The two quickly washed up and came to the breakfast street near the community, which was already bustling, and a row of stalls selling breakfast was in full swing. Fried buns, steamed buns, fried dough sticks, vegetable pancakes, fried pancakes, hen soup... All kinds, all kinds of things. But the two didn't have the leisure to go around, so they found a stall selling fried buns, ate them quickly, and before leaving, Qi Hai packed some more and planned to eat them on the way.

After breakfast, Gao Chuan drove Qi Hai's car to the hospital for injections, because it was too early, the hospital had not yet worked, and the two did not want to delay and set off to their hometown.

The hometown of the two of them lives in Qingzhai Mountain, which is nearly 150 kilometers away from the city, which is very remote, and others are trying their best to get out of the mountain, but the two old men move to the mountain instead, and their life and transportation are very inconvenient. They asked the grandfathers many times to move out of the mountains, but the two old men did not agree, which made them very incomprehensible.

Traveling east along the asphalt road, there were fewer and fewer cars on the road, and Qi Hai tried to make several phone calls, but no one answered, which exacerbated the two men's worries.

The tall ginkgo trees on both sides of the road retreated suddenly, and the shadows reflected in the glass kept changing shapes. It was a long, long road, but it was familiar to them, and they had made countless trips back and forth on it.

After a few hours of trekking, the car drove off the asphalt road, turned onto another cement road, crossed this cement road, and came to a town, there was a hospital in the town, Gao Chuan still wanted to take Qi Hai to get an injection, although he was also anxious to go home early, but this injection could not be saved.

There were not many people in the hospital, so I registered, queued up for a while, and it was over. After the injection, the two bought a lot of fresh fruits, pastries and daily necessities in the town, which they must do every time they go home.

Out of the town, the road becomes narrower, along the path can be driven to the foot of Qingzhai Mountain, at the foot of the mountain now there are only a few sparse families, and they are all old people, the younger ones have gone out, maybe after a few years, these old people have done the ancient, this piece will be completely deserted.

Gao Chuan drove the car to the end of the path, parked the car, and got out of the car with Qi Hai.

The road is here, and then you have to enter the mountain, and there is only a path full of wild grass and thorns when you enter the mountain, and there is almost no one to walk on the path except for the two old men, and there is Gao Chuan and Qi Hai who occasionally come back to visit, so the grass on the road grows higher and higher, almost covering the road, and there are pine forests on both sides of the road.

Where their grandfather now lives, it takes at least an hour to walk through this path and the pine forest. There is a forest farm there, and the house is in the forest farm. Many years ago, two old men partnered to lease the forest farm deep in the mountains, and then built a house in the forest farm, one person and one family, and the two families were next to each other, separated by a courtyard wall. After the house was built, they put a large fence around the perimeter of the house, enclosing the two houses.

For Takakawa, that forest farm carries almost all of his childhood memories. It wasn't until he grew up that he began to go to the town to study, to go to the county to study in high school, and to go to the city to go to college, until now, the days spent in the forest farm became less and less, and this once familiar place gradually began to become unfamiliar.

Two people were about to enter the mountain with their things, when an old lady with a cane came out of a house at the foot of the mountain.

The old lady was over 80 years old, and she walked tremblingly, with few teeth left.

Gao Chuan and Qi Hai hurriedly greeted each other: "Grandma Li, hello!" ”

The old lady squinted and recognized them, so she said, "Good boy, have you come back to see you?" ”

Qi Hai replied: "Yes, grandma, I haven't been back for a long time, come back and have a look." As he spoke, he took out two boxes of glutinous rice cakes and a handful of bananas from a large bag.

"Grandma, these two boxes are not hard, and you can chew these bananas, I'll keep them for you." As he spoke, he left two boxes of glutinous rice cakes and bananas at the door of his grandmother's house.

The old grandmother hurriedly said, "Don't you, good boy, you have it at home, you can take it quickly." ”

Qi Hai said: "You can keep it and eat, I still have more." Then he raised the big bag in his hand, and then said, "Grandma Li, we will enter the mountain, and we will come to see you when we have time." ”

Then he motioned to Gao Chuan, and the two walked quickly towards the mountain.

After walking along the path for a long time, through the pine forest, I saw two houses in the forest farm in the distance, Qi Hai's house to the west, and Gao Chuan's house to the east.

The two continued to walk forward and saw a slogan in red cloth and yellow letters posted on the periphery of the forest farm:

Protect the ecology of mountains and forests for the benefit of future generations

The slogan was tied between two pine trees with wire, and it looked like it had been a long time, and it was pulled down by the wind.

In recent years, the state has banned indiscriminate logging, and many private forest farms have been gradually reclaimed by the state. Fortunately, the two old men only cut down trees in this area in the early years, and then they have not been cut down again for many years, so the township government has not intervened too much, and the two old men will give the local township government some benefits every year, so that no one cares, and all along, this large area is equivalent to being contracted by two old men.

From afar, they saw that the door of their house was closed, and they hurried over, and the iron fence on the perimeter of the house was open, but the gate of the courtyard wall was locked.

Qi Hai and Gao Chuan put their things on the ground and immediately started calling their grandfather again, but they still couldn't get through.

At this time, a "woo" sound suddenly came from the courtyard of Qi Hai's house. As soon as Qi Hai heard it, he knew that this was a native dog raised by his grandfather, called Rhubarb. Qi Hai looked in against the crack in the door, and vaguely saw Rhubarb lying on the ground outside the kennel, but he didn't get up.

Usually every time Qi Hai came back, Rhubarb seemed to know, and ran out from afar to shake his head around him, jumping up and down, very excited. But today I don't scream, I don't jump anymore, I just roar "woo"?

Gao Chuan asked, "Is it rhubarb?" What's wrong with it? ”

Qi Hai said worriedly: "Yes, why is the rhubarb not happy at all?" I feel more and more that something is wrong, it is said that the two old men usually don't leave here, why haven't there been any news since yesterday? ”

"What could happen?"

Qi Hai said: "I don't know, I'll go over the wall and take a look." ”

As he spoke, Qi Hai took a few steps back, one ran up, one foot kicked on the wall, jumped up, and two hands were on the wall, he only felt a pain in his right arm, and then remembered that he was still injured. But he didn't care about it at the moment, and then he jumped up on the wall. Then he jumped down again and tumbled into the courtyard.

He entered the courtyard and opened the courtyard door from the inside, and Takakawa hurriedly carried his things inside.

The courtyard was empty, the door of the hall was closed, obviously no one, seeing Qi Hai jumping in, Rhubarb lay on the ground and roared twice.

I saw that Rhubarb was already dying, he couldn't stand up, his hind legs were covered with blood, and he had lost his appearance, and after seeing Qi Hai, a glimmer of light appeared in his scattered eyes.

Qi Hai hurriedly squatted down, touched Rhubarb's head and said, "Rhubarb, what's wrong with you?" ”

Rhubarb screamed twice more, like crying.

Takakawa said: "It has injured its leg, and it looks like it hasn't eaten for a few days." ”

Qi Hai was busy rummaging through the large and small bags, and found the buns that were packed when he ate breakfast in the morning, and the two of them barely ate along the way, and there were a lot left.

Qi Hai took two pork fillings and put them on the side of Rhubarb's mouth, Rhubarb sniffed and bit into his mouth with difficulty.