Chapter 2 2
An urban slum settlement.Such areas are now being flattened on a large scale and built into communities.It can be believed that after a few years, it will be completely eradicated in the city.The layout of the low and small mud houses is irregular, and there is no courtyard at all, and most of them have a flat roof or a sloping roof; bricks pressed against the felt paper on the roof are everywhere, like chess pieces on a Go board.
Wang Xiaosong's home is a small mud house on the farthest edge.For some reason, there is a distance between it and most other houses, and it seems to be lower and a bit lonely.
Wang Xiaosong was walking towards home.
He passed by a rubbish dump and saw an old woman picking up something there, so she put it in her lapel when she picked it up.Wang Xiaosong should call her "third wife". She is a weather-beaten old woman, but her body is still strong.
The third mistress looked up and saw him, and said, "Why are you leaving school so early, Xiao Song?"
Wang Xiaosong replied: "Our teacher passed out from hunger in class. What did you pick up, third wife?"
"Hey, what else can I pick up? I just waited in a long line to buy some kohlrabi this morning, but your Brother Guangyi chopped off all the roots and threw them away! It makes people feel distressed to throw away edible things. If you don't pick them up, don't you?" Is it a crime..." Tao Guangyi is the grandson of the third wife, a talented student in this area, and the pride of the third wife.
The third wife stretched out her skirt for Wang Xiaosong to look at, and said, "Xiao Song, I'll give you a few. Wash it, steam it, it's delicious like potatoes. Don't let your mother pickle it. It's a pity to pickle it. It's..."
Wang Xiaosong said: "Third wife, I don't want it. No one in your family lined up to buy vegetables. It's not easy to buy vegetables once."
The third wife said: "Hey, the third wife sincerely gave it to you, and you want it. After your brother Guangyi lived in school, you often helped the third wife do this and that, and the third wife never gave you anything delicious."
"My brother Guangyi used to help carry water for my family."
He said he was leaving.
"This kid, don't leave, don't leave." The third wife hurriedly stopped him and said, "Why don't you take a few and give them to your teacher Qu tomorrow for me. She taught you Brother Guangyi, a very good teacher, during the home visit Always amiable. No matter what, count me as a little bit of my heart for her..."
Wang Xiaosong hesitantly took a few vegetable roots from the skirt of the third wife and stuffed them into the schoolbag.
The third wife told his back: "Don't forget to tell Teacher Qu that it was Tao Guangyi's grandmother who gave it to her..."
Wang Xiaosong turned around and replied: "Don't worry, third wife, I won't forget it!"
When he was about to walk to the door, two female workers came out of his house, one of them looked at him and asked, "Are you Xiao Song?"
He nodded hesitantly.
Another female worker took his hand and said, "Your mother got her leg smashed today, we sent her back..."
As soon as he heard it, he broke free and ran home without waiting for the other party to finish speaking.
The female worker grabbed him and said, "Don't worry, the injury is not serious. The unit bought ten eggs for your mother, which is regarded as a tonic for work-related injuries. You want to cook one for your mother every day, will you?"
Wang Xiaosong nodded.
The female worker who guessed who he was said: "You are the boss of your family, you have to learn to love your mother. Turning the sand is heavy work. A woman can't do a man's work without enough food. Rather you and your younger siblings Let’s eat less, and we must make sure that your mother brings enough food in the future. Your father is working in another place, if your mother has something wrong, what will you do?"
He hummed, broke free again, and rushed into the house.
The mother is lying on the bed, and the younger brother and younger sister are snuggled up beside the mother.The younger brother is five years old, and the younger sister is only a little over three years old.
There are only a few simple and dilapidated furniture in the house.There are rows of awards on the wall.It was acquired by his father.In 1958, in 1959, in 1960, in 1961.The ones from the early years are old, and the ones from 1961 are still new.Next to it is his mother's latest award.
Mother asked strangely: "Why did you leave school so early?"
"The teacher fainted from hunger during the second class, and our class ends early."
As he said, he put down his schoolbag and wanted to pick up his mother's trousers to see the wound on her leg.
His mother stopped him: "Didn't you lie?"
"Mom, I didn't!"
"If you don't study well and dare to skip school, I can't forgive you!"
Wang Xiaosong: "Mom!"
Mother believed his words and stopped him.
He lightly picked up his mother's trousers, and saw thick gauze wrapped around her legs.
"Does it hurt? Mom..."
Mother nodded.Then he shook his head: "It hurts a little, but Mom can hold back."
My sister said, "Mom, I'm hungry."
The younger brother said, "I'm hungry too."
The younger sister and younger brother stared at the table—ten eggs on a plate.
The mother hugged the younger sister and kissed her, then stroked the younger brother's head and said, "Good boys, is it okay to save the eggs for 'Eleventh'?"
The younger siblings gave an obedient "hmm" at the same time.
Mother said: "Xiao Song, let's make corn noodle porridge for lunch. Mom has already cut the vegetable leaves this morning, you can put a little less vegetable leaves, and cook it thicker."
Wang Xiaosong agreed, and took out those kohlrabi roots from his schoolbag.
Seeing the root, the mother asked, "Where did you get it?"
Xiao Song said: "The third wife gave it to me, please ask me to deliver it to our teacher tomorrow."
"Your Teacher Qu is a good teacher. You can bring her two eggs tomorrow." Mother said, "No, bring three. Wash the kohlrabi root for your third wife and bring it to your teacher."
Wang Xiaosong said happily: "Hey. Mom, go to sleep for a while. If you fall asleep, you won't feel the pain anymore."
He picked up the axe, picked up a few pieces of firewood, and went outside to chop...
The eggs had been put away, and on the plate were pieces of washed kohlrabi.
mother fell asleep...
Wang Xiaosong said to his younger brothers and sisters: "There is no water in the tank. Brother, go fetch water. Don't wake up Mom!"
The younger brother asked: "Brother, can you provoke me?"
"can."
"Didn't brother Zhenqing come to help you carry water every day?"
Wang Xiaosong ignored his younger brother and put the towel under his clothes...
"Aren't you good friends?"
Wang Xiaosong gave his younger brother a hard look, but the younger brother didn't ask any questions.
