Old things in the south

Chapter 10 Let's Go to the Sea (2)
"Shit?" He opened his eyes wide, "Yes, yes, I'm here to give Gong!"

"Not hygienic!"

"We passers-by have no hygiene."

I lowered my head and squinted at his back again. He seemed to be thinking about something. After a moment of stupefaction, he took out a handful of glass balls from the pocket of his jacket. They were all round and bright soda balls:
"Here, these are for you."

"I don't want it!" This kind of thing can't break my heart at all.Dad said, don't take other people's things casually.

"I gave it to you!" He still wanted to stuff it into my hand, but I tried to open my palm and didn't punch it. The ball couldn't fall into my hand, so it fell on the grass.I said again:

"You can't just take what others give you."

"This child!" He also looked helpless, and then he asked me: "Does your family know that you come here?"

I shook my head.

"Did you go back and tell your family that they saw me?"

I still shook my head.

"That's good, but don't tell anyone that you saw me! I'm also a good person."

Who said he was a bad guy?His appearance makes me very strange!I guess he didn't come to shit, that pile of stuff has something to do with him.

"Go back! It's getting dark!" He pointed to the sky, and the crow flew past.

"What about you?" I asked him.

"I'm going too, you go first." He brushed off the broken grass that fell from his body, as if he was about to stand up, and then said: "Don't say it, little girl, you are still young and don't understand things, wait until tomorrow." , I will talk to you slowly, there are many stories!"

"tell a story?"

"Yes! I come here often. I think you have a kind heart, little girl. Let's make moral friends. I will tell you stories about my brother and me."

"When?" When it comes to storytelling, my favorite.

"We met, let's chat. I'm bored by myself."

I don't quite understand what he said, but I think such a big friend can make friends. I don't know if he is a good person or a bad person. I can't tell the difference, just like I can't tell the sea from the sky, but he The lips are thick and thick.

I turned around and poked the tall grass outwards, then turned around and asked him:
"Are you coming tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow? Not necessarily."

He was spreading out a bundle to pack some things. It was very dark under the grass and he couldn't see clearly, but he could hear the sound of "Dang Dang", it must be that the copper plate hit the soda ball that fell on the ground.Are those his things?I walked out of the broken brick wall, and there was still no one in the area in front of me, but from a distance, I saw Mama Song leading the little sister back, so I ran to the house quickly, passing by the neighbor’s house, and saw that the tattered picks were still on display. There.

Song Ma and I arrived at the door of the house at the same time, took the little sister's hand and walked all the way into the house. At this time, the electric light in the yard was on, and there were several scorpions crawling on the wall next to the electric light, and many flying around the electric light. bug.The coffee table is already placed by the flower pond, and there must be a pot of fragrant tea and a pack of powdered cigarettes on it. Dad will lie on the rattan chair for a long time, and talk to his mother about this and that. Maybe Uncle Li will come.

I put the ball on the coffee table, picked up the powder pack and opened it, and took out the foreign painting inside. My father smiled and asked me:

"Have you kept all the foreign paintings on the Conferred God List?"

"Where would it be! That Jiang Ziya will never have one. I have three for the three-eyed Yang Jian!"

Dad touched my head with a smile and said to my mother:

"This kid also knows about Jiang Ziya, Yang Jian!"

I don't know what kind of mood, suddenly asked my father:

"Dad, what is a thief!"

"Thief?" Dad looked at me strangely. "Those who steal from others are called thieves."

"What does a thief look like?"

"Human appearance! One nose and two eyes." Mom replied, and she also looked at me strangely:
"Why do you ask this?"

"Ask whatever you want!"

As I said, I took a small bench and put it under my mother's feet. Before I could sit down, Uncle Li came in, so my mother chased me away:

"Go, play with little sister in the house, don't interrupt here."

When I washed my face, I also put the ball in the washbasin and washed it with soap. The ball was white and the water in the basin was black.I put the ball in my schoolbag, when Mama Song came in to change the wash water, she said "Yo", pointed to the washbasin and said:
"This is your face? How clean!"

"It's cleaner than your stinky little feet!" I laughed after I finished speaking.I don't know why I thought of Song Ma's feet, probably because her feet were bound too tightly.Mom said it stinks in there.

Song Ma also laughed, and she said:

"You have a sharp mouth, don't you? Don't cry if you can't bite the biscuits!"

Not being able to bite the biscuits is really a painful thing for me to eat breakfast every morning.My big teeth were all moth-eaten, and two of the front ones fell out, and the new ones hadn't grown yet, so I couldn't eat the sesame seed cakes and twists to my heart's content.In order to eat breakfast slowly, I was late; I cried in pain because I encountered a tooth decay while eating.Then I would rather eat nothing and go to school hungry.

