Chapter 24 six one sister

In the past two days, I don't know why I often think of Sister Liuyi. She was one of my childhood playmates. Although we didn't have many days together, I really liked her, and she also cared for me wholeheartedly. Her mother was Bodhi's wet nurse—Bodhi was the son of my father's friend, who was born in the same year as my elder brother, and they were next to us—on the third day after Bodhi was born, her mother brought Liuyi here.Two days later, I happened to pass by the kitchen of Bodhi's house and saw an eight or nine-year-old girl sitting on the threshold.The face is not very pale, but the cheeks are naturally rosy, double eyelids, big eyes, always smile when seeing people.People say this is Liuyi's older sister, and everyone calls her Liuyi sister.At that time, she was still very talented, wearing a blue cloth dress with lace.Very thick braids, hanging down the back.I was holding two bunches of candied haws in my hand, so I couldn't help but handed her a bunch.She picked it up with a smile, and her mother asked her to thank her. She just looked at me and smiled, and I smiled too. We both felt very shy.When I finished eating the candy and was about to throw the bamboo stick away, she stopped me; while bending one end of her own bamboo stick like a hook, she held it in her mouth, telling me to do the same. He said with a smile: "This is our dry pipe."

I looked at her with the eyes of the guide-of course I followed, and I have loved her since then. She visited her mother every three or two days, and we saw each other a lot.She is only three years older than me. I think she is my first good friend. We often sit on the steps and talk when we have nothing to do. ——I know that Liuyi was born when his grandfather was 61 years old, so it is called Liuyi.But before Liu Yi was born, his sister should have another name.I asked her many times, but she always kept smiling.From then on, I seemed to hear her mother calling her Bell, one day, unexpectedly, I called her from behind, and she immediately agreed.

Turning around and seeing me smiling, she lowered her head and fiddled with her braids, as if she was very shy.I still don't know why.At that time, I only knew that she was afraid of hearing the word "Ling'er", so she often yelled and played, but she didn't annoy me. In the corner of the sea where the water and the sky are connected, there are very few materials to play with, but we always have something new to entertain us every time.Sometimes I pick up some pebbles and put them in a small copper gong, and cook them as eggs.Sometimes we dig a big hole in the sand and bury our feet in it.After playing, I stood up very calmly; but she carefully kicked on the rock for a while, and looked at her own shoes back and forth.she says:

"If my shoes get dirty, my mother will blame me." Another time, I heard people say that coal is made from accumulated trees, and I happened to talk about it with Sister Liuyi. She smiled and wanted to make some coal to burn in winter.We found a rusty kitchen knife, cut some thorns at the foot of the mountain, buried them in the sand by the sea, and dug them up every day to see if they turned into coal.Five or six days have passed, and there are still thorns. In the future, if someone says that coal is made of trees, I will not believe it. When it rains, we play "long jump" on the porch. Sometimes we jump too much, and we feel pain in our heels when we sleep at night, but we still like to jump.Once my nurse saw it and called me in through the window and said, "Who is she? Who are you? You just play with country children every day. Girls are good at dancing and jumping, and they are not afraid of being laughed at!" I asked. The first time I heard about it, I didn't dare to go out. The more times I heard it, the more I became angry, so I said:

"Who is she? Country kids are people too! My mother doesn't even mention me when I dance, so what do you want me to do?" One side broke free.The nurse smiled and pinched my face and said, "You're really a bad learner!" Afterwards, Sister Liuyi grew up a bit, and came here less frequently.When she came here at the age of eleven, her feet were pointed and she wore a pair of pointed-toed high-soled shoes with blue cloth and red flowers.The maids all praised her and said, "Look how small her feet are when her mother is not at home! Such a girl really doesn't bother people." I was stunned, and asked her behind my back, "How did you do it? Aren't you afraid of pain?"

She shook her head and said with a smile, "No." Then she added, "There's nothing you can do about the pain. It's a joke if you don't." From then on, when she came here, she couldn't play with me often, she just moved a low stool, sat in the lower room, washed small clothes for Liu Yi, and sometimes tied flower shoes by herself.I was playing on the sand outside the door, but she just stood and watched while leaning on the door frame.I called her out and she said: "I can't run."——At that time, I had already started to learn to make sentences and read the whole book, and my interest in things was gradually different from hers.I saw her coming from the window of the study, and walked into the servant room, I was only indifferent, not as anxious as before, wishing to go out to see her right away.

