At the beginning of March, today is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, in Guhe City, Linch Province, the north wind is howling, the snow is flying heavily, and there are almost no passers-by on the street.

Wu Shan was wearing a black down jacket, trekking outside the city with difficulty, his height of 1.85 meters seemed to be less than 1.7 meters, his beard was full of white frost, and he looked tired. Even in the city where I have lived for more than 30 years, no one can recognize this appearance.

Wu Shan stopped his staggering steps, took a deep breath, looked at the mountain bag in the distance, and smiled bitterly, it's almost home.

After more than forty minutes, Wu Shan came to the entrance of Wujia Village, and walked three hundred meters along the road to Wujia Village, but he was about to turn around. There was a path up the hill on the left side of the road, and the snow was so heavy that he couldn't see the entrance, and he didn't stop walking into the white snow.

There was a trail here, and when it snowed in Wushan, he cleared the snow from the top of the mountain, and he had to keep dry until the snow was strong, because this was the only way down the mountain. The house has been empty for several years, this road is almost impossible to find, only seven or eight hundred meters of mountain road, Wushan walked for nearly half an hour, the snow is too deep, the deepest part is not (mo) to the root of the thigh.

Climb to the top of the hill, turn a dense forest, and in the depths of the snow there is a house that is still there even if no one has come back for a few years.

Wu Shan walked to the gate and pushed the gate open with difficulty, and the courtyard of more than 100 square meters was full of snow, and there was no fireworks at all. The granary was empty, the kennel was empty, and the blue security door had decayed over time and had become tattered.

Wu Shan took out the key and wasted a lot of strength to open the door. The room didn't change at all except for the dust.

Wu Shan lifted the tarpaulin covering the furniture, found the electric heater, and pulled the main gate on, but fortunately, the electricity was turned on, and the electric heater was also good. He breathed a sigh of relief, went to the big closet and took out the black padded jacket, changed into it, and went to the warehouse without stopping.

I haven't lived in it for a few years, and the house is still the same house, but the cold makes people shiver. Wu Shan went to the warehouse to find a shovel, cleared the path leading from the house to the warehouse, and then began to clear the road to the barn in the backyard, where he needed dry firewood and coal.

Soon the road was cleared, Wu Shan didn't make it too clean and not too wide, he could just walk. The warehouse was the same as when he left, full of dry firewood, and Wu Shan returned to the door with the dry firewood and opened the stove pit.

Different from ordinary homes, Wu Shan's stove pit is outside the house, and the long stove pit is under the big kang in the east house. Wu Shan went to the house to find a few plastic bags and paper shells, and soon lit the fire, adding dry firewood, and the fire burned more and more. After a few minutes, seeing that the fire was not going out, he went back to the barn and dragged two dried pine trees and stuffed them into the stove pit, so that he would not have to add firewood for the day.

Wu Shan went back to the warehouse and picked up some honeycomb coal, ignited the stove in the living room, and went to find a kettle, but there was no water in the tank, so he went to the yard to get some snow and pressed the iron kettle on the stove.

The room was full of smoke, it seemed that the chimney should be opened, Wu Shan was really too lazy to move, so he went to the kitchen and opened a gap in the window to ventilate, and sure enough, there was a lot less smoke. Back in the East House, Wu Shan opened the door under the TV cabinet, there were still a few bottles of liquor inside, he couldn't wait to pick up one bottle and bite the lid open, and took a few sips, until this time, he had a feeling of coming alive.

"It's really a straw life!" Wu Shan scolded fiercely.

What has happened over the years has appeared in Wu Shan's mind like a movie, he doesn't understand how he got to where he is today, a few months ago he still had a happy life.

Amiable parents, honest and obedient brother, understanding sister, beautiful wife, chivalrous friend, but all this turned out to be the appearance, left him in a short time, and now there is no place to stay, just like a dog back to the remote hometown.

And it all started with an adventure and ended with an adventure.

