my bamboo horse rider

On the second day after arriving in a strange country, Tang Jin was woken up by Qin Beichen.

It was already dawn at six o'clock, and the owner's family had already gone out to work. The elderly mother-in-law led them to the old house and instructed them to uncover the bamboo cover on the wooden table, which contained breakfast for them.

Soup rice cooked with dried vegetables and bamboo shoots, and a dish specially made for young guests, small river fish wrapped in flour and deep-fried until golden and crisp.

They are all locally produced, freshly picked and cooked pure natural ingredients. They are not very refined food, but they are better in flavor and freshness, so that the teenagers can eat to their heart's content, and they are more curious about the countryside outside. Most of them have gone.

Tang Jin remembered the resolution he made last night, to protect Qin Qin, and to bring Qin Qin to have fun here.

So he encouraged himself again, grabbed Qin Beichen's hand, and said loudly, "Qin Qin, let's go out and play!"

Qin Beichen looked very speechless, and said fiercely: "I told you to do my homework in the morning!"

Forget about it, Tang Jin laughed.

Qin Beichen and Tang Jin are sitting in the main room doing their homework, while the host’s mother-in-law is washing dishes in the courtyard. The sound of drawing and splashing water from the well is something Tang Jin has never heard before, giving people a sense of simplicity that is different from urban life. It made them feel even more vividly that they were in a strange country that was completely different from S City.

The water used to clean the bowls and chopsticks is splashed on the bluestone tiles in the patio, and slowly evaporates, which lowers the temperature in the summer morning that is not too hot. The breeze blows slowly, blowing the breath of clear water into the main room, which is very cool and comfortable. .

Qin Beichen narrowed his eyes, like a cat comfortably blown by the wind.

Tang Jin worked on a math problem for a long time, but he couldn't figure it out. Instead, he was relieved - he finally found a problem that he couldn't do.

Tang Jin scratched the back of his head, moved the homework book under Qin Beichen's eyelids, and said pitifully, "I can't do this."

Qin Beichen looked down and said decisively: "Impossible not. Don't be lazy."

Tang Jin was not convinced, and said a little aggrieved: "I just can't figure it out."

Qin Beichen grabbed his draft paper, snorted softly, circled one of the steps, and pushed it back with his chin raised: "I lost a number. Stupid monkey."

Tang Jin carefully looked at the step circled by Qin Beichen, and found that he had really lost a number. He calculated it again carefully, filled in the answer, moved the homework book under Qin Beichen's eyes, and obediently asked: "That's right. Bar?"

Qin Beichen nodded his head respectfully.

Then, he taught like a teacher: "Be more serious. Go out to play in the afternoon."

Tang Jin let out a long voice.

Tang Jin thought to himself, Qin Qin is really easy to coax.

Then he continued to bury his head in his homework, and there was a small notebook between the two of them. It was a notepad that Qin Beichen carried with him. It was a circle smaller than the Xinhua Dictionary, very thin, and had a black leather cover.

From the front to the back, what Qin Beichen felt was necessary to figure out the problems was recorded, and from the back to the front, what was recorded was the plan Qin Beichen made for himself.

According to Tang Jin's observation, Qin Beichen can use up one notebook in two months, and then replace it with a new one that is exactly the same.

Now the notepad is turned to the back page, and a long tail clip is clipped in the middle of the book to keep it spread out. On the left side is the completion progress of Qin Beichen’s summer homework listed by Tang Jin, and on the right side is Qin Beichen’s Give yourself a list of the summer homework completion progress.

The most troublesome part is the summer vacation diary.

Tang Jin is looking forward to some fun things happening in the afternoon, otherwise he doesn't know what to write.

The host's mother-in-law had already finished washing the dishes, moved a bamboo chair and sat at the door of the main room, fanned the cattail fan, and rested with half-closed eyes.

When they arrived, Tang's mother hurriedly informed that they were going to Grandpa Tang Jin's cousin's house, and stuffed a lot of money for the man who came to pick them up in front of the two children.

