Chapter 133: The End of the Road
Except for robbing the tomb with his father, Li Tianming has nothing to do. www.biquge.info has lost the protection of his father and brother, and has no skills to survive, and Li Tianming has become a problem even to survive.
Now it can be said that there are many betrayals, and no one dares to have anything to do with death row prisoners (fugitives). Relatives don't dare to go to their homes, let alone neighbors' homes, they don't dare to go back to their own homes, and they sneak around the mountains and fields every day, drink some stream water when they are thirsty, and find something to eat in the fields when they are hungry.
Fortunately, it is not a busy farm now, and there are not many villagers going up the mountain. It's been a month.
One day, Li Tianming fell asleep in a haystack at the top of a field - after the villagers had finished harvesting their crops, some straw and other things were not convenient to transport back, so they piled them up on the ground and pulled them back when needed.
Dawn dug a hole in the root of a straw stack, slipped into it and fell asleep.
When I woke up, I heard the sound of jingling next to me, and I hurriedly crawled out and saw a young village woman in her twenties and thirties grazing cattle, and it was the bell tied around the cow's neck that made the sound.
This young woman seems to be the daughter-in-law of the Lao Tian family in the south of the village who just passed the door last year, and when she invited her daughter-in-law, Li Tianming went to the eldest brother to pay a salute.
Lao Tian's daughter-in-law has a well-proportioned figure, a thin waist and a big buttocks, and a full chest and goose egg face, in the eyes of rural people, this is a good helper to live at home.
Lao Tian's daughter-in-law obviously recognized Li Tianming, and the two stared at each other for a long time.
After a while, the village woman took out a bag of things from her arms, gently placed it on the ground in front of her, turned her head and led the cow and walked slowly.
The back of the village woman disappeared behind the mountain, and Li Tianming stepped forward to pick up the burden, and found two pancakes in it, thinking that it was the dry food that the village woman had brought with her when she went out to work.
The tentacles still have residual heat, and it seems to carry the body temperature of a village woman.
Li Tianming knelt on the ground, swallowed the clear water in the ditch, and devoured it.
The two pieces of bread were torn off one and a half at once, and he choked and stretched his neck. I was about to put the cake in the ditch and dip it and continue to eat, when I suddenly saw my own reflection in the ditch, unkempt, shabby, like a person and a ghost, how could I still look like the handsome little boy at the beginning?
Holding the half of the pancake in both hands, Li Tianming came from it, opened his mouth wide, and cried silently.
He didn't cry when his father and brother died, and he didn't cry after wandering in the mountains for dozens of days, but the compassionate eyes of Lao Tian's daughter-in-law made his heart instantly fragile.
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Li Tianming decided to go home, although there were no relatives at home, but his heart was still full of nostalgia for home.
When I entered the village, I saw the door of my house from a distance, but it was still hidden.
I saw the villagers, Xiaohui in the east of the village, Shen Jun in the west of the village, and Shi Luo in the south of the village...... Li Tianming walked with his head held high, like his father who went to the execution ground, his arms swayed slightly, and he walked in big strides.
When passers-by met him, they all cast strange eyes, and Li Tianming looked directly at him as if he were ignoring.
Li Tianming could feel that after he walked by, he was talking and whispering behind his back.
Back at home, everything is the same as before, the pot is still on the ground, but it has been pooped by someone's chickens, ducks and dogs.
There are still big pits and small holes everywhere in the house, and the stove and kang are full of dust, and the hand is a big finger to lead.
It seems that no one has been here for a long time.
Li Tianming took a bath, changed into relatively clean clothes, lay on the kang, and waited for someone to catch him.
He waited until the evening, when his stomach was rumbling with hunger, and no one came to arrest him.
The rice sprinkled on the ground was pecked by ducks and shaved everywhere by chickens, and Li Tianming swept a small pile out with a broom, washed away the sediment with water, put it in a pot and boiled it half-cooked, swallowed it with rice, and his stomach was round.
After eating, lie on the kang and continue to wait for someone to catch it...... Until the next morning, no one came.
Day 3, Day 4, Day 5...... A week passed, and no one came to arrest him.
It was as if the world had forgotten him.
The movement is over, the mountain village is calm again, and no one cares if he is a deserter from the tomb robber family.
The people who paraded in the streets were released, and even a few people from the next village who had gone out to avoid the limelight also returned. The lives of the villagers have returned to their original appearance, but the Li family has lost a few vivid figures.
Li Tianming suddenly realized that perhaps, no one above cared about him at all, and his life was nothing more than a worm to others.
If you settle down, you can crush it, and if you lift your feet, you can release it.
The rice and noodles at home have been eaten, and if they don't go out, they will starve to death. Li Tianming swept the messy home, and there was nothing of value. Even if there is a little loose money and change, it has long been taken away.
Li Tianming touched the longevity lock on his neck, this longevity lock was given to him by his grandmother when he was a child, he was weak and sickly since he was a child, and his grandmother asked someone to make this silver lock with "longevity and 100 years old" written on it, and hung it around his neck.
