Chapter 11: The Disappeared Child
It's the busy autumn season again, and although I don't have much land at home, because my mother is not in good health and my father is a teacher in a middle school, I don't have much time. Therefore, for the few acres of land at home, it takes many days to harvest intermittently every year, so I decided to ask Liu Wuye to help this year.
I went to Liu Wuye's house early in the morning, and after telling the matter, the fifth master readily agreed, after all, this kind of thing that has both food and wine is rare for the fifth master. After eating, they went to the field together. Today's work is to cut beans, and I and the fifth master will do it together.
"Fifth Master, tell me about the rare things you encountered when you were young," I talked to the Fifth Master while cutting beans.
"Okay, today I will tell you something I encountered back then, which was also in the autumn harvest season......" When talking about what he saw and heard when he was young, the fifth master was also instantly interested.
That year, there was a great drought, although it was already the autumn harvest season, but the crops were seriously poor, as a farmer's name, they all relied on the sky for food, and they were restricted by the economic conditions at that time, so there was basically no other source of income.
In the busy autumn season, there was a depression, and people couldn't sit back and wait for death, so they began to find ways to earn some extra money to subsidize their families. Because of the integrity of autumn, picking mushrooms in the mountains has become the best way to make money. Therefore, people from all villages, men, women, and children, rushed to the mountains.
There is a village nearby, which is the village mentioned above, where Han Wu's father-in-law's house is located, and that village is called Li Yingzi. The same is true for the people of this village, who rely on mushrooms to supplement their households. There is a family surnamed Yang in the village, the head of the family is called Yang Guochun, the family conditions belong to the middle level, a family of four, two children have a pair of children under their knees, the eldest is a daughter, just ten years old. The second is a son, who has just turned six.
Early in the morning, many people went into the mountains. In the blink of an eye, it came to the afternoon, because it was the weekend, the two children of the Yang family did not go to school, it was okay to stay at home, the eldest led the second, took a small basket, and also entered the mountain, the children who grew up in the mountain village themselves are used to it, so the adults in the family did not say anything, even if they couldn't pick mushrooms, they went to play.
Seeing that the sun was gradually turning west, the eldest took the second child down the mountain, and there were not a few mushrooms that were not picked. The eldest walked on the front foot, and the second fart followed behind. When he arrived at the door, when the eldest turned around, he didn't see his younger brother, thinking that his younger brother went to play crazy directly after coming down the mountain, so he didn't take it seriously, so he went into the house. When it was time for dinner, the mother asked the two children to eat, but she saw her daughter in the house, but she didn't see her brother.
So he asked his daughter, "Girl, where is your brother, didn't he come back with you?" ”
"Come down the mountain with me behind me, maybe go play again." The eldest daughter still didn't care.
The mother went out to shout, but she shouted all over the village and there was no trace of her son. At this time, it was getting late and late, and I couldn't help but start to get anxious.
hurriedly returned home and told her husband, "Guochun, hurry up and find your son, today I went to the mountains with the big girl to pick up mushrooms, and I didn't see anyone when I came back."
Yang Guochun still thought that his daughter-in-law was making a fuss, "What are you talking about, I'll be hungry after a while." ”
Gradually, it was getting dark, but I hadn't seen my youngest son come back, and then I felt that the matter was serious, after all, the countryside at that time was high and forested, and there were often wild beasts. They began to call the people of the village to search for them, some with flashlights, some even carrying lanterns, and began to search along the perimeter of the village, but they still found nothing.
Yang Guochun's daughter-in-law was anxious, crying and shouting. At this time, I can only ask the eldest daughter to show the way to the mountain where the two of them walked during the day. And they went with them into the mountain. Everyone shouted their names and searched for them in the middle of the night, but there was still no one to be seen.
After searching all night, I searched the mountains around the village, and the news also spread to our village. Because they are not far from each other, and the mountains are connected to the mountains, they mobilized the people of our village to search together, and Liu Wuye is one of them.
