innocent year

In the afternoon, Xu Minghai, who had just recovered from a serious illness, reappeared in the arena.

He ran to Chen Lei's room, knocked on the door and met Qiu Shi's eyes.Facing this pair of eyes crying like peach pits, Xu Minghai froze at the door, not knowing whether he should go in or not.

"Are you looking for fruit?" Zhou Yingying looked weakly at another child who was not worrying.

Xu Minghai: "Well, Auntie, I have found a lot of books for little people, and I want him to pick and choose."

"Does your mother agree? Don't let her get angry all day because of this." Zhou Yingying sighed.

"My mother said that it doesn't matter who I play with anymore," Xu Minghai slapped his chest confidently, "Our side has won the first stage of victory!"

Zhou Yingying looked back at her son, only to see that the corners of Qiushi's tightly closed mouth were slightly raised.She said helplessly: "Guozi, you can go play with Xiaohai. Mom's words... just don't forget."

Seeing Zhou Yingying let go, Xu Minghai hurried into the house and grabbed Qiushi's hand, dragging him and running out.When he ran to the southwestern room, he closed the door, stretched his neck and looked out to see if no one was following him, then turned his head and asked Qiushi, "Why are you crying?"

"I didn't cry." Qiu Shi looked at the bed with those bright rabbit eyes.

In the morning, as soon as Li Yandong left, Qiu Junshi began to be tortured to extract a confession.

Li Yandong was concerned but confused, seeing his own flesh and blood convulsing left and right, all his souls disappeared immediately, never thought that he was pretending to be sick.

But Zhou Yingying had seen Ergou "sick" in the village, and it wasn't contagious, so why did Qiushi come the next day, and Xu Minghai did the same?But no matter how he asked, Qiu Shi acted as if he was going to save Kunlun, he didn't even eat lunch in anger, so angry that Zhou Yingying slapped him on the palm several times.

Since Qiushi can remember, she has never been criticized by her mother like this.And because since Li Yandong is a "bad guy", then what he did must be just, and a good guy still gets scolded?Qiu Shi felt extremely wronged, so he seldom cried loudly, and vented the uneasiness accumulated in his heart during the past two days.

"No matter what, you can't pretend to be sick and lie to adults." Zhou Yingying finally gave up trying to pry the truth from her son, and just said, "How painful it is for parents to see it? You can't do this again in the future, you know?"

While beating the child with all his teeth and claws, and at the same time expressing his distress, Qiu Shi felt that the world of adults was very difficult to understand.Just when Zhou Yingying wanted to promise herself that she would never speak nonsense and come up with bad ideas to deceive others, the rescuers arrived.He was able to escape.

When Xu Minghai dragged her by the hand and ran from the inside to the yard, Qiu Shi took a deep breath of the cold air outside, feeling like seeing the sun again.Right is right, he thought.

After entering the room, Xu Minghai urged Qiushi to take off his shoes, and then dragged him onto the bed.All kinds of little people's books have been placed on it, like a bookstall.Xu Dakuan said loudly: "What do you want to see? Choose yourself!"

The little man's book in front of him made Qiu Shi's heart that was still wet and moldy suddenly brighten up.So he gently picked up one of them: "I want to read this."

"The Legend of the Condor Heroes," Xu Minghai said, "I really like this set too, let's watch it together."

The two hit it off immediately, with their backs leaning against the wall, and they plunged directly from the chaotic real world into a martial arts utopia where righteousness and righteousness are in a dilemma.

Although I can't read all the characters in the book, I can always guess the general idea with the expressions and movements of the characters.What's more, Xu Minghai has watched the Hong Kong series of the same name, so he always has to make gestures in various moves before giving up.In this way, Qiushi was stunned to see the three-dimensional effect of the one-dimensional picture of the little man's book.

When he read the fragrant Jiuhua Yulu pills prepared by Huang Yaoshi described in the book, Qiushi, who hadn't eaten lunch, subconsciously licked his lips.When Xu Minghai saw it, he got up and took the Mai Lisu bought by Liu Yandong from the homework table, tore it open, poured it in his hands, and presented it to Qiushi like a treasure.

