Old things in the south

Chapter 8 Hui'an Pavilion (7)
Xiuzhen took out the bundle from the bed, opened it, and it was full of Niu'er, no, Xiao Guizi, no, Niu'er's clothes.Xiuzhen put on many pieces for Niuer one by one.It's the first time I've seen Xiuzhen do things so quickly and in such a hurry.She busily took out the watch I gave Xiaoguizi from the hair comb box, wound it up and put it on for Niuer.Niuer fiddled with Xiuzhen, but stared straight at Xiuzhen's face without making a sound, as if she had become stunned.I leaned back and touched my arm against the wall before I remembered the gold bracelet.I rolled up my sleeves, took off the gold bracelet from my arm, went to the bed and handed it to Xiuzhen, saying:

"I'll make money for you."

Xiuzhen took it unceremoniously, and put it on her wrist immediately, without saying thank you, mother said that people should say thank you for everything they give.

Xiuzhen was busy for a while, stuffing a box with messy things, then lifted the box, took Niu'er's hand, put it down suddenly, and said to Niu'er: "You haven't called me yet, call me Mom. "Xiuzhen squatted down, put her arms around Niu'er, turned Niu'er's head again, lifted Niu'er's braid to look at the back of her neck, and said with a smile: "It's not my little Guizi, call it! Call me mother!" "

Niu'er hadn't said a word since she came in. At this moment, she was hugged by Xiuzhen and asked, but she also stretched out both hands, wrapped around Xiuzhen's neck, and pressed her face against Xiuzhen's, gently Shouting embarrassingly:

"mom!"

I saw their faces turned into one face and then divided into two faces. I felt dazzled, so I closed my eyes and held on to the railing of the bed before I stopped.I was confused for a while, but I didn't hear what the two of them said again. When I opened my eyes, Xiuzhen had already picked up the box. She took Niu'er's hand and said, "Let's go!" She always watched my actions and stretched out her hand to ask for me, so I held hands with her too.

We walked out lightly, the rain outside was getting lighter, I was the last one to come out, and I took the bottle of hanged ghosts on the windowsill in my hand.

After leaving the Kuayuan gate, walking along the corridor of the porter's house, it is so light, there are still some creaking sounds under your feet.In the room, Xiuzhen's mother spoke again:

"Is it Yingzi? Let's go home! Come play again tomorrow."

"Hey." I agreed.

Walking out of the gate of the Hui'an Pavilion, the street was pitch-black. Although Xiuzhen was carrying a suitcase and pulling the girls, they walked so fast. Xiuzhen said directly:

"Go, go, we'll miss the train."

When I got out of Chunshu Alley, I couldn't catch up with them, so I leaned on the wall and shouted softly:

"Xiuzhen! Xiuzhen! Niuer! Niuer!"

A foreign car approached in the distance, and the dim yellow light beside the car shone on the shadows of Xiuzhen and Niuer, who both ignored me and continued to run forward.Xiuzhen heard me shout, turned around and said, "Yingzi, go home, we will send you a letter when we arrive, go home! Go home..."

The sound became thinner and smaller and farther away. The rickshaw passed by, and the big and small shadows were shrouded in the night again.I leaned against the wall, supporting myself so that I would not fall down. The rain fell from the eaves of the house onto my head, face, and body, and I shouted in a hoarse voice:
"Niuer! Niuer!"

I was cold, scared, and reluctant, and I cried.

At this moment, the rickshaw passed by me, and I heard someone shouting from inside the hood:
"Yingzi, it's our Yingzi, Yingzi..."

ah!It's mother's voice!I cried out:

"Mom! Mom!"

I had no strength at all. I fell down, fell down, and knew nothing.

Far away, far away, I heard a group of house sparrows chirping, chirping, chirping.The voice was getting closer...it wasn't a house sparrow, it was a person, and the voice was right next to my ears.she says:
"...Madam, don't worry, your body is also in serious condition. Didn't the doctor say that you will definitely wake up?"

"But she has been in a coma for ten days! Why am I not in a hurry!"

I recognized it, it was Mama Song talking to Mama.I want to call mom, but I can't open my mouth or my eyes. Where are my hands, my feet, my body?Why can't I move, and I can't see a little bit of myself?

"In our country, it's called evil. I just went to the Qianmen Guandi Temple to burn some incense. Look, I brought this bag of incense ash back. I'll pour it back into her. Okay, you can do it again." Go to the Guandi Temple to burn incense and make a wish."

Mom was still crying, and Song Ma said again:

"But it's really strange. How could she abduct the two children? If we come back a step late, our Yingzi will catch up, alas! The more I think about it, the more frightened I am, the cute girl! Alas! That train, the two Together, alas! I said that Niuer is handsome, but she is a little thin..."

"Stop talking, Mother Song, I'll be shocked once I hear it. Where's Niu'er's clothes?"

