Chapter 220: The Maniac
With Tsering Gesang's slow words, those past events about Aba gradually became clear and distinct, and the reasons left by the years were deciphered little by little, and the shadows left by the past were torn apart.
The newlywed Yan'er, a talented man and a woman, the beginning of this story is indeed a good couple.
At that time, everything in the family seemed to be going uphill, Abba and Grandma had lived a period of love for the fairy couple, although the small village they lived in was closed and poor, but Abba was so hardworking and capable, just by hard-working and farming, he stubbornly supported the expenses of the whole family, and also let his wife have meat.
Especially after Tsering Gesang was born, the atmosphere at home was like a rising star.
As if they had been blessed by the gods, the older generation in the village praised Abba, and used it to flaunt the youth of the family and make them look up to others. The comparison is too much, and the peers are all envious and jealous of Tsering Gesang's Abba, but they have no choice but to pretend not to understand and divert the topic when the grandmother or the mother-in-law at home is talking.
In fact, at that time, cause and effect were planted, and the outcome was predicted.
The extremes of things must be reversed, and after the extreme prosperity is the extreme decline, and the good things in the world are not firm after all.
Probably jealous and resentful, there are too few people who really admire the hero, and when the hero falls off the altar, the contrast of being contaminated with the mire around him is too stark, enough to become a joke in everyone's mouth. Therefore, the villagers who used to praise him would look at Abba's jokes until they attacked him with many intentional or unintentional words, which became the last straw that broke the camel's back, and completely forced the strong and powerful man to collapse, becoming a completely different extreme from before.
And at the very beginning of everything going in the wrong direction, Abba was just trying to make the family live better.
After rejoicing in the noble son, Abba gradually realized that this poor village did not give the child a better future, and he did not want Tsering Gesang to live his old way, and only relied on the lowest level of labor to make money. He realized that if he wanted to change his fate, he had to step out of his current comfort zone and make more efforts. Not only out of boredom with endless labor, but also motivated by the excitement of fighting for his family, Abba is full of thoughts about how to make his wife and children live a better life.
Such a strong determination urged him, like a dose of strengthening, and gave him infinite enthusiasm, so the clever man quickly came up with new ways to make money.
In the next two years, Abba would get up early every day and walk several kilometers to dig medicinal herbs in the nearby wild mountains, and then take them to the market in the town to sell them. At that time, he really suffered a lot, even if Grandma deliberately made the soles thick and soft when she took the shoes, and added several layers of fabric to the insole, he still walked with blisters.
After two years of hard work, Abba finally saved his first pot of gold.
He bought a white Volkswagen and went from being an ordinary working class to being the first person in the village to buy a car. The white Volkswagen Tsering Gesang is still in operation, and this is the only "useful" thing that Abba left him. Today, however, the car is so dilapidated that it seems to have broken down after a few more kilometers.
Time is always a cruel thing, and it will always remind that many things are gradually expiring, and no matter how rare the object is, it cannot withstand the obsolescence of the years. Just like the Volkswagen, which has long been out of step with the times, every detail shows that it is out of step with the current rapid development of the city and needs to be completely abandoned.
Tsering Gesang didn't know how many times he had gone through it, he had worked hard and tried his tongue to finally attract tourists, but people frowned when they saw the car, and the price they had negotiated was also discounted. If you are not willing to endure hardships, you should turn around and find other tour guides on the spot, regardless of professional quality, at least have a decent car.
But at that time, this was indeed quite a rare thing, which made the people in the village envy for a long time.
At that time, Tsering Gesang was only three or four years old, and the child's memory was always simple and vague, he couldn't remember how much money the family spent at that time, but he only remembered that when Abba drove the car back from the town, the yellow sand rolling up the mountain road looked blurry, and the villagers put down the work at hand and looked over, and subconsciously stood in a row, with admiration that could not be hidden in their eyes.
For a long time after that, the men of the village had to make fun of Abba, or find all kinds of excuses to look at this rather rare car. Every time everyone sees their grandmother, they have to praise them, "Your man is really capable", "You are really blessed", which caused the delicate young woman to smile, and there was a very moving smile on her cheeks. Tsering Gesang stood by her grandmother's side, and while she was in a good mood, she could grind for a bottle of drink or a few fruity candies.
It was also because of this car that Abba completely opened up with the people in the village.
This hard-working man finally changed his fate by virtue of his hard work, and changed from a farmer to a guide to a tourist attraction. He is a tour guide while chartering a car, busy taking on all kinds of private work every day, hard-working and willing to work, coupled with a smart mind, and a bit of innovative spirit that is difficult to see in a small isolated village, the life of his family can be imagined to be getting better and better.
However, in just one year, Abba has run all the tourist routes in Tibetan areas, and even made special notes about scenic spots and photo spots, and sorted out a fairly complete set of travel strategies. After that, Tsering Gesang was able to inherit his father's business so quickly, and whoever did a good job in the tourism industry could not be assisted by these materials.
