The elder brother changed his name to Jiang Sheng, and when he was in Shanghai, he fantasized countless times about seeing his mother, but he never imagined that he would be treated like this on the first day he came to Sanlitun.

When I went to bed at night, my mother went to Xiao Wu's house to ask for medicine, and as expected, she was scolded by Niu Aihua so much that she was bloody, and Niu Aihua locked the door and let her mother knock for a long time and didn't pay attention.

The mother returned disappointed, so she had to clean Jiang Sheng's wounds with hot water, and then wipe them with the liquor that his father brought back.

Jiang Sheng pursed his lips and didn't cry out in pain, he didn't look at his mother at all, he turned his head to the side, and hated this woman in his heart.

Jiang Sheng's jaw twitched, and he whispered, "What is written in the letter is all fake, liar. ”

My mother didn't seem to hear Jiang Sheng's words, so she hugged Jiang Sheng to the bed and helped him cover the quilt, and my mother looked at me and said, "Jiang Rong, don't wrap my brother's quilt." ”

I nodded and watched as my mother blew out the candle on the table, and the room quickly became dark and quiet.

I leaned into Jiang Sheng's ear and said, "Brother, are you still in pain?" ”

Jiang Sheng hummed and whispered, "It hurts, it hurts, Jiang Rong, why does my mother still beat the child?" ”

Before I could reply, there was a knock at the door, and my father turned over and said, "Go and see who it is so late." ”

The mother got up, put on a cotton jacket and walked out of the hall, and Xiao Wu's voice came from outside the door: "Auntie, open the door quickly, I will freeze to death." ”

"Little Five?" The mother opened the door and saw the little five standing at the door in a sweater and pants in the middle of the night, shivering.

Xiao Wu stuffed a bottle of potion into his mother's arms and said, "I sneaked out while my mother wasn't paying attention, didn't you say that the child's hand was injured." ”

After Xiao Wu finished speaking, he ran home, and his mother looked at Xiao Wu's small figure in the cold wind, and stopped talking.

After the mother returned to the house, she lit the candle again, she knelt beside the bed, and rubbed the potion on Jiang Sheng's wound by the light of the candle, Jiang Sheng still turned his head to the side and did not look at his mother, and the mother said gently: "This potion is wiped so quickly, but it will be itchy at night, you must not scratch it, otherwise it will not look good in the future." ”

"Then you're still beating me." Jiang Sheng choked up as he spoke.

When her mother heard Jiang Sheng's words, her eyes suddenly turned red, and her tears dripped down her cheeks, and she bandaged Jiang Sheng's wounds and folded the quilt before lying back on the kang.

The next day, before dawn, my mother got up to cook soup and cook, and my father said while eating: "I couldn't come out of the gendarmerie at noon, so you took this stubborn seed to the police station registration office after dinner to register your name." ”

"I'm a woman's family, what should I say when I get to the police station?" Mother asked.

The father said: "You said that the child was raised by a relative a few years ago, and now the relative is missing, and the child wants to change his household registration, if he doesn't give you the name of his father, the director has to sell face to him." ”

The mother agreed and said, "I happened to go to the street to buy two clothes for Chen ...... To Jiang Sheng. ”

The father said: "Take the girl with you, buy less candy for her, there are more people in the market, be careful." ”

After the father finished speaking, he gulped down the rice soup in the bowl and walked out of the door with his hat on.

"Be careful when you work." The mother chased out the door and watched the father.

Near noon, my mother took me and Jiang Sheng to Qiantang Town, which is only a few miles away from the Dongzhimen and Drum Tower in Laobeiping, and the roads in the town are particularly spacious, with a dazzling array of goods in the shops on both sides, and the surrounding alleys extend in all directions.

After the Dongzhi Gate is the inner city of Beiping, from Qiantang Town to there directly, the road is spacious, so in recent years, Qiantang Town has been a good business plan, often some rickshaw drivers in order to grab guests to quarrel, for this reason is also divided into two factions in the north and south, often fight, several times almost killed.

The police station intervened several times to get the rickshaw rental company to rectify and divide their respective areas, but the brawls continued.

Some outsiders don't recognize the road or some rich people are too lazy to walk, so they will find a rickshaw driver, sit in the car, and knock on Erlang's leg to be a master.

This is the first time Chen Sheng has visited the old streets of Qiantang Town, and he is also full of curiosity about the hutongs that extend in all directions in Laobeiping, and there are often some vendors selling marshmallows and maltose at the entrance of each alley, which provokes a group of children to salivate and surround them.

"Mom, I want to eat maltose." I begged with my mother's hand.

