Spring is coming

Take a shortcut in Xueli, branch off from the small road behind several rows of two-story old bungalows, walk out of the community, go around to Xujia Lane behind Team 153, go deep along the alley, climb up the Huancheng Road, cross the road and enter Mountain.

When I was young, I often climbed mountains with Chun Xin. Of course, it was when I was a child in my previous life.

When they were in middle school, they had extra classes on Saturday mornings, and they would go hiking in the afternoon. They climbed all the mountains behind Team 153, and they often stole the corn and radishes planted in the forest.

She once stole tomatoes from the vegetable field of a private house near the middle school; she went to dig other people’s radishes in the field; she said to make amber, cut a big hole in the bark of a pine tree to let it flow turpentine; caught many spiders and put them in plastic bottles Raising Gu; playing backgammon with homework books in class and at the same table; eating walnuts in evening self-study, biting them so loudly...

She has a baby face that is harmless to humans and animals, her eyes are blinking, and when she says "look at me", people really can't bear to scold her.

The soft dirt road under their feet has been walked thousands of times in memory, and Xueli remembers every creek, every pond, every flowering tree they have crossed, and countless drizzled evenings.

The sun was shining right now, and Xueli was standing on the middle of the mountain, seeing the dark brown wooden houses at the foot of the mountain, the old man smoking hookah in front of the wooden houses, and the children squatting on the ground digging the ground with a hoe.

"Chunxin! Chunchun! Chunchun!" Xueli shouted, waving her hands, and the child in the vegetable field raised her head and shouted, "Dongdong! Dongdong!"

She threw a hoe and ran towards her, and rushed down the mountain with her schoolbag on her back. When her two small bodies collided, it seemed as if she heard a bang, and fireworks exploded in front of her eyes, crackling in colorful colors.

Chun Xin raised his hands high, wrapped them around her neck, and hugged her tightly, "Dongdong, you found me, you are so smart! I knew you would find me!"

"I found you."

"You found me!"

"I found you."

"Hee hee, then I'll take you to eat delicious food."

Chun Xin led Xueli to the wooden house, "This is the lame grandpa, last time we came here, grandpa gave us oranges, do you remember?"

Grandpa Lame has no surname, and he has forgotten it himself, so everyone calls him Lame.

An old cripple who has no children, and a poor little man who has no adults, lives in the deep mountains, sitting in front of a leaky wooden house basking in the sun.

The trees on the mountain are rustling by the wind, and where is a living spring ding ding dong dong?A bird with slender tail feathers was parked on the treetop, its head tilted, and a pair of black bean men stared at people, shaking their wings, and disappeared.

What a nice place to hide away.

Chun Xin came after school at noon yesterday. When she was at school, she hid in the toilet with her schoolbag on her back. She didn't come out until the outside became quiet and everyone had left. The teacher closed the big iron gate.

A school with no one is really fun. She swaggered around the playground with her schoolbag on her back, then ran into the teaching building, went to the senior classrooms and pasted the blackboard newspapers on the windows, and went to At the door of the principal's office, he lay down on the ground and looked through the crack of the door.

These are places she usually dare not set foot in.

One of the classrooms forgot to lock the door, maybe it was Class [-], Grade [-], or Class [-], Grade [-]. Anyway, she found a pack of crispy noodles in the desk drawer of the podium!Sitting on the desk covered with chalk dust had a good time.

After eating, I was thirsty, and went to the pool at the entrance of the corridor, turned on the tap, bent down and tilted my head, and drank until I was full.

There was nothing else to do in this dilapidated school, so he waved his hand to say goodbye to it. Chun Xin tightened his schoolbag belt, climbed over the wall to the dirt slope behind the teaching building, walked past graves one after another, and went to the mountain to find the crippled grandfather.

Dongdong said that her grandparents still love her, Chunxin will not be fooled again, they have already driven her away, and they don't want her anymore.

She fell asleep very early last night, woke up later, wanted to go to the bathroom, and heard her grandparents whispering in the living room, saying that Xiao Toile might as well be sold.

They said they were old and sick.

They said they didn't want to toss anymore and were tired.

