Chapter 20 Yijiazhai
We walked through the woods with the glasses man we met by chance and his girlfriend Lily to Yijiazhai halfway up the mountain.
As a result, on the way through the dense forest, Lily suspected that she was bitten by mosquitoes, and she had an allergic shock, which was the explanation that the man with glasses explained to us.
But what I found out from his every move on the way up the mountain was that things were not that simple. I hope that I am suspicious of the glasses man with ulterior motives, and I also hope that I am really a villain's heart in the wrong place. But the alarm bell in my heart kept ringing.
The fat man next to him heard the man with glasses say that he was studying medicine, so he couldn't help but praise him sincerely: "No wonder your eyes are so thick, you are a learned person at first glance." β
But the man with glasses said to us with some meaning: "Aren't you two also learned scholars engaged in research?" β
The fat man and I looked at each other very weakly, and said in awkward acknowledgment. But I secretly cursed in my heart: what a little rabbit cub, and he is still a master of tai chi. The man with glasses obviously knew the old bottom of the two of us, and was mentally prepared, and the topic of my tentative discussion could not continue any longer, so he had to pay full attention to his feet, and quickly walk through the dense woods.
It didn't take long for us to pass through the lush forest, to a flat dirt road, and continue to travel about a mile before we saw the gate of Yijiazhai.
The tall log door posts with a diameter of about half a meter are erected on both sides, the two doors of the solid wood are wide open, and the wooden plaque on the door frame is written with a line of calligraphy, and the Chinese characters "Yijiazhai" are written vigorously and powerfully.
After passing through the walled gate, we stepped on the stone road, surrounded by local unique hanging towers, and many local elderly people wearing headscarves sat in front of their doors smoking hookahs, looking at us tourists coldly.
The cottage looks not small, the man with glasses walked straight into the nearest house from the village, and the fat man and I also followed closely, only to find that this hanging house is a farmhouse that can be rented out.
The man with glasses laid Lily flat on the bed, and then took out a simple oxygen cylinder from his backpack and put it over Lily's face, giving her oxygen. I said in my heart: This kid does know a lot, and he has a lot of background.
At this time, I also felt a little dizzy, as if I was a little deprived of oxygen. But I was very worried about Lily's health, so I asked the man with glasses, "How is she?" β
The man with glasses pulled me and the fat man out of the door, then lifted the glasses and said, "Lily is fine, she just needs a quiet rest, and I plan to take care of her here for a few days." I bothered you along the way just now, if you two have anything important, you can hurry up and do it, I'm sorry to delay your time. β
The fat man wanted to ask something more, but I immediately spoke up and said, "Since Lily's life is not in danger, I am relieved." We did have something to do, so we left first. After saying that, he immediately pulled the fat man and walked to the interior of the village.
The fat man had some objections to my behavior, and asked me puzzled: "Lao Zheng, I think the eyed boy is good." How do you feel that you are a little wary of him, will you also take a fancy to Lily's girl, and compete with the four-eyed boy to be jealous. β
I gave the fat man a blank look, and said to him angrily: "What are you talking about running the train with your mouth?" I just think that the kid with glasses is not simple, and he didn't tell the truth to the two of us, it is necessary to guard against it when going out, the heart of harming people is indispensable, the heart of preventing people is indispensable, you don't understand? After speaking, I immediately looked around, saw that there was no one near the hanging towers around, and then lowered the volume and whispered to the fat man: "Don't forget, the purpose of our trip should not be publicized." Moreover, there is not a ghost-like mysterious person around the two of us, so it is right to be careful. β
The fat man replied to me disapprovingly: "Maybe the man with glasses is just a person with a story." β
After I heard what he said, I almost didn't laugh out loud, and said in a mocking tone: "Yo, comrade fatty, it's not simple!" Being able to say such melancholy and allegorical words made me goosebumps, and I thought you would be idle and nonsense. β
The fat man gave me a blank look and said, "You are watching people through the crack in the doorβyou have flattened them." Besides, telling the truth is your strength and that of the old man, and I usually can't highlight my ability. But Comrade Zheng, I always thought that you were innocent and ignorant of the world, when did you start to become so suspicious and suspicious, why should you be vigilant everywhere in everything, think too much, waste brain cells, and die early. β
I smiled and said to the fat man, "You have to save some brain cells, there are not many of them." β
The fat man didn't hear what I was saying, and saw that I was smiling very chicken thief (Beijing dialect. refers to being stingy, stingy, and not on the table. There is another meaning, which is to be cunning and clever. I guessed that what I said was not a good thing, so I had to ask me to make it clear.