Qiu Shi sniffed, and a sweet smell burst into his nostrils.So he asked, "What is this?"

"Haven't you eaten it?" Seeing Qiu Shi shaking his head, Xu Minghai started bragging, "It's the thing in the book, the magic pill! It can prolong life and bring the dead back to life."

"Liar." Qiushi was not fooled.

"I'm not lying to you, really." As he spoke, Xu Minghai picked up one and stuffed it into Qiu Shi's mouth.

The chocolate melted in Qiushi's mouth first, followed by a thick milky aroma, like the taste of malted milk.Malted milk extract is a rarity in the countryside, so Qiushi carefully rolled the "magic pill" in his mouth with the tip of his tongue, and kept delaying its melting speed until the last bit of sweetness dissipated in his mouth.

Seeing Qiushi's serious expression was comparable to watching the national flag being raised in the square, Xu Minghai smiled so that the dimples on his cheeks became more and more obvious.Immediately afterwards, he stuffed another one in, commanding: "Chewing is better than holding it! Do you try it?"

At this moment, everything is silent, and the people in the whole alley seem to be falling asleep in this cold winter afternoon.In the whole world, there is only Qiu Shi who keeps making crispy chewing sounds, and Xu Minghai who keeps feeding the magic pills into his mouth.

Before I knew it, a bag of Myrisu was gone.In the end, Xu Minghai sipped the melted cocoa butter on his fingers, and joked: "This is serious, those who don't know think you are eating ginseng fruit!"

Qiushi felt that he seemed to be being laughed at, but he was not unhappy because of it, but wanted to speak out on his own initiative.

"My family..." Qiu Shi paused, then changed his words, "There is no such thing in the village."

"What's the village like?" Xu Minghai was curious, "What do you usually play?"

"It's quite big," Qiushi tried to describe to Xu Minghai. "We play in the meadow in summer. There are silly roe deer there, and they will run away when you scare them. Sometimes you can meet little wolf cubs, which are actually Just like a puppy. There are flower-faced mushrooms in the field, and you can pick them up and take them home as a vegetable. But you must also be careful, adults say that you must not go to places where the grass grows short, it is a ghost swamp..."

As Qiushi talked, it seemed that billowing green waves appeared in front of his eyes, rolling all the way to the horizon.There are clouds in the sky, and the bird flapping its wings and stopping in mid-air is a bird called "Son of Heaven", with a very pleasant cry.He couldn't help thinking, where is his hometown?

It was the first time Xu Minghai heard a child say so many words in one breath, and asked again: "Is there any snacks?"

"Dried sweet potatoes, rice cracker candies, scorpions, furnace fruits, mushrooms, frozen pears..." Qiu Shi is like a treasure, "It's also delicious."

"We can bake sweet potatoes too!"

Xu Minghai jumped out of bed when he heard this, ran outside with his shoes on, picked up two slender sweet potatoes from under the window, turned around and went back to the house.Then put the sweet potatoes on the stove.

Before dinner, when Li Yandong went out to get cabbage, he squinted into Xu Minghai's room and saw this scene.The two children were sitting on the bed reading a book, holding half a browned and oily sweet potato in their hands.Everyone has a sensible look that doesn't make trouble for adults.

She stared at her son whose ADHD seemed to have recovered for a while, and then at Qiu Shi whose face was carved out of the same mold as Zhou Yingying, and somehow recalled the events of her childhood.

At that time, there were many children in the yard, but Chen Lei only treated Zhou Yingying well, and took her to play all over the world.And I can only pretend to be indifferent and secretly watch them from the sidelines—it's almost the same as the current situation?

Li Yandong sighed and shook his head, as if trying to get rid of the inexplicable thoughts in his head.She walked towards the kitchen while picking up the freeze-dried layer of Chinese cabbage.I thought, okay, why did she come back?