soul seeker

seven years old.

In the hallway of the apartment building.

Beside the door of a house, a little boy was leaning against the wall with his hands behind him, pouted, weeping unhappily, with a stubborn expression on his face.

In the room, the woman was packing her luggage while making a phone call: "Is it still stuck in traffic? Did you arrive at three o'clock? When you arrive, put him down, and we will go to the airport, so that we won't miss the flight."

"It should be ok. It's two o'clock now, half an hour away from home. I think it won't be blocked for another hour. How about it, is your son still angry?"

"Well, you are protesting with me by crying silently at the door. This kid has such a stubborn temper, who is he like?"

"Of course it's you!"

Half an hour later, the man finally arrived by car.

The woman had already packed her luggage and was waiting for him at the door.

"Why are you here now?"

"It took a while to park, and the parking place downstairs is a bit hard to find. Hours, are you still angry?" The man knelt down and grabbed the boy's hand, asking with concern.

"Don't pay attention to him!" The woman said angrily from the side, "What kind of temper! When you get angry, you don't talk to others, just walk around, there is no time."

"Oh."

The man picked up Shiu and was about to leave when Shih suddenly cried out and grabbed the wall next to him with his hands: "I don't want it! I don't want it! I don't want to go to grandma's house! I promised to take me to play this time!"

"This child!" The man pulled him into his arms with all his strength, went downstairs and stuffed him into the car.

Unexpectedly, the child who got into the car not only didn't stop crying, but made more noise, crying all the way to the destination.

The car stopped in front of the gate of a small yard.

When an old couple saw the car coming, they immediately came over and opened the car door. The two of them, who had greeted them with joy, asked the couple angrily when they saw Hour's face, "What's the matter? What did you two do to him?" , crying like this."

"It's not that I lost my temper. This time I agreed to take him to play when he was on vacation. Who knew that he would go on a business trip abroad again, and this kid is also not sensible at all." The woman complained as she got off the co-pilot. In front of the car door, "Come down, hour."

But Xiao Shi still sat in his original position and pouted his lips. He was tired from crying and could only express his protest in this way.

The woman waited patiently for a few minutes and finally broke out. She reached into the car and dragged the child out, then handed his luggage to the old man, got in the car and left.

The next morning, Xiao Shi was sitting in the yard. In fact, he had calmed down at this time, but he didn't know how to find a step for himself to talk to his grandparents. After all, he made too much trouble yesterday.

At this moment, two children from the opposite house ran into the yard, and the boy was being chased by the girl to paint his nails.

"No!" The boy hugged the fence of the yard, with the bowknot clip on his head that the girl forced to wear just now, "You have to paint yourself! Why do I want to play a girl in a play!"

"But that's how the characters are set!" The girl puffed up her steamed stuffed bun face.

"Ajing, Xiaojie, what are you doing?" Hours left the yard and arrived at the gate of their yard.

"When I was young, you came back? It's not all a summary! I said that it's fine, but I have to pretend to be a girl. Wearing this clip is not enough and I have to paint my nails. You say I'm not unlucky!" Ah Jing said helplessly Watch the hours.

"It seems that I'm more unlucky," said Xiao Shi, who opened the door and walked in, and sat on the cool bed in the yard to enjoy the cool.

"What's the matter? Are you forced to put on nail polish too?" Ajing and Xiaojie also sat on the cool bed while talking.

"No, my parents said they would take me to play during the long vacation, but they went on a business trip again. And my mother is very fierce!" He wiped his tears with his small fist as he spoke.

"Hey hey don't cry!"

Ah Jing was about to persuade him, but Xiaojie next to him said in a tearful tone: "Me too, I had promised to take me to the amusement park, but my dad insisted on coming back to fish, what's so fun about fishing!"

"That's to say, keep missing appointments!"

Just like that, both of them burst into tears. Ah Jing, who was sitting in the middle, was so annoyed that he didn't know what to do. Suddenly he stood up, walked to the big tree in the yard, and began to climb up.

After a while, Xiaojie and Xiaojie, who were crying, felt that something round was stuffed into their mouths. After biting again, sweet and sour juice overflowed. The two of them opened their eyes covered with tears, and saw A Jing stood in front of him smiling after carrying a lot of cherries in his clothes, "Don't cry, eat the cherries, I'd better wash them."

With that, he turned and walked to the pool.

When Xiaoxiao wiped away his tears, he remembered that there was a cherry tree in the yard of Ajing’s house, and clusters of red cherries were hanging on it.

The three of them were sitting on the cool bed, chatting while eating cherries.

"Then let's continue playing, play house, since Xiao is here, let Xiao pretend to be a girl."

As soon as the two boys heard this, they immediately pulled up the summary tacitly, and put the unfinished cherries into their pockets.

"Go out and play! Go to the creek! It's cool there!"

"Yes yes yes!"

"Oh, well..." Xiao Jie saw that the two of them really didn't want to play, so he listened to them.

By the creek, Ah Jing squatted in front of a cocklebur tree and smiled: "Come and see! There is a Xiaojie tree here!"

"What?" The two of them went to the side and knelt down to look at the cocklebur.

"Oh, don't mention it," Xiao Jie puffed up her bun face again, "My classmates said that my name Fang Jie'er was weird, and they even used nicknames like ears, earlobes, and so on."

