Chapter 21: The Bead Curtain (Revised)
"Your figure, your singing, will always be imprinted in my heart. Although yesterday has passed, it is difficult to reunite separately, how can you forget your affectionate ......"
The singing voice is weak and weak, like a clear stream passing slowly, chanting and singing in a low voice, imitating the controversial air-vocal singing method of the famous singer Li Guyi, which is vivid.
The singing came from the window of Chen's house, faintly faint, with a hint of distraction, and in the early morning when the summer sun was shining, it felt a touch of freshness and coolness.
It has passed the beginning of autumn, but the weather is still hot, the scene at about six o'clock in the morning, the sun is already shining, the sky is cloudless, there is occasionally a trace of wind blowing through the hall, the leaves of the old locust tree in the patio are swaying slightly, and there is a rustling sound.
The screen door was pushed open with a creak, Xiaoyu lifted the beaded curtain hanging on the door, and came out of the room, she braided the tip of one hand, stood at the door, turned around, looked up and down the slightly shaking curtain, tilted her head left and right, and looked again.
"Xiaoyu, I got up so early today, it's a hot day, why are you standing here?" In the aisle next to the patio, Mrs. Liu's son pushed his bicycle and prepared to go to work, pressed the bell of the bicycle, beckoned Xiaoyu, and the crisp bell jingled, sprinkled on the bluestone road.
"Uncle Liu is early." Xiaoyu looked back and greeted with a smile, and pointed to her door curtain again, "I'm here to see if the bead curtain I just made yesterday looks good." ”
"Yo, you're so young to make bead curtains? It's not easy. ”
"Where, I just learned it, I don't know if the effect is good, just come out and take a look." Xiaoyu said with a smile.
Uncle Liu pushed the bicycle and stood there, tilted his head to look at it a few times, and praised: "Not bad, not bad, it's good to be able to do this." You're still a kid, and Lulu's mother is pretty much the same as you. ”
"Uncle Liu, don't say that, where can I compare with my aunt. It's just fooling around. ”
During this time, it was popular among girls to wear beaded curtains, cut into small strips of old calendar paper, knead them into two ends and a circle in the middle, and then glue them tightly with paste, and then wrap them around transparent tape to make long round beads, and the glass filaments were strung with long ones one by one, and finally made hooks with paper clips and hung on the door.
The old wall calendar paper is colorful, and the beaded curtains are also colorful.
So during this time, as long as there is a shady place in the big yard, there will always be three or five girls or women sitting together, enjoying the shade and doing work at the same time.
Xiaoyu also followed Liu Lulu to learn to do it, this is the one that has just been successful, I caught up last night, let Chen Wenhui help her hang up, early this morning, as soon as the day dawned, I was busy coming out to see the effect of the day.
"Uncle Liu went to work so early today?" Xiaoyu said to Uncle Liu with a smile.
"I'm on the morning shift today, so I have to leave early." Uncle Liu said as he spoke, his feet were already on the pedal, ready to ride, thought about it, and said. "Xiaoyu, next time you go to our store with Lulu, I'll make you something to eat."
"Hey, thank you, Uncle Liu." Xiaoyu responded.
Uncle Liu is a chef, and the restaurant where he works is called "Xihua Building", which was originally a famous local restaurant, in the city center.
In those years, buying rice and noodles, asking for food stamps, buying meat for meat stamps, buying non-staple food for non-staple food stamps, people take food as the sky, chef is a very decent profession, who sees him in the yard is polite, some families who can live a life, sometimes ask him to buy some cheap and affordable "foot dishes" in restaurants. "Come back and try it.
Liu Lulu knows the benefits.
Once took Xiaoyu to "Xihua Building" to buy cooked vegetables, and bought three cents of fried shredded pork with edamame, Uncle Liu packed a big lunch box for her, and she didn't finish it after a few meals.
Uncle Liu has a good temper and loves his daughter, even his friends with his daughter, and he likes Chen Xiaoyu very much.
"Look, Xiaoyu is so sensible, she gets up early in the morning every day to do her homework, and after she finishes her homework, she helps her grandmother do housework, choose vegetables, cook, wash dishes, and do everything."
Chen Xiaoyu is really impressive now, the neighbors who come and go from Chen's door every day see her busy all day long, helping the old lady with her work.
"Mrs. Chen, your granddaughter is becoming more and more sensible, and she is becoming more and more beautiful.
The little flower they are talking about is Zhao Xiaohua played by Chen Chong in the movie "Little Flower", all of whom have a chubby round face, deep depth, and big eyes that can talk.
Every time I hear someone say this, my grandmother will always say very modestly, "Xiaoyu looks like a small flower, her face is so big, it is like a flower, and it is not small, like a sunflower." ”
Since then, Xiaoyu's nickname has become "sunflower." ”
Every time Xiaoyu listens to it, she is speechless, people praise herself like a movie star, and when she arrives at her grandmother, she becomes a big face, is her face as big as a sunflower?
"Grandma, you say I'm like a sunflower, and people think I'm a pockmark." Xiaoyu pouted, unhappy.
"Why do you say Nong is pockmarked?" The old lady was puzzled.
"The sunflower is full of sunflower seeds, isn't it just a pockmarked seed?"
"Sunflower, got up so early today?" Behind her is someone calling her, it is Liu Lulu, the baby daughter of Uncle Liu who has just gone to work.
"Liu Lulu, if you call it like that again, I will ignore you."
"Yo, it's not my nickname for you, it's your grandmother." Liu Lulu grinned, she didn't go to play with others recently, and she stared at the back of Xiaoyu's ass all day long.
"My grandmother hadn't seen this movie. She didn't know that Xiaohua was a character. I didn't know that Xiaohua was a beauty. Xiaoyu said,
There's really no way, there's a generation gap is a generation gap.
"Then you take her to the movies, and you'll know who Xiaohua is when you see it. Isn't there a wall calendar, Chen Chong's wall calendars are everywhere. Liu Lulu stood beside her, tilting her head and looking at Xiaoyu's newly hung door curtain.
"I've cut the calendar into strips." Xiaoyu pointed to the bead curtain.
"Then go to the movies."
"Well, there's no cinema anymore." Xiaoyu said.
"I've heard that a movie is playing on the big playground at school tonight. It seems to be "Little Flower". ”
"Really? What time is it? Where's the big playground? Xiaoyu asked excitedly.
"Well, half past seven." Liu Lulu said, puzzled again, "Haven't you been to the big playground before?" I remember going with you last year. Isn't it just the big playground at the university? ”
"Oh, it's been so long, I don't remember." Xiaoyu smiled wryly, the memory of watching the open-air movie seemed to be really long and vague, "Are you going at night?" ”
"Then go ahead." Liu Lulu said indifferently, as long as it was playing, she was not unhappy, let alone with Chen Xiaoyu, the family would not disagree.
The two of them grinned at Xiaoyu's newly hung curtain again, pointing and commenting, Liu Lulu was hungry and said, "It's still early, let's go out for breakfast." ”
"Well, I'm thinking about going out for a walk, too." Xiaoyu nodded.
Last night, she did half a night of handiwork, her neck was sore, her eyes were astringent, she had to go out to do activities, she didn't know the importance of health in her previous life, and this time she remembered it.
The two went out as they spoke, and a large piece of acacia flowers fell to the ground, stepping on them, and the stars were stained on the uppers, fragrant all the way.