Old story in the south of the city: the weather is much warmer ...

The weather is much warmer, the cotton-padded jacket has long been taken off, and a thin cotton vest is put on the coat in the morning and evening, which is light and soft. I'm wearing new cloth shoes with black leather head in front. Lao Wang Ma Xiuzhen's mother saw my new shoes and said:

"This pair of shoes can be strong, kicking the threshold of our home, and you can't break these shoes!"

I am familiar with Huian Pavilion. The door of the guild hall is always open and I can sneak in at any time. I said sneak in because I always steal behind my family's back. They only know that I often go to the well with Ma Song to find girls to buy food. As soon as I see Ma Song entering the necessities store, I will turn around and walk towards Huian Pavilion.

I entered Huian Pavilion today, but Xiuzhen is not in the house. There is a big glass jar on the kang table, and several small goldfish swim around. I asked Wang Ma:

"Where is Xiuzhen?"

"Across the yard!"

"I'll go find her." I said.

"Never mind, she will come, you wait here and watch the goldfish!"

I put my nose into the goldfish bowl, and the goldfish drank water one by one while swimming, and the mouth could not help but learn to drink water one by one. Sometimes goldfish swim in front of me, and through a layer of glass, I will resist the fish nose! I just watched, my legs kneeling on the edge of the kang, numb, and Xiuzhen hasn't come yet.

I sat cross-legged on the edge of the kang and waited for a while, but Xiuzhen didn't come. In a hurry, I slipped out of the house and went across the yard to find her. The yard seems to be closed all the time, and I have never seen anyone go. I gently pushed open the door of the courtyard and went in. In the small yard, there is an unknown tree with small green leaves. In the corner of the yard, there are withered leaves, some of which have rotted. Xiuzhen was probably cleaning, but when I went in, I saw her leaning against the trunk with a broom in one hand and wiping her eyes with a skirt in the other. I quietly walked up to her and looked up at her. She may have seen me, but she ignored me. Suddenly, she turned around, fell on the trunk and began to cry. She said:

"laurel, laurel, why don't you want your mother?"

How wronged and pitiful that voice is! She cried and said:

"If I don't take you, how do you know the way? How far away! "

I remember my mother said that we come from a distant hometown, which is an island surrounded by water. Before coming to Beijing, we took a big boat and visited Astrotrain. Once I asked my mother when she would go back, and she said it was still early. It's not easy to come, so I will stay for a few more years. So the place where Soo-jin said is as far away as our island? How did the little devil run away alone? I sympathize with Soo-jin, and I miss the little precious son I don't know. My tears are falling. In the vague tears, I seem to see the fat doll riding a big goldfish with nothing on!

I gasped with tears in my eyes, not to cry. I took show Jane's trouser legs and told her:

"Xiu zhen! Xiuzhen! "

She stopped crying, squatted down with tears on her face, hugged me, wiped her head on my chest, dried her tears with my jacket and soft vest, and then looked up to see me smile. I stretched out my hand and adjusted her messy Liu Haier, could not help but say:

"I like you, Xiuzhen."

Show Jane said nothing, a snot stood up. It's warm, and she doesn't wear leg-tied cotton trousers anymore. Now she is wearing a pair of big leg-expanding pants. Are her legs thin? Why is the wind blowing those pants? They look wobbly. She has lost weight all over. Just now, when I squatted down on my chest, I saw that back, like a flat plate.

Xiuzhen took my hand and said, "Go in and help clean up."

There are only two small rooms in the yard, and when you push the door, it makes a series of sharp noises. The voice is bad, as if there is a thorn in my heart. It's cold to walk into this dark room from the sun. In the outside room, tables, chairs and bookshelves are neatly placed, which are covered with dust. I think we should ask Ma Song to dust them, so that the whole room can be lifted up. My father often tells my mother why Ma Song didn't use a wet cloth to wipe it, so she dusted it for a while. After a while, didn't the dust fall back to its original place? But mom always tells dad not to talk. She said it was a rule in Beijing.

Into the back room, the room is smaller, only a bed and a coffee table. There is a suitcase on the bed. Xiuzhen opened the box and took out a big cotton gown. So does my father. It is a man's. Xiuzhen held the big cotton robe on her chest and said to herself, "It's time to turn over and add some cotton."

