grass house

Chapter 2 Paper Moon
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When Zhiyue's grandmother held Zhiyue by hand and appeared in the yard of Sangsang's house, it was one autumn afternoon that year.At that time, Sangsang was feeding his group of pure white pigeons.The white dove was disturbed by the stranger, and flew up with a huff. At this moment, Sangsang saw the paper moon: she was startled by the sudden take-off of the white dove and the strong sound of its wings, so she hugged her grandma's arm tightly and leaned against her. On grandma's body, she shrank her neck slightly and half-closed her eyes, as if she was afraid that the pigeon's wings would hit her.

The white doves were circling in the sky, and it was the best autumn sunshine at that time. When the doves slid across the sky, the sky was full of charming white light.After meeting strangers, these little guys actually developed the desire to perform, spreading their wings, gliding or doing collective dives, elevations and shuttles in the air chicly and gracefully.

Sangsang saw a slightly upturned face and a pair of jet-black eyes beside her grandmother.

The white pigeons finally circled downward like an upside-down whirlwind, and then fell into the yard one after another, making a "cuckoo" sound.

Zhiyue slowly came out of the frightened state, gradually let go of her grandma's arm, and looked at the white doves like snowballs on the ground with freshness and joy.

"Is this Principal Sang's house?" Zhiyue's grandmother asked.

Sangsang nodded.

"You are Sangsang?" Zhiyue's grandmother took Zhiyue and took a step forward.

Sangsang nodded.But he looked at Zhiyue's grandmother with puzzled eyes: How did you know my name is Sangsang?
"Everyone knows that Principal Sang's family has a handsome boy named Sang Sang."

Sangsang suddenly became uneasy, because he saw what he looked like: no shoes, his bare feet were dirty; his trousers were barely caught by his hip bones, one trouser leg was drooping on his feet, while the other trouser leg was curled up. It reached above the knees; the jacket was missing buttons because of a fight, and one of the two small pockets was torn off, and there was still a little connection.

"Is your father at home?" Zhiyue's grandmother asked.

"Here." Sangsang took the opportunity to run into the house, "Dad, someone is looking for you."

Sancho came out.He knew Zhiyue's grandmother, so he called Zhiyue's grandmother and Zhiyue into the house.

Zhiyue still held her grandmother's hand, watched the pigeons, and walked lightly, for fear of disturbing them again.Pigeons are not afraid of paper moons.One of them even ran to Zhiyue's feet to peck a corn, and Zhiyue stopped quickly, until grandma pulled her hard, and she walked over sideways.

Sangsang didn't enter the room, but Sangsang listened attentively to the conversation in the room... "This girl's name is Zhiyue."

"It's a nice name."

"I want to transfer Zhiyue to your school to study."

"Then why?"

After a pause, Zhiyue's grandmother said, "No reason. It's just that Zhiyue doesn't want to study in Itakura Elementary School anymore."

"I'm afraid it won't work. There are regulations from above that children go to school on the spot. Zhiyue should go to Itakura Primary School. Besides, it is very inconvenient for children to go to school here. It takes three miles to walk from Itakura to Yau Ma Tei."

"She can walk."

There was no sound in the room.After a while, my father said, "You have given me a problem."

"Let her come. The child doesn't want to study there anymore."

"Paper moon," said the father's voice, "such a long way, can you walk?"

After a pause, Zhiyue said, "I can walk."

After a while, my father said, "Let's discuss it again."

"Thank you, Zhiyue and I."

Sangsang immediately heard her father's surprised voice: "Auntie, don't do this!" Sangsang walked to the door and looked into the room, only to see her grandma holding Zhiyue and was about to kneel down in front of her father when she was caught by her father. Hold on.

Immediately, Sangsang heard grandma and Zhiyue sobbing softly.

Sangsang squatted on the ground, staring blankly at his pigeons.

The father said: "School will start in two days, so you can let the child come."

Zhiyue and grandma walked out of the house and came to the yard. Just as they were about to go out, Sangsang's mother came back from the vegetable garden with a bamboo basket.Sangsang's mother fell in love with Zhiyue as soon as she saw Zhiyue: "This little girl is really decent."

Several adults talked about Zhiyue's transfer to another school.The mother said: "When it is windy and rainy, Zhiyue will eat at my house and live at my house." The mother looked at Zhiyue, her eyes were full of love.When the mother suddenly noticed Sangsang, she said: "Sangsang, look at the paper moon, it's so clean from top to bottom, look at your hands, even if you chop them off, a dog won't smell it."

Both Sangsang and Zhiyue hid their hands behind their backs.What Sangsang hides is a pair of black hands full of dirt, but what Zhiyue hides is a pair of white and tender hands that are as tender as bamboo shoots.

After Zhiyue and her grandmother left, Sangsang's father and mother kept talking about Zhiyue's family.Sangsang was listening on the sidelines, connecting the fragmented words of her father and mother into a complete story: Zhiyue's mother is the most juicy girl in this area.Later, she became pregnant, and her belly swelled day by day, but no one knew who the child belonged to.She didn't say anything, just let the child grow up in her belly day by day without saying a word.Zhiyue's grandmother didn't seem to blame Zhiyue's mother too much, she just did what she should do.When Zhiyue's mother was pregnant with Zhiyue, she was still so pretty, but her face became paler and her eye sockets became deeper day by day.She doesn't go out often, and spends most of her time in the house making clothes and shoes for Zhiyue who is about to be born.She embroidered her favorite flowers on those clothes and trousers, stitch by stitch, very seriously.In autumn, when the wild chrysanthemums in the field bloomed small yellow and lavender flowers, Zhiyue was born.One month later, Zhiyue's mother left the house one evening.Two days later, people found her in a pond surrounded by calamus.From then on, Zhiyue's grandmother, as both Zhiyue's grandmother and Zhiyue's mother, silently raised the little Zhiyue day by day.

As for why Zhiyue transferred from Itakura Primary School to Yau Ma Tei Primary School, Sangsang's father speculated: "There must be bad kids in Itakura Primary School bullying Zhiyue."

When Sangsang's mother heard it, she leaned against the door frame and let out a long sigh...

two

Sangsang proposed to his mother that he wanted a new gown. The reason was that school was about to start and he should have a new gown.

The mother said: "This is the sun coming out from the west, and you know you need new clothes." She quickly went to the town to pull back the cloth, took Sangsang to a sewing house to measure her body, and asked her to Get it done as soon as possible.

On the afternoon of the first day of school, Sangsang ran to the water pier, took off her clothes and threw them on the grass, and then washed herself in the river water.The river water is already very cold after autumn.Sangsang kept jumping on the water pier, trembling and shivering, shouting out those country songs:
My sister is fifteen and I am sixteen,
Mom gave birth to sister, I cook porridge,
Papa sleeps in the cradle,
Cry to me without milk.

