First dawn

2012 Summer

"What are you doing, what are you doing, pour it into your pot! Ah? The public pool of feelings is not in front of your house. If you come here again to pour the chamber pot, my old lady will carry it over and pour it into your pot, huh?"

"What about you, the one at the end of the corridor, you're so shy, look at your wicked eyes!"

The noisy noise, accompanied by an unpleasant smell, passed through the crack of the door into the small room. The boy on the bed frowned, turned over, covered himself with a blanket, and continued to sleep. Slid off the bed and onto the concrete floor of the house.

In the long corridor outside the room, after a burst of hurried footsteps, the noise gradually faded away, the sun shines into the room through the half-old gray-blue screen window, the slight coolness in the morning gradually dissipated, and the mottled light spots moved from the bed to the window .

The mobile phone placed on the book on the bedside table vibrated twice, showing a tendency to slide down. Qiao Jue rubbed his eyes, grabbed the mobile phone, and looked up to see the text message from Guo Da on the mobile phone.

"Dude, are you up yet? Come with me to pick up my grandma from Jinggang in the afternoon."

Qiao Jue leaned against the bed and pressed the button to reply: It's too hot in the afternoon, let's go later.

"Okay, you can choose the time, it's a bit far away, we'll be cycling, and we'll probably come back after dark, you don't mind." The other person replied quickly.

"See you at the old place at 16:[-]." After replying to the text message, Qiao Jue put down the phone.

The screen door of the room was pulled open from the outside, and there was a creaking sound from the door shaft. Qiao Jue lifted the quilt, and just jumped out of bed when there was a knock on the door.

"Qiao Jue?" Xu Hong yelled while knocking on the door, "Look at what time it is, how long do you want to sleep?"

The Tongzilou was not sound-proof, and Xu Hong's voice quickly spread throughout most of the Tongzilou.

Grandpa Li in the next room opened the door a little, poked his head out: "Little boy, let him sleep."

"Hey." Xu Hong knocked on the door and waved vigorously, "Uncle Li, you can't sleep with him, school will start soon and you will be a sophomore in high school, this day, you don't study during the holidays, and you don't know if you have finished your summer homework. "

"Your Qiao Jue is self-conscious, and his grades are good since he was a child. What are you worried about?" A middle-aged woman in the middle of the corridor opened the door, "It's not like our Lin Chenghan, who can't find anyone early in the morning. If you can get into No. [-] middle school with a high grade, you are still in the experimental class of liberal arts. As for our family, Lin Chenghan, the score in the high school entrance examination is enough for Huzhong, so he still spends money to find someone."

"Oh, don't tell me, you're still in the experimental class..." Before Xu Hong finished speaking, the door of the room opened from the inside, and Qiao Jue stood at the door. The 16-year-old boy was already taller than Xu Hong by a little while. Cut off.

Xu Hong froze for a moment, then paced into the room, the screen door outside the door was slammed shut, cutting off the chatting of the people outside the door.

Xu Hong picked up the pillow on the floor, patted it, and put it back on the bed. She reached out and brushed off the messy sheets, and opened the gray-blue old screen window. There were fine dust flying in the air under the sunlight. A persimmon tree, next to the persimmon tree is a row of small bungalows, the distance between the bungalows and the tube building is very close, the bungalow outside Qiao Jue’s window has a second floor added, only half a meter away from Qiao Jue’s window, covering the Half of the sunlight outside the window cut the sky outside the window into pieces.

"The houses are all built up to the bottom of other people's windows. They are not human's things." Xu Hong looked at the opposite house, cursed in a low voice, then turned to ask Qiao Jue, "When does school start?"

"Report in the morning the day after tomorrow, and classes will start in the afternoon." Qiao Jue said while sitting by the bed, flipping through a physics book by the window.

"Are you reading at home in the afternoon?" Xu Hong asked.

"Not here, I will go to Jinggang with Guo Da in the afternoon."

"I don't care about you anymore." Xu Hong stood by the window with her arms folded, "Isn't the liberal arts experimental class that I chose for you back then not good? You have to apply for science. Now it's fine, and the experimental class will definitely not be available. , you haven't studied science in your freshman year of high school, can you keep up?"

Qiao Jue didn't speak.

"Your father and I still expect you to be admitted to a good school, so you just tell me that you can be admitted to a university in this situation?" Xu Hong became more and more angry, and her eyes turned red, "Your father is useless, and neither are you." No, your dad can't earn money, and Qiao Zeyan's old oil bottle still lives in our house, and he can't get into a good school, so you just wait to be poor like us for the rest of your life."

"Get out and eat." Xu Hong yelled, and slammed the old screen door with a loud noise.

This tube building is the staff dormitory of the glass factory 20 years ago. It is said that it was built in 1970. It is only three stories high. The dark gray bricks are piled up one by one. On the balcony, the roof is surrounded by rusty and crumbling iron railings. It is used as a drying ground. There are various weeds growing on the roof, as well as strangely shaped cacti. The soil went upstairs, and a square field was piled up on the roof, and a lot of vegetables were planted, which meant a bit of self-sufficiency. The tenacious plants took root in the floor, so most of the rooms on the third floor leaked and could not be lived in, leaving the first and second floors In the room, there are old people living densely, parents from the town who went to the county to study with them, and former employees of the glass factory who can't afford commercial housing.

