When he returned home, his aunt was still cooking and stir-frying vegetables in the yard to prepare the family's lunch meal, and Lu Li went into the house, took out a basin that was placed diagonally under the basin rack, poured water on it, took out a pair of sneakers from behind the door and soaked them in, put the basin at the door, and then turned around and picked up a brush and a small box with light blue powder in it, and sat down by the door. Clicked and began to brush his shoes.

Yu Fang looked back, as if she had completely forgotten what had just happened, and said in a somewhat playful tone, "What's the use of brushing shoes?" Don't wash your socks, look at your socks, they can stand up on their own. ”

Luli chuckled, and continued to without raising his head; This is a kind of sneaker that imitates the pull back brand; The Hui Li brand was the most popular at the time, and this kind of shoe has a high waist, thick sole, two or three centimeters thick upper on both sides, and a half-moon red laminated pattern as a symbol. A pair of more than a dozen yuan, once worn on the feet, no matter what kind of clothes you wear, you can become the focus of people.

With the Wu family's economic ability, it is not a problem to buy a pair of such pull-back shoes, but Lu Li never took the initiative to open his mouth to ask his aunt for anything for special reasons. Fortunately, because of the best-selling pull-back shoes, counterfeit products also came into being, that is, the sneakers he was working hard to scrub. The biggest flaw in this shoe is in the sole of the foot, the pull-back shoe is noisy and thick, and the sole of this shoe is green, not only the thickness is not enough, but also stiff and no elastic surname, a little upturned, especially at the toe.

In addition, the half-moon-shaped logo of the real pull-back shoe, the three air eyes, and the round leather at the ankles, which were all absent, and the price was naturally very low, and he was worn to coax the illiterate women to have a surplus, but in the eyes of the other children, it was obvious at a glance. Fortunately, there is no shame in the children around you who can afford to wear real pull-back shoes.

Soap, brushed the upper, upper, and inside of the shoe, and then passed it with water, while the shoes were still wet, Luli picked up the small box, took out a pinch of white shoe powder with his fingers, and applied it to the upper; Shoe powder can not be smeared too much, as long as the upper of the corner is stained to a very small part, when the first time the shoes were brushed, Lu Li did not understand, must be smeared on the wet upper with a thick layer of shoe powder, thinking that in this way, the shoes brushed out will appear white, but when the shoes are dry, there is a joke: there is too much shoe powder, walking, with the vibration of the footsteps, the shoe powder puff falls, as if moving forward on the snow.

Yu Fang looked back from time to time while stir-frying, "What is this for?" ”

"Clear ...... Ming ......,"

"Ah, isn't it? Qingming is almost here," Yu Fang also reminded him, "Wait until you turn around and ask your uncle to take you to the grave." ”

Luli blinked, the tip of his tongue quickly crossed between the two lip flaps, and pondered, "Uncle, mother,"

"What are you doing?"

"White ...... Lining, clothing,"

"Got it, white shirt and blue pants, aren't you?" Yu Fang looked back at the child's up and down heads, "When your second sister comes back, she will let her pick up your clothes, let her come back and find you." ”

Luley licked his lips and looked like he had something to say: he wanted to beg his aunt to make him a new pair of blue pants; What he has now is the women's pants worn by his second sister, with side openings, flat fronts, and no openings - it is very embarrassing for a boy to go out in such clothes. When I went to the toilet, I had to wait until all the other children were gone.

But looking at his aunt's busy figure, he squirmed his mouth a few times and swallowed the words back.

Put the sneakers on the sunny windowsill, see that my aunt is still focusing on cooking, quietly open the door, and head to the opposite courtyard. "Why are you going? Run to the dog's house all day long, you can grow their family! ”

The dog's name is Han Xiaodong, which is his nickname, and he is a year younger than Luli and will not go to school until this fall; It's almost like Luli's second home, and there's been too many visits, "Ah, little here?" Shall you eat here for lunch? Aunt Han called inward, "Dog Li, Xiaoxiao is here." Xiaoxiao, will you eat here later? ”

"Oh?" Lu Li looked over to see that Aunt Han was chopping cauliflower, and there was a shredded dry radish on another plate - the dry radish was fried in large oil, with a little sharp chili, spicy and fragrant, accompanied by a little lard fragrance, much better than the potatoes made by my aunt, and nodded immediately, "Okay!" ”

