Cao Wenxuan's Novels Reading and Appreciation: The Grass House

Chapter 4 Grass House (2)
Sangsang glanced into the house, knowing that her mother had already slept on the bamboo bed in the morning, so she walked into the yard.He was dripping with sweat, but he picked out the thickest cotton trousers and put them on, and he also put on his father's thick thick cotton jacket. In a blink of an eye, he saw that there was also a big cotton hat of his father in the big wooden box. With a smile, he walked over, took it out, and put it on his wet head.Sangsang's feeling was very strange, he looked back and forth, left and right, and immediately ran out of the yard to the open space in the middle of the school.

At that time, Zhiyue had also entered the campus.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sangsang stole the show this time.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bald Crane grabbed Sangsang: "My hat!"

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

The bald crane still shouted: "My hat!"

"I really didn't take your hat."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"What did you do?" Jiang Lun asked.

Ashu said, "Yes."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Starting from Monday, Yau Ma Tei Primary School devotes two classes every morning to practice square formation, formation, and exercises.Sancho, who has always attached great importance to his reputation, kept a close eye on him, and yelled loudly and lost his temper from time to time.This image seems to be a bit out of tune with the usual image of a gentleman with meticulously combed hair, no speck of dust on his body, and trousers folded as sharp as a knife.But as long as he encounters something related to the school's honor, he will change his gentle appearance and jump up and down on the campus all day long. Whenever he sees something he is dissatisfied with, he will yell at the teachers and students .He often makes everyone at a loss, or makes everyone very unhappy, and they are passive and sabotage one by one.At this time, he went to do that thing alone, and he was so tired that everyone felt sorry for it, so they joined in one by one.

Sancho is a well-known principal in the district.

"This parade, Yau Ma Tei Primary School must take the first place. Which class has a problem, which class's head teacher is responsible!" Sancho called the teachers together and said seriously.

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

Bald Crane asked: "Won't you know how to fuck tomorrow morning?"

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

"No, I want to participate in parade."

"Knowing how to fuck is enough."

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

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

"why?"

Jiang Round glanced at Bald Crane's head.

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

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

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

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

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

The bald crane didn't look back.

Jiang Lun raised his voice: "Lu He!"

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

The students in the audience were pointing at Bald Crane and laughing "hee hee hee".

Jiang Lun patted Bald Crane on the shoulder: "Go, follow me back to the classroom."

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

"Are you going to participate in the parade too?" Jiang Round unconsciously let out a laugh in his throat.

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

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

"I want to participate in parade!"

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

"I want to participate in parade!"

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

"I don't have a hat."

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

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

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

(End of this chapter)