God of danger

"Grass, please don't touch it! It will break!"

Guan Jie narrowed his eyes and begged stiffly like a stone.

Geckos that are good at climbing have two pairs of powerful toe pads, which made his scalp numb.

In all fairness, Guan Jie is really quite courageous, once he caught a white water snake, and even fancifully thought about taking it back to the bedroom and hiding it under the bed to grow into a cool Godzilla.

That time when Guan Jie came home catching the snake, it happened that his mother and sisters were playing mahjong in the main room. Afraid of scaring the ladies, he pinched the snake's head, wrapped the snake's body around his wrist, and clamped it between his fingers. Snake tail, rub the back of the hand on the back of the waist, facing the mahjong table and rubbing into the room.

Who knew that Li Aili knew him well, seeing that there was a problem with his position, he clapped the chicken in his hand and angrily scolded him for taking it out.

Under Guan Jie's coercion, he cautiously showed his hand from the side of his body, scaring away three women playing mahjong on the table in an instant, without even taking the money, including his mother.

Guan Jie was later beaten by Li Aili, but this did not kill his desire to look cool, so just a small gecko, logically speaking, the chain of fear should be reversed.

But the fact is that Guan Jie is really afraid of geckos, because he heard stories told by Lu Rongxing's grandma since he was a child, and he was vividly told the shadows.

The name of the story is One World, One Gecko Tail.

The content is that when a gecko feels threatened, its tail will fall off automatically, and then it will turn into a dart that shoots into people's ears and eyes, stirring people's brains into a pot of hot and spicy soup.

Guan Jie grew up listening to this fantasy story, and later actually saw the broken tail of a gecko still jumping on the ground, so he was in awe of the gecko, and the part of the tail that was not held made him feel goose bumps all over his body. .

He didn't dare to look directly at him and didn't dare to close his eyes completely. His whole body was highly nervous, and he only dared to vent to Lu Rongxing: "I'm not sick, why should I catch it?!"

Lu Rongxing changed his mind in a strange way: "Or it took the initiative to go to your hand?"

He talked so much nonsense that Guan Jie was going crazy: "Brother, I'm not familiar with it, okay?"

Lu Rongxing was almost amused, and accepted it when he saw it: "Okay brother, you know, tell me, what's going on?"

Guan Jie spoke quickly and authentically: "Can we just throw it away and talk again?"

"Okay, let go," Lu Rongxing said listening to the gecko's pitiful cry, "I feel like you're going to crush it to death."

Guan Jie superstitiously shouted: "Impossible, the gecko's tail can't die, and the gecko won't die even if it dies! Mom, my intestines seem to be cramping, hurry up, Take it out in the yard and throw it away."

Lu Rongxing didn't do such wrong things, he said: "How can I take you like this, the tail can't be grasped, if you grasp it, it will be broken, er... not right, maybe it has already been broken, It's just being caught by you, and you still can't see it."

The shedding gecko tail is the real nirvana for Guan Jie, he shuddered and said in horror: "Then, what should I do?"

Lu Rongxing didn't know what he was afraid of, and said relaxedly, "It's over if you lose it."

"It can't be finished!" Guan Jie said, unable to listen to anything except what he wanted to hear, "As soon as I loosen its tail, it will get into my ear."

Lu Rongxing didn't listen to that story less, but he had no shadow, and said with a smile on his face, "Do you believe this too?"

Guan Jie not only believed in this, but also believed in the story that the leech would penetrate the skin, run into the human brain to reproduce and build a kingdom.

So every time he saw a leech by the pool in his backyard, he had to kill one, salt, ashes, and chemical fertilizers, otherwise he would dream of that at night.

In the dream, the soft body that just took a second look at the pool traveled through thousands of mountains and thousands of waters, found his thigh, and then drilled, drilled, and he was no longer separated from each other.

Then some days later he had a splitting headache, and the pain could be relieved only by washing his hair with very hot water.

