This is an alley, an old alley that you can often find ten years ago, but now you can’t find it in K City. The mottled bungalows and uneven stone roads show that this alley has been around for many decades. The time, the taste of time and the taste of generations of people's survival slowly escape from every corner of the alley, enough to make every urbanite who is used to high-rise buildings and fast-paced life feel inexplicably, and then stand there blankly. At the alley, take a deep breath and sigh.
What are you lamenting? Maybe it's the childhood that has passed away, the childhood that was suddenly hit on the head by a piece of chalk, and then the head teacher angrily shouted "XX, stand behind the classroom for me".
On the concrete wall with pits and holes, there is a line written in chalk that I have read for more than ten years and plan to read for the rest of my life. Many of the words are replaced with pinyin: Ah Jun is a big asshole! —Xu Qianqian liu.
I vaguely remember that day I snatched half a steamed stuffed bun from a childhood sweetheart's lunch class, just because I was curious if the food the girl ate had a different taste, and then she was angry with herself all day long. Things that had been completely forgotten at this moment slowly emerged: this was one of countless silly things between me and a little girl who was suspected of having ADHD since childhood.
From the depths of the alley came a call that rang again and again in the evening many years ago, and still occasionally echoed in my ears: "Ah Jun! Go home for dinner!"
I looked into the depths of the alley blankly, and my memory was still jumping back and forth between the two pictures. On one side was the Temple of the Goddess of Life in the Starfield God Realm, and on the other side was the mottled alley that was so clear in my memory. Suddenly jumping from Starfield God Realm to this place more than ten years ago, he could only confirm that everything in front of him was abnormally real, so he pinched his face hard. It didn't hurt very much, maybe it was just an exquisite dream. But obviously he has fallen into it abnormally. In a short time, there may be no way to wake up.
But I don't feel nervous or uneasy, maybe... Well, I have already started to be careless more than ten years ago.
"Ajun, Ajun! You are in a daze again! Sister Chen Qian told you to go home for dinner!"
Suddenly there was a clear and sweet call from behind. Let me wake up from the brief trance, I turned my head in surprise. In front of her was a skinny little girl who was wearing a rustic autumn and winter primary school uniform, two loose braids, and her hair was already a little messy. The little girl's hair was a little withered and yellow. She looks messy because of crazy play, her face is red with cold because of the cold weather, and there are two shiny water stains under her nose. The little girl who is only ** years old now looks ugly from beginning to end, except that she is very energetic. There are almost no bright spots worthy of attention. Only those eyes have become radiant and energetic. I can vaguely see what a pair of smart and beautiful big eyes this will be in a few years. I looked at the loli version of Qianqian in front of me in a daze, and suddenly felt that I really had an early investment vision: how could this girl appear in more than ten years? It fell so beautifully
"Being in a daze for a while, the teacher has to ask you to stand at the back of the classroom!"
The little girl who was full of boyish demeanor from the beginning to the end pulled my arm and walked forward, then stopped as soon as she took a step, as if she suddenly remembered something, and then went crazy in her dirty schoolbag. turn.
She pulled out half of the bun and stuffed it in my hand: "Here! Don't you want to eat it!"
Then when I was still in a daze, she writhed again, and took out a small plastic bag from her schoolbag, which contained a large lump of leek eggs: "I was afraid that the stuffing would be spilled, so I picked it out and put it in a plastic bag, you Put it in a steamed bun and eat it in a while, I am smart—why are you in a daze again! Eat quickly, and go home to eat after eating!"
Me: "..." I vaguely remember that there was such a scene that day that year, I broke the package gorgeously and brought me half a bun. How did I do it at that time
I slowly bit the skin of the steamed stuffed bun, took a bite of the leek egg, and followed the little girl Pianzi forward in a daze, passing through the familiar old alleys, smelling the damp and cold old house smell, and the bouncing little girl The braids were jumping around in front of my eyes, I looked down at my body, I was wearing an elementary school uniform as rustic as Qianqian, my chest was blackened, the corners of my trousers were unstuck, and the cuffs were torn a small hole. It was badly sewn up—my sister's needlework was abysmal until she was fifteen.
In a dizzy state, I have been led by Qianqian to the home that is slowly turning yellow in my memory, with the familiar red brick walls, the waistline of the cement wall, and the motorcycle built by my adoptive father with cement at the door On the ramp, the painted single-leaf iron gate is pasted with layers of old blessings from previous years, and the old Spring Festival couplets on both sides have turned pale yellow, and the paste and mud will fall off when you touch it , the living adoptive parents were "big men" with a small name in this alley. They did business and started a company. In that era when it was easy to make a lot of money in business, I don't know how many pots of gold they made, but they still haven't They have left this alley where they have lived for twenty or thirty years. Standing in front of this old iron door that I had only seen for the last time more than ten years ago, I was a little at a loss, and it took me a long time to reach out and pat on the door. As a result, the little hairy girl next to her immediately started chirping: "Ah Jun, you are so stupid! You are still knocking on the door at home—Sister Chen Qian! Open the door! I am back! Ah Jun is so stupid eating buns!"
