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The night was low, the moon was as bright as water, and a few faintly shining stars were dotted in the sky.

Grandma Wang chatted with people under the old locust tree, and Wang Hongli squatted down to count the ants with the light from the shop. The black ants were up and down between the bluestone slab and the soil, one after another.His calf was gradually sore. Seeing that Grandma had no intention of going home, he told Grandma and went for a walk by himself.

The moon is reflected in the water of the clear pond, and the koi in the pond swim around leisurely.

Sitting by the pool, Wang Hongli was carrying the fresh ebony plums given to him by the sixth grandpa. From time to time, he would pick one up with his mouth and nimbly separate the pulp from the seeds with his tongue. Shattered the moon in the clear pond.

After eating the ebony plums, Wang Hongli picked up the jade pendant hanging from the red string around his neck again, bored and a little unhappy.

Wang Yi took him back to Pingshan Village this time, and had already prepared him for a permanent residence. The school had been transferred from Hangzhou to Pingshan Village Central Primary School.His mother planned to go to Suzhou with Uncle Ye to do business in September six months ago. When Wang Hongli was in Hangzhou, he happily shared with his classmates, saying that he would transfer to Suzhou for school, and finally he could eat authentic squirrel mandarin fish.He likes to eat fish. He was watching TV once, and the recording channel happened to be broadcasting a food documentary. The camera zoomed in on the mandarin fish. The expectation is to go to Suzhou to eat fish.

Wang Hongli puffed up his cheeks. Unexpectedly, his mother had no intention of beating him at all. "Why do you want to go to Suzhou so much? Mom is not going there for fun. When business gets busy, I can't take care of you." Wang Yi pressed the calculator There was a crackling sound, and they were settling accounts.

"Want to eat squirrel mandarin fish? Where is there no fish? Pingshan Village also has mandarin fish. Let grandma cook Huangshan stinky mandarin fish for you to eat."

"That's different." Wang Hongli insisted on protesting.

"Why are they different? They're all fish."

Wang Hongli is discouraged, it’s just different, looking down at his fingers, the child’s heart is full of melancholy, he has never been separated from his mother, Wang Yi’s decision made him feel betrayed, he thought his mother had always put him on the united front Yes, Dad basically didn't care about himself, and now he separated from his mother and went to Ningbo, and Wang Yi didn't bring himself when he went to Suzhou, which made Wang Hongli uneasy. He felt abandoned.

The houses around Qingchi are hung with red lanterns and couplets all the year round, and the shadows are dim under the night.

"Roar!"

Wang Hongli was so frightened that he suddenly stood up and looked backward.

Sister Tao's round face still maintained a bluffing expression, and the blue skirt was slightly swayed by the summer wind.

"Tao Erni!" Wang Hongli and Sister Tao pushed and shoved. Unfortunately, Wang Hongli was a short man at this time, and he was no match for Sister Tao's height. His mouth was red with suffocation, trying to restrain Sister Tao with all his might.

"We're classmates when school starts, so show mercy." Sister Tao hid around with a smile on her face. The children in the village went to school late, and she was one year older than Wang Hongli. She was Wang Hongli's playmate in Pingshan Village during the summer vacation.

"What are you doing sitting here alone?" Sister Tao raised a white flag to signify a truce.

"Melancholy." Wang Hongli sat down again, resting his face with his hands, he saw the word "melancholy" in a fairy tale book, and thought it was very powerful, so he deliberately used it to show his literary talents to Sister Tao.

"What is melancholy?"

"Huh~ I'm uneducated, melancholy means sad." Wang Hongli squinted at Sister Tao, as if she was an old hat.

"Yo ho, our Yuzi is a cultured person." Sister Tao screamed with a grimace.

"Uncle Tao from Grandma Tao's house across from your grandma's house is back, bringing his son with him." Sister Tao began to show off the news she had heard.

"I know." Wang Hongli said.

Grandma Wang and the grandmother of the Tao family had a very good relationship. When the Wang family was having dinner at night, Uncle Tao and the innocent child happened to come to say hello.

"Tch, that's all you know, you don't know that Yaozai is our new classmate, right?" Sister Tao said mysteriously, "My grandma said that Uncle Tao is leaving for Guangzhou tomorrow, and that Yaozai, like you, will be in Pingshan I live in the village, and I am from Guangzhou, and Guangzhou is a big city.” Sister Tao’s grandmother is Aunt Li, and she always gets news faster than others.

What does it mean to be the same as me, Wang Hongli pouted, is he also a left-behind child? The melancholy of being interrupted by Sister Tao and slipping away came back again, and he sighed maturely.

"Yuzai is prettier than a girl, for nothing." Sister Tao said enviously, she herself is a little black.

"I know quite a lot. Have you seen him?" Wang Hongli recalled that the child he saw at dinner was about the same height as him. He looked quite white from a distance, and he spoke softly when shouting. He really looks like a little girl. Compared to himself, Wang Hongli touched his little mouth silently. His mother always said that he looks like a little radish, because his face is flushed all year round, and he can't tell if he is white or black. .

"My grandma has seen it before, and said that if Yaozai is a girl, I will definitely let my younger brother marry him in the future." Sister Tao imitated Aunt Li's tone.

The chirping of the summer insects was louder and louder, and the shadows of the trees danced. The two sat side by side by the clear pond and threw small gravels into it.

"Ni hei! Ni hei!" The voice was brought by the wind, and it was far and near now.

"My grandma called me. I'm going home. I'll come out to play tomorrow. I'll take you to the academy." Sister Tao blinked.

