Lin Wenxi stretched out and kicked off the quilt. A gust of cold wind penetrated his neck. He sank down again, buried himself in the quilt, and touched his side. Zhao Yuan was gone.
Suddenly, Lin Wenxi felt itchy in her neck again, and then she realized that both sides of her neck were covered with cotton fabrics of all sizes, including scarves, sweaters, and blankets. They were tightly blocked, so that no matter how much she moved at night, her shoulders would still be covered. It won't freeze anywhere. Lin Wenxi smiled a little sweetly, and couldn't help but roll around in the quilt. She felt that the warmth on her feet was very heavy. When she got out and looked, it turned out that her feet were also covered with large and small blankets and coats. Some of them were already covered with blankets. He was kicked to the ground by himself.
Lin Wenxi was embarrassed to go back to sleep, so she got dressed in bed, closed her eyes and made up her mind for a long time before getting up. I made the bed again, folded the quilt into square tofu pieces like military training, and folded the blankets, sweaters, etc. one by one.
Because she slept very well at night, Lin Wenxi was very energetic. She walked out of the room and walked into the living room. She saw a rice cooker on the table, but no one was there. After wandering around for a long time, Lin Wenxi saw a shop opened at the back door of the house. Zhao Yuan was selling firecrackers. Apparently there were many customers and he was a little busy at the moment.
"It's like you haven't had a good night's sleep in ten years. When I woke up in the morning, I couldn't help but test whether you were breathing," Zhao Yuan joked back while greeting the guests.
"I hope you didn't try it with your mouth." Lin Wenxi pretended to have a serious face. Zhao Yuan couldn't help but snort as he thought of that slap during training.
Zhao Yuan opened the packaging bag very quickly, blew on it to expand it, put the firecrackers inside, asked the customer why he bought the firecrackers, and pasted a pair of big red double happiness characters on the front and back of the packaging bag, saying that four happy events were coming. The first happiness is that the new year has passed, the second happiness is the new marriage, the third happiness is the harvest year, and the fourth happiness is the birth of children and grandchildren.
The customer smiled from ear to ear, hugged the firecracker, paid and left with satisfaction.
Lin Wenxi's neck and eyes were straightened when he heard this, and his jaw almost dropped.
When he was no longer busy, Zhao Yuan pushed Lin Wenxi to the table in the posture of escorting a prisoner, opened the rice cooker, and inside was boiling hot sweet potato porridge. When Lin Wenxi saw the orange-yellow sweet potatoes, he was so greedy that he couldn't help it. After Zhao Yuan helped him put them in the bowl, he picked up a spoon and was about to stuff it into his mouth, but his head was hit by Zhao Yuan again.
Zhao Yuan said angrily: "Slow down, it's very hot."
"Have you been bullying me since you moved into your house?" Lin Wenxi raised his head with dissatisfaction and looked at Zhao Yuan angrily.
Lin Wenxi had never seen this expression before. Zhao Yuan felt happy and quickly stretched out his index finger and thumb to pinch Lin Wenxi's bulging mouth. There was only a "biu" sound, like a piece of cloth being torn, and a stream of soup was squeezed out of Lin Wenxi's mouth and spread all over the table.
Lin Wenxi got excited and stood up to fight Zhao Yuan. Then he heard a clang and the ceramic bowl fell to the ground. It shattered into pieces and there was porridge all over the floor. Lin Wenxi frowned, feeling sorry for the bowl of porridge. She was also worried that this was the first time she came to Zhao Yuan's house, and she could not help but feel a little annoyed. Zhao Yuan quickly found a dustpan and broom, swept it all in, and prepared to pour it into the garbage bag in the corner.
"Wait." Lin Wenxi shouted, found a newspaper from the low cabinet, found the broken porcelain piece by piece, put it in, and asked Zhao Yuan for transparent glue, sealed it carefully, thought about it, and I put a note on it that said "Beware of glass shards" before putting it in the garbage bag.
Zhao Yuan was a little confused.
"To prevent them from cutting their hands when picking up garbage." Lin Wenxi explained.
