Chapter 43: Old Sun Head
The sunshine of the last days is still very good, the flowers and plants on the roadside are growing happily, and some unknown plants are even more wanton and rampant, crossing the road where vehicles used to pass, which all shows that the environment is announcing the arrival of dominance.
It's a pity to say that the overland group got lost. In this unfamiliar environment with no navigation, no guides, and no people, this seems normal, but it is the after-effects of the loss of modern equipment that are uncomfortable.
Keep going, hoping to see the striking names of the land, and it's not in vain that you'll find an accurate map on the land strip.
"The road here has become narrower, so I guess we have reached the countryside."
Xia Zhen, who was in the co-pilot on the side, muttered with a map.
"Then I hope to meet someone in a small village and ask for directions." While driving on land, I said expectantly.
"How is that possible!"
Xia Zhen expressed his amazement, he didn't believe that there were still living people in the village in the last days, and even if there were, they would have fled long ago, leaving behind corpses, or lonely zombies.
"Hehe, you have to be optimistic, maybe someone." Lu Lu said with a smile, the green mountains and green waters along the way made him feel good, and it would be better if the vegetation on the road could be exposed to the roadside, so that he would not worry about driving into the fields.
"Okay, then I hope someone."
Along the way, I don't know how many villages I have walked and how many villages I have passed.
As for searching for the living in the village, there is no plan for this overland route, and you will not miss it by sounding the horn.
In this way, it was close to noon, and it took nearly five hours to drive, and during this time the walk was relatively slow, all country roads, and the vegetation was dense, and it was impossible to go fast.
"Wow, someone." Xia Zhen exclaimed, and excitedly pulled Lu Lu's arm, almost driving the car into the field.
"Don't hold my hand while I'm driving." Lu Lu couldn't cry or laugh a little, and he didn't blame her excited cheeks when he saw her excited cheeks suddenly turn into fright.
Then the group immediately stopped and chased after them.
It was an old man, wearing a straw hat on his head, carrying a hoe, and walking back in plain clothes.
If the old man doesn't walk fast, he will naturally be easily stopped by a group of people on land.
"Old man, why are you working here?"
The surrounding area looks barren and wild, except for a few small fields, there is no human population at all, if it is alone by land, he will speed away.
"Hey, I'm over the mountain." The old man looked happy, it seemed that not only by land they were happy to see the living.
It is said to be a mountain, but it is not very high, and some fruit trees can be seen on it, but they are already buried in the vegetation.
There is still clear vegetation on the side of the path, which has dried up after the sun, indicating that there have always been people here, but there are not many, otherwise they would not have connived at the destruction of fruit trees.
"That's it." The old man looked back as he walked, full of enthusiasm.
After walking through, the atmosphere of a quaint village greets you.
The village is basically full of mud houses, and there are not many of them, and there are dozens of households. From this path, you have to pass a pond, which is not large, and the water is covered with erected plants, and it is flattened in long strips.
"Old man, are there no other living people here?"
After walking the path, Xia Zhen rubbed the mud on the soles of her shoes on the grass, and asked curiously.
"No, they're all gone." The old man said, walked to a tree, touched it seriously, and shouted, "Godfather, I'll come back from hoeing." ”
The old man's strange behavior towards a large camphor tree undoubtedly made them curious.
Perhaps knowing this, the old man said to himself: "That day I had just come back from the field, and a few babies somehow began to eat people, so I fled with the people in the village, and then came to the town and said that there were zombies, so I moved with them and walked a long way by car." ”
The old man put down his hoe, sat down against the big camphor tree, looked ahead with cloudy eyes, and continued: "I stayed there for half a month, I couldn't eat or sleep well, I thought I still had to come back, I think I'm a godfather." ”
The old man looked back at the big camphor tree, Lu Lu and the others also squatted to listen to the old man's story, and after a while, the old man continued to speak: "I have been a child, it is not easy to raise, and I often have major and minor illnesses. My father told me his fortune, saying that he was short of wood, so he asked me to recognize this old tree as my godfather. Later, I was sick and sick until now, I thought, death is also death in this person, I am sixty years old, and I don't live long, I didn't expect to walk for three days, and the zombie Gua Wa'er who walked back is gone, so I cleaned up the bones and continued to live. ”
"Then old man, why did you go to the fields so far away, I see that grass has grown in the fields at the edge of this village." Lu Lu also learned that the old man sat on the grass and asked curiously.
The old man looked around at the fields around him, his face was full of wrinkles and smiles, and he said, "These fields are not mine, mine is on the other side of the mountain, you can't plant, you have to have rules." ”
"There have to be rules." Overland admiration.
"Don't leave at noon, if you don't have any good food, just accompany my old man to have a meal." The old man held the big camphor tree, slowly got up, and greeted with a smile. From the beginning to the end, there was no fear of firearms.
"I'm sorry for you." Lu Lu got up, ready to help.
The old man stubbornly waved his hand, signaling that he didn't need to.
Lu Lu asked Liu Ming to bring some food and fruits, and when he saw Liu Ming turn around, he thought about it and decided to get it himself.
Together, the two took down a lot of vegetables and fruits, and the canned food that was too salty was not taken, mainly light.
By the time they brought it, the old man had already cooked the rice from the earthen stove, set up a small pot and prepared to stir-fry.
Lu Lu put his things aside and stepped forward to help, he didn't dislike lunch, he just did his best.
At noon, there were still a few green vegetables, the old man's stir-fry was not good, and the rice was hard, but the five people on land ate it very fragrantly.
The old man also added half a bowl for the first time, and it could be seen that he was so happy, he was alone for nearly three months, and today he was finally lively, and he was naturally happy.
After eating, Xia Zhen also took the initiative to wash it. Lu Lu continued to talk with the old man, it turned out that his surname was Sun, and he had a grandson, and he was lucky to talk about it.
The old grandson had no children and no daughters in his life, and the sick were ready to be dragged into the coffin, who knew that one year, he took the money he had saved so hard, and before dawn he was ready to go to the town twenty miles away to buy a little piglet, usually as a companion, and it was more lively. Unexpectedly, when he heard the baby crying halfway, he tightened the stick in his hand and dared to leave. It turned out to be an abandoned baby, and he was still a boy, and now the old grandson is very happy.
Hurriedly returned to the village, and gave the money saved to a pregnant woman in the same village, hoping to give her little grandson a mouthful of milk. In this way, the old grandson has passed the age of confusion and has an extra companion, and his happy body is less sick. After that, he often said that he had a good grandson, who had cured his illnesses for many years, and loved him even more.
After that, the old grandson felt more and more that the child must be extraordinary in the future, so he made a special trip to invite the cultural people in the town to choose a good and loud name, just like that, his grandson has a domineering name, Sun Wukong.
"Sun Wukong? Very good name. Lu Lu was very envious of Lao Suntou's hard work, but unfortunately, he only had a name.
"yes, that's a good name." When the old grandson heard Lu Lu's approval, he smiled more and more heartily.
In this way, the two continued to chat, and time passed quietly, and the sun was approaching.
At this time, the old man looked at the sky, his smile froze for a moment, sighed, and said, "You guys go quickly, you can go to the town by following this road, it is getting dark." ”
Lu Lu said goodbye, bent down and bowed, and then left.
The old grandson's straight gaze has been watching since the people walked by land, as if they could see the distance through the mountain. Until the darkness engulfed the land, the valley, and him.