Outside the gate of the pear orchard is a spacious street, surrounded by old, green bricks and tiles, and cleaned to the bright hall.

In the courtyard of the pear orchard, the benches are spreading, and there is a group of children lying on the bench, their pants down to their knees, and Master Long is holding a bamboo pole in his hand, and he is smoking a dark-skinned teenager fiercely.

With a snap, a red mark immediately appeared on the boy's buttocks, and the boy shouted: "Good fight!" ”

Master Long said: "The first to smoke you is because you are a senior brother, and you are not strict in disciplining your junior brother, and you can hide and steal and play tricks during training time, it is really lard!" ”

After Master Long finished pumping the young man, the young man immediately got up, stood next to him with his pants and grinned, as if he didn't take the fight just now to heart at all.

Bang bang, a few crisp sounds, the buttocks bloomed, Master Long's subordinates didn't spare any energy, tied to the buttocks of the lean child, and the teenagers on the side couldn't help frowning.

The lean child was so painful for a while that he cried and said, "Good fight!" ”

"That's a good fight!" Master Long snorted and said. "If you don't practice well when you practice, I'll let you hide, you call me a leather monkey, I'm a Buddha, the world is just a big palm, where can you hide?"

"Master, I know it's wrong, I won't dare next time." The lean boy said, cold sweat dripping down his head.

"If you know that you are wrong, you have to be beaten this time, and now the whole class is open to the hall because you are alone, and I won't beat you a few times, and others will naturally not be happy!" Master Long said and slapped the lean boy's ass twice, causing him to burst into tears and applaud.

Master Long beat the children lying on the bench one by one, and we who were lying on the crack of the door and watching were all too scared to knock on the door, Zhao Dahai said: "Hurry up and see which ass is Jiang Sheng's, and when we hit Jiang Sheng, we will call him out." ”

"Don't scratch me, how do I know Jiang Sheng's ass." Xiao Wu said.

Seeing that Master Long had pumped a few more people one by one, I slammed on the door and shouted loudly, "Don't beat my brother, Jiang Sheng, I want to find Jiang Sheng!" ”

Everyone in the courtyard turned their heads to look at the door when they heard the shouting, and I slammed the door open, and Xiao Wu and the three immediately fell in.

"Female?" A group of children saw me and quickly stood up and lifted their pants, looking shy.

"Who made you stand up?!" Master Long glared and scolded.

A group of children immediately lay on the bench again, pulled down their pants, and pouted their butts to the door.

"All out!" Master Long was furious, looked at us and shouted, and then shouted sideways: "Jiang Sheng, can't you hear someone shouting at you, if you don't go out again, you won't smash my small courtyard!" ”

Behind Master Long, Jiang Sheng got up from the ground, with sandbags tied to his legs, and limped towards us.

"Jiang Rong, Xiao Wu, why are you here?" Jiang Sheng asked with a pale face.

"I haven't seen you for many days, so I naturally came to see you." Xiao Wu said.

"Brother, did they beat you?" I asked, my eyes red.

"Nope." Jiang Sheng said. "You see, everyone was beaten, only I wasn't beaten, I was stretching my strength just now, my leg was very sore, Master Long didn't beat me."

"Why did this old man beat people so hard?" Zhao Dahai asked.

Jiang Sheng wiped the beads of sweat on his face and said: "This is the rule of the troupe, if you don't fight, you won't be successful, some people will be lazy, and if you don't fight, you won't make progress in practice." ”

Xiao Wu said: "Didn't you say that you can walk at any time, I think it's better not to practice, what's the use of practicing this thing, you can't beat me if you practice it anyway." ”

"I've only been here for a few days, but I can hold on, you see I can break my legs to the top of my head now." Jiang Sheng raised his foot on the door as he spoke, and then put his toe on top of his head.

"Wow!" Wang Hu was amazed. "I want to practice too."

"Forget about your body." Zhao Dahai said with a smile.

Jiang Sheng put his leg down, his face was in pain, and he sighed and said, "You guys are waiting for me outside, today's homework will be over in a few minutes, outsiders are not allowed to come in in the pear garden, it is always bad for me to break the rules." ”

"Then we'll wait for you outside, you can come out later." Zhao Dahai said.

Jiang Sheng nodded, returned to the courtyard, and after a while, Master Long finished beating through the hall, and taught everyone a few more words before dismissing everyone.

The leather monkey was helped up by the two children, and looked at Jiang Sheng as he walked towards the disciple's room, his expression full of confusion and jealousy.

