Chapter 8: Seventy Years Ago

The fat man forced the other party to the door with a sweeper's leg, the light in the room was dim, and the only window was covered by a thick quilt, and the man was facing away from the door, and we still couldn't see each other's faces clearly. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Faced with an enemy several times stronger than us, the fat man and I ran out of ideas for a while. At this moment, we are more like birds and beasts in a cage waiting to be slaughtered, and we have completely lost the room to resist.

In a stalemate, the man raised his hand slightly, although his movements were slow, but in our eyes, he looked like he was facing a great enemy, and he was waiting for his next move, and he spoke: "Young ......"

As soon as the two words came out, there was a muffled bang, and the other party's words stopped abruptly, and the whole person went down. We were surprised when a trembling figure appeared behind the man, it was the poison-eyed dragon that had been waiting for us outside the door.

Holding a bench, the Poison-Eyed Dragon asked in a trembling voice, "He... How is he? ”

I stepped forward and pulled down the hand of the poison-eyed dragon holding the bench high: "It's okay, Brother Si, this guy has fainted and can't hurt you." ”

After listening to my words, the poison-eyed dragon even said that it would be good. The fat man laughed on the side: "I can't imagine that you have been roaming the rivers and lakes for decades, and you will be afraid, you said that if you really enter the cemetery and see zombies, then you can't be scared?" ”

The poison-eyed dragon smiled bitterly: "The fat man smiled, I have been afraid of pain and beatings since I was a child, and I was far away when others fought when I was a child." Besides, it's not often said that knowledge is power, and fists can't solve problems."

The fat man said: "Chairman Mao taught us that power comes out of the barrel of a gun, and if you can't subdue people by force, who will tell you knowledge." That's right, Lao Zou. ”

I said, "Chubby, don't be kidding, hurry up and take a hand, you tie this guy up first, so that he won't wake up later, enough for the two of us to drink a pot." ”

Fortunately, the Poison-Eyed Dragon was not strong enough, and it was only the blind cat that hit the dead mouse and smashed it into a relatively weak place. Otherwise, he would have run out of gas by now. The fat man went to tie up the two men and a woman, and I asked the poison-eyed dragon to take the kitchen guy out into the hall. I'm going to untie the old man tied to the bench.

The old man's eyes were already a little dead, and his experience of this night can be seen. Seeing that we put each other in, this revealed a little vitality.

Putting the old man on the ground, the poison-eyed dragon fed him a few more mouthfuls of water, and it took a while for the old man to breathe: "Lu... The old man's voice was extremely weak, and it took me a long time to understand what he was talking about.

I asked him, "Old man, are you talking about 'Lu'er'?" Who is it? Where? ”

The old man raised his arm with great difficulty and pointed to a wardrobe in the corner, and I put down the old man in my hand and walked towards the wardrobe.

This wardrobe looks very similar to the room we slept in last night, the layout of the whole room is almost the same, if there is no window covering, it is estimated that it will be the same room, and there is a simple bamboo latch on the door of the wardrobe.

The devil is divided into two layers, I first opened the upper cabinet door, the clothes inside, the lower half is neatly placed, the upper half is very messy, as if temporarily stuffed in, and I didn't find anything else.

The wardrobe on the lower level was opened, and there was a bamboo box with a lid on it. After moving out and opening it, there was a child lying inside, about a year old, with his eyes closed as if he was asleep. I felt a sigh in my heart, reached out and touched his cheek, and the temperature, and tried the pulse again, although it was weak, but still heavy and powerful, and I couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief.

The old man looked at the child in my hand, and struggled to crawl over and touch the child, so I hurriedly hugged the child over: "It's okay, old man, the child is just asleep, just wake up." ”

The old man touched the child in my arms with one hand, and said to me with a sob: "Young man, thank you for saving Lao Er's life, I hope you can adopt my grandson as an adopted son, and Lao Er can be blind even if he dies." ”

I looked at the old man in some surprise, and I didn't know how to answer for a while: "No... Old man, you can tell me where are your grandchildren's parents, and I can send you and your children over and let me raise them. Besides, I'm a 30-year-old man, and I don't have a daughter-in-law yet, so I'll take a baby home first, and who will dare to marry me in the future. ”