As soon as Wang Xiaosong went out, he saw Wu Zhenqing coming.He pretended not to see it, and took the pole from under the eaves... Wu Zhenqing was wandering elsewhere, but his eyes were on him... The pole hook is too long, Wang Xiaosong can't afford the bucket... He looped the shoulder pole hook chain around the pole for a while before barely lifting the bucket off the ground.But just two steps away, the back bucket fell, and the front bucket hit the ground... Wu Zhenqing finally came over and picked up the bucket for him: "I can't lift a load of water, but you can?" Wang Xiaosong said: "I can't carry a load, I will carry half a load." Wu Zhenqing took the pole from his shoulder and said: "Aren't you always afraid that you will be a small man in the future? The more you press now, the shorter you will be in the future!" Wang Xiaosong said: "Go away! Shorter or shorter, I am willing!" The two competed for the pole. Wu Zhenqing suddenly covered one hand with the other, turned his back and couldn't stop crying... Wang Xiaosong was taken aback for a moment, walked around to the opposite side of him, and asked nonchalantly, "What's the matter? What's the matter?" Wu Zhenqing raised his head and smiled, and stroked Wang Xiaosong's head like an adult rubbing a child's head: "I'm just kidding you!" Wang Xiaosong couldn't help laughing, and punched him: "You bastard!" The two walked away carrying the bucket. When they carried back the water, when the two squatted down to pick up the poles, Wang Xiaosong turned his head and found that the bucket was not in the middle, but very close to Wu Zhenqing's end... "Aren't you afraid of being crushed into a small person?" Wu Zhenqing said: "My father is tall, no matter how I suppress the future, I won't be short!" The two went into the house carrying the bucket together and poured it into the tank. Wang Xiaosong was stirring the noodles to cook the porridge. Wu Zhenqing poured water for him, while teasing his younger brothers and sisters: "How did you become so honest today? What good food are you eating?" When Wang Xiaosong heard this, he looked at his younger siblings—the younger siblings kept their mouths tightly shut and put one hand behind their backs... Wang Xiaosong guessed something, looked at the plate on the table - there was only one kohlrabi root left on the plate... Wang Xiaosong became angry: "Okay, if you steal food, give it to me!" The younger siblings stretched out their hands—there was a little leftover kohlrabi root in their hands... Wang Xiaosong put down the mixing bowl, rushed at his younger siblings, and wanted to beat them... The mother woke up startled, stopped him with both arms, and shouted: "Xiao Song, what are you doing?!" "They ate all the kohlrabi root!" Wu Zhenqing said: "Hey, I still think they are eating 'artificial meat' or something! The kohlrabi root, steal it!" He said, picked up the remaining kohlrabi root on the plate, and took a bite too , chewing it with relish, and said: "It's really delicious, like a radish." Wang Xiaosong said: "You!... This is what Wu Sannai asked me to bring to our teacher." Upon hearing this, Wu Zhenqing silently put the kohlrabi root back on the plate... Mother said: "You can give your teacher another egg. Two count as yours for your teacher, and two count as what the third wife asked you to deliver to your teacher, okay?" Only then did Wang Xiaosong calm down, and while continuing to stir up noodles, he glared fiercely at his younger siblings. Brother and sister cry... The mother hugged her younger brother with one arm and her younger sister with one arm, and asked Wu Zhenqing, "Xiaoqing, have you brought water for Xiao Song again? Our family has really lost you, or we won't even be able to eat water. I recognize you as a godson." , do you want to?" Wu Zhenqing looked at Wang Xiaosong, and said happily: "Yes!" He lifted the lid of the pot to look, and said, "The water is boiling!" So Wang Xiaosong poured the batter into the pot, and Wu Zhenqing stirred it with a spoon... Mother looked at them kindly... Vegetable porridge bubbling in the pot...
At the same time, Tsui Hark was queuing in front of the grocery store to buy vegetables, and he quietly jumped into the queue while no one was looking. A woman yelled at him: "Hey, you kid, why are you standing next to me and getting caught in front of me?" Tsui Hark said, "I'm here!" The woman said: "It's unreasonable!" As she spoke, she turned to let him see the number written in chalk on her sleeve. Tsui Hark said: "I also have a number!" He also turned sideways to let the other party see the number. The woman became angry: "I am number 31, why are you also number 31? You must have written it yourself!" Tsui Hark said, "No!" A few people behind shouted: "This child was caught in, squeeze him out!" "He's not allowed to buy it. It's all jammed. When will the queued ones be able to buy it?" Behind the woman, an old man with the appearance of an intellectual calmed down and said, "Forget it, forget it, a child, just clamp it. Child, come in front of me!" Tsui Hark obediently stood in front of the old man. The woman turned around and said to the old man, "It's not that I have the same knowledge as a child. You can see on my vegetable purchase certificate that I haven't bought vegetables for three days! And I won't give you supplements..." Suddenly came the voice of the vegetable seller: "Don't line up, don't line up, it's sold out!" The people in line suddenly became chaotic, and they all rushed forward—many hands stretched out to the vegetable table, grabbing some fallen vegetable leaves... People finally dispersed—those who bought it looked happy, and those who didn’t get it looked sad... Someone asked: "When will the food come tomorrow?" The vegetable seller said, "I don't know." "Then, can I have food?" "have no idea." "It is said that each household has three catties of vegetables per day, but they only come once or twice a week. Isn't this buying vegetables equal to white hair?" The vegetable seller said: "Don't want it anymore? Don't want to give it to me!" The man left without a word... A person holding vegetables and wearing glasses dropped a few small green vegetables... The woman who said Tsui Hark stuffed it just now saw it, stepped forward to pick it up, turned around and left... Someone told the man who dropped the vegetables: "It's dropped!" He looked back immediately, as if it was a wallet, or something valuable. The person who told him pointed to the woman's back—she had hurried away a long way. But he refused to give up, shouting and chasing: "Hey, that lesbian, wait, wait!" The woman walked even faster... He dropped another vegetable, was picked up by a child and ran away... He paused, continued to chase the woman, and finally caught up. The woman looked back embarrassingly, and actually recognized her: "Hey, Section Chief Yan, I... I didn't know you were calling me..." The man was also extremely embarrassed: "It's nothing, nothing, you didn't buy it?" But his eyes couldn't help looking at the few green vegetables in the woman's hand... The woman said: "I didn't buy it! Did you drop it? I didn't know it was you from behind. If I saw it, I picked it up and gave it to you..." "No, no, I didn't drop it... The weather is so good today, isn't it?" The woman said: "Give it to you, give it to you!" "Why bother, why bother, it's just a few vegetables!" One insisted on returning it, and the other insisted on not accepting it... Tsui Hark stood empty-handed and watched from not far away, looking very disappointed... Tsui Hark's gaze was suddenly attracted by something - a carriage owner was lying on the carriage with his eyes closed, wondering if he had fallen asleep.There was actually a quarter of a bean cake under his head! Tsui Hark's feet involuntarily walked to the carriage... The owner of the car opened his eyes: "What do you see me doing?" he leaves... After the owner of the car closed his eyes, Tsui Hark came back again... He tiptoed around the carriage, waiting for the opportunity to strike... He suddenly pulled out the quarter piece of bean cake from under the owner's head... The owner of the car bumped his head against the car board... Boss Che opened his eyes and stared at him blankly... He also stared at the boss in a daze... Boss Che's hands subconsciously touched under his head, unable to touch the bean cakes, he sat up abruptly... Tsui Hark ran away holding the bean cake... The owner of the car jumped out of the car and shouted with his whip, "Hey, stop! You stop! Fucking little bastard, you'll be robbed in broad daylight! Don't stop? Let's see if I catch you or whip you!" He ran across the road and a truck screeched to a stop... The owner of the car chased across the road...