"Really? I think it's cute." Ah Jing sat down and looked at the clouds that were blown by the wind and were running fast.

"It's special." Hour said.

In a flash, they played until it was time to eat at noon. At this time, Xiaojie's father and Ajing's father happened to be going home after fishing and passed by here, calling them both to go home for dinner, and Xiaoxiao had no playmates, so he had to go home .

Along the way, he was worried that he didn't tell anyone when he came out, and he was so bad yesterday that he would be scolded when he went back.

Unexpectedly, before walking a few steps, the grandmother who was looking for him appeared: "I knew you were here! Hurry up and go home for dinner."

Said grandma took Shi's hand and walked home.

"Small, don't be angry with your parents anymore, they are just too busy."

"Oh."

A few days later, in the evening.

"Hey, why are you still here?" Ah Jing, who wanted to enter the yard of his house, was playing with the bugs he caught yesterday in the yard when he was young, "Isn't the holidays over, you don't go to school tomorrow?"

"My parents, they will be on a business trip for a long time this time, so they asked for leave for me. What about the summary? I didn't see her all day today."

"Going back, she doesn't live in the village anymore."

"What about you tomorrow?"

"I want to go to school too. Do you think schools in the countryside don't have to go to school?"

"Then I will be the only child tomorrow? Then I will die of boredom."

"I can't help it, I'll come to you after school." Said A Jing waved his hand and entered his yard.

two months later.

Summer vacation, the hottest time at noon.

Ah Jing and Shi Shi were sitting in the living room fanning themselves, sweating from the heat, in a daze.

"Ah, it's so hot..." Ah Jing wiped the sweat from his forehead and turned to look at Xiao Shi.

"That's right, there's still a power outage, and the electric fan doesn't work. I really want to play, but it's so hot that I don't have the energy to do it."

"How about," Ah Jing patted his legs, "Let's go to the stream to play in the water in the evening, it will be very cool."

"Okay! I'm going now! It's so hot!"

"You're stupid," Ah Jing patted Shiu on the shoulder, "It's noon and the sun is so hot and hot, why don't you get dried out if you walk there? And the stream water is also warm now, how about a hot spring?"

In the evening, they took off only a pair of underwear and played in the stream. Tired of playing, they just lay down and soaked in the water and chatted.

"Why didn't you see the summary this time? Isn't she coming back for summer vacation?"

"Well, she said that her mother enrolled her in a dancing interest class, and she has to go to class every day, so she doesn't have time to come back. I guess the next time I see you will be the Mid-Autumn Festival."

11 years old.summer.

evening.

Shi Shi's family was sitting in the yard having dinner, and his mother was there too.

"Hey, Dan Yu? Are you here? It's hard to come by, a busy person is free today." A Jing's father walked into the yard and greeted Xiao Shi's mother.

"Look at what you said, am I the enthroned queen?" Dan Yu stood up from the small bench, turned to look at the man and chatted.

"Isn't it all because you and your husband have become so busy after you resigned and went solo?"

"It's not my fault anymore. I'm not like you. After joining the company, I'm a high-level executive. Small employees like us have to provide housing and raise children. If we don't hurry up and find a way out, we can't survive."

"Oh, talking about the house," the man approached, "do you have any way to help me find a house? It's better to be closer to the middle school."

"Middle school? Isn't Ah Jing in elementary school? And didn't you always say that it would be better for children to grow up in the country than in the city? What? Changed your mind?"

"I don't want to change my mind, but there is only elementary school in the countryside. What do you want my son to do after finishing school? Herding cattle? Now the city lacks everything but a house, and it's a prime location close to the middle school. It's even harder to find it." gone."

"Oh, okay, I see, I will help you find out and pay attention." The woman said with her hands on her hips.

"Dad! Come back for dinner!" Ah Jing shouted in the opposite yard.

"Understood, then I'm leaving."

12 is old.

Walking into the corridor when get out of class was over, I found that someone seemed to be moving into the house opposite, because the corridor was full of cardboard boxes, and there were people moving cardboard boxes into the door.

While staring at him, someone suddenly called him, and he was still in his own home behind him: "Hey, Qiao Shiyue! It's early to come back, and I will go home as soon as the tutoring is over, so good."

The voice was that of a boy his own age.

"Hey? Ajing? Why are you at my house?" He turned around and saw it was Ajing, a little surprised.

"Moving, here." Ajing pointed to the opposite door, "From now on in the city, I will also live with the neighbor opposite."

"Oh! This new house is yours?!" As Shiyue entered his home, he found that not only Ajing, but also Ajing's parents were also chatting with his mother, "Uncle and aunt good."

"Oh, Shiyue, are you back? We'll be neighbors from now on." Ajing's father raised his hand.

"It's not just that." Dan Yu turned to look at Shiyue, "You and Ah Jing will be classmates in the future, he and you are in the same middle school, maybe they are still in the same class."

"It's not just me, I talked to Xiao Jie on the phone yesterday, and she said that she also wants to go to this school." Ajing took out his phone and shook it.

"Really?! What a coincidence?" Saying that, Shiyue took off her schoolbag and put it away.

"It's not a coincidence. I guess I think the same as her. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to play together in the same school? So I set this goal and went for it."

"Hey? Have you ever set such a goal? Why don't I know?"

"Hey~ If you have good grades, you won't understand. What if we don't pass the exam? How embarrassing!"