Green Apricot

Chapter 1 Snow

This day is a special day, because my second father's family is going to "open the door of wealth", so on this day, many people will stay up all night.

Speaking of opening the door of wealth, it’s a custom in our area. I didn’t ask the older generation about it in detail. In short, if someone’s family builds a new house, the door is generally not allowed to open, and a local Taoist priest must be invited. Come sing, dance, just open.Da Kai wants to invite three or four Taoist priests to sing and dance together, while Xiao Kai only invites one Taoist priest to sing and dance.

If it happened to Dakai, not only the host family would not be able to sleep all night that night, even the relatives in the village would have to play lively all night.Those who can drink drink together, and those who can't drink play cards in groups of three or four.Those who are rich play mahjong, while Taoist priests beat gongs and drums and dance all night.

And that night, a boy from whoever’s family came to my second dad’s house. I’ve never seen this boy before. He pointed to the boy and asked, "Who is he?"

Baishi glanced at me and said: "He is the son of our eldest aunt's girl's family, so he has to be called our uncle."

"What? You see that he is about the same as us. Why are we a generation older than him? It's inappropriate, so why should we call him?"

Baishi looked at me and suddenly smiled, and said, "Qing Xing, let's just call him by his name, what else can we call him? Birthmark, so it was named Blue Skin".

As soon as I heard the name, I wanted to laugh, but in the end I held back, "Baishi, look at him like that, where does he go to school?"

"You, he is in the same school as us, and we often see each other. Look at you, you don't even know these relatives."

Baishi and I discussed some things about this blue skin, because this boy named blue skin is a bit special. Although he is about the same age as me, he looks much taller.He has a tall nose, a broad face, and the plump skin under his white shirt collar makes people want to get close to him. He often walks with his head held high. Among our relatives, there is such a unique person.

And at that time, I suddenly found that I had a little throb for him, although I had it before, but I forgot it with the passage of time, and walked away.That night, Mr. Taoist was beating gongs and drums, many of them were playing cards, and so was Lan Pi. I intentionally approached this boy, but I couldn't find any reason.I don't have money for gambling, and I don't know many ways to play cards.He shuttled through the crowd, playing cards and drinking with others, fighting landlords to drink water, and watching TV in the back room.Everything he does is in my eyes.It seems that this boy fell from the sky, not like he was born on earth.

I always feel that he is different from others, and I can’t tell exactly what is different. When he went to the inner room to watch TV, I sat next to him, and my heart was beating in my throat. Although the TV was on, I could hardly hear any sound from it. I leaned closer to his ear and said, "I heard that you have a blue birthmark on your belly. Is it true?"

"Oh, yes, uncle, who did you hear that from?"

As soon as I heard him call me uncle, I felt very uncomfortable and awkward, and said: "Everyone knows that you are a strange person in our relative circle."

After hearing this, he suddenly covered his mouth and laughed loudly, "Uncle, can you make a big joke, I am a strange person? You people who study in the top class are strange people, and we who study in the duck class, how can we be strange people?"

This guy, why is it so hard to deal with talking, I went on to say: "Is it true? Let me see."

He seemed taken aback by the words, looked at me suddenly, put his hand on his lower abdomen, and said, "What? What's so interesting about that?".

I suddenly felt that I was stupid, why would I want to see someone else, I pretended not to care, looked at the TV in a blink of an eye and said, "Aren't you going to sleep tonight?".

"Yeah, my grandma called us here, and I'm going to bed tonight, it's deserted, it's not looking good."

"I'm going to sleep anyway, we have to make up lessons tomorrow, don't you make up?"

"Uncle, I'm only in the second year of junior high school, so I'm not busy"

"Oh, how about this, you will come to my house to sleep in a while, anyway, they are not here, my house has a lot of beds, they jump on theirs, we sleep on us."

"Well, what can I do, if my mother knows, do I want this skin?"

"Is your mother that powerful?"

"Aren't you making up classes tomorrow? It's eleven o'clock now."

"You really don't sleep?"

"Oh, go home and sleep tomorrow."

I said goodbye to everyone by myself, and came home alone, I kept thinking, this guy, can it be uncomfortable to stay up all night?I fell asleep thinking about it.It was dawn the next day, and my mother came back from my second father's house.I asked my mother if Lan Pi didn't sleep last night.The mother said that she was sitting all the time and did not sleep.

I always wondered if it was hard for him not to sleep last night. After I finished eating, I opened the door and found that it was white outside, with large groups of snowflakes flying. I walked in the snow and looked at the snow flying all over the sky.

I really don't want to go to school, I just want to stay home and see what he looks like.Maybe he went back to his house today and won't see him again.In the past, I saw people writing about missing a person in books and didn't understand it at all.

Only now do I know that missing someone is really more beautiful than the only snow this year.But also pure.Whether I was on the road or in class that day, I always thought of him.I was distracted several times in class.

That day, only the morning class was held, and the afternoon class was cancelled. I ran home, and Lan Pi was no longer at my second dad's house.I suddenly felt a sense of loss in my heart, and I wrote all of this in my diary, hoping to have a chance to meet next time.