While chatting with Pumpkin, I thought of something and asked him, "By the way, Pumpkin, I remember that you have always had a knot in your heart, and in terms of my current Taoism, I think I can help you." When I asked you, you didn't say it, but now you can say it? ”

Unexpectedly, when I asked, pumpkin's eyes showed a hint of panic.

His eyes turned a little red, and he said, "Brother Qin, you still don't have to ask about this, it's already... It's been solved. ”

"Solved?" I was surprised.

Pumpkin nodded and said, "Well, it's been solved." ”

I frowned slightly, but I noticed that the pumpkin was dodging in her eyes, as if she was hiding something from me. He's not a man who is good at hiding his heart. Judging from his expression and reaction, he should still have something on his mind.

"Pumpkin, if you call me Brother Qin, it means that you treat me as a brother. We graduated from the same school and know each other. If you really need me to help you, just let me know. ”

"Also, did something happen to you, can you tell me?"

Unexpectedly, the pumpkin lowered her head and fell silent.

I sat next to me and didn't speak. It wasn't until the cigarette butt in the pumpkin's hand burned to the end that he slowly extinguished the cigarette and said, "Brother Qin, do you really want to know?" ”

Without hesitation, I nodded and said, "Well, if you can, I'd like you to tell me." ”

Pumpkin raised her head, took a breath, and said, "Okay... Well, I'll tell you. ”

After that, Pumpkin told me about his heart knot and what had happened recently.

Earlier, when we were in college, Pumpkin just told me that he was the only son in their family. But when Pumpkin talked to me about his knot, I was surprised. Because their family is not only his only son, he also has a sister.

And his heart knot originated from his sister.

Pumpkin's sister's name is Zhao Yichen.

It happened when Pumpkin was a child.

He was only twelve years old at that time, and his sister was three years younger than him, only nine years old. It was summer, and during the summer vacation, Pumpkin took her sister to the next village to play with her friends. They went in the morning, and it was almost noon before they were ready to go home for dinner.

But on the way, the pumpkin suddenly had a stomachache, so he found a forest and went to it conveniently. His sister Zhao Yichen was catching butterflies nearby. But when the pumpkin finished pulling his stomach and went to look for his sister, he couldn't find it.

Pumpkin shouted his sister Zhao Yichen's name many times, but Zhao Yichen didn't answer. He was in a hurry, and he looked around for a while, but he didn't see his sister. So he wondered if his sister Yichen had gone home by herself.

In a hurry, the pumpkin rushed home.

At home, his mother had already cooked the meal and was waiting for the two children to come home for dinner. But when Pumpkin returned, she didn't see her sister.

He was just a child, and he was so anxious that he cried. His mother asked him, "What's wrong?" Pumpkin says her sister is missing. At that time, Pumpkin's father and mother were also in a hurry, so they ran to the village chief's house and asked the village chief to help find someone.

The people in the village knew that the little girl of the Zhao family was missing, so they all helped to find it. But from noon to afternoon, from afternoon to evening, there is no pumpkin's sister. The family was in a hurry, and the angry pumpkin's father, Zhao Jie, beat the pumpkin severely.

It's still the pumpkin's mother who stops him, otherwise his father Zhao Jie may break the child. But the next day, I searched all the nearby villages and forests, but I still couldn't find Pumpkin's sister.

The family called the police.

And the people in the village also began to discuss, saying that maybe Pumpkin's sister Zhao Yichen was taken away by the beasts in the mountains and forests after being separated from Pumpkin, and I am afraid that there is little chance of survival. It may also be abducted.

Hearing these words at that time, Pumpkin's mother Chu Ju didn't know how many times she cried. And the intervention of the police did not help the Zhao family find Pumpkin's sister Zhao Yichen. Just like that, Pumpkin's sister Zhao Yichen disappeared like this.

And this incident became a lump in Pumpkin's heart.

Not only that, after Pumpkin's sister disappeared, Pumpkin's father Zhao Jie also had a great change in personality and would drink from time to time. After drinking, the person who suffered was the pumpkin and the pumpkin's mother, Chu Ju.

may be too heavy a burden in his heart, and it didn't take long for Pumpkin's father Zhao Jie to die of alcohol poisoning. Only orphans and widows were left. For so many years, it was Pumpkin's mother who supported the family and provided Pumpkin with school.

And the disappearance of his sister Zhao Yichen has always made Pumpkin feel uncomfortable in his heart, like a thorn, every time he thinks about it, it will sting Pumpkin's heart.

Although Pumpkin is happy on the surface, he is actually very miserable inside.

He wanted to find his sister. But after so many years, I haven't found my sister.

And the turning point happened just a few months ago.

A few months ago, shortly after Pumpkin returned to his hometown, he got a piece of news. A lazy man in the village named Wang Yue said that he had seen Pumpkin's sister. When Pumpkin got the news, he found the lazy man.

But the lazy man didn't say anything, shaking his head and saying he didn't know.