On the other side, Gou Li led a little girl out of the room, Gou Li was a little fatter than Luli, and when he laughed, he had two dimples, and he was not ugly, as for the girl, it was his sister, also named Xiaoli, who was only four years old this year, and smiled with a mouth that showed a few missing front teeth, "Little brother." ”

"Oh." Lu Li ignored her flattering approach, frowned laboriously, and said slowly, "Dong Yuqiang said, department store ...... The Dada Building has a cloth ...... today Come. ”

"Really?" Gouli's eyes lit up, and he let go of his sister's hand, "Mom, I'm out." ”

"It's time to eat."

"Come back and eat."

The two little ones walked outward side by side, Xiaoli walked behind her little heels, and called in a milky voice, "Brother, bring ...... I'll go. ”

"I'm not going to take you there." The dog waved his hand like a fly, "Go back, go back, I'll play with you when I come back." After speaking, without waiting for her to express her dissatisfaction, she rushed out of the house with a smoke.

Erxiao walked along the alley, walked through a long gentle slope, arrived at the most prosperous peace road in Tian (Tianjin) City, although it is called prosperous, but it is just a two-lane road, the station on the side of the road is a 24 bus stop, this is a busy line from Tian (Tianjin) West Station to East Station, the diesel engine spits out billowing black smoke from the tail, the passengers up and down are in a hurry, a conductor with a ticket holder in his hand stands at the end of the flow of people at the back door, and his mouth is muttering, "Just get on the bus and go inside, hey!" She pointed to a man in the window, "Comrade, go inside." ”

Lu Li pulled the hand of his companion, and the two of them relied on the small dexterity of people, slipped through the back door into the crowd of people who were boarding the car, stepped on the pedal, his body was long up, and his fingers pressed on a button on the side of the door, and then his body jumped, and the button was used as a toy, and he pressed it several times in a row. ”

There were two types of buses in the 60s, one was a single car, and the other was an articulated car, the latter with three passengers, one driver not to mention, and the other two conductors. One of them stays still, sitting at the back door of the car – there are dedicated seats – and the other is a mobile ticket. Ticketing is the responsibility of a fixed conductor for the second half of the carriage, while for the first half of the articulated carriage, it is the responsibility of a mobile conductor.

Most of these people are women, and when the car is moving, she goes from the middle door to the front door in turn, sells tickets along the way, and after arriving at the station, gets off from the front door, and then gets on the bus from the middle door, and so on.

The other is a single car - as seen today - only two front and rear doors, next to the back door of the car, installed a button, press the button, the electric bell next to the driver will ring - its function is to remind the driver to turn off the door when the conductor finally gets on the bus. If it is done by mistake, it is easy to give the driver a wrong signal, and once the door is closed, there may be trouble in pinching hands, pinching feet, and even throwing off people.

The conductor heard the shouts of his colleague and knew that someone was coming to trick or treat him, so he reached into the crowd to catch it, and the two children saw that the matter was revealed, jumped off the pedal, giggled and turned around and ran away, and there was a reluctant scolding from the conductor behind him, "A thousand knives!" I'll talk about it when I catch you! ”

The car emitted a puff of black smoke again, and drove away abruptly, and the department store was not far away, and they quickened their pace and jumped in through the back door of the building.

The department store has front and rear doors, the front door is not to mention, but the back door is much more deserted, which was originally used by the mall to load and unload goods, and there is also an elevator; At the same time, it can also be used as a guest to go up and down the stairs, but from the mall through the back door, you have to take a long detour, not for the customer to choose, after a long time, it becomes a paradise for children.

Went up the stairs to the third floor, this floor is a store for cloth, clothing and consignment goods, and the two small ones do not enter the sales hall, but focus on the huge enamel trash can at the corner of the stairs, "No." Gou Li said disappointedly.

They came this time to get sandwich paper sticks. The so-called paper stick is a hollow stick that is wrapped layer by layer of kraft paper used in the production of cloth, and the cloth itself is soft, so it is used as a support. When the cloth is sold, only a paper stick the size of a teacup remains, which can be recycled, so the children are unlikely to get it; Sometimes, when the paper stick is dirty, it is thrown away - the children pick it up and use it to fight and play without really hurting anyone, and there is a weapon that they can use as a treasure, and whoever can get a new and clean paper stick can show off for a while.

