fine water spring river

? ?I don't know which leather child set off firecrackers downstairs, and "嗙" once, it will not go off.The firecrackers sounded like a noise. When I bought them, I had to put them in the sun to dry them. Otherwise, if they were left for a long time, the cold moisture would soak the gunpowder, and the firecrackers would be rattling and not lively at all. .Lu Xi closed her eyes, remembering that Bian Meiying smiled while meeting each other in the past, "It's like farting."

There was white flour on her face, and Lucy stood on the bench and wiped it off for her.At this time, Bian Meiying would laugh and scold, "Where is Quanzi! You son of a bitch, go crazy again, not as good as your brother!"

Lu Chunjiang was downstairs, running around with Dapeng, Biaozi, Zhang Bo, Chenchen and a group of children, playing the role of Commander, Balu and Guizi.Bian Meiying said, "You go too, what are you doing squatting upstairs?" Lu Xi smiled, "I haven't finished my homework yet."

In fact, the winter vacation homework was finished early in the morning.If he doesn't go down, Lu Chunjiang and the others won't take him to play.Even if we take him, he will always be that "devil" and cannot be an Eighth Route Army.He likes to watch over Bian Meiying and watch her knead the dough. After a while, she will yell loudly, "Old Lu! Lu Jianhong, what are you doing! Come make the stuffing!"

Lu Jianhong Yinghe said, "Come here, come here, what are you shouting about! Our house is the only one that makes the most noise in the whole building!" He always wore a worn-out sweater with a hole the size of a thumb in the cuff, which he said was scratched by a cat.The Lu family doesn't have a cat, maybe they did in the past.Since raising Lu Xi, there is no need for a cat at home. Lu Jianhong said that two children are enough to make a mess.

……

The heater was very hot, and after sleeping on the heater all night, Lucy's throat was dry and itchy.He hadn't come back to the north for more than two years, and when he came back suddenly, he felt a little uncomfortable.The house was quiet, Lu Chunjiang was not there.There was a sheet of paper and keys on the table, and Lu Chunjiang wrote, "I'm going to class, and I'll be back in the afternoon. This is the key to the house, and the lock has been changed."

Lucy put the paper down.There was a bowl on the table, which smelled like bean curd, and two steamed buns.Now at a quarter past ten, the tofu brain is already cold.He took the bowl to the kitchen and said it was the kitchen, but it was actually a balcony.The combination cabinet originally in the living room was moved by Lu Chunjiang to serve as kitchen utensils. The range hood and induction cooker are brand new, polished and polished.The microwave oven was placed on top of the combination cabinet, Lu Xi heated up the tofu nao, and after eating a few mouthfuls, Yang Zitong sent a message and asked him, "How is it going?"

"I shouldn't have come back."

"Okay, your brother begged you so much."

He begged me?Lucy bit the spoon, "He's lonely when he's alone, and he'll think of me, or else he wouldn't be able to."

"Don't think so. Don't you want to get together with your brother? You always ignore him, so how can you get together?"

"Then it's not easy to get together and break up."

At 04:30 in the afternoon, fine snowflakes floated in the sky.Lu Xi was lying on the bed playing with his mobile phone, the door lock rang a few times, Lu Chunjiang came back, wearing a big down jacket, scarf, panting. "Panpan," he looked around, seeing Lucy in the room, immediately heaved a sigh of relief, took off his scarf, and went to change his shoes.Lu Xi pricked up his ears, listening to Lu Chunjiang walking up and down in the living room. "Pick up the key, you were tired yesterday, I forgot to tell you, the door was broken before..."

Lu Xi didn't need this new key. He came back this time because Lu Chunjiang kept calling and pleading, and on the other hand, he was determined to "get together and get away".He didn't want to go back to this sad place again, seeing Lu Chunjiang pretending to be "good to him." Lu Chunjiang changed his clothes, "Have you eaten at noon?"

"have eaten."

Lu Chunjiang's cheeks were flushed by the cold wind, and he rubbed himself, "I was going to pick you up yesterday for the last time, so I changed it to today." He earns extra money in the remedial class, Chinese is not as good as English and mathematics, and even physics and chemistry students can't do it. Can't compare.Fortunately, there are always students who can't do reading comprehension and can't write [-]-word compositions. "Tomorrow is the Chinese New Year, do you want to go out to eat, or stay at home?"

Lu Xi was holding a small tablet, and Lu Chunjiang blinked. He didn't buy it for his younger brother.When Lu Xi went to college, he just started working, and Lu Xi's tuition and living expenses exhausted Lu Jianhong's last pension.It seems that the boyfriend is pretty good, Lu Chunjiang tugged on the slippers sourly, "What are you having for dinner?"

