In mid-July, the newly-purchased house was renovated. I can still find a lot of regrets. When my father and Doctor Fan came to visit, they heard me saying that they were dissatisfied and dissatisfied. They almost said in unison, eh, still not satisfied? My father turned a half circle and said to me: "I think it's brighter than the Forbidden City! I'm not satisfied anymore and I was hit by thunder." The things my father used for comparison really surprised me. I think my room must be newer than the Forbidden City. If the Forbidden City wants to change hands, it can only be second-hand housing.
The interior decoration is mainly cedar, the paint is mainly tung oil, the bathroom is like a sauna, and other rooms are also like. The obvious advantage of using tung oil as paint is that it does not need to be placed for too long and can be moved in soon. Diqing rushed over from Guancheng and stayed in the house, feeling pretty good. He asked me several times: "Did you decorate it yourself?" I told her yes, and asked her if she liked it. She refused to answer at the time, and I was under psychological pressure because I had long realized that it would be wrong not to discuss the decoration with her. —It’s not easy to discuss with her. She wants me to stay on hold. This decoration was originally a matter of cutting first and then playing.
She stayed in it for a few days and still refused to say whether she liked it or not, but one morning she woke up and suddenly told me that she wanted to have a baby. Hearing what she said, I felt relieved. I think that women must feel comfortable living before they have the idea of having children. I said: "Well, it's rare that you have such a plan, just give birth to it."
Every room exudes the scent of cedar and tung oil, which is fresh and makes people feel that new life has come to the face. We can have sex in any room, including the kitchen and bathroom. Once she also talked about doing it on a balcony dressed as a beach. I'm not good, it's not Guancheng after all. This small place in Jicheng is full of acquaintances, not better than there. In Guancheng, outsiders gathered to a certain extent, the city was like an ocean flooded with every drop of water. Staying in Guancheng, on the contrary, you will feel a kind of silence deep into the downtown area. In that kind of place, sometimes it is unscrupulous. I have accidentally seen sex on the balcony several times.
After Diqing came back, he moved to a famous city by the water. Accountant Hu still made some remarks about this kind of thing. She told Dr. Fan, "They are not married yet, so Diqing is afraid of being so afraid..."
"Young people, let them go. How long do you want to manage?" Doctor Fan smiled and said, "Besides, I am not young anymore."
My father didn't live here. He said that he was used to living in the middle school dormitory. Old-fashioned unit dormitories are mostly built with the concept of "loading as many people as possible with as little space as possible". Although it was small there, over time, the house became a "house" by my father. So he often said: "Golden kennels and silver kennels are not as good as their own dog kennels." This is not all humility. After the renovation, I owe some money. I said to my father, "Dad, sell that suite and live in together. You want me to go back to Yecheng, isn't it just for me to live with you." He said, "I have to get a good price when I sell. No, it's worthless to sell in a hurry."
The house was built, and I was too lazy to let my friends visit, and didn't want to treat me. Wu Guangzhou knew about my house purchase. After the decoration was completed, Jiang Biao greeted him again. He then mobilized his old classmates to meet in my newly renovated house. During the party, Zhu Zepei called the counter on Jiangyang Avenue, asking people to keep the largest private room at night.
That night, I also wanted to call Jiang Biao over. In the past few months, he has helped a lot. After calling, he couldn't tell. He was about to accompany his wife to visit an official of the Education Bureau. He is working on transferring his wife to the city.
I said: "Okay, I'll invite you next time. Is there any eye for Xiaoxia's transfer to the city?"
"It shouldn't be a big problem, my uncle also said, he will help to the end."
He said that, and I believe things shouldn't be difficult. Since his uncle can get him into the commercial bureau, then transfer Xiao Xia to the elementary school in the city, which is a sure thing to catch the bastard in the boring altar.
That night, the old classmates brought family members and children, and packed the big boxes. Among them, Zhu Zepei, Wu Guangzhou and others have been in the shopping malls and workplaces for a long time, and they are good at creating atmosphere. They created a few climaxes throughout the night, and then they changed their wives and danced later. I found that Diqing is a bit addicted to alcohol, and I don't know how to refuse it when I drink it. I drink half a bottle of beer when I touch my neck. I can also understand that in their art circle, life seems to go on like that, and inspiration is so volatilized with alcohol. She drank in a hurry, and it didn't take long before I helped her to the outside bathroom. After the party reached its climax, a line was formed outside the bathroom door of the box.
The corridors in the box area of Jiangyang Avenue are winding and complicated. Diqing went to the bathroom to tidy up himself, and didn't need me to help when he came out. She stumbled ahead, and I followed. I drank a lot, both of them went the wrong way and forgot the name of the box. I would like to ask the waiter who was waiting in the corridor, if Diqing refused to let her, she said, "Let's go a few more turns. I want to walk now."
"Are you using the gallery lamp as the sun? Another day, I will take you out to enjoy the sun."
She smiled happily: "It turns out that living in Yecheng is quite comfortable."
It's rare that Diqing is in such a good mood, and I feel obligated to accompany her in circles. After walking a few laps, passing by a fork, I caught a glimpse of a woman dressed as a foreman bringing two girls in cheongsam into a box. Cheongsam is the work clothes that Zhu Zepei prepared for the girls. He strives to make the guests feel that the service in Jiangyang Avenue is standardized, and the uniform service steps are unified.
