Conservation of energy

After Shen Lin played at Luo Xin's house for a few days, it was not nearly the Chinese New Year. Fan Wenyan arranged to kill a big fat pig in the barn at home today and eat it for the New Year. Some of it was used to make bacon. This morning, please come to butcher the pig. Fan Wenyan entertained the two pig butchers and some young and middle-aged helpers from the same village to have lunch together. While they were chatting, Luo Xintong asked Shen Lin if he had seen a pig butcher, and Shen Lin shook his head. He said no, Luo Xintong said that when he was a child, the pig butcher peeked at it several times during the Chinese New Year at home. At that time, every time the pig butcher would lock himself in the room, every time Luo Xintong wanted to see it, he dared not. When the pig screamed, he would cover his ears and peek through the crack of the door, but he never saw it when he grew up.Luo Xintong asked Shen Lin if he wanted to watch it, and Shen Lin agreed. The two are now sixteen or seventeen years old, and Luo Xintong will be eighteen years later, and the adults will not stop the children from watching it.Luo Xintong and Shen Lin stood in the corner of the yard. Two long chairs were prepared in the yard, and they were placed together. A large enamel basin was placed under the chairs. Luo Xintong explained that the basin was used for Here to pick up the pig's blood, the pig's blood is very delicious when fried with garlic sprouts. I like to eat this way when I was a child. There is also a huge wooden barrel in the yard to scald the pig hair.After a while, I saw a few people driving a black-haired pig into the yard. The pig walked slowly around the yard. It seemed a little tired, so it didn't want to go. It lay motionless on the ground. Pay attention, with a wink, one of the butchers hooked the pig's mouth with a hook, and the pig screamed loudly, blood flowed out of the mouth from the hook, and the other butchers rushed forward, and several of them rushed the pig Hold it down, tie the pig's feet together with a rope, and several people work together to lift the screaming pig onto the prepared bench. The pig butcher holds a knife in his hand and prepares to lower the knife along the pig's neck. Lin subconsciously turned his head to the side, not looking at the scene where the butcher's knife fell, but saw Luo Xintong also turned his head and looked towards him. The two looked at each other. It was indeed too cruel. The sound, both of them couldn't bear to watch it, the blood slowly flowed into the prepared basin as Luo Xin said, and it was still steaming, soon the pig stopped moving and couldn't make a sound , Several people worked together to put the pig into a wooden barrel filled with boiling water to scald, and then opened it to divide the pig into pieces...

Luo Xintong and Shen Lin couldn't stand it anymore, they walked out of the yard to breathe, and walked for a long time, they walked to the grove behind the house, one leaned against a tree, Luo Xintong's expression was not very good.Shen Lin patted Luo Xintong on the shoulder to show comfort, Luo Xintong shook his head with a smile, and said: The weak will survive, the fittest will survive.The two of them didn't speak after that, Shen Lin thought, if he didn't want to be the fish of others, he had to work hard to become stronger.

It gets dark earlier in winter, and when the two returned home when it was almost dark, Luo's father had already set up two tables in the yard and turned on the lights in the yard, and Luo's mother and several women from the same village brought out the The steaming hot dishes, the two of them sat together with women who did not drink alcohol, and everyone at the table was talking and laughing while eating. Shen Lin noticed that Luo Xin said very little, and didn't move his chopsticks much, and didn't even pick up the chopsticks on the table. Pork, the two of them went upstairs after eating, and when they returned to the room, Shen Lin took out a handful of toffees that they often eat and handed them to Luo Xintong. It turned out that the food was not so unpalatable.

One week before Chinese New Year, the Rosensen family also returned to their home in the countryside. Fan Wenyan invited the Rosensen family to have dinner at home. After dinner, the two adults chatted in the room, and a few half-grown teenagers came out to play in the yard. , only a few houses were dimly lit, and Luo Sensen and Luo Xinheng ran to play games after playing for a while and felt cold. The small yard seemed empty in the lonely winter, and the night in the countryside was very dark. Street lights, Shen Lin noticed that Luo Xintong raised his head to look at the sky, and he himself looked at the sky like Luo Xintong. There were only a few stars hanging on the dark sky, which was the same summer as Luo Xintong said. The stars are far apart.

