When the roaring north wind came from the upper street and went from the lower street, the people and cars on the street were all prostrate and bowed their heads, not only in their nostrils, but also in their eyes, and the smell of all kinds of shoe soles in the dust, and even the iron filings and iron stars of high heels on the road. The color of the sky is like turning the whole road upside down, or it has been brushed with a layer of cement slurry, which is cold and cold, and you don't have to look at it and feel uncomfortable in your heart. There is not a single big tree that can keep out the wind. A slippery holly plant such as large-leaved boxwood and small-leaved boxwood, no one needs to destroy it, just a little dust makes them completely embarrassed, and they look pitiful and unprotable. The tall buildings, which seemed to be connected together, did not do much, but instead provoked the north wind, like a punctured balloon, whirring out of the gaps in the buildings, merging into the street, and in an instant peeling off a layer of skin from the street, so that the street appeared to be clean. In fact, it's the epidermis of the city — danders, bulging plastic bags and stockings that flutter through the air, typo banners and book wreckage that flutter like snowflakes on their backs. The surface of the city that has been stripped away in this way has converged on all kinds of corners, provoking all kinds of urban eyes to sweep over those garbage. A few malnourished chrysanthemums were scattered in the crevices of the holly plants, unable to arouse the precious consciousness of passers-by, and the golden petals could not flicker.

Wan Fang has been standing in front of the window for a long time with a harmonica in both hands.

The last time Chen Kai, who was in the same room, laughed at him half an hour ago. Chen Kai said that he looked forward to dusk like a lover. Before that, Chen Kai kept saying that Wanfang was imagining finding a 100-dollar bill, a gold necklace like a dog chain and a lottery ticket that won the million-dollar jackpot but was forgotten by its owner from the city's garbage. Chen Kai said that after the arrival of dusk, he also fell on the bed as if relieved, tilted his head and fell asleep, and the face that was not very clean was only a few inches away from being pasted on the chest of the half-naked foreign woman painted on the wall. The painting was posted by Chen Kai himself, and it is difficult to say whether he was intentional or unintentional. The room is narrow and low, so sticking it to the pillow is the most suitable choice.

At the beginning, the head of the sanitation station told Wanfang with a smile that he would share a nine-square-meter room with a person named Chen Datou. Wan Fang's heart became a piece of rock candy after hearing this, he knew that in this city of six or seven million people, many families of two or three generations were only qualified to live in a small house of eight or nine square meters. Wan Fang followed Stationmaster Ma in a daze in the winding alley before Stationmaster Ma pointed out a door installed at the bottom of the stairs to him. He used the key solemnly handed to him by the stationmaster to unscrew the lock on the door, and when he entered the house, he found that the underground area was enough for nine square meters, but the space that could barely stand up was only a little more than two square meters. Before he could begin to be disappointed, Mr. Ma told him that in the same house in another unit, there lived a drama school graduate who had written scripts for famous actors in the city. Stationmaster Ma didn't enter the door, but stood outside the door and threw the half pack of Ashima cigarettes that had been deflated in his pocket into Wanfang's arms. Stationmaster Ma said that the station is poor, and these cigarettes can be regarded as picking up the wind and washing the dust for him. Wanfang has repeatedly stated that he will not smoke, and he does not dare to let the leader break the bank. Stationmaster Ma waved his hand very decisively, suppressed his humility, and predicted that Wanfang would empathize with him and fall in love with smoking in three months. Before leaving, the stationmaster Ma told Wanfang that there were no men and women who worked as cleaners under him who did not smoke.

Wan Fang lived alone in the hut at the bottom of the stairs for ten days, and he waited every day for the man named Chen Datou to appear. At noon at the beginning of the second ten days, Wan Fang was playing the harmonica by the window, and Chen Kai pushed the door in and threw a large bag of luggage on the bed. There was only one three-foot-wide bed in the hut, and the stationmaster had said that this bed had always slept two people. Wan Fang thought that Chen Kai was Chen Datou, so he retreated to the corner and watched without saying a word as Chen Kai placed his luggage and supplies in various advantageous positions. Wanfang didn't know whether Chen Datou was his real name or a nickname, and he didn't dare to call Chen Kai for several days. It's just that Chen Kai is an unparticular person, he comes back from work between nine and ten o'clock in the morning every day, and climbs into bed without washing seriously. After Wanfang washed and got into the quilt, Chen Kai's smelly big feet had already smoked Wanfang's pillow into a waste in the public toilet. After enduring it for a while, Wan Fang couldn't bear it anymore, and finally yelled at Chen Kai, saying Chen Datou, if you don't wash your feet well, I will peel off your feet. Chen Kai was stunned for a moment and then asked, why do you give me a nickname. After saying this, Wan Fang understood that Chen Kai was not Chen Datou, Chen Datou had been fired by Stationmaster Ma and went to work somewhere else, and Chen Kai came to replace Chen Datou's vacancy. Chen Kai is a native of Xinxian County, Henan, Wanfang happens to be adjacent to him, and his home is in Hong'an, Hubei. After the conversation, the relationship between the two suddenly became intimate, and when they both graduated from high school, they both sighed. This is also the first tacit understanding between the two.

Wan Fang was indeed waiting for the dusk to come, he didn't like the daytime of the city very much, and there was no dodge in the bad parts of the city in broad daylight, which always made him uncomfortable, and then he began to miss the many wonders and beauties up and down the rooftop mountain. It's different after dusk, the world is hazy when the neon is on, and what is unbearable in the sun becomes lyrical in the blink of an eye. The most important thing is to walk on the street with the appearance of Wanfang, as long as it is not in the most brilliant place, it can also attract the attention of several urban women.

Those lonely chrysanthemums were the only sight in Wanfang's eyes at this time, and he always regarded them as his own in his heart. From the moment they bloom their first petals, every late at night, Wanfang will go over and quietly water them, and then gently stroke each petal with his hand. No one noticed this action. The so-called no one actually refers to Chen Kai. Pedestrians on the street always look at each other blankly, and when they see it, it's as if they don't see it. The key is that Chen Kai never saw it. Chen Kai always said that Wan Fang has two small hands in his eyes, and he touches whatever he sees, including beautiful and sexy women. If Chen Kai saw his caress of the chrysanthemum, he would definitely say even more naked words.

The north wind didn't let up at all.

This is the first north wind in winter, and it is also the first north wind that Wanfang encountered when he came to this city. He couldn't remember what he would do if he was in Hong'an's house at this time.

The sound of footsteps above and on the back gradually increased, at first intermittently, and then like a drum beating together. The people who lived upstairs had come back from work.

The chubby woman shouted outside: "Husband, why don't you go downstairs, it's not necessary for me, a woman, to carry the car up!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, footsteps fell from the sky, and they were as rapid as stones rolling down the mountain. Chen Kai opened his eyes accurately and stared at the stairs above the tip of his nose. Wan Fang was still looking out the window, but in his heart he was counting the number of times his high heels knocked on the stairs. As soon as he counted to ten, he subconsciously craned his neck. Almost at the same time, the lid covered their staircase and was kicked hard by the high heels a few times. There is no dust falling down the stairs, once a day, the dust has long been gone.

After the fat woman's footsteps were masked by a door knock, Chen Kai jumped up from the bed and scolded fiercely: "This fat pig woman, if she dies, she will be buried in garbage." ”

Wanfang was silent.

Chen Kai said again: "It's like this every day, and we haven't offended her." ”

Wan Fang turned around and said, "People don't like you." A pair of stinky feet smoked a building into stinky dried seeds. She is larger than others, and she has to spend half a bottle of perfume to go out! ”

Chen Kai said: "I just have smelly feet, look at her man's whole body is sour, a sissy, I can't wait to lie down and lick her toes when I see my wife." ”

Wan Fang said: "This is called love. ”

Chen Kai said: "Fart, my wife treats me as affectionate - unlike you who say this, you haven't been in love, and you don't understand how to say it." In this way, one day you ask Aunt He of the neighborhood committee to understand the details of this fat woman, and then we will discuss a countermeasure. ”

Wan Fang said, "If you want to ask, you will ask." People may have formed a habit of not kicking a few feet before entering the house. ”

Chen Kai said: "You think that like you, you will feel uncomfortable when you see a woman without looking at it!" Bet you don't bet, if she hadn't had any hatred for us, and for not sweeping the street where she walked, I'd treat you to ten lamb skewers. ”

Chen Kai continued: "Aunt He saw you like seeing her own son, you opened your mouth to ask her what she would say." ”

Wan Fang stopped talking again, and he twisted his head back. Dusk outside the window has officially fallen, and the neon lights on the roof of the Asia Hotel flicker on time like pinching a stopwatch. In a few moments, the entire street was flooded with ethereal and ethereal colored waves. When Chen Kai got up from the bed, he didn't pay attention to his buttocks and arched Wanfang, Wanfang subconsciously used his hand to support the wall in front of him, and the harmonica he had been holding tightly rubbed against the wall, and a lot of white ash powder got into the piano. This situation happened several times a day, Chen Kai didn't care at all, and asked Wanfang if he was going out to eat now. Seeing Wanfang shaking his head, Chen Kai left alone.

The space in the room suddenly became much larger. Wan Fang looked at his watch, and saw that there was only five minutes left at six o'clock, so he hurriedly put the harmonica into the bucket and washed it, and then shook it vigorously a few times, and didn't see if it was clean, so he hurriedly took it in his lips and played it softly.

