Chapter 14 The fourteenth round of life and death see friendship

This fun fair was a gathering of talents, and it was held in full swing until after twelve o'clock in the evening. After Hong Shiyi finished his business, he went back to the guild hall. He lay quietly on the bed, thinking, this is really unexpected. The little coal girl who picked up coal nubs has now become a singing and dancing star, Ms. Changqing .The few times she sang and danced today, how many sentient beings have been turned upside down?She's so proud.Now she only needs to nod her head and express her willingness to make friends with someone, then she will be rich and powerful, and young and beautiful people will rush to get close to her.For a person like me, if I go to lift the shoes for her, I still think my hands are rough.However, her attitude was not like this, she was still very kind to me. I met her at the entrance of the song and dance club that day, and she ignored me. The clothes are so ragged, I thought I was going to shame her, so I ignored me.Otherwise, why did she greet me first today and ask me to go to her house?She said that her father missed me very much, which was a lie.In fact, she was thinking that, from the mouths of her parents, she could get a little word of mouth out.By then, we will know exactly what she means to me and what she is like.

He was lying on the bed alone, thinking from the front to the back, and from the back to the front, always feeling that he knew a hero he had never met before, which was already something to be proud of.Besides, although Xiao Nan has become a singing and dancing star, she may not have a lover. As long as she is still a lonely person, she can pursue it by herself, and she has to work hard to pursue it.The more he thought about it, the more he was right, and the more he was right, the more he liked to think about it. Under an inadvertent feeling, it seemed that these two legs were a little cold from the soles of the feet, so he immediately sat up and took a look, ah!The kerosene lamp that was lit on the table had become nothing more than a flame the size of a mung bean, but the wick had burned into pops, each one like a fly's head.There was loud snoring outside the window, it turned out that the people in the guild hall were already fast asleep.Shi Yi sat down, put his hands on his head and thought for a while, it's not a problem, it's naturally late at night.I was thinking stupidly by myself, why did I not know at all when I thought about it for so long?I was lost again.Don't think about it, women are always upside down, go to sleep.With such a change of mind, he lay down on the bed with only one straw mat left.

One day and one night, he was physically tired from work, and at the same time mentally tired from thinking. When he really fell asleep, he was in a daze and didn't know he woke up.When he opened his eyes to look, the sun was shining brightly outside the window. He could only hear the cicadas on the tree of that house, chirping non-stop. It's been too long.Sitting up abruptly.As soon as he sat up, before all his senses recovered, there was one thing that shot into his eyes first, what was it?It was the two apples that Xiao Nan gave backstage yesterday, but he brought them back without eating them.And when I brought it back, I was reluctant to eat it, so I put it on a stack of white paper on the table.Now when I see an apple, I always think of the person who gave it to me.After a tiring day yesterday, the charity will give everyone a day off today. Now I can take advantage of the free time and go to Chang's house to have a look.So he rubbed his eyes with one hand, opened the door with the other, and looked outside.I saw the bright sun, and the shadows of the two trees shrunk into a small ball on the ground, which was the sign that the sun was noon.This is a day off, and another half day is sacrificed.If you don't want to sacrifice half a day in vain, at this time, you should immediately chase after Chang Layman's house.If we meet Xiao Nan, we can make up for the wasted time in bed with a few words.Thinking of this, he hurriedly scooped up a basin of cold water to wash his face, and scooped up the water with his hands to wet his hair. From the pile of old papers on the desk, he took out a lens that was incomplete like a crabapple leaf, and a handful of oily black A broken wooden comb, close to the light, combed the hair for a while.The new bamboo gown I wore yesterday, lying down with the clothes on at night, inevitably left many wrinkles, I looked down and thought it was not very elegant.So I took it off and looked at it, and felt even more indecent.Then he put the gown on the table, took a few sips of water, and sprayed it several times on the clothes.After spraying it a few times, the front and back of the clothes were moist. Then I put them on the bed, pulled them straight with my hands, picked up the collar with my hands, and sent them to the yard to dry in the sun.But such pretentiousness was a bit of a waste of time. I moved a chair by myself and sat by the door, watching the dress, just waiting for it to dry.He thought it took him a long time to sit, but it wasn't two minutes, that is, three minutes. Then he went under the sun and touched his clothes to see if they were dry?A fellow countryman in the guild hall passed by the yard and said with a smile, "Drink! Where is Lao Hong going to meet his girlfriend today? Why wait for the clothes to dry?" Shi Yi blushed and said, "I'm about to go out. Water was splashed on the clothes, think about it, am I not in a hurry?" He said so, but he took the wet clothes off the rope, and put them on regardless of good or bad. body.When I walked out of the gate, I thought to myself, I am self-defeating. I wanted to wear flat clothes to meet people, but ended up wearing wet clothes to meet people.Now Xiao Nan is a woman who knows a lot. If I wear a wet dress to see her, won't she make fun of me? I'd rather go later than make jokes in front of her.But if she sincerely asks me out, she must be waiting for me at home at this time, because she knows it's time to get off work?Well, I shouldn't go too late.Thinking of this, I had no choice but to choose a place in the middle of the street where the sun can shine. This is because you can also dry clothes while walking.The only thing is to dry clothes, walk slowly in the sun.

