Independence Day Study Plan

I am listening carefully.

The other party was spitting and talking, he was thinking about where Zhou Taoyu would go, and he nodded in response on his face, saying "um" from time to time.

Ma Zhili saw that although he didn't take the initiative to admit his mistakes, but his attitude was quite obedient, and he couldn't find a new reason to say it, so he let him go in about a quarter of an hour.

As a result, Xie Cheng didn't have time to talk to the English teacher about the homework, and the whole teaching building was empty when he left the classroom.

Qingyu City is recognized as the city with the worst education quality in the entire province, and Xianshui is recognized as the county with the worst education quality in the entire city. Of course, there are many reasons, one of which is——

Even though Xianshui No. [-] Middle School is already the best middle school in the county, there are black Internet cafes and game halls everywhere outside.

Some shops look like canteens or stationery stores from the outside, but the inside is full of game consoles.Otherwise, it is in a hidden alley, and there are dark blue curtains hanging on the glass, which are not opened during the day, and it is most likely a black Internet cafe.

The teachers in the No. [-] Middle School were quite responsible, and they would go in and make a surprise attack from time to time, grabbing one by one, or grabbing one by one.

When Xie Cheng left the school, he was still thinking, if Zhou Jiangyu left alone, he might have gone to a stall. Since he walked with others, he must have gone to the game hall.

He first looked for the two nearest schools next to the school, but there was no one there.

At that time, there was no so-called town planning in Luohua. The old and new buildings in the town were very messy, and there were many and intertwined alleys.

Xie Cheng went up the street and turned into an alley, wanting to take a shortcut to Luohua Junior High School next door. There are more game halls nearby. Aunt Lan had found Zhou Jiangyu there before.

More than once.

At the end of the alley is the side entrance of Luohua Junior High School. Just as Xie Cheng was about to step out of the alley, three boys came to meet him at the corner.

He took half a step back.

"Where is Zhou Shuyu?" The other party asked immediately.

Xie Cheng carried a schoolbag of new books, too many and too heavy, which made him feel like he was about to fall backward at any time. He simply crossed his arms, and the plainness on his face turned into disdain: "I don't know."

On the opposite side are students from Luohua Junior High School. They are all punks. They follow the street gangsters every day when they are not doing their business. Xie Cheng has met them a few times, and they have fought with Zhou Daoyu before.

One of them smiled: "Are all of you so mean?"

"Don't be a fucking lie, Zhou Daoyu is with you all day, who doesn't seem to know." said the person who spoke first.

It seems that he is going to ask for trouble.

There are two corners behind you, and you can go out to the street.

Xie Cheng was estimating how to kick the person in front if there was a fight, while calculating the escape route, his face was still calm: "I want to find Zhou Daoyu and ask Zhou Daoyu, why do you ask me? Am I his mother or your mother?" ? If you can’t find anyone, come and ask me? Do I owe you?”

"You don't want to drink a toast if you don't eat it!"

Xiaomaotou cursed and was about to kick him, Xie Cheng stepped aside and saw the boy being grabbed from behind.

The person who made the shot was very strong, the little hairy man tilted to the side, his legs were still cocked, his center of gravity was unstable and he was about to fall down, and because he was carried by his collar and couldn't fall, his body swayed twice on the spot.

It looked pitiful.

"Kids should watch less TV and read more. Where did they learn such strong lines?" The visitor said with a smile.

The author has something to say: The Six O’Clock Party is back! o(*≧▽≦)ツ

☆, Geng Chuan

There were also three people who came, all boys in the age of seventeen or eighteen, but they were not wearing school uniforms.

When Xie Cheng saw the person speaking, he felt relieved.

Seeing their companion being dragged, the two punks next to him wanted to make a move, but when they looked up, they didn't seem to be easy to provoke, and their aura suddenly lost most of it.

The big boy who made the move loosened his hand, and the little Maotou swayed, and was supported by him to stand firm again.

The boy is tall. At this time, he slightly lowered his head and looked at the junior high school students, with a pair of smiling eyes: "Three heroes, can we make a deal? Xie Cheng is my younger brother. Next time you trouble him, please ask me first." ,Ok?"

Although he spoke softly and had a gentle expression on his face, the other two who followed behind him had unfriendly expressions on their faces.

The child who was dragged just now coughed twice, and forced himself to speak: "You... who are you? What's your business? Do you know who my brother is?"