Apart from eating, he couldn't find a common language with his younger brother.

Lucy took a bath at night.Lu Chunjiang closed the door tightly, still smelling a little creamy smell.It was Lu Xi's pheromone. Lu Chunjiang rubbed his nose and played mobile games.He heard the door knock and Lucy fell asleep.

Dapeng called during the day, "Are you free on the fifth day?"

"I have to send Panpan to you on the fifth day of the lunar new year." Lu Chunjiang was eating a boxed lunch. The rice grains were hard and the vegetables were no longer fresh. "what?"

"Juju! I can't see you a few times a year." Dapeng became a policeman and was busy with work. "He's back? Did you admit it wrong?"

"Admit what's wrong, just come back."

"You little brother, with a brother like you, you still play your temper. I would have given him a few slaps, but I don't know..."

"That's enough," Lu Chunjiang interrupted Dapeng's nagging, "He is young, how can brothers not quarrel!"

"Brother shit, he has no blood relationship with you. If my aunt hadn't picked him up, he would have died a long time ago. Just like this, he is still making trouble all day long. Who are you throwing face at?"

Without Bian Meiying, Lu Xi was sure that she would not be able to take a hot bath right now, and lie cleanly next to the radiator to play with the ipad.He lived in fear until he was eight years old, and beating and scolding was commonplace. When he saw Bian Meiying, he was still wearing the old clothes of his "sister", his hands were swollen, and pus was dripping from the sores.

Maybe because of his pitiful appearance, Bian Meiying adopted him.Lu Jianhong didn't have much of a problem with the many children in the family. Lu Xi eavesdropped on a chat with his adoptive parents once, and Lu Jianhong said, "Oh, what will he do when he grows up? Don't expect so much, just during the holidays. No matter what, you have to buy me a cigarette and a bottle of wine!" After speaking, he laughed.Bian Meiying wore a sweater and laughed too.They didn't have high demands on him, a cigarette and a bottle of wine were enough.He was originally an outsider in this family, and when he was an adult, he should get out quickly, work to earn money, buy cigarettes and alcohol for his adoptive father, sell tea for his adoptive mother, and accompany her to pick out brightly colored yarn balls.It was Lu Xi who made an inch of progress and actually coveted the real son of this family.

Of course, he failed.

In a fit of anger, Lu Chunjiang slapped him across the face.It was very painful. Lucy remembered that summer night, the cold air from the air conditioner was blowing on his hot skin, causing tiny pimples.Lu Chunjiang ran out, and the surroundings fell into silence.He lay dead in the dark, feeling that he was dead, lying in a damp coffin, his skin and flesh being bitten by ants.Later he began to dream, dreaming that Lu Chunjiang took him to the bottom of the mountain to buy counseling materials.Several little beggars dragged their incomplete limbs and hugged his legs tightly.Lu Xi burst into tears in fright, and Lu Chunjiang said coldly, "See? If you are disobedient, you will be like them in the future."

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Chapters 4-5

In the spring of that year, when Lu Xi was in the third year of junior high school, his grades plummeted.Lu Chunjiang has just been admitted to university, and he is busy between school and hospital all day long.Because of his wife's illness, Lu Jianhong collapsed, like a silly puppet.The hospital is very close to Luxi's school, just two roads away.Lu Xi ran to the ward after school at noon, watching her adoptive father lose weight day by day.

"How did you pass the exam?" Lu Chunjiang flipped through Luxi's schoolbag, holding up the stack of failed papers, "Why are they empty!"

Lucy didn't want to take the exam, so he could go to the hospital after half an hour to hand in the paper.Lu Chunjiang was 1.8 meters tall, and Lu Xi had just reached his shoulders.He shrank and dared not speak, and under Lu Chunjiang's persecution, he faltered and said, "I don't want to go to school anymore."

"Why? Is it missing you to eat or not to wear it? Why don't you want to study?!"

"My grades... were not good at all. I want to go to a vocational school."

Lu Xi took the courage to express her thoughts tremblingly, "I have to go to college in high school, what a bother. I want to go to a vocational school, and I can divide the jobs. I will be an intern in the second year... I have inquired about it. "

Lu Chunjiang threw the test paper on his face, "Nonsense! What are you going to do after you go to the vocational school? Go to the mall and stand at the counter?"

"There is a salary." Lu Xi swallowed, "There is also... six hundred for the internship."

