Chapter 5

Shanzi opened his eyes, and the sky was gray, as if it was going to rain. Tie Dan slept soundly, Shanzi stepped lightly on the ground, and shouted as soon as he opened the door: "Tie Dan...... Iron Egg ......"

"Huh?" Iron Egg woke up from his sleep, jumped to the ground, and rushed to the door. Shanzi hugged him and cried bitterly. Half of Tie Dan's consciousness was still in his dream, and he asked suspiciously, "Shanzi, what are you doing?"

"No...... Iron eggs, all gone!" Shanzi's cry became more and more violent. Tie Dan looked under the empty eaves, and suddenly, like crazy, left the mountain and rushed to the chicken coop. In the chicken coop, the mountain rabbit is lying stiff and upright. Tie Dan cried bitterly, Shanzi rushed over and hugged him, and the cries of the two people were earth-shattering.

After crying, Tie Dan went out with a hoe, and scolded in his mouth: "It must be the bastard of the horse bolt that is bad...... I'll look for him!"

Shanzi rushed forward, dragged him back, and cried: "Tiedan, you go! I beg you!"

"Tuition is gone...... What are you supposed to do?" Iron Egg was furious, and threw the hoe to the ground. Shanzi collapsed on the ground and cried: "There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain......! I, I'm learning on my own!"

"What? Where's that? You wait...... I'm looking for my dad to ......."

"Don't ...... Tie Dan ......" Shanzi has not spoken, and Tie Dan has already gone out in a hurry. On the way, Juan'er came over, she blocked Tiedan's way, and said, "Tiedan, why are you going?"

"Get out of the way!" Tie Dan wanted to rush away, but Juan'er's eyes were quick, and she stopped him again, saying, "What's the matter?

Tie Dan was so anxious that he stomped his feet, crying and said, "Sister Juan'er, don't make a mess!" Shanzi ......"

"What's wrong with Shanzi?" Juan'er looked at him nervously. Tie Dan was stunned and speechless for a long time. Juan'er was so anxious that she shouted: "Are you talking?" Shanzi, what's wrong with him?"

"Shanzi's tuition is gone! it's all ruined by the dog's horse bolt!" Juan'er stomped her feet and cursed: "The horse bolt that was killed by the sky! Tiedan, you don't guard the mountain, what are you doing here?"

"I'll go to my dad and ask him to make up for Shanzi......'s tuition! Shanzi didn't go to school!"

"You go and guard the mountain, and I'll figure out the rest. ”

"Can this be done?"

"Quasi-successful. Go back!"

"Hey, Sister Juan'er, I thank you on behalf of Shanzi!"

"Nonsense!

"Hey!" Tie Dan Sahuan ran away, and Juan'er hurried home. She cursed the bolt in her heart, and seemed to thank him a little. She thought: Without Ma Bolt'er's lack of morality, where will it be my turn to help Shanzi?

Seeing that there was no one at home, Juan'er slipped into her father's bedroom, got under the bed, gently broke off a lump of mud, and stuffed a ball of banknotes into her arms.

Last month, Juan'er's father drove the cow to the village, and when he came back, he was carrying pastries, but the cow was gone. When Juan'er saw her father put down the pastries, she dragged her mother into the inner room, and her curiosity became aroused, and she secretly climbed at the window, but accidentally found where her father and mother hid money.

Juan'er blocked the mud lump again, but she heard a noise in the courtyard, and she was so frightened that she lay under the bed, holding her breath, motionless. After a while, calm was restored in the courtyard, and she came out with palpitations, not caring about slapping the dust on her body, copying the path, and hurriedly running towards Shanzi's house.

"Shanzi, quickly scoop me a bowl of water to drink...... Juan'er was out of breath and shouted as soon as she entered the door. Shanzi sat still, his eyes confused. Hearing this, Tie Dan brought water over and said, "Sister Juan'er, here you go!"

Juan'er took the water and drank it well. He took out the sweat-stained banknotes from his arms, stuffed them into the iron egg, turned to Shanzi and said, "Shanzi, you are studying so well! ”

"Sister Juan'er......" Tie Dan shouted behind him, his eyes full of tears. Shanzi was indifferent at first, but at the moment when Juan'er's figure disappeared from sight, he finally burst into tears and shouted loudly: "Sister Juan'er......"

Shanzi's tuition was solved, but he was always preoccupied, and he felt that he couldn't live with Juan'er. He firmly remembered the amount of money Juan'er gave him in his heart, and vowed to return it in the future.

Juan'er thinks that what she does by herself is airtight, but her heart is rarely at peace. Every time she saw her father's stern face, she couldn't help but tremble in her heart.

Listening to her father's conversation, this money was saved for her eldest brother to marry a daughter-in-law. The wedding date is set for the eighth day of October. Qu indexed, the days are getting closer and closer, Juan'er pretends to be nothing on the surface, but her heart is up and down. She didn't dare to look at her father's face, let alone see her eldest brother who loved her. Other children's babies have started school, and Juan'er graduated from junior high school last year and dropped out of school at home. She had to work hard to alleviate her guilt!

