Mortal Days Part.1 Chapter 70: Old Things (2)
No one cares why there is a dark room on the second floor, and the villagers don't care about the life or death of the strange girl, but the indifference at the beginning of the incident, the turning a blind eye when it happens, and the regret when it ends.
After Lin Xiaogou kicked open the wooden door of the dark room and broke in, he saw the thin girl sitting in the corner of the wall shivering, the spikes of the candlestick tightly held in her hand were dripping blood downward, Lai Qiang covered his eyes with his hands and rolled on the ground in pain. He could never believe that he was blinded in one eye when he took off his pants, and Lin Xiaogou couldn't imagine that it was the little girl who pierced Lai Qiang's eyes, so he dropped the brick and walked to the girl's side.
Lai Qiang is now blind in one eye, so it is more appropriate to call him Blind Qiang.
The girl held the candlestick, and when she saw Lin Xiaopu approaching, she retreated to the back, but there was no room to move, so she had to keep her back against the wall, and the candlestick in her hand trembled more and more. Lin Xiaogou showed his intention, so he kicked Blind Qiang a few times, and told the girl a joke he heard from the neighbor's eldest brother next door, and the girl smiled and put down the candlestick, in her eyes, this boy about her age was not malicious, at least not the one who rolled on the ground.
Lin Xiaogou learned that the girl's name was Yingzi, and he didn't say anything, so he helped Yingzi out of the dark room, and the villagers came around at this time, praising Lin Xiaogou's righteous and courageous behavior, and Lin Laogou's face was cloudy, and he didn't know whether he was happy or afraid.
After knowing that Lai Qiang was blind and in a coma with a painful eye, some villagers who had been bullied by him on weekdays took turns to go in to vent their anger, and they all went in angrily, and then came out satisfied.
Li Tong's face was swollen, looking like he had something stuffed in his mouth, and Lin Xiaogou poked it with his hand curiously, making Li Tong scream in pain. Li Tong wanted to scold, but his swollen mouth was not very good, but he spit out Lin Xiaopu's face and spit on Mu Xingzi.
Yingzi also ran over at this time, and the three of them looked at each other, and then laughed. Li Tong touched Yingzi's dry and yellow hair, as if looking at his sister.
After the eighth person who had entered the dark room to vent came out, the queue outside was disbanded, and the villagers returned to their original positions, several people talking to each other as if nothing had happened.
Lai Qiang, who had a strip of black cloth wrapped around his eyes, walked out, stayed in front of Lin Xiaogou for a moment, and walked downstairs with only one sentence of "you wait". Coincidentally, as soon as Lai Qiang walked on his front foot, the sun shone into the second floor through the window, and the storm finally passed.
It was sunny at this time.
Seeing this, the villagers left here one after another, and Lin Xiaogou also took the strange girl back to her home out of worry. In the early years of his family, he was in the dog selling business, and there were buyers or dog meat restaurants in the county who came to buy them all the year round, and he had saved a lot of money in recent years, and he added a dirt house to his family, and he didn't worry that Yingzi would have no place to live in his house.
In comparison, it was Li Tong who worried him more. According to Lai Qiang's retribution, who knows when this guy will come to retaliate, he is good to say that he is not only a man, but also has dozens of big yellow dogs at home, but he is not afraid of Lai Qiang's sneak attack in the middle of the night, but Li Tong is different, in addition to himself, there is only a disabled mother left at home.
After settling Yingzi, Lin Xiaogou led the two big yellow dogs to Li Tong's house, and when he entered the hospital, he happened to see Li Tong wearing underwear and wiping his body bruises. Lin Xiaogou looked straight, where had he seen this kind of fragrant scene at this age, when he used to watch the old disc on the VCD at a friend's house, he would jam the disc at every critical moment, which was as smooth as the picture in front of him, or live broadcast.
It wasn't until the two big yellow dogs roared a few times that he came to his senses, Li Tong also saw Lin Xiaogou holding the two big yellow dogs standing in his yard at this time, first fluted for a while, and then covered his chest and ran into the house, Lin Xiaogou felt that he was a little reckless, and it was not the right time, thinking that the door was unlocked and came in directly, but he didn't expect this to be the result. He put the two big yellow dogs on a leash at the mouth of the well in the yard and was ready to go home, but when he came to the door, he didn't look back and shouted inside, saying that the two dogs would be kept for you to take care of the yard, and then come to his house to find him if there was anything to do.
After Li Tong got dressed, he quickly ran to the yard, Lin Xiaopu's was long gone, only the two big yellow dogs by the wellhead wagged their tails at her, sticking out their tongues, her heart was warm, and she raised her head to look at the sky.
Lin Xiaopu returned home and walked directly into his father's room, and was embarrassed to go in because Yingzi was in his house. Lin Laogou looked at his son, couldn't help but complain, accusing him of doing things rashly, and annoying Lai Qiang's kind of person is definitely not a good thing, but although Lin Laogou agrees with others on this point, he is not a master to be messed with, Lai Qiang really dares to make trouble with him, he will completely make Lai Qiang into dog food to replenish the body of the group of female dogs who have just given birth to pups.
