It's been a week since he returned to Jingkou Village, and since the day he came back, Zhao Yajun hasn't gone out again, standing in front of the window every day, staring straight at the rugged path leading to Nanshan.

At nine o'clock in the morning, he saw a woman appearing on the path holding a child's hand.

The familiar figure could not be more familiar, he could recognize it at a glance, it was Feng Ying and Man Cang, and they went to Nanshan to find Ding Yong again.

The south mountain of Jingkou Village belongs to the branch of the Changbai Mountain Range, not very steep, but there is no end to the ups and downs, listen to the old man, many years ago there was a crazy woman in the village who ran up the mountain by herself, and also disappeared out of thin air, some people say that it was taken away by a blind bear, and some people say that it was a stumbling and fell into the col and was buried in the snow, in short, never came back.

Zhao Yajun watched the two in front of the window, turning into two small black dots, until they disappeared from sight, he rubbed his sore eyes, and turned around to sit on the edge of the kang.

Today, the mother and son duo are half an hour later than usual.

"Don't look for it, this person will never come back. ”

How dare he say these things to them?

Alive... Live in fear.

............

New Year's Day is just a few days away, and the team happily slaughters the remaining lamb.

Originally, it was supposed to be kept for the New Year to be killed, but this non-stop wolf grew old and stole sheep. As soon as everyone started in advance, they divided the meat into more than 20 pieces according to their work and gave it to everyone to eat.

Because Ding Yong was gone, the villagers unanimously recommended the young and capable Feng Chun to become the acting captain, and he was the last batch of production team captains after the founding of New China.

The work of picking the mutton was naturally assigned to Zhang Fa, and after he picked off the meat and packed it separately, Feng Chun came over to count and record.

"One, two, three, four......" Feng Chun counted twice, and said to Zhang Fa: "Brother, I checked it twice, and I feel that there is a bag missing?"

"Hmm... I thought, I don't like mutton anyway, so I'll give mine... To Ding... Wrong... Send it to Feng Ying's family. Zhang Fa didn't look up, and said while carefully cleaning his meat knife.

Feng Chun fumbled for a while in the pile of meat in front of him, found his own bag of mutton, and poured it into Feng Ying's bag.

A bag full of mutton, in this pile of meat bags, is particularly eye-catching.

The villagers began to come to the brigade headquarters one after another to receive meat, and everyone was very curious and asked who this big bag of meat was.

"Oh, my family doesn't like to eat mutton, so leave the meat to Xiao Mancang to eat..."Whenever someone asked, Feng Chun explained.

"What a sensible young man......"

"You said that this Ding Yong, tall and strong, why can't he find anyone......"

"I heard that Brother Du calculated a hexagram for him, saying that this person is gone......"

"Do you still remember the stupid daughter-in-law of Mr. Meng's family a few years ago, Mr. Meng's son was not serious, and the daughter-in-law was angry, so she suffocated herself, and she also ran to Nanshan, and never came back, creating evil, I'm afraid this mountain is not greedy......"

"Alas, poor little Mancang...... Feng Ying's life is hard, how can this orphan and widow live in the future......

Zhang Fa and Feng Chun didn't say a word, listening to everyone's detailed exchanges, those marginal guesses, and every sentence tugged at the hearts of the two.

Self-blame and fear are intertwined, forming a large net that covers the world and there is no escape.

There was only one bag of meat left on the board that had not been taken, the largest one.

............

At six o'clock in the afternoon, Zhao Yajun was still standing at the window and watching, the winter days in the Northeast are short and the nights are long, and he can't see the scene outside the window at this moment.

"Day by day, what are you always looking at there, come to eat dumplings, just your mother tasted them in the kitchen, they are old and fragrant. Zhao Yajun's father limped in from the kitchen with a cane.

Since his son came back from Nanshan, he seems to have changed as if he is a different person, he doesn't go out crazy and doesn't like to eat anymore, he just looks in front of the window, and it is a day.

The old couple saw it in their eyes, they were very worried, and tentatively asked the reason, but they couldn't get an answer, so they didn't ask anymore. Today, the runner-up's mother just received the mutton, so she hurriedly took it to wrap the child's favorite dumplings.

"Oh......"

Zhao Yajun sat down, but his mind was not on the table, he picked up a hot dumpling, put it in his mouth and chewed.

It's really fragrant, and the familiar taste travels from the mouth down the esophagus to the stomach......

Suddenly, Zhao Yajun only felt nauseous, and hurriedly threw down his chopsticks and rushed out of the door.

Wearing only thermal underwear and autumn pants and slippers, he stood in the cold winter, leaning against the wall, bending over, vomiting incessantly.

"Vomit...... Vomit...... "Vomit" one after another nausea, why can't you vomit it all......

The smell of meat, forcibly pulling him, fell into the whirlpool of memories, the bottomless whirlpool.

Captain, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry......

Suddenly, Zhao Yajun felt a hand on his back, his heart tightened, and beads of sweat the size of beans oozed from his forehead.

Who is it......

"Child, what's wrong with you, can't you let Dr. Wei come and show you, look at you like this, your father and I don't feel at ease......"

That hand gently patted Zhao Yajun's back.

Call...... It turned out to be his mother.

"It's okay, Mom, my stomach is a little upset, I'll be fine in a while...... Vomit...... vomit ......".

Since then, Zhao Yajun has had a very special heart disease.

He was especially afraid that someone would slap him on the back unawares.

Before the Chinese New Year, the team organized villagers to go up the mountain to find Ding Yong several times, and the township police station also came to investigate many times, but looking for people in this knee-heavy and boundless mountain is tantamount to looking for a needle in the sea.

