Star road

Quiet night, black sky, full of stars.A barren mountain village, dilapidated wooden houses, and an occasional dog barking in the distance.

"Twinkle, twinkle, the sky is full of small stars, hanging in the sky to shine brightly, like many small eyes. Twinkle, twinkle, the sky is full of small stars..."

The eyes of a singing child are brighter than the stars in the sky.I saw him tilting his head up, humming softly, his childish voice smelled like milk.

Under the starlight, the dilapidated window sill made his face as tender as snow, blinking, the eyeballs sparkling, clear and moving like autumn water.

"Bitch! When it falls to... I fall into my hands, I have you, and you are beautiful..."

The man was drunk, cursing and staggering.The sound of the beautiful nursery rhymes approaching gradually penetrated into his ears like poisonous insects, stimulating the tyrannical factors in his body.

Hmph, you are happy and happy with others, but the bitch you brought is still in my hands.Those cloudy eyes flashed with a momentary hatred of prey.

"Hmph, bitch... bitch, quarrel, I'll make you quarrel!"

The nursery rhymes stopped abruptly.

The child turned around, watching in horror the huge shadow at the door approaching him.

The thin and thin body was lifted into the air.

Clap clap clap clap.

Amidst the humming, a curse-like voice was heard: "Stop making noise! ​​I'll let you make noise, I'll let you make noise! ​​If you keep making noise, I'll chop you up and feed it to the dogs!"

No, stop arguing, I don't dare anymore, stop hitting, stop hitting...

The child was thrown in the corner like a rag doll.

Under the bleak starlight, limbs curled up like thin bamboo poles, tear stains intertwined on his face, his star-like eyes were tightly closed, and the blood at the corner of his mouth was shocking.

The ground was earthy, and the blood that flowed out quickly soaked into it.Only the dark marks and a few small white spots on the marks remain.

That's... a child's baby tooth.

The village is still quiet, with occasional distant dogs barking.

"Twinkle, twinkle, the sky is full of small stars, hanging in the sky to shine brightly, like many small eyes. Twinkle, twinkle, the sky is full of small stars..."

***

A barren mountain village can be described as a bird that doesn't shit.But for some people, it is a place of escape from the world.Such people are either high-minded and withdrawn artists, or people who are tired of the hustle and bustle of the city, or they may be terminally ill and find a place with beautiful mountains and rivers to wait to die... However, in the eyes of the locals, they belong to those whose heads were broken by the door kind of.

The village chief was standing at the entrance of the village, waiting for someone whose head was broken by the door.

In this place, men can't even marry a wife, and everyone in the village wants to go out if they have the opportunity.Then who would let the good life of the big city go, and come here to suffer, and say that the head was broken by the door?

From the county seat to the village, you have to take a minibus first, and then take a three-wheeled motorcycle to reach the village entrance.The tricycle rides on a gravel road, which was only paved a few years ago. In the past, there were only yellow mud roads. When it rained, there was not even a place to step on.

The village chief stood by the side of the gravel road, counting the gravels on the road with satisfaction.This road was paved with the help of him and several neighboring village chiefs.

Otherwise, even if the head is broken by the door, no one will come, right?

With the gravel road, his small wooden house by the river can be sold at a good price.

The house had been left unused for many years. He originally thought that when his son got married, he would move there alone. This time, he sold it for 3 yuan, which was enough to cover the family's income for several years.At that time, I will spend 2000 yuan to build a new one behind my house, away from the river, and there will be fewer mosquitoes.

A small van stopped at the entrance of the village, and a thin man got out of the car.

The village chief hurried up to greet him.

"Hello, is this the village chief Wang of Niujiao Village? I'm Chen Xiao." The man said with a smile.

Niujiao Village is backed by a mountain on one side and a small river on the other. Seen from the top of the mountain, it looks like a big curved horn.The more you go inside, the more you feel like you are on the edge of a dead end. When you get to the innermost point, there is no way.

