innocent year

Xu Minghai felt that his life was like the monkey rubber band that the little girl danced.When Qiushi didn't come, the whole day was very tense and boring.But now, the days are suddenly shortened again, shrunk to the size of a palm, and the day passes before anything else happens.

In the era of general scarcity of materials, there are many things to play with.Xu Minghai taught Qiushi how to play glass balls, take pictures of foreign paintings, and taught him the experience and skills of "one-stop" and "full house".

In Beijing, there was no place to find roe deer kneecaps, so Chen Lei got them pigs to replace them. There were four pieces in a pair, and they were ground small and square, as if they were made of jade.The two sat on the bed facing each other. Qiu Shi grabbed the sandbag with one hand and threw it high.

Qiu Shi's technique was neat and clean. When Xu Minghai saw it for the first time, he felt a few white lights flashing in front of his eyes, thinking that the other party was practicing the Nine Yin White Bone Claw, and he admired it very much.

Because Xu Minghai had a companion in the yard, he became honest at a speed visible to the naked eye, and stopped running around the world madly every day, so no matter how unhappy Li Yandong was, he could only pretend that he hadn't seen it.

In this way, it was New Year's Eve in a blink of an eye.Chen Lei took Zhou Yingying to the Chongwenmen Vegetable Market a few years ago to buy some New Year's goods, and in the afternoon of Thirty's Er, he helped to fry hairtail fish and fried rice noodles.In the end, he stopped talking for a long time. He didn't say anything after all. As soon as it was dark, he rode back to his eldest brother and sister-in-law's house, preparing to have a New Year's Eve dinner with his hometown.

According to the rules, Li Yandong had to bring his son and Xu Yong back to his in-laws' house for the New Year.But when they were about to go out, Xu Minghai still dragged Qiushi to read books about villains.Seeing him not moving his butt for a long time, Li Yandong urged him repeatedly, and almost lost his temper again.So Xu Minghai had no choice but to put on his clothes, and followed the adult to the gate of the courtyard, stepping back and forth.

"Guozi, I'll be back in the morning of the second day of junior high school!" Xu Minghai yelled at Qiu Shi's half face exposed outside the door, and then was dragged away by Li Yandong without mercy.

As a result, there were only Uncle Zhang's family left in the yard, the childless Guan Jiuye and Zhou Yingying, mother and son.Qiushi was used to Xu Minghai being around alone to make noises for the three of them, but now when he left, everything was eerily quiet.

Seeing Zhou Yingying busy with the New Year's Eve dinner in the kitchen, Qiushi picked up the little book left by Xu Minghai and sat on a chair to read it.Suddenly, the big white cat that always wandered in the yard jumped onto the cement platform outside the window.

Qiushi recognized it, and among the stray cats that often come to the yard, it has the best temper and no recognition of its life.And because there is a piece of black hair on its forehead, which looks very much like a daughter-in-law's hair curtain, Xu Minghai called it "Lianger".

The two of them like playing with Liu Hai'er the most, but once Xu Minghai carried it into the house, Li Yandong saw it, and immediately got scolded again.

When Qiushi saw it at this time, he put down the book in his hand and ran outside.Turning around in a circle, when I looked up, I saw it slipping into the next room along the crack of the door.Qiu Shi followed closely and ran to the door, but stopped subconsciously.

He remembered that Xu Minghai said that Guan Jiuye was "half crazy".Of the adults in the yard, only Uncle Chen Lei would meet and say hello to Guan Jiuye, and even helped him change the gas tank a few years ago.For the rest, no one walked around with him.

Qiushi stretched his neck and looked in through the glass. The white cat was eating in a small blue and white bowl with its head down.And Guan Jiuye sat aside, apparently talking to it, beaming with joy.Just when Qiushi was about to leave, the other party suddenly raised his head, smiled and waved to him.

Qiu Shi accidentally met the eyes of "Half Crazy", and his heart tightened immediately.He was stunned for a moment, but found that his mind was quite clear, he knew that one plus one equals two, that his mother was preparing the New Year's Eve dinner, and he remembered that Xu Minghai said before he left that he would be back in the second year of junior high.So, when Guan Jiuye smiled and waved again, he couldn't help pushing the door open and walking in.