I remember my grandfather married my grandmother,
I set off firecrackers in front of the sedan chair.

Someone laughed and called Sangsang's mother out of the house: "Look what your family Sangsang is doing."

Sangsang's mother walked to the river, and she didn't know whether it was because Sangsang's appearance was funny, or because the folk songs that Sangsang yelled were funny, so she couldn't hold back her face and smiled: "Little monkey, I will freeze you to death!"

Sangsang turned to face her mother, wiped herself covered with soap, and still kept yelling.

Sangsang's mother came over to pull Sangsang, and Sangsang took the opportunity to lean back and fell into the river.

Sangsang felt that she had finally washed herself clean, so she climbed ashore.Now, the Sangsang that Sangsang's mother sees is a Sangsang who has been washed completely red by the clear river water without a speck of dirt.

Sangsang put on her clothes and said, "I'm going to get my white coat." Then she left.

Sangsang's clothes were left unfinished.Sangsang sat on the threshold and waited.He had no choice but to stop what he was doing first and make his white coat.Sangsang didn't go home until she had the white coat in hand. It was already dark and all the lights in the village had been turned on.Back home, Sangsang's head was knocked on the head by the chopsticks of the mother who was eating: "This child, it seems that I can't wait."

The next day, when Sangsang passed by the office door on her way to school, Wen Youju, who was pouring medicine dregs into the pond, first spotted Sangsang and said in surprise, "Oh, Sangsang, what do you want to do?"

At that time, the teachers in each class were preparing to go to their classrooms. When they saw Sangsang, who was usually like a mud monkey all day long and didn't even wash her face, she was dressed like this today, and they all gathered around to look.Zhu Heng, a sixth-grade Chinese teacher, asked, "Sangsang, is there a blind date coming?"

Sangsang said: "Fuck you." He also felt that his little white coat was too white, so he hurried to his classroom.

When Sangsang entered the classroom, she was laughed again by her classmates.I don't know who called out "Little White Coat" rhythmically, and then everyone responded: "Little White Coat! Little White Coat!"

Seeing that Sangsang was about to get annoyed, they stopped calling.

Fifteen minutes before class, when the classroom was so chaotic that no human voice could be heard, Jiang Yilun led Zhiyue and appeared at the door.The classroom suddenly fell silent.Everyone is looking at Zhiyue: Zhiyue is wearing a purple gown with big cuffs on her upper body, and blue cloth pants with slightly shorter trousers on her lower body. She is carrying a dark green schoolbag embroidered with a red lotus flower, and she is looking timidly at her. with everyone.

"Her name is Zhiyue, and she is your new classmate." Jiang Lunlun said.

"Paper Moon? Her name is Paper Moon." The children chewed on the name to each other.

From then on, Zhiyue became Sangsang's classmate until Zhiyue suddenly left the thatched house at the beginning of the second semester of the sixth grade.

After Zhiyue sat down, she took a look at Sangsang, who was lying on the window sill watching his pigeons.

Zhiyue went to Yau Ma Tei Primary School to study, which aroused some doubts among some children: why did she travel so far to go to school?But after a few days, everyone stopped wondering, as if Zhiyue was one of their classmates.As for Zhiyue, after a few days of being unfamiliar with each other timidly, she gradually became acquainted with everyone.She talked to the girls first, then the boys, and everything went back to normal.The only strange thing is: she hasn't spoken to Sangsang, the first person she saw.As for Sangsang, she never intended to initiate a conversation with her.However, this is nothing.In short, Zhiyue felt that she was very happy to study in Yau Ma Tei Primary School. Her pale face was always slightly rosy.

Soon, everyone also knew this: Zhiyue turned out to be a very remarkable girl.Her calligraphy is probably the best among the students in Yau Ma Tei Primary School.Mr. Jiang Lunlun wished he could draw a red circle on every word in the Zhiyue large typebook.Sancho's calligraphy is the best among the teachers in Yau Ma Tei Primary School.He flipped through Zhiyue's large copybook that Jiang Yilun had brought over, and said, "This child's handwriting is beautiful and smooth, and he is neither arrogant nor impatient. He has a background." He asked Jiang Yuanlun to call Zhiyue over. , asked her: "Who taught your calligraphy?" Zhiyue said: "No one taught it." After Zhiyue left, Sancho was puzzled, and said to Jiang Roundabout: "This is unlikely." That day, Sancho stood behind Zhiyue who was writing large characters, watched her finish writing a piece of paper, and then decided from the bottom of his heart: "This child's sitting posture, holding the pen, and handling the pen are definitely well-behaved and particular. It can’t be born.” Later, Sancho learned from Jiang Roundabout that this little Zhiyue could also recite many ancient poems.She has already mastered the ancient poems selected in the Chinese textbooks, and she is also very good at reciting them.Jiang Yilun also showed Sancho the composition written by Zhiyue, and Sancho felt that although the composition was still childish, underneath the words, there was an aura and bookishness that other children would never have.All of this made Sancho very puzzled.He asked the teacher of Itakura Elementary School, and the teacher of Itakura Elementary School couldn't tell the reason.

However, Sancho was secretly happy: Yau Ma Tei Primary School accepted such a good girl.

But Zhiyue didn't have the slightest arrogance.She didn't feel that she was any higher than other children in the slightest, she looked ordinary.She made the teachers of Yau Ma Tei Primary School feel that she will probably be a weak, quiet, pure and gentle girl all her life.

As for Sangsang, it's hard to say that Zhiyue never spoke to him.It's just that she didn't speak with her mouth, but with her eyes.For example, Sangsang set up another desk on top of the desk, then another desk, and finally added a small stool, then tremblingly climbed to the top like acrobatics, and when she went to the hole in the high wall to pick a sparrow, When Zhiyue saw her, she turned her face up, put her fists in her hands under her chin, her eyes were wide open, full of tension and worry.At this time, if Sangsang saw these eyes, she would hear: "Sangsang, come down, come down." Another example is that Sangsang pulled a carrot from the ground and rubbed it on his sleeve a few times. When Zhiyue saw her, she would frown imperceptibly when she ate it "creakingly". She opened her mouth slightly and glanced at Sangsang.At this time, if Sangsang sees these eyes, she will hear: "Sangsang, are unwashed radishes still edible?" Another example is that Sangsang has run out of time and has no time to solve arithmetic problems. When she was about to grab the homework from the next table and copy it, Zhiyue saw it and turned her eyes to look at Sangsang.At this time, if Sangsang saw these eyes, she would hear: "Sangsang, is such a thing possible?" , the arm was bleeding, and he didn't let go of the ball in his hand, and insisted on throwing it into the basket. When Zhiyue saw it, he would bite the thin blood with his fine white teeth. No lips, under the curved eyebrows, the eyes danced brightly in the sun.At this time, if Sangsang saw these eyes, she would hear: "Sangsang, you are amazing!"

