sunny as rain

The grasshopper cage carried by Li Xiang on his shoulders finally came in handy. Ye Shiyu caught two live grasshoppers. At first they screamed loudly. After being locked in the grasshopper cage, they soon died down.

Ye Shiyu tied a grass rope to the grasshopper cage, hung it on the eaves, and saw Jiang Yafen when he turned around.

The morning air is humid and cold.

Jiang Yafen wore a beige knitted thin coat. Her waist-length hair was originally the same as Jiang Yahui's. Yesterday, she cut it with scissors and cut it into shoulder-length short hair. The tail is uneven like a dog chewing.

Unlike Jiang Yafen, Jiang Yahui cherishes her long hair very much. She always shows off her hair with a comb at the door of the house after washing her hair. The red thick-toothed plastic wooden comb shuttles back and forth repeatedly, combing from head to tail, as if she has done something Something to brag about.

Ye Shiyu was not only curious about Jiang Yafen's eldest daughter who died strangely, but also curious about the reason why Jiang Yafen refused to let Sun Jiang continue to study.

That kind of curiosity is like humming from the chest, and then wants to sing a song, but is afraid of disturbing the audience, so he can only swallow the characters, and dance a song slowly and almost in a hypnotic rhythm. Still dance.

Jiang Yafen's house is located on a very high ground, and Li Xiang's house, who lives diagonally opposite, can clearly see any disturbances from the steps in the courtyard.

No, a man and a woman threw two large dark blue packages into the yard, and drove away in a black car.

Li Xiang was lying on the edge of the gate, with a pale face and tears in his eyes, holding onto the iron carvings on the gate, like a prisoner in a prison, longing for someone to talk to her, longing for someone to take her away, those eyes staring at Yiyi in the distance The look of reluctance makes people feel distressed.

After a while, Li Xiang was dragged into the house by a ferocious old lady. The old lady was furious, her voice was shrill and shrill, and it sounded particularly harsh, "Damn girl, hurry into the room, don't stand outside and make a fool of yourself. Your parents don't want you anymore."

Ye Shiyu could tell that the graceful man and woman just now were Li Xiang's biological parents.

Li Xiang was staggered by her grandmother, and sat on the ground, one shoulder was pulled high, and the neckline of the jacket was skewed, and the neck was stuck, and the neck was red.

Although the old lady was thin, she raised her voice very high, and opened her mouth to curse: "You lose money, you are a little bitch like your mother, you ran away with men, and now you are thrown here again, you can't get married , I have to support you for the rest of my life."

Li Xiang sat on the ground with her head bowed and her legs crossed, wishing she could find a hard shell to get in, and disappear from then on, so that others could never find her again. Unfortunately, she didn't have a hard shell, she was just an ordinary little girl.

Li Xiang said cowardly: "Didn't my mother give you money, and I don't need you to support me."

With Li Xiang's rebuttal, the old lady scolded even more: "Damn girl, if anyone asks you in the future, you can't tell what happened that day, do you hear?"

Li Xiang whispered: "That's not my fault, why do you always blame me?"

The old lady clenched her hands into fists and pushed Li Xiang from behind with all her strength. Feeling unresponsive, she simply pushed a few more times. The villain complained first, crying and shouting: "A dead duck has a hard mouth, your mother is like that!" Taught you? Contrary to my old bones. Oh, I can’t live anymore. My daughter doesn’t want me, and my granddaughter scolds me. I don’t think I can live anymore.

Ye Shiyu watched helplessly as the old lady turned Li Xiang's ears red, turned her hands and hunched her back, and walked into the house, muttering unbearable words in her mouth: "I'm ashamed, I committed a crime... a crime, the son of a bitch!" Bitch, bastard."

Li Xiang was wearing a white cotton skirt with two long and black braids. He sat on the ground in the courtyard and couldn't stand up for a long time.

Ye Shiyu wanted to help her up, but was stopped by Jiang Yafen, and his eyes signaled him to enter the room, as if he had something to say.

Ye Shiyu turned around and followed Jiang Yafen into the house, when he suddenly heard a sharp and ear-piercing roar, sad and desperate.

It was like letting out the last roar of human beings with all their strength, questioning and venting nakedly to this still unfamiliar world.

The cry echoed in the mountains for a long time, was blown away by the wind, diluted by the fog, and was deliberately avoided and forgotten by people.

