3. Small pears and small chestnuts
On the first night, the private child was waiting in the hall early, Liao Qiu left home to wash up before coming, and when he went out, he happened to meet someone selling "smoked fish" in the alley, so he bought a few taels of smoked pig's head meat and a few smoked yellow croaker, and wrapped them and brought them over. When he arrived at the other courtyard, the steward led him into the hall and retreated, and he didn't recognize his life, so he took care of him when he came in: "I'm sorry, I've been waiting for you for a long time." ”。 The key to not recognizing life is that he treats this child as a child, not as a private child of King Su, a child is a child, and if he leaves his identity, what is he left with? There is a mother who can't see the light, there is a father who treats himself as a treasure, nothing else, no playmates of the same age, neither can run crazy in the alleys like ordinary children, play with urine and mud, play marble, play kites, play peek-a-boo, nor can you rely on your parents to be coquettish, pitiful, this is a nine-year-old child! It's no better than a prisoner in a cage! I guess this kid hasn't even seen a smoked fish!
Liao Qiuli took pity on him, walked up to him, squatted down, opened the pouch in his hand, and handed it to him: "Look, smoked fish, have you eaten it?" ”
The private child shook his head and whispered: I heard someone selling outside, but the family didn't let me eat it, saying that it was dirty, and I was afraid of stomach trouble if I ate it.
"It's okay, I always love to eat this, I've eaten it a thousand and eight hundred times, and I don't see stomach trouble! You eat, right? It's delicious! ”
The private child hesitated for a moment, took a smoked yellow croaker, and chewed it carefully. Liao Qiuli put the pouch on the table and watched him eat it with a smile, "What's the matter?" Not bad, right? After speaking, he also picked up a few pieces of smoked pig's head meat, and sang the tune of selling smoked fish while eating, and the two of them ate and listened, and a bag of smoked fish was gone.
"Delicious, right?" Liao Qiuli still asked with a smile.
The private child whispered a "hmm", which was considered an answer.
"Ming'er brought you roast lamb head meat and sugar gourd, what's the matter?"
The private child still whispered "um", but the tone was much softer, and the person was much softer, a bit like a nine-year-old child.
"That's it for now, I'll go back first, and I still have to do work tomorrow." Liao Qiuli discussed with him with a smile, he will be here tonight, and he will continue tomorrow night.
As soon as he heard him say that he was leaving, the gloomy color between the private child's eyebrows floated up again, depressed and unhappy, and he was reluctant to let him go. After hesitating for a while, I asked him, can you stay? Stay with me.
Liao Qiuli still pities him, he pities him and wants to lean up when he catches someone, but he is pitiful, there are some things that he can't control!
"We are subordinate people, and it is not suitable to live in the palace annex. I'll come back tomorrow evening, huh? ”
This is about to leave, the smuggled child caught up, and whispered, My name is Xiao Yu, what about you
Liao Qiuli just crossed the threshold, heard this question, and turned around and said, Liao Qiuli, my father said that the year my mother gave birth to me, there was a bumper harvest of autumn pears, so he gave him such a name, and it is easy to remember, if you can't remember, you can call me pear!
"Do your families call you Pears?" The illegitimate child asked him.
"No, they all call me by first name and surname."
"Am I the only one who calls the pear?"
"Yes, it's just you, it's easy to remember."
Liao Qiuli thought about the convenience of memory, but the private child thought about "I am the only one who can call this name!" ”。 The two sides are not thinking about the same thing at all, in the final analysis, it is the private child who thinks deeply.
The stage of the courtyard of King Su's mansion was built for three months, and it was finally built, and on the day of completion, King Su came to see it, and it was rare to show a smile, and it was rare to be so stingy with words, and praised the workmanship. Of course, a large amount of silver is indispensable, in addition, Liao Qiuli was also specially rewarded, and after the reward, there was something to say: "Now that the stage is built, you won't come to do the work, but there is one thing, you have to come often, every day, no matter how busy you are, rain or shine, you know?" ”
King Su took such a painstaking effort, of course, for his own private child, in order to please the child. He had already seen that his son was short of companions and unhappy, and he had found so many playmates of the same age for him before, but he ignored them, and beat people out when he was unhappy! I never thought that this kid was a little blessed, but he just cast into his son's eyes! The kind of worry that I think about day and night, people with a discerning eye can see it, this time the work is over, and his son's tea and rice are not fragrant, aren't you afraid that this kid will never come again? This is easy to do, and it is easy to deal with people, so he will be a favor and nail this kid to this courtyard.
