ghost lights

Li Tang seems to have a different kind of affection for Hangzhou. He often cannot help but praise Hangzhou for its beauty and the beauty of the West Lake. Li Shang thinks that his affection for Hangzhou should come from the books he read in the past. After all, he has never seen him before. Run to Hangzhou every day.Hangzhou seems to only live in Litang's dream.

It was already six o'clock in the evening, and it was completely dark. Li Shang took a suitcase, took a taxi, and gave his address.The driver spoke a local dialect, which was similar to the dialect Li Tang had spoken in front of him.

The taxi passed the crowded station, crossed the bustling street, crossed the wide bridge, and entered the quiet country road. Through the window, you can still see the feasting lights on the street and the quiet black land around you.

The station is a 10-minute drive from Litang's mother's home. When the car was about to enter the village, Li Shang got out of the car. He wanted to see the structure of the village with his own eyes and see the place where Litang has lived for more than 20 years.

There is a hair salon at the entrance of the village, which is still in operation. Next to it is a restaurant, and there are various noises of people drinking and eating. The others are ordinary people's houses. Some doors are closed, and some people gather in twos and threes in front of the door. Chatting, they looked at Li Shang who was walking on the narrow village road with a suitcase, talking a lot, and their eyes were glued to Li Shang, which made him very uncomfortable. Everything here was so important to him. strangeness.

But there is a nice name here - Li Yuan.

There is a supermarket walking in, Li Tang's house is the third house in front of the supermarket, and Li Shang has already seen it.He picked up the suitcase and picked up the speed. He had already seen the open door, and bright lights shot out from the house, illuminating the dark path in front of the door.

Li Shang has never met Li Tang's mother, but Li Tang's mother has met him. Although Li Tang does not go home, the mother and son will still contact each other on WeChat, and Li Tang will occasionally tell his mother about his recent situation. , Send Li Shang's photo to his mother, and pay her living expenses.So when Li Shang first entered the door, the woman in her 60s recognized him immediately.

There were only two women in the room, one was Li Tang's mother, and the other was his second elder sister. Li Tang's father had passed away a few years ago, and she finally couldn't help crying when she heard the news that her son had also passed away. Litang's second sister was afraid of being heard by others, so she got up and closed the door, and then came back to sit beside her mother to comfort her, obviously she also had a weeping expression.

The old man cried for a long time, and finally calmed down. She walked into the bedroom, took out a green photo album, opened it one by one, and told Li Shang one by one.

"This picture was taken when he was full moon. I still remember that he was black and ugly when he was born. His uncle still disliked him and refused to hug him. Unexpectedly, a month later, he became white and fat. , His uncle wanted to hug him again, but I refused to let him hug him, he always carried me secretly behind my back, and hid Xiaotang where I couldn't find him."

Li Shang looked at this photo, a fat baby in white, wearing a light green bellyband with a car pattern on it, it looked very cute.

The old man turned another page, and Li Tang on it looked three or four years old, wearing a girl's long wig, and looked like a little princess. He deliberately lay on his mother's lap, sticking out his little tongue, Very mischievous, the girl standing behind is his second sister, who looks exactly like Li Tang in adulthood.

The next photo shows Li Tang standing alone in a vegetable garden, wearing a small white skirt, with sleepy eyes and one hand on his head. It seems that he just woke up and was caught taking pictures without even having time to pose .

"At that time, our family was poor, and he always wore the clothes I wore when I was a child. After I went to school, I started buying boys' clothes for him."

The second sister seemed to see Li Shang's doubts, and explained aloud.

That's the way it is, no wonder Li Tang is wearing girls' clothes in the photo, Li Shang suddenly realized.

It was getting late, and Li Tang's mother couldn't stay up all night, and needed to rest after eight o'clock. Li Tang's second sister took Li Shang to a bedroom, saying that this was where Li Tang lived before, although Li Tang didn't come back , but she still cleans it frequently, so that if her brother comes back one day, she won't even have a place to live.

Li Shang took a look at this room. It was about ten square meters in size, with a bed, a wardrobe, a table, and two windows. I got it when I was in school, and there are some stickers, which are obviously handmade by myself.