No matter how Tang Jin protested, Tang's mother just said in the end: "I am a very good relative, and I will definitely entertain you warmly. You can play there for two months."

Qin Beichen felt that he was a guest, so he didn't speak from the beginning to the end.

Arriving here yesterday proved that Mama Tang's words were true, the host family was indeed very warm to them.

The owner's family name is also Tang, and it is a big family. Grandpa Tang's cousin has passed away, and his wife is the mother-in-law who washed dishes for Tang Jin and Qin Beichen just now, called Grandma Chunlai.

They have two sons under their knees. According to their seniority, Tang and Jin would call him uncle.After the two sons got married and had children, they both moved out of the old house and lived in new houses respectively.

So now the family lives in three places. The eldest son's house, the second son's house, and the old house where Chunlai's mother-in-law lives are all big houses with yards.

The two uncles said that Tang Jin and Qin Beichen can live wherever they want, depending on their preference.

The houses of the eldest son and the second son are very modern, with the local architectural style on the outside, and all the modern facilities inside. Tang Jin and Qin Beichen lived in the house of the eldest son last night, and there is nothing wrong with it.

The old house that Chunlai’s mother-in-law lives in is different. It is an old Hui style wooden house. Although it has all the water and electricity, it still looks old everywhere.In particular, Grandma Chunlai lives here alone, and the house is often lit with sandalwood. The faint sandalwood permeates every corner, making people's heartbeat calm down unconsciously.

Both Tang Jin and Qin Beichen liked it here, so they chose to do their homework here.

Near noon, the second aunt rushed back from the field and went to the old house to make lunch for the old and the young. After lunch, she led Tang Jin and Qin Beichen to meet new playmates as she said last night.

Tang Jin took Qin Beichen's hand and followed behind the vigorous second aunt, stepping on the stone road, his eyes full of curiosity.

This village is at the junction of Province A, Province Z and City S, with green mountains and green waters, it is a place like ink painting, and the scenery is beautiful.

The old buildings seen on the road are all Hui-style wooden houses, and the new houses have different styles. Some look like the two uncles’ houses and still maintain the old-school style, some have built small western-style buildings, and some are free to combine Chinese and Western styles. Have fun.

Qin Beichen thought, this is probably the result of economic development.

The second aunt took them to the village, where there was a grain drying field, and beside the field was an old stage. A group of children were discussing something noisily, with one of the older children vaguely leading the way.

"Shao Feng," the second aunt called the name of the older child, "come here."

The second aunt was a vigorous and decisive person, she simply entrusted Tang Jin and Qin Beichen to a boy named Shao Feng, and hurried back to work in the field.

About seven or eight children, standing behind Shao Feng, looked at the two children from the city together with Shao Feng.

Shao Feng looked at the two boys who were about the same age as him, and felt a little melancholy. He knew that from the moment these two boys appeared, he, Shao Feng, was not the most beautiful boy in the whole village.

People from the city, will they be very arrogant and look down on others?

Tang Jin took Qin Beichen's hand, smiled and said to Shao Feng: "My name is Tang Jin, he is Qin Beichen, what are you playing? Take us together, okay?"

"Okay, okay," Shao Feng blushed a little, and patted his chest to reassure, "You just follow me, I'll take you to play."

Tang Jin bent his eyes and smiled: "Thank you, you are so kind."

They were all half-grown children, and Shao Feng, who was the leader, was quickly captured by Tang Jin, so they quickly became acquainted. Under Shao Feng's leadership, they went to the field to pick mulberries together.

There are many farmers raising silkworms here, and there are many mulberry leaf fields. It is the season when the mulberry trees are lush and green, and they bear a lot of sweet mulberries. At that time, tourism had not yet developed, and mulberries had not yet become valuable fruits. Adults were too lazy Only children are keen on picking. Some of them carry bamboo baskets, and some eat as they pick. Once they enter the mulberry leaf field, they disperse and pick their own.

