Chapter 5 Fives

There are more than a thousand students in H Normal School, and there are two cafeterias. The slag produced in the two cafeterias every day is enough for Lao Luo, and the garbage in the large dormitory area makes Lao Luo sweat profusely.Pulling out the slag from H Normal, the first thing he encountered was a long and steep slope, which made Luo Xiaomao's father very painful.Pulling a cart or two, Lao Luo's fat body can barely bear it, but pulling it further, Lao Luo feels that the road is long and extremely difficult.The next afternoon after that night, Luo Xiaomao obediently pushed the scooter for his father.Lao Luo bowed his waist and loaded the slag into the cart one by one. Then Lao Luo put the short shoulder pole tied with beef tendon rope on his shoulders, bent down and lifted the pull rod of the cart. The son roared: "Push hard." Of course Luo Xiaomao pushed hard behind his back.Luo Xiaomao was so willing to use his strength at that time, one reason was to lighten the weight on his father's shoulders, and he also wanted to show off his strength in front of his father.The father's reward for his son was that when the scooter climbed up a long and steep slope with difficulty, his father did not rush forward, but put down the handlebars and went into a small snack shop to buy a lollipop ( In summer, he bought a popsicle) for his son to eat, and watched his son finish eating without saying a word before picking up the handlebar again and going on the road.On Sunday, Luo Xiaomao had to go back and forth with his father four times.There is a three-mile road from Normal H to the place where the garbage is dumped, and it takes more than an hour to go back and forth. Including the loading time, it takes two trips in the morning and the same in the afternoon.Since Luo Xiaomao's spare time was devoured by his father, the time he spent with Wang Dali was significantly reduced, and they only met at noon or the eve of dinner.Wang Dali naturally described what he stole and sold for a lot of money today, or showed off that he wrestled somewhere and threw the latter with a backpack on the ground or something.

Luo Xiaomao's mother forbade Luo Xiaomao to play with Wang Dali.Luo Xiaomao's mother saw Wang Dali's father chasing and beating Wang Dali with pokers twice, and once saw Wang Dali beat a child's mouth bleeding out on the street. "Go back," Luo Xiaomao's mother yelled at her son angrily every time she saw her son with Wang Dali, "I only know how to play." Of course Wang Dali knew how to watch his appearance, so naturally he wouldn't go to Luo Xiaomao's house and call him Luo Xiaomao, so the two made an appointment, which was "The Internationale".As long as Wang Dali stands under Luo Xiaomao's window and sings "The Internationale", it means that Wang Dali has something to do with him.If Wang Dali sang "The Internationale" three times and Luo Xiaomao still couldn't come out, it means that Luo Xiaomao was being watched by his parents.The secret code was soon discovered by Luo Xiaomao's mother.It was a warm spring day, Sunday noon.In the morning, Luo Xiaomao and his father dragged the garbage twice. After lunch, his father ordered Luo Xiaomao to sleep.Just as Luo Xiaomao took off his clothes, a childish male voice came over impatiently from the window: "Arise, slaves suffering from hunger and cold, arise, suffering people all over the world..." "The Internationale" rolled in from the window, over and over again.Luo Xiaomao's mother said angrily: "Which nerve is this standing under our window to sing? When is it not easy to sing? This beheaded!" The disturbing singing caused Luo Xiaomao's father, who had been taking a lunch break for many years, to stare at the ceiling with two bewildered eyes.Luo Xiaomao guessed that Wang Dali was looking for something urgent for him, but he didn't dare to disobey any order from his father at that time.I had no choice but to let Wang Dali sing with his broken voice without doing anything.

Wang Dali finally stopped singing.But after more than ten minutes, "The Internationale" fluttered outside the window again, waking Luo Xiaomao who was about to fall asleep.The father's snoring was rolling rhythmically on the bed, and the mother was still sitting at the desk correcting the students' homework books.Luo Xiaomao sat up and was busy getting dressed.His mother looked at him: "What are you doing up?" "Release your hands." said the son.Then Luo Xiaomao came out. "I've lost my throat," Wang Dali complained angrily, "Why did you come out here?" "I'm afraid my parents will find out," said Luo Xiaomao embarrassingly.In fact, his mother had already noticed that someone stood under the window and sang over and over again. Can "The Internationale" not make her vigilant? "I know it's not a good thing to ask you for?" The mother stood behind her son and scolded, "Are you getting up to relieve yourself? You liar, die in the house." Wang Dali naturally walked away bored, "Next time Hearing Wang Dali singing outside the window, see if I don't tell your father to beat you up!"

