When Bai Jin received the selfie from Jiang Shen, Song Xin had already finished her mud pond debut, and the result was six catties and thirteen fragrant crayfish on the dinner table that night.
The adults ate in the house, and the children peeled lobsters in the yard. When Song Xin came during the day, she was still a delicate fairy in a white lace dress and a parasol. Now her hair was loose, her face makeup was washed, and she wore a dog Mao's trousers, with one foot on the shoe and the other bare on the stool, sucking the fingertips of the shrimps that had just been peeled off.
Lai Song didn't want to say anything anymore, and handed her a napkin to wipe her hands.
Gou Mao and Shu Bao apparently quickly accepted the fact that fairies also love to roll in the mud to eat and pick their feet. Except for the occasional Gou Mao who is still struggling with whether his pants should come back, everyone has eaten dirt together in the mud pond. , true "love" is like the deep sea, and love is stronger than gold.
On a summer night in the countryside, it’s cool even if you don’t stay in the air-conditioned room. The night sky is covered with stars, and the summer wind blows the fragrance of flowers on the girls’ hair and faces.
Song Xin supported the stool and looked up at the sky, then suddenly suggested, "Come dance."
Jiang Shen was a little surprised, but still asked her: "What do you want to dance?"
Song Xin thought for a while, "Let's dance to pick lotus!"
Jiang Shen didn't say anything. He took out a mat from the house and spread it in the yard. Song Xin did a few warm-up exercises and stepped on the mat with bare feet.
Shubao asked curiously, "Do you want a soundtrack?"
Song Xin laughed: "No need, Lai Song can sing."
Lai Song glanced at her, said nothing, and sat down beside the mat with his arms folded.
Jiang Shen and Song Xin stood together and bowed to everyone quite formally.
Lai Song coughed lightly and sang the first note.
The song "Fish Playing with Lotus Leaves" only has a child's voice version on the Internet. Lai Song has passed the period of changing his voice, and his voice is a bit masculine. It has the gentleness of this Jiangnan water town, but it seems to have the thickness and tenderness of mountains.
But Song Xin's limbs are as soft as a fish, in the mountains and rivers, it is inexplicably compatible with Lai Song's singing.
She danced and bent over to play in the water, with lotuses growing on her feet. When she jumped up, just like the song said, "fish" played east, west, north, south.
"The clouds cover the distant mountains, and the mountain roads are winding." Lai Song closed his eyes, and his singing became louder, with the heart of a child in his voice, full of youthful affection.
Qing Lingzi held his face and stared at Song Xin intently, his eyes turned red for some reason.
Gou Mao glanced at his younger sister, and hugged him on his lap.
After Lai Song sang the last line "Around Jiangnan", Song Xin slowly backed off. She was sweating a little, but her expression was extremely happy. Jiang Shen took her by the hand, led her around, and bowed her legs to take the curtain call.
Shen Shubao finally came to his senses, got up and took the lead in applauding, Lai Song bent down slightly, he stretched out his hand, palm facing up, Song Xin smiled and touched it, turned around again, made a slight gesture of lifting the hem of the skirt and called off the curtain again.
Gou Mao seemed to think that clapping was not enough, suddenly put his hands around his mouth, howled loudly twice, scared the sleeping Tony chicken out of the chicken coop, and pecked him all over the yard angrily.
Song Xin embraced Qing Lingzi with a smile on her face, and gently wiped away the tears on her face.
Jiang Shen took out his mobile phone, and he saw the message from Bai Jinyi on WeChat.
"I really like dancing." Jiang Shen bowed his head and finished typing, not caring about the nonsensical content of the reply, he watched Song Xin lying on Lai Song's shoulder and asked the boy to sing another song.
Lai Song was so entangled by her that he had no choice but to continue the talent show.
Jiang Shen laughed and felt his heart bulging, as if something was about to rush out. The mobile phone he was holding vibrated, and Bai Jinyi replied this time with a voice message.
The boy's voice was obviously unhappy, and he said stiffly: "Then why don't you come back soon?"
Jiang Shen asked him naively: "Do you miss me?"
It was rare for Bai Jin to not reply in a second, but the top of the dialog box kept prompting that the other party was typing.
