Such a warm neighborhood is a real-life version of "Please answer 1988"

when Mr. Mao and I bought this second-hand house, we were not married yet. We rented it for a year and then started decorating. When I was preparing for the renovation, I took the designer to measure, and the eldest sister with a little boy leaned her head curiously through the open door and greeted me, "Let's take a look at the new neighbor!"

that's how my neighbors and I met.

at that time, the three members of the neighbor's family, all from Beijing, were a few years older than me, so I was called "Brother Sun" and "sister-in-law". Only a few days after our decoration team started work, we tried too hard on the nail rack and pierced the wall of the balcony. Brother Sun came to me in a very careful tone: "Xiaoding, the skin of my wall is broken. Is it because of your decoration?"

I went to have a look, and a large piece of wall skin fell off, so I asked our foreman to take care of it for the neighbors. At that time, I was very nervous. After all, I didn't know what kind of people my neighbors were like. It was still a question of how to communicate in the future, so I apologized again and again. Later, I also figured out that Brother Sun was so polite to me because he was not familiar with me, so he was careful everywhere.

later on, I gradually became acquainted with each other and found that the other person was very easy to get along with. Brother Sun is from Miyun. Sometimes when he comes back from his hometown, he will bring some vegetables such as turnips. Mr. Mao and I are both lazy people, but we are embarrassed to even after eating a few times. When I go back to my hometown in Shandong, I will bring them a few bags of fish fillets or shrimp. His children like to eat grilled fish fillets and are very happy every time they get fish fillets.

Brother Sun smokes, so he has to smoke in the hallway for fear of affecting his children. Sometimes when I come home in the middle of the night, when I see a little red light in the dark corridor, I know that Brother Sun is smoking. I'll just talk to him when I'm fine. One summer, we talked about the schools around us. Brother Sun said: the environment in this community is good, but there is no good school.

I remembered passing by the gate of a nearby middle school during the day. I saw the school hang a banner that read: "warmly celebrate our school reaching the XX mark above 600 in the college entrance examination." I asked him, "this school looks very good."

Brother Sun looked at me and said, "A dozen 600 points will happily play banners, which shows that this school is rotten."

I asked him, "which middle school did you go to?"

Brother Sun said, "attached by the national people's Congress."

I admire and say: "impressive." I heard that all the children attached to the National people's Congress are from Tsinghua University and Peking University, followed by the national people's Congress. Only those who can't go to other schools. "

Brother Sun smiled but said nothing.

I asked, "so, which university did you go to, Brother Sun?"

Brother Sun exhaled his cigarette and said, "Beijing Institute of Technology."

I swallowed a mouthful of old blood in my throat and was so embarrassed that I tried to open the hallway window and jump out.

usually, Mr. Mao mainly lives at school, while I go out early and come back late. Even on weekends, we stay at home and seldom go out, so we don't see much of our neighbors. One day I met my sister-in-law in the hallway, pushing a stroller in which there was a baby. I was surprised. I pointed to the baby and pointed to my sister-in-law. I couldn't say anything: "New." New. New? "

my sister-in-law said happily, "Yes, I've been pregnant for almost three months!"

it just occurred to me that I hadn't seen my sister-in-law for more than half a year, so that there was someone in my neighbor's family, and I had no idea. I didn't even know she was pregnant.

I don't choose the words: "it's the same as the one made."

Children grow up fast and look the same every few days. My sister will soon walk, smile at us, and call me Uncle Xiaoding and Aunt Maomao. My brother went to primary school without my knowledge. Both brother and sister are smart, lively, and not fooling around.

not long after we picked up the eggs, my brother and sister loved cats. As soon as they met me, they would beg, "Uncle Xiaoding, can I play with eggs for a while?"

so I opened the door, and my brother and sister knelt happily on the floor to play with eggs. The egg has some recognition of the younger sister, and sometimes shows a ferocious look, and the younger sister looks aggrieved: "the egg doesn't like me."... " But without hesitation, he leaned over to play with the eggs. The elder brother is older, giving way to his sister everywhere and teaching her how to get along with eggs: "you can't pat it on the head, it likes to touch it like this."... "

Brother Sun is afraid that the child will disturb us. If the child stays at home for more than ten minutes, he will come back and say, "your mother has cooked delicious food!"

