As soon as Zhao Zhuang ran out of the door, Jiang Sheng and Xiao Wu chased after him from the big stone bridge, Zhao Zhuang's father scolded and scolded, looking at Zhao Zhuang's figure running away, with a look of hatred that iron is not steel.

Jiang Sheng saw me standing in the courtyard with a confused expression, pulled me over, and patted the mud and snow on my body, he asked distressedly, "Jiang Rong, are you okay?" ”

I shook my head and said, "It's okay, I'm just a little tired." ”

Jiang Sheng said: "A good man doesn't suffer immediate losses, you hit him with a stone, and people don't beat you harder?" ”

Xiao Wu said: "That's it, Mao girl, Jiang Sheng and I are both men and it's not a big deal to be beaten, don't make trouble in the future when you are a girl, they won't let you." ”

As soon as Xiao Wu's words fell, there was a cry of Niu Aihua, I looked at Xiao Wu and said, "Listen to your mother's voice, it's the same as killing a pig." ”

When Xiao Wu saw me say this, he straightened his face, snorted, turned around and left.

Jiang Sheng hurriedly pulled me to catch up with Xiao Wu, Xiao Wu ignored him, Jiang Sheng whispered: "Xiao Wu, let me tell you something." ”

Xiao Wu stopped, Jiang Sheng whispered in Xiao Wu's ear, Xiao Wu looked happy and said, "Really? ”

"Of course it is." Jiang Sheng said. "Your mom called you home, don't forget it tomorrow."

Xiao Wu snorted and ran home, I looked at Jiang Sheng and asked, "Brother, what secrets did you tell Xiao Wu?" ”

Jiang Sheng said mysteriously, "You'll know tomorrow morning." ”

After my father came back that night, he finished his meal early and sat on the edge of the bed reading the newspaper, while his mother squatted at the table to make dumplings.

My father read the newspaper and said: "Now there are wars going on in many places, and the Japanese army in Hunan has sent several planes to bomb them, killing many compatriots, and I don't know if Lao Jiang is there." ”

"Our dad Ji people have their own natural appearance, he is a military doctor, and he is not a soldier fighting on the front line." The mother said: "It's good that Peking can't fight now, the children are here, don't say it and scare them." ”

The father sighed, put down the newspaper, glanced at Jiang Sheng and asked, "Are all the household registration things done today?" ”

Jiang Sheng snorted and said, "Okay, I'll go with my mother." ”

The father said: "It's good to do it, and I will go to school with my sister in the spring of the New Year, so I can take care of it." It's a long way from town, and you can't let your mom send it all the time. ”

The mother said: "Anyway, I have nothing to do at home except for housework, and I can plant the millet in the field alone in the spring, and I can send the child in the morning and evening, the child is so small, and the road is not safe." ”

The father said, "You've spent all day on the road? If I can't work one day, you don't have a craft, how will you live this life? ”

My mother was silent for a while, and then said, "I don't know if the leather shoe factory where I was in before is still recruiting. ”

"You can't go to recruit people, don't be ashamed." Father said.

When my mother was working in the factory, I was well known to the whole factory, and the factory work at that time was almost ten or twenty years, and if there was no war, I basically stayed in the factory for half my life, so many people remember my mother, and if my mother went to work in the original factory, she would have to be poked in the back and scolded to death.

Seeing that his mother didn't speak, his father said in a soothing tone: "I'm not saying that you don't work, but I want you to save some money, after all, I don't have much salary a day now, and I will be gone if I support a pound of pork. ”

"Got it." Although the mother was aggrieved, she still responded to her father out of voice.

The father said, "When you went back to your parents' house last year, your brother asked you if you had not repaid the money you borrowed, right?" ”

My mother said, "That's my eldest brother, he has trouble asking me to borrow money, why do I want it?" ”

Father said: "My brother is still settling accounts, since you are married to me, you are a member of the Jiang family, and you will naturally have to disconnect some things when you break up the family, I heard people talking about your brother's name when I was at the police station last time, I don't know what happened again, you don't have to deal with that side." ”

My father was a little unhappy, so he got up and went to the yard to add firewood and boil water under the earthen stove, and my mother wrapped the dumplings and brought a large basin from the yard, propped up the bath tent, and poured the hot water from the kettle into the basin.

The father said, "Let the two children wash first." ”

When I heard this, I immediately took off my clothes and walked into the bath tent, and my mother looked at Jiang Sheng and said, "Take off your clothes." ”

Jiang Sheng said: "I'll wash it when my sister finishes washing." ”

The mother smiled and said, "Children who don't have long hair still know what to be afraid of, brothers and sisters." ”

My mother said as she went into the bath tent to rub me in the bath, and when I was done, my mother poured out the water in the large basin and asked Jiang Sheng to hurry into the bath tent.

Jiang Sheng turned his back to me and stripped off his clothes, his two little hands went into the bath tent in a covert manner, and his mother also got into the bath tent with hot water, Jiang Sheng said shyly: "Mom, I will wash it myself, you go out." ”

The mother said, "I'm your mother, what are you ashamed of, I'll rub your back, you can't reach it." ”

"Yes." Jiang Sheng reluctantly agreed, sat in the bathtub like a stiff puppet, and waited for his mother to go out before the sound of rushing water came from the bath tent.

