Under Chen Deyuan's care, the Hong family's life slowly returned to normal.
At the same time, another thing that gave Hong Lucheng and his wife some relief was that Hong Yanwu's mental state had improved a lot. He no longer avoided people and could see smiling faces.
The reason for this change was entirely because Hong Yanwu had a friend for the first time in his life. He became friends with Chen Deyuan's only son, Chen Liquan.
In fact, apart from being similar in age, the two children are quite different in terms of life experience and temperament.
Take Hong Yanwu, for example. This kid is as thin as a light-eyed chicken. He has been wandering in alleys since he was a child. He is a rotten guy who has a bad idea in the blink of an eye.
Chen Liquan, who is half a year younger than him, is actually a lot bigger. He is a dull-witted, kind-hearted kid who grew up in the countryside.
In fact, Chen Liquan's strong appearance is mainly due to the fact that he has lived with his mother in his hometown of Dingxing since he was a child.
Chen Deyuan married a wife whom Chen Laoshi had arranged for him since he was a child. After getting married, his wife has been staying in his hometown to take care of his parents-in-law who returned home. Since the couple has been separated in different places for a long time, they do not have as many children to support like other families.
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Especially after the death of Chen Laoshi and his wife, the three most difficult years of eating and drinking also ended. It was relatively comfortable to rely on Chen Deyuan's monthly salary to ensure the life of a family of three.
As the only child of the Chen family, Chen Liquan could eat eggs that other children could not eat. Other children could not eat refined grains, but Chen Liquan could make whatever he wanted. Therefore, at that time, Chen Liquan was really regarded as the most important person in Dingxing County.
The happiest child.
However, despite the huge gap in life experience and temperament between the two children, they hit it off as soon as they met.
What's going on?
In fact, it is very simple. The reason that sticks these two children together is loneliness.
Needless to say, Hong Yanwu, because of his special family background, all the children in the alley despised him. In addition, this boy has a naughty temperament, and the children in the east courtyard neighbors also hate him. And the age gap between his eldest and second brother is about the same.
He is so big that he doesn't bother to talk to him at all. So except for occasionally provoking his sister or teasing cats and dogs, he usually can only find entertainment and fun by himself.
What about Chen Liquan?
He suffered the disadvantage of growing up in the countryside.
On the first day he moved to Xiyuan, Chen Liquan was ridiculed by the neighbor children because of his foreign accent. He only said a few words of "follow Zhou" (follow), "pinch" (that), and "mo mo" (
What's going on), the nickname "Little Chaos" stuck to him.
Although his father has the highest position among these neighbors and earns the highest salary, this can only make those children envy him for having a good father, but it cannot buy him friendship. So he moved to a new home.
For the next few days, all he could do every day was sit at the door of the west courtyard, look at the sky alone, and miss his hometown in the countryside.
He missed the fire kang at home. It was so hot that it was more comfortable to sleep than in bed.
He missed the swallow's nest under the eaves, where black swallows often flew around the house.
He missed those bundles of straw in the yard. The smell of smoke they gave off was the best smell in the world, because it was time to eat!
He also missed the gray water tank next to the stove, which contained a tortoise caught from the river, which was half a foot long...
In the end, it was the appearance of Hong Yanwu that ended Chen Liquan's boredom and emptiness. Therefore, when these two children with the same disease met, they immediately formed the strongest alliance.
Every day the two of them would get together, dig out bird's nests, catch insects, mix with clay, throw pots, slap triangles, stab knives, and play glass beads. They had a great time. They also had to eat a piece of cake together.
A popsicle has to be licked in turn, and even a handful of melon seeds have to be eaten separately.
They are friends who share everything, and the time they spend together is even more than the time they spend with their families.
There is a word in the old Beijing dialect called "Fa Xiao", which is specifically used to describe friends who have grown up together like "farting, peeing, and mud". This kind of friendship is often more effective than other friendships.
The friendship is even better, often as good as the relationship between brothers and sisters.
This is not surprising at all. Because in a person's life, although he will make friends with different people at other stages, in a person's childhood, the emotion established through games and getting along day and night, because there is no utilitarianism, is the purest emotion.
It is also the strongest.
The adults of the two families saw that the children were as well as one person, and they were happy for them from the bottom of their hearts. However, the adults were relieved for a short time, and as time went by, they gradually discovered the side effects.
What's going on?
Or because of Hong Yanwu.
Although this kid has lost his memory and no longer dares to be disrespectful to his father, and he can even obey the adults and stop going out to cause trouble. But after all, the restless factor has firmly grown in his body. Just a few days after he became honest, he
I can't help but want to "make a difference" again. Besides, I have a follower this time, so I will naturally have another exciting time.
Hong Yanwu was famous as a bold thief who neither believed in evil nor was afraid of ghosts. Therefore, he asked Chen Liquan to prove his courage to him, euphemistically calling it "training courage".
He prescribed a lot of courage training, such as going to the moat to fish out dead cats and dogs, going to the hospital morgue to "adventure", going to the locust tree covered with "hanged ghosts" to read a book about little people, and letting the meaty bugs roam free.
They burrowed into the collar of their necks, and even wandered around the old warehouse of the tannery, dealing with rats that were bigger than cats.
And when Chen Liquan did it one by one, Hong Yanwu competed with him to jump down from the high wall. As a result, Hong Yanwu was very smart and jumped into the sand pile beside the wall. But Chen Liquan was so stupid that he squatted down with a "dong" sound...
Because of this incident, Chen Liquan's mother began to object to her son playing with Hong Yanwu. She told her husband that Hong Yanwu was a deceiver, and all the neighbors told her that the boy was dishonest.
But Chen Deyuan didn't care much. Instead, he felt that his wife was making a fuss out of a molehill. Moreover, he also felt that his son had been too honest since he was a child, and there might be no harm in playing with a naughty child.
And just when the couple had a dispute, their words were overheard by Chen Liquan, who was lying on the bed and gasping for breath with pain in his feet, and he couldn't help but raise his voice to help his friend.
"Aren't you honest? It's great to be the third child of the Hong family. He always takes me out to play with him. Well, he also taught me how to swear. He can even get some tomatoes for five cents.
I bought two of them and put the rest in my clothes. He also took me to buy a movie ticket to watch two movies, both with seats.
Change seats..."
These words "He returned" made Quanzi's mother's face almost drip with water, and Chen Deyuan also opened his mouth in shock.
Look at this honest pimple, it’s better not to say anything!
Chen Liquan is indeed a good and honest boy. Out of his loyalty and trust to his friends, he sincerely opposes the adults' views on Hong Yanwu. On the contrary, he feels that this boy is very good, a very interesting, sincere and very good friend.
But the simplicity of this rural child brought him the pain of "mistaking gangsters".