Pulling my narrative out of my panic, I felt like I was missing something. By the way, I omitted to introduce my name. My name is Liu Zhen, a colloquial and vulgar name, but I like it very much. It doesn't have much appeal to me in itself, I like my name being called out of other people's mouths, my parents calling my name to represent family affection, classmates calling my name to represent friendship, and sometimes teachers also call my name, which means that they care about me, and that although I have poor grades, I still have a place in the class and in the teacher's mind. For these reasons, I'm happy to tell people my name, and I'm willing to tell everyone my name.

One day after school, I ran up to the balcony on the third floor and shook off in the rain, and when a girl about my age asked me what my name was, I replied cheerfully: "Liu Zhen." ”

At that time, I didn't care that the cat in her arms was squinting at me, and I didn't care that the door behind her opened and closed slightly in the wind. At that time, I only had a lively and lovely little girl in my eyes. Her face was slightly red from the sun, her bangs were drenched, and there were two possibilities of freshly washed or from the rain, her braids were tied, and a few handfuls of untied hair fluttered in the wind.

"Hello Liu Zhen, can you be friends?"

I said, "Absolutely." ”

She has an active personality and is probably the most active girl I've ever seen of her age. When I realized this, I realized that the cat and the half-open door were not for nothing. The house that scared me had a new tenant, a family surnamed Chen, and the girl's name was Chen Jia.

After they moved in, Chen Jia transferred to our school, which happened to be in the same class as me. Her academic performance is not very good, but she is extremely studious, and with her active personality, the whole class likes her.

Although there are many residents in the compound and they are of all ages, before Chen Jia, there were no students in my class or even in the entire grade who lived in the same courtyard as me. The closest to our yard was also halfway back from school, and I still remember clearly that the child's name was Liu Weijian. Locals, family conditions are absolutely petty bourgeoisie compared to us, and it can be seen from his dress that although his clothes are not much, they are not too old, at least eighty percent new, and no matter how old they are, they are gone.

He is a very naughty child, he likes to make friends, and the students in my class don't like me very well, but he doesn't treat me at all, he often puts his arm on my shoulder and says, "Liu Zhen, let's go play." "Liu Zhen, let's go, let's go home together."

I went home with Liu Weijian, and home will not be the first stop. Our first stop was sometimes to fish for lobsters by the river, and sometimes to dig out sparrow's nests in the bamboo forest, but the one we went to the most was the barn in the threshing floor. Single-layered, surprisingly high. Unlike now, when steel structure buildings were still rare, the steel roof made us have a strong science fiction reverie in our hearts.

I have the impression that the barn door is always open. Liu Weijian and I have never been stopped from trespassing. At that time, our interest was in sparrows who could not find an exit after straying into the barn. What we often do is stay by the window, expecting to either pounce on one or pick up the half-dead play on the windowpane.

Liu Weijian's home was not far from the barn, and he arrived soon, and he always generously handed me the sparrow and said, "Oh, for you to play." ”

What excites us is the process of catching sparrows, it is not fun to catch them, and Liu Weijian said goodbye, and the interest in sparrows was immediately lost, and they soon saw how they ended: some were played to death by me; Some were dying, thrown by me to the side of the road, and others were loosened by my hand, and the sky continued its fate as a sparrow in a gesture of acceptance.

One day Liu Weijian asked me: "Don't you fucking treat me as a friend anymore, and go in and out with Chen Jia every day, she has a better relationship with you than me?" Is she your sister or sister? ”

At that age, the children's minds were pure. At that age, you stuck with the little girl every day, and no one would say that you were heavy on color and light on friends, and there was no concept of distinguishing between color and friends in our hearts, that's what happened.

Liu Weijian often said foul words such as "damn it" and "dog's day", and there are many students in our class who love to use foul language, but it is rare to have the awareness of deliberately emphasizing foul language like Liu Weijian. The peculiarity of this awareness is that it is sometimes difficult to grasp the purpose of his words. Sometimes you may even wonder if he is passing on something substantial to you or just saying a few foul words to you.

