Chapter 23: Cousin
Le Fan said slowly, I listened quietly, and when she finished speaking, I spoke: "Didn't you say that you liked many people?" Let's talk about something else! ”
Le Fan chuckled, then shook his head, "I have liked many people, but apart from Zhang Yiyang, there is only this one who can remember." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"
I reached out and picked up a maple leaf, and the maple leaves that fell at this time were lucky or unfortunate compared to those who were still alive in the treetops.
"Le Fan, how much can you remember when you were in elementary school?"
Le Fan took a deep breath, and then sighed: "I always feel that the air today is not as good as it used to be." ”
I looked at the green swaying in the wind not far away, and said softly, "Yes! ”
Although the environment has been remediated, the damage is too serious, and I don't know how many years it will take to restore it.
At least, my generation may not see it.
After a while, Le Fan's faint voice sounded in my ears again: "In 2001, for the first time, I put on a small schoolbag, held my mother's big hand, and followed my cousin to this school that I had longed for for a long time. I vaguely remember that before I went to school, my favorite thing was when the students were about to leave school, stupidly holding a small bench and looking at the big brothers and sisters who had gone to school, talking and laughing with each other, carrying all kinds of cute school bags, walking in front of my house, I really envied them at that time, and I really wanted to go to school with them. ”
Le Fan couldn't help but smirk.
That picture is engraved in the bottom of my heart, even if more than 20 years have passed, as soon as I close my eyes, that picture will appear in front of me, as if it was yesterday. I love listening to my cousins tell me interesting things about school, and every time I stare at them with curious eyes and listen with relish. ”
"When I finally got my own school bag, I couldn't express the joy I felt and I couldn't help but be overjoyed to know that I was going to school with my cousin."
She paused, her eyes narrowed slightly, and she smiled very happily: "But on the first day of school, something happened that made my mother helpless. To this day, I remember it vividly. ”
"I remember when I went to the teacher with my mom and my cousin, my mom first signed up for my cousin, and then just when I thought I was going to sign me up, my mom led me in the direction of another teacher. And the teacher was full of good children, and I immediately had a bad premonition. ”
"The thought that I might not be in class with my cousin makes my originally excited mood a little bad."
"When I got in front of the teacher, my mother signed me up, and the teacher even said that my age was too young, and I was very dissatisfied, and said to the teacher, I am not young, I am five years old. I don't remember much about what happened next, but I remember that I kept crying, probably because I couldn't go to the first grade with my cousin! Although I was young, it didn't stop me from realizing that I would be inferior to my cousin. I also forgot how my mother coaxed me, but in the end I still had no choice but to go to preschool obediently. ”
"But the good thing is that although we didn't have the same class as my cousin, we still went to school together. But because I get out of school early, sometimes I go home first after school, but sometimes I still wait for my cousin to come home with me. ”
Le Fan suddenly turned his head to look at me, "The cousin I'm talking about is Luo Muqi, the youngest son of my uncle's family. ”
I nodded, I also know this person, and I have eaten with him a few times, of course, it was all invited by Lefan.
Luo Muqi gives me a good feeling, although he is a little fat, but he is quite cheerful. Moreover, he has his own principles and opinions on some things, and he is also relatively filial.
"My uncle's family went to Guangzhou to work and make money at that time, and my youngest cousin was sent to live at my grandfather's house and go to school with me. My grandfather's house used to be right next to my house, just separated by a wall. ”
"But unfortunately, when I was in the fourth grade, he was taken to Guangzhou to go to school. I remember crying for a long time. Luo Muqi is a very special existence for me, he took great care of me when I was a child, and almost treated me as my own sister. He would protect me when I was being bullied and go to and from school with me. ”
Le Fan suddenly raised his eyebrows and looked at me, but his expression was a little tangled, "Actually, when I was very young, I secretly liked him, because he was really good to me." Although we had a fight, most of the time he was obedient to me. I remember one time my grandmother joked that I would grow up to be his wife, in fact, at that time, I really thought that it would be good to be my cousin's wife, at least he would always spoil me. But in the end, when I understood what it meant to be a consanguineous marriage, I despised myself a little. ”
I couldn't stop laughing, "Le Fan, there are really a lot of people you like." "I didn't even let my cousin go.
Le Fan couldn't help but smile brightly: "Speaking of my cousin, the days when I played with him, almost all the pictures in my mind are beautiful, but there are also a few things that make me sad. ”
"During the winter vacation of '03, his parents came back, but after the New Year, my uncle and my fifth aunt left. Oh, I almost forgot to mention that my uncle and fifth aunt are both new families formed by the two after the divorce. When I saw my uncle and my fifth aunt leave that day, my cousin cried and didn't let them leave, and when I saw him crying so much that I couldn't stop crying, I cried too, although I didn't know what I was crying again. ”
"I used to cry because I was wronged or reprimanded by my parents, but this is the first time I haven't been wronged or hurt, but I cried more than any time."
