Volume 1 Across the Sea Chapter 2 Sadness and Hope

"Uncle De's family, haven't you come back yet?" Crane Ming's mother shouted at the house to the south under the big locust tree.

"No, no" With the response, Uncle De's family came out of the fence, followed by a half-sized boy and a girl with a pigtail. Crane Ming kept winking at the half-sized boy and Niuniu, with a naughty face.

"It's noon, why haven't you come back yet, don't.... Alas, bah, bah, look at my mouth" Crane Ming babbled and frowned.

"Why don't you let the third uncle's family Qingsuo go to Xiaoliangzi to take a look?" Uncle De's family said.

"Green Lock, Green Lock" .....

By the river in the west of the village, four or five human cubs ran and played happily on the riverside with their bare butts, "plopping..... Thump..... Plop "splashing water prints shine on the autumn sunset, and cheerful nursery rhymes echo in the space:

Autumn is coming, the river is cold, and every family is busy picking fruits.

The man hunts, the woman weaves the shuttle, and the guy is busy buying the dowry.

In August, if you don't go down to the river, the river water is cold to the bone.

In September and October, busy with grain, the green wolf was full of stove smiles.

The cool river water flows slowly, and the small fish make clear waves from time to time. On the river beach in the distance, there are many adult men and women mending fishing nets in the shade, and the sound of flirting and scolding can be heard from time to time, but who knows that those dozens of hunters are desperately struggling to survive between life and death.

In the middle of the night, the autumn breeze is gentle. Four or five ragged and bloodied figures on the mountain road supported each other and staggered down the mountain road.

"Uncle De, what about the patriarch? What about my father....." Qing Suo looked anxious.

"They..... They ..... "woo", "woo", "woo", "woo..... That sad mood spreads ....

"I'm going to find my father, I'm going to find the patriarch"

"Bastard boy bring me back"

Uncle De grabbed Qingsuo's arm, "Go and die!" Looking at Uncle Qingsuo in front of him, he couldn't help but burst into tears.....

A round of red sun jumped from the distant mountain top, the morning glow was full of the sky, and the village was crowded. Uncle De's group of injured people staggered into the village, and a sense of sadness spread, and the crowd let out low sobs.

In the afternoon, white lanterns are hung up in the village..... Children who don't know the world may know that something big has happened, and there is no laughter on their immature faces.

In the family ancestral hall, the sound of wooden fish, the curling of cigarettes, and the men, women and children of the clan knelt in front of the mourning hall with brushes. Erbolin Yibin led the clansmen to pay tribute.

There are no coffins in the ancestral hall, only ranks. Twenty and three of them went up the mountain to hunt this time, and only six of them, including Uncle De, escaped for their lives, and all of them were injured or disabled. The bones of the rest of the tribe were gone, so they could only be buried in their clothes.

On the mountain road leading to the family cemetery, the clansmen helped the old and the young, and walked slowly, the sound of suona broke people's intestines, and everyone was sad and tearful.

A small family living in a remote mountainous area struggling to survive, after losing most of their young adults, the hardships and hardships of life in the future can be imagined.

"Mother, where did Daddy go, why didn't you come back to give Ming'er candy?"

"Your father has gone to Henggang County, so far away, he will come back to see us Ming'er during the New Year, bring a lot of candy, Ming'er is good, let's go home and wait for your father."

"Okay, okay, my mother doesn't cry, let's go home and wait for my father"

"Ming'er wants to celebrate the New Year tomorrow, so Daddy will bring candy to Ming'er."

Uncontrollable tears flowed down his cheeks and merged into a babbling stream, like the spring of longing flowing to the blue sea in the distance.

Time flies. Ten years later, in Linjia Village, Cui smoke curls, chickens and dogs bark, and this is still a paradise and a pure land on earth.

Lin Heming is fourteen years old, and he has grown taller, but he looks very thin. The family has lost the backbone, the pillar, although there is the help of the same clan, but the clan is also dragging the family, many families have also lost the pillars, the clan is in this difficult day to support each other, through one difficult day after another.

The sun is slowly rising, and the village of Linjia is still full of smoke, and the chickens are crowing and the dogs are barking.