Chapter 16: The Other Side of Wasabi

Everyone will have a little secret, and so is mustard.

The reason why a thing becomes a secret is that it must have a side that it doesn't want to be known, the secret of mustard is not aimed at too many people, but only for Lan Zi as a secret and established, of course, the vast majority of students in the school today will not know these things, in everyone's eyes, this female classmate named Guo Zili is beautiful and pure, often laughs, and has a good temper, compared to her sister Guo Ying's kind of temperament that although admirable but always gives people a sense of oppression, people can't help but feel ashamed of themselves. She is like the most ordinary little jasper, if she gets close, she will gradually be infected and cheerful. So except for a few people, few people know that she actually has a particularly strong side.

When I was in junior high school, I used to mix in clubs.

Of course, it is not appropriate to use a foreign term such as association in Chinese mainland, but if it is said to be a triad, the degree is also a bit excessive. When she was in junior high school, she was extremely delicate at first, and she once had the experience of stabbing five thugs to the ground with a knife, and if you talk about the cause of the incident, it has to be attributed to Guo Ying.

Wasabi was brought to the parents' house today when they were still in elementary school, and it didn't take long for Guo Ying to become familiar and inseparable good sisters, at that time, as a transfer student in primary school and a child from other places who couldn't speak dialects, it was a matter of course that Wasabi, who grew up in an orphanage, would be bullied. At that time, Guo Ying had always been a particularly strong little girl because of her special talent, and her family had a police background, and her father often trained her as a boy and sent her to exercise or something. In order to protect this sister, Guo Ying, who is smart, precocious, and agile, first chose to train her as well.

The mustard who just arrived here is thin and small, but when it comes to physical fitness, it is much better than children of the same age, under Guo Ying's pure ravaging exercise method at that time, although the little girl is simply knocked over every time, but she never cries or makes trouble, and she grits her teeth and gets up every time. Because her starting point was too high, although Guo Ying at that time was often distressed by the fact that this sister had been training for so long and "making slow progress", she still had to nod in the end, at least admitting that she had one benefit, that is, at least she could be a little sandbag that could never be broken.

However, despite enduring this abnormal training for a long time, the results of the training have never been tested. The child bullies a female classmate from other places, it can't be called to the school playground to go to the form of heads-up, at most occasionally tugging at the braids and snatching her eraser, and when the training is almost completed, Wasabi is already familiar with the situation here, and successfully dissolves into the classmates, and no one bullies her anymore.

When I entered junior high school, Wasabi followed my sister and had all kinds of small interests, using plastic straws to make beautiful knitted products, all kinds of small handicrafts, and even carving various gadgets and making silver jewelry from stone. Most of these interests are guided by my sister. Guo Ying has a smart brain, she learns everything quickly, and she doesn't bother to care about it when she learns, and she has a new interest in a short time, and Wasabi can only follow her sister and chase desperately. When he was about in the second year of junior high school, Wasabi found a strange market in Pujiang City and began to set up a stall to sell some small handicrafts made by himself and his sister.

On the riverside of the Pujiang River in this market, one end of the pontoon bridge has gradually formed a scale, basically there are people who sell strange things, one-third are selling old books, one-third are reselling antiques collected from all over the world, and the other one-third is scattered ornaments like mustard, strange gadgets, selling stones, birds, and second-hand small electrical appliances, and there are often all kinds of performances near a small square, playing erhu, writing calligraphy, painting with hands, playing lame magic, telling jokes, Some music lovers often sing here for free, and some even dance hip-hop.

It is such a market that can almost be said to have everything, the little mustard is okay on the weekend, so he came to the square with a canvas bag to set up a stall, the sisters are not short of money to spend, Guo Ying is too lazy to do this kind of thing, even if he comes to play occasionally, he will run away after standing for a while, but in any case, relatively many gadgets are interested in doing it, and throwing it away when he does it, and being able to sell it in this market can undoubtedly give people a greater sense of achievement, and it can also make people continue to be interested in these small handicrafts.

However, the market looks interesting and free, but naturally there are some bad things that will happen, except for the occasional industrial and commercial department to collect a small tax, and some small organizations composed of gangsters also come to collect money, some people in this small square are here to do business, and some people are just for interest, so uncoordinated things often happen, quarrels, disputes, fights and the like, for example, some musicians, are also relatively rebellious young people in these years, and they are also charged protection money for engaging in art, and they are not fuel-efficient lamps, When someone was called, they fought in a group, and when such a thing happened, Little Wasabi had to quickly pack up his things, turn around and run away with a large package on his back.

Then one day, it was the manager of a nearby children's home who came to do a charity sale with the handicrafts made by the children, and the mustard felt kind when he saw the patch dolls made of rags, but the stalls were far apart, and it was not easy to talk to them for a while, she looked at them for an afternoon, and those patch dolls could not be sold a few, and there was probably no profit, and then there were five gangsters to collect what sanitation fees, and the manager quarreled, and then, a gangster threw the two dolls to the ground, as a threat, for a while, Mustard remembered Sister Xiuzhen, who is now deceased, and Lan Zi, who can no longer be contacted.

Be a man of integrity.

