The Taming of the Ruffian Hero

Lin Wenxi stretched and kicked the quilt, a gust of cold wind entered his neck, he sank down again, buried himself in the quilt, touched his side, Zhao Yuan was gone.

Suddenly, Lin Wenxi felt his neck itchy again, only to realize that both sides of his neck were covered with large and small cotton fabrics, including scarves, sweaters, and blankets, which were tightly blocked, so that no matter how much he moved at night, his shoulders Nowhere will be frozen.Lin Wenxi smiled sweetly, couldn't help rolling in the quilt, and felt that the warm and heavy part of the feet, got out to see, it turned out that the feet were also covered with large and small blankets, and some of the coats had been covered. Kicked to the ground by himself.

Lin Wenxi was embarrassed to go back to sleep, got dressed in bed, closed his eyes and made up his mind for a long time before getting out of bed.Then I made the bed, folded the quilt into square tofu pieces like military training, and folded the blankets, sweaters, etc. one by one.

Because he slept very well at night, Lin Wenxi was very energetic. He walked out of the room and walked into the living room. He saw a rice cooker on the table, but there was no one there.After wandering around for a long time, Lin Wenxi saw a shop opened at the back door of the house. Zhao Yuan was selling firecrackers. Obviously there were many customers and he was a bit busy at the moment.

"It's like you haven't had a good night's sleep in ten years. I can't help but test if you're breathing in the morning!" Zhao Yuan greeted the guests while turning his head to joke.

"I hope you didn't try it with your mouth!" Lin Wenxi pretended to look down.Zhao Yuan couldn't help snorting when he thought of that slap during the training.

Zhao Yuan quickly opened the packaging bag, blew on it to inflate it, put the firecrackers in again, asked the customer why he bought the firecrackers, and pasted a pair of red double happiness characters on the front and back of the packaging bag, saying that four happiness will come soon, The first happy year is over, the second happy is a new marriage, the third happy harvest year, and the fourth happy is about to have children and grandchildren.

The customer grinned from ear to ear, held the firecracker and paid the money contentedly and left.

Lin Wenxi's neck and eyes straightened when he heard this, and his jaw almost didn't drop.

After waiting for a while, Zhao Yuan pushed Lin Wenxi to the table in the posture of escorting a prisoner, and uncovered the rice cooker, which contained boiling sweet potato porridge.When Lin Wenxi saw the orange-yellow sweet potatoes, he couldn't help being greedy. When Zhao Yuan helped him put them away, he picked up a spoon and was about to stuff them into his mouth, but Zhao Yuan hit his head again.

Zhao Yuan said angrily, "Slow down, it's very hot."

"Are you going to bully me after living in your house?" Lin Wenxi raised his head with some dissatisfaction, and looked at Zhao Yuan angrily.

I have never seen Lin Wenxi have such an expression before. Zhao Yuan felt happy, and quickly stretched out his index finger and thumb, and pinched Lin Wenxi's protruding mouth like this.There was only a sound of "biu", like a strip of cloth being torn, a soup squeezed out of Lin Wenxi's mouth, and spilled all over the table.

Lin Wenxi was so excited that he stood up and was about to wrestle Zhao Yuan, when he heard a loud bang, the ceramic bowl fell to the ground, smashed to pieces, and there was porridge all over the floor.Lin Wenxi frowned because he felt sorry for the bowl of porridge, and felt a little annoyed that he had come to Zhao Yuan's house for the first time, so he made such an ugly trip.Zhao Yuan quickly found a dustpan and broom, swept it in, and was about to dump it into the garbage bag in the corner.

"Wait." Lin Wenxi yelled, found a newspaper from the low cabinet, retrieved the broken porcelain pieces little by little, put them in, and asked Zhao Yuan for transparent glue, sealed them carefully, thought for a while, and then A note was pasted saying "Beware of glass shards" before it was put into the garbage bag.

Zhao Yuan was a little puzzled.

