Walking out of the old street, the traffic outside the street is full of lights and bright; Ah Mao stopped a taxi, got in the car and said to the driver: "Go to Ruiming Community", and closed his eyes; At this moment, Ah Mao had a lot of thoughts, and the pictures of his childhood flashed through his mind one by one.

Seventeen years ago, in the ninety-five years, Ah Mao was particularly impressed.

This is not too small in northern Jiangxi, called Huangcheng County, north of the Yangtze River, and Hubei Province across the river.

It was September 95, and the old street was already lively early in the morning; Today is the first day of Amao's fourth grade, Amao is biting a bun on his mouth, and his hand is tying a red scarf indiscriminately, rushing out of the house and running to the door of a house opposite, banging on the door, gnawing on the meat bun and shouting: "Zhanyang~~~ Let's go!" Hurry up and get down!! ”

After a while, the door opened, and a fair-skinned boy with a schoolbag of the same height and age as Ah Mao walked out reluctantly, and gave Ah Mao a white look: "I said Ah Mao, are you very excited about the start of school?" As he spoke, he looked at the door of his house: "The next time you eat in your mouth, can you stop yelling, you see that the door of my house is full of cabbage and meat foam!" With that, the two walked side by side towards the old street.

Ah Mao gave a meat bun to Zhanyang: "What's wrong Zhanyang, your dad pumped you?" Why is it upset? Zhanyang took the meat bun and took a bite: "Cut, my uncle came back recently, my dad dares to smoke me?" That's not being chased and beaten by my uncle. "He looked very proud.

Ah Mao knew that Zhanyang, the uncle, loved Zhanyang the most, and was not at home all the year round, but every time he came back, he brought back a lot of good things to Zhanyang, and what shocked Ah Mao the most was that when they were in the third grade, Uncle Ling actually brought back a very awesome little overlord red and white game console at that time, which shocked the youth circle of the entire old street, and even the little fat of the Cheng family, who carried the handle of the West Street, took his friends to stroll around the door of Zhanyang's house all day long, just to be able to sneak in and take a look.

Every time Zhanyang shouted outside the door: "Come in and wait for the East Street, Ah Mao will come to line up to play if he doesn't play, but not the West Street!" ”

Since then, Ah Mao and Zhanyang have become the objects of jealousy and hatred in the West Street youth circle, every time Cheng Xiaopang leads the team to bully Ah Mao and the friends on East Street, it is basically Zhanyang who comes out, although Zhanyang is as thin as Ah Mao, and his face is fair-skinned and delicate, but he shoots simply and directly, and beats Cheng Xiaopang every time.

So much so that in the future, whenever Cheng Xiaopang has bad intentions for his friends on East Street, he just shouts: "I'll tell Ling Zhanyang to go!" Xiaopang suddenly closed the team without saying a word, and talked about showing his yang color.

"Then since your dad doesn't dare to whip you, why is he still unhappy?" Mao wiped his oily mouth with his sleeve. Zhanyang looked up at the school gate not far away, his face full of sadness.

"I didn't write my summer homework! The homeroom teacher will definitely pump me! ”

Mao was speechless......

At that time, the teacher's style was fierce, and after school, half of Zhanyang's face was flushed, and he didn't say a word on the way home.

After the sun set, the families had dinner, Mao's parents carried a few buckets of water to the ground in front of the house, and after the heat on the ground dispersed, the neighborhoods next door or opposite moved out of the stools, and some also moved out of the small bamboo beds, and everyone chatted on the street.

Zhanyang was locked in his room to make up his summer vacation homework, while Ah Mao sat at the door of his house munching on watermelons and listened to his parents chatting with the adults of the Ling family.

This Ling family has two brothers, the elder brother is Zhanyang's uncle, but he is more than ten years older than Zhanyang's father; The Ling family and Ah Mao's family lived directly opposite, the two brothers' houses were next to each other, and Zhanyang's parents were both employees of state-owned enterprises, so the family conditions were still good at that time.

Uncle Ling, however, has never had a regular job, he has been away for a long time, and he has returned home for a short period of two or three months, and only once in half a year, he is still a bachelor in his forties, and he has no children and no daughters under his knees, so he loves his only nephew in every way.

Ah Mao gnawed a few pieces of watermelon, his stomach was bulging, he leaned on the bamboo chair and didn't move, and suddenly heard his father say, "What's the matter, Brother Ling is going out again?" It's not been a few days since I came back this time, and it looks like it's going to be the Mid-Autumn Festival. ”

"Hey, there's no way, isn't this another job, it's also an emergency over there, and I have to leave tomorrow." Uncle Ling lit a cigarette and smiled: "While your body is okay, you can earn more money for Yangyang to marry his daughter-in-law, hahaha..."

