Chen Hong also discovered the young man.
"Lin Yue?"
Chen Daguang followed the two men's gaze and looked over.
That's right, it's Lin Yue.
But Lin Yue at this time was different from Lin Yue before.
In his mind, Chen Yulian's son was a boring gourd. He was quite lively and cheerful when he was a child. He would call adults affectionately "uncle" when he saw them. During the New Year, he would set off firecrackers all over the street. He would occasionally chase after older children like them, dig out bird's nests, steal sweet potatoes, and lay eggs. It was easy to fish in the river, but since he came back from Hangzhou, his whole person had changed. When his parents talked about this incident, they said it was all Lin Yutang's fault for harming his mother and son.
Now, let’s not mention whether it’s boring or not, just look at that.
The young man's upper body was dusty and he was wearing a pair of Jiefang shoes. He must have just bought them. They looked quite new. What's even more interesting was that he was carrying a bulging bag in his left hand. He didn't know what it contained. He was carrying a shoulder pole on his right shoulder, which was tied to the front. There are four pheasants hanging on the back, four pheasants are tied behind, and a little further in hangs two foxes and a pair of liberation shoes. Regardless of the nature of the goods, he is just like a salesman walking through the streets.
"He...actually came back?"
Hearing Chen Hong's muttering, Chen Daguang turned around and asked, "What do you mean by that?"
"Lin Yue didn't come back last night, and my aunt is almost dying of anxiety."
"Ah? This kid didn't come home all night? Why did he go?"
"How do I know what he did?"
"Aren't you looking for it? You didn't hear any movement last night."
Chen Hong didn't dare to answer. At about ten o'clock last night, Chen Yulian asked his father to help find someone, but his mother stopped him. He said that he couldn't find someone in the middle of the night, so it was better to wait until dawn to see someone. After that, he drove their brothers away. She went to bed in the house, and then Chen Yulian and Chen Jinzhu had a fight. The conversation was not clear. Anyway, when he got up to pee in the middle of the night, he saw Chen Yulian sitting on the doorstep crying.
Chen Jinzhu and Chen Yulian went to Back Mountain this morning. They did not follow. Hu Li rushed to find Chen Jianghe because when watching TV last night, Chen Daguang said that the county had approved the textile factory to sell cloth heads. Chen Jianghe Promise to bring everyone together to make money.
So they struggled with a pile of cloth heads for a long time, wondering whether Chen Jinzhu and Chen Yulian had found Lin Yue.
Now it seems that I probably haven't found it.
Brothers Chen Daguang, Chen Hong and Chen Ping were looking at Lin Yue, and Luo Yuzhu and Chen Jianghe were also looking at Lin Yue.
"Your name is Lin Yue, right? Why didn't you go to my house to watch TV yesterday?"
Lin Yue remembered the conversation he had with Chen Jianghe the night before yesterday about "Astro Boy".
"I don't want to watch 'Astro Boy', I want to watch 'The Smurfs', is there any?"
"Smurf? What is Smurf?"
Chen Jianghe looked confused. He had never heard of it. As a person who traveled all over the country and could chat with adults and children, he always thought that he was a child expert, but what was going on with this little brother in front of him? Very strange.
"Are the Smurfs also a cartoon?"
Lin Yue turned around and smiled.
"There is a group of Smurfs on the other side of the mountain and the sea. They are lively and smart, they are naughty and clever, they live freely in the big green forest, they are brave and kind and they are happy with each other, ah, lovely blue Elf..."
He left singing cheerful children's songs.
Everyone looked at his back and didn't know how to describe the strange scene in front of them.
Chen Daguang scratched his face with his hands: "Is this kid crazy? Why didn't I understand a word he said to Ji Feo?"
It's not just him who doesn't understand, everyone doesn't understand.
Luo Yuzhu tugged at Chen Jianghe's sleeve: "What's wrong with this child?"
"You don't know him?"
Luo Yuzhu shook his head.
Chen Jianghe stared at her for a while and understood. If he calculated the time, he rented the house for Luo Yuzhu in Jun'an three years ago. At that time, Chen Yulian had already taken Lin Yue to live in Hangzhou, and only returned to Chenjiacun last year. . Of course, it was impossible for Luo Yuzhu to know Lin Yue. To put it in perspective, even if Chen Yulian and Lin Yue had not gone to Hangzhou, she would have no reason to remember a child who was five or six years younger than her.
"Since we don't know each other, forget it. I remember that the bridge where we used to live is right across the street. How about we go over there and take a look?"
After hearing this, Luo Yuzhu no longer cared about the young man named Lin Yue, and followed Chen Jianghe towards the bridge where they once lived together.
…
Lin Yue returned to Chenjiacun carrying a bunch of things.
Some young people followed Chen Jianghe to grab the cloth head, and some young people went to the fields to do farm work. There were a few little boys on the street who were on vacation and were playing watermelon chess on the ground with their buttocks sticking out. Some used snail shells as chess pieces, and some used small stones. Some of them made chess pieces, some made twigs, and some cigarette butts. They played guessing games while shouting slogans. From time to time they argued loudly about who was slower and who was faster.
