Chapter 1 Yongning Village

In the glimmer of the morning light, a slender girl wearing a plain coarse cloth shirt carefully stirred a pot of porridge. The water in the pot www.biquge.info the pen "Fun" Pavilion is boiling, and it is tumbling happily, and the rising heat is scattered in all directions, reflecting the white and beautiful face of the girl flickering in it.

The chickens cooed and searched all over the ground for food, and the ducks croaking and went to play at the water's edge. There were still a few crickets in the grass chirping cautiously. They all sang very happily at night, and they were going to rest in the morning.

The beauty of autumn that should have corresponded to this is gone. In the past, when I woke up in the morning, it was a white mist, which was clean, but now it is also vast, but the color is gray and scary. It looks frightening, it's not winter yet, the scenery in the distance is a little unclear, the girl looked outside, when she was a child, she could barely see the house of Uncle Wang at the head of the village from here, but now she can't see it anymore, and her sight is blocked halfway through.

The girl wiped the sweat from her face, although it was autumn, but the weather was still a little hot. She felt a little tightness in her chest lately, and her breathing was also very difficult, but she didn't know what the reason was.

Her movements were very quick, she stirred for about a minute, and when she saw that the porridge was cooked, she put out the fire, cleaned up the stove, filled a bowl, and took two hot buns by the way.

The girl's parents have both passed away, leaving her and her grandparents to rely on each other. Not long ago, my grandmother also passed away due to illness, which made this home, which was already nothing, seem more and more deserted.

A thin old man leaned against the doorway, his cane at his side, his cloudy eyes staring blankly at a certain place, motionless, he had maintained this position for a long time. Beside him lay quietly a small stuffed thing, and as if sensing the cold, it curled up and moved in the direction of the old man.

The girl walked over with a spoon stirring the freshly made porridge. Seeing the old man's sluggish expression, he couldn't help but sigh softly.

It's been the ninth day.

The old man could not hear the girl's footsteps at all, and still sat motionless. The fluffy little thing next to it seemed to be hungry, stood up crookedly, followed the fragrance, and the fluffy little tail swayed left and right, like a small fur ball.

"In vain." The girl gently stroked its little head, and looked at the old man sitting there as she spoke: "When do you think grandpa will be well?" ”

The puppy seemed to understand what the girl said, and his little head was put together, and he sensibly rubbed the worried little master.

After Grandma is gone. Grandpa suddenly became like this the next day. Xiaoying was so frightened that she hurriedly went out and asked the doctor to come over. The doctor looked at it and only said that he was stimulated and let him recuperate.

"And when will Grandpa get better?" Xiaoying asked.

"It's impossible to say this, it's as little as a month, as much as a year or two, and you may not wake up for the rest of your life."

The doctor comforted Xiaoying and left.

Xiaoying pondered.

"Evildoers, these people." The old man's mouth stirred slightly, and he spat out these words indistinctly.

"Grandpa, what did you say?" Hearing such a voice, the girl hurriedly came over and asked.

"Iniquity...... It's all ...... They are all harmed. The old man said, his gaze becoming fierce and angry, as if he was looking at something. But he soon became confused again.

The girl didn't know what her grandfather was talking about. She looked up and looked in the distance, surrounded by a thick layer of smoke around the towering mountain peaks, and those gray-black smoke flowed violently every day, as if it could never be dispersed. At night, there is always a whimpering sound, like a ghost crying, which is creepy.

The people of the village called the black smoke haze, and it is said that many people died of illness because of the haze.

"Devil, devil." The people in the village always look resentful but in awe when they talk about the haze. "What a sin. Retribution will come sooner or later. ”

That's right.

The girl's father and mother also died like this, Daddy went to work in the mountains that year, in order to support the family, although there was a lot of money given, but it was extremely dangerous, when Xiaoying was 3 years old, Daddy went due to illness, and there were a few people who got sick with him. After Daddy's death, Ah Niang didn't know why, so she went to the mountains to find the so-called big head, but never came back.

I guess most of them have suffered a crime. The haze there is so serious, and A-Niang's body is very weak, and it is likely that she has gone.

She was young then. I don't remember much. I only remember that my grandfather was very angry and was about to go into the mountain, and everything was packed, but when I looked at her who was still young and my grandmother who was crying, I finally endured it.

This family still has to survive.

Grandpa opened the baggage, returned everything to its original place, and then continued to go down to the ground with a hoe and live a peaceful life.

Later, a group of people still entered the mountain, and later got the news that A-Niang had died.

At that time, she was still young, and she didn't understand what it was like when she died, so she just pulled her grandfather's sleeve every day and asked, "When will Daddy and Auntie come back?" ”

Grandpa looked at her hopeful eyes and touched her hair, but hesitated to answer.

Grandma watched and wiped her tears, hugged her, and said, Daddy and Auntie went to a place called heaven.

Where is paradise? Will Daddy and Auntie come back? Although her grandparents are very good to her, she still misses her father and aunt from time to time.

Later, as she grew up, she understood what the so-called heaven meant.

However, there are also many partners in the village, and the father or mother also went there. She didn't feel anything.

She has always had a cheerful personality, and even comforted her grandparents who wept when they thought of their son and daughter-in-law, who must have gone to heaven. Because Daddy and Auntie must be kind people.

Grandma once said to her: good people go to heaven, and evil people go to hell.

Then Daddy and Auntie must have gone to heaven, she thought.

Life still has to be passed.

Only the elderly grandfather and grandmother are left in the family, in order to support the family, the grandfather and grandmother get up early and work greedily at night, after all, they brought up the child. A while ago, my grandmother suddenly fell ill, coughing and shortness of breath, and my grandfather was so anxious that he couldn't sleep for several days and nights. I took my grandmother to the best and most qualified old doctor in the village for examination.

The girl still remembers that scene.

Grandpa didn't let her go, but she was too worried about grandma, and begged grandpa to say that she would stay by her grandfather's side obediently, but grandpa had no choice but to take her.

The old doctor, who looked old and energetic, looked at it for a long time, and finally shook his head, slowly twisted his gray beard, and said slowly: "Evil, evil. It's haze. ”

She saw that her grandfather's eager eyes suddenly dimmed, and then hugged her grandmother without speaking. Finally, when he carried his grandmother back, the cold mountain wind hit his face, and his grandfather cried like a child.

Her mind was blank, and she only knew that this haze disease was afraid that it would not be cured.

Instead, grandma quickly accepted this fact. After returning home, she was so sick that she couldn't get off the ground, so she had to lie on the hospital bed weakly, looking at her grandfather's sad face, smiling, and saying, "Old man, I've been with you all my life, that's enough."

Grandpa held grandma's hand, tears falling down her eyes.

"After working hard all my life, I ended up like this, what a sin." Neighbors said so at Grandma's funeral. Then he comforted his grandfather and turned to leave.

Grandpa was decadent for many days.

The girl fed the old man soup with a spoon. The old man did not react.

Suddenly, her eyes turned red.