Chapter 90: Two Beggars
After hearing this, Grandma's face became much more solemn, and she said hesitantly: "Yan'er, my wife is stupid, why can't she understand anything? These four children are sick with their eyes and ears, why do they still train their brains like this, isn't this amazing? Why do you even know foreign languages? I haven't heard of it in my life." ”
Grandpa said with a smile next to him: "That is, if you are nested in this mountain, there are many things that you have never heard of or seen in your life, do you know how big our China is? Do you know how big the world is? Let's not think so much, what should I do, what can I do, if Si'er has any ability, you just let him do it, his ability is to help people anyway, help others, good class." ”
The father said: "The fourth brother is about this, it is rumored that it is even more evil than this, saying that the fourth brother is also through yin and yang, can spells, and can catch ghosts and demons, and his skills are great, God made him like this, that is, let him come and go freely in the two worlds of yin and yang, and say what we ordinary people think, do, and say, without seeing and listening, he knows everything clearly, and he can't hide it." We don't care what others say, anyway, when the words reach my ears, I say: Don't be nonsense. ”
Speaking of this, he touched the back of his head and said, "Actually, there are a lot of things in my heart that I can't figure out. ”
Grandpa hehehe: "If you don't understand, you don't want to, follow Si'er!"
In fact, no matter how you guess or think, the most common thing that you can't figure out is that it is: metaphysics.
After the popularization of the Internet, the amount of information, the speed of news, and the wide range of exchanges are unimaginable to the predecessors, and there is a sentence circulating more on the Internet: the end of science is metaphysics.
As for how to look at this question, there are a thousand Hamlets in the hearts of a thousand people, and there are ten million thoughts, and even more than that!
Uncle's true intentions have not been guessed at all, but the last sentence: goodbye!
Recently, I don't know where seven or eight beggars came from the scenic spot, and three adults. Among them were two or three disabled children, about five or six years old.
They were dressed shabby, almost unkempt. Two adults, one sitting on a pulley, covered with a thin quilt with a lot of tears exposed cotton wool, and the other knelt on the ground, with a very large aluminum basin in front of him, begging there not far from the entrance of the scenic spot.
The hair on the car was scattered, and the clothes he was wearing were tattered, and he could only see clearly when he got close that it seemed to be a woman, and his age could not be judged at all.
Although the kneeling one also has unkempt hair, and when he looks up at people, his face is also full of dirt, and he can't see his appearance clearly, but it is definitely a man.
The remaining five or six children are not very old, and the oldest is only seven or eight years old, and I don't know how they enter the scenic spot every day. Those with good legs and feet are running around in the scenic area, chasing tourists and begging.
The little boy on crutches looked about seven years old, his right trouser leg was mostly empty, and he led a child about four years old around the shopping area, and the younger one pulled at the corner of his tattered shirt. The boy's shirt was so large that it covered his entire butt.
When the girl saw every tourist passing by, she stretched out her dirty little hand, holding a large and dilapidated tea jar in her little hand, and kept saying, "Give me some money." ”
I knew it was a little girl when I heard the voice.
For four or five days in a row, they have been begging here like this, and the security guards have also tried to drive these people away, and the older ones who knelt kept kowtowing and saying: "Let's go, let's go, but let's go as a family, we are asking for a little, enough to go home and the living expenses for the New Year." ”
The security guard saw two begging children in the scenic area, and every time they asked them to go out quickly, the two children bowed their heads pitifully and didn't say a word, so that a few security guards seemed to be embarrassed to do something wrong, and they didn't bother to say goodbye.
The other children saw them from a distance and ran away.
Every day when it comes to meals, Katsuko always calls the two of them inside to give them something to eat, but it is certainly not the customer's leftovers. Katsuko asked them, but they didn't speak, but gobbled up their bowls without saying a word, as if they had never eaten enough.
Aunt Yan or the third sister fixed five yuan a day for two people, and when they asked, they didn't answer.
For several days, they didn't leave.
The weather is getting colder and colder, everyone is going about their lives step by step, and grandma is preparing to light the kang early this year, as usual.
Our family has always been the first in the village to warm up, in my grandmother's words: there is a patient in the family who is not often active, and his constitution is weak and not resistant to frost.
Later, there were more and more children in the family, and the grandmother was even more reluctant to let the children be frozen.
So, regardless of the snow and the north wind howling outside, several rooms in grandma's house are warm like spring.
Aunt Yan and they have closed their stalls early these days, and they have already returned home before dark, Shengzi sent them to the door, and watched Aunt Yan help the uncle into the door, so he waved his hand and shouted: "Let's go home and pick up our son." ”
Turned around and got in the car and left.
On this day, my mother had already prepared dinner for the whole family, and was waiting for them to enter the door in the hot pot.