Ye Shiyu has always lived in the West Room, and this is the first time he has come to the East Room. The East Room is very simple, with a kang to the south and two large wardrobes with double doors on the opposite side. There is a whole mirror on the door of the wardrobe. A few black-and-white photos were inserted in the gaps in the cabinet door.

One of the photos looks familiar, also in black and white.

There are two people in the photo, one of them is Ye Zhihui when he was young, with short hair over the ears, an octagonal hat, and a casual suit. The black and white photo does not reveal the color of the clothes on his body.But Ye Shiyu always felt that he had seen this outfit before, and he could imagine that the top was blue and the trousers were khaki.

His legs are crossed, his left hand is on his knees, and his posture is very chic. On his right is a small rectangular table with two vases on which are filled with fake flowers of indistinguishable colors.

Sitting on the other side of the table was a woman with long curly hair tied behind her head and wearing a loose fleece jacket. She looked a little fat, but she was beautiful, bright and dazzling.

Her beauty is a colorful beauty, a lively beauty that cannot be restrained by black and white photos, like a bright red peony, passionate and unrestrained.

Ye Zhihui smiled calmly, showing his neat teeth.

The woman next to her raised the corners of her mouth and smiled shyly, dazed and at a loss, with naked ambition and unwillingness burning in her eyes.

Ye Shiyu rubbed the faded old photo repeatedly with his thumb. The woman's smile was inexplicably familiar. Ye Shiyu turned his head and asked, "Auntie, who is the woman in the photo?"

Jiang Yafen shook her head, blinked her eyes and said, "I don't recognize you? This is your mother. At that time she was just pregnant with you. She was very fat and a little edema. It's normal if you didn't recognize her."

Ye Shiyu's eyes widened, and he looked at the photo carefully. If Jiang Yafen didn't say anything, he would never have imagined that the fat woman in the photo was the slender Jiang Yahui.

He couldn't help sighing that everyone was young once, and that age was far away but real.

The Jiang Yahui that Ye Shiyu saw was only after the peony flowers withered, the plants had gradually withered, but the once bright and charming could only be glimpsed from the old photos.

The sad things in life are carried on the shoulders of parents, there is no time to be sentimental, and it is impossible to turn a blind eye.

Acknowledge it, and get through it gracefully and embarrassingly.

Ye Zhihui, who used to be handsome and unrestrained, and Jiang Yahui, who was bright and charming, are now just insignificant people who can't hold their heads up in front of life, living clumsily and tensely, helpless in the face of cruel difficulties.

Do you also feel that the self who was fearless in the past was extremely stupid, so ah, it's good to be young.

"Auntie, can you tell me about their youth?" Ye Shiyu wanted to hear the love story of his parents from the perspective of a bystander.

Jiang Yafen took a rag, wiped off the thin layer of dust on the photo, raised her head, sighed and said, "Speaking of your mother, it's so pitiful. Back then, our family of five was in the city, and then we were forced to Going to the countryside, your mother, me, and two younger brothers went to Guanma Village.

Your grandfather had the ability to go back to the city early, but he favored sons over daughters, and later brought his two sons back to the city first, leaving me and your mother.I can't wait anymore, I met your uncle, I got a big belly after marriage, I don't want to go back to the city at all.

At that time, we were young, we were all quite stupid, and we didn’t think there was any difference between the countryside and the city. Maybe we were hurt by the pure love in black and white movies. Your uncle beat me, but I didn’t say anything, and I was also affected by feudalism. If you are harmed by your thoughts, you will swear to die. "

Jiang Yafen always looked sad and sighed, her head helplessly shaking back and forth, making strange creaking noises, as if dancing her head.

She went on to say: "Later, your mother was left in the village with no place to live and nothing to eat. It was your father who jumped into the wall and brought your mother a steamed bun. At that time, your father's family was so poor that they didn't even have a pair of extra You don't even have chopsticks, but you gave your mother such precious steamed buns. Your mother was so moved that she immediately agreed to marry your father.

In a few days, your father rode a [-] bicycle and took your mother home. The family was really poor and had nothing.Later, your grandfather wrote a letter from the city, asking the two daughters to return to the city. I had already given birth to a child at that time, and it was impossible to leave your uncle, so I didn't go back.Your mother is also stupid, she can bring your father back to the city, but your father refuses to go to the city, saying that this is not good and that is not good, so your mother never mentioned going back to the city. "

Ye Shiyu had never heard his parents talk about this matter, but he had been keenly aware since he was a child that Jiang Yahui looked down on Ye Zhihui, always complaining that he didn't have the ability to make money, but he was reluctant to leave the home that he had worked so hard for for many years.