At this time, Wang Xiaosong had already cooked the porridge, and Wu Zhenqing brought it to the table for him. Brother and sister are already drinking... Mother said: "Xiaoqing, you can eat here too!" "No. I'll go home and eat..." The mother said: "It's all my godson, why are you being polite? You can eat delicacies from mountains and seas when you go home?" Wu Zhenqing glanced into the pot. Wang Xiaosong said: "Eat it, enough..." Wu Zhenqing said: "Okay, I'll eat!" He sat down and drank unceremoniously... Mother leaned against the wall, holding a bowl in both hands to drink... Suddenly there was the sound of drinking porridge. In addition to the porridge bowl, there is also a large plate on the small kang table, perhaps the same plate that was used to hold the kohlrabi root just now.In the middle of the plate is a piece of fermented bean curd.No, it was one piece, and now it's incomplete... The three children from their own family and one child from a foreign family dipped their chopsticks on the fermented bean curd from time to time, and then slurped it in their mouths a few times, with a solemn demeanor, like the children of nobles eating Western food. It can be heard from the sound of them drinking porridge - they think the corn porridge mixed with vegetables is delicious! Wu Zhenqing looked at his mother and suddenly remembered something: "Auntie..." Mother said angrily: "Huh? What do you call me?" Wu Zhenqing changed his words: "Godmother, my mother... my mother said... said..." "Don't talk about it, just say it!" Just as he was about to say something, Tsui Hark broke in suddenly. He was out of breath and out of breath, holding the bean cake tightly in his arms, looking around, looking for a place to hide.Finally, he put the bean cakes into an old box (it was used to store winter shoes), and sat down on the box, pointing to the door: "Shut! Shut!... Shut the door!" Everyone looked at him in astonishment... Tsui Hark said: "If someone chases me, you all insist that I never left the house!" He hurriedly took off his coat, tucked it behind the box, and said bare-chested, "Give me a bowl of porridge! I'm barebacked and drinking porridge, so he won't dare to recognize me!" At this time, a roar came from outside: "Little bastard, get out! If you don't return my bean cake today, no matter where you hide, I will find you!" No one gave Tsui Hark porridge. Tsui Hark snatched Wu Zhenqing's porridge bowl and drank it... Wu Zhenqing stood up apprehensively, went outside to have a look... Mother said: "Xiao Song, help me out..." Wang Xiaosong said: "Mom, you lie down, it's not my fault!" Tsui Hark said: "Yes, auntie, just lie down quietly. The man won't be able to find me, he will leave in a while!" The mother ignored Tsui Hark and said to her son, "Help me out!" Wang Xiaosong had no choice but to help his mother go out. The owner of the car came to the door of the house, clutching the whip in one hand, and asked, "Sister-in-law, did you see a child coming?" Without waiting for the mother to answer, he said angrily to himself: "I am so big, but I was robbed by a small child." He snatched my piece of bean cake, which is my three-day ration! I don’t want to eat it, I want to save it and bring it back to my wife and children..." After he finished speaking, he slammed a whip with nowhere to vent... The mother said, "Big Brother, it was my child who robbed you." The owner of the car couldn't help being startled, and then he showed a bit of bewildered, embarrassed, and even pitiful look-it was the habitual inferiority complex of honest rural people in front of urban people. In the house, the younger brother said to Tsui Hark: "Brother Xiao Ke, I will hide it for you in another place! Hide it in the quilt, and he promises not to turn over my quilt!" Tsui Hark took out the bean cake from the box and handed it to him to hide under the quilt—— After hiding the bean cakes, the younger siblings also slipped out of bed, huddled behind their mother, and stared at the owner of the car... The mother said to Wang Xiaosong: "Call him out! Take out the bean cakes!" Holding the bean cakes in his hands, Tsui Hark cringed, ashamed, and somewhat reluctantly pushed out of the room by Wang Xiaosong and Wu Zhenqing... Mother said: "Give it back to this uncle, and apologize to this uncle!" Tsui Hark returned the bean cake without saying a word, and then retreated to his mother. Mother said sternly: "I haven't apologized yet!" Tsui Hark said, "I...was wrong..." The mother turned her head and said to the owner of the car: "I am not strict with my children, and you laughed at me. I bow to you, please forgive me!" Under the watchful eyes of the children, the mother bowed deeply to the owner of the car... Boss Che looked at his mother, then at Tsui Hark, and said, "This...sister-in-law, I don't mean to embarrass the child at all! Give me back, I will be grateful! In these days, you have so many children. It's enough for you to worry about them!" He caught a glimpse of the ax at the door, and was caught by the firewood. He walked over, stuck the whip on his back, put the bean cake on the threshold, pulled out the ax, and with one ax, the piece of bean cake was split into two halves... The owner of the car stood up, gave half of the bean cakes to Tsui Hark, and said with a wry smile: "We have both run hard enough. If you ask me for it, I am really reluctant to give it to you! Now, why am I ashamed not to keep half of it? Take it Let's go!" Tsui Hark was even more ashamed, and took the bean cake with his head down... Boss Che was about to turn around and leave when his mother stopped him: "Wait..." Mother whispered a few words to Wang Xiaosong... Wang Xiaosong went into the house, came out in a short while, wrapped something in a gauze bag for his mother... The mother handed it to the owner of the car: "Oh, there is nothing to give away at home. These are two corn buns. I didn't eat the ones I brought to work today, and a few raw potatoes. Don't be disgusted..." The owner of the car said: "This...how can this be done! How can this be done! Didn't I take advantage of it in reverse? I can't accept it! I can't accept it!" The mother and the owner of the car pushed back and forth, and finally, the things were in the hands of the owner of the car... The owner of the car said: "Sister-in-law, I will never forget you. The new year is coming, I will definitely bring you a cart of vegetables from the countryside!" The mother smiled, turned around, and said to the children with a calm face, "Help me back to the house." Wang Xiaosong and Wu Zhenqing helped their mother into the house. The younger brothers and sisters also pulled Tsui Hark into the room. The younger sister said: "Brother Xiaoke, don't be unhappy, or you don't even have this piece of bean cake!" Mother said: "Keep on eating, and serve him a bowl of porridge too." - "He", of course, refers to Tsui Hark. Wang Xiaosong served Xu Ke a bowl of porridge, and Xu Ke sat on the edge of the kang unceremoniously, holding the bowl and drinking with his head down... There was another sound of drinking porridge, as if nothing unpleasant happened just now. Tsui Hark said, "One more bowl!" It was obvious that he thought he was no outsider here. Wang Xiaosong filled another bowl for him. Wu Zhenqing said, "Godmother, I'll serve it to you!" My mother said, "I won't drink any more. If I don't go to work, I won't be able to drink any more after drinking one bowl." Tsui Hark said, "I also call you godmother, right?" "What about you, wait a while." Tsui Hark made fun of it and felt a little uncomfortable. Mother said: "Xiaoqing, what did you want to say to me just now?" Wu Zhenqing said: "My mother said that my family will run out of food tomorrow, but it will be three or four days before the day to buy food. My mother asked me to ask, is it okay to use your family's food bank to buy ten catties of food first?" "Then there's nothing wrong with it. Didn't my family use your family's food bank to buy food? Fortunately, there is a gap between the days of buying food, so we help each other to buy it!" The respective bowls are empty, the pot is empty, and the fermented bean curd on the plate is gone. Mother asked Tsui Hark, "Are you full?" Tsui Hark patted his stomach: "I'm full." Mother said: "Come here, I have something to tell you." Xu Hark walked up to his mother, who grabbed one of his hands and said to Wang Xiaosong and Wu Zhenqing at the same time: "Xiao Song, Xiao Qing, you put in the door and guard the door for me." Tsui Hark began to feel that something was wrong, and said in a low voice, "Auntie..." Mother said: "If you rob someone else's property and run to my house instead of your own, what do you think should be done to you?" "I won't dare next time..." "Should I hit you?" "Should……" The mother said: "Your mother is paralyzed on the bed, and your father usually has no time to discipline you. Do you think I have the right to discipline you for them?" Tsui Hark said in a low voice, "There is..." "Okay, take off your pants..." Tsui Hark untied the belt with one hand... "Get down..." Tsui Hark obediently lay on the edge of the Kang... The mother held him down with one hand, grabbed the broom bump with the other, and beat him on the buttocks, not too hard, but not too light... Tsui Hark gritted his teeth and endured... Wang Xiaosong said: "Mom!" Wu Zhenqing said: "Godmother!" They hurried over to beg for mercy for Tsui Hark. Mother said: "You have dared to rob since you were a child. If you don't teach you, will you be able to pay it off when you grow up?" Tsui Hark wept silently and said, "I was wrong..." Then the mother threw the broom and said with a very serious face: "You are all children from poor families. Your mother and I have nothing more important than a face. If you learn to be bad from an early age, we will As a mother, what hope do you have?" Tsui Hark tied his pants with tears streaming down his face, and suddenly burst into tears. The mother said: "I hit you, you feel wronged? Do you think I am not qualified to discipline you for your mother?" Tsui Hark said, "Yes." "Then how wronged are you crying?" Tsui Hark said: "It's not a grievance, it's...it's...I lost my vegetable purchase certificate!" He cried more sadly, more desperately... All the children, including the mother, immediately looked at him with sympathy...
