I misunderstood, and I should say I'm sorry, to the cat. It was only after I became friends with Chen Jia that I had the time and interest to observe the cat. It is an ordinary cat in terms of hair, size, and calling. Chen Jia said that it unusually likes sunlight, and although cats are nocturnal animals, it is not contradictory to their love of sunlight. Bright sunlight is the ideal living environment for them. Since it is a commonality, how to understand the "extraordinary" mentioned by Chen Jia?

After a while, after seeing it with my own eyes, I finally believed that it was unusually fond of sunlight. When the sun is high, it sleeps at the door, and when the sun is westerly and there is not much sunlight at the door, it jumps on the windowsill, straightens up, and sleeps on all fours. When the sun was about to sink and there was little sunlight left in the courtyard, it jumped onto the cement railing of the balcony, and refused to miss the last bit of golden light.

Although the guardrail is wider than the average person, it is only about 20 centimeters, and if it suddenly rolls even half a circle in a dream, it will fall from the third floor and shatter its bones. It is to love the sunshine with life, and everything that is willing to give life to achieve it must be the ultimate.

I remember the first time I saw the cat and felt it glaring at me, but it wasn't like that. That's its inherent demeanor, or even its friendly demeanor. Chen Jia said: "Cats and humans are two different creatures, and you can't measure cats from a human perspective. Especially Phoebe, by the way, you will call Phoebe in the future, the more I like you, the more unfriendly the expression looks. ”

If this is the case, it looked at Chen Jia with a bitter and hateful expression, which made people laugh.

"Phoebe, Phoebe." I shouted it. It turned to look at me. "What are you doing, looking like a little tiger, trying to eat me?"

Seeing me pretending to be serious to speak, Chen Jia couldn't help but laugh. "I can't tell," she said, "that you still have the ability to talk to small animals." ”

Being friends with Chen Jia, everything is fine, too good to be good, the kind of friendship between chatting and talking is not comparable to Liu Weijian fishing for lobsters, catching sparrows, and fooling around. But there are some qualities in her that sometimes make me unhappy. Chatting and walking on the way home, it was fine a moment ago, but suddenly his brows frowned, revealing sentimentality. I don't know what's going on with her, where does the sentimentality come from. All I know is that it's definitely not my reason, because our conversation was fairly pleasant.

I asked her, "Hey, what's wrong with you, you don't look very happy." ”

Most of the time she ignored me, and at one point, she asked back, "How is your family?" ”

I find it strange because children of my age rarely ask each other about their home unless they ask about it.

I replied to her: "There are grandfathers and grandmothers in my hometown, and my parents brought me with them when they came here to work." ”

"Are they good to you?"

"Of course. How can any parent treat their children badly. ”

After hearing this, she looked far away and repeated my words: "Yes, how can any parent treat their children badly. ”

At that time, it was the first time we had talked about such a topic, and it gave me a very peculiar feeling, and I vaguely thought that the sadness between her eyebrows had something to do with it.

Later, I learned that Chen Jia lived in a single-parent family, and her mother died a few years ago, and the cause of death was a secret in the hearts of their father and daughter. I learned from my father that her father's name was Chen Tiantong. This is a very imposing and ambitious name, and in my mind, people with such names make a lot of money even if they are not officials. He may have been like that in the past, who knows what happened in the past, but not anymore, now he is a drunkard, drunk every night, in the words I have heard, "He doesn't earn enough money during the day for him to drink at night." ”

In fact, I have seen the drunkard Chen Tiantong many times in the yard. What impressed me the most was on an evening with a short sunset. After a lot of rain, the sunset seems magical and precious to me. I was attracted by the sun and walked on the balcony, forgetting that it is very important to finish my homework, forgetting not to do what I should do, standing on the balcony in a daze, my mother would definitely be unhappy, if she had the sequelae of a bad mood during the day, maybe the discus slap would make me slap me.

When I looked at the pale half-dried cement up close, I forgot everything with excitement. What's more, my eyes immediately stretched out into the distance, and I saw that there were a lot of people coming and going in the yard, whether I knew each other or not, and whether I had seen or not seen them talking together. You can imagine it as a pre-holiday scene, or you can think of them as preparing a lantern to celebrate the sun, although the last half of the lantern can't be hung up.

It was on that day that I saw Chen Jia's father, Chen Tiantong. I hadn't made any connection between Chen Jia and the drunkard that day. I saw him staggering into the courtyard on a blue brick road like cracks in porcelain. I saw that his back was arched and his head was stretched out, as if he was about to vomit. He wasn't fully drunk yet, and he still had the consciousness to vomit and need to find a container. It's just that he made a mistake, ran to the well, hugged the well, and vomited like he was holding a basin.

