Thirty Mulberry

: "Isn't it cloudy these days, why is there such a big sun all of a sudden."

Looking around, she was standing on a country road like a dike, with dry soil in the middle of the road, which was flat and white when stepped on, and covered with short grass on both sides.It's kind of like a wide hairline parted in the middle, and the short weeds on both sides are the thin hair that covers the ears.

A wide river is poetically L-shaped, and the calm and waveless surface of the river is like a thin piece of non-woven oil-absorbing paper.

"Where is this place?" Xiaochun took two steps forward, then turned around again, "I must be dreaming!"

She walked aimlessly forward.She squinted her eyes to see a person walking towards her in the distance. He was a boy of twelve or thirteen years old, walking on tiptoes, holding a ball of food in both hands and eating. After taking a bite, he raised his eyebrows and swayed his steps.He was wearing a loose collared shirt with small sleeves, with a thin white chest in the middle, and a pair of wide-leg culottes underneath. There were two black foot pockets on his feet, and a pair of clogs were sandwiched between them.

Xiaochun's generation grew up watching the days go by, and said to himself, "Why do you dress like Jianxin?"

The boy also saw her, stopped his mouth in doubt, and looked at Xiaochun carefully with his eyes.

"Little brother, why are you looking at me like that?" Xiaochun said, "Are you making a movie? Or a live broadcast? Are you cosplaying?"

The boy shook his head and looked at her with a smile.He is still a child, and he can't control the things he likes, so the eyes he lingers on Xiaochun are a little frivolous and straightforward.If it is a cat or a dog that pops out suddenly, he can touch and rub it, caress its smooth fur back, and say soft words to it: "Cute little thing, I really like it!" It's a pity that the girl in front of me is a person.

"Damn child, don't look at me with that look." Xiaochun turned her back, and the toes of the small black leather shoes with round toes on her feet gently scraped back and forth on the grass.

"What do I think of you?" The boy didn't show weakness.

Xiao Chun yelled angrily: "Like a hooligan. How old are you!"

"What is a hooligan?"

"Still pretending? Damn kid, which school are you from?" Xiaochun said.

The young man bit his lower lip, trying to think about Xiaochun's words: "School? I'm learning kendo from my master in the 'Testing Guard Hall' now!"

Xiaochun walked slowly along the path: "I really was dreaming, and the dream was so illogical and weird." She asked the boy again: "How old are you? What's your name?"

The boy followed her forward.He pointed to himself: "Me? I'm 13 years old, and I've already passed the ceremony of 'Genfu'! My name is Soujiro, um, Okita Soujiro."

Xiaochun thought for a while, and then smiled: "This name sounds familiar at first glance! Okita Souji? Haha, if you were Okita Souji, I would return Saitoichi!"

"Okita Souji?" The young man rubbed his hands at the name, "It sounds very nice! If I change my name in the future, I will use this name."

"What about you? What's your name? How old are you?" Okita asked.

"Hey, you little brat is not old or young, can't you tell that I'm older than you? Call me sister!" Xiaochun walked in front, with his back to Okita, but still gave him a sharp look, "I'm eighteen, five years older than you. I'm already in college."

A gust of wind came up, blowing from behind them. The barbaric style of this open place threw their hair and clothes forward, dragging out a long stroke of "Na".Xiao Chun held Luan Wu's hair with one hand, and grabbed the corner of her upturned skirt with the other.She turned around "suddenly", faced Okita, and walked backwards.

She was wearing a dark green crochet dress with an ingot collar, light brown lace socks, and small black round-toed leather shoes.Her father is very westernized, and since she was a child, she has been dressed as a little princess in a foreign dress and placed in sweet "Rococo" furniture.In such an atmosphere, Xiaochun is not expected by his father, the longer he grows, the more foreign he looks, with big double eyelids, and the tip of his nose is curved up, because the nose is too high, pulling the little red lips forward and pouting.

The wind combed her hair back like a big comb, revealing a smooth and white forehead.She squinted her eyes against the wind, and her light brown glass-like eyeballs looked out through the shadow of the eyelashes.She smiled at Okita.

"You look so cute!" Okita couldn't help blurting out.

"Tch——" Xiaochun couldn't hold back his laughter, "You stupid child, now you are a little hooligan, and when you grow up, you will become a big hooligan. Be careful, I will tell your teacher. You are still in junior high school! Hmph!"

Okita couldn't understand Xiaochun's words, but the corners of his clothes didn't seem to be blown up by the wind, just like his eyes, they seemed to be stuck by the spider silk released by Xiaochun, pulling him to follow her forward.

