Xu Shanlan

Generally speaking, Xu Shanlan's student life was not pleasant.At that time, the school's evaluation of children was limited to academic performance. If you have good grades, you are a good student, and if you do not get good grades, you are a poor student.Xu Shanlan's grades have never been better, but Teacher Feng thought about him leaving his parents at a young age and wanting to practice martial arts, so he couldn't bear to be harsh.Of course, he can't be a member of the squad leader, deputy squad leader, study committee member, labor committee member, or member of the labor committee. Even at the end of the year, the first batch of young pioneers who will wear red scarves to join the Young Pioneers list does not have his name.

Xu Shanlan only knows how to play, practice, and sleep, and doesn't have much feeling for these things.Some things are like this, you only know what you have if you have it. Once you lose it, you will inevitably be sad, but if you have never had it, forget it, and you will not take it to heart.Being an official also needs to be cultivated. Some people have shown a strong desire to control since they were young. They hope that all children will listen to him. Xu Shanlan is obviously not such a child, but he is not a child who is willing to obey orders—he has a bad temper. Even the teacher dared to contradict, in the eyes of other children, he was already a "bad boy".

Xu Shanlan was most disturbed every time the exam results came out, because parents' signatures were required, and there was even a parent-teacher meeting at the end of the semester.Fortunately, Jungle never cared about whether his studies were good or bad, and he finished signing with a swipe of a pen.Cong Zhanyi always went to the parents' meeting. Teacher Feng covered it up for Xu Shanlan, saying that the parents were too busy and didn't have time, and asked his brother to come.

Xu Shanlan scored 82 in Chinese, 75 in mathematics, and 64 in ideology and morality. He ranked forty out of 42 students in the class, which is the third bottom.Xu Shanlan no longer cared or was happy, pouted, and complained to Cong Zhanyi for the 140th time: "I don't like going to school, not at all."

Even Cong Zhanyi didn't have the patience to continue persuading this question. He read martial arts novels with enthusiasm, so he pretended he didn't hear them.Xu Shanlan put his chin on Cong Zhanyi's knee, blinking his eyes: "Brother——"

"If you don't go to school, you know you won't go to school." Gu Haiping scolded from the side, "When you get old, you will become illiterate, and you can't even write your name."

"Who said that?" Xu Shanlan didn't want to hear it anymore, he hated this second senior brother so much, he immediately picked up a pen and wrote "Xu Shanlan" crookedly on the paper, "Look, I can write!" He wrote "" The word "Lan" is so big that the upper and lower families are separated, and it becomes the word "mountain wind".

Gu Haiping curled his lips: "Then can you write the name of the big brother?"

Unconvinced, Xu Shanlan wrote down the word "Cong" easily, "Zhan" was written once and erased with an eraser, and after thinking about it, he wrote it again, so he couldn't see the number of strokes clearly. The word "Yi" is only written with the character "Che", and the other half can't remember what to say, it seems to be the character "Fu", and it seems to be the character "Go". He bit the tip of the pen and frowned.

Gu Haiping sneered: "You don't know how to write, do you? My brother will teach you." He grabbed the pen and finished writing in a few strokes, "See it clearly."

Xu Shanlan lowered his head and silently rubbed his butt behind the stool.Gu Haiping came over to tease him: "What, are you angry?" Xu Shanlan tilted his head and looked at the roof.

Cong Zhanyi put down the book: "Haiping is right, you must at least finish junior high school."

"And then?" Xu Shanlan asked.

"Then?" Cong Zhanyi was not sure, thought for a while, and said, "Let's go to high school, and then go to college."

"Do you want to go to college?"

Cong Zhanyi smiled and shook his head. At that time, college students were as precious as gold: "I'm afraid I won't pass the exam."

"Why can't you pass the exam?" Xu Shanlan felt that there was nothing difficult for the elder brother, "You continue to read, and I can follow you to read."

Gu Haiping laughed at him: "Stupid boy, if senior brother is admitted to high school, he won't be on the same campus as us. Do you think you can't get out of this school?"

Cong Zhanyi said: "Even if you don't get into high school, you won't be together. The primary and secondary schools in S City are separate."

