The original version of "Boxing Girl" is 6.5438+0.2 million words. This time, more than 80,000 words were selected by Reading Friends magazine with a circulation of more than 200,000. This novel tells the story of a pair of children becoming "brother and sister" after the reunion of two broken families. They took boxing as the stage, separated from each other, got to know each other, and truly felt the warmth and love of their families.
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Excerpt: Boxing Girl (Winter Holiday)
Wang Lu
Chapter II Relatives
"Are you kidding?" At the exit of Haicheng Railway Station, Li Hong refused the 28th "eldest sister-in-law" who asked him if he wanted to stay in a small hotel, the 37th black car driver who asked him if he wanted a ride, and the same professional beggar who asked him for money for the first time1/finally broke out. "No one will pick me up at all!"
Before boarding the train, Li Hong's mother told him not to wander around after leaving the station. Someone will pick him up with a sign with his name on it. However, Li Hong waited for two hours and didn't see the sign with his name written on it.
Li Hong was a little angry. All her feelings for "that man"-yes, feelings, not "good feelings"-were thrown into the vegetable market. Li Hong even wanted to turn around and board the train back to his hometown.
Finally, Li Hong calmed down, and his mind was no longer full of ridiculous and childish thoughts: to tell the truth, he cherished his mother's hard-won second marriage, and Li Hong knew how difficult it was for a woman and a child to have a family. He won't let her live like that again. He wants to make his mother happy. At the very least, he can't pick on "that man".
Li Hong reached into his trouser pocket and felt a piece of paper with the phone number, address and name of "that person" on it, which was given to him by his mother when he got on the train.
"Zheng Jianguo," li hong curled his lips. "What an old name."
Li Hong went to the taxi lane and jumped into the taxi: "To No.434 Jiangbei Avenue."
"Are you kidding?" Li Hong opened his mouth and looked up at the billboard on the roof. It's a light advertisement, and the area is not small enough. Li Hong can't see the advertising language, telephone number, address and other information clearly. The advertisement is written like this:
Hero boxing hall, let you realize your dream!
Registration telephone number: 877344 1 1
Address: No.434 Jiangbei Avenue
Li Hong looked down at the note in his hand again. The address above is also "No.434 Jiangbei Avenue", word for word, even if it is reversed, it can't be wrong. "Damn it." Li Hong gave the only correct answer, "Mom must have written the wrong address."
He took out his mobile phone and wanted to call his mother, but what came from the microphone was "the phone you dialed is power off"; He tried to dial "that person" on the note again, but he got the message "The number you dialed is busy, please redial later".
What shall we do? Li Hong turned to look around and wanted to ask anyone. Then he screamed again, "Are you kidding?" There is no one in the street.
Yes, there is no one in the street.
This is not surprising, because in Haicheng, it is normal that there is no one on the typhoon street.
Li Hong's luck is very good. When he arrived in Haicheng, it happened that Typhoon No.7 landed in Haicheng. In the typhoon warning of the Meteorological Observatory, the maximum wind force near the typhoon center reached 16, which was the strongest typhoon in Haicheng in recent ten years. Li Hong's original city is located inland and has never felt any typhoon. However, after coming out of the exit hall of the railway station, Li Hong saw the power of typhoon in the taxi: the rainstorm spilled the front windshield of the taxi like Niagara Falls, and only the oncoming car lights could be seen when sitting in the car.
I don't know how many times I went around. After the taxi driver said "Here we are", Li Hong jumped over the water that had flooded the vamp with his bag on his back in the street, and hid under the awning of a closed newsstand in the street before the other half got wet by the heavy rain.
Now, in the heavy rain, Li Hong looks at the empty streets, unanswered mobile phones and misaddressed notes.
The rain is getting heavier and heavier, and the wind is blowing harder and harder-in fact, even if there is no direct rain, the rain and fog from the strong wind have already wet Li Hong's back.
Just when Li Hong decided that he was the luckiest person in the world, he saw a person even luckier than himself-a woman, to be exact, a girl.
Across the street, the girl is pushing her bike across the intersection. Somehow, instead of wearing a raincoat, she took an umbrella. There is no doubt that this is a wrong move on a typhoon day. In the frantic wind and rain, the umbrella not only has no shelter, but has become a burden. With the help of strong winds, rain can easily pour on her. The skirt she was wearing had already turned into a crumpled cloth wrapped around her legs, and her clothes were half wet. When the wind blows hard, the umbrella surface will be overturned; What's more, there are two big plastic bags hanging on the handlebar, one on the left and the other on the handlebar, which makes it more difficult for her to push the bicycle with one hand.
Li Hong watched her stagger across the intersection. Just as she was about to step onto the sidewalk, a car passed by her quickly, splashing a lot of water. Because of poor drainage, the accumulated water in the street almost became a small river, and the water swept her like waves. She exclaimed, raised her hand and covered her face, and her umbrella and bike fell to the ground.
