Because the uncle and father were in the same coal mine and were colleagues. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 After finishing work the next afternoon, my mother instructed my sister to wash the rice and cook, wash and cut the vegetables, and wait for her to come back and cook them. She wrapped a dozen eggs in a handkerchief and asked me to go with her to see the little girl, Ou Meiyu.

In the evening, the village is a bit noisy. The chickens and ducks enter the cattle and return to the pen, and after the end of work, the adults hoe and carry the burden, and they return home one after another. The partners who chop wood and pull pigweed are also carrying their own shoulders and hurrying with their hands. Chickens and ducks crow, dogs bark and pigs howl, scolding and scolding, calling children and daughters, sometimes mixed, intermittent, but the sound is in the ears. Smoke wafts from every house, and the smell of burning firewood and grass permeates the entire mountain village.

Uncle Ou has gone back, and Teacher Yang Manxiang Yang stayed at Uncle Liang's house to take care of his daughter.

When they entered the door, Mr. Yang and Uncle Guan were cooking on the fire in the kitchen. My mother and Mr. Yang are of the same age, but my mother works in the fields all the year round, and she looks a little black and thin, and she looks older than Mr. Yang, who is white and beautiful.

After saying hello, we already know each other. The mother was warm and cheerful, and Mr. Yang was a little restrained at first, thanking him repeatedly, and after a few words, he gradually let go, and the three women muttered and chatted in the kitchen.

I wanted to see Ou Meiyu with melancholy eyes, but I hesitated and couldn't take a step.

At that time, we didn't talk much to each other, let alone play together, and if there were men and women at the same table in the class, there would definitely be a "38 line" carved with a knife on the table. If you don't pay attention, you'll be laughed at by your friends. But for some reason, this girl, whom I had only met yesterday, made me feel a sense of closeness, as if I had known her for a long time, and I wanted to talk to her, even though I didn't know what to say.

When my mother saw me in a daze, she asked me to talk to Ou Meiyu who was lying on the bed, and don't stand here and get in the way.

I was overjoyed, but I pretended to be unhappy, and Ai Ai slowly walked out of the kitchen and towards the room where they lived.

Ou Meiyu leaned against the head of the bed, staring at the floor in a daze. He turned his head when he heard my footsteps and looked at me steadily. I saw the surprise in her bright eyes.

I was a little embarrassed by her, turned my head away from her gaze, and said boldly: "I know your name is Ou Meiyu, what your father said yesterday, do your feet still hurt?" ”

"It doesn't hurt, it's cool and comfortable. Hey, are you called a monkey? ”

Ou Meiyu smiled, a little shy.

"How do you know? My book name is Meng Xianghong, and they all call me a monkey. “

Ou Meiyu grinned and said, "Monkey? What's so good about monkeys? Why is it called a monkey? “

"What's so bad about monkeys? Monkey King is a monkey, and he is also a stone monkey. “

I replied casually, walked over and sat down on the bench, looked at her and said:

"Hey, by the way, do you know Sun Monkey?"

"Sun monkey? Who's that? How do I know? “

Ou Meiyu blinked, shook her head with a smile, and I sat proudly on the bench next to the bed and said:

"You don't know, do you? Tell you, Sun Monkey's name is Sun Wukong. Also called Monkey King, living in the Huaguo Mountain Water Curtain Cave, will change in seventy-two ways, the spell is strong, and the ability is to reach the sky. Especially when that Jin Douyun turns, it can fly out for 108,000 miles. Faster than an airplane. He made a big fuss in the Dragon Palace, and he made a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace, and the heavenly soldiers and generals are not opponents, do you know? Even the Dragon King of the East China Sea and the Jade Emperor trembled with fear when they saw it...... Hey, do you think this monkey is amazing? “

Ou Meiyu grinned and said, "You really know how to speak." You mean books, right? ”

I was so embarrassed that my little face was feverish, and I was a little embarrassed.

I like to tell stories in the vernacular. I like to tell the stories I have heard and the books I have read to my friends.

When I talked about "Journey to the West" and "The Complete Biography of Yue", the partners around me were surrounded by three layers and three layers outside. Even the adults put down their work and listened to it. Moreover, I do feel a bit like a storyteller, and I often come to the last sentence at a critical moment: I don't know what will happen next, and listen to the next breakdown. provoked Huang Shiren's mountain carvings, their angry protests and the laughter and scolding of adults.

"Hey, you're not going to be that stingy, are you? If I tell you a joke, will you take it seriously? But you're saying that, so go on! ”

Seeing that the boss of my sneer was silent for a while, Ou Meiyu hurriedly urged me jokingly.