Lu Chunjiang looked really angry, he clenched his fists, raised them up, and put them down again.Lucy covered his face, he was familiar with this feeling.When he was a child, he was often beaten. If he didn't make a sound, the beating would be over after a few blows. If he cried, the beating would be more severe - until he stopped crying.

He has never been beaten since he came to Lu's house.Did Lu Chunjiang want to hit him?Lu Jianhong is ill, he will not be in a good mood as a son.Lu Xi thought that he was going to be his brother's punching bag, and felt that it was worth getting beaten up.But Lu Chunjiang didn't beat him in the end.He picked him up like a chicken and took him to the bottom of the mountain to buy tutoring materials.There were not many people on the bus, and he sat with his legs curled up on the seat of the old, the weak, the sick, the disabled, and the pregnant.

The mountain is the cemetery of martyrs.Castle Peak is loyal, but there is a street at the foot of the mountain, full of small shops selling books and antiques.The living people didn't care, and regarded it as a memorial ceremony.The martyrs should not care. They gave their lives just to see the people live in peace and order.This constitutes a strange landscape.It's not the first time for Lu Xi to come to the bottom of the mountain. Before, Lu Chunjiang brought him here to buy comic books.The printing of four fights and one comics is very poor, with black ink in every hand.He nervously followed behind Lu Chunjiang, and he smelled an unusual smell at the end of his nose.He had attended health education classes, and vaguely guessed that it might be pheromones... The smell of clothes dried in the sun was obviously warm, but at the moment it contained anger.He timidly grabbed the corner of Lu Chunjiang's clothes, the sweater was tied to his hands, it was knitted by Bian Meiying himself, pure wool thread.

In those few years, groups of beggars appeared on the streets, with limbs missing, some with no limbs, some with broken legs hanging on their chests, and some with extremely twisted bodies.Lu Xi's classmates said that these were abducted and trafficked children, and some were from poor families. Their parents didn't want them anymore, so they sold them to the leader of the beggar gang.They were originally healthy people, but for the convenience of begging, their hands and feet were cut off, thrown into boiling water, and their skin was burnt to pieces...Lu Xi wondered, if Bian Meiying hadn't gone to the countryside to visit the grave, or if he had gone a few days later, would he have done the same? Same fate?He had seen a little beggar, handsome in appearance, but with extremely shrunken limbs, prostrate on the ground, moving on a broken board.Is that a trafficked child?Or did his parents not want him?Lu Xi clutched Lu Chunjiang's sweater tightly. His poor grades made his brother angry...Will Lu Chunjiang abandon him?Sell ​​him to a beggar?

Lu Chunjiang was upset, so he went to the bookstore to buy a few reference books he used frequently.Lucy was trembling, his eyes fixed on the ground.He is 14 years old and shows no signs of development. He is still a pitiful bean sprout with a weak voice.On the way back to the hospital, Lu Chunjiang was walking when suddenly two little girls rushed over and hugged his legs tightly.The girl was only seven or eight years old, her face was dark, and she was muttering words that he didn't understand.He took out a few coins from his trouser pocket, and before he could throw them out, the girl was ripped away by Lucy.Lu Xi looked terrified, Lu Chunjiang had an idea, and pointed at the two little girls with a stern face, "If you don't study hard, you will have to do this when you grow up."

Lu Chunjiang's original intention was to educate and educate Lu Xi, who knew that he would poke into Lu Xi's mind.Lucy burst into tears on the street, and after returning home, he had a high fever and was in a daze, so he refused to let him go, holding his hand and begging, "Brother, don't throw me away."

"I won't throw you away," Lu Chunjiang was full of guilt, "You are good, my brother takes care of you."

Lu Xi's big eyes couldn't hold the tears, and he spoke incoherently, "Brother, don't sell me. You sell my kidney, sell it for mom's medical treatment..."

A few years ago, when he went to see Bian Meiying in the hospital, he saw a palm-sized advertisement in the boiler room asking for a kidney source, 60 a kidney.I learned in biology class that a person has two kidneys, and if one is cut off, he can still live. 60 will definitely save Bian Meiying, he thought, as long as his mother survives, his father will not be sick; if his father is not sick, his brother will not be angry, he will not be sold, his limbs will not be cut off, Become a beggar lying on the road...

"Brother, you can ask me to do anything, don't want me."

He was absolutely terrified.

Early in the 31st year, Lu Chunjiang went to the supermarket near his home to make his last purchases before the year.He originally wanted to ask Lu Xi to go with him, but Lu Xi went to bed late at night and didn't get up after nine o'clock.Lu Chunjiang rode his bike around and went to buy some melon seeds and sugar.Supermarkets are crowded with people, all with their families.It took half an hour to buy things, but it took a full hour to wait in line to pay.When he got home, Lu Xi got up, sat on the bed, and played with his mobile phone with his head down.

