Chapter 17 Chapter Seventeen

At that time, Baldy Li and Song Gang were sleeping at home, dreaming of Li Lan's happy scene after returning home.It was already noon when they woke up, and they were very happy. Although Song Fanping said that he would not arrive home until the sun went down, the two children couldn't wait any longer. They walked to the station at noon, where they were going to wait for Song Fanping and Li Lan's car drove into the station.After the two children walked out of the house, imitating Song Fanping's look, they put their left hands in their trouser pockets and let their right hands swing, trying to make themselves out of the heroes in the movies. They deliberately staggered and walked out. The appearance of traitors and spies in the movie.

When Baldy Li and Song Gang got off the bridge, they saw Song Fanping. A bloody man was lying on the open space in front of the station. The children also walked past him without recognizing him.Song Fanping was lying there, with one arm pressed under his body and the other bent; one leg was stretched out, and the other shrank tiredly.Flies were buzzing and hovering over him, his face, his hands and feet, all the bloody spots on his body were covered with flies.The two children were frightened and disgusted when they saw it. Song Gang asked a man wearing a straw hat: "Who is he? Is he dead?"

The man shook his head, said he didn't know, walked under the tree, took off his straw hat and fanned himself.Baldy Li and Song Gang walked up the steps and walked into the waiting room.They felt that the poisonous summer sun was drying them out after only standing outside for a while.Two large ceiling fans were hung from the roof of the waiting room, spinning whirringly, and the people inside were also surrounded by the two ceiling fans, buzzing and talking like two bunches of flies.Baldy Li and Song Gang stood next to the two groups of people for a while, and the wind from the ceiling fan was gone when it reached them, and the windy places were occupied by these people.They went to the ticket window, tiptoed to look in, and saw a female conductor sitting there like an idiot. The voice startled her, who was in a daze, and after a closer look, she roared:

"Look at what?" Baldy Li and Song Gang quickly squatted down and left quietly, walking to the ticket gate.The iron gate of the ticket gate was half open, and the two children looked inside, but there was no car, only a ticket cutter with a teacup came towards them, and he also yelled: "What are you doing?" Baldy Li and Song Gang left the ticket gate as if they were running away, and then walked around the waiting room a few times in boredom.At this time, Wang Popsicle appeared at the gate with a small stool and a box of popsicles on his back. Wang Popsicle put the stool at the gate of the waiting room. popsicle, Wang Popsicle shouted:

"Sell popsicles! Popsicles are sold to class brothers and sisters..." The two children walked up to Wang Popsicle, swallowing their saliva and looking at him.Wang Popsicle was beating on the wooden block while watching Baldy Li and Song Gang vigilantly.At this moment, the two children saw Song Fanping on the ground outside again, lying there as before.Song Gang pointed to Song Fanping and asked Wang Popsicle: "Who is he?" Wang Popsicle glanced at the two children sideways, but did not answer. Song Gang continued to ask, "Is he dead?" At this time, Wang Popsicle said viciously: "If you have no money, get out, don't swallow your saliva here."

Baldy Li and Song Gang were taken aback, and ran down the steps of the station holding hands.They came under the hot summer sun again, and when they walked past Song Fanping, who was full of flies, Song Gang stopped suddenly. He screamed "ah", pointed to the beige sandals on Song Fanping's feet and said: "He's wearing daddy's sandals." Song Gang saw the red vest on Song Fanping's body again, and said, "He's still wearing Dad's vest." The two children didn't know what was going on, and stood there looking at each other.After a while, Baldy Li spoke. Baldy Li said that this was not Dad's vest, and that there should be a row of yellow words on Dad's vest.Song Gang nodded first, then shook his head, and said that the yellow characters were on his chest.The two children squatted down, flicked away the flies with their hands, and pulled the vest under Song Fanping's body. They tore out some yellow characters.Song Gang stood up and cried. He cried and asked Baldy Li:

"Could he be Dad?" Baldy Li couldn't help crying, and he cried, "I don't know." The two children stood there, crying and looking around, but no one came, so they squatted down again, and waved their hands to drive away the flies on Song Fanping's face, trying to see if it was Song Fanping.Song Fanping's face was covered in blood and mud, and they couldn't see clearly.They thought he looked a bit like Song Fanping, but they didn't know if it was him?They stood up and decided to ask someone else.They first walked under the tree, and there were two people standing there smoking. They pointed to Song Fanping and asked:

"Is he our father?" The two people smoking under the tree were taken aback for a moment, then shook their heads and said, "I don't know your father." The two children walked up the steps and walked up to Wang Popsicle. Song Gang wiped away his tears and asked him, "Is that our father lying outside?" Wang Popsicle hit the wooden block a few times, stared and said, "Go away!" Baldy Li said aggrievedly, "We didn't swallow our saliva." Wang Popsicle said: "Then get out of here too!" Baldy Li and Song Gang wept and walked into the waiting room hand in hand, and asked the two groups of people standing under the ceiling fan, "Does anyone know? Is that man outside our father?"

