Chapter 14: Dreaming of Childhood
Wu Lie fell asleep with the help of alcohol anesthesia. After a while, the sound of snoring sounded~
In the haze, it seems to be back to his childhood.
Wu Lie's best childhood was spent in the countryside. In his heart, it was not so complicated days. Life is always good and happy. At that time, there was no pressure in life, and even if there was, it was just the pressure of studying. In the past elementary school texts, there seems to be such a sentence: "On the other side of the mountain is the sea!" Now that I think about it, this sentence really suits Wu Lie's childhood. When Wu Lie was young, he lived in fantasy every day. He yearns for the sea, for the world, and for the future.
In the rural society of the early twenty-first century, material scarcity and wealth were not particularly high. Wu Lie's yard used to raise many little lives, chickens, ducks, geese and dogs, and a group of rabbits. In that kind of life, time flows very slowly. No hustle and bustle, no noise. If you look up, you can see the blue sky and the sun, and at night, the moon hangs high and the Big Dipper starry sky. Even if it's a rainy day, it's a sprinkler festival of God, which is extraordinarily emotional. After a heavy snowfall, you can build a snowman, have a snowball fight, and play ice skating. And at that time, the children were all playing together in groups. As soon as I went out, I was a group of friends from the east and the west.
But Xiao Wulie is different from them, he always likes to play by himself. I always like to bounce around by myself and have a lot of fun. In normal times, he doesn't like people coming to him to play. However, there are some excellent relationships, but there are exceptions.
In the backyard of his house, there is also a tall hawthorn tree. At least, in the heart of Wu Lie at that time, it could be regarded as very tall. It was Wu Lie's playground, and Wu Lie's leisure time was basically spent with this hawthorn tree. The anticipation of spring, the coolness of summer, the harvest of autumn, and the companionship of winter have all happened on this tree.
He had the first goddess in his life at that time. Really God! His name is "Nezha", and there is nothing wrong with that! It's Nezha. This is to blame for the film and television directors at that time, who liked to use actresses every time they filmed Nezha. So at that time, Wu Lie always thought that Nezha was a woman, and he actually liked him. Wu Lie's imagination was really rich at that time, maybe the animation stories at that time had too much influence on him. He always likes to fantasize: one day, a jade-faced white dragon will descend from the sky. And Nezha fell from the sky and stepped on the hot wheels to rush to him. Take him to the wonderful world of flying to the sky. Then in the beautiful world of heaven, live the life you want at that time.
However, this beautiful ideal was finally shattered in 2003. At that time, CCTV released an animated film called "The Legend of Nezha". He was curious why Nezha in the cartoon looked like a boy. He asked his mother curiously: "Mom, the third prince of Nezha!" Why does the cartoon look like a little boy? ”
His mother replied to him, "The prince is a boy in the first place." ”
That news was like a bolt from the blue to Xiao Wulie at that time. Xiao Wulie's concept of love is about to collapse. I have liked the goddess for so long, and the little goddess who has lived in my young heart for so long. It's a man! He couldn't accept it.
"How so?" Xiao Wulie responded to his mother, and then ran to the hawthorn tree and cried "woo woo~". Then, having cried enough, hid the tears under that hawthorn tree. I would go home and eat, and continue to yearn for a better life in the future. It's just that the goddess in Xiao Wulie's heart has become realistic little by little.
There were also rabbits in the house, which Xiao Wulie felt was the cutest of all the animals raised at home. Usually, when there is nothing to do, Xiao Wulie will hold a basket. Run to the back hill of the house to pick leaves, then pick them back and feed them to the rabbits. At that time, Cheng Xiong did not let Xiao Wulie feed the grass, for fear that Xiao Wulie would pick back the poisonous weeds for the rabbits to eat.
