wild cranberries

In the alleys of Zhujiatang, there is little sunshine all year round.Upstairs, the privately built illegal houses are layered upon layers of hills, completely covering the sun.When the sun comes out by chance, drying the quilt upstairs, and dusting it randomly, can drop a dozen duck down and a dozen ashes into the pot on the first floor.The cement floor is also poorly paved, the potholes are always so full of water, if you step on a thunder accidentally, the splash is dirty all over the upper of the shoe.In addition to the negative test, there is a musty smell of decay over the accumulated days, it is really not a good place to live.

But the house price is not high, and it is next to a group of old high schools in Qingyi, so it can be regarded as a very popular school district.Therefore, the first floor of the alley is crowded and crowded with scattered tenants.

Peng Xiaoman was a day student, and he rented the house here with his grandma.

Li Yuan had always been deeply aware of her lateness, but it was only in the summer that she realized that a classmate had moved in at the door of her house, and she was actually at the same desk as her.How much is it to keep one's ears out of the window to not notice?In fact, the two are not people who only read sage books at all.

In fact, Li Yuan can't be blamed for being slow.Peng Xiaoman always gets up late and leaves late, so that he can play the sidelines of school rules and disciplines. Sometimes the toothbrush here is dazed and he hasn't put it in his mouth yet, and Li Yuan has already arrived at school to eat pancakes.Physically and physically, there is jet lag, and no one will believe it when they tell it. The two of them have never met face to face in the alley in the morning.

Coincidentally, I was leaving school after the long detention in the old class.

Lin Yixiong went to work early, and Li Yuan didn't go for a walk for a while, took the car from the shed and went straight home.Unexpectedly, Peng Xiaoman and Peng Xiaoman walked side by side awkwardly and silently in the night at first, thinking that the other party was following them, so their brains twitched, and they kept speeding up compared with each other, and they were riding on the main road. There was a fake Tour de France.After Qiqi rang the bell and turned the bicycle into the narrow alley, Li Yuan slammed on the hand brake, raised her eyebrows, panted slightly with Peng Xiaoman, and said the third sentence of this semester. Word: "So, so you, live here?"

The first sentence is the first day Peng Xiaoman was transferred to the class. Li Yuan took the initiative to knock on the desk as a sub-class duty to remind: "Get the books and exercise books and go to the Academic Affairs Office, the first office on the second floor of the administrative building." Peng Xiaoman raised his head. Smiling and thanking politely, Li Yuan replied with the second sentence: "You're welcome."

"Forget it, our family rents this place." Peng Xiaoman didn't quite understand how to describe the current situation at the moment, he flicked his bangs a little short of breath, his calves were sore and weak, and he wanted to kneel, "Actually, we just moved here not long ago...why? Are you—my neighbor?"

"Half." Without laughing, Li Yuan extended an index finger to the fourth floor, touched her knee, "This building is 402, my house, I have lived here for more than ten years."

"Hey." Peng Xiaoman turned his head in embarrassment, with short curled and dark eyelashes on the side.

Isn't that a coincidence?

Li Yuan took out a square steel-wheel lighter from the closet, Lin Yixiong's, and lit Su Yan, whose mouthpiece was soft.The inner room is dark, and only a palm-sized wall lamp in the corridor is used for lighting.A small ball of pale yellow warm light spread out from under the lampshade, and a star of orange red flickered around the mouth.He has a hot body and is prone to sweating especially in summer. You Kaifeng always said that looking at him is "sensual".At this moment, the lining of the school uniform was soaked through, and it was hanging limply on the body, and a thin layer of sweat stuck to the waist at the hem.

He simply took off his shirt and threw it into the washing machine, then went bare-chested and opened half the screen window in the room.Although the noise of cars and water outside the house suddenly increased, the humid cool wind full of water vapor also had a gap to penetrate into the room, blowing away the stale.

Nunu is an orange pear cat, the least expensive Chinese native cat.The big, fluffy face with capitalized forehead is reunion, embedded with a pair of bright amber eyeballs, as clear as a pool of water; not very familiar with life, shivering at people, raising his face and opening his mouth to let out a "meow" , so cute that people poke their hearts and lungs, wishing they could give up their lives.And it's rare to be obedient and clingy, not cold at all, and has a temper like a puppy.