These days, Sangsang, who is rarely quiet, seems to be a little softer, eating without eating, walking without losing shape.Sangsang's mother was very puzzled, and finally when she saw that Sangsang stopped eating soup and water, and didn't go to see his pigeons until the last grain of rice in the bowl was put into his mouth, she sighed to Sangsang's father : "Our family, Sangsang, how did you become more refined?"

At this time, the younger sister Liu Liu, who was eating soup, said loudly to her mother: "Brother will not steal my cakes anymore."

three

One afternoon in early winter, the north wind was blowing stronger and stronger, and when school was about to leave, the weather quickly turned gloomy.The pigeons of Sangsang's family who were looking for food outside were frightened, and immediately left the field, flew up to the sky where the clouds were flying, and then flew back to the grass house like a dead leaf blown by a strong wind.Poplars sang in the strong wind, and the hemp rope on the flagpole whipped the flagpole violently, making a "beep" sound.The children were sitting in the classroom excitedly and slightly terrified. They had already stopped listening to the get out of class, and only thought in their hearts: how to go home?Sancho walked out of the office, took a few breaths of the north wind, fastened his collar button, looked at the sky that was about to press down on his head, and ran to each classroom and said, "School is over now!"

After a while, the doors of all classrooms were opened, and the children just stuffed books and stationery into their schoolbags indiscriminately, yelling, or calling each other the names of their fellow travelers, and ran out of the campus one after another, as if a catastrophe was imminent.

When Zhiyue packed her schoolbag, she was the only one left in the classroom.She looked out the door with a look of fear and uneasiness.Because she thought at once: before she got home, there would be a storm on the way.At that time, she couldn't go to the village or go to the store, what could she do?

Sangsang's mother was walking this way among the chaotic group of children. Seeing Sangsang who was trembling in the wind, she asked, "Where's the paper moon?"

Sangsang said, "In the classroom."

Sangsang's mother hurried to the door of the classroom and called, "Paper Moon."

Zhiyue saw Sangsang's mother, imitating her grandmother's name, and called out: "Master."

"You don't want to go home today."

"Grandma is waiting for me."

"I've asked someone to bring a letter to your grandmother. Come home with me, it's going to rain soon."

Zhiyue said, "I'd better go home."

Sangsang's mother said: "You will be rained halfway." After that, she came over and took Zhiyue's cold hand, "Let's go, grandma will definitely know."

When Zhiyue followed Sangsang's mother out of the classroom, Zhiyue lowered her head for some reason, with tears in her eyes.

Sangsang, who had been standing not far away, saw her mother leading Zhiyue walking this way, so she hurried back home first.

Not long after Zhiyue came to Sangsang's house, it began to rain, and it started to rain violently.When Sangsang lay on the window sill and looked out, she saw a vast expanse of whiteness all around, and the thatched house of Yau Ma Tei Primary School could not be seen in the rain curtain, it was unreal.

When Liu Liu heard that Zhiyue was going to spend the night at her house, she was very excited. She held Zhiyue's hand and refused to let go. She repeatedly said to her mother, "I share the bed with sister Zhiyue."

Zhiyue's expression became stable after a while.

While Liuliu was talking to Zhiyue, and Zhiyue was dragged by Liuliu to walk around the house, Sangsang was on the sidelines, feeding the two little pigeons, and the mother who was busy making dinner, filled the kitchen. Said in the mist in the sky: "You must kill these two little pigeons."

Sangsang didn't feed the pigeons.But Sangsang didn't know what to do.He had no choice but to lie down on the window sill again and look at the weather outside: it was already late, it was dark, and the thatched houses were almost invisible.But through the sound of raindrops on the eaves, Sangsang could at least determine the location of the two thatched houses closest to his house.In Sangsang's ears, in addition to the sound of heavy rain, occasionally Liuliu and Zhiyue's chatting and laughing interspersed.

Faintly, from the big river behind the house, fishermen's songs were slightly sad because of the weather.

Sure enough, Zhiyue was arranged by Sangsang's mother to share a bed with Liuliu.Liu Liu took off her shoes, climbed onto the bed and jumped happily.Mother said: "Liu Liu, don't make trouble." But Liu Liu jumped higher.

Mother just in time lit a large brazier in the center of the room.Although it was cold and windy and rainy outside, inside the straw house, it was warm and harmonious.The cheeks of Liuliu and Zhiyue were warmed red.

The mother who is busy before going to bed sometimes stops to look at the paper moon.In her eyes, there is always a love that cannot be left behind.

Sangsang slept in the inner room, Zhiyue and Liuliu slept in the outer room.There is a thin fence made of reed stalks between the inside and the outside.Therefore, Sangsang could hear very clearly the voices of Liuliu and Zhiyue talking outside—Zhiyue taught Liuliu to recite sentence by sentence: a tree with yellow plums and all green, thunder and rain falling and stars all over the sky.

Three monks sit in four directions,
Chanting scriptures without saying a word.

Liu Liu happily "giggled" while reading.After finishing the study, I pestered Zhiyue to read another one.Paper Moon is happy to:

The plum blossoms in the first month are fragrant and fragrant,
Put it in a February orchid pot.

In March, the peach blossoms are ten miles red,
The April rose against the short wall.

The pomegranates are red like fire in May,
In June, the lotus is full of ponds.

July gardenia wears on the head,

August osmanthus is full of yellow trees.

Chrysanthemums bloom in September,
October Hibiscus is putting on makeup.

In November, Narcissus is offered to the case,

Wintersweet and snow lily are fragrant in December.

Sangsang opened her big eyes, and was also thinking silently in her heart.

Mother tidied up everything, and shouted in the back room: "Liu Liu, stop pestering my sister, it's getting late, it's time to go to bed."

The lights went out one by one.

The two girls were sleeping under the same quilt, and they probably bumped into each other, giggling nonstop.After a while, Liu Liu said: "Sister Zhiyue, can I sleep with you?"

Zhiyue said, "Come here."

Liu Liu is like a cat crawling over from the bed.When Liuliu finally got into Zhiyue's arms, the two girls giggled again.

Then I heard my mother say in the back room: "Liu Liu is crazy and dead."

Liuliu quickly shut up and burrowed into Zhiyue's arms.But after a while, Sangsang heard Liuliu talking to Zhiyue again.This time the voice was quiet, as if both of them got under the covers.But Sangsang still vaguely heard that it was Liu Liu who was speaking ill of him to Zhiyue... Liu Liu: "Many years ago, many years ago, my brother..."

Paper Moon: "How could it be so many years ago?"

Liu Liu: "Anyway, it's been several years. That day, my brother took a pot at home to the yard and secretly smashed it."

Paper Moon: "What are you doing smashing the pot?"

Liu Liu: "Sell iron."

Paper Moon: "Why sell iron?"

Liu Liu: "Change money."

