Chapter 282: An Epitaph from Another World
With the unremitting efforts of Honghe and the others, all the herbs were finally boiled. Before the big iron pot had time to rest, it was cleaned by Liam and ready to make a delicious meal for everyone who was tired.
The stone house is located at the foot of the hillside, and behind the house is a large giant tree, the leaves of the giant tree are as big as a fan to cover the sky and the sun, and the sun has not yet penetrated the stone house, so the stone house with a broken roof is still very shady.
From here, you can think of the owner of this place, how clever the location of the house was when it was built, and Hong thought that he must be a person full of wisdom in life.
Yuri Amu was cooking in the wooden shed outside, and Ah Zheng and Mingyue were greedy to find fruit again. The rainbow with a clear ear finally had time to take a good look at this stone house.
It's just that the stone house is very simple, except for the fruit trees and flowers outside the stone house, she actually didn't find anything in the stone house that could prove that the owner of the house was a traverser.
There should be at least one or two things! Even if it's a piece of clothing, it's fine! Could it be that after the owner of the stone house met his beloved, he packed his luggage and flew with his lover?
But Hong still feels that something is wrong, this valley full of flowers and cold pools is very good! At first glance, you can tell that it has been carefully cared for. But why would the owner of this place give up such a good place and leave?
There's no one reason to make sense, is there?
Hong Bai was puzzled and sat on the animal skin blanket spread on the ground next to the wooden couch, rolling boredly, to vent the depression in her heart, who knew that when she turned around, she saw a dusty wooden box under the wooden couch.
Hong moved to the edge of the wooden couch, stretched out his arm to reach out the wooden box, and opened the wooden box that had been moldy and blackened because it had been placed on the ground for a long time, and there was a diary lying inside, no, it should be said that it was a book with only a few pieces of paper left.
Rainbow gently opened the moldy and brittle paper, and began to read with a frown.
Friday, October 20, 1982, sunny.
My name is Qiu Ji, I am 29 years old, and I am a forest ranger in the mountains. Today is Black Friday for me, and on the way back from my hometown, I was in a car accident due to lightning and was struck by lightning and lost consciousness.
When I woke up, I thought I had come to the Primordial Forest, but when I saw so many giant trees and beasts, I realized that this was no longer the original earth, this was a different continent that was completely unfamiliar to me.
I hid in a tree for a day and a night, and the few fruits I brought with me served as my rations for the day. I had no father or mother, but after the death of my ranger adoptive father, I had no relatives in this world, and I thought that I would live well no matter where I was, so I regained my energy and jumped off the tree the next day.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I jumped off the giant tree, I was chased by a beast like a hippopotamus, and I inadvertently fled to this valley, where there was a cold pool, and the hippopotamus beast drowned in the cold pool without controlling the brakes.
I had a full meal on the corpse of the hippopotamus and strengthened my confidence to live, so I dug a few traps in the jungle with branches, hoping to make some gains that I could use as food for my daily life.
Later, I settled down in the valley alone, I don't know if there is a distinction between spring, summer, autumn and winter, I spent a month building a small stone house, and the leftover fruit pits were planted in the valley.
The valley is not small, but I only dare to move around the stone house, until one day I found a beast that broke in and fainted next to a plant, only to find that there are many bones around this plant, and I realized that this plant has an anesthetic effect, I think I live here safer.
In order to prepare for the winter, I pasted all the crevices around the stone house with mud, sewed several clothes and two quilts with bone needles from the accumulated animal skins, and saved an unknown amount of firewood.
In order to store more food, I try to eat only wild vegetables in my daily life, and the meat is made into jerky and left for snow to eat, and wild vegetables are also collected and saved for drying and kept for winter eating.
It's just that the winter here doesn't seem to be endless, and there is almost no harvest in the trap after the snow and ice are covered, and after I have eaten everything and boiled only snow water and drank it for a few days, a thin roe deer that fell into the trap kept me up until spring.
After the snow melted, the plants seemed to fully recover in a few days, I had wild vegetables to eat, and I was so hungry and skinny in the first snow season that I was skinny, but I still wanted to live.
In the third snow season, I raised a wolf cub named Princess who fell into a trap and was injured, and I was finally not alone. My stone house has become three houses now, not because I don't have enough to live in, but because I feel alive when I am busy.
Now the outside of the valley is full of traps I have dug, and even if I eat meat every day, I can save a lot, and the little wolf cub princess is very clever and can understand what I say. When spring comes, the peach blossoms in the valley bloom, and this place is like the peach blossom island where I live alone, and I also longed for the day when someone would accompany me.
Perhaps God heard my prayers, and I saved a lone woman while I was collecting a trap in the jungle. The woman was young, and aside from her somewhat dark skin, she was young like a child.
There was no warning of her arrival, as if it had fallen from the sky, but her unfamiliar language told me that she belonged to this continent and was not the same kind of person as me.
The woman looked very timid but took the initiative with me, and had a relationship with me on the same day, from the maternal fetus single to the current night, I began to feel that it was not bad to fall into this place from that day, I never believed in fate, and from that day on, I believed that everything was predestined.
The woman's name is Asakusa, and some are biased towards Indian ancestry. My skin was a little dark, my eyebrows were thick and dark, and my eyes looked at me big but timidly. In order to communicate with Asakusa, I gradually learned her language from the beginning of gesturing with my hands.
It turned out that she was a homeless child like me, she lived in a tribe only a day's journey from here, and they said that the valley where I lived was very mysterious, and that the people who came in were all there to return, and her tribe was afraid that the people would break in and die by mistake, so they did not dare to move around here.
I'm afraid that's why I've never met outsiders.
Asakusa was very young, she had only survived the fifteen snow seasons, because she was young and did not want to be an old woman in the tribe, she escaped because she didn't want to be an old woman in the tribe, she thought that she would die in the Valley of the Death, but she didn't expect to meet me.
