Children's Literature January 1, 21 The full text of Lao Pan

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Yoshiko's surname is Pan, and Lao Pan is his father.

Lao Pan's friends all call him "Lao Pan Lao Pan" in such a casual way. Yoshiko thought it was very interesting when she first heard someone call her that.

Lao Pan works in a chemical plant, burns boilers, and rides his black permanent bicycle to and from work every day. Lao Pan cherishes his bike and cleans it clean every weekend. When Yoshiko first called "Laopan", Laopan was squatting in the yard to clean his permanent bicycle. Yoshiko suddenly shouted at his back: "Laopan!"

Lao Pan was so absorbed in cleaning the car that he didn't guard against his son's sudden scream. He was startled, stumbled and almost fell to the ground. He didn't know it was his son who was playing a prank, but he thought it was one of his friends. Looking back, I saw Yoshiko standing there smiling at him. Lao Pan angrily threw the cleaning cloth in his hand at Yoshiko: "Little rabbit, you are rude, don't think I will hit you." Yoshiko giggled, dodged the cloth thrown at her, and jumped up and shouted, "Laopan! Laopan! " Then he fled without a trace before Laopan got up.

that was when yoshiko was very young.

When Liangzi was in the fifth grade of primary school, Lao Pan was laid off. When I used to burn boilers in chemical plants, Lao Pan was very addicted to cigarettes. Because the boiler room was a dangerous place, smoking was strictly prohibited. Lao Pan had to put a cigarette in his ear. When he became addicted, he took it down and put it under his nose to smell it. After work, as soon as he left the factory, Lao Pan couldn't wait to take out his lighter, light the cigarette caught behind his ear, smoke a mouthful, and then go home happily smoking while riding a bicycle. At that time, Yoshiko thought that Laopan was particularly handsome and manly when he smoked.

After being laid off, Lao Pan smoked even more fiercely, staying at home all day, smoking almost two packs a day. When Yoshiko comes home from school every day, she smells a strong smell of smoke before opening the door. As soon as I opened the door, the room was smoky, and Laopan was sleeping on the sofa. The ashtray is full of hill-like cigarette butts and thick cigarette ash.

After work, Lao Pan became very bad-tempered, cursing at every turn, and quarreling with Yoshiko's mother. Yoshiko couldn't stand it. Finally, at the end of Yoshiko's fifth grade semester, her mother left and never came back.

Yoshiko thinks that since then, Lao Pan has changed and become somewhat decadent. Shaggy beard, disheveled hair like a canopy of autumn grass, and messy eyes. I don't know where that spirit went before.

At that time, it was Yoshiko's grandmother who took care of the father and son. Yoshiko's grandmother lives outside the city, far from Yoshiko's home, and it takes an hour by bus from her grandmother's home to Yoshiko's home. Yoshiko's grandmother comes to Yoshiko's house every day to cook, wash clothes and clean the house with her little feet bouncing. Grandma sighed and wiped her tears when she saw Laopan's decadent appearance. I don't know how many times she advised him, but it was useless. Until one day, grandma somehow never came, and Yoshiko went to the kitchen to make a bowl of noodles when she was hungry.

Before I had a bite, Yoshiko's grandfather suddenly came in. He came on crutches, and Yoshiko's grandfather kicked the door angrily. As soon as he entered the room, he saw Lao Pan sleeping in the corner of the sofa. He raised his crutches and hit Lao Pan mindlessly, cursing at the same time: "Beast, black sheep, look at you like a bear, but you still have some human beings!"

Yoshiko watched wait for a while as Laopan was beaten up by Grandpa's crutches, and ran away while hiding. He was in such a mess. LaoPan ran all the way to the room and closed the door. Grandpa was still swearing outside the door. Yoshiko understood in the bristle that grandma fainted on the way to Yoshiko's house because of overwork.

Lao Pan didn't come out until grandpa left.

As it turns out, Grandpa's beating was effective. Before long, Lao Pan bounced back. Sometimes, a person's mental state can be seen from a person's appearance. For negative people, nothing matters, so they will be disheveled and sloppy. Only those who have a positive attitude towards life will pay attention to their appearance. One day, shortly after Lao Pan was beaten, Yoshiko found that Lao Pan had shaved his beard and hair, and his head was bare, like a cucumber gourd ladle. Yoshiko knows that the old Pan is back.

Lao Pan began to look around for a job and find his own way out. After hitting a wall everywhere, he pushed a scooter and sold fruit. Before selling fruit, Lao Pan also sold socks, roast duck, and even worked as a scalper and resold train tickets. Yoshiko saw Laopan selling socks, just at the entrance of the vegetable market.

Not far from Liangzi's home, there is a vegetable market, which sells vegetables inside and all kinds of daily necessities outside. It is crowded with vendors selling everything from electrical appliances and furniture to all kinds of cheap and inferior clothes to lighters, needles and needles. Most of the sellers are middle-aged women and old ladies with gray hair.