"I don't know who your brother is, it doesn't matter who he is." The boy was still smiling, "My name is Geng Chuan, Class 1, Grade [-], Vocational High School. He is welcome to come to me."

The climate in Luohua Town is crisp, and the folk customs have always been tough. There are three middle schools in the town, and students fighting with each other are the most common occurrences.

No. [-] Middle School and Luohua Junior High School are fine, and there are teachers who will take care of them no matter how troublesome they are, but no one dares to intervene with students who are mixed in vocational high schools.

As soon as Geng Chuan's words came out of his mouth, the scene froze immediately.

After a while, a boy behind Geng Chuan took a step forward and kicked a little boy on the butt: "Get out?"

It was only when the three of them came to their senses that they dragged each other away, turning their heads while running and yelling, "Wait for me!"

Geng Chuan smiled, nodded, and waved at people from a distance, scaring the three of them to slip even faster.

"Brother Geng Chuan." Xie Cheng shouted.

Geng Chuan grabbed his hair: "Why did you come here? This is not the way home. And you have a feud with a gangster? Your brother won't break your leg if he finds out."

"No holiday." Xie Cheng shrugged, "I came to find Zhou Jiangyu."

Geng Chuan nodded: "Go home quickly."

"I'm going to find Zhou Daoyu, I'm afraid he's gone to the game hall." Xie Cheng said.

Geng Chuan laughed haha: "Are you fucking?"

Xie Cheng looked serious: "Aunt Lan is not here today, let me see that he can't let him play games, and we agreed to go to the stall together after signing up, I have to do what I say."

Geng Chuan put his arms around his shoulders, and motioned to the two companions beside him, "Go."

Xie Cheng was led towards the alley by him: "Where are you going?"

"We were also going to the billiard room," Geng Chuan said, "Go and see if anyone is there, and then go out and help you find them."

"Chuan'er, you are so fucking idle." A boy behind said with a smile.

Geng Chuan raised his chin: "That's right, what's the matter with being idle or not? Xiaocheng will pick all the moons in the sky."

"You haven't been to my house for several days." Xie Cheng said.

Geng Chuan tilted his head and let him look at his chin.

Xie Cheng looked sideways, only to find that there was a thin and thin scar on the place, as if stabbed by glass or scratched by the tip of a knife.Then he asked, "Are you fighting again?"

"Ah." Geng Chuan responded casually, "I'm afraid your brother will beat me up again if he sees it, so I'll go back in two days."

Xie Cheng couldn't help laughing.

What Aunt Lan called the stall was actually a billiard room with a small skating rink.

Not far behind No. [-] Middle School is the station, which is connected to the farmer's market and the candy market. There is a particularly large flow of people coming and going, like a distribution center.There were two billiard rooms there, one next to the station and one in the basement of the station.

Aunt Lan opened the basement.

The group had just arrived at the side entrance of the station, and before they walked towards the basement, they saw Zhou Daoyu rushing up from the slope.

As soon as the two sides met, he immediately yelled, "Where the hell have you been?"

Xie Cheng asked back, "Where have you been?"

Zhou said hello to the three of Geng Chuan, and said loudly angrily, "I just put some water out and you disappeared. Do you have the nerve to ask me?"

Geng Chuan pointed at the two of them: "You are looking for him and he is looking for you?"

Zhou Daoyu folded his arms and looked at Geng Chuan: "If I don't see him, I can't make him sue?"

"Sue a bad fart! Beat you to death before suing you!" Xie Cheng was furious, "Didn't you go with your brothers first? Are you embarrassed to say me? You just don't deserve a beating!"

Geng Chuan heard it funny, and before Zhou Shuoyu could reply, he raised his arms, and covered the faces of the two with his two big hands: "You two are enough, we can't see each other, we will fight again later. Let's go." , go play with us."

"Brother Geng Chuan, I don't know how to call." Xie Cheng said, "I have to go home. My mother has gone to grandma's house and hasn't come back yet. My brother is busy at home alone. I have to go back and help."

Before Geng Chuan had time to speak, he was already walking outside.

"What about you?" Geng Chuan looked at Zhou Daoyu.

Zhou Shuoyu stood there for two seconds, and finally gave a "reliable" sound, and chased after Xie Cheng.

The remaining three smiled and walked down the gentle slope towards the basement.

Geng Chuan was a little absent-minded. Just as he walked to the door of the billiards room, he suddenly stopped: "Go ahead and play. I have something to do today, so I'm leaving first."

