Chonglong Iron and Steel Factory sounded the whistle after work, Yang Wudeng secretly thought about his thoughts, had no appetite and did not go to the canteen, directly passed through a low-grade earthen blast furnace, went back to the bedroom and lay down, smoking a dry cigarette and thinking silently: "I and most of the workers in the factory are farmers who are temporarily transferred from the countryside...... Alas, the family in the countryside who has been most concerned about after entering the factory for more than a year is over, but when I think of the naughty energy of Dahong's stinky boy, no matter what hurdles I have, it seems that it has passed. ”

Yang Wudeng felt a little relieved, a smile appeared on his face, and then he thought: "This afternoon, I heard from the workers who visited their relatives and returned to the factory that there is a plague in the countryside, and people use grain as a medicine primer mixed with water to drink, but their bodies are surprisingly fat, just like foaming dough. I couldn't do my job, I couldn't walk, and I eventually collapsed one by one...... But what about the family? It's so worrying! ”

The heavy rain drove away the sultry heat of the shallow hills in southern Sichuan on a summer night, so that Yang Wudeng, who was tossing and turning, finally fell asleep in a daze, and gradually entered a scene that seemed to be real and illusory:

He rolled over and jumped out of bed, propped up his umbrella, turned on his flashlight, and the walls and roof of his bedroom suddenly disappeared, and he felt as if he was in the wilderness, as if he were suspended in mid-air. With a click, he soared up like an immortal. For a while, it seems to be daytime, but in the middle of summer, many trees have bare branches and no leaves; There was no one in the village, and there was silence. For a moment, it was like night, and the sky was densely packed with stars, but there were no lights on the ground. In the blink of an eye, it fell at the Kowloon Bridge in his hometown.

A bolt of lightning illuminated the rainy night like day, and the surging waters of the Kowloon River drove rows of drifting corpses through the bridge and hole to the downstream. Yang Wudeng silently clasped his hands, and a floating corpse suddenly stood up from the turbulent river, and the extremely obese bodies immediately quickly emaciated like leaking balloons. A huge retort popped out of the river, filled with rice and steaming. The hungry people who came back from the dead swarmed up, desperately scrambling, some their ancestors and scolding their mothers, some fighting, and some screaming and falling down and being swept away by the river......

Yang Wudeng sighed, turned around and took a stride, crossing the Kowloon Bridge more than two miles long; He took another step and flew to the place where he had to go home more than ten miles away - Da Tomb Dam. A foul smell came to my face, and I didn't dare to gasp. As soon as the flashlight shone on, a carrion on the side of the road was overgrown with maggots, washed into a river of worms by the rain. Under the lightning, a group of ghostly spirits burst out, crying and flickering, and pounced on them.

Yang Wudeng is also a man who has seen the world in Moon River Village, and he was also panicked at this time. The cold air hit the whole body, and I broke out in a cold sweat. His instinctive self-defense knocked one overturned, and his accomplices saw that the situation was not good, and fled. Only then did he settle down, turn on the flashlight, tear off the disguise on his face, and it turned out to be a young woman. She closed her eyes tightly and tried to swallow the rain with her mouth wide open. Yang Wudeng's heart was so heavy and painful, he took out a cake from his shoulder bag, stuffed it into her mouth, turned around and continued to rush home.

At home, Xiong Miniang was woken up by a burst of thunder, touched her son Dahong next to her, and fell asleep in a daze after a few sounds. Dahong was so frightened that he curled up, and secretly looked out through the crack in the earthen wall, and the lightning flickered and threw down a pitch black, and then Lei Gong and Lei Po seemed to wield a big copper hammer, violently fluttering and rolling, driving the storm and rain. The thatched hut creaked with a terrifying creak, and it could be destroyed or swept away by the wind at any moment.

