Chapter 5
In the years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, it has fallen into reforms, great strides, and exaggerated styles, making people unable to make ends meet, the Red Guards, the Great Revolution, and generations of intellectuals have lost their precious lives in the cultural purge, counter-revolution, right-leaning, cutting into the countryside, and social regression, which is the eternal pain of New China......
Standing in front of the dusty wooden door, I felt a lot of emotion in my heart, only a few years, and it was already a matter of people. But before I cut into the queue and went to the countryside, that beautiful memory was still in my heart.
My parents went to Hunan to work and fostered me in my grandfather's house, and my life was not easy, but I was also happy. When I walked in, I could see a rickety old man, smiling kindly at me and beckoning me to eat. Old Man Luo treats my grandson as a treasure and doesn't let me do any heavy work, so my life is not like other people, I don't need to work hard for life.
"Pop" There was a sharp pain in the shoulder, and the pain made me take a deep breath, "Luo Fatty, you won't be light!" I shouted angrily.
"Haha, Lao Luo, haven't I always been like this, you don't know, what are you doing here, let's go in!" As he spoke, he pushed the door open. Since the house has not been ventilated for a long time, the moment it was opened, the air poured in, stirring up a cloud of dust that fluttered all over the sky.
The fat man was choked and coughed, and I looked inside with wide eyes, and it was still the same old furniture, just covered with a thick layer of ash, but I could no longer see the old man, which made me feel a little sad.
The fat man saw my sorrow and comforted, "Lao Luo, don't miss the old man too much, he is also over 70 years old, he lives a long life, and he dies peacefully." ”
"Get out, drowning is peaceful, before we go to the countryside, the old man is fine, why is there no one when he comes back!" I said with emotion.
"Okay, okay, people, die early and be born early, just burn more paper money for the old man at that time, now, let's clean up the old man's relics first," the fat man was afraid that I would still be sad, so he changed the topic.
Walking into the wooden door, I secretly said in my heart, old man, Luo Yan is back.
My name is Luo Yan, and as for why there are three fire characters in the name, there is another story.
On the day I was born, there was a blind fortune teller who begged for water to drink, he heard me cry desolately, he felt bad, and was busy asking for my birthday, pinched his fingers, and was shocked, saying that my yang qi was weak, and my life was evil, and I was afraid that I would not live to be 10 years old, maybe the yin qi in the family was too heavy, which affected my physique when I was a baby.
Old man Luo didn't know what was going on, and when he heard this, he seemed to have lost his soul, crying and shouting and rolling on the ground, saying that he had done his own sin, and my parents had nothing to do, so they had to eat and drink to entertain the blind fortune teller. After the blind man was full of wine and food, he named me Luo Yan.
As for why, in the words of the blind man, every human being has three true fires of samadhi, that is, the fire of birth, which are located on the shoulders and abdomen of the person, and the reason why the ghosts do not dare to approach the human body is because of these three lights, and if the fire of birth is extinguished or separated from the body, it means the death of a person. I was born in a place where yin qi is heavy, the foundation is thin, the fire of my life is weak, and it is easy to attract ghosts, so I am named Yan, hoping to strengthen my flame, and wish me to live past 10 years old.
Old man Luo was relieved after hearing this, and when the blind man left, he also left a sentence: You can't go to the place where the world is in the yin, and you can't go to other people's ghost houses.
Strange to say, in the 10 years after I was born, I was often sick, with an inexplicable high fever, a large area of molting, a purple body, red pus, and often suffered disasters, and I was suddenly pushed into the well, with nothing behind it; I was pinched in the middle of the night, but I couldn't find anyone, but the mark on my neck was indeed human. Countless times my life hung by a thread, but I don't know what kind of ghost and god power hung that breath, let me walk back from the gate of the Hades Hall again and again. After my parents scared me to celebrate my 10th birthday, these strange things never happened again.
Walking in front of me is Luo Fatzi, formerly known as Luo Huasheng, his grandparents died when they resisted the Japanese, and they came to live in the Northeast with their parents since they were children, and their families are neighbors. I grew up with a fat man wearing a pair of pants, the fat man is not fat, he is relatively strong, but he responds to that sentence: the limbs are developed, the mind is simple, to put it bluntly, he will fight with cows without knowing anything. If anyone bullies me, he will definitely be the first to rush out and beat people. It's a pity that my IQ is not enough, and I was pressed to the second line. We are destined, although one is surnamed Luo and the other is surnamed Luo, we are like brothers.
Walking into the door, every step was heavy, the pots and pans were ignored, and I came directly to the old man's room, the old man's body had been buried, so I left this room for me to take care of. There is no need to tidy up anything, the old man's habit is to put important things in the box under the bed.
