Chapter Ninety-Four: Acknowledging Loneliness
Xu Guo's journey will go on forever, and on the way, he will meet happy people, sad people, some cry and some laugh, and he can see different lives. Writing, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info This has an expanding effect on his own life, expanding the capacity of his life, increasing his horizons, and looking more, he can always see what Xu Guo has not seen.
In front of a decayed wooden door sat an old lady, very old, dressed in thin clothes, sitting on a small bench, her stature as small as a bench. Her children went out to work, and she was alone, with two small children, a male doll and a female doll, the male doll sat on the ground and the mud, and the female doll also sat on the ground and looked at the male doll and the mud.
This old man is lonely, she also admits that she is lonely, Xu Guo chatted with her, she spoke with a strong local accent, Xu Guo could barely understand.
The old man said that she was a weaver girl when she was young, she spun every day, she loved the spinning wheel, and she would be very happy when she used the spinning wheel to spin things. That's what she does, and she loves what she does. Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, people get old, and they are old like this, sitting here, they just don't want to move, and when they move, they don't have the strength in their bodies, and their bodies are not particularly good and not tough enough.
The old woman looked at Xu Guo's blue motorcycle, and then at Xu Guo, you, you young man, what are you doing here? This village is poor, I have been poor in this village all my life.
Xu Guo can see that there should be a lot of people like the old woman in this village, and from the perspective of the whole country, there should be a huge number. Some of these poor people don't have a TV at home, some don't have a computer at home, some don't have a washing machine at home, and their living conditions are poor. Living in a poor environment, people's hearts will be anesthetized by poverty, thinking that people all over the world are so poor, but in fact, there are people who live a rich life, these poor people, once one day, see the noble life of others, they will be extremely envious, and feel disgusted by their own experience, feel that they have lived in vain, their own life, is not called life, and other people's life is called life.
The old woman in front of Xu Guo is such a person, when she was young, the world was turbulent, there were wars in many places, there would be wolves in the wilderness, such a dangerous world, she did not suffer because of this, she survived in the war, it can be said that she did not die. The old woman has had enough of living in poverty, but she understands that she is not the worst person in the world, and if she complains that she is poor, others will say, "You can eat enough and wear warm clothes, and some people will eat a handful of fried noodles and a handful of snow, and some people will grab a handful of snow and then a handful of snow or snow will not even have fried noodles." Therefore, the degree of misery of people cannot be compared, once compared, it will be endless, you say you have no feet, he says he has no legs, you say you have no eyes, he says he has no arms, miserable people, there are many of them, it is already a fact.
The old woman in front of Xu Guo, although she is poor, is not miserable, but the old woman has seen those miserable people, it is really miserable, not to mention dignity, she can't even be counted as a person. These miserable people, the old woman has seen, she is a person with rich life experience.
The old woman advised Xu Guo to find a place, stay in peace, and stop traveling like this. But Xu Guo still insisted on traveling, the old woman's words, of course, were good, but Xu Guo is a young man, and the heart of a young man is always profound.
Xu Guo didn't understand why the old woman had to sit here every day, and the old woman said, if you don't sit here, you can't do anything else, there's nothing to do, just sit here. She was the same as her grandson and granddaughter, these two children, who had nothing to do, sat on the ground, playing in the mud alone, watching alone, they had already reached the age of going to school, but they did not go to school.
The old woman admits that she is lonely, she says that she is lonely, although there are these two children in front of her, but her heart is lonely, she does not enjoy many blessings, there is no culture, superior food, clothing, housing and transportation, has been with her, she has no chance to enjoy these things, old, even if there is a good means of transportation, she can't sit anymore, an old bone, the car can fall apart. She has too much hatred in her heart, unsatisfactory people, always hateful in her heart, this old woman has experienced too many ups and downs in her life.
The old woman begged Xu Guo to do something for her, and asked Xu Guo if he was willing to do it. Xu Guo agreed to him, saying of course he could, of course he could. When he said this, he had not listened to the old woman's request.
The old woman said, I have a son, when I was young, he was taken away by wolves and eaten, today, it happens to be his birthday, you take these peaches and put them on the hillside over there, my son lost them there.
The old woman looked at Xu Guo with a pair of helpless eyes, her old skin looked dry, she was thin, and she was carrying a bag of fresh peaches in her hand.
