The street was over, the dirt road was full of potholes, and Ah Fa walked through the dilapidated alleys, and finally came to his more dilapidated home. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The courtyard door was crooked, and one of the door shafts had fallen off, as if it was about to fall off at the slightest touch. Ah Fa frowned, standing in front of the door and hesitating, more memories made it a little difficult for him to move. It's not a hometown timidity, but a somewhat painful childhood experience.

Ah Fa's father, people call him black-skinned Ergui, he is tanned, short-tempered, and he is good at drinking, and he is very easy to find fault with if he drinks too much, and he is not serious about doing it. After the decline of Tangqiao, Ergui, who was originally carrying work on the dock, had to find another job. Anyway, what is wrong with what he does, it is difficult to make money, he is sad, he drinks when he is sad, and he is angry with his wife and children if he drinks too much.

How many punches and kicks he received when he was a child, Ah Fa can't remember. Even the number of times he was beaten and lay down for several days, he couldn't calculate it exactly. The early death of the mother and starvation are one thing, and the frequent beatings are also an important reason. And Ah Fa's running away from home, although there are factors such as he not studying well and stealing chickens and dogs, but in the final analysis, family education and living environment since childhood are also the main aspects that forced him to change.

After standing like this for a long time, Ah Fa stood up sideways and cautiously flashed in from the courtyard gate. Two dilapidated houses, there is not even a light in them, and I don't know if it is deserted or no one is at home.

Carrying two packs of dim sum that he had just bought from the town, Ah Fa walked carefully in the yard, feeling a little regretful in his heart, feeling that his choice was a mistake. Perhaps, I should turn around and leave and find a random hotel to stay for a few days.

At this time, there seemed to be a low voice in the room, which immediately attracted Ah Fa's attention. He stepped over and listened under the broken window.

"Sister, I'm hungry." A weak child's voice, mixed with the sound of Sissy Suo.

After a pause, another voice sounded, first sighing, then pitiful comfort, "Xiao Zhi, bear with me, don't move, you won't be hungry when you fall asleep." Tomorrow, let's call the Sun family as a deacon, and we can eat. ”

Soso's voice stopped, and then it rang out again, and the boy muttered in a low voice.

Xiao Zhi, well, that's the name. Ah Fa didn't know what it was like, so he took a step back and coughed.

"Is it Daddy?"

"No, it's not. Who, who's out there? The questioning was weak.

Ah Fa's throat choked and coughed again before he spoke, "Xiaoxi, I'm your brother, Ah Fa." ”

The room fell silent all of a sudden, as if I couldn't believe it, maybe the name was too old, Xiaoxi and Xiaozhi needed to think and recall.

"Brother-" Xiaoxi finally let out a cry of surprise, and the sound was loud, click, click, click, the sound of flint hitting the fire sickle, very urgent.

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A bean-like lamp reflected Ah Fa's face flickering and dimming, the cigarette butt was going out one by one, and the smoke was swirling, and it was impossible to see whether his expression was angry, sad, or something else.

Xiaoxi and Xiaozhi were around a table with a missing leg, gobbling up snacks, taking turns drinking cold water from a large bowl with a broken edge, so that they would not choke again.

Xiaoxi is thirteen years old, but she looks thin and looks at least two years younger than her actual age. The dirty ragged clothes, so small that they no longer fit their bodies, turned their emaciated and pale little faces from time to time to look at Ah Fa, as if they were repeatedly confirming a small scar on Ah Fa's left cheek, and timidly wanted to say something but couldn't say anything.

Ten-year-old Xiao Zhi is a little unfamiliar with this brother, after all, five years later, he was still young at that time, and he just lowered his head and ate hard.

There was almost no furniture in the house, and there was straw on the floor, which was the bed for sleeping. Ah Fa snuffed out the cigarette butt, this is still the thing on the foreign devil's body, and there are matches, there was not this just now, I don't know when the flint fire sickle will be struck!

Xiaoxi stopped and began to whisper. Afdo was listening, occasionally asking a few short questions.

Ergui is still like that, doing odd jobs from east to west, drinking with a little money, and occasionally buying some food for the children to eat. When he has no money, or if he loses his temper after drinking, he doesn't care what the children eat.

Xiaoxi also Xiaozhi had no choice, so he had to figure it out by himself. First, he sold things, and when he didn't have anything to sell at home, he went around looking for work to get something to eat. They would go to the deacons for the red and white men, they would go to pick up some scraps of copper and iron, sometimes they could mix leftovers outside, sometimes they would cook some sweet potatoes and turnips from their neighbors, and sometimes they would starve for two or three days in a row.

"Brother, you, are you still leaving?" Xiao Xi looked at Ah Fa with a low voice, afraid of rejection.

Xiao Zhi also raised his head when he heard the sound, but just looked at Ah Fa, then lowered his head again and stuffed the last piece of snack into his mouth.

"Well, you don't have to worry if you can't go." Ah Fa paused and said firmly: "In the future, I will feed you, and you will not starve anymore." ”

Xiaoxi smiled, relaxed from the heart, the hard days, and the younger brother who was always crying hungry, almost crushed her persistence and struggle.

The light flickered a few times, and the lamp oil was about to burn out. Ah Fa knew that there was nothing more, and it was already dark, and if he had anything to buy and things to do, he would have to wait until tomorrow.

"Sleep, sleep, and we'll talk about it tomorrow." Ah Fa, who had been busy all day, was really sleepy, so he got up and put the straw away.

Xiaoxi also hurried over to help and brought one of the two broken quilts to Ah Fa.

"You cover it, I've got a jacket." Ah Fa pushed it away, twisted the straw in his hand, took it as a torch, leaned on the oil lamp and lit it, turned around and walked out of the house, and said as he walked: "I'll look at the room next to me, you blow out the lamp and go to sleep first!" ”

"Brother—" Xiao Xi called out reluctantly and worriedly.

"Don't worry, I'm not leaving." Ah Fa's footsteps paused, and he walked again.

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It was a bright morning, and the sky was bluer and clearer than usual. This is the feeling that Xiaoxi felt from the bottom of her heart when she woke up and saw that Ah Fa was not leaving.

Ah started early, mainly to change the pistol that he hastily hid last night to a safer and more hidden place. Then he wandered around the house and in the courtyard, thinking of something to add. When Xiaoxi and Xiaozhi woke up one after another, he washed his face and took the two out to eat.

Duck noodles are considered to be a special food of Tangqiao, and they are also good for breakfast. The two children ate happily, ignoring the astonished stares of others.

Although the sparrow is small, it has all kinds of organs. Tangqiao Town is also a small society, and you can basically buy everything you want to buy, and you don't have to go all the way to the city.

After breakfast, Ah Fa led his sister and younger brother to start purchasing. Clothes shops buy pants and clothes, rice stores buy grain, and grocery stores buy kerosene, dishes and chopsticks and other sundries. Anyway, I walked around a lot, carrying and carrying it to my home.