The village commissary finally got on the phone.

When Jiafu walked in the door with her hands behind her back and told Cuiying, she was sitting at the table eating with the children. Xiuhan squeezed in the middle of the Hetu and Heyi, and calmly picked up the rice in the face of Cuiying's disgusted and disgusted gaze. As soon as she heard this, she jumped up from the table with joy, raised her two arms high and jumped on the spot a few times, and shouted, "I can finally call my parents!" Cui Ying turned her head to glance at Xiuhan's white navel, and frowned tightly, and her disgusted gaze became more and more obvious. Jiafu didn't care, he looked at Xiuhan's happy appearance with a smile, as if he was looking at his own daughter, his eyes were full of love and pity.

"Then I'll call my parents later, I don't know how they are now, I haven't been in touch for a long time." Cuiying put down the bowl in her hand and said to Hetu again, "You can brush the bowl later." ”

He Tu nodded, gently tugged at the corner of Xiuhan's clothes, Xiuhan sat down and continued to pick up the remaining few mouthfuls of food, just after she finished eating, she couldn't wait to run outside, Heyi followed her outside, the anxious Cuiying shouted several times behind her, and the two of them didn't seem to hear it. The commissary was hundreds of meters away from Hetu's house, and the two of them finally arrived at their destination out of breath. He Yi excitedly looked up at a red little face and said, "I want to call too!" ”

"Who are you calling?"

"I'll call my eldest sister."

Xiuhan asked, "Then do you have your sister's phone number?" ”

"What's the phone number?"

"It's just a string of numbers, and you can call your sister only if you know this string of numbers."

He Yi thought thoughtfully, reported a string of numbers in his mouth, and asked with a smile: "Is this okay?" ”

"No, it has to be your sister's phone number." Xiuhan took out the money from her pocket and put it on the counter, and the shopkeeper signaled that she could use the phone. Xiuhan dialed the number and waited a few seconds before the call was connected. She was anxious to know whether she had been admitted or not, and threw out several questions in one go. Hui Rui asked her to speak slowly, and copied the phone number displayed on the phone with a pen.

"Did I get in?"

"Guess?" Hui Rui still had to sell Guanzi, and Xiu Han was anxious like an ant on a hot pot, she couldn't help but laugh and said, "I was admitted." ”

"Really? Mother! I was accepted! I was accepted into XX Conservatory! Xiuhan happily spun around in place and almost ripped off the phone. He Yi also followed her for some reason, smiling and revealing his neat eight teeth.

Hanging up the phone, Xiuhan bought another packet of candy, bent down and put a few in Heyi's palm, and said with a smile: "Let's go, let's go tell your sister the good news." ”

The two of them ran home again, a faint cloud of dust kicked up behind them. The sunlight sprinkled on this flying dust, as if it was a piece of elf dancing in the air, making the most beautiful special effects for Xiuhan. As soon as they walked through the door, Hetu was putting the last washed bowl in the cupboard, and when she heard the two people fighting, she looked back at them suspiciously, "What's wrong?" So happy? ”

"Sister Xiuhan has been admitted!" He Yi ran to Hedi's side and said to her with a raised face, and then ran into the back room to say to Cuiying, and after finishing speaking, he ran to the yard and told the news to Jiafu, who was busy with woodwork, and Herui and Hefu, who were watering the vegetables next to him. They all looked at this little girl jumping around happily with a confused expression, and they couldn't understand what she was saying at all, Xiuhan was admitted? What does this mean?

"Do you remember when I told you that I wanted to go to the XX Conservatory of Music?"

He Tu tried to recall it, and vaguely remembered that there seemed to be such a sentence, so he nodded.

"I got in!" Xiuhan pursed his lips and patted Hetu's shoulder excitedly. Hedi's heart jumped, and an indescribable emotion surged up, but she still happily responded to Xiuhan's hug and blessed her heartily.

"If you insisted on studying, then in two years, you can be admitted to your favorite university like me, and you are so smart......"

"Don't say that again." He Tu felt that the emotion in her heart was getting stronger and stronger, and she could barely laugh. After saying such a sentence with a calm face, she felt regretful again, for fear of hitting Xiuhan's happiness, so she couldn't help but sneak a few glances at her, who knew that this little girl didn't notice her mind at all, and still happily circled in place.

