After Jiang Sheng returned to school, it was already evening and school was about to end, and Xiao Wu pulled Jiang Sheng to ask long and short questions, and seemed to be quite interested in watching the play.

"The year before last, there was a group of people in our tunzi, wearing the clothes of the ancients, stepping on wooden sticks, and breathing fire, but I was so happy, why didn't you let Mr. take me with me!" Xiao Wu snorted and said.

Jiang Sheng looked helpless and said, "You're talking about the Great Dancing God, right?" It's not Peking Opera. ”

"It's all big singing, jumping and babbling and shouting, I don't understand it at all, what's the difference?" Xiao Wu wondered.

"Naturally, it's different." Jiang Sheng said with his head on his hands.

"Then you explain it to me." Xiao Wu shook Jiang Sheng and said.

Jiang Sheng had to explain to Xiao Wu for a long time, Xiao Wu listened to it in a fog, and finally heard the sound of the gong in class before returning to his seat with a bored face.

After Mr. Zhang came to the classroom, he checked everyone's homework one by one, and when Xiao Wu was asked, he still didn't know about it, but Mr. seemed to be in a very good mood, but he didn't teach Xiao Wu a lesson, and he also left school early.

There are 10 Sanlitun children in the first grade of primary school in Qiantang Town, and there are several older children in Sanlitun who are studying in the upper grades.

At that time, there were wildflowers all over the road to and from school, and it was fun to run and play all the way. Zhao Dahai saw that it was still early, so he proposed to go to the bathhouse to take a bath again.

Jiang Sheng frowned, because his mother had already said last time that he should not go to the bathhouse, in case his father found out, he would be unhappy, Xiao Wu really wanted to go, the bathhouse bath was warm and fun, much better than taking a bath at home with a bath tent and freezing stiff.

I saw that Jiang Sheng wanted to go, but I was worried that it would not be safe for me to stand alone outside the bathhouse, so I said, "Brother, go away, I will go back with the other children in the tunzi." ”

Xiao Wu said with a haha: "Jiang Rong is finally sensible, you said how good it would be if you were a boy, so that you can take a bath with us!" ”

Jiang Sheng said: "Then you hurry up and follow them, don't fall behind, when I go home, my mother asked me where I went, and said that I would play with Xiao Wu and the sea behind the tunzi, and I would definitely go back before dinner in the evening." ”

I nodded, turned around and followed the children in Sanlitun, and the little five sighed like dogs and said, "Jiang Rong is so pitiful, he doesn't even have a chicken." ”

When I took a bath in the evening, Jiang Sheng didn't take a bath again because he had taken a bath in the bathhouse, so I took the initiative to beg my mother to bathe me, and told my mother that I would wear new clothes to school tomorrow.

My mother laughed and said that I even knew that it was clean.

After his father came home, he had been like this these days, firstly, he was worried that the news of his grandfather's death would come at any time after the war outside, and secondly, he built a house for the Japanese gendarmerie.

Although there is a police station and a construction team to protect it, and the people at the police station also ask Uncle Qin to use his connections to communicate with the Japanese gendarmerie, so that little Japan can't move the people of the construction team no matter what, but my father is always afraid when he sees someone starving to death and beating to death.

My grandfather's name is Jiang Yuanyao, and people who know him call him Lao Jiang. Even his father sometimes called him that.

Lao Jiang was originally a local doctor in Sanlitun, when he was young, he was a medicine grabber in the town's medicine hall, and he saw Langzhong dispensing medicine all the year round, and he learned the "Compendium of Materia Medica" under the sun and moon. When Little Japan attacked Beiping City, the medicine hall was sealed, and all the herbs were emptied, so he went back to Sanlitun to work as a local doctor.

One year, when he went out to see a doctor, he met a seriously wounded and dying officer of the national army, and after rescuing the man, he was recommended to join the national army formation as an accompanying military doctor.

In the past few years, the war situation has become more and more tense, Lao Jiang has not been home for three years, but he used to write letters often, or ask people to bring some herbs and potions, but there has been no news for more than a year recently. I vaguely remember that when Lao Jiang left, I was just able to run, and at that time he carried me on top of his head all day, allowing me to knock on his head and pluck his ears, which hurt me very much.

When he slept, Jiang Sheng lay quietly on the bed as always, with a faint smell of milk that only I could smell.

Normally, I should have stayed by his side or willfully hugged his arm to sleep, but this time I didn't.

