Shengsheng

Time: August 2002, 8, the eve of the opening of primary and secondary schools in Y City, and the night before the bidding ceremony for the new farmers market in the north of the city

Location: No. [-] Farmer's Market in Y City.

Characters: Liang Sheng, Liang Sheng

Incident: Mrs. Zhang, who set up a stall in the vegetable market, said that the light bulb in the women's public toilet behind the market was broken, and no one came to fix it for half a year.

"Ah!"

More than 30 days later, after the No. [-] Market in City Y, the lights outside the public toilets used by nearby residents were flickering on and off.

The words 'No defecating in public' written in red paint on the back wall are particularly eye-catching, but it can't stop some gay men with poor quality around them from running to the bottom of the wall to solve the problem.

Because it is summer, there are naturally many mosquitoes and flies around the public toilet, which is usually crowded with people.

Accompanied by the restless scorching heat, many local residents with poor hygiene habits have also caused a very bad smell to linger here all year round.

At this moment, in the dark public toilet, there are faint sounds of water pipes dripping and flushing, and occasionally there are such conversations from one big and one small.

"Are you okay?"

"Ah, not yet, watch the outside for me, don't let people come in, ouch, sound, my brother is about to be eaten alive by mosquitoes, quickly show me..."

"Well, I'll take a picture for you."

This ambiguous dialogue sounds strange to people.

But combined with the scene under the streetlight next to the women's public toilet, the scene of Da Pingtou stepping on a brick to repair the light bulb, and the spectacle of Xiaopingtou playing a flashlight outside is much easier to understand.

Accompanied by the two suppressed sneezes at the beginning, after a long time, such funny conversations came from the public toilet again.

"After I just sneezed, the flashlight seemed to fall into the water..."

Xiaoliang, who was originally carrying a flashlight, heard the vaguely confused and anxious voice. He was small and couldn't move his legs. It was inconvenient to come into this old-fashioned squat pit and try to stand in the dark.

A few days ago, he followed Liang Sheng back from Hexi, thousands of miles away.

He brought those schoolbags, stationery and clothes that were once lost by a certain couple, and came to live in this simple but much better 'home' than his previous one.

During this period, neither Liu Xiu nor Zhang Chengyuan came to him again.

This young man, whose real name was actually Liang Sheng, took him to change his household registration and house, and he never mentioned anything about the original family to him after that.

Xiao Liangsheng knew that he was probably completely abandoned by his adoptive parents.

But this time, he didn't show anything after experiencing the previous month. He just followed the young man silently and came to this new home.

This 'home' that temporarily belonged to him and Liang Sheng was in a small and crowded back warehouse in the vegetable market.

The 'furniture' and 'furniture' inside originally only consisted of a wire bed, a kettle, and a foot basin. Later, because he came, a small bed and a small table were added.

Xiao Liangsheng put his textbooks and homework on it, and every time he was lying on the table to do a problem but he was not tall enough, the young man found him a bucket and put it on the ground, so that he could As a ready-made bench.

Looking at it, this man who has the same name as him and once lied to him that his name is 'Little Flying Dragon' is really living in poverty.

But it was such a person who was so poor that he couldn't even make a complete pair of socks, but he was able to run so far and really saved his life.

"Xiao Liang, I know you're leaving soon, but I have something to say to you."

"..."

"I understand that you are most happy to find someone back this time, but I have worked in the public security system for so many years. Although I can't say that I am completely sure, there are many abducted children who have been sent back to their original families. A common problem is that they have no sense of security, or even their personality has become less lively than before.”

"..."

"This is because they more or less kept the shadow of being sold at that time in their minds, so it was hard to forget for a while, and many parents also left guilt or felt sorry for their children for a long time because of this incident. scars..."

"..."

"This is a problem that the two of you have to face together. It may be a long time, you and him will leave a pimple in your heart. You both want the other party to try hard to forget this matter, but the process will be more difficult, so you this time If you bring Xiaosheng home, it’s best to slowly lure him to make him feel better.”

