Chapter 42: The Itch Is Unbearable
Seeing that the car turned a corner and disappeared, Li Hansheng put down his hand and walked slowly towards home along the river. The eldest brother will not see each other until the end of the year.
The river still flows happily, and it seems that no matter what, it will never change its cheerful appearance. The shrubs along the river are splashed with droplets, shining in the sun. There are small birds flying around in the bushes, occasionally flying to the surface of the river to take a sip of water, tilting their heads, fluttering their wings and "chirping" and flying away.
The air that has not been polluted by industrial exhaust gases is sober and refreshing. This small mountain village seems to be good for everything, but because of its remote location and poverty, it sometimes makes people feel that nothing is good.
When I got home, my grandmother had already prepared the meal. The dish is stir-fried dried vegetables, less oil and more salt, although he usually eats it, but he is very uncomfortable eating it this morning. After eating the rice in the bowl in a few bites, I took out [Reader], but I couldn't read half a word. I kept thinking about the conversation with my eldest brother just now, and there seemed to be a strange itch in my heart, which was extremely itchy, but I couldn't catch it, it was really unbearable.
"That's it." Li Hansheng closed the book, took the English book and put it in his school bag. I originally wanted to go to my grandmother's house tomorrow to help harvest the buds, but since that's the case, let's just go today.
"Grandpa, I'm going to my grandmother's house to help her harvest corn." Li Hansheng found his grandfather and said hello.
"Didn't you say you'd go tomorrow?" Grandpa looked at him, a little puzzled, "Why did you go today?" ”
"Suddenly, I wanted to go early, and I just finished reading early."
"Oh, then there you go." Grandpa just asked casually, for him, it didn't matter if Li Hansheng went early or late.
......
When Li Hansheng arrived, he happened to see his uncle and second uncle sorting out the flat shoulders and bags, preparing to leave.
"Uncle, second uncle."
"Oh, Hansheng is here. Have you eaten? The uncle saw that Li Hansheng was coming, and asked with a smile.
The second uncle saw the eldest brother talking, so he thought about his nephew and nodded, smiled, and continued to tidy up his things.
"I've eaten, come over and help grandma harvest corn."
"By the way, uncle, did Zhang Ming come with you?"
"Oh, you old watch, he's here. Just went to the toilet. “
"Look, isn't this coming?"
Li Hansheng turned his head and saw a tall sunny boy with a hearty smile walking over.
When Lin Zhangming saw Li Hansheng, his eyes burst out with surprise, he smiled more happily, and walked over quickly, his voice was loud.
"Brother, you're here, I'm thinking about picking you up in the afternoon."
Looking at Li Hansheng's calm appearance, he punched him in the chest, "Why, I'm not happy to see your brother, don't you say anything at all?" “
Lin Zhangming also has two older sisters, he is the third, and he is a bit similar to Li Muxiao, but he is four years younger. My uncle works at Qingshuiqiao, where he grew up and studied, but he would come to his grandmother's place to play during the holidays.
He has a good family background, but he doesn't like to study very much, his grades are at the bottom of the class, and sometimes he skips class, often making his father angry but helpless.
But he is very good to Li Hansheng, the two are of the same age, go up the mountain to touch the birds, go down to the river to fish, and tease the little girl, he has taken his cousin to play all over again. Li Hansheng's somewhat unscrupulous personality comes from here, so in the face of Wang Zhiqiang's trio, he is not false at all, and dares to do it directly.
There are two girls of the same age as Lin Zhangming in the family under his grandmother's house, one is named Li Qing and the other is called Li Mei, so he made up a nursery rhyme:
"Green tofu, plum tofu, make a rotten tofu."
Then instigated Li Hansheng to stand on the canal dam and shout below, the two girls trembled angrily, it was not good to deal with Xiao Hansheng, and they tried their best to chase him to settle accounts, but found that he ran like a rabbit, and he couldn't catch up no matter how he chased him.
The damn thing is that the girl looked like she couldn't catch up and was about to give up, so he stopped and turned his head to make a grimace, "Green tofu, plum tofu, hit a rotten tofu." ”
“……”
The two girls were about to explode, and they had never seen such a brazen person, chasing after them like crazy.
But after all, I still couldn't catch up.
But after so many times, the girls didn't care anymore, and even ridiculed in turn: "Xiao Hansheng, if you scold your brother for being a bastard, we will give you candy to eat, and give one for scolding."
"Where did you get the sugar, it's really bragging."
"Brother, don't believe them, women's mouths, deceitful ghosts, keep shouting, I'll buy you spicy strips to eat later."
……
"Hey, Li Qing and Li Mei, let's eat together." Lin Zhangming bought back two packs of spicy strips and loudly beckoned them to eat together.
"If you scold us, we won't eat you!" The sisters swallowed their saliva, straightened their faces, and arrogantly refused.
"Oh, just kidding, don't worry about the two sisters. Come on, let's eat together, and I'll make amends to you for this spicy strip. Lin Zhangming handed over a pack of spicy strips, with a hippie smile.
"Uh-huh, who is your sister, I'm older than you, Li Mei is your sister, you have to call me sister." Li Qing snorted and took the spicy strips, "One pack is not enough, what about the two of us." ”
“…… Sister, why are you like this. Li Mei took her sister's hand and blushed, "Who is his sister?" ”
"Hehe, Sister Qing, Sister Mei, let's eat spicy strips first, go to the commissary, I'll invite you to eat popsicles, okay?" Lin Zhangming hit the snake with the stick.
"Hey, okay, we'll give you a face." Li Qing saw him so upright and nodded with satisfaction.
"Thank you, sister and sister, for your face, then let's go." Lin Zhangming smiled brightly and walked out first.
Li Hansheng: "......, have you forgotten something?" ”
……
Later, Li Hansheng recalled it and couldn't help but sigh that his cousin was so young and his skills in flirting with his sister were so superb.
It's a pity that as Li Han went to junior high school and Lin Zhangming went to high school, the sisters went out to work. We met once in a while, but we were speechless.
Time and space identity is the most barrier to people's feelings. In the journey of life, I don't know how many friends got out of the car unconsciously, and since then they have been strangers.
Li Hansheng took two steps back, bent over and covered his chest, "Zhang Ming, as soon as we met, you did this to your brother, where is your conscience?" ”
"Qi, don't pretend, it's not like it at all." Lin Zhangming pursed his lips and laughed. However, seeing that Li Hansheng was funny, he also let go of the unhappiness in his heart, he is still my good brother, and he has not changed.
"Since you're here, let's go and harvest the buds together, and I'll help you get the flat burden." Lin Zhangming grabbed his younger brother's shoulders and turned to go in.
Li Hansheng ran to the room first to put away his schoolbag, and then ran to the kitchen.
"Grandma, I'm here."
When my grandmother saw her grandson, she was shocked and then laughed.
"Hansheng is here? Have you eaten? ”
"I've eaten it, and my uncle asked me just now."
"I'll say hello to you, and we'll go to the field to harvest corn."
"Good, good!" Grandma smiled from ear to ear, "I killed the chicken at noon, harvested the corn and came back to eat it, and there was a big watermelon after eating." ”
"Brother, where are you? We're ready to go. ”
"Here we go!" Li Hansheng shouted and looked at the old man, "Then let's go." ”
So saying, he ran out, took the stilt and the bag, and headed for the cornfield on the mountain.