Shao Feng followed Tang Jin and Qin Beichen, telling them what kind of mulberry was sweeter, because he was afraid that there would be snakes in the fields, and the children in the city would be afraid.

"It looks like a bunch of miniature grapes," Tang Jin said to Qin Beichen while holding the mulberries.

Qin Beichen frowned, squeezed Tang Jin's mouth, and asked Shao Feng, "Why is his tongue black?"

Shao Feng laughed out loud.

After eating mulberries, the tongue and teeth are stained black with juice.

Tang Jin also laughed, not caring that his teeth and tongue were stained by mulberry juice. Qin Beichen looked at Tang Jin's blackened mouth and was speechless, only thankful that he didn't eat unwashed food and was not stained.

After eating mulberries, Shao Feng took the children to catch fish in the stream.

There are many mountains and rivers in this village. There are streams, rivers, ditches and canals. The stream where the children catch fish is at the foot of the mountain.There are willow trees on the banks of the stream, and the clear water in the stream flows quickly. There are many stones, big enough for children to lie on and sleep, and small ones, as small as goose eggs, washed smooth and moist by the stream, and can be picked out to play the game of throwing and catching.

Tang Jin packed a large handful of mulberries with big taro leaves, which were very similar to lotus leaves, which he picked for Qin Beichen just now. While Shaofeng and the others caught fish, they washed them in the upstream stream and asked Qin Beichen to eat them.

The stream water is very clear.

Qin Beichen hesitated again and again, but still picked one up and ate it.

Tang Jin asked: "Is it delicious?"

Qin Beichen nodded.

They did not participate in catching fish. Shao Feng said that the fish they wanted to catch was very cunning. It was a small fish with beautiful scales. It was silver in water, and it would turn into rainbow-like colors when exposed to sunlight. It was very flexible and hard to catch. , so only Tang Jin and Qin Beichen, who were not familiar with Xiaoxi, were allowed to watch.

The sun is getting stronger and stronger, and the high temperature in the afternoon makes the cicadas scream like crazy. Maybe because there are green mountains and green trees in front of them, they are not too upset. Tang Jin and Qin Beichen sat on the big rock under the shade of willows, their feet were soaked in the It doesn't feel too hot in the cold stream.

Not far away, the children held their breath and tried to catch the cunning little fish.Shao Feng said that if he caught it, he would give it to Tang Jin and Qin Beichen.

Tang Jin laughed, and asked Qin Beichen in a low voice: "Qin Qin, it's quite fun here, isn't it?"

Qin Beichen ate two mulberries just now, but at this moment he absolutely refused to speak, and only hummed.

Tang Jin laughed and coaxed: "I won't laugh at you, just open your mouth and show me."

Qin Beichen gave him a blank look.

At this time, the children cheered, and Shao Feng held up a mineral water bottle: "I caught it! I caught it! Tang Jin!"

Tang Jin pulled Qin Beichen and walked over the stream, took the mineral water bottle, and saw the nimble little silver fish inside. Looking at the sun, the scales of the silver fish shone like a rainbow.

"You are amazing!" Tang Jin never hesitated to praise, and said sincerely to Shao Feng.

Shao Feng smiled embarrassedly, and said proudly: "Give it to you!"

Then he saw Qin Beichen next to Tang Jin, corrected and said, "For you."

Tang Jin handed the bottle to Qin Beichen, and asked Qin Beichen to look at the fish. At the same time, he asked Shao Feng curiously: "How do we raise it? What does it eat?"

Shao Feng replied: "This fish has a very temper. If you feed it something, it won't eat it. It will die in two days."

Tang Jin's eyes froze for a moment, and he said anxiously, "Then what should I do?"

"If you die, you die," Shao Feng was at a loss. "This fish is not tasty. It is beautiful. We usually don't catch it."

Tang Jin felt sad for a moment. Just as he was about to say something, Qin Beichen suddenly took the bottle from him and said to Shao Feng, "Thank you."

