Looking at the heat wafting around the street stalls in the morning, many people are rushing to work, and the weather is so cold, even the old man who is in good health can't come to repair shoes so early, Lin Tao thought, turned around to no avail, and had to ask the surrounding stalls, and waited in the position where the old man often repaired shoes in the hope of meeting him early, but this is just hope, after all, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, who doesn't want to stay at home with their families. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

He stood in front of a clothing store wrapped in his coat, basking in the warm sun, until it was almost noon, when he saw an old man on a tricycle walking slowly in his direction.

When I saw a lot of shoes piled up on the tricycle, I was sure that the person who came was exactly what I was looking for.

The old man was full of oil, gray hair, and a jacket that had fallen off his skin, black, tattered as if he hadn't washed it for a long time, pedaling the car hard, Lin Tao saw that he stepped forward to help the old man who repaired his shoes and pushed it a few times, and when he was about to reach the place where the old man often set up a stall, he was relieved, and the old man also turned around and smiled at Lin Tao to express his gratitude.

Lin Tao walked to the old man who repaired shoes with a smile, and helped him move all the things in the tricycle out and put them away, and soon someone came to pick up the shoes, men and women, there were a lot of them, it seems that the craftsmanship of the old man repairing shoes is still good.

"Thank you, young man." The old man who repaired shoes grinned at his mouth with only a few big black teeth left and said, he liked Lin Tao very much.

"It's fun to help others, I'm happier, uncle, you're welcome." Lin Tao said with a smile, and sat down on the ground next to the old man who repaired his shoes, and he didn't dislike the dirty ground, but he felt that his butt was a little cold, but he could bear it.

"Uncle, let me ask you something." Lin Tao looked at the uncle who was mending his shoes and said, and at the same time he was praying in his heart, hoping that this old man who repaired shoes must know.

The old man who repaired shoes squinted at Lin Tao, and laughed: "I'll just say, there must be a purpose for being courteous when you have nothing to do, I don't know what you want to inquire about, if I, the old man, know, I will tell you." ”

Seeing that this old man who repaired shoes was so cool, Lin Tao no longer hid it, and said directly: "Uncle, I actually want to ask you about a place, I heard that you have lived here for the longest time, so I waited again, that place is called Lianguang, I don't know if you have heard of it." ”

"Lianguang, Lianguang." The old man who repaired the shoes kept muttering on his lips, as if he was trying to recall, and Lin Tao was also silently praying in front of him, hoping that he could remember something.

After a while, the old man who repaired the shoes patted his hand as if he suddenly realized: "Oh, if you don't ask, I really almost forgot this place." ”

The old man laughed as he spoke, rubbed his hands that were a little red from the cold of mending his shoes, and then looked up at the sun hanging in the air, took a deep breath, and suddenly a mouthful of turbid heat mixed with emotion rushed into the air and gradually dissipated.

The old man sighed, lowered his head, retracted his hands into his pockets, completely lost the happiness just now, and said slowly: "That place was originally not called Lianguang, it was called Chakou, located in the mountains near the most turbulent bank of the Sancha River, I used to go there when I was young because my friend was married, the mountain road was rugged, and it was raining heavily at the time, so I almost fell into the cliff in the mountain, but in the end I arrived safely. ”

The old man who repaired shoes seemed to be very reluctant to recall this past, but the expression on his face was distorted for a while, and he was still relieved, as if relieved, he pulled Lin Tao against the wall, basked in the sun, smiled at him, and said: "That small village was originally called' Shouguang', the village is famous for having a lot of longevity old people, when I met with that friend in the long work outside, he went back to get married before me, so I went alone, we chatted very happily at the wedding, his daughter-in-law is also an honest person in the village, the two grew up together, it is a good match, the wedding is very simple, put the dishes on the table in their own yard, a few jars of old wine to entertain the visitors in the village, and then I left Shouguang Village alone and returned here. ”

The old man who repaired the shoes kept sighing as he spoke, and continued with a very regretful look: "That was more than fifty years ago, when I was only in my twenties, young and strong, but after I came back, I heard about the changes in Shouguang. ”

"What's the matter, uncle, tell me quickly." Lin Tao asked anxiously.

Seeing that the old man was sighing, Lin Tao also began to get up anxiously, and was busy shaking the old man who repaired his shoes, but he seemed to be immersed in painful memories for a long time, and the old man's eyes were filled with muddy tears, and the corners of his eyes gradually moistened.

He simply wiped the back of his frozen, cracked hand, smiled at Lin Tao, and then said, "I just remembered something sad." The old man explained to the inside, took a sip of water and took Lin Tao's hand and looked at him with a serious face: "The next thing is a bit unbelievable, are you still willing to listen." ”

Although Lin Tao didn't want to waste time, the only person who could know about Lianguang's place now might be the old man who repaired shoes in front of him, and it seemed that he would continue to listen to it even if he didn't want to hear it.

Nodding, Lin Tao leaned on Uncle Kao's side and listened calmly.

"At that time, it was the same as now, the New Year was about to come, but that year it unexpectedly snowed heavily, very heavy, I was still working in that family for a long time, when I came out to buy things, I accidentally heard that all the people in Shouguang Village in the mountains died overnight, I didn't believe it at first, but at night, basically everyone knew, at that time I believed that the rumor was true, some people said that they met a bandit, some people said that the whole village was poisoned, and some people said that they were punished by God, Overnight, the king of Hades took back all the souls of all the people, I was skeptical, but too many people talked about it, and I had to believe it, but for the next two days I had a nightmare, dreaming that my friend in Shouguang came to me with her daughter-in-law and asked me to help them redress their grievances, saying that they had been slaughtered. The old man who repaired the shoes looked at Lin Tao with wide eyes, as if his friend and his daughter-in-law in the nightmare were about to pop out of his eyes.

In an instant, although the sun in the air was very warm, when he heard the words of the old man who repaired shoes, he felt cold all over his body, and began to think about it, and even saw the nightmare of the old man many years ago, the newlyweds and his wife were covered in blood, and they stood in front of them with broken limbs and legs, and stretched out their hands to grab themselves.

(To be continued.) )