Ye Cheng

Ever since Ye Cheng lived upstairs above the shoe repair shop, Qian Xingliang and Qian Xingliang were not as close as before. As Ye Cheng became more and more familiar with the city, Qian Xingliang no longer sent him off every morning as before. I went out and picked him up again at night, but I still gave him lunch at noon every day.

So Ye Cheng took Lu Mingyuan to the car together, went out together in the morning and came back together in the evening, after lunch, the two of them wandered around, and slowly walked around the entire city of C.

It is said that Chen Wenmiao and his family came out again, this time Chen Meili did not come out, she is in the first grade in her hometown.A few days ago, Chen Wenmiao went to Qian Xingliang's house as a guest, and the two brothers were very happy to meet each other. They said that they made money from the batch of goods last year, and they had to work together if they wanted to do such good things again in the future.

Chen Wenmiao also brought a gentle young man, who is said to be a college student, who studied social management. He had a camera in his hand, and took a photo for Qian Xingliang and the others, saying that he would give it to him when it was washed out some other day. They send it.

Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan also took a photo together. The two children were standing at the door of the small broken courtyard. The adults next to them made them laugh. Open your face, as if you want to fight with others.

Sure enough, within a few days, Chen Wenmiao came over with the developed photos, not only Qian Xingliang and the others, but also Chen Wenmiao's family. He also brought photos of his family, and several adults and children surrounded the photos and chattered. Excited, taking pictures was still a relatively new thing in those days, especially for those who came out of the mountains, few of them had ever entered a photo studio.

Ye Cheng put the photo of him and Lu Mingyuan in the small cloth satchel that his grandmother sewed for him, together with the passbook.

Not long after, Luo Chaoyi's father, Luo Chengfu, and Qian Bin's parents said they were going back to the village. It's all the kind of low-paying and tiring jobs.

Those who come out of the mountains are not looked down upon very much in the city, and there is a big gap in their hearts. In addition, they can't make much money, so a few people want to go back.Now I can catch up with the spring plowing when I go back. After a year, they grow some rice and order vegetables. They don’t need to spend much money in their hometown. Although they can say that they have made some money outside, all rice grains are bought with money. Ah, there is a lot of money spent in the city, after all this calculation, I am more determined to go back.

But they didn't plan to take the children back. These two children did have income in the city, and the income was quite good, so they entrusted Qian Xingliang to take care of them.Qian Xingliang didn't like to take on this job, but he couldn't stand those people talking about it, saying that the two children were basically familiar with each other, so they didn't need to bother, they couldn't help here, maybe they had to return He had to drag his children down, and said that Ye Cheng would pay them whatever living expenses he could.

In the end, Qian Xingliang finally agreed, and he couldn't refuse it even if he wanted to. Besides, he himself was really tempted, and his income has increased a lot this year.

Even if the adults left, Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan didn't want to live back. They didn't want to go back, Qian Xingliang didn't mention it, and the old man didn't chase them away, so they still lived upstairs from the shoe repair shop.

The most difficult thing in a shoe repair shop is the shoe repair machine. The working principle of this thing is similar to that of a sewing machine. With the hand crank, the left hand holds the material to be repaired, and the right hand shakes the roulette. This requires better coordination and skilled skills.

The main reason for Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan is that they are relatively young. It is indeed a bit difficult for a child of a few years old to do this kind of work.But these two dolls just love to touch that thing. When they are free at night, they can find a few broken shoe uppers that old man Wu doesn't want, and the two of them can toss about it. Sometimes I get anxious when I look at it: Hey, it’s not like this, I’ll do it.

One night, the two of them were still tormenting the shoe-repairing machine downstairs, and the old man upstairs heard that they had broken three burs back and forth, and finally he felt distressed: "Little bastard, hurry up and go to sleep, don't worry about it." Toss all the needles!"

When summer comes, children and adults like to wear plastic sandals. The repair of these shoes is different from leather shoes and cloth shoes. Old man Wu's store has a small stove burning all day long, with a few pieces of charcoal inside.

At that time, the slippers and sandals were basically made of plastic, and they were not made of various materials such as foam, leather, and cloth. The plastic sandals were usually broken, and the plastic strap on the upper was broken. When the heel is broken, it is easy to mend. Find a piece of plastic of the same color and size, take out the iron rod that has been covered in the charcoal fire, and iron it through the middle, and the shoe will be glued.

In addition, if the nearby residents have broken plastic buckets and washbasins in their homes, they can also use them to repair them. People at that time were frugal, and they were not willing to throw away things when they were broken. They could be repaired and repaired. Just make up, make up for everything.

Ye Cheng remembered that old man Wu had a kettle in his house, the bottom was leaking, and there were small holes one by one. At that time, coal balls were burned, probably corroded.

When the mending pot came over, he asked someone to mend the bottom of the kettle. The man said that your kettle is not easy to mend, because the whole bottom is very thin. After mending, it is worn out on one side and the other side, which is useless. , or just change the bottom of the pot.Old man Wu asked how much it would cost to change the bottom of the pot, and the other party said five yuan. At that time, it cost more than ten yuan to buy a kettle, so old man Wu mended it. After mending, the kettle became two pieces. The new and old are all different, but fortunately they are not leaking.