Li Yuan raised her hand and took down the big bag of cat food from the refrigerator, and filled it up into the small pink plastic basin under the wall with a clatter.

Nunu yelled softly, raised her head, and took the warm pink pad to press the bottom of Li Yuan's jeans.I heard from the Internet that this is a standard breastfeeding position, which means instinctively wanting to get close.Li Yuan was very useful.

His trousers were shortened deliberately by him, making his legs look older and longer. Under the gray fringe, a thin ankle was intentionally exposed.Around his ankles was a dark red rope ring strung with copper plates.The hem of the trousers was splashed with accumulated rain, leaving a circle of dark water stains.

"hungry?"

There is only one person and one cat in the family, and no one can answer.

If you really come back, you will live to hell.

Li Yuan squeezed the cigarette between her fingers, squatted down and snorted at its soft head, "This time I'm quite honest, I didn't dare to jump up and scratch the bag again, are you scared?"

"..."

"Shall I open a can for you tomorrow?"

"..."

"Good."

Nunu ate without looking up, just sticking out her pink tongue and rolling pieces of cat food into her mouth to chew.Li Yuan smiled and stretched out her hand to stroke its slender beige beard, watching it shake its round head while it kept working with its mouth, making crisp and crunching sounds.

The house is usually so quiet and unpopular.

Since Li Xiaoxing left, most of the things in the house were left unused. The two elders lived like a temple. Found a cover of ash.

Li Yuan spends most of his time at school and on the way back and forth; Lin Yixiong's jurisdiction area is small and crowded, with ten thousand permanent residents. Today your family lost an electric car, and tomorrow his house door lock can't be opened, trivial matters Zhang’s parents, Li’s family, are short and big, and it’s difficult to get home every shift. A small police station in a police station is more noisy than the FBI’s international spies.

Therefore, most of the time, Nunu would go out to eat "hundreds of meals" for a living, and only in the evening did he know how to pace back and eat a proper meal on time.Li Yuan is also very distressed and reluctant, but has nothing to do.I often hold it on my lap, help it untie the famous brand collar that I don’t know which kind-hearted person put on it, and slowly clean the grease in my ears for it, and let its round head keep babbling.

"Do you still know your last name, Li Nunu? Let me tell you, I allow you to fall in love with someone else's family, but I will never allow you to fall in love with someone else's family. You are mine. Please remember, you There can only be one shit-shoveling officer, and that is me, the suave and suave me sitting in front of you..."

Just in front of the cat, really real, swaying, he is a fool who has cut his strings, he is a young man.

When someone knocked on the door with "Tuk Tuk", Li Yuan's cigarette was half-burned, and before the ash could be dusted off, it trembled a long way from the place where the sparks were, and occasionally fell into two light gray dots. on the knee.Li Yuan rolled her eyelids in response, her eye sockets were deep, and she suddenly formed a pair of big European-style eyes.He cleared his ambiguous throat, got out of his silent thoughts, propped himself up against the white wall behind him, and stood up, "Come here and wait a minute."

Uncle Song, who thought it was the milk delivery man from Shuhong New Village, went upstairs to collect the milk bottles. Without thinking, he bit his cigarette holder and opened a wooden door inside, "I'll get you the bottle, just—"

He stopped talking halfway.It wasn't Uncle Song at the door, but a little old lady with short ears, slightly hunched back, squinting eyes and smiling softly.

"Is it Li Yuan? Ouch, that's so tall." The old lady said.

The house in Zhujiatang was built in the past [-]s. It is located in a tight location with poor lighting. nothing happened.The layout of the old houses is outdated, and there are not many anti-theft doors installed. Generally, there are two doors, one wooden and one gauze.Through the grayish blue screen door, Li Yuan clenched her cigarette butt, reached out to touch her bare collarbone, and looked at the old lady and blinked.

Who is this.

The portrait looks like he has just come out of the kitchen, the apron on his waist has not been taken off in time, and the white floral flowers on the dark blue background are wrapped tightly around his narrow waist twice; the hair is well-groomed, white and black Small, densely combed to create smooth lines, and pressed to the top with a black headband.The old lady was thin, but her face was fair and moist, and the bridge of her nose was like a piece of Hetian jade lying in the center of her eyes, which was smooth and translucent as if it could reflect light.

It seems that they have vaguely met each other, but it is strange.

