Chapter 187: Farewell
I had a bad premonition when I heard Deng Paper's words, and I asked suspiciously:
"What do you mean, I went to Xiaoshan with Lao Liu, of course I found it!"
Deng Jiaozhi sneered and shook his head: "That golden soup tree in Xiaoshan has long been dug up!" ”
Poached? I stared at Deng Papercut in surprise, seeing that he didn't look like he was lying, Deng Papercut continued:
"As soon as you came to see Lao Liu this time, I saw that he was dead, and I already knew that he hadn't found Jin Tangshu all these years, let me ask you, when did you go to Xiaoshan with Lao Liu?"
I replied, "About two months ago!" ”
"That's it, that golden soup tree was dug up a year ago!"
My head suddenly "buzzed", when I was in the Jinjia porridge shop in Xiaoshan, it was Lao Liu who entered the house alone, and his face was not good when he came out, could it be that the golden soup tree in the Jinjia porridge shop was really gone? Lao Liu was afraid that I would be worried that he had found it?
This matter is related to Lao Liu's life, but it is very sloppy, so I quickly turned around and went to the village gate to find Lao Liu to confront him.
Lao Liu stood far away from the village, and was quite surprised to see me coming out of the main gate, I didn't say a word and took Lao Liu's hand and walked back, Lao Liu asked me in astonishment:
"What are you going back to, did you find the red paper man?"
"I found it, but there is one more important thing I have to figure out, you go back with me to see Deng Papercut!"
Lao Liu's face was solemn and he didn't ask any more, and after a while, I pulled Lao Liu back to Deng Paper's room, and when I saw Lao Liu Deng Paper-cut shook his head helplessly.
"Lao Liu, don't blame me, I also have a hard time about the paper man, and I just told this kid about you not finding Jin Tangshu!"
Lao Liu was stunned when he heard this, and took two steps forward with a stick and turned his back to me.
He didn't deny it, my heart sank, and I asked anxiously:
"Lao Liu, is what Deng Paper-cutting said true? In the Jinjia porridge shop in Xiaoshan, you and Ben didn't find the golden soup tree? ”
Although Lao Liu's body was thin, his back was resolute and resolute, and after a while, Lao Liu nodded and said:
"That's right, when I entered the Jin family's porridge shop, I found that the Jin Tang tree had been dug up!"
I gasped, what Deng Paper-cut said was really true, I didn't find Jin Tangshu Lao Liu is going to die this year, I asked carefully at Deng Paper-cut:
"Where else is there a golden soup tree?"
Deng Shuzhi shook his head: "I have only heard that there is a golden soup tree in Xiaoshan, and there is no news from other places!" ”
After he finished saying this, he thought about it again, looked at me more meaningfully, and said, "I was carrying the pocket of the red paper man" and said:
"We are all paper-cut to continue our lives, this paper material is not good, and it will not be used for a certain number of years, but there is still a way to save Lao Liu and me, I'm afraid you don't agree!"
I knew that he was referring to the little red paper man, and subconsciously took a step back with his pocket, Deng Jiaozhi sneered and said:
"I've done it to know what happened to you and this little red paper man before, but no matter how deep the relationship between you two is, she is just a piece of paper, but what is at stake in front of her is two lives!"
Before I could speak, Lao Liu turned around and saw the paper paste man on the bed, frowned and said to Deng Paper:
"Old Deng, have you started to use evil arts? Don't you lose your life? ”
This papier-mâché figure is full of three-dimensionality and quite scary, I turned my head to look at it, this thing is still moving its eyes!
Deng cut paper patted it and said, "Folding life? Otherwise, if you don't give it a try, you'll die! ”
Lao Liu sighed and said: "No wonder I heard the sound of killing pigs late at night a few nights, you are using living beings to overdo the paper figures!" It's too dangerous. ”
I thought of the captive animals in the warehouse, and pointed to the papier-mâché man on the bed and asked:
"The livestock in captivity in the warehouse in the east of the village are all prepared for this papier-mâché man?"
Deng Paper-cutting dragged the papier-mâché man over and held him in his arms like a child, patted him lightly and said:
"Yes, if you want to use paper paste to continue your life, in fact, the effect of people is the best, but you can't kill people, so you can replace it with domestic animals, cough ....." Deng Paper-cutting sighed and continued:
"I didn't expect to kill a hundred or so beasts, but I can only get it to the point of making it move its eyes, or it can't work!"
Lao Liu said coldly: "Lao Deng, why are you so hard, aren't you the more you toss and the shorter your life is?" ”
Deng Jiao said with a smile: "I have to die this year, what kind of energy do you have to live for a few more months, it's better to give it a try." Then he stared at me again and said:
"Young man, this piece of red paper you brought is really a rare material, although it is not big, but in my opinion, it is enough to save my life and Lao Liu's life! I see that you have such a good relationship with Lao Liu, why don't you think about using this piece of paper to save him? ”
Things came too suddenly, I didn't expect Lao Liu to not succeed in renewing his life, this year's catastrophe has not passed, Lao Liu and I were born and died, even if I let me give him some of my life, but the little girl also died to save me, if I use the red paper man to save Lao Liu, the little girl will never be resurrected!!