The two girls followed the foreman to the box. When a girl turned sideways, I looked familiar. Diqing tugged at me again, telling me not to look at her, but to look at her. Going further, Zhu Zepei stood at the door of the box, angry at us: "What did you guys do. After blowing the phoenix for phoenix for a long time, no newcomers came to visit the hall; after reciting the Soul Calling Sutra all night, no filial son fell into a pot of pottery."
Diqing couldn't even understand the folk proverbs of the city, so he asked me what I meant. As soon as the door of the box opened, the sound inside came. I had to cling to her ears and said, "Lao Zhu said that our emperor is not in a hurry and their eunuchs are in a hurry."
I sat down and listened to Diqing singing a song, and suddenly remembered that the familiar cheongsam girl just now was lily of the valley. I haven't seen her for a year. The cheongsams issued by Zhu Zepei are not suitable for all the girls. Linglan's body holds the cheongsam very tightly. The girl next to her is as thin as Diqing and wears the cheongsam as a mosquito net.
Why is she here? I immediately thought, why can't she be here? People always have to develop. Even if there is no development, let others feel that you are developing. Suddenly there was such a famous quote in my head. The imported high-quality audio in the box made my scalp dizzy. After a while, I remembered that the famous quote came out of Li Zhao's mouth. No way, I can't remember when I'm killed. Even if the ivory that pops out of some dogs' mouths, they can easily make a pit in other people's memory.
Next, I will sing a duet with Diqing's love song, and I will confess my love. Diqing can make up for my shortcomings. I sing with a guilty conscience, and other people are dancing, talking, drinking, picking their teeth and going to the toilet. Fortunately, my voice didn't disturb them too much. After the scene that day, a group of us walked out together, passing through the long corridor, my eyes couldn't help but look around.
Jiang Biao hadn't contacted him for a while, and there was no news. One day in August, when it was still too early, the phone rang. I saw Mao Yigeng and he was working in the Public Security Bureau. I asked him what was going on. He said there was a situation and asked me to go to the Public Security Bureau. I am the kind of person who wakes up slowly. I opened my eyes for a while, and I didn't know what I did to sorry the motherland and the people. I nervously asked Mao Yigeng, "What can I do? You can remind me."
Mao Yigeng said: "It's not yourself. No matter how you look at it, it's not a safety hazard. It was another person who caused something and called you to be a security guard."
I asked who it was, and he said Jiang Youzhi.
I kissed Diqing, who was still in my dream, and went downstairs to take a taxi and rushed to the Mingwafang police station. Walking into the duty room, I saw Jiang Biao sitting side by side with another twenty-year-old boy with bruises on his face and blood holes on his arms. I was wondering that Wu Guangzhou came back with a kick. Mao Yigeng said, "I'm all here? Okay, one acquaintance on the left and an acquaintance on the right, each one should take care of his own family. I ask you to come, and I also want to invite you to eat some morning fans.
It turned out that Jiang Biao was fighting with the young man and was taken to Mao Yigeng by the 110 patrol car. When they arrived at the police station, both of them agreed that it was just a joke, not a fight, but the injuries on their faces were obvious. Mao Yigeng accepted the matter, knowing that it was not a major issue, and asked them to notify their relatives to pick them up. The young man reported Wu Guangzhou's name one by one, and then Jiang Biao said my name again. Mao Yigeng smiled bitterly. I looked at Jiang Biao, Jiang Biao looked at me helplessly. Without him speaking, I also understand that his wife and daughter are in the country. He has an uncle who has a lot of work and is still an elder. After weighing it up, he still thinks it is convenient to report my name. Leading the person out of the police station, Wu Guangzhou and I exchanged glances, it would be better to walk aside and ask about the situation separately.
Jiang Biao told me that the young man's name was Wei Bin, Wu Guangzhou's cousin. Jiang Biao went to the Municipal Bureau of Commerce to work and had no housing. The Bureau of Commerce had a row of dual-use commercial and residential houses on the banks of the Mingwafang River, three stories high. Wu Guangzhou helped to rent a set for Jiang Biao. The second and third floors were all used by others, and the rent was almost negligible. A few weeks ago, Wu Guangzhou greeted Jiang Biao, saying that he had a nephew who had just started working and had no house to live in. If Jiang Biao doesn't need to live on two floors, he hopes that Jiang Biao will be convenient to let Wei Bin live in. What can Jiang Biao say? He knew the standard answer, so he answered: "Of course, let him move in."
Wei Bin moved into the third floor. He was young and handsome. He returned from the army and was assigned to drive a water truck at the Sanitation Station. He has a good-looking girlfriend, like Xiao Xia, who is a teacher in a township middle school and teaches physical education. Both of them are in their early 20s, and they are so energetic that they want to spill it out. On weekends, they bring two big bags of lunch or other food, and they close the door to make love when they reach the third floor. . Of course, this has nothing to do with Jiang Biao, and Jiang Biao is not a nosy person.
After dark last night, Jiang Biao walked out of the bathroom and ran into Wei Bin and his girlfriend on the third floor. The light was dim, and he only caught a quick glance, but he was puzzled. Wei Bin's girlfriend seemed to shrink in an instant, not as tall and strong as she had seen before. In the evening, there was a noise on the third floor, and Jiang Biao had long been used to it. It's just that he is a bit strange. It was only Wednesday. It is said that Wei Bin's girlfriend should still be in the middle school, like his wife Xiaoxia.
