The platforms were packed with people. The blind man, Yang Xiangtai, stood in the middle of the platform, facing south. He was beating the small leather drum with all his might. Bang bang bang. Sitting next to him was another blind man playing a string. This was the scene of a big drum book. Since the beginning of summer, the weather had been hot and humid, and the people of Xia Manor had to rest. After dinner, people liked to sit on the platform or enjoy the shade on the sand in the street and chat. He rambled on and on, describing the things he was most happy about, or what he had seen and heard. The children were playing and chasing on the street. They took off their shoes and threw them into the air, teasing the bats flying in the air. They wanted the bats to drill into the shoes and fall to the ground with the shoes. However, the bats did not fall for it. They just flew after the shoes and did not get into them. Seeing that the shoes were about to fall to the ground, the bat flew away again. The bat thought that the shoe was something delicious. It only chased after it and did not drill into it. It was also teasing people and playing with it was very interesting.
The people who heard about the book were of course very interesting. The platform was much higher than the ground. The wind blowing from the East River gave people a particularly cold feeling. Listening to Yang Xiangtai's story, some people fell asleep.
There were also a few people sitting on the roof of the gatehouse on the platform. They were Xia Changfu, Chang Nian, Jun Fei, Jun Kuan, Ah Hui, and Jun He. These people were originally sleeping in Junfei's room, but they came to the roof to listen to the books. She lay on the roof, listening to the storyteller while cooling herself. Sleeping when you're tired, isn't that great? This was Zhangfu's idea.
"It's nice in the room. It's too stuffy in the room. Let's sleep in the room tonight.”Chang Nian spread a tattered quilt on the room and fell down.
"I'm afraid there will be dew in the second half of the night."
"What's there to be afraid of dew? It's still cool."
"I wet the blanket."
"It'll dry up in the sun. What are you afraid of?”
"I'm here anyway." Chang Nian said, then asked Ah Hui,"Are you there?" With the two of us here, it doesn't matter if we go down or not.”
"Sure," Ah Hui agreed.
The two of them spread the quilt and lay down on the roof next to each other.
"How are you? Is it here?" Chang Nian asked Xia Changfu, who was lying beside him.
The long-haired man said,"We'll talk about it later. It's cool now, so we might go down and sleep."”The long-haired man lay there without raising his head.
On the platform, Yang Xiangtai would sing, play the drum, and hit the board. He spoke in a very interesting manner. People listened, fell asleep, and laughed at places that were funny.
On the roof, Ah Hui, Chang Nian, Junfei, Junshen, and Junkuan were not interested in these expensive books. They fell asleep as they listened. The long-haired man was so fascinated that he didn't fall asleep.
The storyteller was engrossed in talking and listening to the story. Suddenly, a gust of wind blew from the northwest, followed by dark clouds in the sky. After a while, raindrops fell. The people on the platform ran home in a panic. Yang Xiangtai hurriedly packed up the small drum and hid in the doorway to avoid the rain. The sound of rain and footsteps on the street was loud.
"It's raining," said the long-haired man on the roof."Go down quickly."”Ah Hui woke up from her sleep. At this time, Junfei and Junkuan had been running down for many years. Their footsteps could be heard from the roof. The long-haired man also ran away with the quilt. Ah Hui was still in a daze and hadn't fully woken up. When he heard " It's raining, let's run down ", he picked up the blanket and ran. He didn't know where he was and thought that he was on flat ground during the day. He followed the movements of the people in front and ran down.
There were originally six gatehouses on the four platforms. During the year of the "Incident", the Japanese burned down three of them, leaving only three. There was still a burnt beam exposed at the broken wall. Below the beam was a one-meter-tall stone wall, and below the stone wall was a pile of rotten stones.
Ah Hui and the others ran down from the exposed beam. If he was awake, he would have moved the roof with his hands, stepped on the beam, and then stepped on the wall, step by step. However, Ah Hui thought that she was running on flat ground. When she reached Ming Liang, she took a step down and fell headfirst. When he fell headfirst, the tip of his foot touched the burnt beam. At this moment, his consciousness cleared up. I did fall, head first. After that, he didn't know anything else.
After a while, he stood up from the pile of stones again. The heavy rain had woken him up. He climbed over the stone wall and entered the house. Inside, Junfei, Changfu, and Junkuan were all lying down. They moved Ah Hui to a place on the Kang. Ah Hui put down her pillow and went to sleep. Just as she fell down, she suddenly felt something sticky on the back of her head. She touched it with her hand and was shocked. Her hand was covered in blood. "Hey, where is the blood from?" Ah Hui cried out in surprise. "On your head." Chang Nian crawled over and said.
