Section 7 Guifeng's life history

The village is full of trees and weeds, the bamboo on both sides is dense and blocks a lot of light, and occasionally you can see three or two small flat houses, more of which are old tiled brick houses from the sixties and seventies, which is much poorer than that of my grandmother.

When she told the other party that Chen Guifeng was her granddaughter and was going to visit her grandmother, she all had a look of surprise and sarcasm on her face.

Two more turns, my grandmother pointed to a dilapidated brick house in front of her and said, "That's your grandmother's house." ”

"What?" Can this dilapidated house be safely occupied? Chen Guifeng was extremely surprised, although Li Hong often said that her grandmother's family was poor, but the scene in front of her was much poorer than she imagined.

"Auntie, are you at home?" Grandma hunched over to the door and shouted. Grandma has always called her in-laws as an aunt.

"Auntie." Grandma shouted a few more times.

"Hey." A man's voice was heard coming from the patio.

"Li Wei, open the door quickly, your grandmother is coming to visit you." Grandma shouted, she looked down on Li Wei from the bottom of her heart, her own two sons were a little capable, and this Li Wei was lazy, not enterprising, and didn't do any money-making work at home all year round. Therefore, grandma shouted Li Wei's tone with a little lightness.

After a long time, I saw a man in his fifties, limping out and opening the dilapidated wooden door.

Chen Guifeng looked at Li Wei, dressed simply, with messy hair, still thin and pitiful. "Uncle."

"I haven't seen Guifeng for a long time, and I'm beautiful again." Li Wei said with a smile, the more this Guifeng looked, the more he looked like his old lover, and he couldn't help but look at her a few more times. Then I didn't forget to say hello to my grandmother and said, "In-laws, come into the house and sit." ”

Chen Guifeng walked into the courtyard with her grandmother, walked through the patio, and walked into the living room of no more than ten square meters. If it weren't for her uncle's face, she would have gone back to her grandmother immediately. The wooden sofa was old and blackened, and lime had fallen from the floor and walls, revealing the true color of the red brick walls.

Li Wei saw Chen Guifeng's surprised expression, and said embarrassedly, "Sit down, uncle, I have no ability, and I am so poor that I panic." ”

Chen Guifeng put the gift bag in her hand on the table and sat down reluctantly, sitting on that kind of sofa, she felt uncomfortable all over her body.

Li Wei politely poured tea for them in a cleaned glass cup and said, "Your grandmother has gone to herd cattle and will be back in a while." ”

Grandma and Li Wei sat down and chatted, while Chen Guifeng listened to them quietly.

I once heard that my uncle also had a little bit of pen and ink culture when he was young. But because he was abandoned by a woman in the same village, he couldn't think of jumping off a cliff and injured his right leg, and since then he has been walking with a limp, and he has lost the ability to do hard work, and he has not been able to marry a wife. She didn't know the details.

It was almost time for lunch, and my grandmother came back with a steady pace. My 70-year-old grandmother is still very healthy and still works in the fields.

Grandma and grandma have always had a good relationship, and as soon as the two met, they chatted enthusiastically, and they didn't take Chen Guifeng seriously at all, which made her so embarrassed and extremely melancholy. I had to go to the kitchen with Li Wei to help wash the vegetables and cook.

Chen Guifeng took out 600 yuan in his backpack and handed it to Li Wei, saying, "Uncle, you can use this money." ”

At that time, 600 yuan was quite a lot, Li Wei couldn't react for a while, he didn't expect Chen Guifeng to be so generous. Seeing that the other party didn't answer, Chen Guifeng had no choice but to stuff the money into Li Wei's hand, and Li Wei accepted it silently. He really needs renminbi, which is enough for him to eat pork for three or four months, and not to be a vegetarian every day.

"Thank you, Guifeng." Li Wei's eyes were wet, he was really sad when he was impulsive and caused the current predicament, but unfortunately it was too late to regret it.

Chen Guifeng didn't know the guilt in Li Wei's heart, and mistakenly thought that he was just grateful, so he said, "Uncle, it's all your own family, you're welcome." ”

The meal was quickly put on the old blackened table, and my grandmother immediately looked disgusted, just a small plate of pork and two small plates of green vegetables. Is there such a small home to entertain guests? Besides, Chen Guifeng visited them for the first time since his life, and he was even reluctant to kill a home-raised chicken to entertain them.

Chen Guifeng often heard Li Hong say that it was already great that her grandmother could eat a few pieces of meat at home, so she had no opinion on the food on the table. Li Wei was reluctant to go, he wanted to kill chickens to entertain his grandmother, but his mother didn't let him touch the chickens she raised.

"Grandma, eat more meat." Chen Guifeng politely sandwiched a piece of pork and put it in her grandmother's bowl.

Grandma has a stubborn and strong personality, and she has not accepted monetary handouts from her father Chen Chunhui for so many years. Li Hong can only occasionally secretly send some money to Li Wei for living expenses, so her grandmother's family has always been poor. Chen Guifeng admires her grandmother's backbone.

"I don't need you to come, I have my own hands." Grandma suddenly got angry and scolded Chen Guifeng, and hurriedly threw the piece of meat in the bowl to the ground, as if Chen Guifeng had put poison on her.

"Mom, you're not going to, are you? Just one piece of pork. Li Wei blamed.

"Auntie, this is just a little bit of Guifeng's heart for you. You're 70 years old, why do you care about the past? Grandma said displeased.

