But there was a wound on the face of the five leftovers. Childish only noticed it when he followed him to the edge of the stream. Xiaozhi was stunned for a moment: "Your mother beat you again?" ”

Wu Yu'er looked depressed: "That mother-in-law is not my mother." ”

Xiaozhi went to untie his collar to see, and the five leftovers hid, but they couldn't hide from the concern of their friends. Xiao Zhi'er had already ripped off the button on his collar, and he couldn't help but take a breath of cold air in his mouth, only to see that the wound on Wuyu'er's body was still heavier than his face. Xiaozhi couldn't help but say, peeled off his shirt, and then retracted his hand to cover his mouth, only to see that the black and shiny little body of the five leftovers was blue, red, black, and purple, full of new wounds and old marks, and some were still bleeding. Xiaozhi was stunned, and there were tears in Wuyuer's eyes, he was stubborn, and he didn't want Xiaozhi to see his tears, so he jumped into the stream as soon as he threw himself around. The stream in April was still a little cold, and he used the stream to freeze his tears but not his heartache. After a while, he smiled at Xiaozhi and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to a good place to teach you some good things." ”

The so-called good place is just a Tugu Temple, which is empty and there are no people on weekdays. Xiaozhi smiled: "What are you going to teach me?" ”

Wu Yu'er didn't answer, with a smile on his face, he had sunk his waist and squatted on the horse, put on a frame, and then punched out his left fist, shook it slightly, and pressed his right palm on Xiao Zhi's waist, and Xiao Zhi was pushed down by him with one palm. Fortunately, Wuyu'er shot very lightly, and Xiaozhi was covered in dust, but he jumped up excitedly and said, "You can also do martial arts?" ”

Wuyuer smiled, didn't wait for him to ask again, and practiced a set of "Dahong Boxing" by himself. Dahong boxing is widely spread in northern Hubei area, and I saw him move such as "jade door bolt", "left and right confrontation", "vest hammer...... All the way down, I was already sweating on my face. Because of the sweat, his face gradually brightened. Xiaozhi was stunned by the sidelines, with infinite envy in his heart, and couldn't help but applaud in his hands, and said with a smile: "You have been so troubled, why don't you make it when Peng Xiaohu and Liu Jun'er in the village usually gang up to bully you?" ”

Wu Yu'er had already used the last move, and then he stopped and said, "You don't know, the third grandfather doesn't let the children in the village practice martial arts." He said that practicing martial arts is more than right and wrong. For example, my grandfather knew martial arts, but they all died. That's why the adults in the village didn't let us practice. I'm still practicing secretly. ”

As he spoke, he taught the little boy to punch hand in hand. Xiaozhi was already sweating on his forehead after beating for a while, and Wu Yu'er smiled: "You take off your jacket too." ”

Xiaozhi obediently took off his jacket, and on the dry land next to the barren Tugu Temple, his body was a rare kind of tenderness in this countryside. Wu Yu'er looked at his well-proportioned and thin white body, and couldn't help laughing: "You are too white, like a little lamb." ”

Xiaozhi was ashamed by him, and he was not allowed to call, but Wuyuer was funny, jumping and laughing: "Little lamb, Jiaojiaojiao, I haven't seen the sun burn on the skin......" Xiaozhi couldn't help but chase him and beat him, and the two children chased and fled, and had a very good time.

Xiaozhi chased in a hurry, his eyes didn't pay attention, and suddenly his foot fell, and the person had fallen. He let out a 'bang', and the first thing that caught his eye was a pair of green cloth shoes. Those shoes were so big, and inside the shoes were a pair of well-tamped feet - it turned out that Xiaozhi had accidentally stepped on a person's foot. When he lifted his face, he saw a black, fat, overly wide face scattered with a few pockmarked seeds, and on that face there was a fleshy nose, under which were equally fleshy and thick lips, and the upper lip was densely covered with a layer of hair. The person was so tall and fat that if he didn't see her in front, Xiaozhi wouldn't have guessed that she was a woman. I saw that she had long jute hair, tangled and thin, and her expression was very fierce. She lifted the childish and thin body with one big hand, there was a hint of mockery and ridicule in her eyes, and she said: "Look, this is the Sven child from the city - how did your mother teach you, it is ten points wilder than the wild children in the township." ”

