merit book

Every time I think about the next time, but this "next time" has been delayed until I was in elementary school.

Once, the school organized them to watch a popular science movie. Jin Yang found his seat under the instruction of the teacher, climbed up and sat down, put his hands on his knees neatly and waited for the movie to start, when he suddenly felt that someone stabbed him from behind one time.

As soon as he turned his head, he saw Rong Yuan standing behind him, his furry head was only a little higher than the back of the seat, but that majestic aura was not weak at all.Seeing his swarthy eyes staring at him, Xiao Jinyang instantly thought of all the children who had been beaten to tears by him in the past few years. With big distinct eyes, he asked in a low voice, "Why... what's wrong?"

"I lost something, pick it up for me." Xiao Rongyuan said arrogantly.

"Ah? Ah... oh." Jin Yang looked down and found a little dolphin under his seat, which was distributed by the staff for free when they entered the venue, and each child had one.Jin Yang climbed down from the seat, picked it up and handed it to Rong Yuan on tiptoe.

Rong Yuan took it over, glanced at it, and then asked him: "Child, what's your name?"

"Jin Yang, you can call me Yang Yang." Jin Yang whispered.

"Oh, I'm Rong Yuan." After Rong Yuan finished speaking, he stood and looked at him for a while, as if he had something to say, but after a while, he turned and left without saying a word.

"Hey..." Jin Yang called out hastily.

Rong Yuan turned his head to look at him, but didn't speak.

Jin Yang lay on the chair and said with some dissatisfaction: "I helped you, you have to say thank you."

Rong Yuan stared at him for a long time with icy eyes, when Jin Yang thought that Rong Yuan was going to beat him up, Rong Yuan said solemnly: "Thank you."

"Oh, you're welcome." Jin Yang reflexively said.

Rong Yuan stared into his eyes and asked him: "Since you want to say 'You're welcome', why do you insist on me saying 'Thank you'?"

"Yeah, why?" Jin Yang was stunned.After Rong Yuan walked away, he was still thinking about this question.

The kid next to him poked him and said with admiration: "Yangyang, you are so brave, we dare not talk to that person."

"Yeah, yeah, he looks so scary!"

"I saw him beat a third-grade boy to tears last time! He's so fierce!"

The children chirped and recounted the battle history of that scary kid. Jin Yang listened blankly, thinking...it's not that scary!He is obviously a very reasonable and very...a very thoughtful kid!

After returning home, Jin Yang asked his father this question: "Father, why do you say 'thank you' and 'you're welcome' when you get help?"

Jin Bo stroked his son's little head and said, "This is because if you don't say thank you, others will think you are a child who is not polite, and they will not play with you in the future!"

So after school, Jin Yang found Rong Yuan, and solemnly relayed Jin Bai's words.After listening to it, Rong Yuan said without hesitation: "If you don't play with you just because you didn't say 'thank you', why would you play with such a kid?"

Jin Yang was stunned, as if...it seemed very reasonable!

Going home again to learn Buddhist scriptures, Jin Bo looked at his son's innocent and confused eyes, hugged him and said, "But Yang Yang, think about it, you just met a kid who doesn't know what you are like People, you don’t know what kind of person he is. If you find that he is not polite and hygienic, don’t you want to play with him? Other children are like this. So when you get help Saying "thank you" is not only a kind of politeness, but also means that you know the person's kindness and take his help to you in your heart. It is his courtesy to say "thank you" again. The connection between them is deepened bit by bit in the details."

This passage is a bit complicated, Jin Yang repeated a few more profound words to Rong Yuan intermittently: "The kid who doesn't thank you, just doesn't understand manners and hygiene, and everyone won't want to play with you."

"Hmph, a bunch of idiots who love to play but don't." Rong Yuan said dismissively.

After several exchanges, the two gradually became familiar with each other.Because of this incident, Jin Yang, as "the only child who can talk to Rong Yuan", received a lot of admiration among his friends.

Unlike Jin Yang who was always picked up by his parents, Rong Yuan has been carrying a small schoolbag to school or home since elementary school.Jin Yang soon forgot about the old man he had seen at a glance. Until the mid-term parents' meeting, the old man walked in front of Jin Yang aggressively with a cane. After a few years, he became older and more mature. Terrible, scared the children who cried all the way.

