Chapter 002: Back to the Deserted Village
Chen Laoqi turned his head, glanced at the crowd in the house, slowly walked to the square table not far away, took out the four treasures of the study from the satchel on his waist, and prescribed medicine to his grandmother in an orderly manner.
Chen Laoqi's unhurried and unshocked behavior suddenly angered everyone present, and Chen Tianding walked to Chen Laoqi's side angrily, pounded the table and scolded: "Brother Chen, I still call you Brother Chen!" Have you ever heard from us? What the hell do you think? If you still don't say it, I'll really go to find Guodong, and it's up to you to see what you do! β
"Ridiculous! Absurd! Chen Laoqi finally said four words smoothly, and then wrote the prescription seriously.
Chen Tianding said: "Old Man Chen, if you don't want more ink in your stomach than us, you will say that we are ridiculous, you also know what happened to Feng Weiguo and Feng Chunhua back then!" He pointed to his grandmother as he spoke, "Now Feng Xilian is in the same situation as the couple of them, do you think it's a ghost?" Isn't itβ"
Chen Tianding fought for red faces, red ears, and green tendons, and said that he was dancing!
Chen Laoqi suddenly stood up, patted the table and said, "Tianding, you shut up for me!" How could you say such a thing in front of Lao Feng? Are you still not human? β
Chen Tianding said: "But now it is a matter of the lives of the people of Dongwang Village and Xiwang Village, I"
Chen Laoqi angrily reprimanded: "Hugh is talking nonsense! Xilian is not a demon girl, she has always lived in Xiwang Village, and her contribution to our Xiwang Village is obvious to everyone! Chen Laoqi faced all the faces in the room and continued loudly, "Which of you hasn't been helped by Xilian? Yes? Now you're talking about her! Where is your conscience? β
Everyone was speechless by Chen Laoqi's scolding.
Chen Tianding still wanted to argue, but his words were no longer as stern as Fang Cai, and said, "I'm not going to have trouble with Lao Feng and Xilian, and I'm not also thinking about the lives and safety of the whole village?" β
"Hmph," Chen Laoqi snorted coldly, "If something happens, I'm afraid you're worried that your precious son's position as the village chief is not guaranteed."
"Old Man Chen, don't spew blood!" Chen Tianding was anxious and wanted to come up and pull Chen Laoqi.
Fortunately, my grandfather and Meng Po dissuaded them in time to avoid a farce.
Chen Laoqi said: "Tianding, Meng Po, and all the people present, we all came out of the tragedy of Wei Guo and Chunhua couple. The feelings are there, but now why can't you even listen to my slightest words? I don't believe in the 'ghost body' claim? If I hadn't believed it, I wouldn't have sworn a poisonous oath with everyone there! β
Everyone was succumbed to what Chen Laoqi said, and felt that he was very reasonable, so they nodded one after another.
Chen Laoqi continued: "I took Xilian's pulse just now, where is she? It's just that he is angry and angry, and the fire is too strong, which leads to insanity. Don't use the events of the year to slander others, who can this scare? Besides, if it weren't for Xilian's timely action, I'm afraid we "
Grandpa interrupted Mr. Chen's words and said, "Forget it, Brother Chen, it's all about Chen's sesame seeds and rotten grains, don't say more." β
After hearing this, Chen Laoqi didn't continue, picked up the prescription on the table, handed it to his grandfather, and said, "Lao Feng, you follow the above recipe to grab the medicine, and according to the above prescription, you can give birth to Xilian to take." β
Grandpa took the medicine list and nodded yes.
Chen Laoqi's gaze fell on me, and he suddenly said, "Why is Xiao Yuan still here?" β
I walked out puzzled and said, "Big Grandpa, why can't I be here?" β
Not only Chen Laoqi, but also Meng Po and Chen Tianding involuntarily took two steps back, and Meng Po even said: "Lao Feng! Did you say you were going to send this child away? Why don't you listen? β
Grandpa argued: "Xiaoyuan's father and mother left early, and his grandmother and I can't bear it."
Meng Po interrupted her grandfather's words and said, "If you can't bear it, you can't bear it, do you know that if you can't bear it, I'm afraid it will bring disaster to Xiwang Village and Dongwang Village!" β
"No, not necessarily, right?" Grandpa is very authentic.
Now Chen Laoqi, who has been standing on the side of his grandfather and grandmother, also turned against him, and said: "Laoqi, Xiaoyuan's parents died bizarrely, and a lot of resentment has accumulated on Xiaoyuan. He must be sent away, otherwise the resentment will accumulate more and more on him, and it will not be good for him and the people of Xiwang Village. β
"This" Grandpa was noncommittal, his eyes wandered over me and my grandmother a few times, he hobbled to his grandmother's side, and whispered a few words in his grandmother's ear, and then got up, sighed, and said, "Okay, Ming'er, I'll let Guohua pick him up, and I promise that Xiaoyuan will not set foot in Xiwang Village again in the future." β
That night, my grandfather called his uncle Feng Guohua, who lived in the city, to come back. The next day, when my uncle Feng Guohua came back, he didn't eat a bite of food, so he took me out of Xiwang Village. I was just ten years old that year. Looking back at my grandfather's wrinkled face as he saw him off, I was saddened.