Gu Haiping's heart skipped a beat, and he asked, "Why, are you really going to S City?"

Cong Zhanyi nodded: "Master said, we will move after the new year, and my uncle has made arrangements over there." Gu Haiping stayed in a daze for a long time, then murmured: "Then... I can't go."

"Well, you can't go, it's far away." Cong Zhanyi casually picked up the novel and continued reading.

"I have to follow brother." Xu Shanlan raised his hand to show his existence.

"Of course." Cong Zhanyi smiled and patted his head, "Who will you follow if you don't follow me?"

"Do I still have to go to middle school?" Xu Shanlan couldn't let go of going to school.

"Well, if you don't get into high school, you don't need to study."

Xu Shanlan breathed a sigh of relief, and said as if comforting himself: "Don't worry, I will definitely not pass the exam."

Gu Haiping jumped up suddenly, pushed open the door and rushed into the snow, disappearing in a flash.Xu Shanlan asked in astonishment: "Brother Haiping, what are you doing?"

Cong Zhanyi said, "I don't know." He didn't look up, watching Jin Shiyi and Li Shengnan fighting in the book.Xu Shanlan looked at the ice under the eaves that was shining brightly in the sun, and asked, "Brother, how many years will it be?"

"More than eight years."

"It's been so long." Xu Shanlan propped his chin with both hands, and sighed leisurely, his little heart was occupied by the long and distant pain, "When will it be here..."

Time is not fast, but it is not slow, and it is the Lunar New Year in a blink of an eye.The Chinese New Year in the countryside is very particular, and preparations begin on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, such as slaughtering pigs and sheep, dusting to make new clothes, steaming steamed buns and making dumplings.The children each carried a string of whips and ran around the village.The sound of firecrackers keeps coming and going, and it hasn't stopped since I was a child.

They didn't need to prepare anything in the jungle. Yin Yi brought a truckload of new year's products. There were five pure white pigs, ten live chickens and ducks, five geese, and countless sausages, eggs, flour, soybean oil, mushrooms, and cabbage. See Everyone in the village is envious.You must know that at this time, everything has to be bought with food stamps, money is useless, and it takes a lot of skill to get so much food.

Yin Yi gave each child a bag of firecrackers, let them go casually, and gave each child a five-yuan red envelope.Every child in the jungle gave ten yuan as a new year's gift, and Xu Shanlan was given ten yuan more.

Xu Shanlan's mother didn't come, but only wrote a letter, saying that she didn't want to work in the factory, that she didn't want to work in the factory, that she didn't want the organization relationship and files, and went to a place called Shenzhen in the south alone.Xu Shanlan couldn't understand these things, and he didn't know where Shenzhen was. It seemed quite far away. Anyway, it's okay if we can't celebrate the New Year together.Cong Zhanyi was afraid that he would be sad, so he specially bought a few firecrackers that could hop around on the ground like little mice to play with.Xu Shanlan didn't care too much, before he heard Cong Zhanyi finished reading the letter, he ran out with fireworks.

On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, Conglin specially set up a banquet in the yard, and invited all the folks in the fishing village to come over for a drink. Three fat pigs were killed, and the dishes were very rich.Jungle is a very emotional person. In front of the villagers, he said very emotionally: "I came here when the jungle was at its worst. Everyone is very grateful for taking us in. Now we are leaving , back to S City, but I will never forget these days in my life, and I will never forget the deep friendship of everyone here. I drank this bowl of wine, and I dare not say anything else. If you need my help in the jungle, go to S City Look for me, I will do my best in the jungle, and I will do my best!" He raised his neck, and a large bowl of wine instantly bottomed out, and everyone cheered and applauded.

Yin Yi stood up with a smile on his face. Compared with the impassionedness of the jungle, he looked a little gentle and refined: "Thank you folks for taking care of my senior brother. Everyone who knows each other is a friend. With this bowl of wine, I wish all the families here are happy and happy forever. Happy and happy. Done!" He bumped the wine bowl, raised his head and drank it all in one gulp.Jungle stretched out his hand without blocking it, and frowned involuntarily.

The villagers drank heavily and ate meat, punching and yelling, all of them blushing.