This was the first time Qin Beichen spoke to Shao Feng, and the tone was calm, not the arrogance Shao Feng imagined, so Shao Feng was a little flattered, stunned for a while, then waved his hand like a big brother in the movie, and said: "You're welcome, I'm sorry."

Afterwards, when a child asked where he was going, Shao Feng waved his hand and wanted to lead the army to move on, but Qin Beichen took the initiative to say: "Tang Jin and I will not go. Grandma Chunlai asked us to go back early. Thank you today you."

Shao Feng was not very happy, saying that it was still early, but Qin Beichen insisted, saying that Tang Jin felt sick from motion sickness yesterday, and now he was tired, because Tang Jin was abnormally silent, Shao Feng believed Qin Beichen's words, and it was not that bad Displeased, he even cared about Tang Jin before leaving with the other children.

Tang Jin stared blankly at the small fish hovering quietly in the water in the mineral water bottle.

"Let's go upstream." Qin Beichen held Tang Jin's hand instead, leading him up the stream without any explanation. "Find a place with a gentle flow and release it."

Tang Jin followed in Qin Beichen's footsteps, and asked hopefully, "Find a place where the flow is gentle, so that it doesn't get angry, can it survive?"

"I don't know," Qin Beichen said truthfully, "try it."

They walked upstream and came to a creek with strange rocks. There was a gentle puddle surrounded by rocks on three sides. Over the stone diffuse out.

Tang Jin knelt on the shortest rock, regardless of the stream water soaking his trousers, carefully dipped the mineral water bottle into the puddle, the small fish seemed to feel the fresh stream water flowing in, swam up, and circled around in the mineral water bottle After turning around, he quickly swam out of the mineral water bottle against the direction of the stream flowing in.

"It's out!"

Tang Jin said in surprise, and raised his head to look at Qin Beichen.

When he lowered his head again, the little fish swam around the puddle for a few times, then suddenly jumped into the crevice of the rock and disappeared.

"Did it survive?"

"do not know."

Tang Jin felt better, took an empty mineral water bottle and knocked on Qin Beichen's thigh, imitating the tone of an adult, and said, "It's so shameless for a child to talk!"

Qin Beichen curled his mouth and walked down the stream: "Who are you? Give you face."

"Me, Tang Jin, your best friend," Tang Jin replied pitifully, playing with an empty mineral water bottle.

Qin Beichen turned his head and rolled his eyes, meaning don't pretend to be you.

Tang Jin laughed loudly, walked out of the stream with Qin Beichen, and walked back to the old house along the way.

Grandma Chunlai was sitting in the main room watching TV, fanning her cattail fan. Seeing them coming back, she seemed to be afraid that they would be wronged, so she hurriedly asked, "Why did you come back? Did you have fun?"

Tang Jin spoke loudly, and Qin Beichen replied softly, "Happy."

"That's good, that's good."

Chunlai's mother-in-law nodded. After all, she couldn't let go of the opera channel on the TV and continued to listen to the opera.

She reminded Tang Jin of his own grandmother, so he picked up Qin Beichen and moved a bamboo chair to sit beside Grandma Chunlai, and asked, "Grandma Chunlai, what is this play about?"

Chunlai's mother-in-law cheered up, lit up the pictures on the TV, and spoke slowly to them in Mandarin with a strong accent: "This is Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. Zhu Yingtai is a daughter of the Zhu family, pretending to be a man." When I went to the academy, I became classmates with Liang Shanbo. At night, I slept in the same bunk, and Zhu Yingtai placed eighteen bowls of water in the middle of the bed to prevent Liang Shanbo from crossing the boundary..."

She listens to Yue Opera, Pingtan, and Huangmei Opera. The versions are different, and she can't remember the details. She speaks incongruously, with a heavy accent. Tang Jin and Qin Beichen actually don't understand very well, but she is so slow. Tell them old stories without hesitation, and they just sit there and listen patiently.

