Chapter 7: The Crying Little Girl
In October, the weather in Jiangcheng is finally not so hot, although the summer is still there, but the temperature in the morning and evening is very comfortable, the leaves of the plane trees on both sides of the road also begin to slowly turn yellow, occasionally with the breeze blowing, a few leaves swaying and falling down, full of golden, especially loved by photographers.
Zhou Yi held a newly bought digital camera and pressed the shutter on the street from time to time.
This is a very old street, the wide road outside isolates it from the newly built commercial facilities along the road, walking along the stone steps inside, occasionally a few people on bicycles and tricycles pass by, carrying recycled waste goods along the street shouting "recycle old household appliances, old mobile phones, waste newspapers" The sound comes from time to time, all of which make this place seem particularly warm and quiet.
After taking pictures all the way, Zhou Yi walked to a small shop that he had been to a few times before and sat down, and asked the boss for a bowl of wontons familiarly, while looking at the photos he had taken before, and then stopped at a photo.
In the photo is an old-fashioned residential gate, the brown wooden door on the opposite side, the wooden door has been touched by people because of its age, the two sides are unusually smooth, the door is pasted with faded Spring Festival couplets, and three middle-aged men are drinking tea and chatting at the door, one of the slightly chubby middle-aged men is waving his hand and talking to the people next to him, and the whole looks like the ordinary people's usual peaceful and peaceful daily life.
Zhou Yi looked at the photo carefully, the corners of his mouth unconsciously turned up slightly, the wontons came, Zhou Yi put away the camera and concentrated on eating the wontons.
"Look, young man, you've been here like this a few times, photographer, right?" The owner of the small shop is an old man in his sixties, and he and his wife have opened a wonton shop here for a lifetime, Zhou Yi took a camera back and forth several times, and each time he rested and ate wontons in his small shop, and he became familiar with it after coming and going.
"Hmmm! This street is very distinctive, and you can't find it anywhere else in this season with a better view, after which you will have to wait until next year. Zhou Yi replied with a smile.
"This street!" The old man nodded, sat next to Zhou Yi with a little nostalgia and said: "Yes, I grew up here since I was a child, I heard the old man say that this street has been around for hundreds of years, and the previous houses are gone, and what I see now are all built later, to say the least, it is a hundred years." ”
"Many people don't know about this place, I also found it by chance, I didn't expect that there is such an old street in Jiangcheng, it turns out that there is such a long history here!"
"Speaking of this history, there are many stories here, from the emperor to the present, only the street has not changed, saying that this street has good feng shui, and the others have moved, only this street has not moved."
"I look good at it, it's not as quiet as here." Zhou Yi took a sip of soup, "Your wontons are so delicious!" ”
Hearing Zhou Yi's praise, the old man chatted more interested, now it was not noon at this time, and there were few guests, so the old man simply took his teacup and talked to Zhou Yi.
"I've been making this wonton all my life, and I can't eat firewood wontons outside." Uncle said proudly showing off.
Zhou Yi smiled and nodded.
"Since my grandfather's generation, my family has been doing this, and I heard my grandfather say that there were still big officials who came to eat at that time!"
"A century-old shop!" Zhou Yi smiled and bent his eyes and gave a thumbs up, "I'll take a few pictures of you when I go back, so that more people know about your wontons!" ”
"That's a good feeling!" The old man's eyes lit up, "I guarantee that Jiangcheng is unique!" ”
As he was talking, two neighbors walked in outside the door, "Lao Liu, come and have two bowls of wontons!" ”
"Great!" When the old man heard this, he hurriedly agreed, said hello to Zhou Yi and went to the back to make wontons.
Zhou Yi continued to eat the wontons in front of him, but his ears inadvertently heard what the two people who had just entered the door said.
"You said that Da Wu is really, this good life has only been a few days, and every day when I go home, I am fighting with my wife, if you want me to say, this can't go on and leave, it's not so consuming!"
"What a fight!" Another lowered his voice and said: "The whole thing is a single fight, his wife is also strong, they are all like that, they just refuse to divorce, how many times have you said this has been mediated!" ”
Hearing this, I knew that these two people must be from the neighborhood committee, and the old man brought two bowls of wontons, and after hearing this, he continued: "Da Wu, this kid doesn't know how to become like this?" That wasn't the case earlier, was it? ”
"Lao Liu, you don't know this." One of them took a bite of wontons and said: "It was very good earlier, watching the little couple talking and laughing, selling fruits together to make some money, the old man was very happy, so he gave them this house, but several years have passed, and he has not seen any movement in his wife's stomach. ”
"Go to the hospital and have a look, what can't be cured now? As for it? The old man shook his head.
"Save face! Not to say that his wife is a hen that can't lay eggs, and then the two of them quarrel every three days and fight every five days, at first it was fine, and then it was okay to fight, and they were still messing around outside! ”
"That's not the way to go! If you can't leave, divorce is nothing new now, this day is really good! The old man shook his head again.
"Didn't you just say that! Last month, his wife took two people to beat a woman he raised, and I heard that she was stripped off on the street, and Da Wu was angry, and when he came back, he beat him so hard! No, we tossed us early this morning, and I heard from my neighbor that I beat another night last night, and his wife almost died, or we called 120 to send to the hospital, you said this...... The police station is here, and now Dawu is still closed! ”
"Alas! I don't know what they think! The old man still shook his head, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and no one can care about so many troubles.