As soon as the music appeared, the city in front of me suddenly became cute. At six o'clock, a beautiful girl walked by the window. The girl carried a small kun bag, a long sock skirt underneath, and a pale yellow cashmere coat. When the north wind is too strong, it sets off the girl's style. The girl looked all the way at the window filled with music and sailed out to sea like a sail. Wan Fang knew that the girl was listening and watching, and although he had never looked up through the glass to confirm it, he was still sure of it in his heart. Wan Fang accidentally saw this girl during the time when he was imagining when Chen Datou appeared, and a few days later he understood that the girl always went out to work during this time. When Wan Fang plucked up the courage to play the harmonica before six o'clock in the evening, he made a few mistakes in a familiar tune. He closed his eyes in shame alone, only to see the scenery in the long-lost Tiantai Mountain. Especially the crooked smoke in the sunset and the girl washing vegetables and clothes by the pond. Immediately, Wanfang's eyes moistened. The strings of notes flying out of the harmonica seem to be moisturized in time, and they can also be moved and stretched in the dusk of the city.

Wanfang really didn't know why he was doing this. He knew very well that the city was as much of a roll of eyes on him as the stars were to the moon on a summer night. Sometimes he understands for a moment, more often he doesn't, but the more he doesn't understand, the more he has to do it.

The girl was gone, and Wan Fang knew this, so he still played a piece of music in its entirety, and after a short break, he began to blow another tune. He played six tunes in total, and as usual, for exactly half an hour. Wan Fang didn't say that the show ended there, because he really wasn't performing. Therefore, such a huge city heard it, and no one gave him a slap in the face.

When Wan Fang wrapped the harmonica in red silk cloth, his heart was much clearer. He thought that the girl might be on the crowded bus at this time, and that she was being squeezed so that she didn't look like a person who didn't look like a thing, and somehow laughed softly.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door outside, softly, like a woman.

Wan Fang was a little nervous, except for Aunt He from the neighborhood committee, no woman had ever entered this door, but the voice was clearly not Aunt He, Aunt He was used to knocking on the door and calling at the same time. Wan Fang calmed himself down for a moment before pulling the door open.

There was only a five-year-old boy standing at the door.

Wanfang figured out that it was indeed the little boy who knocked on the door, and then asked him what was the matter, whether his parents had not come back and could not enter the house. After shaking his head, the little boy suddenly told Wanfang that he hated learning the piano and that he liked to play the harmonica. The little boy also said that he wanted Wanfang to teach him to play the harmonica, but his mother did not agree that he could come secretly. Wan Fang looked at him in surprise a few times, and then persuaded the little boy to learn the piano, piano civilization, is a symbol of wealth and knowledge. The little boy said that learning the piano was not civilized at all, and that his mother always beat him on the hands and buttocks with a ruler. The little boy repeatedly said that Wanfang's harmonica was played so beautifully.

The little boy took Wanfang's harmonica in his hand and stroked it repeatedly for a while, and then solemnly told Wanfang that he would come downstairs to Wanfang every day when his mother was not off work. When the little boy turned to leave, Wan Fang grabbed him and whispered to him what was the name of the most beautiful girl in the area. The little boy said a name without thinking about it. The way the little boy turned around and walked away reminded Wan Fang of the fat woman, he chased a few steps and asked, and sure enough, the fat woman was the little boy's mother.

Back in the house, Wan Fang hurriedly wrote the words "Elizabeth" on a piece of paper, and stared at the strange name for a long time.

The neon signs are amazing. The thin and twisted tubes can make the light look like a fashion model on the stage, not only can change the color and face as you like, but also change the posture and charm as you like. The same city, where there is neon and where there is no neon, is definitely two worlds in the dark. Jianghan Road and Erqi Road are equally long in the city, Hanzheng Street and Liangdao Street across the river once corresponded to the famous, now who can see Erqi Road and Liangdao Street at night! In those places, when you walk by alone, if you are not attentive, you will feel like wandering in a country market in a small suburban town. In the final analysis, the city is inseparable from camouflage and camouflage, and it is inseparable from the combing and cleaning when people are not paying attention.

In the rock of steel, the city blooms with brilliant neon flowers. There is no backdrop of holly plants, and there is no need for those lonely chrysanthemums to compete for beauty. How can a city show its beauty and youth like this!

The neon flowers bloom too much, like fertilizing too much, only knowing how to grow crazy crops.

Chen Kai burped heavily when he entered the house, and the smell of hot dry noodles immediately filled the hut. Hearing that Wanfang only soaked a bowl of loose instant noodles, Chen Kai smiled and said that he was right to do so, save enough money early, and go back to Tiantai Mountain to marry a girl with water and spirit to live a good life.

Chen Kai saw a note on the table, so he glanced at it.

Chen Kai pretended to be surprised and said, "What, you want to marry the Queen of England as a wife?" ”

Wan Fang said angrily: "Just call that old lady, and others can't call Elizabeth?" ”

Chen Kai said: "As soon as I entered the house, I saw that you were in a trance, who told you this name?" ”

After Wan Fang thought about it, he still told Chen Kai the reason for the incident. However, he concealed the fact that he played the harmonica every day and waited for the girl to pass by, and only said that he saw the girl today. After Chen Kai heard this, his mouth opened a few times before he said that he would help Wanfang.

After sitting for a while, it was half past eight in the evening. Chen Kai pulled Wanfang up and asked him to go out to work early. Wan Fang said that it was still a long way from nine o'clock, and there was no need to go to the street to drink the north wind. Chen Kai had a lot of strength, and pulled him out of the door after a few handfuls.

As soon as he walked to the side of the street, Chen Kai stopped and didn't leave. When Wanfang asked, he said that he was waiting for someone. There were far fewer people on the streets than usual, and many of the small stalls and food stalls along the street were not on display. Wan Fang asked Chen Kai if he saw that there were not many people on the street and wanted to pull him to make up the numbers. Chen Kai asked him with a smile, saying that they didn't come to the city to make up the numbers, and the city would never treat them as their own family.

Wan Fang was about to answer, when Chen Kai suddenly shouted: "Elizabeth! ”

Wan Fang was just about to turn back, but his face was burning, he didn't dare to turn around again, and pricked up his ears to hear a little girl's crisp and sweet voice say, "Are you calling me?" ”

Wan Fang was in a daze, and Chen Kai said behind him: "This uncle wants to get to know you." ”

Wan Fang felt that someone tugged at his clothes, and he just said "The little friend is so good", and his face burned even more. Fortunately, his fingers touched the harmonica that he had put in his pocket when he was sending the little boy away, and he hurriedly said, "Do you want to learn to play the harmonica with me?" ”

The little girl turned her head and said, "I have made a decision with the Danish prince that he will learn from you first, and he will teach me later, lest he think that I am in love with you." ”

Hearing this, Wan Fang and Chen Kai were taken aback.

At this moment, a woman jumped up and called Elizabeth as she pulled the little girl away from them. Leave a few meters away before turning back and questioning, you look like you are not afraid of letting the patrol police see you and arrest you as human traffickers. Wan Fang's heart was cold for a while, but Chen Kai laughed to himself, stretched out his finger and pointed at Wan Fang's nose, saying that he was so fascinated by the young lady in the city that he couldn't tell the truth from the child's words. Wan Fang blinked a few times, and couldn't help laughing, blaming himself for being confused for a while, and actually misunderstood the little boy's words, fortunately it was not a beauty recommended by the male dog, otherwise he would have recognized the female dog as the most beautiful woman.

Wan Fang and Chen Kai walked into the sanitation station one after another, called Elizabeth to several country women who were already wearing orange vests, and before they could understand, they turned their heads and called the other men the Danish princes. Everyone came back to their senses and asked them what they were crazy about. The stationmaster came out of the back room, and without waiting for them to say anything, he said in a serious manner that everyone should regard themselves as princes and queens, and when others look down on the cleaners, they should pay special attention to themselves. Wan Fang was already grinning and about to laugh, but after Stationmaster Ma said this, he turned his laughter into a sentence and said it.

Wan Fang said, "There was a fat woman who deliberately stomped on top of our house with her foot. ”

The stationmaster said: "The shoes are dirty outside, and everyone will stomp on them a few times when they enter the door." ”

Chen Kai said: "But she does this every day, it must be on purpose." ”

The stationmaster promised to visit them when he had time, and then waved everyone to go to work, and at the same time instructed that the stronger the wind, the more careful they should be when sweeping the streets, so as not to cause disputes with pedestrians. Everyone agreed in the dialects of Sichuan, Henan and Hubei.

Wan Fang and Chen Kai broke up at a street intersection near the Asia Hotel, Wan Fang swept down in the direction of the river, and Chen Kai swept up against him.

