At dinner, our family of four sat around the table, there was a big bowl of cabbage and pork stewed vermicelli on the table, this year, how many people were willing to buy a piece of palm-sized pork only in the New Year, Chen Sheng came to my house for the first time, I looked greedy but did not dare to move the chopsticks first, for fear that my mother would hit my hand.

The mother served the father soup and said, "Eat it, if you don't eat it again, it will be cold." ”

As she spoke, my mother picked up a piece of lean meat with fat and put it in Chen Sheng's bowl, and when she was about to serve me vegetables, Chen Sheng suddenly took out the meat from the bowl and threw it on the table.

"Chen Sheng......" The mother showed a puzzled look on her face, and then looked at her father again.

My father's face was ugly, he slapped the chopsticks on the table heavily, and I was so frightened that I almost fell to the ground, and my father said coldly: "The children in the city don't even eat meat, how can we countrymen afford it?" ”

After his father finished speaking, he got up and walked out of the hall, and his mother also put down the dishes and chopsticks, she touched Chen Sheng's head and didn't know what to say, so she followed her father out of the door.

After my father and mother left, only Chen Sheng and I were left in the room, and I asked while picking up the rice, "Brother, why don't you eat meat?" ”

Chen Sheng muttered and said, "You will get fat." ”

I sighed, I don't know why Chen Sheng is afraid of getting fat, in Sanlitun, except for the landlord Zhao Fugui and the fat man Ma Xiaowu, there is no fat man.

When I went to bed at night, my mother sent me to bed, and my mother looked at Chen Sheng, who had been standing in the room silently, and said, "Chen Sheng, you sleep in the same bed with your sister tonight, and tomorrow I will go to the carpenter in the tunzi to make a bed for you." ”

My father said, "If you want to make a new bed, you have to wait for the weather to warm up." ”

After the father finished speaking, he lay on the kang and did not speak, and the mother looked embarrassed, pulled Chen Sheng to her side, and said: "Peking is not as good as Shanghai, you go to bed early in the tunzi, and your mother will undress and sleep for you." ”

Chen Sheng pouted and said, "I'll take it off myself." ”

"So what are you waiting for?" Mother asked patiently.

Chen Sheng said: "Before taking a bath, Jiang Rong went to bed without taking a bath." ”

"Why do you have to come to Sanlitun when you are so clean, how good is it to live in a western-style building in Shanghai?" Father suddenly said loudly, very impatient with Chen Sheng.

When her mother heard her father yelling at Chen Sheng like this, she looked at Chen Sheng's aggrieved appearance, pulled Chen Sheng to her side and said, "Mom, I'm going to boil water for you to bathe, we are in the countryside, there is no special bathing room, you have to use the bath tent to keep the heating before you can wash, otherwise you will suffer from freezing." ”

Chen Sheng pursed his lips, his chin moved, tears fell down his eyes, and he choked up and said, "Don't wash it." ”

After Chen Sheng took off his clothes, I took the initiative to let my quilt out, and Chen Sheng lay next to me obediently, his face full of grievances.

While covering us with a quilt, my mother said, "Jiang Rong, don't wrap my brother's quilt at night." ”

"Hmm!" I readily agreed.

Before blowing out the candle, the mother looked at Chen Sheng, who had closed his eyes, and the candlelight went out, and the room was soon so quiet that the sound of breathing could be heard.

I don't know how long I slept that night, and when I woke up dimly, I heard Chen Sheng's soft whimper, and I asked in a low voice, "Brother, why are you crying, are you homesick?" ”

Chen Sheng's voice stopped abruptly, but his shoulders were still slightly shaking, his hand stretched out from the quilt, carefully wiped his tears, and then put his arm on the quilt.

I grabbed Chen Sheng's wrist and put his cold little hand on my pillow, his palm was soft and comfortable to touch, but there were still tears on it that hadn't dried up, I didn't know why he licked his tears on a whim at that time, Chen Sheng struggled for a while, and stopped moving when he saw that I held on to it.

I giggled and held Chen Sheng's wrist until I fell asleep, and in my dream I saw the scene of the crazy woman under the big stone bridge being stripped naked by a group of stripped teenagers, who were holding something that was obviously different from Xiao Wu's big farts and kept shaking, and a teenager found me standing outside the bridge and peeked at me, and chased after me.

I was so frightened that I woke up to find that Chen Sheng's quilt was half wrapped in me, and he was wearing thin pajamas with one leg exposed.

Through the moonlight, I looked at Chen Sheng's clean face, long eyelashes and soft hair, and looked down his thin body.

I remembered that I usually played with Xiao Wu's group of six or seven-year-old children, and they didn't shy away from me when they peed, and everyone's little finches were different, so I had the idea of wanting to see Chen Sheng.

