Chapter 39. Thirty years ago
Qin Bukong said that from that day on, for a long time, Abba did not talk to him, but often squatted by Grandma's grave and cried silently. And Qin Bukong is not a person who is good at expressing emotions, and he has a stubborn personality, so he is on a par with his father, but in the final analysis, he is always his father, so no matter what, he will be understood in the end.
But the people in the village didn't necessarily think so, and people began to deliberately avoid Qin Bukong, and there were many people who were saved by themselves. Even those children fled far away when they saw Qin Bukong, and some of them were naughty, and they would throw stones at him from afar, and even made up songs to sing him.
When Qin Bukong said this, he lowered his head in frustration, and then kept shaking his head lightly, looking helpless. He went on to say that there are only two kinds of people who will be woven into the ballad, either the big heroes or the big monsters. Obviously, I'm the one who everyone thinks of as a monster. So once again I did not like to associate with the people of the village, and went out early in the morning, and took Ganmu to the mountains for a whole day, and then came back in the evening, and I felt that since everyone had chosen to abandon me, it was better for me to abandon them than so.
But when he went home that day, his second mouth was not controlled by his brain, and he began to speak softly, and this voice was inaudible to others, but Qin Bukong himself could hear it clearly. The words that came out of that mouth have always been telling Qin Bukong, saying that this place doesn't like you anymore, why don't you go away and fly high, out of sight is pure, and let them fend for themselves. Qin Bukong said, at that time, I also quarreled with my own mouth, telling it not to talk too much, not to do much.
He smiled wryly and said, can you believe it? I quarreled with myself. But when I saw that the candles at home were lit that day, I knew that Abba hadn't slept yet, so I waited outside for a while, planning to wait for Abba to sleep before entering the house to save embarrassment. At this time, the mouth said, "Go over there and listen, someone is talking about you."
Qin Bukong said that I have always been able to control my second mouth, but that night I couldn't do it anyway. I whispered a few more words to my mouth, but finally followed the guidance of the mouth and walked to a corner, and sure enough, I heard someone whispering behind the corner.
He said that there were four or five people who spoke, all of them villagers from the village, and one of them was his father. And what they were discussing made Qin Bukong's heart chill. Everyone coaxed Abba and said, Qin Bukong is an evil thing, an ominous person who brings disaster to the village, such a person, you don't have a soft heart, God has punished us enough, if he continues to stay in the village, it will inevitably bring even greater disaster.
Abba didn't speak, after all, it was his own son. And some of them began to say that they wanted to drive Qin Bukong away and not let him stay in the village. And the other person answered, let the tiger return to the mountain, that is a big trouble. What if he comes back in the future? simply burn it to death, and it will be regarded as a sacrifice to the sky.
Qin Bukong said that after hearing these vicious words at that time, he was angry and very sad, and he was actually already murderous. But he didn't believe that although his father had differences with him because of certain angles, he would not really burn his son to death. In despair, Qin Bukong silently returned home, packed his things in the dark, and planned to leave quietly after dawn.
But in the middle of the night that day, the fire outside the window was blazing, and the house was loud, and seven or eight people broke in without warning, and quickly restrained Qin Bukong's hands and feet. Qin Bukong said that his skills were still limited at that time, and he was not able to break free immediately. Soon he was tied up and escorted out, and under the gaze of everyone, he was tied to a wooden stake. Ironically, the stake happened to be the one he had used to tie up the Japanese officer.
At the moment, he couldn't break free, and he was tied up in full view of everyone, but he kept being stubborn, didn't shout, and didn't be afraid, because he knew in his heart that this group of people couldn't help himself at all. After everyone counted their "crimes", the patriarch announced that the reason why our Miao Village had a rampant change was because of such an ominous person, and now we want to burn him to sacrifice to heaven!
The crowd followed with chanting "Burn him!" Burn him! At this time, a middle-aged man from the Miao family, holding a torch and holding a scimitar, walked out of the crowd.
I asked Qin Bukong, that's you, Abba, right? Qin Bukong twitched his nose again, began to wipe his tears, and then nodded yes. So many people wanted to kill me, and I wasn't scared, nor was I sad, I was just cold. But when Abba came out, he broke down and began to cry uncontrollably, others thought that I was crying because I was dying, but I was crying because the person I loved in the world, the person who gave me life, was going to cut off my life at this time!
