primary School suddenly lost their command and their movements became chaotic.The laughter outside the arena quickly infected the people in the arena. They also looked at the head of the bald crane while making movements, completely forgetting their important task of fighting for honor for Yau Ma Tei Primary School.First, a few girls laughed so hard that their limbs went limp, and the movements that should have been solid were made out of shape like water floating down from the cornice.Immediately afterwards, a few boys who were usually very dishonest took the opportunity to make their movements messy and completely out of shape.One of the boys even swayed here and there like a drunken fist, knocking several girls away.

Sancho looked embarrassed.

Only Bald Crane acted as if nothing had happened, he was concentrating on doing what he was supposed to do, absolutely impeccable.When he did the jumping action, I saw him bouncing lightly on the ground like a spring.The bald head shrugged in the air.At that time, the bright sunlight slanted down from the gap of the clouds, like a spotlight on a big stage chasing the actor, and the bald head of the bald crane shone brightly in the air.

Sancho couldn't help laughing, but he quickly put the smile on his face.

In this way, the bald crane retaliated against others' contempt and insult in his unique way.

五

But what Tu He got in return was everyone's indifference, because he caused everyone to lose their honor and made Yau Ma Tei Primary School suffer a "disgrace".The children could not forget the scene of them exiting the arena and returning to the classroom one by one disheveledly after the parade, and Sancho's rage and scolding afterward.

Bald Crane wants to please everyone.For example, Zhu Miaomiao's paper airplane flew to the roof and couldn't reach it, so the bald crane moved two desks and a bench, climbed to the roof, and took the paper airplane down.But Zhu Miaomiao did not take the paper plane that Tuhe handed over with both hands, and said without looking at it: "I don't want this plane." Tuhe said, "It's a good plane, so I don't want it. "He made a regrettable look, then took the paper airplane and let it fly on the grass.It was originally a good paper airplane, flying high and floating, swirling high and low in the air, and never falling.He pretended to be having a good time and yelled "Aww", but he soon discovered that others didn't pay attention to him.He let it fly a few more times, and then stared blankly at the paper airplane flying slowly into the pond.

One day, when Bald Crane was walking alone on the way to school, he was bitten severely by a wild dog quietly chasing up from behind. He yelled "Ouch", and when he looked down, his calf was already bleeding profusely.By the time he grabbed a brick, the wild dog had already fled.He sat on the ground, mouth crooked, endured the pain, picked a hemp leaf from the side of the road, and gently stuck it to the wound.Then, he found a wooden stick to lean on, and limped towards the school.When he was almost at school, he made a big limp.He wants to exaggerate.But he saw that no one was paying attention to him.He couldn't change back to the proper action, so he insisted on this exaggerated action in the classroom.Finally, a girl asked him: "What's the matter with you?" He said loudly: "I was bitten by a dog." So, without waiting for the girl to hear the story of being bitten by a dog, he said it vividly : "That's a big dog, I've never seen a big dog, it's so long, good guy! I was thinking about something, it came over quietly, quietly, with a big mouthful, It just bit on my hind calf..." He sat down, tilted up the injured leg, and peeled off the hemp leaf: "Come and see this wound..." It's really not a small wound, and The dog's teeth marks are clearly shown.At this moment, he saw the wound as a charming flower.A few people came to have a look, then turned around and left.He is still telling this story, but not many people pay attention to him.At this time, Jiang Yuanyuan came to class with his textbooks in his arms. He saw Tuhe, "What are you doing sitting there?" Tuhe said, "I was bitten by a dog." "If you are bitten by a dog, you will be bitten." Bald Crane was very bored, and limped back to his seat.

Another new school year.Some children have grown taller, while others have remained unchanged; some children's grades have skyrocketed, while others' grades have plummeted; I stopped talking, and even wanted to scratch the other person's face... For reasons such as these, at the beginning of the new school year, the whole class was disrupted and regrouped as usual.

Bald Crane thought: "Which group will I be in? Will I be in the same group as Sangsang?" He was not very happy with Sangsang, and often said in his heart: "Aren't you the son of the principal's family?" I don't think Sangsang is bad. "A team with Sangsang is also fine." "Will you be in a team with Xiang Toon?" He thinks Xiang Toon is good, Xiang Toon is the most humane girl in the class, but Xiang Toon's sister has a brain problem and often runs away from home, It made Xiang Toon in a bad mood, and often didn't feel like answering people. "However, what does it matter? Let's be in a group with Xiang Toon, maybe I can help her go out to find her sister."