I hung my schoolbag on my shoulder and went to school by myself.Exit Xinlianzi Hutong and walk straight to the city gate. Although the Xinghua Gate has been opened, it has not yet been completed. Layers of bricks and soil have been piled up inside and outside the city gate. Vehicles are not allowed to pass, only people can pass through.The morning sun shone on the dirt slope, and when I walked up the dirt slope, the sun shone all over my body. Although I didn’t eat breakfast, I was very comfortable. I just stood on the dirt slope for a while, watching the pedestrians coming and going.Holding the schoolbag in his hand and touching the bulging ball, he couldn't help but think of the scene in the empty grass, that man with thick lips, what is he doing?

I thought about it for a while, then walked downhill, out of Xinghua Gate, and arrived at the school soon.

The fifth-grade scouts guard the school gates, what a fierce look they are!But how enviable!When can I be a Boy Scout?
"What's in the bag?" Scout asked, pointing to my bag.

I was taken aback.

"It's the ball, return it to Liu Ping." I was a little trembling when I spoke, I was really afraid of them.

Scout was nice to me, he didn't check, waved his hand and let me in.I saw him find broad beans and hawthorn candies from other students' trouser pockets, and confiscated them all.No food is allowed.

When I entered the classroom, I took out the ball and gave it to Liu Ping. He was stunned and probably forgot, so I said:

"It was the ball you threw that day!"

He remembered it now, and happily took it without saying thank you.

Some students were making noise. They said that the whole school will hold a fun party to send off the graduates. In the auditorium, each class will perform a performance in the fun party. The noisy one is what will our class perform?I wonder, where did they get their news?How come I don't know these things?

In class, sure enough, the teacher told us that the students in the first and second grades could not perform the whole drama or anything, so they had to sing and dance.Teacher Han, who teaches dancing and singing, has to select a few students from the first, second, and third grades to sing "The Sparrow and the Child" together.ah!What a beautiful song and dance that is!Who will the teacher choose?Will you choose me?My heart is beating because I love Teacher Han!She is the daughter of our director Xiao Han.In winter, she wore a taupe-colored cheongsam trimmed with white rabbit fur. She taught us how to dance in the auditorium. When she pulled the hoop, she happened to hold my hand.Her hands are hot and soft, how I like her, does she like me? ...

"...and Lin Yingzi, who is a little sparrow."

ah!I'm still dreaming, I don't hear anything, what?Are you really calling my name?

"Lin Yingzi, from tomorrow onwards, you have to go home later after class. Teacher Han will teach you every day. Go to the classroom of the top three. Do you understand? Remember, tell your family."

I just feel my face is hot, I'm so happy, how envious my classmates will be!I went to dance with my classmates in the third grade. Although I was a little sparrow, I just flew around and didn't want to sing.

I feel that time flies really slowly, because I have to go home and tell my mother, don't tell Smelly Song's mother, she will definitely bring her sister to the funfair, so I don't want her to come!When get out of class was over, my classmates surrounded me and asked me what clothes I was wearing on the day of the dance?Are you afraid?The female classmates all ran over and hugged me, as if I was a good friend of each of them.

It was finally time to go home for lunch after school, so I quickened my pace and walked out ahead of my classmates.After entering Xinghua Gate, passing through the high and low slopes, and walking for a short distance, you will arrive at Xinlianzi Hutong.The third house in the alley is a big house. The door is usually closed tightly, but today it is rarely opened. There are many people around the door, and the police have also come. I don’t know what is going on.But I still have to go to school in the afternoon, so I can't squeeze into the crowd to watch, so I hurried home.

Song's mother was talking to her out of breath, and her mother stared in surprise, shook her head, and clicked her tongue again.

"This time it's a big deal. A total of [-] pieces have been stolen. It's probably because yesterday Tianhao took out the clothes to dry and let the thieves take aim."

"How can you see it from the outside? Isn't it the one with the black door? I rarely see them open the door when I pass by. It's always gloomy."

"As soon as the gate was opened today, we saw that it was really a pomegranate goldfish tank with a canopy. The yard is so bright!"

"What's going on now?"

"The police are there to investigate! Let's go, Zhuzhu, let's look again." Song Ma led the little sister, and turned to see me, "Xiaoyingzi, are you going to watch the fun?"

"It's lively? People lost so many things, how anxious they are, and you still say it's lively!" I sneered at her after I finished speaking.

"Good intentions are not rewarded!" Song Ma finally carried her sister away again.