The sad words of the two children caused a burst of laughter. They said that there are such fools in the world who don't even know their own father and have to ask others.A person smiled and waved to the two children: "Hey, kid, come here." The two children walked up to the man, who lowered his head and asked them, "Do you know my dad?" The two children shook their heads, and he asked again: "Then who knows my father?" After thinking for a while, the two children said at the same time, "You yourself." "Let's go." The man waved his hand and said, "My father will recognize it himself."

The two children wept and walked out of the waiting room holding hands, walked down the steps, and walked to Song Fanping who was lying on the ground. Song Gang cried and said: "We know our father, but this man's face is covered with blood, we can't see clearly." The two children walked to the dim sum shop next to the bus station. Only Mama Su was wiping the table inside. They were a little scared and stood at the door and dared not go in. Song Gang whispered: "We want to ask you, but we are afraid that you will be angry..." Seeing two crying children standing at the door, Mama Su looked at the clothes on Baldy Li and Song Gang and said, "Aren't you here to beg for food?"

"No." Song Gang pointed at Song Fanping lying on the ground outside, "We want to ask you, is he our father?" Su's mother put down the rag in her hand, and she recognized Baldy Li. This little rascal once held a wooden telephone pole and rubbed it around, and claimed that his sexual desire had come up.Su Ma glared at Baldy Li, and then went to ask Song Gang: "What's your father's name?" Song Gang said, "His name is Song Fanping." The two children heard her yelling, as if they were yelling "Oh my God", "Oh my God", "Ancestor". After she was tired of yelling, she panted and said to Song Gang: "He's been lying there for a long time, I thought all his family members were dead..." The two children didn't know what she was talking about, Song Gang continued to ask her: "Is he our father?" Su Ma wiped the sweat from her forehead and said, "His name is Song Fanping." Song Gang immediately burst into tears. He cried out to Baldy Li, "I knew he was my father, so I cried as soon as I saw him..." Baldy Li also burst into tears, saying, "When I saw him, I cried too." The two children cried sharply that summer, and when they walked back to Song Fanping's body, their screams frightened the flies away.Song Gang knelt on the ground, and Baldy Li also knelt on the ground. They bent down and looked at Song Fanping carefully. The blood on Song Fanping's face was dried by the sun. Song Gang peeled off the blood one by one with his hands, and then he Finally seeing his father clearly, Song Gang turned around and held Baldy Li's hand and said: "He's dad." Baldy Li nodded and cried, "He's Dad..." The two children knelt on the muddy ground in front of the bus station and cried loudly. They opened their mouths towards the sky, and their cries flew towards the sky.Their cries fell down as if their wings had been broken, and they choked suddenly. They opened their mouths for a long time without making a sound, and their throats were blocked by tears and snot. The cry broke out sharply again, and roared in the sky again.The two children cried together, pushed Song Fanping together, and shouted together: "Dad, Dad, Dad..." Song Fanping didn't respond at all, the two children didn't know what to do?Baldy Li cried and said to Song Gang, "He was fine at dawn, why is he deaf and dumb now?" Song Gang saw many people surrounding him, so he yelled at them, "Please save my father!" The two children burst into tears and snot. Song Gang wiped a handful of snot and threw it on the trousers of a bystander. The man grabbed Song Gang's sweater and cursed.At this moment, Baldy Li also shook his snot, which accidentally fell on his sandals, and the man grabbed Baldy Li's hair again.He grabbed the two children one by one, pushed them down, and asked the two children to use their sweaters to wipe him clean.Li Guangtou and Song Gang cried and wiped the snot on his pants and sandals with their hands, but more snot and tears fell on his pants and sandals. The man was furious at first, and then he couldn't laugh or cry. He said: "Don't wipe it! Damn it, don't wipe it!" Baldy Li and Song Gang hugged one of his legs, and the other grabbed his trousers. The two children seemed to hold on to life-saving straws and did not let go.The man stepped back, and they crawled forward on their knees. Baldy Li and Song Gang cried and begged him: "Save Dad! Please, save Dad!" The man pushed them with his hands and shook them with his feet, but they still clung to him.He dragged the two children more than ten meters away, but they still did not let go, still crying and begging him.The man was panting from exhaustion, stood there wiping his sweat, and said to the onlookers dumbfoundingly: "Look, look, my pants, my sandals, my stockings... what