Now Tianchu figured it out, and it turned out that Gengen was a child who didn't grow up, which made Tianchu feel even more sorry for him. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"And how old was he when he died?"

"More than eight years old, almost nine years old, alas!" Wen Zhao lowered his head and rubbed his hands vigorously, his expression complicated.

"He died of illness?" Tianchu asked tentatively.

"It's not." Wen Zhao replied briefly, this answer contained too many possibilities, which made Tianchu couldn't help but shiver and frowned.

Wen Zhao rubbed his hands more and more frequently, frowning and blinking, after a while, he took a deep breath and continued: "Actually, I was only three years old when my brother died, and I didn't have any impression of his affairs, we are half-brothers, and later after my father died, my mother said that my brother let a relative take him away, anyway, I never saw him again, and my mother didn't let me mention it." ”

"These things didn't tell me the truth until my mother died a few years ago, and I didn't know that my brother went to the ghost mountain back then, but the city lord ordered that no one should enter the ghost mountain except for the sacrifice day, and I have always wanted to find my brother, but I have never had a chance, until you mentioned this matter today, I didn't know that he was dead......"

"What is he doing in Ghost Mountain as a child?" Tian Chu couldn't help but wonder.

"This ......" Speaking of this, Wen Zhao stopped again, looking very embarrassed, but he wanted to say it very much, very contradictory, and began to rub his hands again.

Under Tianchu's persuasion, Wen Zhao finally mustered up the courage to say what happened to Gengen back then, but Tianchu didn't expect that what he heard next was a sad story.

Gengen is a premature baby, less than seven months old, his mother accidentally fell in the yard, just in time for no one at home, Gengen and his mother finally climbed into bed alone when it was no longer possible, and when Gengen's father came back from work at night, Gengen's mother was dead in bed, and the bed was full of blood.

Frightened, Gengen's father threw himself in front of his daughter-in-law's bed and cried, and at this time another faint cry came, and Gengen's father found a small Gengen who was shrunk next to his daughter-in-law like a kitten.

Gengen's father feels that Gengen is difficult to die, and he will definitely have a future in the future, and carefully takes care of Gengen to grow up day by day, who knows that Gengen will be different from other children when he grows.

Due to congenital deficiencies, Gengen grows slowly, and is about the same age as a newborn child at the age of one, and he can't walk until he is three years old, and this year, Gengen's father found him a stepmother.

This stepmother's name is Feng E, she is an old girl who can't get married, or she can't marry Gengen's father with children, Gengen's life has been good in the first few years, and this stepmother is also very good to him, and she almost treats him as her own son.

What's the difference? In the second year of her marriage, Wen Zhao was born, and since then, Gengen's life has gradually begun to be difficult.

With two children at home, the pressure of life is suddenly great, and Gengen's father has to find a way to make more money, at this time, the young people in the city are following the horse gang to transport goods, and I heard that a trip can make a lot of money, even if you can't see your family all year round.

In order to make more money, Gengen's father left the two children to his daughter-in-law, and followed the people of the horse gang with the luggage rolls alone.

The two children in the family and the work inside and outside all fell on Feng E alone, and the heavy labor and taking care of the two children made this originally virtuous woman irritable and irritable, especially the root who was three or four years old and was not sensible, which made her look unpleasant everywhere.

This stupid child, who was not his own, gradually became a thorn in Feng E's side, a thorn in the flesh, once he was a little uncomfortable, he would pull it over and scold him, and often didn't give him food.

Not only is it common to not be able to eat, but he also has to work, don't look at his small size and lack of strength, but he can do dirty work and tired work, because only when he does the work, his stepmother will give him food.

Gen Gen's favorite thing to do at work is to play with his little brother, although he is five years older than his younger brother, but the two of them are like children of the same age, they are as tall and know as much.

"Only good children have food." This is the sentence that Gengen hears the most from his stepmother, and this sentence is also a sentence that Gengen often hangs on his lips.

In order to be a good child, he worked non-stop, did not eat well, and was not very tall, and at the age of eight he was still as tall as his three-year-old brother.

Every year before the Chinese New Year, Gengen's father will come back from afar, bringing back money and delicious food, which is the most anticipated time of the year, and at this time, the stepmother will also be very good to him, as good as the little brother.

It's the end of the year again, Daddy is coming back again, Gengen is looking forward to it every day, but what he looks forward to is a bad news, Gengen's dad fell off the horse on the way back and fell to his death!

This time, the sky of Gengen's family completely collapsed, other people's families were celebrating the New Year, and their families were mourning, although Gengen didn't quite understand what death was all about, but he knew that he would never see his father again.

After Daddy's funeral was dealt with, it was the New Year, but he didn't have anything at home, and all the money that Gengen's father brought back was used for the funeral, and there was nothing to eat at home, which made Feng E very annoyed, so he sprinkled his anger on Gengen's head again.

It was a cold night with heavy snowfall, Feng E faced the impoverished family and the young Wen Zhao, and suddenly had the idea of abandoning the roots, why should this Han'er, who was not his own, drag himself down?

Feng E called Gengen over and told him that when he buried his father in the Ghost Mountain, his earrings were lost there, and asked Gengen to find them for her, and if he couldn't find them, he wouldn't be allowed to go home.

How did the simple-minded Gengen know that this Feng E didn't even have ear piercings, how could she have earrings?

That year, the snow fell very heavily, thousands of lights were lit, and on the joyful Chinese New Year's Eve, Gengen walked alone through the knee-deep snow, and walked step by step to the ghost mountain against the cold wind, looking for earrings that did not exist at all.

This night, Feng E tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, and in the middle of the night she couldn't stand it, so she put on her coat and went out to find the roots, but the heavy snow on the mountains, where did she go to find it, but she didn't find the roots after looking all night.

Maybe it's a punishment, Feng E fell seriously ill after she came back, and she was not in good health for decades afterward, and she couldn't sleep well at night, when others asked about Gengen, Feng E said that she let Gengen's relatives on his father's side take it away, and others didn't suspect anything.

Only every time the young Wen Zhao asked where Gengen's brother went, Feng E would suddenly cry, Wen Zhao never understood why his mother was like this, until Feng E died a few years ago, and he told Wen Zhao everything. (To be continued.) )