Naturally, Wang Dali would no longer stand under Luo Xiaomao's window and sing to call Luo Xiaomao.Gong Dali is three years older than Luo Xiaomao, and he is already a little man who wants to save face.Luo Xiaomao's life quickly became much more monotonous.In school, Luo Xiaomao was often criticized by the teacher and scolded by the class leaders, as if he was a bad individual with no skin.One day when the school was doing sanitation, Luo Xiaomao was lazy, and Teacher Jin actually listed 20 shortcomings in him, which shocked Luo Xiaomao, and then became more and more discouraged about his future.At home, his father always asked him to push the scooter. He stood behind the scooter with a lunge, smelling the stench, and pushed the scooter forward with all his strength.The sun is so strong that people's heads are so dizzy. Many adults and children are afraid to walk in the sun, but Luo Xiaomao has to push the scooter step by step in the scorching sun, smelling the garbage for a long time. The stench emanating from the car... I couldn't help feeling wronged and hated my father who was holding the handlebar.His father's establishment is in the general affairs department of the school, and sometimes the general affairs department also arranges for his father to do other things. When this happens, Luo Xiaomao is as happy as a converted serf who has been liberated. Of course, his first reaction is to find Wang Dali played.

"Dali, do you want to go swimming?" Luo Xiaomao asked Wang Dali to lure him. Luo Xiaomao's favorite physical activity at that time was jumping into the Xiangjiang River to swim, because the great leader Chairman Mao also liked swimming.Walk out of the small dormitory area, cross the road, and there is a small street leading to the river. This small street is called "Lingguandu".One hundred years ago, Zeng Guofan, the commander of the Hunan Army, led more than ten thousand Hunan troops to fight with Shi Dakai, the King of Wings.Luo Xiaomao, Wang Dali, and Yang Xiaohan often go up and down the river from the wooden raft at Lingguan Ferry to swim towards the head of Juzizhou on the opposite side.Yang Xiaohan likes to swim, but he lacks the courage to cross the Xiangjiang River. He is afraid that if he swims halfway, his feet will cramp and he will drown. "I will protect you, don't be afraid of Luo." Luo Xiaomao encouraged his classmates when they swam close to the center of the river.But Yang Xiaohan backed off and said, "I'm afraid I won't have the strength to swim back."

Yang Xiaohan was born more courageous than Luo Xiaomao and Wang Dali Yang Xiaohan wanted to wrestle with Wang Dali. One fine morning - it was Sunday, Yang Xiaohan walked into Luo Xiaomao's house excitedly early in the morning, and called Luo Xiaomao's father "Uncle Luo", and then Yang Xiaohan calmly lied. "Uncle Luo, today we are going to help Teacher Jin make lotus root coal." Luo Xiaomao's father approved his son and Yang Xiaohan to go out without any doubt.As soon as the two went out, they quickly ran towards Wang Dali's house.Wang Dali hadn't gotten up yet, and was sleeping on a filthy bed, grinding his teeth vigorously, and the saliva dripped happily from the corner of his mouth, soaking a large area of ​​the pillow. "Brother Dali, Brother Dali." Luo Xiaomao pushed him awake and said, "You grind your teeth like someone sharpens a knife." Wang Dali sat up embarrassedly, wiped the saliva from the corners of his mouth with the back of his hand, and washed his face indiscriminately. walked out.Yesterday morning, Yang Xiaohan was punched and swollen in the face by a student who was a grade higher than them on the basketball court.Yang Xiaohan is very eager to avenge this.Yang Xiaohan really wanted to ask Wang Dali to help him vent his anger. Last night, while his mother was sleeping, he stole 5 yuan from his mother, in order to invite Luo Xiaomao and Wang Dali to drink at Yinanchun Teahouse.