Paper Moon: "What are you doing in exchange for money?"

Liu Liu: "I'll buy pigeons for money."

Paper Moon: "What happened next?"

Liuliu: "Later, when my mother was cooking, she found that the pot was gone, so she looked for the pot, but she couldn't find it anywhere, so she asked my brother if he saw the pot. My brother looked at my mother and backed away. Mom understood, so I went to catch my brother..."

Paper Moon: "Did he run away?"

Liu Liu: "Run away."

Paper Moon: "Where did you go?"

Liu Liu: "The gate of the yard happened to be closed. He couldn't run away, so he crawled into the pigsty."

Zhiyue: "Climbed into the pigsty?"

Liu Liu: "Climbed into the pigsty. The old sow came over to bite him..."

Zhiyue was a little nervous: "Are you biting?"

Liu Liu: "My brother stepped on pig shit and crawled out again..."

Zhiyue hid under the blanket and laughed.

Liu Liu: "My brother is dirty. He eats without washing his face in the morning!"

Sangsang gritted her teeth when she heard this, wishing she could jump off the bed, grab Liuliu out of the hot blanket, and then kick her.

Fortunately, Liuliu gradually became sleepy, and after saying a few words in a daze, she fell asleep with her arms around Zhiyue's neck.

After a while, Sangsang heard the thin and even snoring of the two girls.

Outside the window, the rain was still pattering.There was a pigeon, probably wet from the rain, which called "coo-coo", but thinking that this is also a very common thing, it stopped after two times.

Sangsang also fell asleep soon.

In the middle of the night, the wind stopped, the rain stopped, and the moon came out after two or three dark clouds drifted away.

The nocturnal wild duck gets tired and falls into the big river.When they fell to the surface, it was probably because a big fish in the water sucked their feet curiously, and they "croaked" in surprise.

Sangsang woke up.Sangsang's first thought was to pee.But Sangsang can't pee.Because Sangsang thought that if she wanted to pee, she would have to go out from the inner room, and then go through the outer room to the door, and when she walked from the outer room, she had to pass Zhiyue's bed.Sangsang had no choice but to endure.He felt that his little belly was getting more and more swollen.He was a little regretful that he shouldn't have drunk so much soup at night.But at that time, he just wanted to drink without raising his head.Thankfully there is only so much soup.This is even worse if there is more soup in the pot.Sangsang didn't want to keep thinking about peeing, so she let herself think about other things.He thought of Grandma Qin who lived on campus: Now, is she asleep or awake?According to her parents, she lived her whole life alone.After such a long night, she was the only one, didn't she feel lonely?He thought of Du Xiaokang, the son of the richest family in Yau Ma Tei.He said in his heart: What are you proud of?What are you so proud of?But Sangsang sadly admits that Du Xiaokang, who always wears white sneakers all year round, is indeed incomparable to other children—his appearance, his grades, and many other aspects are incomparable to him .Sangsang suddenly felt that Du Xiaokang was proud for a reason.But Sangsang was still unconvinced, even very angry... The pain in her belly interrupted Sangsang's train of thought.

Sangsang suddenly heard Zhiyue sighing in her dream.So Sangsang went to think about Zhiyue in a very chaotic way: the appearance of Zhiyue walking from the ridge of the field, the sound of Zhiyue reading, the calligraphy of Zhiyue, and the dancing of red silk on the stage... Later, Sangsang again Fell asleep.

The next morning, when my mother was tidying up Sangsang's bed, her hands suddenly felt wet. She opened the quilt and found that Sangsang had wet the bed at night. Wetting the bed again?While carrying the quilt to the yard to dry, she wondered in her heart.

The morning sun shone brightly on Sangsang's quilt.

Wen Youju entered the yard, saw the quilt hanging on the rope, and asked, "Who is it?"

Mother said, "It's Sangsang."

At that time, Zhiyue was coming out of the house with her schoolbag on her back.But Zhiyue only took one look at the quilt before walking out of the yard.

Sangsang ran into the house.

A quarter of an hour later, Sangsang came out, and seeing no one in the yard, she tore the quilt off the rope and threw it on the ground.At that time, there was still water accumulated at night on the ground.

Mother just came out to see it, and looked at Sangsang who had already walked out of the courtyard: "Where are you looking for death?"

Sangsang suddenly turned her head to look at her mother, wiped away her tears, and ran away.

four

On this day, Zhiyue didn't come to school.Her grandmother came to Yau Ma Tei Primary School to ask for leave, saying that Zhiyue was sick.Paper Moon didn't come to school for almost a week.Jiang saw that Zhiyue had finished a lot of homework, and said to Sangsang, "Go to Bancang, bring Zhiyue's homework, and tell her the problems assigned by the teacher, and see if she can write homework at home. Homework done."

Sangsang nodded in agreement, but Sangsang didn't want to go alone, so she took Ashu with her.But on the way, he met A Shu's mother, who forced A Shu to stay, saying that the duck in her family had swum somewhere, and asked A Shu to find the duck.Sangsang hesitated for a while, then had no choice but to walk to Itakura alone.

Sangsang imagined that Zhiyue was sick.But when a flock of pigeons flew across the sky, he looked up.He counted the pigeons one by one.When he saw a flock of pigeons, he always counted them.If he finds that other people's pigeons are bigger than his own, he will be a little jealous, and if he finds that other people's pigeons are smaller than his own, he will be a little proud.Now, the flock of pigeons above his head was smaller than his flock of pigeons, so he laughed and jumped up to reach the branches above his head, knocking Zhiyue's homework to the ground.He had no choice but to squat down to pack his homework, and wipe the ashes from the homework on his pants.The pigeons were still flying above his head, he was so immersed in his complacency that he forgot about the paper moon.

About one mile away from Itakura, there is a big river.There is a large forest beside the big river, and in the depths of the forest, there is an ancient temple called Jinyue Temple.The pigeons had long since disappeared, and Sangsang was thinking about the ancient temple while walking.He had been to this ancient temple with his mother.Sangsang thought: I will see that ancient temple soon.

Sangsang walked to the big river, and after a while, she saw the forest.For some reason, Sangsang didn't want to see Zhiyue immediately.Because he didn't know what he would look like after meeting Zhiyue.Sangsang is a boy who blushes whenever he talks to a girl.The closer it was to Itakura, the more he dawdled.He walked into the forest, he wanted to see the Baptist Moon Temple and talk about it later.There is a trail of bluestone slabs, winding and hidden among the forests, leading Sangsang to the depths of the forest.

In winter, on both sides of the stone path, no matter if it is maple, poplar or ginkgo, they are all bare, and the wind is not strong, but the forest is still whistling, exaggerating the depression of winter.A few jackdaws stood on the swaying branches, looking at the unique winter sun in the sky with their faces crooked.

The Baptist Moon Temple stands on the slope.

