In her spare time, Hedi often takes the walkman given to her by Xiuhan to the field. There was often no one on the field, and there was not even a bird to see in the emptiness, so she found a stone to sit down, pressed the button on the Walkman, and a melodious and lingering song came from inside, whether it was fast or slow, gentle or bright and cheerful, which made her heart shake, as if she had come to another world. There are no constraints in real life in that world, only beauty and freedom. She listened to all the tapes that Xiuhan gave her, and almost even sang the songs in them. Sometimes, she would sit on this stone with Xiuhan and listen to Xiuhan practice her voice. Xiuhan grew up, the childishness in her voice receded, and there was a hint of maturity and euphemism in her singing, as if she was whispering to the boy she had a crush on. Hedi was fascinated and would sing a line or two, but her voice was always out of tune, ruining the psychedelic atmosphere. Xiuhan snorted and laughed, pointed at her, and said that it was wrong to sing like this, and that she should sing like this, but Hetu still couldn't sing right, and then she gave up singing, just listening to Xiuhan singing, or listening to the beautiful singing voice inside. Although she was young, she seemed to have understood the mood expressed by the singer.

On the day Xiuhan left, Hetu was sitting on the field listening to the song. Hear "Anything can be discarded, nothing can be forgotten." Now what you say is just your courage," she heard the voice of someone talking down the slope. Hedi's heart moved, and he hurriedly stood up and ran to the sidelines. Sure enough, it was Xiuhan, she was following behind Lao He and Hui Rui, and she was fiddling with something with her head down.

"Xiuhan!" He shouted loudly, she turned off her Walkman and ran down the slope. Xiuhan stood in place waiting for her, and when he ran to Xiuhan panting, he saw a string of tears on Xiuhan's face.

"Hetu, when I participate in the competition, you must come to watch." Xiuhan clenched her hand. The melody of the song still echoed in Hedi's mind, and she felt very sad, although she verbally agreed to Xiuhan's request, she knew that she might not be able to do it.

"Why are you leaving?" He Tu choked up, she felt that time passed too quickly, and she was about to leave without beware of Xiuhan.

"I'll come back, you wait for me for winter vacation this year, I'll definitely come back." Xiuhan looked at her parents who came to pick her up in front of her, and then said, "I'm leaving, remember to listen to my songs." ”

He Tu reluctantly watched her walk away, and then turned around and walked back slowly. Xiuhan, on the other side, was sad for a while, but this sadness was quickly replaced by the excitement of going to a new school. She got into the car and sat in the back seat, with headphones in her ears, listening to the music of the drums exploding, and her heart was extremely excited.

Within two days, Jiafu took Heyi's hand and went to the school to sign up. He Yi was so excited that he ran two laps around the school playground before entering the teacher's office. Heyi is as smart as Hedi, and he understands what the teacher teaches at once, and his grades are much higher than the students in the class. She travels back and forth between home and school every day, and she wants to teach everything she learns in school. She had been listening to it for two days at first, but when the housework became more and more heavy, she was almost too busy to stop, so this small lesson was stopped. He Yi then went to her own school, and after a semester, her ignorant temperament of only knowing how to roll in the dust disappeared, and was replaced by a lively and polite temperament. Her mind progressed almost every day, and when she ate at the dinner table, she would often ask questions that Jiafu and Cuiying could not answer, such as "Why can birds fly in the sky, but people can't?" and "Why can't the moon rise after the sun goes down and they can't appear at the same time". Whenever she asks these questions, Cuiying will only say, "Ask the birds yourself, and see if the birds will answer you." Jiafu lowered his head and didn't speak, and when he finished eating and went to do carpentry, he said: "I can't answer these questions, your father has never gone to school, you go to school and ask your teacher to see if your teacher can answer you." ”

When He Yi heard it, he felt that it made sense, and the next day he ran to the school with the small schoolbag he had retired from to ask the teacher.

