Spring is coming

On Qingming in April, Xueli and her mother went back to Rong County to visit the graves of her grandparents and met Chunxin.

The family building of the 153 geological team was built on the middle of the mountain, which is also the location of the city center, but they have to climb a big slope to go home. From a long distance in the snow, they saw Chun Xin buying pencils in the small shop in front of his son's school.

They haven't seen each other for almost a year since the rainy night.

"Yin Chunxin."

Xueli originally wanted to go directly to pat her on the shoulder, catch her and have a good talk, but thinking of her, she couldn't help being frightened, so she yelled first from a distance.

She must have heard it, and without looking back, she threw out two yuan, grabbed a pencil, bowed her head and strode home.

The little short legs moved quite fast, did not chase in the snow, put both hands in the pockets, moved forward at an even speed, the line of the lips was straightened.

The family building faces south and is four stories high. There are several rows built on the hillside. There is a driveway five or six meters wide in front of the house. A row of coal sheds for storing sundries is built opposite the house, covered with black tiles.

The house on the left on the first floor of the fifth building is Chun Xin's house, and the upper floor is Xueli's house.

Turning a corner, the Kung Fu man disappeared, and Xueli passed by Yin's house. The starling raised by Grandpa Yin was hanging on the rusty security window, and saw her flapping her wings and shouting.

"You want to fight."

The glass window reflected blue light under the sun, and I couldn't see the situation in the house unless I got close. I didn't stay in the snow for a long time. I went upstairs and went home, went into the bedroom and took out a pen and paper.

In the living room, Chun Xin heard the door slam loudly from upstairs, and looked back, grandpa and sister-in-law were sitting on the sofa watching TV, and grandma was resting in the master bedroom.

She gently opened the wooden door connecting the small bedroom to the backyard, found a wooden stick in the debris pile, and pushed it against the asbestos tiles on the opening, revealing a hole the size of a fist.

Within 2 minutes, a xylitol jar was hung from the second floor window with a rope.

There was a piece of Dove in the jar, and a note.

Chun Xin tore off the wrapping paper, ate the chocolate, and unfolded the note.

——I called you twice, but I didn’t answer.

Xueli's handwriting is very standardized and easy to recognize. The pen pen is strong enough to penetrate the back of the paper, and the pen is sharp, which is very her own style.

Chun Xin sat on the small bench, picked out a book as a cushion, and wrote her letters with a freshly sharpened pencil.

Upstairs, lying on the bed in the snow, looking at the yellowed ceiling in a daze, a small bell was hung on the rope tied to the head of the bed. After a while, the bell rang. jar.

Chun Xin's handwriting also has its own style, chicken paws stained with black mud soup walking across the paper.

--ah?You called me, when, I didn't hear, my mobile phone is broken.

Xueli was speechless for a moment.

——You come to my house, let's talk face to face.

——No, my grandma is sick.

——I know, I heard from my mother.You come up first, I still have sugar here.

The xylitol jar was pulled up twice, but there was no new reply, so Xueli licked the gap between her teeth and continued to write.

——There are also duck necks and potato chips. I bought too much and couldn't finish them.

This time, the bell rang within half a minute after putting it down.

— come at night.

Sure enough, I still have to put some bait.

Glancing at the time on the watch, at 03:30, Xueli put on her shoes and was about to go out to buy duck necks.

When Xueli's mother heard the voice, she opened the bedroom door and came out, she gave her a strange look, "You want to go out?"

The plan is to drive back to Nanzhou City this afternoon. Xueli said, "I will go back by car by myself."

"Are you with Chunxin?"

Xueli hesitated for a moment, then nodded, "Let's go together."

"It's fine, just look at her, Yin Yuanxin is back." Yin Yuanxin is Chunxin's little aunt.

Among the three sisters in the Yin family, Chun Xin's father is the second child. They have a bad relationship with their younger sister Yin Yuanxin, and Yin Yuanxin also dislikes Chun Xin the most.

They lived upstairs and downstairs, and the affairs of Yin's family were not a secret. They beat their children and did not hide anyone's back, and all neighbors knew about it.

That night, Xueli's mother drove away. Xueli went to the supermarket, bought a lot of snacks, and went home to cut a large plate of fruit.