If only time could stop here.......
Maybe everything will go in a completely different direction, and all the tragedies won't happen.
But where are there so many ifs in the world?
When he said this, the wind around him became louder. The plateau in winter is a little cold after all, the wisps of wind seem to penetrate the cold deep into the bone marrow, Tsering Gesang half hugged his elbows to keep warm, hesitated for a moment or chose to take out the cigarette box from his pocket, and bit another cigarette.
"These good days lasted for five or six years, until that accident, and everything changed. β
"What has changed?"
"Natural or man-made disasters, who can say clearly, maybe it is fate. β
Tsering Gesang sneered, and a sense of vicissitudes that was extremely incommensurate with a nineteen-year-old boy appeared on his face.
The flame of the lighter lit up for a moment, and then the smoke went out in the thick night.
"I was very young, five or six years old....... I can't remember a lot of things, I only remember Abba said that he wanted to take a big business, he was very serious when he was still a tour guide, and his family never worried about him. But that time was very different, and Abba was visibly hesitant, probably because of the route proposed by his guestβhe was going to Kawagebo Peak. β
At first, Abba was reluctant to take this business, for no other reason, and Kawagebo Peak is almost a holy place in the hearts of Tibetans, and it is also a well-deserved forbidden place. Kawagebo Snow Mountain is quite well-known in Tibetan areas, this is the main peak of Meili Snow Mountain, it is a sacred place of worship for Tibetan Buddhism, and it is the first of the eight sacred mountains, and it must be treated with caution when even mentioning it.
The local Tibetans worship Kawagebo as a sacred mountain and worship it on special days, believing that all those who offend the gods will be punished and will have to bear the wrath of the gods. In the minds of countless men and women, the "God of the Snow Mountain" is so holy and mysterious, how can it be climbed to the top, or climbed at will?
But in the end, Abba still chose to take over the business, after all, no one will have trouble with money.
When the benefits are attractive enough, the principle fades.
It is said that the guest was a middle-aged man in his forties and fifties, who looked unremarkable but was very generous, and the remuneration he gave at that time was almost the salary of Abba for a whole year. In addition, he didn't say that he wanted to climb to the top, but just wanted to go halfway up the mountain to see the heavy snow on Kawagebo Peak, so later, Abba decided to take him to Kawagebo Peak. β
The itinerary was originally five days, but Abba went for half a month, and there was no news during the process, no one could contact him, and no one knew what was going on on the snowy mountain. In those days, my grandmother prayed to the gods all day and all night, hoping that the gods would bless her man to go home, and she knelt until her knees were blue. But as the days passed, all the prayers did not make any difference, and Abba did not return, so hope cooled and was replaced by despair.
Just when everyone was about to give up, Abba suddenly returned.
It was a snowy night when he returned, and the heavy snow buried many things, and even after many years, Tsering Gesang could still recall the bitter cold of that time. The middle-aged man who was walking with Abba was gone, and finally Abba was left alone to push open the door, and he returned to the bedroom without saying a word, his face was a little scary, and he let Grandma follow behind and ask questions, and he was stunned that he didn't even squeeze half a word out of his teeth.
At that time, Grandma softened her tone and coaxed Tsering Gesang and her younger brother to sleep, saying something "Don't worry, Abba is just too tired, tomorrow will be fine", but they didn't know that the bad luck was kicking off, and that was the beginning of the nightmare for the whole family.
It was after that business came back that the family completely changed.
After returning from the snowy mountain, Abba who was originally hardworking and willing to work seemed to have lost his soul, suddenly stopped all work, and stayed in the room all day doing nothing, and fell into a depression for several days. When he was finally happy to get out of the room, he went up the mountain for a whole week, and every time he came back with a full body of wind and snow, no one knew what he was doing, and others could not persuade him, and it was a beating and scolding if he asked too much, and as for the problem of alcoholism, he was also infected at that time.
Because of this, Grandma doesn't know how many times she quarreled with Abba .
At first, she wanted her husband who had fallen into madness to find his way back, but how could a person who had really fallen into madness find out?
Many people say that he made some taboos because he rashly climbed the peak of Kawagebo, or collided with the gods, and the painting caused such an abnormality, so Grandma even went to the temple to invite a mage, wanting to get rid of the evil in Abba. Unfortunately, the so-called ritual did not have any effect, but made Abba even more suspicious.
At first, the villagers would help to find a solution, and the kind village chief would come to Tsering Kelsang's home to try to communicate with Abba and persuade him to get back on the right track. But after being turned away several times, and even being injured by an empty wine bottle that was suddenly thrown outside the door, the village chief never came again, and the rumors spread more widely, nothing more than something that became more and more unpleasant.
....... The strong, hard-working man went crazy.