Jiang Shen has never been so busy this year. He made dried strawberries, received red envelopes from Dongxi’s house, went to Gou Mao’s house to see chickens, and set off firecrackers with his friends. For the first time, he went to catch the winter vacation in the middle of the night. homework, and finally received a call from Bai Jinyi on the night of the New Year's Eve.
"Are you in the United States?" Jiang Shen's side was full of loud firecrackers. He covered one ear and almost yelled on the phone.
Bai Jinyi: "Why are you so noisy?"
Jiang Shen: "Firecrackers are being set off, the Chinese New Year is coming soon."
Bai Jinyi asked again: "Why don't you let go."
Jiang Shen said seriously: "I want to call you."
Bai Jinyi seemed to smile, only to hear Jiang Shen say again: "It's a call from the United States, such a long call, it's amazing."
"What's so magical." Bai Jin snorted, "No, it's still on Earth."
Jiang Shen: "But we are so far away. I saw the globe of Gou Mao's house before, and it was separated by an ocean. It's great that we can still talk like this."
Bai Jinyi laughed again. He seems to laugh a lot at Jiang Shen recently, but he still likes to hold back when facing people, and laughs more over the phone.
"Little Swan." Hearing the sound of firecrackers on the other side, Bai Jin said suddenly, "Happy New Year to you."
From winter to spring, the Jiang family and the Chen family burned wheat stalks together to make fertilizer, and the flowers in the rural fields also bloomed for a new season. The bright purples and reds attracted all the girls to go to the cauliflower. Qing Lingzi also wanted to follow the trend, and the dog hair only Can follow, Jiang Shen came back from dancing, and saw Gou Mao and Shu Bao still working hard in the flower pile.
Qing Lingzi held up the flower and waved towards Jiang Shen: "I'm back!"
Jiang Shen: "I'm back."
He was stopped by Mr. Lin before get out of class today, saying that he was going to rehearse a song and dance drama with two protagonists, and he wanted to dance both men's steps and some women's steps.
"You will be in the fourth grade soon, and the song and dance drama will take a long time. In the second semester of the sixth grade, there will be a report performance in the Cultural Palace. By then, this work must be done well." Teacher Lin looked at him and said earnestly, "The report performance in the Cultural Palace will be Many famous teachers came to see it, and it would be a great thing if you were chosen.”
Jiang Shen doesn't quite understand what a famous teacher means, but he only knows that musicals are very important, and he must dance well.
Apart from musicals, Jiang Shen's other worry is that Bai Jinyi hasn't been to the boxing gym for a long time.
He went next door several times with dried strawberries, but only Lai Song came out.
"Give this to him." Jiang Shen had to give Lai Song the dried strawberry for the last time, "If you can touch it."
Lai Song raised the lunch box and looked at it: "What is it?"
Jiang Shen: "Dried strawberries." He warned, "You can't eat them."
Lai Song snorted: "If you don't eat, then you don't eat."
Jiang Shen was relieved, he smiled, still a little lonely, Lai Song scratched his head, and could only say: "I really don't know when the second generation of Bai will come back, I just know that the coach he found in the United States is very optimistic about him, Maybe even if I come back, I won’t practice here anymore.”
Jiang Shen frowned: "Where will you practice then?"
Lai Song thought for a while: "It should be in a big city, Shanghai or something."
Jiang Shen and Qing Lingzi sat together in the sea of flowers, surrounded by lively banzhilian and marigolds. Qing Lingzi picked a handful and planted half a flower, and asked him, "Does it look good?"
Jiang Shen glanced at it, nodded and said, "It's pretty."
Qing Lingzi pouted: "What are you thinking about?"
Jiang Shen sighed: "Qing Lingzi, will you go to a big city to learn painting?"
"Big city?" Qing Lingzi called out, "Whether I can continue to study is a problem. The big city is too far away, but I know that people like me can take the exam. Art, I can go to a university that specializes in painting."
Jiang Shen didn't say a word. Ballet also has a special examination, but it's amateur. Mr. Lin said that there is no examination for majors, but you have to go through the school's selection to enter a good dance school.
Qing Lingzi looked at Jiang Shen and asked suspiciously, "You don't really want to dance forever, do you?"
