Chapter 19 drizzle

When the cooking smoke slowly drifted away, Xingzi and his mother were sitting side by side on the big rock in front of the door with their rice bowls in hand. On the other side of the river a flock of kites rose, with bearded green shrimps, eight-legged green crabs, moss-covered snails, and fish—one by one, more and more fish... as if the whole pond It seemed that all the living creatures in the water had swam to the sky. "Mom, there is obviously no one on the opposite side, who do you think is flying the kite?" "It's the children of rich people in the city! Their father drives a car every day and takes them outside to play." Mom stroked Xingzi's head and said to him guiltily, "Wait until your father earns enough money." We bought a house, and we also moved to the city to live with my father."

Xingzi lowered his head and was silent for a while, then he put down his empty rice bowl and ran away in a hurry-in the playground of Tianxin Primary School, all the children who had dinner were playing the game of "police and thief".This is the game their physical education teacher taught, and it's a running game.As long as you enter the game, you have to keep running, running and running, whether you are a policeman or a thief, you can't stop until the game is over. When the children were tired from running, the game was over, and it was dark, and the children went home.

Xingzi was walking in the Qingshi alley, the spring breeze was blowing on his small chest, it was cool and refreshing, as if something was wrong.He lowered his head and reached out to touch his clothes - the school uniform lost two buttons!It must have been caught by the police when I was a thief just now.He turned his head and walked towards the school. When he raised his head, the stars in the sky were blinking at him: "Xingzi, Xingzi, walk slowly, walk slowly." Xingzi slowed down, the wind whispered in his ears, the bluestone slabs whispered under his feet, and the longan and loquat trees planted in his yard whispered above his head.Xingzi couldn't understand what they said, but he felt a kind of joy in his heart, as if there was a newborn animal in his heart, growing rapidly in the breath of spring.

At this moment, none of the lights in the school were turned on.The surroundings were extremely quiet, Xingzi leaned down, and looked for the two small dark blue buttons under the starlight - he couldn't find the small buttons, and he clearly smelled the fragrance of Michelia flowers. It smells so good, why didn't I smell it when I was playing the game just now? Xingzi crouched beside the pitch-black flower pond, and took a deep breath.It's so fragrant, it smells all the way to my heart.He buried his head among the smiling and dense leaves, and clearly heard the light words of the flowers:

"It's our turn!" "I waited so long that it was about to wither!" "Don't delay any longer!" "After tomorrow, the sky will turn bad!" ... Through the gaps of the smiling leaves, Xingzi saw red banana flowers, yellow rose flowers, small sparrow flowers, and smiling flowers...their petals opened and closed, and their tone of voice was urgent and light. "Okay, okay! Shut up! It's too noisy to eat! Tomorrow will be tomorrow!" Xingzi followed the sound and saw a row of little children sitting on a long stone bench beside the flower pond. They were all wearing sky-blue shirts and eating cotton candy made of clouds with relish.

The flowers stopped talking, and when the spring breeze blew, they all laughed, and they all closed their eyes with a smile. "Remember, the time is when the smoke rises tomorrow, and the place is in the bamboo forest across the river." The flowers nodded rhythmically in the wind. They really deserved to be flowers, nodding their heads like actors dancing. The children's marshmallows were quickly finished, and they laughed softly, one by one, they got into the soil at Hua'er's feet, and disappeared in a blink of an eye. As the night gradually deepened, Xingzi lay on the bed thinking: If I walked over just now, would they talk to me?He thought and thought and thought and thought and thought and he fell asleep.

The next afternoon, after school, Xingzi was carrying her schoolbag and caught up with Juzi who was walking ahead: "Juzi, lend me your boat, I want to go to the other side of the river." "No! No! Unless——you take me with you." "If you bring you, you will take you—but, no matter what you see, don't tell others!" "Haha, of course!" Orange ran forward cheerfully, her two braids were like small drumsticks, knocking vigorously. Untying the rope tied to the tree, each of them took an oar and stroked left and right, and the boat left the river bank and sailed towards the opposite bamboo forest.

"Juzi look up, the kite is rising again." Above the bamboo forest, a group of flower kites rose, including fiery red banana flowers, waxy yellow rose flowers, small sparrow flowers of various colors, and a long string of smiling flowers—beige smiling flowers, each of which resembled a Shy dimples. "Aren't these flowers the flowers in the school's flower pond?" "Don't yell, row! Row!" Xingzi exerted all his strength to row the boat like a small arrow, and the boat quickly sailed into the water grass on the river beach.Through the gaps in the tall aquatic plants, they saw a group of sky-blue children flying kites on the empty sandy beach.

Every child is holding thin ropes like rain in their hands, one after another, shining brightly, shining with the luster of spring water in the setting sun.The children run on the river beach, and every time they run, the flower kite in the sky rises a step higher.Every time the kite rises, it doubles in size.The flowers are flying in the sky, getting bigger and taller. "Hi——" Juzi jumped ashore from the boat, shouted and ran towards the kite-flying child. "No, Orange, come back quickly—" However, it was too late. The bodies of those blue children gradually shrunk, their colors gradually faded, and soon, they all turned into transparent bubbles.Like a group of soap bubbles blown by children, they hold the kite string, fly higher and higher, farther and farther, and finally disappear in the light blue spring twilight.

Xingzi and Juzi paddled the boat slowly in the river towards the village. "It's all my fault. If I could calm down just now, maybe..." "Maybe we can make friends with them." "Well, we have made friends, maybe we can fly once." Xingzi looked at the sky, which was covered with translucent cooking smoke.Above the cooking smoke, the spring rain clouds are dyed a damp pink by the setting sun. "It will rain tomorrow!" Xingzi tied the boat to a young water weng tree. "Don't wait for tomorrow, it's going to rain now." Orange touched his hair, which was already wet before he knew it. It was raining, and the rain was finer than dust, making it difficult to detect.

"Xingzi—Xingzi—come home, let's eat—" Mom stood in front of the big stone at the door, calling loudly. "Here we come—" Xingzi agreed, and quickly ran towards the house.The Qingshi alley was also wet and a little slippery. Xingzi fell and scratched his hands, and his face was stuck on the wet muddy roadside. At that moment, he clearly saw many small grass sprouts Boy, is poking his head out of the dirt.