Chen Guifeng's eyes were red at this time, how could her grandmother hate her so much? She felt aggrieved.

"Can I not care? You see she looks like that crazy woman. I've endured it for so many years, but you deliberately brought her to the door today, and you were angry with me! Grandma's voice snorted when she said that. She has always refused to allow Li Hong to bring Chen Guifeng to her home, but today Chen Guifeng still came uninvited, and those sad past events touched the pain in her heart.

What did Grandma say? Chen Guifeng looked at her grandmother with a questioning face, and her head went blank.

Grandma panicked, her son Chen Chunhui has been letting everyone hide Chen Guifeng's life experience, so that she has not taken her baby granddaughter back to the countryside for so many years, just because she is afraid that she will hear some gossip. But more than 20 years have passed, and she didn't expect that her grandmother's heart knot has never been let go.

"I don't think this meal can be eaten, Guifeng, let's go back." Grandma put down the dishes and chopsticks and said with a wrinkled old face.

"No, Grandma. Tell me what the hell is going on and what are you talking about? Chen Guifeng put away his grievances and asked his grandmother seriously, who was so angry that her face turned black.

Grandma stood up excitedly, since Li Hong didn't give her the face of being a mother, she didn't have to be polite, I saw that she was trembling with anger, pointing at Chen Guifeng and saying mockingly, "You are in your twenties, which is your grandmother and which is your own mother can't be separated, what's the use of living?" That old witch in the woods is your grandmother! ”

"Mom, don't get excited." Li Wei hurriedly helped his mother, looked at the frightened Chen Guifeng, and said, "Guifeng, you better go back first." ”

Grandma saw that her grandmother's face was inappropriate and her whole body was trembling, so she didn't care about comforting Chen Guifeng, and hurriedly stepped forward to help her grandmother, Li Wei's legs were not good, and grandma was afraid that her grandmother would relapse from her old illness, so she helped her into the room to rest. He whispered comfort, "Auntie, don't be angry. It's all my fault, I shouldn't have brought Guifeng, I didn't expect Guifeng to look too much like that bad woman. But don't panic, those two mothers and daughters are going to end miserably now. ”

Chen Guifeng sat on the chair in a daze, this scene really scared her. She was a little stupid, but she didn't understand what her grandmother was saying.

The tears couldn't stop falling, and she walked out regardless of the southeast, northeast, and northeast. Looking back on the past, her mother Li Hong has always treated her harshly and lacked warmth; Grandfather Chen Liyan and grandmother hated and ignored her; Dad Chen Chunhui is busy with work and doesn't ask about her life at all; Only her younger brother Chen Guicun and grandmother are really good to her. It turned out that she was a big joke, she had lived for more than 20 years, her mother was not her mother, her grandmother was not her grandmother, she began to wonder if her father would be her father? Where the hell is her real mother、、、、、、

Chen Guifeng, who gradually calmed down, struggled out of his contemplation and calmed down the agitated emotions in his heart a little. Instead of guessing here, it is better to go back and ask the truth of the matter. Only then did she realize that she didn't know where she was, and she couldn't even see ghosts except for tall trees, endless peaks, high-flying birds, and incessant insect chirps.

There were two forks in the road under her feet, and she had a difficult choice for a while, and she couldn't decide which way to go. Miraculously, the wet dirt road did not leave the footprints she came. After hesitating for a moment, she chose to walk the path to the right.

Chen Guifeng was preoccupied, and his mind was not on the road. Naturally, I didn't notice that after walking five or six meters, the forest began to become silent, and I couldn't even hear the sound of a mosquito, and the wind was blowing silently. The sky was overcast, as if a heavy rain was about to fall at any moment. The strange aura spread, and the surrounding trees blinked their dark eyes at her, ready to devour the woman at any moment.

Fortunately, Chen Guifeng found a figure squatting next to the road in front of her, and she walked over quickly in surprise. When I got closer, I felt that this back was a little familiar, and I felt a sense of déjà vu. She didn't pay close attention to what the other party was busy with, and asked anxiously, "Master, I'm really sorry to disturb you, I want to ask you how you can get out of this forest, I'm lost." ”

The other party didn't react at all, and Chen Guifeng was even more anxious, "Master, can I just disturb you for a moment?" I couldn't get out of this forest after walking for a long time. Can you please show me the way? ”

"You burn them all, and I'll take you out." After the other party finished speaking, he got up and looked at Chen Guifeng.

"Brother Fu Ning." Chen Guifeng was pleasantly surprised.

Fu Ning was stunned, this girl's eyes were long and round and big, wouldn't she be able to see the road, and always walk in places where ordinary people dare not break in. "Who's your brother?" He said unhappily that if he was still in the yang world, Chen Guifeng should call him grandfather.

Being able to meet Fu Ning in this deserted place, Chen Guifeng's heart was steady, as for why she felt safe with a strange man, she had no way to explain. She looked at the pile of paper on the ground, and said cheerfully, "If I burn them for you, you'll have to make me call you brother." ”

"Whatever you want." Anyway, they won't see each other again. Fu Ning was unfortunately killed before he had time to fall in love, and now let a little girl look at it with loving eyes, and the cold aura on his body waved a lot.

Chen Guifeng walked to the pile of paper and squatted down, took out a lighter in her pocket, the one last time, she felt that it made sense to keep it. This time, she didn't see any candles, just a pile of clothes and paper, and she could only pick up small stacks and burn them separately with the lighter in her hand.