The smell of fragrant earth is mixed with the smell of rotting straw.

Li Yu wondered, whose barbecue is so rustic?

Who is the boss fooling? Really when I'm drunk?

So I suddenly opened my eyes and was surprised to find that I was on the edge of the ridge, not at the barbecue stand.

Between the two paddy fields directly in front, two groups of people are facing each other with hoes, sickles, and bricks.

"Wu Lao Liu, are you still unreasonable?"

"Don't talk nonsense, you have to move this water again, Lao Tzu will make your head bloom!"

It is said to be a confrontation, but in fact, one party is bullying the other.

There were seven or eight people on Wu Laoliu's side, and they were all strong men.

There were only two people close to Li Yu's side.

A man and a woman seem to be weak.

Li Yu's eyes gradually widened, and his pupils slowly dilated.

"Isn't that my cub and my mother?"

Hey, I'm dreaming again.

The second elder is long gone, Li Youtian left in May of Li Yu's sophomore year of high school, and before that, he had been paralyzed in bed for two years. 's mother, Luo Minxia, left in the summer of Li Yu's junior year.

Aside from paralysis, the cause of death of the two elders is almost the same, they are all diseases caused by hard work.

Usually, no matter whether it is a major or minor illness, the second elder does not talk about going to the hospital for examination, but just taking a medicine, either two pieces of 100 painkiller tablets in a bottle, or a few packs of headache powder.

In Li Yu's impression, when he was in elementary and junior high school, Li Youtian was not paralyzed, and he ate headache powder as a meal at that time.

In addition to the outer packaging, there is also a layer of white paper containing the medicine powder inside.

Usually, Li Yu would collect them, fold them flat, and clamp them with iron clips or sew one side with a needle and thread, so that they could be used as a draft book.

It's a thick pile in my memory, as thick as an old calendar.

Li Youtian was paralyzed in a car accident at the beginning of 01, on the third day of the first lunar month.

Ah, remembered......

At this time, I dreamed of May of the millennium 00.

It is also the second semester of Li Yu's third year of junior high school, and it will soon be the time to plant rice, and he needs to irrigate the fields.

The second elder and the sixth family of Wu Lao fought because of the fight over water.

The paddy fields of the Li family and the Wu family are next to each other, the paddy fields of the Li family are below the Wu family, and the water comes down from the canal above, so it is necessary to open an opening in the paddy fields of the Wu family to let the water above flow down.

Although Yangcheng County is located in the southern inland, there is no shortage of water, and generally does not fight for water.

But every time it comes to this season, Wu Laoliu's family has a lot of people, and they are all men, so they can make it bad.

Their family blocked the water outlet to the Li family, and opened an opening on the other side of the ridge, preferring to let the water flow elsewhere and waste it rather than let the water flow into the Li family's paddy field.

As soon as they went to negotiate, the Wu family said: "The water flowing into my field is my family's, and you can't control what I like to do with it." ”

At that time, the inland was not the coast, and there were many people who did not have enough to eat.

Many families rely on one-third of an acre of land to grow some rations, and the rest of the public grain is barely enough to feed a family of four or five.

Li Youtian has no other skills, so he can only rely on farming and digging soil to support his family.

A lack of water is equivalent to a loss of food.

Cutting off food is equivalent to cutting off life.

Plus it's not the only time, and it's going too far each time.

Li Youtian really couldn't hold back and made a move with the Wu family.

The result is naturally not the victory of justice over evil, or even justice was beaten to the point of bleeding and spent more than half a month in the hospital. And the evil not only does not need to be compensated, but it is not even imprisoned.

It also made the Li family miss the best time for rice planting, resulting in a much worse harvest in the second half of the year than in previous years.

After the rations were paid, there was not much left.

forced Li Youtian to find another way out, and on the third day of the first month of the following year, he left south to Guangzhou to work.

The great changes in the Li family began at this time.

This is the year when you go out of the house, the train is preferred because it is cheaper, and there is no better choice.

There is a railway station in Yangcheng County, but the station is not in the county seat, but in Pingyang Town, which is twenty kilometers away from the county seat, so to take the train, you need to take transportation in the county seat.

At that time, the means of transportation were not very developed, and the only way to get to the train station was to take a van, four yuan per person, half price for children.

The van that Li Youtian took that time happened to be the car driven by Wu Dabao, the eldest son of the Wu family.

Wu Dabao loves to drink heavily, and drank all night the night before leaving the car.

As a result, when I got out of the car the next day, I was drunk and fatigued, and the car drove out seven or eight kilometers and turned over the ditch on the side of the road.

The original nine-seater car was filled with more than 20 people.

Although there were no deaths, they were all damaged to varying degrees.

The most serious was Li Youtian, who was crushed at the bottom, resulting in paralysis of the lower half of his body.

The culprit's driver, Wu Dabao, didn't do anything, just a little bruise on the skin.

If there are no dead people, it is not a big deal.

What's more, even if someone dies, it is very easy to settle the relationship.

The Wu family invited relatives who worked in public units to come to the door and continue to lobby, and finally lost some money, and made a rural transfer to non-farming for the second elder and Li Yu, and got a subsistence allowance, and the matter was over.

What drunk driving, fatigue driving, no one is held responsible.

As for the rest of Li Youtian's life, who will take care of Luo Minxia and Li Yu's mother and son, no one will care about this issue at all.

This made the already not wealthy family even worse, and the burden of the family fell on Luo Minxia alone.

Because of no money, Li Yu, who was quite cheerful, became more and more inferior, and was frequently bullied by the Wu family children at school, and since then he has become taciturn, and he has not changed until he enters society.

Every time he thinks of all this, Li Yu regrets it, if only he had been a little older.

There are two men in the family, at least not so that the Wu family dares to beat people.

The fate of the Li family may also be different.

At least it won't be worse than it is now.

All this was caused by the Wu family.

It's all their fault!

The more Li Yu thought about it, the more angry he became, picked up a brick on the side of the road, went down the ridge to the ridge, and rushed over to help with a menace.

At this time, the two sides are still in a stalemate, you scold, I scold.

The smell of gunpowder is getting stronger and stronger, but it is still restrained, and it has not reached the step of starting it.

Suddenly, the Wu family stopped, looked behind Li Youtian and his wife, and laughed contemptuously.

A fifteen-year-old junior high school student, except for a tall point, looked skinny, and the Wu family didn't take him seriously at all, laughing and mocking.

Especially Wu Lao Liu, he scolded directly: "The little mongrel is very rushing, come and go, and smash ...... on my head"

Li Yu walked in front of Wu Lao Liu, and was pulled by Luo Minxia: "Xiao Yu is back, it's none of your business." ”

Li Youtian also shouted anxiously: "After Xiao Yu came to me, what does the adult's matter have to do with you?" Come back! ”

Wu Lao Liu was still pointing at his own head, but he was provocative: "Smash, smash!" Don't be cowardly, bastard! ”

The rest of the Wu family is also coaxing: "Do it, miscellaneous!" If you don't do it, you won't be born by your mother. ”

Li Yu smiled angrily, revealing a mouthful of big white teeth, "Damn, in my dream, can you still let you bully me?" ”

"Grass!"

Li Yu's hands are up and down!

Bang –

The world was silent for a second......