Litang's second sister is ten years older than Litang, and is now 45 years old. She is thin and thin, with thinning hair, and she looks younger than her mother.

Li Shang was lying on the bed, the unfamiliar environment made it difficult for him to fall asleep, he got up and opened the window next to the bed.

Outside is a small courtyard, a row of low tiled houses are swallowed by the night, and at the end of the tiled houses is a quince tree, all the leaves on the tree have fallen off, and the bare branches are like a hawk with teeth and claws. Monster, there is a small shed in the corner of the yard. Li Shang knows that it is a toilet. The toilets in the countryside basically do not distinguish between men and women, but Li Tang’s family used to do business, and people come and go. Made two toilets.

A little ahead of the toilet is an iron-green door, and the gap under the door is wide enough for a person to crawl in, but no one except mischievous children would do such a boring thing.

In the morning, Li Shang was woken up by Li Tang's mother. He slept too late last night. Now he took out his mobile phone and saw that it was already 08:30.He touched his nose in embarrassment, and jumped off the bed to wash.Let's call the old man grandma. His grandma watched him enter the bathroom, and with a sigh, staggered downstairs.

There are only two women in the family. According to his aunt, the second sister of Litang, her children are all working outside and cannot come back often. She and her mother are sick and sick, and the other is old. Watching TV, going out to hang out, but also relaxed.

Last night, Li Shang expressed his intention to come. He gave them the inheritance belonging to the mother and daughter. He originally wanted to leave like this, but he couldn't stand his grandma's repeated attempts to stay, so he agreed to stay for a few more days.

In the past few days, grandma and aunt stopped visiting, and they stopped watching TV. Every day, they grabbed Li Shang and told them about Li Tang. He told Li Shang enthusiastically.

Li Tang's second sister was sitting on the side, smiling, listening and talking.

The three of them sat in the yard, enjoying themselves, the haze and dense rain seemed to be far away from this pure land, and the warm sunshine appeared in the sky, everything was so unreal, like a dream.

The following is the story that Li Shang sorted out according to his own imagination after listening to the words of his grandmother and aunt.

The battle for television—

"Give it to me!" A seven or eight-year-old boy stood under the bed and yelled at the person on the bed with a fierce look on his face.

"No!" The girl on the bed wore a pale yellow dress, with one hand on her hips and the other holding the remote control high up, glaring fiercely at the little boy.

Li Tang tried to climb onto the bed, but was kicked off by the girl. Li Tang was so angry that he ran out of the room. The girl finally breathed a sigh of relief and sat on the bed happily watching her favorite TV series.

After a while, Li Tang rushed in with a kitchen knife in his hand, yelling, "I'm going to kill you!"

The girl was frightened and cried. She didn't want to die yet. She hadn't finished watching the TV series, hadn't spent all her private money, and hadn't talked to her boyfriend yet. She really didn't want to die.

The mother who was chatting with the neighbors at the door heard the noise of fighting and crying in the house, and ran in quickly. She grabbed the kitchen knife in Li Tang's hand, took the remote control from her daughter's hand, and handed it to Li Tang. Then he pulled his daughter out to comfort him: "You are an older sister, you have to give way to my younger brother..."

Li Tang finally got the remote control he had dreamed of, and happily climbed into bed to watch the Teletubbies.

After a while, the girl leaned out of the window and peeked into the room secretly, and said disdainfully, what's so good about Teletubbies, it's not as good as Dream of Red Mansions.

The girl tiptoed into the house, and when Li Tang saw it, he quickly covered the remote control in his arms, for fear of being snatched away again.He kept his eyes on the girl's every move, and saw that she didn't approach him, but walked towards the closet, as if she was looking for something, Li Tang heaved a sigh of relief, and turned his gaze to the TV, giggling from time to time Can't stop laughing.

The girl randomly took a piece of cloth, and then the TV screen suddenly went black, Li Tang was smiling, not knowing what happened, with a confused face, he pressed the remote control hard, but there was no response at all.

"Oh, there's a power outage. If the power is out, I won't be able to watch TV. I'd better go out and play."

The girl pretended to be surprised, then explained why the TV screen was black, and went out with a rag.