The two old people in Chun Xin's family went to bed early. At 10:30, there was no light downstairs, so Xueli opened the window, moved the chair under the window, and leaned out to look.

The first floor of this kind of family building has a yard, and there is a ridge behind the five buildings, more than three meters high, which is a natural wall with hollow brick walls on both sides, separating each house, and the yard in the middle.

Grandma Chunxin built a shed out of bricks and wood in the yard to store sundries, covered with asbestos tiles, and used the remaining open space to grow flowers and vegetables.

Chunxin is good at climbing walls. She can climb up the two-meter-high wall along the rough stone wall at the ridge, step on the hollow brick wall, and follow the edge of asbestos tiles to climb directly into the snowy bedroom.

She seems to be a sensitive cat, and she learns how to meow like a cat. Sometimes she accidentally makes a little movement, then stops and meows twice before continuing to crawl.

The little black shadow downstairs jumped onto the wall, like a martial arts master in a movie, Yuli reached out his hand, but Chun Xin didn't answer, and jumped into the room by climbing the window frame.

"I'm going to wash my hands."

I haven't seen her for almost a year. She seems to have lost weight again. She wears a coat with two butterfly skeletons on her back, and she is delicate.

Xueli went to the refrigerator to fetch fruit for her, and the desk was full of snacks. When Chunxin came back after washing his hands, he licked his lips and sat down on the chair, finally showing a smile on his face.

"When did you come back?" Xueli looked at her with her chin on the side.

His voice was dry and hoarse after he hadn't spoken for a long time, Chun Xin drank two sips of water, and poured out his long-standing habit and deep-rooted dependence on her, pouring out his strong desire.

She leaned back in her chair, holding the bag of potato chips, "I met a man, I told you before, he is very skilled, he wants to accept me as an apprentice, I'm going to find him, luggage After putting everything away, I suddenly received a call from my grandpa, saying that grandma was sick and asked me to go home."

The old man is already at the advanced stage of stomach cancer, and his temper is also very stubborn. How many times the family members want to take her to see her, but she refuses to go, saying that she is dead and dragged down.

Chun Xin's phone number was given to them by Xueli's mother. She was standing by the side of the road and heard Grandpa begging softly on the phone.

——Go home, your grandma is dying, your grandma told you to go home, come back quickly.

After she came back, Aunt Chunxin didn't allow her to get close to the old man's bedside. Her aunt had a strong personality. Chunxin's father cheated her out of money in the early years. She couldn't find Chunxin's father, so she could only vent her anger on Chunxin.

Xueli is very clear about the situation in Chunxin's family. Chunxin's little aunt has always treated her badly. If she lives at home, Chunxin will definitely not be able to please her.

"Then she's back, where do you live? The sofa?"

"Just down in the shed, there's a camp bed."

"Is it cold?" It's also nonsense, the shed is leaking everywhere, it's dark and damp, can it be cold?

Chun Xin said it was fine, wiped his hands, and ate the fruit from the plate.

Xueli looked at her, she bowed her head a little embarrassedly, forked an apple and fed it to her mouth.

Xueli subconsciously wanted to open her mouth, but when she realized it, she leaned back.

Chun Xin withdrew his hand, lowered his eyelashes, finished eating the piece of apple by himself, got up and cleaned up the table, "I'm going back."

"Sleep at my house, how do you sleep there?"

"You can sleep."

She jumped over the window and jumped off the wall to go back, Xueli beat her knee angrily.

There is moonlight, the ground is cool and cool, and there are faint insects.

Chun Xin was squatting beside the cement brick flower bed. Grandma was sick, and the slender flower branches of the rose were covered with white scale insects. Chun Xin used a small brush to clean the insects off the branches little by little.

When she was a child, she was often locked in the yard, and when she didn't want to sneak out over the wall to play, she would play with bugs and mud in the yard.

Many years have passed in the blink of an eye.

The sundry shed affected the lighting in the bedroom, Chun Xin pressed his face against the glass window, the old man had already fallen asleep, and the room was dark and he couldn't see anything.

Her bedroom was occupied by her little aunt, and the back door was locked from the inside. All the books and old clothes in the room were thrown out and piled up in a rotten wooden box.