One day when Li Aili washed his hair and a piece of fleshy scalp fell off, Li Aili would say in amazement: Guan Jie, I finally know why you are so disobedient, because your mind is full of leeches... ...then he'd wake up in despair.

He is such a good boy, as long as others are serious enough, he will believe whatever they say.

Guan Jie was silent there, and Lu Rongxing knew that he believed in those black fairy tales.

He instantly gave up the conventional routine of presenting facts and reasoning with Guan Jie, because this kid is too awkward, Lu Rongxing thought for a while and said: "Otherwise, I will cover your ears for you, and you can throw it away again. right?"

Guan Jie felt that it was feasible, but he also had a little conscience. He said worriedly: "Then it will drill into your ear hole?"

Lu Rongxing started to walk towards the corner to get the piano shaft stuck there: "No, I have no grudge against it."

Guan Jie confirmed it again, and then agreed.

Lu Rongxing turned back and covered his ears on both sides, and shouted from the side as a conductor: "Come on, get ready, one two..."

Guan Jie was always ready to try his best to let go, but when he was about to kick the door, he suddenly dropped the chain and said: "Wait, this doesn't count, you throw it in the grass over there, so as not to kill it."

What he was referring to was a row of wood sorrel in the corner, which didn't need to be taken care of in spring and autumn. At this time, the branches and leaves were already flourishing, and the small rose-red flowers were in full bloom.

Guan Jie listened to his orders and finally threw the gecko into the grass.

Because of the shadow of his childhood, he observed the parabola in the sky very carefully. When he saw that there was only one point all the time, he knew that the gecko's tail was not broken. He didn't need to have a special dream to let Li Aili say that his mind was full of confusion. Soup is spicy.

After getting away from the source of the crisis, Guan Jie's rationality finally came online. He was holding Lu Rongxing's arm, and his mouth was full of lines from martial arts dramas.

Saying that they are not real brothers, they are better than real brothers, unlike Guan Min and him, who only have a sister-in-law relationship in a cesspit.

Lu Rongxing dragged the dog-skin plaster to hold the pipa, and asked him again how he met the gecko.

Guan Jie said: "When I pushed your car in, I closed the door on the right a bit, and I opened the door when I came out. Who knew it was just where I started. As soon as I touched a soft thing , it even made a 'cheep' sound, which frightened me half to death, for some reason, it was in my hand."

Lu Rongxing was very convinced when he heard that, and laughed: "Your luck is really... very strange. Last time you went to the vegetable garden to pick snake beans, and you picked a cauliflower snake back. This time you opened the door, but it opened again. Got a gecko."

If Guan Jie catches a centipede from the river next time, Lu Rongxing will not be surprised.

Guan Jie was afraid of getting a burn, so he stretched his right hand and looked into the gap between his fingers: "This is called a ghost's luck."

Lu Rongxing comforted: "It's okay, at least they are all non-toxic."

Guan Jie thought it made sense, so he ran to wash his hands, and then continued to make up his dreams when he came back, while Lu Rongxing accompanied him with the sound of garbage piano.

Half an hour later, Guan Jie succeeded in becoming an invincible monk who had never done homework all his life before the grid book was wiped out. He was packing the pencil case when he saw Wu Yimin riding a broken bicycle, wearing The basketball court in the courtyard is coming this way.

Soon he stopped not far from Lu Rongxing, and extended an invitation to Guan Jie through the regular Ai Ai. He asked, "Guan Jie, do you want to play in the field?"

The fields are much more fun than the streets. They set fires everywhere these days, and they can roast a lot of food.

If it was normal, Guan Jie would definitely have agreed, but Wu Yimin "failed" him when school was over today, and he didn't want to play with this person for the time being, so he refused: "I don't have a car, I don't want to go, Go yourself."

Wu Yimin let out a disappointed "Oh" and paused for half a minute with his expression on the spot, before he said again: "It wasn't that I didn't want to help you when school was over just now, but I really didn't see it. I think... it's not good to lie, You don't blame me, do you?"