Once, the mother rabbit of the family gave birth to a litter of baby bunnies. But Xiao Wulie was so happy, he saw such a vivid and lovely thing for the first time in his life. When he was not young, he met a group of newborn little beings who didn't even grow their hair. He took advantage of the family's inattention, secretly took out a baby rabbit and played with it in the palm of his hand. He gently held this cute little life in the palm of his little hand. He looked at the little treasure in the palm of his hand and looked at it gently. The rabbit's eyes have not yet opened, and he has not yet fully grown fluffy hair. He stroked it twice, and the silky skin and the short hair made him feel comfortable. I held him and stroked him. When he had enough, he put it back to Mother Rabbit.
Then, the play went...
When he came back to eat, he saw blood flowing from the rabbit cage. He looked closer, frightened. Mother Rabbit bit the baby rabbit out just now to death! Rabbits rely on their sense of smell to distinguish their children, and the one just now has been contaminated with the smell of Xiao Wulie, and the mother rabbit can't recognize it as her own child. Mother Rabbit bites the baby rabbit alive.
After being reprimanded by Cheng Xiong, Xiao Wulie buried this little life that would not last long in the afterlife under the hawthorn tree. The hawthorn tree is full of small white petals, and the light of the sun appears and disappears in the branches and leaves of the hawthorn tree. He dug a hole next to the hawthorn tree with a small shovel. Put the body of the baby rabbit in a pit and bury it. Squatting down on the spot, praying with folded hands: "O merciful Mother Earth, bury it!" May it become one with this tree, and it will always be with me. Then he would cry again with "woo woo~". When you've cried enough, you'll go home and eat.
On some weekends, Xiao Wulie will go out to play with a group of friends who have a good relationship with him. Although Xiao Wulie usually doesn't like to play with other friends, when he heard that he was going to fish in the river, he must have been the first to jump out.
They tend to go at noon and stay all afternoon. Xiao Wulie would carry a small bucket and go to the river with his friends to catch fish. Some of them carry fishing nets, and some even bring their own dogs. That's the utopia of childhood, without too many complicated distractions.
When they got to the river, they would fill the bucket with water and put it next to the river. Roll up your trousers and walk down the river one by one.
The river is generally not too deep, and it has just submerged Xiao Wulie's ankle. Therefore, parents will also be very relieved to let them go to the river to fish. Wu Lie likes the feeling of stepping on the sand of the river, and after the sun has been shining on the river all morning, the water temperature will become very comfortable. The river water hits the river beach next to the loop, and the feeling of stepping on it is very gentle, very soft, and really very comfortable.
It was a wonderful afternoon. The river is surging in the direction of the sea. Sometimes it hides in the clouds, sometimes it appears in the sky. A dog that doesn't dare to go down the river, but is eager to try. And the schools of fish, and the loaches that came out of the water. Until the sun goes down, smoke rises from the houses not far away. They carried buckets full of fish and walked home happily. In the evening, at their home, there will be an extra dish of fried fish sauce. It's a big weekend, with no scruples.
It's harvest time. The hawthorn tree in the backyard will produce large red fruits, which are very beautiful. Green leaves, red fruits, so lovely. Although the taste is a little sour, it is still very attractive. Fathers and mothers would pluck the bright red fruits and give them as gifts to their relatives and friends.
And for Xiao Wulie, it's more of a miss......
It wasn't until Xiao Wulie was in the fourth grade that Xiao Wulie was about to move.
They were moving to the town, and the house was sold. Later, Xiao Wulie heard that the hawthorn tree was sawed off by the construction team. Cement was poured on top and houses were built. Wu Lie seemed to understand something, the hawthorn tree in his childhood was sawn off, and his childhood was gone forever......
Suddenly, the phone's vibrating ringtone rang. Wu Lie endured a severe headache and picked up the mobile phone placed next to him to take a look. The alarm goes off! "Hey~" hurriedly turned off the phone.
When I think about it, I'm so old, and I'm still thinking about what happened when I was a child. Why did you choose civil engineering when you applied for volunteering? In the end, he still lived as the person he hated, the kind of person who once sawed off his childhood!
Perhaps, this is life!