After a while, a new situation appeared, they found that the real hole was always blocked by soft soil, making the hole looming, Zhao Yunfei and Han Tuo studied this situation for a long time, and suddenly suddenly realized, and at the same time shouted excitedly: "There is also a vole in the cave!" ”

That's right, there are two big voles in the hole, the vole that escaped just now used a trick to lure the enemy away, trying to lure the invading enemy away, but unfortunately it didn't work, and there was a second plan, the vole left in the hole was struggling to dig the earth, trying to block the hole, so that the intruder could not find the location of the hole, but unfortunately it was facing humans - known as the smartest creature on the earth, the king of all creatures, its survival efforts did not play any role, but made the invaders more excited.

Zhao Yunfei dug hard, not bothering to wipe the sweat on his face, Han Tuo was eager to try with a wooden stick, Xiao Hei ran up and down, kept sniffing with his nose, and made a "woo" sound in his mouth.

Zhao Yunfei stepped up his excavation, and another shovel went down, only to hear the sound of "click", the shovel seemed to have touched something hard, Zhao Yunfei put force on his feet, and the hard object did not break head-on, but made a piercing friction sound.

Han Tuo said: "It may be that the shovel has caught the iron piece, be careful not to break the shovel." ”

Zhao Yunfei nodded and said, "It's an iron piece." As he spoke, he pushed back the dirt, revealing a rusty patch of metal.

Zhao Yunfei looked down carefully, he couldn't be sure what it was, he pinched and dragged it with his hand, and it didn't move at all, it seemed that there should be a long section buried in the soil.

Han Tuo leaned down and asked, "What is this?" It's not like scrap metal, it's like the tip of a sword. ”

"Well, dig it out and see."

Digging more than a foot deep along the direction of the metal object, Zhao Yunfei dragged it with his hands again, but still couldn't move, so he had to expand the hole and continue to shovel the soil, when digging more than a meter deep, Zhao Yunfei stood the shovel aside, held the metal object with both hands, lifted it up, and shook it from side to side to loosen it, and then pulled it out hard, and the piece of metal was finally pulled out.

"Ah, it's really a sword." Han Tuo shouted.

Zhao Yunfei looked at the sword in his hand, shook his head and sighed and said, "It's a pity that it's rusty." ”

Han Tuo took the rusty sword from Zhao Yunfei's hand and looked at it, and said, "This sword is quite long, it should be more than one meter, well, it's quite heavy, and it should be able to sell for more than ten yuan if you sell scrap iron." As he spoke, he shoved the rusty sword into the fertilizer bag they had brought.

Zhao Yunfei didn't take the sword seriously, he cleared the floating soil that fell because of the digging sword, continued to dig the mouse hole, and dug a few more times, and actually dug out a few grains of corn, Zhao Yunfei, who has always been calm, couldn't help shouting: "Look, dig into the vole's warehouse!" ”

Everyone was excited again, Zhao Yunfei took off his little white coat, threw off his arms, and stepped up his digging, and there was a "squeak" cry from the hole.

"Ah, voles!" They all shouted.

"Han Tuo, you stay on this side of the rice field to prevent it from burrowing into the rice field, if the vole escapes in other directions, you don't care, leave it to me and Xiao Hei, you can't let the vole escape this time!" Zhao Yunfei commanded, and said to Xiao Ji: "Wait for my brother to catch voles for you!" ”

Han Tuo took a wooden stick in his hand and put on an offensive stance, and Xiao Hei jumped left and right, screaming strangely.

The "squeak" cry became more and more rapid, and as an iron shovel went down, a nest the size of a basketball suddenly appeared, and I saw a large vole standing guard next to a pile of hay, showing sharp teeth, squeaking and threatening, and on the hay, there were seven or eight pink and tender little voles.

The big vole obviously had no intention of escaping, and continued to squeak its teeth and squeak threateningly, its fur fluttering, and it was obvious that the big vole was afraid and helpless - it seemed too weak in front of humans, but its natural motherhood prompted it to guard its child's side.

The trembling vole guarded the young mouse with his life, never abandoning it, and this scene reminded Zhao Yunfei of that night that made him suffer for the rest of his life and unforgettable.

That night, it was like a nightmare.

In 2008, Zhao Yunfei was seven years old.

May 12 of this year, yes, it was the day of the Wenchuan earthquake.

Donglongquan Village, where Zhao Yunfei's home is located, should be relatively far away from Wenchuan, the epicenter, but the energy released by this earthquake is so strong that it is felt not only in the whole country, but even in the whole of Asia. News of the earthquake spread quickly around the world through various channels such as the Internet, television, radio, and mobile phones.

