Chapter VII: The Yellow Mansion
Life in the second year of high school flies.
The winter vacation is coming in a blink of an eye, according to the teaching arrangement, we have made up for a few more days before the holiday, and when the class officially ends the holiday, the campus is already empty, and the students have gone home.
Da Gang and I returned to the town from the county seat together, and the shuttle bus stopped at the Yellow Building, where we both had to wait for our families to pick us up. Then they went home.
The winter in the north is unusually cold, after we got off the train, the family members who picked up the station did not arrive, so we were ready to hide in the office of the fourth uncle of the town hospital opposite the platform to keep warm, but the door hung a sign of his notice to go to the countryside, we shivered and shivered and turned back, creaked and stepped on the snow to walk to the school across the road, the junior high school was early for winter vacation, the yellow building was also closed, and we looked inside with the door. Due to the frozen feet, Da Gang naughtily kicked the iron door with his feet.
"What are you two doing?" , the sound alarmed the janitor in the courtyard. He walked towards us wearing a cotton hat and carrying a fire hook in his hand.
"Master, we graduated from the junior high school class of our school, and now we are in high school, waiting for the bus, can we come in and warm up for a while?"
"Little rabbit, it's warm, it's warm, why are you kicking the door?" , the janitor opened the door.
Lifting the curtain of the guard's room, a warm breeze was blowing in the room, and the stocky cook sat on a chair beside the fire with a cigarette in his hand, his fat face roasted by the fire as if it was about to drip oil, and we stomped the snow stains on our feet at the door, and went into the little room, and sat down on the little bed a little further from the stove.
Obviously, we had just interrupted a pleasant conversation, and the chef still had an unfathomable smile on his face.
The janitor, apparently unsatisfied, closed the door, threw the fire hook into the stove, and twisted his face towards the cook.
"Brother, what happened later, what happened later? Go on. The chef pouted at him, his eyes squinting at me and Da Gang.
The janitor understood, "These two children? They're not from this school anymore, it's okay, it's okay, and it's going to be said, and it's going to be said. ”
"Not a student?" "Smoking? Come on. The chef called out to the taller Dagang,
"I don't smoke." Da Gang was obviously a little uncomfortable with his enthusiasm, and replied sheepishly.
"Young people nowadays, who doesn't smoke," the old man said stupidly, obviously not believing Dagang's words.
"What happened?" The janitor then asked.
"Later---- later-----,hehehehe---" the chef laughed lewdly,
"You still don't believe in your brother's methods? As long as I recognize the right thing, I will definitely not let her run away, hehe, later, I took her down with two steamed buns from the cafeteria. After saying that, the chef smiled proudly,
The janitor laughed along. "If there is such a good thing again, you have to pull my brother and me, hehehehe",
"Why, where is that kind of good thing now? Now people's conditions are better, no one is hungry, how can it be like a few years ago, and now it is difficult for little girls to get started. The chef was a little emotional. Turning to me: "What year did you graduate?" ”
"Me? It's been almost three years since I graduated. I replied,
The old man pouted, "Mmmm, three years ago, I was quite moisturized here," he smacked his lips, as if he was reminiscing about something,
"There was a little girl in your class, the family conditions were not good, she pestered me every day, just like a starving ghost, sometimes a bowl of rice ---", he stopped, and did not say any more.
I knew what he was going to say, but suddenly I felt that the hut was unusually hot, and I panicked a little, and I got up and walked to the window of the door, and outside the window, a gust of wind suddenly blew, and then it began to snow.
The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and the Yellow Mansion was instantly shrouded in a white snow mist.
I pulled Dagang out of the guard room and walked to the open playground, from time to time there were snowflakes drilling into my neck, and a stream of coolness came and spread, and my whole body would tremble, as if the cold wind also drilled into my bones with this snowflake.
"Dude, you seem to have something on your mind, what are you thinking?" , Da Gang asked me,
"It's nothing," I looked at the location of my classroom on the first floor of the Yellow Building, and bowed my head thoughtfully.
One afternoon in the autumn three years ago, I remember very clearly, I was still in junior high school in the Yellow Building, Ah Hong found me and other members of the class committee, and discussed organizing a visit to a particularly poor girl in the class a few kilometers away, it is said that the girl lost her father very early, her mother was paralyzed in bed, and she was about to drop out of school, the result of the discussion was that everyone agreed to organize a class donation, and then went to visit the home in the afternoon, and the whole class donated less than 20 yuan in total.
The reality of the home visit was even worse than I imagined, we went to the girl's house, and what we saw was poignant, and I also had a deeper understanding of what the idiom of the four walls of the family is. When we handed over the money donated by the classmates to our mother, who was paralyzed in bed, my mother lay on the bed and cried with emotion, and the kind-hearted Ah Hong and the girl named Xuan also cried with red eyes.
When I was young, I thought, if I am a millionaire myself, I want to do it for this family, I must get them out of poverty completely, however, this can only be a good wish, in fact, my situation and conditions are much stronger than others?