In the morning, before the sky was fully lit, Jiang Biao was awakened by the sound of footsteps going downstairs. There are two people's footsteps in the corridor. Wei Bin got up abnormally early that day and walked out with his girlfriend. Suddenly Jiang Biao felt a little uneasy, so he sat up and took his feet to the edge of the bed to look for shoes. When he walked to the window, it was still the shade of blue that is characteristic of dawn, and the things in front of him were gray and indistinguishable. Wei Bin and the woman stood at the door, apparently waiting for the bus. Jiang Biao took a closer look and found that the woman's figure had shrunk several sizes. The two stood side by side on the side of the road. From Jiang Biao's point of view, Wei Bin's figure strictly covered the girl. He knew that under normal circumstances, Wei Bin's body should not be able to cover his girlfriend. Could it be that this morning's light caused some kind of visual obstruction? Since he was awake, Jiang Biao didn't plan to sleep anymore. He went to the bathroom to brush his teeth and wash his face. He also shaved his beard. Then he walked to the window facing the street and saw that they hadn't gotten into the car. After a while, a taxi drove over lazily. Wei Bin beckoned, and the taxi stopped. Wei Bin jammed the girl into the car, but did not get into the car. As the car drove away, Wei Bin turned and walked in and returned to his room on the third floor.
The moment the girl got in the car, Jiang Biao saw her face clearly.
When Wei Bin turned and walked upstairs, Jiang Biao went out to stop him. Wei Bin asked Jiang Biao what happened. Jiang Biao asked him, "Where did you call that girl last night?" Wei Bin said, "My girlfriend, Xiaoou, what's the matter? Where can I call it from?"
Jiang Biao said, "Brother, I can't control your personal affairs, but the girl last night was not Xiao Ou. Of course, I won't tell Xiao Ou what happened last night."
"You mean I'm whoring? What do you want to say to Xiaoou, want to threaten me?"
Jiang Biao said patiently, "Since you said that, it must not be Xiao Ou who was in your room last night."
"What the hell are you asking?"
"I just want to know, where did you call that girl back from? She..."
Wei Bin tilted his mouth and smiled when Jiang Biao spoke, and unexpectedly punched him at the door. Jiang Biao quickly backed away two steps, feeling shocked. Wei Bin was a soldier and was in his twenties. He was too physically suffocated to demolish the house every night, and he didn't want to worry about it. After hitting someone, Wei Bin also said, "Okay, I've already told you, you go away."
Jiang Biao stroked the fisted half of his face, bent his waist slightly, and said with a smile, "I haven't heard clearly."
"Okay, then I'll tell you again."
When Wei Bin walked over, Jiang Biao grabbed an object and threw it at him, but Wei Bin instinctively passed it. He is very thin and well trained. Jiang Biao saw that what he had thrown over was just a wastebasket. Wei Bin had already walked over, and jumped up, kicking Jiang Biao fiercely. Jiang Biao grabbed the handrail of the stairs, so he stabilized his body and didn't slide down. Wei Bin felt weird, and kicked again, followed by the third kick. Jiang Biao didn't know what kind of experience Wei Bin had in the past. Once he fought, he was so cruel. At a loss, Jiang Biao hugged Wei Bin's thigh in a panic, and the two of them rolled down the stairs together. The two twisted into a ball and rolled to the platform at the corner of the stairs—sometimes, the so-called luck is probably that two people hugged and rolled downstairs, one person’s head hits a hard corner, and the other person’s head rests on each other’s softness. On the belly. Jiang Biao took the lead to stand up, and his face was dumbfounded when Wei Bin had fallen hard. Jiang Biao didn't dare to take it lightly, and hurriedly grabbed him with one hand and moved it back. With four or two strokes of strength, he twisted his body in pain, face down, and chewed on his mouth.
Then Jiang Biao asked, "Brother, can you tell me now?"
"Brother Jiang, what did you ask? I was wandering just now and didn't listen carefully."
"Where did you call that girl just now? What's your name?"
Only then did Wei Bin tell Jiang Biao honestly that the girl was called from Jiangyang Avenue. She didn't know her name, her name was 35.
When the two of them had a fight in the morning, they made a creaking noise in the corridor. The master in the cotton store on the first floor heard the noise and didn't know what was going on upstairs, so he was enthusiastic for a while and hurriedly called 110. The place was very close to the police station, and within two minutes a police car drove in and rushed in to arrest people. Jiang Biao and Wei Bin deny that the police still took them back seriously and responsibly. They said: "Write a guarantee that you won't be naughty and won't fight, and then call the family leader."
I brought Jiang Biao out, it's still early. We both went to a roadside store for breakfast and talked slowly. He clarified the matter, and I asked him, "Is that girl Lily of the valley?" He nodded.
I want to tell him, in fact, I also know that Lily of the valley is on Jiangyang Avenue. If he asks me, he will save the trouble. Of course, I will not say these words. I don't know what happened between him and Suzuran. Anyway, unlike Suzuran himself, a poor boy loved her and wanted to marry her.
