After walking out of the town, my father shivered and took out the money that Xiaoru gave him and stuffed it to Wang Sihe, of course, the bracelet was not given to Wang Sihe, my father hid it with meat. This article was written by...... The starter Wang Sihe asked, "Brother, where did this money come from?" My father looked at him and said, "Xiaoru gave it." ”

Hearing my father mention Xiaoru, Wang Sihe seemed to think of the little girl and said, "By the way, what about the little Ru girl, why haven't I seen her in the past two days?" ”

My father glanced at Wang Sihe again, and said lukewarmly: "You only have that Zhou Qiaofeng left in your eyes these days, where is there anyone else, Xiaoru left on the day of the memorial service, and gave me the money when he left, I originally wanted to take you away, who knows......"

Before my father finished speaking, Wang Sihe's face showed a hint of shame and asked, "Did she say anything when she left?" ”

"What can she say, she didn't say anything, just stuffed the money into me and left." With that, my father turned his face away. According to Wang Sihe, after my father said the above sentence, his face was a little red, but from childhood to adulthood, my father was a big husband in my eyes, and he would never be the kind of blushing and shy little woman.

The two of them walked a long way forward, and it gradually got dark, I don't know if it was a psychological effect, my father's illness was reduced a little from the feeling, and at this time there was no need for Wang Sihe to support him anymore.

After walking forward for a while, they unconsciously came to a deserted place, and when they looked around, it was pitch black, there was no shop in front of the village, and there was a night bird cry from time to time in the barren grass pile beside the road, which inexplicably seeped into panic.

At this time, the two of them were tired of walking, and after discussion, they found a soft grass nest on the side of the road and lay in.

As soon as I lay down, my father heard a slight snoring from Wang Sihe. At this time, my father seemed to be asleep, and he didn't seem to be asleep, Wang Sihe's snoring sounded in his ears, but there was a moving picture in front of him, it felt like he was looking at the reflection in the mirror, at that time my father had not seen a movie, and the image said that my father was like watching a movie at that time.

In the picture, the little girl Xiaoru was running in a panic in a barren grassland, and while running, she looked back, behind her, several people with cow heads and horse heads were chasing her frantically, these people were still holding rifles in their hands, and they were menacing.

My father was in a hurry and wanted to rush over to help her, but his body couldn't move at all, and he couldn't even shout, so he could only watch. After a while, several bulls caught up with the little girl, and one of them stabbed Xiao Ru in the calf with the barrel of a gun, and Xiao Ru turned over and fell down with a scream.

Several bull-headed horses quickly surrounded her in the middle, raised their rifles, and aimed them all at her head, and one of them shouted loudly in a long voice: Ready-

My father was in a hurry, yelling, digging his hands and feet, feeling himself shouting, feeling his hands and feet moving, but to no avail, the people in the picture were not affected at all. At this time, Wang Sihe's snoring was still ringing in my ears, very clearly, as if reality and dreams were intertwined, which made my father feel that everything in front of me was real and weird.

My father became hysterical, shouting and struggling more and more intensely, and at this moment, suddenly there was an additional person in the picture, dressed in black clothes and black pants, standing behind my father with his back to me, looking short and thin, like an old woman.

The man raised his hand and gently pushed on the bodies of those bulls and horses, and my father was extremely surprised, and saw that several fierce gods and evil spirits immediately turned into several clouds of black smoke in the shape of people, as if there was still wind in the picture, and a few clouds of black smoke were scattered by the wind, and they turned into nothing in an instant.

The man bent down and pulled the panicked Xiao Ru up on the ground, and I didn't know what to say to Xiao Ru, Xiao Ru glanced at my father, and continued to run forward, my father looked at her, and it didn't take long for her to disappear into the picture.

At this time, the figure that had been turning his back to my father slowly turned around......

My father looked at him and saw that it was the old woman. The old woman smiled at my father and walked over to my father step by step.

The figure of the old woman was enlarged little by little in the picture, and finally, the old woman stood in front of my father, and my father found that he was actually lying down, and the old woman stood beside my father, looking down at my father condescendingly, with a smile on her face.

My father tried to sit up from the floor, but he couldn't move. The old woman squatted down beside my father, smiling, but not speaking, and my father wanted to ask her, how did you get here, but she couldn't make a sound in her throat.

The old woman reached out and touched her own arms, and took out a small black pill, round and the size of a bean, and the old woman said to my father very kindly: "Little brother, do you know what is wrong with you now?" ”

My father wanted to say he didn't know, but he couldn't. The old woman continued, "You are not sick, but you have lost your soul. The old woman glanced at the pill in her hand and continued: "This is a medicine for your soul, take it, you will be cured if you are sick, and I will repay you as my wife." ”

Saying that, the old woman took the pill and sent it to my father's mouth, very strange, at this time my father felt that his mouth could move, and he did not refuse the old woman, and opened his mouth slightly. The old woman smiled, put the pill in my father's mouth, and then the old woman slapped my father in the chest, and my father felt as if the pill in his mouth had been broken by the old woman, and his mouth was full of bitterness.