I told my mother at the dinner table that I participated in the performance of "The Sparrow and the Child". My mother was very happy, and she said she would sew me the most beautiful dance dress.I said:
"Lock it in the box after you sew it, don't be stolen by thieves!"

"No, don't say such sad words!" Mom said.

I couldn't help but asked my mother again:
"Mom, the thief stole something, where did he put it?"

"Sell those things to the people who specialize in stealing."

"What kind of person is a person who collects stolen goods?"

"People are all the same, no one is engraved on the forehead which is a thief and which is not."

"So I don't understand!" I was wondering something in my mind.

"There are so many things you don't understand! Go to school, my little girl!"

Damn Beijing dialect is so fluent, but I laughed:
"Mom, it's a silly girl, silly, 'ㄕㄚ' silly, not 'ㄙㄚ'. My mother!" After I finished speaking, I ran away quickly.

Because I have to practice dancing after school, I came back a little late today.On the slope of Xinghuamen, I still stood for a while as usual.The sky above the city wall is now light red. Will the sea also turn red at this time?I silently recited "Let's go to see the sea! Let's go to see the sea!...The golden-red sun rises from the sea..." So now can't it be said that it is "The golden-red sun is falling from the sky" ?That's right, I will write a book in the future, I want to distinguish the sky from the sea, I want to distinguish the good from the bad, I want to distinguish the lunatic from the thief, but now I can't distinguish anything.

I came down from the dirt slope, thinking while walking, and when I got to the door of the house, I sat down on the door pier. I didn't reach out to knock on the door in a daze, because I saw the picker who bought the junk stopped at the door of the neighbor's house again.What about pickers?I couldn't help but raised my feet and walked towards the empty grass.At this time, in the open space in front of the door, I saw a man squatting under the big locust tree in the distance, and he didn't pay attention to me.I stepped into the broken brick wall, pushed aside the tall grass, and walked in step by step.

In the same old place, I saw him!
"It's you!" He also squatted there, biting a piece of grass in his mouth.He looked behind me again and beckoned me to squat down too.As soon as I squatted down, my schoolbag fell to the ground.He whispered:

"School is over?"

"Ah."

"Why don't you go home?"

"I guess you're here."

"How can you guess it?" He tilted his head to look at me, and I saw his face, which was very familiar.

"Me!" I smiled.I just felt like this in my heart, so I came, I didn't really guess what was going on, "It's time for you to come!"

"It's time for me to come? What do you mean?" he asked in surprise.

"It's not interesting!" I replied in amazement, "You still have some stories you haven't told me! Don't you?"

"Yes, yes, we have to keep our word." He nodded and smiled.He leaned against the corner of the wall, and beside him was a big package wrapped in oilcloth, and he leaned on the big package, just like Song Ma was sitting on the top of her kang leaning on the pile of quilts.

"What story do you want to hear?"

"Your brother's, yours."

"Okay, but let me ask you first, I don't know your name yet?"

"Yingzi."

"Yingzi, Yingzi." He said softly, "The name is nice. How did you score in the school?"

"No. 12."

"Such a smart student only takes the [-]th place in the exam? He should be the first one in the exam! You must be distracted by fun."

I laughed, how did he know that I was playful?How can I not play!
He went on to say:
"When I was young, I was just playful, and I didn't succeed in my studies, and it was too late to regret. My brother, he is a good student, he takes the first place in the exam every year, and he has ambition. He said that he will go abroad after graduation. Go across the sea to study. My God, with my worthless brother, who has no ability, how can I afford it! Ben Wotou, the three of us, often eat the last meal without the next meal! Sigh !" He sighed, "It's a last resort to get to this point. Little sister, do you understand what I'm saying?"

I seem to understand, but do not understand, just look straight at him.There was a pile of gum in the corner of his eyes, and his eyes were red, as if he hadn't slept yesterday, and he seemed to have cried.

"My blind old lady was crying blind because of my lack of prospects. She knows now that I have spent all my belongings and changed my ways to start a small business. She doesn't know anything else about me. My younger brother, who is obsessed with reading books, even treats me as a fool." Good brother. No, I support my younger brother to study, and I wholeheartedly want to let him go across the ocean to study. Am I not a good person? Xiaoyingzi, do you think I am a good person? A bad person? Huh?"

Good guy, bad guy, this is the thing I can't distinguish clearly, why did he come to ask me?I shake my head.

"Not a good person?" He narrowed his eyes and pointed to his nose.

I still shook my head.

"Not a bad guy?" He smiled, tears streaming from behind his eyeballs.

(End of this chapter)