"In case they cut their hands while picking up trash," Lin Wenxi explained.

Zhao Yuan's heart moved, he nodded, and said, "Your mother is really kind."

Lin Wenxi put his hands on his hips and said: "I admit that your conclusion is correct, but! At this time! You! Shouldn't you say that I am kind?"

Zhao Yuan smiled: "Like a mother, like a son."

Lin Wenxi snorted, then found another bowl, scooped up porridge, hid away from Zhao Yuan, and slurped away.

Zhao Yuan looked at Lin Wenxi, who was no longer alone with the school, and went to help with the business with peace of mind, and came back to clean up the dishes after a while.

After a busy day, until seven or eight o'clock in the evening, Lin Wenxi helped Zhao Yuan take back the firecrackers and asked, "Why are you always the only one in your family?"

"The man is doing business outside, and the woman has gone somewhere." Zhao Yuan said casually.

"Did you put all these firecrackers in these few days after you came back?" Lin Wenxi couldn't help being amazed.

"Yes, there is a fixed purchase point at the beginning of each year, and there is also a special person to transport it. If you can't sell it, you can return it. In fact, it is a network of contacts accumulated over the years, helping each other and doing physical work." Zhao Yuan said.

Lin Wenxi listened to what he said with ease, but in his mind he was thinking about how much it would cost to buy goods, what kind of vehicle would be needed for transportation, how to get through inspections, how to ensure the safety of firecrackers, how to explain the use of firecrackers to customers, and how to keep them in the house, etc. , and so on, compared to himself, Lin Wenxi looked at Zhao Yuan's shoulder and couldn't help but sigh.

"You feel sorry for me, don't you?" Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

"Who cares about you, I feel sorry for these unsold firecrackers!" Lin Wenxi said to himself, and pushed open the front door of the house, a cool wind blew in, and the outside was already a world of ice and snow.

Lin Wenxi took a breather, rubbed his hands, and stared blankly at the flat snow. The ruts of a bicycle stretched all the way to the alley at the corner of the yard. Several children were building snowmen at the other corner of the alley. Many snowmen had already been built. Each seemed to have no eyes, and only two eye sockets were picked out by hand.

At this time, if there are a few marbles... Lin Wenxi suddenly became naughty.

Zhao Yuan didn't expect that Lin Wenxi was so fast and such a naughty boy, so he had to find glass marbles for this little friend.All the boys who grew up in the countryside don't have a collection of glass marbles, but as they grow older, they gradually collect the glass marbles into their dusty youthful minds and seal them in some old boxes.Zhao Yuan returned to the room, saw the well-folded quilt, nodded in satisfaction, and praised Lin Wenxi's good wife, Lin Wenxi pinched his arm severely, then squatted down contentedly, from the bottom of an old-fashioned desk, he managed to find the quilt. A rusty iron box.Open it, and it is full of glass marbles of various colors, red, green, white, and blue.The moment Zhao Yuan opened the box, Lin Wenxi was a little startled and astonished. Such a scene seemed familiar to him.

Sometimes walking on the road occasionally, I saw someone, did something, said a certain word, but it seems to be similar, it seems to be once.But there has never been a dream like today. As a person who has woken up from the dream, he can see everything in the dream vividly, knowing that he has experienced it before. I still can't figure out when and where those things happened.

"Why are you so stupefied?" Zhao Yuan pushed Lin Wenxi, grabbed a handful of marbles, and asked, "Is it enough? Don't lose all to the kids outside."

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"Are there no black ones?" Lin Wenxi asked.

Zhao Yuan poured the marbles into the quilt and spread them out. Lin Wenxi couldn't help feeling sorry for the fruits of his morning labor.

Hundreds of marbles covered almost all the colors, but there was no black one. Lin Wenxi was slightly disappointed, sighed, and Zhao Yuan had already run out the door.

Lin Wenxi didn't stop him, but saw a line of footprints in the snow, stretching straight to the alley not far away, and the alley turned outward, which was another street.