When he walked to Chang's house, he was also covered in stinky sweat.Suddenly walking into the gate of Chang's house, standing in a cool place, I suddenly felt a kind of comfort on my body, but it was top-heavy, I couldn't stand upright, and I was about to fall, so I quickly held the door and collected myself .Layman Chang sat on his bed of rags and tattered straw mats, unable to spend his time, holding a string of rosary beads in both hands, pinching one by one in turn like this.He seemed to hear a voice in the front yard, and immediately raised his head and asked, "Which one is here?" After humming twice, he slowly walked towards his room.Then he replied: "Old man, it's me. I haven't seen it for a long time... Ouch!" He only said two words in his mouth. He squatted down and sat on the ground.Mrs. Yu came back because of Xiao Nan's gift of several packets of copper, and she was huddled on the kang in the small room inside, counting softly, and wrapped it up in a roll of fifty coins.Now when I heard such words from outside, I was also taken aback in my heart, stood up, and ran outside.She ran in such a hurry, and there was still a big bag of coins in her arms, so she forgot.She got out of bed together, and scattered the copper all over the floor with a clatter.In this way, Layman Chang must have heard and understood that it is useless to cover up, so he simply ignored it and went outside.I saw Hong Shiyi's face was white with blue in the middle, and his eyes were tightly closed.The neck could not support the head, and it hung straight into the chest. The man sat on the ground with his legs bent, and his back leaned against a water tank under the corner of the door.Although there was still a large puddle of water under the water tank, he didn't know that a large area of ​​his clothes was soaked.Looking at it like that, the person actually passed out.Layman Chang stood beside him, half-bent, with trembling hands, exploring in all directions.Mrs. Yu snatched him up, dragged him away with one hand, reached out to touch Shi Yi's breath, and said, "He's suffering from sunstroke. Don't mess with him. I'll go find two neighbors." Help me, lift him up first. Alas! Isn’t this fatal? How could it be so coincidental that he came to our house and got sunstroke?” She walked out while talking.Only then did Layman Chang understand that Shi Yi had entered the door and lay down.He didn't see it, and he wanted to talk to Shi Yi, but he didn't agree. He was so anxious that he opened his blind eyes so much, raised his head, and couldn't return to the original state for a long time.how?Not long after, Mrs. Yu led several neighbors over, and first carried Shi Yi to Chang's shop, and one of the neighbors said: "Hurry up and find some summer heat medicine, and pour it down for him. It's been a long time, but it's really good." There will be something wrong." Yu said: "Oh! Look, our family, how can there be such a thing?" Another neighbor said: "I remembered one thing. The Liu family in front has a lot of people. Prepare ten drops of potion. Last time my puppy suffered from heatstroke, he asked for some potion at his house to drink, or went to his place to get some, wouldn't it be much faster than going to the street to buy it?" Mrs. Yu After hearing this, I no longer thought about it, lifted my feet, and ran out.The neighbors saw that a blind man accompanied a seriously ill person in this house. The situation of this family was very dire, so everyone stood in the yard and did not leave.Indeed, in less than ten minutes, Mrs. Yu and Xiao Nan came together.Xiao Nan didn't go into the yard, took out a silk handkerchief, pinched his nose, stood in the yard, and watched from a distance.In a flurry of hands and feet, Yu found a broken tea bowl, poured ten drops of liquid medicine, put his head on one hand, held the tea bowl with the other, and poured it into Shi Yi's mouth.Xiao Nan stood in the yard, kept stamping his feet and said, "This disease is contagious, why are you being so affectionate with him!" Yu said, "Your child speaks a little unreasonably. He is already sick I don’t know, can I still let him hold the bowl by himself?” Xiao Nan said: “Is this disease just a joke? Are you still planning to keep him at home for treatment? Why don’t you call them at the charity association and tell them Did you pick him up?" Chang Jushi interjected, "It's her words that reminded me that there are some hospitals that do good deeds in their charity association, so go and call them and ask them to come and pick them up. !" Xiaonan said: "I can make this call, and I can speak louder. If I ask you to make a call, then it is really frustrating to have such a patient at home." She said this , and paused a few times with his feet, turned around, and walked out.Because there are many neighbors here, Chang Jushi felt that Xiao Nan's words were a bit serious, so he sighed and said: "This child really doesn't know the seriousness of what he said? It's a good intention for people to come to see us. Could it be that he deliberately fell ill in the hospital?" Our family, come to cheat us like this?" The neighbors here, they all live in the front and back walls, who doesn't know that Hong Shiyi has helped the Chang family?Everyone left with a look of dissatisfaction on their faces.But the neighbor left, and Xiao Nan ran back again. She jumped into the yard and saw Shi Yi lying upright on her father's bed, feeling very unhappy in her heart.Not only unhappy, but also a little scared.Seeing Yu Shi standing in the room just rubbing his hands, he beckoned her out, pulled her outside the gate and whispered: "You are so confused, put a dying person on Dad's bed. If he is in Dad's bed You died on the bed, what are you going to do? It might be a life lawsuit, aren't you afraid of this?" Yu said: "What should we do? You can't let him lie on the ground all the time?" Xiaonan said: "There is a rattan chair in our yard. You can put him on the chair and carry him to the shade of the wall in the alley. If it's good, he might be cured if he blows the air. If it's not good, he won't die in our house It saved me a lot of trouble." When Yu Shi thought about it, what she said was reasonable, if he was not carried out, if he died in the house, the Chang family would have to bear a share of the responsibility. The mourning hall was set up, because he said: "Looking at it, the neighbors probably don't dare to move. If they ask me to move, I can't move." , find a few coachmen, and I can move him out, what is that worth?" When he said that, he reached into his clothes pocket, took out a handful of copper tickets, stuffed them into Yu's hand, jumped up and said, "Hurry up!" Go find someone."