On the TV, Huang Mei and Liang Zhu sang the part about their classmates. Zhu Yingtai explained cleverly: "There is a reason for the scars on the earrings, why should Brother Liang be suspicious. There are many temple fairs in the village, and I play the role of Guanyin every year. Brother Liang, make a fuss Be attentive, you don't want to think about the hairpin skirt."

Liang Shanbo replied: "I dare not look at Guanyin from now on."

Qin Beichen didn't like half-knowledge. Although he listened patiently, he wrote down in his notepad: Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, going home to find out the story.

Going home... Qin Beichen paused at the tip of his pen.

In the next few days, they formed a fixed habit of doing their homework in the morning, going out with Shao Feng and the others in the afternoon, and watching TV or enjoying the cool air on the balcony in the evening.

Shao Feng played a lot of tricks, and Tang Jin and Qin Beichen didn't have enough knowledge of the fields. If you took them to pick a tomato or a carrot, the two city kids would be happy for a long time. Of course, this happy half day refers to Tang Jin. As for Qin Beichen, Shao Feng has never seen him smile.

Although Qin Beichen was just indifferent, not the kind of arrogance that looked down on others, Shao Feng had accumulated some discomfort, but with Tang Jin acting as resistance in the middle, and being concerned about their identities, they still managed to get along.

On this day, before noon, Shao Feng led a group of children to find Tang Jin and Qin Beichen. They each carried a bamboo pole with a hole in the top and tied a long cotton thread, like a fishing pole. In his hand is a big woven bag, which was originally used to hold chemical fertilizers or feed, with the words xx feed printed on it.

Shao Feng greeted them: "Come on! Let's go fishing for frogs!"

Tang Jin shook his head violently: "Frogs eat pests, how can you catch frogs!"

Shao Feng said nonchalantly: "There are so many frogs, what's the matter with catching a few? I catch them every summer. Frog legs are delicious."

Tang Jin was stunned: "Eat! This...isn't it good? Or let's catch crabs like yesterday, okay?"

Seeing Tang Jin like this, Shao Feng's accumulated dissatisfaction finally made his face sink, and he said in a strange way: "Oh, the young masters in the city don't care about eating frogs, cut it, love doesn't come."

Shao Feng lost his temper and led the children away in a mighty way. A very cheerful girl tried to greet them: "It's okay, let's go together?"

Tang Jin forced a smile: "No need. Thank you, Tang Ting, you can go with them."

The girl blushed instantly: "Do you remember my name?"

After finishing speaking, Tang Jin didn't have time to answer, so she ran away embarrassingly.

Tang Jin sighed to Qin Beichen: "This girl is so introverted."

Qin Beichen looked at him like a fool, but didn't speak.

Tang Jin didn't take it seriously, and said sadly: "Is Shao Feng angry? But frogs eat pests, why should they be caught, shouldn't it be?"

Qin Beichen said coldly: "Didn't you hear that? That's their habit every year. You express your objection, but they don't accept it. It's a waste of time for you to dwell on this issue."

"But the frog..." Tang Jin still felt bad, and tugged at Qin Beichen, "Let's go and have a look, shall we?"

Qin Beichen refused: "You will be sad when you see it. Why do you follow to see it? You're asking for trouble."

Tang Jin tugged at Qin Beichen's sleeve and remained silent.

The neckline of the short-sleeved T-shirt was already a little big, but Tang Jin's hand was hanging on Qin Beichen's short-sleeved cuff, and the neckline became bigger and bigger, until it was even pulled off his shoulders, exposing Qin Beichen's shoulders.

"Go?"

Qin Beichen gritted his teeth, slapped the stupid monkey's paw away, pulled the collar back, and walked out first, turned around after taking two steps, and said coldly: "Aren't you going?"

Tang Jin followed happily, and beside Qin Beichen, he happily murmured: "Qin Qin, why don't you get tanned? I'm much tanned. You're as white as ice cream. By the way, we'll wait a while. How about going to the store to buy milk ice cream..."

Qin Beichen sulked at himself and ignored him a word.