The north wind has been blowing all day, and the garbage on the ground has gathered in various corners of the place. Several men lined up arm in arm, rushing towards Wanfang without being ready to dodge. Wan Fang didn't pay attention at first, and when he heard that something was wrong with the footsteps, he turned to one side, and saw that the human wall was approaching, so he hurriedly dragged his broom and jumped back several steps until he gave them the entire road. As the men walked by, some people said that the wind made the hillbilly take advantage of the street sweeping, and the garbage was automatically heaped before he could do anything. The other person went on to say that Mao's words seemed to be wrong, and the broom would run away by itself if it didn't reach the dust. As they spoke, everyone spat a lot on the ground. Wanfang waited for them to go far away before he whispered back and said, you know a fart, it is more difficult to sweep the garbage after the wind returns the heap. After saying that, he used a broom to slam a pile of garbage into the sky. A filament-like object, unexpectedly flying high and far, landed on a neon sign in front of a restaurant, and the neon sign sparked and then went out halfway. Wanfang was worried for a while, but the people in the restaurant didn't notice it, and no one came out to watch. Wan Fang swept harder because of this, and he wanted to leave here as soon as possible. The garbage in the corner seemed to have roots, and the big broom could not be waved, so Wanfang had to squat down often and get them out with his hands.

Wan Fang finally calmed down, and suddenly heard someone calling his name out of thin air. Wan Fang was squatting on the ground, and he answered casually. When I stood up and looked around, there was no one around, only small cars. This shout made Wan Fang ponder for a long time, if it was at home, he would suspect that maybe he had met a ghost. There's no need to worry about that in the city. However, Wan Fang always couldn't rest assured, after all, this shout proved that in this city, in addition to the companions of the sanitation station, there was a person who was willing to associate with him.

In addition to the street lights, the only ones that are still shining are neon lights. In the distance, some women can still be seen shaking at the door of the Asia Hotel. The neon sign is clearly not for the sake of everything, and without the object, it is less and more angry. In the crevices of the branches of the broom, the charming colors are rarely shiny. Chen Kai told Wan Fang on the empty street several times that only in this moment did the city belong to them. Without Chen Kai by his side, Wanfang didn't have the feeling of having it at all. In fact, he came to the city to have it, or at least let the city have him.

Wan Fang's father told him when he was very young that there had been a group of city people called educated youths in the wall, all of whom were young and handsome, who could sing and dance, write and paint, and the young people in the wall were crazy. My father said that there was a special item for the educated youth, everyone carried a harmonica and played wherever they went. Wan Fang grew up to ten years old in his yearning for the harmonica, he begged his mother to kill the big rooster that gave him his birthday, and he took it to the town and sold it, and the money he got just allowed him to buy a harmonica, and then secretly stuffed the untouched "Harmonica Playing the Piano" in the reading room of the town cultural station into his arms, and kept it for himself. He didn't say it to anyone, and he did hear the whine of a big coming from the harmonica many times.

At this time, Wan Fang once again thought of his partner Wan You. All things are the same age as him. When Wanfang owned a harmonica, Wanyou didn't know where to get a violin. Everything has always been mysterious, and he never explained the details to others. In the process of growing up, Wanfang's grasp of the harmonica, no matter how hard he practiced, was only as good as Wanyou's understanding of the violin. Wan You also won the first prize in the violin group of the county instrumental music competition. Wan Fang did not win the certificate trophy, and the county did not hold a harmonica competition, but at the report performance at the end of the instrumental music competition, Wan Fang was specially asked to perform on stage, and everyone said that he actually won the first prize. Wanyou came to this city a year earlier than Wanfang, and I heard that it was very good. But Wan You, as always, does not let others understand him, and others have only seen him running from the city to his hometown in a car. Thinking of this, Wan Fang realized that the person who called his name was all things nine times out of ten. A month ago, Wan Fang was sitting on the grassy slope in front of the mound, playing the harmonica at dusk, watching a small car slowly climb down the hill to his side, Wan You stuck his head out of the car window and shouted at him, asking him why he was still in the village and why he had not yet entered the city. Wan Fang didn't answer, and Wan You drove away. The next day, Wan Yi packed his belongings at home, and on the third day he squeezed into the bus into town.

Thinking of these things, Wan Fang couldn't help but take out the piano from his pocket, looked at it a few times, and couldn't help but blow it again. For some reason, Wan Fang was a little excited and a little excited, and as soon as he threw the broom, he swayed and played on the street. He didn't notice that a red Beverly taxi was parked behind him, and the window panes in the back were cracked.

The garbage truck in the station, which was more broken than a tractor, roared and honked its horn, and the driver shouted at Wanfang. Wan Fang looked back, still playing the unfinished tune.

After the sound of the garbage truck disappeared, Wanfang heard someone shouting to him again. It's like the sound of music, coming from the wind. Wan Fang turned his ear to the side a little and ran along the road. The voice became clearer and clearer, and Wan Fang had already heard that it was Chen Kai, and after looking for a while, he found Chen Kai lying on the ground, his face dripping with blood. Wan Fang didn't need to ask to know that Chen Kai was beaten, and it was common for the street cleaners to accidentally get dust or something on others, and it was common for them to be poisoned a few times. After those people got angry, they always had to scold: hillbilly, they can't even sweep the ground. Wanfang wanted to send Chen Kai to the hospital, but Chen Kai was unwilling, he was reluctant to spend the money in vain. Chen Kai said that it was no big deal, and he stirred a little wet thing on the ground into the face of a passing man, and the man attacked him. He thought that the city people had no strength and didn't prepare much, and he didn't think that the fist was quite heavy, and he was knocked unconscious in a few strokes.

Wan Fang said: "You have this big guy, just go through a few tricks with him!" ”

Chen Kai said: "This is not a new county, if it is a new county, Lao Tzu will beat him to crawl into the toilet and eat." He sighed, "Our opponent is the whole city!" ”

Wan Fang said: "The city is not theirs. ”

Chen Kai said: "That may not belong to us!" ”

Wan Fang said: "If you think like this, you deserve to be beaten." ”

Chen Kai sneered, broke out of Wanfang's arms, walked to the steps of a hotel that had long been closed, unbuttoned his trouser belt and squatted down. After a while, a stench wafted in the wind, and Wan Fang did not dare to shout to dissuade him for fear of waking up the night watchman in the hotel.

At this moment, someone suddenly asked what they were doing behind them. Wan Fang was shocked, and when he saw that it was the stationmaster, he was relieved. Stationmaster Ma pointed to the placard that read "Love My City" hanging on the side of the road, kicked Chen Kai's ass with his foot in leather shoes, and asked him how he understood. Chen Kai pointed to the blood on his face and said, the city understands him like this, and he understands the city like this. Chen Kai pointed to the black thing that was still steaming white under the neon lights. Stationmaster Ma didn't speak, pulled Chen Kai, and asked Wanfang to accompany him to the hospital. Chen Kai was reluctant, and it wasn't until Stationmaster Ma said that he could reimburse 50% of the medical expenses, so he reluctantly followed.

The doctor on duty didn't seem to hear the stationmaster Ma say that Chen Kai was beaten while cleaning the city. Due to impatience, his hands and feet were very heavy, and Chen Kai later repeatedly said that it was not a doctor but a butcher who killed pigs and cows.

Stationmaster Ma asked Wanfang to send Chen Kai back to rest early, but he didn't say whether he wanted to finish sweeping the unfinished garbage. Chen Kai was lying on the bed, touching his swollen mouth, and he had to use the harmonica to soothe himself. Wanfang was afraid of noisy neighbors who were sleeping, Chen Kai disagreed, saying that when they slept during the day, why weren't those people afraid of noisy them!

Shortly after Wanfang played the harmonica, there were several knocks on the window. Wan Fang was a little panicked, and when he opened the window, there was a little girl named "Elizabeth" standing outside. The girl told him that she had never heard the harmonica play so beautifully. The girl smiled melancholy at him through the window.

Wanfang seems to have seen the dawn of the city.

The city never sleeps, where does it come from? Dawn is a process of enlightenment. The neon lights of the city can compete with the sun, and when it expresses itself, it is full of narrowness and tackiness. Dawn is a kind of gestation, a kind of broad breathing, and a kind of deep reflection. Without the dawn, the city will be impetuous and rigid. If you can be as melancholy as a girl, you will be a little cute.

After Wanfang received the little girl's smile, he was very excited. He volunteered to tell Chen Kai that he would go to the evening newspaper office and let the newspaper publish the news of Chen Kai's beating. In fact, what he thought in his heart was that the evening newspaper might publish its own photo when it published an interview article so that the girl could see it. Wan Fang only slept for two hours before getting up, and before getting dressed, he deliberately put the harmonica in a conspicuous place, just in case he forgot it and couldn't take it with him.

Wan Fang went to the sanitation station first, he asked the accountant to open a letter of introduction, and he wanted to go to the evening newspaper to report the situation. The accountant did not open it, saying that the letter of introduction could only be used by regular employees. Wan Fang had nothing to do about this. He knew that the accountant was a city person, and he had no sympathy for the peasants who worked. He was about to leave, the accountant told him that a man called him just now, and the man neither said anything was wrong, nor did he say his name, nor did he leave his work unit and phone number, but said in a very loud tone, please find Mr. Wanfang, the accountant said "Please find Mr. Wanfang" six words into eighteen words, Wanfang knew that the last two sentences were added by the accountant, because the corners of the accountant's mouth were crooked when he spoke, and he was obviously deformed by too much contempt.

Wan Fang numbly walked out of the sanitation station, he knew in his heart that the person who called must be Wanyou, only Wanyou is this kind of virtue, what he can't figure out is how Wanyou even knows how he stays in this kind of ghost place.

It is very convenient to go to the evening newspaper from here, and after Wanfang made up his mind to break through, he got on the 801 special bus, if he didn't sit at the station, it would be smooth. He asked the people on the bus where to get off at the evening newspaper, and the people on the bus either ignored them or made a confused mumm-huh sound through their noses. When he found that the signboard of the evening newspaper had passed by, he felt a hatred for the whole car.