Unlike Heyi, Hedi is less interested in these issues now, and she is more focused on how to stir-fry the dish to make it more fragrant, or how to make the dumplings more perfectly curved. Her brain slowly descended into the vast darkness like a vanishing star in the dark night.

Xiuhan really followed her promise, and in the second week of the winter vacation, a person walked slowly from the entrance of the village with a backpack and his hand in his pocket. It was snowing lightly that day, and the snowflakes spread in a thin patch on the yellow earth, leaving a shallow mark on the foot. When she walked to the bottom of the slope of Hetu's house, she raised her head and looked, no one was standing on it, she suddenly had a naughty heart, put her hand to her mouth and bent it into a circle, and shouted: "Hedi! Hetu! ”

He Di was adding firewood to the kang in the yard, and when she heard this shout, she was stunned, and only after two seconds did she react, and suddenly got up and ran out. Xiuhan stood at the bottom of the slope and greeted her in surprise when she saw Hedi showing half of her body, with a satisfied smile on her face.

"Wow. You're really here. He Tu jumped downhill and stood in front of Xiuhan in a pink down jacket. Xiuhan's size jumped to the limit, and the twelve-year-old Hedi stood in front of her, the top of his head only reaching her shoulder. Xiuhan stretched out an arm around Hedi's shoulder, and asked with a smile, "I'm not here, miss me, right?" ”

He Tu smiled shyly, turned his head to look at the heavy schoolbag on her back, and asked, "How many things have you carried?" ”

"Some clothes, a lot of homework. The teacher who taught me was really perverted, and he gave us so many homework on a vacation, and he also called it a preparation for the college entrance examination. Please, I'm only in my first year of high school, so I'm getting ready for yarn. Xiuhan chattered, and as soon as she arrived at Hedi, she was like a chatterbox. Walking to the fork in the road, Hetu suddenly stopped and said, "I'll go back to do things first, you must be frozen, hurry up and go back to the stove first to warm up." ”

"Okay, then you can come to me in a moment. My grandmother is at home, I can't talk to her, I'm really bored to death if you don't come. Xiuhan chattered, although she said so, but in fact, she felt more bored at home in the city, and she had to face her parents as soon as she had a holiday, and she was nagged by them every day about her homework, future, and future, and even singing a song would be said. At her grandmother's house, she felt more free and would not be controlled by others.

"Got it. I'll go first. He turned and walked up the slope. She came out in a hurry, wearing only a sweater, and when the wind blew, her body shivered, and she quickened her pace and walked towards home.

After adding charcoal to the kang, she closed the small iron door at the entrance of the kang hole, returned to the house with the charcoal basin, and added charcoal to the stove. Emerald asked her in the back room, "Who called you just now?" ”

"Xiuhan." He Tu replied, and saw He Yi jump out, and he was about to run out of the door before he even put on his coat. He Tu hurriedly grabbed her and said, "Wait a while, I'll take you there." ”

"You're going to cook!" He protested loudly and dissatisfied.

"Then I'll go after eating." Hexin also walked out of the back room. Holding a pot of freshly washed potatoes in his hand.

"You cook, I'll go by myself, and you come and call me again when you eat."

"Whoever wants to call you, you will be hungry if you have nothing to eat." Hexin began to cut the vegetables.

He couldn't beat them, so he had to go back to the back room and stay. During the winter vacation, the teacher also assigned a lot of homework, and she lay on the kang and shrugged her little shoulders to write.

After eating, brushing the pot, he slowly put on his coat. He Yi was already impatient to wait, she urged several times, and He Yi took her hand and went out. The door of Grandma He's house was open, and two stone lions covered with snowflakes stood majestically at the door.

Grandma He was as enthusiastic as ever for them. It's just that she's older and doesn't look as energetic as last year. He helped her add charcoal to the stove sensibly, helped her tidy up the house, and then walked out of the side door and towards the big house. He Yi had already run to meet Xiuhan, she lay in front of Xiuhan, and kept asking those questions that Jiafu and Cuiying couldn't answer, Xiuhan patiently answered them one by one, trying to answer her questions as much as possible.