I don't know where I said it wrong, the old man's tears flowed down, looking at the old man in front of him who had been forced to confess overnight, he was a tough guy in his bones, but because of my refusal, he left tears, and he felt a little sorry in his heart: "It's not... Old man, I mean, even if you ask me to adopt your grandson, you have to tell me who his father is, or I will answer when the child grows up. ”

At this time, the fat man and the poison-eyed dragon were also ready, and the four thieves were also helped into the hall, except for the person who pretended to be the landlord was still awake, and the rest were in a coma without exception. I looked at the sleeping child in my arms and the seriously injured old man beside me, and suddenly became angry in my heart, and beckoned the fat man to tie four ropes to the beams of the house, and hung these thieves back to the ropes.

As soon as the fat man heard that he was going to move the guy, he agreed without thinking about it, and went to prepare the guy. I dealt with the old man a few words in a haphazard manner, and then asked the poison-eyed dragon, a half-witted man who knew a little about medicine, to show him the injury, his legs and patellas had been shattered, and his calf bones were broken, except for the ten fingernails that had been picked open, almost all the other parts of his body were internal injuries.

The poison-eyed dragon looked at it for a while and shook his head, I knew that something was wrong, and the old man said: "I know in my heart my own injury, if I didn't worry about my grandson, I would have died a long time ago..."

The old man gave us a brief account of what happened as if he was dying. The old man's name is Sun Mingyi, and this place was originally a large village with a population of more than 400 people and more than 100 households, called Xiaozi Village, but it seems to have nothing to do with the surname Sun. Seventy years ago, there was a wave of soldiers in the village, and when they saw the young men in the village, they were arrested, and then the village knew that they were coming to arrest the strong men, and some of these troops were scattered and fled back, and some died directly on the battlefield and never came back.

Officially, because of this, almost eighty percent of the men in the village died outside. Sun Mingyi's father, Sun Denian, was one of the lucky two adults, but when he returned, he found that the village had changed greatly, and the originally thriving village had less than forty percent of the population left.

After many inquiries, I learned that in the past few years since I left, some strange things have happened in the village, and there are several waves of bandits in the mountains, who come to rob houses and houses every once in a while, making the village unpeaceful, and then there is a wave of small warlords who beat away the bandits, but the village is already devastated, and there is really nothing that can be done to thank the warlord leader.

The village chief took the old, weak, sick and disabled of a village to thank the warlord leader at the entrance of the village, but the warlord leader did not say a word about driving out the bandits, but only said that he hoped that they would be able to vacate the mountain col behind the village, and the troops would camp there.

Although the villagers were puzzled, they also agreed to his request, and the villagers who had fields and land in the col all consciously moved out, and the village chief arranged another place.

I thought that with the protection of the warlords, life should be peaceful, but who would have thought that those soldiers were stationed in the mountain col for half a month, and something happened again.

One night, Sun Denian was sleeping at home when he heard a thunderstorm outside, and the whole village shook. All of a sudden, all men, women and children in the village ran out. I saw that a raging flame was burning in the mountain col in the distance, and the sound of the explosion seemed to come from there.

As one of the few people in the village who had served as a soldier, Sun Denian summoned a few young and bold young people to go and see what was going on.

This place is said to be a mountain pass, but in fact it is a dead end surrounded by mountains, and theoretically camped here, if there is an enemy attack, it is simply looking for death. But Sun Denian didn't understand these things at that time, and was just curious about the sound of the explosion. Looking down from the top of the mountain, a fire was burning in the big place, and the surrounding area of the fire was as bright as day.

There was a cave against the back, which seemed to have been blown up by them, and the cave was surrounded by a fence, and several soldiers with guns were patrolling. The rest of the people were digging deep into the cave with all sorts of tools, as if trying to find something out of the cave.

For more than half a month, Sun Denian wanted to know what was inside, so he would come over every night to take a look, and at first he brought a few people, but later everyone felt bored, so he was the only one to come and see.

It was unusually dark that night, there were no stars, and the moonlight seemed a little hazy, even worse than a moonless night. Sun Denian went to the mountain as usual, looking at the dirt moving in and out and the people walking in and out. Sun Denian was a little drowsy.

