Chapter 7 Once upon a time, you were a ray of light in my eyes, and the world was warm

Winter is coming in a hurry, and the father on the north road is busy with work, and there is no time to prepare for the winter, they are still wearing the old clothes they wore when they first arrived, and when they came to eat noodles in the morning, they shivered from the cold, as if the whole muscle was dancing, and there was already a slight crack on the red cheeks.

North Road's originally delicate face was frozen red and purple, and the first thing I did every time I walked in was to run quickly to the coal fire to keep warm, so my mother couldn't bear it, and everyone persuaded Yin Taoze to buy a padded jacket for himself and his children, but Yin Taoze waved his hand and said helplessly, "Let's wait a while, this time is very busy, let's make some money first." ”

"No matter how busy you are to make money, you can't care about your own life or death," Mom said with a sad face as she put the noodles on the table, turning to look at Beilu who was eating noodles and sighing deeply.

Beilu raised his head after a while and whispered, "It's okay, I'm not cold", and just after saying that, a sneeze followed.

"Hahahaha, you're a little bit good at lying, okay? What a fool! Bei Chu patted him on the shoulder and laughed as she walked past him, and her laughter infected many people, and many guests secretly laughed.

This time, the north road looked a little embarrassed, but he didn't say anything, everyone is used to this child who doesn't argue and doesn't make a fuss, I stared at the north road, thinking about how to make him more comfortable, and suddenly found that he was also quietly looking at me, and after I found out, I quickly lowered my head and sucked wildly.

There is a big bucket in the school, which is full of boiling water, and every winter, many students take water bottles to fill boiling water to warm their hands, and when class ends, it is crowded with people, and I can't squeeze in at all, and I don't think about filling it to warm my hands.

Beilu would rush over as soon as he heard the bell for the end of class, he had two bottles, and every time he refilled the water, he would run to our classroom and exchange the bottle with me, which was almost cold. On several occasions, his hands were scalded with several blisters due to the fact that there were too many people pushing around.

But he never said it to me, he always put his hands in his pockets and said that his hands were cold. I didn't know it at first, until one time I accidentally saw a red blister bulging in the palm of his hand that had helped me carry my school bag, and he hurriedly dodged it and laughed at me twice.

"North Road, why are you so stupid?" At that time, I always couldn't figure it out, how could someone take such a big risk to fill hot water, but he didn't use it, if Beichu knew, he would definitely laugh at him fiercely, this fool deserved to be burned.

Beilu was stunned for a moment, and said a little embarrassedly: "Haven't I always been like this?" Hey hey"

His humble appearance is a little cute, not at all like the stubborn little boy on weekdays, but I always feel that the North Road at this time should be the most true self, every time he doesn't smile easily in front of others, and he doesn't talk much, and his closed lips give people a proud look over time.

"Wow! You laughed again, I also want to have dimples like yours, but my mother said it's all genetic, she didn't, so I didn't either, so your mother must have such beautiful dimples, right? I blurted out but accidentally saw the sadness of the north road, he lowered his head, "I don't know, maybe she has it too." ”

"Your mother must be beautiful and kind, because you are like that!" I was a little anxious, after all, I had never coaxed others, and of course no one coaxed me, so I didn't know what to do for a while.

"Mmmm, if you like it, I'll give you the dimples," Beilu looked up and laughed, pinching his cheeks with both hands, and then placing them next to my cheeks, as if grafting.

I giggled and asked him, "Look, do I have dimples too?" Is it good-looking? Is it good-looking? ”

"Well, you're the best-looking in the village, and you look good without dimples." Beilu's serious expression made me a little embarrassed, and I didn't know how to answer for a while.

When I was a child, my hands would be very severe frostbite every winter, swollen as red and purple as grapes, and I often itched in the middle of the night.

After I met Beilu, every winter from that year onwards, Beilu would bring me warmth, fill me with hot water without a hot water bottle, charge me on time when I have a hot water bottle, and my hands have never had chilblains again.

That's why I felt so hard in the winter after he left, and I missed him so much, maybe he was too good to me, so I thought when I went through every difficult thing in my days without him, if only the North Road was there.

On a snowy day a few days later, North Road happily ran up to me and handed me a pair of gloves with a little pink rabbit on them, and I remember that not long ago I begged my mother to buy it for me, but because the price was too expensive, and my mother always said that I would get it dirty, she refused to buy it for me, and I sulked for a long time when I came home that day.

I was amazed to look at Beilu who had his hair standing on end due to running, his face was red from the cold, the tears in the corners of his eyes seemed to be more obvious in the ice and snow, there were still some white snowflakes on his shoulders that had not melted, and there were droplets of freshly melted water on his head, which were crystal clear.

"Beimo, give you gloves, you won't be cold when you go to school in the future." He smiled happily, since he came here, there had never been a day so cheerful, the good-looking Danfeng's eyes narrowed into a line, leaving only a small gap.

The warm breath from his mouth stayed with me throughout the winter, warming my heart. I looked at the glove in his hand and didn't reach for it, because I saw his swollen fingers like carrots, and my eyes turned red instantly.

