Chapter 28 Chapter 28 Carnival at the Barbecue Stand

When Tao Tao triumphantly walked back to the classroom, paper balls like raindrops hit his head, face, and shoulders one after another.Paper balls are colorful, as colorful and gorgeous as colored balls.The girls crowded the railing upstairs, shouting Tao Tao Tao Tao Tao, Tao Tao, Tao Tao...their names and strange sentences were written in those paper balls.All the girls, and probably all the boys, except me, have done it.Why paper balls? They say that paper balls are hydrangeas without tails.They threw stones at the stars at the gates of concert halls and gymnasiums, just like Palestinian youths throwing stones at Israeli chariots, one because of love and the other because of hate, the same thing is that they are all throwing stones desperately!I once picked up a paper dumpling and opened it to read. What was written inside was not "I love you", but "I bite you!" I remember that once ××fang came here to hold a solo concert, and Tao Tao also chased to go " "Bite" her, I said, she has old skin and thick flesh, don't worry about grinding your teeth!Tao Tao was very upset. He snorted and said, don't worry, I can chew both tofu and bones.I was really amused by him at the time, so I wrote this sentence into the paper ball for him.In fact, where can XX Fang see it? Tao Tao is just participating.

Today, when I saw Tao Tao nonchalantly passing through the rainy paper balls, a thought suddenly came to me, doesn't Song Xiaodou look a lot like ××fang?I asked Zhu Zhu, is this the case?Zhu Zhu said, yes or no, it doesn't matter anymore, right?I sighed and said I don't know. In front of the whole class, Tao Tao put one hand on the waist pole, and put the other half around Ali's shoulder. This gesture seemed to indicate that he was willing to let Ali, and only Ali, share his love. Pleasure and honor.Ali's face was pale, even his lips were trembling, and he was speechless.He said, Tao Tao, shall we go to ginkgo to celebrate?

Ginkgo Sichuan restaurant is the best Sichuan restaurant here, and I have never been to it.I heard that after a meal, the hot towel has to be replaced twelve times, and a plate of kimchi costs 18 yuan.Ali wants to invite Tao Tao to Baiguo for dinner, and bring many accompanying guests, this time he really broke the sky-high price.I looked at Ali, Ali's face had never been so pale before, and he was also laughing, which was so ridiculous that it was unbearable to watch more. I also looked at Tao Tao. From a distance, through other people's shoulders and heads, his face had never been so red.Of course, it could be explained by the hot weather, or it could be considered as the reflection of the bright red T-shirt.He didn't actually smile, and his expression could even be said to be indifferent. His hand on Ali's shoulder seemed to be exerting constant pressure. Ali's smile became more and more ugly. He lowered his head, looking so submissive, so Humble and helpless.As for Tao Tao, since his father was arrested, he has never puffed up his chest like this now, even if he beat Bao Jingsheng on the day of the parents' meeting, he didn't feel happy at all.Now he has become a figure in mythology. In the past, he was a ruthless and generous elder brother. Now he is a phoenix or something. When he emerged from the fire, he became him again, a genius big man!

But I never thought that Tao Tao rejected Ali's proposal.Tao Tao said no, if he didn’t go to ginkgo, why would he go to ginkgo?It's the country bumpkins who take things like this seriously.He dragged his voice out and said something in English, the pronunciation was exactly the same as Song Xiaodou's, I don't understand, but I know, that's - country - bar - guy -! Ali looked confused.Ali said, not going anywhere?Ali's voice was full of confusion. Tao Tao was silent for a long time, put his hands under his eyelids and looked at them carefully, like a woman picky with onions.His silence prolonged Ali's confusion, and also pulled everyone around the classroom into confusion.Everyone can see that Ali is begging Tao Tao as in the past, but Tao Tao has not given him an answer.