Lin Xiaogou completely inherited the ruthlessness of the old dog at this point, but Lin Laogou is older, so he is much more restrained.
Today's scene on the second floor is vivid, but Lin Laogou didn't say a word about it, no matter what Lin Xiaogou said, he just responded with "uh-ha". When the young man was strong, he was naturally angry at his father's weakness and bullying, and returned to his house after slamming the teacup hard.
Gently pushing open the door, a fragrance of shampoo wafted from inside, and when I looked up, I saw Yingzi changing into a vest and shorts and washing her curly short hair. The little girl's developing figure is naturally not as good as Li Tong, especially Yingzi's malnourished appearance, Lin Xiaogou feels that if she blocks her face, this flat body will look the same as a man's.
Thinking of this, Lin Xiaogou didn't think so much about it, and walked directly into the house. Yingzi was not too surprised when she saw Lin Xiaogou, but smiled and thanked him for his righteous and courageous actions today, and Lin Xiaogou waved her hand to remind her that the person she wanted to thank should be Li Tong.
After a few days of peace, Lai Qiang seemed to have evaporated from the world, and no one in the village had seen him. After a simple repair, those dilapidated houses can be inhabited again, originally tinkered mud houses, it doesn't matter what the appearance is, as long as the house does not leak wind and rain and can live in people.
Lin Xiaogou obtained the right to use a relative's abandoned house for the price of three dogs, and Yingzi worked hard all morning before cleaning up the place and barely living in it. As for Yingzi moving out, Lin Laogou brought it up, he felt that leaving a girl at home would inevitably make people gossip, but Yingzi didn't care much about this matter.
The new house is not far from Lin Xiaopu's house, a distance of about 500 meters to the south. This Yingzi ran to Lin Xiaopu's house when he was okay during the day, and when Lin Xiaogou was not there, he helped Lin Laogou to work, whether it was cleaning up dog poop or making dog food, these days, he was much more skilled than that Lin Puppy, one day Yingzi didn't come, Lin Laogou was busy with dog food alone, and felt a little missed her days.
Lin Xiaogou has not been idle these days, and when the family is not busy, he runs to Li Tong's house, ostensibly to send dog food to the two big yellow dogs, but this supply is sent for a long time, when the villagers pass by the door of Li Tong's house, they can always see Lin Xiaopu busy in the yard, diving and chopping wood, just like the son-in-law who comes to the door.
This discussion also spread, and it was said that Lin Laogou's son came to the door to be a son-in-law, and said that the difference between the two was five or six years old, because Lin Laogou's family had an accident, and a master pointed out that Lin Laogou needed to find an older woman to give him a woman to break it.
The absurd thing reached Lin Laogou's ears, making him a little crying and laughing, and talked about it when he had a long talk with his son in the middle of the night, that Lin Xiaogou showed that he was indeed interested in Li Tong and wanted to marry her, Lin Laogou had long expected this, but when he heard his son say it himself, he was a little lost, and he remembered the thin and capable girl from a foreign country in his mind.
However, what his son decided, Lin Laogou didn't want to stop it too much, his wife died early, and he was just such a relative, as long as he was happy, Lin Laogou thought so.
After Lin Xiaogou and his father expressed their intentions, they saw that their father did not object, and their faces bloomed with joy. Early the next morning, I followed the purchased car to the county, ready to buy some birthday gifts for Li Tong, I heard her say that when she worked in the county, she especially liked the kind of floral skirts sold in the county clothing stores, but she never had the opportunity to buy them, and these Lin puppies naturally remembered them.
Lin Xiaopu, who thought that buying clothes was as simple as buying vegetables, obviously miscalculated, and it took a long time to find a skirt similar to Li Tong's body, and it was already afternoon when he returned to the village.
When he returned home, he found that his father was not there, and the hunting dog in the yard was gone, Lin Xiaogou thought that his father had gone to the mountains to hunt, so he turned around and left the yard, preparing to go to Li Tong's house. When he walked halfway, he saw the people in the village pointing at him and not talking loudly, which made him a little uncomfortable, Lin Xiaogou ran over to ask the reason, but as soon as these villagers saw him coming, they scattered around, and they were afraid of having anything to do with him.
Yingzi ran over panting, with a worried look on her face, she told Lin Xiaogou that Li Tong was gone, and someone in the village had seen Lai Qiang tie Li Tong with a rope, carry it and walk towards the mountain, Lin Laogou had just learned the news and took the hound into the mountain to look for it.
Lin Xiaopu's heart was shocked when he heard this, and the skirt in his hand fell to the ground, Yingzi quickly picked up the skirt, gently patted the dust on it, and stared at the skirt in his eyes.
Lin Xiaogou didn't speak, and after asking the direction, he turned around and ran towards the mountain.