Luli was extremely disappointed, rolled his eyes, and said without giving up, "Let's go in...... Go, look. ”

The two entered the building, turned a corner, and arrived at the center of the sales hall, it was the time for lunch, there was no one in the building, even the sales clerk was very few, above each counter, a person-high position hung with iron wire, and several iron clips on it swung back and forth. Lu Li and his uncle and aunt had been here and knew that it was used to pass on money and tickets (Note 1)

Walk to the cloth counter, the half-height counter is full of all kinds of fabrics, although there are many types, the color is extremely monotonous, either gray or blue, very few look quite eye-catching such as red, yellow, flowers, green cloth rolls, are placed on the shelf, the guests themselves can not get, when the specific purchase, please ask the salesperson to help take it down and then select.

After a few steps back and forth, Luli jumped on his feet, leaned on the wide counter, and looked down, "Is there one?" Gouli asked anxiously.

"Yes, okay...... It's a lot. Looking at the pile of paper sticks on the counter, Luli swallowed, although he had the courage to lie down and look, but he didn't have the courage to go in and steal, just looked, and his heart was greedy.

"Hey!" A loud voice came as a salesman put down his lunch box and walked over from the rest area.

Luli hurriedly came down and looked at the dog, "Uncle......"

The salesman looked over and saw that it was two little boys, their faces were slightly dark, "What are you doing?" ”

"Paper ...... Paper ...... "Dog was timid and didn't dare to answer at all, so he had to speak by the stammering Luli," paper ......

"Paper, paper?" The salesperson's loud voice echoed in the empty store, provoking colleagues who were eating to come out to watch, "What's wrong?" ”

"Kids, I don't know what to say."

Luli gritted his teeth and tried to correct his stammer, but he still couldn't say a sentence, "Paper, stick!" ”

"Oh, that's what you're talking about, right?" The salesman bent down to pick up a hollow paper stick, looked at the cute appearance of the children nodding vigorously, and smiled slightly, "What do you want this thing for?" ”

"Play!"

The salesman nodded and smiled, "If it's good, I'll give it to you if I call my uncle." (Note 2)

"Uncle, uncle."

"Call Uncle."

"Uncle."

"Salute!"

The dog raised his left hand, and Lu Li raised his right hand, and saluted as the People's Liberation Army in the picture. The man laughed, thinking that it was nice to have two children for him to play with and eat today; "Alright, let's go back."

"Paper, paper!" Lu Li was anxious and angry, did the other party say that it didn't count? Angry, the stutter became even more serious.

"Paper, paper? It's all useful! Hurry up, hurry away. ”

The two were so angry that they were helpless, seeing the man turn around and go back to rest, he glanced at each other's backs with the white eyeballs hatefully, and felt that he was so incomprehensible, Lu Li suddenly had an idea, took a half step back, pulled out the elastic band on his pants, took out a small finch, and faced the counter is a bubble of urine! While urinating, I leaned back vigorously, and this bubble of urine was so urgent and rushed that it even splashed on the counter! Wet a corner of the cloth.

The dog immediately followed his example, took off his pants, and peed, and before they could finish peeing, he was discovered, "Hey! You two immoral children! Lao Cai, they pee on you. ”

The man who was playing with the second child was startled, but he only saw two small figures running towards the stairs at the door, and while running, he turned around and scolded the street that they themselves didn't understand the meaning of, MB's big SBMB's big SB! ”

Note 1: In the 6th and 70th years, if customers went to a larger shopping mall such as a department store to buy items, after paying the money and tickets, the salesperson clamped the money and tickets with an iron clip, and passed them directly to the cashier belonging to different counters along the wire, and the latter counted them again, and then sent the bills and the remaining change back directly with the iron clip. When the store is busy, the most common sound heard in the store is the sharp hissing sound of a clamp cutting through the wire.

Note 2: Uncle, these two characters are pronounced as 'breaking', and they are pronounced as 'breaking'. In the language habits of the Tian (Tianjin) people, it means uncle; Its counterpart is 'uncle', which means uncle.