It's okay if he doesn't say this, but when he mentions Guan Jie, he feels angry.

He felt that he was quite nice to Wu Yimin, but in the end the other party didn't even say a word for him. In the future, if he gave Wu Yimin good friends, he would be a pig.

Guan Jie swore in his heart, and wanted to curse, but he didn't dare to be so presumptuous in front of his elders, so he could only pretend to be generous: "No, I'm not that stingy."

Wu Yimin could feel his dissatisfaction, and smiled with half-closed eyes: "Okay, then I'll go first, and I'll come to play with you after dinner."

Guan Jie nodded his head, shaking his chin left and right. Lu Rongxing took a closer look and found that he was actually shaking his head, so he took back what he wanted to say.

To be honest, he didn't know Wu Yimin well, but because of one incident, he had a prejudice against this kid.

That incident was actually very small, so small that he couldn't even bring it up for discussion, but once he passed by Wu Yimin's house, he saw the kid standing in the corner of his house eating a kind of potato chips that had just come from the wholesale department. Very quickly, he wiped his mouth earnestly after eating, and then walked out from the corner.

After a while, Lu Rongxing returned home and found Wu Yimin at Guan Jie's place.

Guan Jie was a bit of a shy person, holding those potato chips and asked Wu Yimin if he had eaten them, Wu Yimin actually said that he had never eaten them, Guan Jie said to eat them together.

Then Lu Rongxing stood outside the window and saw that Wu Yimin ate more than Guan Jie, and then he always saw him eating Guan Jie's snacks, but he never seemed to share it with the other party, and his impression of him has never been better since then.

In fact, people will change, Lu Rongxing obviously felt the change in himself, but it may be that he is rather narrow-minded and always thinks that Guan Jie is too stupid, the most convenient way is not to play with such scheming people up.

He always wanted to say this, but he couldn't say it every time, because his family didn't have the tradition of talking about people behind their backs.

Every time his mother brought up the gossip from ten miles and eight towns, and wanted to rely on speculation to get into a better place, his father would say a particularly disappointing "don't talk about this" to change the topic.

Lu Rongxing was affected by this style of talking, and he didn't know how to say such things. As time passed, he could only hope that stupid people would be lucky.

After Wu Yimin left, Guan Jie moved all the guys who moved out of the house back.

At this time, Lu Rongxing had almost spent an hour of practice time, put the pipa into the piano case, went back to the bedroom and turned on the TV.

Guan Jie also came over within a few minutes, but there was nothing to watch on TV, the two watched the commercials for a while, and finally took out their bicycles and went into the field.

Guan Jie was quite smart. He was the one who suggested this suggestion, but after he finished it, he got stuck, and then added a little strangely: "...But if you don't want to go, then forget it."

He will go by himself.

Sometimes it's not that Lu Rongxing can't spare that little time, he just doesn't like Guan Jie's involuntary attitude.

As an independent individual who can think, no one likes others to make decisions for them unless they actively ask.

Now that Guan Jie was able to ask for his opinion, Lu Rongxing naturally did not feel confrontational. He calmly thought of the torch in the field, and agreed happily.

He has a point-and-shoot camera, and usually has a little interest in taking pictures casually. Guan Jie is not very advanced, he just wants to go to the field to get something to eat.

Since the two only had one car, the long-legged Lu Rongxing became the driver. Guan Jie hung the strap of the idiot around his neck, sat on the back seat with his back to Lu Rongxing, and put the neighbor who was working hard on the bike behind him. The back is used as a sofa cushion, lying on the person's back, swinging the legs, humming and watching the scenery.

The white birch beside the road kept retreating, and Guan Jie imitated Lu Rongxing's example, holding up the fool machine that was not turned on, aiming everywhere with "blind" one eye.

Lu Rongxing rode for a while and remembered that the story of the bicycle was not finished yet, so he raised the topic and asked, "How did you lose your bicycle?"

