PS: Three chapters in one

In the evening, the autumn rain began to fall.

Pedestrians were hurrying on the streets, and vehicles were whizzing away.

At seven or eight o'clock, the light rain turned into a heavy rain. The rain swept through the world, and the temperature plummeted, wet and cold.

Because of the weather, at 8 o'clock in the evening, the "Yiyuan Qingcai" restaurant has no business.

Because there were basically no guests in the hotel, Xiang Xiaoyuan was no longer worried that Master Dou Dou would be surrounded, so he released them.

At this moment, the little sister is wandering around the restaurant, catching piglets everywhere.

In the restaurant, there are 7 little flower pigs running.

These little pigs were let go, drilled around in the restaurant, purring and arching tables, arching chairs, arching floors, arching walls, and playing, after all, it is rare to be able to clock in and out of work in advance like today, although they are not people, but they also have to relax.

Suddenly, the door of the hotel was pushed open, a gust of cold wind blew in, Dou Dou, who was near the door, couldn't help but shiver, and cleverly ran behind the door, looking at the person, hey, I know, it is the old man who sings.

"Grandpa, grandpa~~~" She ran over happily, stood in front of others, raised her little head and shouted, she hadn't seen her for a long time, she still missed these two. She especially likes to listen to them sing, which is just as fun and good as her elephant brother's singing.

The person who came was the master and apprentice who sang the lotus fall. The apprentice supports the blind master in sunglasses.

The master had just blocked a little pig with black hair, and was hugging it in his arms, when he saw an acquaintance coming, he left the little pig, and also ran over, standing beside Dou Dou, and greeted the master and apprentice.

The old man smiled and touched the little heads of the two of them and said, "I have grown taller, I have grown up, and I have spoken clearly, what two good babies." ”

Dou Dou said proudly: "Isn't it?!"

The teacher asked intimately, "Grandpa, do you want to eat?" I'll call Dad to cook. ”

She ran to the back kitchen and asked Li Chao to cook for her grandfather.

Dou Dou watched his sister run away, took the old man's blind cane, led them to an empty seat and sat down, and asked stupidly: "Have you eaten? Have you eaten? You wait, my father will cook for you soon, don't worry, you know?"

"No hurry, no hurry. The old man said.

Dou Dou asked uneasily, "Are you hungry?"

Old man: "Not hungry, not hungry." ”

Dou Dou asked enthusiastically: "Don't be polite to Sister Rabbit." ”

Later, I have to listen to other people's singing, so I have to feed first.

She took out two candies from her pocket, gave one to the old man and another to the middle-aged apprentice, and said, "Eat, Sensei is polite to me." ”

The middle-aged apprentice looked at the pink sugar-coated candy on the table amusedly, embarrassed to eat it. It's a snack that kids hide for the winter.

The blind old man didn't have this scruples, picked up the candy, touched it, and asked with a smile, "Did you spend money to buy it?"

Dou Dou took out a candy from his pocket again, peeled off the pink sugar coating, stuffed it into his mouth to eat, and said vaguely: "Someone else sent the young lady, hehe~ You eat duck." ”

The old man didn't eat. He can't eat, his teeth can't. However, Dou Dou was very enthusiastic, so he put it in his personal pocket.

He suddenly coughed violently and covered his mouth. His apprentice tapped him on the shoulder.

Dou Dou looked worriedly, forgot to chew the candy in his mouth, and after a while, jumped out of the chair, ran away, and soon came back, with a waiter.

"They, my grandfathers, pour them tea. ”

Dou Dou pointed to the master and apprentice who sang the lotus fall, and asked the waiter who came with him to pour tea for them.

The waiter poured a cup of hot tea for each of them and placed the teapot on the table.

Dou Dou climbed into the chair and sat down again in front of the master and apprentice, and said to the waiter, "Sister, go play." ”

The waiter smiled at her, said that if there was something to call her, she was nearby, and left.

The blind old man finally stopped coughing, and Dou Dou asked with concern: "Grandpa, are you sick with a cold?" It's so cold, my mother said that winter is coming, and you have to wrap yourself up so that you don't get sick." ”

The old man said with a haggard face, "Grandpa forgot to wrap himself up, and he fell ill." ”

Dou Dou said: "You are so pitiful, you are going to have an injection, so as to scare the duck." ”

The old man chatted with her, infected by the innocent words she kept coming out, and the smile crept up on his face again.

