Chapter Twenty-Seven: The First Awakening
The hazy sun was on his head, like an overturned furnace burning and boiling in the sky, and a large area of heat was rendered and shrouded in this ancient desert. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The pale yellow sky, the brownish sand, and even the air are filled with an old earthy yellow.
Da Lei looked at Xiao Hai blankly in this dizzy Huang Wuji, not knowing how to answer. The thought even came to my mind: "That little white flower is so beautiful".
Xiao Hai turned around and walked so fast in front of him with a grin. Da Lei followed briskly, he had obviously been asleep for four years, but he still felt tired at the moment, and he was already out of breath after only a few steps.
Da Lei is behind, looking at Xiaohai's back, he always feels familiar.
This scene, this gait, and the tune humming in Xiaohai's mouth.... All this is like the stone drum of the temple in the early morning, striking the big bell of memory over and over again, and each huge echo makes me have a headache....
Da Lei looked at Xiao Hai's back farther and farther away in a daze, his heart sank, and he remembered......
This scene.... This scene is just ....
It's the scene when Ganu brought them into the village!!
The child also ran in front like Xiao Hai, humming an old and strange song in his mouth, leading them step by step to the hub to hell.
Whether it is now or in that dream-like experience, Da Lei has doubted more than once whether the decision he and Xiaohai made to come to this village was correct.
The people here seem simple, but they always have a lifeless atmosphere. Da Lei still remembers the eyes of those people staring at him, like beasts hiding behind the jungle in the dark, silent and silent, but as if those desires would break out of the chrysalis and tear him apart in the next second.
People always take the wind blowing in their predicament as a sign before spring, and in despair, they feel the scratches of knives where the wind blows.
"Brother, hurry up." Xiao Hai turned around in front and beckoned, and ran faster in the blink of an eye. He smiled so happily that it was all like a dream.
The village is a large ring, with camel tents and dry food storage on the outermost side, and then the houses are arranged in a circle, and in the center is the house of the village chief, and a well.
Da Lei staggered to follow, and finally he couldn't walk, sat down against the well, gasping for breath, always feeling that all the strength in his body had been drained, and every step was extremely heavy.
Xiao Hai stopped not far from him, squatted down and said something to a child.
That's Canu......
The child turned his back to him, lowered his head and reached for the little white flower pinned to Xiao Hai's ear, giggling, the two of them didn't know what they were talking about.
At that moment, Da Lei was extremely jealous of Canu.
He felt like an outsider at the moment, an isolated outsider.
He seemed to have countless things he wanted to ask, but he didn't know where to start, he wanted to call Xiaohai, but he didn't dare to disturb them. He sat on the ground against the well, staring up at the gray sky in a daze.
I still remember the first time I came, a group of people surrounded the two of them in front of the old village chief's house, staring at them like monsters.
And at this moment, he is the uninvited guest, and Xiaohai has already completely integrated into this environment.
Wait a minute.... Wrong...
Da Lei hurriedly stood up and inspected the surroundings, opposite the well was the village chief's house, dark red, seven or eight meters high, square... There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with it...
There is a small stone statue at the door... Green-faced fangs....
Pattern...! It's the pattern!
When I first came to the village, it wasn't that big at all, and as soon as I entered, there were long and thin alleys, and through it were rows of earthen houses. And it was arranged vertically then, why is it circular now?!
"What are you thinking?"
With a pain in his shoulder, Da Lei turned his head in panic, it turned out to be the sixth child.
"What? Hurt you? The sixth put down the hand on Da Lei's shoulder and asked a little embarrassedly.
"Ahh It's okay..."Da Lei shook his head: "By the way, how is this village different from the first time we came?" ”
"So you're thinking about this...... "The sixth said indifferently, "There was a huge sandstorm half a year ago, and the terrain changed for some reason, in short, it was a disaster, but fortunately, the 'Shenjing' was not damaged, and blessed us to survive and rebuild the village." ”
"Sandstorm?" Lao Liu's one-stroke attitude aroused Da Lei's curiosity: "Does it happen often?" ”
"It's the first time I've met it in so many years, maybe someone has touched the forbidden sky..."
"What do you mean?"
"When a natural disaster occurs, human beings are not happy with nature, and then it fights back." It was Xiao Hai who spoke, he swaggered over and said with a smile: "Sixth uncle, I'm not wrong." ”
Hearing the title of Sixth Uncle, Da Lei was even more unhappy, but he didn't say anything, diverted the topic, and asked the sixth child: "Is the 'Divine Well' you just said this well?" ”
He pointed to the well in front of him.