Tao Tao finally spoke.He tore off a flake of skin from the edge of his left thumb, and he said, let's go have a barbecue, huh? Ali's expression obviously suspected that he had heard wrong.He said, you mean to eat barbecue, the barbecue by the river, Tao Tao, just like in the past? Yes, it's still the same as in the past, Tao Tao put his hand on Ali's shoulder again, he said, isn't it good to be the same as in the past?Tao Tao's eyes circled around the boys and girls, he smiled courteously, and said, if you are not afraid of the heat, let's go eat barbecue together?

The crowd responded in a chaotic manner, eating barbecue, eating barbecue, eating barbecue... The sound swept the crowd away.Everything was clean, there were only two people left, Zhu Zhu, and me. Zhu Zhu said, Ali is the old Ali again.Ali is still lovely Ali. Cute, I said, poor Ali. Zhu Zhu smiled, didn't we just learn an ancient poem, pitiful is cute.Zhu Zhu said, forget it, let's change the subject, where are we going?Come over to my house for scrambled tender eggs with tomatoes, or shall we find a place for a snack? Zhu Zhu's hand was still holding my arm, maintaining the same movement as when I almost passed out.Her hands were slender, soft and cold.But I still feel a little uncomfortable, like a yak being supported by a sheep, it feels weird, it makes me uncomfortable.I tried to remove her hand carefully, but Zhu Zhu's arm on my arm was weak but strong, I really had no choice.

I said, don't go anywhere, let's go eat barbecue too. God, Zhu Zhu said, when you mentioned barbecue, I felt that it was getting hot again, and the fire was going to burn the back of my hand. No wonder, I said, pointing to Zhu Zhu's hand wrapped around my arm, your hand is so hot that I'm sweating. I'm sorry, Zhu Zhu reluctantly put her hand down, she said, then go, let's go and make fun of ourselves. Never mind, I said, if we don't go, Ali will be sad. The barbecue stalls are the former barbecue stalls, and they were moved to the back of the school when the troubled times blocked the front door with heavy-duty secretary-generals.The school has a narrow back door there, also with iron bars, and an iron lock on it, but both the lock and the bar are rusty, and small rust-colored flowers are growing.Seen from the street, the small door is hidden in the shade of trees and moss, as if it leads to a long air-raid shelter.The gate was never opened, but its rusted grating now serves as a passageway for buying and selling barbecue.Principal Jiang can overlook the back door from his small building, and he can naturally smell the smelly fragrance.He also often emphasized on the radio that the back door should be blocked, but we couldn't understand whether the back door he was talking about was the back door of the bubble or an unhealthy trend in society.So, as you can imagine, the back door is still the back door, with the rust on the bars and locks finally worn away, and it still shines evenly, like a sly guy grinning mischievously.Zhu Zhu told me that the secretary-general really wanted to block the back door. Principal Jiang said, you take care of the front door, and I take care of the back door, huh?He said that the front door should be opened and closed strictly, and the back door should be flexibly opened and closed.In short, don't block, you can't block.Governing a school is like managing a flood, blocking people will suffocate them to death.Why do students cry about pain all day long, but pain doesn't make sense.Sparing is right, water has a place to flow, air has a place to come out, money has a place to spend, and mouth has a place to eat.Besides, of course, it was Principal Jiang who said that people like to steal forbidden fruits, eat what they can’t eat, and touch what they can’t touch. Things in broad daylight are not as tasty as things that can be obtained secretly.Keep that door, the dolls can get whatever they want.

Oh, look, our principal Jiang is very philosophical again, isn't he?He is running the school with philosophy.Of course, this is his philosophy. What is his philosophy? It is to mix the usual principles with a little sour juice, so that others can half understand and nod their heads. Tao Tao and the others all went from the small street to the barbecue stand. There were too many people, and they had to celebrate happily. They squeezed behind the fence gate and ate secretly, what did they look like!Zhu Zhu and I walked 30 to 50 steps away from the barbecue stand, and felt the heat wave and the smoke filled the air, just like the cleaners by the river moved to the side street to burn fallen leaves.Of course, the smoke from burning fallen leaves will not have a stinky smell, which is a favorite smell of carnivores, and they themselves are bloodthirsty and meat-thirsty, so the smell they emit will become a stinky smell of sweat and foul smell.

