Chapter 5: The Little Boy Who Sells Roses
The Porsche had already left, and I stood there in silence for a moment, thinking about what had just happened.
Thinking that although this woman was damaged by the car, she didn't say a word to ask me for compensation.
Maybe she didn't want to entangle with me anymore and thought she was unlucky, or maybe it was my scoundrel's face that made her feel that I was probably unable to compensate for her losses.
Thinking of her back when she left angrily, last night's grievances were finally resolved, but there was no trace of happiness in my heart at the moment, after all, it was not what I wanted to do.
I sighed and looked back to see that the little boy was still standing there. The bicycle fell to the ground, and flowers were scattered next to it. The flowers were crushed beyond recognition by the wheels, and the red juice stained on the marble floor tiles looked a little shocking.
I walked up to the little boy and asked, "What's your name, little friend?" What are these flowers for? ”
He looked at the flowers scattered all over the ground, with tears in his eyes, and said, "My name is Shishi, and I originally wanted to help my mother sell flowers here, but now the flowers are all broken!" When it came to the grievances, he began to cry.
I rubbed his head and said, "Don't be sad about the stones, even if you sell these flowers to me, I will buy them all, don't be sad anymore." ”
The little boy looked at me with wide eyes and said, "But uncle, these flowers are already broken, and I can't ask for them, how can I still sell them to you!" ”
My heart warmed up, and I thought, what a kind child. Gently said to her, "It's okay, uncle damaged your flowers, and it should be paid to you by uncle!" How much do you calculate? ”
Shi stopped crying and hesitated a little, hesitated for a moment and said, "Mom said that a flower sells for two yuan, and I brought a total of fifty flowers out, a total of one hundred yuan, but I can't sell them all to you!" ”
I was a little curious and asked, "Why?" ”
Shi Shi said with a serious face: "Because I used to only sell more than 20 flowers every day, and the rest that can't be sold will soon wither and can't be sold anymore, so I can only sell you 20 flowers!" If my uncle really wants to pay me for the money, you can just give me forty dollars!" ”
The stone's words made my heart hurt inexplicably, maybe only a child's world can be so innocent.
Thinking about what just happened, the cause was just someone accidentally soaking my clothes, and if I could still have one-tenth of the kindness of the child in front of me, there would be no such thing.
Think about the fact that we all have childhood, and at the beginning of our lives, we were all kind people, but since when did our kindness start to leave the body little by little?
Perhaps it is that we are in this hard world, and we have unconsciously sharpened a sharp thorn and replaced the original goodness. Or perhaps this in itself is the price of growth.
I took out a hundred yuan and put it in his hand, but he insisted that he didn't want to, I looked at his innocence with a hint of stubbornness, and finally stopped insisting and took out forty yuan again, and he was willing to accept it.
I lifted the stone bike up and checked it, and it was fine except for the chain that had fallen off. Together with him, he picked up the unsightly bouquets on the ground and put them in the trash.
The stone gradually relaxed, and a childlike smile of innocence returned to his face, and I was secretly relieved that the accident had not caused any psychological shadow on him.
Looking at his slightly messy hair and ill-fitting clothes, I could guess that he must be a child from a poor family, and a faint bitterness welled up in my heart when I saw that his big eyelashes had not dried out because he had just cried. Life, what the hell are you, why do you make everyone so disgusting.
After picking up the bouquet on the ground, I asked him, "Little Stone, have you eaten?" Uncle is hungry, can you accompany him to dinner? ”
Shi looked up at me with a pair of big eyes for a while, and said seriously, "I didn't eat, but my mother said she wouldn't let me go with strangers!" Don't eat strangers' stuff! ”
I smiled stunned and said, "It seems that you are still a good child, your mother said this for fear that you were deceived by bad people, but do you think your uncle is a bad person?" ”
The stone tilted his head in thought, and suddenly said as if he understood something: "Uncle is willing to pay me money, he is definitely not a bad person!" ”
"It seems that you still have some ability to think independently, and you don't listen to your mother for everything, so do you dare to go to dinner with me, a stranger, now?" I asked with a smile.
Shi thought for a while and said, "Although my uncle is a good person, I don't know your name yet, so we are still strangers, uncle, can you tell me your name, I know your name, we know each other, and we are no longer strangers." ”
It's really a stubborn child, and the real person is as stubborn as a stone, as the name suggests.
"Okay, my uncle's surname is Wei, and his name is Wei Jinsheng, so now that you know me, can we go to dinner?" I say.
"Okay, then I'll call you Uncle Wei from now on! Now let's go eat. Stone said.
"And what do you want to eat?" I asked him.
Shi looked at me and said, "Isn't it that I will eat with you, and I will eat whatever Uncle Wei eats." ”
I said, "Uncle Wei invited you to dinner today, so you decide what you eat." ”
The stone tilted his head again, thought about it, then looked at me and said, "Is it okay to eat anything?" ”
"Of course!"
"Then let's go eat KFC!"
I couldn't help but laugh when I heard this, looking at his serious thinking appearance, I thought he would say something famous, it turned out to be just KFC, sure enough, children are the easiest to satisfy, and a meal of KFC is already the limit of their imagination.