Zhao Yuan was moved in his heart, nodded and said, "Your mother is so kind."
Lin Wenxi put his hands on his hips and said: "I admit that your conclusion is correct, but at this time, shouldn't you say that I am kind?"
Zhao Yuan smiled: "Like mother, like son."
Lin Wenxi sighed, found another bowl, scooped out the porridge, and ate it while hiding away from Zhao Yuan.
Zhao Yuan looked at Lin Wenxi, who was no longer alone with the school, and went to help with business with peace of mind, then came back to clean up the dishes after a while.
After being busy all day, until about seven or eight o'clock in the evening, Lin Wenxi helped Zhao Yuan take back the firecrackers and asked, "Why are you always the only one in your house?"
"The men are doing business outside, and the women have gone somewhere." Zhao Yuan said casually.
"Did you buy all these firecrackers in the past few days since you came back?" Lin Wenxi couldn't help but marveled.
"Yes, there is a fixed restocking point at the beginning of each year, and there are also dedicated transportation personnel. If you can't sell it, you can return it. In fact, it is just a network of contacts accumulated over the years, helping each other and doing physical work." Zhao Yuan said.
Lin Wenxi listened to him talking relaxedly, but in his mind he was thinking about how much money it would cost to purchase goods, what kind of vehicle would be needed for transportation, how to pass through inspections, how to ensure the safety of firecrackers, how to explain the use of firecrackers to customers, how to store them in the house, etc. , to name a few, compared to herself, Lin Wenxi looked at Zhao Yuan's shoulders and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
"You feel sorry for me, don't you?" Zhao Yuan said with a smile.
"Who cares about you? I feel sorry for these unsold firecrackers." Lin Wenxi said to herself, pushing open the front door of the house, a gust of cool wind blew, and there was already a world of ice and snow outside.
Lin Wenxi breathed in the air-conditioner, rubbed his hands, and stared blankly at the flat snow. The ruts of a bicycle extended to the alley in the corner of the yard. Several children were building snowmen in the other corner of the alley. They had already piled up many snowmen, but Each one seemed to have no eyes, and only had two eye sockets dug into them with their hands.
At this time, if there are a few
Marbles. . . Lin Wenxi suddenly became naughty.
Zhao Yuan didn't expect that Lin Wenxi was almost eighteen years old and still such a naughty boy, so he had no choice but to look for glass marbles for this kid. No boy who grew up in the countryside has a collection of glass marbles. As he grows older, he gradually collects the glass marbles into the dusty youthful mind and seals them in some old boxes. Zhao Yuan returned to the room and saw the very well folded quilt. He nodded with satisfaction and praised Lin Wenxi for being such a good housekeeper. Lin Wenxi pinched his arm hard. He squatted down contentedly and managed to find it from the bottom of an old desk. A rusty iron box. Open it, and it's filled with glass marbles of various colors, red, green, white, and blue. The moment Zhao Yuan opened the box, Lin Wenxi was a little stunned. This scene seemed familiar to him.
Occasionally, while walking on the road, I see someone, do something, say something, but it seems like they have been there before. But there has never been such an immersive dream as today. As a person who has woken up from the dream, I can see everything in the dream vividly and know that I have experienced it. However, after waking up from the dream, I still feel that I am in a dream. I still can't figure out when and where those things happened.
"Why are you so stunned?" Zhao Yuan pushed Lin Wenxi, grabbed a handful of marbles, and asked, "Is it enough? Don't lose all to the kids outside."
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"Isn't there any black one?" Lin Wenxi asked.
Zhao Yuan poured the marbles into the quilt and spread them out. Lin Wenxi couldn't help but feel sorry for the fruits of his morning's labor.
There were hundreds of marbles, covering almost all colors, but there was no black one. Lin Wenxi was slightly disappointed, and with a sigh, Zhao Yuan ran out the door.
Lin Wenxi didn't stop him. He only saw a line of footprints in the snow, extending straight to the alley not far away. Beyond the alley, there was another street.
