Chapter 2: Crossing Over
Last night, Ye Rong can clearly remember that he braved the wind and snow to go to the grave of his dead father and mother, and after a simple dinner, his younger siblings held a small oil lamp, cleaned up a place on the earthen kang in the east kiln, made the bed, and lit a fire to warm the kang.
Subsequently, Ye Rong slept there last night.
However, when I woke up this morning, the quilt made last night had disappeared, and Ye Rong only slept on the earthen kang and had nothing.
The fire that burned last night has long since been extinguished, and there is not even a trace of ash left.
Some of the simple furniture placed in the cave, the piled up bags of grain for the winter, and the pickaxes, hoes, sickles, and other farm tools are all gone!
What's more, half of the kiln wall behind the east kiln has collapsed, and there are traces of rainwater in the collapsed place, which should have been infiltrated by heavy rain for several days, and then collapsed.
In front of the door, it was already overgrown with weeds......
It's like being abandoned for many years, too long uninhabited!
"Hell yes!"
"What's going on?"
Ye Rong's fighting quality for many years was there, so he was not shocked, he was still not afraid of danger, and calmly observed the environment he was in!
This environment, familiar and unfamiliar......
Ye Rong pushed open the door and walked into the yard, there were traces of landslides in all directions, and the yard was full of weeds.
Familiar and unfamiliar!
It is still the cave of Sangzhuang's hometown in the deep mountain village, so it is familiar.
But yesterday's clean and tidy environment no longer exists, yesterday's family reunion cave courtyard no longer exists, has become abandoned for many years, relatives have long been gone, people go to the empty building, so strange!
"Yema!"
"Brother and sister?"
"What about the kids?"
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Ye Rong tried to shout twice in the courtyard, but of course he didn't reply.
Hot!
Walking out of the cave where the temperature is warm in winter and cool in summer, and the temperature does not change much, Ye Rong stood in the courtyard, and there was only one word on his body now: hot!
It's so hot!
Looking up at the sky, the sky was cloudless and the sun was high.
Ye Rong suddenly woke up......
The timing is not right!
You must know that yesterday was the depths of winter, and the Zhongtiao Mountain in the north was covered with ice and snow, and Ye Rong was still bitterly cold in a military coat.
Why did the ice and snow melt today and become summer?
In the ruined courtyard, the weeds are green, which shows that the season is wrong!
Time...... Wrong!
Ye Rong was so hot that he took off his military coat, and couldn't help frowning and pondering, and finally came to a conclusion after meditating...... You can't travel through time, do you?
So what year and month is it?
Judging from the abandoned appearance of the cave, it should not be inhabited for many years, and it should be a long time in the future?
Ye Rong traveled to the future?
Of course, he couldn't figure it out, and he couldn't figure it out!
Brushing aside the weeds in the courtyard and stepping on a path, Ye Rong walked out of the cave...... The scene in front of him surprised him even more!
In front of the cave, there is a deep ditch.
Yesterday's deep ditch is compared to today's deep ditch......
The deep ditch has already changed its appearance!
On the edge of the ditch, in the open space in front of the door, there is a stout mulberry tree surrounded by one person...... If Ye Rong remembers correctly, this mulberry tree was planted by him and his younger brother Ye Ma when they were young, and the children in the village like to eat mulberries.
Yesterday, this mulberry tree was only the thickness of an arm, but now it is surrounded by a person?
It's as if half a hundred years have passed!
Stand on the edge of the ditch and look at the bottom of the ditch...... Yesterday it was a barren deep ditch, but now there are four large fish ponds! There is a stream formed by mountain spring water at the bottom of this ditch, and Ye Rong knows that his favorite water to drink when he was a child is the cool spring water. But he didn't know when someone built four large fish ponds in the stream?
Look around...... The neighbors' caves have also been abandoned for many years, collapsed and collapsed, and even some have been filled, and the top of the filled caves has been reclaimed into farmland, and the corn planted on the farmland is more than one person tall, and the ears of corn are large and full, which looks like a good harvest year......
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Suddenly!
Not far from the cave overhead, there were several strange noises. It's like someone is cutting something with scissors or something in the wheat field above the cave, and the texture of the thing being cut is hard, that's why it makes such a "sonorous" sound!
"Someone!"
Ye Rong immediately judged, and then he was overjoyed, someone can say it!
I thought that this small village in the mountains had been abandoned for many years, and the villagers had moved out, and all of them had moved away.
It seems that it is not, and there are still villagers who stay......
Ye Rong had too many questions, and now he needed to find someone to inquire and look for relatives, so he followed the sound and walked over......
Walking before and after, Ye Rong saw a gray-haired uncle about 70 years old, with a beautifully dressed girl who was about twenty-eight years old like a young girl from a big city, an old man and a young man like grandchildren, cutting peppercorns on the wheat field that was once smooth and smooth but is now overgrown with weeds.
Those pepper trees are very old, and they are on their own wheat field, their own land, and the pepper trees seem to have been planted by Ye Rong's father!
Who are they?
Why cut the leaves of the family's pepper tree? Is it the Ye family? Is it Ye Rong's descendant relatives?
Ye Rong looked at the old man, he didn't know him, and then looked at the girl...... The girl's clothes are really new and beautiful......
Ye Rong had never seen such new and beautiful clothes and styles, so she judged that she was from a big city.
The girl is also very good-looking, with fine skin and tender meat, in Ye Rong's words, this girl is definitely a greenhouse flower from the city who is pampered and has never done farm work.
Born in the war years, living in the war years, this type of greenhouse flower girl, Ye Rong despises it very much, only by breaking away from the protection of her parents, thriving in the wind and rain, and growing into a towering tree instead of a greenhouse flower, that is the girl Ye Rong admires!
