Because school only starts in September, Shubao and Gou Mao are still on summer vacation. When Jiang Shen went back that night, after Tan Lingling unpacked the lunch box Li Zhuo had given her, her nose became sore after just one look, her eyes were red and she didn't speak.
It was a whole plate of boiled broiler chicken. Li Zhuo thoughtfully removed the chicken rack and left a note saying that no salt was added.
Jiang Shen ate two chicken thighs extravagantly for dinner, and he felt a little smug. After eating, he went back to the room to press his feet, thinking about how to ask Gou Mao about borrowing the computer—because Qing Lingzi learned to draw, now the only two brothers and sisters in the town who have notebooks.
Jiang Shen straightened his legs and pressed his toes again and again. He was very absent-minded, and he thought of excuses again and again, but he couldn't find a satisfactory and foolproof one. Jiang Shen sighed, he stretched out his legs, and easily made a horizontal stroke, with his upper body pressed against the ground and his chin resting on the back of his hands.
"Hey!" Jiang Shen sighed again.
Tan Lingling knocked on his door outside: "Take a shower, go to bed early."
Jiang Shen agreed, and he stood up. Tan Lingling was holding the clothes outside the door. Seeing him coming out, she urged him to go to the bathroom: "Your dad is inside, wipe his back."
Jiang Luoshan hadn't bathed with his son for a while, and when Jiang Shen came in with a towel, he smiled "hehe" at him.
Sitting on a small stool, the father turned his back to Jiang Shen and asked, "Have you grown white recently?"
Jiang Shen glanced at his arm, wet the towel and put it on Jiang Luoshan's shoulder: "The sun is getting less, Dad, let me tell you, the girls in the dance studio are all pale."
"She's a girl." Jiang Luoshan turned his head and smiled, "Why are boys so useless?"
Jiang Shen is quite naive: "It's pretty, there is a boy next door who learns boxing, and he is also very white, so he is pretty."
Jiang Luoshan asked casually, "Have you made new friends?"
"We just talked a few words..." Jiang Shen thought for a while, and with a little force on his hand, he rubbed Jiang Luoshan's waist, "Is this considered a friend?"
Jiang Luoshan was rubbed so comfortably, squinting his eyes, he hummed perfunctorily and said, "Forget it, of course it does... That's right, let's focus on this."
The Cultural Palace practiced dancing in the afternoon every day, but Jiang Shen didn’t dare to sleep late in the morning. He got up early in the morning to clean up the chicken coop. Fortunately, there was only one chicken, Tony, and there was very little excrement.
As a chicken, Tony has a very healthy schedule. He crows at 5 o'clock, clears his throat for an hour, takes a walk at 6 o'clock, eats breakfast half an hour later, waits for Jiang Shen to come at 7 o'clock, and practices exercises with him in the yard at 8 o'clock.
After Jiang Shen's two hours of basic skills practice, the dog hair next door also grew up. Miao Hua'er prepared breakfast for him, stuffed half of it, and took the remaining half of the dog hair in his hand to eat when he wanted to eat.
Shubao was waiting for him in the yard, seeing the person coming out with his hands full, he was speechless: "Can't you come out after eating?"
Gou Mao didn't care: "There are so many, you are blind."
Of course Shubao was not blind, but he was too lazy to pay attention to him, and the two went to Jiang Shen together. There was a chicken in front of Jiang's house, and the dog hair refused to go there, shouting at the top of his voice: "Shenzi!"
Jiang Shen let out a "hey" and came out with an omelette in his mouth. He actually had breakfast early, but he was hungry again after practicing, so he asked Tan Lingling to bake him a sheet to satisfy his hunger.
Shubao beckoned to him: "Just eat this?"
Jiang Shen went out of the yard and stopped Tony's covetous chicken inside. Tony was obviously very unhappy, and "cuckooed" twice at the dog's fur.
"I also drank porridge in the morning." Jiang Shen was quite honest in front of Shubao.
Shubao didn't speak, he poked the dog's fur and said, "Give the eggs and milk to Shenzi."
Gou Mao asked with a question mark: "I don't want to eat?"