On this day, Juan'er was carrying a basket of pigweed, and as soon as she arrived at the door of the house, she heard her father's angry scolding: "Eat something outside the grill! Come back and see that I won't break her legs!"

Juan'er couldn't help but tremble all over, and was hesitating whether to enter the door. I heard the voice of the eldest brother Zhiguo again: "Dad, you are angry! Maybe it wasn't the little sister who took it!"

"His father, his own daughter, can you still believe it?" said Juan'er.

"Isn't she who she is?" she forgot to wipe her mouth after stealing oil! What is this?" Juan'er's father shook a red gauze scarf in his hand.

Juan'er's heart tightened: Isn't this the red scarf that my father brought to me from the township in the year?

"Dad, isn't this Juan'er's, what's in your hands?" asked Zhiguo.

"Under my mother's bed...... Where to steal money!Hmph...... Son!" Zhiguo stared at his father's angry face, still skeptical. Juan'er walked in the door without saying a word and placed the bamboo basket under the eaves. Juan'er's father stepped up with an arrow and slapped her to the ground. Zhiguo stood in front of his father and begged: "Dad, you have something to say, what are you doing with Juan'er!"

"Hit her...... I still want to chop this evil obstacle!" Juan's father looked around for kitchen knives and axes. Zhiguo hugged him hard and said, "Dad, what's the trouble with this! Isn't it just some money!

"Ouch...... Oh, my son!, what a day of your life!" Juan'er's father suddenly squatted on the ground and cried out. Zhiguo persuaded: "Dad, where are my days long!

Juan'er was pulled into the house by her mother and never said a word. Juan'er begged: "My ancestor, you have a word...... Where the hell did the money go?"

"Mother, I lost it!" Juan'er finally held back a sentence.

"Oh my God...... You ......" Juan'er was so angry that her chest was tight, and she wanted to cry without tears.

"Mother, I'm going out to earn money...... Compensate you!" Juan'er bit her lip.

"Compensation?the love of this life...... Can you pay it off?" Juan'er Niang wiped tears sadly. It is said that mother and daughter are connected, this son of evil, why don't you know the mother's heartache. Juan'er ran to her bedroom angrily and dropped a cruel sentence: "If you can't pay for it, I have to pay too!"

In September, the autumn tiger has not run away, and the weather is still sultry. Juan'er, who was angry, nestled in bed all day long, not wanting to eat tea or food. Juan'er's father looked at the sky and scolded in the yard dam: "The duck's wings are stiff, and I haven't seen it fly to the sky;

"His father...... You don't have to say a word! She doesn't know what to do, but it's still your daughter!" Juan'er Niang persuaded on the side. Juan'er's father paced back and forth with two hands behind his back, and his mouth was unrelenting: "I don't have her daughter!

"His father...... Why don't you listen to what you say more and more!" Juan'er Niang stomped her feet anxiously and looked into the room worriedly. Juan'er's father snorted twice in his nose, picked up the hoe and walked out of the courtyard.

Juan'er listened to her father's words so well that she snorted and covered her head with the futon. Juan'er's mother saw that Juan'er's father had gone away, came into the house, hurriedly ripped off the futon, and said, "Juan'er, my ancestor, on this hot day, you cover the prickly heat?"

"Mother, this family can't stay! I can't live this day!" Juan'er sat up and snorted angrily. Juan'er's mouth opened widely: "What? If you can't stay, you have to stay with me honestly, otherwise, what do you want?"

"My dad was like that...... Why don't you make people stupid?" Juan'er held her breath. Juan'er's tears moved when she heard the words, and she rolled down, she took Juan'er's hand and said, "Juan'er...... Your father, isn't he angry, after a while, he may put this stubble on the back of his head. You don't blame him...... You and Zhiguo, both of them are the meat marbles in his heart!"

"Isn't it just some money...... As for scolding every day? Those people in the village can't earn a few dollars a year, and they are not alive anymore?" Juan'er disagreed, she still couldn't forgive her father's abuse. Juan'er's mother was sad, poked her finger at Juan'er's forehead, and cried: "Alas...... Little ancestor, this father and mother, is it easy to get up early and be greedy for darkness? Why don't you know what to do!"

"I'm talking about Li'er, why don't you know what's wrong!Anyway, this family, I don't plan to stay!" Juan'er fell onto the bed and pulled the futon over her head again. Juan'er Niang sighed and walked out of the door full of worries.

Ten days after the start of school, Shanzi's life was on the right track. Every day, he got up early, warmed up the leftovers of the previous night, filled his belly, carried his schoolbag and went straight to Tiedan's house. On the way to school, the two chased each other, sometimes racing, sometimes reciting poems. The light days also add a bit of fun.

The school is ten miles away from home. Tie Dan was originally one grade higher than Shanzi, but this year he repeated a grade to Shanzi, but he was not in the same class. Even so, after class, the two of them are like wearing crotch pants, and wherever Shanzi goes, Tie Dan will follow. But the strange thing is that during lunch every day, Tie Dan searched all over the campus, and he didn't want to find any trace of Shanzi. Repeatedly missed. He finally couldn't help it, and one day, on the way out of school, he asked Shanzi: "Where have you been? Why can't I see your ghost shadow at noon!"