No wonder they are poor.

The cabin is near the tip of the horn.The village head stood in the room rubbing his hands nervously, "Chen, Chen..."

Chen Xiao smiled slightly, "You can call me Xiaochen."

"Well...Xiao Chen, the house has been cleaned, it's very clean, and the bedding is all laid out. The day before yesterday I went to the market to buy new ones. Look, if you see what's missing, I'll go and put it... "

The village head couldn't go on.This man was thin-skinned and tender-looking, as if he had walked out of a painting. When he smiled, he carried a sense of immortality.When he got close, he could smell the mild smell of his body, unlike the men in the village, only the smell of sweat.There was nothing in the dilapidated house, and he stood inside, as if the white lotus had fallen into a pile of cow dung.

Such a person, can he take a fancy to this dilapidated house?The village head swallowed nervously, his son was still waiting for the money to marry a wife.

"How about I go and move the table from the main room of my house, and there is also a cabinet..."

"No need, this house is very good with the green mountains and green water. I can do the rest by myself."

"That's good for you, good for you... Then I'll go first? By the way, my house is on the slope in front of me. If you need anything, just call me. My son and I are still strong. If you have any physical work, just come to us. "

"Thank you, you are very kind."

When the village chief left, he thought to himself, the people in this city are too thin, so good-looking is good-looking, but his face turned pale, and he guessed that he would not last long here.However, since the money has been collected, it is none of his business if he can't live there.

The house is actually very dilapidated, divided into two rooms with wooden boards, except for a small wooden bed, there is no furniture.Chen Xiao looked around and found that there were a lot of air leaks, but luckily it is summer now.

He doesn't care about these, the important thing is that the surrounding environment is good.Chen Xiao took a deep breath, um, it smelled like earth.

He put the small suitcase in his hand on the bed, opened it, and a violin was revealed.

On the golden silk satin lining, slender fingers with well-defined joints caressed the smooth and delicate reddish-brown piano body, and Chen Xiao smiled faintly.A man in his late thirties, when he smiled, there were signs of age in the corners of his eyes.

"Babe, let's play a song for our new home."

The melodious music sounded.

Beside the gurgling river, a handsome man lowered his brows and lowered his eyes, and moved his bow gracefully and freely.The summer wind is blowing, the water plants are swaying, and the loose hem of the clothes is flying.

The leaves are dancing and the birds are chirping.

Beautiful audiovisual.

……

The cantabile strings hum softly and gradually weaken until they disappear.

Chen Xiao maintained the original posture, as if reminiscing.After a long time, he laughed, kissed the body of the piano, and treated it like a lover, "This place is good. From now on, it's just the two of us, and I will compose the most suitable piece of music for you. How about we play another piece?"

Naturally, the violin would not answer, but the grass next to it moved.

"Who?" Chen Xiao turned his head, and was immediately attracted by a pair of big obsidian eyes.Seeing him looking over, the owner of the eyes seemed to be frightened, turned around and ran, and disappeared as soon as he turned a corner.

What are you running?Am I like a big bad wolf that eats children?

Chen Xiao touched his nose speechlessly.That child's eyes are so beautiful...

Chen Xiao was depressed over there, and over here, the child just ran and looked back, while running, he suddenly tripped over his foot and fell to the ground.

He got up silently, but was pushed down again.

"The thief fell! It was my trap. I caught him. I'm the captain this week!" A boy who was half a head taller than him ran out and pointed at the children on the ground. They were playing guards. In the game of catching thieves, each set a "trap". Whoever traps the "thief" will be the captain of the village guard this week.

His words sparked protests from several other boys.

"No, no, I saw that you pushed him down!"

"I saw it too, Daniel, let's start again!"

Daniu was in a hurry, "Who says it doesn't count? He fell because he fell into my trap. I saw that he got up by himself and pushed him. I don't believe that no one of you saw it. Danzi, you are here Behind me, didn't you see it?"