They walked out of the village and saw the place where the children were from afar, so they walked up the paddy fields and ridges under the sun, and walked through the continuous green wheat fields. The aroma of countless green plants that they didn't recognize mixed together, together with the hot and distorted air, formed some kind of sultry enchantment.

Tang Jin walked ahead, carefully approaching the children who were fishing for frogs.

He saw a child grab a grasshopper casually, tie the emerald green grasshopper to the end of the cotton thread on a bamboo pole, then grab the bamboo pole, throw the long cotton thread in a circle, and land it in the paddy field, imitating the movement of insects , Lift the bamboo pole up a little and put it down again, the poor grasshopper is shaking in the paddy field.

After a while, a frog was attracted.

The frog jumped over, fixed its eyes on the trembling grasshopper, and suddenly made a vertical leap. The movement was so fast that Tang Jin didn't see it clearly, and swallowed the grasshopper with bait and string.

The child quickly picked up the bamboo pole to recycle. Another child opened the woven bag, caught the frog skillfully, and then held the bag tightly. into the bottom of the bag.

Tang Jin wanted to rush out to stop it, but he knew it would be useless.

He also thought, if this is the habitual activity of these children, will his disapproval be a little presumptuous?

However, what is right is right, and what is wrong is wrong. Frogs eat pests, so isn’t it wrong to hurt frogs?

The two thoughts in Tang Jin's head wrestled with each other, entangled back and forth, and finally walked out.

Shao Feng was very happy to see him: "Are you here?"

Tang Jin gritted his teeth and said sincerely: "Maybe I say this, you will think I am self-righteous, but the frog is to protect the crops, it eats all the pests, I think..."

Qin Beichen turned and left before finishing listening.

When Tang Jin walked back to the old house, Qin Beichen was working on something on his laptop, and it seemed that he had been back for a while.

Tang Jin stood blankly in the middle of the main room, as if he had been greatly shocked.

Qin Beichen stopped his hands, glanced at Tang Jin's aggrieved expression, and said as if he hadn't noticed, "Do you want to eat milk ice cream?"

"eat."

"On a plate."

Because it has been a while since I bought it, the milk ice cream has melted a bit, and Tang Jin is very busy eating.

Tang Jin's mood improved rapidly, and Qin Beichen diverted his thoughts and asked, "Why don't you put it in the refrigerator?"

Qin Beichen didn't seem like a person who would make such a mistake.

Qin Beichen was very helpless: "Probably because he is reluctant to use electricity? There is nothing in the refrigerator, and there is no electricity. I think you are coming back soon, so you didn't put it in those two houses."

Qin Beichen doesn't call him uncle or aunt, but he still uses the honorific "you" when talking to them.

Granny Chunlai is indeed a very frugal person.

Tang Jin hummed, eating ice cream earnestly, watching Qin Beichen tap on his laptop, before he knew it, it was time for the sky to be filled with burning clouds.

Qin Beichen took out his card camera, ran to the balcony, and took a picture of the sky.

Only then did Tang Jin remember that Qin Beichen had a camera, so he came up with an idea: "Let's take pictures of vegetables tomorrow, okay? I can write a diary for each vegetable, and I can write an article about one vegetable!"

Regarding this kind of lazy behavior, Qin Beichen said: "... let's do it."

Oh yeah~

This day's dinner was eaten at the second uncle's house.

The second aunt is a vigorous and quick-tempered person, and Chunlai's mother-in-law is also very stubborn, and the two always quarrel.

On the contrary, the eldest aunt is a smooth person. When the second aunt quarreled with Chunlai's mother-in-law, she would say a few words that were neither salty nor bland.

Qin Beichen watched coldly, and after a few days, he had a good grasp of the situation of this family.

So, when Tang Jin was enjoying the cool air on the balcony at night, when Tang Jin whispered in S city dialect why his second aunt and mother-in-law Chunlai always quarreled, Qin Beichen could answer.