"Be careful—" Okita screamed.A spiky branch of wild flowers protruded from under Xiaochun's back, and she was about to step on it with the heels of her feet.Okita leaped forward, hugged her and rolled to the side, the two of them rolled all the way down the sloping hillside, seeing a gleam of water in the dizziness, Okita quickly grabbed a mess of grass to stop the two of them.

"Are you okay? Did you get hurt anywhere?" Okita asked Xiaochun under him.

"I'm fine. Are you injured?" Xiaochun squinted at the river beside him, "It's so dangerous, I almost fell into the water."

"I'm fine, don't worry!" Okita saw the dirt on Xiaochun's sleeves, "Your skirt is stained."

"It's okay, I'll wash it when I wake up from sleep." She said this inexplicably.Pushing Okita with a confused face, "You are so heavy, I can hardly kick my breath. Get up first."

"I'm really sorry." Okita quickly got up from Xiaochun, hugged her by the waist, and dragged her back, away from the river bank.

Xiao Chun didn't care whether there was mud on her hands, grabbed a lock of hair and threw it behind her ears, pulled up her sleeves and looked, a large puddle of dirty mud was wiped from her upper arm to the lace of her wrist.The skirt was given to her by her father, in the usual princess style.Her mother disliked the dark green color of the dress, which had a velvet feel, was slightly mature, and monotonous, so she nailed a circle of red five-petal flowers that she crocheted on the lace cuffs.

The skirt that her parents cooperated with is still on her body, as long as she wants, she can collect it forever.But the two people who cooperated are about to "fly southeast".What in this world will not change?The earth will explode one day!She understands the truth, it's not that she is ignorant, but she is still sad.

Okita suddenly noticed his figure, and couldn't help asking: "Just now you said that I am heavy, do you think I am fat? But, since I was a child, I have never said that I am fat!" He glanced at Xiaochun , but found that her face was full of tears.

"Why are you crying?" Okita was anxious, and leaned closer to Xiaochun to look at her face. Tears kept pouring out of her red eyes, "Did I say something wrong? Really, I'm such an idiot to put You made me cry when we first met."

Xiao Chun lowered her face, shook her head and said, "It has nothing to do with you, it's me...it's...it's me who suddenly wanted to cry."

Okita handed over his sleeve and said, "Use my sleeve to wipe it! I like clean things very much. Today's small sleeves are new ones I changed this morning."

Xiaochun shook his head again, paused, pulled Okita's sleeve and touched his eyes. "Thank you!" she said.

Okita grabbed his sleeves and wiped her face generously, wiped away the tears from her cheeks, and gently dried the teardrops from her eyelashes: "Don't be afraid of getting dirty, I'll wash it off at night."

Xiaochun smiled through tears: "Thank you little brother! I heard what you said just now, you are not fat, I am just kidding you."

"I'm not a little brother! I've already completed the 'Yuanfu'." Okita was not very happy, and argued hard.

"What are you not a little brother? You are not as tall as me! You are so thin." Xiaochun smiled and said, "Children want to grow up, do you think they will have no worries when they grow up? Besides, I don't Calling you younger brother, is it called your elder brother?"

"It's not impossible." Okita said with a smile.

"Ah—" Okita covered his face, "Why are you scratching me? Are you a cat?"

"Damn child, little rascal, you've been flirting with girls at a young age, but you'll be fine when you grow up!" Xiao Chun stretched out her hand and pretended to scratch him again.

"What is teasing a girl?" Okita covered his face with his hands.

Xiaochun put her index finger and thumb into her mouth, said a long and clear "hu whistle", and then said: "This is a normal 'hu whistle'." Then she played another tune, playing tricks three times and five times Turn, the ending curls up, and it slides out with a "咻", like stepping on oil.Like drawing a key point, he blew three times in a row.Xiaochun said: "This is called 'rogue whistle'. Little hooligans play this to tease others when they see beautiful girls. I think your living environment is quite pure, and you don't even know this."

Okita learned Xiaochun's index finger and thumb into his mouth.

"No, it should be like this." Xiaochun took his hand and adjusted the position of his mouth, "It must be stuck here."

Okita glanced at her, and suddenly smiled badly, a short "Hush 咻--", followed by a tone, "Hush -You", the tail sound was teased, and it was blowing at Xiaochun.

"Damn kid, little rascal. You're treacherous, so you know how to whistle." Xiaochun hit him angrily, "Why are you whistling at me? Think of me as an 'experimental field'!"

"Because I think you are beautiful!" Okita took out his finger from his mouth and wiped the drool around his mouth, "I can whistle, but I can't whistle the 'rogue whistle' you mentioned. But, I will do it now. Ha ha."

Xiaochun propped up her knees, held her skirt under her legs with both hands, and turned her head to look at the river in the distance.On the opposite side of the river grow clumps of reeds, like tall and strong ears of wheat.water bird spread its wings