Zhou Yi ate the last bite of wontons, took his own things, took out the money and settled the bill, "Uncle, I'm leaving!" ”
"Oops! Come back when you have time! The old man hurriedly sent Zhou Yi out.
Zhou Yi waved to him politely, and then took several photos of the wonton shop outside with his camera, "Okay, goodbye, uncle!" ”
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Da Wu was detained for five days and then released, because his wife did not want to sue him, and did not agree to a divorce, saying that even if it was hard consumption, he would not make room for the fox spirit.
Da Wu's complexion is not very good, he scolded his wife in his heart I don't know how many times, he listened to the words of education every day in the detention center, and there were drunks and hooligans who were locked up together, he was as depressed as he wanted, he was dirty, his hair was oily, he came out of the detention center early in the morning, and walked listlessly along the wall to his home.
He didn't want to go home, as soon as he came home and saw the yellow-faced woman, he couldn't help but move his fists, no matter how he looked at her, he didn't like it, he said a few words back, how harsh and how to say, he wished she died early, and he refused to divorce! What the fuck!
To be honest, Da Wu doesn't really want to divorce, for the sake of that old house, I heard that that piece is going to be relocated, and if I don't get a lot of money, I will miss it, how can I stay up until that time, I can't just be so cheap that yellow-faced woman!
To say that Da Wu and his wife were still very affectionate at the beginning, but the son he was thinking about never appeared, it was inevitable that he was psychologically unbalanced, and he felt uncomfortable watching other people's families holding their children and making love to them, and his own wife's stomach was still flat and did not move.
Da Wu was reluctant to go to a big hospital to see a doctor, and felt ashamed, so he quietly found an old military doctor with a small advertisement posted on a telephone pole, but people tested their urine and said that he had no problem at all, and the problem was with his wife, but his wife said that she had no problem, and Da Wu himself was useless!
Because of this, Da Wu and his wife have to quarrel almost every day, accusing each other of having a problem, and then once her wife said ruthlessly, saying that Da Wu is a useless ornament, and it is useless! Da Wu completely lost his mind and made a move for the first time.
Looking at his wife with a blue nose and swollen face lying on the ground, Da Wu's heart swelled with an indescribable sense of pleasure, the depression in his heart seemed to have been removed a lot over the years, and since then he has been uncontrollable, every time he quarrels, Da Wu can't help but move, for a long time, if he is in a bad mood one day, as long as he can't move his wife, Da Wu feels comfortable, and then it has evolved into hitting his wife if he has nothing to do anyway, and then takes the money and goes out to the hair washing room to find Miss.
Da Wu's psychology is becoming more and more distorted, almost all of his hard-earned money every day is used by him to find a young lady, half a year ago, Da Wu simply wrapped up the woman in the shampoo room, rented a house two streets away and raised it, hoping that one day this woman can compete for his stomach and give him a boy and a girl.
"Alas!" Da Wu sighed, and his boredom with his wife had reached its peak.
Walking to the mouth of the alley of his house, Da Wu hesitated, and the hatred in his eyes that could not be concealed made him smack in the direction of his home, and the people at the police station said that his wife had been discharged from the hospital, so what? Why didn't you kill her?
Da Wu turned around and went to the place where Xiao San was renting.
It wasn't until about ten o'clock the next night that Da Wu came out of the rental house lazily, cleaned up all over his body, and looked like a dog.
Humming a song I don't know, I walked along the road to the small park at the door of my house, and came across a high school student in a school uniform, with long hair, big eyes, and a delicate face.
"Oops! Little girl, what's wrong with you? Why are you crying alone on this big night? Did you meet the bad guys? Da Wu's heart itched for a while, how could the woman he had found and the little girl he was now raising be compared to the little girl who looked like flowers and bones?
"Uncle, can you help me?" The high school student saw Da Wu as if he had seen it, and grabbed Da Wu's arm with a crying voice.
Da Wu couldn't help but be attracted by such a pitiful little appearance, his heart was beating a little fast, someone asked for help, and he was such a beautiful little girl, how could he refuse?
"Well, little girl, don't worry, tell me what's going on?" Da Wu cleared his throat and asked.
"I accidentally lost the money to buy medicine for my grandfather today, and I've been looking for it for a long time, but I can't find it, and my family is in difficulty, so I lost 2,000 yuan at once, and I ...... Whining...... I don't dare go home......"
Da Wu couldn't help but be ecstatic in his heart, his eyes rolled, and he said in a very amiable tone that he didn't usually see: "This matter, it's not easy to get the money back if you lose it......"
"What should I do?" The little girl was in a hurry, "Please, uncle, help me!" ”
"Don't worry, or you wait for me, I'll go home and get some money later, and you can take it back to buy medicine for your grandfather."
"Then what's the matter, uncle, I can't take your money for nothing......" The little girl's big watery eyes were full of gratitude and hope, but the words in her mouth were refusal.
"And what about your grandfather?" Da Wu deliberately asked with a straight face, and the little girl was embarrassed for a while, "Okay, you wait for me, my house is in front." ”
The little girl finally compromised, gritted her teeth and said, "Thank you, uncle, you are such a good person!" The little girl smiled and wiped her tears, and the appearance of pear blossoms with rain made Da Wu feel uneasy for a while, "If you help me so much, I will definitely repay you!" ”