Chapter 112: Late Childhood
The return of Xu Jing, who is always full of vitality, has made the life of the Xu family colorful, and Lin Yi, who originally seemed to have joined the old cadres club, has also become lively.
Lin Yi prides herself on being a very good playful person, regardless of the elegant and vulgar, the high-end and the low-end, as long as she is interested, even if she is given a blank piece of paper, she can play with a flower.
But what Xu Jing took her to play with was all things she had never touched.
What slingshot to shoot birds, boil balloons, tie chopsticks to make traps and stick birds, make small traps to catch fishing, go up the mountain to make traps to catch pheasants, except that she didn't take her to climb trees and go down the river, what did the rural baby play when she was a child, Xu Jing took her to do it all over.
A young man who is about to be twenty-four years old and has already joined the work, with a seventeen-year-old girl, plays these children's favorite games all over the mountains and fields every day, which is quite incredible.
But that's exactly what happened!
This matter has to start from the day Xu Jing came back.
Grandma Xu's three sons are all working in other places, and they also know how their parents are in health, so they can't let their parents take turns to run to their son's house all day long.
So the three grandsons of the Xu family had to go back here to accompany their grandparents except for the days when they went to school, and after the death of their grandfather, they came more diligently.
Over time, the three grandchildren of the Xu family have slowly become the head of the children in the family courtyard of the army, even if they go out to college, the little children who used to follow their butts still like to come to play with them when they come back.
Xu Jing is so old, naturally he can't play with those half-grown children, but he can't bear to have a lot of technical things that others can't.
Therefore, he is impatient to play with the children, and the children still like to come to him!
Because Grandma Xu was temporarily interested in teaching Lin Yi to make dumplings, it was already half past one after they finished lunch that day, and it was already two o'clock after packing up their things.
It is rare for the grandson to come back, and the old lady has a lot to say, and Lin Yi's grandson also sits aside.
While talking about Xu Jing's interesting story in the army, several children came in with a bunch of bright feathers.
Seeing Xu Jing sitting in the living room with a smile, the leader's eyes suddenly lit up!
"Little third brother! You can be regarded as back! I broke my sister's shuttlecock, and she can't look down on what I tied her! She didn't look good when I bought it in the county seat! I also took it! You can help quickly! Tie her another one!"
The kid's materials have been brought, and if it's the case, Xu Jing will naturally not be embarrassed.
"The most important thing is the center of gravity, otherwise it is easy to kick away, if you master this, you can generally prick a decent one. ”
"Phew! I know all day long that I can tie a shuttlecock for the little girls, what's so proud? You can coax these little beans, why don't you see you coaxing a granddaughter-in-law for me to come back?"
Hearing Xu Jing's experience in piercing keys, Grandma Xu took a sip with a smile.
Obviously, I can't get used to his smug look.
"This is all taught to me by the eldest brother and the second brother, and the eldest brother was taught by the grandfather, you can't rely on me if you want to!"
"Don't give me a poor mouth! Learn from your grandfather, I'll die of sorrow! One by one, I don't care! What are you preparing these colorful things, I'm afraid that your mother will give birth to a girl, and the girl will grow up and have nothing to play with. As a result, I gave birth to you with a handle! What are you still doing with these things? You have to love to make these things, but bring me a granddaughter-in-law back and give birth to a soft little girl for me!"
Xu Jing smiled, skipped his grandmother's nagging, and instead teased the child:
"It's all chicken feathers sold outside, and that's it, how can there be these colorful and beautiful flowers, right?"
Xu Jing took the things and put them on the coffee table, turned his head and smiled at a little girl behind the child.
"The third brother is right! The stupid brother still wants to coax me! I'm not blind!"
The little girl rolled her eyes with her pigtails, which made both old ladies laugh.
"This girl is so lively!"
As soon as Li Fengxia praised it, Grandma Xu casually pointed out who this child is:
"This is the little girl of the head of Zhao's family!
Even Lin Yi, seeing such a cute little Lori, couldn't help but tease her:
"Little sister, why do you call him Little Third Brother? Why don't you call him Third Brother?"