On the right side of the gate with the town government plaque hanging on it, there are three little girls in their teens, two of them are holding their rubber bands open with their waists, and the fat girls with twin ponytails in the middle are dancing vigorously, sweating profusely, Still singing out of breath.
"Malan blooms twenty-one, two-eight-two-five-six, two-eight-two-five-seven, two-eight-two-nine-thirty-one..."
There is no TV, no Internet, no arcade room. There are very few things for entertainment in this era. However, the physical fitness and energy of children in this era are also very good. They can play shuttlecock, throw sandbags, jump rubber bands, ride horses and fight... It can be said that There are physical education classes every day.
He looked at the children with a smile. The little girl with two large hairpins on the back of her head looked at him and made a face in return.
"Chen Meizhen, did you steal your mother's hairpin again?"
Girls like to dress up more than boys. It is common to wear their mother's or sister's high heels, apply adult lipstick, and play with necklaces and earrings in jewelry boxes.
The little girl replied to him: "I want you to take care of it."
Lin Yue lowered his hand holding the pole, and a handful of White Rabbit toffee appeared in his palm like magic. He threw it at the feet of the three little girls: "Go on."
Chen Meizhen didn't know what it was, and she didn't realize until the thing fell to the ground.
In this day and age, the best toffee is naturally the White Rabbit toffee. Even a family like Chen Jinshui would only give it to the children of close relatives and friends during the Chinese New Year.
Chen Meizhen pulled her foot out of the rubber band and went to pick up candies without saying a word. The girl holding the rubber band across from her was her cousin. When she saw her sister moving, she stopped playing as she did. The twintails that danced beautifully in the middle were caught off guard and couldn't jump anymore. She turned back and looked at him angrily.
"Lin Yue, I'm going to sue your mother."
"Chen Tingting, are you being unreasonable? I kindly gave you candy, but you actually want to report me?"
Chen Tingting saw the White Rabbit toffee on the ground and wanted to pick it up to eat, but she was not convinced. She pouted and said, "Who wants your candies?"
As soon as she finished speaking, the boys playing watermelon chess over there swarmed up and snatched all the toffee under her feet.
"You...don't grab it..."
At this moment, she wanted nothing more. She could only watch helplessly as Sister Chen Meizhen tore open the candy wrapper and put the white toffee into her mouth, smiling so sweetly that her eyes rolled.
"Lin Yue, you are teasing me again."
Chen Tingting was so angry that she stamped her feet, but there was still a doubt in her anger, that is, he didn't have a smile on his face like when he just came back from Hangzhou.
Lin Yue raised his hand and shook it, then said "No more" and turned around to enter Carpenter Xiao's house.
Chen Tingting had a good relationship with him when she was a child. We often played hide-and-seek together, flipped ropes, played shuttlecock and so on. Counting her age, she would be twelve years old this year. In 20 years, she would be in fifth or sixth grade. Here she is still with someone younger than her. When it comes to girls playing, the truth is... it's simple, she is older, so you have to listen to her in everything.
"Uncle Xiao, Uncle Xiao."
Lin Yue took off the pole and put it at the door of the yard, picked two pheasants, took the pair of size 43 Jiefang shoes in his hands, and walked into the small courtyard of Carpenter Xiao's house.
"Lin Yue?"
The door of the main room opened backward, and Carpenter Xiao and his wife walked out of the room.
"What have you been doing?"
"Didn't I talk about it yesterday? Hunting." He raised the pheasant and Jiefang shoes in his hand: "The book said that you should drink water and remember the source, and repay kindness. These two chickens and shoes... are even a thank you gift for borrowing the workshop. ”
Let him use the tools in the workshop, and give the old lady 3 yuan to buy chicken soup, and he also comes back with 2 pheasants and a pair of Jiefang shoes?
Carpenter Xiao looked at the pair of unglued Jiefang shoes hanging on the window sill, and immediately realized that this child saw that his shoes were unglued, so he bought a pair of shoes with the 3 yuan and sent them to him. This thought was very delicate and much better than that of his father. Love and justice.
"Look at you kid, didn't you say you would buy chicken soup for your aunt?"
Lin Yue said: "No need, I shot several pheasants, enough for our family to eat for half a month."
Carpenter Xiao and her wife noticed the prey on the pole at the door and were stunned for a moment.
There were five or six pheasants alone, and the one in the back... looked like a fox. There was a bulging bag next to the pole, with the zipper open. I didn't know what was inside, but I guess it was a mountain product that could be eaten and used.
He just went up to the mountain. How could he catch so many prey?
You must know that people come in and out of the mountains and forests around Chenjiacun every day, and no one is like him, who has not brought back so many things in one day.
"Lin Yue, did you do all this?"
Even though the thing was placed in front of her, it was still difficult for the carpenter's wife to accept it.
"So be it."
"What does it mean?"
Carpenter Xiao interrupted his wife's question: "Stop saying anything, Lin Yue. Go home and take a look. Your mother is going to die if she doesn't come back all night."
