Green Apricot

I got up and stood on the cliff, thinking to myself, I don’t know who will be by your side after many years, the afterglow of the sun shines on the whole earth, the harmony between man and nature, it is really beautiful.

"Qingxing, you need something"

"what?"

"Experience, I have a hunch that you will come back in the future, but for the time being you will be away for a while."

"I never said I was leaving"

"Let's put it this way, we'll be apart for a while, you're not going to college!"

"Who can say for sure in the future? Maybe I don't want to go to college? Maybe I die if I can't go to college? It's also possible that I will be outside after I go to college?"

"Well, have you seen "The Legend of Giants?"

"Of course I read it, you gave me that book"

"Okay, you still have a lot of hardships that you haven't experienced. One day you will be mature after breaking through those hardships. That kind of breakthrough can't help you, you can only rely on yourself."

I thought to myself, how can I break through?Unless you let me be reborn after death and let my life start again, don't let me become what I am now, you and I are people from two worlds, how can you understand?To put it bluntly, to live is to waste one's time in another world.

It was getting dark, and Uncle Tianming and I went back to the county town, and he stayed with me to eat and go to many night markets on the street.Although this kind of happiness is about to disappear, let's cherish every minute and every second.

Back at school, Uncle Tianming's marriage was rumored in the class. Some people said that he hadn't married for so many years because he was waiting for his wife who was a Ph.D. student.I heard that he and his wife already have a two or three-year-old son.It's just that he never stayed by his side and was always taken by his wife.

I thought to myself, so, he already has a wife, no wonder my dad would say that about him, that he is not interested in other women.He was just waiting for the reunion of his family of three, but he was afraid that people would say about him, so he had been hiding for so many years, maybe he would run to his wife whenever there was no class.

I was a little desperate. It turned out that he and I were indeed people from two worlds.Once I met him and his wife in the vegetable market. His wife was very petite, in stark contrast to him, while he was carrying a small backpack, and his wife was holding a handbag in front of him to ask the price to buy vegetables.He followed behind, and when I walked past him, I suddenly wanted to call him, but he actually pretended not to know me, took one look at me and walked straight past.I stood there in a daze, and when I looked back at him, his wife had entered the supermarket, and he looked back at me, our eyes met at that moment, and he walked into the supermarket with his head down.

I thought to myself, is it really over so soon?I'm a little weak in walking.Even if you meet him on the street as an ordinary student, there is no need to treat him like this!

When I returned to the dormitory, I was in a bad mood and lay motionless on the bed.Lazy just want to sleep.But life is always like this, blessings come without pairs, and misfortunes never come singly.

Just as I was falling asleep, my mother came to my dormitory and hurriedly said to me, "Qing Xing, do you have any good friends?"

"what happened?"

"borrow money"

"Why borrow money? When I first came up, I didn't know the people around very well. Even if I did, they wouldn't lend me money if I asked them for it!"

"Anyway, as long as you are an individual, you can ask. Your second sister has gallstones, and the hospital has no money to perform surgery. Your second sister is lying at home now!"

"What?" As I said that, I got up and wanted to go back with my mother. My mother told me to study hard, but I said I was not in the mood.I walked all the way and thought about the people around me to see if anyone could borrow it.

When I got home, I saw my second sister lying on the bed with her eyes closed. Her skin was already very dark, but now it looked dark yellow and haggard.

I got up and went outside with my mother. I asked my mother, "Is there really no one to borrow it? How much does it cost?"

"If you haven't paid back what you owe, who is willing to borrow it now?"

"What about my uncle? He must have some rich friends over there." My uncle worked in Anshun City. He was a soldier in those years, and all the soldiers were assigned good jobs.So my uncle has lived a very comfortable life for the past few years.These two years are because of my elder brother (my uncle's eldest son).Having a heart attack cost him a lot of money, so there was nothing he could do.

In the evening, my father and I went to the village to call my uncle and asked him if he had borrowed any money.The uncle replied, let us go to someone here, otherwise it will give people a sense of insincerity to borrow money on behalf of others.

I said that I would go with my father, but my mother said that it is better not to go and read at home. I said, where can I read it?I have asked about everything that should be borrowed at home, and I can only be in a hurry.

So I went to Anshun with my father.The house we went to was my uncle’s colleague, and that house was even grander than Uncle Tianming’s house. The hall was very spacious and bright. As soon as we entered the house, they gave us new foot covers. As soon as we sat down, his wife held us with a mop. Dragging around.

The man poured us tea, then asked his wife to wash the apples for us, and said: "You have come so far, don't say anything, don't worry, let's talk after dinner."

The father wiped the sweat off his face and was about to speak when his wife suddenly came over and said that there was nothing left at home and he had to go shopping later.

"How is your son recently?" The man turned his head and asked my uncle.My uncle smiled and said, "Oh, what else, the old way, it seems to have gotten worse in recent years, let him go."

"Hey, every family has a scripture that is hard to recite."That person started chatting with my uncle about the daily life.And my father and I, it’s not good to ask someone to borrow money as soon as we come to someone’s mouth.

I suddenly stood up and said loudly: "Dad, uncle, let's go."The three of them were shocked immediately.At this time, his wife came over with a plate of peeled apples and said, "Hey, scholar, is this the attitude when you come to ask for help?"

I ignored him and said to my dad: "Dad, why did we come all the way here? My second sister is still suffering there. How can I be in the mood to eat? Look at this family, they know our situation clearly, Talking about this and that here, he will give us a lot of reasons why he doesn't have it, we have gone to so many families, can't you see it?"

The man stood up and said: "Come to ask for help, and you don't even have the minimum sincerity, you nerd."

"Do you want sincerity? It depends on whether you have the heart"

"You poor ghosts, who doesn't know? Anyway, I don't have any at home, so what can I borrow to get it back? When the time comes, I will ask you if you want money, and you will die. It is useless for us to take your life."

"Then don't waste your time," he said and left.Father lowered his head and left without saying anything.I looked back, and as soon as we got up, his wife came over and wiped the place where we sat with a towel. She was afraid that we would not see her, so she made her voice very loud on purpose.

After I came out, my father didn't say anything, but my uncle kept scolding me for being ignorant.I didn't listen to a word, and then I went to the second and third houses. I didn't say anything, and I didn't eat when they asked for dinner.Say no appetite.Went home all day.My mother asked if I had borrowed it, and my father said no.The mother said that it was just time to go to the market tomorrow so that the cows could be sold.No one bought the land at home, no one wanted the house, and the only thing of value was the cow.I just sold the ox, and then I have to borrow the ox to plow the land.

Tears welled up in my mother's eyes.My father said that even selling the cow would not be enough.My mother said that being able to stand up a little bit is a little bit, and I can't just sit and wait for death.

The second sister chewed the bread.If you don't swallow a mouthful, you will frown.The pain was so unbearable that her eyes would cry.When the second sister was tossing and turning in pain, the mother would run to the back door and sit on the cold stone and cry.

I couldn't sleep that night, because I often heard the crying of my second sister and my mother. I walked along the road alone. In the silent night, when I walked to a place where there was no one, I finally burst into tears. , It was already twelve o'clock at night when we reached the county seat.

When I arrived at the door of Uncle Tianming’s house, the door was closed. I sat at the door of Uncle Tianming’s house and hoped that he would feel my difficulties and open the door to see me once.I sat at the gate of Uncle Tianming's house until dawn, and the next day, it was the day of going to the market, and people's voices were heard in the market in the county town early on.