However, no one thought of being in a group with Bald Crane.Bald Crane is somewhat self-indulgent.

When the preliminary list of each group had been passed around among the students, those students who knew that Tuhe was in their group all went to Jiang Lunlun and said, "We don't want Tuhe."

Jiang Yilun corrected, "Lu He."

A girl said: "It doesn't matter if it's called Lu He or Tu He, we don't want him anyway."

Jiang Lunlun said: "Who told you that he and you are in the same group? What nonsense!"

After Jiang Yilun sent the children away, he circled Tuhe's name with a pencil, drew another line, and inserted him into another group.That bar was like a rope pulling the bald crane, trying to drag him to another place.The students in this group knew that the bald crane was assigned to them again, so they followed the method of the group above, and they all came to Jiang Yuanlun.Just like this, the bald crane became someone who no one wanted.In fact, most people don't care about the bald crane being in the same group with them, but since some people don't want it, they want it again, they feel that they have picked up something that they don't want very much, so they don't want it anymore.

Jiang Yuanyuan called Tuhe to the office: "Which group are you going to be in?"

Bald Crane scratched at the desk with his fingers.

"Don't dig the desk."

Bald Crane put his hand down.

"Which group do you want to be in?"

Bald Crane went to dig the desk again.

"If you don't pick your desk, don't pick your desk."

The bald crane put his hand down again.

"You choose."

Bald Crane didn't look up: "I'll do whatever I want." After speaking, he walked out of the office.

Bald Crane did not return to the classroom.He walked out of the campus, then walked aimlessly along the river until he reached the big brick kiln.At that time, the roof of the brick kiln was still pouring water.The bricks in one kiln were fired for 21 days and [-] days, and now they are all cooked.Then slowly pour water for seven days from the top, and a kiln of good green bricks will be produced.After the cooked billets pass through the water, strong heat is released, and the entire kiln roof seems to be filled with thick fog.The wind blowing from the west blows this milky hot air to the east again.Facing the heat, Bald Crane walked over step by step.Later, he climbed onto a pile of adobe not far from the kiln.He was completely enveloped in the heat.Occasionally a gust of wind blows away the hot air, revealing his body faintly.No one can see him, and he can't see anyone else.Bald Crane thinks this is very good.He just sat like this, letting the moist heat wrap him and caress him...

六

The Spring Festival is approaching, and Yau Ma Tei Primary School received a notice from above: During the Spring Festival, there will be art performances in 43 primary and secondary schools in the township.This kind of performance is basically once a year.

Since Sancho became the principal of Yau Ma Tei Primary School, it has been able to obtain good rankings in the annual parade.Today, the largest grass house used as the office is full of awards won in the extravaganza.Whenever there is a performance, Yau Ma Tei Primary School has no peace.Children with performance talents in each class were drawn out, and they often rehearsed day and night in another thatched house that was temporarily used as a rehearsal venue.Sometimes those children were too tired to open their eyes, and Sancho would beat the drums violently on the edge of the drum, shouting loudly: "Wake up! Wake up!" So the children rubbed their sleepy eyes while being dazed again. Going on stage slowly, it is common to forget the lines or say the wrong lines.When the donkey's head was wrong, everyone burst into laughter, and amidst the burst of laughter, the child who hadn't woken up would wake up.In addition to yelling loudly, in most cases, Sancho carefully cared for these children who could win honor for Yau Ma Tei Primary School.Other students have to participate in school labor frequently, but these children do not need to participate.Every semester, these children will always get some cheap because they participated in the literary and artistic propaganda team of Yau Ma Tei Primary School.After the rehearsal at night, he would send out all the teachers to escort the children home one by one.It is not uncommon for him to carry his child on his back through a muddy country path or over a single-plank bridge covered in snow and ice.

Sangsang and Zhiyue are both members of the literature and art propaganda team.

Because it is a good ranking every year, it is more and more difficult for Yau Ma Tei Primary School to win a good ranking.

"We must win No. 1 in the primary school group this year!" Sancho called Jiang Yilun and other teachers in charge of the literary and art propaganda team to his office, saying without negotiating.

"There is no good book." Jiang Lun said.

"If you don't have a good book, go find a good one. If you can't find a good book, write a good one yourself," Sancho said.