"Bastard!" Li Hong cursed the distant car and ran to the girl in a hurry-after the umbrella fell, he saw clearly that it was a girl about his age.
Li Hong helped the girl pick up the floating objects on the stagnant water one by one, and then helped the bike up and pushed it under the awning. In fact, at this time, both of them don't care whether they are drenched or not-they are all wet.
The girl took the umbrella handed by Li Hong: "Thank you." She turned to look at another car splashing by in the street, raised her fist angrily and waved it under the car. "These drivers are really incompetent."
Li Weiwei smiled. Talking to beautiful girls has always been his weakness. Yes, now he can see clearly that there is a beautiful girl in front of him. Although the girl's long hair hung down and covered her cheeks on both sides because of the rain, her slightly tilted nose, thin lips, small chin and eyes have already shown that this is a beautiful woman.
Li Hong suddenly found that if she looked at the girl from the side, her nose was slightly tilted, just like an angry kitten, so cute. Li Hong's heart thumped in disappointment.
"Thank you." The girl didn't notice Li Hong's abnormality. She pulled Li Hong's bike, hung up two plastic bags and pushed the car away.
"hey." I don't know why, Li Hong suddenly had an impulse to stop the girl. "It's raining too hard and your umbrella is broken again. Wait until the rain is less. "
The girl looked at her clothes and said with a wry smile, "I can't wait for the rain to stop in this typhoon day." Besides, the clothes are wet anyway, so just go home and change them early. "
Seeing the girl getting ready to get on the bus, Li Hong shouted again. The girl turned around and said, "What is it?"
Li Hong scratched his head: "Excuse me, I want to ask, do you know where No.434 Jiangbei Avenue is?"
The girl is pushing the car, Li Hong is holding an umbrella beside her, and the water in the street is walking through the alley. Just now, after Li Hong asked the girl's address, she got a surprise answer: The girl said this address is near her home, so she can take Li Hong.
While walking, the girl tried to avoid the water on the ground, but in vain. The drainage system of Haicheng City has exposed a fragile side in the face of this typhoon: because the sewers are too narrow to drain, almost every street has more or less water.
"Really, what does this municipal department do for food? If this continues, it is time for the urban area to fight floods. " The girl looks dissatisfied. She suddenly turned her head. "Hey, what are you looking for at 434 Jiangbei Avenue?"
Li Hong paused. He was a little absent-minded just now. The girl's clothes are wet, because they are thin in summer and become translucent. You can see the thin shoulder straps inside. Li Hong swears that she never went to see it on purpose, but the girl left half a step before him, so the shoulder strap kept swinging in front of his eyes. Listening to the girl's sudden question, Li Hong was caught off guard and blurted out, "That's my home."
"Ah?" The girl turned her head in surprise. "Your home? Then why did you ask me for directions? "
Li Hong smiled bitterly: "How do you explain this?" He nodded. "For me, I'm a drag. Know the word "drag bottle"? It is a special name for the children brought by the woman after remarriage. "
Maybe the train station and others were too angry, maybe they fainted in the rain. Li Hong almost shouted at the girl, "My mother remarried with a man I don't know. This city has a' new home' that I have never been to, and I don't know what kind of life awaits me. I only know that being a drag bottle is definitely not a good taste. "
After the last sentence came out, Li Hong suddenly calmed down and regretted it terribly: Are you kidding? What did you say to a strange girl you just met? Embarrassed, he stole a look at the girl. To his surprise, the girl didn't respond, just lowered her head and tried to bypass a puddle. Suddenly, the girl stopped. She looked up and said, "Here we are."
Li Hong followed the girl's eyes and saw a semi-underground facade room located downstairs in the community. There is a billboard hanging at the door, which says "Hero Boxing Hall".
"ah? This is a boxing gym, not a residential building? My address must be written wrong. " Li Hong shook her head with a wry smile. "I'm sorry, I also ask you to accompany me."
"It can't be wrong. No.434 Jiangbei Avenue has arrived. " The girl knocked at the door, but no one answered. She said to herself, "It's strange that you haven't come back for such a long time." She ran to the nearby milk box, fumbled for a while, took out a key and opened the door.
"Come on in." She gave Li Hong a hand, and Li Hong was dragged into the door in a daze. As soon as he came to his senses, he heard the girl scream, "It's terrible, it's terrible, it's flooded."
Li Hong looked up-I don't know when the girl had turned on the light, and a spacious boxing driving range appeared in front of him. However, at this time, the whole venue was soaked in water, and more rain poured down from the steps at the door.
"Stop the water at the door." Li Hong pushed the girl in a daze.
"ah? Oh! Use, what block? " The girl turned helplessly.
"Do you have a shovel?" Li Hong asked.
"Yes, there is one. I'll get it right away. " The girl hurried to a small room.
At this time, Li Hong carefully looked at the driving range: this boxing ring was rebuilt by using the basement, and the terrain was much lower than the road outside, so once the rain accumulated, it was poured back into the basement; I'm afraid the drain pipe in the basement has long since lost its function. Not only does it have no drainage function, but also because of the height difference, the water in the sewer flows backwards.