I lifted Chen Sheng's pajama pants and reached out to touch them gently, but I didn't dare to breathe, for fear of waking Chen Sheng up.

Chen Sheng snorted, his eyebrows frowned slightly, and I was so frightened that I quickly retracted my hand, covered him with a quilt, and pretended that nothing had happened.

When I woke up the next day, Chen Sheng had already gotten up early to clean up the house with my mother, and I didn't seem to know what had happened last night, my father had gone to work for the Japanese gendarmerie in the town, and I got up and dressed lazily.

When Chen Sheng came yesterday, he brought two large boxes of luggage and put them on the rickshaw, he opened the suitcase, took out all kinds of snacks from it and put them on the table, these snacks I have never eaten before, I have never seen them.

Mother smiled and said: "Jiang Rong, these are all brought to you by my brother from Shanghai, he heard that there is a younger sister at home, and he specially bought a new dress for you, do you want to wear it now, or will you wear it again during the New Year?" ”

"I'm going to wear it now." I shouted.

"Then you still don't thank your brother?" Mother said.

I smiled and said, "Thank you, brother." ”

Chen Sheng hummed shyly and took his clothes out of the suitcase. It was a piece of clothing that looked like a small cheongsam and a cotton jacket, and my mother touched the dress and said, "The material of this dress is really good, and the embroidery on it is beautiful." ”

Mother touched the pattern on the back collar, and whispered that she was afraid that the extra pattern would prick people, so she wanted to find scissors to reduce it, Chen Sheng saw this and said: "This is the logo, the brand of foreigners, the clothes they design will be marked with such things, every piece of my clothes has it, not prickly." ”

My mother nodded and changed my clothes, and she said while dressing me: "Chen Sheng, in the future, you will live in our Sanlitun, nothing can compare to the big city, you can eat whatever your sister eats, and you can't pick on it, otherwise it will make your father angry." ”

Chen Sheng hummed, and then said: "But my dad is Chen Gongbo, I miss my father, and the nurse, the little chubby dun, Uncle Li, and my classmates..."

"This will be your home from now on." My mother interrupted Chen Sheng's words, she kicked me out of bed, and then said to Chen Sheng: "I put away your little Zhongshan suit for you, you can't wear such clothes in the countryside, otherwise others will laugh, in two days, every day my mother will come to the town to buy you two, you have to go to school, and I will contact Mr. Xuetang in the town after the New Year, and let you go to school with your sister at that time." ”

"I'm in the third grade in Shanghai. ”

"It's not too late for us to be in the first grade at the age of nine, and the things we teach are different, so if you have good grades, you will skip a grade when the time comes." Mother said.

Chen Sheng hummed and agreed with his mother's words.

I wore the new clothes that Chen Sheng bought for me and looked at the mirror in the closet for a long time, and I was reluctant to take them off, and my mother said: "Jiang Rong, take off the new clothes and eat again, so as not to get stained with oil, and the snow has just melted outside, and the ground is slippery. ”

I changed my clothes at the request of my mother, and after eating, I went with Chen Sheng to play with the children in the tunzi, but for Chen Sheng, an uninvited guest, the children in the tunzi were not welcome, and Chen Sheng had just fought with Xiao Wu yesterday, Xiao Wu was their leader, so it was even more impossible for them to play with us in front of Xiao Wu.

"Jiang Rong, take away this wild child from the city, we don't want to play with him." The child who spoke was Zhao Dahai, the son of the landlord's mother-in-law Liu Lanying, and sometimes everyone would call him a small landlord.

Zhao Dahai is the most authoritative among the children in Sanlitun except for Xiao Wu, after he finished speaking, he looked at Xiao Wu behind him, Xiao Wu squinted his eyes, and shook his legs with a look of two hundred and fifty or eighty thousand.

I looked at Zhao Dahai and Xiao Wu, and then lowered my head and picked up a big stone on the side of the road, Zhao Dahai saw this and hurriedly retreated to Xiao Wu's side, pointed at me with a frightened face and said: "Jiang Rong, what are you going to do, my father is a landlord, if you dare to beat me, I won't let your family farm!" ”

I continued to walk towards them with the stone, Xiao Wu frowned and said, "Jiang Rong, don't be ignorant, I think you are a girl and don't want to worry about you, if you are ......"

Before Xiao Wu's words were finished, I slammed the stone at them, and the two of them hurriedly jumped away and fled to the tunzi, I clapped my hands and snorted, and then looked back at Chen Sheng with a dull face.

Chen Sheng scratched his head and said with some concern: "Jiang Rong, the girl's family will not be able to marry in the future." ”