Jiang Sheng walked out of the Liyuan compound, Xiao Wu and Zhao Dahai immediately stepped forward to help him, Jiang Sheng said: "Don't help, I can go away and take you to eat the Beiping stinky tofu on Liyuan Street, it's delicious." ”

"Stinky tofu?" Xiao Wu was very excited when he heard Jiang Sheng say stinky tofu. "I've long heard my mother say that our stinky tofu in Peking is a must, but I haven't tasted it until now."

"Stinky tofu smells stinky and tastes fragrant, and I can occasionally stutter a few pieces in the alley." Wang Hu said.

"Rock sugar gourd, big and sweet rock sugar gourd......" The vendor selling the sugar gourd carried a rock sugar gourd full of straw and swaggered through the market.

Jiang Sheng saw me swallowing saliva, giggled, and hurriedly stopped the hawker, he asked the vendor for six strings of sugar gourds, one string for Xiao Wu, Zhao Dahai, and Wang Hu, one for himself, and the remaining two for me.

We walked to the stall of fried stinky tofu while eating rock sugar gourd, Xiao Wu and I have always gobled up food, and we didn't take a few steps to eat the rock sugar gourd, and Xiao Wu also snatched my two sugar balls.

That day, Xiao Wu and I ate stinky tofu for the first time, and our mouths were full of oil, and our belly was bulging, Xiao Wu still wanted it, Jiang Sheng said: "I have eaten too much, and eating too much of this thing will cause diarrhea." ”

At this time, Wang Hu pointed to the front and said, "There is also a popsicle seller there!" ”

Wang Hu ran over as he spoke, and bought a popsicle for each of us, Xiao Wu heard that the popsicle was still bothered to have diarrhea, in that era, people who had eaten popsicles could not find a few in the entire Sanlitun.

Liyuan Street has not yet come to an end, except for Jiang Sheng, who is still restrained, the other four of us have eaten with round bellies, and after we went home, it didn't take long for us to run into the toilet over and over again as Jiang Sheng said.

When Xiao Wu was leaving, he stuffed a few rickshaw tickets for Jiang Sheng, and asked Jiang Sheng to go to the school to play with us if he had time.

When Jiang Sheng returned to the pear orchard, it was already dark, and the senior brothers had just eaten and rushed back to the disciple's room.

The leather monkey covered his stomach and looked at Jiang Sheng who came back, and said hatefully: "Why can you go out at will without being beaten, and you won't even come back from eating?" ”

Jiang Sheng ignored it, and went upstairs from the stairs at the door of the disciple's room, he gently pushed the door in, and saw Hu Xiaomeng feeding a child medicine.

The child was born very well-behaved and pleasant, but his face was pale and he looked very weak, he saw Jiang Sheng coming in, and immediately drank the medicine in his mouth and said, "Brother Jiang Sheng." ”

The child stuck out his tongue with a bitter expression, and kept shouting bitterness in his mouth, Jiang Sheng hurriedly took out the rock sugar gourd from behind and handed it to the child.

"You eat a sugar ball and drink a sip of medicine, so that it will not be bitter." Jiang Sheng said.

The child is what the disciples of Liyuan often call Xi'er.

Xi'er is eight years old this year, not only looks exquisite and well-behaved, but also born with a good voice, by the elders of the pear orchard as a drama bone training, won the love of the brothers, but he has always been frail and sickly, can not withstand the wind, frost, rain and snow, some time ago Beiping suddenly cooled down, only half a day Xi'er was sick with a high fever, has been lying in bed for many days is still weak.

Xi'er drank a lot of fever-reducing medicine, and after the fever subsided, she took some tonic to gain physical strength, and woke up in the past two days, standing in the attic to see the brothers and sisters practicing below, especially Jiang Sheng, she was very happy, and she had to ask Jiang Sheng to go upstairs to play with him.

So Jiang Sheng has time to go upstairs to play with Xi'er these days, the two are about the same age, but they can also play together.

Xi'er's room is the room where the eldest brother Hu Xiaomeng lives, the room is spacious, a bamboo bed that occupies a quarter of the room, covered with straw mats, and Xi'er's body is padded with a blanket, as if he is afraid that the restrained cool air of bamboo will penetrate Xi'er's body.

Xi'er originally lived in the disciple's room, and she was sick and needed to recuperate before moving upstairs, just with Hu Xiaomeng to take care of her, but Xi'er would vomit half of it every time she drank medicine, so Jiang Sheng secretly ran out to buy rock candy and came back to feed him medicine, and Xi'er never vomited again.

At present, Jiang Sheng bought a rock sugar gourd, and Xi'er drank the medicine while eating the sugar gourd, which was still bitter.