Yoshiko passes by that vegetable market every day when she goes to school. Yoshiko saw Lao Pan huddled inside, standing on the mountain of socks, shouting loudly like those women around him. Laopan sells thick woolen socks. Yoshiko noticed that Laopan also wore a pair of red thick woolen socks on his feet. Laopan, who is a big man, stood in a pile of colorful socks, looking so funny and ridiculous. Yoshiko threw her head down and hurried past. Since then, Yoshiko has to avoid the vegetable market every day when she goes to school, preferring to take a long walk. However, because of fierce competition and bad business, Lao Pan's sock business closed soon.

Later, Lao Pan sold roast duck again, pushing a small car every day. A glass cabinet was put on the car, which was square and opened a row of windows, like a transparent small house with a row of iron hooks hanging upside down. In the days when Lao Pan sold roast duck, there were duck heads, duck bottoms or leftover roast duck meat on the dining table of Yoshiko's family. Eating well turns my stomach, and I even feel that I am covered with duck feathers, so that I feel like vomiting as soon as I smell the roast duck for a long time. Fortunately, Liangzi's roast duck finally ended in a hurry with the cold and cheerless roast duck business. And Lao Pan's "work" of reselling train tickets also ended miserably under the strictness of eliminating pornography and illegal publications.

Yoshiko is worried that this series of failures will dampen Lao Pan's confidence. What he didn't expect was that Lao Pan was stronger than he thought. Not long after, Lao Pan got a flatbed from nowhere, tinkered with it for a while, modified his permanent bicycle, and finally converted it into a trolley. What Lao Pan admires Yoshiko most is this: when he was a child, the toys that Yoshiko played with, such as gyroscopes, hoop bars and slingshots, were all made by Lao Pan. Although other friends also had slingshots and gyroscopes, they were far from Yoshiko's, which is the most proud thing for Yoshiko.

Lao Pan began his career of selling fruits in this way.

Every morning, when it was dawn and Yoshiko was still asleep, he heard the door click, and Yoshiko knew that Lao Pan was pushing his mobile fruit stand out of the door. Since then, Yoshiko's home has been filled with the fragrance of fruit. Yoshiko prefers the aroma of fruit to the smell of roast duck.

Yoshiko was beaten a week after Lao Pan started his fruit business.

It happened to be Yoshiko's 15th birthday. After school, Ryoko went home with his best friend Hadron. Because it's Yoshiko's birthday today, he brought Hadron home. When I get home, Lao Pan hasn't come back yet. Lao Pan always comes in when he is having dinner at someone else's house. At home, there is nothing to eat, which makes Yoshiko somewhat disappointed. Yoshiko searched at home and found a pile of watermelons in the kitchen. It is autumn, and watermelon is very rare. Yoshiko knew that it was the goods hoarded by Lao Pan. Lao Pan once told Yoshiko that after a while, he would make a fortune by selling these watermelons. Lao Pan was very happy when he said these words, and he was very proud of his decision.

Before eating watermelon, Yoshiko really hesitated whether to eat it or not. But he thought that today is his birthday. What is a small watermelon? So he still held two watermelons and sat with Hadron one by one in the living room to eat. Watermelon in autumn is very sweet and has a special taste. Yoshiko and Hadron ate happily.

While eating happily, Lao Pan suddenly came in.

Afterwards, Yoshiko remembered that Lao Pan's face was very poor that day, and his face was long like a bitter gourd. But then a series of scenes made him ignore this detail. When Lao Pan opened the door and came in, he was shocked to see watermelon peels, watermelon seeds and two children in the room who were immersed in watermelon. Yoshiko, when they saw LaoPan come in, they were shocked, holding watermelons and staring blankly at LaoPan. All three people stood there. Hadron and Yoshiko both noticed that Lao Pan's face was painted black at that time.

Hadron gave a friendly cry "Uncle Pan" and slipped away. Yoshiko suddenly felt very humiliated.

Lao Pan walked into the room with a calm face without saying a word. Who knows, in an unguarded moment, I didn't notice the watermelon skin at my foot and stepped on it. With a stab, Lao Pan slipped out on a piece of watermelon skin, and then had a close contact with the table in the living room. After a loud kiss, the thermos and cups on the table also took active action, one by one like a drunken man, shaking his head a few times and then falling down one after another. It was too late to wait for Yoshiko to rescue him, so I could only watch them do vertical movement and then bang on the ground, smashing to pieces. In the blink of an eye, the ground was a mess, full of shiny glass fragments. Laopan himself fell to the ground, and Yoshiko remembered that Laopan's whole face was wrinkled like a dried chrysanthemum.

Yoshiko's face turned white with fear, and she looked at Lao Pan dumbfounded.

Lao Pan struggled to get up from the ground. Suddenly, he grabbed half a watermelon that had not been eaten on the ground and slammed it on the ground, cursing, "I told you to eat, I told you to eat!"

the watermelon fell and fell to the ground, as if it had a loud laugh, and it broke into countless pieces. Red watermelon juice flowed all over the floor, like blood.