The old man at the evening newspaper listened to Wan Fang's story, and immediately shook his head like a cadre in the township, holding a teacup and saying that this kind of thing is too much, it is not news, and a similar news was published in the semi-annual report, but it was because a cleaner's ear was cut off. According to the old man's instructions, Wan Fang found the door he was looking for, and the person who received him was very polite, but when he heard him, he was absent-minded, and his eyes were always fixed on a female reporter who was operating a computer next to him. When Wan Fang was halfway through speaking, the man interrupted his words, briefly preempted himself, and asked if it was right after speaking. Wanfang thought that someone had taken the lead. Unexpectedly, the man replied that this kind of cause and effect is always the same. But he promised to try to get the matter exposed.

Back in the hall, Wan Fang saw at a glance that Wan You was waiting for the elevator by the wall. All beings also discovered him. As soon as the two of them spoke, they understood that it was really Wanyou who called Wanfang on the street last night. Wan You was sitting in a BMW sedan at the time, and when he saw Wanfang sweeping the street, he used his mobile phone to call 114 and found the phone number of the sanitation station. Wan You still didn't tell Wan Fang his address and work unit, only said that he came to the newspaper to advertise heaters, and he proudly said that the company bought the evening newspaper for three days and three full pages, like that, it was like he bought it himself. At this time, the elevator door opened, and Wan did not shake hands with him and did not say goodbye, but said goodbye, and got into the iron cage. Wan Fang was stunned for a while, and after the elevator door was closed, he remembered that he shouted at a very small crack in the door, asking Wan You to pay attention and change him with a suitable job. The iron gate is so thick, Wanfang is not sure whether Wanyou heard it.

As soon as Wan Fang turned around, he heard a person say to him that the editor-in-chief of the evening newspaper had retired, and he wanted to do it. Wan Fang didn't make a sound in his mouth, but he said in his heart: I'll fuck your mother.

Returning from the same road, Chen Kai told him that someone had looked for him. Wanfang thought it was the girl. Chen Kai sold enough guanzi before saying that the "Danish prince" came to him to learn harmonica, and when he was not there, the little boy also said that he was not trustworthy.

Chen Kai cooked another pot of sweet potato porridge in an aluminum pot.

Wan Fang said, "You used the stove to burn the fire again?" Not afraid of the people upstairs scolding again? ”

Chen Kai said: "I went upstairs to reconnoitre, but except for children, no adults were at home. If you can secretly cook a meal, you can save a meal, and the things sold on the street are too expensive for us to eat. ”

The two men were eating, and heavy footsteps sounded on the stairs. Wan Fang glanced at Chen Kai and was about to say something, when several women upstairs screamed almost at the same time. In the blink of an eye, the women rushed to the door of the hut, stretched out a few light-colored underwear that had been smoked with oil, and demanded that they pay for the new ones. Wan Fangzheng didn't know what to do, Chen Kai squeezed to the front, reached out and took a white bra, looked up and down a few times, and then said How could this kind of thing make us dirty. The women were stunned, snatched the bra from Chen Kai's hand, and walked out of the building scolding. Chen Kai couldn't help but laugh out loud as he looked at them. Wan Fang asked him not to laugh, they must have gone to the neighborhood committee.

After a while, a kind-eyed elderly woman called Wanfang and Chen Kai at the door. When they saw the woman, they hurriedly called Aunt He. Aunt He asked them if they were cooking on the stove again. Chen Kai said no. Aunt He didn't believe it, she said that as soon as she entered the building, she smelled a smell of garbage burning. Aunt He pointed to the two bowls on the table and asked them how they cooked the raw rice into rice. Chen Kai smiled awkwardly. Aunt He blamed them and said that men will always do some bad things, but when they do bad things, they have to think clearly about their way out. Don't use rubber, plastic, or linoleum when burning the stove, just use some waste wood. Aunt He said that she would take responsibility for this matter today, and they would have to pay attention to it in the future. Wan Fang hurriedly agreed. Chen Kai was not in a hurry, he said that he was also retaliating by doing so. It's all to blame on the fat woman, every day when she goes upstairs and downstairs, she always kicks her foot on the top of their heads, and her heart falls down and becomes a lump of flesh. Aunt He scolded Chen Kai for his stinky mouth, which was not comparable to Wanfang at all. Then she explained that the fat woman's surname was Xu, and she used to sing Chu opera, but the Chu opera troupe collapsed, so she had to set up a stall on Hanzheng Street by herself. This hut used to be lived in for her mother-in-law, but the year before her mother-in-law died, she used this hut to put sundries, and the neighborhood committee forced her to hand over the hut and rent it to the sanitation station, so she met Wanfang and Chen Kai unpleasantly.

After a commotion, someone outside shouted to sell the evening newspaper, Wanfang took out five dimes and went out to buy one, stood on the side of the road and opened it to see if there was any news that Chen Kai had been beaten. I searched for it a few times but didn't find it, but in the "Reader's Wide Angle" column, I saw a short article criticizing the fact that someone defecated under a neon sign in front of the hotel last night.

Aunt He also saw the news on the side, and she said: "That area belongs to the two of you, and you didn't find it last night?" ”

Wan Fang was a little hesitant, he said: "Those who sweep the streets can't raise their heads when they see people, and when they see them, they are like they don't see them." ”

Aunt He said: "You are psychologically unbalanced, and no one in the city is actually treating you well!" ”

Silent, he shoved the newspaper into his pocket, turned around and walked to the department store not far away. When he came back from buying a children's harmonica, Chen Kai already knew what was going on in the evening newspaper, and he was not angry at all, but said that this was excellent, and the peasants deserved to be beaten in the city, who told the peasants to use the hotel as a toilet.

Chen Kai said to Wan Fang with a smile: "Say it for me in front of the stationmaster Ma, I am dizzy and concussed, and I won't go to work today." ”

Wan Fang said, "Don't pretend. ”

Chen Kai said: "Who dares to say that I am pretending? Can you find out? ”

Wan Fang said: "The city is not as good as the countryside, and there are electroencephalography in the hospital. ”

Chen Kai said: "How could they be willing to let me go for that advanced examination!" ”

As he spoke, Chen Kai called out dizziness.

Wan Fang thought for a long time before saying, "I don't like you to do this, but I won't betray my friends as a traitor." ”

After eating the rest of the porridge, Chen Kai fell asleep again, and in order to prevent the stationmaster from coming suddenly, he deliberately tied his head with a dry towel. Wanfang also wanted to sleep and was undressing when the little boy knocked on the door and came in.

The little boy was very happy to see that Wanfang had spent money to buy a small harmonica for himself, and said that although his mother thought they were dirty, he still wanted to accept the small harmonica. Wan Fang asked the little boy what song he played on the piano, and after the little boy memorized it, Wan Fang immediately played it on the harmonica. The little boy said it sounded much better than the piano. The little boy was very smart, and in less than an hour of teaching, he was able to master the scales accurately. Before the little boy left, Wan Fang asked him what the name of the most beautiful girl in the area was, and he specially added that he was referring to what his parents usually talked about. The little boy said that his mother always thought he was the most attractive, and his father agreed to it in person, but behind his back he objected, saying that the reeds were the most beautiful.

Wan Fang was convinced of the little boy's words this time, and he was so happy that he called out to the Danish prince.

The time for the people on duty to get off work is approaching, and the stationmaster Ma has not yet come, Chen Kai can't lie down, sits up from the bed, and begs Wanfang to help him call for a leave. Chen Kai said that he already had a plan in mind, so Wanfang had to help him. Wanfang was so entangled that he had no choice but to call the sanitation station in a public phone booth outside. Wanfang thought that the stationmaster Ma would stop by to visit after work, but he only said that he knew and put down the phone. When Wan Fang went to work, he realized that the stationmaster Ma took the female accountant to the song hall to sing.

The stationmaster came to the hut the next morning. When Stationmaster Ma came, Wan Fang was still in a dream, and Chen Kai was a little panicked, so he woke him up under the pretext. After Stationmaster Ma left, Wan Fang realized that while he was asleep, Chen Kai was reading a magazine with more than a dozen pairs of women's breasts, buttocks, and thighs on the front and back covers. Stationmaster Ma entered the door and said that Chen Kai's cheeks were crimson and his eyes were shining, which did not look like a concussion at all. Chen Kai said that he was worried about the leader's suspicion, and he was embarrassed, so his face was shy and feverish. Chen Kai looked at Wanfang and asked him to help confirm it. Wan Fang pretended not to see it, and turned his head to find the little boy named the Danish prince standing in the doorway.

The hut was so small that even a child couldn't get into it after it could accommodate three people. Stationmaster Ma didn't want to leave for a while, as if he had something to say to them. It took a while for Wan Fang to get the little boy into the house.

The moment the harmonica sounded, the hut suddenly became empty.

Stationmaster Ma listened in a daze, looking at Wanfang's eyes that were very different than usual.