Guan Jie didn't hear any teasing or teasing from his tone at the moment, and he was willing to share this matter. He said vicissitudes of life: "I went to No. [-] Middle School to deliver food to my sister. They just finished a meeting that day. The school gate was not closed, and after delivering the food, I rode a few laps on their playground."

"Isn't the playground of No. [-] Middle School very big? The track is covered with that kind of red leather and lines are drawn. It's so fun to ride, I forget the time."

I don't know how many laps I have ridden.

"Then the whole school was in class, and I was still on the playground. A teacher thought I was a student in No. [-] Middle School, so he took me to the office and asked me which class I was in, why I didn't obey the school rules, and I had to give me a demerit. something."

"I explained to him for a long time, and then I went back to the playground to see that my car was gone! I asked the teacher to compensate me. He said that the car was lost because I didn't lock it. I..."

Guan Jie said as if his world view was shattered: "How did I know there were thieves in the school?"

It will take many years for them to know that school is also a world of all kinds. In addition to thieves, there will also be murderers.

But at this time, due to his lack of experience, Lu Rongxing stood on the sidelines and secretly gave the school and Guan Jie [-] boards each. He said, "Did the school find a car for you later?"

"I found it," Guan Jie said angrily, but he would not distort the facts, "the gate was closed at that time, and the teacher took me to the place where the car was kept in the school to search, but I couldn't find it. The person who stole the car It is estimated that it will go out after stealing."

Guan Jie’s family is not well-off, and he borrowed a lot of money to treat his grandfather who is suffering from cancer, and he still hasn’t paid it off. The bicycle was his tenth birthday present, and he may not be able to do so until the foreign debts are cleared. Own another one.

A little sympathy suddenly grew in Lu Rongxing's heart, and he softened his tone a little: "Then did your mother beat you when you went home?"

Guan Jie: "I hit it."

After the beating, she acted like nothing happened, but she cried, as if she was the one who was beaten.

President Lu Rong has never been beaten at such a young age. His family is taught scriptures. An angry Wang Yang is equal to three Tang Sanzang who can read the dead bull demon king's younger brother. If she doesn't convince people, she won't let the class go .

Lu Rong acted very cautiously in his words and deeds in order not to be accused of being pierced by the magic voice, so every time he heard that Guan Jie was beaten, he felt that it was not good.

Because Guan Jie was beaten, he might not become a good boy, but Lu Rongxing didn't know what to do to be a good boy.

The two of them didn't speak for the next part of the road. It wasn't until they approached the fork that Lu Rongxing spoke again, "Which way are you going?"

Guan Jie turned his back to the front, and his sense of direction was a bit confused. He said, "Go to the right...ah no, it's my right. You turn left."

There was a cornfield on the side of the road on the right, Guan Jie called to stop the car there, turned his teeth to break four corns, walked for a while and passed a sweet potato field, and went down to pick a potato seedling.

The underground part of the sweet potato is so intertwined that it is almost impossible to pull it out with bare hands unless it is on the sandy ground. Lu Rongxing held a camera and squatted on the side of the road to watch. It was obvious that he had come prepared.

Guan Jie took out a small folding shovel from nowhere. The head of the shovel was only three centimeters, and when folded it was less than ten centimeters.

He probably stuffed it in his trouser pocket before, but Lu Rongxing didn't pay attention, he was shocked by Guan Jie's familiarity, looked around and found no one, so he went to talk to Guan Jie with peace of mind.

He said objectively: "If we are like this, are we also stealing other people's things?"

"That's right," Guan Jie stepped on his small shovel into the soil with his feet, and pried it down with both hands, without raising his head, "My mother is that 'other'."

Lu Rongxing didn't dare to forget this brother's unreliability for a moment, and followed up to confirm: "Is this your land? Don't dig it wrong."

"It can't be wrong," Guan Jie said confidently, "My mother buried those plastic bags on the ridge of the field, and she marked them specially because she was afraid that I might make a mistake."

