far and near

When he left the classroom at noon on Sunday and was in a hurry to meet Bai Maosheng, Yu Ren's shoulder was deliberately bumped by the little curly Huai Fengnian, "Girlfriend?"

Yu Ren's face turned red, "My junior high school classmate...don't talk nonsense."

The little curly hair recently had no time to go home and cut his hair because he lived in school, and now the top of his head is twisted and twisted like a teddy with knotted hair. The teacher joked, "If the hair grows longer in Huai Fengnian, it will hang outside our class. Rousseau." She brushed back the curly hair on her forehead with a hairpin, and after putting on her glasses, she showed her pair of small canine teeth, "Recently, you are in a hurry every Sunday morning after school, and you are not in a hurry to go home, but go outside the school gate 'Big Beard Little Stirrup'. I've seen it a few times, and the girl is pretty."

"She's studying in an opera school, and she hangs out with me on weekends." Yu Ren recalled the title "girlfriend", "You don't have any special friends?"

"Yes, it's you." Because of Yu Ren's generosity, Huai Fengnian escaped from Rousseau, Montesquieu, Hobslock, and went directly into the world of Tanaka Yoshiki and Zhang Ailing.And Yu Ren, as the class monitor and math class representative, is like the core of the real power faction in the stomach of the class. He can turn a blind eye to Huai Fengnian's failure to write math homework and not report or expose it.But Yu Ren was worried, just like he used to be worried about Bai Maosheng's grades, and privately stuffed his notes and wrong test books to Huai Fengnian, "If you don't improve your math grades, we will definitely not be together in the sophomore class."

Ever since the day when Huai Fengnian stopped accepting the three yuan shepherd's purse big wonton, she and Yu Ren got closer and closer.Good friends are those with close aspirations and sentiments. Although Yu Ren is not obviously biased, he prefers liberal arts.This coincided with the goal that Huai Fengnian had set early in the morning, so they privately agreed that they had to take the same subjects and enter the same class in the second year of high school.

As for all kinds of boyfriend and girlfriend matters, No. [-] Middle School, which has a large number of top students, is not far behind the times. There are no male and female couples in the whole school. Even female and female couples can count seven or eight couples.Yu Ren didn't know what comeoutofhecloset or takeoffthemask was, but Huai Fengnian's joking words "girlfriend" warmed her heart and scratched her nerves.

She sat in the "Big Beard Stir-fry" shop and watched Bai Maosheng scoop up mapo tofu for her, "I asked the boss to make it less spicy, do you want to eat it?" Bai Maosheng said.

Mapo tofu is a typical side dish, and it is also the love of Bai Maosheng and Yu Ren.The saltiness of the bean paste, the spiciness of the chili noodles, the numbness of the peppercorns, the freshness of the minced meat and the tenderness of the tofu are all thickened into a warm and careful wobbling in a spoon, poured on the rice, but Yu Ren tasted the sweetness.

"Maosheng, I'm so sorry for making you come all the way to No. [-] Middle School." Yu Ren gave Bai Maosheng some fish-flavored pork shreds, and she gradually called Bai Maosheng from her full name to "Maosheng". Shout "rabbit monster" or "two fools".

"Your school locked you up and put you in jail, and you are not allowed to visit the prison?" Bai Maosheng didn't find it troublesome, and chatted with Yu Ren about the latest new things while eating, "I think...my mother..." She suddenly There was an extra thought, then he shook his head, "It's nothing, nothing."

Sometimes she is passionate and sensitive emotionally, sometimes dull and clumsy, and it is only when she realizes that her mother and master are having a good time after she enters the drama school—they are weird.This kind of weirdness didn't make her uncomfortable but curious, but she couldn't tell others clearly.The tacit cooperation of cooking with hands in the small days, the resentment, anger, sorrow and joy when watching a play and chatting, even the tenderness in the mother's eyes and the teacher's reciprocation... Bai Maosheng has been thinking about many times when he can't tell, so he can't tell.

"My mother left me to go to the provincial capital with the master. Anyway, I eat alone, so I might as well find you." But Bai Maosheng said in his heart, "No", she just wanted to be with Yu Ren, but she was embarrassed to say it so clearly .

"Oh, I'll eat with you?" Yu Ren ate while wiping the sauce on the corner of his mouth, "Going to your house in the afternoon? My mother is going to a seminar in another city. Hey, no one cares about me."

"Ah..." Bai Maosheng took precautions, "I'm going to be a guest at a friend's place in the afternoon, can you accompany me?"