Gu Haiping, Zhang Xin and other parents of children who practiced martial arts with the jungle brought their children to toast the jungle.

Father Gu pulled Gu Haiping and said, "Quick, kowtow to Master."

Gu Haiping remained silent, his eyes fixed on his toes.Father Gu patted him: "What are you doing? Hurry up and kowtow!"

Gu Haiping bit his lower lip and did not move. Everyone was waiting to kowtow to Jungle, and they all looked at their father and son.Gu's father lost face, raised his leg and kicked Gu Haiping: "Are you stupid? Hurry up and kowtow!"

Gu Haiping suddenly raised his head, looked at the jungle standing in front of him, and then at Cong Zhanyi who was standing silently holding Xu Shanlan's hand, turned around and ran away.

"Hey." Father Gu was so angry that he shouted from behind, "You prodigal son, why are you running away?!" He hurriedly bowed to the jungle, with an extremely embarrassed look on his face, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Master Cong, my child..."

"It's okay." Yin Yi said softly, "Maybe it's because Master wants to leave, and I'm reluctant." Father Gu sighed, forgot to drink, and went out to find the child.

The rest of the disciples kowtowed to the jungle one by one under the leadership of their parents.Everyone is a teacher and apprentice, and I have to thank Master for his teaching and cultivation for the past ten years. Although we can't go to S City with us, our relationship has become very deep after so many years. The parents are very grateful, and the children shed tears.Jungle was also very moved, and took the children's hands to give some more instructions.

In fact, Gu Haiping didn't go far, he ran out of the courtyard and hid behind the big blue stone, watching his father strode away angrily.He fell to the ground all of a sudden, his chest was congested, sore and astringent, and he couldn't tell what it was like.He is not young anymore, he understands what it means to go out in the jungle, and he may never come back or see him again in this life. City S is a big city, and they are a small fishing village, one in the sky and the other in the ground, two parallel worlds, where there is a life that he will never be able to touch.For some reason, Gu Haiping suddenly thought of Lu Xun's "Runtu", that childhood companion who was close to each other, who met again after many, many years, remained only strange and alienated from each other.In the eyes of the eldest brother, will he become dull and dull, clumsy and dull like Runtu?

Gu Haiping shivered in the biting cold wind, sporadic firecrackers were heard in the distance, crackling and falling silent after a while.Only the shouts from the yard remained, and the noise was unbearable.

In the past, Gu Haiping didn't feel much about these things, but today they sounded very vulgar and couldn't be heard.He tucked his head into his collar, staring blankly at the muddy and dirty remnant snow trampled by pedestrians.

At this time, there was a sound of creaking footsteps at the gate of the courtyard, followed by Xu Shanlan's childish voice: "Brother, if we sneak out, will we be scolded?"

"No, they all drank too much." Cong Zhanyi seemed to take out a few firecrackers from his arms, "Here you are, Jumping Monkey."

"Oh, oh, good!" Xu Shanlan cheered and lit one, and held it far away.With a whoosh, the firecrackers shot straight into the sky and exploded.

"Brother." Xu Shanlan asked, "Is S City fun?"

"Maybe." Cong Zhanyi always speaks very cautiously, with room for reserve, "Actually, it's the same everywhere, it's just practicing."

"That's right." Xu Shanlan smiled, "With brother, it's the same everywhere."

The two of them walked while talking, looking for a spacious and clean place to let off the whip, Xu Shanlan took out a jumping monkey and let it go after walking a few steps.

Gu Haiping came out from behind the big bluestone, and saw the jumping monkeys flying up in front of them one by one, making crackling noises.He suddenly made a decision that might be the most important in his life.

Gu Haiping ran home as fast as he could, but his father was scolding him in the yard with his mother: "You said this is a worthless thing, Master Cong is going to leave, and he ran away even if he kowtowed! But it’s an old embarrassment, don’t mention it!”

His mother comforted his father: "Master Yin also said that, the child is too sad."

"Pull it down, that's a polite word, can't you hear it?"

Gu Haiping pushed open the door and stared intently at the parents who came over, he said: "Dad, Mom, I want to go to S City with Master!"

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