In the midspring of the twenty-fourth year of the Republic of China, the acacia flowers in the backyard of the Xu family Huqin shop began to fall little by little, Xu Ning, who was only seven years old at the time, dragged two short braids, picked the fine white and fragrant flowers in the yard, the ground was not enough, climbed the old wall and climbed the branches to pick, and finally found that he could not go down, and he was teary-eyed on the ground that could not be reached, but he heard a crisp and joyful child's voice from the other side of the wall: "Hi! You-" paused hesitantly, "you know tears won't solve the problem, right?" ”

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Xiao Aning wiped his eyes, and looked over there, it was the courtyard of the mansion, a lawn was like a cut of velvet, two rows of hedges were neat, there were inflatable doll houses by the hedges, there were wooden horses, and a child, who was born too beautiful, at first glance it seemed to be a puppet, and it was the kind of Western, snow-white skin, big eyes, high nose bridge, wearing a small dress with lace, and a small hat with a nail streamer on his head. This kind of costume, Xiao Aning has only seen in the windows of large companies such as Huiluo and Yongan on Nanjing Road, and it is displayed on celluloid dummies, and the price is terrifying.

She just stared at it and didn't answer, and the beautiful child became impatient, and said, "Are you invited by my mother to play with me?" ”

"Huh? No—" Little Aning pointed to the yard of his house: "I climbed up, but I can't get down." ”

As he spoke, he pouted and wanted to cry.

"Okay, okay, what's the matter!" The pretty child frowned and stopped her, and went to mop the inflatable dollhouse by the hedge. The dollhouse looked big, but the celluloid skin was blown, and it was not heavy, and the turf on the ground was smooth and smooth, and when it didn't move, it was dragged over and put on the wall. The beautiful child greeted Xiao Aning: "You jump down, you have this catch, you might as well." ”

Xiao Aning looked at it, but still didn't dare to jump. The beautiful child "tsk": "Trouble! Roll up his sleeves, through the doll's house pads, climbing the bricks, actually climbed up the wall, the posture is as agile as a monkey, I can't help but say that I grabbed Xiao Aning's shoulders, and was about to climb down, far away from the lawn, the gray wall and red roof Western-style Western-style mansion came out of the fine flower brick side drum door A Suzhou aunt, looking around, bird-like chirping something, Xiao Aning vaguely heard the word "young master", the beautiful child bluffed his head, and ordered Xiao Aning: "Go to your yard!" He picked up A-Ning and climbed a few steps, and seeing that it was close to the ground anyway, he simply hugged A-Ning and jumped down. A-Ning was timid and weak-legged, and as soon as she struggled, she even made a rolling gourd with the beautiful child and her. A-Ning got up to look at the beautiful child, and was happy, but unfortunately the clothes were dirty. The beautiful boy didn't care about it, patted the dirt for A-Ning, looked up and down with a smile, and said proudly: "It's okay!" - I saved you, and I will be your prince from now on! My name is Si Ling, and you will call me Prince Ling in the future. ”

"It's impossible!" Xiao Aning said seriously.

"Why not?"

"Because you're a girl too!" Little Aning pointed to her hair. After a fall just now, the hat had already slipped off, and the long hair that was originally hidden under the hat was spread out, which was permed, and it was rolled over the shoulders, and the top was fashionable, and the real foreign women were not so cute. How could she be a boy!

"Ah......" Xiao Siling was silent for a moment, casually brushing the beautiful hair curls, and frowned regretfully, "This is really something that can't be helped." ”

A-Ning laughed, her mother was doing things at the counter in front of her, she was alarmed by the sound, and came to the backyard, and when she saw the girl's appearance, she had seen it from afar, and was surprised: "Yo! Isn't this the second lady from the Chen Mansion next door? ”

Si Ling admitted it, and saluted and said hello, the posture was delicate, Xu's mother liked it from her heart, and hurriedly took it, asking her how she came to Xu's courtyard and how she was covered in mud, listening to A-Ning's confession of the truth, and scolded A-Ning repeatedly, but Si Ling relieved on the side: "I want to play by myself." ”

Mother Xu called the guy in front of her to report to the Xu Mansion, pulled Si Ling to look at it, shook her head and said, "How dare you send the young lady back like this." "Led the two girls into the back room, there was an old wooden table in the local area, the wood was yellow, the corners of the table were polished, and there were four homogeneous long wooden chairs on the four sides, and the top of the table was covered with green gauze to cover the unfinished tea bowl of Chinese rice. A few new and old cabinets are clipped to the wall, a case, and an old incense burner on the top is for the net bottle Guanyin, which is a new image over the years. This is the Xu family's dining room and living room. Seeing that it was so cramped, but surprisingly warm, Si Ling and his own house and the house of relatives and friends were two worlds, but he felt fresh and looked at it. A ray of sunlight was shining from the window on the old yellow wooden table and green gauze cover, and next to the window was a narrow wooden ladder with carved handrails.

Xu's mother carried Siling up from the wooden ladder and saw an attic, the so-called "pavilion room" in Shanghai, this is the bedroom, with the help of the house spire, the middle and high places are good, and the low place against the wall is only half a person high, and it is not easy to stand bent over, so it is not left as a space for people to move, but a row of boxes for storage. Mother Xu opened a box, picked out a stack of clothes and brought it out, and said with a smile: "Second Miss, don't dislike it, change into A-Ning's clothes first, take off your suit, and I'll wash it for you." So he changed the clothes of the two girls, wiped their hands and faces, and took out an old-fashioned box with black lacquer and tortoiseshell flowers from the chest by the wall, and two plates. The box was opened, and there were pastries inside, each half the size of a palm, Xu's mother chose a few colors and saved them in the plate, asked the two girls to eat, covered the box and put it next to it, and instructed Xu Ning: "It's not enough, you can add it to Miss Chen." ”

Xu Ning responded, Xu's mother went down the ladder to wash her clothes, rubbed her clothes in soapy water, and the Chen family's reply also came. It was the aunt of Suzhou who chirped, who chirped like a bird and called "young master", and personally brought Mrs. Chen's message and said: "Mrs. said that the second lady can be naughty and cause trouble to the neighbors. ”

Mother Xu was very mouthful: "Where, where!" It's that we're causing trouble for the house. Rinsing the soap foam on his hands, he put down his cuffs and asked his aunt, "I don't know what to call it-"

"Call me Ah Zhen!" Aunt Niang smiled and said, "My mother is—"

"The surname of my family is Xu, and the older generation has passed it down to do the huqin business, where is the teacher!" Mother Xu humbly shook her hand.

Ah Zhen didn't care, she was still called "Mrs. Xu", Mother Xu was full of smiles, and she twisted her waist like an old hen and led her to the attic. The two girls had already eliminated half of the snacks on their plates, and they were chatting happily, from "how do you write your name" to "a new Indian silk has been introduced in the street Jewish shops".

When Ah Zhen saw the snack, she said "yo": "This is meticulous, I'm afraid I didn't buy it from outside?" ”