Little Lori stared at her, pondered for a while, and frowned:
"The little third brother has always been the little third brother!"
But her brother turned his head and said: "The third brother is the third brother and his father! It was my father who shouted! If we scream blindly, won't we mess up?"
In such a military compound, many posts are secret, the turnover rate is almost non-existent, and it is easy to have a scene where several generations live next to each other, she really didn't think about this kind of problem before, listening to the child's little adult-like tone, Lin Yi was in a good mood, and she also had the interest of talking with the child.
"I see, little brother, this hair is so beautiful! What kind of hair is it?"
This pile of hair has any color, white, green, red, orange, gray, gold, blue, some look long and sharp, some look light and round, the feathers are placed on the coffee table, the sun sets outside the window, shining on the top, the feathers are shining, it is very good-looking!
The little boy raised his eyebrows proudly:
"These are the ones I grabbed from the pheasant's tail the other day! I hit the bird with a slingshot and plucked it out of the bird!"
The little boy seemed so proud that he even took a slingshot out of his trouser pocket and said that he wanted to show her.
"Do you see that black brick?"
The little boy stood by the window and pushed open the window to look at the backyard wall.
The red brick walls are not plastered, and one of them is rubbed with soot, and the sides are almost completely black, which is particularly conspicuous.
Lin Yi just nodded, and saw the little boy take out a small pebble from his trouser pocket, pick up the slingshot and bounce it out.
"Smack!"
The black brick immediately had an off-white dot on it.
Thinking that the "ammunition" was not hard enough, it hit it so hard that it shattered a lot of stone powder and stuck to it.
"Awesome!"
"What's so great about this? When I'm older and I've practiced my head, my dad said and let me touch the gun!
The little boy looked like "you hillbilly really don't know", so choked that Lin Yi couldn't speak, so he could only sit on the side and listen to these children discuss, and go to the river to catch fish in the afternoon.
Lin Yi is a child without a child, and she doesn't know how the original owner grew up. In her previous life, she was at their age, and she had already rotated into major studios and crews, and she began to be a child star, and she didn't even know what the children in the city played when they were young, not to mention these tough children who grew up in the army station, covered the mountains, forests and rivers, and were guns and guns at every turn?
In the early years, not to mention the troops, even the civilian armed forces could carry guns and cannons, these children were so young, they knew that they had purposeful training eyesight and accuracy, and this kind of growth model was completely beyond Lin Yi's imagination.
A beautiful shuttlecock was quickly ready, and the children got what they wanted, and walked away happily with the shuttlecock.
Lin Yi couldn't help but look at it twice, Xu Jing thought she wanted it, so he said to her:
"I'll take you to hunt birds and pheasants later! I'll make one for you too, these hairs are saved by Xiaoliu for her sister, there are not many!"
Hearing Xu Jing's words, the children who walked to the door turned their heads one after another, looking like "I didn't expect adults to like to play this", they looked at her strangely, and then you pushed me away.
As the children left, there were only four people left in the Xu family's living room again.
Lin Yi's old aunt's heart trembled, just now Lingling put the shuttlecock in her pocket, that defensive glance still made her feel more ashamed the more she thought about it.
"No! How old am I! I don't like these!"
However, all three of them looked like "your expression just now couldn't fool us".
Lin Yi was ashamed and annoyed, and got up directly, planning to go back to the bedroom to show his innocence.
She just hadn't seen such a rare thing, and she just looked at it twice with curiosity!
However, as soon as she walked to the door, she heard her grandmother explain guiltily to the ancestors of the Xu family:
"This child has been in various cram schools since he was a child, and he has never seen these rare things, and now in retrospect, this child really didn't even have a childhood. I feel so guilty when I think about it! I feel sorry for her!"
Lin Yi's footsteps suddenly stopped.
The ancients all knew how to entertain relatives with colorful clothes, and she could do it.
Although she thought it was naïve, she didn't want her grandmother to feel guilty about it.
So, with a heart to make her grandmother happy, Lin Yi "reluctantly" followed Xu Jing on a journey of "reminiscing about childhood".
Of course, all the way down to fish and catch birds as traps, Lin Yi was so excited that he was about to explode.