A wild boar skin, two long-haired bacon, and a few changes of clothes that I don't know where the old man in Tsing Yi got for me. Leaving it all aside, I looked at this familiar and strange scene, and tears could not stop pouring out. But I resisted, and I wasn't a kid anymore. The road ahead is long, I want to walk alone, how can I be so vulnerable? But the more I gritted my teeth and insisted, the more I couldn't control the feelings, and just when my eyes were hazy with tears, suddenly someone slapped my shoulder, and a thunderous voice sounded in my ears: "Hey, who is this?" Two eggs! ”

When I looked up, I saw that this thing had big shoulders and a round waist, a big face and small eyes. With an ugly and bald head, isn't it my childhood friend Luo Da, who played with urine mud?

See him. All the sadness in my heart immediately retracted, jumped up, punched him in the chest, and shouted excitedly: "Great, I haven't seen him for a long time?" Luo Dayi hugged me, laughing and jumping: "Why are you back?" I heard your father say that you went up to Wuguniang Mountain and went as an apprentice with an old Taoist priest, why do you have time to come back? "I explained to him that I was not going to be an apprentice, but to heal the sick and that it was the water ghost we had met in the creek last time, and it had possessed me.

Luo Da was startled, and hurriedly jumped away, patting his chest and shouting: "My God, it's okay if you don't say it, as soon as I say it, I think of that ghost baby, its face is so terrifying, there is no good piece of meat...... I had nightmares and a high fever all night long, and if it weren't for your father, Dr. Chen, I might have died! Why is it still attached to you? ”

I shook my head and said, "It's gone, it's gone by me......"

I only said half of this, although the water ghost was said to be overtaken by me, but most of them were guided by the old road in Tsing Yi, but at that time I was eleven or twelve years old, and I had just come out of the mountain, wearing a tattered body, it was inevitable that there was some little vanity in my heart, as soon as Luo Da heard this, his eyes suddenly rose to a little star, and he said admiringly: "Erdan, I didn't expect you to enter the mountain for a few years, and you learned such a skill, I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it, this is a blessing in disguise!" ”

Luo Da didn't believe it very much, but when he saw the wild boar skin I was carrying, and saw that there was a little monkey squatting next to me, he believed most of it, jumped up vigorously, and went to the village to report the news.

Seeing the happy appearance of my former friends, my cowardly feelings of homesickness were greatly soothed, and I walked towards my house with a fat girl, and when I reached the halfway point, I saw my sister Dafeng running over, hugging me and crying. My sister cried, but I laughed, I saw that I hadn't seen her for a few years, she had really become a big girl, with a round face and a pointed face, big braids, and no one in the village was better looking than her. At this time, many people in the village gathered around me and greeted me one after another, asking me how I was doing.

At this time, before I could speak, Luo Da proudly said loudly: "Erdan, he is learning spells from Taoist priests in the mountains, catching ghosts and demons, no problem!" ”

When he said this, my face was hot, I have studied the Tao for three years, and I don't have a sense of qi for a day, what kind of spell is it. But all this big talk has been said, and I don't plan to expose this lie, and the adults next to me let out a good-natured laugh, and I don't know whether to believe it, or think that the child is bragging. Surrounded by a group of people, I came to the intersection of my house, and saw my father and mother standing there in anticipation, so excited that I didn't know where to put my hands and feet, and the tears I held back just now suddenly flowed out, rushed to the front and knelt down, whimpering: "Dad, mother, I'm back." ”

My mother cried all of a sudden, and my father was so excited that he couldn't help himself, touching my head, and his hands were a little trembling: "Hey, it's good to come back, it's good to come back......"

When I got home, I went to my house on stilts and walked into my house, and my sister ran to the kitchen as soon as she smoked a cigarette, saying that she wanted to boil water for me to bathe, and my mother was worried that I was hungry and wanted to get me food. After I gave my mother the two hangs of bacon and wild boar skin I brought, I told my father about the things in the mountains, because there were Luo Da and a few neighbors next to me, and I didn't talk deeply, but I just said that the old Taoist priest helped me heal, and then he had something to do, so I went home.