Jiang Biao had a fight in the morning, and now he is very hungry. After eating two drawers of fried dumplings, he was called a bowl of rice noodles. I'm already full, and I look at Jiang Biao's food, waiting for him. I wondered aimlessly, did the two have ever been in love, and after the breakup, Lily of the valley couldn't bear the blow, and went to Sand Bridge to run the flesh-and-blood business? Uh, this is probably the plot that would be written in popular novels before liberation. Now, in the era of diversity, there are more choices. If a girl loses a relationship, she can go to Internet cafes to get addicted to the Internet, she can take drugs, she can immediately change a boyfriend, or another one, or she can take a serious attitude and devote her energy to the great cause of socialist modernization among. These can resist the pain of being broken in love, so why not be so creative and be a lady? I changed my mind and thought, isn’t this a primary school math problem? Lily of the valley is at most twenty years old. Jiang Biao is two years younger than me, but he and Teacher Xia have been married for seven years. Seven years ago, Lily of the valley was only thirteen years old.
With Shi Julong's financial backing, Jiang Biao quickly transferred Xiao Xia to a primary school on the outskirts of Jicheng, near the Mingwa house, and all three of them moved into the city. Jiang Biao has a complete home in the city, and he has a lot to do, such as installing a flush toilet in the toilet. This is the wish of his wife, Xiao Xia, for a long time. In her opinion, life in the city is inseparable from a porcelain white toilet.
They used to live in Maple Col, and they lived in the same building with their parents. There is only one toilet in the house, and it is integrated with the pigpen. The pigs stand behind when it is convenient for people to smack their lips and watch curiously. Xiao Xia couldn't stand it. She wanted to be like a city person, or like many people in Jietianlong Town, and set up a bathroom in her bedroom. Jiang Biao wanted to discuss this matter with his father, but Jiang Biankuan firmly disagreed. He said: "Your bones are growing hard, you want to poop and pee on my head?" His house is a two-story building. His parents and Hou A live on the first floor, and Jiang Biao Xiaoxia lives on the second floor. Jiang Biao explained to him: "Now, the house is too big to be repaired, and each bedroom is equipped with a bathroom. It is convenient to live, and it has a high grade." Jiangbian Kuan became more angry: "Yes, you are like this. People of good grade turned out to be born to a poor old thing like me. What's wrong with this world, shit and piss on Laozi’s head turned out to be a good thing..." Seeing his father’s temper quickly burst, Jiang Biao There was no answer.
Now in the city, Xiaoxia and Diqing have made an appointment to see the bathroom. Jiang Biao and I are reduced to attendants. After meeting several times, the two of them were particularly able to talk. They were already in love with their sisters. They went to the bathroom store and held hands. They kept covering their mouths and laughing while talking. Jiang Biao's father didn't allow small toilets to be repaired, and Xiaoxia also broke the news.
Jiang Biaoqing smiled and reminded Xiao Xia, "Can you say a few words less? Are these glorious things?"
Xiao Xia Yang said with an eyebrow: "I have to say it!"
Diqing also needs to install a flush toilet. She has become accustomed to using that toy, and has also developed the habit of reading in the toilet. It takes a long time to go to the toilet. As soon as she returned to the living room, her interest in reading also declined. She was still satisfied with my renovated house, but she was squatting in the toilets on both sides, and she was very disappointed with me immediately. She said: "Ya Cub, I want to practice squatting, you will die if you close the trousers door and practice again!" She asked me to buy a flush toilet and put it back on. Finally, she and Xiaoxia started a joint operation, and dedicated half a day to choose a toilet. I guess that things like picking a toilet are as pleasant to women as picking clothes.
Xiaoxia and Diqing are women after all, they quickly become intimate, and they are not afraid to show this intimacy to others at any time. For me and Jiang Biao, the two men, even if they know each other for a long time, the friendship is not too shallow, and they have to show a sense of distance at any time, or else they will be awkward. I think the closest contact I have had with Jiang Biao this year should probably be regarded as the fight on the river bank, holding each other tightly.
It was summer vacation. Diqing got up early in the morning and often ordered me to call Jiang Biao and invite his couple to come home. Xiaoxia is also willing to come anytime, she also likes the environment here, after planning to buy a house, she began to feel that she and Jiang Biao's salary was too low. In summer, the day is long, and the night is compressed by both ends of the day, like a mouse in a bellows. The imaginable topic was quickly talked about countless times, and even if the two women were able to talk about the topic very much, there were still moments of disbelief. Four people just made up the table, and we slowly played cards and mahjong. Jiang Biao and his wife are both strong in mental arithmetic. I can barely make do, but Diqing is not a material for card games. It is dizzy when I touch a card. It is the most addictive.
Playing cards that day, Jiang Biao suggested that it was not good for the old nest to play cards at home, so I might as well go out for a walk tomorrow. Xiaoxia and Diqing both agreed. The sun did not shine the next day, and there was a wind outside, which was unusually cool in midsummer. Jiang Biao and I both thought of Luzhuang, Li Zhaoli advertised on the city TV station, and it seems that his business is starting to hit the road. We went early, Luzhuang was too small, and until noon, they took pictures in all the so-called scenic spots. Li Zhaoli called a girl guide, and when she came across a stone pillar mountain cliff, the girl couldn't help but tell a beautiful legend. I stopped in time, because some legends still came out of my mouth. There are more and more tourists coming to Luzhuang. Li Zhaoli is now earning a lot of joy. He invited us to have a meal at noon. In addition to taking care of the food, he also included a pass of cowhide. After the meal, it is still early. Jiang Biao drove the car out of Luzhuang and said to go to another place. As soon as he spoke, I guessed where he wanted to go. I agree with it.