The iron door opened with a creak, and a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl with a childish face appeared in front of the door wearing a homemade apron. She first raised her hand and flicked me on the head with ease, and then greeted Qianqian to enter the door: "Today we are here. Eat here, right? Uncles and aunts told me, wash your hands first, and eat stewed pancakes at night—Ajun, what are you doing standing there, come in and wash your hands and eat, and you’re playing around on the road again!"
When I was dizzy, I was dragged to the dining table by the older loli version of my sister and the younger loli version of Qian Qian. In the main room, I saw the photos of my adoptive parents still hanging on the wall—this group photo is now gone It was placed in the shadow fortress and guarded by the royal guards day and night. Without them, perhaps there would be no current head of state. As usual, my sister put two sets of bowls and chopsticks on the side of the dining table, and then served the two little ones who were waiting to be fed. Then she mentioned that she planned to move in two years, and her parents bought a set far away from here. The house, the loli version of Qianqian was red-eyed at the time, and then I agreed with her at the dinner table that we would meet after we moved. We also agreed to eat candied haws together at the top of the Forbidden City on the night of the full moon ten years later, and we pulled the hook. swear. And take the risotto as a token—later my sister forced us to eat the token.
I seem to have completely returned to the state of more than ten years ago, although I always want to try to tell Qianqian that the two of them will not meet again on the top of the Forbidden City ten years later, but eat together on the top of the laboratory building every day. Vegetarian Fried Cakes for two yuan...
After eating, help to clean up the dishes, wash the dishes and clean the table. After finishing these tasks, my sister still has to do her own homework, while Qianqian was tricked into going to the back room to play by herself with a random gadget I found. I ran to the door and sat in a daze, watching the sunset at the end of the alley, everything was quiet. In the old alleys more than ten years ago, the cars coming and going in the same place ten years later could not be heard. I lowered my head and picked my fingernails, which were several sizes too small, and then walked forward along the alley, thinking that if this was an exquisite dream, why haven't I woke up yet
When I passed by a house closest to the street in the alley, my heart suddenly moved, and I turned around and knocked on a courtyard door I just passed by: "Fatty! Fatty! I'm here to play with you!"
really. After a full three or four minutes, there was still no answer!
I'm starting to think of something. I knocked down the alley from house to house, but there was no one, the alley was empty!
"I'll go, jump directly from the God Realm to Silent Hill..." I muttered to myself, but I didn't feel too intrusive. After all, things like haunting are really not a threat to someone like me, of course The most important thing is that I often see a ghost crawling around the wall at home, and I have long been used to it.
After walking around the alley and coming out, I began to analyze what was going on. After thinking hard for ten minutes, the result was that I almost cut off half of the wooden poles at the entrance of the alley, but I still couldn’t figure it out. At that time, a clear and rising voice of a girl with a somewhat delicate air suddenly came from behind: "Hello! How do I get to South Street?"
When I turned my head, I found behind me a little girl who looked about the same age as the loli version of Qianqian, with long hair and wearing a beautiful white dress. The headband with a net pocket, the other party's complicated doll-like skirt seemed out of place with the mottled old alleys around, and I remembered that there were no girls dressed like this in the alley where I lived—this area was several miles away. All the brats have already been practiced by Qianqian and me. A group of wild girls and wild boys who dare to roll on the ground in whatever clothes they wear, like this one dressed like a princess in front of me, may survive in this alley for more than 30 years. minute.
"Hey, don't be in a daze! How do you get to South Street?" The unknown girl stomped her feet, then stuck out her tongue as if suddenly remembering something, and smiled at me, "Ah, I forgot to say please— May I ask how to get to South Street? Then you can tell me, the old aunt said that you must understand etiquette."
"Well, South Street is far from here, but it's just a straight road," I realized now, and hurriedly pointed the direction to the other party, "It's just along this line of telephone poles, so you're lost?"
"Well, I got lost," the other party still had that kind of decent smile that was hardly seen among her peers. She smiled like a princess even though she was only eight years old. She said that she was lost, but she was not at all He didn't seem worried, and his nerves were probably stronger than mine. "I wanted to get rid of them, but I got rid of myself. Just find South Street. Now they should be looking for me along that road."
"Oh," I nodded, "Then you go over quickly."
"Wait a minute, the old aunt said that you should repay someone for your help, which is also etiquette—" The little girl began to rummage around, and then magically found a beautiful small bag from under the pile of complicated folds of clothes. I found a lot of messy things and put them in front of me, including chocolate beans, small glass balls, pen heads and erasers, and commemorative stamps with blue sea and blue sky. I was thinking about how this loli put everything together When putting it down, the other party stuffed the colorful postage stamp over, "Here is this for you! You can write letters to me in the future, and you need stamps to write letters!"
But this is the first time I've heard of commemorative stamps!
"Hey," I rummaged through my body, but only took out a crooked piece of wood from my school uniform pocket. I vaguely remembered that I carved it secretly when I was in class. The raw material was the teacher's desk. , "This is for you. The Zhu Bajie I engraved...but there is only a rake, uh. There is only a handle of the rake. Take it as Monkey King."