"What kind of friends?" Yu Ren was not curious that Bai Maosheng had many "friends", but when he heard that this was a dropout from No. 23 Middle School, his heart skipped a beat, "Ask your friend to go to an Internet cafe to play games or skate?"

Bai Maosheng said that this girl is good at skating and playing games, but she is not very enthusiastic. "She is working and renting a house by herself."

That is to go to the little sister's place to chat together, "I don't know her...would it be inconvenient?" Yu Ren also knows the jealousy of friendship between girls.Huai Fengnian once said, "Even in friendship, there is a saying of 'joining in'."

"If I had known your mother wasn't at home, I wouldn't have asked her to meet today." Bai Maosheng unfortunately had to slip away in the rare time of half a day and one night, but Yu Ren agreed, "Let's go, let's go together. After meeting your friend Let's go to your house again."

The urban villages in the west are a major difficulty in the governance of nearby streets and villages. Mixed people, illegal construction, crowded houses, and roads full of potholes are all visible to the naked eye.Yu Ren and the others felt that this was the third world of Baizhou when they walked in the streets of the village in the city: the white walls gradually peeled off and turned gray, and moldy moss climbed up the houses in large swaths.The twisted wires on the poles are covered with small rent advertisements and painless people-traffic addresses.

You can tell from people's demeanor whether they are aborigines or tenants. Whether they have money or not is written in their demeanor.So when Yu Ren came to the four-story building of Yuan Huifang's house, he immediately saw that Yuan Huifang was the owner of the house, and felt that she looked familiar.

The "Unicom" red Chinese knot at the door hangs high, which is the most eye-catching bright color of this gray cement building.Yuan Huifang leaned on the grand chair in front of the store and chatted with his neighbors, glancing at the small TV in the store or the entrance of his own small hotel from time to time.

Seeing the arrival of two little girls with bags on their backs and looking like students, she immediately realized that the business was coming. "Charge the phone bill?" Before Yu Ren and the others could answer, she called her daughter, "Xiao Liu? Xiao Liu, come down, someone is charging the phone bill."

A small head with octagonal double braids poked out from the fourth floor, looked at the guest with round eyes, "Oh, here we come."

Yuan Liu was playing in Yinxiu's room just now. Although this big sister doesn't talk to her parents, she likes to sneak some snacks for her.Today Yin Xiusai gave Yuan Liu two jellies and some colorful chocolate candies.With snacks in his pocket, Yuan Liu whispered to Yin Xiu in the house, "Sister, I'm going downstairs."

Yin Xiu sat in the room and waved to her, "Go."

This was Yinxiu's first time entertaining "guests". Her classmates had never entered her house, and Yin Xiaochang would never treat herself or her classmates with a good face, let alone invite others to be guests.

Besides, her family's one-bedroom, one-living dormitory in the No. 80 Textile Factory was really shabby.Yin Xiaochang used to squeeze her daughter into a small bed in the living room, and she became a mother-in-law after her parents passed away one after another.She moved to the only bedroom by herself, and gave Yinxiu the small bed in the living room.And the decoration level of that home is still in the [-]s, because living on the easternmost side of the dormitory building, the home that doesn't get much sunlight often has a musty smell.

Yinxiu likes to open the windows for ventilation, and Yin Xiaochang always scolds when she is afraid of the cold, "I can't blow you to death, open the windows on south windy days, and also open windows on rainy days. Didn't you see that the windows are all cracked?"

Now I live in a room by myself, Yinxiu opens the window whenever she wants, and asks the proprietress for some leftover wallpaper scraps and old curtains when she takes advantage of the decoration of the private room of the restaurant.She did it herself, and pasted the walls of the ten-square-meter small room to a tight fit.

Yinxiu seems to have a talent for turning waste into treasure. She even twisted the red and blue wires into a twisted shape with a vise to make a clothesline. Hold clothes in the air.Another single bed that no one sleeps in is not occupied, but is wrapped with old curtains to prevent dust from falling.

On the old table in the house she covered the little tablecloth, which was also cut from the old curtain.The only two plastic stools were wiped clean as new.The small room for one person is decorated with bowls, chopsticks and dishes, which are still eliminated by restaurants.

Unlike some residents whose clothes are hung all over the sky, and the towels are wrinkled and dirty casually placed beside the bed, Yinxiu's bed only has quilts and pillows.Her clothes and towels are hung on a homemade hanger at the opposite corner of the bed, and plain logs are nailed horizontally to a washbasin stand from Yuan Huifang’s hotel. The clean curtains hanging from the ceiling enclose this small world and add more space to the small room. The overall sense of coordination.