Shubao directly took two of them, and stuffed them into Jiang Shen's hands: "Don't you just have too much, just ask Shenzi to eat some for you."
Dog hair: "..."
Jiang Shen didn't know whether to eat milk and eggs or not, so Gou Mao waved his hand, smashed the jar and said, "Eat it, eat it."
Jiang Shen: "How about paying it back to you?"
Gou Mao gritted his teeth viciously: "Eat as soon as I let you eat!"
Shubao: "Eat it, you are just growing up."
Gou Mao glared at him: "I have a long body too."
Shubao sneered, very bluntly: "You should develop your brain first."
The recreational activities for children in the countryside are poor but rich. Let’s say they are rich, but there are only a few, such as digging eggs in spring and catching fish in summer, threshing wheat in autumn and playing with snow in winter. Anyway, you can find flower heads for you It's not like a bunch of boys like wild dogs have nowhere to play.
Gou Mao's family has the largest fishing ground in the town, and his father, Chen Laoshi, had to go there early in the morning. When Gou Mao brought Shubao and the others there, the fishing nets were almost closed.
Qing Lingzi sat on the edge of the fish pond with bare feet, and stood up when he saw Jiang Shen: "Shenzi!"
Before Jiang Shen could respond, Gou Mao had already rushed over: "Qing Lingzi, put my shoes on!"
Qing Lingzi pouted his lips in displeasure: "Who would wear it on such a hot day?"
The dog hair doesn't listen to the reason: "Then you have to put it on for me too!"
Qing Lingzi was really annoying his unlucky brother to death, and hated his temper of meddling in everything. He sat down with a gloomy little face, Gou Mao bent over, took the shoes and forced them on his sister's feet, Qing Ling The child struggled several times but did not break free.
"Don't move." Gou Mao held her ankle, "Little girl's feet can't be cold, don't you understand that?"
Qing Lingzi said angrily, "You are my father, you're so wordy."
Gou Mao put on her shoes and pulled her up: "Stay away from the water."
Shubao persuaded: "Okay, Qing Lingzi is rare, let people play."
Gou Mao is not angry: "It's not your sister, not baby."
Shubao scolded with a smile: "Where is my baby?" He looked at the little girl beside him, "Qing Lingzi, do you want me to take you swimming?"
Qing Lingzi blushed, and just about to agree, he was dragged behind by his brother.
Gou Mao pointed to Shu Bao in warning: "Don't flirt, Shen Shubao, don't try to take advantage of my sister!"
In the end, Jiang Shen was the only one who sat on the embankment with Qing Lingzi. The little girl stared resentfully at the naked dog hair and tree treasure in the pond. Tell you to chase after me.
"Why don't you go down?" Qing Lingzi looked back and asked him eagerly.
In fact, Jiang Shen also wanted to play, but walking barefoot in the pond was easy to get hurt. He remembered Teacher Lin's words "you have to take care of your toes", and he wanted to copy it on his forehead as if it were an imperial decree.
Qing Lingzi sighed maturely, wrinkling his nose: "Dog hair is really annoying."
"Not anymore..." Jiang Shen thought for a while, and said good things for Gou Mao, "He gave me eggs and milk just now."
Qing Lingzi chuckled and teased him: "If I give you something to eat, I will help others to talk, Jiang Shen, why are you so easy to coax?"
Of course Jiang Shen didn't think he was easy to coax, but he couldn't refute Qing Lingzi's reasons, and in the end he could only comfort himself with "food is the first thing for the people".
When it was almost noon, Shubao and Gou Mao obviously didn't have enough fun to go ashore. Jiang Shen couldn't wait any longer, stood up and said to Qing Lingzi: "I'm going back first, please tell your brother for me."
Qing Lingzi nodded, as if he understood everything: "Are you going to the Cultural Palace to dance?"
Jiang Shen was bored, and stammered: "You, how do you know?"
Qing Lingzi took it for granted: "My mother told me." She glanced at Jiang Shen and laughed, "Don't worry, I won't tell others."
Jiang Shen was not very embarrassed: "It's not..." Halfway through speaking, he looked around as if he was out of breath, lowered his voice and emphasized again, "Don't say it."
