Chapter 1: Born Foolish
On the second day of February, the dragon raised its head. March 3, worship Xuanyuan.
March 29, 2009, this day is the third day of the third lunar month.
Xinzheng Huazhuang in Henan Province, where every household was still a few years ago, retains the custom of worshiping ancestors and worshiping Xuanyuan on this day.
However, as more and more young adults go to the city to work, there are mostly some old people and children in the village, some customs and habits are simplified, and the festival atmosphere gradually fades.
Some people are still more solemn, put some sacrifices, and have a sumptuous dinner at home, which is regarded as a birthday for Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor and his old man.
Most of them are relatively simple, but the old people in the family take their children to the Yellow Emperor in the house to make incense.
There are even some people who don't have this habit at all.
However, the old Huang family worships Xuanyuan every year, even if there is only one old man left in the family, with a grandson, it has never been ambiguous.
After cleaning the incense offerings, the old man put on the pillar incense, and said sadly: "I beg the Yellow Emperor, bless my family's ruins, and be healthy...... cough cough cough ......"
"Grandpa! A teenager came into the room with a plate of vegetables and cleaned it up very neatly.
The old man coughed and sat down, looking at his grandson worriedly.
He asked, "Xu'er, what did Dr. Liang say about your situation in the morning?"
The boy smiled and said, "Dr. Liang said that I am emotionally stable and that I am fine. ”
The old man nodded, looked at his cheerful grandson, and his sadness faded.
The grandfather and grandson were eating lunch, and the old man was desperately picking up the vegetables, looking at his grandson doting and distressed.
The child has a hard life, and there are problems with the brain from an early age.
And the pupils of his natural eyes are different from others, with too many white spots in the pupils, connected into a circle of white rings, which looks like a big pupil with a small pupil.
He couldn't speak for a long time, and his eyes were dull, but there was a fortune teller who kept saying good things about him.
The old man believed it, and he never saw a doctor.
It wasn't until he was four years old and couldn't speak that the family was in a hurry and took the child to the doctor.
After the test, he said that his IQ was only 50...... Slightly mentally handicapped, belonging to the foolish type of intellectual retardation.
Not only that, but the eyes are not a double pupil, but a congenital cataract, very poor vision, only 0.2 in both eyes, and astigmatism.
has been plagued by so many diseases since he was a child, but the old man is distressed to death.
However, these two diseases cannot be cured.
However, if you have an intellectual disability, you are not stupid, especially slightly mentally handicapped, but you seem to have difficulty concentrating, poor memory, poor thinking ability and language ability.
When Xu'er was five years old, his parents went out to work and had an accident, and the gas car exploded, killing both husband and wife.
That year, Xu'er called her parents for the first time, but unfortunately her parents couldn't hear them.
Although he received a lot of compensation, the child has no father and mother since he was a child, and only his grandfather has taken him, which is quite lonely.
After that, his intellectual disability improved significantly, he could speak, and although his expression skills were very poor, he could understand what others said, but he seemed more stupid.
Ever since he could talk, he always said that he could see strange things and feel very complex things.
But he couldn't say it clearly, as if he had seen a ghost, plus he had heavy pupils.
Over time, it was rumored in the village that this boy could see dirty things, and the old man was very taboo about this, so whenever his grandson talked about it, he beat him and scolded: "What is there! Don't talk nonsense!"
After coming and going, the ruins stopped mentioning.
After the age of seven, he did not go to a special school, but attended compulsory education with his class, and although his grades were counted down, he was several beats slower than others in learning, but he was already able to communicate with others.
But when he came to junior high school, it was different, his studies were much more intense, and he couldn't keep up with his studies at all.
The teacher disliked him, and his classmates called him a fool.
He also wants to spend more time studying and making up for his shortcomings, but once he uses his brain for a long time, he will be in great pain, with a splitting headache and even a coma.
Especially at night, once you look up at the starry sky, you will have a headache, bite your lip and tremble without saying a word.
When he saw the moon, he was even more unconscious.
Grandpa felt sorry for him, coupled with the teacher's persuasion, and finally let him take the initiative to give up the high school entrance examination and take it home to help out and farm.
I gave up the high school entrance examination in June 08, and now it has been more than half a year, plowing the fields, harvesting and threshing, and these rough jobs are done very neatly.
Pick up water and cook in a pot every day, and look like ordinary people.
It's just that in my spare time, I sit on the ridge in a daze, or stare at others talking and stunned, or watch TV and watch it all day.
Whenever that happens, he is like the big fool of the Huang family in the eyes of others.
But as the days passed, the old man thought to himself, it's okay to live a peaceful life like this, but I'm worried that he is like this, I'm afraid he won't be able to marry a daughter-in-law for the rest of his life.