He drove the car past the abandoned airport, to the top of the Youtong Po. Now this road basically doesn't use cars, so there is less dust, and the turf on the top of the slope is green with a layer of oil paint. We separated naturally. Xiaoxia and Diqing sat aside, chatted a few words, and lay down to take a nap. Jiang Biao and I climbed to a higher place and sat under the shade of a fir tree, leaning against the trunk, chatting casually. When the wind blows, people do fall asleep lazily.
Jiang Biao opened the tin box and handed me a candy ball. I took it and let it roll in the mouth. Jiang Biao asked me to describe what it tasted like. I tasted it for a while and said to him: "Cool and warm."
"Wenrun? Well, this is good. Which two words?"
"The temperature of the thermometer, the moisturizing of the lozenges."
"The temperature of the thermometer, er, is it Wen Jiabao's temperature?"
"Roughly the same."
Jiang Biao slobbed all the sugar and talked about it slowly.
An accident happened that year, Jiang Biao dropped out of school to learn to drive with a master named Pan without paying tuition. After learning, he would change shifts to Master Pan every three to five to help him make money, which was regarded as a return, just like before liberation. , To give an apprentice must learn skills for three years and help teachers for three years. When he was able to drive on the road by himself, he was under sixteen years old. During that time, he was still feeling anxious and couldn't talk to others. Driving the car on the country dirt road, the land was muddy and bumpy all day, and he felt that every road seemed to go to the end. For the next two years, he still couldn't buy a car, so he kept changing shifts to Master Pan, and Master Pan also paid him a little salary. He paid almost all of it to his home, and he didn't buy anything. Once Master Pan took on a good business, Yunpanzhai on the back slope of Yunpanpo was going to build a primary school, and the cement steel bars had to be pulled from Jietianlong. At that time, the road was particularly difficult, and I could only pull it once a day. In the school building of an elementary school, the concrete steel bars used are enough for a tractor to run back and forth for a month.
One day at noon, Jiang Biao had just drove up the Youtong Po, and he saw a girl lying in the middle of the road at the top of the slope, wearing a green dress. Driving closer, he saw that the girl was very small, only four or five years old, and she seemed to be asleep.
Speaking of this, he pointed to the road ahead and said, "That's it."
That day, in order to drive the car, Jiang Biao had to stop the car, walked over and picked up the little girl, and carried it to the grass on the side of the road. After putting her down, Jiang Biao drove the car over Youtongpo and down into Fantian Col.
For the next two days, Master Pan drove the goods by himself. On the third day, Jiang Biao went to drive for Master Pan again. At noon that day, Jiang Biao saw the little girl again on Dongtongpo. The sun was fading in the clouds that day, and the road was also dark and bright. When Jiang Biao drove up the slope, the sky was still cloudy, and when he was approaching the top of the slope, the sun suddenly came out, brightening the little girl on the ground.
"... I was suddenly worried. I stopped the car and walked over to hug her. That day, I could have put her on the turf on the side of the road, but I hugged her and walked up the slope for a while. Girl then The ground is small, I can hold her with one hand. It is soft and sticky, like a silkworm, or something else. I put her in the grass and drove away. The car went to the opposite slope. , I stopped the car again on Yunpan Slope and looked back at the top of Youtong Slope. Yunpan Slope is slightly higher than Youtong Slope, so you can see Youtong Slope clearly. The little girl was lying down again. I was in the middle of the road. I had already taken her away. After a while, she was lying on the road again. I was a little surprised. The road was paved with stone and sand, which was gray in color. The little girl was in the middle, like a, Well, like a winter melon... I looked at her for a while, not wanting to leave right away."
When Jiang Biao spoke, he moved away and lay on the grass, looking straight to the sky. He tossed a candy and let it fall into his mouth lightly. His technique of tossing sugar is as well-rounded as his technique of cutting sugar. He was sucking candy in his mouth, thinking about something in a daze. I know that Jiang Biao should remember the scene clearly at this time, so he rarely expresses emotion when he speaks.
Jiang Biao suddenly swallowed the sugar, his throat choked.
"What happened later?" In order to cooperate with his statement and make him more emotional, I feel obligated to say such a sentence.
"I drove the car to Yunpanzhai and watched them unload the cement. I suddenly became anxious. I really want them to finish unloading the cargo soon, so I can rush back soon. When I return to Youtong Slope, the road is empty, that little one The girl is no longer there. Three days later, I saw the girl again at the top of the Tung Tung Slope. She was still wearing a green dress. I thought that she had at least two green dresses and changed to wear."
"That day, she had a red mole on her forehead. I remember clearly that at that time adults liked to put on little girls this kind of makeup, and little girls always liked others to praise them for looking like Indian women. I took her for the third time Hug away and let the car go. She was always sleeping and sleeping very hard. When I put her down, she lay softly in the grass, closing her eyes from beginning to end. For another week, it rained non-stop. It was raining and could not drag cement, so Master Pan used his car to run other business. When the sky cleared, I drove to Yunpanzhai again, and when the car reached the foot of the Youtong Po, I panicked inexplicably. , I suddenly realized that I was looking forward to coming here these few days to see if the little girl was still sleeping there. I didn’t see her that day. It had rained for several days, and the dirt road was soaked. I dragged the rough sand and poured it on the road, and poured a thick layer, and the whole road was gray. Of course there was so much gray, the little girl would not come. That day, I saw only the road repair workers in the work shift on the road, wearing orange Clothes. After the coarse sand is poured, a layer of asphalt will be poured, and then rolled with a rolling mill, the road will be taut. I drove over the slope, still thinking in my heart that the girl can't do this for a while Sleeping in the middle of the road, if she just quit this bad habit, it must be a good thing."
