Xiang Hai was speechless, paused, as if remembering something, his eyes lit up, and he raised his chin and said, "Who said that?" I even saved his life! ”

"Yo! Listen to your heroic events. ”

Xiang Hai straightened his body, cleared his throat, and brushed his hair again. Lin Yilan glared, and he laughed.

"Then you can listen up.

That year was notoriously rainy. Since about March, it has been raining heavily, and for a while it even drows us to go to school. There is no way, a little money to build roads is greedy from top to bottom, and there is water everywhere when it rains, so don't you have to row?

During that time, my parents were afraid that I would play in the water, which basically restricted me from going out, and even adults couldn't run far. Yang Cuihua, who is next door, often comes to my house to chat, and I usually don't bother to listen to her all night. But tonight, she said a message I cared about: "That's not the right ...... That pervert, his little dilapidated house was flooded, and it seemed that his brain was also drenched. When I heard that, I was holding that strange thing, sitting there in a daze, motionless, probably sick. I said that your man and boy, don't go over, you don't have to be pounced by him. ”

She opened her mouth, and I listened to it with a stomach, and after a few bites of food, I went to do my homework.

The next day, my parents still went to town to sell breakfast, but now they are rowing. I put on a pair of rubber shoes and stepped on the wet mud to move towards the Hu family.

Still a long way away, I saw him sitting on a higher mound covered in mud. He held two paintings in his hands and stared blankly ahead. I looked in the direction he was looking, and there was a small courtyard, which was low, and there was a small lake on the side, and the lake was full and flowed in this direction, and the water had already flooded the gate for a small half.

I hurried to his side, and he heard my movement and looked back at me, and I caught a hint of despair and madness in his wooden face.

He looked at me for a few seconds before he started laughing, his face softened before I dared to talk to him.

"Hu Yi, your house is flooded."

"Well, I see."

I think of the KFC and the sweet and crunchy sugar gourd he invited me to eat, and I feel that I am very unrighteous, his house is flooded, and I don't know it. For a while, it was guilt and face heat.

He sat there in the shape of a shrimp, and I saw him holding the top in his arms, the painting I had seen in the room covered with a white cloth. The painting depicts an elegant and gentle woman holding a little girl in a small blue dress with slightly curly hair in her arms.

Hu Yi probably thought that I hadn't spoken for a long time, but he looked back at me and saw that I was looking at his painting, and he had crooked the painting, and he looked at it himself. The mud on his fingers rubbed against his clothes, and then he gently touched the red face of the little girl who was painted, and his face softened again.

He said: "My daughter's name is Yiyi, she is 3 years old this year, five years younger than you. She listened to me very much, loved to eat fried meat with green peppers, liked to imitate his mother's speech, and loved to watch me paint oil paintings. She likes to squeeze my paint all over the place, even on her little skirt, and she has been taught many times by her mother. ”

He looked at the little girl in the painting lovingly, his eyes were nostalgic and reluctant, as if he was re-savoring the past. After a long time, Fang turned into a sigh and was blown away by the wind.

I couldn't answer him when he said this, so I looked at his flooded little yard and asked him, "Where do you live when your yard is flooded like this?" ”

"The yard was flooded, no problem. It's just that the roof is still leaking, and my oil painting is all done. As he spoke, he hugged the paintings in his arms a little tighter.

"When it first started raining, I looked for plastic sheeting to cover the roof of my house, and after a while, the wind blew somewhere. In the last two days, the rain began to fall again, and I poured into the house without breathing. Before I could find anything to cover the roof, the little lake on the side was full again, and it began to flow in my direction. Now, I just sat on the table with the painting in my hand and sat all night, and this morning the rain stopped, and I waded out of the water and sat here to bask in the sun. ”

"You...... You haven't eaten yet, have you? I still have some steamed buns at home, I'll bring them to you. ”

He grabbed me and shook his head slowly.

"Although the kitchen was flooded, fortunately, there was a lot of rice left over in the last two days."

I actually wanted to invite Hu Yi to my house for a while, but I knew that my parents would never allow me to do so, and if I did so, my parents would only make Hu Yi even more embarrassed.

Actually, I'm a little angry, I don't understand why the people around me have such a big prejudice against a divorced person from other places, in my opinion, Hu Yi is the best.

But others always scolded him, laughed at him, and took pride in this action. It seems that bullying him is a great thing, a hero.

I accidentally saw a group of people watching the excitement from a hundred meters away, and I also heard the people behind me muttering those hurtful words. If I got tired of listening, I dug up a piece of mud from the ground and threw it into the water behind me, and the men screamed and avoided it, and whispered a few curses. Repeat it a few times, and the person will be almost gone. We finally had quiet again.

I asked Hu Yi where he rested at night? He said, "I slept on the slip of the book at home, and all the valuables were there!" Fortunately, the first half of the house is leaking, and although the second half is full of water, it is still possible to sleep on the top. After listening to him, I felt a little better, and he finally didn't have to take a mat and sleep outside.

