wild cranberries

Chapter 17

You Kaifeng has two faces at home and outside.Before acquaintances, talk a lot and make people feel that his mouth is the one that comes out the most; after acquaintances, it’s a boring gourd, draw a circle and stand in it for half an hour without moving, chatting with "um" and "ah" to communicate, capitalized The muddy ones are in a puddle, and the bold ones are waiting to die.

At home, he has a good relationship with his mother. It's not that blood is thicker than jellyfish, but in his heart, he has a kind of sympathy for You Jian, which is intertwined with longing and resentment, so that there is consistency in thinking, hatred He, love him, is fucking Qiong Yao.

But today he had a bad quarrel with his mother, not because of You Jian, not because of the parent meeting, but because of those trivial matters, which cannot be separated from the word "later".

You Kaifeng insisted on majoring in acting, insisted on taking a two-month break from classes in the first half of the third year of high school to participate in the art test training, and insisted on entering the acting department of the Film Academy.As parents, sometimes they always regard malicious sarcasm and self-righteousness as a kind of humor that children can enjoy. When You Kaifeng's mother heard him say so firmly during the dinner, she immediately giggled and laughed, and raised her chopsticks to point at the tip of his nose: "Don't say that your father is admonishing you, telling you not to go down the way of a low-level actor. If he told you to, I think Renliying won't accept you, right?"

The newly hired little aunt wiped the apron to put away the eaten dishes on the table, wiped the dishcloth on the table, couldn't hold back, burst out laughing with a "puchi", turned her face and quickly glanced up and down at You Kaifeng, Pursing his mouth, the cat's waist went into the kitchen.

You Kaifeng has a big heart and never pretends to be a person who has no overnight feud with anyone. Hearing such an unintentional "bad word", it is inevitable that his mind will sink into his stomach and his throat will feel uncomfortable. Immediately, he slapped the chopsticks and blackened his face.The whole world can ridicule him and scold him, saying that you are an idiot with water in your skin, only your parents can't.He would be really sad and doubtful.

"Don't eat it? I cooked the shrimp specially for you and there are so many left?"

You Kaifeng's mother watched him push away the dining table and chairs, and walked up to the second floor with drooping eyelids and kicking his slippers. She turned around to ask him something, and the door slammed loudly.

He also ate Ye Niang's leg.

You Kaifeng leaned into his messy mattress and sank down.

On the left side of his face is a pair of striped stinky socks that he changed into unwashed yesterday, and on the right side of his face is the unpacked and unfinished original pleasure, feeling something sticking to his waist, he reached down and touched it, it was half a Leng is the hickory nut that has not been bitten open.His room is usually not allowed to enter by his little aunt, and no one cares about it, so it is always so messy and messy with no place to stay. He feels quite comfortable staying by himself.

The wall is still clean, with two posters sticking neatly on the left and right, like couplets, one is Kobe, his male god; the other is Natalie Portman, his goddess.When he was in junior high school, he didn't like reading as usual, so he often made unrealistic assumptions that he would either go to the United States to play in the NBA or go to foreign countries to act in movies.After entering high school, I often had sideways, so I recognized my physical defect of low coordination ability, and my body became fat again. The NBA is considered dead, but acting is still a dream.

What's wrong with being fat?The man Zheng Zeshi is still the actor.He rolls over.

A low-ranking actor?Pooh, how long has the Qing Dynasty been dead?Turned over again.

In fact, he often feels rejected by others.You Kaifeng, your grades are not good, you don't have that kind of brain, you are not material for studying.You Kaifeng, lose weight, or find a girlfriend.You Kaifeng, why are you so good at talking when you don't have the skills?You Kaifeng, can you please?The reason why he was able to ignore it was because he didn't care about those aspects; while the talents he truly believed in were still scoffed at by others, and the level of acceptance completely changed the standard.The bottom line that can be tolerated is another matter.It can be said to be fragile.