"Tch, I've been to the academy a long time ago. Is there any place in Pingshan Village that I haven't been to?" Wang Hongli made a disgusted expression.

"Hey." Sister Tao waved goodbye to Wang Hongli, trotted away, and disappeared in the alley after a while.

The alley at night is very quiet, a photographer is picking up the night scene, and the photography equipment is placed on the bluestone road, Wang Hongli bypasses the photographer, and lifts his foot towards the threshold of Jingde Hall. After falling down, he turned his head and looked at the Ren Auditorium opposite his house. The door of the Ren Auditorium was closed, and the dim light shone through the room. Compared with the Jingde Hall, the Ren Auditorium was as quiet as an unoccupied house .

In the morning of Pingshan Village, the mist has not dissipated, the streets and alleys are hazy, the red lanterns are looming in the fog, there are hardworking people who have finished breakfast and start to prepare for the day's business, small stalls selling porridge and purple rice cakes The boss yelled at the tourists who were shopping for breakfast. The tourists who came to Pingshan Village in the early years were experienced donkey friends. They knew when they could feel the taste of Huizhou the most, but it was early morning and evening.

"Ni, have you had breakfast yet?" Wang Yi asked as she saw Sister Tao bouncing past the open gate of the Zong family's house.The Wang family's main house and the branch's house are adjacent. Wang Yi and her younger brother are in the main house, taking inventory of a new batch of goods. Standing fans, strange stones, and bonsai occupy the atrium, all of which are used to decorate the homestay. small objects.

"Eat it! Auntie!"

Upstairs, Wang Hongli was at a loss facing the extremely high stairs. He liked living upstairs very much. The windows on the upper floor can enjoy the scenery of Pingshan Village. Unfortunately, his short legs can make it easy to go upstairs, but he is really not there when he goes downstairs. Okay, almost 150 years ago, the stairs were exclusive to ladies in the boudoir. In order to prevent theft and people, the wooden ladder was built high and steep. Wang Hongli sat on the wooden floor of the second floor with his legs straight and his feet on the next floor. He grasped the handrail next to the stairs and slid down one step at a time.

"Puchi!" Sister Tao laughed so hard that she couldn't straighten her waist, "Can you do it, Yuzai, you climb this staircase every year when you come back from vacation, why can't you come down?"

"Hmph!" Wang Hongli ignored her naive aggressiveness and slowly went downstairs at his own pace.

"I don't care about you, just go down slowly, I'll go to the opposite door first to find Youzai!" Sister Tao's twisted braid tied with a red string disappeared behind the carved screen with a "swish".

Ren Auditorium.

The white porridge on the Eight Immortals table in the center of the hall exudes heat, and Grandma Tao greeted people to have breakfast, "Don't eat, I'm afraid I won't be able to catch the 10:00 train." Tao Feng straightened his cuffs, patted his straight suit, put on luggage.

"Yuzai, be obedient at grandma's house, and dad will come back after a while." Tao Feng instructed Tao Xuan.The business in Guangzhou was at a critical time, and it took a lot of time to bring Tao Xuan back for two days. Tao Feng planned to go back to Pingshan Village to handle the transfer procedures for Tao Xuan after a while. Anyway, there were still two months before the start of school in September.

Tao Xuan was drinking porridge, holding a porcelain flower bowl in his small hands, when he heard his father's voice, he nodded, watching his father step out of the Ren Auditorium with big black and white eyes. "Goodbye, Dad."

Sister Tao hid at the door, and when Tao Feng left, she turned into the Ren Auditorium like a whirlwind.

"Xiao Yaozi!" Sister Tao moved a small bench and sat next to Tao Xuan.At this time, Grandma Tao also came from the backyard to the atrium. Seeing Sister Tao, she smiled kindly, "Ni, are you here?"

"Hey, hello, Grandma Tao!" There is no one in Pingshan Village who doesn't like Sister Tao. Sister Tao's grandmother, Aunt Li, has always been warm to others, and the little girl has inherited Aunt Li's mantle. My son, I also love to chat with the old man and the old lady. Every day, I am happy like a little sun, bringing a lot of warmth to the left-behind old people whose children are away.

Tao Xuan put down the porcelain flower bowl after drinking, wiped his mouth carefully with paper, and looked at Sister Tao who looked like a little sun. He had never seen Sister Tao before, and he was a little at a loss for Sister Tao's enthusiasm. When he was in Guangzhou , the children in the same school behave with a Hong Kong style, and most of them are restrained.

Grandma Tao gave Tao Xuan guidance, "Yuanzi wants to call sister! Sister Tao is two years older than you!"

"Sister monkey." Tao Xuan gave a serious look.

"? What are you talking about, Yaozai?" Sister Tao was puzzled. Why did this child speak like Yuzai, saying things she couldn't understand? Are children who have lived in big cities like this?Sister Tao scratched her head, she began to wonder if she was illiterate as Yuzai said.

Seeing Sister Tao scratching her head, Tao Xuan knew that he had habitually spoken Cantonese. He spoke Cantonese more when he was in Guangzhou, but he couldn't change it all at once. "Hello, sister." Although the thin voice With a Cantonese accent, it's not like I don't understand it.

This time Sister Tao understood, "Hey, Yuzai and I will play with you from now on!" She patted Tao Yao's shoulder like a big sister, and secretly pulled Wang Hongli closer.

Tao Xuan nodded, thinking silently, is Yuzai the little boy he saw at Grandma Wang's house last night?A flushed face came to mind and slipped away like a fish.