Qin Beichen also said in the S city dialect that the eldest son of this family is a strict wife, and the eldest daughter-in-law speaks nicely, but when it comes to Chunlai's mother-in-law, she only speaks nicely and does not do anything.The second son of this family seems to be dissatisfied with his parents, and he is not very willing to take care of Chunlai's mother-in-law's affairs, but the second daughter-in-law is a real person, but she is not polite, and actually helps Chunlai's mother-in-law with housework from time to time.

Tang Jin listened as if he was listening to a story, without any doubt that Qin Beichen was wrong, and blindly praised: "Qin Qin, you are so amazing."

Qin Beichen was praised like a child by Tang Jin, so he was speechless. If he hadn't made up his mind a long time ago that he would not change his face, he might have rolled his eyes for him again.

Tang Jin smiled straight at the indifferent Qin Beichen.

Above their heads is the night sky with countless stars shining.This is a sight that can never be seen in S city with severe light pollution. After watching it for almost a week, they are still shocked by such a magnificent starry sky.

The two children lying on the mat unconsciously hold their breath. The vast starry sky seems to be turning, and it seems to be overwhelming. This is the most primitive shock and touch of nature to small human beings. From ancient times The awe engraved in human genes awakened, so I unconsciously feared the boundless sea of ​​stars.

Faced with such a starry sky, Tang Jin had the illusion that everything on the earth had disappeared, leaving only the starry sky, himself, and Qin Beichen.

For some reason he wanted to cry.

It is not right to say that he is lonely, he still has Qin Beichen.

It is not right to say that he is not alone, he only has Qin Beichen.

Tang Jin unconsciously approached Qin Beichen and curled himself up like a puppy curled up in a den.

"Qin Qin," he wanted Qin Beichen to talk to him, "tell me a story."

Qin Beichen didn't know what he was thinking, and he replied after a while: "Why do you want to listen to the story? Are you still young? You are 14 years old."

Tang Jin got closer, not caring at all about being teased by Qin Beichen, and said stubbornly, "I just want to listen to stories, and I also want to listen to fairy tales."

Qin Beichen was silent at first.

He often didn't know what to do with Tang Jin. He didn't want to admit that he was imitating his mother, but which child didn't want his mother to like him more?But deep down in his heart, after all, he didn't agree with his mother, and he didn't think her mother was right.

Therefore, facing Tang Jin who always made him unable to become more indifferent, Qin Beichen inevitably felt helpless.

"Have you read "The Snow Queen" by Andersen?"

Qin Beichen finally compromised, and was really going to tell Tang Jin a fairy tale.

Tang Jin shook his head honestly, and added: "I have eaten the Snow Queen (ice cream brand DQ)."

Qin Beichen glanced at him sideways, then looked at the starry sky: "Then tell the story of the Snow Queen."

"The devil made a mirror that reversed black and white. When you look in front of this mirror, the most beautiful will become the ugliest, and the robber will become a hero... The devil can't control this mirror. It falls to the ground and breaks into countless pieces. debris.

"When the fragments fly into a person's eyes, the person sees nothing pleasing to the eye. When the fragments penetrate into a person's heart, his heart becomes a block of ice, leaving no emotion.

"In a big city, there was a boy named Kay and a girl named Gerda. They were childhood sweethearts. One day, shards of mirrors flying in the wind fell into Kay's eyes and penetrated into his heart. , His heart turned into ice, and he ignored Gerda from then on, and the kind Kayi became a ruthless person.

"One snowy day, Kay met the Snow Queen who was transformed from a snowflake, and when the Snow Queen kissed him on the forehead, he forgot everything, got on the Snow Queen's sleigh and left.

"Kay disappeared, Gerda put on her beloved red shoes to find Kay, she gave the red shoes to Xiaohe, and asked Xiaohe to take her to find Kay, Xiaohe took her to a cherry orchard, and there was a The old witch, the old witch didn't want Gerda to be too sad, so she cast a spell to make her forget everything.