As he spoke, he turned around, and the two companions behind him were puzzled: "What can you do?"

Geng Chuan didn't look back: "The house is on fire."

Xie Cheng walked quickly, and Zhou Yucai caught up with him when he reached the gate of the farmer's market: "Didn't you say you want to go to the stall with me? Why are you going? The ghost is chasing you?"

"The dog is chasing me!" Xie Cheng said.

Zhou Yu was also furious: "Xie Cheng, are you so fucking busy that you don't fight all day?"

"Fight?" Xie Cheng turned around suddenly, Zhou Daoyu didn't expect that the two bumped into each other all of a sudden.

Zhou said that Yu Chao took two steps back, and Xie Cheng approached: "You are a good person. You fight and make trouble outside every day. If others can't find you, they come to me. Are you happy?"

He finished speaking and left.

There were a lot of people coming and going on this street, and it was very noisy. Zhou Shuoyu didn't understand this sentence all at once, so he rushed up and broke his shoulder, and asked loudly, "What the hell? Who is looking for you?"

"Your frame friend!" Xie Cheng also shouted.

An old man carrying fruit passed by and looked at the two of them inexplicably: "Come on?"

"Who hit you?" Zhou Jiangyu asked.

Xie Chengbai glanced at him: "If you hit me, can you still talk to idiots here?"

"Damn!" Zhou Daoyu realized that Xie Cheng came with Geng Chuan and the others just now, "Damn it, are they from Luohua Junior High School? Next time we meet, I will beat you to death."

"You are so naive, Zhou Yu, how old are you? What's the point of fighting? Do you think there is too little homework? Who will seal you a mountain or what?" Xie Cheng asked.

"There's nothing to fight and you fight with me all day long? You just think I'm not pleasing to you, right?" Zhou Daoyu waved his hand impatiently, "You don't understand."

Xie Cheng said "Oh": "I don't understand you understand, you understand best! Play your game and fuck your fight! When I kneel on the tiles, I will cheer for you next to you! Slap!"

The two quarreled all the way back to Xuanjia Lane. At the end of the quarrel, they wanted to eat each other, so they stopped talking.

Stepping into the gate of the courtyard, Xuan He is sitting at the stone table, cutting out last year's calendar, and the third grade textbooks are spread out on the table, and they are going to wrap the books for Xuan Mai.

Xuan He didn't raise his head, like a fortune teller: "What's the matter? What are you arguing about? What do you want for lunch?"

Zhou Shuoyu answered the wrong question: "Brother, where is the wheat?"

"In the big courtyard, the one who wins so many pinball cards every day, I don't know what she uses them for, and she doesn't get tired of them." Xuan He smiled, "Where are your books? Come, let me wrap them up."

Zhou said in a sigh: "Maizi is really good! Last time I heard Sanpang say that the little boys in the alley were afraid to play with her. There was an unbeliever in the street next door. Later, Maizi won all the marbles and owed him a dollar." Heap, went back crying."

Xie Cheng walked over without making a sound, and threw his schoolbag on the stone table, Xuan He laughed: "Oh my little ancestor, you threw the explosive/powder bag, this expression of about to die heroically?"

He waved again: "Come Zhou Zhou."

"Aren't you making wine today, brother?" Zhou Jiangyu also walked over.

Xuan He nodded: "It's in the fermentation tank, there's nothing wrong for now."

Listening to the two of them talking casually, the anger in Xie Cheng's heart has almost dissipated. In fact, he didn't know what he was angry with, but he became very angry when he talked to Zhou Yu.

After a while he calmed down, and took the calendar to help cut the edge.

Xuan He and Zhou Shuoyu were chatting nonchalantly, half of their schoolbag was filled, when suddenly someone knocked on the courtyard door: "Drinking wine."

Xie Cheng looked up and saw Geng Chuan standing at the gate of the courtyard: "Brother Geng Chuan."

On September [-]st, it was sunny and the sky was higher than in midsummer. It seemed that the light had become looser, and the white light under the grape trellis was cut into pieces by the leaves.

Xuan He sat in the mottled shadow and folded paper, not looking up at Geng Chuan.

His side face is very calm, but it is different from the calmness of other people Xie Cheng has seen, just like where Xuan He sits, there is a country of its own.

Next to Zhou Yu said something, Xie Cheng didn't listen to him, and the paper was not cut when the knife was cut, and the two quarreled again.