night. The mother held an egg in her hand, stroked it, and said regretfully: "It's a pity that it's not spring. If it were spring, a little hen might be hatched from these eggs. If there is a hen, we will There are often eggs to eat..." Wang Xiaosong and his younger siblings were lying on the bed, holding their chins in both hands, listening longingly... The mother brought the egg closer to the light—it became translucent, and there seemed to be life wriggling inside... Wang Xiaosong fell asleep with his younger siblings... Wang Xiaosong had a dream, dreaming of chickens full of kangs... In the dream, he, his mother and younger siblings were surrounded by chicks, smiling happily. Countless chicks turned into countless big chickens, and gave birth to eggs full of kang, which could not be picked up... Wang Xiaosong distributed eggs to people, among them were his teachers and classmates - Wu Zhenqing, Tsui Hark, Hao Mei, Zhang Meng, Han Debao, etc...
the next morning. Wang Xiaosong left home and was on his way to school, with eggs in his schoolbag for the teacher. Wang Xiaosong stopped in front of Xu Ke's house.Tsui Hark's father is pumping up the bicycle. Wang Xiaosong said, "Uncle, is Tsui Hark in the house?" Xu's father said: "He left early, and he left with Zhenqing, saying that he was on duty today..." Wang Xiaosong left with a face full of confusion... He was happy, jumping up and down... A man on a bicycle yells, "Little boy, something fell out of the bag!" He stopped and looked back.On the way, there was a handkerchief bag, and he was dumbfounded, because the handkerchief contained eggs... He ran back to pick up... A swill truck was parked by the side of the road.The old horse pulling the cart was skinny, and the old horse was closer to the handkerchief bag than him; the horse moved the cart, stretched its neck, and before he could get there, it picked up the handkerchief bag and swallowed it... Wang Xiaosong stared blankly at the old horse... The old man driving the car came out from behind a building and shouted, "Pour out the slop! Pour out the slop! Pour out..." Wang Xiaosong rushed to the old man and cried, "Give me back my eggs! Give me back my eggs! Give me back my eggs!" The old monk Zhang Er was puzzled: "What eggs? Why should I return your eggs?" "My eggs fell on the ground and were eaten by your horse. There are four of them in total! If you don't return them today, I won't do it!" The old man looked at the old horse - the old horse seemed to be indifferent. The old man said: "An old horse pulling a slop cart is almost starving to death. How can you plant it on its head! My child, it is a sin to wrong an animal that can't speak! Even if it eats, then You should be unlucky too. I forgot whether the eggs are round or square, where can I find four eggs to return to you these days?" A young man pouring slops said: "You want to eat eggs too much, so you made up the story?" The old man turned around and left, knocking on the clapper again: "Pour out the slop! Pour out the slop!..." Taking advantage of no one watching, Wang Xiaosong picked up a big stone from the ground, stared at the old horse with hatred, and held it high... The old horse looked at him - its eyes seemed kind, but also sad... Bang sound... Wang Xiaosong's arm dropped and he threw the stone... He left in frustration, wiping his tears from time to time, and looking back at the old horse from time to time... bang... bang... bang... Wang Xiaosong came to the school listlessly. He was walking in the corridor—the door of a classroom just opened, but the students who were about to rush into the classroom were blocked by a desk... A student in another class said: "It's the same when the classroom door of our class is opened!" "Look, the ventilation window is open! Oh, how come there are only so few of the teacher's chalk left?!" "Someone must have climbed in from above, and climbed out on the desk!" "Then who else but a thief?" "Report to the principal!" The students talked a lot.
In the classroom of Wang Xiaosong's class, the teacher's desk is full of various things: a vegetable, two carrots, a few potatoes, a cornbread and so on.Of course, there is also a large piece of bean cake, needless to say, Han Debao brought it to the teacher... The chalk box was full of chalk, all of which were whole and colored. Zhang Meng said, "Hey, how come there are so many chalks?" Several students looked at Wu Zhenqing and Tsui Hark... They were sitting in their seats, as if they were reading the text seriously... As soon as Wang Xiaosong walked into the classroom, several classmates immediately surrounded him and asked questions in random words: "Wang Xiaosong, what did you bring to the teacher?" "Why didn't you talk? He must have brought nothing!" "This guy, the teacher has worked hard to teach you for five years, can't you get a little affection from you? Do you have a conscience?" Hao Mei said: "Don't yell. When Wang Xiaosong was sick, the teacher went to his house almost every night to make up lessons for him. He wouldn't be as heartless as you said!" After she finished speaking, she stared at Wang Xiaosong, expecting him to come up with something better than others... Wang Xiaosong said in a low voice, "I brought four eggs!" The students were amazed: "Wow! Eggs?!" "Wang Xiaosong, you are amazing!" "I haven't seen eggs for a long time, and I almost forgot that there are eggs in the world!" "Wang Xiaosong, don't be angry with what I just said!" "If anyone brings some 'artificial meat', the teacher will go home and fry eggs, how delicious it will be!" The word "egg" made the students salivate... Zhang Meng said: "Wang Xiaosong, then quickly take it out!" Wang Xiaosong said: "Let the horse eat..." There was a sudden silence.The students looked at each other in blank dismay, and then all stared at him in the face, obviously no one believed his words... Han Debao suddenly said: "You lied!" Wang Xiaosong said: "I'm not lying! I fell on the road and was eaten by the old horse pulling the slop cart, including the handkerchief wrapped in eggs..." A male classmate laughed loudly: "Ha, ha, after a long time of trouble, he is still empty-handed! He was eaten by a horse!" He turned his head and asked the students around him, "Do horses eat eggs? Have you ever heard of horses eating eggs?" Is something wrong?" Hao Mei said angrily: "Wang Xiaosong, I always thought you were honest. So you are so good at lying! From now on, I will never believe your words..." She felt that her trust in him had been teased, she turned angrily and walked towards her seat... Zhang Meng said: "Wang Xiaosong, if you didn't bring it, you didn't bring it. That's okay, everyone is voluntary anyway. But it's wrong for you to make up nonsense and lie to play tricks on everyone." Wang Xiaosong opened his mouth a few times, not knowing what to say... Wu Zhenqing left his seat and walked over... "I testify that he did not lie," he said. Zhang Meng looked at him dissatisfied - that means, you always cover each other.But she dared not speak out... Wu Zhenqing testified: "His mother asked him to bring four eggs to our teacher yesterday, and I was at his house at that time." The male classmate said: "But can you testify that he drank it by himself on the road? I drank raw eggs and it was delicious!" Wu Zhenqing opened his mouth, but was also speechless.He stared at Wang Xiaosong intently, as if he was asking——Xiaosong, don't you know? Wang Xiaosong suddenly rushed at the male classmate, and the two began to wrestle... The school bell is ringing...