Jiang Lun went to the county seat, found the county cultural center, and brought back some notebooks from his old classmates.The strategy of Yau Ma Tei Primary School is: play by adults, children will perform, and the effect will be unexpected.Sancho said: "Think about it, a little boy of eight or nine years old, wearing an old man's hat, holding a cigarette pipe, walking on the stage with a bow, and a little girl of eight or nine years old, wearing an old lady's dress." Wearing a blue cloth jacket, walking on the stage with a bamboo basket and clasping hands, this is a show in itself.” He asked Jiang Yuanlun to stick to this strategy this year.Therefore, what Jiang Round brought back from the county cultural center were all adults' plays.After he had read these books, he gave them to Sancho.After Sancho watched it, he had another round of discussion with Jiang and selected two small plays from them.One of them, the one that Sancho likes the most, is called "Bridge Slaughter".Tuqiao is a place name.The plot is actually very ordinary: a company of puppet troops came to Tuqiao one day, they did all kinds of evil here, oppressed the people, and the New Fourth Army came that night and trapped them all under the covers.The reason why Sancho fell in love with this book is because there are many scenes in this book that make people have to laugh.Several main roles were quickly assigned. The commander of the New Fourth Army was played by Du Xiaokang, the young girl was played by Zhiyue, and the company commander of the puppet army was played by Liu Sanxia.

Jiang Lun engraved the steel plate and printed more than a dozen copies of the book, all of which were distributed.The following links are nothing more than memorizing lines, matching lines, rehearsals, rehearsals, and until the official performance.

Everything is going smooth.Du Xiaokang is the most handsome and handsome among the boys, and he is just right to play the heroic commander of the New Fourth Army.Zhiyue played that beautiful and cute little girl, which made people speechless, as if this Zhiyue really grew up to be a girl in the future, she would be that kind of girl.Liu Sanxia's acting was also good, and he acted like a bastard.

It wasn't until the rehearsal that Jiang Yuan found out that he hadn't considered one thing: the puppet company commander was a big bald guy in the script.He must be a bald man, because many of the lyrics and confessions in it involve bald men, and even the plot is related to bald men.If he wasn't bald, the script wouldn't work.Conversely, the reason why this script was established is precisely because this company commander is not an ordinary company commander, but a bald company commander.

Only then did Sancho discover that the comical effect of the book he was optimistic about at that time was all due to the fact that the company commander was a big bald man.

"What should I do?" Jiang Lun asked.

"It's not easy."

"Just treat Liu Sanxia as a bald man."

"Pull it down, his good hair is as lush as weeds. When he comes on stage, people don't look at his face, they just look at his hair." Sancho imagined, "He went to the stage After such a stop, he flicked his cap and said, "I, Yang Dabaipiao, will walk to Tuqiao...'"

Jiang rounded "puchi" and laughed.

Sancho said: "The old way, go find a pig urine foam cover."

"Where can I find pig urine bubbles?"

"Look for the butcher Ding Si."

"Ding Si is not good at talking."

"I'll go talk to him."

The next day, Sancho got a pig urine bubble from Ding Si.

Liu Sanxia sniffed it, and frowned: "Sao!"

Sancho said: "If you don't flirt, you won't be called a pig urine bubble." He took the pig urine bubble, and slowly put the pig urine bubble on like a senior officer put a military cap on one of his meritorious subordinates. It landed on Liu Sanxia's head.

Liu Sanxia suddenly became a bald man.

So, everyone suddenly felt that the book "Slaughter Bridge" was shining brightly there.

The rehearsal began, and at the critical moment, the pig urine burst, and a lock of Liu Sanxia's black hair was exposed.That image made everyone laugh.

Sancho asked Ding Si for another pig urine foam, but after using it twice, it exploded again.

"I want another one from Ding Si." Jiang Lun said.

Sancho said: "Ask Ding Si well, and he will give it. But we can't soak it in pig urine. What if it explodes again in the middle of the performance on the day of the show?"

"You want Liu Sanxia to shave his head bald?"

"That's all there is to it."

Jiang Yilun said to Liu Sanxia, ​​and Liu Sanxia immediately covered his head with his hands: "That's no good, I can't be a bald crane." It seemed that he wanted to cut off his head instead of shaving his hair.

"The headmaster said."

"What the principal said doesn't work either. Why doesn't he let his family, Sangsang, shave bald?"

"Sangsang pulls Huqin, he's not an actor."

"Anyway, I can't shave a bald head."

Sancho came to work for a long time before he could explain Liu Sanxia's explanation, but when he went to school in the afternoon, Liu Sanxia said again: "My father will not do it. He said that the Chinese New Year will be in a few days. How can you be bald?"