Stationmaster Ma looked at the sky and said to Wanfang: "I really didn't expect you to be a talent!" ”

After a pause, the stationmaster said, "I wanted to ask you two to come to the house to help build a side house, but you play the harmonica so well that I don't dare to speak." ”

Chen Kai didn't wait for Wanfang to express his position, and preemptively said: "It's okay, you say that we will go together when you say a time." ”

Wan Fang said, "Didn't you have a concussion?" ”

Wan Fang ignored them, and Stationmaster Ma said that it was because Chen Kai was on sick leave that he dared to attack their idea, which did not leave a trace of impression like a gust of wind blowing. A string of harmonies blowing from all directions made the hut a cosmic one.

On the other hand, the praise of the stationmaster gave Wanfang confidence. In the evening of that day, when Wan Fang saw the girl walking outside with a harmonica, he called softly through the window: "Reed! ”

Unexpectedly, the girl heard it, answered without saying a word, and gave Wanfang a bright smile.

Without neon, a city is a village. The north wind passes over the city, but it gives nothing to the city, but rather makes it appear even more empty. This emptiness needs to be filled with a never-ending melody. Just as a harmonica can make the tattered and simple of a hut glow with the brilliance of the essence of life and the color of the meaning of existence, the key is that it can emit a melody that shocks the soul. But where does the melody of the city come from? It's not like the north wind from high in the sky from Siberia, and it's not like neon from factories and companies. Perhaps it should come from everyone's heart, from the harmony between people, people and hearts, hearts and people, hearts and hearts.

Melody is a kind of streamer that can fly in the air, but this streamer is a continuation from the mind, and sometimes, the continuation of the mood is only a diffuse state, and it cannot form a beautiful form.

Chen Kai took a sick leave for more than ten days. He still went to help build the side house of the stationmaster Ma, and pulled Wanfang as usual. Chen Kai doesn't go to work, but he stays away from the house all day and all night, carrying in his pocket a tabloid that he has read hundreds of times, which says that a young farmer there sacrificed his life to fight fires, and was later hired as an official member of the city fire brigade there. Every day when Chen Kai returned to the hut, he was either agitated or listless, and then he scribbled over and over again on the evening newspaper with his poop in front of the hotel, saying fuck the city or the fuck in the city. Wan Fang said that he was dreaming of jumping a big beauty from the stars. Chen Kai was very indignant, there were no less than dozens of murders and disasters in this city every day, but he couldn't touch a single one, and he couldn't imagine that he would be qualified to be a hero who sacrificed himself to save others.

Without Chen Kai as his companion, Wanfang is even more lonely, especially when he gets along with the city street alone, the loneliness in his heart is about to suffocate to death. He had to carry the harmonica in his pocket when he went to work, taking advantage of the scarcity of people and cars on the street, and from time to time he took it out to give his mood a ripple.

In the middle of the night, it suddenly snowed in the sky. At first, it was just thin and thin, but after a while, it was all raised, and in the blink of an eye, it was paved with a layer of snow white on the side of the street. Wan Fang was thinking about what Chen Kai told him in the afternoon, Chen Kai said that he had designed a foolproof plan, and then he added that it was a hundred ideas that were the main purpose of changing from passive to active. Wan Fang didn't know what Chen Kai was going to do, but when he thought of this, he couldn't help but lean under a telephone pole, took out his harmonie, closed his eyes and played it emotionlessly. He didn't notice that the way the snowflakes were flying in the air was in line with the melody that came out of his heart. When he opened his eyes, he was suddenly surprised by the sparkling sparkle on the ground.

With such heavy snowfall, the garbage on the street can no longer be swept away. Seeing the snow, Wan Fang didn't want to go back sooner, so he stuck the broom upside down on an idle concrete pier of the guardrail, and simply played the harmonica happily. The snow is getting heavier and heavier, and the north wind is still the same, blowing soothing and powerful like Tai Chi Tuina. Wanfang has never seen the city in the snow, let alone the neon in the snow and what the snow in the neon looks like. When the north wind, the snow, the neon and the city are completely integrated, he is a little inexplicably excited. The harmonica seemed to attract snowflakes to the big upside-down broom, and in the blink of an eye it became a Christmas tree covered in silver makeup.

Someone suddenly called Wanfang's name in the middle of the night.

This time, Wanfang saw clearly that it was the stationmaster Ma, who was riding a bicycle to watch the snow on the street. He greeted Wan Fang and asked him to go to a nearby hotel to make a phone call, and asked the person on duty at the station to tell the person on duty in the bureau to send a snowplow out quickly. Wan Fang hesitated for a while, but still put away the harmonica and walked towards the brightly lit hotel.

Wan Fang walked towards the glass automatic door, and the cold, ruthless and unrighteous thing opened silently. As soon as he stepped in, he was stopped by two male waiters in red clothes and red hats, who politely addressed him as sir, and pointed to a sign in front of the door. It says that those who are not dressed properly are not allowed to enter. Wan Fang almost asked himself where he was not well-dressed, it was nothing more than dirty. He couldn't help but explain the reason, but the waitresses still said that they were sorry and couldn't enter. At this moment, Wan You walked down the wide curved staircase, and said a few words in a high spirit: "Please come in and apologize to him, otherwise-" Wan didn't finish speaking, and the two waiters said sorry in unison, and there were no other words after the three words of sorry. Under the escort of Wanyou's eyes, Wanfang smoothly picked up the phone in front of the main desk and dialed a set of numbers. He repeated the words of Stationmaster Ma into the microphone. When he turned back after making the call, Wan was gone, and he looked behind him a few times, and the elevator embedded in the marble wall seemed to be moving. When the elevator door opened, it was the girl who walked by the window of the hut at six o'clock every evening. Wan Fang hurriedly straightened the position of his head and body, picked up the phone and dialed a phone number randomly. After the phone rang a few times, a woman's voice appeared. The woman's confused voice was somewhat familiar. Wan Fangzheng couldn't remember who it was, and asked him if he was a good daughter and why he called home this night. Because of the reeds, Wanfang thought in a trance that the person who answered the phone was Aunt He.

After the reeds disappeared with Wanyou, Wanfang returned to the wind and snow outside.

The stationmaster said to him, "I thought you wouldn't be able to enter the gate, or that you would be locked up when you entered the gate!" ”

Wan Fang said expressionlessly: "I still want to use it as a vegetable garden gate!" ”

The snowplow drove over, and the beautiful appearance on the ground was immediately ruined by it, and it was miserable.

At this moment, the stationmaster Ma told Wanfang that Chen Kai was about to become a hero, and at 12:37 in the middle of the night, he jumped into a sewer without a manhole cover and rescued a woman who fell into it, and he himself almost died as a result. When he was stuffy in the sewers and couldn't get out, thanks to the rescued woman, two patrol officers were called. Stationmaster Ma said that it was Chen Kai who called his home to tell him about the incident, and asked Stationmaster Ma to say a few beautiful words to the reporters after dawn.

Wan Fang thought about two things, including the phone call just now, and felt that this world was indeed incomprehensible.

The snow was too heavy, and it was ineffective for the cleaners to do something on the street, so the stationmaster asked everyone to go back to rest. When I opened the door of the hut, I smelled a strange smell. Chen Kai threw the dirty clothes he had changed into in the corner of the house, and the clothes stained with dirt from the sewer made the already small house even more miserable. Chen Kai didn't care about these at all, he took a flat bottle of Yellow Crane Tower wine, and sat on the quilt with a plate of pickled vegetables and a few peanuts brought from home, and tasted it with relish.

Seeing Wanfang, Chen Kai took a big sip of the bottle unhurriedly, and said while swallowing: "The sky pays off, I succeeded!" He burst out laughing. Wan Fang was disgusted by his laughter, and was about to turn around and go out of the door, but he actually cried.

Chen Kai told Wanfang while crying that he had been thinking about it for a long time before he had an idea. Before dark, he made a slingshot out of a rubber band to break several street light bulbs, and after dark he stole three more sewer manhole covers, and then hid and waited for someone to fall in, and rushed to save them. He waited for two hours before an opportunity came: a woman was walking gracefully on the road, and suddenly disappeared. Chen Kai said that after he rushed up, he heard two people shouting to dial 110 to call the police, and he was in a hurry, jumping into the black hole regardless of 3721. The space in the sewer was too small, and the woman was surprisingly fat, and it took him a long time to get the woman out of the well, but he had no strength at all. I couldn't move in the dirty water that flowed fiercely, and I drank a lot of it. If it weren't for the patrolman coming quickly, Station Master Ma might have been writing a eulogy for him at this time.

Chen Kai said: "I have the old and the young, and my wife in the middle is delicate, think about how they will live if I die like this!" ”

Wan Fang saw that Chen Kai was crying vigorously, so he said, "If you still want to drink, I'll go out and get it." ”

Chen Kai said: "You can't drink too much, tomorrow the reporter may come to interview." I drink to kill the bacteria in the dirty water that I drink in my stomach. Speaking of this, Chen Kai stopped crying, his eyes lit up and said, "Who do you guess that fat woman is?" ”

Wan Fang said: "Is it the mother of the Danish prince?" ”

Chen Kai said with some disappointment: "It's not good for you to be like this, you seem to know everything." ”

After being silent for a while, Chen Kai suddenly asked Wanfang to play a tune on the harmonica to him, and Wanfang himself wanted to play it. Snowflakes hit the windows of the hut and sounded silently. The sound of the harmonica beat against the small window, like a beating on the heart of the city, but the city slept soundly, as if it had died, and did not notice the sound of the trembling soul at all. When the melody was extremely lyrical, Wanfang suddenly stopped. The two of them were relatively stunned and silent.

