Chapter 7, the year and the month
After dinner, Lao Zhao and Ah Guang rested in the dormitory of Da Niu's cultural station, and Da Niu accompanied me to sit and chat under the big banyan tree next to the half-moon pond in front of the ancestral hall in the township.
I haven't been back to my hometown for more than 20 years, really
"Revisiting my hometown for a thousand miles", I had mixed feelings in my heart, and I didn't feel a melancholy when I saw the hurt of things. Da Niu lit a cigarette freely, swallowed the clouds and spit out the fog, and then asked me with emotion: "Hanzhe, time flies so fast, do you still remember that on the first day Xue'er came to our school, I also asked you to chat here, you came to sketch this time, and you were also looking for an old friend by the way, right?"
"Remember, you were pleasantly surprised that night by talking big-tongued monkey (tide language, meaning stuttering). I replied.
Da Niu's words immediately reminded me of the scene from more than 20 years ago - it was Monday night, and it was the night after Cher went to school alone on Sunday to see me at the blackboard newspaper, and I went to the doctor that day and didn't go to class.
Da Niu thought that I hadn't seen Xue'er, and just after dinner, Da Niu hurriedly called me out, saying that there was big news to tell me.
He held two smoked sweet potatoes in his hand, gave me one, and said, "Xiaoyan's mother gave it." "The two of us sat on a stone bench under the big banyan tree next to the half-moon pond in the township, eating and chatting.
Usually when I am with Da Niu, I usually talk less, and Da Niu talks a lot, basically he asks me to help solve some problems, ask homework metaphorically, or how to deal with Xiaoyan's relationship and so on.
This night, Da Niu was mysterious and wanted to stop talking, as if he was smiling and not smiling, with a shy expression.
I guess he was going to talk about Xue'er's coming to transfer to another class, because I had already met Xue'er yesterday, but I deliberately said to him: "Dead cow, you want me to help write a love letter to Xiaoyan? "Da Niu and Xiao Yan's two families are next to the wall, and they are world friends, Da Niu seems to have eaten at Xiao Yan's house for several years, Xiao Yan's mother likes Da Niu very much, saying that Da Niu is honest and reliable.
Everyone in the village knows that Da Niu often helps Xiaoyan's family do farm work, and manual work such as picking up fertilizer and carrying water is often done, because Xiaoyan's father left early.
Xiaoyan's mother naturally cares about the big cow very much, and if there is something delicious, she also leaves some to wait for the big cow to come home from school to eat, and she treats it as if she were her own.
The villagers also exaggerate the cattle, the people have black flesh and have the strength of the ox, which is very suitable for farm work, and will definitely be rated as ten percent of the work in the production team in the future.
Every time Xiaoyan's mother heard her neighbor exaggerate the cow and laughed until she shed tears, she couldn't close her mouth, as if people were praising her son.
When I saw the big cow, I screamed violently, and regarded the big cow as my own heart, so I almost held it in my arms and cherished it.
Da Niu slapped my hand and said, "What nonsense are you talking about? You stinky mouth, no, no, Hanzhe, I feel sorry for you, I couldn't meet a very beautiful and temperamental new classmate in the class for the first time today." After Da Niu finished speaking, he still looked sorry.
Knowingly, I asked, "Is there a new classmate?" or is it a transfer class? I don't see you today, but I can see you tomorrow, what's the regret? Da Niu said: "It's nothing, but the problem is, people ask Xiaoyan, is it because all the classmates in the class haven't arrived? It seems that there is someone missing? If you didn't go to class today, people will know that there is a shortage of people, do they already know about you? Looking for you? I am a little disappointed not to see you, have you known each other for a long time? I didn't answer Da Niu immediately, and the words of the girl in red yesterday rang in my ears: "You are awesome at drawing, see you tomorrow".
Could it be that yesterday, my two cold sentences made people remember me? Isn't it? Seeing that I was thoughtful, Da Niu talked endlessly and eloquently about the scene when Xue'er came to school this morning: "When Teacher Yufang led her into our classroom, the whole classroom was suddenly in an uproar, and several female students were whispering: How beautiful. Lihua, who spoke the best, also showed anger on her face, and scolded in front of Xiao Yan. The four-eyed boy Yuzhi was so ashamed that he blushed and didn't dare to look at it, and the second-rate boy Ah Dog shook his hand and whistled, and I also screamed unconsciously, and the male classmates sitting at the back of the house were talking to each other? It seemed that the heartbeat of the whole class suddenly accelerated, and their eyes were fixed on the new classmate standing next to Teacher Yufang, and more than thirty pairs of eyes were all focused on her. I was understanding what the bull was saying, and he said, "Do you guess it's a man or a woman?" I looked at the bull and pretended to be surprised.
He was actually a little carried away, as if he had a new girlfriend, and the corners of his mouth kept smiling, and he was very happy.
He said: "That's quite a pity! Not really? Such an exaggeration! Is it really beautiful? If you don't see it today, you can see it tomorrow, and when you finish the third year of junior high school, you will have about two years to see it? I see that you are in a hurry, and most of the protagonists appear last." Haven't you ever seen a beautiful woman? You brag a lot, but you've always been a little bit bragged, are you so beautiful?" Da Niu stopped smiling and asked, "How do you know it's a woman?"