After being urged by the girl like this, Mrs. Yu lost her mind.Now that he had the money, he didn't have to hesitate, so he immediately found two drivers at the entrance of the alley, explained that they would pay 20 cents each, and asked them to carry Hong Shiyi out on the wicker chair.It turned out that the two coachmen heard that it was a very common thing to carry the patient to the gate, and no one thought about it.But when I went to their house and looked at the bed, I saw that the patient was still very heavy, how could I move it outside the gate?Everyone shook their heads and walked away.Seeing this situation, Xiaonan hurriedly said: "Twenty cents, how far do you have to pull the cart, as long as you carry it from the yard to the outside, it doesn't take five minutes, don't you want it?" said a driver : "Who doesn't like to make money? But you bring such a seriously ill person to the gate, I know what you mean? If there is something wrong, the police will investigate the root cause in the future, we can't afford it, so we will walk around." Xiao Nan said: "Don't talk nonsense. This patient is my father's friend, and he lay down as soon as he entered the door. He is a member of the Charity Association. I have already called and asked them to send a car to pick him up." The driver Said: "Come on, then let the person who picks him up move it, we don't care about it." When he said that, the person walked out.Xiao Nan jumped up and said, "Hey! I'll give you one yuan, and you two will share it. Do you think it's okay?" When the two drivers heard that there was one yuan, they stopped at the same time.One said: "It's not that we are afraid that money will tie our hands. It's just because this person is so sick that you have to carry him out. We can't figure it out. What's the meaning of this?" Yu said: "What's the point? We are afraid of delaying the time. As soon as the car arrives, we lift him into the car and leave. First, we carry him. When the car comes, we have to carry him. Wouldn’t it be better to carry him outside first and wait?" The driver said: " That's right, you have to tell us a reason first, so we can handle it easily?" So the two coachmen took advantage of Shi Yi's ignorance, put him on a rattan chair, and carried him to the shade outside the gate. put it down.Xiao Nan held a piece of cash in the palm of his hand and said to the coachman, "It's too close to our door, please move it away." The two coachmen carried the patient from the house to the yard. , He Zheng moved a few feet further?So he moved the rattan chair a little farther away, and then Xiaonan paid a dollar and went.After Xiao Nan promised the coachman a dollar, Yu Shi opened his eyes wide and looked at Xiao Nan until the coachman took the one dollar. Yu walked two steps closer, pointed to Xiao Nan's face, and asked, "Is it okay?" Let me ask you, do you have the money to burn it badly, or something? You must spend a dollar to move this person away. Give me your dollar, and I can get it out if I work hard. Can you just give it to me? "Xiao Nan said: "Why are you still so blind? No matter what happens, I will always give you ten yuan a month. Isn't it enough for you to spend? If he dies in our house, he won’t be able to land the land for ten yuan.” After she finished speaking, she walked away in a skip.