My mind kept recalling the crying expression he had when he first came to Sanlitun, the grievances when his father asked him to change his name, and the reluctance and acceptance of Mr. Zhang's arrangement of Wang Wei next to him.

I remembered that on the first night when Jiang Sheng came to my house, when he learned that he was going to sleep in the same bed with me, he was scolding his mother why I didn't take a bath, and finally he was angry that he didn't take a bath, and he cried quietly and secretly at night, his little shoulders shrugged, and he was very aggrieved.

I wonder if his kindness to me is like a last resort when facing the ugly monster Wang Wei.

Even when I stick to him every day, does he show a look of disgust in the dark night that I can't see.

I was awakened again by a nightmare in the middle of the night, and Jiang Sheng woke up as always, and he quietly turned to face me, waiting for me to burrow into his arms, but I lay under the covers and did not move until I fell asleep, and he fell asleep too.

When Jiang Sheng didn't appear in Sanlitun, what a heartless girl I was, why did I become like this now?

I don't know it myself.

The distant mountains of Sanlitun are unconsciously covered with a layer of green film, and the poplars in the tunzi also grow young shoots. At that time, there were only grades 1 to 5 in elementary school, and the school had one day off every seven days as a day off according to the seven-day weekly calendar implemented by Mr. Sun, and classes were held on Saturdays, but they were generally extracurricular activities organized by the school's teachers.

When Jiang Sheng is at home during the holidays, he will get up early in the morning to play with Xiao Wu, since the spring has been frozen, the ditches around Sanlitun have long been thawed, and the children will hold their basins in groups to find a shallow place to catch fish, shrimp and loaches.

Xiao Wu was greedy, and he also went home happily and hugged the basin and asked Jiang Sheng to go with him to catch fish, although Jiang Sheng was afraid of dirty clothes, but after all, the child's heart couldn't withstand Xiao Wu's bewitchment, and finally ran home and carried the basin and went out with Xiao Wu.

Jiang Sheng sometimes catches a pot full of fish and shrimp, and sometimes he will give it to Xiao Wu if he catches less.

My mother once said when cleaning the fish maw: "In the past, your father and Zhang Guangshan would also go to catch fish, and Zhang Guangzhu used to catch a big red fish of more than ten catties and gave it to our family." ”

My mother suddenly mentioned Zhang Guangzhuan, which couldn't help but make me feel a little scared, after all, he was already a dead man.

I have always been afraid of the dead, I always feel that people will become cannibals after death, and there are often messy thoughts in my mind, and Zhang Guang's house is very close to our house, just three rows away, after he was shot, it is said that some of the family's things were dragged by some teenagers in the village to sell, and someone found a wad of money under his bed.

There are two big acacia trees at the door of Zhang Guang's house, and the leaves will form a great shade when they spread out in the spring, and he was often not at home before, so the old people in the village would go to his door to sit when chatting in the shade, and now no one dares to come.

After Zhang Guangzhu's death, half of the walls of his house collapsed, the roof began to leak and collapse, a lot of weeds grew in the yard and no one cleaned them, and the lock on the door was smashed in two.

When I passed by his door, I always felt eerie, and I didn't even dare to look into his yard, but I always felt that he was standing in the desolate house and watching me.

And because of Zhang Guang, Liu Lanying also died, and I looked down on the things they did in the shop hut back then, and this secret has been hidden in my heart, and I have never told anyone.

After Liu Lanying's death, Zhao Fugui's store was watched by Zhao Fugui's father, Zhao Fuxi, every time I went shopping, I stood in the distance and looked at it for a while, if Zhao Fuxi sat at the window of the store, I would go over, if there was no one, I would not dare to go over, for fear that something would drag me in the dim hut.

At that time, Shen A-Niang still came to Sanlitun once a month to see Jiang Sheng, sometimes bringing some candy and sometimes some croissant honey, Jiang Sheng didn't like to eat sugar, so I basically ate those things.

Shen A-Niang came to Sanlitun twice when we were in class at Qiantang Town Primary School, and she would go to the house to sit with her mother and talk about some things that had happened before, and the two became friends after a while.

And we met Shen A-Niang at the school gate at noon, and she waited for Jiang Sheng at the school gate to take Jiang Sheng to eat xiaolongbao. Shen A-Niang knew that Jiang Sheng had a good relationship with Xiao Wu and Zhao Dahai, so she would also bring them with her.