Just such a kettle, old man Wu has been using it ever since, until a year before his death, Ye Cheng still saw it in his home.

Time passed day by day like this, the weather was getting hotter and hotter, and the breath of summer was getting stronger and stronger. One evening, when Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan returned to their alley, they saw that Qian Xingliang was not there, and the courtyard door was tightly closed , So I squatted outside and waited, but after waiting, Qian Xingliang came back and opened the door.

After a while, old man Wu came over and said you two don't wait, Qian Xingliang has been taken away by the police station, and the two children from your village have also been taken away.Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan were immediately dumbfounded: "Why are they arrested?"

"The two children are fine, what can we do with them? Just send them back to the village."

"What about Uncle Qian?" Ye Cheng asked.

"How would I know, go, go to my place for dinner."

Old man Wu said and left ahead, and the two children had no choice but to follow behind anxiously. During dinner at night, old man Wu told them that someone had taken pictures of Qian Xingliang and the others. They were all taken away at one time, and then he asked the two children if they took any pictures. Ye Cheng and Lu Ming were very scared and just shook their heads.

That night, they stopped playing with the shoe repair machine after dinner, and just stayed in their room.

"Will they come to arrest us?" Lu Mingyuan asked Ye Cheng, after all, the two of them also took pictures.

"It's okay, just send it back to the village." Ye Cheng was also a little scared, but he still knew how to comfort Lu Mingyuan.

"I'm not from your village." Lu Mingyuan said with his head down.

"Is that going to send you to an orphanage?" Ye Cheng was also a little worried. They had heard from people in the city that children without parents were sent to orphanages.

"They say the people in there are very bad."

"Then what should we do?" Ye Cheng didn't want Lu Mingyuan to be sent to the orphanage, he wanted to take Lu Mingyuan back to his home.

"I don't know either." Lu Mingyuan burst into tears as he said that. He was really scared. Those people said that the people in the orphanage were not only bad, but also sold children, and sold them for everything. It sounded scary. .

"Don't cry." Every time Lu Mingyuan cried, Ye Cheng felt very uncomfortable: "Let's hide, and don't let them find it."

"Where to hide?" Lu Mingyuan sniffled.

"Anyway, I'll hide." Ye Cheng stood up and began to pack his things. In fact, there was nothing to pack. The clothes were all in Qian Xingliang's yard, and he couldn't get them right now, so his grandmother sewed them. The satchel and the broken bowl for begging, these two must be brought.

They waited until the time was almost up, guessing that old man Wu was about to fall asleep, and tiptoed downstairs. When the door closed, the door lock clicked a little loudly, and the two children ran away in fright.

Walking on the street late at night, the two of them didn't know where to go. Ye Cheng would not go to places like stations and parks. Qian Xingliang had told him before that there were many bad people in those places.

The two of them walked and walked until they reached the vegetable market. The vegetable market in this city is fairly well-built, poured with reinforced concrete, and lights are still lit in the daytime, but it is late now, and there is nothing black and cold inside. invisible.It happened that Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan were both sleepy, so they held hands and walked in. After entering, they found that it was not as dark and scary as it looked outside, and there was a house next to it with lights on, but the smell was not very pleasant.

Lu Mingyuan didn't know where to find two pieces of cardboard, which were the appearance of the cardboard box after it was taken apart. He had wandered before, so he probably learned it from others.The two found a relatively clean corner and nestled in to sleep.

"Oh, my God, I'm so scared, where did this baby come from?" Ye Cheng and the others were awakened by a strange cry before dawn the next day.

"Whose children are you, why are you sleeping in this place?" It was a young woman with curly hair who asked, her voice was high and crisp, and she was also good-looking.Ye Cheng glanced at her, but said nothing, and Lu Mingyuan didn't even look at her.

The place where they sleep is the place where the vegetable vendors in the vegetable market place their sundries, that is, the place under the platform where the vegetables are placed. The place is empty, surrounded from the outside, but it is actually open from the inside. with.This place is a good place to sleep, the summer nights are not hot, and the wind does not blow or rain.

Both Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan got up, carrying their things to leave, and if they didn't want the old cardboard, they carried the broken bowl with their satchels.Seeing the broken bowls in their hands, the woman probably understood: "Hey, don't rush away, Auntie invites you to have breakfast."

As he said that, he shouted to a noodle shop next to the vegetable market: "No. 73, add two more bowls of noodles, made with eggs."

"Hey, right away." The person from the noodle shop over there responded, and after a while, a young man came over with three steaming bowls of noodles on a tray.

That morning, Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan came out of the vegetable market when they were full. The noodles cooked by that noodle shop were delicious and big, and the woman always put her portion in their bowls. , until the two children were fed.

"That auntie is so nice." Ye Cheng sighed.

"Are we still coming at night?" Lu Mingyuan asked.

"No, we have to hide, we can't always stay in one place." Ye Cheng said.

"Alright then." Lu Mingyuan was a little disappointed.