Lu Rongxing looked around, and sure enough, at the end of the field where he was squatting, on the trail used for walking, he saw a pile of packing bags pressed by clods of soil, but there were no other ridges.

This made Lu Rongxing a little puzzled. He sorted out his thoughts and felt that when Guan Jie's mother was busy with farm work for no reason, she would still remember that her son would come to the field one day for a good harvest, so he would give him a gift in advance. Focus, so it's most likely that he really dug and missed before.

Lu Rongxing asked casually, and then realized that he was really good at predicting things.

While skillfully picking out three sweet potatoes from the ground, Guan Jie recalled his embarrassment.

"Yes," he rolled his eyeballs upwards, making a look of reminiscence, "For the picnic in the summer vacation last year, everyone had a different division of labor. My task was to find carrots to stew mussels."

"The vegetables in our yard are picked randomly, and we can't finish them anyway. I thought it was the same outside, so... I picked two carrots in a random field."

"As a result, my heaven and earth, just as I lifted the radish tassels, I ran into the aunt who planted that field. She was so stingy, and she chased me from the field to the house with a sickle for the two radishes. Mom complained."

"If I don't learn well, I will become a thief now. In the future, I will have to sit through the prison. My mother was so angry that she almost twisted my ears off, and asked me to pay more attention in the future, and then I will do this to her again. She chopped me up and sent it to the house where it was stolen as chicken feed."

The summer before last, Lu Rong went to his grandfather's house to sit on the bench, and missed it. He was amused by Guan Jie's nonchalant tone, and asked, "So serious?"

Guan Jie carried the sweet potato vines and dropped the mud on the ground, and said hahaha: "I'm lying to you, my mother just told me to go to my own field to spoil in the future. She planted everything for me, so I don't want to embarrass her. .”

Because of family reasons, Li Aili only had a primary school diploma, and she couldn't tell any convincing truths, but Guan Jie always remembered that after the aunt retreated that day, his mother was washing rice in the yard, and tears flowed down her cheeks.

She said that she felt uncomfortable when someone scolded him, and she wanted to scold him back, but she had no reason, because although the two carrots were worthless, they could stop her from saying anything with just one sentence.

Stealing more and stealing less is all stealing. This is a qualitative truth.

Li Aili seldom cried, but Guan Jie felt that this was a big deal.

In fact, until now, he still felt that he was wrong, but only a little bit, so that he would not be dragged and scolded across the street.But Li Aili told him not to mention others as soon as he introspected. If he admits his mistakes, he can just correct them next time. There is nothing he dare not admit to such a small mistake.

As for what happens to others, that's other people's business, and if they don't give him money, why should he worry about others.

Guan Jie hasn't understood the logic of "it's only his fault" for the time being, and it's his mother who really made him remember this matter.

He sighed a little belatedly: "I don't want to let her be scolded like that."

Especially because of him.

Lu Rongxing looked at him squatting among the green vines, his delicate face was full of entanglements, as if he was a little dazed, but also with a kind of determination, and a quiet temperament rarely appeared on his body.

The so-called rarity is the most precious, this frame should not be missed, Lu Rongxing moved his finger to turn on the camera, and put those unremarkable plastic bags and Guan Jie into the same frame.

The moment he took that photo, he was filled with emotions that he couldn't express yet, about how parents affect their children. Lu Rongxing's clearest thought was that Aunt Li was always a good mother.

And the word that he couldn't summarize at his age is actually called family education.

In countless ordinary families like them in the world, "upbringing" are two words so far away that they never appear in life.

Carrying out a family, providing for children to study and providing for the elderly, almost fills the entire life of parents. They have neither the time nor the ability to educate the next generation with the quality that symbolizes civilization.

Therefore, their influence on the child's character lies in every constraint and encouragement they get along with each other day and night. Even if the parents have not noticed, every big and small thing they acquiesce or teach their children is their attitude, which will be passed on silently To children, to be the bricks and tiles that build character and behavior in the future.

This is why people say that children are the epitome of parents, because every word and deed is education.