On the provincial highway from Linshan Town to Tongxian, an Audi A6 is speeding in the afterglow of winter.

The driver is a man in a jacket and sunglasses, although he does not show his eyebrows, but he also has a resolute face.

The two men sitting in the back seat of the car were talking. If Luo Bin saw it, he would definitely know it, one was a quiet girl who was bombed off by the river the night before, and the other was a toothless old man who sold talisman paper in Linshan Town.

I saw the woman turn sideways and ask, "Did you give him something?"

The old man looked cowardly, pretended to be calm and pulled the corners of his face, nodded and replied: "Give, give, it's all done according to what you taught, I didn't dare to say anything superfluous." ”

The woman nodded, her face blank, and reached out to hand over the stack of money she had pinched in her hand.

The smile on the old man's face bloomed, and he immediately stopped it, raised his eyelids and glanced at the woman, and then reached out to take it.

And the woman tilted her head, but she didn't mean to let go of the money in her hand, looked at the old man and added: "The money naturally belongs to you, but there are a few conditions." First, you can't talk to anyone about these two comings to the mountain town. Second, you won't be able to appear near Linshan Town in the future. Third, as long as you do the above two things, we will not come back to you in the future. You don't have to guess what we do, you just have to remember that the guy driving in front of you has killed people. ”

As early as last year, when the old man first saw them, he knew that they were not good stubble, after all, how could a good person behave like this. Now when I hear the woman say the word murder, I only hate myself for seeing money. The expression on his face changed from joy to sadness, he let go of the money in his hand, and the corners of his mouth trembled and he was about to kneel in the car. It's a pity that the space is small, and the hands and feet are not active, and the car is thrown on the backrest of the front seat.

After an hour of galloping, the Audi at this time had already driven into the county seat of Tongxian County, stopped at a street intersection, the old man got out of the car and just closed the door, and the car spewed exhaust fumes away.

The old man watched the car leave, raised his hand and touched his chest, to make sure that the money bag inside was still so thick, and then walked forward with relief. I thought to myself, these offspring are definitely not a good thing, but my little old man has been wandering the streets and alleys for half his life, how can he be defenseless. You only think that I am from the countryside of Tongxian County, but how do you know that I am just a beggar from another province, and I have been in Tongxian for two years.

The words are divided into two ends, and then look at the inside of the Audi car.

The man was still driving the car, and asked without squinting, "You are so scary old man, as for you?"

The female voice behind him replied: "It's just a matter of bluffing him back to his hometown." As long as he leaves Linshan Town, they will naturally no longer intersect. ”

The man tugged at the corners of his mouth and smiled, and continued to ask, "What if that kid loses the 'insect mark' again?"

The woman behind her operated the mobile phone in her hand, and replied without raising her head: "Even so, the routine of feudal superstition should not be used for the third time." ”

It was already dark, the car was in a tunnel, and the signal on the phone screen was lost. The woman in the back seat raised her head and rubbed her eyebrows, and when the car got out of the tunnel, she looked down at the phone screen again.

It didn't take long for her to frown, and she said, "The signal is completely lost, and I can't try to connect." ”

The man driving raised his eyelids and glanced at her from the rearview mirror, and smiled bitterly: "Forget it, go back to Ning City." It's not worth following too closely now. ”

Hearing this, the woman put down her phone and turned her head to look out the window silently.

......

Not long after Luo Bin fell asleep in front of his mother's grave, he woke up to his father's call.

Luo's father ran all the way up the hill with a flashlight, and when he saw him lying on the ground, he hurriedly asked him what was wrong, was he not feeling well? Luo Bin couldn't answer the question at this time, and tried to recall what happened before, sorting out his thoughts.

Father Luo saw his expression and thought that his son was overthinking, causing him to faint with a knot, so he sighed and said, "Your mother has been gone for more than ten years, why are you sad to be like this?"

The previous arc, Luo Bin saw it really, although he lost consciousness later, he also knew that it was not a coma caused by excessive thoughts, this matter was very strange, and he couldn't think of anything with his shallow knowledge alone, and he didn't know if it was a blessing or a curse now, let alone dare to tell his father.

Luo Bin got up and moved his hands and feet twice, and he was not impaired. It was getting late, and I couldn't care about anything else, so I followed my father's flashlight and went down the mountain one after the other.

Luo's father came to him on a motorcycle, and on the way home, Luo Bin drove the car to guard behind his father.

As soon as Luo's father arrived home, he began to prepare dinner, and Luo Bin took advantage of the bath to check his body carefully to make sure that there was nothing unusual, and his heart was relieved. It's just that the Guanyin talisman that I asked for from the old man today seemed to have been burned, and the original red lines were already scorched, and some places had turned black.