"We have to make dumplings." Lu Chunjiang said, "Do you want to eat cabbage, leek, or fennel seedlings?"

Lu Xi stared at the phone, "It's all done."

"Then let's have cabbage and meat, and I have to wrap a vegetarian one... vegetarian three delicacies?"

Lucy said "hmm".

Just two people don't need a lot of fillings at all.Lu Chunjiang peeled a Chinese cabbage, chopped it, squeezed out the water, and mixed it with minced pork.He bought two hanging firecrackers and hung them on the balcony. "Panpan, go collect the firecrackers and put them on the heater to dry them, so they don't get wet."

The phone rang, it was Binzi. "What are you doing, where are you celebrating the New Year?"

"At home, my brother is back."

"Go, that brat still knows how to come back? Okay, you just have to have a place to celebrate the New Year. My mother said, if you don't want to move, you can come to my house to eat dumplings."

"Thank you, auntie!"

Fang Da called after a while, "Where are you celebrating the New Year?"

"At home, my brother is back." Lu Chunjiang said again.The younger brother is back, there are people in his family, it's not that he is alone for the new year.This made his mood fly up like a blown hydrogen balloon.Although he and Lu Xi had a misunderstanding, they are brothers after all, so what's wrong with them?After making up the stuffing, he turned to wash his hands, but saw Lucy standing by the sink with an uncertain expression on his face.

"You..." Lu Chunjiang's hands were covered with flour and scattered vegetable leaves, "you're up."

He said this with a bit of sarcasm, and he quickly changed his smiling face, "Watching TV, I bought melon seeds and sugar. You like the kind with watermelon seeds, right? There is also jelly. The apples are not washed, you have to peel them Skin."

Lucy said, "I'm not a kid anymore."

Lu Chunjiang gently pushed Lu Xi away with his shoulders, and turned on the faucet to wash his hands.Lu Xi liked to eat jelly when he was a child, and Lu Chunjiang also liked it.At first he hid the pulpy ones and gave Lucy the translucent cheap ones.Even so, Lucy still thanked him joyfully, as if smearing honey on her little mouth, "Thank you brother, you are so kind."

"I bought sea cucumbers, sent them out, and made a cucumber jellyfish head. We both have six dishes. I'll count... Ah, I've learned a new Sichuan dish, boiled pork slices. Do you eat spicy? There is beef brisket with tomato. How many of these do you have? Another cold dish, preserved egg tofu?"

While washing his hands, Lu Chunjiang answered the phone again.This time it was from a colleague, and Pan Qiao said in a particularly loud voice, "Xiao Lu, I wish you a happy new year!"

"Sister Pan, thank you." Lu Chunjiang held the phone between his hands, "Where are you?"

"At my partner's house! When are you free?"

"I do not know."

Pan Qiao is Lu Chunjiang's colleague, full of energy, he manages students in the teaching office while attending classes, and is cheerful all day long.She is a matchmaker in her hobby and introduced Lu Chunjiang several times.Lu Chunjiang went, but unfortunately none of them succeeded.

"Colleague." Lu Chunjiang explained to Lu Xi, "She is the same as me. But she got married early."

"Are you envious?" Lu Xi also went to wash his hands, and the sweet and creamy smell of the jellyfish soaked in Lu Chunjiang's cooking bowl upset him, "What are you envious of? It's done." He turned his back slightly, and Lucy still stood there without moving, "Come and cook with me, we brothers haven't talked for a long time."

The creaminess wafted away.Lu Chunjiang washed cucumbers dully.I haven't seen her for two years. Lucy is taller and still thinner.His temper is definitely not as good as before, Lu Chunjiang finished packing the dishes, looked up, the dormitory of the Railway Bureau across the way was pitch black, few lights were on.It's the Chinese New Year, and we all go home.Aunt and uncle wanted him to go home, but he refused, unwilling to bother them.Lu Xi turned on the TV, and the music was full of joy. The local station rushed to broadcast the program before the CCTV Spring Festival Gala.Lu Chunjiang tried his best to raise his mood, first he patted the cucumber and piled the jellyfish on top.Then when cooking, when the sound of oil thorns sounded, I finally had the meaning of home.He likes to smell the oily smoke.

The dishes were put on the table one by one, and Lucy sat on the sofa, fiddling with the remote control silently, showing no intention of helping at all.Lu Chunjiang wondered if he should ask his brother to come over to serve the dishes, so he smiled and ordered him, joking about "slacker" or something.But he dare not.Lucy's face was sullen and serious.He was afraid that he would make Lucy angry if he said something wrong. Lucy didn't come home for two years, but it was because he couldn't speak.

