Suzaku

Scavengers

Yi Tianxing pushed the 28-year-old bicycle out of the shed, looked at the dark night sky above the campus, and twitched his brows unconsciously. He looked at the classmates passing by and greeted them friendly. Now that he is not a child anymore, he also knows how to make himself fresher, and no classmates will alienate him because he can’t stand the smell on his body. No one in high school would discriminate against a person because of his family background. Even if they did, no one would dare to show such shameless disgust on their faces on a campus full of books.

He pushed the bicycle that looked too tall and walked outside the school. The lights on both sides of the road leading to the gate were dim. He was slowly thinking about what books he should go to the county library to borrow on Saturday, but unexpectedly, someone was blowing to the wind beside him. The same passing, accompanied by the sound of the wind, and the hand that reached out to his hair and scratched it.

“Boy, it’s time for you to wash your hair. Come home for dinner tomorrow night.” Several bicycles whizzed past him, and a girl with short hair turned around and made a face at him.

He smiled. That short-haired girl is called Zou Leilei, she is at the same table, but it’s a pity that the road is different, at least the way home is different.

Lei Lei is also Yi Tianxing’s most familiar classmate on campus, the reason is actually very simple, because the last time the whole class went to Lei Lei’s house for a party, Lei Lei’s mother looked at Yi Tianxing in a daze, and then she was covered with oily smoke. Patting his face directly with his hand, he called out, “His father, come and see, is this the kid?”

Mr. Zou, who was wearing glasses, walked in slowly from the study room, and then took off his glasses to look at it for a long time, Fang said slowly: “The eyebrows and eyes are vaguely similar, but it’s been a long time.”

Lei Lei’s mother wavedBreaking off, he yelled: “How can you be so stupid and just ask the name on the kid’s account?”

At this time, the students were looking at Yi Tianxing and Lei Lei’s parents strangely, and Lei Lei said angrily: “Mom and Dad, what are you doing? This is our classmate, who is usually the most shy, and it was hard to invite him today.” Don’t frighten him, my dear.”

Lei Lei’s mother waved her hand and said, “Don’t interrupt your child when the adults are talking.” Then with a gentle smile on her face, she asked, “Boy, remember your name, it’s in the household registration book.”

At this time, Yi Tianxing became a twelve-foot King Kong, and he said, “My name is Yi Tianxing.”

As soon as Yi Tianxing uttered these three characters, Lei Lei’s mother and Teacher Zou both laughed, and said, “Do you still remember who gave this name?”

Yi Tianxing suddenly realized, looked at the two parents for a long time, and then said gratefully: “So it’s Director Fat and Teacher Zou.”

Although the “fat director” Zou Leilei didn’t know what happened, she couldn’t help laughing when she saw that the most taciturn student in her class called her mother fat director.

After everyone sat at the dinner table, Teacher Zou held a small wine glass and told the students about the relationship between Yi Tianxing and Yi Tianxing. After a while, the fat director, oh, Lei Lei’s mother asked with concern: “We moved away when you were in elementary school, how have you been doing since then?”

Yi Tianxing was dealing with a big chicken leg brought by Leilei’s mother, and replied vaguely: “It’s all good, and the neighbors are very helpful.”

Leilei’s mother lamented his life for a while, and then turned to brag about Yi Tianxing’s genius past in elementary school to the classmates on the table, until all the classmates were respectful and respectful, regardless of Yi Tianxing’s face. It’s like a cooked prawn.

After dinner, everyone broke up, Lei Lei sent Yi Tianxing to the door, with a coat on her shoulders, under the dim light, the girl looked at him with clear eyes: “Unexpectedly, Yi Tianxing, you can really pretend, It turns out that you are that monster genius when you were in elementary school.”

Yi Tianxing didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, and said, “You forgot my name yourself, so why pretend to say it?” Suddenly he said in a daze, “Monster Genius, is this what I was called in elementary school?”

The two looked at each other and smiled.