Bodhi was weaned, and Liuyi's mother took Liuyi away.From then on, sister Liuyi naturally stopped coming. ——I didn’t see her again until I was eleven years old, when I went to see a society play in Jingouzhai. I watch social dramas almost every year, and every time I watch them sitting under the mat facing the stage.This shed was built by the Qu family, and his family has published a sub-list, and they are the most prestigious in the village.From our upstairs, we can see two pairs of tall flagpoles at the gate of Qu’s house and in front of the ancestral hall, and the Kuixing Pavilion on the coast.This was established after the sub-list of songs was in the sub-list.With these embellishments, Jingou Village suddenly has a much stronger view.

Jingouzhai is the nearest village to our camp, and there are four seasons of festivals, so there is inevitably a exchange of gifts.I once saw a letter from Qu Fubang to my father on my father’s desk. It was written on five-color letter paper. It probably said that the coast was not peaceful, and if some soldiers were to be hired to protect the village, it contained the words “…” At the foot of the tree is the general of today, and the grass is still there, let it shelter you..." I couldn't remember what was under the "proverb cloud", but I only remembered the dragons and snakes flying around on the paper, and the handwriting was very beautiful.

When the opera is sung, my father is often invited to visit.I followed suit and sat beside my father to watch.I was short and couldn't see, so the eldest grandson of the Qu family went out and kicked away the villagers sitting on the earth steps in front of the shed. To be honest, I am not interested in social dramas at all, and I often pester them to leave before half an hour has passed, and my father also takes this opportunity to get up and say goodbye. ——As for the meeting with Sister Liuyi, I didn't watch it in the shed, but it took a little longer. When I got up early that day, in the study, I could faintly hear the sound of gongs and drums down the mountain.After school in the afternoon, I was about to go back to the west courtyard. Just as I walked to the flower wall, I saw Mama Yu sitting on the lower steps with her knees folded and taking a nap.Seeing me, she grabbed me and smiled and said, "There's no need to go, mother is sleeping. I'll wait here, and I'll take you to the opera, so you won't be bored watching sea monsters upstairs alone." I knew it was her. to see, but made me a shield.

But I sat in the study for a day, and I was lazy, so I let her take my hand, went out the back door, and walked through the wheat ridge in the setting sun. Walking down the slope, you can already see the dark crowds in front of the stage, and in front of the burden of selling miscellaneous sugar and miscellaneous cakes, there are hundreds of village children surrounding them, laughing wildly; The gorgeous women in pink, white, and green were laughing and talking endlessly. I felt shy, but I didn't want to squeeze through the crowd, so I took Mama Yu's hand to go back.Mama Yu bent down and pointed to the other side for me to see, and said:

