I sighed, pulled the car door and got into the back seat, Xiao Hei and Iron Hammer saw me come in, and slowly made room for me.

I was in a hurry to go back to the old house, and my anxiety was all written on my face, and the big and small black came to my arm, stretched out his head and stared at my face, and the hammer had not moved since he had moved his body just now, and was lying by the window of the car with his eyes closed.

When Li Huaishan started the car, Xiao Hei tugged at my cuffs and asked cautiously, "What's wrong?" ”

I only remembered when he opened his mouth, and the big and small black were able to speak now, but his speech was not very sharp, and he could only simply pop out one or two phrases.

I rubbed Xiao Hei's head: "It's okay, it's just a little uneasy in my heart." ”

Three words popped out of Da Hei's mouth: "Why?" ”

I smiled at him helplessly: "I don't know why. ”

As if they couldn't understand my words, they tilted their heads and stared at me with curiosity in their eyes.

I was amused by their stupid looks, and I stretched out my hand and rubbed them on their heads, and the two little ones were staggered by me, but they were not angry at all.

If you really want to talk about age, big and small are all ghosts in the underworld, and I don't know how many rounds older than me, but since they followed me back to the thrift store, in my eyes, they are two children who have nothing to do.

Now that Hei has learned to speak, he has grown eyes, and he has an expression on his face, which gives me an inexplicable sense of accomplishment, as if I raised my own child.

When Li Huaishan drove the car out of the parking lot, he asked me: "Where is the old village?" ”

I said, "Go out of the city and go west, and I'll show you the way when you get into the mountains." ”

Li Huaishan: "You better tell me where you are directly, just your sense of direction, don't point to the wrong way when the time comes, and go around the boss's circle." ”

When Li Huaishan was talking, Yan Yanan also took out the map he bought before, and I marked the location of Lao Zhai on the map, Li Huaishan frowned, and said that it was so far away, it would take at least five or six hours to get there.

But complaining is complaining, but he didn't stop a single one, and after driving the car out of Chongqing, he went straight to the mountainous area where Laozhai was located.

On the way, Yan Yanan asked me what I had said to my aunt and why I was in such a hurry to go back to Lao Zhai, so I took out half of the Netherworld Tongbao and showed it to Yan Yanan.

Yan Yanan was also surprised that only half of this Netherworld Treasure was left, and asked me what was going on.

I can't give an answer to such a question, but I just told her that this half of the ancient money was specially left in the village by my father, and I think that when I go back to the village this time, I may be able to get some news from him.

After that, Yan Yanan didn't say anything, Li Huaishan glanced at me in the rearview mirror from time to time, but he didn't speak, just driving.

The uneasiness in my heart seems to have affected the two of them as well, and now, like me, they want to return to Laozhai as soon as possible.

As soon as the car started to drive, Xiao Hei began to feel sleepy, so he leaned into my arms and fell asleep after a while.

These two little guys have a chill on their bodies, but when I hold them, I feel a different kind of warmth in my heart.

The car kept moving forward, passing by the zoo where I went when my parents and I were separated, and by the old gas station where my second uncle used to work.

Gradually, I finally understood where the uneasiness in my heart came from, I was afraid, afraid that after I returned to the old village, I still wouldn't get news from my parents, and I was even more afraid that I would get bad news that I couldn't face.

Perhaps after all these years, they are long gone.

The last time my dad showed up was five years ago, and no one knows what he took from the hands of the Nojan witch, I only know that the second uncle had a car accident, which happened five years ago.

The aunt said that the second uncle seemed to know that he was going to have an accident, so he went to the village in a panic to retrieve the wooden box, and his death may be related to this half of the ancient coin. My dad is the same as me, they are all yin, and the Netherworld Tongbao is like the meat in our hearts for us, and it is an inseparable existence, but he actually left this half of the ancient money in the village.

Something happened soon after the second uncle retrieved the wooden box, so will my dad do the same......

Thinking about this, I don't dare to think about it anymore.

Li Huaishan didn't dare to slow down all the way, and after four and a half hours, I finally returned to the old village where I once lived.

Before the age of 20, the best nine years of my life were spent here, although I was poor at that time, life was not ordinarily poor, but my parents were by my side, material scarcity could not dilute the taste of home, and the simple feelings between the villagers were also memories that I could not give up in my heart.

