Chapter Fifty-Seven: Birth and Sadness in the Pacific
I really didn't understand why my table mate was angry, wasn't it just a hairpin, and I didn't mean to.
She ignored me for two days in a row, and I realized the severity of the problem, so I went to buy a butterfly hairpin to compensate her, but when I got to her house, she refused to see me, I had no choice but to put the hairpin at the door of her room, and then walked away.
At that time, it was summer vacation, and I played crazy with my friends, went down to the river to fish, went to the trees to dig out birds' eggs, and played so crazy that I completely forgot that she hadn't forgiven me.
The peaches on the mountain were ripe, and then I remembered that I liked to eat peaches at the same table, so I went to her house with my friends and called her to pick peaches together.
Maybe it's because too many days have passed, and the anger is almost gone, or maybe the peach is too tempting for her, but she still goes out, but she doesn't talk to me much.
After all, they're girls! Telling jokes and grimacing along the way, it finally made her laugh.
The road up the mountain was very steep, she was a girl, I took her hand and slowly climbed up, and when we were almost halfway up the mountain, the other friends had already gone into the orchard on the mountain.
Among all the fruit trees, the peach tree is the easiest to climb, one is not tall, and the other is that the branches are winding and easy to get down. The leaves of the peach tree are neither dense nor elongated, so at a glance you can see which peach is the largest and reddest on the branches.
This peach forest belongs to one of the little friends, uncle's family, so we don't feel like a thief when we pick peaches.
Five or six children, how big can their appetite be? It is almost the same to eat three or five per person, and twenty or thirty peaches are really just a drizzle compared to the whole peach forest.
As long as the peach tree is not harmed, the adults will not care about it at all. Even if you accidentally break or break a branch when picking peaches, it will only be the little friend who will be beaten.
The others climbed very vigorously, but the little friend told him back and forth under the tree, probably because he was scared by his uncle. Don't step on the branches! Just pick the big ones, don't pick too much, not enough to eat before picking.
My tablemate is a good girl, very quiet, naturally she doesn't go up the tree to pick it, and the fluff of the peaches is itchy when it falls on the skin.
All she has to do is wait and we'll deliver the peach washed from the mountain spring to her. She picked up the peach, wiped it twice, bit it down, chewed a few bites, and had a bright smile on her face......
When we had enough peaches, we would go to the temple at the top of the hill to play because it was cool there. The temple is not big, there is only one fat monk.
Buddhism is prevalent in the south, and when we are influenced by our parents, we will first worship the Bodhisattva when we go to the temple, and then put a few big peaches on the offering table, and of course those peaches end up in the belly of the fat monk.
At that time, the monks had one of the most basic skills, that is, fortune telling, which was not allowed to say anything else, but it was necessary to be able to calculate. I remember that day, the fat monk had to tell us fortunes one by one on a whim, and when he counted me, the fat monk was surprised, saying that although I can't be a big official in the future, I will be shocked if I stomp my feet.
I asked him if it wasn't Hades who were in charge of ghosts and gods? Then what am I? Living Hades? The fat monk only said one sentence, you can also manage people's life and death. A little friend who was eating peaches was shocked and asked, will he be a judge in the future?
When I was told fortune at the same table, the fat monk was amazed, and said that she was rich and noble, and that she and I were not shallowly married, and that her little face was red, which was better than a ripe peach. The friends listened and made a big fuss on the side......
It is said that there is a banquet in the world, but I didn't expect the banquet to disperse so quickly and so suddenly. That morning, my friends and I went to the mountains to hunt birds with slingshots as usual, and one of my friends' younger brother ran up the mountain and said that Shanshan was leaving......
I couldn't turn my head around for a while, and I asked, which Shanshan? After all, there were many people named Shanshan at that time, and there were three of them in our grade, and two of them still had the same name and surname.
The little guy who had just entered the first grade was so anxious that he jumped up and down, and finally made it clear that it was my tablemate Jiang Shan who was leaving.
I nodded, and said indifferently, just go! I guess I'm going to the county, and the junior high school in the county will start in a week, isn't it? Anyway, the county is not far away, and it's not that I can't see her. After saying that, he pulled up the slingshot again.
The little guy was so anxious that he was sweating, and said no, Jiang Shan was not going to the county to study in junior high school, but to go abroad, her father came back from abroad, and he wanted to take Shanshan and her mother abroad, and he would never come back.
Hearing him say this, I directly pulled the tight slingshot off, threw the slingshot to the ground and ran down the hill quickly, and my friends also ran down the hill together.
In a hurry, I fell several times along the way, no matter how many rolls I rolled, as long as I rolled and stopped, I quickly got up and continued to run down the mountain, and I didn't even bother to shoot the dust on my body......
When I turned out of the mountainside, I saw a green jeep driving right on the road at the foot of the mountain, so I tore my throat and shouted loudly!
At that time, the road was still dirt, dusty, the windows were closed, the engine was roaring, and the people in the car could not hear the shouts outside.