After waiting and waiting, Zhao Yuan did not come back. Lin Wenxi couldn't help but leave the door ajar and ran out to take a look.
Along the way, I answered calls from Hongxuan and my mother respectively. It was easy to deal with it, but I found that I walked deeper and deeper without knowing it, and I didn’t know how many turns I made. When I looked back at the way I came, I felt that the fork in the road looked like I was walking by, and my eyes suddenly darkened. I was actually in my hometown. I got lost. My first reaction was to call Zhao Yuan. I remembered Zhao Yuan's evil smile, and I couldn't get angry. I gritted my teeth and hurriedly searched. Accidentally, he almost bumped into someone. When he saw it, it was Zhao Yuan who was full of doubts.
Lin Wenxi shrugged, looking relaxed, and Zhao Yuan grinned: "You must have lost your way."
"Whoever is lost is the one who is lost," Lin Wenxi said bravely.
"Oh, yes, I'm lost. Then you can help me find my way back." Zhao Yuan couldn't hide the smile on his face.
"You" Lin Wenxi was a little angry, stomped her feet and lowered her head. She saw Zhao Yuan's shoes, then looked at the snow, raised her head to follow the footsteps, walked ahead, and after a while, she actually found Zhao Yuan's yard.
"You are so smart, but sometimes you are so stupid that your IQ has no lower limit." Zhao Yuan couldn't help sighing, squatting next to the child who was still building a snowman, smiling and inlaying black glass marbles into the snowman's eyes, like the finishing touch. Similarly, the snowman has black eyes, and his body looks even more crystal white. Under the moonlight, he seems to have a look of energy.
Several children clapped their hands and laughed happily, and begged Zhao Yuan to fill in the snowman's eyes one by one. Zhao Yuan finished the snowman and distributed the remaining beads to each child.
Lin Wenxi looked at the children who were chattering and noisy around him and Zhao Yuan. When he saw the sweat on Zhao Yuan's neck, his nose couldn't help but feel a little sour. He must have run all the way to buy marbles, and he specifically wanted black ones. He disappeared for more than half an hour. How many streets did he have to run
The two squatted together and built several more snowmen with the children. Lin Wenxi wrote the word "Yuan" on the back of one snowman, and carved the word "Xi" on the back of one snowman. The two snowmen stood side by side, the moonlight was like practice, and the snowy night was like silver. , Lin Wenxi looked slightly lost in the dazzling pure fluorescent light.
"Why do I think the one on the left is much more handsome?" Zhao Yuan put his arm around Lin Wenxi's shoulders.
"I think so too." Lin Wenxi relaxed all over and leaned his neck slightly on Zhao Yuan's arm. He felt indescribably relaxed and comfortable, as if he had returned to the yard of his childhood, where he had the happiest time.
The two stood for a while, and then they saw one of the little girls covering her lower body with a red oil paper bag with the snowman engraved with the word "brook", and turned it into a small skirt. She also found two small strips of cloth and tied them into a pair of bows. Tiantian smiled: "This is my wife." Lin Wenxi's face suddenly turned red with embarrassment, she hit Zhao Yuan hard and ran back to the house.
"Is it my fault? You made a snowman by yourself as if it were a painting, and you made the other one look so thin..." Zhao Yuan yelled and chased after him, and saw Lin Wenxi standing thoughtfully under the lantern.
When I came last night, the lantern was like daylight, and it was a red and warm place. I accidentally saw that the lantern was still on during the day. It must have been on for a full twenty hours.
"Don't you want to waste electricity? Why don't you turn it off?" Lin Wenxi said, looking around for the switch.
"The lantern has no switch." Zhao Yuan said slowly.
"Why"
"Yeah...it's always on."
"Oh..." Lin Wenxi seemed to believe Zhao Yuan easily, and asked again: "Where's aunt, why didn't I see you?"
Zhao Yuan felt a sharp pain in his heart. Was this a coincidence or intentional? Lin Wenxi easily connected two closely related things, and that was the pain of Zhao Yuan's life.