"Are we going to see Zhang Lin today?" Xiong Zi couldn't help but ask Wang Qiu, who was smoking a cigarette on the side.

Wang Qiu smoked a cigarette and leaned against the wall with an impatient expression.

"You're idle all day, aren't you? The doctors in the health center said that he was just in a coma, and it would be fine to sleep for two days, and it was not a big problem, should you give him a funeral in advance? ”

"Bad mouth"

Xiongzi turned his face, looked into the distance, and pondered.

That night, when I found Zhang Lone, everyone was scared half to death, the big black dog circled around him and barked wildly, and Zhang Lone lay motionless by a grave, holding his mobile phone tightly in his hand.

The bear looked at the locust tree in the distance that was fluttering with the wind at the moment, rattling, shaking its thick branches, and letting the wind howl, perhaps only it saw the truth.

In Zhang Lone's mouth, his brother Zhang Lei is a ruthless person. is a brother who will always stand in front of himself and will not look back, a person who will never stand with him and walk together, for Zhang Lone, Zhang Lei is more like a senior alumnus and a passer-by who comes and goes, but Xiong Zi will never forget Zhang Lei's crimson eyes that night, his helpless and sad eyes, and the joy when he found Zhang Lone, that night he has proved the meaning of being an elder brother.

"When did this dog eat big meat and bones? Plastic, right? Wang Qiu said and wanted to snatch the bone from the big black dog's mouth to see it clearly.

This dog guy is also clever, seeing that Wang Qiu is plotting wrong, he grabbed a bone and ran away.

"Dog, you have to say two words, it's enough"

"Hey, I can't say that yet, can I? Do you believe that I cut you? Wang Qiu, who was squeezing his eyebrows, pretended to be angry.

Xiong Zi shook his head, "You are really wronged if you don't act."

"Hey! Don't you go? I have something to share with you! You have to envy me, hey......" Wang Qiu didn't finish speaking, but Xiongzi had already walked out.

The pungent disinfectant water made me feel uncomfortable for a while, and the incandescent light above my head was a little hot. I tried to open my eyes slowly.

The creeper outside the window was more long than last time, denser, and almost extended into the house, how could I lie in my mother's ward, my mother's ward I am all too familiar with. I'm walking here every now and then, and I know every furnishing of the room better than the doctor. Looking at the cabinet next to me with a lot of fresh fruits, some milk products, and some small snacks, I picked it up and looked at it, it should be a girl, my group of friends are all big and coarse, I can't think of anyone who would send these things to visit a patient.

Mother's bunk is very smooth, and she should be out for a walk at this time.

When I walked out of the health center, I didn't see a doctor, the warm sunset was shining on my face, it was very comfortable, and there was nothing wrong with moving my body around, and I slowly breathed a sigh of relief. I don't think about the ins and outs of it all anymore, I just want to see my mother soon.

Mother still sat in that lonely chair as usual, and soaking up the sun was the quietest and happiest thing for her.

"Mom," I whispered as I stood beside my mother's voice

Mother slowly opened her eyes, with a kind face.

"Sit down, it's been a long time since I've been in the sun with you," my mother smiled and moved me a place.

"Mom, haven't you felt better lately?" I looked at my mother's cheeks, which were slightly yellow, perhaps because they were no longer so pale under the sunset, and she had a healthy appearance.

"I'm embarrassed to say that I, you little naughty, you live next to your mother, are you ashamed?" Mother said, straightening my messy hair.

I closed my eyes, not to enjoy the moment of warmth, but to see my mother's thin, blackened hands.

After a while, my mother stopped and said to me: "You, you, your father and I don't know how many times we have warned you, you can't go to Wushan and the ancient mansion, your brother is also hardened this time, dare to ask you to go to that place alone......" The mother sighed and did not continue to complain about her brother.

"Mom, it's not my brother's fault, it's me who wants to go up" I know that Zhang Lei may have been punished for his blind decision, and he shouldn't be allowed to bear the blame of his relatives anymore.

"Mom, no matter which of you is at fault, this time it should be a memory, there can be no next time, you are no longer a child, you have to grow up quickly, and share it for your brother and your father. I'm a year older when I start school."

