Chapter 1: Home
Leaving people sorrowful, sad parting, broken thoughts, deep thoughts.
withered, empty and sad, continue to prosper, and where.
The sun rises slightly, the sky is full of red light, reflecting the whole earth, the rising sun is like a life just born, lively and full of vitality, people can't help but feel happy.
Wisps of green smoke from the east of the village, the earliest people have already started a busy day, extending the whole village slowly floating into the sky, embellishing the early morning, everything looks so comfortable and peaceful.
Li Feng drove his cattle out of the small courtyard, heard the sound of cheers, just out of his own courtyard, greeted a chubby middle-aged woman, with a dark face, also led her family's only thin horse out, feeling that the horse was not as tall as her, just looked up, saw the second aunt with a smile on her face and said: "Ergouzi, really diligent baby, came to help your mother work so early, how about giving my second girl to you as a daughter-in-law"
With a joke in his mouth, with seriousness, half-truths and half-truths, maybe this kid couldn't say if he thought about it that day, after all, compared to the children of other families, the children of the Li family are delicate, clean, and happy when they look at it, who doesn't like such children. The people in the village have these names, such as dog leftovers, second baby, radish head and the like, and the old people say that it is easy to feed.
In fact, in Li Feng's opinion, it is terrible, maybe only other friends don't care, maybe it's because they have grown up. But after getting used to it, it seems to be the same thing. Occasionally, it's quite kind, but it also depends on who's calling.
Li Feng scratched his head and smiled shyly. said: "My mother said, marry your skinny horse, and my mother will let me marry" The second aunt was amazed, and then the second aunt scolded with a smile: "You baby, goblin."
The labor force of a horse in the village is comparable to that of an adult man, and the village households are not rich and expensive, but they can't afford to marry such a dowry, and I don't know how many times I have such a tireless conversation, every time the second aunt says it as if it is true, every time Li Feng always remembers the thin horse of the second aunt's family, the second aunt has no follow-up.
The second aunt often makes such jokes, the second aunt's family lives not far from Li Feng's house, and there is a family in between, and the second aunt is the little girl of the second aunt's family, similar in length to the second aunt, chubby, and horizontally developed, the little girl who is only ten years old is about to become a bald circle, and she likes to play with Li Feng all over the mountains since she was a child.
Li Feng wanted to hide, but he didn't dodge, and he couldn't dodge, saying that the two families lived so closely. The second aunt and Li Feng's family are not relatives, but they are called so in the village, and the second aunt's husband is the second in line, so they call the second aunt.
It is a common practice in the village to bring out their cattle every morning. Each family brought out its cattle or horses, and they were banished by others in the fields, or in the grass, or in the mountains. An old man in the village is stocked and guarded, and the village is called Lao Li Tou, because Lao Li Tou has no children and no daughters, and he heard that he drove a good car in the city when he was young, and he also knows more about the habits of livestock.
The people in the village are also relatively kind, and each family gives some grain or a little copper money every month for the elderly to live.
After pulling the cow out, Li Feng returned to his home, and Li Feng's family lived in Dongtou. When I got home, I saw my mother putting four pairs of dishes and chopsticks on the table, and rubbed my hands with a walk, and when I saw Li Feng coming back, I said gently: "Baby, go wash your face and eat."
Li Feng asked happily, "Mother, are my father and eldest brother coming back today?"
Mother said busily: "Mmmm, Feng'er go wash your face and be careful that your father comes back and nags you again"
Li Feng is also looking forward to his father and eldest brother coming home, his father and eldest brother are not at home, Li Feng's father and eldest brother opened a blacksmith shop in the town, to build some farm tools for the villagers in ten miles and eight townships, and only go home once every month, this time it is not the end of the month, and there are still two days left, so Li Feng does not know the news that his father and eldest brother are coming back today, usually only his mother and the two of them are at home at home.
While speaking, my mother put the vegetables in the pot and the steamed steamed buns on the table, the fragrance of a plate of green vegetables, and a bowl of sticky gourd, plus a plate of bean-like salt. Underneath the table was a flat fire pit, filled with warmth.
