reborn lover

In the afterglow of the setting sun, the shadow under the sun shines slowly on the old road paved with bluestone bricks. Xi Le left the brigade after going down the mountain, refused the company of others, and walked alone in the countryside on the trail.

This small city, which has been closed for hundreds of years, still retains its most primitive beauty.

A bluestone road, ancient houses built on both sides, steep small broken road, and cornices extending from both sides when you look up, it seems conceivable that whenever it rains, the water at the eaves will drain from here, dripping The small road to Qingshizhuanpu City flows slowly down along the terrain.

Then, the water flows into the river and runs further along the river.

The old man in a bamboo hat was carrying a load, and he called in a deep voice, "Maltose, delicious maltose."

The children who came out of the alleys surrounded the old man with change in their hands to buy candy. The younger children did not have any money in their hands and watched helplessly as their brothers and sisters were buying. They looked pitiful.

"Child, I'll give you a piece too. Next time you come out, remember to ask your mother for the money and come back again. This time, I'll give you a piece first." The old man smiled with his eyes narrowed, and reached out to touch the child's head.

A woman came out with a child in her arms, carrying two bigger radish heads, and holding a six- to seven-month-old child in her arms. When the brothers were buying candy, the child's hand stretched out. Go grab the old man's beard.

I only heard the old man laughing and cursing, "Are you a kid here to buy candy or to pull my old man's beard, ouch, ouch, I'm going to pull it off."

The old man has a long beard, and the roots are silver-white. If you look closely, the hair under the bamboo hat on his head is already silver-white, but the old man looks tough and has a happy smile. A long-lived old man.

The child's mother smiled and quickly rescued the old man's beard from her child's hands, and scolded her child, "You can pluck your grandfather's beard. When you grow up, grandpa will not sell sugar." I'll eat it for you."

Xi Le was standing not far from the old man, watching the old man's burden placed there, and there was a rattle on it. When he was talking, he occasionally picked up the rattle and shook it. The children in the alley They came out wave after wave, some took the candy and left, and some still surrounded him.

"Give me one too." When Xi Le walked over, he took out a 50 yuan bill from his pocket and gave it to the old man.

The old man only saw the young man walking over now, as beautiful as walking out of a painting. There is still an old story circulating in Qingshui City. In the past, the Qingshui River was flooded, and it was the river god who came out to help the villagers control the water. This village was able to prosper, and this young man was like the legendary river god.

A pair of black eyes are as clear as the water in the Qingshui River.

"Little boy, is this enough?" The old man asked with his eyes narrowed as he cut a piece of jelly with scissors.

"Let's have one of the same, and some more, and sell it according to the weight of 50 people. Is [-] yuan enough?" Xi Le didn't know the price of these gadgets. If you buy them in Zhongjing City, the price of these gadgets is very expensive.

"Enough is enough, let me weigh the amount first." The old man was fair in business, and he didn't cheat when he saw that the young man was from out of town.

The children around the stall were all staring at their elder brother standing here. The little radish heads looked up at their elder brother who was several times taller than them in the posture of looking up to a giant.

"Brother." The child who ate the candy with drool in his hand was not afraid when he saw strangers, and he didn't care if the saliva in his hand was sticking to the candy, he reached out and grabbed the trousers of his brother in front of him.

The child almost climbed the adult who was so much taller than him like a tree. Xi Le quickly lowered his body and picked up the child who wanted to climb on him. This is a little boy with very big and bright eyes, and he looks very courageous. Not afraid of life.

The child just opened his eyes and looked at Xi Le. Xi Le watched him sucking his fingers, and didn't care about the child's dirty hands wiping him, so he smiled and asked, "How many pieces of candy have you eaten?" gone?"

"One piece..." Stretching out a little finger, the child said crisply.

"I'll give you a piece back, okay?" Xi Le teased the child and asked.

The old man is an old man here, he knows every family's children and grandchildren.

