Chapter 72: The Past (I)

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The second uncle said, it won't be a fake bar, I know that the second uncle was also scared of Zhao Dexi and Zhao Defu's fake wine, Li Baofeng said something, hurry up and get the money's wine, that shop is where he often goes, often drink that family's wine, how can there be fake, that is, the wine is not high-end, tell us not to dislike it, usually he is his own tea and rice, and he is not so particular, just eat a full stomach, we are here today, he is also a New Year.

The words all reveal the shabby life he is living now.

The second uncle asked, "According to the theory, how could your own brother be like this?" ”

Li Baofeng took a sip of wine, the spicy nature of the wine made him frown, he hadn't swallowed a sip of wine, I don't know how, he choked, and kept coughing, it seemed that it was the second uncle's question, which touched on the part of their brother's relationship, and he was the most reluctant to mention, he took a sip of wine into his mouth, because of this distraction, so he choked on wine.

After a long time, Li Baofeng said: "This matter is a long story, it has to start from the time he was born...... He and my sister were actually twins, and when they were born, they died once, and they were children who were picked up from the ghost gate. In the five or nine years of famine, in order to save their lives, but also to protect our own lives, the old mother gave them away, and then the family had an accident, the family situation was better, and then adopted back, in terms of feelings, or he and my sister's relationship is the deepest, the best. ”

The second uncle asked, "I was born and died once, how do you say that?"

Li Baofeng recalled: Forty-seven years ago, that is, in the second year after the founding of New China, the activities of the remnants of the reactionaries were still extremely rampant in the mountainous areas of western Hubei Province, and some of them had already turned into bandits, and banditry was constantly plagued.

Because they have the support of reactionary forces at home and abroad, these bandits act cruelly and do everything they can, intending to use the mountainous countryside as a base and one day be able to subvert the country and ********.

In the winter of this year, the weather was cold and frozen, the snow covered the mountains, and the radishes pulled up in the ground, when you took a bite, they were full of ice slag.

Li Baofeng is seven years old this year, his old father died at the hands of bandits two years ago, at that time there was no founding of the country, and his old mother was later insulted by the bandits, and she was holding up a big belly.

The mother and son depend on each other, helpless, unclothed and hungry, and can only beg for rice everywhere for a living, which is the beggar called Huazi as the saying goes.

Seeing that the old mother's belly is getting bigger and bigger, seven-year-old Li Baofeng has no choice at all.

On this day, the mother and son begged for rice, walked more than ten miles, harvested half a bowl of broken rice with dregs, and at dusk, they were ready to go home and cook rice soup to eat.

Xu was hungry for too long on this day, and the road he walked was too far, and the way back was more and more weak.

Ten winter wax moon, the sky is dark fast, the temperature drops quickly, when the mother and son walk to a small hill, the sky is already dark, the dead grass and fallen leaves are already full of hoarfrost, the sky is faint and cloudy, the sky is full of stars, the cold wind is swishing, only in the sky hanging a silver hook-like hair moon.

When Li Baofeng's old mother walked here, she suddenly had pain in her lower abdomen, and she couldn't walk anymore because she couldn't walk anymore.

Li Baofeng saw that his old mother was in pain, and in a panic, he helped her against a large bluestone leaning on a mound, the bluestone was cold, but at this time, where could he manage so much.

When the old mother was stable and much more comfortable, Li Baofeng breathed a sigh of relief, he turned his eyes and looked around, and suddenly found that this hill was actually a cemetery, the graves were lined up one after another, and several foxes were digging corpses on the grave, and his old mother was leaning on a tombstone at this time, Li Baofeng was so frightened that he didn't stand firmly, and immediately sat on the ground.

At this moment, not far away in the mountains and forests, a cry of an old wow came, and the black clouds on the horizon turned, hiding the curved moon, and there was silence all around, and without the moonlight, it was impossible to distinguish the square objects.

Lao Wow then screamed a few times, and the grave had already ignited a little phosphorus fire at some point, and the weeds on the grave were swaying left and right in the cold wind.

Where did the young Li Baofeng experience such a scene, such a thing, it was a frightening hand and foot, and he retreated and returned to the old mother, at this time, the old mother's water had broken, and the child in her belly was about to be born, and she was in pain, Li Baofeng could only watch from the sidelines, but she didn't know what to do.

It is said that a child is a piece of meat in the mother's body, and this woman is pregnant and gives birth to a child in October, which is like cutting flesh on her body.

Li Baofeng's old mother's painful screams were heartbreaking, resounding through this small hill, but in the wilderness, where someone can listen and someone can respond, at this time you can only rely on yourself, and the sky is the guide.

Fortunately, God blessed, the old mother gave birth to a child, and there is some production experience, with a baby's cry, the first child was born successfully, a baby girl, and then the second child was also born, a baby boy, this is the later Li Baolan and Li Baoshou.

The newborn baby is a joy for the parents, but Li Baofeng's old mother is not happy, because the baby is born in the grave, which is an unlucky thing, and the mother and son are hungry and cold at this time, I am afraid that they can't even support themselves, how can they support this pair of children, and at this time, the fox who scraped the corpse heard the cry of the newborn baby, and it was already pressing over step by step, standing aside, staring at the two children in the arms of the old mother, Li Baofeng stood up and pushed for a while, but the fox had no intention of leaving。

The old mother-in-law rolled her eyes and her heart was horizontal, and she made a move that Li Baoshu never expected, he actually threw the two newborn babies to the fox who was digging the corpses, and it seemed that he did not plan to have these two children.

The fox ran away with the child in his mouth, and seven-year-old Li Bao put it away and went to chase it, but was stopped by the old mother.

Li Bao asked: "Mother, why don't you let me chase it, it's my younger brother and sister?"

The old mother said coldly: "They are wild seeds, and it is superfluous to stay in this world." ”

From this day on, Li Baofeng knew the meaning of the wild seed in the mouth of his old mother, because the younger brothers and sisters were not born to his father, although they belonged to the same mother, but there was a barrier in the blood relationship, and the younger brothers and sisters were the species left by the bandits.

Just when the fox took away the two children, and Li Baofeng's mother and son were about to get up and leave, they suddenly heard a voice behind them asking, "You gave birth to the child?"

The mother and son looked back and saw a man standing on the stone table behind them, holding two children in his arms, carrying a shotgun on his back, and several rabbits and foxes hanging from the muzzle, which seemed to be a hunter.