Mrs. Yu stood at the gate, not wanting to go to the patient, but also being judged by her conscience, thinking: If she walked away, the patient would be knocked over by a passing carriage, and what danger would happen to her? How to do it?Because of this dilemma, just stand here.But I heard Chang lay swearing in the room: "You bastards with no conscience, aren't you afraid of being judged by others? When you are sick, they will find a hospital for you, fill your house with water, and no matter how busy you are with business, they will definitely come. We come to our house twice. If he is sick, you can throw him into the alley. Let’s not talk about karma, anyway, it’s superstitious. But neighbors, he is a living Bodhisattva, so don’t they talk about you? I don’t have conscience like you, I have to sit next to the patient.” Yu said softly: “What are you shouting about? Since you can’t move it, why didn’t you stop it just now?” Layman Chang said: “I How to stop it? You called two pullers on the street to come in. You want to move people out, but I won’t let you move out. When the puller saw it, he didn’t know why, and thought we were murdering for money.”

The husband and wife were arguing, but they could hear the sound of a car in the alley, probably a car from the charity association coming, and they didn't need to hear the sound of bickering with each other.Mrs. Yu stepped out of the gate, and sure enough, she saw a car with red letters parked in the middle of the alley, and a man in white uniform jumped out of the car, and asked Mrs. Yu, "Is your surname Chang inside this gate? "Yu agreed yes.The humane said that he called just now and said that a staff member from our association was sick at your place. Is this true? Yu pointed to the entrance of the alley with his hand and said, "Hey! Isn't it there?" The man said, "You really don't think so. Why did you carry a patient to the entrance of the alley to lie down?" Didn't go to our house." The man didn't care about her any more, and went to the alley to carry the patient.Mrs. Yu could see clearly that the patient had already been carried into the car, and seeing the car go away, a stone fell from her heart, and she turned around and clapped her hands to Lay Chang from a distance: "My God, This can be regarded as sweating, and the car moved that surnamed Hong away." Layman Chang didn't bother to say anything to her, but just sighed sullenly.Mrs. Yu said: "Don't moan and sigh, and make you lose your temper. Think about it, human life is at stake. It's not a joke. If you don't take him away, you can die in our house so cheaply." Did you just carry it out? I don’t have time to gossip with you, I still have to go to Liu’s house and write a letter to Xiaonan. There are about a hundred coins in the ground, you can feel them.”