"What to do? I'm so excited right now, I can't even stand, I want to run, I want to jump, I want to make a nice -"

He Tu hurriedly supported Xiuhan, who almost fell, and blamed: "Happy, happy, if you fall and get injured, then how can you go to school." ”

Xiuhan stumbled to his feet and grinned, "What you said makes sense, especially reasonable." By the way, my dad helped me buy the tickets, I'll go home tomorrow, and there are still a lot of things waiting for me to do at home. ”

Hedi's face sank suddenly, and the emotion almost overwhelmed her, she pushed away Xiuhan, who was leaning on her, and continued to do her work without saying a word. Xiuhan glanced at her, feeling strange in his heart, but he didn't want this sudden episode to disturb his happy mood, so he leaned into Hedi's ear and said with a smile, "I'm leaving, will you send me tomorrow?" ”

"No." Hetu was even more angry, didn't she see that she was angry? She has only been here for a few days, and she has only been with herself for a few days, and now she says that she will leave without discussing it with herself, so why does she care about her feelings?

"I'll be sad if you don't send it." Xiuhan gently bumped Hetu's shoulder with his shoulder, and said coquettishly. She pursed her lips and put on a cute expression, and her crooked smiling eyes made Hedi embarrassed to put on a stinky face, so she had to reluctantly nod her head. Xiuhan raised his arms and let out a cheer, turned around and ran out of the house. He listened to the sound of her footsteps gradually disappearing, and her heart suddenly felt depressed and disappointed as if she had sunk to the bottom of the sea.

"What did Heyi just say she was admitted?" Cuiying leaned against the doorframe of the inner room and asked Hedi, still busy with needlework in her hand. He Tu said in a deep voice: "It's to be admitted to the university I want to go to." ”

Cuiying snorted coldly when she heard this, and said: "I think she just read too much books to become like this, she looks flamboyant and frivolous, I don't know who to show it to." You see, when you were just eating, your father was still there, and she raised her arms and jumped and shook her chest, which was ugly and dead. is still studying, I see that no matter how much she reads, no matter how good she is, it will be like this, how good it can become. Hum. With that, she turned and went in. He was stunned to repeat what his mother had just said in his heart, and an ecstatic sense of revenge suddenly welled up in his chest. She closed her eyes in pain, enjoying the pleasure of this sense of revenge, while suffering from psychological guilt and oppression, and she didn't know what to do for a while.

"By the way, I still have to tell your dad that it's okay to read the book well, otherwise I'll learn badly in the city, and I'm not obedient at all." Emerald Shadow shouted again in the back room. He Tu nodded unconsciously, and said blankly: "Yes, you are right, you can't let her read too much." ”

Xiuhan's ticket departs at 10 o'clock in the morning. Before leaving, she came to Hetu's house to eat and drink as usual. He Tu was tossed around by the unfounded thoughts in his mind all night, and finally closed his eyes a little at the dawn of the day, when he was serving food to the table with two heavy dark circles under his eyes. Xiuhan helped serve two plates, and then sat next to Heyi to chat with her. He Tu was not in the mood to speak at all, and sat down to eat the food silently. As soon as Cui Ying heard that Xiu Han was about to leave, she was happy or something, her eyes kept squinting at Xiu Han, and she couldn't wait to express all her disdain and disgust now. While learning her mother's expressions and movements, she tried to understand her mother's mental activity when she did so. Only Jiafu is the same as usual, and he chats with his family after two bites of food, but he doesn't talk much, and he looks kind and honest. He Fu sat next to Jiafu, his expression cold, ignoring everything in front of him, as if there was no such group of people around him at all.

Xiuhan finished taking two mouthfuls of rice, picked up the big box with a big schoolbag on his back, and shook his head at Hediyi and said, "Go!" ”

"I haven't washed the dishes yet......"

"You go see her off, hurry up." Cui Ying didn't even want to look at Xiuhan, and twisted her head and said. Xiuhan glanced at her a few times, then suddenly smiled, waved his slender white shoulders wearing only thin suspenders, and smiled at Hedi: "Look, my aunt doesn't care, let's go quickly." ”

When the last foot stepped out of the threshold, Xiuhan heard Cuiying's sharp voice, "Who is your aunt, a little slut." ”

Xiuhan's heart skipped a beat, and a wave of anger burned her heart, but she still tried to smile, turned her head to see Hedi's reaction, and instinctively wanted to seek shelter from her friend. He hung his head and walked forward listlessly, unaware of everything in his ears.

When he walked out of the courtyard gate for more than ten meters, Xiuhan suddenly asked, "Does your mother often scold me like this in your house?" ”

He was so startled that he almost uttered the words of his mother that had been echoing in his mind. She quickly closed her mouth and smiled reluctantly, "No." ”

"How could it not be, she said this in front of me, and she didn't know how to slander me behind her back." Xiuhan pretended to shrug her shoulders indifferently, but she was still sad in her heart, obviously Aunt Cuiying was very good to her before, why did she become like this now?

He didn't know what to say, hung his head, and kicked his feet on the loess road.