Yang Xiaohan bought three taels of wine and a table of vegetables, stewed beef, stewed pork belly, stewed trotters and several dishes of cold salad.This made Wang Dali very happy. "Brother Dali, why don't you punch that turtle's nose to bleed?" Yang Xiaohan said expectantly, looking at the very brave Wang Dali.Wang Dali said slowly, "This is difficult." "Brother Dali, do I want to learn how to fight from you?" Yang Xiaohan stared at Wang Dali expectantly.Wang Dali glanced at him, and smiled when he saw that he didn't come, "The first thing to learn to fight is not to be afraid of being beaten, are you afraid?" "No," Yang Xiaohan said, "I'm afraid now that I will be beaten by someone else after I fight." When we get to the grass, I will tell you a few moves to hit people." Wang Dali said, "It will hurt a little." "I know," Yang Xiaohan said.While talking about this, they ate happily.Luo Xiaomao and Yang Xiaohan had never drank alcohol before, and it was the first time for both of them to drink alcohol out of their mother's womb, which was quite unpleasant.When the table of wine and food was almost wiped out, both Luo Xiaomao and Yang Xiaohan drank a little wine.

However, Wang Dali drank the wine to the bottom. He hadn't drunk a few times, but his eyes and ears were burned bright red from the alcohol.When the three of them stepped out of Yinanchun Teahouse, the autumn sun in October was shining brightly.Because of drinking, the three of them kneeled a little when they walked to Teacher H's grass, feeling flustered and dizzy.After finally walking to the grass and sitting down for a few seconds, Luo Xiaomao and Yang Xiaohan vomited frantically, throwing up all the food and wine they had eaten on the green grass.Then the two ran to drink the tap water again with parched lips, only to vomit the tap water on the grass again. "How do you learn how to fight Luo like this?" Wang Dali smiled without sympathy for the two of them, "I would die laughing." Luo Xiaomao and Yang Xiaohan were lying on the grass sadly, their bodies weak.

At noon the next day, Wang Dali made a special trip and stood at the school gate waiting for Luo Xiaomao and Yang Xiaohan to leave school, holding a nine-section whip in his hand and a wide belt around his waist.Luo Xiaomao and Yang Xiaohan got impatient when they were still in the fourth class.I want the teacher to dismiss the get out of class early. It was a boring painting class. As soon as the bell rang, Luo Xiaomao and Yang Xiaohan rushed out like hunting dogs, carrying their schoolbags. "Brother Dali." Yang Xiaohan went up to please the authentic, and handed a pack of "Yuelu Mountain" cigarettes to Wang Dali.Wang Dali swung his nine-section whip and lashed the plane tree in front of him, cracking the bark of the plane tree, "Is that soft-shelled turtle's brain so hard?" Yang Xiaohan said with a smile on his face, "That's okay, Isn’t that tough? Isn’t it an iron brain?!” After a while, the students came out in groups, so Luo Xiaomao and Yang Xiaohan stared at each of the faces that came out, but when the students had finished walking At that time, the senior classmate did not show up.Later, I heard that the senior classmate saw Luo Xiaomao and Yang Xiaohan standing together with a man who looked like Kong Wu, and turned back vigilantly to report the letter to the classmate.So the classmate jumped over the wall from behind the school and fled home. "It can be done horizontally," Wang Dali said regardless of his rush, "unless he doesn't come to study in this life."