Saying that, he raised his legs and went to Liu An's house.The concierge here already recognized her as Ms. Chang Qing's mother, so she smiled at her and said, "Sister-in-law, why are you so busy today? You have come here several times throughout the day." Yu said, "Of course there is something to do." , nothing, can I run a few times a day? Excuse me, please go in and say something, and call my girl out. " The concierge asked her to wait at the door, and informed her inside. After a while, the concierge brought Xiao Nan out, and he said with a smile: "Drink! Sister-in-law, I have been running around these days, so I invited you girls out." Xiao Nan heard him calling his mother, sister-in-law, He couldn't help but stare at the doorman.So she raised her voice to her mother and said, "You guys always don't live up to your expectations, come here to show off, and run a few times a day, what's the matter?" Yu asked, "Why are you doing this? You're so angry with me again." Xiao Nan Said: "Look, in the world, people are like this. They are all students here, and people from other people's families are either old gentlemen or old ladies. People who come to our family are the concierge's sister-in-law. Got it." Only then did Yu realize that it was because the concierge shouldn't be called sister-in-law.Then he smiled and said, "It's okay, you can call us anything. I'm just sending you a letter to let you know that the charity car has arrived and moved him away." Xiao Nan turned around and ran into the house Go, and shouted: "You are really not afraid of trouble, such a small matter, you have to tell me again." As he spoke, he walked into the back yard. Mr. Wang Sun, a modern musician, was standing in a grape arbor Under the shade, I held a ukulele in my left hand and a bow in my right hand. I just plucked the green leaves of grapes on the shelf, humming a foreign song in my mouth.When Xiao Nan came in, he smiled and said: "Qing, you seem to have something on your mind today, and you will run home countless times in a while, it seems that there will be no problems, right?" Xiao Nan said: "Look, a friend of my father , I didn’t come for a few days, and after I came, I lay down as soon as I entered the door, almost dying. I was shocked, and hurriedly called around, looking for a car to pick him up, just now my mother came to report, saying I have already taken that person away, so I have dropped a stone in my heart." Wang Sun smiled and said, "Is it your father's friend? I'm afraid not?" Xiao Nan stood by him and stuck his head to him She leaned against his chest in her arms, raised her head slightly, rolled her eyes and smiled at him, "Why are you so careless?" chest, put the bow in that hand, freed one hand, and touched her hair with it, gently and smoothly, brought the tip of his nose to her hair, smiled slightly, and Be silent.At this time, their president Liu An just happened to pass by here, and he deliberately walked over quickly, then turned around and smiled at them: "You guys are really very intimate! It can't be said that what I said before is a rumor Right?" Xiao Nan smiled and was about to walk away, but Wang Sun hugged her tightly, not letting her go away, Liu An clapped her hands and smiled, "Don't move! Just stand there, I'll get the photo box, I'll take a photo for you." Wang Sun said with a smile: "Okay, you go, we're waiting." Liu An raised a hand, waved lightly on the brim of his hat, and left.

In this song and dance troupe, what Xiao Nan learns every day is lewd singing, sensual dancing, and getting along with colleagues. Apart from doing the preparatory and charming work, she studies some issues between men and women.Therefore, although she is a low-energy person in society, after being influenced by the ears and eyes of the song and dance troupe, she has been trained to be a character with brand-new thinking.So at this time, Wang Sun held her in his arms and waited for the photo to be taken. She didn't take it as a surprise.Wang Sun hugged her and stood under the grape trellis for a long time, but Liu An still did not come.Xiaonan pulled Wangsun's hand away, stood aside, and said with a smile: "You keep hugging people, and you turn around to let them see, it will become a joke again." Wangsun laughed; "What a joke, who in our regiment No joke?" Before he could finish the sentence, someone behind him rushed to agree, "I have no joke." It turned out to be Mr. Chu Kuang, who jumped out from the grape arbor.Wang Sundao: "You jumped out recklessly, not afraid to scare other people's souls?" Chu Kuang laughed and said, "You were so comfortable just now, you should have been surprised like this." Wang Sun said: " It was Liu Sanye who teased us for a while, and now you are going to tease us for a while." Chu Kuang ignored him, stretched his neck forward, and asked Xiao Nan's face, "You have to say something. To be honest, the third master put you two together and hugged him tightly. What can he gain? Is this good intentions, or is it malicious?" Xiao Nan twisted her body, pouted and said, "Don't say that , I don’t know.” Chu Kuang said to Wang Sun: “Old Wang, you can’t play dumb, you have to invite me to watch a movie tonight.” Wang Sun smiled and said: “It’s okay to invite you to watch a movie, why? You said that tonight, I have to invite you? Is there still a time limit?" Chu Kuang blinked at him, smiled and said: "Of course there is a reason." Wang Sun said: "Since there is a reason Yes, why don’t you tell me and listen?” Chu Kuang still didn’t say anything, but pushed his mouth at Xiao Nan, Xiao Nan smiled slightly: “Don’t play tricks in front of me, hum! I want to tell the third master. Said that you bullied my poor child." Chu Kuang laughed and said, "Look how pitiful you are!" When he was speaking, he stood close to Wang Sun and stretched out his foot to kick his thigh.When Wang Sun saw Chu Kuang's appearance, he couldn't doubt it at first, thinking, he just wronged me to invite him to watch a movie tonight, which is also a trivial matter.Let him cheat, it's not worth anything.If there is any chance tonight, it would be a pity to lose it indiscriminately!Because of this, he said to Xiaonan: "Let's just invite Old Chu back." Xiaonan tilted his neck and said, "You guys go, I don't like to go." Wang Sun took her hand with one hand, touched her hair with the other, and said with a smile : "Good sister, don't be like this, you are always angry with me. If you are always angry with me, it will make me not think about tea or food. I don't know what to do." When he said, he turned his body Just twist it twice.