Later, the pumpkin bought a lot of things for the lazy man, and the lazy man opened his mouth and admitted that he had indeed seen the pumpkin's sister, and that the pumpkin's sister looked the same as the one in the photo. The people are in the "Qianyu Village" dozens of miles away.

Pumpkin knew about Qianyu Village, so he asked the lazy man Wang Yue how he met his sister. The lazy man Wang Yue was crooked and refused to say anything at first, but later after the pumpkin took out five hundred yuan, he said everything.

It turned out that the lazy man sneaked into a house in Qianyu Village one night to steal something.

That family is in the tofu business, and the family is still relatively rich. The lazy man Wang Yue stole a little money in the back room and prepared to leave. But when he was about to leave, he heard the voices of men and women.

At that time, the lazy man Wang Yue was about to watch a good show, so he secretly went to the house where the sound came, ready to peep.

The windows are all glass, and the curtains are drawn again at night. However, because there were gaps in the curtains, Wang Yue still saw the situation inside the house.

Inside the house, a man and a woman were rolling on the kang with their bodies naked.

The woman was not very old, and she made a muffled voice from her mouth, so unhappy. Seeing the lazy man, the king became more and more hot. It wasn't until the men and women were done that the lazy man was ready to leave. Unexpectedly, before he left, he inadvertently glanced at it, but saw the woman's face.

The woman's face turned out to be that of a child, and when he saw that face, Wang Yue's eyes widened. Because when Pumpkin's sister Zhao Yichen disappeared, he also helped find someone, so he recognized Pumpkin's sister's appearance.

At that time, the lazy man Wang Yue didn't think much about it, thinking that the family had abducted Pumpkin's sister. Later, he secretly left the house. But because he had nothing to do with that family and was stealing, he didn't dare to tell about it.

Until one time, the lazy man Wang Yue was drinking with a leper in the same village, and he inadvertently told the matter. At that time, the lazy man Wang Yue didn't care so much, who knew that the leper was a mouthful, so he spread the word.

At first, no one in the village believed it, but when it became more popular, some people began to talk about it secretly. Later, Pumpkin returns to the village and overhears the incident. When he learned about this, he didn't sleep well all night.

The next day, he found the lazy man Wang Yue.

After understanding the cause and effect of the incident, Pumpkin assured the leper Wang Yue that he would not tell him about his theft, nor would he report the crime, so the lazy man was willing to let Pumpkin leave. But when the pumpkin just walked out of the lazy man's house, the lazy man Wang Yue caught up with the pumpkin again.

The lazy man dragged the pumpkin aside and secretly told the pumpkin something else.

And this thing really scared the pumpkin. The lazy man Wang Yue said that night, what he saw should be the sister of the pumpkin, but there is one thing he has never understood, what is going on.

That is, when the lazy man saw the face of the pumpkin sister, he found that the face of the pumpkin sister was not bloody. What's worse is that the lazy man found that there were threads on the neck of the pumpkin sister.

It's as if Pumpkin's head was sewn into the body of an adult woman.

This matter, the lazy man Wang Yue didn't say it before, and he didn't think that if he said it, no one would believe it, and it might scare others. But when the pumpkin heard this, he was struck by lightning.

Because when Pumpkin and I were together, they had already seen too many strange things.

In the afternoon of the same day, Pumpkin went to Qianyu Village, and according to the lazy man's instructions, he found the family.

The family's surname is Zhuang, two old people, and one is in his thirties, and he has never asked for his wife's son.

When I knocked on the door, it was an old man who opened the door for the pumpkin.

Pumpkin said that he was looking for his sister, but the old man said that he didn't know who Pumpkin's sister was, and there was no "Zhao Yichen" in their family. The pumpkin didn't believe it, so he got up with the old man and went into the dealer's yard.

But after searching all the rooms one by one, the pumpkin didn't find his sister. Later, the old man's son returned, and his son's name was Zhuang Bin. At that time, Zhuang Bin saw his father sitting on the ground, so he picked up a wooden stick and beat the pumpkin fiercely.

Later, I rushed over, and many people from Qianyu Village.

Someone is going to call the police, or the pumpkin takes out the money, and the dealer's talent is willing to give up. However, when Pumpkin took out a photo of his sister and showed it to that Zhuang Bin, Pumpkin found that Zhuang Bin was very impatient and didn't want to say more at all.

Obviously, this Zhuang Bin knows about his sister.

Pumpkin refuses to give up.

That night, the pumpkin went to Qianyu Village again, and when Zhuang Bin walked through the entrance of the village, he covered Zhuang Bin with a sack and knocked him unconscious. There is a dragon king temple nearby, which is said to have been used for rain in the past, but now it is dilapidated and unmanaged.

The pumpkin carried the Zhuang Bin to the Dragon King Temple.

In the Dragon King Temple, a pumpkin splashed Zhuang Bin with water and asked him if he had seen his sister Zhao Yichen. That Zhuang Bin didn't know who Zhao Yichen was, but he told Pumpkin that he had seen a baby-faced woman who looked exactly like Pumpkin's sister.

(To be continued)