The next day, Jin Yang asked Rong Yuan: "Xiao Yuan, who is that old man?"——With Jin Yang's efforts, although Rong Yuan despised him, he finally agreed that Jin Yang could call him that. An uphill battle!

"My uncle." Rong Yuan said.

Jin Yang held his little head and thought for a long time, but still couldn't figure out what kind of address "Uncle Grandpa" is—is it Uncle's Grandpa?If you don't understand it, just don't think about it, he sighed and said, "That old grandpa is so scary!"

"Is there?" Rong Yuan has never felt that way since he was a child.

"Ah!" Jin Yang suddenly covered his mouth with both hands and said sullenly: "I forgot, you can't speak ill of people behind their backs! Xiao Yuan, forget what you just said!"

"Well, I forgot!" Rong Yuan nodded.

"Liar!" Jin Yang puffed up and said, "How can I forget so quickly!"

Rong Yuan was speechless and simply stopped talking.

After a while, Jin Yang couldn't help coming over again, and asked softly, "Xiao Yuan, are you angry?"

"No."

"You...do you like that old man very much?" He asked anxiously.

Rong Yuan shook his head, and said frankly: "I don't like it." He has favorite food, favorite color, and favorite book, but he has never had this kind of emotion between people.The relationship between him and his uncle is just a relationship of survival and dependence.

Jin Yang breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked curiously: "If you don't like it, why did you ask him to hold a parent-teacher meeting for you?"

Rong Yuan was silent for a while, and said, "Because there is no one else to rely on."

Xiao Jinyang didn't understand.He has many relatives, all of whom love him very much; he also has many uncles and aunts who love him even though they are not related by blood, so he cannot understand what kind of situation it is to have only one person to rely on.He asked, "What about your parents?"

"I don't have parents." Rong Yuan said disgustedly.

"How is it possible?" Jin Yang retorted, "Every child has parents, otherwise where would you be born?"

Rong Yuan recalled a story he had heard before, and said seriously: "I don't have parents, I was born from a peach. Uncle picked up a big peach in the river, after splitting it open, it was me inside."

——Perhaps it was because his attitude of speaking was too serious and sure. This clumsy lie has been deceiving Jin Yang for five full years. Until he started to take physiology class, he firmly believed that some children were born by their mothers Yes, some children are born from big peaches.Such a long period of time may also be related to the fact that every adult who heard his statement laughed and refused to correct it. Even today, when relatives and friends mention this past incident, they still laugh for a while.

Jin Yang is a very popular kid at school, but maybe because he is loved by teachers and girls, some boys hate him very much.

At the school’s summer sports meeting, Jin Yang helped the teacher distribute small cheering flags to each classmate in the class. After the distribution was over, there were only a few left. When he saw Rong Yuan standing alone in the corner, he wanted to go there. I gave him one, and then a few boys who didn't pay much attention to him stopped him and said, "Jin Yang, the teacher asked us to bring something over here."

Jin Yang didn't doubt that he was there, and felt that matters in the class were more important, so he said, "Well, okay, let's go."

Rong Yuan had already looked over there, Jin Yang waved to him, showed a big smile, and then left with a few boys.

Then Jin Yang was taken by them to the basement of a small building that they had never been to before. When Jin Yang looked around to find the figure of the teacher, several boys pushed him hard and pushed him to the ground. He also kicked him and cursed: "Damn it! Flatterer! The teacher's follower! You just stay here, and I'll see who can find you!"

Several people ran out giggling and banging, locked the basement door with a bang, and shouted outside, "Hahaha... deserve it! I hate ghosts! I was eaten by ghosts at night!"

Sitting on the ground, Jin Yang looked at the dark, dilapidated and dirty environment around him, was terrified, and cried "Wow".

The place where Jin Yang was locked was the old dormitory building of the school, which was planned to be demolished and built a new building after a while.Jin Yang cried for a long time, but no one came.

In the evening, the typhoon made landfall and the rain poured down.

The old dormitory building was originally low-lying, and in addition to being in disrepair for a long time, the walls were cracked with several cracks.Little Jin Yang, who was trembling with fear amidst the sound of thunder and rainstorm, suddenly heard the sound of rushing water. Through the faint light in the distance, he saw that in the small window separated by the iron fence above the wall and the crack on the wall, A lot of water rushed in, and it didn't take long for a layer of sewage to flood the ankles.