When Geng Chuan sat down at the table, Xuan He looked up at him: "Who did you fight with again?"

"No." Geng Chuan replied with a smile.

Xuan He raised his chin slightly, his eyes half-closed under the light.

Geng Chuan touched the scar: "I fell asleep in the middle of the night and went to drain the water, and knocked on the side of the pool."

Xuan He pushed the book in his hand and stood up: "Are Xiao Cheng and Zhou Zhou hungry? I'll go and cook some noodles for you."

Geng Chuan sat watching the two children quarreling for a while, then got up and went to the kitchen.

"You are stupid and you don't admit it!" Zhou Daoyu scolded Xie Cheng.

Xie Cheng retorted: "You are smart, you are the smartest, if you are not smart, how can you get third place in the exam?"

Zhou said "cut", and was about to fight back, Xie Chengteng stood up at once.

Zhou Jiangyu raised his head, and posed with a knife in his hand: "What are you doing? Want to fight?"

"Drink water." Xie Cheng said, "Talking to you is a waste of saliva."

Zhou said in disdain: "I beg you to tell me?"

Xie Cheng crossed the yard and walked towards the kitchen at the far end. Just as he reached the door, he heard Geng Chuan say, "I thought you ignored me."

Xuan Heying: "Why ignore you?"

"Because..." Geng Chuan raised his head but didn't continue, "Am I disfigured?"

Xuan He smiled: "No, Hero Geng is reincarnated as Pan An."

There was silence in the kitchen, Xie Cheng heard the sound of water boiling, and he didn't go in immediately by a strange coincidence.

Two seconds later, I heard Geng Chuan say in a low voice, "No matter how good-looking you are, it's not as good-looking as you."

What does this sentence mean, Xie Cheng didn't understand for a while, he was still thinking about what "Reborn Pan'an" was.

When Xuanhe spoke again, his voice was faint, but Xie Cheng felt a sense of pressure: "Geng Chuan, we have been in the same class since the first grade of elementary school. How many years have we been? I regard you as the best brother, and you know that I have a habit of doing things. If you say something once, I can take it as a joke, but if you talk nonsense again, you are really forcing me to give up my friendship for so many years. "

"I'm sorry." Geng Chuan said, "But Xuanhe, your threats are useless. I don't want to be friends with you at all."

☆, reach out

Xie Cheng belatedly remembered Geng Chuan's previous words. He knew that Xuan He was a little angry, but he still couldn't find a way to understand his anger.

He glanced back and saw that Zhou Shuoyu had his back turned to this side and was still cutting the paper with his head buried.

Two seconds later, out of Xie Cheng's mentality that he couldn't understand, he retreated back to the courtyard lightly.

Without the cover of the grape trellises, the early autumn sunlight poured down wantonly from the sky, making people dizzy.Because he accidentally eavesdropped on someone else's conversation, Xie Cheng's heart beat violently.

People suddenly feel a little confused.

When Zhou Shuoyu was sitting back at the stone table, he immediately raised his head, and Xie Cheng said, "What are you looking at? Blind your eyes."

Zhou Shuoyu rolled his eyes, and the hatchback was completely speechless.

After a while Xuan He came out with two bowls of noodles, Zhou Daoyu turned his head when he smelled the aroma, and ran over to take them: "Brother, don't you want to eat?"

"I've eaten." Xuan He responded, "You two are looking after the house, and I'll go out for a while. If my sister doesn't come back before four o'clock, I'll look for it. There's class tomorrow, so I can't go wild anymore."

"Where are you going?" Xie Cheng asked immediately.

Zhou Shuoyu interrupted vaguely while eating: "What do you care? I never care who goes where."

Before Xie Cheng could refute, Xuan He smiled: "You two can't fight."

As he said that, he turned around and was about to leave the hospital. Geng Chuan looked at his back, smiled and waved to the two little ones, and followed him out.

Usually Xie Cheng always likes to ask who is going where and what to do, and every time Xuan He will make it clear, but this time he avoids answering, Xie Cheng squeezed his chopsticks and frowned.

Xie Cheng felt a little bad that Xuanhe couldn't tell him something.

After eating, Xie Cheng washed the dishes, and Zhou Daoyu continued to wrap the book cover, muttering something while doing it.

He clearly knows how to origami, and it's so easy when he saw Xuanhe do it, but he always fails to do it by himself, either here is crooked or there is bulging.

