Chapter 404: Brothers Meet
In the past half a year, Ying Lao was not only anxious about the situation in the village, but also worried about the safety of his mother and third brother, and at the same time, he still had a trace of luck, because he was able to come out alive and did not really enter through the original entrance of the dragon's lair, but escaped through the narrow passage through the empty square
Since he didn't die when the flood broke out at that time, does that mean that his father and eldest brother may still be alive at that time, so Ying Lao also had this luck in his heart at that time, and planned to tell the uncles in the village about it after returning to the village, and then ask them to help him get out of the trapped father
However, it wasn't until half a year later when he returned to the village that he knew that because of the terrain of their three surnamed villages, even if there was no Ying Longfa water disaster, their village would suffer different floods every day, but it was not as serious as when Ying Long had a water disaster
The village of the third surname is a pothole wetland covered with rocks and mud, which makes the young Ying Lao feel devastated, he knows that the village where he grew up will not come back, Ying Lao looked at the village in front of him that was covered by the mountains and rocks and mud, and immediately knelt on the ground and hugged his head and cried, crying and shouting: The child is not filial, the child is not filial and something like that.
Win Lao has been crying on the ruins of the third surname village for a whole day, until Win Lao felt that he couldn't cry anymore, and even he felt that his eyes hurt a little and couldn't open them, then he realized that his mother was submerged under this thick layer of mud by the mudslide
The direction of his house was running, but at that time, because of Ying Long's second flood disaster in ten years, the mountains on the edge of their village were washed by the Yellow River for many years, and the mountains were already fragile because of the flood disaster three years ago
The collapse of a mountain is enough to wipe out a village, not to mention that the village is in the middle of a compound surrounded by several mountains, and a mudslide is fatal if a mudslide occurs in this terrain, and now the village is like this
The collapse of several mountains made all the people, animals and buildings in the village of the three surnames submerged in the mud and sand and stones that collapsed from the mountains, and after Ying Lao ran to the location of his house with his memory, he desperately threw the soil with his own hands, and shouted at the sky while throwing it back, as if only this kind of behavior could vent the feeling in his heart
Sad, Ying Lao didn't know how long he had thrown himself, until he felt as if his hands were about to be wasted, he looked down at his hands and found that they were already bloody and fleshy, and the nails of his ten fingers were all turned up, but even so he didn't stop until he completely fainted on the ruins of his village.
It may be that God really has mercy on him, a child who has lost both parents before the age of sixteen, when Ying Lao fainted after falling from the cliff, he was washed by the current to the river beach in another village, and Ying Lao was rescued by a group of aunts who were washing clothes by the river and sent to the home of a lonely old man in their village for treatment
It was an old man in his sixties, the old man's surname was Zhang, his name was Zhang Han, and the people in that village called him Uncle Zhang, this Uncle Zhang had never taken a daughter-in-law, and naturally he had no children, but this Uncle Zhang had a lot of skills, this old man was usually very respected by the village in the village, and Zhang Han not only knew medical skills
There will also be some methods of catching ghosts and driving away evil spirits, usually there are dead people in that village or seriously injured and too old to be sent to the county for treatment, where to send him, and it was the period of Japanese invasion, ordinary people couldn't even eat, let alone go to the county to see a doctor, so at that time, when they entered the hospital, they came to see ordinary people
Just follow up the palace, and in the general environment at that time, people like Zhang Han who know gods and ghosts and understand medical skills are even more popular, this kind of person has a maximum of one person in a village, otherwise there will be more people competing for jobs, of course, those large villages with thousands of people are said otherwise, and some small villages don't even have a kind of people
When they hit the evil spirit, they can only carry it by themselves when they are injured, until the earthen house in their own village can not be saved, and they can't be cured, they will go out to invite people from other villages who are similar to divine drought, this kind of profession is called Chinese medicine Langzhong in the south, some people call him Mr. Feng Shui, and in the north it is called Dashen, or Daxian,
But the meaning in this is the same, these two statements refer to the people who eat in the rice bowl of the ghosts and gods, and Win Lao was taken down by Zhang Han of that village, and that village is actually not far from Win Lao's three-surnamed village, only less than seventy miles, but because Win Lao's village is in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, it is less than a hundred miles away
The Yellow River has a dragon tail, that is, the Yellow River was diverted a few years ago, and the situation living in the two regions of the Yellow River has a high reverence and fear for the Yellow River, these people's villages are passed down from generation to generation, people in ancient times are very particular about feng shui, and feng shui in the dragon head signs, the dragon body is rich, the dragon tail is bad, this is the people who live on the two regions of the Yellow River
All know the taboo, so more than 90% of the villages in the two regions of the Yellow River are in the middle and upper reaches, and in the lower part only some fleeing or mysterious villages with hidden inheritance and guardianship responsibilities such as Ying Lao will choose to live in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, and there are even fewer who choose to build villages on the tail of the Yellow River, the first is because
The ancients were afraid of the taboo of the Yellow River, they deliberately avoided the dragon's tail, and did not build a village on the dragon's tail, the second is afraid of the Yellow River's diversion, before I also said that the Yellow River diversion is divided into two kinds, one is congenital, one is man-made, if it is artificially diversion, it is good to say, but a congenital factor that is not seen once in hundreds of years leads to the diversion of the Yellow River
That's miserable, those villages who choose to settle in the dragon tail of the Yellow River, if they are not careful, they will be hit by the boiling Yellow River, if the Yellow River is diverted to their village, then the whole village will be over, if you are lucky, you can find it in advance and evacuate in time, at most it is the loss of finances and houses, but you don't find out in time
Hundreds of people's lives are swallowed up by the Yellow River, coupled with the Yellow River flooding every year, there is no guarantee for those who choose to live in the villages in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, so in ancient times, there is such a folk song in the two regions of the Yellow River: the dragon king of the Yellow River has two sons, there are people on the left and right, the dragon head worships the dragon tail, and the dragon lives in the rich and noble sky.