Chu Kuang said: "Look, just now Mi Sichang said that he was a poor child, and now Lao Wang's words are so pitiful, so it looks like you are a pair of poor children. I can cheat no matter what, see When it comes to you poor wretches, I can't beat this bamboo stick anymore. Come on, I won't watch a movie tonight, so I've said that for nothing." Wang Sun laughed and said, "Why did I say it for nothing? "As he spoke, his eyes turned to Chu Kuang, and he smiled and said, "If you have any plans to help me, you are not allowed to draw a ladder in the middle." Chu Kuang looked at Wang Sun, then at Xiao Nan, and just smiled spoke, but said nothing.Xiao Nan said: "What's the matter with you two today? You always act like this." Then Chu Kuang gave up his hippie smile and formally said to her with a little smile: "You can always be calm. I This proposal is not without reason, to tell you the truth, after seven o'clock tonight..." Having said this, I looked back and said in a low voice: "Everyone has to go, those who listen to the opera, those who eat Those who eat in restaurants, those who watch movies watch movies, the sooner you come back, the better. There are only two people left here..." As he spoke, he put his head in her ear and mumbled a lot.Xiao Nan smiled and said, "Wonderful, wouldn't it be good to let the two of them go out?" Chu Kuang said: "Who doesn't know this, it's because the two of them always refuse to go out together. In the future, if you two don't Ken to go out, we also use this kind of tactics to deal with it. But you can also take a corner of the official document, and you won’t help others in vain.” Xiao Nan smiled and said: “Don’t talk nonsense, we are just friends.” When saying this , cast his eyes on Wang Sun, then turned around, turned his head forward, and ran away.

When she was running, the hair on her head just flickered. Chu smiled wildly and said to Wang Sun: "A person cannot be designated as smart or stupid. Look at Mi Sichang, when we first came to us What kind of person was he when he came here? What kind of role is he now?" Wang Sun smiled and said, "This is the work of our third master's enlightenment." Chu Kuang said: "This can be said to be Mr. Wang Tao? Great work! Old Wang," said this, his voice lowered and he smiled, "Have you proposed to her?" Wang Sun smiled slightly, raised the violin and put it on his shoulder.At the same time, he picked up the bow and tried it on the string twice.Chu Kuang grabbed his qin bow with one hand and said: "Don't play the qin; I'm asking you, have you proposed to someone?" Saying this, isn’t that nonsense? I have no intention of her.” Chu Kuang nodded twice, and smiled: “Okay! You use this to prevaricate me, wait for me.” After finishing speaking, he also left and hung his bow on the vine. At this time, the sun was already a little westward, and the dense grape leaves covered the sun, and there was shade under the vines.Seeing this scene, Wang Sun seemed to be touched, so he took the bow in his hand, leaned against a wooden post, and played a very tactful score, but Xiao Nan lowered his head, coughed twice outside the frame, and walked over with his head bowed.Wang Sun said: "Qing, where are you going?" Xiao Nan didn't agree.Wang Sun yelled again, and Xiao Nan froze and said, "You don't mean anything to me either. Do you have any control over where I go?" Wang Sun laughed and said, "Ah! This is what Lao Chu and I said for fun. You listened." Xiao Nan said, "Isn't that nonsense?" Saying that, he left without looking back.Wang Sun stood there for a while, but then laughed, and said to himself, "She can act like a baby too."