"..."

"At the beginning, he may not like to talk to people, that is a normal reaction, you as a family member should accompany him well, when the family is together, the unhappy ones will always be forgotten, and the happy ones will always increase, it's nothing More precious than relatives, are you right?"

Before leaving the Hexi branch police station that day, Xiao Liang heard an elderly policeman in the room talking about this to a young man.

The young man's reaction at that time was very flat, he was grinning, pretending to be crazy, he looked uneducated, and he didn't know if he understood what the other party said.

Xiao Liangsheng didn't understand what psychological shadows, such profound words as facing together.

But he had a vague idea in his mind that after returning home this time, he might be troublesome if he was no longer as cute and lively as before, and it was not an easy trouble for Liang Sheng.

"Do you still remember what my brother told you at the time? This time when I go home for the holiday, I will find you the best school and teacher. We are not in a hurry, just use a little bit of strength to take the entrance exam. After the Chinese New Year, you will be a junior high school student, and from now on, my high school and university brothers will support you a little bit, okay?"

These words were said to him by a man who seemed to be in a good mood on the train back with a smile.

Xiao Liangsheng lowered his head and didn't answer for a while, before he nodded slightly.

And since he lived near the vegetable market for the junior high school entrance examination, he could vaguely hear young men get up and go out to work by themselves before four or five o'clock every morning.

This made him realize that the other party might really want to make money to support him, so often after that time, he would get up and start to read books silently, do arithmetic problems, and recite English.

At twelve o'clock at noon, the other party who didn't know what to do outside but was really busy all morning came back on time to cook for him.

The food won't be the best, but it will always be the kind that Liang Sheng can guess he prefers even if he doesn't say anything.

There are fragrant rice, various delicious meat dishes, vegetables, and occasionally fruits and snacks.

Then in the evening, the two of them would go to his boss's wife's house to have a sumptuous dinner.

The relationship between the so-called boss and the boss's wife and Liang Sheng is obviously getting along well.

It can be seen that the husband and wife respect and trust each other very much, and they will discuss with him anything about those 'businesses'.

Xiao Liangsheng, who used to eat with him, heard them occasionally chatting about business matters during meals more than once.

And it's strange to say that every time Liang Sheng talked about how to do business, he seemed to be different from his usual glib way, with a kind of radiance, full of confidence, and the feeling that the light all over his body could hardly be blocked.

"Laoguan, sister-in-law, let me tell you, we must register the trademark 'Maojin' before the end of the month. Business is easy to do at this stage, but this brand is too important to us, and we must own it as soon as possible. s brand……"

"Insurance? Did the Wang family brothers call you again? To be honest, insurance is something that can prevent the future at this stage, but we poor people can't even live well in the future. We can really wait for the insurance money to come in the future." The day when our rights and interests are protected? Giving a lot of RMB to others now is just waiting for it to depreciate. We have this money, why should we keep it and wait until decades later, money begets money, money It will only become less and less valuable, only to expand the benefits is the goal of us people..."

"Besides, since we are now going to the bidding plan in Changping, we have to make three rules. First, we must not talk about the low price of acquaintances before the real deal is the largest. Second, we must not talk about it when the scale has not yet formed. To run a family business, especially the third one, we have money but we can’t reveal it, are you two right?”

Xiao Liangsheng couldn't understand a single word of these words, but he was buried in his meal, but he vaguely felt that what the young man said made sense, and it was the kind of "reasonable" that was farsighted and insightful.

And even if he was going to bed very late when he came back, the other party would tell him a lot of magical stories in martial arts novels, such as flying foxes in snowy mountains, swords made of green blood, and the story of the deer and cauldron. His life was so happy that it was a bit like a dream.

Before returning, he had been abducted for many days and had a short crew cut at the local barber shop. This is the time when his hair hasn't fully grown out yet.