"Hee hee, it's so ugly," the little girl smiled and took the crooked rake or golden cudgel I carved, "but it's pretty amazing. Thank you for the... uh, wood!"
Finish this sentence. The other party laughed all the way, bouncing and running away.
I was stunned for a moment, and didn't come back to my senses until the other party disappeared behind the last electric pole. Then continue to study what is the situation now.
Then. The sky suddenly darkened.
It wasn’t because the sun was setting that the sky was dark. In fact, the sun was still lazily hanging a little above the horizon, but the sky was darkening rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye. I looked around in surprise and found that everything in my sight was gradually changing. Covered in shadow, it's as if the effect of "light" in nature has suddenly been counteracted by something. It also seems that many invisible and intangible things are blocking the sun, and the spreading shadow spreads so quickly. So much so that in less than a minute, I felt as if I had entered midnight, and then, an extremely strong sense of depression and the feeling of approaching danger surged up, and I almost subconsciously used the void form to forcibly escape from this situation. It was a weird "dream", but that feeling was gone in a flash, the shadows in the field of vision gradually receded, the setting sun re-plated the building with a layer of gold, and as the last shadow left, a voice was also in my mind Intermittent flashes: "...confirmed...received...if...answered...from..."
In a trance, the loli version of Qianqian ran out of the house crying loudly, yelling that she was taken aback when it was suddenly dark just now, her sister was standing at the door with a volume of workbooks blankly looking at the sky, no one was around The lights in the house were turned on one after another. I reached out my hand to catch Qianqian who was about to fall, but I felt a strong green light sweeping towards my eyes.
The various noises came from far away, and I felt as if I had passed through a twisted tunnel. When I opened my eyes again from the momentary dizziness, I saw a garden full of life and fragrance.
Behind him is a wall of white boulders covered with overgrown vines.
This is the Starfield God Realm, a garden planted by the Supreme Goddess of Life.
I came out of a large group of fragrant and pleasant divine vines in a daze, and almost tripped three times in the middle. I have to say that the goddess of life has done a great job of greening her home. I have never seen a flower It was planted to the point where I didn’t even have to walk on the ground. Of course, considering that the group of three-inch men could fly, I felt relieved. After entering the scope of the temple, I felt the clanging breath. Not far in front, I turned a vine I saw the little guy on the woven curtain. She was standing opposite the Supreme Goddess of Life Gaga. Both of them had serious expressions. There was a Go board made of plastic cloth in the middle. Ding Dong, who is wearing green and red dresses, is standing on the chessboard. Just now, a three-inch man in a red dress is throwing a little guy in a green skirt out of the chessboard. Ding Dong is full of pride He pointed at the chessboard: "Lulu! Get out of the car, right in front!"
The little Douding in green named Lulu held a small flag of "car" in his hand, screamed and rushed towards the red Douding on the opposite side. The two little ones were torn apart on the chessboard for a while. The "cannon" that should be eaten by oneself is thrown out of the chessboard.
I:"… "
It feels like something is wrong.
"Wow, Sister Goddess! This is wrong! Lulu should throw Paqiqi out!"
The Supreme Goddess of Life smiled slightly, her face full of cunning: "Huh, there is no one who does not resist when he sees the enemy rushing towards him on the battlefield. The rule you mentioned is not magical in the first place—two chess pieces should meet, and whoever is stronger will stay!"
After saying this sentence, the Supreme Goddess of Life pointed at the chessboard: "Paqiqi! Cannonball, general!"
The three-inch Ding holding a small flag with the word "Pao" immediately ran forward happily, intending to turn over the back of the green-clothed Douding in front of him. According to the rules, he stumbled each other in a hurry, and then the two little ones rolled to the ground together, laughing together.
I:"… "
Gaga: "..."
Ding Dong: "On the battlefield! On the battlefield! You can't use it as a springboard for the enemy!"
The beanies on the chessboard finally became completely confused. They threw the small flags in their hands and started laughing and huddled together. Dangling in mid-air: "It should have been like this a long time ago! The rules just now are really unrealistic at all!"
Ding Dong happily turned somersaults in the air: "That's right, it's not scientific, it's not magic! But Ding Dong said very interestingly when he saw Ah Jun playing this..."
"How did he play?"
"Stack up the chess pieces and build a castle."
I immediately felt ashamed, couldn't hold it any longer, and took the initiative to come out and wave to a group of wild jingles, a domesticated jingle and a super jingle: "Yo, everyone is playing?"
My family's Ding Dong immediately rushed over happily: "Ah Jun is here! Ah Jun and Father God are done talking? Ah Jun is here to teach the goddess sister how to play chess, build a castle with chess pieces!"
I continue to be ashamed, and I will never do this kind of fourth grade thing in the future! Especially not in front of Ding Dong's face.
The Supreme Goddess of Life took a look at me, she was obviously the same three-inch ding who was only one grain taller than Ding Dong, but she nodded with a mysterious look on her face: "Ha, it seems that you just went for a walk say!"
I was stunned for a moment.