True Lies (3)

Three. The Age of Innocence

Travel back in time to the 1950s and 1960s.....

My mother and her mother were the best sisters in the factory, and they and four other aunts were called "six golden flowers", and there were many beautiful women in the workshop.

My family and her family live very close, in this small town we have no relatives, my mother and aunt often bring each other's children to chat after dinner, especially her father is a geological team, my father is a construction company, they are not at home all year round, our two families come and go more.

We and my brothers, a few six- and seven-year-old children, did not have a concept of men and women, and they played with her and her brother, very close, and after a few days of not seeing each other, they were clamoring to go to them to play.

My mother is a native of Yanqing, a suburb of Beijing! Speaking with a child's voice, let me call her mother "aunt", aunt .... It's like kissing.

...... After going to school, after writing homework, I still come to each other's house.

At that time, the children didn't have any toys, boys liked to catch the cockroaches in the canned bottles, there was nothing to see them pinch, she came to my house to turn over the cans to grab the clams with her hands, learned us to walk in the hands, fold a paper trough and fight again, the cockroaches jumped, and like us, drilled here and there to catch, I said she was "thief bold" pay attention to the cockroach bite, her small eyes stared: "Dare, pinch it!" ”

I saw her coming and quickly hid the worm, afraid that she would die without light or weight.

She even "pinballed" and "fanned old treasure" with the boys, purely a tomboy.

Her parents are from Qingxu, Shanxi, a famous place for producing vinegar, and her mother and colleagues call her mother "Lao Xizi".

Because of the poor in the past, "cutting the door" is also the most famous place in Shanxi.

Her family originally lived in a bungalow courtyard on Garden Street, is a famous slum, the house is broken "stucco" roof often leaks, the wall of the house brushed with "big white" is always a watermark, her family always asked my father to find a real estate manager to repair, and then found a real estate company in the name of overturning the dangerous house, made a half-room "unity household", my father found someone to give them the first half of the room, there are bright windows.

Slowly she and her brother are older, boys and girls can no longer live, her mother asked my father to help find real estate to solve it again, my father in the construction department to find an acquaintance of the original site and adjusted another, a big problem solved. Her parents were so grateful that they invited my dad for a drink.

"Old Syr" is "Old Sie"! I told my dad to go to dinner, but I didn't tell me to go, saying that I was afraid that the children would "leak their mouths" when they heard the adults talk.

hum! Are you afraid of eating his house?

...... Dad came back from her house, and Mom laughed and said, "Please come back when you go through the back door!" Tell me what's good to eat? ”

"Ahem! Bean peel, salted egg, minced leeks, fried bean sprouts, a bowl of noodles. I can't even buy a little pork head meat for such a big thing! "Old Xi'er", "Really cut off" to go home! Dad complained.

Even though I say so, I can still help with something.

During the Cultural Revolution, my mother and several sisters in the workshop and her mother deservedly a wave of "pie", and we children naturally fell to the side of our mothers.

Stop production "revolution", her father does not have to "explore the earth", all day and the people in the courtyard to play chess, my father loves to watch chess, and their "pie" views are completely different, from time to time there are controversies.

Mom wouldn't let him go, lest his old friend blush.

Her home is next to the grain store, buying grain passing by her house, I love to listen to her father talk about the new discoveries of the geological team, and the new things encountered, as well as the strange events of the legend, went to listen to the fascination, delayed the return home, dad taught: "You let her family hook the soul? Listen less to his dad's nonsense, superstition "!

Still want to hear, want to go.

We grew up in older friendships.

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