Chapter 82: The Old Man in the Cave
The snow fell for two days and finally stopped. Covered with snow and covered in silver, the originally dilapidated and backward remote township, covered with a thick layer of snow, is like putting on a fairy tale coat, which looks beautiful.
This can barely be called a fallen snow, what is a fallen snow? When I got up in the morning, as soon as the door opened, the snow poured into the house. It is said that in ancient times, sometimes heavy snow could flood the entire door, and people were trapped in the house and could not get out, so they could only dig snow tunnels. In this case, if there is grain and sour cabbage at home, it will naturally be endless, but in ancient times, most of the people were very poor, and ordinary people had no food, and were starved to death and frozen to death.
However, this snow in Yangjiakou Township can only be regarded as a small snowfall, and some people may be affected, such as houses that are not strong and collapsed, but the situation will not be very serious. Shi Yanfeng was in this situation, set off to inspect the last village, Shengjia Village, Jiang Wenxiu naturally followed, to visit her aunt, she prepared two homemade preserved fish, a large piece of bacon, and dozens of preserved eggs, Shi Yanfeng also bought some things, mainly the old man's favorite cakes, osmanthus cakes, cloud cakes, etc., very soft, toothless can be eaten. When I went to see Jiang Wenxiu's aunt, I had to bring some gifts.
Li Lei was naturally very smart not to follow at this time, so he wouldn't be stupid to make a light bulb, people are not stupid. It's just that he was slightly worried about Shi Yanfeng's safety, after all, he had a secret mission to protect Shi Yanfeng, and after thinking about it, he took off his small pistol and gave it to Shi Yanfeng, so that Shi Yanfeng could take it with him for self-defense.
However, he was rejected by Shi Yanfeng, you are the director of the police station, what is the matter with giving me the gun, okay, okay, no need to say it again, this is not in accordance with the rules, besides, it is now an era of peace, and there are no bandits in our Yangjiakou Township, what are you afraid of. He has been to all the villages except the last village now, and he doesn't dare to say the most people he knows in the township, but there are really few people who surpass him. Li Lei thought about it, so he gave up, this Yangjiakou Township, who doesn't know the township chief? Even if you don't know it, you've heard it. Wherever Shi Yanfeng passed, everyone was warmly welcomed.
As for the problem of wild beasts, don't worry too much, although this place in Yangjiakou Township is mountainous, there are only one or two wild boars occasionally, black bears and wolves have not appeared for many years, and tigers have become extinct even earlier. Even if there are one or two little jackals, Shi Yanfeng is not afraid.
He carried things, took Jiang Wenxiu, the two of them were tightly wrapped, cotton coats, scarves, gloves, hats, fully armed, only his eyes were exposed, his nose was wrapped in a scarf, and he set off on the snow. You can also see many children coming out to have snowball fights and build snowmen on the streets, but after leaving the village streets, they slowly become deserted.
However, the two "newlywed Yan'er" are in the honeymoon period, and walking on the rugged mountain road, not only do they not feel hard, but they feel very interesting. The occasional eyebrows come and go, and the eyebrows convey affection, all of which make people's hearts warm and sweet.
"Wow, that's a big rabbit!" Suddenly, a black shadow slipped past the feet of the two of them, and Jiang Wenxiu suddenly screamed, because it was a big gray rabbit with long ears, with dark fur, fat, and very flexible in the snow.
Shi Yanfeng said: "I'll go and catch it!" "This is delicious, it is quite comfortable to eat a pot of stewed rabbit meat in winter, and I was about to pounce out, but I was pulled by the little girl next to me.
"Forget it, it's not easy on this snowy day, how pitiful!" Jiang Wenxiu was kind-hearted after all, thought about it, and took out a few peanuts and threw them at the big gray rabbit who was hiding behind the bushes and peeking at the two of them, shouting, "Give it to you!" ”
The fat rabbit was very timid, but he still couldn't resist the temptation of food, and ran out with a "whoosh", picked up the peanut, and immediately ran into the bushes to hide, sneakily, defensively looking at the two of them, and the appearance of being ready to slip away at any time, which made the two laugh.
The two played in the snow on the road, enjoyed the scenery, ran and stopped, but they didn't feel cold, the time passed unconsciously, and it was only at one or two o'clock in the afternoon that the two came to the vicinity of Shengjia Village.
"Yan Feng, have you seen the stone tower at the head of the village? When I was a child, my grandmother brought me here, and I saw it, but I can't imagine that it's still there! Jiang Wenxiu excitedly pointed to the direction of Shengjia Village and introduced a conspicuous stone tower to Shi Yanfeng, because it was her childhood memory, "When I came, I climbed up to play, and I felt that this stone tower was so tall and so high, hey~, why does it feel shorter than before now?" ”
Shi Yanfeng said with a smile: "That's because you had a different perspective when you were a child, and you were short when you were a child, so you can see everything more broadly and taller!" "This phenomenon is very common, when I was a child, the road that I thought was very wide is actually only five or six meters wide, and I think that the super big pond is actually just a small puddle.