Sangsang first heard the voiceless sound of the wind chimes in the Baptist Moon Temple, and then saw a corner of it.The wind chimes gradually became louder.Sangsang felt that the sound of the wind chimes was mysterious, wonderful and pleasant.He thought: If there is a kind of pigeon whistle that can also make this sound and float across the sky, what will happen?Many of Sangsang's thoughts are finally to merge with his group of pigeons.

Turning a corner, the entire Baptist Moon Temple was suddenly placed in front of Sangsang's eyes.

Standing in the deep courtyard, the four corners of the temple are upturned, as if it will fly away with the wind at any time.There is still a forest behind the temple, and there are three or two tall trees with branches sticking out behind it.In front of the temple are two huge old locust trees, with very few branches, and the few remaining occasionally shake gently in the wind, looking very vigorous.The wind was a little stronger, and the wind chimes hanging from the four corners rang together, tinkling, making the surroundings even more silent.

Sangsang, who came to the front of the temple alone, suddenly felt oppressed by a kind of solemnity and solemnity, and couldn't help shivering, her small body shrank, and looked anxiously, not daring to go any further.

"Go back, to Zhiyue's house." Sangsang said to herself.But instead of going back, he walked up.At this time, Sangsang heard the three-stringed plucking sound coming from under the old pagoda tree.Sangsang recognized this instrument.Those who pluck the sanxian seem to be very quiet, and the sound of the sanxian is never impatient, very pure.To Sangsang, the sound was monotonous and repetitive.But Sangsang felt that its pure and slow voice was pleasant, like the raindrops on the branches falling into the pond after the autumn rain.Sang Sang is a huqin player in the Yau Ma Tei Elementary School's Literary Propaganda Team. Sang Sang knows a little bit of music.

The sanxian is always ringing like this, as if it was ringing many, many years ago, it's just that, and it will continue to ring forever, just like that.

Sangsang finally walked timidly to the gate of the monastery.He looked inside and saw a monk sitting under the old locust tree, and the sanxian was ringing in his arms.

Sangsang knew that this was the Huisi monk her father often talked about.

There are many opinions about the life experience of monk Huisi.But Sangsang's father only believed in one thing: this man used to be a teacher, and he was a very knowledgeable teacher, but for some unknown reason, he suddenly became a monk.In fact, my father didn't have a good reason, but after meeting Monk Huisi a few times, from his very good calligraphy, from his elegant words, from his gentle manner and a bit of free and easy In terms of behavior, one of the many sayings is identified.Later, his father also suspected that he was a student who had already studied very high.Whether it is a husband or a student, anyway, Monk Huisi is not from the countryside.Monk Huisi was obviously born in the south of the Yangtze River, because only people from the south of the Yangtze River have that delicate appearance.Monk Huisi came to Baptist Moon Temple in 20.According to people at the time, Huisi was not yet [-] years old at the time, with black hair like a crow's feathers and a white face that looked like a girl, which made some country people think it was a pity.Later, the monks here died of old age, and he walked away, and he was the only one left alone guarding this ancient temple that I don't know when it was built.Due to the changes of the times, the Temple of the Moon has long since ceased to be filled with cigarettes as before, and all kinds of Buddhist activities have basically ceased. The Temple of the Moon is quiet all year round.For unknown reasons, Monk Huisi stayed on.This may be because he has nowhere to go, and the ancient temple has become his home.He insisted on not returning to vulgarity, and he was still his monk in the empty years.As before, he wears brown monk robes all year round.He occasionally appeared in the fields and in small towns, which added a scene to the plain countryside.

Monk Huisi under the old locust tree raised his head when he felt someone standing at the gate of the courtyard.

At this moment, Sangsang saw a pair of deep eyes.Although there was kindness in this gaze, Sangsang shivered slightly as if being blown by a cool wind.

Monk Huisi gently put down the sanxian, pinched the monk's robe with both hands, then stood up, let go of his hand lightly, and the monk's robe fell down like a curtain.He lightly brushed the monk's robe a few more times with his hand, bowed his head and made a bow to Sangsang, then walked over.

Sangsang didn't dare to look at Monk Huisi's face, and kept her eyes level.Due to the difference in size, in Sangsang's gaze, there were two swinging wide sleeves.The sleeves were rolled up wide, exposing the white lining.

"Little benefactor, please come in."

Sangsang grew bolder and raised her head.In front of him was a face full of freshness and tranquility.Sangsang has never seen such a face since she grew up.He smiled at Monk Huisi, but he didn't know what he meant by that smile, he just thought he should smile like that.

Monk Huisi bent down slightly, and made a very respectful gesture to let Sangsang enter the monastery.

Sangsang felt a little unnatural.Because no one has ever treated him so solemnly to a child who was still dragging his nose a few years ago.

Sangsang walked into the monastery with her hands tied.

Monk Huisi stood aside and moved slightly forward to guide Sangsang forward.He asked Sangsang: "Little benefactor, what's the matter?"

Sangsang said casually, "Come and play." But he immediately felt that his answer was ridiculous.Because, this is not a place for children to play.His face turned red all of a sudden.

However, Monk Huisi did not tell him "this is not a place to play", but said very kindly: "Oh, oh..." Still guiding Sangsang from a slightly forward position.

Sangsang didn't want to go back, so she just bit the bullet and walked forward.He walked to the gate of the palace, and it was dark inside.When Sangsang looked inside for the first time, she didn't see a specific image, but only felt that there was a golden light in the darkness.He stood outside the high threshold, and after a while he saw clearly the Buddha statue on the lotus seat.The Buddha's demeanor is solemn but kind.Above the Buddha is a golden dome, so the Buddha statue looks extraordinarily luxurious again.

When Sangsang looked up at the Buddha statue, for some reason, she suddenly felt a little frightened, so she involuntarily took a few steps back, then turned around and was about to walk out of the courtyard.

Monk Huisi hurriedly followed.

When Sangsang walked out of the courtyard, Monk Huisi asked, "Where does the little benefactor come from?"

Sangsang replied, "From Yau Ma Tei."

Monk Huisi asked again, "Little benefactor, where are you going?"

Sangsang replied, "Go to Itakura."

"Itakura?"

Sangsang nodded: "I'll go to Itakura to find Zhiyue."

"Paper moon?"

"My classmate Zhiyue."

"You are Sangsang?"

Sangsang was surprised: "How do you know I'm Sangsang?"

Monk Huisi paused for a moment, then smiled and said, "I heard that Principal Sang's son is named Sang Sang. You said you came from Yau Ma Tei, so I think you must be Sang Sang."

Sangsang walked back along the bluestone path.

Monk Huisi actually insisted on sending Sangsang off.

Sangsang couldn't refuse.Sangsang didn't know how to refuse, so she asked Monk Huisi to send him to the big river in a daze.

"Go slowly." Monk Huisi said.