"……you are?"

At this time, there was a slow breathing with audible sound and light footsteps kicking the steps at the stairway. Li Yuan opened the screen door, her eyes subconsciously followed the sound.Peng Xiaoman put two gaudy bandages on his mouth, took off his school uniform, put on a big black T-shirt with the big-eyed boy from Monster University, and stepped on a pair of tropical sandals; Handrail, standing in the corridor panting lightly, glanced at Li Yuan first, then stared slightly at the little old lady at the door with her brown eyes: "...Your legs are so fast, you don't look like a 70-year-old old lady at all. Ma'am." When Peng Xiaoman spoke, he was panting slightly.

The old lady folded her hands on the hem of the apron, she was quite playful, and she squinted at him with her mouth shut: "Just counting you slow, you don't look like a 17-year-old boy at all."

Li Yuan was dumbfounded.Facing Peng Xiaoman: "You... her?"

Peng Xiaoman was very embarrassed, touched the back of his head, and explained: "This is my grandma, she must... said to come to ask you about... the situation."

After speaking, he raised his eyebrows unobtrusively, and compared the corners of his mouth.

Li Yuan understood, and then she suddenly realized something. She hopped and took a big step back, her bare waist bumped into the shoe cabinet, and a black leather shoe of more than 40 sizes fell out with a bang, " You, you, you, wait for me, I, I will go in and get dressed first."

He grabbed the cigarette butt out of his mouth and extinguished it in his palm.

Peng Xiaoman poked his head and saw that he was holding up the waistband of his trousers to cover up the exposed part of his underwear, while he ran to the back room in a panic, he couldn't help but tilt his head and press the corner of his mouth to hold back a smile.

The old lady rubbed her hands together and shouted inside, "My little old lady doesn't shy away from this, don't worry, take your time!"

Also inexplicably a little teasing.

Li Yuan randomly grabbed Lin Yixiong's hurdle vest, put it on, lowered her head and quickly glanced at the two spots on her chest, to see if it was covered.After passing the bathroom, he got into the light speed and rinsed his mouth at the speed of light, and spat hard to clean up the smell of cigarettes—it’s useful for farts, and he can see everything he needs to see clearly.

"Ask if you have anything, and I'll tell you everything I know." Li Yuan wiped off the bright water stain on her chin, and moved aside, "Why don't you two come in and talk? No one is home."

"Hey, you're welcome, you're welcome, it's no big deal, just say it at the door, and you will trample your house down when you go in." The old lady spoke with a Qingbei accent, so it doesn't matter if you just listen to long passages, but some pronunciations are quite special, such as "Ran" can be pronounced as "Lan", and "Gao" can be pronounced as "Gou". The overall sound is gentle and gentle, and the tone of the tone will end with a slightly playful upward move.

Peng Xiaoman stood straight behind the old lady with his hands behind his back, listening to the faint sound of rain echoing in the corridor, he pursed his lips, rolled his eyes and looked down at his feet, without making a sound.

"I, it's nothing serious, I just want to ask, our little man, what's the matter with this wound on his face?" The old lady frowned a little, pointed behind her, and whispered: "Is it with you?" Did someone fight? Oh my dear, I saw that he had such a big wound on his face as soon as he came back! Ask him, the little bastard won’t tell me the truth about him.”

After Li Yuan listened, she turned her gaze to Peng Xiaoman with no expression on her face, and saw that the other party squeezed her right eye at her swiftly and indistinctly—don't tell the truth, it's up to you, a strong man, clasping fists.jpg.

Happy to hear.Li Yuan raised her hand and touched the tip of her nose——All right.

"No, grandma, don't worry, he didn't fight, I know that I'm sitting in the back seat of him." The mouth is full of good words, and there is no fear of lying.

Only then did Peng Xiaoman take a step forward and spread his hands, obviously full of confidence, "Look, look! If I said I didn't fight, you must believe me this time—"

"Don't talk!" The old lady turned her head, stretched out her hand to give him an elbow on his waist, and said back, "That little kite."

Li Yuan was taken aback for a moment, then smiled.

"Oh, my name is Li Yuan, why don't you just call her Xiao Yuan?" Peng Xiaoman continued to jump in and interjected.