"Guess, what you said tickles my heart, it's not a woman. Isn't it? ”
"It's not fun at all, I forgot that you are a cold-blooded animal! Indifferent, no wonder female classmates often talk about you behind your back. Da Niu's mood suddenly returned to normal, and he was not as excited as he was just now.
I saw that Da Niu was pouting, not speaking, and his mood was slightly low, so I asked him, "Is it really so beautiful? What kind of clothes do you wear?" Da Niu came back and said: "She is wearing a set of white linen cloth dresses with a student collar and a blue pattern (it should be blue and white wax dye) today, which our classmates have never seen before, and the female students learned in the afternoon that it was brought by her uncle from Hong Kong, saying that it was exported to Hong Kong from Qiandi and imported. Although she and Teacher Yufang were standing by the podium when they first came in, from a distance, it still made people feel that her complexion was very white, there was no superfluous and cumbersome things on her body, and her hands were placed on the belly button of her waist, and she was generous and natural. The schoolbag is embroidered with a big golden five-pointed star, which is very beautiful. Her whole person was neatly dressed like a white and flawless lotus flower that had just bloomed, exuding a pleasant fragrance. I thought to myself: she must be less out in the sun. Sure enough, everyone later figured out that she had never been to the field or worked in her own field, and her family was a resident. Unlike the students of our agricultural households, after returning home from school, they have to go to their own land to help work, Yuzhi has to drive the geese to Yangdong to graze, the chandelier brother has to herd the cattle, and the Wen brother has to help his father cut the grass to go to the fishing pond to feed the fish, and the basic male classmates have to help the family do farm work after school. Households, food government, people don't say 'enterprise and Asian enterprise, food commune, gambling and gambling, food government' (these two sentences are Chaoyu dialects), the parents' food wages are different, higher than us, but they don't have to do anything. I raised my eyes again to look at Cui Daniu, who was described vividly, and said, "What else? Let me tell you:" She cut a short hair, the bangs in front of her forehead are neatly left, her skin is snow-white, she is naturally beautiful, her eyebrows are clear and her eyes are beautiful, her hair is melting, and she has a pair of red phoenix eyes under her willow eyebrows, black and white are very bright, her eyes are not very big, but her melon seed face is very lined, double eyelids, eyelashes are very long, and her nose is also very suitable for her melon seed face, not big or small, the nose bridge is straight, the nose is round, round, full and shiny, the two lips of the cherry small mouth, the thickness is just right, it seems to be a little lipstick, but the color of the lipstick is not very obvious, only careful people will notice。 In the lower left corner of her lips, near the pavilion, there was also a small beauty mole, slightly smaller than half a mung bean, which was very beautiful. She is slender and tall, but her breasts are very full, and the adolescence of cardamom is the most beautiful time for girls. She is delicate and elegant, sunny, and so beautiful that people feel that looking at her is a kind of praise for her. In short, she gave people the impression that she was very beautiful, too beautiful! The first time she entered the classroom, the class caused a stir, and her charm was also visible. Isn't it? "I described Cher to Da Niu like a story, and Da Niu looked at me almost in a daze, with a wide mouth and no words.
He must have wondered in his heart: how could I describe it as if I had seen Cher?
The look at me was also sour. After I finished speaking, I asked him, "Is that so?" Da Niu said: "You guy is really a god! You have the eyes of heaven? No, no, no, have you seen her? Okay, Zhong Hanzhe, I am not a good brother, and it is in vain that I spend so much time sharing with you, it turns out that there is a way out." After Da Niu finished speaking, he pretended to be angry and ignored me, turned his head and looked at the stars in the sky in a daze.
I ignored Da Niu, and I was also recalling Da Niu's description just now, and I unconsciously remembered the scene yesterday, when Xue'er was about to leave the school
"You're awesome at drawing", I didn't sleep all night last night, and I always had the shadow of the girl in red and the way she looked at me intently.
Cher is really beautiful! Yesterday's side has already engraved her imprint in my heart, and as soon as I close my eyes, Cher appears in my mind.
I also followed the big bull and looked at the stars in the sky in a daze. At this time, the half-moon pond suddenly burst into the sound of frogs, the ground cow (a kind of insect) on the edge of the pond also squeaked, and the glowworm tried to light up the whole body and flew with lights.
Da Niu suddenly remembered something, and said: "It turns out that you have seen Xue'er, no wonder just now at Xiaoyan's house, Xiaoyan said that Xue'er seemed to have asked her, saying why didn't you see the person who came out of the blackboard report............?"
"Han Zhe, after you went to Pengcheng, Xue'er also went to Pengcheng after graduating from high school, why didn't you two end up together? Why did your classmates say that you were empathetic and don't fall in love? I heard that Xue'er and her mother drove you away from the garment factory back then? What happened? Is there such a thing?" Da Niu suddenly asked, interrupting my thoughts.
"Those things in a hurry, I feel sad when I mention it, and time and space can't be reversed, it can only be said that there is no fate!" I shook my head, and said to Da Niu in a low voice very sadly.
Da Niu was not interested in continuing to say: "I didn't expect to draw a movie ticket and a girlfriend, but unfortunately I ended up being a stranger! Han Zhe, tell me how you chased Xue'er, so far none of your classmates can really know how you chased Xue'er? I don't know why you separated later? I asked Xiaoyan, and she couldn't tell me clearly. It's been more than 20 years, can you talk about it?"