Li Chao came, and the master trotted behind him.

"The two masters are here. Li Chao greeted. He had always had a lot of respect for these two men.

"I'm going to bother again. The old man said.

"Don't bother. What do you want to eat today?" Li Chao asked.

The old man said, "Let's still have noodles, egg noodles with green onions." ”

"Okay, you guys wait a minute. Li Chao said.

Turning around to tell the kitchen to make it, the old man called out to him, saying that he was not used to eating the scallion egg noodles made by the chef in the store, and asked if Li Chao could cook two bowls himself.

Li Chao was stunned for a moment, then happily agreed, came to the kitchen, tied an apron, washed his hands, cut green onions first, kneaded noodles again, and was skillfully busy.

The chef in the store stood aside and watched, wanting to take a hand, but Li Chao didn't let him in.

Soon, half a pot of scallion egg noodles was ready, Li Chao brought two large porcelain bowls, filled them, put two pairs of pine chopsticks, put them in the end plate, brought them out, put them on the dining table, and let the two people who sang the lotus fall eat slowly, a little hot.

The old man sniffed it and said it was what it smelled like. To be honest, Li Chao, who made noodles, didn't know what it tasted like, but he didn't think that people were lying, after all, sometimes he didn't know the situation when he was in the game.

......

In the evening, Li Xiang drove to the Little Pig Hotel, and unexpectedly saw these two people singing the lotus flower, and walked over to see that they were the original two.

It turned out that when "Yiyuan Qingcai" was still a small restaurant, the pair of people who sang Lotus Fall often came to the store to eat, but now, after the opening of the new store, they came relatively rarely, and Li Xiang could only meet once or twice occasionally.

Two people singing Lotus Fall sat by the window, the older man sat on a chair eating noodles, and his middle-aged apprentice stood on the edge of the table, holding a bamboo board in his hand, and sang while beating:

Quack to the ground

Parents hold the treasure

The baby is swaddled

Day and night

......

Master Dou Dou held hands and stood at the feet of this person, holding his little head high, staring at the person who sang the lotus falling, listening attentively.

While eating noodles, the old man who ate noodles raised his head from time to time, glanced at Master Dou Dou's side, smiled, and showed a mouthful of yellow teeth, and many yellow teeth fell out, like an earthen house in disrepair.

He was blind and wore sunglasses, and although he couldn't see, he could sense the location of Master Dou through his sound.

The little sisters of Master Dou Dou are also rare, and they like to listen to these two people sing about the lotus flower since they were children. When they were 2 years old, they met this pair of singers for the first time in the "Yiyuan Qingcai" restaurant, and they listened to the old man sing a part, giggling, and being very happy. After that, whenever they met this old man, the little sisters would take the initiative to run to them, watching with their eyes open, waiting for someone to sing for them.

Perhaps because of this, Xiang Xiaoyuan and Li Chao welcomed the pair of people who sang the lotus flower to the store, although they ate white food all year round.

For a long time, Li Xiang hated these two people very much, thinking that they ate white food, and seeing that Li Chao was kind in his heart and didn't want their money, he came every now and then.

Later, he and Li Chao were hospitalized in a car accident, and the couple, who sang and begged for a living, unexpectedly came to the hospital to visit and gave a sum of money, saying that it was the money for meals before.

Since then, Lee wants to change his opinion of them.

"Pigeon pigeon~~~" When the teacher saw Li Xiang, he happily ran over and pointed out the singing to him.

Dou Dou stood still in place, pulled the baby fat, and anxiously said to the middle-aged man who was singing, let him continue to sing the duck, don't stop the duck, the baby is listening to it energetically.

When the middle-aged man saw Li Xiang, he subconsciously stopped. He knew that Li Xiang had never been waiting to see them. Although there have been great changes since last year, he still remembers how Li Xiang, who is still in high school, dislikes them. Therefore, when he saw Li Xiang coming over, he subconsciously stopped singing, and wanted to see Li Xiang's reaction first, he didn't like him singing to his little sister before.

Li Xiang took the master by the hand, came to the table, looked at them, and said with a smile, "Come on, I'll listen too." ”

After speaking, he sat down, and the master also sat on the chair, only Dou Dou was still standing and listening.

When the middle-aged man heard this, he was relieved to see that Li Xiang was extraordinarily kind. He is not like his master. His master can't see clearly anyway, so he doesn't care about other people's faces. He couldn't do that.