My father sat up from the ground "suddenly", sweating profusely, Wang Sihe's slight snoring still sounded in his ears, looked up, the sky was full of stars, turned his face to look, it was dark and silent, the old woman was gone, but the scene just now was so clear and real.

My father rolled over and stood up from the ground, except for the clothes on his body that were soaked with sweat and wet, the whole child was relaxed, and his illness was completely cured......

When he woke up the next day, Wang Sihe was very surprised by my father's illness, and my father told him about his dream. Wang Sihe asked, was that old woman cured you? My father said, maybe......

At this time, both of them were hungry, and their stomachs were gurgling, but there was nowhere to find food in the barren mountains and mountains right now. The two of them straightened their clothes that were lying in the grass nest and continued on their way.

After walking for three or four miles, there was no village in front of them, or maybe they were on the wrong path. Wang Sihe seemed to think of something at this time, and groped for his body while walking, and after a while, Wang Sihe took out a cardboard box from his body, and my father looked at the cardboard box, which was printed with a color painting in the shape of a city tower, and the three words "Da Qianmen" were written on it.

I don't know when the seal on the top of the carton has been torn, Wang Sihe used two fingers to tinker with the seal for a while, and then pulled out two white paper rolls from inside, the length of the little finger and the thickness of the pencil.

Wang Sihe handed it to my father, and my father took it and asked, "What is this?" ”

Wang Sihe put his own stick under his nose and sniffed it, and said, "Cigarette rolls." ”

"Where did it come from?"

"Zhou Qiaofeng gave it, she also taught me how to smoke it, she said, **I like to smoke,**Everything is an example for us to learn. Come on, I'll give you a ......."

When it comes to the initiators of my father's two smoking, the first person to bear the brunt is not Zhou Qiaofeng, but the great leader who was shot while lying down.

After walking for a long time, the two of them found a small village and got some food in the village. A few days later, the two men found the train track, followed the train track, all the way south, about another three or four days, and finally returned to their hometown.

It may have taken nearly twenty days for the two of them to leave home and return home. It is conceivable what the family has become, Wang Sihe is better, there are three or four brothers in the family, and it is okay to miss him. My grandmother's house is not good, my father is the only seedling in the family, if something happens to my father, my grandmother will not have the face to go to the cemetery to see my grandfather and grandfather. For nearly 20 days, my grandmother has been going crazy.

When my father came home, it was already night, and my grandmother, like my great-grandfather, was happy and angry when she saw my father come home, and pointed to the ground in the yard with a trembling hand. My father was not as good as my grandfather, and there was no one to stop him until my grandmother was tired. My aunt Bai Xiaomei, watched from the side from beginning to end, not only didn't care, but also only hated my grandmother for beating my father lightly, and counted my father in her mouth, brother, you are too angry, you ran away without saying a word for more than half a month, and our mother's hair turned white!

My aunt, perhaps because she is not related to my father at all, is not close to my father at all, but is close to my grandmother alone. My father's relationship with my aunt has not been very good until now, and on the day of my grandmother's funeral, my aunt thought that my father's funeral for my grandmother was not grand enough, and she quarreled with my father. But before she died, my grandmother said that everything should be simple, don't make a big deal, and save some money for the children.

In fact, until now, my aunt didn't know about the old Xue family in Xicun, let alone that she was raised by my grandmother, and my father didn't let me say it, and I didn't let anyone talk about it...... (As I said earlier, the section of the old Xue family, if the book is really published, it must be deleted, otherwise there will be great changes in our family.) My aunt still doesn't know what I'm doing at home, and a few days ago she asked her son-in-law to ask me if I could go out to work, and there was a construction site nearby, and I told her son-in-law, who was my cousin-in-law, that I had something to do now, and I didn't want to go out. ）

Okay, let's get down to business. Wang Sihe didn't get much better when he returned home, so he beat his father Wang Xiaoshun on a tree.

A few months later, my grandmother somewhere found out about my father and the two of them in Beijing, interrogated my father, and my father couldn't dodge it, so he told it all. However, he didn't say a word about the bracelet that the little girl Xiaoru gave him.

In a flash, it was 1967, when my grandmother was forty-nine, my father was eighteen, my mother was sixteen, and my aunt was sixteen.

This year's Red Guards were even more frantic than last year, the struggle between factions became white-hot, and the number of people participating in each armed struggle was huge, and in some places even artillery and machine guns were used, like a warlord-style melee, during which countless people were killed and maimed, and the whole of China was in chaos.

It was also in the summer of that year that there was a drought here, and the township organized manpower to dig a spring in the mountains to the north.

My father and Wang Sihe were also arranged to dig a spring there, and there is a nice name called "Rose Spring", where my father's youth story took place......