Li Yang and I were stunned when I asked this sentence. Just now we were discussing the issue of reincarnation, and now Qin Dan immediately threw out the concept of a past life. No one in the house spoke, the night wind howled outside, and the charcoal fire crackled in the stove.

Qin Dan sighed deeply, and Li Yang coughed: "Qin Dan, if you don't want to say it, you can not say it." ”

"It's fine." Qin Dan said: "In the past so long, I have also come out. It was the day of my engagement to Nannan, and he called early in the morning and said he was coming to pick me up. I waited at home and waited for a day, until I waited for a call from the hospital in the evening, saying that Nannan was no longer good...... When I got to the hospital, I still didn't see him at the last glance, and I heard the police say that he was hit by a drunk driver. ”

"What kind of person is it that hits Nannan?" Wang Xue asked softly.

"It was a young man of our age, who was said to have rarely drank, but he drank that day. He drove his car first into an elderly couple at the entrance of the park, then hit and run into the countryside. As a result, in the process of escaping, Nannan was hit again. Later, I learned that I was a child's life, a lonely star, and I blamed myself if I didn't complain anyone," Qin Dan's eyes were red, and tears flowed down: "It's me who is not good, it's me who killed Nannan, it's all my life!" ”

The room was so quiet that no one spoke.

Li Yang patted her on the shoulder, opened his mouth and said nothing. Wang Xue pestled her chin and stared at the red charcoal fire, not knowing what she was thinking.

Vice President Li diverted the topic and looked at us: "Xiao Liu, Xiao Li, have you figured out how to find someone?" ”

"Almost." Li Yang said.

Vice President Li said: "Then let's start tomorrow and don't waste time." ”

When I walked out of the house, thinking about Qin Dan's appearance, I was very depressed in my heart, and said to Li Yang: "Qin Dan reminds me of a person. ”

"Who?"

"Sister-in-law Xianglin. I don't know how I remembered the paragraph in "Blessing", the white-haired Xianglin's sister-in-law asked Lu Xun on crutches if there was a soul after death. ”

Li Yang said: "Okay, don't pretend to be a poet here." Tomorrow we'll start looking for someone. ”

"Have you figured out where to start?"

"Hmm. From Liu Yan's house, I intuitively felt that this girl had a background. Tomorrow I will go to her house and see the situation, and I think the breakthrough should be in her. ”

I had a night of absurd dreams. I dreamed that in my previous life, I was herding sheep in Afghanistan, with a straw rope tied around my waist, making people cry and drink, and destitute. I couldn't help but feel sad for a while, am I the reincarnation of **silk, possessed by a poor ghost?

When I woke up the next day, I was dizzy and had a quick bite to eat. Accompanied by Teacher Yin, our group went to Liu Yan's house in the west of the village.

Liu Yan's house is two broken stone houses, completely wooden and stone structure, overgrown with weeds, and looks like a shack. Liu Yan was coming out with a basin to pour water early in the morning, and the little girl's weak body was still carrying a big swaddling cloth. The swaddling clothes were almost as long as her body, wrapped in a thick quilt of small flowers, and the cry of a baby could not be heard inside. It looked heavy, and the little girl had to grit her teeth with every step she took, and from time to time she lifted the swaddling clothes up with her hands.

She saw us coming from a distance, and walked over step by step to salute, so Vice President Li stopped her, and Vice President Li touched her head: "Swallow, let's come to see your house." ”

Liu Yan's forehead was covered with sweat, a little girl who was regarded as the pearl of the palm by other families at this age, and at this time she looked like a little nanny who had suffered a lot.

Yin Weiguo wiped his eyes: "Yanzi, poor thing, her mother had a difficult birth and hemorrhage when she gave birth to her second child." The blood flowed from a kang, and before it could be sent out of the mountain, the man died. Liu Yan is a sister and a mother at the same time, she carries her children to school, and when she comes home from school, she has to take care of housework, feed her father and change dressings. She's only seven years old. ”

The mountain wind was howling, and none of us spoke. Even Kevin, who has been hanging on to the child, stopped listening to the music anymore and quietly looked at the little girl in front of him.

Li Yang walked over and said, "Yanzi, we are going to be a guest at your house, would you like to?" ”

Liu Yan nodded: "Yes, I'll tell my father." Saying that, Li Yang said, "Yanzi, hand over your brother to us to hug." Uncle likes children. ”

Liu Yan hesitated, untied the strap on her body, and handed over the swaddling clothes behind her back, and Li Yang took it in her hand.

I stood by and crooked my eyes to look. It's a little boy, chubby, and cute. I was sleeping with my eyes closed, my face was red, and I slept deeply. As soon as Li Yang took over, the baby woke up suddenly, opened his mouth and didn't cry, and looked at us with black pupils, drooling down the corners of his mouth.

Wang Xue felt cute and shook her little hand on the baby's face. The baby's eyes did not move, and it looked a little dazed, and there was no reaction to the shaking hand.