From that day on, Yi Tianxing became acquainted with Zou Leilei, and often went to her house to have a meal and a tooth-beating ceremony, and then brought some delicious food back to his little black house after the meal.

Director Fat and Teacher Zou are really wonderful people.

Yi Tianxing looked at the bicycle going away, and stood at the school gate thinking. Looking up, he saw that the night sky was getting darker and darker. Knowing that it might rain at night, he quickly got on his bicycle and rushed to his home.

His small black house is still in the old place, in the dirtiest corner of the old city gate.

Yi Tianxing carefully took off his blue or white shirt and trousers, folded them and put them on the bed, and put a newspaper between the sheets and clothes. Then he took out his work clothes from under the bed, and put them on skillfully without frowning.

The work clothes are a pair of black jeans, blue work clothes from an unknown textile factory, a torn straw hat with thorns on the side, and a handkerchief that cannot be washed white.

Putting on his overalls, carrying the basket on his back, putting on the rubber shoes that have accompanied him in his scavenging career for more than ten years, and holding the bamboo stick that was split in two in his hand like a sword, our scavenger sang softly: ” I see you go, don’t see you return” learning the fourteen chants in the TV series, and began to walk along the dark street towards the large garbage dump in Chengguan.

The more he walked, the better he felt. You must know that the pair of rubber shoes under his feet were always too big in the past and had to be tied with a hemp rope to walk, but now they fit better and better. When he was in a good mood, the scavengers walked in the alleys made of stones more easily, as if they were about to dance.

The former convenience is where he works the night shift, the garbage station in Gonghe Village.

A pile of garbage like a hill appeared in front of Yi Tianxing, and a stench came over his face. He gently put down the gray towel tied to his nose, but there was no embarrassment on his face. That’s right, I’ve been picking up tatters for more than ten years, don’t you still feel uncomfortable?

He went to the garbage dump and flipped through it gently with his gloved left hand, picking up the plastic bottles and glass bottles inside. Nowadays, there are not many soda cans in this day and age. I found one by chance. It was more like picking up a treasure. I quickly smashed it with my palms together, and then put it in the basket behind my back. Flipping through his left hand proficiently, his right hand was not empty either. He gently clamped a bamboo stick to the bag of paper scraps on the ground, and then let it go back, and the black rotten paper was swept away behind him. He obediently ate his basket, and his movements were extremely skillful. He actually used a long bamboo stick like chopsticks in the hands of the world.

Those who pick up garbage can be considered colleagues, right? Those who spend their lives digging through a garbage dump can also be considered colleagues. It’s a pity that there are only indifferent eyes between such colleagues. The fake smiles of those people.

Yi Tianxing looked at the three or four colleagues walking on the garbage dump from a distance, and smiled slightly. He is very satisfied with this kind of life without talking to people, because often he doesn’t know whether others can understand what he says to others.

The garbage dump in the night was stinky, and the bright moon in the night sky seemed to be unable to bear the stinky smell. It quietly hid behind the clouds, and Yi Tianxing’s surroundings became even darker..

In the dark night, a few people came, wearing fashionable fat trousers and T-shirts. Yi Tianxing had good eyes, so he could see clearly. These people were carrying a few lumps of aluminum ingots to an agricultural vehicle parked outside the garbage dump. car to go.

He frowned, knowing that it must be the hooligans in the county stealing the raw materials from the factory in the north, so he quickly turned his head and walked back a few steps, and when he passed by those old scavengers, he whispered hello . The old waste collectors were reminded by him, only to find that there were a few hooligans behind them. They were so frightened that they quickly ran towards the back of the garbage dump in small steps.

Yi Tianxing deliberately stayed at the end, because he didn’t want to go too hastily and attract the attention of those little hooligans.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the motor of the dirty agricultural vehicle started and the headlights came on, his figure was cast on the garbage dump.

“Fuck, what are you looking at, kid?” A hooligan scolded Yi Tianxing who subconsciously turned around. :