The villagers of Donglongquan Village only felt a few shakes under their feet, which was not particularly violent, and some people did not even react to the earthquake, until they heard someone shouting about the earthquake on the street, and then they sneaked out to see what was going on.

The villagers squatted on the street and chatted about the earthquake, and the loudspeaker in the village also symbolically broadcast it to make the villagers pay attention to the aftershocks and dilapidated houses, and most of the villagers scoffed: "Cut, all the fuss, what is there to pay attention to?" Even the pigsty didn't collapse, can the house collapse? ”

At night, Zhao Yunfei's family stayed outside until more than eleven o'clock, thinking that there would be no problem, so they went into the house to sleep.

Who knows, those few shakes during the day have caused serious damage to this old blue brick house, just when they were asleep, the wooden beams of the house made a huge breaking sound, and then with a "boom", the heavy mud roof collapsed.

Zhao Yunfei and Xiao Ji were pushed from the kang to the kang by their father in their sleep, and when Zhao Yunfei understood what was going on, his father was holding the edge of the kang with his arms, and used his body to build a life space for him and his sister.

At that time, his sister, who was only more than a year old, cried loudly because of fear, in the dark, Zhao Yunfei felt a drop of warm liquid dripping on his face, he realized what it was, crying and asking his father what was wrong, but his father smiled and comforted him: "Son, it will be fine, someone will come to rescue us in a while!" ”

At dawn, the villagers finally used their hands to pick open the thick mud roof and the beams and wooden frames below to rescue them, Zhao Yunfei and his sister Xiaoji were unscathed, while his father was seriously injured and left this world forever before being sent to the hospital.

On that day, it rained in the sky, and Zhao Yunfei couldn't tell how many tears he shed, whether it was tears or rain!

The father is the child's day, and now, the sky has fallen and turned into a cold corpse.

Fortunately, my mother went to my uncle's house that day because she was worried about the safety of my uncle's family and escaped the disaster.

……

With the help of the villagers, Zhao Yunfei's family cleaned up the collapsed roof and added some wood to repair the house.

The family has no father as the pillar, the family has few fields, and the little food produced in the field is only enough for rations, which is not enough to sustain life, if this continues, the final result can only be no clothing, if there is no money to buy agricultural materials such as fertilizers and seeds, and even starvation, such examples are not uncommon in remote rural areas, in desperation, my mother chose to work outside the province, and Zhao Yunfei's brothers and sisters became left-behind children.

In poor rural families, children as young as seven or eight years old are already able to take care of the family, while many urban children of the same age even have to touch their mother's Momo every night to fall asleep.

Although my mother left two children at home with no one to take care of her, she was still very relieved that the remote mountain village environment was relatively closed, and as long as she did not leave the village, there were basically no problems such as traffic safety and human trafficking.

In the first few months of their mother's absence, Zhao Yunfei's siblings received remittance slips every month, and although the money was not much, it was enough for them to maintain their lives.

However, suddenly for a month, the remittance was interrupted, and the green grid slip that Zhao Yunfei's siblings were looking forward to and representing living expenses never appeared again, and after that, my mother lost news.

If the father is the child's day, then the mother is the child's land, and the Zhao Yunfei brothers and sisters who have no sky will not even have the land in the end!

Unspeakable grief, misery, anxieties, sorrows...... All kinds of bad moods entangled the young Zhao Yunfei for a long time, causing great trauma to his still immature heart, and he couldn't understand why disasters always happened to his family

As a young man, he didn't know what the Matthew Effect was – the good could easily be better, and the bad could easily be worse!

Why, exactly? He often looked up at the starry sky at night and uttered such a cry in his heart!

In the following years, Zhao Yunfei read a lot of books, as long as he could find a book, he read it all over again, and he hoped to find the answer to his fate in the books.

The answer to fate was certainly not so easy to find, and books inadvertently enriched his soul.

Sorrow is still so heavy, and as he grows older, this mood is no longer always on his face, but deeply seared into his heart, which is recorded in one of his private little books:

Why is the sky so melancholy,

Why is the earth so miserable,

Is it because in my heart,

It was raining in the autumn months.

……

The figure of the loved one is gone,

Grief makes me unable to help myself,

I want to throw myself into your arms again,

Tell me the date of return.

……

If we can't rely on each other in this life,

Looking forward to meeting again in the next life,

That kind and warm gaze,

Soothe the grief in my heart.

……

If we can rely on each other again in this life,

Watch the moon rise over the wasteland,

Bring the news that you are missing,

Let me be with you for the rest of my life.

……

If we can meet again in the next life,

Let the bitter tears turn into meteor showers,

Bring the news that you are missing,

Let me be with you in the next life.

-- Left-behind teenager Zhao Yunfei