famine

Just after the fourth class in the morning, Jiang Xuan's cell phone vibrated in his pocket.

On the podium, many students gathered around the history teacher asking how to answer the last big question in yesterday's paper. The history teacher answered them one by one with a very kind smile on his face. It is conservatively estimated that he would not be able to leave the teaching building for half an hour.

Wang Peng's stomach has been screaming all morning, his face has turned green from hunger, and he was the first to jump out as soon as the bell rang for the end of get out of class. His speed was so fast that people like Xu Fei and Chen Zhengyu won [-] first and second places in every sports meeting. Neither could catch up.

Chen Zhengyu tidied up the table hole and turned around, saw Jiang Xuan was looking at his mobile phone, and knocked his whole body and chair onto Jiang Xuan's table, "Dongzi, are you going to eat?"

Jiang Xuan didn't look up, and continued to stare at the phone, with a cold tone: "I'll say it again for the last time, don't, knock, table, child. Next time, I'll throw you and your chair on the playground."

Chen Zhengyu was stunned for a moment, then laughed for a while, "Okay, okay, I know, let's go eat, Xu Fei's stomach is going to die of boredom."

Jiang Xuan put the phone back, guessing that he didn't take it seriously, raised his head and gave him a light look, "You're going to be bored to death."

There was a text message on the phone, and IKEA notified him that the coffee table had been delivered.

Mom broke the tea table, and he bought another one that was exactly the same.

Jiang Jianguo bought the broken coffee table and the house.

Jiang Xuan still remembers that the person he liked the most when he was a child was Jiang Jianguo, that is, his father.

But it was very strange. At that time, he didn't understand why his father didn't look like other people's fathers.

Because other people's fathers go home every day, and sometimes go directly to the school gate to pick up their children. The family of three is very happy and harmonious.But his father never picked him up, nor would he go home every day.

The earliest memory of my father in my impression is when he was in the first class of kindergarten. Before that, he really thought that a woman could have children.

One day when he came home from school with his schoolbag on his back, he saw a chubby man sitting beside the coffee table in the living room, wearing a suit and leather shoes, wearing silver-rimmed glasses.

At that time, Jiang Xuan was quite polite, and obediently called him uncle.

"Call Dad! Thrush, this is Dad!"

My mother came out of the bedroom briskly, dressed neatly for a rare occasion, with delicate makeup painted on her face, full of girlish air, and there were almost pink bubbles around her.

The man sitting on the sofa also moved, stretched his neck, and looked at him tremblingly, his eyes were full of expectation, as if a string was stretched in his mind, as long as Jiang Xuan made a sound as he wished, he could cry bitterly Runny nose.

Jiang Thrush didn't bark.

After three seconds of silence, my mother suddenly ran towards him quickly, just a few steps, but in the blink of an eye, she was in front of her eyes.

The sleeves covered his mother's hands, and through the coat, his mother grabbed the flesh on his arm, and the voice in his ear was full of threats and temptations: "Little thrush, good baby, call Dad quickly."

"..."

Mom repeated again, but this time her tone was a little impatient: "Hurry up! Call Dad! This is Dad!"

"dad......"

"Hey! Good son!"

The middle-aged man seemed to have obtained some approval, stood up and stepped in front of him, bent down to hold him in his arms, and rubbed his head very affectionately.

The man cried, and when he lowered his head, the tears fell, hit his glasses, and slid down quickly.

"Are you doing well? Are you eating well? How are you doing at school? Is there any toy you want, and Dad will satisfy you. Can you call again?"

Jiang Thrush began to remember things from then on.

Before that, he always thought that his mother had just lost her temper and changed her personality, but he didn't expect that it was not the case.

Because as long as this person appears, my mother is a gentle and loving mother.

She is as amiable as the mothers of other children in the kindergarten, and will cook him a lot of delicious food and give him more pocket money.

The happiest thing is not to hit him.

All the unforgettable memories, pain, and crying are just because this person didn't show up.

The man he called Dad sometimes came three times a week, and sometimes he didn't show up once a month. Whenever his mother's face changed, Jiang Xuan hoped that the man would come and heal her soon.

Dad treats him very well. Every time he comes home, he brings a lot of snacks and toys. Jiang Xuan doesn't like toys or snacks, but he is always scared by the sharp eyes of his mother hiding in the corner, so he has to pretend I accepted it with a happy face.