I was not the only one who saw this, but among the people who saw this scene were tenants who never used running water and relied only on the well for their own water. Those people were so emotional that they rushed up to a few strong drunks and threw them into the mud about ten meters from the well. Whatever they vomited there, they didn't have a problem with that.

Chen Jia was not attracted by the golden sunset that time, and I had long noticed that there were very few things that attracted her. I also noticed that whenever evening came, Chen Jia stayed at home, I thought she was doing her homework behind closed doors, but later I figured out that things were not so simple, what he was waiting for, he was waiting in a claustrophobic way.

I don't know when the drunkard Chen Tiantong got up and went back to the house, it was possible when I just returned to the house to do my homework, or in the middle of the night. I had just eaten dinner and stared at the muddy field. Unfortunately, darkness swallowed my vision.

One day, my father and his friends on the construction site mentioned the drunkard Chen Tian and said to me: "Oh, it's your friend Chen Jia's father." ”

I was shocked, and it was also at that time that I learned about Chen Jia's family situation. Gradually, I accepted it. This is natural, even Chen Jia himself can accept it, what can't I accept?

Only the first time I saw Chen Jia, her hair was messy, and later I had the impression that although it was old, it was quite neat. It was the weekend, and I got up within half an hour of my parents going to work, went to the toilet and passed by Chen Jia's door. It was raining too hard that day, and there was a strong musty smell in the rain. I saw Chen Jia, sitting by the door. In the past, whenever she saw me, she always took the initiative to say hello, but not this time, she and her cat were looking at the depths of the rain in a daze. Her hair was untied and messy, and the wind blew, and the yellow strands of hair covered half of her face, almost unrecognizable to her.

I said, "Chen Jia, get up so early, are you done with your homework?" ”

Her gaze flickered over my face, and she only shook her head, not saying a word.

I didn't have time to go out in the morning, and I had to finish at least half of my homework before my mother came home at noon. I'm very good at writing homework in a hurry, because I always have a lot of questions that I can't do, and it's very easy to deal with the problems that I can't do, and I can always solve the problem quickly by scribbling through it.

In the afternoon, when the rain stopped, I watched TV for a while, but there was really nothing that attracted me, so I planned to turn off the TV and go to Chen Jia. Unexpectedly, at this time, there was a knock on the door, Chen Jia's thoughts were the same as mine, and when I opened the door, she said, "Liu Zhen, let's go out to play." ”

Her hair was draped all the time, and it was so beautiful, especially when the wind blew backwards, it reminded me of the big stars on TV, and she obviously didn't have half of that, and whenever her hair was flying, she even covered it with her hands, as if she was ashamed to show me her whole face.

Later, when I accidentally saw a purple patch on her face, I suddenly realized that shyness was not the reason for covering her face, but the real reason was to cover the marks left by the beating.

I held back my doubts in my stomach for a long time, and finally couldn't help asking, "You were beaten?" ”

Chen Jia nodded.

I said, "I've seen him drink too much, and you stayed away from him at that time, and you couldn't control yourself when you drank too much." "There are a lot of scenes of drunkards beating people on TV, and I put Chen Jia in those scenes, as if I saw him hiding in the corner and being beaten.

But she said, "It's not about him drinking." ”

I said, "I've been beaten a lot, but I've never had a bad ass and never hit my face like this." ”

She didn't want me to dwell on it too much, so she changed the subject: "Is there anything interesting around?" I've been here for so long, and I've only walked the road from home to school. ”

I often go to places that I think are fun and not suitable for Chen Jia, so I can't think of a place that can attract her even if I want to break my head. I was struggling, and she reminded me, "Is there a wide lake, preferably the kind that stretches as far as the eye can see?" ”

In the area where we live, there is no lake that is truly endless, but if it is clouded by smoke and rain, it may be. I know a place, about two or three miles from the compound, first to the east, and then to the north, before I see the lake, I see the woods, and at the end of the rice fields is like a green curtain, and the lake is hidden behind the trees. Walk from where we were, through the woods to the lake.

There was a path through the woods, and I thought that after such a long rain, the road must be muddy. Unexpectedly, when I walked around, the fallen leaves covered the road, and the lush tree trunks blocked the rain, and the path was actually very easy to walk.

As we walked up, we heard the sound of fallen leaves being trampled, and the wet rain seeped into the veins of the fallen leaves, making the cracking sound sticky and time seemed to move slowly. The rain stopped for a long time, and the water on the leaves was still dripping, occasionally dripping on the top of our heads, Chen Jia said: "The water is really cool, and it is very comfortable to fall on the body, like someone is making fun of me." ”