She carried the big cotton gown out of the yard to dry, and I followed. She came in and I followed. She asked me and her to move the box into the yard to dry. There is only a pair of gloves, a fedora and some old underwear in it. She carefully spread out these odds and ends, picked up a striped jacket and said to me:

"I think this coat can only be used as a coat lining for the little noble son."

"Yes," I opened my jacket and showed it to Xiuzhen. "It was also changed with my father's old clothes."

"You also use your father? How do you know that this dress belongs to the father of Xiaoguizi? " Show Jane smiled and stared at me. She's happy like that, and I'm happy when she's happy, but how do I know this is Xiaoguizi's father? I can't answer her question. I tilted my head and smiled. She teased my chin and asked:

"Say it!"

The two of us are squatting beside the box at this moment. I looked at her face clearly. Liu Haier was blown aside by the wind. She seems to be someone, but I can't figure it out. I answered her and said:

"I think so. Then, "I asked her in a low voice," what should I call your son's father? "

"Call uncle!"

"I already have an uncle."

"Uncle has gone too far? Call him uncle Si Kang. He ranks third. Call him uncle. " "Uncle Si Kang," I read aloud, "when will he come home?"

"He," show Jane suddenly stood up, frowning, cocked his head to think. After thinking for a long time, she said, "Soon. I have been away for a month. "

Then she walked into the room again, and I followed her in, doing this and that, and followed her out, moving around, and I was very happy to follow. Xiuzhen's face was pink at this moment, with dust on both sides of her nose, and little sweat seeping from her nose and lips. This face is really beautiful.

Xiuzhen wiped the sweat on her nose with her sleeve and said to me, "Eiko, can you bring me a basin of water?" Clean the room. "

I quickly said, "Yes, yes."

The house opposite the yard was originally in line with the concierge. There is just one more door across the yard, and the water tank and basin are placed under the eaves of the concierge. I lifted the lid of the water tank, scooped water into the basin, and heard someone talking to Xiuzhen's mother in the room:

"Girl, is this journey better?"

"alas! Don't mention it, this routine is messing up again. Every spring comes, it will be noisy for a few days. These two days are just crying and laughing for a while, but how nice! It's really ... "

"The problem with this road is that it is very hot in spring."

I brought a basin of water and spilled it all over myself. When we arrived at the quadrangle, there was not much left. Put the basin on the chair, and suddenly I don't know where to fry the incense. I smelled it and remembered one thing, so I said to Xiuzhen:

"I'm going home."

Show Jane didn't hear, just rummaging in the drawer.

It suddenly occurred to me that I had to wait for that girl in Heng Hutong after dinner. I had an appointment yesterday.

Cold and wet pants, stick on my leg, an enter a door mother scold:

"Just play in the well snap all morning? I thought you fell into the well. Look at this water! " While changing clothes, my mother said, "I want to know which primary school in Beijing is good. It's time to send it to school. I heard that Changdian High School is not bad. "

Mom said this, and I saw that Dad had come back. I was soaked in water for fear that my father would beat and scold me. He is very powerful. I looked down at my father, ready to be beaten. Fortunately, he didn't pay attention, smoked a cigarette and looked at the newspaper, saying, "It's still early, what's the hurry."

"If I don't send her to school, she will run all over the street, and I dare not look at her."

"If you don't listen, fight!" Dad's tone looked fierce, but then he turned and smiled at me, which was to scare me! He added, "We'll wait for her uncle to come and tell him about Eiko's school. Let him take care of it! "

After dinner, go to Heng Hutong to pick up the girl. The weather is no longer cold. My girl and I went to the empty west wing, where the dismantled stoves, chimneys, unused tables, chairs and beds were piled up. In a broken rattan box, there are some newly bought little oil chickens that have just hatched. The soft yellow hair is really funny. My girl and I are squatting in the box and playing with some little oily chickens. Watch the chicken peck at the rice, keep eating, keep eating, why not stop!