Li Feng washed his face as fast as he could, because every time his father and eldest brother came back, he would always bring Li Feng some fun or books that Li Feng liked to read. Of course, there is also the father's nagging, the father always said that Li Feng, children who don't like to talk are easy to be bullied by others outside, in fact, the father and mother are not particularly talkative, but the father is always afraid that he will be bullied when he goes out, and every time he goes home, he will inevitably be taught by his father.
Li Feng's character is the same, following his mother, shy and kind, and does not like to talk.
I heard a sullen voice coming from outside: "Mother, my father and I are back"
Then I saw the tall figure of the eldest brother and the house where the father stepped into, the eldest brother was still as strong as before, tall, and his simple face hugged his mother with the mother's turn, the father was a little old, and the white hair on his head seemed to have a few more, and most of the roads in the countryside were dirt roads, the first beauty built, and the second no one was rich. Therefore, there is naturally more dust on the body, there is no road, and the more people walk, it is naturally the road.
The mother kindly opened the eldest brother's two big hands like bear claws and said: "This child, so old, and this naughty, my mother will make you food, quickly wash and eat in the pit."
The mother took off her father's coat and put it on the cabinet next door and said, "Dad, how is the shop in the town, are you busy?"
The father looked at Li Feng and said: "This year is not bad, Feng'er is not small, she has grown up, this time she will go to the town with us, you can go with his mother, you are left with the two of you, I am a little worried, there is nothing to do at home alone, let's make a light meal"
The mother asked suspiciously: "Then what should we do with the old house, can we come back if the business in the town is bad?" The concept of the countryside will always remember their ancestral property, after all, it is left by the ancestors, and in this era, the dispensable family property is also very precious to them. It's hard to come back if you're gone.
The father frowned and said: "I can't come back, anyway, my old house, it's really not good, we are coming back, the fields in the village can still be planted, mainly for these two babies, the big baby is not small, it's time to tell him a daughter-in-law, we Feng'er also have to learn to make a living, or a certain errand, there is no one to boil at home" The father sat down in front of the pit and touched Li Feng's head. In fact, my father also knew that it would be difficult to come back if he left, but for the sake of his two children, what could he do, should he let the two children always face the loess with their backs to the sky?
The mother also sat on the right side of the pit and sighed: "It's true that Feng'er is not young, and she is fourteen years old this year."
The eldest brother said with a smile on his face: "Second brother, you have also grown up, when your eldest brother is so old, my brother will find you a beautiful woman in the town, and the girls in the town are all good-looking."
Li Feng shyly touched his head and said, "Big brother, if I want to find it, I will find someone like the eldest girl of the second aunt's family."
The father scolded with a smile: "This little rabbit cub, the vision is quite high, the eldest girl is said to be from where now, that is what you can find" After speaking, his voice was lowered by a degree. People in the mountains and countryside don't know where there is, but Li Feng's father occasionally heard the gossip of big people in the town, but after all, it is a taboo, and where is not something they can discuss. I said it was okay, but it would be terrible if outsiders heard it.
Li Feng didn't know what it meant anywhere, let alone the mystery of it. But hearing about this new thing is always curious to know, after all, it's still a child.
On a rainy day a few years ago, the big girl disappeared mysteriously, and the people in the village said that the big girl was too beautiful and was sold, and some villagers said that the big girl was drowned by the flood, and some said that she was struck by lightning.
Nothing can be passed on to you. The second aunt was sad for a while, but after all, the village still has a traditional concept of patriarchy, and she doesn't particularly care about girls, so she gradually lost her voice, and the second aunt's family still has a second aunt, which also gives the second aunt some comfort.
Li Feng touched his head shyly, and quickly took two mouthfuls of food: "Dad, mother, I'm full, father, tell me where it is."
The mother said kindly: "This child, let your father finish eating first and tell you."
The father sat up straight, looked at Li Feng and said, "Baby, it's almost over, since the child wants to know, I, as a father, will naturally tell him what I know, and I also listened to what his second uncle said" After speaking, the father picked with a wide range of eyes.
Father also has a second uncle, is half-brother, usually does not come to the countryside for a long time, but quite righteous, although it is a half-brother, but has always been a lot of help to his father, the half-brother, the blacksmith shop opened by his father is Li Feng and his second uncle gave some money, otherwise Li Feng's family background would not be able to do it at all.