Seeing that I didn't take it, he stuffed the gloves into my hands, and then quickly hid his hands behind me to prevent me from seeing them, and urged me a little embarrassedly, "Bring it quickly, didn't you say that you have always liked this?" Don't cry. ”

"I don't want it, I'm not cold at all," I pulled his hand out of his pocket and put it back in his, if I was left alone to look at Kitaji's hand, then I would not be happy, I would be sad to death.

Beilu said anxiously, "Don't give it back to me, this is the color of a girl, and I will be laughed at by others if I carry it." Talking and crying, I stomped my feet, which reminded me of the way I was when I was playing tricks on my mother, and I didn't expect the North Road to be like this.

Just when the two of us were at a stalemate, my mother came out, she took the gloves for me with a smile, and then promised to buy a new pair of boys for North Road, North Road even said no, said that he was going to run, when he was about to go back, my mother suddenly remembered something, and shouted at North Road in the back, "That, is your father at home?" Is he still working on this snowy day? ”

"No, he took me to buy new clothes today." Beilu said happily, as if he had bought not clothes, but a house.

My mother took out a thermos box from the house, which contained the chicken soup that my grandmother gave us when she came, and she smiled and said, "That's right, let's take this chicken soup and drink it, and make up for it, how can I stand it on such a cold day." ”

It was the first time I went to the house on North Road, and he didn't speak all the way, and I thought he was still angry about not putting away the gloves just now, and he didn't dare to come out.

"Are you angry?" I finally couldn't help but ask him cautiously.

Kitaji absentmindedly replied, "No." ”

It's rare to hear him speak in such a cold tone to me, and I'm even more sure that he's angry, alas, boys nowadays are really careful, what if they ignore me on the north road? Am I going to be laughed at again like I used to?

Thinking of this, I couldn't help crying, the cool tears were sticky on my face in this cold night, and the sobbing sound attracted Beilu, he turned his head and asked anxiously, "Why are you crying?" ”

"Are you...... Isn't it...... Don't even want to pay attention to me? "I don't know if it was because I was crying or scared, but I vomited.

Beilu rubbed my hair with a smile and said dotingly, "How come? Unless you don't want to be friends with me, I won't ignore you. ”

Later, he told me that their house was very broken, and he was afraid that we would dislike him, so he didn't dare to speak, and he was not in the mood to speak, Bei Chu said disdainfully, "I have long known that your house will definitely be as torn as your clothes, and it's not that you've known each other for a day or two, what are you afraid of." ”

Beichu speaks like a little adult, when I was a child, I thought she was the bravest girl in the world, she was not afraid of fighting with boys, she dared to talk back to adults, I didn't dare to do these, so I always felt that Beichu was different from all girls, she knew a lot of things, she liked beauty very much, she was not afraid of heaven and earth.

So even though my mom was glaring at her all the way that day, she still stuck out her tongue at my mom and ran away by herself.

When we really came to the North Road home, I knew that his worries were not superfluous, this is undoubtedly the simplest home I have ever seen, as soon as I walked in, I only saw a bed, on which the only quilt was placed, or the quilt I borrowed in my house last time, the bed was messy with a lot of clothes, it is estimated that all the clothes of the two of them, probably it was too cold at night to keep out the cold.

There was a table and a rickety chair next to the bed, and as soon as my mother sat on it, she was so frightened that she quickly got up. On the table, there was a schoolbag from Beilu and two rice bowls, and another red boiling water bottle and a box of instant noodles on the ground next to it.

It happened that Yin Taoze went out that day, and my mother looked at everything in front of her in disbelief, and couldn't help but exclaim, "Oh my God, how do you two live, it's strange if you don't get sick if you go on like this." ”

Then beckoned us to fold the clothes and quilts on the bed neatly, and carefully cleaned the house inside and out, and finally it looked more warm, and at first glance it no longer looked so dim when I first came in, but it was still so empty, not like a home at all, but like a shelter, leaving a passerby.

After tidying up the house, my mother took our three children to a nearby store to buy quilts, gloves and socks for North Road, and at this time I noticed that North Road was still wearing a thin layer of cotton socks, and the shoes were also simple cloth shoes, and there was no velvet in them.

"I really don't know how you survived, and it really hurt you." When my mother got home, she put on new socks for North Road and gave him a pair of wool insoles, and couldn't help but sigh.

I saw that Beilu's eyes were moist again, he seemed to cry very easily, when others were a little kind to him, he could be so moved that he couldn't speak, as if he had been saved by someone else, as if his whole life was given by the other party.

Scarcity is precious, maybe feelings are like this, because there has never been, so it will be cherished.

But Yin Taoze is very strange, when we happily returned to the house on the North Road, we originally wanted to surprise Yin Taoze, but as soon as I walked in, I saw him with a sad face, and when he saw us, he didn't speak, and told us to go, especially to my mother, so that she wouldn't come back in the future, and also told the North Road not to play with me in the future.