This was the first time that Qiushi had seen the other party clearly at close range.Guan Jiuye's hair was all white, he was wearing a black jacket, his thin face was full of dense wrinkles, his eyelids were drooping from left to right, but the eyeballs were not cloudy, and he looked very energetic.In Qiu Shi's view, he was much cleaner and neater than those old men on the road who got together to talk about the mountains.

"Your name is Guozi?" Jiuye's voice was very thin, full of vivacity that didn't match his age.

Qiushi nodded, wanting to open his mouth to call someone.I don't know what to call him.

"Let's call it Jiu Ye." He grabbed two walnuts from the side and rubbed them in his hands. "What's your name?"

Qiu Shi told the other party which two words it was.

"Chunhua Qiushi, no wonder it's called fruit." Master Jiu nodded, and asked about his age, knowing that Qiushi came from Heilongjiang, he said to himself, "Black mountains and white waters, a good place."

Qiushi squatted on the ground, while answering questions, he put his hand on the back of the big white cat's neck and stroked it gently.The cat was carefully eating a bowl of boiled small fish, and Qiu Shi felt that "Liu Hai'er" had a better life than himself.

"Haw... Oil..."

Qiushi listened attentively, and felt that the movement was familiar, so he raised his head and looked around.

"Do you know what it's called?" Jiuye asked.

Qiushi replied: "Crickets. There are plenty of grass in the village. I have caught them, but they are gone in winter."

"clever."

As he said that, Guan Jiuye put down the two shiny walnuts, and took out a small jar with a narrow butt and a flat mouth from his arms. He shook it lightly, and said triumphantly, "This is just after I passed the beginning of autumn. Get up early in the morning and go to the small ditch behind the vegetable garden in Tuchenger to catch the golden jute head with sharp wings."

This name sounds scary, Qiu Shi bit his lip and said nothing, but his face was full of anticipation.

"Do you want to open your eyes?" Guan Jiuye's expression was the same as when Xu Minghai displayed his toy book.

After Qiushi nodded, he clasped the jar cavity and lifted the lid, and the living things inside ran to the shadow of his palm.Master Jiu opened his hand lightly and slowly, and this 'Golden Jute Head with Sharp Wings' was displayed with its beard and tail.

Qiushi saw it, and it was really an airy cricket!Bigger than the ones I've caught.The two whiskers were as long and straight as iron wires, stirring up and down, as if holding two Yitian swords.The figure is strong and majestic, and there are seven dissatisfaction, eight dissatisfaction, and 120 unambiguous.

"Look at this brain line, the water is clean and the sand is bright, and it runs through to the top; look at this wing shell, the lines are fine, shining like gold..." The more Jiu Ye said, the more words came out of his mouth, his face was full of red. of.

At this moment, the big white cat meowed at Master Jiu after finishing killing the fish.He quickly put the cricket back into the jar and carried it into his arms.Immediately after he gave the cat a hand, the cat jumped up and nestled on his lap in a familiar way, with its tail drooping and wagging, very comfortable.

Qiushi looked at Guan Jiuye and said, "The adults don't let 'Liu Hai'er' into the house, they say wild cats are dirty."

"Dirty? It's much cleaner than humans..." Jiuye scratched the cat's head and said without a word, "If you are lucky, you will be reborn as a cat, a bird, a cricket, or a grasshopper in your next life." , Youhu Lu. If you are unlucky, you have to be a human..."

Just as she was talking, Zhou Yingying called for someone from the yard. She hadn't seen the child for a long time, and the mother came out to look for it.

"Go back," Jiu Ye smiled and gave Qiu Shi his chin, "I will come here often in the future, there are so many interesting things in my room."