Wu Shan is a native of Wujia Village, the eldest in the family, with a younger brother and a younger sister below, who are not typical post-80s. His parents were farmers with little education, so they farmed at home, because it was very difficult to provide for the three children to go to school.

Wu Shan's academic performance has always been very good, and he was admitted to the normal school in the year of the college entrance examination, but it is a pity that the national education reform, even if it is a normal school, it costs more than 4,000 tuition fees a year. The family couldn't come up with money, and there were two younger brothers and sisters with good grades behind him, so Wu Shan's parents didn't let him continue his studies.

When everyone else was happily going to report to the university, Wu Shan rolled up his luggage and followed his uncle and uncle from the same village to work in the south, he was only seventeen years old that year, so he went to the great south of the motherland and became a migrant worker.

For the next five years, Wu Shan worked in the south, and in order to save money, he returned home once. His hard-earned hard-earned money became the largest income of the poor family, not only bearing the tuition and living expenses of his younger brother's college, but also allowing the family to replace the straw house with a tiled house.

That adventure happened on the night when he received his sister to be admitted to college and his parents asked him for money.

At the construction site, a shovel went down and dug out an ancient tomb. Anyone who has done engineering knows that such an ancient tomb is the most annoying, once the wind goes out, then the construction site will be stopped, the boss's money will be wasted, the contractor will have to accompany the fine light, and the wages of migrant workers will not be hopeful.

Therefore, the foreman immediately gave the order, digging up, all dug up, and everyone had a share in digging things, and everyone could receive a closing fee of 200 yuan if there was no value. In this way, this unknown ancient tomb was dug up for a few hours. The bottles and cans were all pulled away by the contractor, and the remaining bits and pieces were divided among everyone.

Wu Shan was given a piece of jade with rough workmanship, which was not inconspicuous at all, who knew that this piece of jade actually hid a huge secret. Wu Shan inexplicably recognized the jade bi as the owner, turned it into a tattoo on the back of his hand, and then got a storage space the size of a football field.

Although he didn't go to college, Wu Shan also knew the truth of his guilt, and he carefully hid this secret, secretly wondering how to use this storage space. It just so happened that at that time, the transportation industry was booming, and there were trucks transporting goods from the south to the north everywhere.

Because of the storage space for transportation, he only needs to take the train, saving a lot of freight, resulting in his goods being much cheaper than others, and he earns a lot of money in a few months. Thanks to that era, there were no cameras and no one checked ID cards, so Wu Shan traveled to most of the countries, and within a few years he became a fairly successful businessman. Although he may seem inconspicuous, he has a large amount of cash.

As the economy is getting better and better, the transportation is becoming more and more developed, and Wushan's business is not easy to do, so he bought a big truck, became a driver himself, and started long-distance transportation. Every time he runs, he can earn tens of thousands of freight, two trips a month, hundreds of thousands a year, and a small life is chic. Later, after being introduced by my sister, I even found a beautiful wife who graduated from college, you must know that he was thirty years old when he got married, and it was really a fairy-like life.

At this time, Wu Shan was in high spirits, his younger brother wanted to buy a car and a house after graduating from college, and gave money; his younger sister wanted to buy a car and a house, and gave money; his younger brother wanted to get married and asked for a bride price, no problem; his parents wanted to be closer to his younger brother, no problem, he bought a house, and even hired a nanny to serve the two old men. It's no problem for my brother-in-law to buy a car, but my brother-in-law paid for it.

It's a pity that all this came to an abrupt end half a year ago.

Half a year ago, Wu Shan loaded two truckloads of goods in the south, which were two eighteen and a half meter trucks, each with a cargo capacity of 60 tons, and he naturally loaded a lot of high-end furniture, steel, electronic products, clothing, and all kinds of high-value goods. After doing transportation for so long, he has cultivated a group of loyal customers, so the goods are expensive and difficult to transport, and naturally the freight is also high.

Wu Shan didn't expect that just after he put the car into the storage space, an accident happened.

