Chapter 3 Close relatives are far away
Chang Yongde sat on the snow, holding his beloved wife in pain, crying darkly, exhausted, and helplessly looking around the mountains of dead trees and leaves and black holes and ravines.
He slowly fell on his wife's face, suddenly, his wife's eyes widened angrily, poofed ββ, a rough breath, Chang Yongde was suddenly stunned, his face was pale, he quickly pushed away his wife's corpse, jumped up from the ground with a sound, jumped a foot away, Chang Yongde opened his arms, shook his body, looked at the corpse in extreme fear, feces and urine flowed down from his crotch, he instinctively hurriedly ripped off his belt, but he was in a hurry to escape.
Endless sadness, combined with sudden fright and fear, completely broke his spirit, and he lifted his trousers and ran madly and aimlessly towards the mountains, through the woods, over the ravines, shouting and running desperately until he disappeared into the white snow-capped mountains.......
When the shepherd Fugui found Chang Yongde, it was already noon four days later, and he hid under a big rock, curled up in a ball, and pouted.
When Fugui gently pounded him with a whip, he turned around in a panic, and saw Fugui screaming "ah-", lifting his pants, running down the mountain to the depths of the woods, the shepherd was frightened and sat on the tip of the stone, the pain of the buttocks being pierced was unbearable, he held his breath and endured the severe pain, shouting: "Yongde......, it's me, ......, heeββ,ah......, my ass, I'm Fugui......." β
In the blink of an eye, Chang Yongde had already jumped without a trace, Fugui covered his ass and chased to the edge of the cliff, and there was no one everywhere. The strong young people in the village have been searching for more than half a month, but they have not found the slightest trace.
I also occasionally heard people say that when they were chopping firewood in the depths of the mountains and forests, they saw a ragged human-like appearance, and disappeared in an instant.
Chang Yongde went crazy like this, he completely lost his memory, he once held his beloved daughter, helpless, and abandoned his relatives in the wilderness, just ...... near him.
"A hard-working person with a kind and simple heart is crazy like this," Chang Yongde's mother wiped her tears, looked at her wife, and cried, "I feel uncomfortable ...... heart." β
ββ¦β¦ Our carving craft, I, to whom do I pass it on? Chang Yongde's father, Chang Yufu, glanced at his wife irritably, held a dry tobacco pouch, exhaled and smoked a few puffs, pointed to the four big and small girls cowering in the corner, and said, "Pass it to these useless girls?" Got married and brought to your in-laws' house? This is our unique skill. Hi ββ, it's all fate, it's fateββγ β
The four girls looked at the grandfather of this fire leopard's temper with a stunned and fearful look.
"You are a dead old man, you won't be quiet, what can you do if you are heard by others." Chang Yongde's mother danced her hands in a panic, and her voice was almost squeezed out of her throat, and she said with resentment: "Do you still think that our family has suffered lightly? β
Later, Chang Yongde was around the village, dodging, still holding his pants, and hurriedly ran away or hid as soon as he saw someone, like a wild wolf that had been injured, hiding from the villagers everywhere. They put some food outside the village so that Chang Yongde would not starve to death; Chang Yongde's mother, shouting, chasing, tripping and getting up to chase, never woke up her son, and cried all day long with her granddaughters.
Uncle Chang is a person with a tricky and eccentric temper, no matter who he sees, it is as if people owe him two liters of black bean money, he always has a strained face, stares, and looks inviolable. I often lead the dog named "Kuroko" and go out to buy some wine and daily oil, salt, sauce and vinegar. As soon as he came down to the village, the villagers saw him and muttered softly: The old drunkard is coming, the old drunkard is coming. Stay away, for fear of getting angry with him, and provoking his scolding mouth.
On weekdays, Uncle Chang planted some land, dug some Chinese medicinal materials in the mountains and forests, and hunted some wild animals to improve his life. If the vendors who collect medicinal materials and leather goods come, they will arbitrarily raise the price, and the reprimanded hawkers dare not say a word, and these alone have a lot of income. In short, there are a lot of gains in a year, no matter how you calculate, life should be quite good.