Qiu Shi then said goodbye to Master Jiu, turned around, opened the door and ran into the yard.Seeing her son coming out of the next room, Zhou Yingying felt a little apprehensive.She heard from Chen Lei that Guan Jiuye had only moved into the courtyard in recent years, and no one knew his details because he kept talking all day long.But he also said that the old man is not a bad person, but his mind is a little wrong.I don't remember things for a while, and when I get sick, I say that it is the Republic of China now, and I say that these alleys used to belong to their family.

"It's over, Guozi." Zhou Yingying hurriedly dragged her son back into the house.

"I was chatting with Master Jiu." Qiu Shi answered honestly.

"What are you talking about?"

"I don't quite understand what he said, but he showed me the crickets." Qiu Shi gestured with his hand, looking a little excited, "It's so big!"

Zhou Yingying felt relieved, she said, ready to eat, then turned around and went into the kitchen again.

To say that this is the first time that the mother and son are over [-], Qiu Shi saw that there was a lot of food on the table, including a plate of his favorite chop fork, which was fried until golden and crispy, emitting an aroma .Half salty, half specially honeyd.Qiu Shi thought of Master Jiu who gave fish to cats, so he picked up a bowl and grabbed a handful of each, and ran out again.

This time, he knocked on the door and entered the room, and put the bowl on the table in front of Master Jiu: "My mother just fried it, you can try it."

"For outsiders to address their parents, they have to use '怹' to make sense." Master Jiu shook his head and changed his mind, "I have to say, 'My mother just fried it'."

Qiu Shi didn't know what to do, so he repeated it inwardly, and then ran away.Back in the house, Zhou Yingying asked him why he was there again, and Qiu Shi told the truth.Zhou Yingying couldn't help laughing wryly after hearing this: "The old man looks at less than 70, can his teeth be able to chew a fork?" Then, she took a small bowl of soft and rotten rice noodles from the steamer, "You go Let’s give the old man a bowl of soft food.”

For the first New Year's Eve dinner back in Beijing, Qiu Shi and Zhou Yingying ate very well.There was no more hustle and bustle in the village, nor was there the man who had a convulsion and made troubles when he drank too much and disturbed the world.

The second kick outside shook the sky, as if it was about to blow up the earth.The hosts on TV were all red, looking really happy.The programs are one after another, nothing more than cross talk sketches, song and dance performances.Unforgettable After finishing singing tonight, Qiu Shi only has an impression of one song, which is called the cloud of hometown.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, no one played with Qiu Shi. He read the little man's book for a long time by himself, and went to Guan Jiuye to listen to a bunch of half-understandable words.Qiu Shi likes Master Jiu, thinks he is not crazy, and knows a lot of strange things, but he doesn't treat himself like a child.At the end of the day, Qiu Shi still had a shining and heavy big steel coin.

"Don't tell your lord," Guan Jiuye stuffed it to him, "Keep this stuff."

On the afternoon of the second day of the Lunar New Year, when Qiu Shi was taking a nap, he suddenly heard Xu Minghai's voice.

"Fruit! I, Hu Hansan, are back!"

Qiushi woke up suddenly, turned over and knelt immediately. Looking out through the window from the bed, he saw Xu Minghai running towards this side from the aisle.But before he ran two steps, Li Yandong's collar was caught on the back of his neck.Qiu Shi watched helplessly as Xu Minghai was sent home just like that.

After about 5 minutes, there was a commotion outside.Qiu Shi looked again, and Xu Minghai was running around the yard in a serious manner at the moment, and then dodged left and right while hugging the tree thicker than his waist, shouting, "You ask me, who should I ask?"

On the other side of the tree was the impatient Li Yandong. She scratched her neck and yelled, "If I don't ask who are you asking? You have learned to embezzle at such a young age? I don't think you should learn. I will send you a juvenile supervisor this afternoon." Where to go!"

Xu Yong, who was next to the two of them, hurriedly talked to each other: "This New Year's Eve, the juvenile prison will not open the door! Hey, no, that's not what I mean. What I mean is that Xiao Hai may have accidentally dropped the money somewhere." Yes. Hey, don't do it, isn't it only 10 yuan? What's the big deal?"