Originally, the longevity lock should have been removed at the age of 12, but just a month after it was removed, he fell seriously ill and almost died.
After his father put the longevity lock back on him, he miraculously recovered, and he has been carrying it ever since, and he has not had any serious illness, but his constitution has always been very weak.
His father asked someone to teach a few brothers to practice martial arts, but because of his poor physique, he couldn't practice hard kung fu, so he could only learn some qigong such as breath breathing.
It seems that the only way to exchange his life for food is to eat it, after all, gold and silver cannot be eaten as food.
Walking out into the street, the villagers looked at him as if nothing was in their eyes. It's just that occasionally when I'm close, I dodge it, as if I'm afraid of being hit by the air.
Li Tianming felt funny, they were afraid of me, they were afraid of me, because my family died, because my family was executed by four people, so they were afraid of me! Hahaha, hahaha, Li Tianming couldn't help roaring and laughing wildly in his heart.
On the surface, he is still an expressionless, indifferent thin teenager.
Li Tianming was worried that the longevity lock would not be able to exchange for money. Fortunately, the bearded aunt of the supply and marketing cooperatives still knew the goods, and exchanged two small bags of rice and noodles for him at an extremely low price -- if you want to put it on hold, you can at least change it more than ten times.
Li Tianming didn't argue with her, nor did he quarrel with her, he picked up his things and left.
When I came back from the supply and marketing cooperative, Li Tianming's heart was clear, and I was beaten hard, I was safe, and no one bothered me......
While thinking, while walking, tears flowed.
There is suddenly an unprecedented desire for life in my heart, I want to live, I want to live well!
When I returned home, I looked at the empty surroundings, and my heart was extremely desolate. The lively scene in the past seems to be still there, the second brother and the third brother are fighting, the eldest brother is frowning and thinking about things next to him, and the father is sitting next to him and looking at the second brother and the third brother kindly.
As soon as I closed my eyes, the anger in the room suddenly disappeared, and there were only four upright corpses in my mind, with no mouth, nose and eyes, and only a big hole in my head.
After staying in the village for another half a month, Li Tianming felt that he could not stay any longer.
When the people of the village saw that he was like a plague god, no one spoke to him, and no one came to see him, and he lived all day as if he were living in the tomb of the living dead.
All the noise of the place he passed immediately ceased, and as soon as he left, the voice resounded behind him, as if he had an automatic switch attached to him.
The food I bought is almost gone, so how do I make ends meet?
Li Zhenbei taught a few children to rob tombs since childhood, never taught them how to hold a hoe, although there are a few pieces of land at home, but it has been given to other people's families, and people will send some food as "rent" during the New Year's holiday.
It's decided! I'm getting out of here!
Li Tianming moved all the pots, pots and pans, coffee tables, tables, chairs, cabinets, and everything that could be moved to the yard anyway.
What can be sold, all sold!
A notice was posted at the door, and on the day of the sale, it seemed that everyone in the village had come - the fourth child of the Li family wanted to sell his property, maybe there was something good that had been passed down from the ancestors! Maybe you can pick up a big bargain.
As a result, I was disappointed, cheap is cheap, but things are not good things, no different from ordinary people's homes.
Li Zhenbei has been in business for decades and has accumulated this bit of rags? What kind of grave robber are you...... Didn't you go in with four lives for nothing?
Li Tianming clasped his hands on his chest, leaned against the door frame and watched these people's eyes glow and roll around, and a contemptuous smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Although it is true that there are no good things, but things are indeed things, and after some bargaining, everything was moved away by the villagers - basically half sold and half given, and Li Tianming did not bargain as much as he wanted.
is so generous, even those scheming fellows faintly feel that they are a little embarrassed to take advantage of this cheapness.
This kid is probably out of his mind.
In less than half a day's effort, the huge rooms were all empty, only the bare soil kang remained, and even the mats were swept away by the old man Liu at the head of the village.
The two iron pots were also taken away, and the person who bought the pot knocked on the bottom of the pot "uneasily", what if it was made of gold?
Li Tianming had an extra handful of change and a cent ticket in his hand, and looked at the empty room with a sense of loss.
Originally, he wanted to see the plump and light figure in the crowd, but until the things were sold out, the figure did not appear.
Dawn walked through each room step by step, stepping on each place with footprints.
Walking out of the courtyard gate, taking one last look at the house, Li Tianming locked the door and left without looking back.
The villagers saw that they were still expressionless, and there was still a whisper behind them, none of this mattered, I didn't care.
Putting aside all the fetters, Li Tianming set out on the road without hesitation.
When I walked to the head of the village, I saw the plump and pretty figure.
The daughter-in-law of the Tian family was carrying a basket of grain, and when the two passed by, they stopped in unison.
The village woman wiped the beads of sweat from her forehead with her right hand, pinned her sweat-soaked hair behind her ear, and looked at him quietly.
The straps of the basket suffoled her breasts.
Li Tianming looked at her silently, put his right hand on his chest, patted it hard, nodded his head lightly at her, turned around, and left.