They said that eight lifetimes of blood mold gave birth to Yin Yuanchang, and it was an enemy from the previous life who came to avenge him, the big one repaying the small one...

She went to the toilet in the yard, squatted there and looked at the windows of Xueli's house for a long time, and seemed to hear Aunt Jiang talking to Dongdong.

Is her mother sleeping with her?

Wept in the yard for a while, then returned to the bed and cried for a while. When grandparents fell asleep, Chun Xin packed all the things he could bring into his schoolbag in the dark, and sneaked to the kitchen to get a pair of bowls and chopsticks.

Carrying her little clothes and bowls and chopsticks, she is going to find the crippled grandpa. If the crippled grandpa doesn't let her stay there, she will live on the mountain by herself. Drink spring water when thirsty, sleep in the wild at night, pick up some branches to keep warm.

Quickly reach out and touch your trouser pocket, the lighter is still there, don't worry, everything is ready.

She climbed over the mountains and went to the wooden house of the crippled grandpa, who was sitting at the door smoking a hookah.

A bamboo chimney thicker than her thigh, when he smoked, his whole face was buried in the bamboo pipe, with a few gurgles, the green smoke spread out, covering his head.

It took a long time for Grandpa to raise his head, as if he just saw her, "Hey, you little doll, what are you doing here?"

Chun Xin said: "Grandpa, I don't want to go home anymore, I want to live with you on the mountain, I can help with laundry, I have seen my grandma grow vegetables, I can grow vegetables..."

The crippled grandpa looked at her against the light, looked at her quietly with a pair of cloudy old eyes, gently wiped the hookah with his mud-colored fingers, stood it on the ground, stood up by leaning on the wall, and walked to the wooden house In front of a small door on the side.

When I opened the door, there was a pile of firewood inside, and there were several large bundles of straw in the corner.

The crippled grandpa didn't ask or say anything, he passed his hand forward, and Chun Xin sat on the straw with his schoolbag on his back, his buttocks bouncing twice, "It's so soft."

Grandpa laughed and asked, "Have you eaten yet?"

Unexpectedly, Dongdong found him the next afternoon.

Xueli shouted, "Grandpa lame."

The old lame "Gudu Gudu" was smoking a hookah, and the blue smoke spread out, covering his head, and was quickly blown away by the wind blowing from the other side of the mountain. He grinned his big yellow teeth and smiled innocently.

Chun Xin led Xueli into the kitchen, tiptoed and took out a white porcelain bowl from the cabinet, "Here, let's eat."

A small bowl of fried grasshoppers.

Chun Xin said: "I came yesterday, and my grandfather took me to someone else's field to catch them. When I came back, I scalded them to death with hot water. I picked off the heads and wings, dried them and fried them in a big iron pan. They were delicious."

Xueli said "hmm", she had heard of this thing, but she had never eaten it, she was a little incapable of accepting it.

Chun Xin held the bowl and handed it to her, "It's so delicious, eat it quickly, I thought, if you don't come today, I'll eat it all tonight, grandpa said it won't taste good if it gets soft overnight. "

Xueli lowered her head and said "hmm" again.

"Don't just promise not to do it, eat it, it's so delicious." Chun Xin grabbed one and threw it into his mouth, "Eat it, it's delicious and crunchy."

Well, crunchy, she heard.

"Don't be afraid, you'll know after eating it once... why don't you eat it, I'll feed you."

She fed people without waiting for anyone to open her mouth, and stuffed them into people's mouths. Xueli almost forgot what she was here for. There was a buzzing sound in her head, like a TV that suddenly lost its signal, and the screen was full of snowflakes. Cheering.

The upper and lower jaws chewed mechanically, and the rich aroma exploded between her teeth. Chun Xin stuffed it into her mouth one after another, and she finished eating with a dazed expression.

After a long time, I smacked my lips, not to mention it was quite fragrant.

Then Chun Xin took her to visit his room, and invited her to lie down on his straw bed, "Try it, it's really soft."

It is indeed very soft, lying upright in the snow, with hands folded on the lower abdomen, taking a deep breath, the sun shines in from the window without glass, and the smell of straw being scorched by the sun is everywhere here.