"After my uncle and my fifth aunt left, I saw my cousin leaning against the corner sullenly and not talking all day, and my mother went to persuade him and he didn't speak. That was the first time, I understood what it meant to be sorrowful, and it was also the first time, I was so talkative, but I was in the corner all day, quietly looking at the boy who didn't speak. ”
Le Fan sighed lightly: "Actually, I learned a lot from him, whether it is happy or sad, about feelings, of course, this does not include love, he gave me a lot of inspiration." ”
Le Fan was silent for a moment, and suddenly laughed again, "Speaking of which, I was actually very willful when I was a child, especially in front of him. I remember one early morning when I had an argument with my mom, and then I ran away in a fit of anger without waiting for my mom to give me my pocket money. He had no choice but to follow me to school. But when I got halfway there, I realized that my mother hadn't given me the money yet, and then I cried and sat halfway through, although I was not sensible at that time, but I also knew that I would be hungry at noon without money. He tried to persuade me, but I didn't want to go. He had no choice but to take me back again, and by the time we arrived at school, we were already half a late for class. ”
"He often makes fun of me about this, and of course I won't admit it." Le Fan said with a smile.
I laughed too.
"Did you see a scar on his left eyelid?" Le Fan suddenly asked.
I thought about it, then nodded, it was indeed a scar, but it wasn't big. "That scar has something to do with you?" Le Fan asked like this, and I guessed.
Le Fan nodded helplessly, "Well, it has something to do with me." At that time, there was a bent plane tree behind my third uncle's house, and there would be a lot of knowledge on it in the summer, and we liked to play there. Once, we found a lot of plant vines behind Sanbo's house, and then went around to the sycamore and made a simple swing. ”
Le Fan suddenly smiled: "But when it comes to swings, when I was a child, I especially liked to sit on swings, my grandfather used to be a bamboo craftsman, that is, he would use bamboo to weave back baskets, dustpans or something." My grandfather's hometown is in Village B, which is about an hour's drive from here, my grandfather's house is surrounded by bamboo forests, and I hardly feel the heat in summer, and there is a stream not far from my grandfather's house, the water is clear and cold, and I often went there with Luo Yan to take a bath when I was a child. ”
Le Fan couldn't help but laugh as he spoke.
"My grandfather's house is a traditional wooden house, and there are side halls on both sides of the main hall, but the main hall is actually a place to store food, and the activities on weekdays are carried out in the side hall on the right. The main hall is half a room away from the two side halls, and then the three rooms form an open space in the middle with beams, where my grandfather made the basket. Outside the left and right halls, there is a beam called 'dougong', and the grandfather will put the cut bamboo poles on top to avoid the tide. And I'd tie ropes to those bamboo poles and make swings. ”
"Actually, most of my childhood here is a memory from school, but at my grandfather's house, it was all kinds of interesting attempts. I'll ask my grandfather to make me stilts, even though it's not that high. I remember that my cousin used to make a 'board car', which was the kind of wheel with three hub bearings, one in front and two in the back, and then a wooden board as a seat, plus a stick connected to the wheel in front of the steering wheel, just like the kind of skateboard that children play with now, but it is much larger than this kind of skateboard. Then we sat down the slope and slid down, but we fell a lot. I remember one time on the road in front of my house, we rode into the ditch on the side of the road in the 'board cart', and then my mother scolded us. ”
The more Le Fan spoke, the more energetic she became, but the more she said it, the more she deviated from the topic, but I didn't disturb her, and when she was so excited to tell those little embarrassing stories, she really made people feel happy and happy.
Le Fan said, suddenly pausing.
I wondered, "Why don't you say it?" ”
Le Fan smiled, "It seems to be off track." ”
I shook my head nonchalantly, "It's okay, you go on, you're happy to say it, and I'm happy to hear it." ”
Although she said that, Le Fan still led the topic to her cousin's eyes again.
"My cousin climbed up the plane tree to tie the vine to make me a swing, but when his foot slipped, a small branch poked him in the eye. When I saw that his eyes were full of blood, I was really frightened, and my head was panicked except crying, and I was thinking, what if my cousin's eyes were blind? But when I went to the hospital, I realized that it was okay to hurt my eyelids, but my mother scolded me again. ”
I couldn't help but laugh out loud, "Your cousin was so unlucky to meet you. ”
Le Fan looked at me complainingly, "Luo Su, how can you say that?" He met me in exchange for the blessing of several lifetimes of cultivation. ”
I smiled and didn't speak.
Le Fan continued: "But my cousin also had a period of absurdity when he was about twenty years old, and the reason was that he was too lazy. But I think it might be a symptom of his menopause. ”
I laughed again, "Menopause? ”
Le Fan smiled and nodded, "Yes, menopause from childhood to youth, but maybe his menopause came later." ”
"Didn't I say it, when I was a child, I probably watched too many 'Qiong Yao' dramas, and I lived a more 'Qiong Yao' life. When I was in third grade, my dad and my mom had a fight, and at that time my dad used to drink a lot, and when he got drunk, he would quarrel with my mom and even fight. At last my mother couldn't stand it anymore and wanted to take me away, at that time I didn't understand anything, except for the hesitation of leaving the house, and the thought of never seeing my cousin again made me uncomfortable, thinking that in the future, I am afraid that no one else will be as accustomed to me as my cousin. However, in the end, my mom and my dad reconciled, and I didn't leave in the end. ”
I couldn't help but ask, "Did my uncle use to be a drinker?" ”
Thinking about the father you I have seen in the past two days, he is peaceful and calm, and he doesn't look like a person who is addicted to alcohol, nor does he look like a person who can beat people.
Le Fan smiled and nodded.