This year's summer feels like it's coming a little earlier than in previous years. After every spring rain, the weather gets a little hotter. It feels like the New Year has just ended and it's time to get sweaty just by looking at the sun-drenched streets.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was setting in the west.
The fan on the second floor is spinning slowly, and the wind it blows can only create a 'warm barrier' that covers a person. Occasionally, a natural wind blows in from the balcony, and the balcony curtains are slightly disturbed, and the light spilled into the living room changes with the disturbance of the curtains. The brightness flickered, and just in time a dark orange light climbed onto the face of a certain boy on the sofa, and then slid down as the curtains moved, repeated several times, like a giant goldfish swimming on his body.
The calendar hanging on the wall occasionally lifts a page and then falls, and the wind chime tied to the balcony never rises or falls for a long time.
Feng Wuli looked at the balcony. The old residential buildings across the old street were dazzlingly white from the sun. The sky was clear and the cicadas were chirping for a long time.
The zombies are dead and no one is willing to go out.
The balcony faces the street, and there are noisy sounds below. Residents in the old street are chatting while fanning their big sunflower fans. The voices of children in twos and threes are getting louder and then gradually disappearing. The tofu seller’s shouts are lingering, mixed with a few barks and scoldings of dogs. Angrily, someone passed by on a bicycle, and the bell rang loudly, and the sound could travel far away.
Until the last chirping sound of the cicada disappears in the summer afternoon, the wind disappears, the calendar and wind chimes fall, the balcony curtains remain motionless as if they were not the ones blooming just now, the world is so quiet except for the sound of TV cartoons and the whirring of fans, it always feels like again A little hotter.
He was sitting quietly on the sofa on the second floor, holding the remote control in his hand and watching TV intently. Recently, Wang Xilou planned to go through the enrollment procedures for him.
She said she planned to send him to kindergarten for one year and then start first grade next year.
Feng Wuli suspected that it was because he was competing with her to watch TV.
I can watch TV now only because I beat her legs all morning.
Ye Ji on the side despised him.
What can Feng Wuli do? He is weak, pitiful and helpless.
Wang Xilou has no humanity.
Wang Xilou likes to watch costume dramas, and every time she watches them, she always curses around him, but there is a look in her eyes that he can't understand; she likes to listen to operas and can hum to herself, and he thinks Wang Xilou can hum better than on TV It sounded good; she also liked to watch TV commercials and secretly hid in her room several times to call and ask. She said that she actually preferred listening to the radio, but the radio from many years ago was broken and she couldn't repair it.
Feng Wuli felt that Wang Xilou was a very old-fashioned person. He was obviously a youthful city girl, but the things he liked were very outdated. It felt like she herself was about to become outdated.
When Liu Xiaoxiao came to play with him that day, they found out that their computers at home were not connected to the Internet. Feng Wuli asked Wang Xilou what the Internet was. She scratched her head and muttered, "I don't know, either...", Cong Xiaoxiao From the smiling expression, networking seemed to be the correct use of computers, but Wang Xilou laughed and said that he didn’t know how to do it, and he bought the computer only after seeing others fix it. At that moment, Feng Wuli felt that both she and the radio were being used. Times have passed.
Everything has a shelf life, fruits have a shelf life, canned dace also has a shelf life, Wang Xilou’s shelf life is eight hundred years ago.
Feng Wuli listened to Wang Xilou, who was singing folk songs with a tone that was different from today's Chinese, and saw her coming up the stairs humming and holding a plate of watermelon.
First the head.
Then the body.
Finally, all of Bai Huahua's long legs appeared from the stairs.
Taking a brisk but perhaps not very smart step.
Wearing home-style gray cotton shorts on the lower body and a cool white suspender on the upper body, these are the clothes that are most relevant to this era. She tossed her slippers casually and sat next to him.
Even though the sofa was so big, she still squeezed herself out of the way.
Wang Xilou likes to have fun just like the crows in the village, and for the sake of the fruit, Feng unreasonably endures the humiliation.
"Pleasant Goat, please slow down, Boiling Goat, push Pleasant Goat."
Wang Xilou suddenly turned his head to watch the TV and found that it was a normal picture. He turned around and said to Feng Wuli blankly: "What cartoon are you watching? Turn the channel."
Feng Wuli pressed the remote control.
"Wen Cai, hurry up and prepare the glutinous rice and black dog's blood. Buy them before dark."
"Master wants to eat sticky rice."
"What are you going to eat with glutinous rice? Go as soon as you are told!"
The show was a Hong Kong movie that has been popular for many years. In it, an uncle with unibrows and a yellow coat was preparing to open a forum to fight zombies.
Wang Xilou's face darkened.
"What's going on? Want to learn some moves to deal with Master?"
"Can the zombies in this zombie movie compare to me? Are they afraid of glutinous rice? What kind of rubbish?"
"So ugly!"
Feng Wuli didn't give it to her. He beat his legs all morning in exchange for it, so he could see whatever he wanted.
She started commenting on the television.
"Wang Xilou, I don't want to go to school." He tried to make his voice heard.
Wang Xilou looked at his bun-like face. She didn't know how to persuade him as she had no experience in parenting. She crossed her legs on the sofa and said, "Why don't you go to school?"
I simply don’t want to go, it’s too willful to say this, and Feng Wuli can’t say it out loud.
"Now, it's a good era. Everyone can go to school, everyone is like this, and you can make a lot of new friends when you go to school."
He shook his head and said, "It's enough for me to have Wang Xilou."
It is always easy for children to say what adults are hesitating about. The way to express emotions is straightforward and the tone is plain but matter-of-fact. He just expresses what he thinks and does not need others to guess.
Wang Xilou grinned, pulled him over, and put one hand around the little guy's neck: "Master is master, friends are friends, people need friends."
"Wang Xilou, do you have any friends?"
"..."
This little apprentice is so annoying!
"Yes, yes." Wang Xilou stiffened his neck.
"Why haven't I seen it before?"
“I can’t even count you when I take you to see them when I have time!”
"I don't need friends."
"What about Xiaoxiao? Where's Yeji? Aren't Yeji and Xiaoxiao your friends?"
"..."
Does it count?
Forget it.
Needless to say, Ye Ji always talks about being condescending, but in fact she is a tsundere cat with a certain quirk.
Liu Xiao's family lived nearby, and the little girl often came to play with him since that day. Even if he didn't pay much attention to her, Liu Xiao's enthusiasm was always high, and his big eyes were brighter than the stars.
"Those two are enough."
"Not enough."
Wang Xilou's body felt cool, and the heat wave suddenly went away. The master and apprentice were holding hands on the sofa watching zombie movies. He listened quietly to Wang Xilou's continued words.
"As a teacher, I will give you the first task of making a hundred friends. When you complete it, then..." She was still thinking, and her brows relaxed: "How about I take you to the amusement park? ?”
"Amusement park?" Feng Wuli was a little confused.
"It's just a place to have fun. There are roller coasters, carousels, and pirate ships."
"Wang Xilou wants to go to the amusement park?"
Wang Xilou's beaming face fell: "What do I want to go to? It's a place for children to play. Master is here to give you a happy childhood!"
Feng Wuli knew that Wang Xilou wanted to go to the amusement park, but because children were there, he was too embarrassed to go alone.
Although he has a quiet temperament, he is very good at observing, especially Wang Xilou.
There was only one problem for him.
"I have made a hundred friends, will Wang Xilou be happy?"
Wang Xilou was stunned for a moment, with a smile on his face, and nodded: "Yes."
"good."