My mother's tone was gentle and powerful, and I was very happy, and my mother really remembered that she would not forget her birthday present when she started school.

"Mom, you have to take care of your illness, I'm still waiting for my birthday present next semester."

My mother smiled, she knew that this was actually my first birthday gift in the real sense of the word in many years, in fact, it was not a different gift, it was just a family trip to the village for a walk, at that time it was just casually mentioned, I didn't expect that I always remembered, I have always looked forward to it. The mother silently recited in her heart: "May the Bodhisattva bless the children from leaving regrets because of themselves"

"Maybe we'll run into distant relatives outside the village."

I was still immersed in my own expectations, but I didn't expect this sentence to make my mother's face change.

Thoughtfully, my mother asked me to sit down, and it seemed that it was time to tell me something.

I sat upright, not knowing what my mother was going to say, but I saw that my mother was serious and a little nervous.

"Remember, don't embarrass those little animals at any time, everything is spiritual, do more good deeds, accumulate more virtues, help the villagers more, and become a useful person......"

I breathed a sigh of relief, and it turned out to be this capricious teaching: "Mom, I know, you don't know how many times you have said it. "My ears are calloused when I hear these words.

"It's good to know, there are some things that must not be contaminated, we may not go to see distant relatives when we go to a foreign country for our birthday this time"

"Why? Why can't we see it, everyone is a relative, how can we not see each other if we have the opportunity? I was a little anxious because my mother hadn't said that before.

"Mom wants to see me too, but I really lost contact and can't help it"

"How can I lose contact, it's a big deal that I will spend more time looking for it then, the family always has to get together" At this moment, I still didn't understand what my mother meant.

Feeling helpless, my mother thought for a while and said to me, "They...... Their family may be gone. ”

I couldn't help but shiver at the sunset overhead, how could a good family suddenly say that it was gone, just like when I was a child, why did a good person suddenly move out of the village, I was a little confused.

My mother closed her eyes and thought for a long time, and then she told me the truth.

When I was very young, the family of three suddenly moved out of the village without warning, and few people in the village knew the reason, and not many people cared, after all, it was only a small family in the village. And the real reason is still fresh in my mother's memory.

In that year, there was a boom in the village to sell wild animals, wild meat suddenly became very popular, and the merchants couldn't put it down, they wanted to make a living, in order to let their daughters wear more new clothes regardless of dissuasion, a group of people walked into Wushan, killed what they saw, and for a time the animal corpses in Wushan were everywhere with the smell of blood and decay. A week relatives for killing animals in the mountains to earn a few months or even a year of money, the days of joy did not last long, a chance experience he and the nearby villagers found the weasel and snake nest, simply come to a pot, either catch alive or burn to death. Unexpectedly, it also caused a wildfire, and when he saw that the form was out of control, he fled in the wilderness. Fortunately, the wailing of the animals in exchange for the heavy rain in Wushan did not allow the fire to spread, and everyone escaped criticism from the village.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, after this incident, their family had a lot of strange things, whether it was a wife or a daughter, they would dream of the scene of the weasel mountain snake being burned to death, a group of beasts were burned black, and the heart-rending screams filled the whole dream. During a work trip, a relative had an accident and injured his face, and the day he untied the gauze scared the whole family half to death, and his relative's face was twisted and hideous, like a weasel about to die. The wife cried for an unknown amount of time until she could no longer speak, and then she could only make a shrill sound, which was like the wailing of a dying animal.

The relatives thought of retribution, but it was too late, and the old man told them that they had angered the mountain gods, and that they would not end well, and that it was already too late. After repeated pleading, for the sake of his poor little daughter, the old man told them that the only way was to escape, and the farther away the better, and there would be a glimmer of hope away from this Wushan.

So they left the village and never returned.

Later, my mother got the news that a family of three jumped off the bridge out of the village, and they should have been washed away by the water without a trace but very strangely floated to the shore, and the family also had a characteristic, the corpse was as if it had been charred before death, black and hard, not only had a pungent smell of burning, but also had a very strong smell, and the smell was exactly the same as the animals that died in Wushan back then.