She was only fifteen years old, and I was thirty-two years old enough to be her father. Sometimes I feel like a beast, but my conscience can't stop me from falling in love with Asakusa, especially when Asakusa gets pregnant three years later, and I feel like my life is complete.
Since then, I am not just one person in this world, I have a loving wife and a child who is related to each other.
I'm finally having a family!
In my spare time, I made a small wooden stool and a small wooden horse for my unborn child, and when he or she was born, I could let him play on the wooden horse.
Before the snow season, I had saved more food than in previous years, and Asakusa's stomach was about to give birth, and my mood became very agitated, and Asakusa would often comfort me, saying that the women of her tribe had their own children, and there was no danger at all.
It's just that God is still too cruel to me.
One morning, Asakusa was chopping wood with a stone axe when a group of able-bodied men burst in from outside. No~ It should be said that it is a group of brutes.
I wonder how they managed to get past the anesthetic plant? Anyway, they beat me in the head and broke my head, and the adult wolf princess was beaten to death with a stick to protect me. The group took all our food, clothing, and bedding to keep us warm, and took turns raping Asakusa.
After the group left. Asakusa died of hemorrhage from the brutes, and the soon-to-be-born child was gone, and I didn't even have a piece of animal skin to wrap around Asakusa's body. I cried and shouted, God, why are you so unfair to my family?
I hugged Asakusa's body, from warm to cold, and at this moment I realized the pain of losing my lover, and the despair I had fallen to the ashes that I had never experienced in another world. Once, I thought I just wanted a woman, and it was just Asakusa who came.
As everyone knows, it is precisely because she is Asakusa that I fell in love with her. I regret not telling her I love you, and I even blame her for eating food that is stored until the snow season.
When Asakusa's body turned from cold to stiff, I realized that I couldn't continue to live after losing her. Besides, how can I rest assured that such a small Asakusa will take the child on Huangquan Road? When I was alive, I couldn't protect her and my mother, and I must have to accompany them on the Huangquan Road......
Hong read this, talk about a few words have exhausted Qiu Ji's life, see that the handwriting is written with a burning carbon strip, the font is very large and sloppy, and even tears on the paper can be seen on the last few pages.
No wonder there was nothing in the stone house, it turned out that those people snatched Qiu Ji's things before the snow season. Hong was so touched that she didn't know what words to use to describe her mood at this time, her nose was clogged, and tears were already rolling in her eyes.
She could even imagine Qiu Ji, covered in wounds, dragging Asakusa's stiff corpse and crawling in front of the pitcher plant, he put his arms around her neck as usual, and protected her into the crook of his arm, and under his palm was Asakusa's belly......
It turns out that the most hurtful thing in the world is not the most sinister environment, but the warm love that people have experienced. It is precisely after experiencing the beauty and warmth of love that after losing it, it will be painful, and even make people lose the courage to live, and Qiu Ji is the best proof.
Who dares to say that Qiu Ji, who survived, would be happier than Qiu Ji, who accompanied his wife and children to Huangquan? The answer is absolutely no, some people are alive, but their hearts have already died.
The tears that swirled in Hong's eyes had already dripped down his face, and the tears on his face made Yinshi, who came in and called for someone to eat, startled, and hurriedly stepped forward and squatted down, hugged the person in his arms, stretched out his big hand to tremble and wipe the woman's tears and said, "Hong'er, what's wrong?" Don't cry, don't cry, the big rock is in..."
The little woman has never cried so sadly, what's wrong? He didn't know what to do except hold people in his arms and coax them lightly.
After a long time, Hong felt more comfortable after crying. In fact, she was not only saddened by the deaths of Qiu Ji and Asakusa, but also thought about the future of her and Silverstone, if they were always strong, they would not have to be afraid of those scum who killed people and oversold goods.
Siphon sniffed, raised his red rabbit-like eyes, looked at Silverstone pitifully and asked, "Big Stone, you are the most powerful, you will always protect me, right?" ”
"Yes, I will always stand in front of Hong'er and clear all dangers for you, Hong'er is not afraid!" Silverstone did not hesitate to ensure that it warmed Hong's desolate heart, and at the same time made her sober up.
She is not Asakusa, and Yinshi is not Qiu Ji, she not only wants the protection of a man with strong force, but also strengthens her ability to fight side by side with men in the face of crisis.
Compared with attachment, love fighting side by side is more charming.
Hong, who had figured everything out, said in a hoarse voice: "I seem to know who the owner of this place is, let's go carve a stone tablet for their family." ”
Yinshi let go of the petite person in his arms, and instead held her palm with his hand and said, "Listen to Hong'er, but don't cry anymore, otherwise I will definitely punish you at night..."
Silverstone's eyes were fiery, and Hong finally slapped the man's shoulder with a smile and said, "Don't talk nonsense, let's go and go back quickly!" ”
The two of them found a large rectangular stone in the valley, Yinshi lifted the knife and prepared to engrave the words, he has been studying for a long time, and has not yet learned to write the word Qiu Ji.
Silverstone didn't look at Hong for help, and then he scratched the back of his neck when he felt useless, and his eyes were like a helpless child.
Hong picked up a branch and wrote on the ground: The tomb of Qiu Ji's family of three: 1953-1989 loved his wife Asakusa and unborn child all his life.
Seeing that Hong'er was still staring at the blank stone after writing, Yinshi hurriedly copied the words to the stone in front of the grave.
Life can't support each other to live together to the end of the day, I hope they will be fated to meet again in the next life, I hope you will like this epitaph, Qiu Ji goodbye!
The next day, when everyone left the beautiful valley, Hong still looked back at the place of Qiu Ji's tombstone from time to time......