At that time, Jiang Xuan always had a premonition that if he made his mother lose her composure in front of his father, or made his father show a disappointed look, his mother would kill him.

As for the tea table that was broken by his mother, it actually carried many memories of Jiang Xuan.

Every time Dad comes to the house, he will notify Mom in advance. If Jiang Xuan sees Mom taking care of himself, cleaning up the house with a look of sudden panic, or calling Aunt tremblingly to ask her to buy vegetables and cook, there is no need at all. Doubt, Dad is coming.

Jiang Xuan's face was originally expressionless, but now there was a slight slack.

Or relieved.

When Dad hurried home, Mom ran to the entrance with a spring face to take off his coat and take his briefcase. As usual, the two hugged at the door for a while——Mom always likes to hug Dad, Nestled in his arms like a kitten.

Jiang Xuan happened to see it once, and felt that the mother at that time seemed to be a different person compared with the mother in his impression.

Dad would then come to the living room and sit down next to the coffee table. Mom told the aunt to prepare the meal, and then arranged the dishes with a smile on her face. Her starry eyes never left Dad for a moment.

A family of three will have a meal around the coffee table.

My mother can't cook, she can only make some desserts, her hands are soft and slender, and her fingers don't touch the spring water.

Before meeting her father, she worked as a dance teacher at the Children's Palace in the city center.

After meeting her father, she became his accessory.

"Brother Zhou."

The phone rang for a long time before Jiang Xuan came back to his senses, looked at the caller ID, and put it directly to his ear.

"Hey, Dongzi, are you busy?"

On the other end of the phone was a male voice with a slightly thicker voice. He was not yet 30 years old, but it sounded like the voice of a middle-aged man who was 46 or seven.

Jiang Xuan: "No, just finished class, do you have work?"

Brother Zhou hummed, "There is no work, and there are few birds in winter, so my store is clean. If we don't open again, we will really fade out."

Jiang Xuan listened and said nothing.

Brother Zhou didn't find it strange. After getting along with him for a long time, he knew that this person is lonely and can't be interested in anything, so he went straight to the topic: "My nephew, Zhou Hui, remember? His birthday is next week, and I Thinking about giving him a bird, that kid is similar to you, and he also likes to toss birds, so come and help me take a look? I'll ask you."

Jiang Xuan hooked the corners of his mouth and raised his eyebrows, "The cages on the top of the cabinet in your store are not enough to choose? The giant-billed water hyacinth lotus skin, just touching one with eyes closed will make him go crazy with joy. "

"Hi," Brother Zhou laughed twice, "I can't bear to give those few to him. They are the treasures of the store, and no one will sell them for a price... When do you leave school in the afternoon? I will pick you up in a car and go to the bird market shopping?"

Jiang Xuan looked at Xu Fei and Chen Zhengyu who were walking in front, squinted his eyes and thought for a while, a person like him who entered the dormitory and didn't talk about study had almost finished his homework at this time, and the last class in the afternoon was self-study, probably No teacher was watching.

"Four o'clock, you can just wait for me at the old place," he said, "Go early, the bird market will be closed later."

"That's it." Brother Zhou hung up the phone readily.

Four o'clock was four o'clock, and just past thirty at three o'clock, Jiang Xuan put on his clothes and went out.

There are still 5 minutes before the self-study. When he passed by the door, he happened to see Wang Peng who had gone out to release the water. Wang Peng called him, "Where are you going? You skipped class again?"

Jiang Xuan was in a good mood, raised his eyes and replied: "Working, earning money."

Wang Peng opened his mouth and twitched his brows, "...Go ahead then you."

It took a bit of effort to leave the school gate, because it was not time for school to end, Jiang Xuan couldn't go through the main entrance, he had to avoid the cameras and the grade director who always liked to wander around the school, and he had to go back to the dormitory to change his school uniform, otherwise he would not go out inconvenient.

The attached middle school is very large, and there is a power grid around the wall. There is only one place for people like Jiang Xuan to smuggle out of class, and it is under the wall next to the teaching staff dormitory building.

Because that area is all dormitory buildings, the dormitory buildings for faculty and staff are at the outermost edge, and the student buildings are inside. In line with the principle of knowing that there are tigers in the mountains and prefer to go to the tiger mountain, there are not so many cameras on the faculty dormitory side, and the walls are relatively good. turn.