Luo Xintong saw that Shen Lin was also looking at the sky, so he pointed to the stars in the sky and said: Three stars are shining brightly, the new year is here.

Shen Lin looked in the direction of Luo Xintong's finger, and sure enough, in the south direction, there were three stars of similar brightness connected in a straight line, hanging in the winter night sky, not very bright, Shen Lin was puzzled, and asked suspiciously: Orion constellation ?

Luo Xintong agreed, "Exactly, you grew up in the city and don't know the proverbs of the countrymen. These three stars are called the birthday star, the lucky star, and the lucky star. When you see these three stars connected in a line, New Year is coming.

Shen Lin heard the word "Chinese New Year" in Luo Xintong's mouth, and immediately thought of his own New Year's Eve...he didn't even mention it, so he asked: Is Chinese New Year fun?

Luo Xin was stunned. Although he knew about his family relationship, he obviously didn't expect Shen Lin to ask such a question. Seeing Shen Lin's sharp-edged face with a blank and lifeless look, he knew that this person has not had much happiness for the New Year since he was a child. So he smiled and prevaricated and said: Interesting, didn’t you say that adults want to make money, and children want to celebrate the New Year.Then he laughed out loud at himself, and Shen Lin also laughed.

At night when the two of them were sleeping, Shen Lin quarreled that his quilt was too thick and he was about to get prickly heat in the cold weather, so he changed the quilt with Luo Xin. Hey, mother Luo was afraid that Shen Lin in the city would not be able to stand the damp and cold in the countryside in winter. So I kindly prepared a thick quilt weighing twelve catties for Shen Lin. Feelings, young and angry, kindly treated him like a donkey's liver and lungs... Shen Lin, who had changed the quilt with Luo Xin, wrapped himself up very satisfied and went , Shen Lin fell asleep after a while. In the dream, there was always a young man whose face could not be seen clearly. He took him up a tree to dig a bird's nest, went down to the river to catch fish, looked at the sky and stared at the stars, and had long eyelashes like a fan. I closed my eyes and made a wish on the shooting star, but I couldn't see the boy's face clearly, but it was so close that I could even smell the faint breath of the boy's body, but I couldn't see the boy's face clearly. If he couldn't see clearly, the boy waved to himself and turned away, until the boy's figure became smaller and smaller, he grabbed the boy's hand, and the boy turned his head, it was Luo Xintong's face...

Shen Lin woke up suddenly, sweat flowed down his forehead to the corners of his eyes, his throat was dry and astringent, he was panting heavily, his heart seemed to jump out of his throat, his body was so hot that it seemed to explode, he was stunned for a long time before he understood , and then my mind went blank.The dream I just had just kept playing back in my mind, as if I was deliberately reminding myself of what I had just done. Shen Lin wanted to get up and get out of bed to calm down, but just as his hand touched the bed sheet, he heard a soft sound coming from beside him. Shen Lin has been awake for a long time, and his eyes have adapted to seeing things in the dark. After zooming in, he saw Luo Xintong frowning slightly under the shadows, and his long eyelashes drooped low, forming two pairs of eyes under the lower eye sockets. There was a shadow, and his slightly parted lips were glowing pink against the backdrop of the night. The bright pink color seemed to be bewitching, so he couldn't help reaching out and touching the man's lips lightly, and he suddenly had the desire to taste it. Did those peach blossom lips have a faint fragrance of peach blossoms? He was suddenly startled by his own thoughts... Shen Lin didn't dare to continue, got up as if fleeing, twisted his thighs hard, twisted his thighs over and over again He tried to use the pain to wake himself up, but it seemed to be of no avail. He ignored Luo Xintong who was still asleep, hurriedly grabbed his coat and rushed out of the room as if fleeing. When he walked to the living room, he secretly took Luo Xintong The cigarette and lighter that grandpa put on the coffee table in the living room ran to the bamboo forest to light a cigarette. It was the first time for Shen Lin to smoke, and he was choked by the bitter and spicy taste as soon as he took a sip. His eyes hurt from the smoke. Even the tears came out...