The surrounding neighbors also laughed when they heard it, but Zhanyang's mother shook her head helplessly: "You are used to this big brother, look at it, he is the only one in the class who dares not to write his summer homework, and his father still doesn't dare to beat him..."

"Hahaha......" The surrounding neighbors laughed again, and Zhanyang's father's face was obviously full of black lines.

Uncle Ling went out a few days after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the school also had a holiday, early that morning Ah Mao went out to find Zhanyang, just went out to see Zhanyang's father from the house to push out the two-eight-bar bicycle, pinched the tires, back to the house to take out the pump to cheer up.

Zhanyang saw Ah Mao coming out and beckoned: "Ah Mao, let's go to my grandfather's house for the holiday today, and wait for me to come back and play Contra together!" ”

"Oh... All right. Mao looked a little lost.

At this time, Uncle Ling's car tire was well wounded, and he came over and touched Ah Mao's head with a smile: "Xiao Mao, don't make your parents angry during the holiday today, be well-behaved, and when we come back in the evening, let's watch the moon and eat moon cakes together, okay?" After that, he hugged Zhanyang to the front bar of the bicycle and sat on it, Zhanyang's mother sat in the back, and Uncle Ling took one in front and one in front and one in this way, and rode a two-eight-bar bicycle out of the old street.

Although it was a holiday, Ah Mao was sullen, looking down from the window on the second floor from time to time, and in the evening, Ah Mao did not wait for Zhanyang to come back.

After dark, each family brought out moon cakes, all kinds of melon and fruit snacks, and all families moved out bamboo chairs and stools, and neighbors got together to eat and chat, and the festive atmosphere suddenly climbed; Ah Mao was not very interested, and lowered his head to nibble on the watermelon.

Ah Mao's mother touched Ah Mao's head: "Maybe Grandpa Yangyang kept them overnight, it's not enough for you to be together for two days, come and be happy..."

"Awesome, awesome!!!"

The neighbors were startled by the sudden shout, and following the sound, a figure ran towards the crowd from the corner of the street.

"Isn't this Sun Liang, the child of the Sun family? I heard that I was on night duty in the hospital tonight, so what's the matter, I'm panicking..."Everyone talked about it.

Ah Mao's father got up and greeted him, and helped Sun Liang, who was panting: "Xiaoliang, what's wrong?" If you have something to say, let's sit down first. ”

Sun Liang held his knees with his hands, out of breath, and waved his hand: "Brother Zhang, Brother Zhang, something happened!" Something happened to the Ling family!!"

As soon as everyone heard this, they immediately gathered around, Ah Mao's father grabbed Sun Liang's shoulder, looked at the door of the Ling family, and his voice was obviously raised: "What's the matter??" What's wrong?? ”

"The Ling family is gone!! That's all there is left!! ”

"What !??" The neighborhoods exploded at once.

Sun Liang continued: "Let's go to the hospital to help, Yangyang is there alone!" Second Brother Ling and his sister-in-law have just been sent to the morgue, and the forensic doctor is examining them, and Uncle Ling and the people on Yangyang's grandfather's side haven't been in touch at this time! ”

After hearing this, Uncle Zhang immediately turned around and went home to launch the bicycle, and the men in the neighborhoods also went home to launch the bicycle, Uncle Zhang stepped on the bicycle, turned around and said, "Go to a few women, take care of Yangyang." With that, he took the lead in riding out of the street, and then several bicycles followed, going straight to the county people's hospital.

Although Ah Mao was still young, he also heard the seriousness of the matter, and he was especially worried about Zhanyang, who had grown up together since he was born, so he pulled the corner of his mother's clothes and begged: "Let's go, Mom, let's go to the hospital quickly!"

Ah Mao's mother covered her mouth with her hands at this time, still in a state of shock, and was pulled back to her senses by Ah Mao, put down her hand and touched Ah Mao's head lovingly: "Mom knows that you are in a hurry, but let Dad go first tonight, go back to the house." ”

This night, Ah Mao tossed and turned, got out of bed several times and looked at the door of Zhanyang's house through the window, and finally fell asleep at two o'clock in the morning, and before going to bed, what Zhanyang said to him echoed in his mind.

"Wait until I come back and play Contra together......"