Class is over, and the students are all seated. Wang Xiaosong's nose was broken and stuffed with paper, and there was a little blood on his lips... The classroom door opened... Zhang Meng shouted: "Stand up!" All students stand up... It was not Mr. Qu, the head teacher, who walked into the classroom—it was a male teacher.It was the male teacher who carried Teacher Qu into the teacher's room yesterday. Zhang Meng's voice became lower: "Li." No classmates salute... "sit." None of the classmates sat down, they were still standing blankly, staring blankly at the male teacher... The male teacher said: "Students, sit down..." Everyone finally sat down one after another. The male teacher said: "Students, these things on the desk show that you care about your teacher Qu very much, just like...you teacher Qu loves you very much. This makes me very moved..." He pondered for a while, as if he didn't know what to say for a while—he actually said two childish words: "Really..." The classroom is very, very quiet... He continued: "From today onwards, I will be your class teacher. Yesterday, some students already knew me. Let me introduce myself...my surname is Zhao...yes...my surname is Zhao..." "Then, where is our teacher Qu?" Hao Mei asked softly. "She... transferred..." Han Debao said: "This is impossible!" He looked at the students on the left and right, and said: "This is too impossible! Do you think so?" The students echoed: "impossible!" "impossible!" Zhang Meng said: "If our Teacher Qu is really transferred, she will definitely say goodbye to us. Why doesn't she say goodbye to us?" Teacher Zhao said: "Yes, yes, why didn't she say goodbye to you..." He rubbed his hands and said hesitantly: "How can I tell you? Wild vegetable poisoning...is often life-threatening... ...We teachers, are sad...but...but...we all have to face reality, don't we?" Han Debao asked: "Our teacher...is...is she dead?" His question became lighter and lighter.The last few words were barely audible. Teacher Zhao stared at him and nodded... There was a strange silence - there seemed to be a bang sound coming from afar... The bang sound comes from Wang Xiaosong's subjective hallucination... Tears welled up in his eyes... "Now... let's start class..." Teacher Zhao picked up a piece of chalk... "You are not allowed to move!" He looked up in surprise.And, I couldn't help but put down the chalk... Tsui Hark left his seat, ran to the front, picked up the chalk box with both hands, ran back to his seat, put the chalk box on his desk, and protected it with both hands, as if afraid of being snatched away... He suddenly covered the chalk box with both hands, fell on the table and cried... So many students cried... Teacher Zhao stepped down from the podium, leaned against the window, faced the students, and looked at everyone very understandingly... Wang Xiaosong, who was crying silently... The cry fades away and disappears... The bang sound... the bang sound came from Wang Xiaosong's head. Although the students around were crying, what Wang Xiaosong heard seemed to be just bangs...
As soon as Wang Xiaosong went out, he saw Wu Zhenqing coming.He pretended not to see it, and took the pole from under the eaves... Wu Zhenqing was wandering elsewhere, but his eyes were on him... The pole hook is too long, Wang Xiaosong can't afford the bucket... He looped the shoulder pole hook chain around the pole for a while before barely lifting the bucket off the ground.But just two steps away, the back bucket fell, and the front bucket hit the ground... Wu Zhenqing finally came over and picked up the bucket for him: "I can't lift a load of water, but you can?" Wang Xiaosong said: "I can't carry a load, I will carry half a load." Wu Zhenqing took the pole from his shoulder and said: "Aren't you always afraid that you will be a small man in the future? The more you press now, the shorter you will be in the future!" Wang Xiaosong said: "Go away! Shorter or shorter, I am willing!" The two competed for the pole. Wu Zhenqing suddenly covered one hand with the other, turned his back and couldn't stop crying... Wang Xiaosong was taken aback for a moment, walked around to the opposite side of him, and asked nonchalantly, "What's the matter? What's the matter?" Wu Zhenqing raised his head and smiled, and stroked Wang Xiaosong's head like an adult rubbing a child's head: "I'm just kidding you!" Wang Xiaosong couldn't help laughing, and punched him: "You bastard!" The two walked away carrying the bucket. When they carried back the water, when the two squatted down to pick up the poles, Wang Xiaosong turned his head and found that the bucket was not in the middle, but very close to Wu Zhenqing's end... "Aren't you afraid of being crushed into a small person?" Wu Zhenqing said: "My father is tall, no matter how I suppress the future, I won't be short!" The two went into the house carrying the bucket together and poured it into the tank. Wang Xiaosong was stirring the noodles to cook the porridge. Wu Zhenqing poured water for him, while teasing his younger brothers and sisters: "How did you become so honest today? What good food are you eating?" When Wang Xiaosong heard this, he looked at his younger siblings—the younger siblings kept their mouths tightly shut and put one hand behind their backs... Wang Xiaosong guessed something, looked at the plate on the table - there was only one kohlrabi root left on the plate... Wang Xiaosong became angry: "Okay, if you steal food, give it to me!" The younger siblings stretched out their hands—there was a little leftover kohlrabi root in their hands... Wang Xiaosong put down the mixing bowl, rushed at his younger siblings, and wanted to beat them... The mother woke up startled, stopped him with both arms, and shouted: "Xiao Song, what are you doing?!" "They ate all the kohlrabi root!" Wu Zhenqing said: "Hey, I still think they are eating 'artificial meat' or something! The kohlrabi root, steal it!" He said, picked up the remaining kohlrabi root on the plate, and took a bite too , chewing it with relish, and said: "It's really delicious, like a radish." Wang Xiaosong said: "You!... This is what Wu Sannai asked me to bring to our teacher." Upon hearing this, Wu Zhenqing silently put the kohlrabi root back on the plate... Mother said: "You can give your teacher another egg. Two count as yours for your teacher, and two count as what the third wife asked you to deliver to your teacher, okay?" Only then did Wang Xiaosong calm down, and while continuing to stir up noodles, he glared fiercely at his younger siblings. Brother and sister cry... The mother hugged her younger brother with one arm and her younger sister with one arm, and asked Wu Zhenqing, "Xiaoqing, have you brought water for Xiao Song again? Our family has really lost you, or we won't even be able to eat water. I recognize you as a godson." , do you want to?" Wu Zhenqing looked at Wang Xiaosong, and said happily: "Yes!" He lifted the lid of the pot to look, and said, "The water is boiling!" So Wang Xiaosong poured the batter into the pot, and Wu Zhenqing stirred it with a spoon... Mother looked at them kindly... Vegetable porridge bubbling in the pot...