There was a sudden two bangs on the window, and someone outside said: "Beautiful, another Russian folk song!" ”

Chen Kai asked vigilantly, "Who are you?" ”

The person outside the window replied, "I live in the stairwell of the unit next door." ”

Wan Fang remembered what others said about the college student who wrote the script, so he really came to the song "Three Sets of Cars", and the college student sang along outside the window: Ice and snow cover the Volga River. There was no movement from there.

Shortly after dawn, Stationmaster Ma came to see Chen Kai, and he told Wanfang by the way that the snow would take three or two days to melt, and if he wanted to go home to see if he would be allowed to take a vacation, Wanfang immediately said that he wanted to go back.

After breakfast, Wanfang went to the long-distance station and got on the bus to Hong'an. When he was about to get home, a very imposing car drove towards him, and he guessed in his heart that it might be Wanyou sitting in the car, and after entering the door, he realized that the car was indeed Wanyou. The father asked Wanfang why he didn't bring the car back, because Wanyou said everywhere in the wall that Wanfang was better than he was in the city. My father complained that when I was at home in the past, compared with Wanyou, the two of them were still equal in all aspects, and everything that should be revealed had to be revealed, and now it is not the kind of time when you dare not show your wealth. Fortunately, thanks to her mother's help in speaking, she felt that it was better to be simple at any time. Wanfang was a little angry, he only stayed at home for one day, and rushed to the city early in the morning on the third day.

There was almost no change in the hut, except for the out-of-town tabloid that Chen Kai had always carried in his pocket and was thrown on the table, which was also full of those two foul words and wild words just like the previous evening newspaper. Wan Fang was drinking water, and the little boy named Prince Dan walked in and asked him unhappily where he had been in the past few days, and he didn't say hello, even Sister Reed had asked several times. When Wanfang heard that the reeds were concerned about his whereabouts, his heart became excited. He didn't know what to do for a while, so he asked the little boy to take him to see his piano. The little boy was so happy that he took his hand and went up the stairs.

Wan Fang hadn't climbed the stairs since he moved into this hut, and he felt something different when he stepped on the roof of his house. The little boy opened the door with the key around his neck, and Wan Fang was surprised by the appearance of the house, the fluffy red carpet was rolled all the way to the door, and the compelling nobility made Wan Fang dare not raise his feet and go inside. The little boy pulled him hard in front. Wanfang remembered the legend that people in the city had to take off their shoes when they entered the door, so he bent down and took off his shoes. The boy dragged him into the piano room and lifted a piece of gold velvet to reveal a piano that was brighter than a mirror.

Wan Fang couldn't control himself, he squeezed the little boy who was about to sit on the piano bench, sat down himself, and then learned from the pianists he had seen in movies and television, his hands shook, and a chord came suddenly. Wan Fang also practiced the organ and electronic organ when he was in school, and he was able to play a complete piece on the piano in a few attempts, and immerse himself in it completely, so that he did not realize that the door outside had been opened by the fat woman.

When the fat woman rushed into the house, Wan Fang was stunned for a moment. The fat woman yelled and told him to get out of here. Wan Fang's body trembled, but his butt didn't move until he finished playing the music that was halfway through. When he got up, he also learned to touch his chest with one hand and bowed. When he got to the door, he was about to put on his shoes when the fat woman flew up and kicked the shoes on the ground onto the stairs outside the door.

After Wan Fang walked down the stairs back to the hut, he didn't say a word, quietly listening to the fat woman upstairs scolding the little boy loudly.

Chen Kai stood in the middle of the hut, didn't need any food, and drank barely. Seeing Wanfang, Chen Kai couldn't help but scold, saying that the people in this city have no heart and liver, and he sacrificed his life to save people, but they were reluctant to even let a fart go. Wan Fang heard that in the past three days, no one had reacted to Chen Kai's rescue, and he was also very angry.

In the evening, Wanfang was playing the harmonica, Aunt He called him outside the door, and someone went to the neighborhood committee to complain, saying that Wanfang had ulterior motives to sabotage her children's piano learning. Wan Fang hurriedly denied it. Aunt He said that the children of the family admitted it themselves, saying that Wanfang used the harmonica to lure him, so he couldn't learn the piano well. Wan Fang knew that this could not be said by the little boy, so he didn't bother to argue anymore. Aunt He asked Wanfang to pay attention in the future, and do not teach any child to learn to play the harmonica without parental consent. Aunt He said that no matter how well you learn the harmonica, you can't be a star, but it will make people ugly and cheesy, only the piano is good, and it is both magnificent and identity at home, which can not only cultivate the soul but also become a star and make a lot of money. Wan Fang said, didn't the people in the city like the harmonica very much in the past? Aunt He told him that the times are advancing, and the harmonica is outdated.

Wan Fang suddenly didn't want to talk to Aunt He, he turned to the window and continued to play the harmonica, just as the reed passed by the window again, the reed glanced at the window, and Wan Fang greeted her with a few free fingers on the hands holding the harmonica.

Chen Kai, who was lying on the bed, sighed at this time. After Aunt He went up and touched Chen Kai's forehead, she told Wanfang in some panic that Chen Kai was not only having a fever but also had a terrible fever. Aunt He was persuading Chen Kai to go to the hospital for a check-up. Chen Kai sat up suddenly, lifted the quilt and jumped to the ground. Aunt He stopped him and said that people with fever can't withstand the cool breeze. Chen Kai pushed her away and said he was going to the toilet. The public toilet was far away, and Chen Kai ran like a race, but his pants were still dirty. As soon as he got back to the house and cleaned up, he ran out again with his pants in hand. After making trouble several times, Chen Kai came out of the toilet with a pale face and told Wanfang that the things he pulled out were all red, and he asked Wanfang to take him to the hospital. After entering the hospital, Chen Kai couldn't get out, and the doctor said that it was toxic dysentery and he had to be hospitalized.

Soon after Chen Kai entered the ward, he fell into a semi-coma. A few people in the ward counted down in front of Wanfang, saying that they only cared about going to the city to work and earn money, and they did not pay attention to hygiene at all. Wan Fang couldn't help it, so he told them about Chen Kai drinking dirty water from the sewer to save people. A few people didn't believe it, saying such a good deed, how could it not be reported in the newspaper. Wan Fang was speechless when he asked this, he stayed in front of the hospital bed and thought for a long time before he remembered Wan You, and he felt that only Wan You would help with this. So he went to the medical duty room to dig out the evening newspaper some time ago, and looked for the full-page heater advertisement. After flipping through the advertisement for a long time, he finally found it, in addition to the name of the general manager printed on it, there were also a line of words such as Wan You, assistant to the general manager. Wan Fang took the newspaper, went out, reversed the bus three times, and finally found the company called "Youth Years".

Wan Fang pushed open the door of the office and was about to ask, when a woman in her fifties walked out of the back room, and everyone in the office immediately stood up and called Mr. Li respectfully.

Wan You was a little surprised to see Wan Fang, but he didn't ask Wan Fang how he found him, only asked Wan Fang what was the matter. Wan Fang didn't instigate, and told Chen Kai everything in the same way. Wan You didn't frown, walked to the door and didn't know who he had to say, let me contact Director Hu of the Advertising Department of the Evening News. After a while, the phone on Wanyou's desk rang, and Wanfang clearly heard Wanyou and the other party talking about each other, and Chen Kai only said a few words. Wan You put down the phone and told Wan Fang to go back to the hospital quickly, and the reporters will be there soon. When Wan You sent Wan Fang out to the elevator, he said thoughtlessly: "It's better for you to be like this!" ”

Wan Fang returned to the hospital and waited for less than half an hour, and sure enough, two female reporters came. Chen Kai is still in a semi-coma. Just listening to Wan Fang's words, the female reporters were moved, saying that such a good heroic model was almost buried. The female reporter left one to wait for Chen Kai to wake up, and the other followed Wan Fang to interview the fat woman who was rescued by Chen Kai. This time, Wan Fang entered the door and deliberately did not take off his shoes, and rubbed the dirt on his shoes on the carpet. The fat woman was so pressed by the female reporter's question that she couldn't hold her head up, and she couldn't answer why she didn't report the fact that she was rescued to the media. When she was forced to do nothing, she said that the manhole cover must have been stolen by the peasants who entered the city, and although she was saved by the peasants who entered the city, it was what they should have done. Coming out of the fat woman's house, the female reporter said coldly, he should not rub the dirt on his shoes on other people's carpets, and if he does not change his bad habits, the peasants will never be accepted by the city.

A few days later, the city's newspapers and television stations all came together to promote Chen Kai. The hospital announced that Chen Kai's hospitalization fee would be waived. It didn't take long for the relevant authorities to award Chen Kai the title of "honorary citizen", which not only transferred Chen Kai's household registration to the city, but also made him the deputy captain of the public security joint defense team in this area.

On the day Chen Kai took office, the first thing he said to his subordinates was: "Today is the beginning of spring, and it is a good day." Those under his command and the heads of various neighborhood committees laughed, and then privately said to Aunt He that they really did not forget the true colors of farmers.