When we went back in the evening, we listened to my mother talk about Shen A-Niang to know her past, she had no relatives in Beiping, and did not find her dead husband's relatives, no one to guarantee when she entered the textile factory in the town, and did the hardest and most tiring work, and a group of old men loaded and unloaded, and later the factory leaders saw that she was diligent and transferred her to the assembly line.

When her mother heard that Shen A-Niang was working in a textile factory, she found out that she and Xiao Wu's father, Ma Aiguo, were in the same factory.

However, Ma Aiguo also goes out early and returns late on weekdays, and he has never seen Shen Aniang, even if he sees it when he repairs the machine in the factory, he can't recognize it.

After her mother went to Xiao Wu's house and told Shen A-Niang about it, Niu Aihua didn't feel cold, pointed to her mother's nose and said: "Zhang Xiumei, don't be nosy, that Shen Xiumei is not a serious woman at first glance, you look at her hair combed like a cow, what is your intention for me to let my man know her?" If you are messing around like this, be careful that I sue Jiang Zhengyang, really, you have nothing to do all day long, and you see how attentive you are to a foreign woman. ”

Mother was scolded by Niu Aihua so bloody that she could only endure it, and when we came back from school in the town, my mother asked Jiang Sheng to call Xiao Wu and ask him to tell Ma Aiguo about it quietly.

The children of Sanlitun have a very good impression of Shen A-Niang, and they all say that she is a good person, Xiao Wu has eaten a lot of benefits for Shen A-Niang, and after learning that Shen A-Niang is a poor person from her mother, she wants her father to reflect Shen A-Niang in the factory.

And I don't know why, when it comes to Shen A-Niang, Xiao Wu will always think of Liu Lanying, and think of the letter that Liu Lanying asked him to hand over to Ma Aiguo but was lost by him.

Ma Aiguo got his mother's entrustment and found Shen A-Niang in the textile factory, and the two no longer recognized themselves after meeting a few times, and they could say two words after eating in the factory canteen for a long time.

Shen A-Niang often misses Jiang Sheng, and when she is busy working overtime and can't leave, she will buy some snacks and candy for Ma Aiguo to take back, otherwise blisters will appear on the soles of her feet when she goes back and forth. Shen A-Niang also loves Xiao Wu, after all, when he was crazy, Xiao Wu often gave her things at home to eat, so he told Ma Aiguo to leave half of it at home for Xiao Wu to eat.

Ma Aiguo is a sincere person, and he also knew that Shen A-Niang was afraid that he would not have a taste in his heart, so he rejected Shen A-Niang. However, Niu Aihua was not happy when she found out about this, so it was good to have two packets of sugar in my hand in the end.

Once Niu Aihua also said: "They all say that this Shen Xiumei is good, and I will give you two yuan for a candy, and I don't know if it's worth my errand money!" ”

Later, Shen A-Niang also felt that it was not good to let Ma Aiguo bring things to other children every time, so she divided the things to be sent in advance and then asked Ma Aiguo to bring them back. Sometimes Shen A-Niang would run to the school to see him when she missed Jiang Sheng very much, and Jiang Sheng didn't want money for Jiang Sheng, and Jiang Sheng didn't want to buy clothes, so she could only invite a group of us to have a meal outside, and other children in Sanlitun could also eat some delicious food.

In this way, Shen A-Niang in the mouth of the children in Sanlitun has become a beautiful and virtuous woman, she occasionally comes to Sanlitun when she will bring some things to the old people in the village, the old people get a little benefit, the girl is long and the girl is short with Shen A-Niang, Shen A-Niang is less than thirty years old, and she can do it and have a good heart, so naturally someone gives her a matchmaker.

Mother also persuaded Shen A-Niang to find a good family to marry, after all, it is not easy for a woman to live alone in the world, in case she is sick any day, there is no one to take care of her in bed.

Although Shen A-Niang was a little embarrassed, after all, the chastity of women in that era was still very important, she was a married person, and there was also a meaning that women should guard the archway of chastity in their concepts, but when they thought that they were helpless, and the people of her husband's family and her mother's family were all starving to death when they fled the famine, she also had such a will.

Shen A-Niang told her mother that she didn't want the man to have a few acres of land at home, as long as the other party was down-to-earth and didn't dislike her.

Of course, my mother is willing to be this matchmaker, and the first thing she thinks of is our landlord in Sanlitun, Zhao Fugui.