Chapter 9 Buses, Tube Towers, Little Sisters
August 18 was the first Sunday after Zhang Zhao's rebirth, and after the family of three finally had breakfast, his father rode a bicycle to buy food with his family and his grandmother's food book.
The old mother was carrying two bottles of old Shekou wine in her hand, and when she saw Zhang Zhao's reluctant look, she said strangely: "Let's go to your aunt's house today, don't you like sugar candy the most?" ”
"Then I don't like it now, can I just stop going?" Zhang Zhao really has no love for that beautiful and willful little cousin.
Cousin Tang Tang, nicknamed Tangtang and Zhang Zhao are the same age, only 6 months older, born of pink carved jade is loved by everyone, and when she grows up, she is even more slim, no matter how critical she is, she can also deserve the word beauty.
But what she did in later life was really unacceptable. It's okay to be brutal and willful, a beauty, a little temper that everyone can bear.
The problem is still ambitious, and he wants to be a star wholeheartedly. The family did their best to send her to the Fengtian Conservatory of Music for the art examination, but she didn't pass the exam for two consecutive years. In a fit of anger, he went to the imperial capital to drift north, but naturally nothing came of it.
When I went home a few years later, my relatives introduced a small head of a state-owned enterprise, and the other party was quite satisfied with Tangtang. Originally, they all reached the stage of talking about marriage, and they were pulled by a good sister they knew in the imperial capital to open an advertising company. This time, I met a scammer, not only did I not get a penny, but I was also implicated and lost hundreds of thousands......
"You don't want to go?" Zhangmu's eyes glanced at the short-handled broom that swept the bed.
"I'd better go." Under the silent deterrence of force, Zhang Zhao surrendered instantly.
The bus stop is on the east side of Grandma Qin's house, passing through a high-slope open space dozens of meters wide. In the middle of the clearing is an exposed transformer, surrounded by a wooden fence with barbed wire. If it were in the future, this thing would have been reported 10,000 times by anti-radiation people, but they didn't know that the impact of the transformer on people at a safe distance was less than 1/10,000 of that of a mobile phone......
The bus stop sign is a thin piece of iron nailed to a telephone pole, with only the words 7 on it. There were 5 or 6 people waiting under the stop sign. Because they were all in a residential area, they chatted with each other very well, and Zhang's mother also pulled Zhang Zhao over.
Zhang Zhao listened with a yawn, the main talk was about Aunt Lin who worked on the street, as for the content, it didn't matter, anyway, it was the matter of the Zhang family remarrying the Li family to steal people, gossip is similar in ancient and modern times, as long as you keep an eye on the crotch, you don't run.
After about 10 minutes, a red and white Huanghai bus came to a halt in front of me. A few merfolk got into the car.
"The comrades who got on the bus, please come and buy tickets." A loudspeaker sounded, and a queue formed in front of the conductor by the door. The female conductor in her 30s slowly counts the number of stations, collects money, pulls tickets, and gives change, and it takes 1-2 minutes to sell a ticket.
"You go and sit on the side first, and Mom will come to you after buying the ticket."
Zhang Zhao nodded, chose an empty seat for two people and sat down. The car drove open, making a clangling noise, which made Zhang Zhao wonder if the dilapidated classic car would stop cooking immediately.
After a few more stops, the number of people on the car began to increase, Zhang Zhao turned his head to look out the window, the low bungalows, the dilapidated streets, the chimneys with yellow smoke, the vendors riding upside down donkeys to carry goods, and the red paint on the walls of the street......
Everything that is familiar in the eyes of people in this era is as hazy and unreal as yellowed old photos in Zhang Zhao's eyes. Is it tomorrow's self reborn to experience history, or is yesterday's self dreaming of tomorrow? Zhuang Zhou's dream butterfly is still a butterfly's dream Zhuang Zhou, the little butterfly desperately instigates its wings, will it set off a storm in the world or can only let itself dance alone in the dream......
"Catch the thief!" A sudden scream made Zhang Zhao end his idle time, and following the gaze of the crowd in the car, a young man with a hooked nose was tearing with a middle-aged woman, holding a pink wallet inlaid with small beads in his hand. After all, the young man had great strength, and with a shrug of force, he pushed the woman out.
"you X, thieves dare to be so arrogant?" After a few seconds of silence, a young man rushed out and grabbed the thief who wanted to go to the car door.
"Dog X, don't look at it all the old and young masters, if you really let this cub run away, we Jinzhou people will lose face!" An old man with gray hair shouted, tugged at the handrail of the bus, flew up and kicked the thief with two feet, and let go of the young man.