When the iPhone at hand rang, You Kaifeng still breathed a sigh of relief. When he picked it up and saw an unfamiliar number displayed on the screen, he immediately pressed the answer button: "You don't need to thank you if you don't have money and don't buy a house."

The other end was stunned, and after two whirring breaths, Peng Xiaoman smiled recklessly, "There is no room, data packages are not recommended, and insurance is not sold."

You Kaifeng sat up straight with his arms propped up, and after listening to the eight-point meaning, he was amused: "Mr. Xiaoman?"

"... Mr. Kaifeng?"

"What?" Talk about life.

"Your Lord Yuan is not well." Peng Xiaoman said with a smile, as if he was talking about a very easy and ordinary thing, "I entrust you to come to the small clinic with money."

"Huh?" You Kaifeng was surprised, "What do you mean, you should make it clear."

"It means... your family, Li Yuan, suffered a bloody accident today, and she is doing stitches in a nearby outpatient clinic, so I just wanted to say, can you come over and send me some medical bills or something?"

"Ah?! Stitches? Who, who hit you?"

The receiver rang for a while, obviously the phone was taken and handed over to a second person.You Kaifeng was taken aback, and was about to ask a question, when Li Yuan's voice sounded from the other end, with a calm tone: "As long as he can give me a bleeding stitch and send me to the hospital, I'll count him as him." Practiced."

You Kaifeng let out a "hey" from Peng Xiaoman's side.

"No, what's going on?" You Kaifeng came to his senses, quickly jumped out of bed to look for shoes, and touched the wallet on the table while talking, "Then who did you fight with, why are you still stitching? Seriously?" Why are you so ignorant? I’m so stupid? Didn’t dare to tell your dad, right? I still have [-] in my card, is it enough? Not enough, I’m looking for something from my mother? All right, send me the location, and I’ll be right away You and Peng Xiaoman, don’t rush to get there right away!"

Li Yuan heard that he hung up the phone with a beep, and then turned off the handset on the phone, lowered her head and pressed the keyboard twice to send an address, and handed the phone back to the little nurse who was helping him debride the wound, "Thank you ah."

"I think so, although Lord Kai obviously underestimated your fighting power, subconsciously thinks that you must have been beaten like this." Peng Xiaoman coughed muffledly, and laughed beside him, watching the little nurse put Half a bottle of normal saline was poured into Li Yuan's palm, and he saw streaks of reddish blood dripping from between his fingers, "But he really loves you." After speaking, he made a heartfelt gesture to Li Yuan, " Not much to say, wish 99."

Li Yuan frowned in pain, and pressed the tip of her nose. The qualities cultivated in more than ten years of studying did not allow her to pooh him.

Li Yuan's hand was really not a beating, but a stomping, to be precise, it was stomping on by Peng Xiaoman.

Peng Xiaoman felt that tonight's gang of sneaky old men were aiming to break their ribs, and the ones chasing after him were called a mountain without edge, heaven and earth unite, and they dared to break with the king.He has already run like a dog, gasping his head full of golden flowers. He has already left Qinghe Road and detoured to the power supply company. If you don't sit in an office and be a boss, you are at least a contractor, right? As for fighting with the two high school students?

Li Yuan was afraid that the moped would be pushed away after it was left on the side of the curb, and if it was a big loss, she would have to pay for it, so she didn't dare to run away. Peng Xiaoman circled around and hid in the nearby Huimin Lane. Unfortunately, the road conditions were not well surveyed and he was forced into a dead end.Unarmed, unable to get out, unable to run, Li Yuan turned her head without saying a word, picked up Peng Xiaoman, who was half-dead and panting, and sent it to the wall: "I know why you didn't test Ms. Peng Daiyu."

"Hey hey!" Peng Xiaoman left the ground suddenly, "What do you want to do?!"

"Go in and knock on the window of this person, wake them up and help call the police, don't talk about fighting and stealing dogs, or gathering people to gamble, move your feet!"

"Oh no!" Peng Xiaoman scratched at the wall with a wry smile, "It's not that you wait for a while, you wait for a while! Then, why don't you stay alone in this household and not be beaten to death by those people?!"