It was supposed to be taken away by my little aunt, but it was Grandpa who stopped him, saying that Chunxin would come back.

Lying on a rusty camp bed, and covering himself with a winter coat from his bag, Chun Xin curled up exhausted and fell asleep.

Feeling breathless at night, she woke up in a daze, turned on the flashlight of her mobile phone, and saw that the cotton padded jacket used as a pillow was full of blood. She wiped her nose twice randomly, and the back of her hand was also full of blood.

Pulled out the toilet paper to plug the nostrils, changed into a face pillow in the padded clothes, and continued to sleep.

I couldn't stay at home, and said I came back to see grandma, but my aunt didn't allow her to come near the room at all. The old man was lying on the bed with his stomach distended due to ascites, his breath was weak, and he was powerless.

Grandpa is cowardly and in poor health, so he can't make decisions for her.

Waking up from the cold at five o'clock in the morning, Chun Xin washed the dried nosebleed off his face, and pressed his face against the window to watch. The old man's cloudy eyeballs looked dull, and he opened his mouth, but there was no sound.

She has difficulty speaking now.

"grandmother."

Chun Xin lay on the window and wept.

The little aunt didn't give her food, so the grandfather rolled out noodles and asked her to come in to cook while the little aunt was out.

Chun Xin shook his head, went into the bedroom to look at grandma, and stuffed money under her pillow, "I earned it all, I'm living well outside, don't worry."

Her hair was all white, her cheeks were sunken, her eyes were large and dull, and their color was cloudy.She was a withered tree, tormented by disease, with a muffled whimper in her throat.

Until now, Chunxin doesn't feel that it was wrong for him to leave home. The pain at that time is not contradictory with what he is experiencing now.

Chun Xin stayed at home for another two days, and Xueli didn't go back to school, and sat in the room all day, not knowing what to think.On the third day, she couldn't drag it any longer, so she packed up her things and decided to leave. As soon as she opened the door, she heard someone shouting and crying downstairs.

This kind of thing has been experienced too much before, and Chun Xin's cry is too familiar.

Before the suitcase was dragged out, Xueli looked downstairs, and the door slammed hard and went down.

Chun Xin knelt on the ground, holding the doorknob with both hands, and her sister-in-law greeted her with the iron hook that pierced the coal fire.

She retracted her hand in pain, and stretched it out quickly to grab the doorknob. The fire hook left a long and thin black mark on the back of her hand.

She cried heart-rendingly, crying "I won't leave, I won't leave", her sister-in-law didn't speak, and beat her with a straight face.

"What are you doing!" Xueli rushed out to protect her, and her sister-in-law pointed at them and scolded them.

"If you go out, don't come back. She will not be from the Yin family in the future. She will die if she loves it. Since she was a child, no one wanted her. Why didn't she die outside? What are you doing when you come back? An eyesore."

Chun Xin was out of breath from crying, wiped his eyes with his sleeves, stood up and argued loudly with her, "My grandma asked me to come back, it has nothing to do with you, you have no right to drive me away!"

Grandpa Chunxin went out, and grandma was lying on the bed unable to move. Her sister-in-law burned her things and forced her out.

Xueli went to pull Chunxin, the door was closed with a bang, Chunxin's shoes fell off, and he stood on the ground barefoot and knocked on the door.

"Let's go! You bitch, you're going to die!" Xueli couldn't help cursing, and pulled Chun Xin to go upstairs, "Follow me, and never come back."

Tears streamed down, Chun Xin squatted on the ground to pick up half-burned books and paintings, the mobile phone was completely scrapped, and the calling card could not be retrieved.

There was a handful of torn hair on the ground, Xueli's eyes were red with anger, she kicked the door hard, helped her pick up things and dragged her upstairs.

"If you don't come back, you won't come back. Who cares about your family! Yin Yuanxin, go to hell!"

Chun Xin sobbed and followed her upstairs, standing barefoot on the floor tiles in the living room and weeping one by one, Xue Li took a tissue to wipe her face, hugged her and patted her back.

"They treated you like that, why do you come back? Follow me, never come back, never come back for the rest of your life."