Just like people who have returned to their hometown for a long time will always sigh at the grass and trees in their hometown, childhood will make everyone who recalls it full of warmth and sadness. Even if it's not your hometown but just your childhood, it will leave you with eternal memories. Because what matters is not where it is but childhood itself.
The childhood yingzi spent in "Old Things in Seongnam" in Seongnam beijing has left her with eternal memories. Those scenery and those figures are forever in her soul. Even though she later left the southern part of Beijing.
People's memories of the past will always be selective. Hideko's memories of Seongnam are also mainly composed of several things: the Hoi An Pavilion, the sea watching, and her father's flowers.
Ying Zi grew up with her family to the south of Beijing. Mama Song and Mama are not locals, and they can't speak Beijing well. Mother Song called the Hui'an Pavilion "Huinan Pavilion", and her mother called the Hui'an Pavilion "Gray Baby Pavilion". And Dad shouted "Fei An Guan". Children living in the hutong call it "Hoi An Guan". As for which one is right, Hideko doesn't know.
But everyone knew that there was a madman in the Hoi An Pavilion. Everyone avoids madness. But Hideko didn't find her terrible.
Crazy and girly
Not only is Hideko not afraid of the madman of the Hye-an Pavilion, she also likes this madman in the eyes of others. The madman's name is Xiuzhen. She was a big girl with big braids. Thin body. Always biting his lip and leaning against the door wall, it seemed that people came and went. When she collided with Hideko's eyes, they began to interact.
"See us little Guizi?" Xiuzhen's mouth always chanted her little Guizi. The little Guizi who was thrown away by her family when she was born. Eiko would love to help her find her little Keiko. She was sad to see her sad, and she took Xiuzhen's every word seriously. Even if everyone says she's crazy.
Eiko also met a friend who she called You'er. You're looking for her mother. The parents who taught her to sing now were not her parents. She was looking for her mother. Eiko thought of Hideyoshi. One looking for her little Keizi, one looking for her mother. Hideko stroked the back of Yu'er's neck and saw a birthmark.
Reunion and farewell
On a night of heavy rain, Hideko has a fever and takes Yu'er to find her mother. Xiu Zhen lifted the back of Yu'er's neck: there was a birthmark. You'er is really her little Guizi. XiuZhen and Yu'er hugged and cried. Eiko steals her mother's gold bracelet and gives it to Xiuzhen as a coil. Xiu Zhen took it and put it on her hand, leading the box and leading yu'er to disappear into the heavy rain. They're going to find you're going to find your father
Eiko shouted at them through the heavy rain until she fainted and lost consciousness. And this parting is a farewell. Yu'er and Xiuzhen died at the train station. They failed to reach their destination. But the two people who have long searched for each other are together forever.
Eiko experienced her first parting in life. This parting caused her to fall seriously ill and lie in the hospital for ten days. I also got a new home. Hideko begins to prepare for the future of school, and the future is really close to Hideko's eyes.
Eiko moved and went to school. When the matter of Xiu Zhen'er was occasionally mentioned by others, Hideko was still very sad in her heart. She didn't want anyone to mention it. However, Eiko also found something else that attracted her. That's about the sea and the sky, the good guys and the bad guys.
Empty house
Diagonally opposite Hideko's new home is an empty house. There was no one living in the empty room for a long time, and the open space in front of it was covered with weeds. The walls collapsed, and the weeds grew taller than the walls.
Once Hideko went in to pick up the ball and met a man. The man squatted on the ground, and the grass covered his whole body. There was a pile of stuff behind him (Hideko later learned that it was stolen from him). He smiled and picked up the ball and gave it to Hideko. He chatted with Hideko, asked her how many grades she had, and proudly introduced his excellent younger brother to Hideko. He wants to give the glass ball to Hideko. Hideko refused: other people's things cannot be taken. He had a sad look on his face and sighed, for himself. Because he knew that he was a thief who took other people's things at will.
Since then, Hideko has often come to the yard full of weeds to chat with the man. Until one day he told Hideko not to come here in the future.
Sea and sky, good guys and bad guys
Let's look at the sea! Let's see the sea go! Blue sea, Flying white sails. Golden red sun, Rising from the sea, Shine on the surface of the sea and shine on the bow of the ship.
Hideko inadvertently reveals the thief and the stolen goods to the detectives. The thief was caught. He was escorted through the long streets and past Hideko.
Everyone says thieves are bad people. The thief also seriously asked Hideko if he was a bad person? Are you still a good person? He didn't want to be a bad person, and he was forced to be helpless. My younger brother, who is studying, needs money at home. But he couldn't stand it. He can only steal (he only dares to say this in his heart for himself).
Eiko said she couldn't tell. Just as she can't tell the difference between the sea and the sky, she can't tell the difference between good people and bad people. She couldn't tell the difference then. But Hideko is determined to make a clear distinction in the future between the heavens, the bad guys and the good guys. Eiko took another step into the future. Childhood is quietly changing.
Farewell to Mother Song
Mama Song works as a maid in Yingzi's house. Ying Zi has to help Song Ma with her daily dressing, washing her face and hair, and Ying Zi's three younger siblings have to be taken care of. In particular, the little brother is almost inseparable from Mother Song. The Ying Zi family regards Mama Song as family. So is Mama Song.
Mama Song also has her own home. All monthly wages are sent home. His men play with money and eat lazily. He sold his daughter, and his son drowned in the river without asking.
Mother Song hated his men. Ying Zi also hates this husband of Huang Banya and can't understand why Song Mama wants to marry him. What's the use. Mama Song finally followed such a man home. It was Mom and Dad who persuaded Mama Song to follow her back. Only for Mama Song to have another child in the future. Mama Song is gone.
Daddy's flowers fell
In Hideko's eyes, Her father was stern, and occasionally terrible. For example, when she didn't want to go to school, her father would take turns to beat her with a feather duster. But Dad is also Hideko's strongest supporter. When I was sad because of Xiu Zhen and You'er; when I had to go to the Japanese bank alone; when I was studying.
But one day Dad's flowers fell. Dad told Hideko that she would help her mother take care of her brother in the future. Because she's the boss. Because Hideko has grown up.
Everything was so unexpected. It all went its own way. When Eiko learns that her father died in the hospital, she shows calm and composure that she has never had before. Seeing that Dad's favorite flowers in the courtyard had withered away, Hideko said in her mouth: Daddy's flowers have fallen, and then ran to the hospital.
At this moment, Hideko's childhood has passed. The complexity and confusion of the experience in The south of the city in Beijing, life and death, let the innocence and joy of Ying Zi's childhood gradually fade. The reality of life slowly unfolds.
But the actual childhood will fade, and the childhood of the soul can last forever. Memories of Hideko's childhood in Minamijo. Childhood memories that belong to everyone will remain in the soul forever. Because childhood is the beginning of coming to the world, when we do not understand life and death, good and bad, and are full of love for everything in the world.
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