When he looked back on this life when he was old, Lin Liang couldn't understand how such a mountain fire changed his fate, fished himself out of a deep swamp, and threw him onto an endless road. Later, whenever he went to a new place and told people about his early years, he would always say, 'It was that fire that saved me from there.'"

At that time, Lin Liang was drinking in the alley with the seventh master of the Ma family, and he listened to the words of the seventh master accusing Ma Bin, some of which he knew, and some of which he didn't know.

"When my uncle was still there, our Ma family was not like this, my brother took me to my uncle's house every day, to play with the eldest brother and the second brother, and the fourth brother came occasionally, and my sister, by the way, and the sixth sister, everyone played together, how good it was at that time." Ma Qiye took a sip of wine and began to mumble again, regardless of whether the person sitting on the side was close or close, it could not be said.

"But when did this change, on the day of the flash flood, the eldest brother didn't have to go up the mountain, all to find a few of us, but when we came back, they were buried in the mountain forever. I know that the uncle complains about this matter, and even Chashan doesn't want to take care of it anymore, they all say that the second brother is in good hands, but he doesn't allow anyone, he can't trust anyone in his family, and the tea merchants don't let us know every year. ”

"Don't laugh, you only know that the seventh master and I am a loser who raises a little girl, and I also care about the future of the Ma family, if I didn't take the fourth brother to force the second brother this year, maybe it will be possible."

Ma Qiye took another sip of wine, glanced at Lin Liang, and said with a smile, "I know that you are the same person as me, and sooner or later you will follow my old path." ”

Originally, Lin Liang, who was just perfunctory to get the seventh master drunk, couldn't help but feel a little disgusted when he was said like this, his face was cold, and he frowned and said, "Don't compare me with you, I don't bother to do your things." ”

"Shame on you?" Ma Qiye smiled, pointed at Lin Liang again, and said, "It's really embarrassing, just control yourself, find an aunt to cover up, and really treat everyone else as a blind person." ”

didn't speculate for more than half a sentence, just as Lin Liang was about to quarrel with him, someone outside came to him, knocked on the door in a panic, grabbed Lin Liang and said, "He's going to Chashan, you go quickly, I can't stop him." ”

People were flustered, there was only Lin Liang in their eyes, and they didn't care that Ma Qiye was still drinking on the side, so he pulled someone out of the door and ran in the direction of Chashan.

When Lin Liang came to his senses, he asked the woman, "Who?" ”。

"Tong Chunsheng! The dead ghost came back again, and I persuaded him to let him go, but he wouldn't listen to me. The woman wept as she ran, and she did not know whether she would cry that he would not leave, or whether she would cry that she would be more sad in the future.

Lin Liang grabbed the woman and didn't let her go any further, and waited for her to calm down before asking, "How many people does he have, what are you going to do in Chashan?" ”

The woman also let go of Lin Liang's arm, covered her face with her hands, and cried and said, "Just him, I don't know what he's going to do, he never tells me, just says that he wants to do what he didn't finish this summer." ”

Summer's thing! What's going on in the summer! Lin Liang only felt that Wang Siming had left a mess for himself, supported his forehead with one hand, and said to the woman in a soft voice, "You go to the roadside of Chashan to wait for me first, and I'll catch a carriage to pick you up." ”

"I know, don't call too many people to come, our family can't hold their heads up in the village, even if it's not for me, for the sake of the old lady, she's old." The woman wiped tears from her face, and finally calmed down somewhat.

"I know it all."

Lin Liang said and rushed to the house in the north of the city, and when he arrived, the group of people was eating lively, and even the young master had some drunkenness on his face.

In the end, the excitement is someone else's, and someone must do these laborious things for him, Lin Liang touched his empty stomach, gritted his teeth and drove the carriage alone, and went to the tea mountain.

On the way to Chashan, the woman was very anxious, held Lin Liang's hand, and kept explaining, "I just saw that he was pitiful, so I left him at home, and sent him out after the New Year." ”

"It's not that I don't want to tell you, it's just that the old lady only has this one son, she treats me well, picks me up in the mountains, and raises me so big, I can't let her white-haired people send black-haired people." The woman still wanted to say something in a panic, but she couldn't find the words to say that she was caught in the middle, and she was not a human being.

"When did he come back?"

Chunsheng and Lin Liang are old acquaintances, and when Lin Liang was still working on the tea mountain in the early years, he had some contacts with him, but at that time they were all arrogant people, and they had no personal relationships, most of them were on the scene.

When Chunsheng went up the mountain, Lin Liang already had a little prestige on the tea mountain, with a piece of tea under his hand, and a few small followers, it was when the spring breeze was proud, and he never cared about the somewhat gloomy Chunsheng.

When Lin Liang made a mistake and was driven to the shop to do the timekeeping, Tong Chunsheng suddenly appeared in Lin Liang's field of vision frequently, and came to the city every once in a while to find Lin Liang to drink some wine and talk about things on the tea mountain.