Yoshiko doesn't know why Lao Pan suddenly lost his temper. He only feels that his grievances burst out at that moment: "Didn't you just eat a watermelon?" Is it worth it? You know money, you know money! "

Lao Pan looked at his screaming son and suddenly raised his hand and slapped Yoshiko in the face.

the slap went on, and both of them froze there. For a full minute, in this minute, the world suddenly became so quiet that you could even hear a Qiu Chan singing in the tree outside.

Then Yoshiko wailed sadly: "You hit me! You hit me! You will regret it! "

Yoshiko ran out and slammed the sad world behind the door.

Yoshiko, who ran away from home, just kept walking on the road, without purpose or direction. The street lamps on both sides of the street were lit up in turn, and all kinds of neon lights were lit up. When Yoshiko's face reflected the shadows of incomplete neon lights, he realized that he was in tears. He felt that he was worthless, but the tears still brushed down unwillingly, and it hurt faintly when flowing over his swollen face.

He swore in his heart that he would never go back to that home from now on. He hated everyone, the selfishness and violence of the man he once called his father, the irresponsibility of his mother, and left him alone. At last he sadly found himself homeless.

Yoshiko wandered aimlessly in the street for a while, and finally remembered his old grandmother. He found that only her home was his last and only destination. Yoshiko wiped her tears and walked in the direction of grandma's house. Yoshiko didn't have any money on him when he came out, so he walked to grandma's house on one foot.

It was almost 8 o'clock when stubborn Yoshiko walked to grandma's house. Since childhood, Yoshiko had never walked such a long way. His feet were swollen like two steamed buns. Grandma helped him to get foot bath water, and when she saw a line of blisters on Yoshiko's feet, her tears ran down and she kept saying, "Do evil, do evil."

ryoko later learned why Lao Pan's temper was so bad that day. It turned out that Lao Pan's mobile fruit stall was not registered with the relevant departments. Lao Pan was an unlicensed vendor, and his car and belongings were detained by the urban management that day.

Grandpa told him. Grandpa also said, "It's not easy for him. He is both a father and a mother." Yoshiko doesn't know why he always helps his grandfather and speaks for him. Although Yoshiko said nothing, tears flashed in her eyes.

Finally, Yoshiko returned home.

On the day when Yoshiko came home, Lao Pan looked surprised and surprised. He rubbed his hands excitedly and said, "I knew you would come back."

Yoshiko glared at Lao Pan.

After returning home, Yoshiko no longer talks to Lao Pan easily, nor calls her father. It seems that these two words have been broken by that slap and disappeared from Yoshiko's dictionary.

That summer vacation, Yoshiko began to find all kinds of faults and deliberately angered each other. Every time I saw Lao Pan's anger, I always felt a little happy in my heart.

Yoshiko feels that the relationship between him and Lao Pan is becoming tense, and the days of intimacy in the past are gone forever. He began to struggle with Lao Pan. Although this struggle was silent, it was more smoky than the real knife and gun.

On the Monday morning after school, Yoshiko packed her schoolbag and prepared to go to school. Lao Pan sat at the table drinking porridge, eating a plate of pickles and pickles on the table. It's a rare day that he is at home. Yoshiko walked up to him, stretched out his hand and said, "I have to pay my tuition today." Then quote a number from your mouth.

Lao Pan put a pair of chopsticks on cucumber, and chewed it noisily. He said vaguely, "Why do you have to pay tuition again?"

Yoshiko stood beside Laopan without saying a word.

Lao Pan suddenly dropped the bowl and said, "Who do you want? Dumb? Don't scream, I owe you in my last life? "

Yoshiko turned her head and walked out of the room.

in the next few days, yoshiko never mentioned tuition again. The father and son fought in secret for several days until one morning, when Yoshiko was about to go out with a schoolbag on his back, Lao Pan angrily stopped him: "Wait." Yoshiko stood upright with his back to him. Laopan caught up with him, put a roll of money into Yoshiko's hand and said angrily, "Laopan's family has never seen you so stubborn. Take it! I owe you in my last life! " Yoshiko squeezed the money tightly in her hand, sipped her mouth and left with a straight face.

When she walked out of the house, Yoshiko's face showed a smile of victory.

Lao Pan sells fruit early and comes back late every day. In order to earn more money, he goes to the night market, so he doesn't even care about going home. Sometimes he can't even be seen all day. Because by the time Laopan got home, Yoshiko had already gone to bed. In the middle of the night, Yoshiko got up to go to the toilet and heard the thunderous snoring from Laopan's room, only then did he know that he had come back. Yoshiko gently pushed open the door, and fell asleep on the bed without taking off his clothes.

Lao Pan didn't care about the work at home, so he left it all to Yoshiko. Yoshiko began to clumsily learn to wash clothes and cook. When Yoshiko washed clothes for the first time, she used half a pack of washing powder. When Lao Pan put on Yoshiko's clothes, he smelled them and said, "What a fat bag!"