But now that I revisit the old place, I find that the beauty of the past has now become difficult for me to look at.

I told Li Huaishan to avoid the main road and follow a path back to the old thatched hut where we lived more than ten years ago, which no one seemed to live in since we moved out, and the mud rammed walls and thatched roof were dilapidated and looked crumbling.

Li Huaishan stopped the car, stretched out his head to look at the lonely and dilapidated house, and asked me in disbelief: "You used to live in this kind of place?" ”

"It wasn't this broken before." As I spoke, I gently put the black on the saddle and quickly got out of the car.

It was already more than twelve o'clock in the morning, the room was dark, I followed the memories of the past, found the oil lamp in the cupboard, but the lamp was no longer usable, so many years have passed, most of the oil in the lamp has evaporated, and the remaining bit has long condensed into a hard lump.

It was Li Huaishan who turned on the flashlight and gave me a glimmer of light.

The furnishings in the room were still the same as before, the tables, the stools, and the small bed that our family of three had once squeezed, I kept searching for in this familiar and yet incomparably strange fantasy.

There were still some pieces of clothing left in the old cupboard, and my parents were in a hurry to leave and did not take all the clothes with them, and the rest were left in the cabinet, almost eaten by rats and cockroaches.

I vaguely remember that the night before my parents disappeared, my father bought two catties of lean meat from the village, at that time I had never seen a whole plate full of meat, at that time I thought that the family had money, and the days would get better day by day, but I didn't expect that at noon the next day, I would become a child that no one wanted.

I searched the whole old house, but I could only find these old memories, and nothing else.

After one last glance at the little bed in the corner, I ran away from the dusty little house and ran out into the main road to catch a few breaths, but even the cold air could not calm my heart.

I took a cigarette out of the pack, lit it in my mouth, and took a deep puff.

He came out of the house, came to me, and asked, "What are you looking for?" ”

I took a long puff of smoke and shook my head, "I don't know. ”

Li Huaishan also came out at this time, took a cigarette to his mouth like me, and said to me thoughtfully: "I'm thinking about it, it's not a way for you to find it like this, how long has this house been deserted, even if your father comes back, he won't live here." Why don't you ask the people in the village early tomorrow morning, maybe they know where your father is? ”

Li Huaishan's words reminded me, but I couldn't wait for tomorrow morning, and as soon as he finished speaking, I spread my legs and ran towards the place where the old village chief used to live.

After more than ten years of change, the village has changed a lot, the road has become wider, and the low houses have become two-story mansions, and it took me a long time to find the old village chief's house from memory.

In the dead of night, I knocked on the door of the village chief's house, and the surrounding neighborhoods were woken up by me, and a lamp that had just been turned on dyed the calm village road a large yellow.

It didn't take long for footsteps to sound in the room, along with a series of complaints: "Who's knocking on the door so late." ”

This is a relatively young voice, and it should not be the old village chief.

I stood outside the door and replied loudly: "I'm a widow, the village chief still remembers me, right?" ”

"What if you're not?" The man standing on the other side of the door muttered, slowly pulling the door panel open a gap.

He glanced at me through the crack in the door, and I saw him, this man was indeed not the old village chief, but I saw a big black mole on his chin by the light that came through the street, if I remember correctly, this person should be the youngest son of the old village chief, and everyone in the village used to call him Brother Mo, but he was about the same age as my father, and I had to call him Uncle.

"Uncle, I'm Yu Ruofei, do you remember my father, his name is Yu Fengyu, you used to play cards together, we used to live in the village for a while." I said in a hurry, and the words were a little confused.

Uncle Yu pulled the chain lock on the door and slowly pulled the door panel open: "Yes, why did you come back?" These three are more in the middle of the night. ”

I didn't have the heart to talk nonsense, so I asked directly: "In the past few years, has my dad come back?" ”

When I asked this sentence, my heart was full of expectations, but Uncle Mi shook his head: "No, he hasn't come back since you moved out ten years ago." ”

Just as Uncle Mi was talking, an old voice came from the house: "I went once five years ago, met with my old man, and left." ”

My uncle and I looked into the house at the same time, and we saw that the light was on on the side bed, and the village chief's wife was wearing a jacket and walked out slowly.

I hurriedly called, "Grandma." ”

When I used to live in the village, every time I saw her, I would call my grandmother.

(End of chapter)