the hell is this called?" Su Ma, the proprietress of the pastry shop, also came over. She stood in front of the crowd, her eyes were reddened by the tragic cries of the two children, and she said to the man: "He is a child..." The man was furious when he heard this, and he said, "What child? These are two fucking little Hades." "As long as you can," Su's mother said, "help these two little Hades collect the corpses." "What?" the man yelled, "You want me to carry this dirty, smelly corpse away?" Su's mother wiped her eyes and said, "I didn't ask you to carry the dead body. My family has a scooter and I will lend it to you." Su Ma said as she walked back to the dim sum shop, and pushed the cart over after a while.She begged the onlookers on behalf of the two children, asking them to help lift Song Fanping onto the cart.Some of the onlookers walked away, and some backed away.Su's mother was not happy, she pointed at them and said: "You, you, you, and you..." Su Ma said pointing at Song Fanping who was lying on the ground: "It doesn't matter if this person is good or bad, he will have to deal with it when he dies. We can't let him lie down like this forever." Finally, four people came out. They squatted down, grabbed Song Fanping's hands and feet at the same time, shouted one, two, three, and when they shouted three, they lifted Song Fanping up. After exerting all his strength, his face turned red from holding back, and they said that the dead man was heavy and heavy like an elephant.They carried Song Fanping to the cart, shouted one, two, three, and threw Song Fanping into the cart at three.When Song Fanping's tall body was thrown into the cart, the cart creaked and shook.The four people clapped their hands together, and one of them put his hand up to his nose to smell it, and said to Mama Su: "We're going to your store to wash our hands." "Go." Su Ma nodded, turned around and said to the man who was held tightly by Baldy Li and Song Gang, "Please do me a favor and take the dead man away." The man looked down at Li Guangtou and Song Gang who were kneeling on the ground and tightly hugging his legs, and said with a wry smile, "I have no choice but to drag the dead away." Then the man yelled at Baldy Li and Song Gang, "Let the fuck go!" Baldy Li and Song Gang let go of their hands at this moment. They stood up from the ground and followed the man to the cart. The man pulled up the cart and yelled at Baldy Li and Song Gang again: "Say! Where is home?" Song Gang shook his head vigorously, and begged, "Go to the hospital." "Damn it." The man threw down the cart and said, "Everyone is dead, why don't they go to the hospital." Song Gang didn't believe it, he turned around and asked Su's mother, "Is my father dead?" Su Ma nodded and said, "He's dead, go home, poor child." This time Song Gang didn't look up and cry loudly. He lowered his head and wept, and Baldy Li also lowered his head and wept. They heard Mama Su say to the man who pulled the cart: "You will be rewarded." The man pulled up the cart and walked forward, cursing as he walked: "What a fart for being kind, eighteen generations of ancestors have followed me." That afternoon, Baldy Li and Song Gang held hands and wept as they walked home, with a bloody Song Fanping in the back of the cart.The two children cried heartbroken and staggered as they walked. They would suddenly choke while crying, and after a while they exploded like a grenade with a wow.The shrill cries of the two children overwhelmed the revolutionary songs and slogans on the street, and those marchers and those wandering around surrounded the board that was pulled past just like the flies around Song Fanping just now. The car, "buzzing" said and "coaxed" asked, surrounded the cart and walked forward.The man pulling the cart scolded Baldy Li and Song Gang from behind: "Don't cry! Damn you summoned the whole city, everyone in the city saw me pull a dead man..." Many people came over and asked who was the dead man lying in the cart?Forty or fifty people asked the scooter puller, which made him furious.At the beginning, he also told them: Song Fanping, the dead man in the cart, was a middle school teacher.After more and more people inquired, he didn't bother to explain. He asked them to open their eyes and see, and he said that whoever kept crying was the dead of that family.Later, he felt that talking like this was still too tiring. When others asked him again, he simply said: "have no idea." That person was sweating profusely when he was pulling the scooter in the summer. What he was pulling was a scooter with a dead person lying on it, and he had to deal with so many people's questions dryly. He was already furious. At this time, a person who knew him crowded up and asked: "Hey, who died in your family?" The person pulling the scooter exploded, and he yelled at the person: "Your family is dead!" The person who asked the question was taken aback, and he asked, "What did you say?" The person pulling the cart shouted