"If I do this again, I won't dare to come." Xiu Han glared at the middle-aged old man who was looking at her unscrupulously on the side of the road, turned his head and said to Hedi.

He Tu suddenly felt a burst of anger, and her face sank, "Do you think you're here to give me alms?" ”

"You're thinking again."

He Tu looked at Xiuhan's fair face, lowered his head weakly again, and said for a long time: "I'm sorry." ”

"What do you have to be sorry for me."

He Tu didn't hear that this was a question sentence, and still replied sullenly: "I'm sorry for my mother." ”

"Oh, it's actually nothing, I just didn't hear it, and I won't lose flesh on my body." Xiuhan sighed and pretended to be optimistic, but she was still affected by Hetu's negative state, and walked slowly with her head down in the scorching sun.

"He Xiuhan?"

Suddenly there was a shout behind him. Xiuhan looked behind him and saw Zhu Hai running in their direction. He seemed to be more tanned than before, and in the harsh sunlight, it was almost impossible to distinguish the features on his face from a distance, but the eyes were still bright and spiritual, and the two dimples were deeper, embedded in his cheeks as if they were carved out of stone.

"Wow, long time no see." Xiuhan patted Zhu Hai's shoulder like a boy. Zhu Hai smiled embarrassedly, turned his head to look at Hedi, and said to her, "You haven't seen you for a long time." ”

He Tu did not respond salty, but also replied.

"It's been a long time since I've seen you go to that slope, you don't know, the grass has grown on that slope again, but it's luxuriant, my sheep can't eat it, you can drive your sheep over——"

"I don't work as a sheep herder now." He Tu hung his head and didn't look at him. She felt a little nervous and a little lazy.

"Hey, you look up and look at people, it's so rude." Xiuhan said chattering on the side. He Tu sighed and looked up at Zhu Hai's eyes. At this glance, she suddenly fell into his clear eyes again, and no matter how hard she struggled, she couldn't get up, so she quickly turned her head to look around and said to him, "Let's leave quickly, otherwise we won't be able to catch the car." ”

"Where are you going?" Zhu Hai followed their footsteps, and he followed Hedi's side shyly, glancing at her from time to time.

"I'm going home, Hedi is going to see me off now."

"Then I'll give you a ride, too."

"You're talking like I'm going back to my hometown." Xiuhan grinned. She saw Hedi's blushing face and nervous siblings, but she could only worry about her and couldn't make any moves that would help her substantively.

The three of them chatted nonsense all the way, but in fact, only Xiuhan and Zhu Hai had a conversation with each other, and Hetu almost didn't even open his mouth. When they got to the side of the road, they found some big rocks and sat down and waited for the car. Xiuhan sat far away from them, wanting to give them a chance to speak.

"So your family lives in this area?" Zhu Hai looked at Hetu cautiously and asked. His sun-tanned hands twisted around the corners of his coat, sometimes on stones, sometimes on his calves, and his swarthy face was red, and his eyes were full of shyness and affection.

"Hmm." The sound of Hetu was inaudible. Xiuhan sat far away from them, there were only the two of them around, and it was the first time she had been so close to him. He Di could almost smell the smell of sweat and fresh grass on Zhu Hai's body, she hung her head, she didn't dare to raise her head to look at him, and she didn't even dare to move.

"Why don't you speak?" Zhu Hai asked hesitantly, for fear that he would be angry if he said the wrong word. He hadn't seen a temper before, but he was so violent and irritable before, but now he suddenly looked like a child who was afraid of people, which made him pay more attention to every word and word he said.

"Nope."

The conversation went on so awkwardly, Zhu Hai asked, and He Di answered, and later, Zhu Hai had almost no questions to ask. He stared blankly at the rounded side of his face, and half-wrinkled his head unwillingly.

"Did I do something wrong to make you angry?" He finally asked.

"Nope." He looked up at him in surprise. In the distance, there was a faint sound of cars, the sunlight that had been shining on people was gradually blocked by dark clouds, and the cool wind blew from the other end of the road, blowing the long hair and the corners of her clothes, and also touching her delicate and clear girl's heart. A rectangular bus stopped in front of them, and Xiuhan stood up and waved at Hetu, shouting, "I'm on the bus!" ”

He Tu hurriedly stood up and ran towards her, but the two of them were too far away, and before they were halfway there, Xiuhan shook his head with a smile, and shouted again with the gesture of making a call: "Remember to call me!" ”

"Good!" He Tu hurriedly answered, and Xiuhan stepped into the car. The car let out a low roar and disappeared before their eyes with the dust kicked up.