Except for the woman's thighs, the city is not at all sensitive to spring. Only those thighs, when the people of the city are still covered in nyvelvet, cotton wool and wool, they stand tall and tall in the deserted streets, in the stiff closets, and become the only scenery in the gray oppression, and also become the yearning of all eyes in the city streets and office buildings. When the woman's thighs appear like sprouts in the freezing of the winter, the city can move forward with black rubber wheels, and the gusts of wind can easily blow the woman's short skirt from the house into the street. As a result, the colors of the city are enriched again, and wherever the short skirt floats, the earliest spring colors appear. In winter, they are removed from their trousers and locked in large cupboards full of camphor smell.

Wanfang still lives with Chen Kai. The joint defense team arranged a decent house for Chen Kai, Chen Kai asked Wanfang to live with him, Wanfang refused, and Chen Kai didn't bother to go, he said that there was no one to talk to after work there. Chen Kai was now in the hut, and it was difficult to hear the rumbling footsteps overhead. Some people in this area who always like to invite people to play mahjong at home, when they see him, even if they don't call Captain Chen, at least they have to nod and say hello.

Wan Fang was still accustomed to watching Chen Kai take out three or two half-packs of Hongtashan cigarettes from his pocket.

Wanfang refused to move away because he became more and more obsessed with reeds. Chen Kai persuaded him several times, asking Wanfang to let go of this idea, the city girl is a cleaner who can't look down on the street sweeper no matter what. Wan Fang was annoyed by Chen Kai's words, he thought that Reed was not an ordinary girl, and that she and the "Danish Prince" were the only ones in this area who showed a true understanding of music. After that, Chen Kai didn't say anything, he promised to try his best to help, but Wan Fang knew that Chen Kai couldn't help him.

Every time the reed passed by the window of the hut, the various dresses he wore seemed to be shortened a little, and the skin on his body seemed to be like a spring silkworm burrowing out of the mulberry leaves.

On this day, Chen Kai and Wan Fang stared at the picturesque arms and legs of the reed in front of the window, and Chen Kai suddenly said: "If you don't restrain yourself, there will be a big problem." ”

Wan Fang played the harmonica until there was no stipulated time, and then he made time to reply: "You think that after a few days as a parallel trade policeman, you can treat everyone as a suspect!" ”

Chen Kai was about to explain, when Stationmaster Ma came in from outside the door. Stationmaster Ma told Wanfang that the cleaners in this residential community said goodbye like Chen Datou, so they wanted to send a new person to fill it. Wan Fang was about to agree, Chen Kai reminded him, saying that cleaning in the community is much harder than sweeping the street, and the endless gray road is always blocked, and you have to get into it and poke it when you block it, and it will not be clean for a while after taking a hundred baths a day. Wan Fang ignored Chen Kai and told the stationmaster that he was willing to do it. Stationmaster Ma was very happy and promised to give an extra ten yuan a month to Wanfang. Chen Kai snorted on the side and said that it should be Wanfang who gave the stationmaster Ma a bonus, because the stationmaster Ma helped Wanfang a lot.

Wanfang didn't go to work that night, he walked around the community, and for the first time found a small flower garden behind several high-rise buildings, and the few flowers bloomed beautifully in the night. For more than half a year, Wan Fang was used to doing things in the middle of the night, and he couldn't sleep as soon as he changed it, and he estimated that Lu Wei was going to come back from work, so he got up and walked to the dark place on the side of the street and waited quietly.

There was no spring on the streets, and the holly plants were still as heavy as ever. Red taxis wander listlessly in neon colors, all in groups. It was only when the wind blew through that night that I felt a sense of comfort.

Wan Fang stood in the shadows of the city for nearly an hour before he saw a white BMW sedan carrying a girl pull up on the side of the road opposite. It was the reeds that came out of the car. Reed crossed the road and walked towards Wanfang, taking off all kinds of ornaments on her body as she went, stuffing them into Xiao Xiaokun's bag, and finally she took out a paper towel to wipe off the blood-red lipstick. The reed turned two feet away from Wanfang and disappeared behind the corner. Wanfang came out of the darkness after being sure that there was no one around. He picked up the paper towel that the reed had thrown on the ground, smelled and looked at it, and fiddled with it alone for a long time. Wan Fang reluctantly threw the paper towel back to the ground, squinting his eyes and looking at the city again and again.

The next morning, before Wan Fang got up, Aunt He came to invite him.

Aunt He said a word of welcome with a smile on her face, and then told him that May Day is coming, and the sanitation of the community must be done in the first place, especially the ten blocked gray roads, which must be dredged today, otherwise the garbage flying in the sky will be more difficult to clean.

Wan Fang didn't say a word, washed his face indiscriminately, bought a few baked cakes on the street, and ate them while walking. When I arrived at the sanitation station, the gate was not opened. After waiting for nearly 20 minutes, the accountant came to open the door, and Wan Fang received the garbage truck and a set of tools.

In the past, Wanfang had also heard about the hard work of digging out the ashes, and after I really did it, I realized that this was not adulterated at all. After a gray road was finally removed, the phlegm that came out of the mouth turned into cement slurry. When the ten gray paths were cleared, Wanfang found that the breath he exhaled was like the dust and mist rolling behind the car. Aunt He saw that he hadn't been panting all day, so she asked him with concern if he was tired, and took out a few pears from home for him to eat, and said that eating pears could moisten his lungs. Wan Fang said that he had nothing to do in front of Aunt He, and only after returning to the hut did he tell Chen Kai the truth: he felt that what was flowing in his veins was not blood, but water in the sewer.

Chen Kai pulled Wan Fang's hand and wanted to take him to the bath.

Wan Fang thought he was going to a bathhouse, but he didn't know that Chen Kai took him to a sauna center. Wan Fang was timid when he saw the bewitching light, but he couldn't resist Chen Kai's pull. After Chen Kai said something to the lady at the main station, he dragged Wanfang inside. Wanfang took a sauna for the first time, and learned everything from Chen Kai. After taking a steam bath, taking a shower, and rubbing his back, Chen Kai asked Wanfang if he wanted a massage. When Wan Fang heard that he was accompanied by a young lady and could do whatever he wanted while lying in a small room, he immediately widened his eyes and resolutely declined. Chen Kai persuaded him that it was appropriate to massage it at this time, and it could also relieve his unrequited love for the reeds. Wan Fang became angry and said that the mention of reeds in such a place was a blasphemy against her.

After Wan Fang returned to the hut alone, he played the harmonica sullenly.

Chen Kai didn't come back until late, and that kind of satisfied look made Wanfang so uncomfortable that he didn't sleep all night. As soon as the morning dawned, he woke up Chen Kai, and then kicked him a few times in the bed, saying that he didn't expect him to corrupt so quickly, and he didn't worry about anything else, only worried that he would bring venereal diseases into this hut. Chen Kai told Wanfang in a daze that it wasn't until last night that he felt completely accepted by the city. Wan Fang got up and rushed out with a slam of the door.

Under the few trees in the community, some elderly people were practicing qigong, and when Wanfang dragged garbage trucks full of garbage past, the old people frowned.

Because he got up early and was busy until just after twelve o'clock, Wanfang finished all the work that should be done. After lunch, Wan Fang took out the money he had saved for half a year, ran to Hanzheng Street, and bought a suit that was already luxurious enough in his opinion. He couldn't wait to put his suit on his body, and then he walked around the neighborhood. Wan Fang never knew whose daughter Lu Wei was, nor which unit and which floor she lived in. He looked over and over every window, every balcony, looking for the familiar figure. When he couldn't find anyone, he began to target his search on the dresses. It was almost six o'clock, and Wanfang still found nothing. Afraid of missing the opportunity to see the reeds in the window, he hurried back to the hut.

Wanfang worked for three days. Before the results were detected, Aunt He went to him to raise his opinion. Those opinions were put forward by the old people, and the good air used to exercise every morning was all destroyed by Wanfang. Wan Fang agreed, but in his heart he thought that he must do it until he found the reeds.

Wanfang only rested for one morning, and by the fifth day he was still the same.

The sun was warm in the afternoon, and there was a passion surging in Wanfang. When he walked near the small flower garden, Wan Fang was afraid of meeting Aunt He who lived upstairs next to him, so he lowered his head and walked forward quickly. At that moment, there was a loud bang overhead, followed by a girl's exclamation. When Wan Fang looked up, a very familiar dress was falling from the sky. Wan Fang hurriedly stretched out his hand to catch it. Above his head, Reed was standing on the balcony with a stack of sun-dried clothes, leaning over and looking down.

Wan Fang waved the clothes in his hand, turned his head and went into the doorway.

By the time he reached the fifth floor, the reed had opened the door. She took the dress and said thank you, then quickly closed the door. Wan Fang stood outside the door for a moment, then took out his organ and blew it gently. He only played half a tune, and the door reopened.

Standing behind the door, Reed said suspiciously, "You are the one who sends me off with music in the hut every day?" ”

Wan Fang put down the harmonica and said, "I know that only you can understand." ”

Lu Wei invited Wan Fang into the house, saying that she had never believed that a person who played the harmonica so well could be a migrant farmer. Wan Fang glanced at his clothes, and didn't know what to say for a while. After Lu Wei asked Wanfang to sit down, the two couldn't find a topic. It was Wan Fang who spoke first, and he asked where Lu Wei worked, and why he always went out to work when it was dark all year round. Reed smiled and didn't answer. Wan Fang still asked, but Reed asked her to play a few more beautiful tunes.