I said, "We live in the same yard and have a babysitter together." ”

He said: "You fucking have it, who doesn't know your dog's virtue, you stick to her when you see that your classmates like her, you are so fucking snobbish, I, Liu Weijian, swear that I will not recognize you as a friend today." ”

I really care about Liu Weijian's friend, but he seems to be determined to cut ties with me, and I really can't help it. I found a reason for the incident of Liu Weijian severing relations with me, and Liu Weijian has his reasons for having opinions about me, but I can't be blamed entirely for this matter, otherwise it will be unfair to me. The weather should be blamed for this, who called the continuous rain to last for so long, more than half a month. Chen Jia's slender and thin girl went home alone with a wet and slippery one, and I didn't feel at ease. In addition, in order to avoid being covered with rice husks, we did not go to the barn on rainy days, and once the project was cancelled, the interest of going home with Liu Weijian was greatly reduced.

Chen Jia and I went home with an umbrella, and Chen Jia's umbrella was very worn out and couldn't cover her petite body. I want to exchange with her, she doesn't shirk, and she is generous and exchanges with me.

She said: "I heard it all, Liu Weijian wants to cut off friendship with you. ”

I said, "It's the same." ”

"What's the same?"

"There's so much energy, and strengthening the friendship with him is the same as ignoring yours, isn't it?"

"You are old friends, I just met you, and he thinks I have played some tricks, and he will hate me and you."

I said firmly: "I can't care so much. ”

My father was a mason and my mother was a worker in a screw factory. The mason's profession is characterized by a dark body. The tenants of the compound once questioned my background. I think the contrast between my white and my father's black is too stark, and it is suspicious to appear in a father and son. In other words, they think that I am not my father's own child, but a wild boy who doesn't know who my mother and are. When my father heard this, he was angry and wanted to fight with those people who were talking nonsense. My father was not a person who liked to work hard, he didn't even blush with people, let alone fight hard. It's just that he attaches too much importance to pure bloodlines, and he can't accept the stimulation in this regard.

My mother's hands were as rough as two discus, because of her years of work in a screw factory. Although it was my mother's industrious hands, I still couldn't stop panicking because of the imagination of the discus, and if such a hand was slapped, the trauma would be self-evident. Under such a frightened pressure, I became a good boy in the eyes of people.

My parents were hard-working and kind countrymen, and two years before I was born, they went to work in this affluent land in the south of the Yangtze River. I have encountered difficulties, suffered losses, and been deceived. From the beginning, he was fearless and cautious, and they did not object to me making friends, but they repeatedly emphasized that I should keep my eyes open and be careful. If you make bad friends and study badly, don't think about getting grades.

They said that when I first made friends with Liu Weijian, and now that I am friends with Chen Jia, they say so again. For Liu Weijian, I can understand what they say. Although I am an elementary school student, I have a lot of naughty students, and it is really difficult to change the habits I have developed since childhood. The gains of making such friends outweigh the losses. My parents didn't know Liu Weijian and didn't know him, but it turned out that he hardly did anything out of the ordinary except for catching sparrows in the barn with me, nagging innocuous nonsense in his spare time, and opening his mouth to say foul words that would never infect me.

I don't understand, since they know Chen Jia, where does their prejudice against her come from. She is lively and well-behaved, and although my grades are not satisfactory, my scores in each exam are really pitiful. I have no reason to look down on her in this regard, she is more than enough to be my friend in this regard.

But my father said, "It's not the problem, it's not what her personality is, whether her grades are good or not." The problem was that the first time I met her, it felt weird. His hair was messy, and the light in the door behind him was oddly dim. And the cat, with a lot of content in its eyes, trying to tell me something. ”

I said, "What does it matter?" I was a little scared when I saw the cat and the half-open door, but now I don't think so, and I even think the idea was ridiculous. She's a very nice girl, and it's a pleasure to be friends with her. ”

The father did not speak, and he acquiesced.

The rain kept falling, it didn't stop for the third week, and it was still raining for the fourth. The house leaked every day, and her mother couldn't stand it anymore, so she discussed with her father to change her residence. My father agreed, and the dilemma was that the tenants on the second floor were full, and the water on the ground floor was damp, so it was better not to change it. Move out of this compound and find trouble with a house. And they're old-fashioned people who don't like to spend energy adapting to a new environment.

When asked for my opinion, I used to want to move out of this water-curtain hole immediately, but at that time, when I thought that I might move to a place far away from here, I didn't have many opportunities to meet Chen Jia, let alone spend time together every day when I went to school and went home like now, and friendship made me reject my mother's proposal. This proposal, which was effectively unanimously opposed, was ultimately dissolved.