Could it be that this rune saved his life?" Luo Bin thought.

After changing his clothes, Luo Bin folded the talisman paper again and put it in his personal pocket. It's just that I don't know if this burned-out rune is still useful, and it seems that next time I save some money, I will have to ask the old man for one.

Luo's father casually cooked a few side dishes and heated the cooked food that Luo Bin bought. Although it was simple, by the time the food was served, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening.

Luo Bin opened the wine he bought, and his father originally insisted on not wanting it, until Luo Bin said that the money for the project had been settled, the money from the bank had been repaid, and Uncle Ke's share had been prepared. Luo's father reluctantly took out the wine glass and drank it with his son.

My father used to drink alcohol, and he always restrained himself, only drinking two taels a day at night, and today is no exception. Of course, Luo Bin didn't drink much, but just talked with his father.

After talking about his daily life, Luo Bin began to intentionally mention thunder and lightning, wanting to find out if there were such interesting stories in the village.

Luo's father initially recalled the old news that people in the surrounding villages were electrocuted in previous years, and later recalled the small hydropower station of the production team in the early years, although the electricity did not enter the household, there were street lights on the village road. At six or seven o'clock in the evening, the street lights flash twice to inform the villagers that they are going to sleep without electricity.

After talking about the hydropower station, Luo's father talked about Luo Bin's mother.

Mother is the second in the family, and there is a younger brother and a younger sister below, the younger brother is the eldest and five years younger than the mother. My mother was sensible and well-behaved when she was a child, and the adults in the family had to work in the brigade during the day to earn work, and the burden of taking care of her younger siblings was on my mother's shoulders. So much so that in the end, three of the four children had studied, but the mother had never gone to school.

Later, the village became a literacy teacher, and his young father went to school during the day and became a teacher at night. At that time, my mother fled to school and took classes twice, but was arrested by the adults in the family.

After a few years, my mother's body grew a little bigger, and she worked in the brigade to pick cow dung and harvest buds, and everything was no worse than that of men, and her burden was not lighter than that of men, but the daily work was always a few points less than that of men.

It was useless for her to resist, and she was angry that someone tricked her into not knowing how to read, so she took the job of opening pine resin oil in the team to earn work. At that time, everyone ate a big pot of rice, as long as people follow the crowd and do anything, they still get their work points if they are cheating and cheating. Only in this deep mountain pine oil is not willing to go, not to mention the hard work, the harvest is not stable, they are afraid of affecting the work and less rations, then the mother will be willing to go anywhere as long as she is not angry. Since then, she has gone up to the mountains and into the dense forest before dawn every day, afraid that she will not be diligent enough and shorten her work, so she is used to touching the mountains and going home every day in the dark.

One summer day, the weather changed suddenly, and the dark clouds covered the top like a dark night. Mother was still alone on the top of the mountain shoveling the bark of the pine tree with a shovel, until the pouring rain poured on her head, and she took refuge under a large pine tree like a canopy.

Until the next day, no one from the family came back, so the village organized people to go up the mountain to find someone, and my father was one of them.

My father remembered seeing my mother at the top of the mountain, sleeping against the trunk of a tree wrapped in a cloak, surrounded by branches that had been broken by lightning.

When Luo Bin heard this, he naturally remembered his dream, could it be that he saw his young mother in the dream?, but he didn't understand how this picture could appear in his mind out of thin air. He played with the mustache on his chin and continued to listen quietly.

Luo's father took a sip of wine and continued to tell his mother's story.

After finding out that her mother was fine, everyone was relieved, but later the branch secretary no longer let the girl go into the mountain to open pine oil.

Later, my mother told my father about something that she just wanted to find out if she had studied culture.

One day after dinner, the girls of the village walked and chatted under the street lamps and walked all the way to the reservoir at the end of the village, where the village's hydropower station was built.

The hydropower station is actually very small, and the water in the reservoir is not deep, so the girls who are in a group are crowded and playing at the head of the dam. At this time, in order to avoid it, the mother might as well fall into the reservoir.

At this time, I saw that the street lights on the side of the road suddenly turned on, and then all of them were shattered, and the engine room of the power station exploded, and black smoke rose from the turbine. The girls didn't care so much, they only knew that the person had fallen into the water, so they hurriedly found a bamboo pole to pull their mother ashore, and ran away in the dark together.

Later, the brigade invited experts to come, and after looking for a long time, they couldn't find a cause and effect, and finally punished the villagers on duty at that time for improper operation.

Of course, my father didn't know what this had to do with the girls playing on the dam, and when I couldn't answer one, two, or three, my mother left disappointed, hiding her doubts in her heart, and never mentioned them to anyone again.

After listening to his father's story, Luo Bin chewed the unswallowed vegetable stalk in his mouth, thoughtful......