nine times out of ten, nine times out of ten, my brother left as soon as he heard his father shout. On the other hand, my sister clung to the eggs and refused to leave. Finally, Brother Sun coaxed and hugged his sister away, leaving her stubborn and aggrieved cry: "Egg ~"

the child loves cats so much that Brother Sun has no way to consult about raising cats. I explained in detail what I should pay attention to in keeping a cat. It happened that a white stray cat in our building was pregnant and disappeared after giving birth to the baby. Brother Sun looked around the building and found a white kitten left in the corner. He came to me excitedly with Xiaobai in his arms: "look, this must be the birth of that stray cat. I might as well keep it!" Because the mother of the baby cat is called "Xiaobai", Brother Sun named the kitten "Xiaobai".

when the children have their cats, they are happy to fall from heaven and come here especially to make the two cats friends. But Xiaobai was too timid and ran away at the sight of the egg. On the other hand, the egg has a sense of territory. as long as Xiaobai steps into my house, he immediately gives a low roar of threat. So the two cats failed to become friends.

one day, Brother Sun came to ask me, "did eggs bite people frequently when I was a child?"

I said that the egg is not like this. If you make it unhappy, the egg will hold your hand with its mouth at most and make a threat, and it won't bite down.

Brother Sun frowned and said that Xiaobai bit people frequently and the whole family had been bitten. It was a bloody bite.

A cat that bites cannot be kept at home, nor is it easy to give it away. We have to throw it on the street. After thinking about it, Brother Sun talked about me and kept the cat in the weak electricity room shared by our two families. He prepared cat toilets, water, and cat food in the weak electricity room, shoveled shit, and added food every day. Xiaobai has lived a semi-wandering life ever since. The children want to play with the cat, so they wear gloves to try to communicate with Xiaobai. But Xiaobai is still timid and sensitive. Although I often meet him, I have never succeeded in playing with him.

one day I was in a hurry to go to work. When I went out, the egg followed me. I locked the door and turned back and locked the egg out. During the day, I watched video surveillance at home on my mobile phone, but I couldn't see any eggs, so I couldn't help but wonder. Mr. Mao and I hurried home in the evening and couldn't find any eggs. At this time, Xiaobai came over. Teacher Mao, who was in a hurry to seek medical advice, bent over and asked, "Xiao Bai, have you ever seen an egg?" As soon as the words fell, a meow came from the weak electricity room behind Xiaobai. Teacher Mao opened the door of the weak electricity room, and the egg jumped out with a look of resentment. The eggs locked out of the door spent the abandoned day eating Xiaobai's rice, drinking Xiaobai's water, and pulling Xiaobai's toilet.

but the existence of rookies finally attracted the attention of the property. One day Brother Sun came to shovel shit, as usual, only to find that everything was missing and Xiaobai was also missing. He looked around and found the cat toilet and food basin in the big trash can of our building, but Xiaobai never found it.

as soon as the egg became friends with Xiaobai because of trouble, we lost Xiaobai.

Brother Sun is a technical man. When I first met, I asked him what line he was in. He talked about it, but I didn't understand it, and I never talked about it again. But he remembered that Mr. Mao and I were both liberal arts students and there were many books at home.

during the period when Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize, he met me as usual when he was smoking and asked if he could borrow some books, so I took him to my study. He picked Mo Yan's fatigue of Life and death and Sandalwood's punishment, Wei's Jiangcheng, and Barbara Demick's our happiest: the Real Life of the North Korean people. When I left, I saw that I had a set of Journey to the West and asked if I could show it to my children. At that time, my brother was already in the third grade, and I thought that I had come into contact with the Water margin in the third grade of primary school, so I said, "you can give him a try."

he looked at teacher Mao's professional book again and was eager to try. But after reading several titles, I felt that I was out of reach and said, "these books are probably too professional."

I said that there are also some popular ones, such as Ye Jiaying's words about du's poems, which ordinary people can fully understand, and they are very interesting. He thought for a moment and said that he should finish reading these books in his hand first.

when we meet again in the corridor, Brother Sun will talk to me excitedly about the books he has read.

"Mo Yan's talent is good, no wonder he won the prize. It's just that the end of "Life and death fatigue" is a little casual, just like holding back to write until finally with a sigh of relief. But talent is really good, and the style of other novels I have read is completely different. "

I thought he liked "life and death fatigue", so I gave him M á rquez's "one hundred years of Solitude" and told him that the characters were in a mess and had to take notes while watching.

"I recently read Lu Yao's" the ordinary World ". It was written with painstaking effort, and a person can write such a book in a lifetime. However, Lu Yao must not have thought that the end of the book is a tragedy. "

I said strangely, "Why?"