He said yes loudly happily, shook his hands, made a crisp sound of the bamboo board, and then continued to sing with great energy.

Babbling and staggering

Joy is also worry

Bow down and hold hands

One step at a time

......

The three children of Xiao Li's family listened to it with relish and listened to all the plays.

"One more~~" Dou Dou said unsatisfactorily, skillfully took out 5 yuan from his pocket and put it on the dining table, have money, sing!

Li Xiang saw that there was a bowl of noodles on the table that had not moved the chopsticks, which should have been eaten by people before they had time, so he said to this little rabbit sister who was fascinated by the play: "Dou Dou, let the family take a rest, I'm so tired, I haven't eaten yet." ”

Dou Dou looked at Li Xiang, then at the middle-aged man, said okay, and quickly took back the 5 yuan on the table and put it in his pocket.

No one's money is blown by the wind, since the transaction is not done, the money cannot be given in vain, and it must be recovered.

Li Xiang said to the middle-aged man who was singing: "It's important to fill your stomach first." ”

The middle-aged man put away the allegro, sat down, said a good word, buried his head in eating noodles, and seemed to be really hungry.

Dou Dou looked at it, couldn't help swallowing his saliva, and suddenly felt stared at, and looked sideways, it was the teacher!

Xiao Budian stared at her with burning eyes.

Well, the teacher must have seen the way the young lady swallowed saliva, Dou Dou hummed and chirped, ran away with a smoke, went to find her father, and asked for food! She didn't eat anything else today, she just wanted to eat noodles! Eat noodles like her uncle who sang opera.

Li Xiang was about to leave with his teacher, when the old man in sunglasses, who had been sitting still, said, "Do you still want to listen? ”

The teacher looked at Li Xiang, looked at the other party, kicked the little foot hanging on the edge of the chair twice, and whispered: "I really want to hear it, but I don't have any money, the teacher is a poor baby." ”

The old man showed a mouthful of yellow teeth, and said with a smile: "You don't charge money for singing to children, just let the children be happy." ”

The teacher was surprised: "O~"

She had just seen her sister pull out 5 yuan. Dou Dou is such a stingy child, he has to pay money, is it really not charged?

The old man's eyes can't see, he is sensitive to sound, and he is able to capture the emotions in the sound. He heard the teacher's hesitation and disbelief, so he said: "It's really not a charge, which play do you want to hear?"

The blind old man said: "I will have more, there are "Pearl Tower", "He Wenxiu", "Blood and Tears", "Back to My Mother's Home", "Troublesome Mountain", "Heavenly Child", "You Long", "Burning Baihuatai", "Gu Dingchen", "Pearl Tower", "Houyou An", "Jade Chain", "Contract Paper", "Three Drops of Blood", "Double Mandarin Duck", "Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance", "Wang Hua Buys Father", ...... There is also "Song of Filial Mother". ”

The teachers were all stunned, and the crows at one end quacked around: "The poor baby can listen to anything, the pigeon is pointed." ”

Li Xiang asked: "Is what you sang just now "Song of Filial Mother"?"

It was sung by a middle-aged apprentice just now, and it fell to the ...... Li Xiang remembered that the day before the college entrance examination, he heard this song in a green vegetable restaurant, but he didn't listen to it all, and he just listened to it completely.

The blind old man said: "That is "Song of Filial Mother", the mother in the world is the most pitiful, the most respectable, and the most lovely. ”

Li Xiang was suddenly touched in his heart, and he couldn't explain the feeling that he was destined for this song today, so he said: "Then why don't you sing "Song of Filial Mother" again, what does the teacher think?"

The teacher nodded and said, "The master is a poor baby, a good baby who listens to pigeons." ”

There are two meanings, one is that she has no money, and you have to pay for the pigeon, and the other is that she listens to her brother and loves her brother.

The blind old man said: "Okay, then come to this "Song of Filial Mother", my apprentice sang it once just now, and I changed to another version, which is basically the same, a little different." ”

When the teacher heard this, he said with concern: "Grandpa, don't be tired, you take your time." ”

You can't give material rewards, you can only give spiritual encouragement.

The old man smiled and said, "Grandpa is not tired at all, he has just eaten enough, and now he is full of energy." ”

After saying that, he trembled to stand up.

Li Xiang was startled, and hurriedly got up to help, but the apprentice who was originally sitting next to the old man and eating noodles had already taken the first step.