"Five or six days later, I saw her in Youtongpo again. She was still sleeping in the middle of the road, her eyes closed, facing the direction I came from. I took her away again. She was light and soft. , I hugged her and didn’t bother at all. Looking for a smoother turf, I was about to put her down, and I suddenly couldn’t bear it. She was so tender, I stretched out my hand and rubbed the turf a few times and scratched the tip of the grass. She doesn't look so stiff. I gently put her on the ground and was about to walk away, and she grabbed me with one hand. I turned my head and looked, her eyes were still closed, she looked like I was asleep. Gently split her fingers one by one, her left eye seemed to be squinted and looked at me. I looked at her carefully, but her eyes were closed again and she looked like she had smiled."
Following Jiang Biao's narration, I can roughly think of the scene at that time. The girl's casual curled up sleeping position is reflected in Jiang Biao's eyes, which is nothing more than a call.
"Since then, I have seen the little girl on the top of the Youtong Po slope many times. I found that as long as the weather is clear, she can appear. I am also happy to hug her, and every time I hold her away from the road and go uphill. Head, I always go farther and farther, and I must find a very comfortable turf for the girl before putting it down. The little girl always has a key on her neck. I remember it is a wolf dog brand, and there is also one hanging on it. The bottle of cough syrup is marked with a scale. I guess it contains cold water from the little girl and her mother. She is thirsty and can drink water at any time. She always wears green clothes and puts it in the grass to hide it. I also wondered if there would be a snake, but she slept so quietly, motionless, the snake would slowly crawl past her when it came."
"... She smelled of aquatic plants. When you didn't pay attention, it was like an ant digging into your nostrils; you deliberately pulled your nose and sniffed, and there was nothing left."
"After all the cement and steel bars for Yunpanzhai have been dragged, the chance of oiling Tongpo will be less. I also discussed with Master Pan, if there is a freight to Yunpanzhai, try to let me out of the car. Of course, the master said , No problem. I thought the master would ask why, but he didn’t ask. Then one day, I ran into the girl again on the Tung Tung Slope, so I stopped the car, walked over, picked her up, and put her in the grass. . Seeing the girl sleeping, I suddenly couldn’t help but hooked my head and kissed her on the face. After learning to drive, my beard grew in a handful. My classmates who continued to study hadn’t started to grow. Beard. The girl woke up from my beard. She opened her eyes and said,'You hurt me.' The little girl made a cry, but she didn't cry. She said again,'Uncle, I I want to eat candy.' I lowered my head and looked at this girl. This is the first time I saw her with her eyes open. It was also the first time I heard her voice. What can I say? I had to say,'Want it, I I’ll give you candy.’ I drew it into my pocket, and there was nothing else except some fragmentary bills. I promised her that I would bring candy here next time. Since I promised her, I will take it to heart. After more than a week, when I saw the girl again, I took out a lot of candies from my pocket. They were all hard candies in various shapes."
I also remember the hard candies I ate when I was young. At that time, most of the hard candies had no wrapping paper, and they were colorful and rolled into various shapes. Children can choose their favorite candy according to the color and shape.
Jiang Biao said: "That girl only likes to eat light green sugar. She put the sugar in her mouth, and said more vaguely, I only like summer sugar..."
"Summer Sugar?" That was the first time I heard the name.
"Well, summer candy." Jiang Biao said, "it's actually mint candy. But she wants to call it summer candy."
Jiang Biao discovered that the little girl liked to name the candy on her own terms, deliberately calling the mint candy summer candy. In addition, she called the ginger candy winter candy, the orange candy sour candy, and the puff pastry named Huajiao candy.
Jiang Biao deliberately asked the little girl: "Your mother taught you to call it like this?"
The girl laughed brilliantly. She motioned Jiang Biao to bend down, and then leaned her ears to tell him: "This is the name I took. Only I call it Xia Tang. Now I will tell you. I only tell you, only two of me know, okay? "Jiang Biao swears to her that he can't say anything about it. He is happy to let the girl realize that it is a great honor for him to keep these little secrets for her.
After that, as soon as Jiang Biao had the opportunity to pass the Youtong Po, he would first go to the grocery store to buy a handful of sugar, only mints, which is what the little girl called "summer sugar". At that time, you could buy 30 mints for a dollar, or even a little extra. The sugar cubes at that time were spherical in shape when they were bought. Later, once the little girl was picked up by Jiang Biao and woke up, she stopped pretending to be asleep. He carried her to the slope and grass beside the road, and the little girl was no longer lying down, but sitting and eating sweets. Jiang Biao deliberately teased her. When the little girl was eating sweets, there was movement all over her face. From time to time, she raised her eyelids to show Jiang Biao, and asked him, "Uncle, are my eyes red again?"
A little girl can always dream of becoming a rabbit, with red eyes and three-petal lips. She also told him that after she fell asleep, whenever someone picked her up, the moment she woke up, she always felt that she had become a rabbit. This feeling made her feel particularly good. The little girl’s mother told her that the rabbit eats green cabbage leaves, but its eyes grow redder.