Brother Sun said: "Lu Yao had the spirit of that era, and it was honorable to be a coal miner, but if Sun Shaoping were true, nine times out of ten he would have spent the rest of his life miserable. It's not in the books, but whenever I think about the miner's later life, I feel sad for him. "

sometimes he asks me a lot of questions, such as:

"Why does Jia Baoyu prefer Lin Daiyu? I think Lin Daiyu is sensitive and bad-tempered, so she is not as good as Xue Baochai. "

"do you think it is true that Liu Bei left Zhuge Liang to stand on his own feet when he was alone?"

and so on. Some of the questions are quite deep, and I can't answer them.

my sister-in-law is a designer. Her evaluation of Brother Sun is: that people are very smart, but they don't read books, so their brains are easy to the axis. Brother Sun will retort foolishly: "I'm starting to read!"

many preferences of the two people are opposite. For example, Brother Sun does not like A Dream of Red Mansions, but his sister-in-law likes A Dream of Red Mansions best. the two once had many arguments. In this regard, teacher Mao shook hands to express his support for his sister-in-law.

Brother Sun pays great attention to the protection of borrowing books. When the set of Journey to the West was returned, it was wrapped with a plastic book cover. I said, the book is to be read, there is no need to be so serious. Brother Sun said, the book is for children, the child is not light or heavy, it is better to protect it.

later, Brother Sun's reading scope gradually extended from Chinese novels to foreign novels, foreign sociological works, and even Western philosophy masterpieces. When his sister was two years old, Brother Sun began to study Rousseau's Emil, praised Rousseau, became a fan of Rousseau, and went on to read Rousseau's other works. A few days ago, when our two families had dinner together, Brother Sun solemnly asked teacher Mao about the translation of the World as will and representation and critique of Pure reason. But neither of us understood, so we had to ask a friend who knew better.

teacher Mao is born with a lively childlike innocence, so he is especially liked by his neighbor's sister. Every time I met Mr. Mao in the yard and the hallway, the little sister always shouted happily, "Auntie Mao!" When shouting "Uncle Xiaoding", they did not share the same joy and closeness.

Last winter, my sister-in-law asked us to go to his house to eat shabu-shabu. My sister stuck to teacher Mao all the time took out her favorite toys, and played with teacher Mao. My sister was four or five years old at that time. After learning painting and English in kindergarten, she took teacher Mao's hand and read her English. Listen to the text version of Jane Eyre. She doesn't speak English, but she can only make some unexplained fricative sounds and broken fricative sounds, but she reads it very carefully. After reading English, she poured out a box of pictures she had painted and read it on a piece of paper. After reading it, the little girl said, "Aunt Mao Mao, which one do you like?" I can give it to you! "

teacher Mao was so moved that he confirmed again and again, "really?"

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the little girl said, "of course!" She looked at me sitting on one side and felt that it was not good to snub me, so she said, "…"... Uncle Xiaoding can also pick a few. "

maybe it's because I look fierce, and my brother and sister are closer to teacher Mao. The elder brother also tried to show his talent in front of teacher Mao, but the younger sister was very monopolistic, so if Mr. Mao chatted with others, the younger sister would be in a hurry, so the elder brother had to give way to the younger sister and had to take advantage of the younger sister's inattention. He ran over to teacher Mao and said, "Aunt Mao, this is the book I read."

Last Christmas, I made an appointment with Mr. Mao to go shopping for dinner with my friends. When I went out in the afternoon, I met my sister-in-law and took my sister to go out. When my sister saw teacher Mao, she was overjoyed and asked what we were going to do. We said we had dinner with friends.

my sister thought for a moment and said, "then can you come to my house after dinner?"

We agreed.

We had dinner out and chatted again. Before we knew it, it was past nine o'clock. We remembered that we had an appointment with our sister, so we hastened to take a taxi back. Knocking on the neighbor's door, I found that the neighbor's living room was decorated with flowers, lights, and balloons. When my sister saw teacher Mao, she hurriedly ran back to the bedroom, put on her most beautiful gauze dress, and made up to spend Christmas with us beautifully.

my sister-in-law said that the child had instructed his family to dress up the living room and was waiting to show it to Aunt Mao.

Mr. Mao and I are both unsociable people. Before that, Mr. Mao lived in Daxing and didn't know who his neighbor was for more than ten years. I'm a little better, but I only have a nodding acquaintance with my neighbors. After years of habits, we have almost no concept of neighbors in our lives. after moving here, such friendly and close neighbors are a pleasant surprise in our lives.

before the Spring Festival, an earthquake occurred near Beijing. The neighbor's sister-in-law knew that I was out of town, and Mr. Mao was at home alone, so she knocked on the door and said, "if you were afraid of the earthquake, come to my house for a while!"

teacher Mao sent me Wechat and said, "I'm so touched. Our neighbors are so nice."