At the same time, Tsui Hark was queuing in front of the grocery store to buy vegetables, and he quietly jumped into the queue while no one was looking. A woman yelled at him: "Hey, you kid, why are you standing next to me and getting caught in front of me?" Tsui Hark said, "I'm here!" The woman said: "It's unreasonable!" As she spoke, she turned to let him see the number written in chalk on her sleeve. Tsui Hark said: "I also have a number!" He also turned sideways to let the other party see the number. The woman became angry: "I am number 31, why are you also number 31? You must have written it yourself!" Tsui Hark said, "No!" A few people behind shouted: "This child was caught in, squeeze him out!" "He's not allowed to buy it. It's all jammed. When will the queued ones be able to buy it?" Behind the woman, an old man with the appearance of an intellectual calmed down and said, "Forget it, forget it, a child, just clamp it. Child, come in front of me!" Tsui Hark obediently stood in front of the old man. The woman turned around and said to the old man, "It's not that I have the same knowledge as a child. You can see on my vegetable purchase certificate that I haven't bought vegetables for three days! And I won't give you supplements..." Suddenly came the voice of the vegetable seller: "Don't line up, don't line up, it's sold out!" The people in line suddenly became chaotic, and they all rushed forward—many hands stretched out to the vegetable table, grabbing some fallen vegetable leaves... People finally dispersed—those who bought it looked happy, and those who didn’t get it looked sad... Someone asked: "When will the food come tomorrow?" The vegetable seller said, "I don't know." "Then, can I have food?" "have no idea." "It is said that each household has three catties of vegetables per day, but they only come once or twice a week. Isn't this buying vegetables equal to white hair?" The vegetable seller said: "Don't want it anymore? Don't want to give it to me!" The man left without a word... A person holding vegetables and wearing glasses dropped a few small green vegetables... The woman who said Tsui Hark stuffed it just now saw it, stepped forward to pick it up, turned around and left... Someone told the man who dropped the vegetables: "It's dropped!" He looked back immediately, as if it was a wallet, or something valuable. The person who told him pointed to the woman's back—she had hurried away a long way. But he refused to give up, shouting and chasing: "Hey, that lesbian, wait, wait!" The woman walked even faster... He dropped another vegetable, was picked up by a child and ran away... He paused, continued to chase the woman, and finally caught up. The woman looked back embarrassingly, and actually recognized her: "Hey, Section Chief Yan, I... I didn't know you were calling me..." The man was also extremely embarrassed: "It's nothing, nothing, you didn't buy it?" But his eyes couldn't help looking at the few green vegetables in the woman's hand... The woman said: "I didn't buy it! Did you drop it? I didn't know it was you from behind. If I saw it, I picked it up and gave it to you..." "No, no, I didn't drop it... The weather is so good today, isn't it?" The woman said: "Give it to you, give it to you!" "Why bother, why bother, it's just a few vegetables!" One insisted on returning it, and the other insisted on not accepting it... Tsui Hark stood empty-handed and watched from not far away, looking very disappointed... Tsui Hark's gaze was suddenly attracted by something - a carriage owner was lying on the carriage with his eyes closed, wondering if he had fallen asleep.There was actually a quarter of a bean cake under his head! Tsui Hark's feet involuntarily walked to the carriage... The owner of the car opened his eyes: "What do you see me doing?" he leaves... After the owner of the car closed his eyes, Tsui Hark came back again... He tiptoed around the carriage, waiting for the opportunity to strike... He suddenly pulled out the quarter piece of bean cake from under the owner's head... The owner of the car bumped his head against the car board... Boss Che opened his eyes and stared at him blankly... He also stared at the boss in a daze... Boss Che's hands subconsciously touched under his head, unable to touch the bean cakes, he sat up abruptly... Tsui Hark ran away holding the bean cake... The owner of the car jumped out of the car and shouted with his whip, "Hey, stop! You stop! Fucking little bastard, you'll be robbed in broad daylight! Don't stop? Let's see if I catch you or whip you!" He ran across the road and a truck screeched to a stop... The owner of the car chased across the road...
At this time, Wang Xiaosong had already cooked the porridge, and Wu Zhenqing brought it to the table for him. Brother and sister are already drinking... Mother said: "Xiaoqing, you can eat here too!" "No. I'll go home and eat..." The mother said: "It's all my godson, why are you being polite? You can eat delicacies from mountains and seas when you go home?" Wu Zhenqing glanced into the pot. Wang Xiaosong said: "Eat it, enough..." Wu Zhenqing said: "Okay, I'll eat!" He sat down and drank unceremoniously... Mother leaned against the wall, holding a bowl in both hands to drink... Suddenly there was the sound of drinking porridge. In addition to the porridge bowl, there is also a large plate on the small kang table, perhaps the same plate that was used to hold the kohlrabi root just now.In the middle of the plate is a piece of fermented bean curd.No, it was one piece, and now it's incomplete... The three children from their own family and one child from a foreign family dipped their chopsticks on the fermented bean curd from time to time, and then slurped it in their mouths a few times, with a solemn demeanor, like the children of nobles eating Western food. It can be heard from the sound of them drinking porridge - they think the corn porridge mixed with vegetables is delicious! Wu Zhenqing looked at his mother and suddenly remembered something: "Auntie..." Mother said angrily: "Huh? What do you call me?" Wu Zhenqing changed his words: "Godmother, my mother... my mother said... said..." "Don't talk about it, just say it!" Just as he was about to say something, Tsui Hark broke in suddenly. He was out of breath and out of breath, holding the bean cake tightly in his arms, looking around, looking for a place to hide.Finally, he put the bean cakes into an old box (it was used to store winter shoes), and sat down on the box, pointing to the door: "Shut! Shut!... Shut the door!" Everyone looked at him in astonishment... Tsui Hark said: "If someone chases me, you all insist that I never left the house!" He hurriedly took off his coat, tucked it behind the box, and said bare-chested, "Give me a bowl of porridge! I'm barebacked and drinking porridge, so he won't dare to recognize me!" At this time, a roar came from outside: "Little bastard, get out! If you don't return my bean cake today, no matter where you hide, I will find you!" No one gave Tsui Hark porridge. Tsui Hark snatched Wu Zhenqing's porridge bowl and drank it... Wu Zhenqing stood up apprehensively, went outside to have a look... Mother said: "Xiao Song, help me out..." Wang Xiaosong said: "Mom, you lie down, it's not my fault!" Tsui Hark said: "Yes, auntie, just lie down quietly. The man won't be able to find me, he will leave in a while!" The mother ignored Tsui Hark and said to her son, "Help me out!" Wang Xiaosong had no choice but to help his mother go out. The owner of the car came to the door of the house, clutching the whip in one hand, and asked, "Sister-in-law, did you see a child coming?" Without waiting for the mother to answer, he said angrily to himself: "I am so big, but I was robbed by a small child." He snatched my piece of bean cake, which is my three-day ration! I don’t want to eat it, I want to save it and bring it back to my wife and children..." After he finished speaking, he slammed a whip with nowhere to vent... The