The teacher also jumped down from the chair and ran to the old man's feet, trying to help him, and reacted faster than the little rabbit sister.

Li Xiang was surprised and asked, "What are you?"

He remembered that although this old man looked dressed in tatters, he had always been in good health, and he often walked outside to beg for a living, and his leg strength was very good.

The old man smiled and said, "It's okay, it's just that people are old." ”

After speaking, he seemed to sense that the master was at his feet, and touched her little head accurately, rubbing it, and the smile on her face was even happier, and the folds on her face were like paper that had been soaked in water for a long time.

His apprentice said to Li Xiang: "When it was raining in the autumn a while ago, the master accidentally fell. ”

Li Xiang said, "Did you go to the hospital to see it?"

His apprentice was about to say, but the old man interrupted: "I've seen it, the old man's physical recovery ability is not good, so he can only take his time." ”

Many elderly people fall and break their bones, and it is often difficult to get better. In view of his poor health, Li Xiang said: "Forget it, don't sing." ”

The old man took the allegro from his apprentice's hand and said, "Sing it once." ”

With Allegro in his hand, he seemed to be instantly refreshed, his body straightened, his bent waist straightened, and the whole person changed from body to spirit, and he was much taller.

His voice is vicissitudes, just like him, weathered.

Quack into the world

Daddy's heart is sweet

......

It was similar but different from what his apprentice sang, the words were not the same, and the songs were not quite the same.

Li Xiang beckoned to the teacher, beckoned Xiao Budian to his side, and listened to the play together.

Dou Dou held a small flower bowl in both hands, half a bowl of noodles was in the bowl, he walked happily with a duck step, put his nose to the edge of the bowl and smelled it, intoxicated, smiled, swayed and walked, walked to the door, saw the restart of singing, stunned, I don't know who gave the money, and immediately thought, ha, rich Li Elephant!

She hurriedly trotted in, found a chair next to the teacher, first put the small flower bowl on the chair, climbed up by herself, picked up the bowl, sat down, stared at the old man with burning eyes to watch the play, occasionally ringed and held a bowl of noodles in her hand, took the time to pick out two with chopsticks, sucked it in her mouth, sucked it ~ sucked it into her mouth and ate it.

Before he finished singing, the old man coughed violently, bent over and coughed for a while, and insisted on singing the song "Song of Filial Mother".

As if he had exhausted all his strength, he sat down panting, took the tea served by his apprentice, took two sips, exhaled deeply, sighed and said, "I can't sing anymore." ”

Li Xiang said, "You should go to the hospital to see it." ”

The blind old man said to himself: "When I was 15 years old, I sang the Lotus Fall with my master for the first time, and the first song I learned at that time was "Song of Filial Mother". There will be different versions in each place, and I've been walking for so many years, and I've collected a total of 12 different versions, but unfortunately, I can't sing them all to you today. ”

Li Xiang couldn't understand why he thought of singing it all to himself, and said: "The coming day is long, and there will be opportunities in the future." ”

The old man raised his face, looked at the direction where Li Xiang was, and said, "I hope there is still a chance, by the way, your name is Li Xiang, right?"

Dou Dou held the small flower bowl and said, "His name is Li Elephant." ”

The old man smiled: "That's his nickname, his real name is Li Xiang." ”

Dou Dou still had to quibble, but Li Xiang pressed a hand on his head, and immediately stopped saying more, sucked noodles and ate them, and pinched out one to tempt the master and tease her.

Li Xiang said to the old man, "My name is Li Xiang." ”

The old man said, "I think I've heard this name somewhere." ”

Li Xiang thought to himself, my name may appear on radio and television, and there are many people with the same name.

The old man said, "It's strange to say, but I always feel that we are old friends, the kind that we are very familiar with, and I felt this way when I first came to eat at your restaurant, or rather, it was this feeling that brought me here." ”

Li Xiang first thought he was joking, but seeing that he looked very serious and was not a person who liked to joke, he immediately thought of his dream.

The old man got up, picked up his cane against the wall, and said he was going home.

Li wanted to send them out, but saw the heavy rain pouring outside the house: "How do you go back?"

The old man's apprentice picked up a big black umbrella and said, "We have brought an umbrella." ”

Such a heavy rain, still windy, there is almost no difference between having an umbrella and not having an umbrella, the old man is not in good health, walking tremblingly, Li Xiang said: "I'll drive you home, wait for me here, I'll drive." ”

He drove out of the parking lot and picked up the two of them. Master Dou also went along and sat in the child safety chair.