I really wanted to go back and run to my grandfather's side, fall into my grandfather's arms and cry, I really didn't want to leave Xiwang Village. However, there is no way to do this, the people of Xiwang Village and Dongwang Village will drive me away, and they will not stay for a moment. My childhood friends Chen Mo and Lin Hai didn't have a chance to see me off, so I cut off contact with Xiwang Village and the people of Xiwang Village for fifteen years.
Xiwang Village is really remote, you have to take a car for four or five hours after getting off the train, and then turn to a tractor to reach the entrance of the village, but to get home, you have to walk for half an hour on the ridge road. As soon as I got off the train, I talked to my uncle on the phone, and he asked me to wait at Shuikou Bridge so that someone would pick me up.
After all, with such rapid social development today, Xiwang Village has become very different from usual, and if there is no special person to pick me up, I am afraid I will not be able to find where my home is.
I got out of the car and walked slowly to the Shuikou Bridge. The surrounding houses have also changed from wooden houses to brick houses, Shuikou Bridge has changed from wooden plank bridges to stone arch bridges, and the roads have changed from muddy roads to concrete roads, but one thing has not changed. That is, the people of Xiwang Village and Dongwang Village have not changed.
The old man is still the elderly, the child is still the child, and the young adults are rare.
In rural areas, most of the younger adults go out to work to earn a living because of their livelihood, who is willing to guard the first acre and three points of land at home to make a living? Only the lonely elderly and ignorant left-behind children are left behind in the countryside.
When I got out of the car, many people didn't recognize me because of my face, and they cast strange glances. Moreover, because I have been away for too long, I don't have much impression of the people here, and I can't recognize them, so I have to take out my mobile phone and walk to the side of Shuikou Bridge, and walk at the head of Shuikou Bridge to play with my mobile phone.
The signal in the mountains is not good, and the speed of the Internet is okay, I browsed the NBA articles, and then looked at the click-through rate and sales of my novel "Luna", and my mood instantly improved a lot. After all, I finally saw someone leave a message behind "Luna", although it was only a short "good-looking" two words, but these two words are heavier than a daughter!
"Xiaoyuan-Xiaoyuan-"
Just as I was concentrating on my phone, a woman's voice suddenly came from the other end of the bridge. I looked up and saw a twenty-two or three-year-old girl dressed in a red flower dress and with two ponytails walking towards me, shouting my name as she went.
I can tell for sure that I don't know her! But how does she know my name?
She walked up to me, took the suitcase beside me, and said, "Let's go, why are you still stupid?" β
"You are," I whispered two words deep in my throat.
Her expression changed slightly, and she said in a somewhat complaining tone: "You don't even know me, do you?" β
I nodded helplessly, I really didn't recognize her!
After hearing this, she put her left hand on my right arm, and the force was so strong that it hurt me very much, and I couldn't help but cry out "Ouch! β
She didn't seem to be angry, and complained: "Okay, you Feng Yuan, you don't even know me anymore, can you take a closer look?" "She came to my side, and my eyes were no more than five centimeters apart from her delicate face.
My heart was pounding, after all, it was the first time I had been so close to a strange girl.
She seemed to sense my strangeness, stood up straight and smiled, "Okay, I won't tease you." Of course you don't know me! When I came, I heard Chen Mo say that you have already left. β
"Chen Mo?" I know Chen Mo, he is a very good friend of mine when I was a child, and what impresses me the most is that there is a lot of game in his house, and I can eat a lot of game in his house.
"Then you are Chen Mo's," I still couldn't help but ask.
She smiled and said, "I am Chen Mo's sister, my name is Chen Lin." β
I remember, when I was a child, Chen Mo always told me that she had a younger sister named Chen Lin, who was born to his parents when they were working in Zhejiang. Because family planning was strict at that time, and Chen Lin belonged to the black market population, Chen Lin has been living with her mother in Zhejiang. Later, when the policy was relaxed, Chen Mo's mother brought Chen Lin back to the Public Security Bureau to register, but I had already left Xiwang Village by then.
Chen Lin saw that I was thoughtful, and said, "Come with me, my brother, my father, and your uncle and aunt have been waiting for you for a long time!" β
I followed Chen Lin and walked cautiously on the ridge road.
Due to the rain that had just fallen, the ridge road was very slippery, and I still had a pair of glasses on the bridge of my nose, so I was very cautious when walking on the ridge road. But Chen Lin is different, she walks very quickly, and she can turn around and talk and laugh with me as she walks, as if there is a sunny avenue under her feet and a single-plank bridge under my feet.
We talked a lot along the way, and although it was usually her saying that I was listening, it didn't feel like there was much of a journey. When I was about to arrive at the door, Chen Lin suddenly stopped, and she handed me the salute and said that she was not going to go. I saw that she was my childhood buddy's sister after all, and kindly invited her to come in with me, but she refused to live or die. Seeing that she was resolute, I did not force her to invite again, and walked into the house alone with my luggage on my back.