Chapters 3-6 of Lin's Old Story in the South of the City: Everyone who expected me to grow up left with my childhood.

When Eiko was young, people expected her to grow up.

The fortune teller said that Eiko was brave and could be a headmistress in the future. What will it be like when you grow up? Eiko seems a little curious.

Aunt Lan, the man squatting on the grass, Dad ... they are all looking forward to Eiko growing up.

But Eiko has not grown up, but they have gradually left her world.

Perhaps, life is one farewell after another.

0 1? People squatting on the grass

When Eiko was a child, she liked a text called "We Watch the Sea".

"Let's go to see the sea! Let's see the sea! On the blue sea, white sails are flying, and the golden red sun rises from the sea and shines on the sea and the bow. Let's see the sea! Let's watch the sea! "

On one occasion, Eiko went to the grass to pick up the ball and found a man squatting on the grass. His lips are thick. Eiko heard that people with such faces are honest.

He told Eiko that he was a good man, not a bad man.

But at that time Eiko couldn't tell what was good and what was bad. She has just entered primary school, and she can't even tell the sky from the sea.

He always hides things in the grass and wraps them in tarpaulins. Eiko doesn't know what it is either.

However, he seems to have become friends with eiko. He had something on his mind and never told anyone, but told the child who couldn't tell the difference between the sea and the sky.

He said that he had done nothing right before and lost all his possessions. The old mother cried her eyes out because he was worthless. But he's fine now. He is a good man now. His brother studied hard and said that he would study abroad in the future.

However, their family is so poor that sometimes they can't even eat steamed buns.

He said it was his idea. Xiaoying thinks there is nothing to worry about. She doesn't understand.

During that time, neighbors always lost things.

In a blink of an eye, the sixth grade students will graduate. Eiko, as a junior, is going to perform a program on stage. She wanted to play a sparrow, so her mother made her a beautiful silk scarf wing with jingling bells.

On that day, the first-year students got the graduation certificate as representatives and published a thank-you letter. Eiko's father told her how happy his parents should be sitting under the stage. Dad also encouraged Eiko to study hard, and when he graduated, he also took the stage to get his diploma on behalf of his classmates.

Eiko still doesn't understand these things. She just finished performing sparrows, and her mother brought her snacks.

But just then, she saw the man squatting on the grass under the stage. He sat upright, which is different from his appearance in the grass.

Eiko thought, did he come to see him perform?

Later, she finally knew that he was the first brother in that grade!

Eiko told him before that she couldn't tell sea and the sky apart. He said that when his brother went abroad to study in the future, he would invite Eiko to see him off together, so that Eiko could see what the sea was like.

However, these good wishes will never come true.

The last time Eiko saw him in the grass, he asked Eiko if he had touched the bag in the grass. He said that the wind was very tight recently and he might not be able to come again.

He gave eiko a string of ivory beads. Said it was left by his grandmother and I always wanted to give it to eiko.

He also reminded Eiko that he was not a bad person.

Eiko can't tell what is good and what is bad. She took the bracelet, and when she saw him again, he was arrested by the police.

Everyone went to watch the fun, and people said he was a thief.

Eiko dare not look at his face.

She still can't tell the good guys from the bad guys. All she remembers is that they agreed to watch the sea together.

Blue sea, white sails, golden red sun ... he will never see them again.

It turns out that he is a collector. It turns out that he is also a thief.

But he is still an elder brother who scrimps and saves for his younger brother to study. His younger brother is the first in his grade every year, and he also said that he would study abroad.

He said he was not a bad guy, but after all, he went the wrong way. ...

02 ? Aunt LAN

When she was three years old, she was sold by her own mother. It is said that it is to treat my brother.

He was brought to Beijing from Suzhou when he was fourteen. At the age of 20, she married Uncle Shi, who was nearly old.

This year, she was twenty-five years old and escaped from the Stone House.

Eiko called her Aunt Lan. She has a glib tongue, unique hair and distinctive clothes. Eiko doesn't know how others treat her. On the other hand, dad seems to be in love with this woman.

Eiko's mother is no match for this lovely and playful woman. Mom is very fertile and always has a big belly. She is pregnant and has to cook.

At that time, Uncle Dexian always went home.

Dad says Uncle Dexian is a great new youth. Every time Uncle Dexian goes home to take shelter from the wind, my mother cooks a table of dishes. But dad always feels that mom is not doing well.

Eiko doesn't like Uncle Dexian.

Aunt Lan and her father are lying smoking a big cigarette. Eiko saw her father holding Aunt Lan's hand.