It looked like it was the same tonight again, and I couldn't dig anything, so I yawned and prepared to go down. Suddenly, I heard someone shouting at the bottom of the mountain: "Dig it, dig it." Sun Denian was immediately shocked, lying on the ground and looking down the mountain.

It's a pity that I don't have a tailwind, I'm too far away, and the other party's voice is too small, so I can't hear what I'm saying at all. The man who came out of the cave said two words to the leader outside, and with a wave of the leader's big hand, the swarm of bees standing guard and patrolling followed him into the cave.

Seeing that there was no one outside the cave, Sun Denian boldly went down the mountain, looked at the darkness in the cave, and wandered at the entrance of the cave for a while but did not dare to enter the cave.

After returning home, Sun Denian lay on the bed and closed his eyes and remembered the dark cave, always felt that there was something strange in it, there was always a pair of eyes staring at him in the dark, he was scared to wake up when he closed his eyes, and his clothes would always be wet with cold sweat after waking up, and he couldn't sleep all night.

Early the next morning, the same village companions who had accompanied Sun Denian up the mountain a few nights earlier came to him and told him that the troops in the mountains had been withdrawn overnight, and that they had been completely withdrawn, and that there was almost nothing left in the mountain pass. I asked Sun Denian what happened in the mountains yesterday.

Sun Denian was also confused, and he was afraid for a while when he thought of what was going on in the mountains, so he was perfunctory for a while, and then followed everyone to the mountain col to pick up all the things that the troops didn't have time to take away.

The people in the village had different opinions about the withdrawal of the troops, but no one entered the cave, until one day, a young man who had a good relationship with Sun Denian said to everyone: "Why don't we go into the cave and see, those soldiers have withdrawn so quickly, they must have found some treasure in it, and they are in a hurry to sell it." ”

As the saying goes, people die for money, birds die for food, this is not false at all, everyone listened to the word baby, how can they still endure it, one by one eager to try, want to see what is going on. Although Sun Denian was a little scared, after all, he went alone, and now that so many people are with him, his timidity is naturally much more indifferent, so he nodded and agreed to go together.

They all grew up in the mountains, and they are naturally very familiar with the roads in the mountains, and one sunny morning, several people made an appointment to meet at the mouth of the cave. Unfortunately, Sun Denian went up the mountain and walked slowly, and the rest of the people went to the cave first.

Sun Denian didn't see a single figure when he arrived, thinking that everyone hadn't arrived yet, so he waited at the entrance of the cave for a while. Still didn't wait for anyone, then he understood, and limped into the dark cave.

A small group of warlord troops of hundreds of people, digging for half a month, the depth of the hole can be imagined, Sun Denian lit a torch and walked alone in the dark cave, his heart couldn't help but play a little drum, shouting the names of familiar people as he walked to cheer himself up.

I don't know how long I walked, and then I couldn't see a trace of light at the entrance of the cave, it was pitch black before and after, and some mud began to be under my feet.

Sun Denian shouted as he walked, and suddenly when he shouted a person's name, a baby's cry broke the dead silence in the cave, and Sun Denian almost didn't pee in fear. Brave and trembling at who is in the dark.

The answer to him was still a baby's cry, and the faint light of the torch flickered in the cave, and every time it flickered, Sun Denian's heartbeat beat with it, wondering if there were still children here.

Sun Denian shouted and walked away along with the cry, and the cry was getting closer and closer. Sun Denian handed the torch in his hand forward, and there was a chaotic cry, like dozens of children crying at the same time, one after another, crying made Sun Denian's scalp numb.

It's dark everywhere and I can't see anything clearly, the stick in my hand is still soft when I poke it forward, and when I was about to touch it, a blood-red mouth looked particularly hideous under the light of the torch, and I bit Sun Denian's stick in one bite, and the stick with the thickness of my arm was broken in two, so frightened that Sun Denian fell to the ground.

At this time, I got close, and when I looked closely, what kind of baby was this, it was clearly a child fish, and listening to the sound, there seemed to be a lot of them. Sun Denian, who grew up in the mountains, knew that the child fish was powerful, and he didn't dare to slack off at all, so he stood up and ran back desperately. (To be continued.) )