Jiang Xuan was relaxed, with nothing but clothes on his body, not even a schoolbag, and he jumped under the most frequently turned over wall to jump on the neatly piled waste, with his hands supporting the top of the wall, he moved very neatly with a single push And handsomely climbed over the wall.

As soon as he landed, a whistle sounded beside him.

"Yo, that's cool."

Jiang Xuan turned his head without changing his expression, and saw Brother Zhou leaning on the Honda parked by the wall, tilting his head to cheer him up.

He stood up, patted the dust that didn't exist on his body, walked over and took the lead in the co-pilot, "Let's go."

Places like bird markets are generally not built in crowded and bustling downtown areas. One is that the environment does not satisfy the temperament of birds, and the other is that it is incompatible with the urban environment.There are quite a lot of bird markets in Eucalyptus, both private and underground, but the largest and most lively bird market is in the suburbs, and it takes an hour and a half to drive from the city to a full dozen.

Probably because he knew that time was a bit tight, Brother Zhou wanted to pick birds for his nephew earlier, so he saved the usual teasing when they met each other, and after getting in the car, he took a plastic bag from the back seat to Jiang Xuan, and said naturally: "Didn't eat it. There is donkey fire in the bag. I bought six and ate two. You can fill up the rest first. After you are done, I will treat you to hot pot at night."

Jiang Xuan was also not polite, and after listening to it, he opened the plastic bag and ate it on his own. The fire must have just come out of the oven, the skin is still crispy, and the peppers and coriander inside are quite tender. Take a bite of the sauce and meat All mixed in the mouth, creaking, the only shortcoming is that it is small.

After eating one in three or four bites, Jiang Xuan asked, "What bird do you want to buy for him?"

Brother Zhou has been driving for more than ten years, and has a lot of bad driving habits. He put one hand lightly on the steering wheel and the other on the window frame. It’s not as good as you, but this kid’s eyes are also poisonous, so I definitely don’t want it if he’s not good in appearance. Do you have any recommendations? The price is easy to negotiate.”

"Thrush." ​​Jiang Xuan said.

"Thrush? Isn't it a bit too..."

Jiang Xuan: "Too low?"

Brother Zhou didn't speak.

"The thrush breeds during the summer solstice, and the season is not right now. In addition, this thing is now low-risk, and it is very difficult to buy a good one. It is the same as traveling at the end of the day. If you don't take good care of it, you may be gone one day. Zhou Hui wants to love it. Toss, if you bother looking for raw birds, you have to spend a lot of energy. It is best to get the best raw wool, and then match a full set of things and bait, and you have to start eating and tame it according to your temperament. It will cost you two or three thousand , it’s not expensive. But if Zhou Hui raises it well, he won’t want to wait on him later and sell it, but he can turn it around and grind people.”

This is the first time that Jiang Xuan explained so much to Brother Zhou so seriously. Brother Zhou didn't react for a long time, causing the cars waiting in line behind the city to honk their horns frequently, and almost got out of the car and knocked on the door to ask him if he was asleep. caught.

After Jiang Xuan finished talking, he seemed tired, swallowed the donkey fire in twos and twos, and took the third one with his eyes lowered. His cheeks were filled to the brim, and after chewing it all, he returned his hand with ease and got off the back seat. I took out a bottle from the box of water, "Hurry up, the school closes at ten o'clock, if I don't come back, I have to stay in a hotel."

Brother Zhou came back to his senses at this moment, turned around and continued driving, and turned back after two seconds with a puzzled face: "Oh, I thought you can climb over the wall, don't you?"

Jiang Xuan stared at him from the rearview mirror: "The dormitory closes at nine o'clock, you'd better hurry up, let alone the dormitory, the birds are sold out."

Picking birds wasted a lot of effort, Zhou Ge almost sold the oriole that he knew at a glance that it was an old bird coated with dilute oxalic acid and sold as a raw bird. The three hundred purchases went to my grandpa's house, so it is estimated that Brother Zhou has already taken over the store.

I was still very surprised that Brother Zhou had opened the bird shop for seven or eight years, and he was still so dazed by the shopkeeper's rhetoric and flattery.

It’s already 08:30 when I came back from the bird market. The hot pot that Brother Zhou originally planned to invite him to eat failed. Panicked and didn't really want to eat, he got out of the car in Zhou Ge's eyes that almost said "Are you sick", and walked into the school gate unsteadily.