Chapter Seventy-Nine: Reminiscence
Zhang Yang is not the kind of Xianglin sister-in-law-like character, he doesn't like to tell others about his painful life over and over again.
But...... There are some things that he holds in his heart and doesn't tell anyone, and he feels very tired and aggrieved.
Regardless of whether Lin Mu was a good person to confide in, now he just wanted to give himself a chance to pour bitter water.
Perhaps, if you pour out all the bitter water before, life will not be so bitter anymore.
Zhang Yang sat opposite Lin Mu, and under Lin Mu's expectant eyes, he began to recall.
"It all started after you left......
It all started after Lin Mu left.
At that time, after Zhang Yang's family sent Lin Mu away, they returned to their previous peaceful life, fetching water and watering sweet potatoes every day.
Until the arrival of a man broke such a peaceful life.
That person is the third old man in the same city, Madi.
When the third child came, he came alone, and when he asked him, what he said was also upside down, which made people wonder.
Zhang Yang thought that Ma Di had encountered something bad, so he didn't dare to ask more, for fear of stimulating him.
Zhang Yang took in Ma Di and let Ma Di live in the same room with him like a forest tree.
Because Ma Di's expression had been a little sluggish, Zhang Yang wanted to let him rest and rest, so he didn't let him go to fetch water together.
A few days later, Zhang Yang and his father went out to fetch water as usual, leaving Zhang Yang's mother and Ma Di at home.
When Zhang Yang and the others went back, they found that the door of the house was open, Zhang Yang's mother fainted to the ground, and Ma Di was gone.
Zhang Yang and his father helped his mother up, and after a while, Zhang Yang's mother woke up.
"Grain, quick, our food!" As soon as Zhang Yang's mother woke up, she urged Zhang Yang to quickly find his family's food.
At this time, Zhang Yang remembered his family's grain, and when he returned to the house, not only was the only little food left at home gone, but even the sweet potatoes that had not yet been harvested were pulled out.
Zhang Yang knelt on the ground and kept hammering his fist to the ground.
Now where else can he go to recover the grain?
After Zhang Yang's mother sobered up, she began to talk about what happened after Zhang Yang and the others left.
After dark, not long after Zhang Yang and his father left, Zhang's mother was serving sweet potatoes in the house.
It turned out that Ma Di, who had been staying in Zhang Yang's room, walked out of the room.
Zhang's mother thought that Ma Di was going to the toilet, but she didn't care, after all, the toilet in her house was at the entrance.
However, she didn't expect that Madi actually went to open the door of her house, and what she didn't expect was that there were already three people waiting outside.
When a group of people entered the door, they began to find her family's food as fast as possible under the command of Madi, and then began to pull the sweet potatoes that her family had not yet harvested.
While doing all this, Madi has been helping this group of people, and it can be said that this group of people can smoothly enter her house and find her family's food stock, and Madi has made great contributions.
Mother Zhang saw that a group of people didn't give them a way to live, of course she was unwilling, without food, their family of three was not far from death.
Mother Zhang went up and wanted to fight with them, "This is my family's food, you can't take it away!" You put it down! ”
In the midst of the pushing, he was suddenly pushed to the ground, and he lost consciousness in a hurry.
Before losing consciousness, only the backs of Madi and the three people left were seen.
Under Zhang's mother's complaint, Zhang Yang, who was in the house, realized that it was he who lured the wolf into the house to cause the current situation.
"Madi...... He ransacked your house with outsiders? ”
Lin Mu, who heard Zhang Yang's narration, couldn't believe that the third child, who was once so good, would actually do such a thing to harm his brother.
"I thought it was incredible, didn't I...... I don't want to believe it. ”
Zhang Yang has not been able to come out of the shadow of that time until now, and when he said this, he still held his head in pain, "I treat him as a brother, but he treats me as a **"
Lin Mu couldn't say anything at this time, so he could only accompany him silently.
When Zhang Yang's mood improved, Lin Mu asked, "Then, the food is gone, what will you eat later?" ”
"At that time, they left in a hurry and didn't rummage carefully, so there was still a little sweet potato left in the field at home, and the whole family barely survived on this sweet potato at the beginning."
"Later, when the above recruited workers, my father and I participated in coal digging, and the two of us worked hard every day, just to dig more coal and exchange more food, and this face became like this over time."
Lin Mu looked at Zhang Yang carefully, and indeed, on his dark face, a little bit of soot could be seen in some fine lines.
Zhang Yang's hands were darker than his face, and there were cracks and bursts everywhere.
He couldn't be skinny, and it was hard for Lin Mu to imagine how Zhang Yang dug coal in the cold coal pit, and how he used such a thin body to carry the coal out.
"What about you? How did you get home? ”
When Lin Mu was looking at Zhang Yang, Zhang Yang asked Lin Mu.
"How else can I go home, I'm alone, I can only break the road into sections and move home little by little with the car of the armed group."
Lin Mu said it lightly, hiding a lot of details, just a rough idea.
"Then why did you come out again? Come here? It's freezing now, and it's even more chaotic in some places than before."
"Why? My brain pumped. ”
(Lin Mu: Can I say that the author has a brain pump?) I have to sacrifice myself! )
Hearing Lin Mu's deep self-complaining tone, Zhang Yang was a little puzzled.
"Did something happen?"
Zhang Yang asked this, and Lin Mu told him why he had to die and leave his hometown, and finally let people who didn't have a long brain wrap up his family and finally killed his parents.
Both of them are speechless, and there is always a price to pay for growth, but for some people, the price is too cruel.
"Don't talk about these unhappy people, how long have you been here this time?"
This time it was Zhang Yang's turn to comfort Lin Mu, and he decided to divert Lin Mu's attention.
Sure enough, hearing Zhang Yang's question, Lin Mu hurriedly answered the question.
"I won't be able to stop for too long this time, I'll have to sell something elsewhere in a while, this time I'm passing by here, and I'm here to see you."
"Okay, I know that I'll just think about your brother, if there is anything to be busy with, just get busy, don't delay the business."
The meeting between the two of them ended in a hurry, and the two of them said goodbye reluctantly, Zhang Yang stood on the road and watched Lin Mu drive away.
Lin Mu looked at Zhang Yang behind him through the reversing mirror in the car, thinking about what he said, and felt that things were wrong.
Suddenly, Lin Mu opened the car window and shouted to Zhang Yang behind him: "Brother, take care!" ”
Zhang Yang stood in place and whispered, "Take care." ”