"Oh, yes, you talk a lot of nonsense. If you don't talk about it now, what's the matter with you? Stay by the side and don't make any noise. I'll ask first!" The old lady waved her hand and opened her mouth. After the training, he turned his head to look at Li Yuan and squinted his eyes: "Is it okay to call you Xiao Yuan?"

Li Yuan shook her head: "As you please."

"Since it's not a fight... please tell me, Xiaoyuan, how did our family Xiaoman make his mouth look like a bear? You are the deputy monitor, Xiaoman said that you study well in the class and have a sense of responsibility." , the teacher also trusts, you must know the truth, right?"

"he……"

Just as Peng Xiaoman was about to mouth to him, the old lady quickly turned her head to look at him, pursed her lips at the tip of Peng Xiaoman's nose and nodded.

"Don't worry about him, Xiaoyuan, tell me."

Seeing the old lady's burning eyes, Li Yuan was embarrassed for a moment, and she went around in circles in her head, knocking, kicking, kicking, knocking, flashing, and picking one by lottery: "Knocked, he knocked."

Peng Xiaoman immediately supported his forehead behind his back.

"Knock?!" The old lady was surprised at the moment, half-believing.

Seeing her old man frown, Li Yuan immediately thought it was bad: I miscalculated, it was not accurate.

"Where did you tell me to knock?" The old lady turned around and asked Peng Xiaoman suspiciously.

"I knocked my mouth." Peng Xiaoman resentfully compared the Band-Aid with a standard smirk.

"I asked where you knocked your mouth!"

Peng Xiaoman blinked, took another look at Li Yuan, and stumbled: "Knock, knock that... the door is closed...?"

"Are you asking me or I'm asking you?" The old lady stretched out her hand and gently pulled Peng Xiaoman towards Li Yuan, and lifted her chin on the door bone, "Come on, the door frame is here, and I can't grow legs or run. Knock another one to open grandma's eyes, just knock at the corner of the mouth, don't knock it crookedly for me, come and knock."

Li Yuan wanted to laugh, but raised her head and forbearance.

Peng Xiaoman turned his head and stared at him, then tossed the pot—he couldn't help it!Why do you insist on knocking? No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like it!

Li Yuan lowered her eyelids and raised them again, her brows twitched—you didn't vaccinate me, why didn't you tell her to knock on the door?

Peng Xiaoman coughed lightly, and pulled off the loose collar - can you get me round?

Li Yuan touched the bridge of her nose - try it.

"Grandma, listen to me."

Li Yuan opened her mouth and said "The Story of the Red Lantern", lifted her hurdling vest, reached out to hook Peng Xiaoman's shoulder, and turned him over with force: "What about us, aren't we going to the old math class this afternoon?" What? Your family Peng Xiaoman's old Bant likes it, and he is also the representative of the mathematics class. Then, he was called to help carry "Famous Teacher Classroom" to the office..."

Peng Xiaoman didn't speak, and very cooperatively put on a false gesture, just like an acting class without real objects.Li Yuan stretched out a long and slender arm to hook his neck, and Peng Xiaoman immediately felt an extremely soft smell of fabric softener on his body, lingering on his nose.

"At that time, I was just hooking him up to discuss, discuss...discussing what to have for lunch! I said to eat fried noodles in the canteen, and your family Peng Xiaoman was not happy. He said he wanted to eat wontons, but I said wontons are not full, so I still have to eat fried noodles , he thinks fried noodles are too oily...then we just go and talk, just, just go!"

The two walked around the old lady in the corridor shoulder to shoulder, chattering non-stop.Peng Xiaoman kept pace, and he was extremely "dedicated" to putting down the stack of exercise books in his arms.

"while walking."

Li Yuan's stride suddenly stopped, Peng Xiaoman was defenseless, his left foot almost tripped over his right, and he couldn't keep up with the rhythm of his sudden stride.

"Grandma, think about it. There are so many people after class. The two of us saw that there were a few people from the next class in front of the corridor. They happened to be chasing and fighting in the corridor. Two or three of them ran towards each other and rushed over."

Li Yuan raised her palm, "I said 'hey, be careful', and then hooked his neck and pulled him to the side." Li Yuan's hand went over Peng Xiaoman's neck and hooked it Clasped his left shoulder and buckled his collarbone.

Peng Xiaoman felt his neckline tighten, and when he realized he had already staggered a small step back, and was swung aside by Li Yuan's arm.