Wang Xue was curious: "What's wrong with this kid?" Don't cry or make a fuss. ”

Teacher Yin Weiguo sighed: "It's strange to say, this child was so noisy when he was born, and he was very smart, everyone made a joke, we all said that this child has become a sperm." But just a few days ago, one night later, the child suddenly became stupid. Don't cry, don't make trouble, no matter how funny you are, you can't react. Later, some people in the village said that they had some kind of encephalitis in children and that they had to go outside the village for treatment. Yanzi's mother died early, his father was paralyzed in bed, the family was surrounded by four walls, and it was still difficult to eat and go to school. He touched the child's little face and said to the baby, "Son, this is your life." Remember to find a good family in the next life, but don't come to our poor ditch. ”

This is too sad to say, and it is not inferior to Xianglin's sister-in-law's life and death torture.

Everyone walked to Liu Yan's house and went in one after another. Li Yang and I were left behind, and when we saw him with a solemn face, we whispered to him: "Old Li, you don't think that this child is the reincarnation of Yin Qiufeng, right?" **, this joke is a big joke, a fund of 100 million is reserved for a mentally handicapped child. ”

Li Yang glared at me and said, "I suddenly had a very wonderful idea, if this child is really Yin Qiufeng, what kind of result will happen if we tattoo him?" ”

"Become a child prodigy and run all over the place?" I say.

Li Yang didn't speak, and carried the child into the stone house. It was pitch black, gloomy and cold, and there was a terrible smell that was particularly smoky. I don't know what to do here, the light is very poor, there is no glass on the windows, but thick cotton paper, and a small medicine pot is placed in the middle of the ground, which is boiling.

Liu Yan sat on the small bench, crooked her feet, looked at the medicine pot, and lifted the lid from time to time to take a look.

Yin Weiguo said: "Let's not disturb her, go inside to see the child and her father." ”

Entering the inner room, the broken bricks were built into an earthen kang, on which a disabled man described as withered and withered. The man was about thirty years old, unkempt, with glazed eyes, a torn towel on his forehead, and a tattered quilt on his body. The whole house is very dark and gloomy, and the sunlight is difficult to enter in the daytime, and when you walk here, you will follow up the underground tomb.

Yin Weiguo sat on the side of the kang and took the man's hand and said, "Brother Liu, the big boss in the city has come to see you." ”

The man's eyes were purring, his mouth was full of big yellow teeth, he looked at us, and smiled reluctantly: "Hello." ”

Several ladies were more cultivated, and they were so smoked that they frowned, but no one covered their noses in front of other patients.

The man groaned from time to time, showing how far the pain had tormented him. Yin Weiguo knew that this place could not let the guests stay for a long time, and patted his hands: "Brother Liu, take care of your illness, and I will come to see you in the future." ”

"I'm sick, I can't get better." The man swallowed, smacked his lips, and barely spoke.

Yin Weiguo persuaded him: "Don't think about it, you are blessed and have raised a good girl." You live well, and in the future, you will point to your daughter to support you. After saying this, Yin Weiguo winked at us: "Let's go, let's go, we can't stay here." After staying for a long time, I felt sick too. ”

We were about to leave, when the man coughed and suddenly said, "I have done evil in my last life, and God has let me repay my debts in this life." ”

We stopped, and Yin Weiguo made a gesture for us to go quickly: "The patient is talking nonsense, let's go quickly." ”

"I've really done evil." The man coughed, stretched out his skinny hand from under the quilt, and aimlessly touched the stone wall above his head.

Li Yang and I are now very sensitive to past and present lives, and we looked at each other. The man said quietly: "In my last life, I demolished a temple, and God punished me for coming. ”

Li Yang walked back to the house with the baby in his arms and asked softly, "How do you know that you have a previous life?" ”

"I, I just know the way, sometimes I can remember it in my dreams." The man kept coughing.

I heard it, I damn it, wouldn't he, he is the reincarnation of Yin Qiufeng?

I also went into the house, and several ladies followed. At this time, Liu Yan walked in cautiously with a bowl of decoction and medicine: "Dad, drink the medicine." ”

Yin Weiguo sighed, helped to lift the man up, and leaned against the wall. He took the medicine from Liu Yan's hand and sat by the kang to feed the man. The man tilted his face: "I won't drink anymore, you have to be good for me, let me die early." ”

Yin Weiguo frowned: "What is death, is it easy to be born as a human being?" It's better to live well than anything else. Hurry up and take the medicine! ”

The man looked out the window and said, "I can sometimes think of things in my previous life, like an old branch secretary of the commune, leading a group of people in the commune to the temple. On that day, the weather was exceptionally good, and I saw the mountains full of flowers. His expression rippled, and he even showed a hint of a smile: "We are going to the temple to make steel, but we met a monk in the way." We took him aside, and then we demolished the temple. ”

Speaking of this, the smile on his face suddenly disappeared, his face was expressionless, and his eyes were staring straight at the old locust tree blown by the wind outside the window. In the dim light, his gaze was even a little gloomy: "Digging graves and demolishing temples, heinous crimes, God let me be reincarnated to suffer, and pay off my debts from generation to generation." This world is my hell. ”

Liu Yanwa cried: "Dad." ”

The man stretched out a hand tremblingly and touched Liu Yan: "Child, this is my father's life." ”

Li Yang and I were already in the wind and waves in our hearts, and our whole bodies were cold.