"I miss you." Jiang Shen didn't doubt him, and told him very frankly, "I still missed you when I was eating lobster today. It would be great if you were here... Do you want to eat lobster? I will ask you tomorrow For you."
The "point" that Bai Jin grasped was obviously a bit biased: "Tomorrow."
He thought for a while, and then emphasized again, "I want to eat lobster."
Lai Song and Song Xin will go back to the city within a few days, and Jiang Shen has prepared his luggage and tuition fees to go with them.
After sending Song Xin home safely, Lai Song accompanied Jiang Shen to the high-speed rail station. He bought a ticket for the boy and told him, "Be careful of money on the way."
Jiang Shen patted the bag he was carrying: "My mother sewed it in the innermost pocket for me."
Lai Song smiled, and suddenly said: "Song Xin told me to tell you, learn to dance hard, if you don't take it seriously, she will come to Shanghai and beat you."
Jiang Shen froze for a moment, looked at Lai Song, and nodded seriously: "Okay."
Lai Song: "She also said that she would often go to the Cultural Palace to dance, just as exercise."
Jiang Shen couldn't hold back, and grinned.
"As for me." Lai Song straightened his back, with a rare serious expression on his face, "Talk to Bai Jin, I will fight my last punch in the third year of high school, and I will retire after I get back my gold belt."
He raised his eyebrows proudly, and blinked at Jiang Shen: "I will be on the top of the national boxer's pyramid, waiting for him to climb up."
Bai Jin was waiting outside the high-speed railway station with his boxing bag on his back. Even though he had an expression of keeping away from strangers, there were still a lot of people around him whose eyes were glued to him.
When he saw Jiang Shen coming out of the station, the second generation Bai's thick black eyebrows finally twitched to save face.
Jiang Shen saw him from afar.
"Bai Jinyi!" He ran out from the crowd.
Bai Jin subconsciously took a few steps forward.
In addition to the luggage, Jiang Shen also carried a sack of crayfish, excitedly said: "Look what I brought you!"
"..." The sack was too close, and the crayfish's claws almost bit Bai Jinyi's nose.
Jiang Shen didn't finish here: "I stayed up all night to make this for you."
He took out a large bouquet of dried hydrangea flowers and stuffed them into Bai Jin's arms: "Does it look good?"
It was the first time that Bai Jin was given flowers in public at such a young age. Jiang Shen didn't seem to think it was wrong at all, and was still boasting: "This flower matches you, it looks beautiful!"
Bai Jinyi: "..."
In the end, the driver helped to take the flowers and lobsters. Before getting into the car, Jiang Shen asked, "Why did you come to pick me up?"
Bai Jin glanced at him and said, "You have brought so much cash, and you still want to leave alone?"
Jiang Shen: "I sew all the money in my bag, so I can't lose it."
Bai Jin could only say, "Let's go and pay the tuition tomorrow."
Jiang Shen also felt that the sooner he gave the money, the more at ease, he was a little excited, and then turned his head to look at Bai Jinyi, feeling as if he hadn't seen him for a long time, and approached him and asked, "Have you grown taller? "
Bai Jinyi was a bit stinky: "You just found out?"
Jiang Shen laughed: "I have grown taller too."
Bai Jin asked, "What about your weight?"
Jiang Shen: "It shouldn't have changed. I can't get fat casually, so you will eat all the lobsters tonight."
Bai Jinyi now feels a little overwhelmed whenever he hears the word "lobster", but before he said that he wanted to eat lobsters to trick the little swan back so early, of course he can only speak out by himself Swallow with tears.
"I don't know where Teacher Shen's dormitory is arranged." Jiang Shen suddenly remembered that he was looking forward to it. He looked at Bai Jin and said, "I will have a senior brother named Liu Xingzhi in the future. I wonder if he will live with my senior brother."
Bai Jin frowned, stretched out his hand, pinched Jiang Shen's cheek and shook it vigorously a few times: "Who do you think you want to live with?"
Jiang Shen's face didn't hurt, but he didn't speak very quickly: "Dead...dead brother?"
Bai Jin said expressionlessly: "That's right, your brother is dead."
Jiang Shen: "?!!"
Volume Two: Youth