The reason why he shaved his head was because when he was rescued by the police, his hair was really messy and terrible.

Washing with saponin powder and dish soap and rubbing vigorously can't clean it well, so Liang Shengcai told the shaving master to just shave it and grow it again, and he also shaved himself an inch, so he simply grew it slowly with him.

So right now, whether it's the older Liang Sheng or the younger one, they all have short hair, and together they really look like brothers.

"...What? Why did the flashlight go back in?! I really owe you my ancestors in my previous life. Stand there and don't move. Quick, quickly reach out your hand, be careful, watch your feet, don't fall into other people's house In the cesspit, I won’t fish you when the time comes... Ouch!"

Stepping on plastic slippers, the young man who squatted at the door of the public toilet and kindly repaired the light bulb for the old man for half the night was originally lazily complaining, but he just stood up and did not take two steps before suddenly screaming.

And hearing his strange and pitiful screams, Xiao Liang, who was squatting silently because he was thinking about something, was startled, and he stood up quickly and couldn't hide his worry,

"But I, I really can't see...it's so dark around here, what's wrong with you!"

"..."

"where did you go?"

"..."

It was quiet outside, as if no one was around at all.

This made Xiao Liangsheng's heart, which was originally blameless, suddenly frightened, and it took a long time before he dared to grit his teeth and take a step forward.

He was even more worried when he thought that in this women's toilet, people often fell badly because of the broken light bulb.

But when he bent his waist like a small animal and held up a small stick to try to save a guy who seemed to have fallen into a cesspit.

In the darkness, suddenly there was a sparrow-like 'tweet, chirp, chirp', and then a man who was squatting under the window of the women's toilet jumped out laughing and yelled again in front of the women's toilet.

"Hey! I'm here hahaha! Sound baby! Don't be afraid just now! Haha!"

Trabecula's voice: "..."

Outside the public toilet, a guy in his 20s who was not normal had a look of terrified beating, which aroused the anger in Xiao Liangsheng's stomach.

It can be imagined that the other party is his adoptive person after all, even if he deliberately acts like a monster in the middle of the night, he can't blame him randomly.

So he could only endure the unspeakable feeling in his heart, let the other party scare him to have fun with a straight face, and then pulled him out so contentedly to prepare to go home.

However, the ironic conversation between the two brothers had just reached this point, when another female voice from the front of the warehouse also interrupted.

"Ah Sheng, whisper, it doesn't matter if you two are okay, why did I hear you two arguing there in the middle of the night, don't you want to go to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau with Lao Cao tomorrow..."

It was the sound of Xiao Liang who could tell who it was. It was Liang Sheng's proprietress surnamed Jin, who lived in front.

After coming back for so long, this woman with a gentle and generous face has always been very kind and friendly to him. From time to time, she would bring him tomatoes and big apples, but Xiao Liangsheng just couldn't call him auntie or something.

He knew that this must be his own problem again.

It was because he was not polite, eccentric, and like a bad boy, but in his heart, except for Liang Sheng who was holding him tightly by his side, he couldn't take that step towards unknown strangers.

"Hey, goodbye, sister-in-law, we are really fine... Just, I just made a fuss, you go home and sleep first..."

"Are you really all right? But you two have been gone for almost half an hour, right?"

"It's really fine, it's fine, you can go back quickly... The sound tells you to go home and rest quickly, right, tell Aunt Jin to go home and rest quickly, right?"

Realizing that the young man next to him was lying for him again, Xiao Liangsheng lowered his head and didn't say a word, and the other party seemed to think that he was so weird and boring, so he smiled and took him home.

Before going to bed that night, the two brothers' little bed together seemed to have nothing to do with each other. In the morning of tomorrow, Liang Sheng and Liang Sheng both had important things to do, so they both needed a good rest.

The moon was hanging in the sky, no one said good night to anyone, a sleepless night, and a day in August passed by so quickly.

And after one night, what made all the primary and middle school students in China frightened - the school day on September [-] finally came.