"I didn't see it! You were already the captain last week, and this time I should be the one! Not counting! Let's start again, don't you think?"

"Not counted! Not counted! Not counted..." A group of dirty monkeys booed in unison.

"Obviously it was my trap that tripped him, if you don't believe me, ask him!"

"Haha, Daniel, you want us to ask him? He is dumb!"

"Ask a dumb person? Daniel is a fool!"

"Big bull fool! Big bull fool!"

Amidst the laughter of everyone, Da Niu kicked the child angrily, "Unlucky! It's all your fault! You are dumb! You are dumb!" After walking away, You couldn't help but turned around and threw a few stones, and a group of people ran away roaring up.

The child never made any sound, not even a snort.

He is used to being bullied.Also, he's dumb.

He was able to speak originally, I remember my mother said that he spoke earlier than other children.Mom loves him very much. Although she doesn't hug him or play with him very much, she named him after him.

Xiaoxing, his name is Xiaoxing.It sounds better than those of Daniel, Danzi, and Genwa.So mom must love him.

Mom left, because she was often beaten, she had no choice but to leave.

But she will definitely come back again and take him away.

The last time he made a sound was one night when he was five years old.About five years old, he couldn't figure it out, never had a birthday before.

That day, Genwa got an old radio, and when he took it outside to play, it happened to be playing a nursery rhyme.

He learned it after listening to it twice.He's very smart, Mama said once.

Looking at the stars in the sky at night, thinking of my mother and my own name, I learned to sing for the first time, and I was so happy that I sang it over and over again.As he sang, the stars in the sky twinkled, as if responding to his singing.

After his mother left, he was often beaten, and every time he was beaten, he regarded it as a nightmare, and he just woke up from the dream.But after waking up from the dream that day, half of his teeth fell out, and he could no longer make any sound from his throat.

He only remembered that in the dream, he was cursed by the devil.

Make you noisy!If you quarrel again, you will be chopped up and fed to the dogs!

Don't hit me, I'm in so much pain, I don't dare anymore, don't dare to quarrel anymore, don't hit me, don't hit me...

A year ago, he became mute.No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't speak, not even a little noise.

Xiaoxing struggled to get up from the ground, rubbed his knees, and then carefully blew a few breaths into the palm of his hand.My mother said once, blowing will not hurt.

He looked back towards the direction of the river, but he couldn't see anything, but he still looked longingly.

What was that just now?It sounds good, much better than the singing voice on the radio. What is that beautiful thing that can sing?Does she have a name?There must be, it should be even better than Xiaoxing's name.

Such a beautiful thing, how can there be no name?

I really want to see it again, I really want to listen to it again...

Why were you in a daze just now?Otherwise it would not have been discovered.He ran away with all his strength, maybe that handsome uncle didn't see his face clearly?

The last time Genwa found him hiding on the sidelines and secretly listening to the radio singing, and the radio never appeared in front of him again.Whenever Genwa saw him, he would hide the radio and throw stones at him.

Everyone in the village hated him, not knowing why.Children only bully him, never play with him, adults, never smile at him.

That good-looking uncle would hate him if he knew he was eavesdropping.

So he ran away desperately, so that maybe he could secretly watch and listen to it next time.

Later, for a week, Xiaoxing ran to the river to look around, but the uncle did not appear again. The moving music was like a dream.

so sad.He really was hated.No one doesn't hate him, except mom.

It's really sad, the same as when I found out I couldn't speak, the same as the day my mother left.

Uncle hides with that pretty, singing thing.

At that time, Xiaoxing didn't know that that thing was called a violin.He doesn't even know the difference between a musical instrument and a radio.Of course, it is even more impossible for him to know that such a small him will stand on the bright stage and become the focus of everyone's attention after a long time.

Standing in front of the world-class orchestra, under the spotlight, he and the violin played the melody of the concerto and interpreted the soul of the concerto.

But now, he just hopes to see her again, listen to her, and if possible, touch her.

Just touch it lightly.