"I don't know who will die." Li Yuan stepped on her feet, pushed Peng Xiaoman's narrow waist, and pushed his butt up with her shoulder, "It's better to beat one to death than two, and you are a burden now."

"I--"

"Can't you move your feet?!" Li Yuan raised her hand and patted Peng Xiaoman's ankle bone.

"I can't climb trees, you don't know?!"

"Can't you climb the wall?"

"You can't climb anything!"

Before Li Yuan could say "Why are you alive", the bald man jumped up and grabbed the collar of his clothes, his hands trembled, and Peng Xiaoman was not knocked down.

Barely counting him as a flash, half of Peng Xiaoman's body weight jumped over the wall and he was about to roll into the safe zone, but he was pulled from the side by his beer belly and slid most of his body down.Li Yuan was in a hurry, first raised her hand to support Peng Xiaoman's feet, then swung her fist behind her back to brush away her bald head, raised her remaining hand to draw an arc in mid-air, and slapped Beer Belly's face with a resounding slap Gai said, "If you want to fight with me, why don't you try to drag him again?!" He turned around and picked up something under the wall and went on.

Su, capitalized Su, is a resounding phrase from an idol drama.Peng Xiaoman's scalp tingled, and he felt that if "Meteor Garden" was remade in South China, it might be okay to replace Jerry Yan's role with Li Yuan.

Peng Xiaoman paused, the soles of his feet seemed to be supported by something, he held his breath, and fell into the wall in a very inelegant manner.Unexpectedly, this door and this house are owners who like to hoard goods. Newspapers, magazines, beer cans are piled up dangerously under the wall.Peng Xiaoman slapped his ass on the ground, and Qi Delong Dongqiang was so startled that there was a burst of rapid dog barking in the alley.

At any rate, someone thought it was a blind thief, turned on the light, and screamed. The head of the household led his girlfriend out and shouted through the glass door of the balcony, "Who are you? I called the police!"

Right on target!When Peng Xiaoman heard this, he wished he could kneel down and shout long live, "Call the police! Someone is chasing you!"

Li Yuan fought five against one, laying a casually copied sorghum broom in front of her, waiting for an opportunity to kill her. Listening to Peng Xiaoman's words of chasing and killing through the fence, she almost stumbled - she didn't have blood all over her body, or she had to call in the armed police.

The little nurse pulled off the disposable mask that covered her mouth and nose, held a piece of white cotton gauze and pressed Li Yuan's palm tightly, raised her head and waved to Peng Xiaoman, "Come here, companion."

Peng Xiaoman walked over and squatted down, looking down at the cotton yarn that was instantly soaked red, "Can't you stop?"

"Puncture wound, there is no residue in the wound, and the opening is not very big, a few centimeters." The nurse compared the length with the index finger and thumb, "but it is a bit deep, and the flesh has turned out a little."

"Damn it." Peng Xiaoman frowned after hearing this, and looked up at Li Yuan bitterly.

Li Yuan couldn't help laughing: "It's like hurting you."

"It can be stopped." Seeing the doctor coming, the nurse got up and made way for half of the people, "But we can't give you anesthesia for the time being, and there is no natural absorbable suture, only nylon thread , you have to come to remove the stitches. Do you think we should go to the affiliated hospital for stitches after we stop the bleeding, or just stitch them here?"

"Will there be any problems in the later stage?" Li Yuan looked at the doctor who was walking and busy with the enamel tray.

"Debridement, disinfection, sutures, needles and prescribing medicine for tetanus, we follow the procedure. What could be the problem?" The doctor pushed the frame mirror on his face, and glanced at Peng Xiaoman, "Isn't it because you are worried about our small outpatient clinic?" , I’m afraid you think that our black hearts are not clean.”

"Did I say that?" Li Yuan raised her eyebrows with joy, and turned her wrist, "Sew it."

Peng Xiaoman blinked, "Ssewing?"