The two of them smiled and walked in the direction of Shengjia Village, the stone pagoda looked close, and it would take a little time to walk, especially when they had to climb down this mountain, the road was very rough. Fortunately, it is snowing now, and there are many places where you can step directly on, but if it is summer, it is overgrown with weeds and you have to worry about snakes. At this time, the snakes are hibernating.
"Huh? There's a guy over there, uh! Shi Yanfeng suddenly frowned, because he noticed that there was an old man in thin clothes, who was sitting tremblingly at the mouth of a cave, looking very lonely and pitiful. With such a heavy snow and a very cold weather, the old man is sitting here, I'm afraid his body can't resist it.
Jiang Wenxiu followed Shi Yanfeng's gaze and looked over, and she was also pitiful at first, but immediately, her body was shocked, and tears came out with a brush!
"Auntie, auntie, that's my aunt!" Jiang Wenxiu shouted twice in the direction of the cave, and when she turned around, Yan Feng hurriedly explained, and then, she rushed away, her trembling voice was choked, her emotions were difficult to control, and she ran halfway through, "plopped" and fell to the ground, fortunately it was snow, not injured, just scraped by a branch.
"Be careful, don't worry!" Shi Yanfeng hurriedly went over to pull her.
"That, that's my aunt, exactly like my grandmother used to look, definitely my aunt!" Jiang Wenxiu struggled, said excitedly, got up, and ran towards the cave again.
"Wenxiu, Wenxiu~" Shi Yanfeng called her, but she ignored it, so she had to carry her things and follow quickly.
"Auntie, auntie, why are you here?" Jiang Wenxiu came to the old man's side in a stirred mood, and when he saw the old man's miserable appearance, he couldn't help but burst into tears. A lot of people, more than eighty years old, freezing cold, but living in a cave, with only a bed of tattered cotton wool on the side, like an animal.
Shi Yanfeng couldn't help but moisten her eyes, this old woman is so pitiful, isn't she childless?
"You ......, you are ......" This is an old man with gray hair and wrinkled face, maybe because of the cold, or cold-hearted, he has been expressionless, looking at the front motionlessly, until Jiang Wenxiu ran over to talk to her, she raised her head and glanced at Jiang Wenxiu curiously. However, I don't know her.
"Auntie, I'm Wenxiu, Wenxiu! When I was a child, I loved to eat the malt candy you made the most, the little girl with braids! Jiang Wenxiu said excitedly, and then quickly took off his cotton coat to wrap the old man.
"I'm coming, I'm coming! I'm physically strong! Shi Yanfeng hurriedly stopped it, of course he came to this kind of thing, put down the things in his hand, took off the clothes on his body, and put them on the old man, Jiang Wenxiu had no choice but to follow him, and his heart was moved.
"You, are you Wenxiu? …… Oops, growing so big? The old man finally recognized Jiang Wenxiu, and he was also quite excited, and his eyes flashed with tears.
"Auntie, come, drink hot water, eat something, let's talk slowly!" Shi Yanfeng took out a thermos cup, poured out a cup of hot water for the old man, and took out a few soft pastries, Jiang Wenxiu hurriedly served the old man to eat. The old man was in a trance, and he didn't notice Shi Yanfeng's title, but just glanced at him gratefully.
This is a relatively old old aluminum kettle thermos cup, Shi Yanfeng thought about the cold weather, and it was snowing, and he had to bring hot water and dry food after walking such a long mountain road, so he bought a cup of this kind.
Thermos mug is a civilian commodity that came out in the seventies. 1971 by above. The first factory of sea thermos flask was successfully trial-produced, and a large number of it was put on the market in 72 years. Because the thermos cup is both insulated and substituted for the cup, it is easy to carry, so it is used by people, and some of it is exported for export. Above. The first year of the sea thermos bottle factory output of 484,000, even a total of 516,000 bladders, but the factory because the scrap rate of thermos cups and bottles is higher than that of thermos bottle galls, the profit is not ideal, and has no intention of continuing to develop, the output has been reduced year after year, to 77 years to 7,000, only barely maintaining export varieties. Because the thermos cup is very practical and has been in short supply for a long time, after the reform and opening up, production has been carried out in various places.
The old man was indeed hungry, so he ate three pieces of osmanthus cake in a row and drank two large cups of hot water, and then he stopped, and his body warmed up a little.
"Auntie, you, why do you live here? What about uncles and aunts, don't they care about you? Jiang Wenxiu frowned slightly, pursed her lips, and asked.
"They, they ......" the old man burst into tears and burst into tears.
"Auntie, don't cry, don't cry, you, if you really have nowhere to go, I'll take you to the countryside to live!" Jiang Wenxiu said with red eyes.
Needless to say, Shi Yanfeng and Jiang Wenxiu both guessed that I am afraid that their children are not filial, and there is nothing more hateful in the world than this. The so-called "100 virtues and filial piety first"!
If there is always benevolence and filial piety, then everything in the world that cannot be done can not bear to do, so filial piety is the first in a hundred lines.