Chapter 16: Twists and Turns

The next thing is simple, because of the uncle's special reasons, it is impossible to talk to the lame aunt Qingqing and me, and talk about love. ”

The third aunt promised: "Okay, everything will go according to the rules, just one word: fast." ”

Sangu's efficiency also has to be admired, just five days later, the things that should be said have been discussed. The lame aunt's family did not open their mouths, saying that it would be normal and did not put forward any additional conditions.

When grandparents took their uncle to the lame aunt's house, they gave an extra part on the basis of the original bride price, and grandma naturally had her reasons for doing this: people don't dislike Si'er, and we can't treat others badly.

The engagement banquet took place a month later, and there were not many relatives on both sides, and it was more than enough to set up four tables at home. The wedding date was also set on the sixth day of the new year, two months later. The days are all optimistic about the grandmother in advance, and I chose a few good days to discuss with the lame aunt's family, and then pick a day that is satisfactory to both parties.

That night, my grandfather poured himself a drink and drunk himself, I didn't drink much at noon, but I drank a lot at night, I saw my grandfather drink so much for the first time, sitting next to my grandfather and listening to him talk about drunk words for half a night, most of them I didn't understand, I felt that my grandfather was talking to himself with his arms around me, saying things that I sometimes understood and sometimes didn't understand, and from time to time I gave me a piece of meat to eat, I just thought it was funny and funny.

The mother tried to persuade the grandfather to drink less, but was stopped by the father. When I returned to the room, my father's eyes were red as soon as he sat down, and tears swirled around his eyes. The mother sat down next to her father and whispered, "Are you happy for Si'er?"

The father raised his head and drove the tears that were about to rush out of his eyes back into his eyes, and then put his hand around his mother's shoulder and said, "Not only for the fourth son, but also for our father." Why don't I tell you to persuade our father not to drink, since Si'er was poisoned, our father has quit smoking. Wine, I don't take a sip if I have nothing to do, and I have never been drunk, and this is the first time I have seen my father drink like this since I was sensible. Speaking of this, the tears that I couldn't hold back anymore fell to the ground, and then I whimpered and said: "This is the opening of the knot in our father's heart that has been aggrieved for so many years, woo... The father suppressed and cried softly, and the mother hugged his father's head, and the tears slipped silently.

The news that the uncle was about to get married began to spread around again like wings, as if it was a happy event for his family, and people had to talk about it when they met. For a while, everyone in the ten miles and eight towns who spread it knew that the blind, deaf and dumb little four were going to marry a lame girl.

The family began to make various preparations for the uncle's wedding, and when the divorce ceremony was still a month away, they were basically ready.

On the day of the appointment to take wedding photos, something happened to the lame aunt.

It's another Sunday, the third aunt is six months pregnant, the third aunt no longer lets her run around, according to the agreement, today the uncle and the lame aunt went to the county to take wedding photos, and even the photo studio was contacted by the third aunt.

The third brother-in-law borrowed a cigarette from a car today, went to grandma's house early in the morning to pick up his uncle and father, and then went to his lame aunt's house.

I was trying to go, but my grandfather stopped me, and I cried and made a fuss about it, but my mother persuaded me to stop me.

When he arrived at the lame aunt's house, his father noticed something unusual. The old couple received them with sad faces, and told the house the news that surprised their father: the lame aunt was missing.

The lame aunt's father told my father: Usually the girl prepares the family's breakfast, but yesterday morning, when we got up, we found that the stove was cold, and the girl didn't know where to go. Because this has never happened, our family began to look around, and after a whole day, the girl could go to the places and relatives and friends' houses, and we didn't even see a single figure, and the village also asked from door to door, and no one saw where the lame aunt went.

The family spent the night with a sad face.

When my father heard this, he hurriedly asked, "Then did she leave any messages or notes for the family?" Wouldn't she go to the county seat or a distant place to find relatives and friends?"

The lame aunt's father shook her head and said, "Since this girl is lame, she doesn't even want to go to middle school, and she has a little inferiority. The child himself is also very sensible, there is no friend outside, he is at home all day long, he is either busy with housework or learning to cut by himself, and he rarely goes to the market. I searched for her house yesterday and there was nothing. Where can this kid go, he's dying. ”

The father asked again, "Is there anything wrong with her these days?"