It turned out that Ah Hui had fallen from the roof and landed headfirst on the pile of rocks. There was a blood bubble on the back of her head. It didn't break. He had a concussion and fainted. It was raining, and she was woken up by the rain. She got up and went into the house. When she lay down on the pillow, the blood bubble burst and blood flowed out. It was raining outside. It was all ignorant children. No one said what to do. Should they send a message home? Ah Hui fell asleep again with the sound of the rain. She didn't know how she fell asleep. Children at that time were really silly!
The next morning, Ah Hui woke up very early. It wasn't because of the pain in her wound, but because she was nervous. "How do we get home? If Mom and Dad see us, they'll definitely tell us. However, he couldn't hide it from his family. How could he hide his head injury?”He was very afraid, but he still had to go home. With such an injury, he could not hide it anymore. Early in the morning, before the sun had risen and there was no one on the street, Ah Hui went home with the tattered quilt. That year, Ah Hui's family lived in the first house on the north side of Dongtou Road. There was a pigsty in the courtyard facing the street and a gate inside. There were three wing rooms on the east and west sides of the gate, three main rooms on the front, three wing rooms on the east and west sides of the main room, and six wing rooms on the north side, which were oil rooms. This was Zhang Fengdian's courtyard. This was a standard rural courtyard that had yet to be completed. It should be built with gates in both the north and south. However, before it could be completed, the land reform was carried out. Half of the house was given to Zhang Ruilan's family. Ah Hui's family lived in the west main room of Zhang Ruilan's family. Zhang Ruilan was still fighting in North Korea.
When Ah Hui entered the courtyard, her mother, who was cooking on the stove, saw her first. She found it strange." Why are you back so early today? Why did you come back with a blanket? Why didn't you bring a blanket back every day?”Mother thought casually. When she saw that Ah Hui's blanket was covered in blood, she was shocked and shouted,"Mom, what's wrong? Why is there blood all over?”Mother shouted, putting down her work and rushing into the courtyard. Ah Hui didn't say anything and just walked forward. The bloody quilt was still on her head.
"Don't take the tattered quilt into the house. It's full of blood.”His mother said unhappily," What's wrong? Did you fight or something?”His mother shouted sternly.
" It's not a fight. It's raining…" Ah Hui's voice was extremely low.
"What's with the rain…Where did you fall…"
"Aiya, quickly take a look at where you fell. Why are you always interrogating me?”In the opposite room, Zhang Fengdian's second sister-in-law, who was making a fire in the outer room, came in like the wind. She walked in front of Ah Hui, took the torn quilt off Ah Hui's head, and placed it on the ground. Then he said,"Let me see where I fell... Oh, my head is broken here."”She held Ah Hui's head with one hand and gently fiddled with her hair at the wound with the other. Her tall and slender body bent down and she tried her best to get her eyes close to Ah Hui to look at the wound carefully.
His mother stood outside the door with a dark expression." I didn't tell you to go outside to sleep, but you insisted on going. In the future…really…"”As her mother spoke, she angrily hit Ah Hui's body with her hand. He raised his hand again…
"Aiya, I say, Second Aunt, stop talking. Why are you still hitting him? I have tooth powder on the cabinet. Quickly bring it over and apply it.”
Her mother took the tooth powder and handed it to her.
"I have hot water in the pot.”Second sister-in-law dipped a white towel in hot water and gently washed Ah Hui's wound. Then, she sprinkled tooth powder on the wound and finally wrapped Ah Hui's head with a white cloth. She was a good woman. Although she had never studied medicine, she had done everything meticulously, patiently, confidently, and cleanly. A distant second sister-in-law, forever grateful!。
However, her mother, Ah Hui, did not hate her. Her impatience was also a kind of love. Ah Hui fell and hurt herself. Her heart ached! However, she was clumsy and tactless. She was different from Second Sister-in-law. My mother gave me life and raised me up. I will always be grateful to my mother. Ah Hui often thought so.
About seven or eight days later, Ah Hui didn't go to school. At first, his head was a little numb and his neck hurt. After lying on the brick bed for a day, he turned around in the courtyard. Ten days later, he would go to school for a walk. In the school and in the village, those who knew the situation said,"You're really lucky to fall from such a high place with so many stones and no one to hold you up…God bless you!”After another five or six days, Ah Hui had completely recovered. His figure appeared in the classroom and on campus again.
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