"Smack".

A snowball smashed into the back of Xu Lin's head.

He turned his face to look at the little girl standing on the snowdrift, and immediately held his mouth and made a gesture to cry.

The girl standing on the snowdrift was wearing a red jacket and two pigtails, she was still proud, but when she saw that Xu Lin was about to shed tears, she panicked and quickly jumped off the snowdrift, but one fell unsteadily and fell into the mud, but fortunately there was thick snow below, otherwise she would have to lose two front teeth.

Looking at the girl's embarrassed appearance, Xu Lin stopped crying, but laughed.

Now it was the girl's turn to cry.

Xu Laosan, who heard the movement, walked out of the courtyard, and when he saw the scene in front of him, he immediately walked up to him and kicked Xu Lin's ass twice.

"Bastard boy, bullying Niu Niu again!"

Xu Lin, who was kicked twice in the buttocks, looked at his father with wide eyes, and then looked at the little girl with pigtails, and suddenly cried.

It was clear that he was the one who was bullied, but how could he turn out to be beaten by himself?

How can there be such a truth in the world!

"Little girl, are you alright?" Xu Laosan pulled the little girl up and patted the snow on her knees.

Xiao Niuniu's name is Wang Zhixia, and the Xu family is a neighbor, the relationship between the two families has always been good, Xu Lin's parents may not have a daughter, and they like Xiao Niuniu very much, as long as there is a conflict between the two children, it must be Xu Lin who will be beaten.

Speaking of which, Wang Zhixia is two months younger than Xu Lin, but the little girl has a very strong temper, if there is a conflict with Xu Lin, the final winner must be her!

Then, there was a coughing sound in the house, Xu Laosan's face suddenly changed, and he hurriedly left the two children and went in a hurry.

Xu Lin was still wiping his tears, but Wang Zhixia was a little embarrassed.

She walked up to her and stretched out her hand and gently pulled Xu Lin's shoulder.

"Okay, don't cry, it's my fault, it's not okay!"

"Why didn't you say it when my dad was here!" Xu Lin is sober-minded.

Wang Zhixia was not stupid, rolled his eyes and said, "What is this called!" If I say it, then doesn't Uncle Xu think I'm a bad person? I have to make them think I'm well-behaved and sensible! ”

“？？？” Xu Lin's eyes widened suddenly, he couldn't believe that Wang Zhixia could say this confidently!

"You're a man, how can you shed tears casually!" Wang Zhixia said seriously.

"I ...... I'm still a kid! Xu Lin said seriously.

"Then you're a boy too!"

Seeing Xu Lin's aggrieved look, Wang Zhixia coaxed for a long time, and in the end, he had no choice, and stretched out his hand to take out a grass-stacked grasshopper from his clothes.

"Haven't you always wanted to! Here it is for you! Don't cry! ”

Seeing that grasshopper, Xu Lin's eyes straightened! This was folded for her by Wang Zhixia's grandfather, and Xu Lin has also liked it for a long time.

But when Xu Lin was about to stretch out his hand to take it, his movements suddenly froze, he saw the reluctance in Wang Zhixia's eyes, and also remembered that not long after Wang Zhixia's grandfather folded this grasshopper, he died suddenly at home.

He withdrew his outstretched hand, slapped the bridge of his nose, and said, "Forget it, forget it!" My mother said that boys can't deal with girls...... Keep it for yourself! ”

"Oh! All right. Wang Zhixia grinned, "Then let's go dig a hole!" ”

"Okay!"

Two children hold hands and dig holes in the snow.

Suddenly, Xu Lin asked, "Little Niuniu, my father said that your grandfather went far, far away. ”

"Hmm...... Actually, my grandfather is dead! Wang Zhixia said suddenly.

"Dead? Die...... What is it? ”

"It's just that we'll never see each other." Wang Zhixia said, "If you go to a far, far away place, you may be able to come back, but if you die, you will never see each other again, and you will never see each other." ”

"That's dead...... Where are you going? ”

"It's in the soil, I heard people say that people eat soil for a lifetime, and soil eats people once."

"Then to die is to be eaten by the earth?" Xu Lin's face turned pale.

