Speaking of which, it's hard to talk about.

It was my first year of acquaintance with Tofu, and I was moving bricks under the hot sun on a construction site while he attended the middle school not far away. One day I was munching on steamed buns when tofu rolled over the iron gate of the construction site and beckoned me to pass.

I stood under the iron gate, looked up and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Tofu said, "Tomorrow I have my birthday, you can come to my house to play." ”

"Your home?"

"Well, there will be other classmates."

"I have to work tomorrow."

"The birthday is in the evening, there are a lot of delicious food, roast chicken, grilled fish, cola, white fungus soup, pork trotters in sauce, big cake ......"

I looked at the steamed bun in my hand, nodded uncompromisingly, and said, "I'll go." "The next day I regretted a little, I always have to give a gift for my birthday, when I was in my hometown, the fat man had to go to the river to catch a fish for him on his birthday, thinking about it, I picked and chose for a long time, and finally chose a gift. At night, I walked for more than half an hour according to the address left by Tofu, and finally came to his house.

My first impression was: what a big house.

The next moment you enter the door, the second impression is: what a beautiful house.

The spotless floors, the elaborate chandeliers on the ceiling, I was short on words at the time, I couldn't think of how to describe it, in short, it was a hillbilly entering the city, stunned.

A group of peers of the same age as me had gathered in the room, both men and women, who were unpacking gifts, and one by one the deformed steel and remote-controlled cars were being dismantled, and I suddenly felt that the camel bell I bought for five yuan in my hand was a little heavy. Suddenly, the hilarious group finally realized my presence, and I keenly heard a whisper.

"Who is he? Our school? ”

"Hey, he's got a hole in his trouser pocket."

"Ha Luha, I've seen him, once he tried to sneak into our school library and was kicked out."

"Ah, it wasn't our school's ......"

I was young and thin-skinned at the time, I didn't expect to encounter this kind of thing, I was angry and ashamed, my face was red, I hated myself to death, and I didn't have anything to do to participate in a fart birthday. At this time, Tofu finally noticed that something was wrong, and said with a black face: "What are you doing, he is my friend, if any of you dare to talk nonsense, I won't play with you in the future!" ”

Everyone still gave tofu face, and they didn't continue to circle around me. When the crowd shifted their attention, Tofu smiled and stretched out his hand and said, "Gift gift...... I looked at the pile of expensive packaging on the table, and out of a strange psychology, I stuffed the little spinning top into the back of my butt in my pants pocket and said, "I didn't buy it." ”

Tofu didn't believe it, looked at my whole body, and said with a sad face: "Stingy, I'll leave you a gift, give." He handed me a package and said, "You're late, and they're almost finished eating, so I'll leave one for you." ”

"What is this?"

"Chocolate, it's delicious, my parents brought it back from abroad."

Not long after, a beautiful woman with curly yellow hair, a slender figure and a gentle smile on her face came down from the upper floor, who was the mother of Tofu. She led us in singing birthday songs, eating, and preparing a small gift for each of us, and when it was my turn, she sighed and smiled, "This classmate, why haven't I seen you before?" ”

I was bewildered by her gentle smile and said, "Auntie, I'm not Xiaodou's classmate, I'm his friend." ”

"Friends?" With a puzzled look in her eyes, she turned her head to Tofu and asked what she said, but I didn't hear it clearly because of the crowd, and I heard Tofu snort angrily, turned around and ran. Then her mother clapped her hands and said, "Students, it's late, it's time for everyone to go home, and you are welcome to come and play next time." Everyone left one by one, but she stopped me and said, "Hear Dou Dou say that you are not going to school?" ”

"Hmm." I was a little nervous, in fact, I fantasized that my mother should be so gentle, but unfortunately I never met my mother.

She nodded and said, "Now you are still young, the most important thing is to study, since you are not in school, you will be less with Dou Dou in the future, will this delay him learning the Tao of Zhilu?" ”

Of course, as soon as I heard it, it was like being doused with a basin of hot water, my face was red, and the blood of anger was flowing in my body, I was a precocious person, and I didn't know what this meant, so I couldn't help but sneer, and walked out of the door without saying a word.

It was late in the day, and outside the door was a path full of plane trees, and there was no one on the road, only the dim street lamps, and when I turned around, I was surrounded by the beautiful, softly lit house.

My heart was filled with cold and hot blood.