After Wanfang thought about it, as soon as he blew out the melody of "Holding Hands", Reed waved her hand again and again and said that she didn't want to listen to this, she wanted to listen to what was not available in this city. Wan Fang was stunned for a long time before he remembered a few popular folk songs in the mountains. Wan Fang was in a very good mood when he played these folk songs, because many interesting things from his youth came to his mind at the same time. He didn't expect the reed to burst into tears. But it's true. The reed was just a stone's throw away, covering his face with his hands, tears streaming down his fingers. Wan Fang was about to stop, but Reed seemed to realize it and opened his mouth to call: "Don't! Wanfang continued to play the harmonica until he dedicated all the folk songs he could remember to the reeds. When he finally put down the harmonica, the reed was on his knees and weeping. Wan Fang wanted to stroke the fragrant black hair, but his hands were raised but he didn't dare to put it down.

Reed raised his head and stared at him and said, "I'm tired of listening to all the music, and this is the only one that belongs to me." ”

Then he said, "From the age of seventeen to now, five whole years, I have these things left, and it was given to me by you." ”

Reed's head kept looking up, and Wanfang could clearly see her lips quivering with thirst. He put down his harmonica and slammed his lips down. The reed didn't dodge, Wanfang felt her body hot, and at the same time felt his blood boiling, he put the reed down on the sofa as soon as he got over, and then went to unbutton her clothes. The reed shouted out to him don't don't, but the hand that stopped him had no strength at all. When Reed was lying naked on the sofa, Wanfang's hands and feet became busy, and he couldn't unbutton his clothes.

Wan Fang finally unbuttoned it, and threw himself towards the reeds without taking it off, and at this moment, the door was suddenly opened.

After standing at the door and stunned for a few seconds, Aunt He pounced and screamed in her mouth, saying that Wanfang was a big villain and had bullied her daughter. Reed pushed away the frightened Wanfang, rushed into the bedroom with his clothes, and cried loudly.

Wan Fang was a little sober, and he muttered to himself repeatedly, saying how could she be Aunt He's daughter. Aunt He kept slapping Wanfang in the face, viciously dragging Wanfang to the police station and asking the court to sentence him to 20 years in prison.

Outside, there was a chaotic sound of footsteps on the stairs, and six or seven men and women rushed into the house one by one, asking what was wrong. Aunt He was about to speak, but suddenly stopped. Someone asked her how she could easily let a peasant rolling in a garbage heap into the house.

Aunt He said unexpectedly: "I just lost my temper for this, and when he saw that I gave a good face, he forced himself into the house, saying that he wanted to help him do anything." ”

When Aunt He turned around to leave, her voice was very calm, and the crying of the reeds in the bedroom had long been inaudible. Before Wan Fang went out, there was a sound of babbling behind him.

Wanfang stayed in the hut until dusk. As soon as Chen Kai entered the door, he asked, it's six o'clock, why don't you play the harmonica. Wan Fang subconsciously touched his pocket, only to remember that the harmonica had fallen into the reed's house. Chen Kai asked him whose house he went to in the afternoon, which made some people in the community panic. Wan Fang asked him what he had heard. Chen Kai said that it was nothing, but he found that the people in the entire community were particularly disgusted with Wanfang. Chen Kai asked a few times, Wan Fang was upset, and opened the door and walked out alone.

Halfway through, Wan Fang remembered that he had to discuss this matter with Wan You, just in case Aunt He really reported to the police station, there was a way to deal with it. He wasn't sure if he got off work, and if he got off work, he couldn't find it, so he could only go to the company to try his luck. This time it was a familiar road, and Wanfang quickly found Wanyou's office. He heard movement inside, knocked on the door, and without waiting for an internal response, he broke in with a twist of the lock. But he quickly jumped back out the door like a snake and fled downstairs. Ten minutes later, the female boss he had seen, Mr. Li, came out of the building with an unhappy face, got into a white BMW sedan, and walked away. Then all things also appeared. When Wan Fang came up, he was kicked hard by Wan You. Wan Fang couldn't care about the pain, and asked Wan You how he could fool around with a woman who was about to get old. Wan You said angrily, if not, can I have today? Wan You asked him what was the matter, and Wan Fang told him about the afternoon from beginning to end. If you don't want to think about it, you can say that no matter what, it is better to go to the police station first and turn yourself in.

As soon as he thought of the police station, Wan Fang didn't have a score in his heart, he walked to the door that seemed to be very strict, and then retreated, and found a public phone to pager Chen Kai. After Chen Kai arrived, Wan Fang said the original words to Wan You again. Chen Kai immediately stopped him and asked him not to do anything, this surrender, the troubles in the future will continue, and any cases in the future will be suspected of being done by him. Chen Kai said that because he was a good friend and sympathetic to the same disease, he told the truth. Wanfang didn't listen to persuasion, he had to ask Chen Kai to lead him in, no matter what, after explaining clearly, he would be more sure-footed. Chen Kai had no choice but to remind Wanfang not to blame him if he regretted it in the future.

Chen Kai is very familiar with the people at the police station, and entering and exiting the gate is like entering the hut where they live, and after recording Wanfang's confession, Xiao Hu on duty put a question mark behind the words "attempted rape". Xiao Hu asked Wan Fang not to leave first, and Chen Kai had to stay with him. Xiao Hu rode a motorcycle to Aunt He's house and walked around, and returned in less than ten minutes, opening his mouth to blame Chen Kai for making some jokes, and Aunt He and Lu Wei both denied it. Xiao Hu tore off the transcript and smashed it into a ball and smashed it at Wan Fang and Chen Kai, and said sarcastically that when he was studying at the police academy in this situation, he listened to the analysis of the psychology teacher that some peasants who had not been in the city long ago could not excrete in the face of temptation, so they would have a depressed mentality, thinking about the girl in the city, and they were very inferior in behavior, and eventually they would have hysterical thoughts, thinking that they had raped someone. Xiaohu also said that Aunt He personally said that it is absolutely impossible for a person like Wan Fang to touch her daughter's finger.

Wan Fang returned to the hut and stayed alone for two days and two nights without coming out.

On the morning of the third day, Wanyou suddenly came. Wan You was fired by his boss because the relationship between them was broken by Wan Fang, and this is intolerable. However, the boss gave Wan You a settlement fee that was not a small amount. Wan Fang didn't say sorry, but said that the sooner such an ending came, the better. Wan You replaced Wan Fang to clean up the garbage in the community for a day, and he wore the suit and leather shoes when he was an assistant, which caused people in the community to quietly talk about his origins. When I returned to the hut at the end of the shift, I was happy, saying that I would just do it for a month, and then go to other developments.

At six o'clock, Wan You suddenly pointed to the reeds outside the window and told Wan Fang that it was a "chicken". Wan Fang was a little dumbfounded. Wan You said that he had contracted for a month and spent 8,000 yuan, but it was all expenses on the company's accounts. Wan You wanted to go out and call Reed in to play, but Wan Fang hurriedly stopped him and told Wan You what happened that day. Wan You heard Wan Fang say that the crying of the reed was a kind of sadness and helplessness to the extreme, and there was also a gloom in his expression.

At this time, the little boy "Prince of Denmark" appeared at the door of the hut, and he handed a small bag to Wan Fang, saying that it was entrusted by Sister Reed. Wan Fang opened the paper bag: a white handkerchief wrapped around the lost harmonica.

Wan Fang picked up the harmonica and was about to blow it, when he suddenly found a semi-arc lipstick mark on it. Wan You said on the side, if only there was a violin. Chen Kai listened and volunteered to say that he saw that the college student who wrote the script living in the stairwell of the next unit had a violin, and he could borrow it.

Chen Kai really borrowed the violin, and said that he saw a manuscript of a script on the table, entitled "Music Cabin".

Wanyou feels that this title is particularly evocative. He quickly adjusted a few strings, and with a wave of his bow, he played in unison with Wanfang's harmonica. Chen Kai had nothing to do, only tapping his fingers on the table and beating the beat.

When the city is big and expands, it has everything. Some people say that the city is ours, not yours. You are all pouring into the city, and whoever will farm will produce food. However, if a large knife of this length and width had sliced the city into a hundred pieces like a cake, would each of these hundredths be like an inconspicuous country town! Whether it's the north wind, neon, or spring, only the melody in my heart can never be broken!

These are all things that Chen Kai thought of half-heartedly.

Aunt Eighteen didn't look up, she searched the ground. Only half of the roof beams remained, revealing the blurred shadow of hemp rope. The hemp rope has been burned into many knots. By the half-light and half-dark moonlight, the eighteenth aunt carefully connected them one by one. As she had finished the eighteenth knot, there was a sudden tremor on the ground, and a loud sound rang out.

- "Women's War"

When the man charges on the battlefield,

What can women do?

When the country is ruined and the wind and rain are in turmoil,

Can they not lose their faith?

War is a man's war, but also a woman's war,

For they have lost more than their country,

There is also the family and lover who accommodates all their affectionate feelings.

When disaster really comes,

They are not crying and complaining,

but with a weak shoulder, he carried the burden of the family,

It also supported the great righteousness of the nation.

Whether it is the eighteenth aunt who has lost her beloved son,

or the ninth sister who witnessed the tragic death of her husband on the wedding day,

all have tough muscles and bones under the gentle skin,

and a strong faith through a long period of time.

They used bloody resistance to complete their dedication to the nation, their family and country,

It also completed the most painful metamorphosis of a woman.

Zhao is the same