The storage space can't be opened anymore, no matter what he thinks, he can't open the storage space, he can't get in, and even the tattoo on the back of his hand has disappeared, Wu Shan is dumbfounded!

The goods were lost, the trucks were gone, and Wu Shan couldn't even find a reasonable reason.

In recent years, there have been more and more cameras, and the supervision has become stricter and stricter, Wu Shan has been avoiding the cameras, and even when he goes back to the Northeast, he does not dare to take the train, so he can only reverse the bus for a while, or take the kind halfway, so as not to buy it with an ID card, causing unnecessary suspicion.

It is precisely because of Wu Shan's caution that his secret has not been discovered, and also because of his caution, this time the goods disappeared, and he couldn't even give a reasonable excuse. In desperation, he could only compensate the owner for the loss in silence.

It's a shame, so much money is going on with so much money. What's more, Wu Shan doesn't like to keep money in the bank, and he always carries cash with him, and now this large sum of money has also disappeared, that is, he can't take out cash to compensate.

Wu Shan didn't worry too much at the beginning, although he owed 10 million, but his family had a store house, two houses, two cars, and his parents had no less than 1 million deposits from him, a house, plus the money he gave to his younger brothers and sisters over the years, he could pay it back by scraping together. At most, the quality of life will decline for a period of time, and the family will not go bankrupt.

But an unexpected scene happened to Wu Shan, when the family learned that Wu Shan lost money in business, lost two cars and owed nearly 10 million in payment, everyone changed. The parents did not admit the money in their hands, so the house naturally refused to sell. The younger brothers and sisters all hid and disappeared, and even if they did, they shouted that they had no money, and later they didn't even admit that Wu Shan paid for the house and car. The same is true for his wife's mother's side, and his wife insisted for a while, but when she heard that he planned to sell his house and car to pay off his debts, his attitude immediately changed.

In the end, they talked about their daughter's future quality of life, and on the first day of work after the New Year, they went to go through the divorce procedures on the eighth day of the new year.

Wu Shan didn't ask for anything, he left the house, and in addition to carrying a large amount of foreign debts, it can be said that he fell to the bottom of his life.

In the end, Wu Shan, who had no way out, didn't want to see the sympathetic eyes of his friends, and remembered this house in his hometown, when he bought a house for his parents in the provincial capital, his younger brother didn't pay for it, and his parents made the decision to give this house and 20 acres of dry land and 5 acres of paddy fields to Wu Shan, showing that they were not biased.

Ridiculous balance, who would have thought that this would become Wushan's last safe haven.

Today is the day of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, but Wu Shan can only stay alone on this uninhabited hillside, if it is not for this foothold, he wants to find a rope to hang himself.

Family, love, and friendship have all disappeared under the test of money.

Although Wu Shan received a big blow from the failure of the business, he had done business for so many years, made friends all over the world, and left countless back-ups. As long as he is willing, he can solve it at any time, but he wants to see what his relatives think, and he doesn't want to rashly make a large amount of money and arouse people's suspicions, so he has not taken concrete action.

But people's hearts can't stand the test, and they have paid so much for their families, and finally got such a result, which Wu Shan never expected.

And this is also the most difficult part for him to accept, is the unbearable pain in his life.

This week, Wu Shan was almost about to give up his life, it was too boring to live. But he is willing to do anything else, but his daughter is still so young, he is a little relieved. That woman can divorce him for a better life, will she really be good to her daughter?

Thinking of this, Wu Shan drank a whole bottle of liquor, and just when he opened the second bottle, a dazzling light suddenly appeared in his left hand, and the mark that had disappeared for half a year reappeared, and the color was much darker than the original, looking like a birthmark.

Wu Shan was stunned, tears could no longer stop flowing out, threw the wine bottle aside, and scolded bitterly: "Cao, you are a person, Cao you are a person, aren't you a person, are you gone? What are you doing when you come back?"