mother said, "Big Brother, it was my child who robbed you." The owner of the car couldn't help being startled, and then he showed a bit of bewildered, embarrassed, and even pitiful look-it was the habitual inferiority complex of honest rural people in front of urban people. In the house, the younger brother said to Tsui Hark: "Brother Xiao Ke, I will hide it for you in another place! Hide it in the quilt, and he promises not to turn over my quilt!" Tsui Hark took out the bean cake from the box and handed it to him to hide under the quilt—— After hiding the bean cakes, the younger siblings also slipped out of bed, huddled behind their mother, and stared at the owner of the car... The mother said to Wang Xiaosong: "Call him out! Take out the bean cakes!" Holding the bean cakes in his hands, Tsui Hark cringed, ashamed, and somewhat reluctantly pushed out of the room by Wang Xiaosong and Wu Zhenqing... Mother said: "Give it back to this uncle, and apologize to this uncle!" Tsui Hark returned the bean cake without saying a word, and then retreated to his mother. Mother said sternly: "I haven't apologized yet!" Tsui Hark said, "I...was wrong..." The mother turned her head and said to the owner of the car: "I am not strict with my children, and you laughed at me. I bow to you, please forgive me!" Under the watchful eyes of the children, the mother bowed deeply to the owner of the car... Boss Che looked at his mother, then at Tsui Hark, and said, "This...sister-in-law, I don't mean to embarrass the child at all! Give me back, I will be grateful! In these days, you have so many children. It's enough for you to worry about them!" He caught a glimpse of the ax at the door, and was caught by the firewood. He walked over, stuck the whip on his back, put the bean cake on the threshold, pulled out the ax, and with one ax, the piece of bean cake was split into two halves... The owner of the car stood up, gave half of the bean cakes to Tsui Hark, and said with a wry smile: "We have both run hard enough. If you ask me for it, I am really reluctant to give it to you! Now, why am I ashamed not to keep half of it? Take it Let's go!" Tsui Hark was even more ashamed, and took the bean cake with his head down... Boss Che was about to turn around and leave when his mother stopped him: "Wait..." Mother whispered a few words to Wang Xiaosong... Wang Xiaosong went into the house, came out in a short while, wrapped something in a gauze bag for his mother... The mother handed it to the owner of the car: "Oh, there is nothing to give away at home. These are two corn buns. I didn't eat the ones I brought to work today, and a few raw potatoes. Don't be disgusted..." The owner of the car said: "This...how can this be done! How can this be done! Didn't I take advantage of it in reverse? I can't accept it! I can't accept it!" The mother and the owner of the car pushed back and forth, and finally, the things were in the hands of the owner of the car... The owner of the car said: "Sister-in-law, I will never forget you. The new year is coming, I will definitely bring you a cart of vegetables from the countryside!" The mother smiled, turned around, and said to the children with a calm face, "Help me back to the house." Wang Xiaosong and Wu Zhenqing helped their mother into the house. The younger brothers and sisters also pulled Tsui Hark into the room. The younger sister said: "Brother Xiaoke, don't be unhappy, or you don't even have this piece of bean cake!" Mother said: "Keep on eating, and serve him a bowl of porridge too." - "He", of course, refers to Tsui Hark. Wang Xiaosong served Xu Ke a bowl of porridge, and Xu Ke sat on the edge of the kang unceremoniously, holding the bowl and drinking with his head down... There was another sound of drinking porridge, as if nothing unpleasant happened just now. Tsui Hark said, "One more bowl!" It was obvious that he thought he was no outsider here. Wang Xiaosong filled another bowl for him. Wu Zhenqing said, "Godmother, I'll serve it to you!" My mother said, "I won't drink any more. If I don't go to work, I won't be able to drink any more after drinking one bowl." Tsui Hark said, "I also call you godmother, right?" "What about you, wait a while." Tsui Hark made fun of it and felt a little uncomfortable. Mother said: "Xiaoqing, what did you want to say to me just now?" Wu Zhenqing said: "My mother said that my family will run out of food tomorrow, but it will be three or four days before the day to buy food. My mother asked me to ask, is it okay to use your family's food bank to buy ten catties of food first?" "Then there's nothing wrong with it. Didn't my family use your family's food bank to buy food? Fortunately, there is a gap between the days of buying food, so we help each other to buy it!" The respective bowls are empty, the pot is empty, and the fermented bean curd on the plate is gone. Mother asked Tsui Hark, "Are you full?" Tsui Hark patted his stomach: "I'm full." Mother said: "Come here, I have something to tell you." Xu Hark walked up to his mother, who grabbed one of his hands and said to Wang Xiaosong and Wu Zhenqing at the same time: "Xiao Song, Xiao Qing, you put in the door and guard the door for me." Tsui Hark began to feel that something was wrong, and said in a low voice, "Auntie..." Mother said: "If you rob someone else's property and run to my house instead of your own, what do you think should be done to you?" "I won't dare next time..." "Should I hit you?" "Should……" The mother said: "Your mother is paralyzed on the bed, and your father usually has no time to discipline you. Do you think I have the right to discipline you for them?" Tsui Hark said in a low voice, "There is..." "Okay, take off your pants..." Tsui Hark untied the belt with one hand... "Get down..." Tsui Hark obediently lay on the edge of the Kang... The mother held him down with one hand, grabbed the broom bump with the other, and beat him on the buttocks, not too hard, but not too light... Tsui Hark gritted his teeth and endured... Wang Xiaosong said: "Mom!" Wu Zhenqing said: "Godmother!" They hurried over to beg for mercy for Tsui Hark. Mother said: "You have dared to rob since you were a child. If you don't teach you, will you be able to pay it off when you grow up?" Tsui Hark wept silently and said, "I was wrong..." Then the mother threw the broom and said with a very serious face: "You are all children from poor families. Your mother and I have nothing more important than a face. If you learn to be bad from an early age, we will As a mother, what hope do you have?" Tsui Hark tied his pants with tears streaming down his face, and suddenly burst into tears. The mother said: "I hit you, you feel wronged? Do you think I am not qualified to discipline you for your mother?" Tsui Hark said, "Yes." "Then how wronged are you crying?" Tsui Hark said: "It's not a grievance, it's...it's...I lost my vegetable purchase certificate!" He cried more sadly, more desperately... All the children, including the mother, immediately looked at him with sympathy...
night. The mother held an egg in her hand, stroked it, and said regretfully: "It's a pity that it's not spring. If it were spring, a little hen might be hatched from these eggs. If there is a hen, we will There are often eggs to eat..." Wang Xiaosong and his younger siblings were lying on the bed, holding their chins in both hands, listening longingly... The mother brought the egg closer to the light—it became translucent, and there seemed to be life wriggling inside... Wang Xiaosong fell asleep with his younger siblings... Wang Xiaosong had a dream, dreaming of chickens full of kangs... In the dream, he, his mother and younger siblings were surrounded by chicks, smiling happily. Countless chicks turned into countless big chickens, and gave birth to eggs full of kang, which could not be picked up... Wang Xiaosong distributed eggs to people, among them were his teachers and classmates - Wu Zhenqing, Tsui Hark, Hao Mei, Zhang Meng, Han Debao, etc...