"Those two on the chicken coop? I burned them."

"Where was it burned?"

"I burned it right next to the railway. Alas! Pretty little girl! Alas!"

"Ugh!"

The two sighed and stopped for a while without speaking.

After hearing the teaspoon stirring the teacup again, Mama Song spoke again:
"Let's pour it, shall we?"

"Just a minute, she's sleeping pretty well now, and we'll talk about it when she rolls over.—Is the house all tidy?" Ma asked.

"It's packed, the new house is really big, and the lights are installed today, it's very convenient this time!"

"Moving is better than anything else."

"I said you didn't listen! I said that the Hui'an pavilion has high walls and we have to hang a gossip mirror at the door to reflect it. You don't believe me."

"Okay, there's no need to talk about it. Anyway, I've already left that unlucky place. When Yingzi gets better, don't tell her anything. Go home and change to a new place, so that she can forget all about the past. Well, she pretended not to know what she wanted to ask, did you hear me? Song Mama."

"You don't need to tell me, I know it too."

What they were talking about, I didn't understand at all, I was thinking, what's going on here?Is something wrong?I thought about it and felt that I was gradually rising, rising, and I was lying here, high, high, high, my nose was about to touch the roof, "Ah!" I jumped all over, and fell from the top again, Surprised, he opened his eyes.Just listen to Mama Song say:

"Okay, wake up!"

Mom's eyes were red and swollen, and Song's mother was also in tears.But I still can't speak, I don't know how to open my mouth.At this time, my mother hugged me and pinched my nose. I opened my mouth and poured me a spoonful of water. Before I could resist, I swallowed it. Then I yelled:
"I don't take medicine!"

Song's mother said to her mother:
"Did I say it works? Did I say that Master Guandi is effective? He will talk immediately after drinking it."

Mom wiped the water from my mouth and made me lie down again.It was only then that I wondered, looking at the white roof, white walls, white doors and windows, tables and chairs, what kind of place is this?I remember I was in a ? ... I asked my mother and said:

"Mom, is it raining outside?"

"Where does the rain come from? It's a sunny day!" Mom said.

I was still thinking in a daze, I want to think of one thing.

At this time, Mama Song approached me, and she asked me very carefully:

"Do you recognize me? Yingzi!"

I nodded: "Mother Song."

Mama Song smiled at Mama.Mom said again:

"You have been sick for ten days with a fever, and your father and mother sent you to the hospital. When you recover, we will return to your new home. The new home even has electric lights!"

"New home?" I asked strangely.

"New home, yes! Our new home is in Xinlianzi Hutong. Remember, when the teacher was testing you, he asked where your family lived? Just say Xinlianzi Hutong."

"Then..." I really couldn't remember some things, so I couldn't continue what I wanted to say, so I closed my eyes.Mom said:
"It's good to sleep a little longer, you just feel tired, don't you?" Mom touched my mouth, my eyelids, and my hair, and suddenly something touched my head, which hurt a little. I opened my eyes and saw that it was the one on my mother's hand-that gold bracelet!I couldn't help but exclaimed: "Bracelet!" Mom didn't say anything, and pushed the gold bracelet onto her wrist again.I looked straight at my mother's gold tin, and I thought, Isn't this gold bracelet—isn't it the one I gave to someone?What is that man's name?I'm confused, but dare not ask because I can't remember that incident clearly now.Why did I get sick and live in this hospital?I don't know at all.

Mom patted me and said:

"Don't be in a daze, look at how many people bring you food and things to play when you have a fever and sleep!"

Mother picked up a beautiful box from the small table next to the bed, put it beside the pillow, opened it, and said:

"Grandma Liu bought the box for you to keep things in. Inside, look, this bead chain was given to you by the third aunt of the Zhang family. Here, uncle gave you this automatic pencil. Play with it yourself!" She then turned to talk to Mama Song.

Following my mother's instructions, I took them out of the box one by one, and what I found out was a watch with a few diamonds on it, ah!This is my own thing!But—I held the watch in my hand and looked at it without moving, thinking, how is it in this case?Wasn't it also given to someone by me?
"Mom!" I couldn't help calling out, wanting to ask.Mom looked back and saw it, took the watch quickly, said with a smile:

"Look, I've fixed this watch for you, listen!"

Mom put the watch close to my ear, and it made a small ticking sound.But then I remembered something, I remembered a person, and another person.Their shadows dangle in front of my eyes.

"Mom!" I called again and wanted to ask.

Mom hurriedly took out other things from the box to coax me:

"Here, look at this again, it's..."

I suddenly remembered a lot of things, I was with someone, and there was another person, but why did my mother not allow anyone to ask in such a hurry?How I miss them now!I felt so uncomfortable, I really wanted to cry, I suddenly turned over and fell on the pillow, and couldn't help crying loudly.I cried and shouted, "Daddy! Daddy!"

