Hao Jiali's father saw that his stepfather's kick was so badly injured, and suddenly remembered that Chen Zhanjun cared for him when he was a child, and he finally found out in his conscience that what he had done was too much.

Immediately, Hao Jiali's father approached Hao Jiali's eldest cousin with his hands tied on his back and said, "Xiaoxin! Untie the belt from my hand, my dad is in such a pain, I have to hurry to the mountains to find herbs to put on him. ”

"Xiaoxin! Don't believe what your uncle says! How could he find any ghost herbs? He wants to get rid of the three of us! Chen Feng stopped his nephew and said.

Chen Zhanjun didn't know what to say, his waist really hurt so much that he couldn't stand it, and he couldn't help it, even if Hao Jiali's father wanted to run, he could only stand him if he wanted to avoid them.

"Xiaoxin! Let go of him. Chen Zhanjun instructed Hao Jiali's eldest cousin.

Hao Jiali's eldest cousin didn't listen to Chen Feng, and after he helped Chen Zhanjun to sit on the bed in the wooden house, he listened to Chen Zhanjun undo the belt tied to Hao Jiali's wrist for Hao Jiali's father.

Hao Jiali's father was moved to tears when he heard him scold his aunt, and at that moment Hao Jiali's eldest cousin knew that his uncle was a lover, not a big bastard who had hated everyone in the family over the years.

"Uncle! I believe you, you're not going to run, you're going to come back to the cabin, aren't you? Hao Jiali's eldest cousin said trustingly to Hao Jiali's father.

Hao Jiali's father nodded, he glanced at Chen Zhanjun and then rubbed his arms and wrists that were hurt by Chen Zhanjun's belt, and took off the wrist watch and put it on the table in the wooden house.

Chen Feng pursed his lips uncommonly.

After that, the three of them watched Hao Jiali's father say something to the foreman of the lumber mill, and before the three of them could hear clearly, they saw Hao Jiali's father's figure and went to the mountain as soon as he slipped away.

Hao Jiali's father has been gone for a long time and has not seen him back to the wooden house.

Chen Feng, Chen Zhanjun, and Hao Jiali's eldest cousin also steamed and ate the food that they brought up the mountain from the timber mill canteen early in the morning, and Hao Jiali's eldest cousin also washed and dried the muddy clothes that the three of them rolled up the mountain when they went up the mountain, and put them on, and Hao Jiali's father had not yet returned.

Chen Feng and Chen Zhanjun thought that Hao Jiali's father had 100% gone down the mountain.

Chen Feng complained that his nephew shouldn't have let go of Hao Jiali's father: "Xiaoxin! I told you not to loosen your uncle's bonds, but you didn't listen, now it's okay, and we don't know where to go to get your uncle's soul. ”

Chen Zhanjun has made a plan that Hao Jiali's father will not look back: "What to fish, the table lacks a foot and the wall is stable, the stool is missing a foot and the brick cushion is solid, your family is missing Hao Guang is not tight, there is no me and your brother on top, you can rest assured, I have a bowl of rice with your brother to eat, and I will definitely not be hungry for your two mothers." ”

Only Hao Jiali's eldest cousin firmly believes that Hao Jiali's father will definitely come back to the wooden house: "Uncle Chen! Nun! Wait a little longer, both of you, and my uncle will be back." ”

"That's all it can be." Chen Zhanjun and Chen Feng spoke in unison.

Then the three of them sat in the hut and waited.

In the afternoon, Chen Zhanjun looked at the watch that Hao Jiali's father had left on the table in the wooden house, and the hour hand of the watch was pointing to four o'clock in the afternoon.

Chen Zhanjun remembered that the lumberjacks on the mountain got off work at half past five in the afternoon, and if Hao Jiali's father hadn't seen him return to the wooden house at half past four, Chen Zhanjun decided that he couldn't wait any longer.

Chen Zhanjun decided to go down the mountain, because after half past five, the car from the lumber mill back to the city could not catch up.