When the three of them were walking home in disappointment, Wang Dali saw that the weather was fine and the sky was blue, so he suggested, "I haven't swam for a few days, can I go for a swim in the afternoon?" "I really want to swim," Luo Xiaomao agreed. He said, "I'm afraid that my father will ask me to push the scooter." "I want Yang Xiaohan to come to your room to figure it out." Wang Dali said.Luo Xiaomao looked at Yang Xiaohan and said, "Then you come after lunch, Xiao?" At noon, when Luo Xiaomao's father was about to take off his clothes for a lunch break, Yang Xiaohan walked in with a serious face. "Uncle Rob," he called Luo Xiaomao's father, "Mr. Jin arranged for us to go to school to recite this afternoon." Yang Xiaohan continued to lie without changing his expression, "The monitor asked us to go to her house to recite. "Luo Xiaomao's father said pleasantly: "Then go." Of course Luo Xiaomao happily picked up his schoolbag, smiled brightly at Yang Xiaohan, and the two went out in a serious manner.Wang Dali was sharpening a self-made dagger on the granite outside the kitchen of his house. The creaking sound of the sharpening made Luo Xiaomao and Yang Xiaohan's teeth ache from hearing it. "It's almost finished," Wang Dali glanced at them and said, "Wait for Luo." He handed the sharpened dagger to Luo Xiaomao to see, "Take out the dagger in a fight and it will suck two people to live together." ?” “Yeah,” Luo Xiaomao admired.Wang Dali glanced at Luo Xiaomao, "Can you make a knife?" "I'll make a knife," Luo Xiaomao dreamed, "It can strengthen your courage." Yang Xiaohan imagined how proud he would be with a dagger, If he had this thing on him the morning before yesterday, wouldn't that senior classmate get drunk by him? "Brother Dali, can you help me make one?" Yang Xiaohan said, "I have a dagger in my hand to strengthen my courage." "Be courageous?"