Seeing that the car was about to drive away, my friends rushed to my side, and we shouted loudly to the road at the foot of the mountain!
After shouting three times, the jeep finally stopped, the window rolled down, revealing Shanshan's little face, and she waved at us on the hill, and I could vaguely hear her shouting goodbye......
The car stopped for only a few seconds, the windows were rolled up again, and we watched as the jeep drove away from the foot of the mountain, going around to the other side of the mountain and never seeing it again.
Is that all? No, I forgot to say goodbye to her. I pulled my legs and ran to the hill next to me, and if I climbed over the hill and took the path, I might be able to get to the front of the jeep. You must know that the south is mountainous, the road is winding and bumpy, and the jeep is limited by the road conditions, so it can't drive fast at all.
My friends also ran behind me, and in the summer, we all wore slippers, and we couldn't run fast at all, so we simply took off our slippers one by one and ran barefoot on the mountain.
When I rushed out of the path out of breath, it was still a little slower, but the dust raised high in the air had not yet landed, and when I looked ahead, sure enough, the jeep was dozens of meters ahead, so I didn't care about resting, and continued to chase, shouting as I ran, Shanshan, goodbye......
I was afraid that Shanshan would not hear, so I chased after him for a long distance, but unfortunately I couldn't catch up until the soles of my feet were cut by sharp stones, and I couldn't run anymore, so I stopped.
I followed the car all the way to eat dust, my throat was full of dust, I couldn't even speak, I looked at the dusty road ahead, the car was long gone, Shanshan should have heard my goodbye, right?
The soles of both of my feet were cut, and my friends took turns carrying me back. That night, Shanshan's grandmother came to my house, and Shanshantuo's grandmother gave me a pair of pigeons that she had raised, one white and one green, which was the name Shanshan gave them......
When Shanshan went abroad, Ren Xianqi, who sang "Heart Too Soft", became popular, but I preferred his other song, "Sad Pacific".
When I was a child, I had just experienced the first time in my life, and my six years of tablemates, playmates, and good friends went to the other side of the Pacific, and during that time, I had to listen to "Sad Pacific" on a loop every night before going to bed.
With Shanshan's departure, my childhood seemed to come to an end. Before the start of junior high school, I went to the county seat once, and that was the first time I went to the county seat, first taking a bus on a road full of dirt potholes for half an hour, and then walking for ten minutes to the ferry by the river.
At that time, the bridge had not yet been built, so I took a wooden boat powered by a diesel engine to the other side of the river, and then took a 20-minute Jialing motorcycle to the county seat.
I went to see the junior high school that Shanshan was admitted to but didn't go to, ** County No. 1 Middle School. Looking at the gate of the school, I didn't go in, although it was the best junior high school in the whole county, but it still couldn't keep Shanshan, no matter how good it was, what was the use?
The streets in the county are cleaner and wider than those in the township, and there are a few brothers and sisters playing musical instruments in the square in front of the street park, and there are a lot of people to see, and I wanted to leave after seeing it, but a long-haired sister began to beat the drum kit, so I stopped again, not because she was pretty, although she was indeed beautiful, but I stopped just because she was beating the sad Pacific Ocean!
She knocked a sad Pacific song, and when she looked up, she saw me standing in front of her crying. She said what are you crying about? If you really want to knock it, won't it be over if you knock it twice? So she stood up and handed me the drum stick in her hand.
I took the drum stick and stood beside her, and she said to follow her, and I will hit whatever she knocks. I nodded, and she knocked it, and I followed her in the same place, and she knocked slowly, and I followed hers.
She quickly beat a few drums, and I also struck out the gourd scoop. Originally, she asked me to knock a few times, but then she let me knock for almost an hour.
The melody of "Sad Pacific" has long been deeply rooted in my mind, and after more than an hour, I can already beat "Sad Pacific" with a good drum beat, she praised me for being very good, I didn't think it was great, just beating the drum, it was much easier than following the master to play the dagger.
She said that they were junior high school students and that they were in a band together, and asked me if I wanted to join their band. I shook my head, and I said that my family is in the township, and I have just graduated from primary school, and I have not yet entered junior high school.
She laughed, she said that their band was going to participate in the provincial satellite TV singing competition next week, and asked me if I wanted to be on TV?
And she said, "What? You don't want to be on TV?" I said no. She thought about it for a moment and said, "How nice it would be to be on TV!" so that your family and friends can see you on TV.
I listened to it and asked her if she could see it abroad? She thought about it and said, of course, satellite TV? So I nodded vigorously.
The junior high school student is so rich, she gave me ten yuan, and told me to take a bus from the village here tomorrow. Anyway, school hadn't started yet, and the next day I came to the county again, and we practiced for three days in a row, and the practice was "Sad Pacific".
Originally, I only needed to play the drum kit, but then they said that they wanted me to sing while beating, so that the effect would be better, so that Shanshan on the other side of the ocean could see me on TV, I agreed. On the fourth day, I followed them on a bus to the city......