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Longevity's hair is yellow with white, and when his tail comes up from time to time, it will brush my arm.

The old lady who gave the dog came to see it before, but I haven't seen that Uncle Li for a long time.There is a very interesting place here, called Hanyiyuan, which is actually an association for the elderly, not far from home, if you want to find the most lively place in Lijia Village, it must be the association for the elderly.Maybe Hanyiyuan is the only entertainment place here. Most of them are playing chess or playing mahjong, the kind that shuffles the cards manually, and the chess boards are also made of wood.I went there to have a look in my free time, and because I know some chess, I also made friends with several old men, including Uncle Li.At first they called me Teacher Shao, but later they called me Xiao Shao.

Thinking about it this way, Li Shenjiu only called me Teacher Shao from the beginning to the end.The same sound and the same word can be pronounced differently by different people. I know this very well, and I feel that every word he said is full of affection.

There are about 30 people in the class. I don't know why people always ask for leave recently. Maybe it's because it's the busy season.Li Shenjiu asked me if I wanted to pick rice ears with him. At this point in time, I could pick up a lot of rice ears, and then borrow the huller to hustle them. No matter what, I could get three or four catties.

I thought about it, I had nothing to do recently, and this is a good time to go out and play.

I had other ideas, an open-air natural date is what I want, but I thought it was a two-person date, and I found out that I was wrong when I went to the rice-picking valley, where there are many old women and My aunt was picking it up. It turned out that this was a customary group activity.

Every September, when the autumn harvest is just over, adhering to the virtues of hard work and thrift, this becomes an essential activity.

We ran into Xiujun.The little girl came with her mother and took care of her younger brother by the way.She ran over and called "Teacher Shao" and then "Brother Li".

I coyly chuckled.

Taking advantage of no one's attention, he went to the haystack next to Li Shenjiu, and whispered, "No one called you brother Shenjiu anymore."

He looked at me funny: "Go to work."

"How about giving me this title, you call me teacher, I call you brother."

I leaned in front of him with a shameless face, Li Shenjiu looked at me, stretched out his hand, and took off my glasses when I was not prepared.I went blind, and the world in front of me instantly changed its clarity, and people could still see people.

Taking advantage of my height, I put my arms around his shoulders and clamped his hands: "Give it back to me."

"You do the work and I will pay you back."

He still said sternly.

I went straight to his waist, where it was very sensitive, and every time I touched it, it would shake slightly. I felt inexplicably cute about his reaction.

His ears turned red, and he whispered, "Someone is here now."

"Where there are people, there are people."

Saying so, I still looked around and found a person walking not far away.Five meters away, there is no distinction between humans and animals.This is the state where I took off my glasses. I didn't see who it was, so I hurriedly let go.

Li Shenjiu returned the glasses to me as soon as he let go.I put it on and saw Xiao Xiujun walking over.

She held a water bottle and handed it over: "I don't think Teacher Shao and Brother Li seem to have brought any water."

I looked at her expression secretly for a few times, and I was relieved when there was no abnormal expression.

"Thank you, Xiujun classmate."

Li Shenjiu didn't explain clearly to me, the feeling of picking rice can be summed up in one word, tired.Working desperately all afternoon, it was actually for two or three catties of miscellaneous rice.He and I were carrying a basket, and at the end I didn't pick up as many as he did.

Xiao Xiujun returned to a positive state, and the light in her eyes finally recovered when she looked at me.I thought a small word of encouragement became a turning point in her mentality, so that word was very important, so important that she felt grateful, but I didn’t know it was so important that she walked a long, long way with her small body. Lu himself came to deliver the things.

At that time, the wooden door in front of the hall was closed tightly because we were guilty of treachery.

Xiao Xiujun thought of a window in the back, the window in my room.

Downstairs in my room, when we had our first or second kiss.

I heard a timid and immature voice: "Teacher."

The two of us stopped our movements immediately, and then we heard her ask, "What are you doing?"

We were still fully dressed, and I wanted to make a fuss under the panic, and then I heard her say: "Teacher, so you are a liar."

Then she ran away.It seems that Xiao Xiujun seems to be small, and then I found that she, like Li Shenjiu, knows a lot.

I wanted to chase him, but was grabbed by Li Shenjiu.

He shook his head: "It's okay."

I don't know what he said about nothing. I only know that after those few days, no one came to the house. My name changed from Xiao Shao to Teacher Shao again. I am a neighbor in the village. Things spread very quickly in a small place because Every family knows every family. No matter what scandals happen, they may gossip behind their backs, but they will never show it on the surface. Besides, I am a guest. This is a nostalgic situation, and the most important thing is face.

When I went to the school for the last time, there were only five people inside.

"Teacher," said one of them, "my mother said that you are the second chair, and brother Shenjiu is a fool. People have been deceived."

For the first time, I doubted my purpose of escaping to this corner, as if this school had meaning unconsciously.

I fled back home.

For me, this place where I am a guest already has a certain status. As for Li Shenjiu, he is being rejected by his hometown now, how will he feel.

When I ran home, he was opening the honey pot, which was a loquat that had been sealed for a whole month.He didn't think it was strange seeing me coming back so early, instead he greeted: "It's just right, let's try it."

I took the spoon he handed over. It was very sweet and stimulated the taste buds, but it reminded me of the sour taste a few months ago.

"sorry."

Li Shenjiu smiled lightly: "Ms. Shao is talking nonsense."

"Your reputation here has been ruined by me."

He scooped a spoonful for himself, put it into a bowl, covered the remaining honey loquat, and pasted a piece of red paper: "Keep the rest for eating, it will take a long time Well, when winter comes, Mr. Shao, you still have good luck, have you ever drank rice wine, when we celebrate the New Year together, we can drink rice wine, rice wine is not intoxicating."

"Well," I suspected that he deliberately changed the topic to avoid, and asked after a moment of silence, "Are you okay?"

"I……"

A bell rang.

It was the long-lost cell phone ringtone, which came from the room. After a few months, I heard that voice suddenly disturb the air between me and Li Shenjiu.

"I'll go take a call first."

I didn't notice anything unusual. When I took a step forward, I felt a force from behind. When I turned around, it was Li Shenjiu who grabbed the hem of my jacket.

He said, more precisely, he was begging me, obviously he was speaking very calmly, but I felt he was begging me, he said: "Don't answer."

I look at him.

"Don't answer the phone, I'll be fine."

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry for a while, how to answer a phone call made it feel like parting from life and death, but the atmosphere at this time was so strange that it was depressing.

My heart was beating uncomfortably, and I took his hand comfortingly: "It's okay."

Finally, I turned around and walked to the room.The bell has been ringing for a long time, but it is not in the first drawer that I remember. The bell is still ringing persistently. I searched hastily, and finally found it in a corner of the closet.

I suspect that I picked up on the last note of the ringtone, and I checked the caller ID, it was my cousin's number.

I put it to my ear, there was no speaking, a long period of silence, so long that I thought the other party had actually hung up,

After all, I couldn't bear it anymore and shouted: "Hey..."

There was a moaning sound from the mobile phone, and I subconsciously wanted to escape.

The first time I heard it, it was my mother's breakdown, a total breakdown.

But there was no time to escape, there seemed to be only one cry of grief, a brief auditory hallucination, and the mother's old and calm voice came.

"Your father is gone."

I just learned that sometimes, the more sad people are, the calmer they are.