Xu Guo took the peaches in the old woman's hand, the peaches were so fresh, the old woman wanted to leave them for her son to eat, but she had no son for a long time, she had a lot of hatred in her heart, in her life, there were too many hateful things, Xu Guo carried the peaches, looked at the old woman, and could see that this old woman was the same as Xu Guo's lonely and strong people, although she suffered a lot of injustice, Grief, but they understand that people should look forward, forget the sorrows of the past, they try to restrain their emotions, always control themselves, they still survive gracefully, this old woman, although she is in the last years, but this candle flame, burning quite strongly, she sits alone in front of this door every day, her grandson plays with mud, or plays with wooden sticks, as long as he does not run far, his son is taken away by wolves, she does not want her grandson to have any more mistakes.
The old woman advised Xu Guo not to run around, to hurry up and ride a motorcycle, go home, find a place, find a stable job, and settle down.
Xu Guo heard the old woman say that there were wolves nearby, his heart tightened, it was not early now, and it was about to get dark, Xu Guo planned to continue to move forward, the old woman said this, and Xu Guo said that she was afraid.
Xu Guo quickly adjusted his mood, got on the motorcycle, and continued to ride forward no matter what the old woman said.
After driving a kilometer, Xu Guo vaguely felt a sound behind him, he looked into the reflector, mom, in the mirror, there was a big bad wolf, such a big wolf, he wanted to eat Xu Guo, Xu Guo was about to come out in a cold sweat, and the wolf followed Xu Guo and chased after him.
Xu Guo didn't want to cause trouble, but the wolf was obviously looking for trouble, Xu Guo rode a motorcycle, and the motorcycle moved at a constant speed, but the wolf didn't give up, and kept chasing after him. Xu Guo saw that the wolf was too pressing, he added the throttle in his right hand, took out a pistol from his clothes with his left hand, pointed the pistol at the wolf's head, continued to refuel with his right hand, and kept his aiming posture with his left hand, he swept the wolf running behind him with his eyes, and with a force on his left index finger, the trigger was pulled, and the bullet was shot out, hitting the wolf, only this shot, the wolf fell to the ground and died.
Xu Guo rode out 500 meters, thinking, killed a wolf, and it was a pity to abandon it on the road, so it was better to go back and take it in the car, and eat meat.
So Xu Guo went back and came to the wolf's corpse, afraid that its body would recover and bite, Xu Guo took out a knife from his clothes and cut off the wolf's head, and the wolf's body was tied to the shelf behind the motorcycle by Xu Guo, and the wolf's head was hung on the handlebar by Xu Guo. In this way, Xu Guo continued to ride the motorcycle, with blood stains all the way.
Arriving at the hillside that the old woman said, Xu Guo put the bag of peaches that the old woman gave him on the hillside.
Then Xu Guo found that twenty meters away, there was a bright thing, like some metal was glowing, Xu Guo didn't understand what it was, walked over and looked, the bright light, suddenly flashed, and disappeared.
Xu Guo didn't know what it was, how it emitted such a bright light, he looked at the place where it was glowing just now, and he couldn't see the luminous object anymore. He was about to ride a motorcycle, and the glowing object just now appeared next to him again, Xu Guo looked at it and found that it was an iron box, this iron box, very strange, it was actually suspended above the ground like a mist, and it was still glowing, Xu Guo was surprised, reached out to grab the box, he shot quickly, grabbed the box, pressed the box down, and the box was pressed to the ground by him.
Xu Guo got a strange box, he wanted to open the box to take a look, but he couldn't open it, this box, like the strongest adhesive in the world, couldn't open it, just couldn't open it.
Xu Guo heard Lu Cun describe to himself a kind of box suspended in the wild, probably this kind of box, this box glows, it moves, it moves slowly, and it is easy to be caught. Lu Cun only described such a box, but he never said what the use of these rare boxes was, let alone what was in the box, and Lu Cun himself did not know.
Xu Guo was curious about the box in his hand, the size of this box was about the same size as the stationery box he used in elementary school, but the material of this box was not plastic or metal, it was a bit like a stone, a stone box, but if it was a stone box, how could it be suspended above the ground and move? This challenged Xu Guo's thinking, but Xu Guo thought about it for a while, but still couldn't solve the mystery of this box. Xu Guo took this magical box, rode a motorcycle, and walked forward in the dark night, all around was dark, there was no moon in the night sky tonight, this highway was winding and long, the lights of Xu Guo's motorcycle were very bright, shining in the distance, Xu Guo accelerated forward. It was already so dark, Xu Guo needed to find a place to stay, he thought, I hope there can be a hotel where you can sleep not far ahead.
Xu Guo was quite tired, the car had no energy, it was so dark everywhere, where was the hotel? Xu Guo opened the map on his mobile phone and looked for a nearby hotel, but found that the nearest hotel was also five kilometers away, but fortunately, there was not a single car on this road, and he could ride freely.