"Hey! What's going on?" Zhou Shuoyu threw the things in his hands, "Why is this calendar so obedient in my brother's hands?"

"Who is my brother with you?" Xie Cheng said, "That's my brother!"

Zhou Shuoyu snorted disdainfully, seeing that he was in a bad mood, and asked, "What's wrong with you? Your brother is such an old man, what are you worried about?"

Xie Cheng looked at Zhou Taoyu and pursed his lips.

The two of them sat in the yard for too long, and their foreheads were covered with sweat. He wiped his forehead casually: "No, I'm worried about being bitten by a dog for my English homework."

Zhou Shuoyu was not angry, and he didn't know whether he believed it or not. In short, he didn't continue to talk about it, but started to instigate rebellion: "Xie Cheng, do you want to play games? I'll teach you, Baojiabaohui!"

"I don't want to." Xie Cheng said bluntly, "I won't go either."

Zhou Taoyu stood up immediately: "Then I will go by myself."

Xie Cheng didn't say a word, just looked at him quietly, and said after a long while: "Then you go."

Zhou Shuoyu originally planned to run away as soon as he opened his mouth, but when he heard the unexpected answer, he suddenly didn't know whether he should run or not.

"It's up to you." Xie Cheng lowered his head listlessly, then lay down on the table, and stroked the calendar with his left hand.

There are a pair of big carp on it, the fish scales are painted with gold powder, and when the hand is raised again, the fingertips are dyed with a bright color.

Zhou Shuoyu curled his lips and sat down again: "I really owe you."

Xie Cheng was born white, and the brass color was very eye-catching on his fingertips, and he couldn't tell whether it was sunlight or powder.He raised his hand to wipe it off, but who knew that the gold powder seemed to have taken root on the skin, and it couldn't be cleaned after rubbing it several times.

Zhou Shuoyu scolded "stupid", grabbed his hand, and moved his index finger too hard.

Xie Cheng felt a little pain and felt that he was taking revenge on himself, but he didn't speak.

After rubbing for a while, Zhou Shuoyu saw that the gold powder was really not clean, so he made a gesture to lick it.

"Get out! Do you hate you?" Xie Cheng withdrew his hand, got up and went to the sink to wash his hands.

Zhou Shuoyu laughed loudly: "You are the one who is disgusting!"

Both of them were clumsy, playing lazily while doing it, it was almost four o'clock after wrapping up their books, and Xuan Mai hadn't come back yet.

Xie Cheng went into the kitchen to boil the water and washed the rice, planning to find someone when the water boiled, but after a while he heard Zhou Taoyu asking outside, "What's wrong with the wheat? Who bullied you?"

Throwing the melon scoop in his hand, Xie Cheng ran out in a hurry and saw Zhou Daoyu checking Xuan Mai's hand. Who knew who had pinched that delicate forearm. It was bruised and purple, and there were a few red spots. mark.

"Does it hurt?" Xie Cheng asked hurriedly, "Who did you fight with?"

Xuan Mai didn't speak or cry, just ran two steps forward and threw himself into his arms, Xie Cheng bowed his waist and hugged him, looked up at Zhou Taoyu.

Zhou Daoyu shook his head, indicating that he didn't know.

"Maizi is good, whoever bullies you, tell the second brother." Xie Cheng asked while coaxing.

Xuan Mai remained silent, no matter how they asked, she didn't open her mouth, but she held Xie Cheng's hand tightly. She stood on tiptoe and hung on his neck vigorously, pinching the back of his neck with her nails, as if she was about to sink into the flesh. to go.

At first, Xie Cheng still felt pain, but in the end it became numb.

Until Xuan He came home, the two of them didn't ask anything from Xuan Mai.

Xuan Mai is just eight years old this year, and she looks like a naive little girl, but Xie Cheng often feels that she thinks a lot of things in her heart, and she is far from being as lively as she shows.

Doesn't even look like a kid.

Seeing Xuan Mai's appearance, Xuan He didn't say much, and his expression was still the same as before. Instead, he comforted Zhou Jiangyu and Xie Cheng: "It's okay, children, it's normal to fight and fight. It's just like you two."

He told Xie Cheng a few words, then turned to lead Xuanmai: "Maizi and brother go to the grass building."

Xie Cheng's father is a plasterer and works outside all the year round. His mother Xuan Fangling is busy even at home. The wine shop in the riverside market has to be managed, the winery has to be opened, and there is an acre of land by the river. Even if Lao Xie is hired as a helper, he still has no free time.