The place where these two people live is about 20 minutes by car from Yiyuan Qingcai Hotel, and it is really difficult for these two people to walk here tonight.

The water on the road is getting deeper, and there is a slight traffic jam. The car drove on the city street, and the neon lights fell all the way in the car, flashing.

Dou Dou took the initiative to propose to sing a song to everyone, which won the applause of the master and apprentice. The teacher also had the courage to come up with a song "I'm Not Snoring", and also told a story called "Talking Starling".

With these two little little points to drive the atmosphere, time flies quickly, and it feels like I will be home soon.

This is an urban village. Compared to the surrounding high-rise buildings, this place is like a homeless man who has been drenched in soup by this heavy rain, and the swarthy entrance seems to be able to swallow people inside.

Li wanted Master Dou to sit in the car and not come out. He held up his umbrella and sent the master and apprentice away.

Master Dou waved goodbye to the two of them vigorously.

Li Xiang thought that he would arrive home soon, but he didn't expect to walk in the alley of the urban village for nearly ten minutes before sending the two into a low, damp small bungalow.

His apprentice said, "I'm sorry for you, come in and sit down, it's pretty clean inside." ”

Li Xiang said, "No, my sister is still waiting in the car." ”

He thought about it, so he didn't force it anymore. The old man asked Li to come again next time, when the weather is good, basking in the sun, he will be in good spirits, and he can sing a few more lotus songs.

Li Xiang smiled and said yes. The two made an agreement that as soon as the rain stopped and the sun came out, he would come to listen to them sing the lotus falling.

"It's been so long, and I still don't know your name?" asked Li Xiang before leaving.

"And your own family, also surnamed Li, is the eighth in the family, so the common name is Brother Li. ”

Li Xiang said: "Then your house is really lively." ”

The old man said, "It's not lively. I was ranked eighth, but when I was younger, I was the oldest in the family, and the seven older brothers and sisters in front of me all died. I only have one sister. ”

Li Xiang didn't know how to answer for a while. He returned to the car and left with Master Dou Dou.

For the next two days, the rain did not stop, and the whole Shengjing City was wet, wet and cold. On the third day, the weather finally cleared up and the sun came out. On this morning, as soon as the bell rang for the end of class at Forestry University, Li Xiang's mobile phone also rang, it was Li Chaolai's call, and the blind starling who rapped the lotus flower had passed away.

Li Xiang looked up at the brilliant sun, and the sky was particularly blue after the rain, which was really a good weather. He remembered the agreement with the old man, when the weather cleared, he went to listen to him sing the lotus fall, and now, this agreement is destined to be far away.

He hurriedly drove to the hospital, saw Li Chao and Xiang Xiaoyuan in the corridor, and asked what was going on, but he didn't say it in detail on the phone just now.

Li Chao said that the old man died at 7 o'clock this morning, and the trachea in his throat was no longer good.

"People are inside, do you want to go and see it?" Li Chao asked.

Li Xiang said, "Take a look, give him a ride." ”

His apprentice was dressed in linen and filial piety, sitting alone against the wall in the cold ward, looking at the corpse on the hospital bed in a daze, hearing the sound of the door opening, he slowly turned his head sideways, and found that it was Li Xiang, and said hoarsely, You are here.

The aftermath was handled by Li Chao and the old man's apprentice, and Li Xiang and Xiang Xiaoyuan helped with each other. Apart from the two of them, no one else came to mourn. A man just walked away quietly.

After the dust fell, the four of them left from the cemetery, Li Xiang couldn't help it, and asked the middle-aged man who sang the lotus flower, does the old man have no children.

After a long silence, he said, "There are two sons. ”

Li Xiang and Li Chao, as well as Xiang Xiaoyuan, were all stunned. They all thought that the old man had no children, otherwise, how could there be no one at the funeral! If he was not invited, it would be a big mistake.

The middle-aged man seemed to know their thoughts and said, "It was my master who didn't let them be notified." ”

Without waiting to ask, he took the initiative to say: "The eldest son asked him to go to live in the Demon Capital, the second son asked him to live in Tianjing, the eldest son is in Tianjing, and the second son is in the Demon Capital, so he didn't go anywhere, and I have been in Shengjing." ”

PS: Chapter 3 has a clue to the old man