"...Drinking?" Lu Chunjiang took a bottle of white wine, "Forget it, you can drink Coke."

Lucy stared at the half-empty wine bottle, "Are you drinking?"

Lu Chunjiang said awkwardly, "The last time Binzi and Dapeng came over, they opened the bottle. They haven't finished drinking, and now I'm not in the mood to persuade people to drink." He added, "The degree is not high, it's only about [-] degrees, just drink it play."

Lucy said, "I don't drink."

"Well, you drink Coke, and I, I don't drink. We two drink Coke." Lu Chunjiang looked at the pile of melon seeds on the tea table, and Lu Xi ate the snacks he bought, maybe it was the second step of reconciliation .He filled Lucy with Coke and said with a smile, "It's Chinese New Year and my brother is back. I'm so happy about your brother."

Lu Xi took a sip of Coca-Cola perfunctorily, and Lu Chunjiang said, "I wish Panpan... good health and peace in the new year! It doesn't matter, as long as you are outside, be safe."

As usual, the Spring Festival Gala is boring.Lucy ate a few mouthfuls of vegetables, but the plate of jellyfish did not move.Lu Chunjiang ate all the jellyfish by himself, and drank Coke until his stomach was full of bubbles.Although it wasn't wine, he was inexplicably drunk.He grabbed the melon seeds and knocked them, and the sketch actors tried their best to make the audience happy, scratching nowhere, and there was a sense of misplaced joy.He gnawed on melon seeds and asked, "Did you send a text message to your teacher?"

Lu Chunjiang received many New Year's greeting text messages from students. The children were all sweet-mouthed, and the class he led ranked second in the whole year in Chinese, which also gave him a sense of accomplishment. "I used to be...at that school, but later I won a prize in the speaking competition, and the attached middle school let me go. The former students still miss me very much."

Lucy said, "Universities don't do this."

"Oh, when I was in college, I had a very close relationship with the counselor. Don't be too introverted. It won't hurt to talk to the counselor more." Lu Chunjiang grabbed another handful of melon seeds and glanced at Lu Xi My fingers were typing like flying, and I asked, "I play with my mobile phone every day, who do I chat with so passionately?"

"Boy friend."

Now Lu Chunjiang didn't ask any more questions, and with the melon seeds in his mouth, the sweet ones turned bitter. "You...be careful, some of these melon seeds are bad, and they sank." He grabbed a few new ones, staring at the non-stop beating group news, "Where is he from? From our place?"

"Shanghai local."

"Oh, it's good, it's good. Your classmates?"

"Ah."

"How's your temper?"

"very good."

"What about home?"

"Quite rich."

"How long is it?"

"good."

Lu Chunjiang's melon seeds knocked slower and slower, the phone rang, and Binzi got drunk, "Brother! Happy New Year to you!"

"Okay, happy new year."

"How many of us, counting you is the most difficult! I wish you..." Binzi can't drink, his face turns red with half a glass of beer, and he prefers to show off. I don't know how much he drank, and his tongue is big. A daughter-in-law who is cold and hot! Hahaha!"

"Yeah, okay, I'll work hard. Hurry up too." Lu Chunjiang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and said to Lu Xi, "Binzi. He's not on duty, he drank too much."

Ever since Bian Meiying passed away, Lu Xi has been especially cuddling with his elder brother.He followed Lu Chunjiang wherever he went, asking questions.Binzi is Lu Chunjiang's junior high school classmate, and sometimes he teases Lu Xi, "Boy, will you be your brother's wife in the future, would you like to?"

Lucy was still young, so she didn't know how to be shy, so she replied loudly, "Yes!"

Binzi and his group laughed, Lu Chunjiang blushed, and drove Lu westward, "Go, go home!"

If Lu Xi didn't leave, he followed Lu Chunjiang, like the shadow on the soles of his feet.Binzi gave Lu Xi a dollar and fifty cents to buy ice cream.But then Binzi disliked Lu Xi very much. He thought it was ungrateful for Lu Xi to go out and not come home. "Why? The annual tuition fee is more than [-] yuan. Why did he do it? Didn't he just pick it up?"

"Don't ask for anything else, just treat you well." Lu Chunjiang said slowly, finding a piece of milk candy to hold in his mouth, "He's from Shanghai..."

Shanghai.If Lu Xi and this boyfriend have a good relationship, they can keep talking...

"He likes me, of course he treats me well." Lucy said naturally, smiling sweetly.