Liao Shixiang just complained in his heart when he heard it - what did you say?! After the work is over, you are not allowed to leave, you have to come every day, rain or shine, and the knives in the sky must also come! The fifth child of their family is recruiting who is messing with whom?!
Liao Qiuli didn't think much about it, but he still felt sorry for the private child who was not accompanied by anyone, so he agreed, and he was quite cheerful: "Okay, I'll come every day, and I'll talk to me one day when I'm tired of listening to it." ”。 It means that if you get tired of hearing it one day, tell me that I won't come.
How can you get bored! The private child is on him, and he will not let go!
Spring goes to autumn, summer goes to winter solstice, and this year has passed. In the middle of a year, Liao Qiuli and Xiao Yu also became a person, okay. Xiao Yu called Liao Qiuli "Pear", and then he asked Liao Qiuli to also give him a small name that only Liao Qiuli could call. Liao Qiuli can't choose a name, he can't even take a small name, he has been worried for a long time, and he was forced to take one, what? Fire chestnuts!
Why is it called "fire chestnut"? Because Xiao Yu's word "Yu" has a fire on the left hand, and "Li" on the right hand side of the "sun" and "Li", which has the same sound as "chestnut", and the pear of the pear is just paired, it is all eaten, so it is decided, called fire chestnut. When it is particularly intimate, it is also called "little chestnut". These two "eaters" often eat together, all of which are snacks poured from the market, such as pea yellow, kidney bean rolls, hair cakes, sheep's head meat, sheep's horn honey, sugar gourds, sometimes Liao Qiuli will also make some snacks and bring them over, but he doesn't eat them, just watching Xiao Yu eat, watching him gobble up the food, and telling while watching: You eat slowly, where else is there!
Of course, these two are not pure food, sometimes Xiao Yu is depressed, and the two of them also talk about each other.
Liao Qiu left that night, but he didn't see Xiao Yu sitting and waiting in the hall. The steward led him to the little lake in the back garden, where he was waiting for him. Xiao Yu didn't speak when he met, of course he didn't talk much in the past, but he wasn't as sad as he was today.
Liao Qiuli asked him: What's wrong, so worried?
After being silent for a long time, Xiao Yu said, my father beat my mother again last night......
Okay, it's hard to intervene in other people's family affairs.
Liao Qiuli coughed, wanting to divert the conversation elsewhere.
Xiao Yu spoke again, he said: My father always likes to beat my mother, this is not good. If I like someone, I can't bear to fight! You have to hold it in the palm of your hand, look it in your eyes, and store it in your heart.
Hearing this, Liao Qiu didn't hold his palm, and laughed. Boss Xiao Yu was unhappy and asked him: What are you laughing at?
"How old do you think you are, ten? Just say if you like it or not, there's no shame! Liao Qiu was ashamed of him, and made a shy face.
The ten-year-old was still not happy, "That's what I thought!" No! Also, I'll be eleven in two days, not ten! ”
"Come on, you, do you still like it or not, just say some words about the third and fourth, are you tired of living?!" The little fart child is still an adult, what kind of one-headed garlic is it!
When the ten-year-old Fire Chestnut heard this, his mind was heavy again, and he stopped talking, thinking about the events of last night.
His father came over last night, and the three of them had dinner together, it was quite like a family of three, and his father fed him, and his mother gave him two chopsticks from time to time, and after eating, his father was interested, and said to his mother, the stage has been covered for a while, and I will sing a section tonight, ah? His mother didn't say a word, turned around and went out and dressed up.
Originally, his father saw that his mother was rarely obedient, and he was in a strange mood, so he took him to sit under the stage and wait.