"That's all I've done so hard, I've seen your Peng Xiaoman being taken around twice in the same place by me."

Li Yuan winked quickly - turn around.

Depend on!

A vein twitched on Peng Xiaoman's forehead, and he spun around twice on the spot like dancing a ballet while holding the book.

"Of, and then...he didn't pay attention and his foot tilted."

Peng Xiaoman sprained his lower ankle in response.

"Then face the door frame, 'bang dang'!"Knock on the door behind the class next door. "

Peng Xiaoman stabilized his swaying figure, regained his center of gravity and took a big step forward, leaning his face against the keel of Li Yuan's house, and he added an onomatopoeia of "boom."In the end, with a throw of the arms, there was a splash, and the ends were finished neatly with a sprinkling of books.

Flowing clouds and flowing water in one go, perfect.

"The mouth, anyway, I saw it was swollen at the time, but it didn't bleed."

Peng Xiaoman kowtowed, forced to cover half of his face, turned his back to his grandma and suppressed a smile, his shoulders trembled slightly, and he owed a lot.

Seeing Peng Xiaoman's smile, Li Yuan couldn't hold back for a while, so he raised his eyebrows, restrained the corners of his twitching mouth, and continued to talk with a serious face and extreme dedication: "Really grandma, he just happened to be in a hurry." It just happened to hit the mouth, and it is likely to be able to hit it once in a lifetime, just like winning the Mark Six lottery, you, you actually don’t expect to be able to reproduce the original scene, he must also wonder how he can knock so accurately.”

Peng Xiaoman couldn't hold back when he arrived, and after hearing a "puchi" he broke his power, squatting on the ground laughing so that his whole body couldn't help shaking.The lines of his arched back are smooth and gentle, like the chic strokes in a sketchbook.

Talking kung fu is really better.Li Yuan also tilted her head to cover her mouth after Bara, struggling to hold on to the last line of defense.

"It's over?"

The old lady stood quietly as if she had listened to a Huangmei opera in one breath, and finally pulled her hair behind her ears and sighed: "The two boys will treat my little old lady as a silly monkey who doesn't know anything. Isn't that right? Hey, hello to this show—" The old lady shook her head, her slightly deflated mouth curled up straight: "You said, you two should have been born more than ten years earlier, so what's the matter with Guo Degang and Yuqian now? Ah? Xiaoman, did you tell grandma?"

Peng Xiaoman turned his head to smile at her, with a faint crimson smile on the tip of his nose: "We didn't act!"

"Say it again? Say it again? You touch your dog-gnawing conscience and tell me something else?" He raised his hand and wanted to hit him.

Conscience is worthless, Peng Xiaoman put his hands on his left chest indifferently, and said loudly: "I, Peng Xiaoman, touched my conscience and said, if I--" the end of the sentence suddenly stopped, after a pause, he changed the subject quickly, shrugging. Nose: "You, isn't the mung bean soup on your stove going to boil?"

"Ouch." The old lady was startled after hearing this, and then patted her thigh with her hand, "Ouch, ouch!"

"Look who told you to go out in a hurry and not remember to turn off the gas stove! Come back quickly and don't burn the house down!" Peng Xiaoman yelled.

Li Yuan turned her head to watch her anxiously wiping her apron with her hands, opened and closed her feet and then turned around and went downstairs.As he started to trot, he muttered: "I'll forget about it if you don't tell me, you little bastard! Okay, stop shouting, I'll go first!"

"Grandma, please slow down!" Li Yuan lowered her head and gave an order, then turned her head and asked Peng Xiaoman, "Did you take the umbrella? It's still raining outside."

"It's okay, the heating pipes of the awning of the external machine upstairs are so complete, she belongs to the yellow croaker, and she won't get wet at all when she walks back and forth."

"You got it back in one sentence, why didn't you say it earlier?"

Peng Xiaoman squatted on the ground and raised his face to laugh at him, showing his white teeth, "I just remembered."

The two looked at each other like this, neither of them could hold back, and at the same time they turned their heads and propped their foreheads for 5 minutes without stopping.

"To be honest." Peng Xiaoman rubbed his face: "To be honest, with your eloquence and impromptu performance, you really have nothing to do with Shan Tianfang if you take a gavel."