On the other hand, Chen Zhanjun also thought that although the mountain road of this mountain is easier to go down than up, it has just rained, and the road surface is wet, even if you use a crutch when going down the mountain, the soles of your feet will inevitably slip.

And the soles of the feet are either not slippery, a slip such a steep mountain road will be sliding people's bodies from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain, and if the flying is not good, if the body turns and rolls down the hill, it will be fatal.

Therefore, Chen Zhanjun knew that the time to go down the mountain must be in advance to catch up with the time when the timber mill workers got off work, so that even if he was on crutches and the road was slippery, step by step, the descent was not much faster than the uphill and would not be delayed.

Moreover, Chen Zhanjun's waist was injured, Chen Feng was lame again, Chen Zhanjun could only decide that the three of them should go down to the foot of the mountain early, and they could not wait until it was dark to go down to the foot of the mountain, and then it would be too late.

At that time, if they can't catch up with the lumber mill's car, tonight, the three of them will spend the night cold, hungry and rainy at the foot of this big mountain.

Chen Zhanjun didn't want the three of them to come to this situation.

Chen Zhanjun watched the time while holding on to the wooden wall of the wooden house, which was nailed with wooden boards, straightened up from the bed and struggled to stand up.

As soon as he saw Chen Zhanjun standing up, Hao Jiali's eldest cousin immediately ran over to support him and said, "Uncle Chen! Don't be in a hurry, wait for my uncle, okay? My uncle he'll be back, I'm sure of him. ”

Chen Zhanjun didn't answer Hao Jiali's eldest cousin's words, but said to Chen Feng: "Chen Feng! Descend the hill right away, be sure to catch the lumber mill car and get back to the lumber mill tonight. ”

Chen Feng said, "Okay." Then he found a thick stick in the pyre at his feet, took it in his hand, and walked with a limp to the door of the hut.

Standing at the door of the wooden house, Chen Feng looked up at the sky above his head, the sky was still pale, this pale was the misty drizzle was falling from the vast, distant sky to the ground, Chen Feng turned his head and said to the two people in the wooden house: "Father! It's going down the mountain, now it's drizzling and you have to hurry down, wait until the rain gets heavier and heavier and then go down the mountain, this mountain road can't be walked, and we will spend the night on this mountain tonight. ”

Hao Jiali's eldest cousin was in a hurry, he walked to Chen Feng's side, took off the crutch in Chen Feng's hand and said, "Aunt! You finally got up the mountain, can you wait for my uncle? My uncle will definitely be back. ”

Chen Feng shook his head in despair, and then hung his head and said, "Xiaoxin! Don't say it, after so many years, I know what kind of person your uncle is, his heart is vicious, he won't come back to the wooden house, he will go to find a place to hide from us now, I see through him, I think the telegram he sent the year before was that he was really dead, I think he is no longer in this world, and when we go down the mountain, we will not look for him again, and we will go back to our hometown as we come. ”

Chen Zhanjun was helped by Hao Jiali's eldest cousin at this time and walked to the door of the wooden house, Chen Zhanjun took Chen Feng's words and said: "Hao Guang, this guy has changed, he has completely lost his temper and personality when he was a child, he was not as hard-hearted as he is now, when he was a child, he was good to everyone, he would rather be hungry than feed his younger brothers and sisters, and now he is like two people when he was a child!" ”

"Let's go, Xiaoxin! Don't wait for your uncle, don't look for him, your aunt is right, let's go home immediately after going down the mountain, we can't spend it with Hao Guang in the lumber mill, and the farm work at home will be delayed, the meal tickets in the drawer of Hao Guang's dormitory are almost used up for us, and in two days, Hao Guang will not show up, we will have to pay for the meals in the timber factory canteen, and how can we afford such a spending, don't spend it when we don't even have the three of us to go back to our hometown. What Chen Zhanjun considered was exactly what Chen Feng had considered.

Hao Jiali's eldest cousin couldn't persuade Chen Feng and Chen Zhanjun personally, so he had to give up.