Seeing my dilemma, Lao Liu coughed and said:
"Lao Deng, Jin Tangshu is the best to find, it's fate to not find it, are you still afraid of death when you are so old?"
Deng Jiezhi sneered, pointed to the outside of the room and said: "You have no children, no daughters and no family in the Northeast, of course you are not afraid of death, can I be the same?" Look at the people in this village I raised, all of them are living for me! ”
Lao Liu also said in a cold voice that was quite angry when he heard this: "I heard that you have adopted a lot of orphans, but now these children have grown up, have you asked them?" Who wants to stay in your broken ravine at a young age, it's not that you are embarrassed to go out! ”
Deng Jiezhi was stunned when he heard this, his face was red with anger, and when he saw that the two old men were about to quarrel, I reconciled and said:
"Don't quarrel about this between the two of you, Village Chief Deng, to be honest, there is no whereabouts in the rest of the places except for the golden soup tree in Xiaoshan? Or is there no other way? ”
Deng Jiaozhi nodded: "You just ask ten more times, and now only this piece of red paper can save lives, otherwise, I will use one-third of the red paper, and the other two-thirds will be used by Lao Liu, you think about it!" ”
In the end, do you still want to divide the red paper figures?
Seeing that I was in trouble, Deng Papercut sighed and said: "It's all this time, you can't climb the mountain today, go back to the room to rest, young man, think about it tonight, and give me an answer tomorrow morning!" ”
I didn't expect a deception of Deng paper-cutting, and now it implicates Lao Liu's fate, I really can't make a choice at the moment, so I nodded and pushed the door out!
Lao Liu came out and said to me coldly: "You don't have to think about it, even if you agree to give him a red paper man, I won't accept it!" Rest well, let's go at dawn! ”
After that, Lao Liu didn't wait for me to go back to the room with a broken stick.
I have made many choices when I have grown up, but generally in some inconsequential things, and now I do have to choose between the life of the little girl and the life of Lao Liu, I really have a headache!
I didn't sleep at all this night, my mind was full of memories of the little girl saying goodbye to me, and there were many memories of Lao Liu and my birth and death, I thought about it all night, but in the end I still made my own decision!
Before dawn, I received a call from the connector in Beijing! Fortunately, what he brought me was good news, the Commission for Discipline Inspection attached great importance to it, and the city leaders had been controlled in just a few days!
Under the ironclad evidence of evidence and witnesses, he finally turned over and fell off the horse, and the case of the car accident ten years ago can finally be re-publicized, and he can give an explanation to the countless dead in the reservoir!
Hung up the phone, I went out and went directly to find Deng Paper-cutting, I thought about it all night, I chose to save Lao Liu!!
Although I have infinite guilt for the little girl in my heart, Lao Liu is now flesh and blood by my side after all, and the chance of the little girl's resurrection is so slim, I still have to save it!
Deng Jiezhi was naturally happy when he heard my decision, and hurriedly ordered us to cook and treat us well at noon.
After discussing the details with him in detail, I went to find Lao Liu, Lao Liu is a stubborn temper, he lied to me that I had found Jin Tangshu just because he didn't want me to worry about him, and now even if I agree to save him, I still have to do a period of ideological work!
I was relieved when I figured it out, and I went to him in a hurry, and as soon as I pushed open the door, I shouted:
"Lao Liu, I'll discuss something with you!"
Before I could say the next sentence, I found that the house was empty! Lao Liu was not in the room, the bedding on the bed was neatly folded by him, and there was a note left on the cabinet.
I secretly screamed in my heart, picked up the note and looked at it, and wrote a sentence neatly on it:
Child, renewing your life once is already a long life, I have no regrets, and I don't want you to have regrets! I'll just go for a walk, you go home!
Lao Liu is gone!!
The cold old Liu didn't want me to be embarrassed, he didn't want me to have regrets, so he left alone!
The simple sentence on the note made my heart extremely sour, and the two lines of tears could not be stopped anymore, where did he go? Lao Liu has a big limit this year, he doesn't continue to live, where is he going to die!
I read every word on the note over and over again, and my heart was like a knife!!
This parting is likely to be a lifetime!
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Lao Liu is gone, so I naturally have no reason to stay, and I can't give the little girl to him again in order to save Deng Papercut.
Deng cut paper angrily scolded Lao Liu for a long time, and finally saw that I was stubborn, so he reluctantly agreed to let me go back.
He sighed and sent me out of the village gate, and before leaving, he repeatedly told me to come back to him if I figured it out, and said that he could cut dozens of beauties for me as a daughter-in-law exchange!
When I came, I was with Lao Liu, but now when I leave, I became myself, I was depressed and didn't pay much attention to him, and I didn't take a few steps Deng paper-cut and suddenly chased him out.
"Young man, Lao Liu, he is holding the heart of death, he pays attention to the fallen leaves, you say how pitiful it is for him to die outside, if you want to find him, want to persuade him again, I can show you the way!"
Deng Jiezhi is not completely worried about Lao Liu, he is a little red paper man who covets me, and he still wants to borrow Lao Liu's light to live a few more years, I don't care about his careful thinking, and asked:
"Lao Liu, I must be looking for him, can you guess where he went?"
Deng Jiaozhi hurriedly shook his head: "I can't guess, but there is someone who can help you, it is the one who came to me some time ago, the little plum who will pass the shade!" ”