Qin Bukong said that when Abba was only a few meters away from him, he finally saw Abba's face clearly in his teary eyes. He had that heartache, but he was full of disdain. It seemed that my presence made him unable to raise his head in front of his people, and he mourned more than his heart died, and my heart died with the flame of the torch in Abba's hand.
Qin Bukong said that his second mouth began to summon Gu creatures at this moment, but it was only blocked, and it did not hurt anyone. The snake Gu that was summoned at that time quickly restrained the feet of everyone present, and he called Ganmu loudly, bit off the rope on his body, walked down the altar in full view of everyone, passed through everyone, returned home without saying a word, took his things, and left with Ganmu. It wasn't until he left the village that Qin Bukong removed the snake Gu and restored everyone's freedom.
He said that at that time, he cried all the way and walked all the way, picking small paths. And he didn't go far, but hid in the nearby mountains for a few days. At this time, a bustling figure appeared on the road in the distance, and when I saw it, it turned out to be another group of Japanese soldiers.
I exclaimed, it turned out that there was still a team. Qin Bukong nodded and said, after the previous team was wiped out by me, it may be that there has been no news for a long time, so the Japanese army sent another small column to search the mountain, and this time, Qin Bukong did not stop it anymore, looked at the group of Japanese soldiers indifferently, and killed all the men in the village, including his own father.
When the Japanese wanted to kill women and children, Qin Bukong repeated his old trick and wiped out this group of Japanese again, and then he returned to the stockade and said to those who survived, you all run for your lives now, it won't be long before the Japanese will come to slaughter the village, and after saying that, he will let his younger brothers and sisters take care of each other, and the eldest brother will not be able to accompany you in the future. The younger brothers and sisters died one after another because of Abba and Aunt, and Brother was going to be burned to death by everyone, so he was already young, and now he has no idea. Qin Bukong entrusted his younger siblings to an old aunt in the village to raise them on his behalf, saying that if his younger siblings had any mistakes, they would take her life when they came back in the future.
But Qin Bukong never went back, and since then he has left the village, no longer wearing Miao clothes, but changing into Han clothes. He also cut off his own hair and, completely, abandoned his own people.
After listening to him say all this, I was very emotional. Although I think he is indeed too radical, but after all, it is caused by the lack of communication with people since childhood, when he has the ability to stop the second team of Japanese soldiers, he did not stop it, but witnessed the tragedy, I have to say that although the men of the whole village were not killed by him, their death had a lot to do with Qin Bukong. It is precisely because of these things that Qin Bukong, who originally had some psychological defects, has become more and more intrusive since then, doing his own thing everywhere, selfish, but in fact, his nature is not like this, it is because of those things thirty years ago that made him feel that no matter how much good he did and how many people he helped, he never got a good reward, and such a deformed logic, just like his own deformity, has accompanied him for the rest of his life.
I sighed, feeling that the bearded old man in front of me seemed so fragile and pitiful at the moment. What he is stubborn with is never his own life, nor the disability on his face, but those who always exclude him and treat him as an outlier. He just wants to be recognized and accepted by others, these things that seem to us to be able to be done with a little effort seem so difficult in Qin Bukong's life.
This is probably the first time he has told people about this past after many years. Among the people who know him on the rivers and lakes, many have heard that he killed the Japanese soldiers and the men of the whole village, which makes the rumors about this person even more ethereal and treacherous, even my master has never heard him talk about these details, Qin Bukong always gives people a feeling of both good and evil, and whenever such a person appears around, it always makes people can't help but be more defensive than accepting, even I, who have heard the story, think so.
So I can now understand why he didn't come to my aid when I was struggling on the ground just now, presumably this incident was a fatal wound in his heart, so that after thirty years of reappearing, he still couldn't accept it for a long time, in order to escape this ghost that became his Abba, he would be forced to kill the other party with his own hands again, and it was indeed difficult to get out of this feeling for a while.
So I also sat down next to him, sat down with my back against the wall, took out two cigarettes from the cigarette case, lit them in my mouth, and then I took out one of them and put it between Qin Bukong's lips.