I've always been thick-skinned, but I'm a little embarrassed: I'm too familiar. Hearing her say this, I said, "Anyway, it's okay, I'll tell you a story about the havoc in the Heavenly Palace." “

"Okay, okay, you can say it quickly." Ou Meiyu smiled, looking a little excited.

"It is said that the monkey made trouble in the Dragon Palace, snatched the Dinghai Divine Needle Ruyi Golden Hoop Stick, and the Dragon King of the East China Sea went to the heavenly court to sue in front of the Jade Emperor......'s throne."

"Hey, wait, you said that Sun Monkey made a big fuss in the Dragon Palace and snatched what kind of needles are so good? What's going on at the bottom? You can make it clear! Why did the monkey make trouble in the Dragon Palace? How did it happen? You can make it clear. “

Ou Meiyu's string of questions choked me and rolled my eyes. This little girl has never heard of "Journey to the West"? I scratched my scalp and said, "This is a bit long, and I can't say it clearly, so I have to start from the beginning, this ...... Oh, what grade are you in? “

Ou Meiyu was stunned for a moment and replied, "Me, what grade am I in?" I'm in the first year of junior high school, what about you? “

"I'm in the fifth grade, and I'll only be in junior high school next year." I replied. looked at the door like a thief, leaned back to the bed, and whispered to her: "That's it, these stories are all told in the book "Journey to the West", not only these, but also Tang Seng, Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie and Sha Monk Li, the four of them went to the West to learn scriptures, and along the way to subdue demons and eliminate demons, they went through nine hundred and eighty-one difficulties, and finally obtained the true scriptures, oops, that book is very good, it looks good, I will lend it to you tomorrow, can you take it yourself?" “

Ou Meiyu smiled, smiled beautifully, nodded again and again and said, "Okay." “

I couldn't help but smirk:

"But you have to be careful when you look at it, don't let your mother see it. It was a poisonous weed, it was the four olds, and it was feudal superstition that was propagated. Your mother is a teacher, she won't let you see it, maybe she will be confiscated...... Oh no, I can't lend you to see. It was I finally spent two yuan, and Xiangkun's stingy ghost stole it out and sold it to me, so I can't let your mother confiscate it......"

Ou Meiyu was obviously unhappy, pouting and humming:

"Stingy, isn't it just a book? Don't borrow pull down! ”

She turned her head away from me. I'm really embarrassed right now. muttered wryly:

"I'm not afraid of your mother, she's a teacher. Besides, the book is an old book, in traditional Chinese, and you have to read it vertically from back to front, and there is no dictionary here, I'm afraid you're ...... I'm afraid it'......"

"You can't read it, you can't recognize it, right? Hmph, if you don't borrow it, pull it down, don't underestimate people......"

Ou Meiyu turned into the bed and ignored me. I paused and whispered:

"I have a lot of books at home, including novels and comic strips, so I'll borrow some other books for you......"

Ou Meiyu snorted and said, "I'm not rare." “

I didn't know what to do when Teacher Yang and my mother came in.

As if I had been pardoned, I hurriedly got up and called, "Teacher Yang."

Ou Meiyu turned her head, and Teacher Yang asked her to call her mother and aunt, she smiled and called Auntie sweetly.

The mother smiled and replied: "Hey, Meiyu is right, as her name suggests, she is really handsome, much better looking than the two ugly girls in my family." By the way, I just heard the two of you chattering lively, what are you talking about?"

Before I could think of how to answer, Ou Meiyu said, "Auntie, just now...... He said to lend me a book. “

"That's right! Meiyu, you're bored lying in bed all day, you have so many books (comic books), take a few more for her to relieve her boredom...... Mother continued.

I promised repeatedly: "Yes, I just told her that tomorrow I will bring "Shining Red Star", "Chicken Feather Letter", "Little Hero Rain" and so on to her, as well as the novels "Unforgettable Battle" and "Chasing the Poor", I will bring them all ......."

"Hmph, liar." Ou Meiyu pouted and rolled her eyes at me.

"How do you speak? You wild girl. “

Teacher Yang glared at her. I had a fever on my face and was embarrassed. But she wasn't done yet, and said:

"He's just a liar, obviously he said he wanted to borrow "Journey to the West" to show me. In a blink of an eye, he changed his face, saying that you are a teacher, and I am afraid that you will confiscate it. Hmph, he is a liar, how can he have "Journey to the West"? Hmph......"

Teacher Yang reprimanded: "Look at your little mouth, no one will treat you as a dumb person if you don't speak." Hey, Xianghong, don't pay attention to her, she has long wanted to watch "Journey to the West". But can't you find the book? Who dares to keep those old books at home now? By the way, you don't really have, do you? “

I was hesitating and didn't know how to answer, but Mr. Yang diverted the topic and pulled me to ask long and short questions: what grade I read, what are my grades, what books do I like to read, and what books do I have at home......