That was the first time I realized the huge contrast between rich and poor, noble and lowly. If it had not been for what happened later, then it was quite possible that in my heart there would have been a seed of hatred of the rich, giving a hat of indifference to all the rich, and as I was about to leave with great anger and sorrow, I heard a cry in the darkness.

Then there was another bang, and a figure ran towards me, dragging me to run, saying as he ran, "I'm running away from home." When I looked at it, I found a handful of snot and tearful tofu, so I angrily shook him off and said, "Get out, don't come to me in the future." ”

Tofu was thrown to the ground by me, and then sat on the ground and cried, saying, "Today is my birthday, shouldn't you be happy, you can scold me for anything!" Woowoo woo ......"

I was so angry that I said, "How old are you, and you are still crying like this, young master, who else dares to scold you besides me?" ”

"My mom."

I thought about it for a moment and said, "Why did she scold you?" ”

Tofu wiped his tears and said: "She said that I shouldn't be friends with migrant workers who don't like to learn and wander outside, Chen Hang, what is a migrant worker?" ”

I was so angry at the time, and when he asked me this, I couldn't help but be a little amused, saying, "That's me." ”

Tofu said, "Then why doesn't my mother like you?" ”

I was still angry in my heart, and scolded: "Because I don't like to study and have no culture, wandering outside, doing the hardest and most tiring work, dirty and smelly, destined to be unproductive, so your mother is afraid that I will take you badly!" Understood, young master, get out of the way if you understand. ”

Tofu paused for a moment and said, "But ...... But what does this have to do with us being friends? ”

I was stunned for a moment, felt very uncomfortable, and said, "Others look down on me......"

"Who?"

"Your classmates. There are many people in your family. ”

Tofu said, "But didn't you tell me a few days ago to work hard and earn money to live a good life?" Then we just need to make money, what is the matter with 'a lot of people'? "Tofu's straightforward way of thinking made me wake up at that time, yes, the so-called 'many people' are actually people who have nothing to do with me, why do I want to influence them until now? Why should I hurt my friends who are sincere to me now because of irrelevant 'many people'?

Immediately afterward, the anger in my heart subsided, and I said to Tofu, "Go back." ”

"If I don't go back, I'm going to run away from home."

"For what?"

"Just let me study, I don't like to study, I want to go to work with you."

"No, then your mother's words will really come true, why don't you like to go to school?"

"Draw, I'll show you the ...... I draw" He took out a piece of paper from his butt pocket, on which were drawn two people, a man and a woman, at the level of about the first grade of elementary school, I didn't want to hit him, so I said: "It's a good drawing, but why don't they two wear clothes?" ”

"It's Adam and Eve, of course they don't have to wear clothes, hehehehe...... To you. ”

I pinched the piece of paper, was speechless for a while, and finally took out the spinning top I had bought, and said, "Your gift." "I thought to myself: if this kid dares to dislike it, I'll beat him up first.

Tofu was pleasantly surprised: "How much is your spinning top?" ”

I was a little embarrassed and said, "Five pieces." ”

Tofu said excitedly: "I gave you a painting, and you gave me a five-yuan spinning top, is it equivalent to my painting worth five yuan?" It's my first time making money, so I'm so excited......" He seems to have mistaken the point.

As I was leaving, I looked at the house in the shade of sycamores and said silently in my heart: one day, my house will be more beautiful than it.

After a while, retracting his thoughts, the owner of the noodle shop was about to close, and the three of us walked on the antique bluestone street and slowly returned to the antique shop.

Tofu's phone kept ringing, he simply turned off the phone, early the next morning, not long after opening the store, we ushered in an old man with gray hair in the shop, but he was not an ordinary old man, wearing a gray suit and tie, accompanied by a man and a woman, slowly paced into the shop.

I recognized it, this person is Tofu's second uncle, I have met a few times before, and then there is no contact, he is young in my memory, but now he is old.

He looked at me with a smile on his face and said, "Boss Chen, it's been a long time. ”

I said, "Uncle Dou, you're polite, I'm a boss in front of you, please take a seat." At the same time, he glanced at the one-eyed dragon and motioned for him to look at Tofu and not let him go downstairs. I know the tofu kid too well, soft-hearted, easy to be fooled, this old man surnamed Dou is not as sharp as when he was young, if three or two soft words, maybe he really caught the tofu.

I don't believe that he will suddenly send the house, there must be some intention, or let's find out his intentions first.