Grandma glanced outside and said to her mother, "It's time to come back, and I'll be home soon." ”
Before he finished speaking, he heard the sound of a car motor at the door.
The mother looked at the grandmother and smiled, and said, "Mom, you can pinch it too." ”
Grandma went out to meet them.
Aunt Yan said while eating at the dinner table: "I heard from the security guard today that the two children who were always walking around in front of our store were lost. ”
Grandma stopped her hand and asked, "What kid has you lost?
Aunt Yan told the child's situation, and said: "The security guard said that the two children went to look for them today, saying that the child didn't go back to sleep last night, and asked the security guard to help find it." ”
As soon as the grandmother heard that such a young child came out to beg, she sighed and put down the dishes and chopsticks in her hand: "Why are there so many sour things in the world." ”
The next day, as soon as Aunt Yan and Uncle Yan entered the door, the grandmother asked urgently, "Has the child been found?"
Yan Gu shook her head and said, "I didn't find it, the child's father and mother are also gone." ”
When the grandmother heard this, she was anxious: "What? The adults are also gone, and the children are not looking for them?"
Yan Gu said while untying Kangkang's bib: "In the morning, they begged the security guards to help find them again, and the security guards may be afraid that something will happen, so let them report the case, after all, human lives are at stake." When those two people heard it, they said no, so they should find it themselves. The security guards said to them, if you don't report the crime, we will report the case, and if something happens in our scenic spot, we are afraid that we will be held responsible. As soon as the two of them heard the words, we looked for it again and went out.
Aunt Yan changed Kangkang's bib, and when she saw her grandparents staring at her, she said again: "Who knew that the security guard called the police station, and the police came soon, and if you look for these people again, you can't see them, the police stayed in the mountains for a day, and they also looked around, and asked the people who were fishing in the lake, and the two children didn't see anyone." ”
Grandpa thought for a moment and said, "There's a problem here." ”
The phone in the house rang suddenly at this time, and Meimei was the first to shout: "It's Dad, I want to answer!"
Meimei picked up the phone and shouted, "Hey, is it Dad?"
After listening to it, he held up the phone and handed it to his grandfather and said, "It's not Dad." ”
Grandpa took the phone.
After the grandfather answered the phone, he said to his father: "It was the cook in Katsuko's shop who called, saying that the two children who might have been lost are now in Katsuko's shop, so you and Katsuko should go on a trip." ”
An hour later, two ragged little 'Hanako' came to our house.
From the moment the father lifted them out of the car and put them on the ground, the boy walked in front of him on crutches, and the girl tugged at the corner of his tattered shirt, barely visible, and followed with her little fists.
When he entered the house, his mother gave them two small benches, and the little girl skillfully helped the boy to sit down, and the boy held the little crutches to his chest, and the girl sat next to him.
My sister and three 'soldiers' were playing happily around my uncle on the kang of my grandparents, but when I suddenly saw two dirty children coming in, they all quieted down and stood on the kang and looked at them.
Then the grandparents squatted down and began to ask them, and the two of them looked at the grandparents with their eyes, but they never answered a word.
The father said, "We have been asking for a long time, but we just don't speak. After Shengzi and I went up the mountain, the cook Lao Li told us that he was watching TV with his daughter-in-law, and he heard someone knocking on the door of the store, so he thought that someone wanted to eat, so he shouted, "No food, no vegetables", who knew that after shouting, he kept knocking, and there was no way to open the door, so he saw these two little people standing at the door, and the cook also knew them, and knew that Shengzi would give them a little food every day, and thought that they were hungry before knocking on the door, so they gave them the only two and a half steamed buns and a bowl of vegetables. ”
The two children looked at their father as they spoke, carrying their little tompy heads.
The father continued, "Who knew that the two little ones would finish eating quickly, and then they would not leave at the door of the shop, and the cook said that now there was nothing left, and they would not leave, and the cook thought about it and took out a few carrots and washed them for them to eat, and said with a smile that I can't start the fire again for the two of you, so go to your family after eating." Speaking of this, he suddenly remembered that he had been looking for them for the past two days, and then he felt that something was wrong, so he asked and asked, but these two little guys just didn't speak. In the end, he couldn't help it, so he remembered the phone number that Katsuko left for him, so he ran to the resort hotel to call us. ”
Grandparents nodded, and Aunt Yan also squatted down at this time and said to them, "Then can I give you a haircut and a bath?"
The boy nodded after listening to the silence for a few seconds, and the girl next to him also nodded a few times.
The mother said: "I'll go boil water now, and by the way, find a few clothes for them to wear. ”
The father said, "It's okay, just buy it for them tomorrow." ”
Aunt Yan also got up and went to get the barber scissors.