Sangsang turned around and looked at Monk Huisi.At that time, the sun was shining on the big river, and the river water reflected the bright sunlight, clearly illuminating the face of monk Huisi standing on the grass by the river.Monk Huisi was also looking at him and smiling at him.Sangsang looked at Monk Huisi's face. Based on his child's feeling, he suddenly felt for no reason that his eyes seemed to be the eyes of another person. Conversely, there was another person whose eyes seemed to be like Monk Huisi's s eyes.But Sangsang couldn't think of who this other person was, and she looked confused.

Monk Huisi said: "Little benefactor, after crossing the river, it will be Itakura, let's go on the road."

Only then did Sangsang put away her suspicious gaze, waved to Monk Huisi, and bid farewell to him.

After walking a long way, Sangsang looked back.He saw that monk Huisi was still standing on the grass by the river.There was a strong wind blowing from the river, and his monk's robe was rolled by the wind, like a cloud floating in the sky.

五

After Zhiyue recovered from her illness, she went to school and returned home as usual.But after two weeks like this, for unknown reasons, Zhiyue was late for school almost every day.Sometimes, the first class in the morning is almost over before she rushes to the door of the classroom out of breath, raising her hand and shouting "report".The first few times, Jiang Yilun didn't feel anything, just said: "Come in." After this happened several times, Jiang Yilun became a little angry: "Zhiyue, what's wrong with you? Why are you late every day? "

Zhiyue lowered her head.

"Pay attention in the future. Go to your seat!" Jiang Round said.

Zhiyue still hung her head down.After Zhiyue sat down, she kept her head down.

Once, Sangsang glanced at Zhiyue by chance, and saw a string of teardrops silently rolling down from Zhiyue's face, dripping onto the textbook.

On this day, Sangsang woke up early and told her mother that a pigeon failed to return home last night, fearing that the eagle had injured its wings, so he went to the field to look for it, and then ran out of the house.As soon as Sangsang left the house, she went straight to Itakura.Sangsang secretly wanted to find out what happened to Zhiyue.

When Sangsang arrived at the big river, the sun had just come out, and the fog on the river was drifting away.There is a ferry boat on the river, with ropes tied at both ends, connecting the two banks respectively.Sangsang pulled the rope and dragged the boat to the shore, then climbed into the boat, and then pulled the rope at the other end of the boat, and arrived at the other side in a short while.Sangsang went ashore and climbed up the embankment. At this moment, he saw the dirt road leading to Itakura.He sat down under a big tree on the embankment, quietly waiting for Zhiyue to walk out of the barn.

When the sun rose a little and there was no trace of fog on the river, Sangsang did not see the paper moon, but saw three boys appearing on the dirt road.They were wandering on the dirt road, showing no intention of moving away, as if they were waiting for someone.

Sangsang didn't know that these three boys were all students of Itakura Primary School.One of them is a well-known villain in Itakura campus, named Liu Yishui, nicknamed "Huozui Big Teapot".The other two are followers of the "Huozui Big Teapot", one is Zhou Defa and the other is Wu Tianheng.Sangsang didn't even know that the three of them stayed on the road waiting for Zhiyue to come over.

After a while, Sangsang saw a paper moon at the entrance of Bancang Village.

Zhiyue walked over hesitantly.She had obviously seen Liu Yishui.For a while, Zhiyue stood there and did not go away.But she looked at the sun in the east and came over.

Liu Yishui was lying straight on the road, while the other two sat on the side of the road.

Sangsang has already seen that they want to bully Zhiyue here.Sangsang heard from her father (her father heard from a teacher at Itakura Elementary School) that there were people in Itakura Elementary School who loved to bully Zhiyue, and the leader of them was "Huozui Big Teapot".Itakura Elementary School tried to control them several times, but to no avail, because the "big teapot with open mouth" is a lawless and wicked young man.Sangsang thought: This is probably the "Kuzui big teapot" and the others.Sangsang saw this, and already understood why Zhiyue was always late every day.

Zhiyue is very close to Liu Yishui and the others.She stood still for a while, then jumped into the cornfield by the road.She wanted to avoid Liu Yishui and the others.

Liu Yishui and the others didn't go after Zhiyue, because, in their view, Zhiyue was actually very difficult to get rid of them.When they saw Zhiyue walking in the pitted wheat fields, they giggled.After laughing for a while, they shouted together at the top of their voices: Yay, yah, a little bit leaked out between the toes.

No one to help, no one to fight,

As soon as he lifted his legs, he fell down.

This little girl can't find a home,

Wiping tears Huwawa...

They yelled and clapped their buttocks "crackling" to accompany them.

Now Zhiyue was only thinking about going to school quickly, ignoring them, and ran diagonally across the wheat field to the embankment.

Seeing that Zhiyue was about to climb the embankment, Liu Yishui stood up and ran towards the embankment.

Sangsang could no longer watch from the sidelines, so he yelled at Zhiyue: "Zhiyue, run to me! Run to me!"

Zhiyue stopped in the wheat field, looking at Sangsang on the embankment.

Sangsang yelled, "Run, run!"

Only then did Zhiyue run towards the embankment.

When Zhiyue was running towards the embankment, Sangsang grabbed a piece of brick in one hand and walked towards Liu Yishui who were running over there.

Zhiyue climbed onto the embankment.

Sangsang turned her head and said, "Hurry up and cross the river", and continued to walk towards Liu Yishui and the others.

Zhiyue stood there without moving.She stared blankly at Sangsang's back, anxiously and fearfully waiting for the upcoming fight.She wanted to tell Sangsang not to go any further.But she didn't bark.Because she knew that Sangsang would not turn back.

Sangsang was actually afraid in her heart.He was not from Itakura, and he was facing another three boys who looked bigger and stronger than him.But Sangsang is willing to have a good fight in front of Zhiyue.He shouted tremblingly in his heart: "Come on! Come on!" The two slender legs trembled like branches in the cold wind.He even wanted to put down the bricks in his hands and go behind the big tree to pee, because he felt that his pants were already a little wet.

"Sangsang..." Zhiyue finally called out.

Sangsang didn't look back, she stood there holding a half brick in one hand, waiting for Liu Yishui and the others to come over.

Liu Yishui ran over first, looked at Sangsang and asked, "Who are you?"

"I'm Sangsang!"

"What is Sangsang?" After Liu Yishui finished speaking, he turned his head and smiled at Zhou Defa and Wu Tianheng.

Sangsang held the two bricks tightly, and said, "Go one step further, and I'll smash it!"

Liu Yishui said, "You can't hit it right."

Sangsang said: "I hit it right." He started bragging, "If I want to hit your left eye, I will never hit your right eye." But he immediately felt that it was ridiculous to brag about it now , spread his legs apart, and put on a posture of being ready for battle.

Liu Yishui and the others put their arms around each other's shoulders, they didn't pay much attention to Sangsang at all, they formed a line and walked over in a big way.