Whenever the little girl asked this, Jiang Biao replied: "Yes, your eyes are already very red and red..."
When Jiang Biao talked about this, I interrupted and asked, "Why does she always sleep on the road?"
"How do I know? I asked her twice, but she refused to say it. However, she was actually quite clever. She was lying on the top of the slope deliberately. Drivers from both ends could see her in time. Moreover, when driving uphill Slowly, you can trample the car to death with one foot at any time." Jiang Biao saw that I listened carefully, and he became more emotional when talking about it.
"When she was eating candy, I always teased her to talk and slowly learned some of her situation. She always refused to tell me the name, but when she turned around and asked her about other things, she couldn't turn her head. Her father worked in a work shift. The work shift had a row of houses at the foot of the Youtong Po slope. After the new road was built and the road was abandoned, the work shift was cancelled. Her mother went to the market to sell small goods. I asked her what her parents' last name was, and she refused to say that it must have been confessed by her parents. But she told me that during the day, everyone in the work shift went out to work, and she was often the only one left in that row of dormitories. Feeling scared, she walked out of the house and climbed up the Youtong Slope. At the top of the slope, she was lying in the middle of the road and could see the work dormitory from afar. If the chimney smoked, she knew someone had returned."
"... The year I saw the little girl, my beard suddenly grew quite fast. The beard would hurt the little girl. I also saw that my unshaven face was unpleasant, so I bought a razor and shaved my face clean. Little The girl is a weird person. She doesn't like the way my face is slippery. She wants me to grow a beard again. She is happy when the beard grows out. She wants me to lie on the ground so that she can stroke my beard. One day I will go oiling When Tongpo met her, I brought her a whole box of candies. I calculated before I went, when I went to the market in Yunpanzhai that day, I guess her mother would definitely go to sell small goods."
"That day, I ran into her again, hugged her for a long time, put her on the ground, and opened a box of candies for her to see. Her eyes were a little dazzling. Her mother didn't go to the market at noon that day. Selling small goods, I only went out to do some work. When I got home, I couldn't find my daughter. I looked for Potou. She saw that I was holding her daughter while talking, and her daughter still had sugar in her mouth, and her round face was scared. Fang, screaming and rushing over, snatched the girl over, and threw all the candy I bought for the girl on the ground. It’s not to blame her, I don’t even look at such a shaggy stranger holding such a small girl. It's normal. I want to explain to her mother, so she shouted at the row of dormitories at Pojiao: "Here, come here, there is a kidnapper." She didn't give me a chance to explain. That woman, her voice It was extremely shrill, and the sound made people’s skin itchy. I couldn’t help but drove away quickly."
"After half a month, when I drove to Pojiao, I saw her again. She was on the corridor outside the work dormitory, holding a ball of wool and wrapping it around the back of the chair. Very happy. I stopped the car on the road, and the girl recognized my car and kept looking at me. I drove the car slowly up the slope, wanting her to follow, I want Give her the candies in her pocket and leave. These candies were originally bought for her. She is a clever child. I waited in Potou, but she followed, still wearing green clothes, raising her head. At that time, it seemed to be smiling at me. I got out of the car and came up to the turf here, waiting for her. This slope is so high that she will have to climb up for a while."
"When she was about to climb up the hill, there was a microface coming here. Of course I didn't care. When the tunnel was not dug through, the car used to go this way. The little girl was approaching me soon, and I was already holding my hand. Reached into my pocket to fetch the sugar. The microface stopped there too, and when the door opened, a few people in police uniforms suddenly rushed over to me."
With that, Jiang Biao pointed to the place again, the place where the little girl had always been lying down.
I asked: "Are you caught?"
"The police reported by the little girl’s mother. All the policemen sent by the township happened to learn to drive at the abandoned airport. They hurried to this side. The policeman, whose name is Xiang, is now afraid that he is retired. He handcuffed me and took me to The township police station. After asking for a long time, making a transcript, no suspicious circumstances were asked, and there was no criminal record after investigation, so I had to let me go. The old Xiang, he looked at me unpleasantly, and when I went out, he paid me Point to me and say, you kid, be careful from now on, don't say I didn't remind you today."
"Is there anything else you can't get through with him?"
"Later, I heard that my daughter grew up in her teens and ran away with a foreign man selling sugar buns. There was no news again... After that, I occasionally passed by Youtong Slope, and the girl never lay down again. In the middle of the road. Every time I go, every time I go there is nothing. I will slow down or stop to have a look when the car passes the dormitory, but I still haven't seen the girl."
I suddenly understood: "Could it be that the girl is lily of the valley?"
"It should be. Later I went to Sand Bridge to look for her. I looked for it many times and asked her, but she refused to admit it."
"Since she doesn't admit it, how do you know it's her?"
At this time, the sunlight came out of the clouds and cast light softly. Jiang Biao's face was brightly reflected by the light. He looked at the sky aimlessly, remained silent for a while without answering my question, and then told me about the next thing.