I searched for three days, but I still found nothing. At noon on the third day, the family was about to give up, and the child's mother was just sitting on the kang and crying uncontrollably, and everyone was moved when they saw it. It seems that there is a high probability of being bitten by a wild beast, after all, the child is only six years old.
Suddenly, the child's mother, as if remembering something, got down to the ground, put on her shoes, came out of the house, and ran straight to the ravine to the north, which was directly north of the village. The child's mother walked on the front foot, and everyone was very puzzled, so they followed from behind.
At this time, what appeared in front of everyone's eyes was a cemetery, and Yang Guochun recognized that this was the location of his family's ancestral grave. When the people followed the child's mother to a large grave, they saw a child's shoes on top of the grave. The child's mother ran up to pick up the shoe, which was the same one her son was wearing that day.
When the child's mother picked up the shoes, she fainted instantly. Everyone carried the child's mother home with all hands and feet.
Just when everyone was about to despair, a person rode a bicycle and hurriedly came to Yang Guochun's house, and everyone was surprised.
The man asked, "I heard that a child in this village was lost, whose family is it?" ”
"It's my family, I couldn't find it the day before yesterday, it's been three days!" Yang Guochun said anxiously.
"Then you come with me quickly." The man looked anxious too.
Yang Guochun couldn't take care of so much, and there were more than a dozen people in the village, so he went to the south of the village with this person.
While talking, I came to the next village, this village is very familiar with Li Yingzi because it is not far from Li Yingzi, this village is called Lizigou, why is it called this strange name, because in the east of this village, there is a cliff, in the mountain village are called such a cliff, this is the origin of the name of this village.
Everyone followed this person, and came to the bottom of the stone in the east of the village, only to see this place, several zhang high, no grass on the top of the stone, the front is very steep, and it is quite spectacular from a distance. What's even more peculiar is that in the middle of this stone, a stone protrudes, and this stone is like an independent inlay on the stone, with an area of about a few square meters, but it is extremely eye-catching.
When they walked into the place, they saw the bulge from afar, and when they looked closely, there was a child lying motionless on the bulge of the stone. This child is clearly Yang Guochun's youngest son. The crowd couldn't tell whether the child was dead or alive. I can only find a way to go up and get the child down.
What's even trickier is, how do you get there? Because of its steepness, even a nimble adult can't easily climb it, let alone a child. Everyone was very puzzled, thought of a lot of ways, and finally decided to climb from the mountain next to the lizi to the top of the lizi, and then find a long enough rope, tie it around a person's waist, and go down vertically along the top of the lizi.
After a lot of efforts, the child was finally brought down, and everyone gathered around to see that the child was not only fine, but also snoring. was even more surprised and surprised, Yang Guochun came over and woke up his son softly, the son woke up and rubbed his eyes as if nothing had happened, just looked at everyone curiously, and asked his father puzzled, why these people surrounded him.
But things finally passed safely, and what is also puzzling is why the child's mother went to the ancestral grave of the family to look for it?
Finally things were figured out. Just two days before the child's disappearance, it was the death day of Yang Guochun's mother, that is, the child's grandmother. The night before the death day, the child's mother had a strange dream, in which she dreamed of her mother-in-law, and said to herself, "Daughter-in-law, I miss my eldest grandson, and I will bring it tomorrow for me to meet!" ”
This old woman was particularly rare when she was alive, and her eldest grandson was very rare. Before he died, he kept calling his grandson's nickname. For this dream, Yang Guochun's daughter-in-law didn't take it seriously, thinking that the child was too young to enter the cemetery, but when she went to sacrifice the next day, she left her son at home and didn't take it with her.
There may be such a cause and effect relationship, but everyone can't believe that the child disappeared for three days and was found on the top of the coffin.
The world is so big that there are no wonders, and there is no way to talk about ideals. After Liu Wuye finished speaking, he lit a bag of cigarettes and looked into the distance......
Are you looking forward to the near future, or are you thinking about the past?