Sangsang raised the brick and turned sideways, as if throwing it at any time.Liu Yishui didn't know whether it was because they were afraid that Sangsang would hit them with a brick, or because they were frightened by Sangsang's fierce appearance, so they stopped temporarily.

But at this time, Sangsang slowly backed away instead.He was thinking in his mind: the moment Zhiyue boarded the ferry, he threw the brick violently, and then immediately jumped onto the ferry, untied the rope at this end, and quickly pulled the ferry to the other side.

Zhiyue seemed to understand Sangsang's intentions, so she ran down the embankment and headed straight for the ferry.

Sangsang just grabbed the brick like this, staring at Liu Yishui and the others, while stepping back.Liu Yishui and the others really didn't dare to act rashly, they just forced them over step by step within a certain distance.

Sangsang turned her head and took a look.When he saw that Zhiyue was about to run to the water's edge, he rushed forward suddenly, scaring Liu Yishui and the others to turn around and run away.But Sangsang turned around and rushed down the embankment after rushing out a few steps.While rushing, Sangsang was proud of his little cunning.

Liu Yishui finally stopped, turned around and counterattacked.

Sangsang yelled at Zhiyue: "Get on the boat! Get on the boat!"

Zhiyue boarded the boat quickly.

Sangsang has retreated to the water's edge.When he saw that Liu Yishui and others had chased him, he said in his heart: "I'm not afraid of smashing your heads!" He threw a brick violently.However, with too much force, the brick fell behind Liu Yishui and the others.But it also surprised Liu Yishui and the others.At this time, Sangsang took the opportunity to jump into the boat.When Sangsang saw that Liu Yishui was going to grab the rope tied to the big tree, he threw another brick in his hand.This time it hit Wu Tianheng's foot, causing him to collapse on the ground in pain and screaming "Ouch, Ouch".But when Sangsang was about to untie the rope, Liu Yishui had already grabbed the rope and pulled the boat that was being pulled to the other side by Zhiyue back.The rope was tied too tight, and Sangsang spent a lot of effort to untie it, and at this time, the boat had almost landed.Liu Yishui ran over, ignored Sangsang's obstruction, and jumped onto the boat.

Zhiyue forcefully pulled the boat to the opposite bank.

Liu Yishui rushed towards Zhiyue, trying to remove the rope from Zhiyue's hand.

Sangsang hugged Liu Yishui's waist with both hands, and the two started fighting in the cabin.Sangsang was not Liu Yishui's opponent at all, and after struggling for a while, she was knocked over by Liu Yishui in the cabin, letting Liu Yishui ride on her crotch.Liu Yishui wiped his sweat and looked at Sangsang: "Sangsang came out of nowhere!" After speaking, he punched Sangsang.

Sangsang felt a sharp soreness on the bridge of her nose, and immediately, blood came out of her nostrils.

Sangsang saw a savage face.He wanted to hit Liu Yishui hard, but he couldn't move at all.

Liu Yishui punched Sangsang again.

Zhiyue put down the rope and cried: "Don't hit him anymore, don't hit him anymore..."

Seeing that the ferry was far away from the shore, Liu Yishui threw Sangsang off, then ran to the bow, rolled up his sleeves on the bow, and rowed the boat back with his hands.

Sangsang lay motionless on the bottom of the cabin, looking up at the winter sky.He had never seen the sky from such an odd angle.The sky seen from this angle is extraordinarily high and wide.He thought: If his pigeons are flying in the sky at this time, they will be very beautiful.There is wind on the river, the boat is shaking, and Sangsang's sky is also shaking.Sangsang felt an indescribable dizziness.

Zhiyue sat on the bow of the boat and let Liu Yishui row the boat back.

Sangsang saw a white cloud drifting away in a hurry, and this white cloud made Sangsang suddenly feel nervous.He slowly got up, and then crawled towards Liu Yishui.When the ferry was more than ten meters away from the shore, Sangsang suddenly bumped into it.Immediately, both he and Zhiyue heard a "plop".He lay on the side of the boat, excitedly looking at the splash of water.After a while, Liu Yishui struggled from the water to the surface.Sangsang stood up, wiped the two streams of blood under her nostrils with her hands, and looked down at Liu Yishui who was struggling to swim in the winter river.

Zhiyue pulled the boat towards the opposite bank.

When Liu Yishui swam back to the bank, shivering because of the cold, Sangsang and Zhiyue were already standing on the soft grass beside the river.

六

Liu Yishui ran home and changed his clothes. When it was almost noon, he felt chills all over his body and his darkened lips trembled. He reluctantly returned home after school.Liu Yishui caught a cold and fell ill.Liu Yishui's parents quarreled with Yau Ma Tei Primary School, and Sancho's house.If you make a fuss like this, you will make a big fuss, and if you make a big fuss, it will be easy to clean up.There are Sancho students everywhere.After Sancho made the apology, he joined forces with Itakura Elementary School and even the local government to find Liu Yishui and other children together with their parents, and issued a serious warning: If there is any further behavior of bullying Zhiyue in the future, Both the school and the local government will deal with Liu Yishui and his parents honestly and unkindly.

On this day, Sancho said to Zhiyue: "Zhiyue, no one dares to bully you at Itakura anymore, you should go back there and study."

Zhiyue lowered her head and remained silent.

"Talk it over with your grandma."

Zhiyue nodded and went back to the classroom.

Sangsang's mother said: "Let her study here."

Sancho said: "There is no problem, I am afraid that the child will run away and break his body."

That day, Zhiyue sat in class, not paying any attention to listening to the class, her eyes were empty.

Early the next morning, Zhiyue and grandma appeared at the door of Sangsang's house.

Grandma said to Sancho: "She only wants to study in Yau Ma Tei. You can take her in again."

Sancho looked at the paper moon: "Have you thought about it?"

Zhiyue didn't speak, just nodded.

Sangsang, who was feeding the pigeons, just listened quietly.After grandma and Zhiyue left, he blasted all his pigeons into the sky. When the pigeons were flying happily, they flapped their wings "crackling", as if the sky was full of crisp applause.

Everything, as usual.

But soon, Sangsang felt that several children were looking at him and Zhiyue with strange eyes.And, they are getting more and more aggressive.For example, in physical education class, when he happened to be in the same group as Zhiyue, the group of guys headed by Zhu Xiaogu would inexplicably yell "嗤".Annoyed, Sangsang had already grabbed a child by the collar, dragged him to the bamboo forest behind the house, and punched him.But Sangsang's reaction irritated Zhu Xiaogu even more.They didn't mean any harm, but they all felt that this kind of commotion was too exciting.There is even Sangsang's best friend among them.

A child like Sangsang was doomed to be the object of other people's troubles since she was a child.