Waiting left and right, but when Zhao Yuan did not come back, Lin Wenxi couldn't help but conceal the door, and ran out to look around.

Along the way, I answered the calls of Hongxuan and my mother respectively. It was easy to deal with it, but I found that I walked deeper and deeper without knowing it, and I didn’t know how many turns I turned. He was walking by, and his eyes turned black suddenly - he was actually in his hometown, lost his way! ! !The first reaction was to call Zhao Yuan. Thinking of Zhao Yuan's wicked smile, he was so angry that he bit the bullet and hurriedly searched. Accidentally, he almost bumped into a man with a full face. Confused Zhao Yuan.

Lin Wenxi shrugged his shoulders, and Zhao Yuan grinned, "Have you lost your way?"

"Whoever got lost, you got lost!" Lin Wenxi said boldly.

"Oh, yes, I'm lost, so please lead the way and help me find it." Zhao Yuan couldn't hide the smile on his face.

"You!" Lin Wenxi was a little anxious, stomped his feet and lowered his head bitterly, saw Zhao Yuan's shoes, then looked at the snow, raised his head to follow the footprints, walked in front, and found Zhao Yuan's yard after a while.

"You are as smart as you, but sometimes you are so stupid that your IQ has no lower limit." Zhao Yuan couldn't help sighing, squatting beside the child who was still making a snowman, laughing and inlaid black glass marbles in the eyes of the snowman, like a finishing touch Similarly, the snowman had black eyes, and his body was even more crystal clear and white. Under the moonlight, he seemed to have a spirit.

The children clapped their hands and laughed happily, and begged Zhao Yuan to fill in the snowman's eyes one by one.Zhao Yuan finished the snowman and distributed the remaining beads to each child.

Lin Wenxi looked at the children chattering around him and Zhao Yuan, seeing the sweat on Zhao Yuan's neck, his nose couldn't help but feel a little sore.He must have been running all the way to buy marbles, and he specifically wanted black ones. He disappeared for more than half an hour. How many streets should he run?

The two of them squatted together and built a few more snowmen with the children. Lin Wenxi wrote the character "Yuan" on the back of one snowman, and engraved the character "Xi" on the other. The two snowmen stood side by side, the moonlight was like practice, and the snowy night was like silver. , Lin Wenxi was slightly absent-minded looking at the blinding pure fluorescent lights.

"Why do I think the one on the left is much more handsome?" Zhao Yuan put his arm around Lin Wenxi's shoulder.

"I think so too." Lin Wenxi relaxed all over, his neck slightly resting on Zhao Yuan's arm, indescribably relaxed and comfortable, as if he had returned to the yard of his childhood, where he had the happiest time ever.

The two stood for a while, but saw one of the little girls covered the lower body of the snowman engraved with the word "xi" with a red oil paper bag, which became a small skirt, and found two small cloth strips to tie into a pair of bows, Smiling sweetly: "This is my wife." Lin Wenxi blushed suddenly with shame, hit Zhao Yuan hard, and ran back to the house.

"Is it my fault? You make a snowman by yourself like a painting, and you make the other one so thin..." Zhao Yuan yelled and chased after him, and saw Lin Wenxi standing under the lantern thoughtfully.

When I came here last night, the lantern was like daylight, a piece of red and warm. During the day, I accidentally saw that the lantern was still on. I think it was on for a full [-] hours.

"Aren't you wasting electricity? Why don't you turn it off?" Lin Wenxi looked around for a switch while talking.

"The lantern doesn't have a switch." Zhao Yuan said slowly.

"why?"

"Hmm...it's always on."

"Oh..." Lin Wenxi seemed to believe Zhao Yuan easily, and asked again: "Auntie, why didn't I see it?"

Zhao Yuan felt a sharp pain in his heart. Was it a coincidence or intentional that Lin Wenxi connected two closely related things with ease, and that was the pain of Zhao Yuan's life.