Mom and Song's mother rushed to coax me, and my mother said:
"Yingzi misses Dad, Dad is so happy to know, he will come to see you after get off work!"

Mama Song said:
"The child is wronged, the child is greatly wronged this time!"

My mother picked me up and hugged me, Song's mother patted me, they didn't understand me at all!I was thinking about those two people!Am I doing something wrong?I am scared!Dad, Dad, you are a man, you should help me!That's why I'm called Papa.

I was so tired from crying for a while, I closed my eyes and snuggled into my mother's arms.Mom gently rocked me and sang the song of her hometown in a low voice:

"The sky is dark, it's going to rain, the old boy is holding a hoe to patrol the waterway, the crucian carp is patrolling to marry someone, the turtle holds up the lantern, and the turtle beats the drum..."

She sang again:
"ㄏ一ㄏㄨㄟ, feed the capon, feed the big capon, give it to Yingzi to eat, if Yingzi can't eat enough, go to the back door and cry!" The gentle shaking made me feel much more comfortable, hearing this , I couldn't help but opened my eyes and smiled.Mom happily kissed my face and said:

"Laughed, laughed, Yingzi laughed. Mama Song has already killed the fried chicken at home to make soup for you!"

Song Ma took out a small pot from under the table, opened it and it was still steaming, filled a bowl of yellow soup and a few pieces of meat, and handed it to me, asking me to drink it.I turned my face away, don't look at it, don't eat it.Is the little fried chicken in the West Wing Room in the bowl?I used to touch their yellow and soft feathers, I once caught green hanged ghosts to feed them, I once had tears from a big eye with long eyelashes fall on them... I didn't say anything, just stuck my head in in mother's bosom.Mom said:

"She doesn't want to eat. Let's talk about it. She just woke up and has no appetite yet."

I stayed in the hospital for more than ten days, and just when I was able to get up and look down at the window, my father hired a carriage and took me home.

The carriage is open, with my father on one side and my mother on the other. I sat in the middle, looking very proud.There were two drivers sitting in front of the carriage, and my father urged them to hurry up. The leather whip was on the horse, and the horse's hooves were pounding, and they ran all the way.I don't know the road the carriage passed.This street is long and long, as if there is no end in front of it.

I felt very fresh, turned my face to the back of the car, knelt on the seat, and stared blankly at the street.The trees on both sides fell behind the car one by one. Is the car moving or the trees walking?
I looked up and saw the blue sky with a white cloud floating on it, no, a boat.I remember she said: "The boat is slowly moving towards the horizon, I feel like I'm on the boat, and my heart is floating." Is she on the boat now?Did it go to the sky?
A gust of wind blew away my front bangs, passed a tree, and suddenly smelled a scent, I looked back at my mother, and wanted to ask: "Mom, is this sweet-scented osmanthus?" I also sniffed my nose and said to my father:

"It's called lantana flower, it's very fragrant!" Seeing me looking at her, she said to me again: "Xiaoyingzi, sit down, your legs will hurt if you kneel like this, and the wind will be too strong if you face backward."

I sat upright again, only to watch the driver beat his horse cruelly.When the whip is pulled down, will there be blue scars on the horse?Like when I rolled up a person's sleeve in the West Wing and saw the scars on her arm?The morning sun shone into the west wing, onto her not-so-clean face, as soon as her wet and long eyelashes flickered, tears flowed down the tear pit to her mouth!I don't want to see the driver's whip!I closed my eyes, covered my face with my hands, and only listened to the sound of horseshoes.

The sun shone on me, it was very hot, and I was about to fall asleep, when my father suddenly teased my chin with his finger and said:

"Then Yingzi who loves to talk, why has he lost a word now? Tell Dad, what are you thinking?"

Does this sentence hurt my heart?Why did my eyelids blink a couple of times when I heard my dad say it, and when I touched the palm of my face, it was wet, and I didn't dare to let go of my hand.

Mom must be winking at Dad right now, right?because she said:

"Our little Yingzi is thinking about her future!..."

"What will happen in the future?" This is the first sentence I've said since getting into the carriage.

"In the future, Yingzi will have a new home, new friends, new school,..."

"What about the old days?"

"Everything in the past has passed, and it's meaningless. Yingzi will gradually forget it."

I didn’t answer any more, and I couldn’t help but think again—the little fried chicken in the west wing, the little red jacket that flashed by the well, the tear pit when I laughed, the tank cover under the eaves, the hut in the courtyard, the goldfish bowl on the kang table , the fat doll on the wall, running in the rain,...is everything counted?Will I forget in the future?
"It's here! It's here! Yingzi, the new curtain alley is here, and the new home is here! Look!"

new home?Mom just said that this is "in the future", why is it so soon?

Then I will let go of the hands covering my face.

(End of this chapter)