again: "Your family is dead!" The face of the questioner was livid, and without saying a word, he quickly took off his sweatshirt, revealing all his muscles, then raised his right hand, raised his index finger, pointed at the person pulling the scooter and said: "Damn it, say it again, if you dare to say it again, I will make you lie down on the cart..." After finishing speaking, the man proudly added: "I want to turn this scooter into a double bed..." The person pulling the cart dropped the cart in his hand and said with a sneer, "It has become a double bed, and it is also your double bed!" After the man pulling the scooter finished speaking, he took two steps up and shouted in the man's face, "Listen to the fuck, everyone in your family is dead!" The man swung his fist and hit the corner of the cart's mouth. The cart puller staggered and his body was crooked. When he just stood still, the man kicked him to the ground, and then He jumped on him and punched him in the face one, two, three, four, five. At that time, Baldy Li and Song Gang were still crying and walking forward. They turned their heads and saw that the person pulling the cart had been pinned to the ground by that man, and had already been beaten dizzily by that man's fist.Song Gang rushed forward, and Baldy Li also rushed forward. The two children bit the man's legs and shoulders like two wild dogs. It was a punch, and finally threw the two children apart.As soon as he stood up, the two children jumped on him again. Song Gang bit his arm, and Li Baldy bit his waist. They bit his clothes and his flesh.He pulled their hair, beat their faces, they hugged him tightly and did not let go, their mouths bit all over his body, biting this man as strong as Song Fanping until he screamed like a slaughtered pig .In the end, the person pulling the cart got up from the ground, walked over and pulled Baldy Li and Song Gang away, and the cart puller said: "Okay, don't bite." Baldy Li and Song Gang let go of their hands and mouth. The man was covered in blood. He was stunned by the sudden attack of the two children. When they started on the road again, they saw him standing there in a daze like a fool. They continued to walk forward. Li Guangtou and Song Gang were covered with scars, and the face of the person pulling the cart was also covered in blood.On the road that followed, there were still many people surrounding them. The two children did not dare to cry anymore, and the cart driver stopped talking.While the two children were walking, they turned their heads to look carefully at the man pulling the scooter. Seeing his sweat dripping from the blood on his face, Song Gang took off his undershirt He handed it over his head and said to him: "Uncle, wipe off your sweat." The man pulling the scooter shook his head and said, "No need." Song Gang walked for a while with his undershirt, then turned around and said, "Uncle, are you thirsty?" The cart driver kept his head down and walked forward without speaking.Song Gang said again: "Uncle, I have money, so I'll buy you a popsicle." The cart driver shook his head again, and said, "No, I'll quench my thirst by swallowing my saliva." They walked home silently.Originally Baldy Li and Song Gang had stopped crying, but Song Gang kept turning his head to curry favor with the cart puller, and he kept seeing his dead father, so he started crying again, and his crying was contagious. To Baldy Li.The two children did not dare to cry aloud. They were afraid that the person pulling the scooter would scold them. They covered their mouths and whimpered. As he spoke, his voice suddenly softened, and he said: "Don't cry, you cry sore my nose." In the end, more than a dozen people followed them all the way to the door of the house. These people stood there with their arms folded. The man pulling the scooter looked at them and asked if they could help lift Song Fanping up, but none of them said a word.The person pulling the cart stopped talking to them. He asked Baldy Li and Song Gang to help him, and asked the two children to hold down the handlebar of the cart so that the cart wouldn't tilt up.Then he put his hands into Song Fanping's armpits, picked up Song Fanping and dragged him off the cart, then dragged Song Fanping into the house and onto the bed in the back room.He was half a head shorter than Song Fanping, and he was dragging Song Fanping like he was dragging a big tree, his head was tilted from exhaustion, and his lungs were whistling like a bellows.After he dragged Song Fanping to the bed in the back room, he walked out and sat on the stool for a long time, panting with his head tilted. Baldy Li and Song Gang stood aside, not daring to speak. The people watching outside the door asked Baldy Li and Song Gang: "Who else is in the family?" The two children said that there was still a mother, and that their mother was coming back from Shanghai soon.He nodded, so he was relieved.He beckoned to the two children and let them come to him. He