I had to smile and perfunctory him and say, "If you don't hear it, forget it." Let's not bother with Lily's affairs, just give the unrequited eye boy a chance. β
After hearing this, the fat man immediately answered: "You just said it a long time ago, and buddy is not the one who doesn't open his eyes." I've long seen that the eyed boy is a shaved pickβhot. β
I said to the fat man, "Let's leave others alone and worry about our own affairs first." Hurry up and find Master and them in this stockade, and see if they are here? β
The two of us kept asking all the men, women, and children in the whole village, even the dogs on the side of the road, but there was not a single bit of news from the master's people, and my heart was filled with a trace of unease. I thought to myself: Master, didn't they go into the village, but directly into the mountain? What the hell happened, why did you suddenly change course? As I walked with my head bowed, I pondered various reasons, the most likely being that the person who held Master hostage, in order to avoid people's eyes, did not enter the village to rest at all, but crossed the mountainside, went deeper into the denser woods, and went straight to the mausoleum.
Thinking of this, I feel that at this moment, the fat man and I have to hurry up and enter the mountain, my previous estimate of the time was wrong, and now Master is in an extremely dangerous moment, and then every second must be counted. I looked up, just about to explain my thoughts to the fat man.
Suddenly, an old man dressed in ethnic minority costume and tied with a colorful turban rushed in front of me. As if he didn't see me, he ran straight at me, knocked me straight over, and almost fell to the ground, but fortunately, the fat man on the side helped me in time. And the old man didn't even say a word of apology, and walked out of the gate without looking back.
The fat man was very indignant when he saw that this old man was so rude, and he had to catch up with the old man to theorize, so I hurriedly grabbed him and said, "It's okay, you won't die if you hit it." β
And I didn't know at the time that I was hit by the old man for no reason, and I really almost almost met Hades.
I pulled the angry fat man and said to him, "Why are you two pressed for time now, find a place to fill your stomach first, and then set off into the mountains immediately." There is no news from Master in the village, and I am worried that they will go directly into the mountain, so they may miss the opportunity to save people, and they cannot delay any longer. β
As a result, as soon as I finished speaking, I suddenly felt dizzy. The heart says: This damn alpine reaction. Hurriedly closed his eyes and stood still to rest.
The fat man saw that my face was not good, and asked me worriedly, "What's wrong with you?" β
I stood there with my eyes closed, lowered my head and explained to him, "Maybe it's altitude sickness, it's okay, I'll just close my eyes and rest." β
When I opened my eyes again after resting for a while, I found that all I saw were colorful circles of light, which was as dizzy as looking at a kaleidoscope, and my stomach was also nauseous and wanted to vomit, and then I felt as if my whole body had turned into cotton, soft and without a little strength, as if my strength had been taken away, and in an instant, I passed out in the arms of the fat man and lost consciousness.
When I woke up groggily, my head was no longer dizzy, and my eyes were no longer multicolored in front of me, but it was pitch black all around, as if the lights were not turned on, there was no sound, and the fat man didn't know where to go. And just when I was helpless and wanted to call someone, suddenly, a light appeared in front of me, and I propped my palms on my forehead to block the only dazzling light that appeared in the darkness. After I slowly adjusted to the light in the dark, I saw a middle-aged man and woman standing at the end of the light, I couldn't see their specific appearances, but I could feel that they were very kind and very close, and they were smiling and waving to me.
At this moment, a voice came out of my heart and told me: "Those are your scattered parents, as long as you walk over now, you can know what they look like." I stopped where I was, hesitating, and wanted to run over quickly, and then ask aloud why they had abandoned me in the first place. But I don't know what kind of mood to face them. The heart was constantly struggling repeatedly, but the legs began to move without being asked.
When I realized it, I couldn't help but say to myself: deep down in my heart, there is still a glimmer of hope that I can meet my biological parents sooner or later. I slowly moved forward towards the light, but the light source in front of me began to gradually become faint, as if it was slowly disappearing, and the figures of the two people in front of me began to blur. I immediately became restless and agitated, and immediately ran anxiously. The light ignored my urgency, and disappeared at an accelerated pace, and the darkness was like a monster, slowly engulfing the two who claimed to be my parents, and at the last moment when the images of the two were about to disappear into the darkness, I stretched out my arms in a panic.
In the dimness, I don't know who grabbed my hand tightly, but I could feel the slight warmth and reassuring comfort, like the comfortable comfort of a baby staying in its mother's body, I didn't want to let go of my hand, I willingly wanted to follow them to be swallowed up in the darkness, and I felt that it was worth it to die at this moment.
And when I was about to step into the last remaining bit of light, my hands grabbed me, and suddenly they instantly released as if they had been burned, and disappeared. There was only endless darkness left around, my tears could not stop coming out of my eyes, and the happiness of the encounter was so short that I couldn't help but want to scream heartbreakingly.
Endless sentimentality, pain, blending into endless darkness.