A baker's dozen
"Is all this true?" The girl held her chin in her hands and tilted her face, "Look at what you said is quite easy." ”
"It was a long time ago, when Hou was a little younger than you. Qian Aishu smiled indifferently.
Qian Aishu has a lot of words in his heart, just like a mountain spring that has been sealed for many years, once the spring is opened, the spring water can't stop bubbling out.
The little girl looked at him, and he continued:
April is our most beautiful time, the fields, the fields, the rape flowers are blooming, yellow. Looking at the past, it can really only be described as a sea of flowers. "Buzzing...... a lot of bees, they swarm between the flowers, toiling hard. They buzzed back to their homes. Their homes are in small holes, small crevices in the earthen walls of our houses. There are no Transformers for children in the mountains, and the little insects are our living toys. We all love to catch bees and play. Find a small glass bottle, aim the mouth of the bottle at the small hole in the wall - usually the loach hole when the original mud is wet, or there is a small stick in the mud, and when it is made into adobe bricks, it dries, the stick falls out, and it becomes the home of the bees in the future - take a straw, poke it into the small hole a few times, put your ear to it, hear a buzzing sound, know that there are bees inside, move quickly, seal the hole tightly with the mouth of the bottle, and wait for the bees to fly in. There are also those who refuse to come out alive or dead, so the only way to fulfill it is to poke it until there is no sound, and then find the next hole.
"It's really funny, we don't have bees here, it's nice in the south. I really want to catch it. ”
"yes, it's really fun, Azuki also likes bees, and I caught a lot of bees for her that time. After getting acquainted with Hongdou, I found out that Hongdou is actually a lively and lovely girl, even a little hyperactive, and not as repulsive as she looks. It was the second weekend after the Qingming Festival. Before I got home, I told Azumi that the bees in my house were fun. Just listening to their buzzing sounds, I could be intoxicated all day long with my eyes closed. When Hongdou heard this, her eyes suddenly lit up, she had probably never seen bees before, and she had heard the sound of bees buzzing......"
"When you say it, I want to go to the south right away." The girl's habitual tilt of head, side face, red beans are also like this, this action is very impressive for Qian Aishu. So much so that he has a deep affection for all similar movements.
"I caught dozens of bees for red beans. As soon as she saw the bee I had caught for her, she screamed. Then I opened the cap in the classroom. The little bees, who had been imprisoned for a long time, slammed into the mouth of the bottle in unison, like a wisp of green smoke flying out of the bottle and circling around the classroom. It was just the two of us in the classroom. Red Bean screamed in the classroom in a forgetful manner, destroying the image of a lady she had painstakingly cultivated for a long time. Looking at the red beans, I had an idea in my heart, in fact, many things were just a thought. Let's just say, when I was 10 years old, I went with a few friends to graze cattle on the meadow at the foot of the mountain. The cows were happily foraging, and we picked up some flat pebbles on the river beach to swim. How much room is there for playing? It could be the difference from a ripple to a string of ripples. For those of us who are children in the mountains who are herding cattle and floating all day long, it is no different from boredom. Everyone racked their brains to play with new tricks, until one day, a little friend found a few pieces of bamboo, a few hemp ropes, and a few small bows. Then he sharpened some sharp arrows with bamboo chips, and a team of people went hunting all over the mountains. As a result, herding cattle has been relegated to a side hustle for us. On this day, our brigade wandered around for a long time, and as for the prey, we found nothing, but we suffered an unexpected accident: at that time, a large open space in front of the brigade headquarters was stacked with wheat straw bales purchased by the county paper mill. If there is no harvest from hunting, everyone will inevitably be discouraged. Just when everyone was down, a boomer, oh, this is the dialect of my hometown, which means the first among the troublemakers. He pointed to the stacks of straws, which were stacked high, and said, "There are snakes." We all believed. Under the stacks of wheat straw several stories high, we whipped the bamboo whip so loudly that it was about to break, and we didn't see a snake come out. Gradually, we realized that this kind of scaring snake outside can only startle the snake into the center of the battlement, which is not only useless but harmful to catch snakes. The bottom layer of the stack has a round hole in the bamboo frame for ventilation. We were small, and we crawled in with our backs hunched, and the flashlight was not very bright, and we could only shine a small spot. Yes! Whoever screamed so shocked that we wanted to straighten up, and hit our heads on the top of the bamboo. Is it a snake? A friend asked. The screams didn't make a sound, and everyone's hearts were abrupt, but no one was the first to say that they wanted to go out, so they continued to hunch their backs and move like turtles. I walked like this for a while, and although I didn't go far, the sweat droplets on my back rolled like marbles, and my pants were soaked from the inside out like a torrent. This sweat is half stuffy, half scared, where can everyone care about looking for snakes. But it didn't take long for the fire to break out. Who planted this fire is still inconclusive to this day. Originally, everyone tossed for a long time, but did not catch the snake, scolded my father and mother and walked back, walked one hundred and eighty steps away, and suddenly saw that the sky was red, and at the same time there was a crackling bar, the sound of artillery, I turned around, stunned! Later someone said that the fire was set by one of us, and I thought it started on its own, and I knew how hot it was when I got inside. ”
The girl looked at Qian Aishu without blinking her eyes, waiting for him to continue. Qian Aishu suddenly felt that there was no word left, and his ears were like crickets chirping for a while, like the buzzing of bees for a while, and then chirping birds. Aunt Qian's appearance, the appearance of red beans...... Their appearance surrounded him, wrapped around his skull like a hoop. He had a splitting headache, closed his eyes and shook his head vigorously, slowly, he felt that he was immersed in the water, he had to reach out and grab the little girl, and his hands pulled back with more force, trying to get himself out of the water. His ten fingers were clasped on the girl's shoulder, and she cried out in pain. Qian Aishu realized that he was going to get sick again. She struggled hard, and Qian Aishu also struggled. His habitual headache frenzy struck, and he was like a rat that had just eaten poison, a dog dying of pain, his hands holding her mechanically, his limbs bent and convulsing in pain.
He collapsed in the girl's arms, the kind girl probably realized that Qian Aishu was sick, and did not push him away, her hand close to him held his head, the palm of the hand pressed against his forehead, and the other hand gently stroked his head...... He slowly quieted down......
"You should go back, or you'll die......" the girl said to Qian Aishu. Qian Aishu felt that his heart was empty all of a sudden, and the beating of his heart made his body surge and surge.
"Dead? Is it that scary? Qian Aishu's eyes were already red, "You know what? There was a man who was beaten to death for me. ”
The girl listened quietly, and her mother stroked Qian Aishu's head like a mother.