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    At the beginning of 1987, the cold wave moved southward and collided with the heat flow from the coast, squeezing the southern cities back to the south.

    Xu Han opened his eyes before dawn, lifted off the damp and moldy quilt, and pushed the old man beside him to wake up.  He was the old man who carried her to the city to beg for food after she was bitten by a big black dog. His surname was Ma, and other beggars called him Old Man Ma.  At that time, Old Man Ma took advantage of Xu Han's breathing and took her to crowded places to beg for food all day long.  Once when a police siren sounded, college students on the street began to flee in all directions. Old Man Ma also ran away, packed up and ran away. The only person left behind was Xu Han, his living "granddaughter."  Xu Han lay still on the ground, she couldn't move.  Someone stepped on her, and someone's feet ran over her arm, but they didn't trample her to death.  She took her last breath, opened her eyes, and looked at the blue-white sky and the black people.

    Later, the sirens were far away, all the college students ran away, and Old Man Ma came back.

    "Girl, do you still have breath?" He squatted down next to her, holding a piece of cake in his hand. While looking at her half-dead state, he gnawed on the cake.  The bits of stuffing in the cake fell down, hit Xu Han in the face, and then fell onto the asphalt road.  Xu Han remained silent.

    Old man Ma finished chewing the cake, picked up the mung bean-sized pieces of stuffing, and stuffed it into her slightly open mouth.

    From then on, every time he bought cakes, he would give her a small piece.  He likes to eat stuffed pancakes, stuffed with cabbage.

    The injury on Xu Han¡¯s arm is getting better day by day.  She was not dead, and Old Man Ma still took her everywhere to beg for food.  He painted abscesses on her thin arms and smeared soot on her face.  As soon as he reached the roadside, he asked her to kneel next to him, and he knelt down as well, wiping his tears in front of the broken iron bowl.

    Old man Ma is one-eyed, with sloping feet and skinny bones. He wears a shabby and smelly military coat all year round.  He said that he had been in the war and his eyes were blinded by bullets, and his military coat was also left behind from the battlefield.  Xu Han didn't believe him.  She knew that the military coat was dug out of the trash can in the backyard of the Family Planning Commission, just like the quilt covering them.  As for how he became blind in that eye, Xu Han didn't know.  But one eye always has an advantage: a one-eyed old man leads a granddaughter who is covered in abscesses. Even if he doesn't make up a story, if he just kneels there and wipes a few tears, coins will fall into the broken iron bowl.

    They beg for food during the day, sleep at the train station at night, and pick up rags in the yard of the Family Planning Commission in the dark before dawn.  Xu Han once slipped when he climbed over a wall and was caught and beaten as a thief.  The next night, Old Man Ma took her to steal all the money from a cadre's house.  They were all probably fined, and old Ma's hands were shaking as he counted them.

    Before sneaking out of the yard that night, Mr. Ma spat viciously at the slogan on the wall that read, "Family planning is good, the government will provide for the elderly."

    It was a long time later that Xu Han found out that he was actually illiterate.

    Old Man Ma stole the money, ate cabbage-filled pancakes, and slept in the train station.

    No one has heard the news about the theft of the Family Planning Commission, and all the cadres, big and small, are still busy running around and have no time to stay warm.  Xu Han and Old Man Ma never went to their backyard again.

    Old man Ma always leaves Xu Han at the train station at night. He wanders off somewhere and doesn¡¯t come back until late at night.  Xu Han secretly followed him and saw him squatting behind the bushes in the park, holding a thin piece of paper in his trembling hands, pressing one nostril with his rough black fingers, and inhaling the white powder on the paper.  In the nose.

    A few days later, Old Man Ma stopped running to the park.  He went to the market west of Qiao again, but saw no one for two days in a row.

    On the third day, two men carried him back to the train station.  He was beaten until his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, and he fell to the ground. He was still shaking. He grabbed one of them by the pants leg, saliva dripped from his mouth, and he was tremblingly talking.  Xu Han heard clearly, what he said was "Give me a little more".

    "Is this your grandfather?" The man kicked him on the head, looked up at Xu Han who was huddled at the foot of the wall, and said with a Northeastern accent, "He owes us money. Do you have any?"

    Xu Han looked at them and said nothing.

    Another person stepped on Old Man Ma¡¯s head, stepped on it on the cement floor, and crushed it hard.

    Xu Han went to see Old Man Ma again.  The hand that grabbed the trouser leg dropped, and he was silent.

    The man raised his foot, making a gesture of stomping on him.

    She said: "I have it." Then she took off her shoes and took out a few bills from her shoes.

    After the two men left, Xu Han stood up, grabbed Old Man Ma's arm, and dragged him to the foot of the wall.

    There was a big gash on his forehead, and his nose was bruised and bloody. His face was scarlet, but his eyes were wide open, as if he wanted to see the whole world clearly.  Xu Han wiped the blood on his face with her sleeve. He stared at her, opened his mouth and said, "Girl??You can talk.  You are not mute.  "

    "I can." She lowered her eyes, "My name is not girl, my name is Xu Han."

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