I am even more worried about my body, the old man's lungs have always been bad, the older he gets, the more serious the old problem becomes, he coughs all day long, his throat is full of phlegm, his trachea is blocked, and his hands and feet are getting more and more tired.
He didn't know that he had fallen, what would happen to his grandson?
"Doctor Liang, Doctor Liang!" After eating, he was cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, and the voice of the village chief sounded outside the courtyard.
The old man walked into the courtyard, opened the door and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Lao Huang, is Dr. Liang at your house?" said the village chief.
The old man shook his head and said, "No, Xu'er is much better now, and every morning he asks him to go to Dr. Liang's health station to see a doctor, and Dr. Liang doesn't have to go on a trip." ”
The village chief frowned and said, "In the morning, Dr. Liang disappeared early in the morning, and now it's night, and he hasn't come back yet, and the door of the health station is not locked. ”
Because Xu'er would fall into a coma from time to time, Dr. Liang would often come to Huang's house to help and sometimes stay for dinner.
Last week, he was in a coma once, and when he woke up, he ran to the courtyard and stared at the moon, his face was very ugly.
Although he surprisingly didn't look at the moon again and fell into a coma, he always shivered inexplicably after that and talked nonsense. The old man invited Dr. Liang to his home to come and see him, and this was the case for several days, and now that Dr. Liang was missing, the village chief took the lead in finding the Huang family.
"Dr. Liang is gone early in the morning?" the old man turned his head to stare at Xu'er.
Xu'er stepped forward honestly and said, "I'm sorry, grandpa, I lied to you, I didn't go to Dr. Liang's in the morning." ”
"You've learned to lie!" the old man was furious, his grandson had never lied to anyone, but he didn't expect to lie to him now!
Xu'er apologized: "I'm sorry, grandpa, I'm really not sick, I'm already well." Dr. Leung is very busy, she is very stressed, she has a lot of worries in her heart, I shouldn't bother her every day. ”
Dr. Liang said you have sperm...... In short, it doesn't matter if you say you are sick or not, but the doctor says it! I just believed that charlatan back then, and I didn't take you to the doctor earlier!" the old man said excitedly, and he felt a little guilty after that.
In fact, Xu'er's diseases are all congenital, and they can't be cured, and the cause of the coma has not been found out yet. Seeing a doctor early makes no difference. But the old man just feels that it is his own fault.
Especially last week, Dr. Leung secretly told him that the child was mentally ill...... This made the old man even more guilty, thinking that he had not raised his grandson well, and he had become mentally ill.
For the old man's words, Xu'er just smiled obediently, and hurriedly helped his grandfather to sit down...... The old man is old, and he has old problems with his respiratory tract, so he is a little angry at the moment.
Xu'er said: "Grandpa, you can rest at home, I will accompany the village chief and grandfather to find Dr. Liang, although I am stupid, I can run errands." ”
The old man sat on the stool, took a breath, nodded and said, "Go ahead, Doctor Liang has taken care of you so many times, you have to have a conscience." Lao Fan, just let my grandson follow you, run errands or something, just let him do it, he is not stupid enough to do that. I hope Dr. Leung is fine......"
The village chief nodded, and hurriedly took the boy away.
Out of the door, the two walked along the road, asking door to door.
I don't even have a clue how many to ask, and the big living people are gone.
The villagers also felt that something was wrong: "Did you call?"
"Hit, shut down. The village chief said.
"Will you go back to your hometown?" someone said.
The village chief shook his head, Dr. Liang graduated from Capital Medical University, although he didn't know why he came to work in this poor and remote country, but he had good medical skills, was kind, and treated people very well.
She lives a very regular life, and she never can't find anyone, especially if the door of the health station is not locked now, and she will disappear for a day, which is even more impossible, so everyone suspects that something is wrong.
"Uncle!" Suddenly, a young policeman arrived on a small motorcycle, he was a policeman from the township police station, and the village chief of Huazhuang Village was his uncle.
The village chief said solemnly: "Wang Meng, why are you the only one?"
"Dr. Liang has only been missing for more than ten hours, and he is an adult, so this case cannot be filed. Maybe you're going out to play?" said policeman Wang Meng helplessly.
"It's impossible, Dr. Liang can't go out to play without locking the door, something must have happened. The village chief said.
Wang Meng said, "So I'm not here to help?"
"Eh, Huang Ji, you won't faint when you go out at night?"
When he saw the young man on the side, he was surprised that this kid who would faint at the sight of the moon was also there, so he asked casually.