In the afternoon, I came to Hu Yi's small courtyard again, and he had already begun to sweep the water outside, although it may be a little futile, but he was able to move, and his face did not look so dead and silent in the morning, so it was good that I was not afraid.

When he saw me, he greeted me with a broom and shook it twice, and continued to sweep the water in the house. I didn't bother him, I turned around and went home.

After continuous heavy rain, the sun finally shines. The water was also drained a lot, the road was very muddy, and the rest of the water was stored in large lakes and small ponds. The heat wave was also blown by the wind, and after a few days, the land gradually dried out and everything returned to normal.

It's just that when I go to the Hu family again, I can't call people everywhere. In the end, he was found lying in bed and did not get up.

I secretly opened the curtains to make a joke with him, but the light that broke into the room allowed me to see him lying on the bed. He was lying on the damp bed like a different person, breathing heavily, and talking nonsense in a hazy sense.

I touched his forehead with trembling hands, and I almost died of fright. I hurriedly rummaged around for fever medicine, but when I couldn't find it, I ran home to rummage through it, and was scolded by my mother.

I was so anxious that I cried: "Hu Yi is going to die, you still do this and that!" Your heart is too ruthless! ”

I didn't see my mother's expression, but I vaguely felt that she seemed to be stunned, and immediately found the fever reducer and went to the small broken house with me. After a brief examination of Hu Yi's body, my mother fed me antipyretic medicine and told me to watch him, and she rode Hu Yi's broken car out of the house.

Not long after, my mother came back with a village doctor, and when the doctor saw that Hu Yi was lying down, he quickly helped him up, took some clothes, leaned behind him and made him sit half-sitting, and immediately looked at Hu Yi's pupils, listened to his lungs, and his face was ugly.

"He's got a lung infection and he's in a bit of trouble."

"Even if you give him treatment, we will pay for it."

The doctor frowned, "Alas! It's not about money, it's about classmates, I won't die or save it. He is not simply a problem with a lung infection. His heart is not very good, and now his heart is hydromed, his lungs are swollen, his chest is full, and there is no room left...... Alas! The doctor hesitated for a moment, and said, "Forget it, let a dead horse be a live horse doctor." First, give him anti-inflammatory lungs, and the heart will be supplemented with water-diluting drugs to remove excess water. First...... So be it. ”

I watched the doctor tie Hu Yi's swollen and thick arm several times into the skin tube, and patted it several times before inserting the sharp needle into it, the crimson blood slowly flowed back, the doctor fiddled with the infusion set, and the clear liquid slowly pushed the blood back into Hu Yi's body.

Later, his father stayed by his side at night. During the day, he watched who was free at home, and after more than 20 days, he finally woke up and was able to get out of bed and walk. In addition to expressing his gratitude, he took out one of his most satisfactory paintings and gave them to his father, saying that if he died, someone would buy the painting, and he would buy it as much as he wanted.

My father couldn't refuse, so he had to accept it.

After that, my parents no longer ordered me not to come to the small dilapidated house again, so I naturally continued to teach me to paint oil paintings. After recovering from his illness, Hu Yi was extremely gentle and finally agreed to teach me.

In fact, what I don't know is that he has some family diseases, and this crisis is actually a disease. But after taking care of him and healing, we thought that it was all right, and we didn't know that it was the "play" that he didn't want our family to fall into the deep public opinion and forced to act, and the hidden danger that led to his early death was buried at that time.

It was only before he left that I figured out this cause and effect, and if I had paid attention to it earlier, he might not have left so early. 】

Xiang Hai reached into his pocket to touch the cigarette, but when he didn't touch it, he picked up the cup and drank it all. He was about to get up to get a cigarette, and Lin Yilan said, "It's not your fault." ”

Xiang Hai paused, he turned his head sharply, Lin Yilan's gentle eyes smiled, and said, "It's not your fault, if there was such a person around me who needed my help at that time, I wouldn't have the ability to help him." Everyone's responsibilities in the world are different, and we can only help others if we take care of ourselves first. ”

"At least for me, you're special, and when you hold me, I can see the sunshine behind you. Xiang Hai, please continue to hold me, please. ”

Lin Yilan smiled gently, but Xiang Hai's body trembled a little. He squeezed his hands hard, and his smile uncontrollably revealed himself: "Of course." As long as you're not afraid of me squeezing your hand, I won't let go. ”

The two looked at each other and laughed silently.

Because of the psychological burden of the misfortune that happened to that person, although the two of them were in different situations and thoughts, they wanted to comfort each other. Although he didn't pierce the layer of window paper, Lin Yilan understood that this person was definitely not unrelated to him.

Xiang Hai got up and left. Lin Yilan sat on the sofa and watched the TV that didn't know what was playing.

Gradually—she smelled the smell of wet earth in her nose, the damp wind in her ears, and the muddy dirt under her feet. She looked beside her, and there was a man whose face could not be seen clearly, sitting blankly on the mound with a few paintings, looking at her own submerged courtyard.