"Do you still have to learn to sing?" He Yi replied curiously. Xiuhan raised his shoulder-length black hair and said, "Of course I want to, it's called a vocal lesson, and a teacher will teach you how to sing." ”

"How do you teach? Isn't singing just singing? As he spoke, he began to sing in his mouth, all of which were songs from Heyi's casual listening.

Xiuhan couldn't help laughing, touched Heyi's head and said, "Oh, you just hum like this, where is it called singing?" ”

At this time, Hetu opened the curtain and walked in from outside the door, bringing a cold air mixed with the smell of incense and candles. She saw Heyi and Xiuhan laughing together, and couldn't help asking, "What are you talking about?" ”

"Sister, sister." He Yi ran up to her, waved his little hand and said, "Xiuhan still needs to learn singing, I've never heard of singing still to learn." ”

"I haven't heard of it either." He Di walked to Xiu Han, sat on a small bench next to her, and looked up at her with He Yi, "Why do you have to learn to sing?" ”

"Of course you have to learn, otherwise why do you listen to why the voice we sing is different from that sung by those professional singers, and there are many things worth studying in it, not to say that singing with your mouth is singing."

"I don't understand." He Tu smiled and shook his head, "You like singing so much, then you should study hard." ”

Xiuhan grinned and waved his hand, "That's for sure." She suddenly took Heyi's hand and asked her to sit next to her, as if she wanted to say something to her, but in a blink of an eye, she saw that Heyi was also listening carefully, and hurriedly said, "Don't listen, child, go out quickly." ”

"Why?" He Yi looked at them aggrievedly, "My sister is also a child!" ”

"You're younger, you go to grandma's house, grandma has milk for you to drink."

As soon as He Yi heard the word milk, her eyes lit up, but she still pouted dissatisfiedly, turned around and ran out the door.

"You know what?" Xiuhan pretended to lean in front of Hetu mysteriously, "On my first day at the new school, I met someone. ”

"Who?" He didn't know what she was going to say to herself, and looked at her curiously with big dark eyes.

"A boy is very good-looking." Xiuhan suddenly looked at Hedi's eyes very seriously, clapped his hands and said, "Oh, your eyes are exactly the same as his eyes, they are all good-looking, bright." ”

"And then?" Hedi's brows were tangled together, not understanding what she was saying.

Xiuhan's face turned red, she lowered her head and grabbed a pillow in her arms, kneading it as if it was her enemy, and said, "Then the book I was holding in my arms fell to the ground, and he picked it up for me." I looked up into his eyes and was like, wow, it's really beautiful. ”

"Good-looking?" He Tu still looked at her puzzled, he was still young, where did he understand these things, his eyes were full of confusion and ignorance.

"yes, it's pretty." Xiuhan laughed and said heavily, "I think I seem to like him." ”

"Like?" He Tu repeated the last two words of Xiuhan like a repeater. Xiuhan glanced at her, and suddenly understood that Hetu didn't understand these things, but she couldn't help it, she still wanted to confide in Hedi, after all, there was no such person around her who could listen to her heart as carefully as Hetu and wouldn't laugh at her.

"That's right." Xiuhan nodded, "And his voice sounds so good, it's like a magnet is stuffed into his vocal cords." Xiuhan looked at the ceiling, indulging in his memories, "He said to me, I'm sorry, I bumped into you." I felt like I had turned into iron, drawn away by the magnets in his throat and eyes. ”

"Magnets? Got a magnet in your throat? He Tu was frightened, "Isn't that sick?" ”

"Gee, I'm just using an analogy, that's not what I meant." Xiuhan squeezed Hedi's hand, not affected by her words in the slightest, and continued to immerse himself in his memories, "And his accent is not the accent of a northerner, it is the accent of a southerner." Xiuhan suddenly covered his mouth and smiled, "It's that every word will be read out by him word by word." I think if he goes to sing, it will be very good. ”

"And then?" Hetu suddenly became interested in the story.