The problem is that Uncle Chang has an annoying bad habit, he is addicted to alcohol, and whenever he goes out, he always has to carry two big gourd wine back, and he has to drink drunk and drunk, and the wine is annoying, either stumbling into the village with blood-red eyes to make trouble, or picking up his thick wooden stick and jumping up and down, waving the whirring wind, and at this time even the "sunspot" dog he raises, he has to hide to the side.
The little girl held his arm with both hands and begged bitterly, and he also brutally pushed the little girl to the ground, causing the girl to cry in fear, and he showed his fierce appearance viciously, and scared the little girl into tears, and did not dare to squeak, but timidly watched him raise his neck and knock...... Drinking; Staring at blood-red eyes, he lost his temper, cursed and played drunk.
Once he pushed the girl down on a stone, and the back of his head was broken and bleeding, so he was so bold that he pulled the girl with a pull, found Chang Yufu's home, and slammed the door, and half the village could hear it.
"Go and see, who? Ahem, cough, cough ......," Chang Yufu bent over, got up from the stool, and said to his wife, "Is this a knock on the door, or a slam on the door?" Damn it. β
The eldest lady of the Chang family stepped on her little feet, walked out in a hurry, and said upsetly: "It's here, isn't it coming." β
When I opened the door, I was startled, I almost touched Uncle Chang's face, I was stunned for a moment, then I looked at the little girl, and asked very simply: "What's the matter?" If there's a fart, let it goββγ β
"You damn old woman, how are you talking? Give your granddaughter, it's time to pay you back for such a big support," Uncle Chang stared at the Chang family's aunt with blood-red eyes, and shouted: "Give thirty yuan, which is considered child support." β
"Where is my granddaughter going, if you have no head or tail, what will you do to make me believe you?" Aunt Chang crossed her hands, looked at Ou, and asked reluctantly: "This is your Yongde's daughter, after the death of your Yongde's wife, this child was thrown into the West Mountain. β
The four girls in the family also ran out one after another when they heard the sound, looking at the girl strangely.
The little girl was in tears and with a sad face, looking at this group of unfamiliar sisters, the older girl quietly went up to take the little girl's hand, and was pushed behind her by the aunt of the Chang family who was extremely vigilant and ruthless.
"What evidence do you have? What can you prove? β
"Your 'rhubarb' was present, and it was almost gnawed to death by a wolf for this, but I saved it." Uncle Chang said vigorously and pointed to the "rhubarb" wagging his tail beside him.
"You call 'Rhubarb' to speak, and say that it is also present, and I will accept this little girl," Aunt Chang stomped her feet, her face was pale, and she looked extremely angry, and said: "You want to extort money and pick on people, you bully people." β
"You, you ......, unreasonable." Uncle Chang was so angry that he couldn't help it, and when he looked at the three or four girls behind the eldest lady of the Chang family, he shook his body a few times angrily, and pulled the girl up the mountain in a hurry. The little girl turned her head with tears in her eyes, and looked forward to it reluctantly, until she disappeared at the entrance of the village, and the aunt and girls of the Chang family rushed to the entrance of the village.
"Grandma, is that my sister?" The eldest girl looked at their backs and asked in a daze, "She's so pitiful." β
The eldest lady of the Chang family pulled up her sleeves and wiped her tears, and said aggrievedly: "She looks exactly like your mother." β
Uncle Chang tore the girl and dragged her all the way to the mountain, threw it on the ground, and shouted like crazy: "I raised a scourge, the scourge of pit people, and there is nowhere to fall." β
The little girl lived like this, hungry and full.
Uncle Chang is a heavy drinker, and he just spends little money in the family, so his life is also very restrained, and he has no next meal.
Uncle Chang felt awkward in his heart, seeing that the girl was upset, he was impatient when he didn't drink, and he hurt the girl when he drank.