"Hmm." Lao Liu nodded: "In the desert environment, water is a gift from God, I heard the old village chief say that the water in this well is always pitiful, but in any season, no matter how hot and humid the weather is, this well has never dried up." Including this sandstorm, the well is still unharmed. ”
Da Lei leaned over, held the edge of the well and stretched out his head to look down, the well was unfathomable, and there was a black sparkle at the bottom, which seemed to be water.
That's a lot.
At this moment, Da Lei only felt a force of gravity hitting behind him, and then the whole person fell down! I look like I'm about to tumble into the well....! With a pain in his arm, the sixth shouted in his ear: "Be careful! He pulled him back again.
It only takes a minute before and after, but it is a step between life and death. Da Lei's face was pale, Xiao Hai hurriedly came over to hug him, and he didn't listen to what he said in his ear. Da Lei stared intently at the villain in front of him, Ganu.
Isn't this kid about ten meters away from him? When did you come over?
It's still behind me........
When I thought of the strong force that came from behind me at that time.... Da Lei shuddered.
The boy kept his head down, did not speak, and kept kicking a large, half-exposed rock.
Did he push it?
But...
Da Lei looked at the skinny little Ganu.
He wasn't even big enough to reach his waist, he was so black and thin that he seemed to run away as soon as the wind blew...
Will there be that much effort?
At this moment, Ganu suddenly raised his head, looked at Da Lei, and said word by word: "It's not you who Ganu pushed." ”
Da Lei was surprised!
One is that he was surprised that he knew what he was thinking, and the other was that he understood what he said was obviously not Chinese!! These three...... Da Lei stared at Ganu's face, if he really fell asleep for four years, why did this child not change from four years ago?
Both in appearance and height, it seems to be the same as when I first met him......
Xiaohai patted Ganu on the shoulder: "No one said it was you, I thought too much." He turned his head and looked up at Da Lei: "Brother, are you okay?" ”
"Hmm." Da Lei nodded nonchalantly, squatted down, looked at Ganu, and asked as much as he could behave friendly: "Little guy, why did you suddenly run behind me?" ”
Ganu glanced at him, and soon lowered his eyelids, and his thick eyelashes were illuminated by the afterglow of the setting sun in a long shadow, hitting him immature on his face, which was a little familiar and innocent. After a long time, Canu said: "That's the 'Divine Well', and outsiders can't touch it." ”
"So you're here to stop me?"
"Yes." Ganu nodded, and then immediately said, "But Ganu didn't push you." ”
"Okay, then the uncle knows, and the uncle won't touch it in the future." Da Lei patted him on the shoulder, got up and just wanted to ask the sixth child, but the sixth person replied first: "You ask me, I don't know." ”
"You know what I'm going to ask?"
"Are you curious how you can understand them?"
Da Lei nodded.
Lao Liu smiled: "There is a rumor about the end of the Qing Dynasty, there is a person in the palace, and it should be interesting to see the small play of foreigners paying tribute, so he has a strong interest in the Western country, and secretly returned to the country with the foreigners, but when he came back, he could not speak a word of Chinese, and his mouth was full of foreign words, because he drank the water of foreigners." ”
"Huh?" Da Lei's mouth opened widely: "Are you saying that we drank the water here and ate the food here, so we understand the words here?" But we haven't forgotten the Chinese dialect! Your story is too casual! ”
"It's all said to be rumors, just listen to it, and besides, I told you, I really don't know."
Da Lei nodded boringly, glanced at the well again, and said: "Sixth, let me ask one last question, this place is deserted, and it is the hinterland of the desert, where does the water in the well come from?" ”
The old man frowned and lowered his brows for a while, and said, "I remember that the patriarch said that the inside of this well is longer and deeper than we imagined. The bottom end is supposed to be connected to a certain river, but I really can't remember exactly where it is. But speaking of which....." Lao Liu pointed to the tall and square brick-red mud house, and looked at Da Lei meaningfully: "You have been in a coma for four years, and today is the first time you wake up, so it stands to reason that you have to go to the patriarch's house and say hello to his old man." ”
Da Lei looked in the direction of Lao Liu's finger, and the doorway of the dirt house was pitch black, which made him think of the octagonal building in the Loulan ruins, and his heart sank, and he really didn't want to go.
was about to pull Xiaohai to refuse together, but the stunned boy hurriedly agreed: "Okay, I haven't seen the patriarch in the past few days, let's go together by the way." ”
Da Lei scolded his mother in his heart.
Lao Liu nodded: "Leizi, don't look at the few people here, but after all, people have rules on their ancestors, and many etiquettes and beliefs can't be touched." Let's go, I'll be out in a moment. ”
These two or three sentences set Da Lei to death, he thought to himself, what can he do if he takes a look, besides, he can hide from the first day of junior high school, but he can't hide from the fifteenth.
It's just that.... He looked at the dirt house, the dark doorway...
It seemed that it was crushed inside in the next second, and it was shattered.