Li Hong ran to a room marked "Bathroom" and pushed open the door. Sure enough, as he guessed, dirty water was pouring out of the sewer, and the water full of black dirt smelled pungent. Li Hong forgot to dirty his shoes with sewage. He ran over in two steps, picked up a dustpan and pressed it on the sewer, carrying a garbage basket on it.
"Ah, it stinks." There was a scream behind him. Li Hong turned around and saw the girl standing behind her with a shovel, with one hand covering her nose.
"Let it be for the time being. It's best to block the sewer with sand or mud-by the way, the outside door should also be blocked. " Li Hong said.
"sand? There is nothing here. However, there is mud in the green belt of the community. " The girl said hurriedly.
Because the green belt is full of trees, it is really not easy to shovel up the soil. The girl held an umbrella to protect Li Hong from the rain. Li Hong "destroyed" the green belt for a long time and finally picked up a garbage basket.
The two men ran back to the front of the boxing gym and dumped the dirty things at the door. "impossible." Li Hong shook her head at once, and the girl collapsed to the ground in disappointment: the soil in this garbage basket now collapses in the water like a pile of mud, which can't stop the water at all, because the water rushed to the basement too fast and the soil was washed away a lot.
"What should I do?" The girl turned to look at Li Hong, wondering whether it was rain or tears on her face.
"Is there a sack or something?" Li Hong looked at the boxing ring-anyone who watched 1998' s flood control knows that putting soil into sacks can build a flood control dam and block the fierce flood peak of the Yangtze River. I don't believe this water can't stop it.
"saxophone? We don't have this kind of thing at home. "
Li Hong didn't speak, but rolled his eyes and looked at a lot of indoor fitness equipment: Do you block the sewer with dumbbells? The big sponge pad has been filled with water for a long time, so it is estimated that it can't be moved, and the door is too narrow to let it go, otherwise it will stop the water flow to some extent; A pile of folding chairs is even more useless; Hang sandbags.-sandbags? Li Hong's eyes lit up.
He pulled the girl to the sandbag and said, "Come on, get it off."
Too many cooks, two men, took the sandbag off the hook-boy, it was too heavy-and carried it all the way to the door.
"Come on, put it down."
Fortunately, the sandbags are just the right length. After being placed horizontally, the door was blocked by more than half, and the water flow suddenly decreased.
"Go find some plastic bags or something." Li Hong confidently ordered the girl.
"Oh." The girl rushed into the small room next door and came out with a used plastic bag in one hand and a whole box of special garbage bags in the other.
Li Hong and the girl quickly blocked the gap next to the sandbags with plastic bags full of dirt, and even blocked several sewers. Seeing that there was no rain rushing down the steps at the door, the bathroom no longer made a rushing sound. Li Hong and the girl dropped their shovels and plastic bags, and each found a clean chair and sat down.
The girl didn't have time to see the whole boxing driving range: although it rained a lot, the two of them quickly blocked the door. Secondly, the driving range is more than 300 square meters, and there won't be too much indoor water. You can clean up the stagnant water with a mop.
"Thank you." The girl looked at Li Hong, who was soaked to the skin, and it took a while to suppress a word.
Li Hongxiao: "Just doing a favor-by the way," he cocked his head at the girl. "How did you get the key here?"
The girl smiled: "Me?" I'm a drag like you. "
Li Hong opened his mouth like a fish on the shore, and didn't know what to say to the girl in front of him. Suddenly, a crying voice came from the door: "Oh, shit, how did this water come in backwards?" Xiaolan Xiaolan, are you there? Is there anything at home that has been soaked ... "
Following this scream, a man rushed in, saw the girl at a glance and shouted, "Oh, good, Xiaolan, you are at home." Another blink of an eye, "good luck, good luck, not much water." He breathed a sigh of relief, "alas, today is really unlucky! Pick up your brother today. Your mother forgot to tell me the train schedule, so I had to wait at the train station. It was not until the afternoon that I suddenly remembered that there are two railway stations in Haicheng. Who knows which train station your brother got off from? I don't have his mobile phone number, so I can only wait for 30 minutes at the East Station, and then wait for another 30 minutes at the West Station until there is no flight from your brother's home to Haicheng, and I haven't waited yet ... "
Looking at the man in front of him, Li Hong had a bad feeling. He secretly took out his mobile phone. It's over. Just running in and out in the rain, the phone went into the water and the screen went black.
Only then did the man notice Li Hong: "Ah, who are you? Your classmate? Still a new member? " He turned to ask the girl.
The girl glared back at him: "This is the' son' you want to see today, my' brother'. Dad-dad-"The last two words she deliberately dragged her voice and quietly looked back at Li Hong.
As she expected, Li Hong's mouth opened wider, more like a fish-a fish dying of thirst when it landed.
Is this what mom said about "surprise"?
(selected from Reading Friends in the second half of 2009/02)