"I've come here - look where Sister Liuyi is over there, go and talk to her." I looked up, and there was a man wearing a new blue shirt and red pants sitting cross-legged by the wall on the left outside the shed. At one end of the long plank, the one who was turning her head and talking to many other girls was indeed Liuyijie. Mama Yu half-pushed and half-pushed me to the edge of the shed. Sister Liuyi suddenly saw her and stood up with a smile on her face, saying, "Sit here, Aunt Yu." She held my hand tightly and smiled at me. , do not say anything. After three years of separation, Sister Liuyi's face changed a little. It seemed that her face became rounder and paler, and her appearance became more gentle and beautiful. I didn't say anything for a while, just looked at her and smiled.She pulled me to sit half leaning beside her, and said with a smile in her ear, "You are also taller—why are you so happy to come out for a walk today?" When we greeted each other, the girls who sat with her all paid attention to me——At this time, I would like to introduce a person, I often have her shadow in my mind, and when I read the book, I saw "Zhuluo Village" and "Xi Shi" I immediately thought of her, and I don't know why.She was one of the female companions who sat with Sister Liuyi that day, and she was only about fourteen or fifteen years old.He was wearing a light moon white bamboo shirt with the word B embroidered on the corner of the lapel.Green trousers, with tied legs underneath, and peach red blue and white shoes.The hair is not very green, but it is very *K敉舻内燕⊙DIS Zhixuanzhong>Nao Jianjian>话精牧成希”>Mou XingxianxiuwenK依热萌萌or Γ向艿艿谂Palm master gum D invades Zhi Zan Na Ding Mu Xiu, Na Fei Qiao Ye, Sheath orangutan, Huo Xingba, Mu Huan Huan Lang Shuo*I am surprised at this point, It was just a glimpse at that day, and there was no news before and after. The childish and flowing heart, in the midst of countless passing clouds, somehow caught this shadow, and naturally it has not been forgotten until now. ——There are many things in life "Unsolvable" things! They whispered about my natural feet, and asked sister Liuyi, why didn't I change my clothes and come out to listen to the opera.There were different opinions, I lowered my head and heard it clearly, and I only blamed why Mama Yu dragged me out like this!I was only wearing homely and quiet clothes, which looked very dim in the red and green bushes. In all kinds of embarrassment, I could only hear Sister Liuyi calmly smiling and saying: "Is it worth changing clothes? She won't go to the shed, and there is no big show today." While stroking my shoulder with the hand surrounding me, It seems to teach me to look up. I felt the blush on my face subside immediately, and I was very grateful to Sister Liuyi for her gentle relief.I knew the weight of the words, and all restlessness returned. I secretly marveled, three years later, Liuyi sister is actually a big girl, and she can protect me if she is skilled in human feelings! Sitting next to her affectionately, staring at the stage boredly.I saw two maidservants standing on both sides, standing in the middle like a queen, shaking their heads and covering their sleeves, singing babbling.The three of them had beaded emerald heads, looked like pink and daisy, and their clothes were extremely shiny and gorgeous, but a pair of big and tattered men's single-face shoes were exposed under their skirts. The golden setting sun has set to the west mountain, and the twilight is approaching.Mama Yu was still reluctant to leave, so I said, "When I came out of the study, I didn't go to the west courtyard. I don't care if Mom asks." She knew that I would never stay here any longer, so she stood up and thanked Sister Liuyi. And said goodbye to the surrounding village women one after another.When coming up the slope, she just turned her head to look at the stage, but I looked at Sister Liuyi, and she looked at me too.I suddenly regretted why I forgot to tell her to come and play with me, and when I turned around the wheat ridge, we couldn't see each other. ——At this point, I fervently hope that it is not the last time we meet! When I got home, it was already time to light up the lights, and my mother didn't mean to go to the opera without changing clothes, but only asked about my homework for today.But I told my mother that today I saw sister Liuyi and a beautiful girl.The beautiful girl couldn't impress the mother's heart, the mother just said courteously: "Really, sister Liuyi hasn't come for several years!" In the past ten years, I have not been able to find anyone similar to her around, and I have no chance to recall her in a foreign country, but in the past two days, for some reason, I often only think of Sister Liuyi! She must have married at this time, in Jingou Village, or in a neighboring village on the right side of the mountain. I believe she will always be a thrifty and gentle daughter-in-law. The spring shadows in the mountains and sea corners may be as gloomy and depressing as today's green hills!I seem to be able to hear the humming sea breeze, and the dark gray mighty shaking waves.I seem to be able to see the gloomy and oppressive southwest mountain shadow, and the withered and yellow wheat fields in the middle of the mountain.When the weather turns warm and cold, it often makes me, who is naive and ignorant, feel that kind of environment with no name and melancholy. Sister Liuyi may still be in this environment. She is either grinding or cleaning the soles of shoes. Looking at the sea and mountains from the gap in the fence, I may not feel much.She will never think of me, even if she can think of me, she will never know that at this time, I am in the sea overseas, in a small building on the mountain outside the mountain, on the shady porch, bowing my head and writing quickly, writing for ten years Her good words and deeds before... I wrote miscellaneously all the way, and my eyes were full of tears when I wrote this-in short, when I mentioned Liuyi sister, many past events of my childhood have come to my eyes vividly! On the evening of March 26, 1924, Qingshan, Sharang. A collection of essays "Past Events". )