Chapter 5: My Family

Tell me about my family.

Many readers know that I am from the Northeast, but I don't know anything about my family.

My family has no genealogy, I only know that my grandfather's name is Zhou Jifa.

He's a great character, of course he died young, I haven't met him.

I heard that this person is the second big cloth shirt in the village.

"Erda cloth shirt" is a kind of homespun military uniform in the old Kanto, and later refers to a special person in the northeast countryside - this kind of person almost has one in every village, full of ruffians, no one dares to provoke, who quarrels, the village chief can't solve it, and invites the "Erda cloth shirt" to come, and basically dare not listen. This kind of person also has a certain appeal, has a loud voice, and often presides over red and white affairs for the village.

My grandfather's voice was not very loud, he was very able to speak, but he didn't speak, he was very silent, and he always had a gloomy expression.

How good is he?

In the middle of the night, there was a chaotic sound of horses' hooves and shouts, and everyone knew that the bearded (bandits) were coming, and they were so frightened that they didn't know where to hide. Someone rushed to find my grandfather.

My grandfather put on a "two-big cloth shirt", pulled on his shoes, did not hold a gun or a knife, and walked out of the village empty-handed to negotiate with the beard. Half an hour later, I saw those murderous beards retreat one after another, disappearing into the night, my grandfather came back with his hands behind his back, and did not say how he let the beard leave, went home and lay down on the kang to continue sleeping.

My grandmother used to be someone else's wife, but she was snatched and occupied by my grandfather. I don't know exactly how it went. I don't even know if my father was born to my grandfather and grandmother, or if my grandmother was born to the original match.

My grandmother was very afraid of my grandfather, and every time he left the house, my grandmother would burn incense in front of the stove pit, praying that God would thunder and kill him, so that he would never come back. One day, my grandmother was burning incense, and my grandfather came back, and he coughed outside the house, and my grandmother was so frightened that she collapsed in front of the stove pit, unable to move.

After my father and my mother got married, my mother was also very afraid of him.

Once, my mother made a mistake, he wanted to beat my mother, my grandmother pulled my mother away, ran and ran, they hid in a bud field, and I heard my grandfather chasing after me with his shoes, and he stopped in front of the bud where the two women were hiding, and coughed, and the two women immediately trembled like chaff......

My grandfather was often away from home.

In addition to cursing him dead, my grandmother began to practice witchcraft. According to my mother, my grandmother did have some skills, but she just didn't dare to use them on my grandfather, she said: Ghosts are afraid of the wicked. If my grandfather finds out that she is doing this, she will definitely die.

Later, my mother also learned some tricks from my grandmother, and when I was a child, I often saw my mother do strange movements in the middle of the night, which became a shadow of my childhood.

When my grandmother died, it is said that she stared at my grandfather with her eyes fixed on her, repeating two words in her mouth: "Brute, brute......"

This incident made me very sad, two people lived a lifetime, and when they died, there was no love and goodbye, no tears, only a word full of resentment: beast!

I didn't expect that this "beast" actually has another meaning.

My parents talked very little about my grandfather's death, and when they did, they kept it secret, so I suspected that my grandfather was killed by some kind of witchcraft by my mother.

Next, my father.

My father and my grandfather had the opposite personality, he was very weak, and in my family, my mother bullied him.

My mother loved to gamble for money, and the family was very dilapidated for this. The fortune teller said that my family has a rake for money, and there is also a box with a leaky bottom.

Finally, one day, my father ran away from home and never came back.

That was in 1977, when I was 9 years old and in elementary school.

One day after school, my mother told me that my father had left home and left only a note saying that he had gone to the Northwest and that he had never returned. That year, he was 33 years old.

Why did he go to the Northwest? This is a major mystery.

After my father left, my mother was depressed, and I even suspected that she was insane, and often had nightmares, and she was so hideous that she wanted to strangle me.

Half a year later, she also disappeared mysteriously.

To be honest, for all these years, I have been suspicious that my parents may have had a bad fight that day, and then my mother made my father disappear forever like she did with my grandfather.

Unexpectedly, after so many years, I came to the northwest and fell into Lop Nur, and I actually saw my father's notepad from a person named Linghu Mountain!

It's like a marked piece of money, and after spending it, after many years, it came back to me in another distant city......

This notepad is made of orange plastic, and the cover depicts the silhouette of a girl in a dress, holding a box in both hands, in which is a photo of a gazebo on the water, and three very rustic art words "Heilongjiang" are written underneath.

When I opened it, there were three words written on the title page: Master Zhou.

My father's original name was not these three words, it was his pen name, and he used this pen name to publish tofu cubes in the local tabloids.

It occurred to me right away that if I had a phone number that I could call out, if I could find my mother, I would be the first to tell her the news. If she were alive and was very old now, she would have wanted to know very much where her father's bones were buried......

The notepad was densely packed with words, all written with ballpoint pens, and many of the words were blurred. The paper in the text is so brittle that it can shatter if you touch it hard. Now, they are incomplete. Looking at the date, it's really 1977.

I'm sure, this is my father's notepad.

He is an honest man, he is always angry outside and at home, he doesn't say it, he just writes it down silently.

So, did my father really come to Lop Nur back then? Was it really involved in that carnage?

Could he have gotten lost in Lop Nur and died of thirst, hallucinating before he died, which he wrote down on a notepad?

Monsoon came in and called me, and it was time to eat.

