Chapter 2 The Frog Sounds Sleepless
In order to protect the Nanyue Scenic Area, the government has introduced a housing replacement policy for the benefit of the people, as long as they are willing to move out of the mountain, they can use the old house to replace a new house in the resettlement area at the foot of the mountain. The residents in the mountains have moved to the bottom of the mountain one after another, and only Chengliu's grandmother is as stubborn as the granite in the mountain, nailed to the mountain. Grandma knew that if there was a house under the mountain, there would be no chance of staying in the future, and she didn't want to cheapen her unfilial son who had been handed down for five generations and the new daughter-in-law who didn't look at people properly, and the house would stay on the mountain, and they would neither come to rob it nor sell it.
In the past few years, only he and his grandmother have stayed in the mountains, and they have lived a leisurely life. Originally, the neighbors' houses were also empty, but since last month, a group of strangers have come and rented empty houses near his house, and the mountains have started to be lively again. These people have installed many cameras in the mountains, and often hover over the dense forest with drones in remote control. Chengliu sees them as rich people, and rich people are fools who spend money to buy sin, and they have to live in the mountains where birds can casually. Ordinary people work hard for most of their lives to become rich, but after becoming rich, they have to spend money to experience the life of the poor, he doesn't understand, why do they have to work hard for most of their lives? The end point of the poor man's dream is the rich, and some people are born there; But the end of the rich is to go back and experience the poor, and as the poor themselves, Seiryu seems to feel that he was born at the end of the rich.
While thinking, he walked to the front of the house, and watched his grandmother sweep the front lawn of guano every day, and began to sincerely thank these rich people, because their drones hovered over his house from time to time, and the front lawn of his house has since become a place where birds don't, which has saved him a lot of trouble. He suddenly developed a slight affection for these rich people.
At the turn of spring and summer, the sound of frogs biting the silence of the mountains and forests, and the rustling of the pine wind can only accompany the frogs. There were many mountain people who left because they couldn't stand the croaking of frogs all over the mountains in April, and Chengliu was no exception, but he had no choice. He tossed and turned in bed until dawn, and finally the frog sound died down, but the drone he had been thankful for during the day was buzzing around, and he felt like a few flies around him. Fortunately, after a while, they flew away, and he was finally able to get a good night's sleep......
The exhaustion of the night immediately put him to sleep...... He dreamed that there was a winged cow pointing its sharp horns at him and flying towards him quickly. He was so frightened that he fled, but he didn't run far when a huge five-story toad appeared in front of him. The toad slowly opened its mouth, its huge tongue reaching out to him, and he leaned down and burrowed into the ditch by the side of the road, dodging it. However, the huge tongue did not hit the air, but it just stuck the flying cow firmly, and in the blink of an eye, a cow was caught in the belly of the toad. Then, the toad also waved its black wings behind it, scattering time and flying sand and stones, and the sky was dark. Strangely, such a big movement only made a small buzzing sound like a mosquito and a fly. The giant toad flew far and near, hovering in the air, buzzing far and near. He saw that the monster's eyes were facing the sky, and it seemed that his attention was not on himself, so he mustered up his courage and slowly got up, but the moment he got up, a giant tongue with flames galloped towards him...... He woke up from his dream, there were no flying cows, no giant toads, only the buzzing sound of drones coming from outside the house, which was the buzz in his dream.
He began to get angry with these drones, he took out the slingshot hidden under the bed, went to the balcony, looked for the right time, "Xiu Xiu" twice, the bullet was not missing, and the drone hit the ground. Extreme grief emboldens people, and since the death of his grandmother, he has done nothing without thinking about the consequences. The drone smoked on the front lawn, and his snoring in the bed was like the buzzing of the drone.
At sunset, he finally woke up and chose a less dirty coat from the messy pile of clothes at the bedside to put on. He thinks that no matter how sharp the grinding of his roommates at school is in the middle of the night, it is better than the croaking of frogs in the mountains. At school, he seems to feel that the more noisy the class, the easier it is to fall asleep. At school, there was also a beautiful new girl sitting in the front row of him, and she smiled back from time to time, making him feel very sweet, like camellia nectar on a summer day. But he doesn't admit that he went back because of her sweetness, but that he slept more peacefully at school than at home. Family? He smiled wryly, since his grandmother died, this is just a house, and there is no home for a long time.
He pushed open the bedroom door, and the smell of sandalwood smoke wafted in, which was the scent of sandalwood that grandma often offered to Magu on the shrine. He looked at the shrine and shuddered, there were three incense sticks that were more than half burning! He didn't light that incense! The door is still locked from the inside, it can't be the parents, they come back, they will come in through the main entrance. He looked at the back door again, and it was still locked, not like anyone had ever entered. He was terrified in the daytime, kneeling down in front of the statue of Magu and kowtowing a few times. Under the statue of Magu is the portrait of grandpa and grandma, and grandma's smile is kind and kind. "I guess my grandmother came back and blamed me for skipping school," he thought, "and her old man once said that my parents didn't care about me, and that the only way out for me was to study." Thinking of this, he kowtowed to his grandmother three more times, and promised in his heart: "Grandma, rest in peace for your old man!" I will never skip class again. The last sentence, but I don't know how many times he said it to his grandmother. Before his grandmother's death, he relied on his grandmother's love for him, and he was never afraid of his grandmother, but after his grandmother died, he was finally afraid. At least at that moment, he really planned to mend his ways, but tomorrow, he didn't dare to guarantee that he could get rid of the problem of being sleepy when he heard the teacher's voice. After all, no one can guarantee their future self.
With great devotion and guilt, he opened the door. He found a group of people standing on the front lawn, these people looked at him with some viciousness in their eyes, and looked at him with some playfulness, and one of them was still holding a book in his hand and looking at it in a pretentious posture, which was a Jin Yong novel that Cheng Liu read last night - "Dragon Babu", there was a white spot on the cover of the book, which was once a memory left by a bird flying into his bedroom.
Seeing these people, he understood that he must have come to claim the drone for himself. They entered my room while I was asleep, and the three sticks of incense were naturally lit by them. "It wasn't grandma coming back!" He felt a sense of relief in his heart. It seems that it is much safer to see a burglary robber than to see a grandmother, after all, in peacetime, there are no ghosts in the living, and they are the ghosts of their loved ones. After a moment of relief, he still felt that it was very inappropriate for him to be a little grateful in the face of the robbers, so he tied his face. He believes that if the promise he made to Aunt Ma and Grandma just now is not fulfilled, then all the consequences should be borne by them. He was glad he had found a reason to continue his wanderlust so quickly.
At present, the man closed the book and asked Chengliu, "Boy, did you shoot the drone?" ”
Cheng Liu took out the great courage after the great compassion, sneered, and said: "I just shot down two flies ......" Before he finished speaking, the man kicked him in the lower abdomen, and then several people stepped forward to punch and kick him. Although he knew that the consequences of shooting down a drone were not very good, he never thought that it would be so uncomfortable.