She didn't seem to be used to seeing Xiaozhi's little white body, and a big hand pinched it fiercely on his body, pinching Xiaozhi into a bared tooth, leaving a bloody mark on his body. The woman pursed her lips and sneered, "Useless things." Then he yelled at the five leftovers: "The cow doesn't let go, I only know how to play crazy all day long." ”

Wu Yu'er looked at her with fear and fear, and said, "Today, Peng Hu'er should let the cattle of the whole village go." ”

The woman was angry and slapped Wu Yu'er in the face: "What about the water, did you pick it?" ”

Without waiting for Wuyu'er to argue, she pinched Wuyuer's ears and drove him to the village.

Xiaozhi gasped, looked at the red piece on his chest, and remembered the injury on Wuyuer's body, and knew that this woman turned out to be Wuyuer's stepmother - Aunt Hu, who couldn't help grinning when Grandma Lu, who lived in the village herself, mentioned it. She started to beat the child and called it a ruthless, Xiaozhi looked at her under the palm, and the left side of Wuyuer's face was swollen. Grandma Lu couldn't help but sigh every time she mentioned her and Wuyuer: "If she has a child herself, it's okay to be so fierce to Wuyuer, but she can't beat one, and the child in the front room is like an animal." ”

Xiaozhi looked at the figure of the five leftovers being driven away, and couldn't help but cry in his eyes. Wu Yu'er also tried to walk steadily, and tried his best to show a kind of dignity that despised the humiliation imposed on him. But that little resistance and such helpless dignity made Xiaozhi's heart sour. He has been in contact with gentle and elegant people since he was a child, and he never expected to see such a rough background of life - don't they know that a child is also dignified? The scenery of the green trees and fields around the Tugu Temple also lost its color in his heart for a while - his father taught him to read 'Returning' since he was a child, and looking at his father's appearance, he wanted to return to a peaceful countryside and get a peaceful rest, but what he wanted to return to was such a rough, barbaric, and still oppressive village? How is that different from the feeling of being chased and killed on the road when they leave Chang'an City?

The stepmother of the five leftovers is a foreigner, a woman between the rivers. The villagers couldn't help but have a contemptuous expression when they mentioned her excuse, which made Xiaozhi very uncomfortable. Life is uneven everywhere - a farmer driving an ox and plowing the field in the distance was watching the excitement here, when he saw that the woman in the river had gone away with the five leftovers, but the ox was idle and lazy, so he whipped it the thin cow's spine, whipping out a bloody mark. The voice screamed into the child's ear, and the child turned her head, unable to bear to look at it. The old man who was watching the temple at the Tugu Temple was also spitting at this time, and kicked the leprosy old dog that he had never fed, and who was shrinking up thinking it was something delicious, and wanted to lick the phlegm he spit out. The old dog limped off and whined, and the old man had a rare smile on his face. Tears welled up in Xiaozhi's eyes again, and he felt so uncomfortable in his heart: Wuyu'er went home and seemed to be doing his never-ending work with bruises. Xiaozhi walked a little farther away, lying on the green grass by the river, and suddenly wanted to have a good kung fu. He didn't know what to do, but he didn't like the world, and he wanted to - he wanted the old cow not to be whipped, to give the old dog a bite to eat, and to give the old man who was watching the Tugu Temple a little bit of happiness other than kicking and beating the old dog. He has lived in this 'Qijia Village' for almost two months, and the little soft veil that his acquaintances in Chang'an City and life have intentionally or unintentionally covered in front of his eyes seems to have been lifted, allowing him to see hunger and injustice. At that moment, he suddenly understood the meaning of the rivers and lakes. What are rivers and lakes? - The rivers and lakes are the delusional thoughts of children who want to escape from what they don't want to see, right? Although its twists and turns, struggles, and struggles may not be as happy as they imagined. But childish fantasized that if one day he could change the way he looked when he was dissatisfied with everything around him, he couldn't help but be happier. ——The rivers and lakes in his heart are happy rivers and lakes that can be as brilliant as fireworks in his life.

The childish eyes looked at the clouds in the sky, and for a moment he felt that his face was sullen. The wide black face of the river woman with pockmarks and bitter marks seemed to press down on his eyes, and he fell asleep in a daze.