On Friday night, Yanran asked Ah Sheng out for barbecue.

"Sleepy?" Yanran asked.

"Isn't this the time for our evening self-study? I was sleepy when I was studying, but I'm not sleepy now. Ah Sheng drank a cold beer and snorted lamb skewers.

"Shall we exchange stories?"

"Yes, I like to listen to stories, and my dad used to tell me all kinds of stories when I was a kid."

"I mean, their own stories." Yan Ran corrected.

"Yes, that's what I mean."

"Shall I come first?"

"Good-looking ladies are preferred!" Ah Sheng replied with a smile and a gentleman.

"When I was a child, I stayed in the very poor mountain village of the donation ceremony we went to before, the transportation was not developed, and it took several hours to go to the market once, the road was full of potholes and yellow mud, and the houses were crooked, and there was no light in the room during the day, I was not crying poor," Yanran replied with a smile, "I don't think it's bitter, it's actually interesting, it's my father's generation, the family is surrounded by walls, and it's the hardest and most tiring work. At that time, it was not you who were serious or serious enough to decide whether you could be a scholar or not, but by looking at the family, my parents saw that the situation was not right, so they went out to work, and for me, they came to the outside city and waited for me to take a bite. "Yanran is very free and easy in front of Ah Sheng, and she doesn't need to care if she is a lady or not.

"Cheers!" Ah Sheng smiled and went to clink glasses.

"I continued," Yanran smiled, "because they come back for a day, so, they come back once a year, every time they come back, it's the New Year, it's very lively, we all set off firecrackers at that time, it's different from the city, these things are forbidden in the city, crackling early in the morning, eating zongzi, eggs, and hometown specialties, next time I have the opportunity to bring you a little bit, what about me, I live with my grandparents on weekdays, and I'm very happy during the New Year, I can wear new clothes, I can hold my parents, Holding their shoulders, when they went to visit relatives, they all took me with them, in fact, I was seven or eight years old, and I was still holding me in my arms like a very small child, you know, at that time, my favorite taste was not braised chicken thighs, nor steamed fish, but my dad's black jacket and my mother's big red down jacket, which smelled from my parents, hung on the hanger, and I held and smelled. ”

"I can imagine that!" Ah Sheng smiled and nodded, "It's cute." ”

"I think so, too." Yan Ran smiled and said, "Come back and stay for no more than ten days, you have to leave by car, they said, they want to earn money for me to study," Yan Ran drank the wine in the cup like a boy, and continued, "I pull my parents every time to prevent them from leaving, but I can understand their efforts for my future, I was very sensible when I was a child, really, because when I think of this, I will let them go, I want them to worry." Every time I walked, I watched them go, waved goodbye from the door, walked to the entrance of the village, and then crossed the hill until they disappeared from view, and sometimes my grandmother would come and pull me in and call me in, because I was looking distracted. Yanran said, her eyes were indeed distracted, as if she was recalling the memory of that time in her head, her eyes were moist, but there were no tears.

"And then?"

"And then? By the way, there is another thing I forgot to mention, my life in the village is not bad, my grandmother likes me very much, just my little daughter, but my grandfather is not good, patriarchal, treats me badly, and sometimes threatens to drown me in the pond in front of the door. Yan Ran walked out of her previous state and began to laugh again, "I was still very well-behaved at home when I was a child, but I was not well-behaved in the village, a bit like a tomboy, I like to provoke the big men in the village and scold them loudly across the river." ”

"Scolding what?"

"Fools and stuff, now it sounds like what my lover said before, and then they can't hit me, so I shout all kinds of things, and I can't hear any other sounds, and when I turn around and go home when I'm tired of shouting, they take advantage of my lack of attention, and they rush over and lead me up like chickens, threatening me and asking me if I dare to shout."

"You're really skinny too, it's good that I didn't beat you."

"It's quite interesting to recall now, the village can catch fish and shrimp in the summer, you can also feed pigs, geese and white rabbits, all kinds of tree climbing, what chestnut trees, what orange trees, do you know that chestnuts are thorns on the outside, most of the children in the city don't know. Anyway, it won't be boring, it's better than in the city, you can only play on your phone, you can only watch TV, you can only play games. Yanran shrugged her shoulders, "Everyone saves money, I remember someone ate rancid noodles and was sent to the emergency room, and the time dragged on for so long that he almost lost half his life." By the way, my favorite person, except for my grandmother, is an old grandfather, very old, I feel like he is eighty or ninety years old, I was eighty or ninety years old at the time, and now if I live, I would be 100 years old. ”

"Is it still there?"

"It's gone, it's been too long, I don't remember if he has a son or daughter or is single all his life, he has his own field and is self-sufficient, he likes to take me to catch fish, and the fish he catches are all for me, and when he dies, I will go to him, and he will take me to catch fish without saying a word, I like him very much."

"And what about your grandfather?" Stories are better than wine.

"He doesn't like me very much, I don't like him, I like to work with him, but I couldn't beat him when I was a kid, and when I grew up, I could beat him, and I couldn't." Yanran replied with a smile, naturally it was a joke, what could you understand when you were a child?

"I like to go out to play, it's on the mountain, grandma will go with me, make me new clothes, leave me all the good food and drink, and put it in a big box, in fact, sometimes the world is very unfair, my grandma is very good, gentle, kind, but died very early, early to my memory can only remember her surname, Zhu, Zhu Yingtai's Zhu, I like the surname I like very much, if I make my debut in the future, my surname is this."

"yes, are you going to be a star?"

"Why not? I want to be the brightest star. Yan Ran gestured "yes" towards the sky.

"Well, I wish you the kindest star." Ah Sheng hit Yan Ran's cup with a beer mug, his life was not as interesting as Yan Ran, "What happened later?" ”

"Later? When my parents were a little richer, one time during the Chinese New Year, my parents saw me watching them go, and they couldn't bear it, so they asked me to go with me, if I was given another chance, I would definitely come to the city two years later. ”

"Why?"

"Then my grandmother won't miss me that much, and the time she died, the time I left was a three-year gap."