Before the accident this year, Tong Chunsheng came to Lin Liang once and asked him if he was willing to go back to Ma's house, and he had a way to help him go back, but Lin Liang didn't believe it at that time, and didn't take his words seriously, and soon someone really came to let him go back. It was only when I went back to look for him that I heard that he had been assigned to Liuli Island.

But the woman did not know these things, and while burying her head, she said in a voice that she could almost only hear, "I came back two days ago." "He didn't do anything at home, I thought he would just come back and get some money and leave, you see he won't be able to stay here." I didn't give him a lot of money, just enough to get out of the city and haunt him so that he could die a little farther. ”

The wind on the road was whistling, and there were women chattering behind his back, Lin Liang really regretted that he didn't call another person to drive the carriage, it was the time of the New Year, and he had to deal with this troublesome matter, and this tea mountain really didn't let people be idle for a moment.

Before the two of them could reach the tea mountain, the noise of the tea mountain had already been heard, and the woman was startled, stood up and looked at the tea mountain, her eyes crossed the jungle, and she faintly saw some smoke rising, like the smoke of thousands of households gathered together.

Yes! The woman subconsciously screamed, and sat back on the carriage with a frightened face, so frightened that Lin Liang quickly stopped the carriage and said, "Is this a place to stand up!" Did you fall? ”

"It's not..." The woman stammered, pointed to the mountain, and said in despair, "He really burned the mountain, and we are all finished!" ”

What is the situation of setting fire to the mountain, this woman is also unfamiliar, Lin Liang impatiently shook her off, and also stood up and looked at the tea mountain, the smoke was thicker and glowing red.

This guy! Lin Liang sat down again, ripped off the wallet on his belt, threw it to the woman and said, "You will wait at the mountain pass for a while, if I can't come back, you can take the old lady and run, the farther the better, and when it is half July of the next year, remember to burn some money for me, and it will not be in vain for us to have a good time." ”

As he spoke, Lin Liang pushed the woman out of the car, and drove the carriage to the mountain alone, regardless of what the people behind were crying and shouting.

It was clearly the time of the cold winter wax moon, but the sleeping tea mountain suddenly became lively, in addition to Lin Liang, who drove a carriage from the city, there were also some villagers who happened to see the smoke to put out the fire.

The villagers at the bottom of the tea mountain stood in all directions, and the commotion made the fire in the mountain even more arrogant, and when Lin Liang drove the carriage to arrive, he was like a character like the backbone of the heart, attracting everyone to surround him, talking anxiously and making trouble.

It was nothing more than something like how the mountain fire broke out, and the smoke was already billowing when he saw it, Lin Liang left everyone and walked to the mountain hut, but he didn't find that Old Man Ding was there.

Lin Liang screamed a few more times, but he didn't hear an echo, picked up a few guys with familiar faces, and went into the mountain together. The slope of the mountain, which is usually steep and difficult to climb, was now smoky again, and before they had reached the halfway point of the mountain, the group began to cough and sweat.

The further they walked up the mountain, the hotter and hotter the air became, and the group took off the overalls they wore outside, covered their mouths and noses, and prevented the smoke from entering their lungs, which made the smoke uncomfortable.

Lin Liang shouted a few more times into the mountain, but he still didn't see Old Man Ding's response, and even the guy who stayed here before didn't hear a response, and his heart became even more flustered.

The group walked up for a while, and could vaguely see the place where the smoke had risen, and the light of the rising fire crackled in the air.

Lin Liang thought that there would always be some way, but the fire that had spread in a few tea fields still made people deflated, and their legs became weak, and then they looked at the guys behind them, one by one, they were like ghosts, far away, for fear of being arrested and doing something.

Although man is different from wild beasts, he will run when he sees a fire, but this fire will not have many people who want to stay. A gust of wind and waves blew the smoke in the direction where everyone was, which made people feel even more unlucky, and they were picked up to suffer this kind of suffering.

But Lin Liang didn't stop, and the people who followed him didn't dare to stop, and the group was like pedestrians hurrying early in the morning, silently walking to the place they were going.

Finally, a younger one couldn't hold his breath anymore, ran two steps forward, came to Lin Liang's side, and said in a low voice, "Brother Liang, we can't help this fire, it's dry and dry this day, and it's not uncommon to start a mountain fire, and when that mass is burned out, it will stop, and we'll come back then." ”

Obviously, it was the right intention, but Lin Liang swayed at this time, saying that it was a mountain fire, maybe it could fool the past, and it didn't matter if Tong Chunsheng couldn't be caught, but how many tea tree stumps would be damaged by this mountain fire, and would it make that person who had no worries about food and clothing fall from the altar and live a life of displacement from now on.

Maybe not, the emaciated camel is always bigger than the horse, he may just be more frugal in food and clothing, more restrained in his flamboyant temperament, and he will always live the rest of his life, even if the family is so poor that he can't even afford to support his buddies.

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