Lan Zi often says this, but he is not a pure bad person, many unfair things, he just watches, but if his friends are bullied, Lan Zi will stand up every time, in the original school, Lan Zi fought with the "bad students" in the school several times because of this matter, and every time he was blue and swollen, he would never give in. Thinking of this, Wasabi felt sad, and then, decided to go over and help.

She was just a little girl in her second year of junior high school, and those gangsters were all in their early twenties, so what was the use of simply talking in the past. Of course, she is not so naïve, thinking that she can be persuaded by "being justified" in the past. Similar to how to deal with being bullied, Guo Ying has long been taught in detail, if the other party is too powerful, one is to turn around and run, if you can't run, you can only find a way to increase your advantage, a gun is a good thing, once you have a gun in your hand, then the fight has nothing to do with age, but since there is no gun...... The little girl copied a 30-centimeter-long watermelon knife from a nearby stall, walked over to it with a tiger face in full view of everyone, and decided to "reason" first......

She felt that she was at least a little confident in holding a knife, which was also the teaching of her sister Guo Ying, but although the other party was taken aback, she didn't take her seriously, of course, she wouldn't give in, and she didn't even put out the attitude of talking......

This is the first shot of mustard, because her sister taught her that she must not hesitate in a weak situation, she didn't dare to keep her hand or anything, and these five gangsters were directly stunned from the first knife really cut, and they were all cut to the ground after a while, and the matter was big, and mustard was scared enough that time, but because of the relationship between Guo Ying's father, the five gangsters could only suffer a dumb loss, and then they fought several times one after another, Guo Ying also helped her sister to make a move, which was the beginning of her "chivalrous righteousness", Because Guo Ying's father also took advantage of the situation to crack down, not long after, mustard became the "big sister" in the mouths of some young boys and girls, like a gang, and on this side of the small square, no one dared to collect any protection money.

After the Hong Kong incident, Wasabi came here to sell things less often, mainly because Guo Ying had a more enthusiastic hobby and no longer did those boring little crafts, and she was also a little absent-minded for the whole year because she was separated because of goodbye to Lan Zi. When she reunites with Lan Zi, she has always shown a very cute and well-behaved side, just like the distance between Lan Zi and her, she and Lan Zi have been separated for many years, she doesn't know how Lan Zi has lived these years, everyone has their own life trajectory, it always takes time to get along as close as when she was a child, and she doesn't know if she should talk to Lan Zi directly about these things.

She was reluctant to tell Lan Zi about her fight.

The reason is actually complicated, now in retrospect, when she was a child, she always ran behind Lan Zi, but she was thin and small, but her personality was quite stubborn, and occasionally the two sides had disagreements, and she was unwilling to give in, so she used a fight to solve it, just like that time she ran to steal moon cakes. I don't know why, I can't beat it every time, but I do everything I can to scratch and bite, once I finish fighting, I cry over there when I lose, but there is no injury on my body, Lan Zi looks proud, but he is often made like a flower-faced cat, it is common to break the skin and bleed and even be bitten several times, and now that he thinks about it, it is natural that he will not bully himself too much.

If she said to Lan Zi now, "Brother Azi, you can't beat me." This is true, but she will always feel weird, just like when she went to the night market with Lan Zi before, and met a thief who escaped with a knife, she could directly put the thief down, but when she saw Lan Zi sneak attack from behind and knock the thief down, she felt that Brother Ah Zi was really brave.

My sister asked if she liked Brother Azi, whether she liked it in that sense, she couldn't tell, but now when she thinks of those things when she was a child, she still feels extremely sweet, she didn't feel anything sweet when she was a child, and her memory has only become precious now. Growing up so big, except for my sister, there is probably no one who can give me such a feeling of intimacy, but my sister's feeling is naturally different.

Some time ago, she was still worried about her sister's affairs, and recently her sister finally stated that she would not do too dangerous things again, although she is still injured, but she has finally put her mind at ease. With this mood in mind, she began to think about how to get back to the feeling of being a child with Brother Ah Zi more quickly, and on the afternoon of April 18, she accidentally saw Lan Zi in the crowd in the small square.

She hadn't come here for a few days to set up her stall, but this time she came because everyone volunteered to help the orphanage organize a charity sale, a familiar small orchestra helped to play for free to attract the crowd, and some familiar people helped perform magic tricks or other small programs, mainly to sell the toys and souvenirs made by the children, she also took out some of her own handmade products and put them in the middle, and promised to go up to the temporary small stage to dance.

When she found Lan Zi, she was dancing with music on the stage with a slightly different outfit from her usual days, a white velvet round hat, a ponytail on weekdays that was black and straight at this time, like a waterfall down, lining the melon seed face with a mature and cold face, a velvet jacket with black and white stripes, a white jacket with a white OL skirt, stockings, boots, and two folding fans painted with ink rhyme landscapes in her hands. The sound of paper when the folding fan opens and closes and the rapid but methodical tapping sound under her feet are just the time when the audience's emotions are brought to a climax, and in the crowd of people, Lan Zi, who is holding a few old books, probably took a long time to recognize her, with her mouth slightly open, looking a little stunned.

Dance is learned with my sister, my sister dances the best, the cold and arrogant but bright feeling is the most attractive, when the two of them are together, she often plays the role of a foil of the green leaves, but her sister is not there, she imitates her sister's style in the performance. I don't know why, seeing Lan Zi's somewhat surprised expression in the audience, Wasabi became slightly ashamed......