Of course he knows whose family this child is the grandson of. Seeing him crawling on top of the stranger, he stretched out his hand and slapped his little butt, and said to the boy in front of him, "This little monkey is teething." , His grandma doesn't allow him to eat sweets, don't feed him too much, it's not good if his teeth are eaten by worms."

When Xi Le heard this, it made sense, and nodded, "You can't eat too much."

Taking his own candy from the old man, he shook his head when he saw the change, "No need to change, let the older children give each of them a small change."

"Okay." The old man nodded, and the surrounding children all ran over, and each of them took another small piece of candy.

He is a little at a loss for the child who clings to Xi Le.

Fortunately, at this moment, an old woman who came out with a cane saw her grandson running into someone else's arms again, smiling so wrinkled that she couldn't even see her eyes.

As soon as the old man saw the old man coming, he pointed to her grandson and said, "If you don't come out to look for it, your little grandson will go away with him."

"Little monkey, you are a glutton, just like your father." The old man walked over and smiled apologetically at the boy who was holding her grandson, "I'm sorry, my grandson is too skinny , you let him down, he likes to crawl into other people's arms since he was a child, don't spoil him, he will always rely on you to hold him."

"Haha, what's your name, can you go home with your brother?" Xi Le looked at the child who was clinging to him, and teased him with a smile.

The child is estimated to be a little over two years old, and he doesn't speak very fluently.

When someone asked his name, he had to think about it for a while, probably because he couldn't remember his own name. He just remembered that his family kept calling him Little Monkey, and he replied to his brother, "Little Monkey."

"Haha..." His childish words made the two old people laugh, and the children nearby also laughed.

Probably because he knew what he said was wrong, the child blushed and buried his head in his brother's arms, not daring to come out.

Seeing the old man standing here waiting for his grandson, Xi Le hurriedly put down the child in his arms. The innocent child was not afraid of life, and grabbed his brother's hand to ask him to go home with him. His grandma Coaxing him nicely, he let go of his brother.

When grandma took him home, he waved to his brother and said, "Goodbye, brother."

Xi Le waved his hand and said to him, "Goodbye, baby."

The old man walked away carrying the load, shaking the rattle in his hand occasionally, walking down the bluestone road, and shouting, "Maltose, delicious maltose."

Xi Le, who stood there without leaving, kept staring at the old man, took out a piece of candy from the bag, and put it in his mouth.

Taste, very sweet...

Just like the taste in memory!

There was once a man with a piece of candy stuck in his hand, who smiled and asked him to open his mouth, "Ah... let's eat a piece and see if it tastes good?"

At that time, he opened his mouth embarrassingly and ate it. When the man smiled and asked him if it was good, he blushed and nodded.

At that time, this old man carrying the burden was also selling maltose, and he and the office were walking hand in hand on this path paved with bluestone bricks.

The same road, when walking back again, it is a person.

The same sugar, when eaten in the mouth, still tastes the same.

very sweet, very sweet...

When he came back to walk this road by himself, he encountered a different scenery on this road. There was a child who grabbed his trousers and climbed onto him, let him hug him for a long time, and pestered him to follow When I went home, I was still reluctant to part with this strange brother when I left.

Sometimes when you are walking on the road, if you walk with your heart and look carefully, you will find that the scenery along the way is actually different.Perhaps, someone once accompanied you on this road, but one day he will not accompany you, and when you come back here by yourself, you can still see other scenery.

When you are sad, the scenery you see is sad; when you listen to the sound with your heart, you will hear a different sound.

After returning from this ancient path, the sadness in Xi Le's heart gradually faded away, and his eyebrows and eyes took on a different color.

When he handed out a big bag of maltose to everyone, he said to the students with a smile in his words, "This is a specialty of Qingshui City. You can't get it anywhere else, so hurry up and try it." try."

Cui Ershao rushed over and snatched everything, "It's all my master's, don't snatch it from me."

It's no wonder if you don't grab it!

A group of people quickly threw him down and snatched the maltose in his arms. Shi Lei stood watching from the side, and then smiled. He looked up and saw that there seemed to be a little smile in the boy's eyes, and his heart was moved. move.