Section 35

"I don't think so. When it happened suddenly, I forgot to inform you. Chen Guifeng said nervously.

"Chen Guifeng, what is your attitude, I called you, but your mother didn't call me. I raised you with full wings, didn't I? I just slapped you on the spur of the moment, and you treated me like a passerby, right? Li Hong's high-pitched accusatory voice came from the phone.

Chen Guifeng hurriedly isolated the mobile phone from his ears, but the other party's voice was too loud, which hurt his ears. After Li Hong finished speaking, she relented and said, "Mom, it's my fault, it's all my fault." I'm busy right now and hang up the line. She didn't wait for a response.

"Is it Li Hong?" Yu Xiaolan in the passenger seat asked with concern.

"Hmm." Chen Guifeng restarted the engine, and with a "bang", the car drove forward.

"Guifeng, I've really wronged you." Yu Xiaolan said pityingly.

"It's okay, I'm used to it. Mother, don't talk to me again. The mountain roads are difficult to navigate, so I have to concentrate on driving. Chen Guifeng said intently as he looked at the road ahead.

Yu Xiaolan didn't bother Chen Guifeng by speaking differently, and she turned her eyes to the scenery outside the window. I didn't think her daughter could have such a skill, this was the first time she had ever sat in a car, or in the passenger seat, and her heart was irrepressibly excited, and her face was full of happy smiles.

The dirt road is narrow, surrounded by mountains and peaks, and the view of one mountain is higher than the other. The trees are lush, the blue sky is blue, the insects and birds are singing, and there are many wild flowers blooming fragrantly on both sides of the road, the scenery is beautiful, the air is fresh, but it is sparsely populated. During the whole process, only two or three motorcycles passed by Chen Guifeng's car.

finally arrived outside the entrance of Lijia Village, and sure enough, I saw Li Wei squatting in the open space smoking a cigarette, and it seemed that he had been waiting for them for a long time.

Chen Guifeng got out of the car and said a few polite words to Li Wei, and then got on his dilapidated motorcycle with Yu Xiaolan. Although Li Wei was lame on one leg, his driving skills were very skillful, and I saw him driving the two of them towards a small dirt road in the mountains that could only accommodate two motorcycles.

The speed is not very fast, and it cannot be fast. Chen Guifeng, who was sitting in the back, was very uncomfortable by the uphill slope, and in order not to disturb Li Wei's driving, she couldn't bear it and had to endure it.

The first ten minutes of the journey were bright, and the next ten minutes of the journey gradually darkened. The sun is obviously fierce outside, but inside it is dark and damp for the ancient trees, and there seems to be a yin wind doing tricks, and it is quiet and lonely outside, this environment is a bit scary.

Li Wei sent the two of them to the halfway point of the mountain and stopped, turned around and left quickly. He was going to come to the door to write a couplet for others later, and he didn't have time to spend it here. Li Wei earns some living expenses by writing beautifully.

Yu Xiaolan took Chen Guifeng to a broken yellow mud brick house not far away.

The mud-brick roof was not roofed with tiles, but was covered with thick layers of dry straw, and Chen Guifeng suspected that it might be raining lightly inside when it rained heavily. The exterior wall of the house can be seen in the natural color of the wall mud and many cracks, and the floor area is only 10 square meters. The small, broken wooden door was lifelessly open. Next to this unseemly mud hut, there was an open kitchen made of grass and thatch, in which only a pile of dry wood and a blackened pot could be seen.

Yu Xiaolan was embarrassed to lead Chen Guifeng into the house, Chen Guifeng was surprised, how to live in such an environment? I saw that the house was dilapidated. Against the wall, there are two bed boards less than a meter wide, and there are no straw mats or pillows on them, and there is a white-washed sheet. Look at this so-called bed board, it's just a few bricks underneath. In the corner of the room was a small pile of clothes and a few pairs of broken shoes.

There was no table or chair to sit in, and the walls were dusty and covered with dried corn. In fact, the house is very clean, but it is suffocatingly dilapidated. When Chen Guifeng went to Li Wei's house for the first time, he felt that it was dilapidated and poor, but at least it was like a home.

"Guifeng, you stay here for a while, I'll go to the field and call your grandmother to come back and meet you." Yu Xiaolan has lived here for many years and has long been accustomed to such a living environment.

"Hmm." Chen Guifeng replied with difficulty, she restrained the urge to escape, she didn't want to stay in such a living environment for a quarter of an hour. But because of her grandmother, who she hadn't seen once for many years, she had to endure the discomfort that ordinary people couldn't bear. planned to stay here for an hour or two and leave quickly, she and Yu Xiaolan had just met again, and the relationship had not yet developed to the point of desperation.

Yu Xiaolan smiled sweetly, she didn't know the disgust in Chen Guifeng's heart, she happily walked out of the door and called her mother back.

Chen Guifeng was left alone, frowning, feeling uncomfortably worried, silently thinking about what beautiful excuse to escape from this place as soon as possible. Inadvertently, she saw a strange palm-sized gossip pattern on the wall of the two bed boards, and her eyes felt uncomfortable at the glimpse, and she looked away and looked out from the window, which had no doors.