Therefore, since he had a little girl, Uncle Chang's face has been pulled, and he regrets that he shouldn't have brought the girl back in the first place, and blamed her for all his troubles.
"This alcohol addiction must not be thrown away, it is just such a hobby for a lifetime, well, how can it not be thrown away, even if it is less food and clothing." Uncle Chang's words.
After drinking, I occasionally went to Chang's house to make a fuss, and when I came back, I was angry with the little girl, either scolding or beating with a branch, and the little girl often hid and cried secretly.
People are bullied, dogs are also bullied, "sunspots" often find "rhubarb" to provoke trouble, grinning and biting "rhubarb", "rhubarb" always let "sunspots", just stick tightly with the little girl and depend on each other.
The girl often looked forward to her grandmother taking her home, and sat on the edge of the ravine and looked at the bottom of the ditch stupidly, no, she never saw her grandmother coming, but her sister occasionally quietly ran halfway up the mountain, waved her hand, and gave her something to eat.
Ten years have passed, and Uncle Gao has gradually had a good face, and the little girl can raise her hands to work, so she re-emphasized the word "Mei" of the eldest girl of the Chang family, and named the little girl Chang Meixue, because the girl was born on a snowy day, and she always had to give the girl a thought, and besides, the little girl had to return it to his old Chang family after all, and she didn't want to work hard anymore.
Although Xiao Meixue is young, she can walk on the hillside, and her small broken steps are very neat, jumping and jumping, climbing rocks and trees, as long as she is alone, she can't stop. Uncle Chang often drinks and scolds, Xiao Meixue is always timid to dodge, except for being hungry and secretly coming back to pull a few mouthfuls of rice, all tossing in the mountains, like a cheerful little monkey, leading the "rhubarb" to shuttle through the woods and walk like the wind, often chasing and hunting some deer, rabbits, pheasants barbecue and eat in the wild, and bring the excess home to let Uncle Chang drink.
Back at home, she is as timid as a mouse, but as long as she goes into the mountains, she looks like a girl, several times more naughty than a boy, she is a mountain monkey, and she is so energetic that she doesn't know how tired she is, and the ditches and cliffs in this area are well remembered in her heart, even if there is a gastrodia there; There was a Ganoderma lucidum, there was a piece of black ginseng, a wolf's den, a badger, she remembered it clearly.
It was the late autumn of another year, Xiao Meixue picked up two little cats on the mountain, hugged them in distress, and fed them patiently, Uncle Chang shouted, and quickly took this thing out and threw it away, Xiao Meixue looked at Uncle Chang fearfully, nodded timidly, and didn't dare to say a word. threw it away, but it looked pitiful, so he hid it and kept it secretly, and he grew up fast, and it was two feet long in less than two months.
Where is this kitten? Especially when he sees a stranger, he hides in the firewood pile and under the bed, but he is only intimate with Xiaomei Xue, and treats Xue'er as his biological mother, with round eyes, always bright, very vigilant to look at everything around him, never leaving Xue'er, and has a close relationship with "Rhubarb", even if the tail of "Rhubarb" unintentionally swept its ears, it just shook it disapprovingly, and looked very docile.
It likes to eat meat, and the multigrain steamed bun has no appetite at all, so Xue'er takes care of it carefully, and names it "Snow Sister" and "Snow Brother" .......
"Rhubarb" actually played with two kittens often, and gradually grew over time, Uncle Chang found that these are two rare snow leopards, look docile, when foraging and meeting opponents, but extremely fierce, at home never saw snow leopards show wildness, often and they hand paws naughty, Uncle Chang secretly carried Xiaomei Xue, has several times introduced this snow leopard into the mountains, want to ruthlessly abandon, he just walked into the yard with his front feet, the snow leopard followed up.
As soon as Uncle Chang was drinking, he waved the wooden stick in the grove behind the house, and Xiao Meixue secretly hid in the dark and watched intently, seeing that there was no one around, and she had a clear eye to learn.
