XLII

Yi Li refuted people's arguments that "my mother will find you something to eat": "My mother is hard, don't give it to me...... Look for something particularly delicious. ”

His vocabulary is not particularly large, and he has this meaning, and he stumbles over it, but he finally expresses it. That's what happened! There are many children in the family, and the father and mother can't take care of it. If the family is well-off and the days are idle, the father and mother have nothing to do at home, educate the children to grind the time, and call a string of children to their knees to play, then they can also cultivate and cultivate feelings. If it is a poor family, everyone is busy earning food and clothing, who can take care of the mind of a young child? Often young children are dressed, and their parents are too cumbersome; The young child cried, and his father and mother thought he was ignorant; When the young child became ill, his father and mother calculated the medical expenses, and his tone became bad: "Debt collector! ”

Yi Li said that his mother would not go out of her way to find something delicious for him. Honestly!

If he continues like this, when he reaches the age of forty-four, he may not go out of his way to find something to eat for his mother. As the old saying goes, pets will spoil rebels, but in fact, estrangement will also kill the family relationship between parents and children. In the cold land, it is difficult to grow rich flowers.

But now Yi Li is only four years old, and he doesn't know how to protect himself coldly. My mother is not good enough for him, he still has to stick to my mother. He jumped out of his chair and ran out: "I'll find my mother." Mother! ”

Lin Dai stood under the curtain and looked at Yi Li.

Many years later, Yi Li asked her, "How did my sister feel when she saw me for the first time?" Lin Dai smiled and refused to answer.

How does it feel? A little fart kid dressed in tatters. She was behind the curtain and watched him peel peanuts and eat them, and some of the peanut meat accidentally fell to the ground. She watched him play with the mud tiger, his hands were so small, the mud tiger seemed to slip off the ground at any time, and he himself realized it, so he clenched his five fingers more fiercely, and his eyes were more tiger than the mud toy.

Suddenly, he seemed to find something, and raised his head to call his mother. When they persuaded him, he didn't listen. In fact, he used to spend a whole day in the fields and didn't miss home. It has been less than an hour since I entered this gold-carved mansion. He was like a bird in a cage, and suddenly felt the existence of the cage. Despite the thin silk and the large cage, he discovered by the instinct of a beast that this place was wrong and his life was wrong!

He called his mother at the top of his voice, but Mama didn't hold it, and he ran up.

The door was on the east side, but he was already dizzy, and he didn't look in the right direction, so he went west, and slammed his head against the curtain.

Lin Dai was behind this curtain.

Mama Qiu saw Lin Dai's skirt floating, for fear that Yi Li would knock down the girl, so she hurriedly chased after her: "Little master, you-"

Yi Li's face was buried in the folds of Lin Dai's skirt.

Lin Dai shook slightly, stood still, and shook his head at Mama Qiu:

It's okay. Yi Li didn't break her.

Although he plays outside all day long, Yi Li's strength is actually not great, perhaps due to lack of nutrition. He was excessively thin. The big head rested on the thin neck, and the neckline of the home-style white cotton robe was a little gray, and the head was sweaty, and the breath was not very pleasant, but when he looked at Lin Dai with the nervous and confused eyes unique to children, Lin Dai couldn't help but bend down for him and asked softly: "What's wrong?" ”

She asked too much. Yi Li said with a crying voice: "Mother! ”

Lin Dai pouted: It's better to laugh than to cry! The so-called reach out and don't hit the smiling person. If you make a smile, people may sell you a favor; If you cry, no matter how sad and sincere you cry, people may want you to go away.

She kindly taught Yi Li: "It's useless to cry, you try to change your smile?" ”

Yi Li's mouth was flattened.

Lin Dai continued: "I will be good to you, and your father and mother will too-"

Yi Li opened his mouth wide, opened his voice and cried.

Lin Dai was full of luck, and in his terrible cry, he tried his best to keep it clear word by word: "When you stop crying, I will talk to you again." ”

She led the grandmothers out to do something else, and listened to Yi Li's cry gradually lower.

Lin Dai came back to see him, and he stopped crying.

"Really stop crying?" Lin Dai distanced himself from him, confirmed. His voice is indeed terrifying, and Yu Sheng's ears and brain still hurt.

"Don't cry anymore." Yi Li wiped his tears and said angrily, "Crying, it's useless." ”

"Learns faster than I do." Lin represents him.

"Why?" Yi Li asked.

"It took me a little longer to realize that crying didn't work." Lin Dai shrugged his shoulders and said, "Now, my sister can talk to you, okay?" ”

Many, many years later, Yi Li still remembered what Sister Yu said to him.

No one had ever treated him as an adult and spoke to him so seriously, so he remembered it very clearly. He remembered what his sister said:

"Li'er, huh? I'm sorry to bring you here from my parents. But I really need you. We need a boy here. The other boys were terrible, and my sister was afraid of them. You might be able to do better than all of them! You're not having a good time at home, and your mom and dad always complain about too little money, right? So I gave them some money...... Well, it's a lot of money, and they're happy and willing to let you live here to help me. I can't bear to let you go back now. If you have to go back, you can play a game with your sister and defeat her before you can go, okay? ”

Many, many years later, Lin Dai heard him repeat this passage, and he covered his mouth with a smile, and his flowers trembled slightly: "Nonsense! Where would I tell you such a difficult thing? ”

"And what did you say?" Yi Li insisted.

Many years later, Lin Dai thought about it again and again, waved his hand: "Old! Where to remember the wording so many years ago. ”

"But you let me beat you in the game, didn't you?" Yi Li said.

This must be acknowledged by Lin Dai.

In the midspring of Zhuang Min's twenty-first year, Lin Dai, a former lawyer who traveled from afar, proposed this bet to Yi Li, a little kid who had just entered your mansion.

Yi Li objected at the time: "What game? I don't understand. I can't beat you. ”

"Hey, you can't be angry! If you don't understand, you can learn it. Lin Dai said, hooking his fingers, "Come with me." "Just put the little guy on the chessboard.

At that time, "chess" specifically referred to black and white, that is, Go.

Yi Li had seen people play chess from afar before, and they were all very high-status and noble adults, sitting opposite each other, like immortals. Before he could get closer, his father pulled him away, and his face changed with fright. Puzzled, he asked his father, "Why?" His father was horrified and felt humiliated and humiliated in front of his children. To cover up this humiliation. His father beat him up and told him, "Stinky boy, stay away from the old man!" ”

Now, the young lady, who is more like an immortal than those two old men, hands the chess pieces into his hands and tells him the rules of the game, which is as simple as this:

Two-color chess pieces, a four-squared checkerboard. Each piece breathes four breaths up, down, left and right. After the qi is blocked by the opponent, it will die, and if it is taken out by its own chess pieces, it can be delayed.