the next morning. Wang Xiaosong left home and was on his way to school, with eggs in his schoolbag for the teacher. Wang Xiaosong stopped in front of Xu Ke's house.Tsui Hark's father is pumping up the bicycle. Wang Xiaosong said, "Uncle, is Tsui Hark in the house?" Xu's father said: "He left early, and he left with Zhenqing, saying that he was on duty today..." Wang Xiaosong left with a face full of confusion... He was happy, jumping up and down... A man on a bicycle yells, "Little boy, something fell out of the bag!" He stopped and looked back.On the way, there was a handkerchief bag, and he was dumbfounded, because the handkerchief contained eggs... He ran back to pick up... A swill truck was parked by the side of the road.The old horse pulling the cart was skinny, and the old horse was closer to the handkerchief bag than him; the horse moved the cart, stretched its neck, and before he could get there, it picked up the handkerchief bag and swallowed it... Wang Xiaosong stared blankly at the old horse... The old man driving the car came out from behind a building and shouted, "Pour out the slop! Pour out the slop! Pour out..." Wang Xiaosong rushed to the old man and cried, "Give me back my eggs! Give me back my eggs! Give me back my eggs!" The old monk Zhang Er was puzzled: "What eggs? Why should I return your eggs?" "My eggs fell on the ground and were eaten by your horse. There are four of them in total! If you don't return them today, I won't do it!" The old man looked at the old horse - the old horse seemed to be indifferent. The old man said: "An old horse pulling a slop cart is almost starving to death. How can you plant it on its head! My child, it is a sin to wrong an animal that can't speak! Even if it eats, then You should be unlucky too. I forgot whether the eggs are round or square, where can I find four eggs to return to you these days?" A young man pouring slops said: "You want to eat eggs too much, so you made up the story?" The old man turned around and left, knocking on the clapper again: "Pour out the slop! Pour out the slop!..." Taking advantage of no one watching, Wang Xiaosong picked up a big stone from the ground, stared at the old horse with hatred, and held it high... The old horse looked at him - its eyes seemed kind, but also sad... Bang sound... Wang Xiaosong's arm dropped and he threw the stone... He left in frustration, wiping his tears from time to time, and looking back at the old horse from time to time... bang... bang... bang... Wang Xiaosong came to the school listlessly. He was walking in the corridor—the door of a classroom just opened, but the students who were about to rush into the classroom were blocked by a desk... A student in another class said: "It's the same when the classroom door of our class is opened!" "Look, the ventilation window is open! Oh, how come there are only so few of the teacher's chalk left?!" "Someone must have climbed in from above, and climbed out on the desk!" "Then who else but a thief?" "Report to the principal!" The students talked a lot.
In the classroom of Wang Xiaosong's class, the teacher's desk is full of various things: a vegetable, two carrots, a few potatoes, a cornbread and so on.Of course, there is also a large piece of bean cake, needless to say, Han Debao brought it to the teacher... The chalk box was full of chalk, all of which were whole and colored. Zhang Meng said, "Hey, how come there are so many chalks?" Several students looked at Wu Zhenqing and Tsui Hark... They were sitting in their seats, as if they were reading the text seriously... As soon as Wang Xiaosong walked into the classroom, several classmates immediately surrounded him and asked questions in random words: "Wang Xiaosong, what did you bring to the teacher?" "Why didn't you talk? He must have brought nothing!" "This guy, the teacher has worked hard to teach you for five years, can't you get a little affection from you? Do you have a conscience?" Hao Mei said: "Don't yell. When Wang Xiaosong was sick, the teacher went to his house almost every night to make up lessons for him. He wouldn't be as heartless as you said!" After she finished speaking, she stared at Wang Xiaosong, expecting him to come up with something better than others... Wang Xiaosong said in a low voice, "I brought four eggs!" The students were amazed: "Wow! Eggs?!" "Wang Xiaosong, you are amazing!" "I haven't seen eggs for a long time, and I almost forgot that there are eggs in the world!" "Wang Xiaosong, don't be angry with what I just said!" "If anyone brings some 'artificial meat', the teacher will go home and fry eggs, how delicious it will be!" The word "egg" made the students salivate... Zhang Meng said: "Wang Xiaosong, then quickly take it out!" Wang Xiaosong said: "Let the horse eat..." There was a sudden silence.The students looked at each other in blank dismay, and then all stared at him in the face, obviously no one believed his words... Han Debao suddenly said: "You lied!" Wang Xiaosong said: "I'm not lying! I fell on the road and was eaten by the old horse pulling the slop cart, including the handkerchief wrapped in eggs..." A male classmate laughed loudly: "Ha, ha, after a long time of trouble, he is still empty-handed! He was eaten by a horse!" He turned his head and asked the students around him, "Do horses eat eggs? Have you ever heard of horses eating eggs?" Is something wrong?" Hao Mei said angrily: "Wang Xiaosong, I always thought you were honest. So you are so good at lying! From now on, I will never believe your words..." She felt that her trust in him had been teased, she turned angrily and walked towards her seat... Zhang Meng said: "Wang Xiaosong, if you didn't bring it, you didn't bring it. That's okay, everyone is voluntary anyway. But it's wrong for you to make up nonsense and lie to play tricks on everyone." Wang Xiaosong opened his mouth a few times, not knowing what to say... Wu Zhenqing left his seat and walked over... "I testify that he did not lie," he said. Zhang Meng looked at him dissatisfied - that means, you always cover each other.But she dared not speak out... Wu Zhenqing testified: "His mother asked him to bring four eggs to our teacher yesterday, and I was at his house at that time." The male classmate said: "But can you testify that he drank it by himself on the road? I drank raw eggs and it was delicious!" Wu Zhenqing opened his mouth, but was also speechless.He stared at Wang Xiaosong intently, as if he was asking——Xiaosong, don't you know? Wang Xiaosong suddenly rushed at the male classmate, and the two began to wrestle... The school bell is ringing...
Class is over, and the students are all seated. Wang Xiaosong's nose was broken and stuffed with paper, and there was a little blood on his lips... The classroom door opened... Zhang Meng shouted: "Stand up!" All students stand up... It was not Mr. Qu, the head teacher, who walked into the classroom—it was a male teacher.It was the male teacher who carried Teacher Qu into the teacher's room yesterday. Zhang Meng's voice became lower: "Li." No classmates salute... "sit." None of the classmates sat down, they were still standing blankly, staring blankly at the male teacher... The male teacher said: "Students, sit down..." Everyone finally sat down one after another. The male teacher said: "Students, these things on the desk show that you care about your teacher Qu very much, just like...you teacher Qu loves you very much. This makes me very moved..." He pondered for a while, as if he didn't know what to say for a while—he actually said two childish words: "Really..." The classroom is very, very quiet... He continued: "From today onwards, I will be your class teacher. Yesterday, some students already knew me. Let me introduce myself...my surname is Zhao...yes...my surname is Zhao..." "Then, where is our teacher Qu?" Hao Mei asked softly. "She... transferred..." Han Debao said: "This is impossible!" He looked at the students on the left and right, and said: "This is too impossible! Do you think so?" The students echoed: "impossible!" "impossible!" Zhang Meng said: "If our Teacher Qu is really transferred, she will definitely say goodbye to us. Why doesn't she say goodbye to us?" Teacher Zhao said: "Yes, yes, why didn't she say goodbye to you..." He rubbed his hands and said hesitantly: "How can I tell you? Wild vegetable poisoning...is often life-threatening... ...We teachers, are sad...but...but...we all have to face reality, don't we?" Han Debao asked: "Our teacher...is...is she dead?" His question became lighter and lighter.The last few words were barely audible. Teacher Zhao stared at him and nodded... There was a strange silence - there seemed to be a bang sound coming from afar... The bang sound comes from Wang Xiaosong's subjective hallucination... Tears welled up in his eyes... "Now... let's start class..." Teacher Zhao picked up a piece of chalk... "You are not allowed to move!" He looked up in surprise.And, I couldn't help but put down the chalk... Tsui Hark left his seat, ran to the front, picked up the chalk box with both hands, ran back to his seat, put the chalk box on his desk, and protected it with both hands, as if afraid of being snatched away... He suddenly covered the chalk box with both hands, fell on the table and cried... So many students cried... Teacher Zhao stepped down from the podium, leaned against the window, faced the students, and looked at everyone very understandingly... Wang Xiaosong, who was crying silently... The cry fades away and disappears... The bang sound... the bang sound came from Wang Xiaosong's head. Although the students around were crying, what Wang Xiaosong heard seemed to be just bangs...