Li Feng sat on his father's right hand seriously, watched his father take out a cigarette pouch and light it, Batabata took two puffs, and choked Li Feng with tears.
Li Feng's mother glared at her father: "The eldest baby is still eating, and you will smoke it again."
The eldest brother smiled: "It's okay, mother." I'm full, and I want to hear what my father has to say."
Father and mother squeezed their eyes and smiled proudly and said: "Listen to your second uncle, where can people fly in the sky, my father was shocked when he heard it, it turns out that there are such people, isn't that a fairy." ”
When Li Feng heard that there was such a miraculous thing, his heart was full of thoughts, and then his heart was gloomy a lot, he was just a countryman, how could he become an immortal.
Thinking that the eldest girl might be an immortal, Li Feng was particularly bitter, and it was not easy to cross his heart. It turned out that the person he liked was actually ethereal, he couldn't reach or touch it at all, and the world of immortals was separated from Li Feng's world by a moat, which was insurmountable. In fact, in the year when the eldest girl disappeared, although Li Feng didn't know whether he liked the eldest girl, he always felt that he had lost something, friendship, good feelings, childhood friendship?
Seeing Li Feng's low mood and silent words, Li Feng's father didn't know what he said wrong.
Li Feng's mother: "His father, don't talk about these messy things next time, just talk nonsense, there are people in the sky who can fly"
Li Feng's father knew that he couldn't beat his mother.
Innocently took a puff of cigarette and said: "Feng'er, look at the fun that Daddy brought you, and the books you like to read" While speaking, Li Feng's father put on his shoes and opened a suitcase brought back, and took out a small Buddha statue from it, and two books with miscellaneous lines, a little worn books, and some black colors scattered evenly on the books, and some books that his father picked up at the stall.
Li Feng saw that his father bought books and gifts from his father, and his depressed mood improved a lot, and fortunately grabbed the small Buddha statue and two books handed over by his father, and ran back to his room. These books are always Li Feng's eyes yearning for the outside world, while flipping through the books, Li Feng can always see different things, although there are puzzles and confusions, but it does not hinder Li Feng's surging blood and infinite yearning.
When the mother saw the Buddha statue, she couldn't help but scold her father: "What is wrong with the child, why bring a Buddha statue?"
The father said curtly: "The people in the town say that this thing can keep the child safe, I bought one and let the child be safe."
And Li Feng was already impatient to run to the house with two old books in the form of knitted threads, what the people in the village were asking for was the great compassion of the Bodhisattva and the disaster relief of the gods, there had never been anything like a Buddha statue, no wonder Li Feng's mother was surprised.
And Li Feng was already impatient to run to the house with two old knitted books,
Li Feng, who returned to the room, eagerly opened the miscellaneous book that his father brought, and the children in the village were nothing more than catching sparrows or chasing rabbits in their daily lives. The shy Li Feng has a slightly precocious heart, only plays with the neighbor's children, and is always embarrassed or difficult to fit into the circle of older children.
The longing for the outside world, the life in the yearning book, The book can always bring Li Feng a different wonderful and different understanding, the outside world is colorful, and every time his father comes back, Li Feng can always hear the strange and colorful stories in the city, so that the little Li Feng has a slightly precocious heart, and can't wait to turn over the miscellaneous notes that his father brought you.
The strange flowers and plants in the book are all things that Li Feng has never seen and heard, and even the interesting stories in the book and Li Feng's father who is "well-informed" in the town think that they are all fantastical talks.
Looking at his favorite book, Li Feng gradually fell asleep, maybe it was a little cold in the early morning, and I didn't know if it was Li Feng's sleeping movements, maybe it was because he forgot to cover a quilt. Li Feng shrunk his legs, not knowing if Li Feng had completely forgotten what was on his mind, or if he had put it in some deep memory and unknown corner.
People always put their unfamiliar thoughts in their hearts that they can't change and can't completely dispel them, and eventually slowly disappear.
The little Buddha statue brought back by Li Feng's father was placed in front of his pillow by Li Feng, and the lying posture of the little Buddha statue seemed to be the same as Li Feng's sleeping posture, with slightly rolled legs reclining next to the pillow, looking at Li Feng quietly. There is something strange in the quiet, but also a certain mystery in it.