Pulling out the box, it was another piece of dust, wiped it at random, and opened the box to "squeak", as if the secret of the years had been opened. The inside of the box is very neat, a red cloth bag, which was put by the old man, and there are only sixty or seventy yuan in it; A small wooden box, I remember that there was a piece of ancient jade in it, I don't know what was engraved on it, but I heard the old man say that this is an ancestral heirloom, anyway, it is very vague, and there are some miscellaneous things, like clothes, work notes or something.
"Lao Luo, okay, no, let's go!" The fat man's voice came from outside, and I scrambled things into my bag and walked out.
Seeing me come out, Fat Luo immediately surrounded him, "Did the old man leave any good things for you?" ”
I gave him a blank look, "What good things do we poor people have, they are all gadgets!" ”
"That's what I said, Lao Luo, then next, where are we going to live, or go to Hunan to find our parents!" The fat man said.
"Come on, their lives are not easy, we are so old that we have to go on our own after all, and then we will pick them up to enjoy the happiness when we are famous, now, don't bother them." I thought.
"Then where are we going, I heard that there is money in Guangdong, so it is better for us to go there." The fat man said casually.
"Hmph, there's a lot of money there, but do you have a lot of life, let people cut it with a knife, and you have a life to make money and no life to spend!" I poured cold water and said, "I heard that the security in the capital is good, and the money is fast, so it is better to go there and make a living." ”
The fat man didn't have a brain, so I said that he would follow suit, make a phone call home, and buy a train ticket overnight to rush to Beijing.
Not to mention that Beijing is really different, just a train station is crowded with people, and it is not lively. The people who do small business come and go, and the people who take the train to catch the market come and go, and there are countless of them, and the sound of this downtown can break people's eardrums.
"Lao Luo, there are so many people, we really came to the right place." The fat man looked left and right, like a hillbilly entering the city, and felt new about everything.
"Lao Luo, look at that foreign girl, why is she so tall, her hair is still yellow, is it not good to eat snacks!"
I also ignore him, who knows what people ate when they were young.
Luo Fat looked at the foreign girl and drooled, "However, the foreign girl has white skin and a strong body, looking at that figure, I don't know what it feels like to be pressed on the bed, and I will give birth to a fat doll in the future." ”
In the face of Luo Fatman's shamelessness, I mocked, "Press the bed, can you, don't be pressed on the bed by others when the time comes, you can't move." ”
Hearing this, the fat man's face immediately flushed with anger, how could the man say no, and said viciously, "When the time comes, Lao Tzu will marry a foreign girl, don't look greedy!" ”
I didn't bother to pay attention to the fat man, and I was still thinking about business, so I squeezed to the gate and asked a rickshaw driver.
"Yo, where are the two masters?" The coachman asked enthusiastically.
"No, big brother, we don't take the car, we just want to ask you about something." I said.
Hearing that he didn't take the car, the driver's enthusiasm immediately decreased by half, and I immediately handed over a cigarette, and the driver saw that the cigarette was good, so he didn't leave immediately.
"Big brother, it's the first time I've come to Beijing, I want to make a living, you see that you have a wide range of roads in Beijing, help me introduce you!" I flattered, and handed another cigarette.
As the saying goes, you don't wear a thousand sycophants. The driver listened to the feeling of comfort, and smoked smoothly, closed his eyes, and exhaled smoke, "It's not easy to make a living in Beijing, it depends on whether you want to live well or not." ”
"Of course it's the best." The fat man shouted excitedly.
I glared at the fat man, and hurriedly handed over another cigarette, "Big brother, you speak, don't pay attention to him." ”
The coachman was honest and polite, took a cigarette and smoked "the best, the best is of course investment, doing business with those foreigners, but that has to have money and backers, I don't think you are like these people, otherwise you won't talk nonsense with me about a poor sports car." ”
"Big brother, what you said you said, then you said we could do something." I hurriedly asked.
"Brother, seeing that we know each other is also a kind of fate, telling you a way to live. You go to Panjiayuan to have a look, where you specialize in antique jade, if you are lucky. If you find a treasure, you won't have to worry about eating and drinking in this life. The driver said.
"Then if you're unlucky!" The fat man asked.
"Hehe, that's fine, just find a big-headed foreign devil and sell it, the foreign devil likes this thing, and he doesn't understand anything, and then he can make up a story and bluff him a few times to sell it for a good price." Listening to this tone, the coachman has done a lot of things without virtue.
I asked for the way and sent the driver away, seeing that it was still early, and planning to go for a walk. If it was as simple as the driver said, he wouldn't be pulling the cart.