"Otherwise?" Li Yuan looked at him and smiled, and saw the nurse unrolling the white cotton gauze, palms up, and showing him a flower-like wound under the tip of Peng Xiaoman's nose: "Then, Shaoxia Peng?"

Peng Xiaoman rolled his eyelids and turned his head to avoid the gorgeous fiery red hand, curled his lips in disgust: "I'm not afraid that you won't be able to bear the pain and you don't know what's good."

"Why are you afraid of pain?" The doctor cut a piece of water-blue disposable pad and removed a bag of medical latex gloves. "Three or four needles will pass as soon as you close your eyes."

Peng Xiaoman frowned and looked at Li Yuan, turned his head and muttered in a low voice: "It's the past, it's not sure where it's been..."

Li Yuan pointed at him, "Don't set a flag for me."

The little nurse covered her mouth and smiled happily, and bent a pair of smiling eyes, "How can a boy be so weak, like this." Pointing to Peng Xiaoman, "If you are really afraid of pain, you can keep talking to him when you sew , don’t let him be distracted, you can sing a song to him and tell a couple of jokes, in short, it’s okay to divert your attention, it will be very fast.”

Peng Xiaoman said "ha", "Hey, I miss him so much, I'll sing for him! He can recite "Yueyang Tower" by himself to divert his attention, and it's time to remember the key points."

"What's the matter?" Li Yuan became excited as soon as she heard his tone, "You old man stomped me down like this, and I didn't make you pay for my good deeds. Why don't you sing me a song? Unreasonable, huh?"

Mmm, your sister, Mmmm.

"Well, then I didn't expect that there was glass shards embedded in the wall." Peng Xiaoman was half flattering and half discussing, "Let me make a joke for you, or, do you want to listen to domestic or foreign ones, or the ones on Zhiyin?" At the story meeting?"

"Don't." Li Yuan tilted her head and looked at him with a smile, "Just sing."

"I do not."

"Then you wait for me to go to your grandma to ask for compensation." Li Yuan blinked.

"Hey!" Peng Xiaoman narrowed his eyes.threaten me.

"Don't worry, I don't order songs." Li Yuan laughed so hard that she couldn't hold her arms around her, she looked at her hands, she didn't seem to have any pain in her hands, "You choose what you are good at singing, Chinese is fine, otherwise I can't understand and I can't get into the show. Also singing for nothing."

"Huanhua——" Look at you, it's amazing.Peng Xiaoman couldn't laugh or cry, he poked his nose.

Peng Xiaoman actually likes to sing since he was a child.I remember at that time, there was a "Little Girl Picking Mushrooms" in a kindergarten Children's Day performance.Ordinarily, a male doll with peppers like Peng Xiaoman should wear red lips and stand at the end of the line as the background of the event. However, he is so talented that he can startle everyone with his voice, and he belongs to the kind who opens his mouth and kneels.Therefore, the principal of the kindergarten thought that Peng Xiaoman should lead the singing, so he put two fake braids on him, put a little bellyband on him, and pushed the indistinguishable male to the C position on the stage.

Then in primary and junior high school, humming and singing in private is a personal habit. As long as people are free, or when they are frustrated and not happy enough, the melody will naturally pour out of their throats, and they will make random but appropriate choices according to their mood.At that time, my classmates were still researching which type of Clover sneakers was more worth buying, and Peng Xiaoman had already stretched his belt and saved money to buy three generations of ipods; Xiaoman has already used AKG, which few people know.

That's not a kind of showing off, but a kind of personal taste that people don't understand and simply don't talk about.Peng Xiaoman always believes that music is a different kind of expression and comfort in all things.

Li Yuan was just teasing him.In the past few days, I have been unhappy in my heart, and I always feel powerless as if I punched Sim Mengsi with a sharp punch, and there is nothing I can do.The feeling of being trapped became more and more obvious.Peng Xiaoman is a very bright and not dull person. Talking to him is sometimes like talking to Siri, which makes people vaguely expect what he will say next.Whether it's a gag in a ridiculous tone and the bag is shaking, or it's jumping up and flying with dirty words, or it's suddenly sinking down, thinking for a moment, and spit out a series of incredible philosophical speculations.