"Oh...... I...... I'll go up to the thatched house!"

"The ghost only believes! The thatched house in the sky before yesterday, the thatched house today, and the young man will go tomorrow?"

"Oh...... I'm straining!"

"Pull it early, don't pull it late, but pull it at that time? You're on time!"

"Hey, I said that you are a person, you can control the heavens and the earth, and you can also manage people to shit and fart?" Shanzi involuntarily quickened his pace and left the iron egg behind. Tie Dan ran a few steps and shouted, "Hey, I said...... Wait for me!"

Shanzi felt a little uneasy in his heart, and walked with his head bored. Seeing that he didn't want to tell the truth, Tie Dan stopped asking, and suddenly made a plan in his heart, and secretly applauded: Shanzi, if you don't say it, don't worry, I'll be Sherlock Holmes again, I have to find out the truth!

A few more days passed, and it was still the same. Tie Dan pretended to be indifferent and didn't ask any more questions. Shanzi thought that Tie Dan had let go of this matter, and let out a long breath in his heart.

On this day, halfway through the last Chinese class in the morning, the teacher asked, "Which student can recite "The Charcoal Seller", please raise your hand." ”

Tie Dan lay on the table, raised his hand high, and the teacher called him by name, and said, "Yang Wentie, you took the initiative to speak, you have made progress, and you are worthy of praise." You recite it to everyone. ”

"Report to the teacher, I'm strained!" Iron Dan covered his belly, looking funny. The students burst into laughter. The teacher waved his hand in annoyance: "Go, go, go!"

Tie Dan rushed out of the classroom with his belly covered, and behind him, the laughter did not stop for a long time. Tie Dan found a place with a wide line of sight and hid it, just waiting to pull down the class bell.

Shanzi was the first to rush out of the classroom and walked out of the school gate with a corner. Tie Dan exclaimed, "Oh no! The target is to escape!" and chased after him.

Shanzi walked around to the south of the school, found a shade and sat down, wiping the sweat from his head. At this moment, the belly is rumbling. He clasped his hands around his knees and pressed against his belly so that he wouldn't feel hungry for a while.

In the past, Chinese rice was dry food prepared by grandma in advance, but now, Shanzi has automatically omitted this meal. Shanzi deliberately avoided all his classmates, he didn't want anyone to know that he didn't eat lunch, and he didn't want to attract the eyes of his classmates. To the south of the school, there is a sewage river, which is a place where students avoid it. Every day, he hides here, avoiding lunchtime. At first, he was not accustomed to the smell of this kind of smoking, especially this smell intensified the torment of the hungry stomach. No hustle, no fighting, no bullying, no burden......

Before, in the face of Tiedan's questioning, Shanzi really didn't know whether to tell him everything. He hesitated in his heart: Although Tie Dan is my only friend and understands my life situation, can he understand my intention to omit Chinese food? Or, with Tie Dan's temperament, once he knows the truth, he will definitely not allow me to continue to treat myself so badly. But right now, this kid is a heel, and sooner or later he'll have to dig out my secrets!...... Take a walk and see that life with no one to rely on is like crossing a river by feeling a stone!

"Shanzi, I've caught you!" Shanzi was pondering when the iron egg suddenly jumped out from behind. Then, Tie Dan covered his nose and said, "I said you, what are you doing hiding in this hellish place?

"Look at you like that, you are expensive! Isn't the dung poured in your field more stinky than this?" Shanzi glanced at Tie Dan, and his gaze fell back on the white foaming water. Tie Dan sat down next to Shanzi and asked, "Shanzi, you don't eat, what are you doing here?"

"Sit down!"

"Sitting here every day?, I said...... Are you not sick?" Tie Dan reached out and touched Shanzi's forehead, and then said, "It's not hot!"

"Go, go back!" Yamako pushed his hand away impatiently.

Tie Dan was not in a hurry, and said unhurriedly: "Shanzi, if you have something on your mind, you tell me!"

"Nothing!"

"Really, shall we go back to dinner?"

"Go back by yourself, I'm not hungry. Shanzi shifted his body, turned his back to the iron egg, and ignored him again. Tie Dan dragged Shanzi and said, "Let's go! It's stinky here, what's there to stay in!"

"You love to walk! I love to stay in this stinky place, what's in your way!" Shanzi suddenly pushed down the iron egg and shouted loudly. Tie Dan stared at Shanzi for some reason, slowly got up, patted his buttocks, and said: "I am as docile as a sheep on weekdays, why do you have a donkey temper!"

Shanzi didn't answer and ran away in a rage. Tie Dan was behind him, muttering, "What's the matter? This is ......"

After school in the afternoon, Shanzi didn't wait for the iron egg, went home alone with a schoolbag, and threw himself on the bed, crying sullenly. Tie Dan didn't see anyone in Shanzi's class, and when he came home, he ignored people and hid in his own room.