"Fugen, Aling has been sitting on the dirt slope for two days, nothing will happen, right?"

A middle-aged man wearing a torn cotton jacket and stepping on a pair of straw sandals pointed to a small dirt slope more than two meters high not far away and said. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The man who spoke was Gao Sannan, and he was an out-and-out farmer.

The thin and tall farmer Fugen rolled the tobacco with paper, and finally dipped his tongue in saliva and lightly sticked, while tapping the flint to light the cigarette, and replied disapprovingly: "This fatherless and motherless baby is so hard, what can happen to him?!" ”

On the low dirt slope, there was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy, with his back to Fugen and the senior boy at the moment, and his back looked extremely lonely and lonely as the sun set.

The young man sitting motionless on the dirt slope in a daze, his full name is Zhu Aling, but the whole village likes to call him Ah Ling.

A Ling is a hard-working child, born in Wuxi Xinzhuang, his mother died early, the family ancestral is to make wine, at the age of three followed his single father to Wuxi Xinzhuang adjacent to Suzhou Wu County Wangting Township, settled in a small fishing village by the Taihu Lake.

At first, when Ah Ling was seven years old, his father suddenly fell ill and died within two days, leaving the seven-year-old Ah Ling alone in the world.

Since the age of seven, Ah Ling grew up eating hundreds of family meals, and although the villagers in the small fishing village are very poor, it is no problem for dozens of families to feed an underage doll.

Although Ah Ling is an orphan, due to the care of the whole village, he has developed a stubborn character, stealing chickens and dogs, chasing ducks to the shelves, and is a complete troublemaker!

When he was thirteen years old, he went to peek at Widow Zhang, who was still in the east of the village, taking a bath in the middle of the night, and snoring and snoring while watching, and was finally discovered by Widow Zhang.

These are only one-ten-thousandth of the ridiculous things that Ah Ling did, and when Liu Erya went to the pit, he threw spiders, centipedes, toads, and water snakes into the pit. For example, in the season when the watermelon is ripe, use a knife to dig a hole in the melon, eat a part of the melon, then take off the pants, fill it with the belly, and cover the watermelon skin dug down, and after a month, the melon skin grows as good as ever, and there is no trace at all...... The stench was stinking, and disgusting flowed out.

Despite Ah Ling's stubbornness, the simple villagers still like the eccentric Ah Ling and care for him as if he were their own family.

Especially the junior boy who was widowed when he was young and failed to leave a son and a half daughter before his mother-in-law left, regarded Ah Ling as his own baby.

Two days ago, Ah Ling went to Taihu Lake to touch the shrimp, on the Taihu Lake with a blue sky, suddenly exploded a thunderclap, this thunder is very strange, there are no clouds, and there is no thunderstorm after the explosion, if it is not in broad daylight, and the whole village has heard it, maybe they will think that there is a problem with their ears, and they heard it wrong!

In the evening, the senior man saw that Ah Ling had not returned, so he called Shang Fugen and a few others to look for him by Taihu Lake, and found Ah Ling with his head covered in the water and motionless in the reeds!

Several strong men hurriedly carried Ah Ling to the shore, probed his nose, touched his heartbeat, and concluded that Ah Ling was dead, his hands and feet were cold, and he should have been out of breath for a while.

The seven-foot man in the third year of high school couldn't help but cry, and Fugen and the others on the side also wiped their tears.

- Although Ah Ling is tao, sometimes they will pretend to be angry, but in fact, they are not really angry, they just scare him, and when Ah Ling is scared away, they will show the simple and not cunning smile of the peasants, to put it bluntly, Ah Ling is the pistachio of their whole village, but I didn't expect to die suddenly, how can it not make people sad?!

cough cough cough ......

Just when the men were sad, Ah Ling, who was already cold in his hands and feet, snorting and heartbeat, suddenly coughed twice, which scared everyone, and thought that he had cheated the corpse!

After Ah Ling coughed violently twice, he spit out a few mouthfuls of sludge water, and the senior man was the first to react, pushed Ah Ling to sit up, and slapped him on the back!

"Ah Ling, are you alright?! If you don't go down to Taihu Lake alone, you won't listen every time, hey...... Thankfully, you just choked on the sludge water and coughed it up and you'll be fine! ”

The senior man patted Ah Ling's back and cried with joy.

However, Ah Ling looked at the senior man blankly, and then looked around, as if he was very unfamiliar and dazed, and then became extremely frightened, muttering something to himself.

"Ah Ling, what's wrong with you? Don't scare Uncle Gao! The senior man shouted anxiously.

"Uncle Gao?" Ah Ling glanced at the senior boy again, and at this moment, Ah Ling's eyes were oppressive in his wisdom, which couldn't help but make the senior boy shudder.

After that, Ah Ling asked a few strange questions, and when he returned to the village, he sat on the dirt slope for two days and one night, without eating, drinking, or saying a word.

"Sannan, you said that Ah Ling wouldn't be evil, right?"

Looking at the back of Ah Ling on the dirt slope at sunset, Fugen muttered.

"Don't talk nonsense!" The senior male glared at Fugen viciously and reprimanded.

After so many years, the senior man has long regarded Ah Ling as his son.

Fugen wanted to say something, but under the gaze of the senior man, he smashed his mouth, and finally didn't say anything, and stopped talking.

The senior man knew what he wanted to say, and there were rumors in the village in the past two days that Ah Ling's soul was captured by the 'ghost in the water' in Taihu Lake, and he had to find a 'private lady' (a witch in the countryside) to break the law, do a ritual, burn some yellow paper incense candles, and bring Ah Ling's soul back!

The senior man scolded on the surface, but he hesitated in his heart, and was thinking about whether to find a 'private girl' to show Ah Ling.

――The junior boy in high school has a feeling that since Ah Ling did not die and woke up from drowning, it is like a completely different person!

I saw that Ah Ling, who was motionless like a sculpture, suddenly stood up from the dirt slope, patted the dirt and dust on his buttocks, turned around, jumped off the dirt slope, and walked in front of the senior boy and Fugen.

"Uncle Gao, Uncle Fugen...... I'm fine! Ah Ling smiled and said with a pale face.

The senior man breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at Ah Ling with a relieved face, as if mixed with a bit of kind fatherly love.

Fugan was shocked.

"Ah Ling, you...... What did you just call me?! ”

"I call you Uncle Fugen, what's wrong?" Ah Ling Dao.

"You call me Uncle Fugen?! You...... How do you call me Uncle Fugen? Fugen was stunned and said, "You used to call me a thin hemp pole all the time!" ”

Because Fugen was thin and tall, like a hemp stalk, the villagers gave him the apt nickname 'thin hemp stalk'.

"You and Uncle Gao usually take care of me so much, just like my elders, how can I call you a nickname!" Ah Ling shook his head and said sincerely: "In the past, I was ignorant and did a lot of wrong things, causing the chickens and dogs in the village to bark, and I won't be in the future!" ”

Fugen said in fear: "Oh, why did Ah Ling suddenly open his mind? Could it be the manifestation of the dragon king in Taihu Lake......"

"Fugen, shut your crow's mouth!"

Before Fugen finished speaking, he was stopped by the senior man, and then said with a relieved face: "Ah Ling, you have grown up and become sensible, Uncle Gao is very happy, and your father will be happy under Jiuquan!" ”

Ah Ling nodded, didn't speak, and came over for a long time before saying, "Uncle Gao, I want to be a soldier!" ”