Jiang Shen was silent. After a while, he said slowly: "Are you coming to the report performance of the Cultural Palace?"
"Come on!" Qing Lingzi shook his legs, "It's still early, do you want to perform?"
Jiang Shen nodded: "Call Gou Mao and Shu Bao for me."
He pursed his lips and smiled a little embarrassedly: "I'll dance for you then."
Children's time is always naughty, neither enough nor enough to play.
Gou Mao finally saved enough money to buy Escoda brushes for his sister; Qing Lingzi completed her painting titled "My Brother", which unexpectedly won the gold medal in the National Youth Painting Competition; that painting was also framed by Chen Maoxiu When he got up, he hung it on the wall of the living room, and listened to him bragging every time he went to his house.
Shen Shubao was the only one in the village who was admitted to a key high school. His myopia was a few degrees worse. He usually put on makeup at school, but when he returned to the countryside, he took off his shoes and bare butt and hung out with Chen Maoxiu in the fish pond.
Jiang Shen finally completed the song and dance drama arranged by Mr. Lin in the last half year, and Song Xin danced the girl A.
"You dance really well here." Song Xin watched the rehearsal replay with him in the dance room, "You look better at this movement than me."
Jiang Shen laughed, he had grown a little taller, his body had obvious muscular lines, and he sat casually with bent legs: "I can't do some movements you can do."
Song Xin glared at him: "You can dance with a green waist, and you did it last time."
Jiang Shen chuckled and said nothing, he and Song Xin watched for a while, until Lai Song came to call for someone.
"Are you two okay?" Lai Song is already a sophomore in high school, and his whole body is over 185. Because of boxing all the year round, he looks as strong and scary as a door panel, but he is still silly when he smiles.
Song Xin rolled her eyes: "Who told you to wait for us?"
Lai Song stood against the door, and he could touch the door frame with just a bend of his arm: "Who said I'll wait for you, I'll wait for the little swan!"
Jiang Shen got up to change clothes, and the two were still bickering when they came out.
"Okay." Jiang Shen looked at Song Xin, "Shall we go eat something?"
Song Xin sighed: "I can't drink milk tea again, I can't gain weight anymore."
Lai Song sighed: "You danced really hard." He took out a box from his bag and handed it to Jiang Shen, "Second Bai asked me to bring it to you."
In the past two years, Bai Jinyi did not come to the boxing gym very much. Even if he came, he would look for Lai Song or Jiang Shen, but two or three phone calls every week were indispensable. Tan Lingling often joked that they had made "long-distance friends". It's like reporting work, I can't wait to finish all the things I do in a day.
In addition to the phone, the two exchanged things frequently one after another. Bai Jinyi probably had nothing but money, all he bought was for use. The most expensive gift was a mobile phone. Jiang Shen almost died of fright when he got it. , I didn’t dare to use it for a few days, until Bai Jinyi called to urge him, saying that he could use the video before he agreed.
In contrast, what Jiang Shen sent was much more simple, such as fresh tea leaves, homemade jam, salted duck eggs, loquat bayberry in early summer, and hairy crabs in late autumn. Bai Jin would take pictures of these things and send them to him as soon as he received them. The two still have a circle of friends, and they like each other one by one.
"You two are so close." Lai Song bought fried chicken, but threw away the puff pastry. "Is the phone fun?"
Jiang Shen ordered a cup of sugar-free milk, sucked it through a straw and drank it slowly: "It's okay."
Lai Song: "What APP do you use?"
Jiang Shen said honestly: "I just have a WeChat to contact Bai Jinyi."
Lai Song: "..." He muttered speechlessly, "You are not the child bride of the second generation of Bai..."
Jiang Shen didn't hear clearly, he was unpacking the package that Bai Jinyi gave him, and when he opened it, it was a new pair of ballet shoes.
Lai Song supported his head: "Try to see the size, if it's not right, I'll return it to you."
"Why can't it be wrong?" Jiang Shen smiled and narrowed his eyes, he touched it a few times, and said cheerfully, "Bai Jinyi can't make a mistake, he knows what kind of clothes I wear."
Lai Song: "..."