"Now, the shape of the mint has changed. It is no longer a round bead shape. Instead, it is rolled into other shapes by the sugar factory. There are oblate and square ones. There was no sugar paper before, but now as long as it is sugar There are candy wrappers, and some have a layer inside and outside. I always can’t get used to it. I always think that mints can only be bead-shaped. Put them in your mouth and they can roll on your tongue. I just buy them. I started to play with the pencil sharpening knife slowly, and then I cut the sugar round. This is also quite interesting. I go out in a sports car and don’t have much time running on the road. Most of the time, I’m waiting for people and goods. The sugar can be put in the mouth and licked, and it can be held in the hand and slashed to play. It has the same purpose, and it helps me pass a lot of useless time."
"I don't remember how the women gathered on the sand bridge, it should be five or six years ago. There was originally a lumber factory. After the factory was relocated, there was the first roadside store where you could drink flowers. Liquor. After the business got better, other bosses erected houses around the shop to grab business. My driver friends also went to Sand Bridge to relax when they were out of business. They made money and always spent a lot of money. , Life just goes on like this. I am not interested in that kind of place-the interest in women is also innate, like an alcohol addiction, some of them are half a catty, and some drink a little and say that it is a mouthwash. It is impossible. Everyone is the same."
"My driver friends often go to the Jinyuan Beauty Salon and pull me a few times. I don't want to look uncomfortable. Besides doing bad things inside, I can also ask girls to wash their feet and beat their legs. I have seen them in previous movies, the landlord Every day, people have to wash their feet and beat their legs, and my belly is too big to bend down. Now, compared to doing bad things, washing feet and legs is considered a good thing. That day I went to Jinan with Li Muma and Scarlet Huang. Yuan, as soon as they stepped through the door, they each grabbed a girl and went up to the second floor. I said I would relieve my hand, and hid for a while before coming out, sitting on the first floor and waiting for them. There was a group of girls playing mahjong on the first floor, and I was watching ."
"The girls playing mahjong smoke cigarettes. They watched me sitting aside and handed me one. I don't want it. After sitting for a while, my mouth became itchy, so I took out a candy box and took a candy. They saw and asked me to eat. What. I took the candy box and asked them to eat. Those girls couldn't recognize what was inside, and didn't expect it to be candy. One of the girls put the box in the bright spot and glanced at me and asked me if it was an ecstasy . The other girls laughed at her, saying how expensive ecstasy is, can they just take it out and ask you to eat it."
"I told them it was candy, and one of the girls said they wanted to eat it. I handed it one, and she smashed it in her mouth a few times and muttered vaguely,'Huh, summer candy.' I asked her just now. What do you call this kind of candy? She asked me,'Big brother, where can I still buy ball-shaped mints now?'..."
"Lily of the valley?"
"Can it be someone else?" Jiang Biao sat up, leaned back against the fir tree trunk, and told me softly, "I don't know how it happened, I always remember that little girl. At that time, I didn't say anything. I wanted to pick her up, put her on the grass, or watch her eat candy. I didn’t expect that I remembered the little girl so firmly. The day I married Xiaoxia, I touched her body at night. I smell The smell of her body seems to be a bit agitated. For the first time I slept with an adult woman naked. I have been looking forward to it for a long time... To be honest, it was a bit regretful at the time. Xiaoxia smelled of dry grass, I Suddenly I remembered more clearly than ever before, that little girl, who exuded a scent of aquatic plants. I couldn’t wait to slap myself and remind myself, Jiang Biao, my mother, this is your bridal candle Yeah... Brother Gu, am I a bit abnormal?"
"it's common."
"Really?"
"Uh, my nose is also very good."
I have heard people say that men who are sensitive to smell are often lustful, but I think Jiang Biao is an exception, and there may be more exceptions. Nowadays, many boring people like to act as psychologists and find out all kinds of inexplicable connections between things. Of course, they sometimes say it, but most of them are absolutely nonsense. Perhaps the greatest ability of human beings is to refuse to be classified by others. Whoever wants to find a common pattern in a group of people is often slapped by the facts.
Jiang Biao said: "I went to Sand Bridge a few days ago and knew why lily of the valley went. It was the eight mounds entangled her. Someone took the eight mounds to the sand bridge to have fun, and the eight mounds decided that the lily of the valley must be Find her as his wife. Suzuran refused, and he was very surprised. He felt that a girl who did this kind of business refused her, and it was really shameless. He just came around every day. Suzuran had no choice but to run into the city. Come."
"Maybe, Ba Peng has the mood to follow Lei Feng's good deeds, and feel that he is saving this girl."
"Oh, isn't it?" Jiang Biao listened to my analysis, and after a moment of silence, he suddenly sighed, "It is easy to kill with a knife. What is his job when he reaches out to save others? Who can save whom in this world?"
That afternoon, after listening to what Jiang Biao said, I looked at the sky again. The light of the sky and the surrounding mountains were not the same as when I came. The clouds were heavy and the sun could not be seen, but the sunlight leaked from behind the clouds. Speckled, flocculent, silky, or even lumpy. A plump cloud shadow spread over the opposite slope. In the ears, the squeaking sound of wind screamed and stopped. All this makes people vaguely feel that something is coming. Xiaoxia and Diqing have been lying seven or eight feet apart, and after a while they woke up again and again in my eyes. They stretched their waists and smiled happily on their faces, as if they wanted people to know. I accidentally got a good dream when I slept on the grass.
I suddenly liked everything in front of me. This day's outing made me feel refreshed.
The provincial roads down the mountain are all paved with fried sand, and the sun is jumping on the blue-gray road. At first glance, the road is sparkling, like a river lying in summer.