When it comes to books, I have a lot to say. I love to read books and I love to buy books. There are seventy or eighty comic books and novels. That's what I can do to show off in front of my friends. In order to borrow books, my classmates did not hesitate to read them, including girls, and even the teacher asked me to read books this time.

My father would pick me up once a year during my winter or summer vacation. When I came back ten days and a half months later, I would bring back a large bag of books. There are comic strips and novels. I not only have "Journey to the West", but also a set of "The Complete Biography of Yue Yue" and a new version of "Water Margin" to cooperate with "Commenting on the Water Margin and Criticizing Song Jiang". The traditional Chinese vertical versions of "Journey to the West" and "The Complete Biography of Yue Yue" were stolen by Zeng Xiangkun from his grandfather and sold to me at the same table. These two sets of books belonged to the "four olds" at that time, and I never borrowed them from anyone to read them.

Teacher Yang smiled kindly, I looked at her while talking, compared with my mother who rolls in the field like a perennial cow, she looks much younger, and her appearance and figure are better than her mother, after all, she is a teacher, and she does not have to work to do farm work. It would be nice if my mother was also a teacher!

I was feeling emotion in my heart, and Teacher Yang asked with a smile, "Xianghong, what grade are you studying?" “

"Fifth grade, junior high school next year." I replied.

"Do you want to go to junior high school in town?" Teacher Yang asked.

"I want to, but I ......"

Teacher Yang turned his head to his mother and said, "Sister, this guy Xianghong is quite smart, and he will definitely be better than his father's generation in the future." It is always not wrong to study more and study well when you are young, it is better to let him go to the town to study in junior high school, which is better in all respects than the school in your commune. ”

My mother had been standing on the sidelines, listening to Teacher Yang talking to me, my mother had never gone to school, but had only attended a literacy class for two years after the liberation, and she could barely recognize her father's family letters. She has always respected those who are cultured, especially teachers. She answered:

"We want to go to the town to study, too. But in the situation of our family, his grandfather's salary alone has to be handed over by the team, and he goes to the town school twenty or thirty miles away, so he has to board, how can he afford it? “

"That's just as well. Otherwise, Xianghong only lives in the school dormitory, and your family can take the food, and the vegetables will not be taken care of, with me. He eats what I eat. Is that okay? ”

"What's so embarrassing? How troublesome is that? No, no......"

"What's the trouble to be embarrassed about? I liked this kid as soon as I saw it, or I would have recognized him as my own cub (godson), wouldn't it have been? ”

"This ...... Oops...... "The mother was unprepared and stammered, not knowing how to answer for a while. I was also confused.

"What? Sister not happy? Teacher Yang smiled.

"No, it's not. I mean, this guy in my family is valued by you, and he can recognize you as his mother (godmother), which is his great blessing, a good thing that can't be found with a lantern, how can I not be happy? In this way, I will go back to my family and say that he is at home, and we will take the red lady to your house tomorrow to visit my mother. Mother said happily.

"Not really. We don't have to do those old routines, we just talk about it. “

"Where's that? Although I don't want to read, I also know that etiquette cannot be abolished, and kowtowing to tea is indispensable. Recognize your mother, recognize your mother, recognize a mother, so how can you joke? ”

With my apprehensive joy, things were settled.

I don't know why Mr. Yang thinks so highly of me. We've only met a few times since yesterday and today, and we didn't know each other before. Maybe this is fate, and there is an arrangement in the dark. How lucky I am. In the decades that followed, she loved me and spoiled me like my mother, and in many ways she was even more attentive than my mother.

According to our folk customs, the matter of recognizing relatives is generally close to the elders of both parties, and it should be my parents who propose it to her first, and only after obtaining her consent can they officially recognize it. After recognizing my relatives, I have to call her mother, call Ou Chengde's father, Ou Meiyu is two years older than me, I have to call my sister, the Ou Yujiao I haven't seen at home is only eight years old, so she is naturally my sister. From now on, our two families will be relatives for life.

In just two days, I have two more relatives. Master Liangshui became my master. Although I didn't bow down and kowtow to the Master, I was his true disciple. In the years that followed, he was a strict father, teaching me, reprimanding me, motivating me, and caring for me. Guan Boniang and her two sisters, who only came back during the winter and summer vacations, also treated me like family.

At the insistence of my parents, three days later in my hall, I officially recognized Teacher Yang Manxiang as my mother. changed her name to call her mother, called Ou Chengde's father, and called Ou Meiyu's sister. Get a "Hero" brand fountain pen and a green rubber diary with the scent of ink, and a big red envelope of six hexagons and six cents. It excites me so much that I haven't slept all night.