Peng Xiaoman has always been non-aggressive, laughing or scolding, all have a gentle and forgiving background, which is actually very rare and attractive.

Li Yuan made full preparations for his "a man who can be killed but not humiliated", followed the doctor's advice with a half-smile, and put his arm on the cloth, watching the iodophor wipe a ball of brown and yellow on his palm, and prepared to take the next step At the first stitch, Peng Xiaoman hummed a melody which slightly startled him.

"Forgive me for this song, which is not made for anyone."

Li Yuan raised her eyebrows to look at him in a little surprise, felt the tip of the needle thrust into the flesh without hesitation, and then, as if in an instant, she squeezed her heart quickly.

Peng Xiaoman stared back as he sang—didn't you beg for nothing to let me sing?

"It feels like the night outside the window. There was a moment when I turned around and couldn't recognize it. People who need to search from memory..." Peng Xiaoman rubbed his nose, lowered his head, and glanced at the blue water that floated down the console. Doily, "And the places they care about, and the places they walked, please wait..."

Li Yuan has listened to JJ Lin's "A Song For No One" by accident twice.He felt that this was a song that only JJ Lin could sing well, and it had his own style too.It is true that Peng Xiaoman's voice is not as mellow and clear as Lin Junjie's, muffled and slightly lacking in confidence. It has a texture similar to frosted, like a natural low-pitched reverberation with particles and metallic textures.

Li Yuan stared at his downcast eyes, unable to see the pupils, but only the row of black eyelashes.

Peng Xiaoman's tunes are very precise. In JJ Lin's original song, every delicate and rising transition, in the current environment, has been carefully taken care of by him, and he is calm and unhurried, very smooth and easy.This song is a bit of self-talk and self-examination, which is no longer the usual love theme in Chinese songs. The imagery is hazy and detached, which is not suitable for procrastinating emotions.Therefore, Peng Xiaoman's articulation is sharp, and if you listen carefully, you may even feel that your words are a little too tight, and your words are too correct.

But appropriate, every word and sentence is clearly his own singing style and style.

Of course, Li Yuan is not without pain.Peng Xiaoman's singing is naturally not the singing of a siren who bewitches people's hearts. He can still feel the pain of the nylon thread passing through the flesh, then knotted and tightened.But his emotional conveyance and emotional interpretation are in place. Seventy to eighty percent of the content is soft and soft, and every word and melody in his mouth is handed over to Li Yuan's ears and flows to Li Yuan. In my heart, it is like a subtle comfort that takes years to produce qualitative changes.

The nurse sat beside her, tilting her head and laughing teasingly, and then involuntarily listened to him sing quietly; Li Yuan propped her chin, couldn't help nodding her left foot, and beat the beat gently.

Dream pours water for hard work love pushes forward behind

When I looked up I realized if I forgot someone

I'm so tired I can't sleep all night, the night is beautiful everywhere

There must be someone who escaped, escaped, escaped, concealed

Who is he

Who is he

You Kaifeng pushed the door open, rushed like the wind and plunged into the small clinic, tripped over the threshold, and managed to escape the medical screen.

"Fuck, your threshold is too..." It's too high.You Kaifeng scolded and pulled himself together, raised his fat face covered with sweat, and saw Peng Xiaoman shrugging his shoulders in shock, he stopped singing abruptly and turned around, "...No, you, you two...do you need stitches? Ah, is there still a concert?"

Why did you still sing me to go.

The doctor glanced back at him without changing his face, the nurse stood up and held the screen steady, frowning very brightly and said "tsk", the meaning is self-evident - where did the little fat man come to disturb me? Song!Although Li Yuan didn't want to admit it, she really wanted to kick Peng Xiaoman and tell him.

——Hey, don't stop, it's very nice, really.