About ten minutes later, Yu Xiaolan and an old woman in a shabby cheongsam walked in. I saw that her face was wrinkled, her white hair was scarce, her body was straight and thin, and she was about the same height as Yu Xiaolan. In fact, she is only in her sixties, but she looks much older than Chen Guifeng's eighty-year-old grandmother, perhaps because of her strange and dilapidated clothes.

The old woman's face did not have the amiable look of her grandmother, and her face was old-fashioned and serious, as if someone owed her 108,000.

"Auntie, she is your own grandson Guifeng. Guifeng, this is your own grandmother. Yu Xiaolan said. At that time, many people would use other names instead of calling parents.

"Grandma." Chen Guifeng exclaimed in an unfamiliar tone, this grandmother's appearance was not quite what she imagined, and she was a little in awe.

Yu Jinye stretched a pair of wrinkled eyes, looked Chen Guifeng up and down, and it was exactly the same as when Yu Xiaolan was young. After a long time, she smiled and said, "Sure enough, it's really my granddaughter." ”

But seeing Yu Jinye's smiling appearance was much more terrifying than when he was up, and his voice was hoarse and low, Chen Guifeng couldn't help but gasp.

Yu Jinye sat up on a bed board in front of her, Yu Xiaolan moved a shabby low bench to Chen Guifeng out of nowhere and asked Chen Guifeng to sit down, and then she also sat on a bed board in the back.

Yu Xiaolan saw Chen Guifeng's fear of Yu Jinye's appearance, she said, "Guifeng, your grandmother has facial paralysis, the expression on her face is uncontrollable, you don't have to be afraid." ”

Is it true? No wonder this grandmother's expression is so strange and terrifying, Chen Guifeng no longer looks at Yu Jinye's face, so as not to scare himself.

"Oh." Chen Guifeng scratched her head, she had the idea of leaving this place.

Yu Jinye sits straight and looks good, and if she changes her face, she is actually a very elegant person. She saw through Chen Guifeng's thoughts, and said slowly, "Guifeng, you can't just look at people by their appearance. Grandma and I look terrible, but I'm always kinder than those well-dressed beasts. You don't have to be afraid of me, you are my own granddaughter, I can't love you too late to hurt you, you don't have to believe the rumors outside. Her eyes were shining brightly.

Chen Guifeng lowered his head embarrassedly and did not respond.

Yu Jinye turned his head to look at Yu Xiaolan a few times, and said, "The old woman brought medicine for you again." ”

"Yes." Yu Xiaolan replied.

Yu Xiaolan looked at Chen Guifeng with gentle eyes, feeling a little relieved. The women of the Yu family can only marry daughters, and a normal seed will generally appear every two or three generations. It's a pity that the former prosperous Yu family has fallen, otherwise Chen Guifeng would follow his mother's surname. It seems that Chen Guifeng is a normal woman, and her life outside should be good.

"Guifeng, how is your adoptive mother treating you? If she dares to treat you badly, I won't let her go. ”

Yu Jinye and Yu Xiaolan spoke in the same tone and rhythm, gentle and soft. Listening to the sound of their voices can remove the fear and uneasiness in Chen Guifeng's heart.

"No, she treated me well." Chen Guifeng said.

Yu Jinye nodded, and then said, "How does Chen Chunhui treat you?" He's a bad guy. When you knelt in front of me and begged me to let Xiaolan give birth to you, you swore to promise that Guifeng would marry Xiaolan as soon as you were born, but you were just old, and he didn't marry Li Hong's stinky mother-in-law. Guifeng, you will blame me for being ruthless in your heart now, forcing your mother to beat you off back then, but you have seen that Xiaolan gave birth to you and was abandoned, and she had to suffer a great hardship. She always spoke in a calm tone, without mood swings, more like she was describing someone else's story.

When Yu Xiaolan heard Yu Jinye mention the past, she couldn't help but feel uneasy, the past did not dissipate like the wind, she just remembered it.

The first time Chen Guifeng heard someone talk about what happened to her father and mother back then, she came to her senses, stared at Yu Jinye with a pair of curious eyes without blinking, and she didn't mind how ugly the other party's face was.

Yu Jinye received Chen Guifeng's curious gaze, and she asked, "Didn't anyone tell you about Xiaolan and your father?" ”

"Nope."

"Do you want to know?"

"Well, I want to know." Chen Guifeng instantly forgot the plan he had just planned to leave here quickly.

"But when I'm done, it's getting dark. You. Yu Jinye hesitated, she had the heart to let Chen Guifeng leave here as soon as possible.

"It's out of the way, I'm not afraid of the dark." Chen Guifeng couldn't understand Yu Jinye's concerns, she saw that this grandmother wanted to speak and stopped, which aroused her more curiosity, and she didn't know that curiosity would also hurt people.

"Auntie, you talk to Guifeng, I'll go outside to boil eggs. Let Guifeng eat it early and go back. After Yu Xiaolan finished speaking, she got up and walked out the door.

Yu Jinye didn't stop Yu Xiaolan, who deliberately avoided her, she thought to herself, "Guifeng is related to me by blood, so it may be okay to stay here at night." ”

Yu Jinye was fortunate, it was rare to meet her descendants, she was reluctant to part like this, so she used Yu Xiaolan's past as a topic, hoping to shorten the distance between their ancestors and grandchildren.