The chickens are not full, but we have seen enough. Cover the rattan case and let's stand up and play something else. Put two coins on a thin rope and hold them in our hands. We play the game of kicking coins. Every time we kick, two coins are clicked on the top. When the girl kicks, her waist twists and turns, which makes her look so charming. I had a good time this afternoon. If it weren't for the cow's voice again, we don't know how long we would have to wait.

Dad bought a new pen and ink and a pile of red paper today. In the evening, under the kerosene lamp, he taught me to draw. First, he read the words above: "I went to twenty or thirty miles, and there were four or five smoke villages, six or seven pavilions, and eighty or ninety flowers."

Dad said: "You have to draw one picture a day, and you will enter primary school in the summer vacation before you can be admitted."

In the morning, I went to Hui 'an Pavilion to find Xiuzhen. In the afternoon, the girl came to see me in the West Chamber. In the evening, I drew the scarlet letter. This is how these days have passed. Short wings have grown on the yellow hair of the little oil chicken. My girl and I fed rice, water and vegetables. Ma Song said not to break the chicken's stomach. She was afraid of being taken away by wild cats, so she used a big stone to hold down the lid of the rattan case, and we were not allowed to lift it casually.

That girl often complains when she plays with me. When she was happy that day, she twisted it. She twisted and twisted, singing ... Open the door with sorrow, and I met Zhang Xiucai with sorrow ... "

"What are you singing? Is this the throat? " I asked

"What I sang was playing the flower drum." The girl said.

She was in a good mood, so she sang and twisted gently, and I watched stupidly. She suddenly said to me, "Come on! Learn from me and I will teach you. " "I can also sing." Somehow, I think I should also show my skills. Suddenly I remembered a song that my father once sang with a guest. Later, my father taught me, and my mother said it was no big deal for my father to teach me this kind of song!

"Then you sing, then you sing." The girl pushed me, but I was embarrassed to sing. She insisted that I sing, so I stammered in Hakka:

"Want to darling, want to darling nervous! I want to be a good boy, who wants to be a good boy ... "

I haven't finished counting, the girl has already laughed out of tears, and I also laughed. Those words were really awkward.

"Who taught you? What happened? What happened? What happened? Hahaha! Which country's song is this! " The two of us hugged in a pile of laughter and talked nonsense about our baby, and we couldn't figure out what it meant.

We are so happy, talking nonsense and singing and playing. The west wing is our happy nest, and I even dream about it. Every time, the girl looks out of the window after playing enough. Suddenly, she cried, "I want to go back!" " "Say that finish, she ran away, so anxious that she didn't even say goodbye.

Suddenly for several days, there were no girls in the alley. How disappointed I was, I stood there waiting and waiting. I walked slowly to the well, hoping to meet her, but it was useless. In the afternoon, the well was not so lively, because all the cars that delivered water in the morning came, and only people nearby pushed their cars and took lead buckets to buy water.

I saw Lao Wang, a platoon leader, also pushing a car. He came several times at a time. Seeing me standing there all the time, he asked me strangely, "Xiaoying, what are you doing here?"

I didn't say anything. I know what I am thinking. I said:

"Where is Xiuzhen?" I think if I can't wait for that girl, I'll go to Xiuzhen. The yard is really clean. But Lao Wang ignored me. He filled two buckets of water and then pushed it away.

While I was hesitating what to do, suddenly a familiar shadow turned from the door of Cao Xi factory. It is a girl. How happy I am! I ran to meet him and shouted, "Girl! Girl! " She ignored me as if she didn't know me and didn't hear anyone calling her. I was surprised to follow her, but she gently pushed me away with her hand, frowning and blinking, which meant to tell me to go away. I don't know what happened, but a few steps behind her, there was a tall man, wearing a blue cloth coat and carrying a dirty long cloth bag. The mouth of the bag was exposed, and I saw Hu Qin. I think this must be the girl's father. Girls often say "I'm afraid of my dad's beating" and "I'm afraid of my dad's scolding". Now that I know I can't talk to girls anymore, I turn around and walk home, feeling very uncomfortable. I have a fossil in my pocket. I can write white words on the brick. When I took it out, I couldn't help drawing it off someone else's wall and painting it on my wall. Thinking about how boring it would be without girls to play with!

I was just about to call the door when I heard someone running in the alley. It turned out that the girl was panting.