"More than that, the patriarch will enjoy the meal." Shameless, Li Yuan crawled along the pole without changing his face, and then said: "Can you please make a confession with me in advance before you come back like this? It’s not blindfolded, do you think she really believes it?”.

"Believe her or not. Anyway, I don't want to scold me too much, just let it go for a while." Peng Xiaoman bent his eyes and lowered his head to pick a long, blue and white toe protruding from his sandals. Oops, tell him, if you don’t believe me, ask us to go to the top three in our class, and then live on the side and go up to the fourth floor, then how would I know that she really came when she put her foot down.”

Li Yuan leaned against the wall and raised her eyebrows: "Yes, then just throw the blame on me."

"Then, aren't you the vice monitor?"

"My deputy squad leader, should I help you carry the stinky basket?" Li Yuan went on to laugh, "It's a good thing I don't mess around when I'm in danger."

"Your mind is also very fast."

"Thank you."

Peng Xiaoman cupped his fists: "You're welcome."

Nunu heard the movement outside the door, and didn't know when she came out with small steps along the base of the wall.Walking in front of Peng Xiaoman, it raised its left paw and slapped the plate twice, then pressed both hands on his knee, and gently raised its chin.

"Scared me." Peng Xiaoman was taken aback by the shock. He was taken aback for a moment, then looked down, and his eyes lit up immediately, "So yours isn't wild? I'm a giant grass—cute, My grandma always feeds it some food."

Li Yuan walked forward, raised her foot and shoved its butt unwillingly, "It's fucking affectionate with everyone, as if it was born and raised."

Nunu stretched out his warm little tongue to reach his fingertips, Peng Xiaoman stretched out his hand and let him lick it without hesitation, it was itchy, his hands shrank and trembled, he laughed, "Is it famous?"

"Nunu, the one who worked hard."

Peng Xiaoman raised his head after hearing this: "Nunu? Let's fuck, vice squad leader?"

"Are you masturbating too? Diamonds or silver?" Li Yuan leaned against the wall with her arms folded, "Don't stress to me that the vice class president and the president of the student union also dota every day."

"Occasionally come to two rankings." Peng Xiaoman stroking the cat with one hand, while giving him a thumbs up, "I just give away the head dish to get bronze, and play two games that people scold and can't find the north. "

Li Yuan saw that his brownish-yellow pupils were bright and pale under the dim voice-activated light, as if diluted with a layer of transparent nail polish.It is between the color of glass and amber, and the pupil color is rare, which is not very oriental in aesthetics, but it gives people the illusion of being able to penetrate into the inside at a glance.

"Do you smoke?"

Peng Xiaoman suddenly asked a question with a half-smile.There is no emotion in the words, neither a disgust of superiority nor a nameless longing for actions outside these orders, like a sentence of "how old are you".Habitual, natural, not offensive, it sounds very comfortable.

Li Yuan rubbed her neck: "It's big enough...I showed you before I had time to pinch it."

"I'm not saying you're afraid of ghosts."

Li Yuan just wanted to say nonsense, but you were not the only one who saw it.

"My grandma won't say it, don't worry, do you know why she can live to be more than 70 years old?"

"Because she never meddles in other people's business, right?" Li Yuan completed the joke, raised her mouth and leaned against the wall and smiled: "Did anyone say that she kissed grandma? She also said that she was a yellow croaker."

Peng Xiaoman shook his head: "She's used to it long ago, don't worry, she can talk nonsense eight times more than I can if she really lets loose, she is the one who can turn a corner and swear at people in our family, and eighty cents of rotten green peppers can be compared with her." People chattered for half an hour, and the price was reduced to [-] cents, and the vegetable seller who I relied on talked about would almost kneel down and sing to her old man to conquer."

After hearing this, Li Yuan leaned against the wall and laughed uncontrollably.

Squatting and standing, with a distance of three or two steps, the two of them came and went and talked a lot, making it seem like they really knew each other well.Before going downstairs to go home, Peng Xiaoman, in order to show his gratitude, explained that he would bring Li Yuan breakfast early.Li Yuanxin said that in terms of your arrival time at school, I was so hungry that I could only eat in class secretly when I came. I really want to thank you for writing the [-]-word review for me.After thinking about it, he didn't show any kindness to him, so he nodded and said, "Okay, I'll leave you a belly."