075 Our souls that have nowhere to rest
The little uncle said helplessly: "You are looking for the wrong person." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoI'm pretty much the same as you. No money for you......"
After saying that, the little uncle was about to leave, but the little beggar still held on to his feet and did not let go.
"Ho-ho!" The little beggar shouted. Seeing this, the little uncle took out a cold and hard steamed bun from his pocket and stuffed it into the little beggar's hand: "My dinner, you can take it and eat it~"
But the little beggar didn't take the steamed bun. just stubbornly hugged the little uncle's feet, and couldn't stop screaming. His face was covered in mud, and he couldn't see what his expression was.
The little uncle had no choice but to squat down and break the little beggar's hand. This squat, the little uncle was shocked. The little beggar's hand was gone, and only a ball of flesh was left at his wrist, which was frozen purple.
The little uncle withdrew his gaze from the little beggar's "hand", but the little beggar who had been lying on the ground suddenly raised his head, and a line of tears slipped down the little beggar's dirty face.
This tear shook the little uncle. A bolt of lightning struck his mind. His lips trembled, and it took him a long time to squeeze the simple three words out of between his teeth: "Little pillar?"
The little beggar did not answer, but only screamed, but the tears flowed even more fiercely.
The little uncle understood at once.
It wasn't until the ending song of the TV series sounded that the silence in the room was broken by my mother's reprimand: "Look at you, such a big girl, she only cares about eating for herself, and she doesn't entertain Granny Xu for her mother." ”
Mom said as she snatched the lotus leaf fruit bowl with the candy from my hand and handed it to Mrs. Xu. Mrs. Xu put down the needle and thread in her hand and only took two gummies.
There was a big plate of melon seeds under the plate, and my mother asked Mrs. Xu to catch some of them, but Mrs. Xu shook her head and opened her mouth to let her mother see: "I'm old, my teeth are not good, I can't knock it~"
After that, as if deliberately avoided, the two of them never talked about the little uncle and the little pillar again, until Mrs. Xu said goodbye when it was almost dark in the evening.
My heart is heavy. I don't know why, but I feel a dull discomfort in my chest. Whose fault is it for all this? I don't understand.
The process of bringing the little pillar back and what happened afterwards, I think, there is no need to say more.
Life is a brutal experience, and few miracles happen. The only thing we can do is to accept our fate and then bear the consequences of our words and actions. In fact, to put it bluntly, people's lives are all spent like this. It's just that many times, we don't notice the cause and effect of things.
This is the end of this matter. But I would like to add a detail that has been missed. Although they don't seem to have a tight connection to our story.
That was more than a month later. Before the class reunion, I went to a neighboring county to see the big fat boy that Zhuo Tingting gave birth to after nine deaths. Unexpectedly, when we went for a walk in the park in the evening, we met my uncle's second sister's family.
Yes. A.
The second sister of the little uncle is snuggled up to a little girl with bright eyes and bright teeth. The little girl was about twelve or thirteen years old, with short hair, and two beautiful pear vortices on her lips when she smiled. She shook the hands of her little uncle and second brother-in-law, and chattered about something. The second brother-in-law ran away, and when he came back after a while, he had an extra bowl of fried potatoes sprinkled with coriander.
The little girl took the bowl of steaming fried potatoes, and bounced for a while to feed the second brother-in-law a mouthful and then to the second sister, and the pear vortex on the side of her mouth never faded. The second sister and the second brother-in-law also looked happy and satisfied.
I suddenly remembered the gossip I heard not long ago when a grandmother in my family was celebrating her birthday. They said that someone had told the second brother-in-law that they had found the little pillar, but the second brother-in-law refused to come back to take a look. Later, when he met fellow villagers, the second brother-in-law would avoid them in a hurry.
I thought it was incredible. Some people say that the second brother-in-law is very ruthless, and I thought so at the time. But at this moment, looking at the back of this family of three far away, I suddenly felt that I understood the second brother-in-law.
I heard that when Xiaozhuzi disappeared back then, the little uncle brought back the news that Xiaozhuzi was in southern Anhui. The second brother-in-law also went out to look for several years when he heard the news. But after a few years, the family was destitute, and there was no news. Gradually, the husband and wife became desperate, so they moved to a neighboring county, opened a breakfast shop, and started a new life.
That little girl, she came later, right?
I smiled and watched my second brother-in-law's family go away, and suddenly saw that my second sister and second brother-in-law both had dots of gray hair.
"It's almost fifty too!" I sighed slightly.
Zhuo Tingting looked at me puzzled: "What's almost fifty?"
I smiled and turned my head, but I didn't expect a heavy object to fall on my leg. Looking down, the little fat man of Zhuo Tingting's family was holding my calf, looking at me with a fat face looking at me with a puzzled face. That expression and Zhuo Tingting are simply carved out of the same mold.
"Poof~" I couldn't help but laugh, patted the little guy's head lightly and said, "Hey, Tingting, look at the expression of your little fat man, it's really worthy of being your own!"
"Of course. Of course my boy has to be like me! Zhuo Tingting was motherly, squatted down and carefully wiped the sweat on the little fat man's face due to frequent running.
"Did you like running so much when you were a kid?" I looked at the little fat man who was spreading joy around after letting go of my thighs, and asked Zhuo Tingting, who was staring at her son intently.
"Not really." Zhuo Tingting frowned, her eyes still chasing her son: "This may be inherited from his father!" Hey, hey, Lele, slow down, slow down! Don't fall!"
While speaking, Zhuo Tingting had already run towards her son not far away. I leaned against the withered tea shelf, watching Zhuo Tingting and her son chasing, and couldn't help but bend the corners of my mouth.
There is roughly no difference between parents' love for their children. When Xiaozhuzi disappeared, the second sister fell seriously ill and almost didn't recover. The second brother-in-law looked outside for several years, but he gave up when he didn't find it. They thought they wouldn't be able to get it back, so they decided to leave the sad place of Kitahara and start a new life. But what they didn't expect was that due to the foolish persistence of the initiator, eighteen years later, the little pillar would be recovered.
After getting the news from the mouths of fellow villagers, the second brother-in-law may have hidden it from the second sister, or maybe not. But either way, it's a personal choice. Different choices will lead to different development outcomes. Sometimes, fate takes one big or small turn after another because of these choices. Different life trajectories will also be rolled out.
Where there is light, there must be shadows, and when something dies, there is a new life. No one is to blame, except for our souls, who have nowhere to rest. Thinking about it, such a sentence that seemed to be poetry but not poetry suddenly popped up in my mind.
Oh, and one thing I forgot to mention was that I didn't see the little pillar from the time I came home after the reunion until I left. All of this is pieced together from the words of others. Of course, during that period, I didn't meet my second brother-in-law's family again.