Therefore, in ancient times, the two regions of the Yellow River were basically a large area of upstream villages, and the downstream villages could not be seen, but now there is no such situation, after the rapid development of China in the eighties, the most important project of the state investment in the two regions of the Yellow River is the Yellow River flood control embankment, and the waterproof embankment of the entire Yellow River is in the period of the Great Movement in 77 years
Began to build until 89 years, across six provinces and 12 urban areas, hundreds of counties, more than 1,300 townships of the Yellow River flood control dam was also officially completed, Zhang Han has always liked this child after saving the old man, although he is usually very respected by the villagers, but he is also childless, he has the heart to adopt one or two children
But when people knew his identity as a god, they also refused one by one, although this profession is very respected, but no one wants their children to do this business in the future, so Zhang Han has never had a child, until he met Win Lao, and after those women sent Win Lao to him, he was a little stubborn but polite to this child
I liked it, although he didn't really open his mouth to let Win Lao repay him, but he already had the heart to pass on his skills to Win Lao, so at that time, after Win Lao said goodbye to Zhang Han, he rushed to the village of the third surname, Zhang Han actually followed him, not that Zhang Han wanted to have any schemes, but that Zhang Han wanted to protect him, until Zhang Han saw that Win Lao didn't want to buy it
After that ruin, he knew how pitiful Win Lao's life experience was, but Zhang Han did not bother Win Lao but let him vent the grief and anger in his heart, until Win Lao fainted, he carried Win Lao back to the village where he lived again, although the village was not built in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, but it was also nearly 200 kilometers away from the Dragon Tail of the Yellow River, the third surname village of Win Lao
To go to the Yellow River Longwei to take a boat to walk dozens of miles, if you walk then it will take hundreds of miles, Win Lao woke up only to know that he was saved by Zhang Han again, after Zhang Han's persuasion, Win Lao settled in Zhang Han's village, although Zhang Han's village is not very rich, but it is also a large village of hundreds of households, Win Lao has been in that village for 5 years
5 years later, Japan surrendered, Win Lao said goodbye to Zhang Han out of the village and wanted to see the world, when Win Lao was already in his early 20s, and he also learned Zhang Han's skills, at that time Win Lao was a young man with strong blood, although Zhang Han wanted to stay for a few more years, let him be older and calm and then go out to explore, but he couldn't bear it
Win Lao's soft grinding and hard bubbles, when he met it, he let Win Lao go out, but Zhang Han didn't know that he let him go, so he let Win Lao set foot again into the Yellow River Dragon's Den that he never wanted to enter.
In the autumn of 1946, the second year of Japan's surrender, Ying Lao took a few dollars given to him by Zhang Han and stepped out of the village where he had lived for six years, but unfortunately God may have seen that his life experience was not miserable enough, in the second year of his travels, he actually learned that his younger brother was not dead, but before he was happy, he learned that Bai Yinglei was seriously ill
Bai Yinglei, who is only in his early twenties, is so sick that he can't get out of bed, the only thing that makes him feel a little relieved is that Bai Yinglei is not dead, but Ying Lao looked at Bai Yinglei lying on the bed with skin and bones but burst into tears, and Li Muwan, the daughter of Li Yuran he liked back then, had gone to a local rich family in order to save Bai Yinglei
Concubine, but Li Muwan still arranges maids to send food to Bai Yinglei every day, the two brothers were not too excited after meeting, just looked at each other, and the two couldn't help but leave tears after looking at them for a long time, and later Ying Lao also learned from Bai Yingshi's mouth that his mother was indeed buried in the village of the third surname by the collapsed rock, and his mother learned
The husband and two sons died in the dragon's den, they had collapsed, no matter how Bai Yinglei persuaded him, his mother just didn't want to go, and finally Bai Yinglei had no choice but to flee his hometown with Li Muwan, but they were still children back then, and the Sino-Japanese War was the hottest time, so they could only beg all the way, flee all the way, and finally from the north
fled to the south, if it weren't for Ying Lao's curiosity about the life of southerners, he would come out to see the world and think about how southerners live, otherwise he wouldn't have met Bai Yinglei,