The glass factory collapsed 20 years ago, leaving behind a group of laid-off old employees. Those with a little money saved money and went to Qiaonan to buy a house. The remaining group of people who could not afford a house stayed in the dormitory distributed by the unit. The house refuses to move out. Each household only has a room of about 12 square meters. There is no toilet in the room. Those who want to go to the toilet can only go to the toilet near the glass factory outside Tongzilou. Therefore, many people choose to use the urinal to solve the problem at night. .At the end of the long corridor on each floor, there are two public pools, which can only pour water, but not receive water.

Qiao Jue's home is at the end of the second floor of Tongzi Building. This is the dormitory that Qiao Heng was assigned to in the glass factory. The rainbow was used to make the kitchen. In addition, Qiao Heng rented two rooms from an old friend of the glass factory at a price of 240 yuan per month. , lived Qiao Jue's grandfather, Qiao Zeyan.

It has been four years since Qiao Jue moved here. When he was in the first year of junior high school, the rent in the county town rose, and Xu Hong decided to move his family back to the dormitory of the glass factory. This stay lasted for four years.

Xu Hong glared at Qiao Jue: "Are you eating, thinking about it?"

"Nothing." Qiao Jue shook his head.

"What time is Guo Da asking you to go out?" Xu Hong took the chopsticks and cabbage and put them in Qiao Jue's bowl, "Don't be picky."

"Let's go out at two o'clock." The appointment time was 04:30, and Qiao Jue thanked him early. He bowed his head and took two bites of rice. The public pool outside the door exuded an unpleasant smell in the hot weather. It made him a little bit hungry, Xu Hong glanced at him, stood up and slammed the kitchen door.

"The quality of the tenants from outside is too poor, and the pool just pours sewage. What else does he want to pour? When I looked at the pool in the morning, what was floating there? White toilet paper..." Xu Hong put the bowl away , leaning against the table and counting.

Qiao Jue was grilling the rice in a muffled voice, while Xu Hong spoke vigorously.

Qiao Jue put the bowl and chopsticks by the kitchen sink, and the chopsticks hit the bowl, making a crisp sound: "Mom, I'm done eating."

Xu Hong paused, and glanced at Qiao Jue: "Why don't you eat more, is it too hot in summer, boys, it's time to grow your body."

"I slept for a long time in the morning, and I can't eat much." Qiao Jue leaned against the chair, and flipped through a book on the table that was used to place the dishes.It was a comic he had read in elementary school, but he hadn't seen it for several years, and now it was reduced to a potholder on the desk.

"Jinggang is a bit far away. You probably won't have a car when you come back. Bring your own room key and be careful." Xu Hong was washing the dishes while turning her head amidst the sound of rushing water, "Grandma Guo Da, this I haven't enjoyed any blessings in my life..."

"Understood." Qiao Jue opened the screen door of the kitchen to go out, and went into his room diagonally opposite to pack his things.

There are three bridges in Lianxing County. People in the county call them the first bridge, the second bridge and the third bridge according to the order of construction.In fact, when these three bridges were built, they all had their own names, but they were ignored by many people.For example, the second bridge where Qiao Jue is now has a well-known name, Lianhe Bridge.

The afternoon sun was a bit scorching. Qiao Jue just went out for a while, and the white shirt was soaked with sweat. The sweat stuck the material to the back, which made people very uncomfortable. In addition, the weather was hot, and it was a little early to go out. Qiao Jue’s I can't say I'm in a good mood.

A man stood in the middle of the Lianhe Bridge, wearing black clothes and black trousers in this weather, wearing big sunglasses that can cover half of his face, wearing a white baseball cap on his head, and holding an iPhone4s, facing the scorching sun Talk loudly to Lianhe under the bridge.

"Mom, tell me clearly, where is it in the south of the bridge?" The man shouted into the other end of the phone, "You told me to go get the key, but you tell me where you are?"

The voice of the man talking on the phone reached Qiao Jue's ears. In the hot noon, there were only the two of them on the Lianhe Bridge. Qiao Jue intentionally took a detour and stayed away from the man in black.

The heat wave on the road was rushing towards my face, and the man in black roared from behind: "Mom, where are you, my god."

"F*ck, you must be stupid." Qiao Jue was irritated by the noise, cursed in a low voice, and quickly left the Lianhe Bridge where there was no shade.

There were still two hours before the appointed time, the weather was too hot and there was nowhere to go, so Qiao Sui had to drop by Guo Da's house to find him.Guo Da's family opened a shop selling electrical appliances on Xinya South Road near the compound, and Qiao Jue knew that he would find Guo Da there.

Sure enough, Guo Da was wearing these shorts, squatting on the steps in front of the store, eating watermelon.

"Brother Sui, it's just right to come, let's eat together." Guo Da said vaguely with a big mouthful of watermelon in his mouth, with watermelon seeds still sticking to his mouth, and reached out to get a piece of melon for Qiao Pui from the basin.

"Don't eat it, let's go." Qiao Jue took a step back, almost being smeared with watermelon juice by Guo Da.

"Hey, Qiao Jue is here." Guo Zhengzhi walked out of the house, "Please come to Jinggang with our family Guo Da. I really can't get away from Guo Da's mother."

"It's okay, uncle, don't bother." Qiao Jue said, and took away Guo Da who was still eating melons on the ground.