Li Tang put down the remote control, and went out dejectedly, he couldn't watch it when the power went out, he still knew this, because there were frequent power outages at home, so Li Tang had long been used to it, and didn't think it would be a girl's fault.

The girl squatted at the door, watched her younger brother come out and entered the neighbor's house, and rushed into the house impatiently, not forgetting to tell her mother before leaving.

"Mom, after a while Xiaotang asked me where I was, just say I went to Yingying's house, don't tell him I'm watching TV."

The girl ran into the house, plugged back the plug she had just unplugged, sat on the bed and cheered, she was so smart.

When Li Tang arrived at his friend's house, he saw that his friend was also watching cartoons, so he sat down and watched it together. The more he watched, the more he felt something was wrong. Whether there is a power outage, the boy shook his head and said: "I have been checking all morning, and there is no power outage at all."

Li Tang hurriedly said goodbye to his friend, since there was no power outage, it must be Li Hua's fault, she couldn't watch TV by herself, so she deliberately didn't let him watch it.

Li Tang saw his mother sitting at the door and asked where Li Hua was.The woman didn't know what her two children were up to, so she started chatting with others after she said she didn't know.

Li Tang walked into the main room, and when he heard the voice from the TV, he knew that he must have been tricked by Li Hua. He left the main room, moved a small bench, and quietly looked at the scene by the window. Li Hua watched intently. , did not notice him.

Li Tang doesn't want to watch TV anymore, even his favorite Teletubbies can't attract him at all, he is thinking about how to get revenge on Li Hua, Li Tang sits on a small bench, thinking about it, suddenly, he sees the There is a bamboo rake in the corner, and there is a black electric switch under the eaves on the bamboo rake. He remembers that the black electric switch will be pulled out when the house is repaired, and then all the electrical equipment will not work.

A happy smile appeared on the corner of Li Tang's mouth, he ran over, holding a bamboo rake twice as tall as himself in both hands, a high stool under his feet, the switch was too high, even if he was standing on a chair, it was still a little short.Li Tang swayed left and right, jumped up suddenly, the rake successfully hooked the switch on the switch, and sparks visible to the naked eye came out.Li Tang was so frightened that he quickly threw away the bamboo rake, for fear that he would be electrocuted to death.

After finishing this matter, Li Tang hurried to his mother's side, looking extremely well-behaved.

Li Hua came out of the house, with obvious dissatisfaction on her face: "Mom, the power went out again, really, every day the power goes out, and I can't watch the whole TV."

Li Tang looked at Li Hua complaining, ran into the house secretly and hid the remote control in a very hidden place, absolutely no one can find it.Then he ran out excitedly and yelled at Li Hua: "I unplugged the switch, and I won't let you watch TV, I'm mad at you! Slightly slightly!"

When Li Hua heard this, she hurriedly ran to the switch. As expected, the switch that was originally up was now lying on her stomach. Li Hua ran to complain to her mother angrily.

Because of the TV, Li Tang fought with Li Hua a lot, and then his mother had to buy a smaller TV, one for each person, each watching their own, which saved a lot of disputes.

But the father of the two also loved to watch TV dramas for a while. He liked to watch some war movies and news, which were not what Li Tang and Li Hua wanted to watch. Access to another TV.

Later, when Li Hua found a job, she hardly ever went home, and that small TV became Li Tang's exclusive possession.No one cared about him, so he let himself go completely, holding on to the TV all day long, watching it at eleven o'clock at night, his father often got up at night to go to the bathroom, and would come over when he saw the lights in his son's room still flickering Scold him and tell him to go to bed early.

Li Tang always turned off the TV on the surface, pretending to be asleep, and then turned on the TV quickly after hearing the sound of his father's footsteps returning to the room, and continued watching with the volume turned down to the minimum.

In order to be able to watch more TV, he also covered the glass on the door of the room with a layer of opaque cloth, so that his father could not see the light coming out. Facts have proved that this trick is quite useful.

Li Tang's enthusiasm for watching cartoons has never diminished. It was not until he was 14 years old that he began to watch less, and his peers had long since stopped watching.

Li Shang thought about the reason, probably because Li Tang had always maintained a pure childlike innocence before this.