At first, Yuan Huifang was worried that Yinxiu was messing around when she was knocking, washing and tidying up. After she finished, she raised her head to look and was stunned, "Don't think this is a room where you live alone. People still have to enter here."

"It's okay, I don't need that bed, and it's clean when it's covered, and I'll just pick it up when other tenants come." Since Yinxiu worked in a restaurant, her conversations with people have become less sophisticated and more sophisticated.Yuan Huifang nodded and left.

In order to welcome the guests, Yinxiu bought loose-sized jelly for ten yuan, plus some happy chocolate candies for her when the guests held banquets in the restaurant.The tinfoil is colorful, and it is placed in a small fruit plate together with the crystal jelly, waiting for the arrival of the guests.Looking around, the room rented for more than 100 yuan, because of Yinxiu's unremitting efforts, has a more "home" atmosphere.

Yuan Huifang found out that the two little girls were looking for Yinxiu, and she winked at Yuan Liu again, "Take them with you, so they don't run around."

Little Yuan Liu clutched the chocolate jelly in his pocket, and walked up the dark stairs on his short legs, "This way up the stairs." The stairs were narrow and high, and they were added temporarily to distinguish them from the stairs used in Yuan Huifang's house. .Seeing the little girl struggling to climb, Bai Maosheng picked up Yuan Liu, "Come on, show me the way, my sister will carry you up the stairs."

Yuan Liu was a little shy, holding Bai Maosheng's shoulders with her small hands and resisting, she straightened her upper body and looked at the elder sister Bai Jing who was holding her from a distance, and was afraid that she would be tired so she approached her shoulder again, "Thank you, elder sister." She whispered, turning around Kai Bai Maosheng looked at the other sister behind her, "Hello, sister." After saying hello, he leaned on Bai Maosheng's shoulder and looked at Yu Ren.

The little guy has thick black eyebrows and watery eyes.Yu Ren liked it and patted her head, "How old are you?" She quite enjoyed this feigned maturity.

"Five years old." No matter how good-looking Bai Maosheng is, she can't continue to attract Yuan Liu. She prefers the quiet older sister behind her. .”

"Thank you kid." Yu Ren took a piece of candy and showed off to Bai Maosheng, "She only gave it to me."

"What's your name?" Yu Ren guessed that such a cute and energetic little girl should have a sweet name, but her mother was obviously very old and had a bad face, so she didn't know how to name it.

"Yuan Liu, Yuan Shikai's Yuan, willow tree's willow." Yuan Liu set aside another chocolate candy fortress for the hard-working Bai Maosheng.Bai Maosheng took a bite and glanced at Yu Ren proudly, only to find that her expression had changed.

"What?" Yu Ren asked again.

Yuan Liu answered again, Yu Ren had already pulled her small wrist, and saw a red birthmark.She leaned against the wall with a surprised expression, then leaned forward to look at little Yuan Liu, and murmured, "San'er."

"What San'er?" Bai Maosheng didn't understand.

"It's okay." Yu Ren stretched out his hand to hug little Yuan Liu, "Let me hug."

Bai Maosheng couldn't resist her, so he sent Yuan Liu to her arms.Yu Ren held his hands tightly, and looked at Yuan Liu with bright eyes, "Do you know me?"

Yuan Liu shook his head, "Hello, sister." He greeted her fawningly again.

At this time, the fourth floor arrived, and Yu Ren asked Yuan Liu to wait for her again, followed by Bai Maosheng to meet Yin Xiu.

When Yinxiu opened the door, she was also surprised to see the two girls, and immediately she warmly welcomed the two into the door, but Yu Ren said, "Uosheng, let me play with that little girl, you two talk first."

Bai Maosheng crossed his hips and watched Yu Ren off, then turned his head to look at Yinxiu's room, his eyes lit up, "Hey, you are so beautiful here." Then he looked at Yin Xiu's nervous face, "Hey, you are so beautiful today. " Yinxiu put on light makeup for work, and her eyebrows were drawn lighter, making her look much more gentle.

She took Yinxiu's hand and jumped into the door, then sat on the small plastic stool and looked left and right, and after chewing and swallowing the chocolate candy in her mouth, "Yinxiu, your house is so clean."

A stone fell to Yinxiu's heart, and he said calmly, "It's not really a home, it's just a place to live." After the words fell, Bai Maosheng had already sat on another empty bed and let himself play, "It's really comfortable, I'm I like it here." I spread my legs, "Hey, how nice it is for me to live here, it's closer to No. [-] Middle School."

Yinxiu in front of her felt blocked, "Oh." She walked up to Bai Maosheng, poked her fingers into the soft hair, "I won't let you live."