At that time, I thought Yin Taoze was the strangest and least grateful person in the world, my mother was so good to him, but he was so ruthless, it was just not grateful, and he dared us to go.

My mother pulled me and Bei Chu and left quickly with red eyes, Bei Chu looked at this scene and was silent all the way, she seemed to understand something at a young age, and seemed to think of something, and I was just thinking about how Bei Lu was so pitiful, a moody father.

Beichu and I slept together every day, she used to always sleep on the pillow, my mother always said that she was a pig, and beating gongs and drums couldn't wake her up, but that day she tossed and turned and didn't fall asleep, and when I was about to fall asleep, she touched me with her elbow and asked me in a low voice, "Beimo, what if Beilu's dad becomes our dad?" Will you be happy? ”

"Ah, what are you talking about, how can the father of the North Road become our father?" I couldn't open my eyes, and I answered her in a daze, and when I thought about it the next day, I thought I had heard it wrong, or maybe it was a dream, and it wasn't until later that Beichu's performance made me sure that it wasn't a dream.

After that incident, I got up very early the next morning and stood at the door of Beilu's house to wait for him, because I was afraid that they would really not come to our house, that I would lose Beilu from now on, that I would not see Beilu in the future, and that I would go back to the old days when I was silently following other people's butts and worrying about being called "snotty girl" by others.

I shivered and waited for them to come out, under the collective plea of me and North Road, Yin Taoze finally agreed to continue to come to my house as usual, I was very happy that I saved North Road, but Yin Taoze came to my house only to know that in fact, even if there was no me and North Road, he would definitely come, and he came prepared, he bought a scarf for my mother, the beige plaid made her skin a little whiter and tenderer, and it also successfully made her face bloom.

"Women are easy to coax," Bei Chu glanced at them, spread his hands and said helplessly. Her pretended mature expression was like an omniscient old man who saw through the world, and it made us all laugh.

On the weekend, when Beilu was playing at our house, he accidentally scratched his clothes, and made a small cut in the corner of the table, although the broken area was not large, but it was in a very conspicuous chest, and Beilu looked at his clothes depressed, so I had to call my mother. She took a look at it and decided to help Beilu make up for it first, otherwise Beilu's shy and shy little boy would be very embarrassed, and it was so cold.

"Beimo, go get a piece of clothing for Beilu to wear." My mother instructed Beilu to take off my clothes first and ordered me to look for them.

But there has never been a male in our family, let alone a little boy, even if it is an adult, this is probably the disadvantage of not having a father, I thought about it, and suddenly a flash of inspiration came to my heart, I opened the wardrobe of the North Beginning, and found out the latest color cotton jacket that the North Beginning has not been willing to wear, and ran out excitedly and handed it to the North Road.

"It's okay, I'm not too cold." Beilu glanced at the big red cotton jacket, hesitated for a while or retracted his hand, his voice was trembling but he still said that he was not cold, he was such a little boy who loved to save face.

My mother smiled and helped him put on his clothes, and didn't forget to laugh at him by the way, "At this time, it's not cold, it doesn't matter if you wear a girl's padded jacket, you look better than Beichu wearing." ”

At this time, Bei Chu, who was playing outside, happened to come back from outside, and when he saw Beilu with a red face, he immediately laughed when he was dressed in red, and he lay on the stool and trembled with laughter, "Oh my God, Yin Lu, you go to be a girl, what a beautiful little girl, haha." ”

When she slowly approached, I found that the clothes on Beilu's body seemed to be very familiar, and I saw that her eyes were not quite right, so I quickly turned around and prepared to slip away.

But it was still a step late, and before I took two steps, I was pulled back by Bei Chu and counted, "Bai Beimo, Bai Beimo, you have been bold recently, you dare to take my clothes out for boys to wear, and it is my favorite padded jacket that I am usually reluctant to wear, I am angry." ”

Beilu looked at us in astonishment, and was about to come over to say something, when I winked at him indifferently and signaled that he didn't need to come.

I don't know why I always feel that Bei Chu won't be really angry, because I know that in her heart, Beilu is not an outsider, and I can't say where she is good about Beilu, but I just feel that her feelings for Beilu are different from other children, although she won't play with Beilu all day long like I do, and scold Beilu all day long like I do to others, but I always feel that something is different.

Maybe Bei Chu will be unhappy when Beilu only gives me gloves, will rub his frozen ears when Beilu is cold, and will only take out snacks when Beilu comes to my house, just like now, even if she takes her favorite clothes, she will not necessarily force Beilu to take them off, nor will she take out my clothes for Beilu to wear to vent my disrespect for her clothes.

For many years to come, I will always remember that scene. Beilu was wearing a flower cotton jacket with a shy face flushed and at a loss, and her mother sat on a stool with her head down and carefully sewed her clothes, so carefully with every stitch and thread. Bei Chu grabbed me by the collar and kept talking, and when he was tired, he drank saliva and continued.

Everything seems to be so natural and vivid, everything seems so vivid.

The North Road in a red cotton jacket looks like a cute little girl, and I have always remembered it all these years.