Both Xie Cheng and Xuan Mai have been under Xuan He's care since childhood.

The older child took care of the younger, and Xuanhe was forced to do housework, brew wine, go to the fields, and everything.

The two younger ones are quite worry-free, but after all, when they are ignorant, they occasionally get awkward or make some mistakes. Every time this happens, Xuan He will take them to the thatched building to talk.

The grass building is at the innermost part of the winery, and you can go up with a wooden escalator.

The floor is full of old wood, and after a while the rice will be cut and the grass will be dried, and the inside will be filled with bundles of dry straw.

Although the straw pile is hairy, it is extremely fluffy, and it also has the fragrance of sunshine and rice. When you lie on it, you will feel lighter all over your body.

It wasn't until Xuan He said to take Xuan Mai to the Caolou that Xie Cheng suddenly remembered that Xuan He hadn't taken him to the Caolou for two years.

I don't know if Xuanhe has no time to reason with him, or if he hasn't made a mistake for too long.

Zhou Daoyu watched the brothers and sisters of the Xuan family leave the winery, then turned to ask Xie Cheng: "Xie Cheng, your uncle and aunt?"

Xie Cheng stood there for a long time, and finally responded calmly: "Don't you know? He died a long time ago."

Zhou Tao came to Xuanjiaxiang only in the millennium. At that time, Xie Cheng was just over nine years old, and Zhou Taoyu was not yet nine years old.

The children in the alley like to cuddle together and only play with people they know well.

At first I heard that Zhou Tao came from Xirong, and everyone went to see the new ones, but Zhou Taoyu had a bad temper and became angry when he found out that others treated him like a monkey. After fighting several times in the compound, he finally became a lone ranger.

Aunt Lan is usually busy, and she often throws Zhou Shuoyu towards the diagonally opposite door, so Zhou Shuoyu's partner becomes Xie Cheng, who is the same age and also has no one to play with.

But Xie Cheng also has a strange temper. The two of them tend to have conflicts when they are together.

It's as if Zhou Shuoyu was born with prickles, while Xie Cheng was naturally covered with a hard shell. The two are out of tune with other children and can only be hostile to each other.

To show that he is not ignored, or that he is not ignored.

This situation lasted until junior high school, and it has only eased in the past year. The small group has grown up, and there are a few who are particularly advocating force, and they like to run behind Zhou Daoyu's ass.

Some things are discussed behind closed doors by adults, and children will more or less hear about them.

Zhou said that Yu had been in Luohua for several years. If he had always been on good terms with those children, he would have probably heard rumors about his own family. If he asked this question, it meant that Aunt Lan had never told him about Xie Cheng's family.

At least not specifically.

Xie Cheng suddenly felt a little grateful to Aunt Lan, and it was Zhou Shuoyu who asked this question, and he thought why Xuanmai was like this today.

Someone must have said something in front of her.

After answering Zhou Yu's question, Xie Cheng went straight into the kitchen.

He didn't look at Zhou Jiangyu, he didn't want to see anything resembling sympathy on his face.

Zhou Daoyu came in while carrying the rice cooker, and he took the cooker from Xie Cheng.It was filled with washed rice and most of the water, and it was dead.

Zhou said while carrying the pot to the stove, he said, "Short. When will you grow up?"

"Blind your dog eyes! What are you doing with those big skull eyes?" Xie Cheng felt relieved, "I've grown a lot taller than last semester!"

Zhou Shuoyu pointed at his legs and laughed loudly: "Sure enough, I was looking at the trouser legs in the morning!"

Xie Cheng gritted his teeth and kicked him: "Get out!"

Zhou Daoyu looked back, the brothers and sisters of the Xuan family hadn't entered the house yet, the yard was quiet, the sun had already set to the west, and half of the yard was in shadow.

He turned to see Xie Cheng doing something.

The coals below were burning vigorously, and the water boiled after a while, and the uncooked rice inside gradually became fragrant, and there was a constant gurgling sound in the kitchen.

Zhou Shuoyu smelled and listened, and suddenly he couldn't tell whether the sound was from Mi Xiang or from the water.

Xie Cheng took a large spoon and stirred the cooked rice every once in a while. With such a movement, Zhou Yu suddenly realized that he had really grown taller.

The stove is built high, and the pot is also high. The Xie Cheng in my memory needs to stand on tiptoe.