Dahong's sister Shuchun on the other side of the bed didn't move, and she didn't respond when she touched her mother next to her. In the fairy tale, the green-faced and toothy ghost, the disguised Mao family mother (man bear) floated in front of him. He subconsciously closed his eyes, and the weird-headed and weird-brained guy intensified, constantly changing his murderous appearance...... "Mom! He was so frightened that he sleked into the sheets, put his arms around his mother, his head pressed against her back, and his whole body trembled violently. She grabbed him on the ass and said, "Little Hades, do you want my life?" ”

Yang Wudeng returned to his heart like an arrow, took a sharp step and flew out for another twenty miles, and finally arrived at the stone wall not far from home. He noticed that there was a mountain guard bed in front of him, so he walked up to avoid the rain. The flashlight was turned on, the fence gate was opened, and the mountain keeper slept with his head covered. I didn't respond to a few calls, but I stretched out my hand to push and push, and it turned out to be a dead man who was hard and cold.

Yang Wudeng was even more panicked, and finally walked into his yard dam, the wind howled, rolling up the torrential rain and smashing into the bamboo forest on the roof. I couldn't help but be stunned when I saw the door of my house wide open, and a thousand worries and doubts came to my heart. He touched the front of the bed and gently turned on the mosquito net to turn on the flashlight. Xiong Qiniang Shuchun's mother and daughter slept on the bed but did not see Dahong, a stone in her heart fell to the ground, and another heavier stone immediately pressed up again.

"Baby, where is Dahong?" Xiong Qiniang sat up in a daze. Yang Wudeng shook vigorously and said, "Baby,, it's me, it's me." "Ah, why did you come back?" Xiong Yuniang threw herself into his arms and burst into tears. "Where's Dahong?" She lifted the sheets, revealing a curly ball. Yang Wudeng took him into his arms, and he was exclaimed by the ice of wet clothes: "Mom." "Don't be afraid, I'm Dad." "Daddy."

Dahong Shuchun choked on the cakes brought back by his father and fell asleep, Yang Wudeng sat on the bed and hugged Xiong Yuniang: "Your girls are bold, and you doze off before the door is closed?" "I'm so tired, Shuchun Guan. This girl is doing everything in a mess, maybe the door is not latched so that the wind blows open. Alas, the spatula team at home collected it as scrap iron and handed it in, and Grandma Dahong also allowed to leave a casserole, I went to borrow some water to boil some water for you to wash. "No, it's better to see you alive than anything else." "You haven't forgotten us, have you?" "Isn't this coming back?" "If you don't come back, you can only go to the slope to see the loess mound."

Xiong Miniang's nose was sour and sobbing, Yang Wudeng pressed her thigh, and the pit the size of a goose egg was sunk: "the baby, you are also swollen?" "You still ask, eldest brother, second sister-in-law, younger sister, you will never see each other again." Grandma Dahong's legs were swollen as thick as a bucket, but the swollen hospital couldn't squeeze in for a long time. ”

After a period of sad silence, Yang Wuden said: "Alas, this is similar to the situation I encountered along the way, which is really sad." "The mulberry leaves and elm leaves in the village have all been eaten up, and if this continues, I have to eat Guanyin soil." There shouldn't be people starving to death in the factory, right? "It's the same world...... I followed the purchase of the dumplings sold in the city, I don't know what kind of black thing is wrapped in rotten vegetable leaves or something, and I feel nauseous when I eat it. "Natural and man-made disasters." "But there is a cure for natural disasters, and there is nothing to be done about man-made disasters."

Dahong woke up and turned over and sat up, stretched out his hand and said, "Mom, cake." Xiong Niangniang took one from the satchel sideways and handed it to him, and he choked down a few bites and stared at the satchel again. Xiong Niangniang glared at him, and he pursed his mouth and retracted into the sheet.

"the baby, you can eat it too." "I'm young and can stand it, keep it for Grandma Dahong tomorrow."

"You, I'll keep it." Yang Wudeng said and fed her a cake: "If you drag it down, the old and the young ...... in this family" "Alas, if there is an afterlife......" "Think about how to live in this life first." ”

Yang Wudeng was full of guilt and hugged his wife tightly......

Suddenly, there was another click in his mind, and the scene in front of him disappeared in an instant, and he found that he was walking around the playground of the steel mill alone. He stopped his steps and looked at the storm in a daze. I returned to the dormitory in a daze, climbed into bed in my soaked clothes, and fell asleep again.