Qing Lingzi almost died of laughter: "I really don't want to say, what does my brother know, that bastard."
Jiang Shen ran across the countryside. The rice in the field was growing gratifyingly, reaching waist height. Jiang Shen jumped over the ditch beside the field ridge, opened his arms, and the tip of the rice slid gently over his palm. .
Tan Lingling took his shoes and brought them to him on a bicycle on the asphalt road, shouting from afar: "Run slower! Be careful not to fall!"
The summer sun is like an embossed horse, they pour down, covered with wild herbs.
The hot wind on the field blew away Jiang Shen's bangs. He grinned, stretched his arms, and danced a simple and basic bazaar (Pas chasse) to come to Tan Lingling, and even turned around in the end. Bow down and salute.
"..." Tan Lingling tossed him with her shoe, "I'm going to kill you, let's see what you can do."
Jiang Shen laughed loudly, he hung his shoes around his neck, and was about to run to wait for the bus, but Tan Lingling stopped him again, and handed over the lunch box: "Take this."
Jiang Shen took it, shook it, and heard the voice of "轮罗轮": "What is it?"
Tan Lingling: "Only two eggs, save some and eat."
When Jiang Shen rushed to the dance room, all the girls hadn't arrived yet. Mr. Lin was helping Song Xin to stretch her legs when she saw him beckoning: "Here?"
Jiang Shen sat on the ground and changed his shoes: "Here we come." He looked down at Song Xin, the girl was cross-legged, her chin propped up with an unhappy expression, and she cast a weak glance at him.
"What's wrong?" Jiang Shen sat beside her.
Song Xin: "Annoying, arguing with my parents."
Jiang Shen asked: "What's the noise?"
Song Xin said: "I'm going to the second year of junior high school, and I have to take culture classes well. If I say I want to dance, they won't be happy." She snorted, "I'm not happy yet."
She looked at Jiang Shen: "What grade do you start?"
Jiang Shen: "I'm in the third grade."
Song Xin sighed, a little envious: "Then you can still practice for three years, how wonderful."
"Can't you practice after entering junior high school?" Jiang Shen was puzzled, "Didn't you continue to dance, you danced so well."
Song Xin smiled. She was actually only twelve or thirteen years old, but she smiled like an adult.
"You don't understand." Song Xin said. After thinking about it, she seemed to realize that she couldn't explain clearly, so she pretended to be old-fashioned and said, "You will understand in the future."
There are many basic movements of ballet. Jiang Shen can take notes while learning. Words he can't write are replaced by transliteration, and he will memorize them slowly when he turns back. Teacher Lin knows his habit, so he speaks slowly. Most of the girls who are familiar with him will help him review, so that Jiang Shen's exercise volume is often three or four times that of others after half a class.
He sweated a lot, not to mention tired, a little boy of this age is also very hungry, taking advantage of the rest time, Jiang Shen sneaked out and prepared to finish one of the eggs he brought.
Sitting in the corridor peeling eggshells, the door to the boxing room opposite opened again.
With her hair messed up, Bai Jin walked out steaming all over.
Jiang Shen peeled half of the eggshell, raised his head, and looked at him with his mouth slightly open.
"..." Bai Jinyi began to straighten his hairstyle with heavy burdens, walked over, and sat down on the edge of Jiang Shen.
"What are you eating?" he asked.
Jiang Shen continued to finish the work of peeling the eggshells, and grinned at him: "Eat the eggs."
Bai Jin let out an "oh" and watched him peel the eggshells.
Jiang Shen slowly and quickly finished peeling one. For some reason, he unexpectedly thought of Jiang Luoshan's words "Of course we are friends". After hesitating for a while, he asked politely, "Do you want to eat?"
Bai Jin raised his eyebrows, was silent for a while, and said concisely: "Yes."
"..." Jiang Shen was really heartbroken and handed him the egg.
Bai Jin was gone after one or two mouthfuls, and Wei Lie wiped his mouth, still feeling a little disgusted: "What kind of bastard are you? Why are you so small?"
Jiang Shen sullenly didn't want to talk to him, and silently hid the other egg in the lunch box behind his back.