Once Young

Chapter 1: Rui Chu

That night, when every household was watching "Bao Qingtian", Qin Chuan and I sneaked to Brother Xin Yuan's pigeon cage together.

"You... why are you here?" Qin Chuan stammered and asked me. "I still want to ask you!" I did not show weakness.

We both stood staring at each other, neither of us moving first. The TV in the house was already playing the music of "Yesterday was like that easterly water, you can't stay away from me", I was itching to know what was tied to Xiaobai's legs, so hurriedly went back to see Zhan Guard. But Qin Chuan didn't mean to leave at all, and hummed "yesterday your family was flooded, and your father became an old turtle" as if angry at me.

I couldn't stand it anymore, so I patted Qin Chuan: "Hey, do you want to see Xiaobai too? Let's hang the hook and don't let Brother Xin Yuan know!"

"Don't lie for a hundred years!" It was estimated that Qin Chuan was too suffocated. He happily pulled the hook with me, quickly opened the small latch of the pigeon cage, and carried Xiaobai out.

Xiaobai was very obedient, neither "gugu" nor fluttering. I took off the small paper tube tied to his right leg under the moonlight, and there was a note in it.

"What did he write?" Qin Chuan asked me.

"Brother, I..."

"Hurry up!"

"I don't know this word!... I bought everything with 'what' money, and when you come back, these are all for you." I said in a low voice.

Thinking about it now, the word I didn't recognize at the time should be "save". Brother Xin Yuan has been living a different life since then. But at that time, Qin Chuan and I didn't understand anything, we just stood there dumbfounded, the evening wind blew, and we all had a jolt, and we hurried home. But we all understand that Viagra Xin, who hasn't been in the yard since we were born, is not far from here. I think Xiaobai must be the messenger between them. Brother Xin Yuan is in contact with him. Maybe one day, Viagra Xin will open the courtyard door and come back.

As for how Xiaobai found Viagra Xin, I don't know. I want to secretly ask Xiaochuan, he must know everything. But after thinking about it, it's not good. I hooked up with Qin Chuan. It's not good to talk. He found out that he was going to beat me again.

Just when I was hesitating whether to tell Xiaochuan, Brother Xiaochuan knew about it himself. Because Xiaobai is dead.

That evening, Brother Xin Yuan had been recruiting pigeons on the house. Usually, he only had to shake the bamboo pole for a while, and all the pigeons would come back. bring When I went back to someone else's house, there was no Xiaobai.

In my memory, the deepest impression of Brother Xin Yuan was left on that day. In the gloomy night of Beijing, he was thin and slender looking at the sky and waving the bamboo pole, with a kind of pathetic persistence. Slowly, his eyes disappeared, and the whole person was not as bright and alive as the red cloth tied to the bamboo pole.

Found Xiaobai the next morning. Uncle He found it when he went to dump the soil. Everyone in our hospital went to see it, and Qin Qian and I even cried. Xiaobai was deliberately beaten to death, his wings were cut off, and he was thrown into the dark green iron rubbish in the barrel, the white feathers were stained with ashes and dirty. The note that Brother Xin Yuan wrote to Viagra Xin was pulled out and pinned to it with a thumbtack.

Brother Xin Yuan carefully picked Xiaobai out of the trash can, as if he was still alive, he would tilt his head and look at us, cooing. Brother Xin Yuan held it in his arms, turned around and walked back without saying a word. When he passed by me and Qin Chuan, he paused slightly. I thought he would scold us, because only we knew Xiaobai's secret. But he, just walked away silently.

We didn't do this. Qin Chuan and I were red-eyed and went crazy looking for the murderer. Qin Chuan even got into a fight with the kid in the alley next door, and I helped out by throwing a handful of sand in the kid's eyes. But it was still useless. We two little brats couldn't find any trace of the murderer. Instead, we were beaten each other because of the fight.

In those few days, I slowly learned that Brother Xin Yuan has always been bullied. Unlike me, who was only bullied by Qin Chuan. He was bullied by many, many people, including adults, children, classmates, and teachers. Although Viagra Xin made a mistake, it was his younger brother who made the atonement.

I felt uncomfortable for Brother Xin Yuan, and also for Xiaobai, and cried a lot. Later, Qin Chuan and I folded a white paper crane and quietly placed it in Xiaobai's cage. But the paper crane was gone, and Brother Xin Yuan took all them and gave it to others, and he never kept pigeons again.