These two outsiders always stay in Eiko's house. What should we do?

Eiko is a clever little girl. Intentionally or unintentionally, she acted as an emissary between Uncle Dexian and Aunt Lan. In the long run, these two people actually get along.

My mother is the most wronged in my family.

Eiko secretly told her mother about Uncle Dexian and Aunt Lan, and her mother laughed very hard.

Dad was the last to know. Dad asked mom if she knew, and mom said no. Dad seems to regret that his family was kept in the dark like him.

Uncle Dexian is his good friend, and Aunt Lan is the woman he likes.

Now, his good friend has left with the person he likes.

Uncle Dexian thinks Aunt Lan is a great woman who dares to rebel against the old family. He also gave her a book, The Puppet Family.

In the eyes of Uncle Dexian, Aunt Lan seems to be as great as Nora who ran away.

03 ? Ma Song

I really can't bear to write this story. When reading a novel, I also stopped for a long time before I came to my mind.

Ma Song's story is a story of despair.

Despair is because her fate is like a vicious circle.

When her man beat her, she couldn't bear it, so she came to Beijing as a wet nurse. She wanted to earn money by herself. But in this way, her newborn daughter will have to spend money to bring it to others. She also has a son, Xiao Shuan, as old as Eiko.

Ma Song feeds other people's children, but her own children can't see them.

Eiko's mother can have children, so Ma Song stays at Eiko's house year after year to take care of these children. Eiko and her brothers and sisters are very dependent on her.

On one occasion, Eiko's younger brother was ill and didn't take medicine. Ma Song lied to him that if he didn't take medicine, she would go back to her hometown to find Xiao Shuan.

My brother can't live without Ma Song, so he was very scared and quickly drank the medicine.

People from Ma Song come every year. He is ugly and cuddly, but he has never brought the child to have a look. Ma Song gave him the money she saved every time, and also gave him the clothes she usually made for the little embolus and the girl.

She has been saying that she wants to take Xiao Shuan and go to school with Eiko.

She has been worried that it is not safe for Xiao Shuan to herd cattle at home, and she has a girl in her heart.

However, the little embolus and the girl are gone.

Small embolus died for a year, Ma Song didn't know. Ma Song said that her man must have gambled, and the little embolus went to find him when he was hungry, so he drowned when crossing the river.

As for the girl, it turns out that when Ma Song first came to Eiko's house and his man returned to his hometown, he gave the girl to someone before he left Beijing.

Ma Song abandoned her family, made some money and was gambled by men. Kids, they're all gone.

She's alive. What the hell?

However, Eiko's family is very dependent on her. Ma Song likes these children too much to leave.

Eiko's mother advised her to have a child after all. You can come back when you have children.

So Ma Song rode a donkey back to her hometown.

Will her man still hit her?

Nobody knows.

04? Eiko graduated.

Eiko graduated from primary school, and she became what her father expected. She studied hard, got the first place in the exam, and went on stage to get her diploma.

However, dad can't attend the graduation ceremony.

Mother gave Eiko an oleander flower on her lapel. She said:

"Oleander is planted by your father. Put it on, just like your father saw you on the stage. "

Uncle was killed by the Japanese. Dad is vomiting blood, at the moment is in the hospital, he charged eiko way:

"Practice, practice, Eiko."

Eiko just graduated from primary school, but she is the eldest daughter of the family and her father is ill. She acted like an adult.

At the graduation ceremony, juniors sang "Farewell" to Eiko.

"Outside the pavilion, by the ancient road, the grass is green. ..... When did you come here? Don't wander around when you come! Time flies, the ends of the earth, and close friends are scattered. Life is rarely a gathering, only more separation ... "

Life is a road to death. And the people I know will leave one day.

Eiko graduated and is going to show his father his diploma.

However, dad has left. ...

Is the home cook told eiko the news, he also said:

"Big miss, go to the hospital and persuade your mother to give it to you! You are old! "

Eiko suddenly realized that she was really going to grow up. So she calmly told the cook that she knew and went to the hospital.

Dad likes flowers. He used to take care of his flowers and plants as soon as he got off work.

But now, the oleander has fallen, and the small pomegranate without seed has also fallen to the ground.

Last autumn, my father would buy many kinds of chrysanthemums and put them in the yard, under the eaves and on the flower stand in the living room.

But this year, there won't be. In the future, it won't happen again.

Eiko looked at the defeated flowers in the yard and said:

"Dad's flowers have fallen, and I am no longer a child."