I said to Linghushan, "It seems that your stepfather is not lying. ”

Ling Hushan said: "How can you be sure that he didn't forge it?" ”

I said, "Because, this notebook was written by my father." ”

Linghushan was taken aback when he heard this. Half a day before he said, "You ...... Sure? ”

I said, "I know my father's handwriting, he has a problem with his hands, he is always shaking, you see these words, they are all crooked." He has been missing for 36 years. It seems that this notebook was picked up by your father, and it is unlikely that your stepfather killed someone. ”

Ling Hushan thought for a while and said, "Then you put away this notepad." ”

I said, "This is my father's last relic, and you have kept it for 12 years, so I don't know how to thank you." ”

Linghushan said: "This is also considered to be the return of the object to its original owner...... son. ”

As we walked out of the tent, I asked him again, "How did your stepfather get out, did he say that?" ”

Ling Hushan said: "He said that if you take that big slope as a horizontal line, he will leave in a 90-degree vertical direction, keep walking and walking, and finally come out." ”

On this day, we ate bread, salted duck eggs, and seaweed soup.

Bai Xinxin walked up to me and said with a cold eyebrow: "Are you sure that kid is okay?" ”

I said, "Not sure." ”

He said: "Then you find someone to take care of him, don't let Jiang Mengxi be a nanny!" ”

I said, "No problem." ”

Monsoon had already walked up to Jiang Mengxi and brought the child over.

While eating, Monsoon took the child to sit next to me and patiently fed him.

I roughly observed that Jiang Mengxi was sitting next to Bai Xinxin, her eyes were red from crying, she lowered her head to eat, and she didn't say a word.

Huang Xi tried to sit next to Guo Mei, but Guo Mei didn't pay much attention to him, she took the initiative to sit next to Zhou Zhidan, maybe this girl wanted to be a star in filming. Zhou Zhidan was very polite to her and was not enthusiastic.

Bai Xinxin once joked with him: Zhou Zhidan, you are very capable when you look at your belly!

Zhou Zhidan laughed at himself: Making other people's bellies bigger is the ability, what kind of ability is making your own belly bigger!

Wu Min was a little embarrassed, he wanted to sit next to Meng Xiaoshuai, but Meng Xiaoshuai walked away. He tried to sit down next to Juice, and Juice walked away. However, he was very good at hiding his embarrassment, and sat down next to Bubu, pretending to be happy to order the food.

Zhang Hui and Zhang Hui were together, and when they were eating, he didn't open the handcuffs to Zhang Hui.

Ling Hushan sat next to the monsoon and took the initiative to serve the monsoon soup twice.

Ma was the most enthusiastic, and he accosted many people while eating.

Lu Sanguo sat alone under his car, quietly eating bread. A rich man can endure such difficult conditions.

Lao Ding has been silent, he sat across from me, although I didn't look at him, but I knew that he looked at me several times.

He said he was a member of the expedition, and I don't trust that status now. According to him, Zheng Taiyuan died. Then, the Zheng Taiyuan we met was either not a person, or the person who killed Zheng Taiyuan.

However, is this old man reliable?

I remember saying on the Internet: The latest tragedy occurred in February 2013, when a scientific research team went to Lop Nur to look for manganese ore, and seven people went missing......

Why didn't you say that one person came out?

I kept in mind the enclosed pick-up truck, which had the words "dangerous goods" written on it, and a gust of wind blew off some of the strokes and became a "dangerous person". The man who called himself Zheng Taiyuan got out of the pickup truck.

We don't know what his name is, let's call him Zheng Taiyuan for the time being.

Is this old Ding his accomplice?

Although they were also trapped in the monsoon, we were all happy to see them, after all, we saw two truckloads of supplies, which were the logistics of our battle against death. Moreover, with so many people, we are not so alone.

There is only one person except - Bubu.

She still didn't see her husband, and her face showed disappointment and worry that she couldn't hide.

After the meal, Monsoon gave everyone a banana. Today is the fourth day that their team has entered Lop Nur, and the bananas are basically intact.

I called Bubu to the side and asked her, "Have you talked to Lao Ding?" ”

She nodded.

I said ambiguously, "Let's take a look at it again." The place is quirky and magical, with all sorts of possibilities. ”

"It's been two months, and they can't hold on," she said. I don't get my hopes up, maybe I passed by him and just didn't see him. Anyway, I've come to see him, and he'll be happy...... That's it. ”

At this time, it was already more than two o'clock in the afternoon.

I called Ji Feng, Lu Sanguo, Zhou Zhidan, and Zhang Hui together and discussed it briefly. Naoer was playing alone in the sand.

If we can't get out in the near future, if this team needs to have a leadership group, it's these five people.

As mentioned earlier, Monsoon's heart is very strong and he is very calm in his work. Most importantly, she is of the same heart as me. If there is a need for a vote, we will fight for one more majority.

Lu Sanguo is older, he is a thoughtful person, and he has the bearing of a big businessman. If I had been in the same unit as him, maybe he would have led me or I would have led him.

It can be seen that Zhou Zhidan is a lover of personality, he travels all over the world and likes to be close to nature, this kind of person is generally impossible to be evil. Moreover, he has the skills to survive in the wild.

Zhang Hui is a police officer, although he is not very old and a little arrogant, but his profession brings him integrity.

I would like to tell you about the current situation.

Everyone is heavy.

After being silent for a long time, Zhou Zhidan spoke first: "I'll call you Mr. Zhou." ”

I said, "Feel free." ”

"I believe this is a mysterious place, and perhaps we can only hope in God's instructions," he said. In the morning, we used to pass by a place and I saw a huge chessboard......"