"Yes, beat him!" In the echo, several men walked out, some holding people, some punching and kicking, and after a while, the thief was lying on the ground with his head in his hands and couldn't get up.
"Okay, okay, stop fighting, watch him, I'll ask the driver to drive the car to the police station!" The conductor came over and persuaded the crowd who were still punching and kicking, and together with the young man who came out first, he twisted the thief's hands and controlled the fierce thief.
The Shan'an police station was on the bus line of the No. 7 bus, and the passengers did not have much opinion about the temporary parking of the bus, and soon after, the conductor and the young man returned to the bus, and the bus continued to start.
The eldest sister who had stolen the money said gratefully: "Thank you, the young man is good, which unit?" I'll write you a thank you note another day. ”
The young man blushed: "I don't dare to take this seriously, it's all the result of everyone's help, and I can't catch him myself." ”
The old man who kicked people with flying feet laughed and said: "That's right, young man, you are a short practice, and you are so strong in white." The passengers around him laughed good-naturedly. Zhang Zhao also breathed a sigh of relief. Even if it's a dream, it's actually good to be able to go back to this era when people are still enthusiastic and will be commended for their righteousness and bravery.
Zhang Zhao and his mother got off the bus halfway, and then changed to bus No. 4, and wandered for more than half an hour before finally arriving at a red brick building, and the aunt's house finally arrived.
"Xiaoyan!" The aunt who had been waiting at the station for a long time greeted her: "And my eldest nephew is also here, come and let the aunt hug it to see if it sinks?" ”
The aunt looks very similar to her mother, but her figure is slightly fat, and next to him is a little girl wearing a really good printed skirt and a ponytail on her head.
"Sister, you've been waiting for a long time, haven't you? I told you that you don't have to come out, come to Tangtang and let my aunt hug me. Seeing that my sister hugged Zhang Zhao, my mother also wanted to pick up Tangtang.
"Oh, auntie, don't touch me, it'll stain my skirt!" Tangtang blocked Zhang's mother's hand and walked away with her head held high.
"Why is this kid talking like that?" The aunt was a little angry and said, "Come back and apologize to your aunt!" ”
Zhang's mother persuaded: "Sister, it's okay, child." Zhang Zhao, don't let your aunt hug you, come down and go by yourself. ”
The aunt and Zhang's mother chatted while walking. And Tangtang walked in front with his head held high, ignoring Zhang Zhao at all. Zhang Zhao was also happy, looking at this old family home.
"Alright, it's here." It is said that the tube building where the aunt's family lived was originally for the Soviet experts who aided the construction, but later China and the Soviet Union became hostile, and the experts did not come at all.
Decades of wind and rain have mottled and shattered the exposed red bricks, and even on the roofs and walls, Artemisia grass grows tenaciously.
The corridor was dim, and the dim incandescent light could only illuminate the first few steps of the stairs.
Exiting the hallway, there is an external hallway with moss-covered mottled railings and a long string of 8 doors on the other side. The aunt's house is the second family, because the aunt is the small head of the unit, and the length of service is long enough to get an independent suite, and even a small kitchen is separated in the inner room of the suite, saving the pain of queuing up in the public kitchen to cook, and others do not have such a good treatment, there are two families living in the suite and outside, and you have to be cautious if you want to exercise at night.
"Yan'er is here?" The aunt-in-law in the apron came out of the house and said, "Wait a while, there is still a fish left, and we will have dinner when it is ready." ”
"I'm sorry to trouble my brother-in-law again."
The uncle-in-law smiled and waved his hand: "What's polite in the family, the main thing is that your sister's level can also fry a cabbage, shoot a cucumber or something." It just so happens that I am resting today, so I should sacrifice my own five internal organs temple. ”
Tangtang walked over at this time, tugged at his uncle's apron and said, "Dad, I want to eat ginkgo seeds!" ”
The uncle-in-law picked her up with a smile, kissed her and said, "Okay, okay, Dad will do it for you." ”
The aunt said: "Tangtang, don't pester your father, take your brother to play for a while!" ”
Tangtang shook his head and said, "I don't want it, Zhang Zhao is stupid and lacks heart, if I don't play with him, I will become stupid." ”
Zhang Zhao didn't care much about Tangtang's performance, he knew that this cousin in the future would behave more excessively, but the aunt was not happy: "How can you talk, hurry up and apologize to your little brother, otherwise I will beat you!" ”
Sugar Candy didn't care, and made a grimace and went into the back room to hide beside her uncle.