At noon in the small street, especially this noon when the asphalt road is so hot that there is a hole in the asphalt road, it was originally so quiet that there was only the cry of cicadas.There are low bungalows along the street, the gray tiles are covered with moss, and the planks have been worn so that the paint can't be seen. There are fat old men dozing on the bamboo horse frame, holding a fly swatter in their hands.The direct sunlight fell from among the leaves, and the ground seemed to be covered with fishing nets one after another.Everything is so quiet, as if to not disturb the fish swimming towards the net.However, it was as quiet as a fishing net, and what was waiting was not the swimming fish, but the noise brought by Tao Tao and the others.They broke the silence and turned the side street into a carnival bazaar.Several barbecue stalls came here, forming a long snake array of barbecues. Students from Class 1, Grade 2, ate and drank casually in front of the stalls, as if they were enjoying a holiday hotel buffet.They are so happy, talking and laughing loudly, or singing with their buttocks twisted.The students in the middle school are not as inferior, wretched, and self-defeating as you imagine. In fact, they will never lack food, drink, and joy, the kind of joy when gathering together to celebrate.As for celebrating what?Shit, who cares what it is!

Zhu Zhu frowned, and she said, forget it, forget it, Fengzi, let's not go, I'm sick. I said, why not go, why not go, this is not the first time you smell this kind of smell. Zhu Zhu said, did I say it was a taste? I felt sick in my heart.Do you feel at ease when you see Tao Taozhi's stinking fake look?After Zhu Zhu finished speaking, she squinted at me, the eyes were like needle points, which made my eyelids tremble and my eyes hurt. I said, what's the matter, it has nothing to do with me... Before I finished this sentence, I saw Tao Tao's tall and protruding body in the crowd.With one hand on Ali's shoulder, he holds a can of Coke, or maybe beer, in the other, accepting the congratulatory crowd who are also holding cans of some sort.There was a smile on his face, an indifferent and reserved smile, since he appeared on the stage today, his expression has been locked by this indifference and reservation.I don't know what else he would look like?If this barbecue is Tao Tao's feast, then the feast will always end, right? He will still face Song Xiaodou, right? He will still face the darkness, right?Isn't he a miracle growing up in the dark!Does he look like this too?

Zhu Zhu naturally saw it too, she laughed, she said, Tao Tao is a bit like a godfather.He has a bit of that style, doesn't he?You still like him?Girls like to be played by gloomy and ruthless men, am I right? I ignored her, wondering where she got so many strange questions.At the same time, I found that when Zhu Zhu was chattering, the crowd who were eating and chewing on bamboo sticks turned their heads to look at us, and the noisy sound gradually quieted down, only the sound of chewing was heard evenly, and there was still a burning smell. Full smoke floated and floated in the scorching air, and it never stopped.Their eyes were also fluttering, bewildered, surprised, uneasy... When I was stared at by these eyes, I felt like an orangutan who ran out of the zoo, naked but covered in hair.Zhu Zhu's hand held mine, it was trembling uncontrollably, and it was dripping with cold sweat.I looked at Tao Tao again, and Tao Tao's hand was still firmly grasping Ali, as if a hunter never left his prey for a moment.He was looking at us too, but there was no expression on his face, like we didn't even exist. Suddenly, my heart skipped a beat, and I turned around slowly.I saw that behind Zhu Zhu and me, a little to the left, there was already a person standing, and this person was Jingui. *Part 12 Two strongmen duel in the desert, and Memed sits drinking mare's milk to watch the battle.They once asked Memed for justice. One said that the other was going to steal his whole roasted lamb, and the other said that he was slapped after just looking at it.Maimed laughed, and he said, how can there be any justice?How do you need justice!You just need a reason.Fight, fight, Maimed said, compared with this whole sheep, honor is like sand, which will fly away when the wind blows;Only the whole sheep or the whole sheep, you can fight, fight, fight.The two strongmen said thank you for your advice, and they started fighting...