"Probably!" Wang Zhixia obviously knew more than Xu Lin, but he was also ...... Very limited.

Xu Lin stood up and looked into the distance.

In the distance, the mountain bag has been covered with white snow, and the pine and camphor trees all over the mountain are covered by thick snow.

"It's cold in the mountains, isn't it?" He said subconsciously.

"It's cold, it's cold!"

Suddenly, Xu Lin heard his mother's cough from the house.

He suddenly trampled on the snow cave he had dug and shouted loudly: "Don't die! Don't get eaten by the dirt either, don't be so cold! ”

With that, he walked into the house in a rage.

Wang Zhixia looked at him and didn't speak, just patted the snow on his hands and slowly walked towards his yard.

……

Thousands of households always replace the new peach with the old one.

A series of firecrackers exploded one after another, and the entire small village was filled with a puff of gunsmoke, like a thick layer of fog, which slowly rose between heaven and earth.

Xu Lin covered his ears and stood in the courtyard, smelling the residual smell of gunpowder.

After this year, Xu Lin is already six years old.

It's just that this year, there is less of a New Year's flavor at home.

He crouched on the ground, grabbed a handful of snow, rolled it into a snowball, and threw it forward.

At the insistence of his mother, Xu Lin still walked into the school and followed the other children to shake their heads and memorize the ancient texts.

Interestingly, the old gentleman who originally reprimanded Xu Laosan for his "own family" was very fond of Xu Lin.

Not for anything else, just because Xu Lin is smart.

The old gentleman even used the words "well-read and knowledgeable" to describe Xu Lin, before the Chinese New Year, the old gentleman was uninvited, specially sent a handwritten couplet, and touched Xu Lin's head when he left, let him study hard, and he will be a champion in the future.

In addition, last year, Xu Lin, who was only five years old, looked at the goose feathers and heavy snow outside in the school hall, and blurted out the sentence "In the past, snow was like flowers, and now flowers are like snow." ”

Just like that, the old gentleman was amazed, and he couldn't wait for Xu Lin to continue reading, but he looked outside blankly, and couldn't think of anything for a while.

In the end, the old gentleman who couldn't ask for it could only sigh that this was a flash of inspiration for Wenqu Xing, but Xu Lin's father and mother were no longer surprised, since Xu Lin could speak, he often blurted out one or two strange words that they couldn't understand, and when he asked afterwards, Xu Lin couldn't remember anything like a dream.

However, these made Xu Lin unhappy.

He knew that his mother's illness was getting worse and worse.

Especially since last year, my mother has made him many clothes, and I am afraid that he will be able to wear them until he is twelve or thirteen years old.

Xu Lin thought about it a lot, but he didn't dare to think about it.

In the past two years, he often followed Xu Laosan up the mountain to collect medicines, and the old man in the medicine hall was really kind-hearted, and he also knew that the Xu family was poor, so he waved his hand and taught them to pick those medicinal materials.

This reduced some of the burden on the Xu family, and Xu Laosan also took Xu Lin with him that day and kowtowed to Lao Langzhong three times.

The last time Xu Lin sent medicine, Lao Langzhong held his hand and was silent for a long time, and finally chanted two good boys, bought him a bag of brown sugar out of his own pocket and took it home, so that he remembered to boil some brown sugar water for his mother, and it was regarded as a ......

It's time for a taste of sweetness.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, my mother suddenly stopped coughing, but got up early, radiant, and wrapped a large pot of dumplings for Xu Lin, and then sat on a chair with a blanket on her body and rubbed Xu Lin's hands.

"Lin'er, let your father learn to make clothes in the future, don't freeze you......" she said softly.

When the dumplings were out of the pot, the corners of her mouth rose slightly, and she muttered "Snow was like snow in the past, and flowers are like snow now" that made the old gentleman full of praise.

She doesn't know what's good, it may make the old gentleman think it's wonderful, it must be a good poem, in fact, it doesn't matter if it's good or not, after all, it was written by her son.

And he fell asleep.

Didn't wake up again.

Xu Laosan seemed to feel something, still holding the pot and spoon in his hand, he hurriedly ran over, with tears in his eyes, slowly stepped forward, gently tucked down the blanket, turned around and tore off the red couplet on the door.