"And then." Xiuhan shrugged his shoulders, "And then I didn't." I went to the classroom to report, and he left. ”

"That's it?" He Tu pouted dissatisfiedly, "Then how do you make him sing." ”

"I thought about asking him what his name was, but I didn't have the courage. I was so nervous, you don't know, I was blushing even redder than that snake fruit, and when he apologized, I didn't have the courage to look at him. ”

He snorted and laughed, and pushed Xiuhan's shoulder, "Why are you so daring, you blush when you talk to people?" ”

"No, I'm not blushing at everyone, I'm just with him." Saying that, Xiuhan's face turned red again, "Then I asked my classmates who that boy was, but they didn't know each other." You don't know, but it took me a lot of effort to find out what grade he was, what class he was in, and what his name was. ”

"And you told him to sing?"

"Don't interrupt me." Xiuhan smiled and patted Hedi's arm, "Guess what his name is, his name is also good." ”

"What?"

"His name is Xing Siyun." Speaking of his name, Xiuhan's face was filled with that kind of fascination again, and he pulled out a piece of paper and a pen from the bag next to him, wrote three words on the paper, and handed it to Hedi, "Look, it's just these three words, it's also beautiful, right?" ”

"Luckily, what?" He pointed to the three words on the paper and paused when he read the middle one.

"Si, pronounce four sounds." Xiuhan pursed his lips and smiled, "Xing Siyun." ”

"Is there anyone else with the surname Xing? It's the first time I've heard of it. Hedi's mouth opened wide in surprise. Xiuhan took the paper in her hand and said with a smile: "Is that okay? ”

"Okay." A hint of disappointment flashed across Hedi's face, "That's how your school life is?" ”

"No. I also participated in our school clubs. It's a pity that I don't know which club Xing Xiyun is in, otherwise I would have joined the club he joined. When it came to his crush, Xiuhan's mouth couldn't stop, "You definitely can't guess it, and I didn't guess either." I always thought he was in the same grade as me, but I didn't expect him to be a sophomore in high school. It's a shame that the sophomore year of high school is in another building, not in the same building as us. But fortunately, I found out what class he was in, and when I started next semester, I would watch him. ”

"What's so nice about this." He Tu pouted, "If there are any other novelties, tell me about them." ”

Xiuhan pursed her lips and searched in her mind seriously for a while, but except for Xing Xiyun's matter, she didn't think anything else was novel, so she had to shake her head and say: "School is like that, it's just that what we learn is a lot more difficult, and there are a lot of big and small tests, I think it's much harder than junior high school." ”

"It's hard work, and it proves that you can really learn something."

"Of course, I must study hard, and then be admitted to the Central Conservatory of Music in college!"

The word university was too foreign to Hedi, and she didn't understand it, so she immediately lost interest in the topic. At this time, Heyi came in from outside, she seemed to understand what Xiuhan meant, and ran over with a milk bag in her mouth and said, "I know from the university, our teacher said it." ”

"Yes, you study hard and get into a good university in the future!"

Their conversation ended with a call from Horry to go back to cooking. I saw He Rui appear at the door, with a lofty expression on her face, as if talking to them was defiling herself, she craned her neck and said in a stiff tone: "Mom told you to go back to cooking." ”

"Got it." He Tu stood up and said goodbye to Xiuhan, "I'll come to you again tomorrow, and you sing to me." ”

"Okay." Xiuhan happily agreed, and suddenly remembered something, and took out a few tapes from his bag, "Here you go, you must be tired of hearing those tapes, this is new." ”

A smile bloomed on her face, she liked to listen to songs, although she didn't sing very well. She took the tapes and carefully put them in her pocket, took Heyi's hand and followed Herui back.