let him land

The two of them stopped walking along the main road, but turned right to go downstairs to Xie Chuan's house.

"The garden is gone." Xie Chuan said.

Xie Chuan's house is in Building No. [-], and there is a small garden between Building No. [-], which is also surrounded by holly.There are a few roses in the garden, I don't know who planted them, and no one seems to have taken care of them.In addition, there are trees planted by the residents. Sichuan people like spicy food, so they naturally want to plant pepper trees.In addition, there are Chinese toon trees. When eating Chinese toon in March and April every year, you can always see cooking women climbing up the tree to pick Chinese toon. Can bear hardships, all of them are lean and capable, and it is no problem to tie steel bars on the construction site, let alone picking Chinese toon?Their children are standing under the tree holding a stainless steel basin, waiting to pick up the toon buds dropped by their mother.

Xie Chuan's family didn't grow a toon tree, but Grandma Deng, who lives downstairs in Zhutuo Town, Yongchuan, planted one, and gave some to Xie Chuan's family every year.Scrambled eggs with toon sprouts are simple to make, but have a strong fragrance. Whoever scrambled eggs with toon can smell it downstairs.

Zhuo Lidong stood at the entrance of the corridor of Xie Chuan's house: "I used to stand here and call you to go to class."

Xie Chuan smiled: "Yes, I still can't wake up, and I have been late for several times."

Continue to walk forward until you reach the top of the building, and you will find a step. Go down the steps and you will almost reach the boiler room in the community.Zhuo Lidong asked: "Will Gancheng let you smoke bacon now?"

Xie Chuan shook his head: "I won't let it go, it's a fine of [-] yuan."

Zhuo Lidong scolded: "Sichuan is also in charge of this matter. Damn, industrial pollution is not well controlled. People smoke bacon but they are strictly controlled. They only pick soft persimmons."

What he said was swear words, but Xie Chuan felt soft after hearing that, less angry and more sad.

In the past few years, the smog has been serious, and the whole country is promoting environmental protection, and Gancheng is no exception.But sometimes Xie Chuan still finds it puzzling that locals in Gancheng don’t eat sausage and bacon, and it is only a small group of outsiders who set up a stove to smoke bacon every year.With so few of them, how much smoke can they smoke?Besides, although it is smoke and dust, the materials used to make fire and smoke are all good things: orange peels, peanut peels, melon seed peels that have been saved for half a year, and cypress branches and fruit branches that have been hard-earned (or even chopped in the wild) , so that the smoked bacon and sausage will have the fragrance of fruit wood.How polluted can the smoke from burning these good things be?

But, in fact, there is no need to be too angry-because there are fewer and fewer people filling sausages for bacon in the family courtyard.The old ones grow old, the young ones leave, and there is not much left.After Grandma Deng passed away the year before last, Xie Chuan never ate sausage or bacon.You can buy it online, but he never thought of buying it.He just often thought of when his parents were still there, every Chinese New Year, the balcony at home was covered with sausages and bacon, and there were also a few sauced ducks and bacon knuckles.That is the real Chinese New Year, the balcony is full, the golden sunlight falls on the bright red meat, just looking at it is lively and festive enough.

Go down the steps and walk less than 50 meters to the boiler room.When they were young, Gancheng did not have unified heating, and the family courtyard had to burn coal for heating in winter.Children are not allowed in the boiler room, but there is an open space outside the boiler room, which is always piled up like a hill of coal dust.Xie Chuan and Zhuo Lidong continued to climb to the top of the coal pile until they were in the fifth grade, and slid down with a "chiliu", covered in black foam, and they would inevitably be scolded by their mother.The boiler room was still in use when they were in junior high school. In the second year of junior high school, Gancheng unified heating, and the boiler room was abandoned. The coal pile disappeared, and the open space outside was converted into a basketball court, where Zhuo Lidong and Xie Chuan played. basketball.Later, Zhuo Lidong returned to Sichuan after graduating from the third year of junior high school. When Xie Chuan was in the second year of high school, the basketball court was converted into a parking lot, and the figure of the boy jumping with the ball was no longer seen.

Going forward, you will arrive at Building No. [-] of the Family Courtyard, where Zhuo Li's family used to live.Building No. [-] is a large-scale apartment with an area of ​​over [-] square meters, so someone opened a chess and card room at home.Zhuo Lidong's mother went to the chess and card room next door to play mahjong every day, from noon to late night, sometimes even all night.When they were in the third grade, Zhuo Lidong's mother bought him a VCD, put the game disc in it, and then plug in the controller, and then he could play games on the TV.Anyway, there is no one at home, Zhuo Lidong often takes Xie Chuan to his house to play, Super Mario gets tired of playing MapleStory, Tank Battle, Red Fortress.

When you are tired from playing games, you can eat snacks. Zhuo Li’s family always has endless snacks, such as potato chips, beef jerky and chocolate.When he was full, Zhuo Lidong grabbed Xie Chuan by the collar and forbade him to go home: "Chuan Chuan, let's go after you finish your homework." Xie Chuan had no choice but to call home and say that he was doing homework at Zhuo Lidong's house, and his parents were relieved. Anyway, they are all in the same courtyard.The homework is also done, it is already [-] o'clock in the evening, Xie Chuan has to go home.Zhuo Lidong sent Xie Chuan out, and leaned on the doorknob to tell Xie Chuan, "I'll go downstairs to your house and call you tomorrow morning!" Xie Chuan looked back, and there was a small Zhuo Lidong standing at the door, behind him was the dark He is only in the third grade, he doesn't know what loneliness is, he just thinks it would be great if he could bring Zhuo Lidong back to his house.There are hot meals and dishes at his house, and his parents are also there.