The mother said, "Your father won't let you eat candy, and children will get tooth decay if they eat too much sugar." ”

I said, "No, I'm going to eat maltose." ”

When Jiang Sheng heard this, he took out a piece of Yuan Datou from his pocket and walked to the vendor, and his mother hurriedly went up to grab Jiang Sheng when he saw it, and said: "A maltose can't spend Yuan Datou, hide it quickly, there are many pickpockets on it, and my mother will give you a gross ticket." ”

As the mother spoke, she took out two gross tickets and gave them to Jiang Sheng, who took the money and immediately squeezed it out from among the children, and then held the maltose and squeezed it out again in the envious eyes of the children, and handed the maltose to me.

I licked the maltose deliciously, I liked Jiang Sheng very much, and called him brother several times in a row.

My mother first took us to visit a few tailor shops on the old street, measured the size of the clothes for me and Jiang Sheng, and then went to the household registration office of the police station, she asked me to wait under the shed at the door, and she took Jiang Sheng in to register her name.

After a while, Jiang Sheng came out and said curiously: "Jiang Rong, the camera in this police station is so scary, there is a lot of smoke, I thought it was fired at me, it scared me to death!" ”

I was amused by Jiang Sheng's words, and Jiang Sheng laughed along with me, and soon his mother in the police station called Jiang Sheng's name and let him in.

Jiang Sheng agreed, asked me to wait at the door and not run around, I nodded and agreed, and sat on the ground to play with stones.

"Little girl!" Outside the police station, a middle-aged man with sharp beaks beckoned to me with a rock sugar gourd in his hand, and he smiled and said, "Do you want to eat sugar gourds?" ”

I swallowed my saliva, nodded, and the middle-aged man said, "You come out, I'll take you there, I can't eat a lot of sugar gourds at home." ”

I had already forgotten all the things my mother usually taught me, so I got up and walked towards the door, Jiang Sheng's voice came from behind me: "Sister, what are you doing out?" ”

I looked back at Jiang Sheng, and then looked at the rock sugar gourd in the middle-aged man's hand, Jiang Sheng ran over and hugged me in his arms, glaring at the middle-aged man with hostility, and the middle-aged man scolded Damn, so he had to leave in a huff.

Jiang Sheng led me to the gate of the police station, looked at me and said, "Jiang Rong, why are you so greedy, you can't eat the things given by strangers, and don't go with them, didn't your mother tell you this?" ”

"Told." I said.

I had been walking with my mother for half a day since the morning, and I was already very hungry, and even more hungry after eating maltose.

Jiang Sheng said: "If you want to eat, then you have to promise me that you can't eat things given by strangers in the future, let alone go with strangers, if you agree, I'll buy you meat buns." ”

"Really?" When I heard that Jiang Sheng wanted to buy meat buns, my eyes lit up, not everyone was willing to eat meat buns in that year, and only ten gross tickets could eat a cage, which was enough to weigh half a catty of meat, and my mother was never willing to buy them.

Jiang Sheng sighed, stretched out his little finger to pull the hook with me, I obediently pulled the hook, Jiang Sheng immediately ran out of the police station, and after a while, he brought a hot bun wrapped in oily paper.

I stuffed the bun into my mouth regardless of it, and Jiang Sheng said, "You eat slowly, no one will rob you." ”

I looked at Jiang Sheng's way of swallowing saliva, then left two buns and said, "Let's have two more for you to eat, I'm full." ”

Jiang Sheng picked up a bun and stuffed it into my hand, and said, "One for each person." ”

I hummed and ate with Jiang Sheng with a happy face.

After the mother came out of the police station, she held a small notebook in her hand and said, "It's done, let's hurry up and go to the second tailor shop we just saw to cut the cloth, and you can wear new clothes before the New Year, but Jiang Sheng, my mother doesn't have enough money today, so I can only make one for you, and one is my sister's." ”

"Mom, I have money." Jiang Sheng said. "Didn't Uncle Li deposit money in the bank, you go and get it."

The mother made a silent gesture to Jiang Sheng and said, "That money will be spent on you in the future, and you can't spend it in normal times, hurry up and measure the cloth, and go home and your mother will cook for you when you're done." ”

Jiang Sheng wanted his mother to eat a cage of meat buns, but when she saw my gesture, she stopped talking, knowing that her mother was reluctant, so she had to give up.

After returning home, my mother put the household registration book on the table and began to wash rice and vegetables, Jiang Sheng picked up the household registration book and carefully read every name in our family, father Jiang Zhengyang, mother Zhang Xiumei, daughter Jiang Rong, and son Jiang Sheng.

Jiang Sheng raised his face and said, "Mom, tomorrow is Xiao Nian, it's my sister's birthday." ”