Chapter 2: A Peaceful Life
Xiao Yi walked into Xiaohuangzhuang, and there were all low mud houses, most of which did not even have a wooden door. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
There are also people on the side of the road, all dressed in the same coarse cotton clothes as Uncle Wang and Xiao Yi, which is still good, most of them are dressed in tatters, and some people don't even have clothes, and their thin skin and bones are lying on the side of the road waiting to die.
"Look, it's Xiao Yi, Xiao Yi is actually back."
"yes, I thought I was dead outside, it's so messy outside!"
The people on the side of the road were talking about Xiao Yi and Uncle Wang walking into Zhuangzi, and Xiao Yi also heard a lot of news from it, it seems that the owner of his body should have 'run away from home' and died in the forest and was 'taken away' by himself. It is not known exactly what happened in the forest that caused the man's death, or whether it was just starvation. And he should have at least one other relative, and Xiao Yi also wants to meet his 'father' immediately.
When he arrived at the outside of a mud house that was much lower than other houses, Uncle Wang shouted with a smile on his face: "Old Xiao, old Xiao!" I've brought your little one back! ”
The dilapidated wooden door creaked open. The sight was of an old man with gray hair and unkempt hair, with a wrinkled face and a black coarse cotton coat. Siu also tentatively estimated that it should be in 50 years. The old man's eyes were full of tears, and his trembling hands were trembling, "Xiao Yi, is it Xiao Yi?!" ”
When the old man came out and saw Xiao Yi, he immediately cried with joy, hugged Xiao Yi and kept crying. "Dad, I'm back, don't, don't cry."
Xiao Yi really can't see anyone crying in front of him, whether it is a man or a woman, let alone his own 'father'. "Xiaoyi, where have you been, do you know how anxious your father is looking for you." The aunt who followed behind said.
"Yes, Xiao Yi, your old Xiao family is the only seedling of you, what if you call your father a good one?" Another villager said.
Xiao Yi could only smash his teeth and swallow it in his stomach, and bear everything, after all, he didn't know what the original owner of this body had done, Xiao Yi looked at the surrounding villagers and the painful old man in front of him, and sighed in his heart, if he hadn't crossed over to here, I am afraid that the son that this old man missed would have died.
Xiao Yi gently patted the old man's back and said, "Uncle Wang, you go back first, I'm fine." Then he turned back to the old man and said, "Father, let's go into the house and talk." ”
Uncle Wang nodded and said to the surrounding villagers: "Let's go back, let Xiao Yi and Lao Xiao get together, the father and son have a lot to say." The surrounding villagers all nodded and slowly dispersed, leaving only Xiao Yi and the old man.
Xiao Yi helped the old man slowly into the house, Xiao Yi talked with the old man for a long time, during which Xiao also found that the old man's health was extremely bad and he kept coughing. But no matter what, the old man kept holding Xiao Yi's hand and didn't let go, as if he was afraid that Xiao Yi would leave again, Xiao Yi kept reassuring the old man that he would not leave again, and the old man slowly let go of Xiao Yi's hand.
Time always flies quickly, Xiao Yi has been coming to Xiaohuangzhuang for three days, Xiao Yi has been living very well in the past three days, the old man's slowly tightly tightened brows with Xiao Yi's return and slowly smiled, Uncle Wang, Aunt Liu and the villagers always say how Xiao Yi has changed a lot, it is very different from before, sensible, knows how to help work, etc., Xiao Yi's father who listens to it is always smiling.
In the past few days, Xiao Yi has also learned a lot about the current situation, Xiao Yi's father is called Xiao Ku, just like his name, his life is very bitter, Xiao Yi originally had a younger sister, and she starved to death not long ago, and now Xiao Ku has Xiao Yi a lone seedling. And Xiao Yi's mother committed suicide by throwing herself into a well after being violated by officers and soldiers a long time ago, and now Xiao Yi is his everything.
Uncle Wang's real name is Wang Jian, and like Xiao Ku, he is also a hard-working person, but his mother-in-law is not dead, and there is a little daughter at home, so he is also living happily. It's just that Xiao Ku, in the past two days that Xiao Yi left, he sat outside the door all day and watched the direction Xiao Yi left, and Wang Jian felt distressed for a while.
