Chapter 42: Milk

In the boy's body, except for the flower of perseverance, there is no other strangeness, and there is nothing unusual around him. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info his home is very clean, peaceful and good, and there is not even a trace of evil.

Therefore, some of the things that Ah Chu talked about before should not be caused by this monster.

In this case, I don't seem to be able to help at all, because I can see that the "weird" me is at a loss at the moment, and I don't know what happened to him.

I suddenly regretted why I told him that there were no ghosts in the world. Since he doesn't feel evil at all here, wouldn't he feel happier in his heart by letting him hold the illusion of his parents' ghosts around him?

In the midst of this entanglement, I became clumsy in my speech, and I didn't even know what I was talking about. The topic was quickly diverted, and we chatted for a while, and then I got up and took my leave.

Ah Chu didn't feel anything wrong at all, he just talked to me casually, and he didn't expect to get any meaningful answers from me. I think he told me about it only because I was a stranger who passed through this place occasionally, and he probably wouldn't mention it to someone he was familiar with, because the more familiar he was, the easier it was to worry about him.

But this incident left a huge question in my heart. I'd love to ask the mysterious guy who lurks deep inside of me, because it always feels like he knows more than anyone else. But he hadn't been there for a long time and hadn't spoken to me, and he seemed to be in intermittent sleep all the time.

So I decided to go back to the mountain and find a chance to ask Lichun to see if they knew what might have happened to this situation.

Out of the door of Ah Chu's house, I walked alone along the path and up the mountain. Originally, when I sent Ah Chu down the mountain, I had the intention of going out to walk around, so I didn't walk the way I came, but walked around the spring fields at the head of the village for a while, planning to take a look and then go back. After all, I grew up in the city, and everything in the countryside made me feel curious.

I saw that the fields were already showing a verdant greenery, that fresh green with a different kind of vitality, the most vivid time of the year, and no kind of paint could depict it.

In the fields where new greenery has appeared, there are some bamboo skewers sparsely and messily, and the top of the skewers is holding white things. I looked over and saw that the white thing was rolled into a round shape, and it actually looked like a boiled rice ball.

It dawned on me that this is the folk saying "sticky finch beak", but I didn't expect to be able to see it here.

I did my homework before I went out, and I knew that on the day of the spring equinox, in some places, the rural areas would cook the unwrapped rice balls, pick them up with a skewer, and insert them in the field. It is said that this sticks to the beaks of the birds and prevents them from stealing the crops. No matter how I think about it, this won't work, birds can't be so stupid, so it should be more like a ritual, with the meaning of praying for a good harvest this year.

These rituals always inexplicably give birth to a sense of strength in people's hearts, as if there can be something in their hearts, deeply believing and looking forward to it.

In the distance, you can see several children flying kites, little girls in flower clothes, holding kite strings, running happily, and the black swallow kite climbs into a small black dot with the wind.

Suddenly, there was a muffled rumble between the clouds.

There was thunder.

The adults who followed the children in the distance hurriedly caught up, took the silk thread from the children's hands, and quickly wound it to retract the kite.

In times of thunder and lightning, flying a kite is really not a smart choice.

Suddenly the raindrops the size of beans fell.

In fact, it is rare to see such sudden thundershowers in spring, which is more like summer rain, which catches people off guard and then stops suddenly. However, after the vernal equinox, "thunder occurs, and electricity begins", so it is not surprising that thundershowers appear. Spring rain is as expensive as oil, who in the peasant family does not look forward to a good rain?

I was just about to go up the mountain, and I ran in a hurry under the attack of the rain line, like a rabbit with six gods and no owner.

After running for a few minutes, I suddenly saw a house on the side of the road. As if I had seen a rescuer, I took three steps and two steps and jumped under the eaves of this house.

It was already raining heavily, and I was grateful for the house I came across on the road. My hair was already wet, my coat was half wet, and the cool wind blew through me, sending a chill all over my body.

"Oops, didn't the young man bring an umbrella? Don't stand in the wind, come in and sit down! ”

The door was not closed, but a short curtain was hung to hide the furnishings inside. At this moment, the curtain was lifted, and a kind face of an old grandmother appeared in front of my eyes.

The old grandmother must be seventy or eighty years old, thin and small, slightly bowed at the waist, and looks a little awkward. But she has a smile on her face, which makes people feel very warm.

I quickly thanked her and shrank behind the curtain. There is also a charcoal stove lit in the house to remove moisture, so the inside of the house is warm and dry, and it is very comfortable.

Only then did I find that in the not too large room, it was not a normal home furnishings, but rows of shelves, and the shelves were neatly stacked with various small commodities.

It turns out that I ran around like a fly without a head to escape the rain, and I actually ran to the only small shop in the village?

And the kind old woman in front of her should be the "Granny Zhu" mentioned in Ah Chu's mouth.

Outside, the rain was still heavy, and the thunder was loud and loud. I sat down on a stool in the shop, and Granny Zhu brought me a glass of warm water.

The small shop was very clean and the light in the house was soft, making it a pleasant home away from home. The things on the shelves are neatly packed and clear at a glance, most of them are secondary processed products of tools, small household appliances, daily necessities and food, which are things that farmers in mountain villages cannot produce by themselves.

I feel that Granny Zhu and her son are amazing people. It is thanks to them that the isolated village can be connected to the outside world and enjoy the convenience brought by modern industry. Moreover, I heard that Granny Zhu's son also drove his own truck, bringing the crops grown by the villagers to the town to sell to the manufacturers, they should have a high prestige in the village, right?

My eyes fell on the carton of milk in the freezer.

That's where Ah Chu buys a carton of milk every day, right?

When I think of Ah Chu's insistence on buying milk every day to comfort the soul of my deceased mother, and I think about myself, I can't help but feel sad. I put down my glass of water, stood up, and walked to the freezer.

The milk in the freezer comes in three flavors, plain, banana and strawberry. I don't know which one Ah Chu prefers, so I picked my favorite strawberry flavor.

"Mother-in-law, here's a carton of milk." I pulled my wallet out of my pocket and pulled out a ten-dollar bill.

Granny Zhu happily asked me for change.

"It's good to be young! It's a good thing that young people love to drink milk, and there are boys and girls in the village who come to buy milk every day! Speaking of this, the smile on Granny Zhu's face narrowed a little, "It's a pity, what a good girl, too young!" ”