After a long distance, Zhou Shuoyu compared in the void, and felt that Xie Cheng should be approaching his shoulder.

Xie Cheng often had no expression on his face, and he seemed extremely serious when he was doing something. It was clearly cooking rice, which looked like he was doing a math problem.

"Hey," Zhou Talku asked, "when can I drain the rice soup?"

Luohua Town is next to the river, and the riverside is considered a small alluvial plain. The soil in the paddy fields is fertile, and the rice planted every year has a high yield.

The rice soup made from homemade rice is very fragrant. Xie Cheng and the others don’t drink it very much. After draining the half-cooked rice, they use it to feed the pigs. There are no pigs in the family these few years, so they will stir it into the bran and feed it to the chickens.

Zhou said that Yu didn't know that rice soup could be drunk before coming to Luohua, but after tasting it once, he liked it very much, and was ridiculed by Xie Cheng a lot for this.

But Aunt Lan doesn't cook often, and he seldom comes to eat after he entered junior high school, and he hasn't had a drink for a long time.

When the words came out today, Xie Cheng rarely laughed at him, but just looked back at him: "Wait."

"You tell me," Zhou Shuoyu was a little unhappy, putting his hands in his trouser pockets, "It's like some unspeakable martial arts secret book."

Xie Cheng was silent, took a spoon to lightly scratch the bottom of the pot, and leaned against the wall of the pot to drain the water, leaving three or four half-cooked rice on the spoon.

He handed the spoon in front of Zhou Shuo: "Stretch out your hand."

Zhou Shuoyu jumped up immediately: "Are you going to burn me to death?!"

"Hold out your hand." Xie Cheng said.

☆, snail

Zhou Daoyu hesitated for two seconds, and sent his hand forward with an expression as if he was going to die.

Xie Cheng couldn't help laughing, and gently put a grain of rice on the mouth of the spoon with his fingertips in his palm: "Hands steady."

Zhou Daoyu said "um", Xie Cheng's hand holding the spoon was against the back of his hand, and the other hand stretched out his index finger, twisting the rice in his palm.

The half-cooked rice is crushed to reveal the fine grains inside.

Xie Cheng pulled and read aloud: "One, two, three, four, five. Five rice cores."

"Does the rice still have a heart?" Zhou Daoyu stretched out his hand and twirled the rice on his fingertips, rubbing the small hard grains vigorously.

Xie Cheng set aside another grain of rice to check: "It was originally a grain of hard rice, but it became soft after cooking. When there are only four hard grains left in each grain of rice, the rice soup can be drained."

Zhou Shuoyu said "Oh", "Porridge is like losing the rice core, right?"

Xie Cheng nodded, took the steaming rack and placed it in a basin, put a shaukei on it, lifted the pot, poured it into the rice soup with a bang.

There was a muffled noise.

With hot air on his face, Zhou Yu took the spoon and scraped off the rice at the bottom of the pot, exaggerating: "Wow! Xie Cheng killed a pot of rice! I am an accomplice!"

Xie Cheng burst out laughing.

It was rare for the two of them to talk peacefully like this. Xie Cheng felt a little strange, but it was not bad. As long as he didn't speak in a hurry, Zhou Yu's temper didn't look that bad.

He washed the pot, threw it back on the stove, and scooped water into it with a ladle: "Look, there is a line in the steel pot, and the water should reach the line."

The steaming tray was thrown in and stuck in the middle of the pot, with a steaming cloth placed on top of it. Zhou Daoyu didn't answer him, and just poured rice on the steaming cloth with the leaking Shau Kei.

Xie Cheng gave him a thumbs up.

Zhou Shuoyu whistled lightly: "Smart?"

Xie Chengying: "Sure enough, it's the third one. You're so smart. It's so difficult to pour the rice from here to there! It's amazing!"

"I said are you finished?" Zhou asked Yu Qi, "Can the first place in the exam be eaten as a meal?"

Xie Cheng evened out the pile of rice, folded the four corners of the steaming cloth and put it on top: "The first tester can't be eaten as a meal, but the first one is cooking for you now."

Zhou Shuoyu groaned disdainfully and rolled his eyes.

As soon as the rice cooker was covered, Xuanhe came in.

Xie Cheng looked out, and Xuan Mai was squatting under the root of the vine, and there was a small square of mint planted in the pit, I don't know if she was picking leaves or what.

"You two go out." Xuan He said.