Later, Xiao Meixue's actions made Uncle Chang find out and warn her viciously.
"In the future, no peeping, otherwise your legs will be broken."
Later, Uncle Chang thought about it, called Xiao Meixue to his side, and said, "Do you want to learn martial arts?" β
Xiao Meixue looked at Uncle Chang's face and nodded sincerely.
Before dawn in the morning, Xiao Meixue was picked up by Uncle Chang, standing on a stump and squatting on the horse, rushing sandbags, running all over the mountain, ...... Xiao Meixue was exhausted by the tense rhythm of exercise. That action was not done properly was the whipping of the branches, and her body was covered with scars. Xiao Xuemei walked to the mountain behind the house and wept bitterly, he regretted that he should not have such curiosity and competitiveness.
Day after day, she wanted to escape, she didn't want to stay here for a moment, Uncle Chang was like a crazy ghost, he would appear strangely in front of her eyes, forcing her to continue practicing, as if there was endless hatred to pour out all on Xiao Meixue.
If it was a rainy day, Uncle Chang would take out a tattered old book and teach Xue'er to read and write. At first, Xiao Meixue's hand could be knocked swollen by Uncle Chang, until all the nasty broken books in this book were learned, and Uncle Chang put it in the belly of the stove and burned it, and Uncle Chang found another book to press on the head of the bed, and Xiao Meixue shivered with fear when she saw the book.
Xiao Meixue gradually became stronger, and with the growth of martial arts, her heart became stronger, and the later beatings and scolding gradually became much less, because what Uncle Chang asked for became a daily habit.
And so it was until she was thirteen.
As early winter approached, the sky was getting darker, and it looked like a heavy rain was coming. Uncle Chang looked at the large pile of firewood outside, about to be caught in the rain, so he shouted loudly: "Mei Xue...... Cher ....... β
Uncle Chang was near the hut, looking around, the bottom of the ditch was on the slope, but Mei Xue was nowhere to be seen, and Uncle Chang became irritable.
"This liar girl knows how to be playful, and she won't whip you hard when she finds you."
However, in front of the door, I saw "Kuroko" walking quietly in the kennel. I couldn't find "Rhubarb" and the two snow leopards everywhere, so Mei Xue took them into the mountains to play like crazy.
The climate in the mountains is abnormal, just in the early winter, heavy snow has fallen overwhelmingly, Uncle Chang stared, his brain was coaxing, where to find such a big mountain?
Uncle Chang had a thought, that is, to find Xiaomeixue, just to beat her with a branch, why did he always make me angry, picked up the wooden stick, walked into the mountains, and shouted as he walked: "Xue'er...... Mei Xue......, your mother raised a white-eyed wolf, and she was torn and eaten by the wolf to relieve her hatred, damn it. β
Uncle Chang walked about three or four miles.
"Grandpa......, look at ......." Mei Xue timidly pointed to the stone and said softly, hoping that this discovery would please her grandfather.
Uncle Chang blushed his face, angrily ripped off a branch from the tree next to him, walked over and was about to whip Mei Xue, but was stunned by the scene in front of him, a square black skin stone, seven feet long, two feet seven inches wide, quietly placed in the middle of the gabion, wisps of smoke rose from it, and the surrounding of the stone was covered with snow, it was this rectangular stone, the snow touched polarization, isn't this the legendary plum blossom jade?
Uncle Chang squatted down in surprise, and the branches in his hand also fell to the ground, he slowly raised his trembling hand, and gently stroked it with his fingers, a comfortable and warm feeling throughout the body instantly touched the whole body, and the fatigue on his body disappeared instantly. Xue'er looked at her grandfather's abnormal behavior, and she was very relieved, and she wanted to be praised by her grandfather.
Through the dark stone skin, speckled with crystal micro zircon, crystal, peridot, agate, just like the vast night sky inlaid with colorful stars, hazy and mysterious, Uncle Chang raised his head and looked around in horror, his face looked particularly hideous.