There were a few times when Zhuo Lidong's mother's game ended early, and Xie Chuan heard the sound of high-heeled shoes coming from the corridor, and then the door opened.His mother was a beauty, and her clothes were fashionable, and her big wavy curly hair was very charming. "Xie Chuan is here!" She warmly greeted Xie Chuan, touched the heads of the two children, and took out some snacks from her bag, usually rice cracker candies.Yes, when the people in the courtyard go back to Sichuan, the most common specialty they bring back is Jiangjin Rose Brand Rice Krispies Candy, which is packaged in paper, sweet and crispy, and there are really rose petals wrapped in sugar in it.

Xie Chuan and Zhuo Lidong stood downstairs in Building No. [-]. No one spoke for several minutes.After a while, Xie Chuan asked, "Is your company headquartered in Chengdu?" Since it is a big company, it should be in Chengdu or Chongqing.

Zhuo Lidong shook his head: "Shanghai."

Xie Chuan was stunned: "You don't work in Sichuan."

"I studied in Shanghai, and stayed in Shanghai to work after graduation."

"Oh..." Xie Chuan asked again, "How are uncles and aunts? Are you in good health?"

Zhuo Lidong said in a low voice, "It's okay," he paused, and then said, "They got divorced within two years after we returned to Sichuan."

"Huh? Then—"

"You know," Zhuo Lidong smiled casually, "my mother knows how to play every day, no matter what, my father makes a lot of money, in fact, there are already people outside."

Xie Chuan had no choice but to say: "Anyway, it's enough for them to be happy."

Zhuo Lidong nodded: "Yes," the subject changed, and he looked at Xie Chuan with a serious tone, "But during that time they always quarreled, which was very annoying, and once I even bought a train ticket back to Gancheng—— But then I thought, my house is sold, why should I go back to Gancheng?"

Xie Chuan's mind became hot: "You can come to me."

Zhuo Lidong asked jokingly, "Are you supporting me?"

Xie Chuan also laughed, thinking in his heart that Zhuo Lidong probably had a bad time after returning to Sichuan.The children of these families have the same embarrassing situation: they are torn between their hometown and Gancheng, and they don't know where their hometown is.They were born and raised in Gancheng, but the adults around them all speak Sichuan dialect, and their living customs follow the Sichuan dialect.After leaving the small island of the family courtyard, they couldn't understand a word of Gancheng's dialect.Are you from Sichuan?But he obviously grew up in Gancheng again.Are you from Gancheng?To them, Gancheng seemed to be just this small family courtyard.

"Are you still going around?" Xie Chuan asked, "Would you like to go to my house for some tea?"

"Well, let's go," Zhuo Lidong put his hands in his pockets, turned around smartly, leaving the old building where he lived for 15 years behind him, "Have you started drinking tea?"

"Are you stepping into the life of a veteran cadre ahead of time?" Xie Chuan joked.

"What kind of tea do you drink?"

"Hey, it's all given to us by the leader who can't finish drinking it. I don't understand this either... There is milk powder at home. I'll mix some milk tea for you."

"I found that you are still the same," Zhuo Lidong smiled and narrowed his eyes slightly, "a good wife and mother."

"What nonsense..."

"Really, won't you return my laundry at that time?"

"I did that because..."

"Because of what?"

"Forget it, I am a good wife and mother."

Zhuo Lidong laughed out loud.

Xie Chuan felt uncomfortable when he heard his flamboyant laughter.He thought that Zhuo Lidong would never know that he liked him—maybe he still likes him now.Zhuo Lidong will never know why Xie Chuan gave him a very delicate plastic cup before he returned to Sichuan with his parents.A cup lasts a lifetime. Xie Chuan specially chose a plastic material that won't break if dropped.Zhuo Lidong also didn't know that the 15-year-old Xie Chuan was willing to wash his clothes because he felt pity for him, pity that his father was out of town and his mother didn't care about him, and he was as dirty as a poor little boy. The 15-year-old boy actually experienced the feeling of pity for the first time. Didn’t there be a saying that a person’s admiration and liking for another person are not necessarily because of love, but pity must be because of love.

The two of you said something to each other, and soon they walked downstairs to Xie Chuan's house.Zhuo Lidong followed Xie Chuan upstairs, looked at the old corridor: "It really hasn't changed."

Xie Chuan wants to say that things have changed. The old neighbors have died and moved away. Even the elder sister upstairs in my house who is not very smart and likes to sing got married last year. I never heard her Qingyue in the middle of the night again. singing.

On the third floor, Xie Chuan took out the key to open the door, and Zhuo Lidong whispered, "The door of your house has also been changed."

Xie Chuan opened the door: "Well, it has been changed a long time ago. You come in directly, you don't need to change your shoes—"

Xie Chuan stopped abruptly and was nailed to the spot.

And Liu Ziyuan, who was naked and whose hair was still dripping, was also stunned.

Zhuo Lidong stood behind Xie Chuan without saying a word.