Chun Xin announced to her, "I will live here from now on, and I won't go to school anymore. It costs money to go to school, and I don't have any money. I farm the land with my grandfather. We grow tobacco leaves, and sell them when we are going to the market. "

"I still want to pick tea. I go to the mountains to pick tea in spring, and sell it when I dry it to go to the market."

"I still have to learn how to cut trees. Hmph, when they want to smoke bacon in winter, they can come to me to buy it, otherwise they won't be able to smoke it."

She chattered a lot, and arranged herself clearly from morning till night.

Xueli listened quietly, did not refute, and did not mention the fight between Jiang Mengyan and grandma.

She lay down for a while, and took out the milk and bread from her schoolbag. Chun Xin approached with a smile, "Is it for me?"

After getting an affirmative answer, she ran out to find her grandpa with her things in her arms. Xueli heard the old and the young being polite outside. After a while, Chun Xinhu hummed a little song and hopped in, asking her, "Would you like to go to the old man?" Do you want to play in the water by the stream?"

It's almost time to go to school, Xueli said: "Come tomorrow, I will bring you something to eat, stay well with Grandpa, don't run around, or I won't be able to find it."

Chun Xin shook his head and said, "Don't run away", and then said: "You don't want to bring it, we have something to eat."

Chun Xin pestered her to play on the side of the road for a while, then sent her to Songlinpo, and skipped back to the wooden house until there was no one in sight on the path.

After school in the afternoon, Xueli saw the police at the school gate.

There was surveillance at the school gate, but Chun Xin didn't go through the gate. They only saw her go in, but didn't see her come out, so they all knew that she went over the wall from the back mountain.

Out of 153, the outside is too big, not all places are monitored.

The police asked one by one, and when they asked Xueli, she still shook her head and said she didn't know.

The police left, and Xueli sat in the room for a while, thinking of Chunxin's grandma who was pissed off with cholecystitis... Even if she didn't tell them where Chunxin was, at least she told them she was safe, so they could rest assured.

Halfway down the stairs, she heard the sound of the door opening downstairs, so she leaned over to see that a young fair hand was holding the doorknob, and the person twisted his body and talked inside.

It's Principal Yin.

Principal Yin asked: "What if I can't find it?"

The person inside replied without hesitation: "It's best not to find it back."

Principal Yin asked again: "What if I find it back?"

"Whoever wants it wants it, we don't want it."

Principal Yin closed the door and left, and Xueli didn't need to report to anyone that she was safe, and used her landline to call her mother when she got home.

That night, the crippled grandfather came to 153 and found Yin's house, but Yin's house didn't open the door. He yelled hoarsely against the window, and knocked on the door again, but no one answered.

He could only pull the passers-by and say over and over again that the child from the old man Yin's family ran to him, and he went there yesterday afternoon, and he had been there all day.

In case something happened to the child, he couldn't bear the responsibility. It would be fine to take her in for a day or two, but he would never dare to keep her permanently.He said he was almost seventy, no one wanted this doll, what would happen to the doll when he died.

Neighbors yelled at the windows of Yin’s house, and then knocked on the door. The lights were turned off inside, but the light of the TV could still be seen flickering.

The lame old man reached into the anti-theft window and patted the window with a "kuang kuang", "Come out, come out."

In the end, even the TV was turned off, and people entered the bedroom, but it was dark outside and nothing could be seen. After everyone finished talking, the Yin family didn't want Chunxin anymore.

The lame old man sat down on the ground and patted his thigh, "No wonder the baby wants to run, no wonder the baby wants to run!"

Some of the neighbors were watching the fun, and some wanted to help. Everyone talked about Chun Xin being sold to other provinces by his father.

The lame old man listened, and the tears flowed across his wrinkled old face like a stream, winding into the dry land like a stream.

He patted his thigh, tears and snot flowing together, and repeated: "No wonder the baby wants to run, no wonder the baby wants to run..."

Xueli stood at the entrance of the corridor and watched the farce indifferently, waiting for her mother to come home.