The lame aunt's mother said, "Since the child came back from your house, he has not changed at all, and he has to do whatever he wants, exactly the same as on weekdays." Not long ago, he went to the county seat with me and tore the red cloth to make two new clothes for himself, saying that he wore them on the wedding day, and the children were not a little unwilling and unhappy. ”

The father let the lame aunt and brother lead her to inspect her room, and everything in the room was well organized and spotless, and the bedding was neatly folded, and the father could see that this was a diligent and clean girl. Looking at the two sets of festive red clothes and pants on the table, my father thought to himself, "There's no reason to run away from marriage."

When the frustrated father came home with his uncle, he told his grandparents what had happened, and the grandmother couldn't say a word when she heard it, sitting like a deflated ball.

Grandma's family didn't think about the lame aunt in a bad place, and they didn't think that the lame aunt was cheating on marriage and bride price, but this matter was too strange and unreasonable.

Early the next morning, my grandparents took a car to the county seat. Father was worried about going along, and grandpa said that you are at home, and the family will be taken care of by you.

It was four days before the exhausted grandparents returned, and the lame aunt had not heard from her.

Grandma said, "Where can this child go?

Grandpa said to grandma worriedly: "Even the public security have helped to investigate, what can you figure out here? Let's be patient and wait, maybe there will be news one day." ”

The father said, "Could it be that he was kidnapped by bad people or abducted by human traffickers?"

Grandpa said: "The public security have gone to the house, and the public security you think of can't think of it? This is what the public security did, and they can't escape the eyes of other people even if they have any clues, but they say that they are missing." ”

Seeing that the wedding day is coming, the lame aunt still can't see anyone alive or dead.

This news is even more explosive than the news of my uncle's marriage, like the shock wave caused by the explosion of a nuclear bomb, which spreads rapidly in people's word of mouth, and all kinds of discussions are like waves one after another.

The uncle on the cusp of the storm sat firmly on the Diaoyutai and did not have anything to do with himself.

Grandma is sitting on pins and needles these days, her heart is in a hurry, and she can't help with all her strength, so she has to go to the village committee every day to call the third aunt to inquire, and come back dejected after asking.

As soon as the grandmother entered the door, she saw the uncle in the yard, walked up to her and sighed before saying: "Si'er, others say that you can write, you can write one for your mother, just write to your mother where your daughter-in-law is, no matter how far away, your mother will find it for you, don't let your mother worry, my mother is distressed." After speaking, there was a cry in his voice.

When my mother heard this, she hurriedly came over and persuaded her grandmother: "Mom, don't get too angry." In the past few days, I have also paid special attention to Si'er's writing, and as you think, I also want Si'er to write to me so that I can get his daughter-in-law back. ”

Grandma hurriedly restrained her desire to cry. Ask, "Did you see anything?"

The mother shook her head with a wry smile: "I didn't see anything." ”

On the day of the wedding, the air in the house was condensed, and the family became like an uncle and said nothing. The breakfast made by my mother didn't move anyone except me and my uncle. Uncle seemed to eat a little more than he had eaten that day.

At lunch, my mother was also busy in vain, and she ignored anyone who asked her to eat. I was like a well-behaved kitten that day, and I even walked on tiptoe, for fear of making a little noise and making the adults angry.

In the evening, my mother put my lunch on the table again, but no one came to the table, so after dinner, my uncle went back to the house where it should have been a candle in the cave today, and it was my mother who washed my uncle's face and feet that night.

Grandpa was waiting for the food to be cold, opened a box of wine ready to feast on the guests, took out a bottle, and drunk himself again. This time I was drunk and different from last time, and I didn't say a word from the time I started drinking to the time I was drunk and fell on the kang.

It was the coldest day in the history of my family, colder than the days when my uncle was poisoned, and it was so cold that even a child of a few years old will remember it vividly.

The cold is not the cold caused by the temperature difference, but the cold that radiates outward in the bones!