He sighed, and a thunderbolt exploded above her head, startling her. She hurriedly looked up at the sky, and saw that the dark clouds were already low on the mountain, and the clouds on the horizon were as dark as freshly blurred ink, and occasionally flashed a few bright and twisted terrifying lightning bolts. Seeing that the wind was getting stronger and stronger, he looked back and said to Zhu Hai, "It's going to rain, I'm going back." ”

"I'll send you!" Zhu Hai hurriedly walked to her side. He shook his head and strode away. She heard Zhu Hai's footsteps following her, and couldn't help but smile, biting her red lip shyly.

Before I could run more than ten meters, the rain fell like beans. He let out a scream and hurriedly turned his head to find shelter from the rain. There was a large elm tree in the middle of the road, and she hastened her pace towards it as if she had seen a savior. Zhu Hai ran up two steps and grabbed her arm, shouting, "Thunder, you can't take shelter from the rain under the tree." ”

"But where is the shelter from the rain?" He Tu couldn't open his eyes when he was hit by the raindrops, and only saw a shadow of Zhu Hai dimly. She felt Zhu Hai's thick palm tightly wrap around her arm, pulling her in one direction. Suddenly, the rain overhead disappeared, but there was a gust of wind that pierced people's bone marrows around, and the newly rained Hetu shivered fiercely.

"Why don't you take off your clothes and wring the water?" Zhu Hai looked at the mist in front of him and said a little embarrassed. His face was flushed, and his body trembled slightly.

"No, you don't." He Tu hugged his arm and said as he shivered. She looked at her surroundings, and it turned out to be a broken pavilion full of straw halfway down the road, and she usually saw children playing here when she passed by, but she never paid attention to it. Unexpectedly, it came in handy at this time, so that the two of them would not be drenched in the rain.

"You'd better unscrew the water, or you'll get sick." Zhu Hai's voice lowered, he felt even more shy, and at the same time ashamed, how could he persuade other girls to take off their clothes.

"Forget it, no, no." He found a corner and sat down, feeling that the wind here was a little lighter, but the cold still went straight into the person's body. She stared blankly at the pouring rain outside, hoping that it would stop quickly so that she could go home quickly.

Zhu Hai hesitated to move his steps and found a place to sit down one meter away from Hedi. He pretended to be casual and kept sweeping his gaze over Hedi's face, wanting to see what expressions she was doing and what her body was doing. He Tu sensitively felt his twisted gaze, sneered, and quickly held back, still pretending to be cold and looking outside.

"I don't know when the rain will stop." Zhu Hai pretended to be sad, but in fact, he was very happy in his heart at this moment, and he wished that the rain would last longer.

"Stop so I can go home early." He echoed his words while peeking at his reaction.

Zhu Hai's beautiful eyes dimmed slightly, but immediately changed back to their bright appearance, and said with a smile: "I can't stop watching for a while." ”

"Why?"

"Look at the clouds." He pointed to the clouds in the sky, "It's so thick and heavy, and it won't be blown away by the wind for a while." ”

"How do you know if the wind blows?" He tilted his head to look at him, a mocking smile on the corner of his mouth.

"If you put a leaf, it will be blown away by the wind soon, but if you put a big fat man of 300 catties, it will not be blown away by the wind soon."

"You mean you've been so fat that you've been three hundred pounds, have you tried this example?"

Zhu Hai was infarcted for a while, grinned at Hetu, and raised his muscular arm, "I won't be fat to three hundred pounds." ”

Seeing his thick arms, Hedi's face turned red again, and she quickly twisted her face to the side, trying to banish the images from her mind.

After sitting for a while, the clothes on my body gradually stopped dripping, and the wind blew and became less cold. He let go of his arms and sat in a different position with his knees hugged. She kept looking at Zhu Hai, who was half-squatting and half-sitting, and asked curiously, "Why are you here today?" ”

"Oh." Zhu Hai hurriedly replied, "I'll buy something for the family." ”

"What's that?"

"It's just some everyday items." Zhu Hai patted his pocket and smiled embarrassedly, "I didn't have time to buy it before I ran into the two of you." ”

"Are you still grazing sheep on that slope?"

"yes." Zhu Hai hurriedly nodded, "I haven't seen you for a long time." ”

"I don't herd sheep, my brother herds them. I went there at that time because Xiuhan thought it was fun to herd sheep, so I took her there. ”

Zhu Hai showed an expression of sudden realization, "Then will you go again in the future?" ”

He shook his head.

"That-" Zhu Hai suddenly closed his mouth, rolled his eyes, and then asked, "Then when I come here to buy something, can I still meet you?" ”

He pursed his lips and lowered his head. The corners of her mouth raised slightly to answer this question, but Zhu Hai still didn't understand, and still looked at her anxiously, until a wet figure holding an umbrella ran in outside, and the ambiguous atmosphere between the two people was dispersed.