"One hit to five?!" You Kaifeng handed over a bottle of ice mineral water, "Hey, you can do it, didn't this give you a concussion?"

Li Yuan was carrying a bag of medicine and stood under the light sign at the entrance of the outpatient clinic. She rushed to Kaifeng and shook her gauze-wrapped right hand, "You really want me to lie horizontally in the hospital, don't you?"

"What do I mean?" You Kaifeng reached out and unscrewed the cap of the mineral water bottle, holding the bottle and handing it to Li Yuan's mouth, "Look up."

"All right, no need." Li Yuan took the bottle and brushed off his hand, "I can't stand it, I'll do it myself."

You Kaifeng let go, turned his head and laughed.

200 yuan for debridement and suture, 20 yuan for tetanus, and 120 for oral and intravenous antibiotics. The total is less than 400 yuan. It is more expensive than public tertiary hospitals.

"I'll bring you the money tomorrow." Li Yuan handed the mineral water back to You Kaifeng, watched him screw it on, and raised his hand to brush away a string of water beads on his chin.

"Needy, I'm not that bad." You Kai let out a snort, "Think about how to explain to your dad. I got stabbed at the end of the semester. Let me see how you take the exam. Are you going to talk about it?" With it in your mouth or in your armpit?"

Li Yuan raised her eyebrows, noncommittal.

It is said that the Pianer police do nothing, but today it is not the case.Not long after the young couple reported the crime, a police car came rattling with its red and blue warning lights flashing.Three pairs of big-brimmed hats came down, but Lin Yixiong was missing.Those who stole cats and dogs had heard the news of the police, and those who knew the current affairs slipped away four of them as a hero. The extremely unjust one left a bald and only seedling, who was kicked in the ribs by Li Yuan. The anti-shear pressed against the wall and could not move.After explaining the ins and outs clearly, and watching the film, the police took away the bald head and the remaining two cats and a dog, and Li Yuan pressed the center of her eyebrows with a sigh of relief.

As a result, Peng Xiaoman saw blood dripping from his arm.

Li Yuan took a small bottle of azithromycin after the stitches were done. The medicine had to be instilled slowly, but Nunu was not satisfied with the half-small bowl of milk that the little nurse gave him, so he was hungry in the small patio behind the clinic. call out.Li Yuan didn't know what to do, thinking that Grandma Peng Xiaoman might be leaving home in a hurry, so she entrusted Peng Xiaoman to take Nunu to ride a moped and go back to Zhujiatang ahead of schedule.

After he sang that song, it seemed that he had used up the remaining confidence after running around for a long distance. When he spoke to Li Yuan again, there was a slight hissing sound, like a bellows with a small gap leaking.Seeing him puffing his chest hard, Li Yuan sighed for a long time, cleared his throat with the tip of his nose, then picked up Nunu and snapped his fingers: "Then I'll go back first, Nunu you can come to pick me up tomorrow."

"Have you clashed with Mr. Xiaoman recently?" You Kaifeng followed Li Yuan with a cigarette in his mouth, smiling, and sent him back to Zhujiatang, "I think it's okay for you two to be together. , Let me see if the horoscope is in harmony."

"Today is just a coincidence." Li Yuan glanced back at him and stared at the cigarette next to his mouth, "Chairman Mao said that feudal superstition is bad."

"Which nonsense is not a coincidence? That coincidence is called a coincidence once, and you know what it is called twice?" You Kaifeng took out his pocket, picked up another piece of white sand, and handed it over, pretending to nod and bow, "Come on, Lord Xiaoyuan, please, look at me." This is seeing."

Li Yuan waved her hand and didn't answer it very shamelessly, knowing that he couldn't say anything good, but still asked: "What's your name?"

You Kaifeng narrowed his eyes and grinned, "It's called Yuan, it's so wonderful~"

Li Yuan looked at him and trembled, and then laughed non-stop.The water on the car passed by his side, breaking through the damp and stagnant evening wind, leaving him behind, heading towards the direction of Wunan River, and towards the golden yellow light in the distance of the road.