He returned to the wood stove of the wooden house, looked down and found two sticks as thick as Chen Feng's hands in the pyre, and then searched around several corners of the wooden house to find an old, rusty one, probably a woodcutter discarded by the lumberjack.

Hao Jiali's eldest cousin used this old firewood knife to sharpen one end of the firewood stick indiscriminately, and gave the sharpened firewood stick to Chen Zhanjun, and he also cut one himself.

Then he tied Chen Feng with ropes and planks as he had done when he went up the mountain, and slowly tilted Chen Feng and the planks down on the ground at the door of the wooden house.

After getting these two things done, Hao Jiali's eldest cousin turned around and walked into the wooden house, helped Chen Zhanjun out of the wooden house, and then fastened the lock on the wooden house door.

Just like when he came up the mountain, Hao Jiali's eldest cousin put the two ropes in the wooden plank eye around his waist, not on his shoulders.

Because going up the mountain is different from going down, going up the mountain has to climb, and going down the mountain can be sliding, Hao Jiali's eldest cousin turned the direction when he went down the mountain, that is, Chen Feng and the wooden plank tied to the front sliding.

In this way, in addition to the rope on his waist, he has a wooden stick in one hand, and he can also pull the rope in the eye of the wooden board with one hand, and when Chen Feng's body slides down the mountain every time he goes forward, he uses his waist to tighten the wooden board behind Chen Feng and Chen Feng to let Chen Feng move forward in a measured manner, so that the speed and safety of Chen Feng's body lying on the wooden board when he goes down the mountain are under his control.

It didn't take long for Chen Feng to finish walking the slope in front of the wooden house and arrive at the intersection of the mountain.

Standing at the intersection, Hao Jiali's eldest cousin asked Chen Zhanjun how painful his waist was walking just now, and if he could come down the rugged mountain road one after another, if he couldn't, he planned to send Chen Feng down the mountain first, and then tie Chen Zhanjun down the mountain like tying Chen Feng.

Chen Zhanjun said that he could stand it, Chen Zhanjun said that even if he couldn't walk, his body would rather sit slowly on the wet and rotten mud surface than sit at the foot of the mountain, and he didn't want to increase the burden on Hao Jiali's eldest cousin.

Hao Jiali's eldest cousin also let Chen Zhanjun go, but for the sake of stability, Hao Jiali's eldest cousin returned to the wooden house and cut a section of rope tied to Chen Feng with the rusty knife, and then tied one end of the rope to Chen Zhanjun's waist, and the other end was tied to his own waist to contain Chen Zhanjun, so that when Chen Zhanjun went down the mountain, he couldn't walk just sitting on the ground and sliding down the mountain, and there were Chen Feng and Hao Jiali's eldest cousin as obstacles in front, and Chen Zhanjun's decline and speed would have a limit, and there would be no danger of flying down the mountain.

In addition, Chen Feng has an iron cone on both sides of the road to assist when going up the mountain, every time he goes down a little mountain road, Chen Feng will drive the iron cone into the soil on both sides of the road to stabilize himself and the plank, Hao Jiali's eldest cousin and Chen Zhanjun each have a sharpened stick in their hands, and the three of them will be foolproof on this road down the mountain.

Then the three of them walked cautiously on the mountain road.

Before the three of them walked into the thorny road, the three of them stopped abruptly, and the three of them saw Hao Jiali's father.

Hao Jiali's father was holding a few yellow grass clippings on his head, his hair was wet and dripping with water droplets, the clothes on his body were so wet that they were crumpled against his body, the liberation shoes on his feet stepped on the yellow mud of a shoe, and even the original color of the upper could not be seen, and Hao Jiali's father was holding a large bundle of weeds and rattans in his hands, and before anyone approached Chen Feng and them, he heard him shouting to Chen Zhanjun: "Dad! Father! I found a lot of herbs, you see, there are Tian Qi, salvia, hyssop, myrrh, many kinds, with these bone-setting medicines, your waist will soon be healed without pain. ”

Chen Zhanjun's eyes were hot, and tears rolled in his eyes.