Wang Dali despised his description and said, "You scare cabbage with a knife?" Yang Xiaohan blushed, "I'll make one myself," he said sadly. When the three of them walked onto the street, they felt that the sun was shining brightly all over the ground. Except for some vehicles running around, there were no people walking around on the street. The three of them crossed the road, walked slowly to the edge of the Xiangjiang River, took a look at the blue sky and clear river water, strode down the flood embankment, and stood on the wooden raft that was firmly floating on the bank.The river is very windy on the wide river.After Luo Xiaomao and Gong Dali resolutely took off their sanitary clothes and pants, they couldn't help shivering. "It's a bit cold," Luo Xiaomao said, gazing at the clear water of the Xiangjiang River.Wang Dali cheered him up and said: "Chairman Mao still takes cold baths in winter, why is he afraid of the cold!" After speaking, he threw himself into the river without hesitation. "Come down, it's not cold." Wang Dali raised his head and said.Luo Xiaomao bent down, scooped up some river water with his hand and patted it on his chest, feeling the cold suddenly, he couldn't help shivering even more. So he looked at the blue sky and did a few radio gymnastics ferociously. Gritting his teeth, he plunged into the cold river like a toad and swam forward bravely. Except for a few boats sailing on the river, there were only two small heads. moved in the water.The two swam straight to the center of the river like a competition, and when they came back, they no longer felt the cold at all.Yang Xiaohan was still squatting on the raft and watching them, looking like he wanted to swim but was afraid of the cold. "Come down to Yuluo," Wang Dali said.Yang Xiaohan shook his head and said, "I still don't swim." "Since you want to learn to fight with me," Wang Dali declared solemnly, climbing the wooden raft, raised his pointed head, "you have to listen to the master, now master Order you to swim." Yang Xiaohan stood up, took off his clothes and trousers three times, and jumped into the water tremblingly, but he only swam more than ten meters away before his body sank, his hands beat on the water, a pair of Terrible struggle. "Hurry up and save him," Luo Xiaomao said nervously, and quickly swam towards Yang Xiaohan.Wang Dali is good at water, he stabbed Yang Xiaohan in front of Yang Xiaohan, and lifted Yang Xiaohan's chin.Luo Xiaomao grabbed one of Yang Xiaohan's hands, and the two struggled to pull Yang Xiaohan onto the raft. Yang Xiaohan's feet suddenly cramped, and his legs curled up into frog legs, with his toes tightly hooked together like chicken claws. .Wang Dali saw the drowning person being rescued before, so he knelt on the wooden raft and pinched Yang Xiaohan's leg, then pressed Yang Xiaohan's stomach with his hand.Yang Xiaohan came to his senses, gulping down the river water, and crying in fear...Yang Xiaohan never dared to swim in the river again, he didn't even dare to go to the edge of the Xiangjiang River. At that time, 5 yuan was not a small amount that could be taken lightly for any family.Yang Xiaohan's mother found out that she had lost 5 yuan the next morning. Of course, she was so sad that when she was cutting vegetables in the cafeteria in the afternoon, she lost her index finger and was bleeding profusely.When Yang Xiaohan walked home listlessly from the edge of the Xiangjiang River, he saw that his mother was even more distraught than at noon, and her fingers were wrapped in bright red white gauze, and he regretted it without realizing it.After all, Yang Xiaohan was a good boy, so he couldn't help sharing his mother's worries and said, "Mom, I took the money." Yang Xiaohan never thought that his mother would be furious, and her eyes shot fiercely like the female leopard in the zoo. "You are so harmful, you yellow-eyed beast!" His mother picked up the bamboo ruler on the sewing machine and began to chop and beat. "Where's the money? You bastard, where's the money? Hey!" Yang Xiaohan was beaten so hard by his mother that he ran away, so he had to hide under the bed and throw out the few cents left in his pocket.His mother's heart was broken, "That's all there is?" She picked up the wooden fork behind the door to dry clothes, and stabbed viciously under the bed, one of which pierced Yang Xiaohan's lip. Yang Xiaohan screamed "Ouch" and burst into sobs, his mother felt relieved a lot from the weeping that meant to make amends.Yang Xiaohan told his mother everything, whimpering. In the morning of the next day, Yang Xiaohan's mother took him by the hand and strode to the garbage dump in front of the cafeteria. He rushed to Principal Luo, who was concentrating on shoveling the garbage onto the cart, and said angrily, "Old Luo, Luo Xiaomao put the garbage on the cart." My little man’s belt is broken.” Luo Xiaomao’s father raised his head and looked at her: “What’s the matter?” “It’s not worth it that Luo Xiaomao lied to the little man to treat him, but he almost drowned him.” She said in a shrill voice, "Yesterday afternoon, Luo Xiaomao and another older kid who hadn't studied forced me to swim in the river." "Yesterday afternoon, it was you who called my son," Luo Xiaomao's father said, restraining his anger, "don't Nonsense." The reason why Luo Xiaomao's father got angry was that this uneducated female worker who had been respectful to him since her husband died a long time ago dared to accuse him so aggressively.Luo Xiaomao came home from school at noon that day. As soon as he put down his schoolbag, his father yelled at him, "Come here!" His father gritted his teeth and said, "What can you do to invite Yang Xiaohan to treat you? Tell me yourself!" A few solid punches from his father. "You shit!" After his father vented his anger in a stern voice, his heart went down to the state of lunch break. Luo Xiaomao was full of hatred, and wanted to take revenge on Yang Xiaohan at school.But Yang Xiaohan still didn't attend class the next day.A few days later, when Yang Xiaohan stepped into the school again, he moved the desks and chairs to the classroom next door. These days, Yang Xiaohan's mother came to the school every day to quarrel, describing Luo Xiaomao as a villain and abettor, and threatened not to She would rather not have her son study when transferring Yang Xiaohan's class.Teacher Jin also felt that after Yang Xiaohan got close to Luo Xiaomao, his academic performance and performance in all aspects did not look like a red soldier, let alone a class leader. In order to save this good student, he agreed to transfer Yang Xiaohan to the next class In this way, the friendship between Luo Xiaomao and Yang Xiaohan was buried by Yang Xiaohan's mother, just like burying a dead cat.Of course, Yang Xiaohan never mentioned the matter of beating the classmate who was a year older than them and punched his mouth bleeding.In order to force her son to completely break up with Luo Xiaomao, Yang Xiaohan's mother also asked the physical education teacher who lived opposite her to monitor Yang Xiaohan in the school. Several times, the physical education teacher caught a glimpse of Yang Xiaohan and Luo Xiaomao standing beside the stairs talking, and approached them arrogantly. Come on, reprimand Yang Xiaohan loudly and say: "You are with Luo Xiaomao again, see if I don't tell your mother to beat you." Yang Xiaohan blushed suddenly, and walked away in a whisper. Luo Xiaomao's only friend is Wang Dali.Six months later, Luo Xiaomao's parents also forced Luo Xiaomao to break up with Wang Dali.