Chapter 195: Face the Reality
Along the way, I didn't communicate with the driver, and I didn't bother to figure out what the other party was like. It wasn't until this time that the driver turned his face and I saw him clearly.
Suddenly, the driver was very young and had a very raw face, as if he had never seen it before. However, looking at his face, a wave immediately stirred up in my mind.
I've seen him, from a photo. I can't forget that at that time, I investigated the origin of Lao Wang Ning kittens, and with the help of Yuan Sihai, I found Lao Wang's family. At the place called Otomo Supermarket, I met Wang's parents and saw a photo of Wang, who was only a teenager at the time, from a small table.
I can't be mistaken, the very young driver in front of me is the old Wang, the old Wang when he was young.
I immediately couldn't accept this reality, and I wondered if I was dreaming, whether I was being calculated by the public. When I entered through the gate of Ta'er Lake, and when I came out again, I had already arrived near my hometown in the countryside, and the driver who drove us was actually only a teenager.
My eyeballs almost fell out of my sockets, and I looked at the old Wang in front of me blankly, and secretly stretched out my hand and pinched my leg hard.
It hurts, it hurts, and a cold sweat breaks out on my head, not because of the pain, but because I realize that at this moment, I am awake, and it is absolutely impossible for me to be dreaming.
Bao Weigong didn't say anything, pulled the car door and got out of the car, I was still in a daze in the seat, and the driver looked at me with a hint of impatience in his eyes.
"You? What is your name? "I wanted to ask his name to make sure I was really mistaken.
"You don't care what my name is." The driver's tone was not good, probably because he didn't want to talk to me.
I wanted to ask again, but Bao Weigong knocked on the window outside the car and told me to get out of the car.
When I got out of the car, it was as if I couldn't even stand on my feet, and my legs were shaking. Bao Weigong walked in from the intersection on the side of the road with a crutch. Walk into this intersection and follow the path all the way to our village.
"Who is that driver just now?" I followed Bao Weigong and asked, "What's his name?" ”
"He's just a young man, he doesn't go to school anymore, and he doesn't have anything to do, so I found him something to do and let him have a bowl of rice to eat." Bao Weigong said lightly: "What, do you know him?" ”
My mind was full of doubts, what the hell is going on?
Bao Weigong didn't care if I had any doubts, just walked forward by myself. Usually, the path leading to the village is relatively quiet, and there are usually no outsiders coming, Bao Weigong walked while looking around, and when he reached less than 200 meters from the village, he stopped.
I am too familiar with the village, there is a small forest in front of it, which is the playground of the children in the village, especially in the summer, there are many interesting things in the forest, and the children run towards the forest whenever they have time.
What exactly does Bao Weigong do? He couldn't have brought me to the village for no reason. I thought that I had a relationship with Bao Weigong, but I was completely wrong, this old guy knew my family background, and even knew about my hometown in the countryside, where I rarely returned.
"I told you that in this world, there are many things that seem impossible to happen, but they really happen, so no one can arbitrarily draw conclusions until they see the final answer." Bao Weigong stood in place for a few minutes, and then walked forward while hammering his waist.
"What the hell is the impossible thing you are talking about?"
Bao Weigong didn't answer my words, and walked straight forward, the weather is now very warm, in that grove, there are children playing and playing, Bao Weigong looked at those children, I don't know what they are thinking.
"Have you seen yourself other than in the mirror and in the photos?" Bao Weigong was silent for a while, then turned to me and said, "Have you seen it?" ”
"Old man, I beg you to make it clear, okay? What does it mean to have seen myself? I was very irritated by this mystery after mystery, and Bao Weigong kept pretending to be a big-tailed wolf to play deeply, which made me more and more restless: "In addition to the mirror, in the photo, where else can I see myself?" ”
"Look." Bao Weigong stretched out his hand and pointed to the woods.
We were standing on the edge of the woods, and following the direction of Bao Weigong's finger, I saw several children in the forest who were climbing trees and digging birds' eggs. One of them climbed very high and was about to touch the bird's nest on the branch, but the child's hand seemed to slip, and he threw himself up, and his legs stuck in the trunk of the tree, and he slid down about a meter above the ground, and fell down with a pop.
The kid was about a teenager, and it must have hurt him, and when he stood up, I saw that his knee was broken, and blood was flowing.