patted the shoulders of the two children and asked them: "You know Red Flag Lane, right?" The two children nodded and said yes, and he continued: "I live at the entrance of the alley. My surname is Tao, and my name is Tao Qing. If you have anything to do, come to the entrance of Hongqi Alley to find me." As he spoke, he stood up and walked outside the door. The onlookers immediately moved away, they were afraid that their bodies would touch the man who had just hugged the dead man.Song Gang and Baldy Li also followed outside the door. When he pulled up the cart, Song Gang imitated what Su Ma said: "You will be rewarded." He nodded and walked away with the cart. Baldy Li and Song Gang raised their left hands to wipe their eyes when they saw him walking. That afternoon, Baldy Li and Song Gang were waiting beside the dead Song Fanping. Song Fanping's skin was covered with blood and blood. His appearance made the two children start to be afraid.His body was motionless, his mouth was open and motionless, his eyes were round, and the eyeballs inside were like two small stones, without any light.Baldy Li and Song Gang had cried, yelled, and bit someone, and now the two children began to tremble. Baldy Li and Song Gang looked at the heads and bodies shaking in front of the windows and doors, and listened to their buzzing voices. They talked about who Song Fanping was and how he died; When the two children were so pitiful, Song Gang cried twice, and Baldy Li followed suit, then continued to look at them in fear.There were also many flies buzzing, they flew over from all directions, biting Song Fanping's body.There were more and more flies, and when they hovered in their room, it seemed like black snowflakes. There were people watching outside the house, and the two children listened to their palms crackling and hitting their legs, arms, face and chest. They scattered away screaming and cursing, and the flies chased them away up. At this time the color of the sunlight began to turn red, and the two children went outside and saw that the sun was setting.They remembered what Song Fanping said in the morning. Song Fanping said that he and Li Lan would return home when the sun went down.They felt that their mother was coming back soon, and Baldy Li and Song Gang held hands and walked towards the station again in the afterglow of the setting sun.When the two children passed by the dim sum shop next to the station, they saw Mama Su sitting there, and Song Gang said to her: "We are here to pick up my mother, she came back from Shanghai." The two children stood at the entrance of the car, stood on tiptoes and stretched their necks to look far away along the road. A cloud of dust was rolling over at the end of the field. Hearing the car horn, Song Gang turned to Baldy Li and said: "Mom is back." Song Gang burst into tears as he spoke, and Baldy Li's tears also flowed down his neck.The long-distance bus came with a billow of dust, and when it reached the two children, it made a turn and entered the station. The billow of dust immediately surrounded them, making them unable to see anything clearly.When the dust dissipated, people carrying boxes and bags began to come out of the station, two or three people at first, and then a row of people. They passed in front of the two children. Baldy Li and Song Gang did not see Li orchid.When the last person came out, their mother still hadn't come out from that door. Song Gang went up to the man and asked timidly, "Is this a car from Shanghai?" The man nodded. Looking at the two tear-stained children, he asked, "Whose children are you? What are you doing here?" His words made Baldy Li and Song Gang burst into tears at the same time. He was startled, and hurried away with his luggage. As he walked, he kept turning his head to look at the two children curiously. The two children said to him: "We are children of Song Fanping's family. Song Fanping is dead. We are waiting for Li Lan to come back. Li Lan is our mother..." Before the two children finished speaking, that person had already walked away.Baldy Li and Song Gang continued to stand at the entrance of the bus. They thought that Li Lan would come back by the next bus.They stood there for a long time, the big wooden door of the waiting room was closed, and the big iron gate at the entrance was also closed. They still stood there, waiting for their mother to come back from Shanghai. When it was dark, Su Ma, the proprietress of the dim sum shop, came over. She stuffed them with two meat buns and said: "Eat quickly, eat while it's hot." The two children were eating buns, and Su's mother said to them: "There are no cars today, and the gates of the station are closed. Go home and come back tomorrow." The two children trusted Mama Su. They nodded, ate the buns, and walked back wiping their tears.They heard Mama Su sigh from behind, and heard her say: "poor child……" Song Gang stood still and turned back to Mama Su and said, "You will be rewarded with kindness."