"One day, Gerda saw the rose on the witch's hat and thought of Kay. She ran away from the cherry orchard and went to find Kay. She thought that the prince who saved the princess was Kay, and went to the palace and found that it was not Kay, the princess. She gave her many things, and she continued to look for Kay. She met a robber, and all the things the princess gave were taken away. Fortunately, the robber's daughter pleaded for mercy, so she survived, and she still did not give up looking for Kay.

"At last she arrived at the Snow Queen's palace, where everything was made of ice and snow, and Kay was playing jigsaw puzzles, his face was black with cold.

"Gerda rushed over happily, but Kay didn't respond. Gerda cried sadly, and her tears flowed into Kay's heart, melting the mirror fragments in Kay's heart. Kay looked at Gerda, Gerda sang Kay's favorite song. Kay heard the singing and burst into tears, and the tears melted the splinters in his eyes, and he finally recognized Gerda.

"In the end they returned to their hometown and lived happily together."

After hearing this story, Tang Jin felt a little sad, and he said with righteous indignation: "The Ice Queen is good or bad. The worst thing is the devil who makes mirrors. Why do you make this kind of mirror and not take care of it, and let the mirror fragments hurt people everywhere?" .”

Tang Jin said again: "However, Kay still thinks of Gerda, and the ending is still very good... Gerda has worked so hard to find Kay. She is on the road alone, will she feel very lonely? Fortunately, it is not true There are mirrors like this."

Qin Beichen looked at the starry sky and thought, but I want the mirror fragments.

He didn't make a sound, but Tang Jin seemed to have heard something, leaned over and asked, "Qin Qin, what did you say?"

Qin Beichen shook his head: "I didn't say anything."

Tang Jin turned his head to look elsewhere, only to realize that when Qin Beichen was telling him the story, the others had already left one after another, and only the two of them and Grandma Chunlai were left on the balcony.

Grandma Chunlai was sitting on a bamboo recliner, fanning her cattail fan. Under the starry sky, her silhouette looked very lonely.

He always seemed lonely tonight.

Whether it was because of the starry sky or because he was in a foreign land, Tang Jin couldn't tell.

Tang Jin had a lot of thoughts in his head. After thinking for a long time, he finally whispered to Qin Beichen: "Qin Qin, when you get old, I will visit you every day, and you should also visit me every day."

This promise was promised seven or eighty years later.

Qin Beichen wanted to say that the world is unpredictable, we may not live to old age.

I also want to say how do you know we are still in touch by then?

But he looked at Tang Jin's puppy-like eyes, and the last words he said were: "I visit you every day, and you visit me every day...then who is going to visit whom?"

When he said this, Tang Jin realized that there was something wrong with this sentence, and was amused by himself, he put his forehead on Qin Beichen's shoulder and laughed, then thought of a solution, and said with enlightenment: "Then let's live together! That way you don’t have to go back and forth.”

Which 80-year-old man lives together.

Qin Beichen was noncommittal.

Tang Jin thought of something again, pressed Qin Beichen's shoulder, and whispered in his ear.

"No," Qin Beichen refused decisively.

Tang Jin continued to grind, but it was a pity that Qin Beichen didn't agree. In the end, Tang Jin rolled on the mat, rolling around, and Qin Beichen had to agree.

Qin Beichen kept saying "How old are you" in disgust, but he still agreed.

That night it was their turn to sleep at the elder son's house, and when the elder left, Tang Jin got up with a grunt.

He quietly went to the kitchen to get eighteen bowls, carried them back to the guest bedroom, lined them up vertically, and then went to fetch a small bucket of water.

Tang Jin placed eighteen bowls of water in the middle of their bed.

Tang Jin said confidently: "We all sleep well, and nothing will happen. Just verify the story of the play."

Qin Beichen was far away from the eighteen bowls of water, and didn't want to say a word.

The next day, Tang Jin woke up on the wet sheets.

Qin Beichen looked at him condescendingly, with a look of "I told you already".

Tang Jin: QwQ