Xu'er shook her head and said, "I'm already fine, and now that I see the moon, I won't faint." ”
"yes! That's great. Wang Meng said with a smile.
The older people in the village are all called Young Ruer, and most of the young people call him a fool, and the friendly ones call him Huang Ji.
Huang Ji is the name of the teenager, and it is also the name registered on the ID card, and Xu'er is just a nickname.
He was born on March 25, 1993, which is also the day of worshipping Xuanyuan on the third day of the third lunar month.
Born in the early hours of the morning, the mother and son were picked up from the hospital in the afternoon, and the old man was happy to hold his grandson, just on the third day of March, he gave Xuanyuan his old man incense, and then named his grandson.
"Xinzheng is the former capital of the Yellow Emperor, the ruins of Xuanyuan, our family name is Huang, and we can't afford to have a big name, so let's rub it aside and call it the word 'ruin'. ”
The meaning of the old man is very simple, the child was born on the third day of the third month of March, Xinzheng is Xuanyuan Ruins here, and the family is surnamed Huang.
I don't dare to use the word Xuanyuan, so it's called the word ruin, and it's good to rub the side, so it's called Huangxu.
The nickname is Xu'er, which means the son of Xuanyuan Xu.
When they choose a name in the countryside, they usually find the most knowledgeable person in the family to choose one, or let the eldest one take it.
The elders of the family talked about it, but the child's father couldn't interject.
For the name Huangxu, the child's father was not happy at all, and it would not be such an unlucky word to take a cheap name.
Ruins, ruins, and even graves.
Of course, the child's father did not refute it on the spot, and it was up to the old man, because he really didn't have the right to speak for the child's name.
But he also has an idea, because the child has a household registration, and he has to be a father.
So he let the old man in the family call him that, and when he registered the child, he secretly took another name, called 'Huang Ji'.
It doesn't mean much, it's just a good implication of the peak.
This matter was kept secret until the child was four years old and couldn't speak, and the old man didn't find out when he took him to the hospital.
There is no doubt that the name on the household registration book and ID card is naturally a big name, and this name is used in school.
But the old man still stubbornly called him Xu'er, and the villagers were used to calling him Xu'er since he was a child.
Wang Meng served as a soldier, and after he came back, he worked as a policeman in the township, and Huang Ji sometimes fainted in junior high school, and he found a car to send him back to the village.
Wang Meng has always been very friendly to this fellow villager's little brother, and often sends him delicious food.
Knowing that Huang Ji would not look at the moon now, he fainted, and he was really happy for him.
But for now, it's important to find Dr. Leung.
Wang Meng continued to accompany the village chief and inquired door to door.
However, the whole village asked, and no one had seen Dr. Liang today.
In this regard, the village chief still wants to go to the house to find it, and if the door is locked, he will pick the lock.
But Wang Meng said: "No, I don't know if Dr. Liang is missing, but I can't pick the lock to enter her house." ”
"Why isn't it missing? The big living person is gone! Maybe he has been abducted!" said the village chief angrily.
Wang Meng was puzzled: "There are no witnesses, and the time of disappearance is so short, maybe people are really in a hurry to return to the city? I can't let you pick someone's lock, a high-achieving student like Dr. Liang values privacy very much." ”
As he spoke, the three of them, along with several villagers who were eager to help, had already walked to the door of the health station, and Dr. Liang's residence was next to it.
Although Dr. Liang's house was locked, the health station did not lock the door, and everyone searched inside to see if there was any message from Dr. Liang or anything like that.
Huang Ji did not follow in, but stood at the door, staring at the cement road in front of the door, and then his eyes seemed to follow a certain trajectory, all the way to the end of the road.
"Five people...... Wang Zhen, Hu Feng, Lv Zongmin, Lin Yong...... And Liang Yuan, Dr. Liang ......" Huang Ji muttered in a voice that only he could hear.
He can see what ordinary people can't see, and he can perceive what ordinary people can't.
As a retarded person, he knows more than anyone else......
After observing the scene for a while, he looked at the old tree on the side of the road not far away, and said secretly: "There is another ...... Li Fan was an eyewitness. ”
At this moment, Wang Meng walked out of the health station without finding anything, and saw Huang Ji standing on the side of the road in a daze, and smiled.
Huang Ji was often in a daze, he was used to it, so he stepped forward and said, "You go back to rest early, I'm a police officer now, I'll leave this matter to me, and I'll make sure that Dr. Liang is okay." ”
Wang Meng knew that Huang Ji had a good relationship with Dr. Liang, but he didn't expect Huang Ji to help, so he said in a childlike tone at this time, wanting to coax him home.
However, Huang Ji raised his head and said, "Someone saw it." ”
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