This afternoon is a composition class.Sang Sang's composition has always been praised by Jiang Lunlun.And the composition I made last time was especially well done, almost all of the composition was criticized by Jiang Yuanlun.The first program of this composition class is to let Sangsang read his composition aloud.This was agreed in advance.As soon as the class bell rang, Jiang Lunyuan stepped onto the podium and said, "Today, we invite classmate Sangsang to read his composition "Let's Go to the Wheat Field" aloud."

But Sangsang was sweating profusely flipping through her schoolbag: his composition text was gone.

Jiang Lunyuan said, "Don't worry, look slowly."

I couldn't find it even after searching slowly.Sangsang was disappointed and stood there scratching her head.

Jiang Yilun smacked his lips at Sangsang and asked, "Has anyone seen Sangsang's composition?"

Everyone immediately went to look at their desks and rummaged through their schoolbags.After a while, people said one after another: "I don't have it here." "I don't have it here."

And when Zhiyue took out all the things in her schoolbag to check, her face blushed: under her composition, there was Sangsang's composition.

When one or two children saw Sangsang's composition, they stopped their eyes on Zhiyue's face.

Zhiyue had no choice but to pull out Sangsang's composition from under her composition, and then stood up: "Report, Sangsang's composition is here." She took the composition and walked towards the podium.

Zhu Xiaogu took the lead and yelled "Aw". Immediately, almost all the children in the classroom followed suit.

Jiang Lun patted the podium with a blackboard eraser: "Quiet!"

Jiang Lun took Sangsang's composition from Zhiyue's hand, and then sent it to Sangsang.

Sangsang started to read his own composition, but he stuttered, as if the composition was not written by him, but copied from someone else.

A well-written composition, after Sangsang read it so "squeaky" that no one felt better, and the classroom order was chaotic.Jiang Yilun frowned, insisting on listening to Sangsang finish reading his composition.

After school, Zhu Xiaogu saw Sangsang and smiled secretly at him.

Sangsang ignored him, squatted down, and pretended to tie her shoelaces, but she glanced at Zhu Xiaogu.When he saw Zhu Xiaogu walking to the edge of the pond, intending to grab a branch and play with it, he suddenly stood up, rushed over, pushed Zhu Xiaogu down with both hands.The lotus root has just grown in this pond, but there is no water, but it is full of mud.Zhu Xiaogu fell headfirst.When he pulled his head out of the mud, except for the shining eyes, the rest of the body was covered with mud.Annoyed, he grabbed two handfuls of mud and climbed up.

Sangsang did not run away.

Zhu Xiaogu ran over and threw two fistfuls of mud on Sangsang's body.

Sangsang put down her schoolbag, jumped into the mud pond, grabbed two handfuls of mud, and threw the mud directly on Zhu Xiaogu in the pond.

Zhu Xiaogu wiped a handful of mud on his face and jumped into the muddy pond.

The children stood aside, watching the slime fight with utter excitement.

Zhiyue stood in the classroom, quietly looking out from the crack of the door.

After a while, Sangsang and Zhu Xiaogu could no longer find a clean spot on their bodies.While the teachers shouted to stop them, they couldn't help laughing while watching the two "mud monkeys".

The children didn't care which side they were on, they just kept clapping their hands.

Jiang Yilun finally put on a straight face: "Sangsang, Zhu Xiaogu, stop immediately!"

The two of them had no more strength, so they managed to throw a few handfuls of mud at each other, then bent down and searched for their shoes and socks in the muddy pond.The children came to look at it, and pointed to a certain position in the muddy pond and shouted: "Over there! Over there!"

When Sangsang climbed up, she accidentally glanced at the classroom.He saw Zhiyue's eyes hidden behind the door.

Two days later, the world had the biggest snowfall since the beginning of winter.

In the depths of the bamboo forest behind the classroom, a group of sparrows escaping from the wind and snow screamed "chirping", making the children unable to hear the teacher's lecture clearly.It was only one class time, and when the classroom door was opened again, there was already a foot of snow piled up at the door.When school was over in the evening, the wheat fields were covered by heavy snow, the ridges disappeared, and there was only a flat and boundless snowfield in front of us.However, the heavy snow is still falling densely and violently.

The children walked out of the campus with difficulty, and then scattered on the snow field like black spots.

Sangsang's mother was standing at the gate of the courtyard, waiting for the paper moon.At noon, she had already made an agreement with Zhiyue, telling her not to go home today, but to come here directly after school.When she saw that there were not many children left on the campus, she walked towards the classroom.I met Sangsang on the road and asked, "Where is the paper moon?"

Sangsang pointed to a black dot that seemed to be there in the distance: "She's gone home."

"You didn't keep her?"

Sangsang stood there motionless, looking at the slowly moving black spot in the heavy snow—just that one black spot on the entire snowy field.

Sangsang's mother slapped Sangsang on the back of the head: "You probably bullied her."

Sangsang burst into tears: "I didn't bully her, I didn't bully her..." She turned her head and walked home.

Sangsang's mother followed Sangsang into the yard: "You didn't bully her, how did she leave?"

Sangsang wiped her tears, stomped her feet, and shouted to her mother: "I didn't bully her! I didn't bully her! Where did I bully her?!"

He grabbed two clumps of snow, squeezed them tightly, and then went straight to the pigeon coop and slammed them hard at the pigeons who were resting under the eaves with their necks curled up.

The pigeons were stunned by the sudden attack, froze for a moment, and then flew up in a panic.A few of them got into the cage and stuck their heads out to have a look, but they didn't take off immediately.When Sangsang saw it, she grabbed two more snowballs and threw them at them.There was a loud "boom" from the pigeon cage, and the last few pigeons that tried not to fly had to fly into the wind and snow.

Pigeons are struggling to fly in the sky.They refused to fly far away, but hovered over the thatched house, always thinking of landing immediately.

But Sangsang grabbed whatever she saw, and just threw them in the air, never letting them fall.

Seeing that they couldn't get down here, the pigeons landed on the roofs of other thatched houses.This made Sangsang even more annoyed.He immediately ran out of the yard to chase and smash the pigeons that were trying to land on the roofs of other thatched houses.

Mother looked at Sangsang who was running out of breath: "Are you crazy?"

Sangsang tilted her head: "I didn't bully her! I didn't bully her!" As she spoke, she wiped away her tears with the back of her hand.

"Then you smash the pigeon!"

"I'm willing to smash! I'm willing to smash!" He picked up a bamboo pole and waved vigorously at the pigeons flying in the air, but kept saying, "I didn't bully her! I didn't bully her!"

The pigeons finally knew that they would not be able to land on the grass house in a short time, so they had to brave the wind and snow and fly to the distance.

Sangsang stood there, watching them gradually fade away, blending with the snow until they could no longer be distinguished.

Sangsang looked forward again, in the hazy eyes of tears, the black spot had completely disappeared in the wind and snow at dusk...

(End of this chapter)