Huh-
Ye Rong suddenly found that the girl's two calves were exposed, her skirt was up to her knees, waving in the wind, and her two white arms were also exposed, and she sighed in her heart: The wind of the world is going down, the wind of the world is not down! The human heart is not ancient......
"Ahh
Suddenly!
The girl snorted softly, threw away the scissors in her hand, covered her fingers, frowned in pain, and exclaimed, "Grandpa, I was pierced by the thorns on the pepper tree...... Not! β
A layer of bright red blood appeared between the pinched fingers.
The girl burst into tears in an instant, and went down with the trend......
Let's take a look, it's really a greenhouse flower, this little injury will cry, Ye Rong is infinitely disdainful!
But disdain is disdain, Ye Rong now has something to ask, as if he has a request for someone, so he put away his disdain, and found a kind of thorn grass in the grass on the side of the road, this grass can stop bleeding, although it hurts very much when it is sprinkled with salt on the wound, it is very painful to be injured in the war before, the conditions are difficult, and there is no hemostatic medicine, this kind of grass is mashed, and then covered on the wound, which is very effective, of course, it is also very painful......
Ye Rong picked a blade of thorn grass, rubbed it in the palm of his hand, stepped forward, handed it to the girl, and said, "Put it on the wound." β
"Does this work?"
When the girl saw Ye Rong, she was suspicious.
To say that rural people are real, there is the most basic trust between people. Ye Rong, a stranger, suddenly stepped forward, and after the uncle and the girl were a little vigilant, they were not on guard.
The uncle glanced at the grass ball in Ye Rong's hand and said, "Well, this works, stop the bleeding!" Then he praised Ye Rong again: "It is very rare for young people nowadays to know that this kind of grass stops bleeding!" β
Grandpa spoke, and the girl was naturally gullible, took the grass ball from Ye Rong's hand, pressed it on the wound, and then the corners of her mouth twitched, and tears rained down, "You lied to me!" It's a poisonous weed! It hurts ......."
"I can't stand this little bit of suffering, hey!"
The uncle sighed and recalled infinitely, "Back then, my father took me to fight devils!" β
"Grandpa, you've said it many times! Less deception! The girl didn't believe it, and retorted, "Grandpa, the devil's unconditional surrender was in 1945, and you weren't born yet......
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The uncle looked embarrassed, but refused to admit defeat, and continued: "That fought the Liberation War, this can't be wrong, right?" β
"Grandpa is still lying! I heard that my grandfather was injured in the bandits, and then he stayed in his hometown and did not participate in the war of liberation. And that year, my grandfather married a wife and had children, so I had you, how could you have participated in the Liberation War? It's true that the eldest grandfather participated in the Liberation War...... Just ......"
Talking about the eldest grandfather, the grandfather and grandson were suddenly a little silent, "The eldest grandfather won the battle and returned to his hometown, but I heard that he disappeared mysteriously the next day......"
"Hey......"
The 70-year-old uncle sighed and said infinitely: "In my memory, I seem to have seen your grandfather, but I was really too young at the time, as if I was only 3 years old, and I have long forgotten his appearance." Your grandfather is the real hero of the Anti-Japanese War! And you have a deep brotherly relationship with your grandfather, and in the end, your grandfather disappeared, and your grandfather thought that it was the enemy Wei Huzi who did it, so he went to Wei Huzi and stabbed Wei Huzi. And this knife later killed him...... During the buzzing period, Wei Huzi gained power, not only raided his house and criticized the fight, but also let your grandfather take a dirt plane, beaten, and finally died in a pigsty...... A lot of people really suffered a lot in those years......"
The uncle glanced at his granddaughter and said, "If you are injured, you cry, this generation is a generation...... One generation is not as good as the next! β
The girl stopped crying.
Those events in those years were really inspiring and sad. It's also very cruel, I heard that the eldest grandfather also dug out the human heart to pay tribute to the spirit of the grandfather in the sky......
Now.
Ye Rong looked at the old and the young in front of him, and he was stunned for a long time......
From their words and conversations, it is not difficult to judge that time flies, and it seems that sixty or seventy years have passed, and they are their relatives!!
No wonder you cut peppercorns in your own wheat field......
Could this 70-year-old man be the little nephew he only met yesterday? Ye Yanwu?
His father Ye Ma, that is, Ye Rong's brother, stabbed Wei Huzi because he was missing, and finally was murdered by Wei Huzi during what buzzing period? What period is Buzz? What happened?
At all costs----
Anger!
The fury of hatred soared into the sky, and it went straight to the heavenly spirit cover!
Whoever kills my brother will pay with blood.
Ye Rong temporarily suppressed his anger, and just wanted to shout at the old man and the young man in front of him: "I am the eldest grandfather in your mouth!" We are relatives! β
Of course, Ye Rong didn't say this, otherwise it would be light to be regarded as a neuropathy, and if it starts...... How could Ye Rong be disrespectful to the old and bully the juniors!?
Ye Rong frowned, was silent, and began to ask about the many doubts in his heart.
Ye Yanwu ...... Belch...... Uncle...... Uh......"
Ye Rong shook his head, he was obviously of a high seniority, but it didn't feel appropriate to call an old man by his name, or call him uncle.
So, in the end, I could only face the girl and ask, "Dare to ask, what year is this year?" β
"2015!"
The girl looked at Ye Rong strangely, she felt that Ye Rong was sick! How could someone ask such a strange question if they weren't sick? How can you dress like this if you are not sick? This is the military uniform of the People's Liberation Army back then? I think I've seen it on TV......
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