Seeing that a smile suddenly appeared on my face, Shi thought that he had said the wrong thing, and hurriedly asked cautiously: "What's the matter, uncle, is KFC too expensive, then let's go eat something else!" ”
I laughed and said, "Since you want to eat KFC, let's go eat KFC!" Come on boy, sit in the back seat, Uncle Wei will take you to eat KFC! ”
When the stone heard me say this, his face was overjoyed, and he quickly climbed up. So there is such a picture, in this city that is burned red, a man is driving fast on the street on a bicycle, and a teenage boy is sitting on the back seat of the bicycle, his hand is tightly grasping the man's clothes, and his face shows inexplicable excitement......
I sat across from the stone in the KFC restaurant, I ordered a family bucket for him, and I asked him with a satisfied expression as he ate fried chicken thighs with relish, "Boy, is KFC delicious?" ”
He nodded at me and said, "It's delicious, it's so delicious, I often hear my classmates say that KFC is delicious at school, this is the first time I've eaten KFC, it's really delicious!" After the stone finished speaking, he lowered his head and continued to eat.
But I feel a little heartache, KFC is not too expensive fast food, and it seems to be an extremely luxurious thing for a child from a poor family.
I touched his head and said, "Boy, do you really think my uncle is a good person?" ”
Stone looked at me and nodded confusedly, apparently she didn't understand why I was suddenly asking. I then said, "Then let's be friends, how about inviting you to eat Uncle KFC if Stone wants to eat it in the future?" ”
Only then did the stone understand my intentions, and said with an excited look on his little face, "Okay, okay, I don't have a friend as big as my uncle." ”
I smiled and said, "yes, I don't have any friends as little as you!" Then let's be a pair of forgetful friends! ”
Shi nodded heavily, and suddenly seemed to remember something and asked me, "Uncle Wei, is that beautiful sister with you just now your girlfriend?" Did you guys quarrel? ”
I was stunned for a moment, but I didn't expect Shi to suddenly ask like this, and after thinking for a while, I said, "No, she did something sorry for Uncle Wei, and she refused to apologize to me, that's why such a thing happened!" ”
The stone sighed thoughtfully, and then said as if to himself, "But that sister is really beautiful." ”
After speaking, he immediately looked at me again and said, "Does Uncle Wei have a girlfriend?" ”
I was stunned again, I don't know what this kid is thinking. However, his words reminded me of Lin Wei, so I pretended to be helpless and said: "There was originally one, but now there is none!" ”
Hearing me say this, the stone looked at me with big eyes and said, "Since my uncle doesn't have a girlfriend, then that sister is so beautiful just now, can my uncle ......?"
"Impossible!" Only then did I understand this kid's thoughts, and interrupted: "Look at her so fierce, how can your Uncle Wei like such a woman!" "Suddenly remembering that the person in front of me was still an underage child, I actually discussed this issue with him.
I glared at him and said angrily, "What do you know about being a kid and thinking about these things like a rabbit?" Isn't it good to learn to flirt with female classmates in school? ”
Shi Shi opened his eyes wide and said, "How is it possible, I have always been a good student in school!" ”
"Teasing you, what are you nervous about, it's just that you don't understand adult things, don't keep thinking about it!"
Only then did the stone turn his attention to the fried chicken thighs.
By the time the KFC meal was finished, it was already early on, and I pedaled my bicycle with a stone and headed towards his home.
In about twenty minutes, I followed the direction of the stone to the old town west of the city, where the stone family lived in a unit building, the kind of old-fashioned unit building of the previous era, surrounded by a wall and a large courtyard.
Walking into the compound, you can smell the unique dilapidated smell of old buildings, indicating that its former glory has become history. I also saw a big word written on the courtyard wall in red paint, which was eye-catching and a little dazzling under the light of the street lamp.
I know that it won't be long before these relics of history will be gone, and new developments will rise on their original lands, and people will forget about them completely.
The apartment building was pitch black, and only three or two windows were still lit, probably because the rest of the residents knew that this place could not be stayed for long, and they had moved elsewhere.
The stone led me to a door on the fourth floor that was still lit and said, "Uncle Wei, this is my house!" After saying that, he shouted at the peeling door, "Mother, open the door, I'm back!" After a while, the door opened, and Shi hurriedly pulled me to the front, who was standing behind, and excitedly said to her mother, "Mom, this Uncle Wei is my new friend!" It was Uncle Wei who sent me back and invited me to eat KFC! ”
I just wanted to say hello politely, but the moment I saw Mother Stone, I was in a trance for a moment, as if time had returned to many years ago, as if I had seen my mother's appearance again, and the current face gradually overlapped with Mother Stone's face, and then merged into one......
In fact, she doesn't look like her mother, what makes me trance-like is that she has a similar expression to her mother when she was alive, it is a slightly sickly tiredness, and a kind of tenacity can be seen faintly.
It was oppressed by a heavy life, with some strength but no doubt.
They don't know this, because this tenacity has long been rubbed into their bones over the years.
They all know that in this acute reality, only forbearance can avoid being stabbed and lose their skin, and they can continue to live with an attitude of bearing, and this is true of my mother, and the same is true of the woman in front of me, so I can read her life at the first sight of her.
Maybe it's because of the emotion, my emotions are a little heavy. So I declined Mother Stone's request to invite me into the house for tea, turned around and left.