Xie Cheng carefully observed his expression, Xuan He smiled: "What do you want to eat today?"

Zhou Shuoyu took over the words: "Anything is fine!"

Xie Cheng still looked at Xuan He, Zhou Yu went out of the kitchen to look at Xuan Mai, Xuan He pushed back on Xie Cheng's neck: "Kids, don't keep thinking about things."

"I'm not a child anymore." Xie Cheng said.

Xuan He didn't stop moving his hands at all, and said kindly: "Okay, big boy, go out and see my sister, my sister is a child."

Xie Cheng stopped talking, and stood at the door for a while, then turned and left the kitchen.

Standing behind Xuan Mai, Zhou Shuoyu turned his head to look at Xie Cheng when he heard footsteps.Did not speak.

Xie Cheng walked over and saw Xuan Mai hugging his knees, shrinking into a small ball, looking at the roots of the grape tree seriously.

There was a snail in front of her, slowly climbing up the rough bark, with two thin black tentacles exposed on its soft head, shaking it cautiously, as if looking at the daytime curiously.

"The place where the snail crawled is shiny," Xuan Mai asked, "Why?"

Xie Cheng thought for a while: "That's the proof that it crawled here."

Zhou Shuoyu's brain twitched, and he remembered something he hadn't heard in Chinese class, and nodded his head, pretending to be deep: "Yes, that's the proof that the snail is alive."

Xuan Mai didn't know whether he understood or not, and asked, "Alive? Why is there no such evidence that the man is alive?"

Two teenagers and a child fell silent together in the early autumn sunset.

In fact, no one has explored the meaning of life, but they pushed the question here with casual words, so they all suddenly fell into confusion.

Confused about this problem, also confused about why this problem exists.

Xuan He didn't know when he came out of the kitchen.

The three little ones were in a daze. He took a few steps forward, pulled out a green onion from the earth pit where the orange trees were planted, and replied, "When you were fighting with Xuan Peng this afternoon, you scratched him a few times, so that's a big deal." Nail marks are evidence of your life."

Zhou Shuoyu laughed out loud.

Xuan He smiled and went into the kitchen again.

In the afternoon, Xie Cheng packed Xuan Mai's schoolbag and put it on the stone table. Now, for some reason, he opened it again, with Xuan Mai's Chinese books on it.

Xie Cheng picked up the book and opened it, and just turned to the first article of the second group, "Grey Sparrow".

In the text, the little boy said to Lenin: "It will fly back, it will definitely fly back. It is still alive."

Seeing that he was in a daze, Zhou Shuoyu stood behind him with great interest, resting his chin on top of his head, looking at the text and changing the dialogue: "Son, have you ever seen a little earth-colored snail?"

Xie Cheng didn't answer, and tilted his head back to push him away, but Zhou Daoyu held his chin forcefully and pointed to the root of the vine: "Have you seen any children?"

"There's something wrong with you, Zhou Shuoyu!" Xie Cheng raised his head and bumped his chest, "Is it annoying?"

Xuan Mai turned around: "I see, I see!"

Her face was still small, and her eyes were too big and too bright. When Xie Cheng heard her speak, he felt relieved suddenly.

Xuan He was a bit slow in cooking today, he usually ate late, and today he was going to be even later.

After eating, it lingered until dark, Xie Cheng went to wash the dishes, Xuan He had a little time to go back to the house to pack his schoolbag and textbooks.

Zhou Shuoyu watched Xuan Mai playing with catching stones in the main room, and the two laughed heartily.

Xie Cheng was in the kitchen, just after washing the rag and turning off the water, he heard a loud "bang" from the closed courtyard door.

This came so abruptly that it was kicked away.

Xie Cheng shook his hands and went out, and saw Xuan Laosi's family coming in the courtyard.According to seniority, Xuan He brothers and sisters should call that man fourth uncle, and Xie Cheng should call him fourth uncle.

This guy's name is Xuan Peng. Just now, Xuan He mentioned that Xuan Mai had a fight with Xuan Peng in the afternoon.

Before he could say hello, the fourth son Xuan had already yelled, "Xie Cheng, tell your adults to come out!"

Xie Cheng frowned, seeing Xuan Peng hiding behind his mother with a tissue stuffed up his nose.

Zhou Daoyu came out with Xuan Mai, and when Xuan Mai saw Xuan Peng, he lowered his head suddenly, his eyes became angry.

"You're still staring!" the woman pointed