There were some old tables and stools piled up in the basement, Jin Yang hurriedly climbed onto a table, watching the water level getting higher and higher, the surroundings were dark and cold, and the trees made terrible noises in the wind and rain, splitting from time to time Lightning from the sky casts ghostly shadows across the house.Jin Yang cried loudly, "Father—Mom—"

The water level rose higher and higher, gradually submerged the table, and rose to the level of Jin Yang's chest.

In fact, if there is a stool on the table, he can get higher.But when he climbed up, Jin Yang didn't think so far, the stools were piled up under the table, and they were completely submerged by the water.How dare he jump down and fish out the stool from the dark water?

Jin Yang leaned against the wall, panicking. For the first time in his life, he tasted despair and fear.

Suddenly a ray of light flashed from the outside, and in the sound of rain, someone could vaguely hear someone shouting: "Yangyang!"

"I'm here! I'm here! Help!" Jin Yang shouted hoarsely.

The light of the flashlight came in through the small window in the basement, Rong Yuan leaned over the window and looked, and saw Jin Yang, whose face was flushed from crying and his eyes were red and swollen.

"Wait! I'll rescue you right away!" Rong Yuan shouted, and then ran into the dormitory building to open the door, only to find that the entire passage leading to the basement was flooded, revealing a small half of the iron lock hanging on it, he No keys, and he can't swim.

Rong Yuan ran back again and shouted to Jin Yang: "You wait, I'll find someone to help!"

Seeing that he was about to leave, Jin Yang was terrified and cried out heartbreakingly: "Don't go...Wow...don't leave me alone...Xiao Yuan! Xiao Yuan! Don't go...Wah... ...I'll be drowned if you go..."

Rong Yuan took a flashlight and took a picture inside. The water had already reached Jin Yang's shoulders. He leaned against the wall and tried to stand on tiptoe, stretching his neck to stay away from the water.While the light was shining, Rong Yuan also saw the boy's always bright big eyes filled with burning desire for life and strong fear.

For a moment, he felt that if he turned around and left now, it would be the same as killing him.

Rong Yuan got down on his knees, stretched out his hand through the iron railing, and said, "Swim over here and hold my hand!"

Jin Yang learned to swim when he was very young, he looked at the dark water surface, then at Rong Yuan's hand, hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth, kicked the wall hard, and swam towards the bright place.

The window in the basement was opened very high, Jin Yang swam over and tried twice but still couldn't reach Rong Yuan's hand, Rong Yuan pressed against the wall and tried to reach out his hand, finally the third time the two palms met grip.Then he used both hands together to forcibly pull Jin Yang up from below, making him also grab the railing.There is no point of support for Jin Yang's feet, tired, hungry and afraid for such a long time, he has already exhausted his strength, it is only because of Rong Yuan's tenacious grasp that he did not fall.

Rong Yuan fixed the flashlight to the side with his body facing upwards, hoping that someone would come to them after seeing the light.The rain was pouring down from overhead, splashing past him and pouring into the basement.The two children grabbed each other with all their strength. In this doomsday-like darkness and water, they only felt that the meager warmth of each other was the only support in this world.

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The story ends when the car is parked in the garage.Zheng Yirou said: "We went crazy looking for this child that night. Later, a teacher saw a beam of light over the school dormitory building and looked for it with a ten-thousandth hope. He saw the two of them alone. The outside and the one inside were held tightly, and people almost passed out, and their hands had not been released. At that time, the water had already flooded Yangyang's neck, and if it was later, I really don't know what would happen. "

"It turns out that there is such a past." Zhou Yunze also sighed: "Although I encountered danger, it is also a blessing to meet such a good friend at the same time."

"Yes." Zheng Yirou touched Jin Yang's face affectionately, then said with fear: "If there is no Xiaoyuan, I'm afraid my Yangyang will not be here now."

Jin Yang touched her palm with a smile, his eyes were warm and admiring, he comforted and said: "Mom, don't worry, I will celebrate your and Dad's [-]th birthday in the future!"

"Oh, my son can talk!" Zheng Yirou hugged him happily and kissed him.

Jin Yang hugged her and leaned against her for a while, clutching her heart with his right hand.Recalling the past, the scenes from ten years ago seemed to be in front of my eyes again, and the intense emotions were still turbulent in my chest, which could not be calmed down for a long time.