I spoke simply, the audience didn't have much patience, just concerned about whether I had learned the same skills as Luo Da said, my neighbor Wang Gouzi and his grandfather were the most superstitious people, even if the conditions at that time were worse, his incense on the fifteenth day of the first month would not be broken, and he pulled me and asked: "Then what did you learn from the old Taoist?" ”

I saw that the crowd of people next to me were all around, and I couldn't wipe my face, so I muttered and said: "Fameng, the three-character scripture and the thousand-character text, these have been learned, and later I learned the Taoist scriptures, philosophical scriptures, and Taoist scriptures, and I don't know it, but I understand it." Wang Gouzi and his grandfather clapped his hands and laughed, and said: "Okay, good, I really learned the skill, it's amazing to listen to, second egg, your grandfather and I really didn't misunderstand you, you have been different from other babies since you were a child, it seems that if there is anything in our ten miles and eight towns in the future, you will have to palm it......"

Wang Gouzi and his grandfather were proud, like my Bole teacher, but I clearly remember that it was this old man who loved to talk about me behind my back, saying that I was a debt collector and a scourge. Yili Island.

I didn't want to see this old man before, but after the old man in Tsing Yi broke off, I felt that although he had a bad mouth, he also made some sense, and he didn't have too much disgust, but he changed his attitude, and his words were a little more respectful, so he said nonchalantly: "Grandpa Wang, don't lift me up, I'm just learning a skin, can it come in handy, what does this really depend on......

There were a lot of people in the house, and they made a lot of noise, and when it was time to eat, they went home, leaving only my father in the hall, and I explained all the things to him.

My father listened carefully to me, and he couldn't let go of a single detail, and after he was done, he waved his hand and said, "It doesn't matter, you live at home first, and the old Taoist priest said a lot of things are actually ridiculous, and I can't do it accurately." But you said you could read and write, and I was glad I did. In the past two years, the world has been chaotic, and everyone thinks that reading is not good, but it will come to an end, and at that time, knowledge can change fate......"

My dad spoke, sprinkled, not long after the family started to eat, cooked a small bowl of glutinous rice, the rest are sweet potatoes, vegetables are also just picked in the field, with the bacon I brought back to fry fragrant, green oil, revealing a fragrance.

It can be seen that the life in the family is also tight, my mother gave me the bowl of glutinous rice for me to eat, they ate sweet potatoes, and my sister looked at the big fat meat in the bowl and swallowed saliva.

I'm no longer the ignorant child I was a few years ago, after picking two pieces of fat meat for the fat girl, I picked up the sweet potato, while eating, while saying to my mother: "Follow the old Taoist, although he is a Taoist priest who eats well, but he is not afraid of meat, he can always get meat to eat, and the mouth of this monkey is in his mouth, but I still like to eat sweet potatoes, which are fragrant and sweet." "The fat girl listened to me talk about it, and handed the fat meat to my sister as if she were pleasing it, and ate it with a piece of sweet potato in her arms.

The fat girl has often sent me letters in recent years, and my family is familiar with it, and when I saw it so sensible, I couldn't help but laugh, and my sister stuffed the fat meat into its mouth, saying you eat it, eat more and grow bigger.

Everyone was so happy with the meal, and I finally got home.

At that time, it was the mid-70s, and there was not too much chaos outside, so I heard that Chairman Mao and his old man were not in good health. The Mali Mountains are deep in the mountains, the administration is not deep, and there is no collective commune, everyone farms and eats by themselves, and it is good to pay for grain, but there are not too many paddy fields here, and only some coarse grains such as sweet potatoes and corn can be planted in the field, and the people in the village are busy for a year, and there is not much chewing. After I came home, I didn't play anymore, I didn't go to school, I just followed the family to do farm work, digging the ground and carrying dung, a good hand.

I bragged at first, but many villagers just listened to it and didn't care, but not long after, there were still people who were dead horses as live horse doctors and came to the door, saying that they wanted Dr. Chen's second egg to help take a look.