Uncle Wang and Xiao Ku were both in the Wanli years as a people's husband, at that time it was already the middle and late Wanli, a generation of famous assistant Zhang Juzheng has died, since the fifteenth year of Wanli, Wanli has been sluggish for decades, the government is dark, the forced conscription of the people's husband is never interrupted, the people who have never been trained on the battlefield are almost all sacrificed to the officers and soldiers, Xiao Ku and Wang Jian's group of more than 300 people, including Xiao Ku, Wang Jian, including six people, even Xiao Ku's best brother Huang Sheng also died at the border.
Looking at the steamed buns on the table, Xiao Yi, who was used to modern life, was really hard to swallow, so he pushed away the mask, "Dad, you eat, I don't want to eat." ”
Xiao Ku looked at Xiao Yi, did not speak, and continued to nibble on the bread in his hand.
Xiao Yi really can't figure it out when he walks outside, Xiao Ku is only in his forties, but his appearance is similar to that of an old man in his fifties and sixties, I really can't imagine what kind of life Xiao Ku has lived all these years, although the villagers here are living a life of not enough food and clothing, but they are also happy.
These days, Xiao Ku has already left the best for Xiao Yi, but Xiao Yi still eats very little. Xiao Yi couldn't bear Xiao to live so poorly, and the other was that the food here was really hard for him to swallow.
"Xiao Yi, what are you doing here?"
Xiao Yi said without replying: "Huang Yang, I really can't eat this thing." Huang Yang said: "It's good to have these, you see that many families don't even have food." Xiao Yiyi turned his head and said, "Huang Yang, your family is about to run out of food, right?" Huang Yang squatted down and said: "Not only my family, many families have run out of food, but my parents are dead, just a younger sister, she just needs to eat enough, I don't have anything." ”
Xiao Yi also squatted down, nodded and said, "Yes, my family is the same." Gotta find a way to get some food. Huang Yang stood up and said, "How to get it, where to get it?" In these days, food is life. Xiao Yi picked up a branch and circled it on the ground. said to Huang Yang: "Look, this is the little Huangzhuang where we are. Not far behind is Wangjiazhuang, and in front is Daankou. Xiao Yi drew a circle on the ground to represent Xiaohuangzhuang, a triangle to represent Wangjiazhuang, and a cross to represent Bianguan Daankou. Huang Yang, who watched it, was amazed, and it turned out that he could still say this.
Xiao Yi looked at it for a long time: "But I can't come up with any way." The two of them studied for a long time but to no avail, the surrounding villages could not be moved, and horse thieves, thieves, and officials and soldiers could not be defeated. In the end, Huang Yang sighed and said, "Xiao Yi, let's be here first today, I have to go home to take care of my sister." ”
Xiao Yi didn't speak, Huang Yang glanced at Xiao Yi and turned to leave. After Huang Yang left, Xiao Yi wrote another word 'gold' in front of Da'ankou. Xiao Yi squatted there alone, looking at the sketchy base map he had drawn, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
"Dad, I'm back!" In the evening, Xiao Yi returned to the house and shouted as soon as he entered the door. But no one responded, Xiao Yi lit the oil lamp to illuminate the dim house, but saw Xiao Ku sitting alone on the table, with a slumped back and gray hair, Xiao Yi's eyes were moist again, maybe now he really regards this person as his father.
Xiao Yi walked to Xiao Ku and sat down, and said, "Dad, what are you doing." Xiao Ku turned around and said, "It turns out that Xiao Yi is back, let's eat, my father has been waiting for you for a long time." The trembling fingers took a yellowed nest head and handed it to Xiao Yi. It turned out that he had been waiting for himself to come back, and he was not even willing to eat these nests. Xiao Yi took the nest head and ate it in a big gulp. Said: "It's delicious, Dad, you can eat it too." ”
"Hey! Daddy, daddy eats too. When Xiao Ku saw Xiao Yi eating, he was very happy, and he also picked up a nest head and ate it. After Xiao Yi ate one, he said, "Dad, I'm full, I'll go back to the room first." ”
Back in the room, Xiao Yi's eyes were already moist, and he couldn't hold back his tears to keep his clothes wet. If you want your father to live a good life, you can't waste your time, and you want Xiao Ku to live the best life.
As long as you do this, you can't come in vain, even if you don't change history, you have to leave a mark in history that belongs to Xiao Yi. Perhaps it was from this moment that Xiao Ye really had his own blueprint for the future. Although the blueprint is still very sketchy, it is still there.