Rural hometown Little Sunspot

It has been more than twenty years since I left my hometown, although it is only a hundred and ten miles away, I will go back once or twice a year. The car drove in from the east end of the village, all the way to the cousin's house at the west end of the village, coming and going in a hurry, occasionally seeing the villagers in the streets and alleys through the car glass, and there were few people who knew them.

In this short and narrow time, I sometimes think of it and ask my sister-in-law: Who is that old man's family and who is now? In recent years, the "old who's who" that often appears in the mind is "little sunspot".

Decades ago, in the countryside, the level of medical care was limited, and almost every village would have several "crazy, stupid, blind and deaf", some with the fetus, some sick and disabled. This special group of people has received more attention both because of its ability to survive on the fringes of rural society and because of its "distinctive" characteristics. In the old days, rural life was simple and plain, and the talk after tea and dinner was only a little bit of people and things in the village, and bored villagers inevitably caught the opportunity to find a fun with this special group, shake the elves, tease and abuse, and there was indeed no malice, but they couldn't help but be owed a debt.

Among these groups that are usually "bullied", "little sunspots" are an exception. He was deaf and mute, probably five or six years older than me, and his sister was deaf and mute. According to adults, when Kuroko's mother worked in the production team, she often praised his children for being particularly good at feeding, quiet, not afraid of noise, and not fond of crying. I didn't think about it, and after two or three years, I found that my sister and brother were actually deaf. The house of the little black child's family was built on a high slope, and the fangshan mountain was facing a large intersection, and some country warlocks interpreted that the house feng shui was taboo, blocking the "throat" of the road, and the child naturally became "dumb". Nonsense, of course.

The little black child, indeed long black, but not ugly, smooth figure, tall and moderate, melon face, eyes black and big, because can not hear the sound, the eyes are not as flexible as normal people, some fixed. Can't hear, and want to imitate the mouth shape of others, whenever communicating with people, always while drawing, while the mouth emits a grotesque "Abba Aba" sound. Looking back now, his image is somewhat similar to that of Sichuan internet celebrity Ding Zhen, laughing, there is a natural innocence and enthusiasm.

In one of the first scenes in the memory, when the little black child was about thirteen or fourteen years old, he came out of the neighbor's house and somehow sneaked into my house. Smiling and giggling, the mouth "Abba Aba" greeted. He picked up the pen on the table and wrote my sister and I's names on the paper, which surprised us all. He had been in the village elementary school for a year or two, and his parents just wanted to find a place to watch over him, where to expect him to learn something. Curious, how he learned to write, how he could still write our names accurately in the right place. Smart, is my first impression of the little sunspot.

Once, the sister's pen was broken, the little black child was just there, enthusiastically came forward to help, drummed for a while, accidentally, the pen fell on the ground, this time completely unusable, you can see that the little black child is very remorseful to leave. After a while, he hurriedly returned with a pen, and "Abba Aba" insisted on giving this pen to the eldest sister. Enthusiastic and honest little sunspot!

Now when it comes to little sunspot, his mother will also praise him for having "eyesight". In the autumn evening, after crushing the corn stalks in the opposite yard, it was late, the mother was using the basket to transport hay to the house, on the way met the little black child, he happened to carry the flashlight, saw the mother working in the dark, just next to the flashlight back and forth, shun to give the hand, several gestures to let him go home, he only grinned, or accompanied by the hay to finish the trip. After so many years, the old lady still remembers this matter vividly, and feels that Kuroko is very "ghostly", and finally can't help but sigh "Pity!" ”。

Although he is deaf and mute, Kuroko presents not inferiority and closure, but open and outgoing. In general, children with disabilities will be isolated and bullied by the children in the village, but the little black child does not seem to be treated unfairly, although there is a language barrier, it does not affect his smooth integration into the small partner. At that time, the neighbor's children and Kuroko were about the same age, and when billiards rose in the eighty years, the family purchased a pool table, and the young people nearby all went to his house to play, kuroko was a regular, and often heard the excited noise of the boys mixed with the sound of Kuroko's "Abba Aba". At that time, it was really suffocating for him, how could he not really say a word!

Since I was a child, I especially loved to eat fried bean noodle dumplings and fried strips, which are usually not easy to eat. One day I went to eat a wedding banquet with my mother, a dish in "four plates and eight bowls" in the fried bean noodle dumplings. At that time, the wedding and funeral banquets in the village were all handled by the villagers, and the hometown was commonly known as "busy". Under the shed surrounded by felt cloth in the villagers' yard, there were about a dozen dilapidated tables, and after the flowing water mat began, a group of people rushed to a group of people, the symphony of pots and pans, the sound of busy shouting "borrow the light", the laughter of the eaters, the children's fighting sounds mixed together, lively and chaotic. After eating, I walked home with my mother, about two or three hundred meters out, and suddenly saw the little black child chasing up from behind, just when he was unclear, he handed over a small drawer cloth bag, untied the opening and saw that the bread was fried dumplings. Kuroko smiled eagerly and generously. That day, he was also busy, I really don't know in that chaotic porridge scene, he knows that my little girl is hungry for this bite, I haven't eaten enough, and how I quickly "packed" this dumpling in a hurry. This is not only empathetic, it is simply "supernatural".

In the turn of the years, we and Kuroko are two or three years older, my father works in the field, has limited time at home, and once he met Kuroko to visit the door, he was unhappy and went forward to drive Kuroko out, which made us very shocked. I think my family is all girls, and Kuroko is already half a big guy, in the atmosphere of the conservative tradition in the countryside, it is no longer suitable to have a relationship. Whenever I think of this scene, there is always a trace of intolerance in my heart, is this cruel to Kuroko?

After that, with schooling and family relocation, everything in my hometown gradually drifted away, and the impression that Kuroko left on me was more than thirty years ago. Until a few years ago, a help message on the XX chip pulled Kuroko into the field of vision. Seriously ill is a teenage girl in the village, and she is Kuroko's niece, who grew up in her grandmother's parents since childhood, and also for Kuroko to rely on when she grows old in the future. It turned out that Kuroko had never been able to start a family.

Counting, now that Xiao Kuroko is in his early fifties, there are private enterprises in the village, and he should work there. I don't know the polishing of more than thirty years of time, that laugh is full of intimacy, love two hands compared to "Abba Aba" to "talk" non-stop teenager, his innocence, enthusiasm, kindness, wisdom and how much to keep? But I believe that he will be a self-supporting person, a person who is difficult to despise and dislike. In the silent world, there is a lot less noise and strife, may he still use the red heat of youth to dissolve the ice and snow of life and bless him with peace in this life.

You okay? Little Sunspot...

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