After waiting for a while, his mother dressed up, and the piano master was ready, but as soon as the Xipi Erhuang sounded, his father's face turned gloomy. At first, he didn't quite understand what was going on, but later when he saw her mother come up, she was neither a fairy from the Moon Palace, nor a drunken concubine, but a crazy Zhao Yanrong, and then she realized that her mother was going to sing "scolding Qin" in "Cosmic Edge"!
It was Qin II who scolded Qin, why did he scold? Because Qin II robbed Zhao Yanrong and forced Zhao Yanrong to be his concubine, Zhao Yanrong was unwilling, so she pretended to be crazy and stupid, and scolded Qin II in a roundabout way!
This drama has a meaning, it is referring to Sang scolding Huai!
His father listened for a while with a gloomy face, stepped onto the stage in a few steps, swept his mother to the ground with a slap, and picked up the person with another hand and carried him into the room. Then I heard his mother spitting his father in the room, and his father didn't know if he did it again, anyway, he always heard his mother crying inside, crying so much that his liver and intestines were broken.
It's not the first time, how many times, their family is like this. His mother is usually silent, soft and weak, often sick, and when she is a little better, she also looks like Xizi holds her heart, but don't look at her weak and sick Xizi holds her heart, and she still sticks a knife into his father's heart at every turn. How to plug it, it's too easy, either toss her by herself, or bring up the old things again, pointing at Sang and scolding Huai, anyway, he is reluctant to follow his father and let his father let her go.
"Still want to go?! My sons are all born to me, where else can you fly with a boiled duck?! His father was probably also angry, and every word he said was bloody.
The more his mother cried, the more desolate she became, and she was really a little hoarse.
"You go, look for him, if he doesn't want to see a broken flower like you!"
His father's words were so cruel that his mother couldn't stop crying, and then the two tore apart, which tore to the bed. Other people's husbands and wives can fight at the head of the bed and at the end of the bed, and the husband and wife of their family fight at the head of the bed, and they still fight at the end of the bed. Fighting, after a while, there was a again. For as long as he can remember, he should have had a few younger brothers or sisters behind him, but because his mother was in bad health, he couldn't keep it, and he died after less than four months of pregnancy. No one thought that his mother was weak and couldn't conceive, but later learned that it was his mother who got the fetal pill out of nowhere. His mother is really ruthless, if you don't love it, you don't love it, if you don't want it, you don't want it, even if you force it to her, she doesn't want it either!
If both sides can be accommodating, life will be much better!
The little kid who is about to turn eleven years old is forced to be precocious by such a pair of parents.
He sighed, silently thinking about his thoughts in a daze, didn't watch out for a hand, wiped it on his forehead a few times, "Okay, okay, sigh and be in a daze, it's time to become a little old man!" ”
Xiao Yu raised his head and looked at the person in front of him carefully - he always had a smiling face, as if nothing was a problem, nothing was difficult, and when he was with him, he also felt that there was nothing in the world that he couldn't get by.
"Pear, do you have any sad times?" He is just curious about whether such a person is unhappy.
"Yes. I was sad when my grandfather was gone. At that time, I was just ten years old, by the way, I was on the same side as you, and I was still on Yunqing Mountain with Master Qingxiu, hurried slowly, rushed back home from the mountain, and still didn't see the last ............ of grandpa, I only knew at that time that we were all going to die in the future, and I was young, scared, and seriously ill. Later, my master came to pick me up and take me back to Yunqing Mountain, and I raised it on the mountain for a while before I slowly got better. My master said that no one can escape the three calamities and tribulations that people live in this world. He also said that being a man is like being God, there is sunshine and rain, frost and snow, and it is impossible to be sunny all the time. I thought that this is the reason, so when you are sad, you will be sad, but don't be sad for too long, and you have to try to make yourself happy when you are alive. ”
"Hmph, you also said that I am a little old man, don't you yourself be old-fashioned!"
"Haha, didn't I learn from you!"
The two laughed for a while, and finally let go of the little things in their hearts.
The little boy who is about to be eleven years old can live with this little fun, but who would have thought that this little fun would not last long.