It was hard for him to imagine that the living conditions of young people in that era were so absurd, but the love of his parents was so touching.

Speaking of which, Ye Shiyu had a premonition that Jiang Yafen would be able to answer any questions she asked, so she simply mentioned Sun Jiang's dropout from school.

In Ye Shiyu's perception, it is not groundless that knowledge can change one's destiny. Children from poor families should believe in the power of knowledge. He couldn't bear to watch Sun Jiang spend his whole life in this mountain.

He secretly glanced at Jiang Yafen, and asked cautiously: "Auntie, why don't you let my little sister continue her studies?"

Jiang Yafen's complexion was ugly, her head shook even more, and her unpainted face was covered with chloasma. Ye Shiyu saw Jiang Yafen's lips visibly trembling, and her eyes looked in the direction of Li Xiangjia. Said: "It's not that I don't let her study, but I dare not let her study."

Going to school is not a revolution, and books are not like monsters that can eat people. Ye Shiyu was confused.

Jiang Yafen looked at Ye Shiyu, as if weighing whether he could understand what he said next, paused for a few seconds, and said slowly: "These two girls go to school in this ditch, and they have to walk a long way every morning Although the road is not a mountain road, it must pass through a field of corn.

One day, Sun Jiang was ill, so I didn't let her go to school. Unfortunately, Li Xiang was dragged into the Baomi Field when she passed by that day. She was such a spoiled little girl.Fortunately, someone passed by and brought her back. It is said that her body was covered in blood, and the white skirt was torn into pieces. It was a crime. "

This word again, Li Xiang's grandma always said "sincere".

Who is doing the crime?

Whose fault is it?

A child of Ye Shiyu's age knew little about the relationship between men and women, but he also roughly understood what happened and how much it affected a girl.

He knocked on the edge of the kang as if venting his anger, clenched his fists and asked angrily, "Have you called the police? Have the police caught the bad guys?"

Jiang Yafen glanced at Ye Shiyu like she was looking at a monster, shook her head, shrank stiffly, stretched her neck and said, "Why call the police? This kind of thing happened, how can she marry after she is a baby girl? Her grandma thought she was ashamed and locked her in the house for several days and wouldn't let her out."

Ye Shiyu knew that in this place, the feudal ideology was deeply rooted, and the deviations in thinking and behavior cognition were destined to lead their lives on a rough road. Only a few words of persuasion from outsiders could not change anything at all, and might even offend them. To them, self-defeating.

In their erroneous perception, it is shameful for a girl to call the police when she is assaulted, and it is ridiculous and irreparable for people to gradually forget about it by swallowing their anger.

Ye Shiyu asked angrily: "So, you dare not let my little sister go to school alone? You are also afraid that she will be ruined by that man."

Jiang Yafen nodded sadly, shaking her head more and more frequently.

Ye Shiyu pushed open the door angrily, and stood around the door with a bag in his hand, and the hand that was about to knock stopped in mid-air.

Ye Shiyu's whole face instantly collapsed: "You want to go?"

The surroundings responded lightly.

Ye Shiyu clenched her fists, turned her head and said to Jiang Yafen: "Auntie, you have children, so seeing other children suffer, you will suffer a lot, but have you ever thought about Li Xiang's true thoughts?

She also has her own feelings, and she also knows what to do and what not to do, have you ever thought that if Sun Jiang was with her that day, maybe both of them would be violated.We can't tolerate adultery, we should report to the police in time, I despise you adults who are watching, it is you who have encouraged the evil deeds of the bad guys. "

Ye Shiyu turned his back to Jiang Yafen, catching the slight sound coming from behind, but Jiang Yafen just put his hands on his knees and closed his eyes slightly.

Ye Shiyu felt that he was in the middle of a lonely desert, no one could understand him and share his pain, he had nothing but his loneliness and stubbornness.

He gritted his teeth, stood there motionless, and said righteously: "Auntie, don't worry about letting my little sister go to school, and I will help you catch the bad guys."

That day, Ye Shiyu went to bed and washed on time, and there was no dream at night.

Departed early the next day.

The author has something to say: Please, please, please collect it, thank you everyone.

(ps: Have you ever seen the old photos of your parents when they were young? It is really a peerless beauty. The wedding dresses of that era have a creamy texture. The suits of that era always have a retro beauty.)