Sancho had no choice but to find Liu Sanxia's father.Liu Sanxia's father is a well-known stubborn man in this place, even if Sancho speaks bitterly, he can only say one sentence: "My family is Sanxia, ​​no one can touch him!"

Seeing that the show was about to start, everyone in Yau Ma Tei Primary School was troubled by such a necessary bald head.

"I have to stop acting in this book," said Sancho.

"If I don't act, I'm afraid I won't be able to get No.1, so I'll count this book." Jiang Lunlun said.

"There's no way, it's the only way."

Soon, the students of Yau Ma Tei Primary School spread the word: ""Slaughter Bridge" will no longer be performed." It's a pity.

The bald crane listened quietly, not speaking.

In the evening, the children all went back from school, but the bald crane did not leave, wandering around the gate of the campus.When he saw Sangsang coming out of the house, he hurried over: "Sangsang."

"You haven't come home yet?"

"I'll go back right away. Can you send me a note to Teacher Jiang?"

"Is there a problem?"

"Don't worry about it. Just give him this note."

"Okay." Sangsang took the note.

The bald crane turned and left the campus, and disappeared into the twilight after a while.

Jiang Yilun opened the note from Bald Crane, and it read neatly on it:

Teacher Jiang:

Can I have a try?

Lu He
Jiang Roundup thought it was a little funny at first, but his hands that grabbed the note immediately trembled slightly.

When Sancho saw the note, he didn't speak for a long time, and then said: "Definitely let him try."

The bald crane has never acted in a play, but the bald crane is determined to perform this play well.With an unexpected speed, he memorized all the lines by heart.

I don't know if it's because Tuhe was born with the ability to act, or because Tuhe had also seen this play during rehearsal, but he took on the role in only one morning.

Two days before participating in the performance, all the programs participating in the performance were performed for all the teachers and students of Yau Ma Tei Primary School. When the bald crane came on stage, the audience applauded thunderously, and the children did not show any malice.

The bald crane wants to perform better.He brought home all the costumes and props for the character.In the evening, he dressed himself up as the puppet company commander, went to the yard, and by the moonlight, he practiced over and over again: little girl, grow up quickly, grow up, and the company commander, some food and some clothes, There is also an endless ocean of flowers...

Holding the big cap in his hand, with his bald head exposed, he acted like a paper moon, spinning like a donkey pulling a mill, counting the boards.When the company commander appeared, it was summer.The bald crane dresses up according to summer.But right now it is mid-winter, and the cold air invades the muscles and bones.The bald crane didn't care about the weather, so he kept walking and making movements, and his forehead was sweating.

On the day of the performance on the brightly lit big stage, the bald crane has a plan in mind. "Slaughtering the Bridge" received applause from the audience at the beginning of the performance, and the applause continued after that.When the bald crane threw the big cap to his orderly, and the bald head was shining brightly under the light, the judges already felt that Sancho was about to win another good ranking.

Bald Crane performed meticulously.He put on big leather boots, stepped on a stool with one foot, picked up a teapot from the table, drank water straight up to his neck, then tilted his head, his eyes were bulging: "I am Yang Dabald!" Lai, walk to Tuqiao..."

When dealing with Zhiyue, one is vicious, one is kind; one is ugly, and the other is beautiful, the contrast is very strong.It can be said that Bald Crane played that role perfectly.

After the performance, the teachers and students of Yau Ma Tei Primary School were immersed in the joy of victory, but when they suddenly thought of the bald crane, the bald crane had already disappeared.

No matter who you ask, no one knows the whereabouts of the bald crane.

"Everyone split up to find them immediately," Sancho said.

It was Sangsang who found the bald crane first.At that time, the bald crane was sitting on the lowest stone steps of the water pier in the small town, looking at the sparkling river water illuminated by the moon.

Sangsang walked up to him and knelt down beside him: "I'm here to look for you, everyone is looking for you."

Sangsang heard the sobbing of the bald crane.

Many teachers and students from Yau Ma Tei Primary School have come here.They walked down the stone steps and said to Bald Crane, "Let's go home."

Sancho patted him on the shoulder: "Go, go home."

Bald Crane bit his finger with his mouth, trying to keep himself from crying, but the crying couldn't be restrained from rushing out of his throat, almost turning into a howl.

Zhiyue cried, and so did many children.

The pure moonlight shines on the river, on the teachers and students of Yau Ma Tei Primary School, and also on the most handsome boy in the world...

(End of this chapter)