After Ding Yong was on the list of missing persons, he was finally forgotten by everyone for a long time.

Eventually, calm was restored to the village.

............

A year has passed in a blink of an eye, at the beginning of 1983, Feng Chun got his wish and was transferred to the township police station to work, this young man was bold and careful, and worked hard, and soon he was favored by the captain of the county criminal police team, and promoted him to the criminal police team.

In 98 years of institutional reform, he took into account the factors of children and family, decided to take the initiative to quit his job, to start his own business, moved his family south to start a tea business, and his life was prosperous, and he completely cut off contact with Jingkou Village.

After the land reform, Zhang Fa sold cattle with the cattle dealers in the township, and later picked out a piece of bezoar in the process of slaughtering cattle, and after selling it for a large price, he went to Fuyan City to make a water production with a distant relative.

The spring breeze of reform blew from Shenzhen all the way to the north, and the down-to-earth Zhang Fa caught up with the good time of China's vigorous economic development, and later his economic territory continued to expand, and Zhang Fa became the president of a group company integrating aquatic products, education and real estate.

Li Kun's family has little land, and he has been cultivating diligently in Jingkou Village, but fortunately, his children are more competitive and have always been at the top of the class.

When the daughter-in-law saw that others had made money working in the city, she asked him to go to the city to work, but he couldn't resist his daughter-in-law. In the spring of one year, they also quietly left Jingkou Village......

Zhao Yajun's father's leg was raised, he still limped when he walked, at first the family didn't take it seriously, and after a few years, the old man couldn't get off the kang, Zhao Yajun took his father to the city for examination, and it turned out to be an advanced stage of bone cancer......

After returning, my father passed away not long after, and my mother washed her face with tears all day, and after a year, she followed her husband.

Zhao Yajun was just 19 years old that year.

Without his parents, he planted the land of three people, and his life gradually became prosperous, and later the villagers became matchmakers, and at the age of 22, he married Sui Dongmin, a wife from another village.

Over the years, Zhao Yajun has been helping Aunt Fengying's family as long as he has time, and Mancang has gradually accepted the fact that his father is missing, he grows up day by day, and his studies are particularly good, under the coordination of Zhao Yajun, he got relief from the township and went to the city to study in junior high school and high school. Ding Yong's birthday is in the beginning of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and every year his birthday is when Mancang is about to end the summer vacation, Mancang will take a bottle of sorghum wine that his father likes to drink, go to Nanshan alone, and do not go down the mountain until the evening.

Later, after the college entrance examination, Mancang was admitted to a medical university in Beijing with the second grade in the county, and studying medicine was his greatest wish.

In the early morning of the second day when the admission letter came down, Man Cang still brought a flashlight and a bottle of sorghum wine, this time he took an extra paper cup and went up the mountain.

So far, his father's whereabouts are unknown, and Mancang has pinned all his thoughts on this mountain.

Where are you, father, son hoping to see you again, and I am willing to exchange everything for a reunion with you.

If there is love in the sky,

Send me sorrows.

If the mountains are felt,

Allow me to return.

Mancang walked for a long, long time that day, and he just wanted to come to the depths of this mountain and snuggle in his father's arms for the last time, because he knew that after entering Beijing, it would be difficult to have time to come back.

In a grove, Man Cang collapsed to the ground, and he sat down and drank his first glass of spirits. That day, he poured out his mother's hard work and his grievances over the years to this mountain.

Even if there are all kinds of emotions, they are all in the turbid wine.

The sun is gradually moving westward, in the northeast of August, it has begun to cool down in the afternoon, Mancang is wearing short sleeves, only to feel the cold wind gusting, a spirit, sober up a lot.

It's time to go home, Man Cang stood up and began to walk back, the degree of this pure grain wine is not low, he drank it for the first time, and he was lost.

At this time, Mancang began to break out in a cold sweat, and he thought a lot, if he couldn't get out of this mountain forest, would there be anything more cruel to his mother......

"To be sober, you must go out ......"

Man Cang began to speed up his pace, he was not sure if he was walking in the right direction, but according to the direction of the sun, he kept walking north, and he could always get out.

He walked between the trees without a road, and he walked for an unknown amount of time, when he suddenly stopped, and he was stunned by what he saw.

In the afterglow of the setting sun, he saw a large sea of sunflowers......

These sunflowers grow on a relatively flat land, in the middle of the inaccessible mountains, and it is simply beautiful to have so many golden flowers.

Why are there sunflower tweeds here, why are there ...... here?

"Tick... Tick... Tick"

If it weren't for the sound of a full warehouse of watches working, just looking at the picture, you would think that someone had quietly shut down the time machine.

Mitsukura stood there straight, motionless, his eyes wide and unblinking, until his legs began to tremble.

"Puff ......"

Man Cang knelt down and began to dig frantically with his hands into the dirt underground, his nails were broken, he didn't care, his fingers were bleeding, he didn't care, mosquitoes were biting on him, he didn't care... The sun had set, and he continued digging with a flashlight in his mouth.

At the moment, he is like a pitbull with no pain nerves, and he can dig through the earth if he needs to!

"Wow......"

A gut-breaking wail startled the birds sleeping in the woods.

After 12 years, this silent mountain forest finally waited for his sixth guest......

Wait, believe in cause and effect, believe in the reincarnation of heaven.

If it weren't for Zhao Yajun's handful of raw melon seeds, where would Mancang know that his father would be buried here.

You've been gone for 12 years, and this time I'll say goodbye to you.

Five years or ten years, I will avenge you with my own hands.

The seeds of revenge took root and sprouted in Mancang's heart, growing savagely, and the flower of revenge was as gorgeous and vigorous as this sea of sunflowers......