The fat chef's words reminded me of the poor girl, hunger, poverty, and disease can indeed make people lose their nature, because everyone has the right to live, and to live, in a specific period of time, may be an unattainable luxury, and who can tell the price of this luxury?
When I came back from the home visit, it was time for school to get out, Ah Hong and Xuan went home directly, I went directly back to the dormitory, and as soon as I entered the door, I saw that my classmates were all aiming at me with evasive and avoidant eyes, and then they were all far away from me.
I walked into the dormitory strangely, the dormitory was also very abnormal, empty, a tall figure with both arms on the high and low bed, hanging between the two rows of beds, "It's an iron head!" ”
"What is he doing here?". I muttered to myself. At the same time, I was nervous.
The iron head is a famous thorn in the Yellow Building, he participates in every fight on campus, a famous gangster on campus, I know him,
"You're a big country?" When he saw me walk in, he glared at me,
"Yes," I looked at him with a tingling scalp,
"You're pretty good, let's go, there are a lot of people, let's go to the grove to talk!" Before I could react, he jumped out of bed, picked me up and dragged me away.
I don't know how I got to the woods, and I felt like my feet were off the ground.
The scene in the grove was very impressive, there were five or six people, I didn't know them, it should be from the society in the town, a bald head in the lead, with a kitchen knife in his hand, staring at me viciously, I looked at the iron head, looked at the bald head, I couldn't figure it, I didn't know where I offended them,
"Big country, are you looking for death by yourself?" The bald head stared at me, like a hunter caught a shivering little white rabbit,
I trembled and looked innocent, "Big brother, I didn't do anything wrong." ”
I'm reminded of the triad negotiation scene in Hong Kong movies, trying to calm myself down.
"What are you and my eldest brother doing in the afternoon?" The iron head drank.
"Who is Big Brother ---'s horse?" I stammered,
"Pretend, you pretend, why did you take Xuan in the afternoon? Still going for an afternoon? The bald head had an expression of wanting to swallow me raw, and he howled loudly,
I was relieved, I see, a misunderstanding, so I began to explain to them, I don't know Xuan, Xuan just went with me to carry out the task of the class organization, Ah Hong can testify, etc., a few people stupidly looked at me, watching me spit, dancing impromptu speech, forgetting what I was doing for a while, the kitchen knife in the bald hand was about to fall to the ground, he didn't expect me to be so talkative, in fact, I was scared stupid, in order to prove myself, I confessed, I went out, when it came to the emotional place, In order to better prove my confession, it shows that I don't have any thoughts about my eldest brother's Xuan, and I even told them the secret that I like Ding Ling.
"Ding Ling, do you like Ding Ling?" The iron head looked up and laughed,
"Don't you know that Ding Ling is the horse of the bald brother and the little brother Moon, and they run the road together every day? Well? ”
"Dude, I see your head is green now, hahaha",
"That's, that's it, how can he like such a slut!" The others also looked at me and laughed maliciously,
I paused, choked on the words of the iron head and almost fell down, I rushed to him like a leopard, grabbed him, and threw him to the ground. "You are not allowed to insult Ding Ling!" I raised my fist and struck.
Tietou was stunned all of a sudden, he didn't expect me to react so violently, beat him so hard, caught off guard, suffered a big loss, bald head threw away the kitchen knife, pulled me up, and shouted at the little brothers behind him, "What are you doing in a daze?" Hit him! ”
In the woods, I still didn't get rid of the fate of being beaten, and the next day I went to class with a blue nose and swollen face, and the terrible appearance scared Ah Hong,
"You were fine yesterday, but when we separated yesterday, you weren't like this, how did you get it?" She touched my wound, tears of distress flowing,
"It's okay, I came back late, and I rode into a ditch on the side of the road." I said lightly, I didn't want her to know too much. I don't want her to know about the fight I have for Ding Ling and people in society.
On the contrary, my tablemate Ding Ling, when she saw me embarrassed, listened to my explanation that she fell into a ditch and broke her head, she smiled and said to me, "Why did you fall?" I just happened to fall on my head, I really have a set, stupid, and so swollen, giggles, you really became a pig's head! ”
Yes, as Ding Ling said, in terms of feelings, I am stupid and can be described as sluggish.
Da Gang's inquiry brought back memories of the old days of the Yellow Building.
The experience of a few years ago is now vivid, Da Gang and I stood on the platform by the playground of the Yellow Building, and for a while, our minds were very chaotic.
Through the courtyard wall, you can see that the trees in the grove next to the Yellow Building have grown a lot taller, but they have already been shaved off by the cold air, and the branches and forks are stretched out to meet the snowflakes fluttering in the sky, instantly like a grain of snow-white pearls, occasionally a few birds that are not afraid of the cold fly over, fall, splash a trace of snowflake arc, the bird's wail, to this lonely winter adds a sad atmosphere.