However, the child seemed to be quite skinny, and his knee fell like this, and he didn't seem to feel any pain, so he grabbed a handful of grass and rubbed it, and pasted it on the wound.
Immediately, the child straightened up, found me and Bao Weigong, and looked at us. The moment he raised his head, my feeling was like five thunderbolts.
This teenage kid is like me more than ten years ago. I always kept all the photos from my childhood until I grew up, and I know better than anyone what I was like as a teenager.
I looked at the kid as if I was petrified, and I couldn't say a word.
This child may be a little recognizable, after all, there are very few outsiders in the village. He was seven or eight meters away from us, looking at us, motionless. After looking at each other like this for a while, Bao Weigong smiled and said to him, "Young man, did you get the bird's egg?" ”
"Older people don't have good eyes." The child's knees were probably still hurting, and he frowned slightly, and said, "I just fell from a tree, didn't you see it?" And asked me if I got the eggs? ”
"Boy, it's a choking talk." Bao Weigong didn't care about this child's words, and continued to ask with a smile: "What's your name?" ”
"What about you, what's your name?"
"I'll ask you first, if you don't say it, forget it, and ask me what my name is?" Bao Weigong pouted: "It's a big man, you don't even dare to say it?" ”
"Why don't you dare to say it?" The child frowned, probably because he was provoked by Bao Weigong: "My name is Lian Chengfeng, what's wrong?" ”
"Lian Chengfeng......" When I heard him say this name, there seemed to be a boom of thunder above my head, and I couldn't help but take a step forward: "Your name is Lian Chengfeng!?" ”
It may be that my current appearance scared this child, and he immediately became alert, glanced at me and Bao Weigong, and stepped back step by step. I wanted to ask him again, but the boy turned around and ran.
"Wait......"
I just wanted to chase it, but Bao Weigong stopped me. He shook his head at me, "We don't have much time, we can't afford to delay any longer." ”
"But...... But he ......, "I can't describe how I feel right now, watching the kid run farther and farther away and disappear without a trace."
"Let's go back." Bao Weigong pulled me, turned around, and walked towards the way he came: "If you don't leave, we will all stay here forever." ”
On the way back, my mind was still cloudy round and round, and I secretly didn't know how many times I pinched myself, and every time it was a pain in my heart. I can be 100% sure that I am not dreaming, that what I see and hear is all true.
"Old man, I want to ask you." I walked for a while, and the strong fluctuating emotions were barely suppressed, I don't know if it was the hot weather, or if I was anxious, I just felt that my head and face were covered with sweat: "That child, called Lian Chengfeng, who is he?" Do you recognize him? ”
"I don't know him, don't you know either?" Bao Weigong did not answer my question directly: "I told you that there are some things that you will only believe if you see them with your own eyes." ”
Bao Weigong's mouth is very strict, and there is no leakage in his words, and he can't say a word about what he doesn't want to say. I followed him in a daze until I reached the intersection, where the car was still parked and the driver was crouched on the side of the road, fanning himself with his hat. Seeing that Bao Weigong came back with me, the driver stood up lazily, opened the car and sat in.
When we got into the car, the car turned around and sped off the road we had come from. I couldn't get any answer from Bao Weigong's mouth, so I could only ponder it myself for the time being. I lowered my head and thought vigorously, Bao Weigong was chatting with the driver in the back.
"How's it going, is this job still going well?"
"That's it, just mess around." The driver was like the second uncle, wearing a hat crookedly, and said, "One day is a day." ”
"Is the salary enough?"
"How can money be spent, it's not enough." The driver turned his head to look at Bao Weigong, and said with a hippie smile: "This job, I don't earn much money, and I still kidnap people, and I don't have any freedom at all." ”
"Then if you don't do this, what are you going to do?"
"I won't tell you, I know a guy who sells pork in the vegetable market, don't look at him every day, it's really a lot of money, people work for themselves, when they are in a good mood, they go out to make money, if they are in a bad mood, they don't want to do it, they come and go freely, and they make a lot of money, I am thinking, and I want to sell pork."
"Okay, as long as you find a serious job, eat a bowl of clean rice, and do the same thing."
When I heard the conversation between Bao Weigong and the driver, the puzzle that haunted my mind seemed to be solved at once.
As hard as I could believe it was all true, I had to admit it and face it. If I wasn't dreaming now, then what I saw was Lao Wang more than ten years ago, and myself more than ten years ago.