Jiang Sheng took a shower and put on his pajamas before getting into the bed, his body exuded a certain smell of milk similar to that of a baby, and it was also like the smell of some kind of fragrant wood, if there was nothing.

After my father had taken a shower and gone to bed, my father's snoring was soon heard in the dark room.

I quickly fell asleep, and in the middle of the night there was a faint cry and the rustling of straw mats.

I opened my eyes, and through the faint light from the window, I saw that Jiang Sheng had also woken up, so I asked in a low voice, "Brother, what are Mom and Dad doing?" ”

Jiang Sheng made a silent gesture to me to let me go back to sleep, and my mother's voice reminded me of the voice of the mad woman at the bottom of the big stone bridge, and the bold act I made to Jiang Sheng that night.

I whispered yes, and like Jiang Sheng, I didn't dare to speak out.

The light was too dim that night, and I couldn't see the difference between Jiang Sheng's and Xiao Wu's children, so I reached out and reached for Jiang Sheng's pajama pants again.

The sound of Jiang Sheng's breathing was obvious, blocking my hand, and he whispered: "Jiang Rong, boys and girls can't be touched casually, especially girls, you have to learn to protect yourself, don't do this in the future, you know?" ”

I nodded obediently, and Jiang Sheng narrowed his eyes as if nothing had happened.

My father got up early the next morning, because it was a young year to eat dumplings, and I didn't wrap much, my mother woke me up and Jiang Sheng, otherwise the dumplings would not taste good when they were cold.

When my father left, he told us not to run around at home, and I said while eating dumplings, "Goodbye, Dad, come home early." ”

When my mother served us soup, she found that my father's hat was not brought, so she was about to go out and chase it out, Jiang Sheng said, "I'll give it to him." ”

Mother was stunned for a moment, handed the hat to Jiang Sheng, Jiang Sheng pulled his legs and chased out, when he chased to the mouth of Tunzi, he saw his father's figure, opened his mouth but didn't know what to shout, so he had to go in front of his father, handed the hat to his father and said, "You didn't bring your hat, my mother asked me to give it to you." ”

Father nodded, took his hat and put it on his head, and walked towards the town.

When he went back, his mother stood at the door and looked at Jiang Sheng from a distance, and when Jiang Sheng got closer, she asked, "Why don't you call Dad?" ”

Jiang Sheng whispered, "I can't scream." ”

It was not yet dawn when I had breakfast, and there was no farm work in the countryside near the New Year, so many families were idle and their parents chatted for a short time. I don't know how many versions of what happened to my mother back then were told in the mouths of the villagers, and Jiang Sheng and his legendary father Chen Gongbo naturally couldn't escape the mouths of the people.

Mother has no friends in Sanlitun, occasionally goes to the landlord's wife Liu Lanying's house to sit, Liu Lanying as a landlord's wife, in Sanlitun is considered a person with status, she is also the only person in Sanlitun who can dress herself, rouge gouache usually rubs on the face, secretly some young people in Sanlitun call Liu Lanying a bitch, saying that she was bought from the kiln by the landlord Zhao Fugui.

Last time, my mother bought some wool from the town market and went home to knit a sweater for Jiang Sheng, and Jiang Sheng led me out to find Xiao Wu, and when I arrived at Xiao Wu's house, their family was also eating dumplings.

Xiao Wu's father is called Ma Aiguo, is the captain of the Sanlitun Brigade, equivalent to the position of deputy village head, is a cultural person, usually writes some poems or something to send to the newspaper for publication, but others look like five big and three thick, and Xiao Wu is very father and son.

Ma Aiguo saw me and Jiang Sheng coming to his house, so he beckoned us to go in and eat dumplings, Niu Aihua immediately put her face on her face and said: "Eat, eat, there are only a few dumplings in total, can you eat enough yourself?" ”

"Look at you, the child is here, it's not a shame." Ma Aiguo said angrily.

"If you're embarrassed, you just go out, where did I say it was wrong?" Niu Aihua said.

"Uncle and aunt, my sister and I have eaten, let's wait for Xiao Wu at the door." Jiang Sheng said and pulled me to the door.

Niu Aihua stared at Jiang Sheng's back, looked at Ma Aiguo with a smile and said, "Don't let the aunt call, and return the uncle and aunt, there are all kinds of foreign things~"

Xiao Wu put down the dishes and chopsticks with a serious face and said, "Mom, I'm full and I'm out to play." ”

Niu Aihua said: "Why are you messing with them now, one of them will catch and the other will bite, you forgot the injuries on your face and arms?" It's so good that the scar forgets the pain. ”

Ma Aiguo said: "Children don't hold grudges, and it's better to be friends than enemies." ”

Niu Ai said angrily: "I just can't get used to seeing this brother and sister, I have brought our baby son with me, and I came back last night and told me not to go to Jiangrong's house to get something, this little thing without conscience, I am not for him." ”