The fast-traveling girl has no feelings for her

Chapter 404 Young Town ([-])

"Shuan'er, wait!"

Liu Quanshuan, who was stopped by Mother Liu, paused as he was about to leave.

He turned around slowly and with some reluctance, squinted his eyes at the ground, and asked in a voice unwilling to raise his head, "Mother, what do you want me to do?"

As the saying goes, knowing a child is better than a mother.

Mother Liu looked at her son, who had been raised for more than 20 years, showing such a shy look, why didn't she know that the latter was unwilling to face her, and was unwilling to speak a word for herself?
She would say that watching her own child send her to death without any pain or chill in her heart was definitely a lie.

Mother Liu stared at Liu Quanshuan for a long time with teary eyes under her half gray hair.

The latter knew that his mother was looking at him, and the eyes that seemed to be full of wheat made him feel uncomfortable.

Liu Quanshuan knew in his heart that his mother Xu was blaming him, but he still couldn't say the words to criticize him.

But in his heart, he felt that he had done nothing wrong in asking his mother to pay tribute.

After all, isn’t tribute in the morning and tribute in the evening the same thing?
Some families in the town, some grandparents rushed to pay tribute for the sake of their children and grandchildren.

Other people's parents are sacrificing for their children, and now his mother is sacrificing for him and her grandson, that's what she should do.

But in terms of age, his father is a few years older than his mother, and the former is over 50 years old, so his father is the one who should pay tribute.

But father, he doesn't mention this matter now, and he has the energy to work for the family. He estimates that his father can survive for the family for a few more years, so he and his wife don't urge each other about it.

Liu Quanshuan has such a clear "smart" account in his heart.

Both his father and his mother have become the beads in his abacus, not only can be measured according to their value, but they can also be used by him to dial around at will.

"Mother, what's the matter with you calling me? If you have nothing to say, then I'll leave."

Liu Quanshuan saw that his mother called him to stop him but did not speak for a long time, so he could only urge him impatiently.

What he said made Mother Liu's heart tremble, she was going to leave this house and this town forever for this person in front of her, but now he is not even willing to wait to hear her say a word?
Mother Liu's thin blood-colored lips trembled, and the sound she made when she opened her mouth was like air leaking out of a hole-in-the-wall house.

"I, I plan to leave before evening. Shuan'er, come and give me a ride..."

"Can't you ask Dad to go to this matter? Why do you let me go? I won't go!"

Liu Quanshuan twisted his neck, and opened his mouth to reject Liu's mother's request.

Mother Liu trembled suddenly.

She couldn't imagine that her son would say such a thing, she opened her mouth and muttered, "Shuan'er, what are you talking about?!"

"Your mother, I have raised you for more than 20 years! My mother is leaving now, aren't you even willing to send your mother off for the last time?"

"I gave birth to you and raised you all these years, can't I just hope that you will fulfill your filial piety at the end? Isn't that all right?"

After Liu's mother spoke, the tears in her eyes could not stop flowing down.

At this time, Liu Quanshuan was still a little guilty towards his mother, but now seeing his mother's appearance that she felt great after raising him and wanted to coerce him into filial piety, he suddenly became unhappy.

I heard him scratching his neck and asking Mother Liu, "What's wrong with you raising me?"

"You have raised me for more than 20 years, don't other people's parents also raise children?

Isn’t being a parent in this world the one who should dedicate their whole life to their children?

Besides, the parents were very open about the matter of paying tribute, and they went there in a hurry without being urged.

But when I came to you, I was crying with snot and tears, and I wanted my son to be filial. You said that you are already old, so why are you still so annoying and have so many things?you……"

Why don't you hurry up and die?
Once Liu Quanshuan got angry, he spoke without restraint. The last sentence he almost said was really beyond the limit, but because of his timely reaction, he didn't say it out.

After all, his mother was going to die.

He only cared about his own happiness when he spoke, but his mother was stunned on the spot, only the tears on her face did not forget to fall straight down.

Liu Quanshuan squinted at his mother's dazed look, unconsciously feeling irritated.

After scratching his head with his hand, he turned and walked out of the kitchen.

Liu Quanshuan, who walked out of the kitchen, raised his eyes and suddenly found that his father had been standing under the big mulberry tree in the courtyard, obviously listening to what he and his mother had just said.

Looking into his father's eyes, Liu Quanshuan felt an indescribable feeling of guilt.

He didn't dare to speak to his father, turned around and ran away like a dog running away with its tail between its legs.

At this moment, Father Liu heard heart-piercing cries suddenly erupting from the kitchen.

He walked to the edge of the kitchen door frame without stepping in.

Standing outside the door, he could clearly see Mother Liu, who was slumped on the ground, crying loudly.

He didn't say anything to persuade her, nor did he say anything to comfort her.

He and Liu's mother were acquainted by relatives as a matchmaker, and there was no emotional basis between them.

Even if there was a happy time after marriage, as time goes by, any passion will be worn away.

In the final analysis, his relationship with this woman is just that of strangers who have lived together under the same roof for many years.

So he didn't feel any pain in his heart about Liu's mother's imminent departure.

This kind of self made Father Liu feel puzzled.

He used to raise a dog, and he would feel sad after the dog was stolen to eat meat. Why is he not even sad at all now that his wife is about to go to hell?
Maybe people are not as good as dogs.

Look at some other couples, isn't it the same?
Some families raise pigs, and men value pigs more than women, and some women only care about their children, and treat men like cattle and horses at will.

Why do you think he wants to get married?Why did the woman he married want to have a baby?
Are you living for others, or are you living for yourself?
If people are living for themselves, how can people live like this?

Inexplicably, many profound thoughts arose in Father Liu's mind that he didn't have before.

But he didn't think about it any further. Thinking about these things hurts his brain, and he would be happier than sleeping.

After he stayed at the door for a while, he turned around and left, leaving Mother Liu alone on the muddy floor in the kitchen, her whole body changed from heart-piercing crying to low sobbing.

When she finished crying, cried enough, she still had to clean up the debris on the table after she got up from the ground, and cleaned the inside and outside of the house one by one.

Then she went back to her bedroom.

Seeing her man sleeping on the bed with his back to her, Mother Liu's red rabbit-like eyes almost couldn't help crying again.But she still gritted her teeth and held back, dragged out her wardrobe box from under the bed, and took out all the valuable things inside.

Those clothes that she was reluctant to wear in the past, or those clothes that she was reluctant to throw away when worn out, were also packed into a big bag by her.

She left these things to her daughter-in-law. As for whether the other party wants it or loses it, that is the other party's business.

After busying with these things, seeing that the time was approaching at night, Mother Liu looked like an old lady again, and made today's dinner for the whole family.

After the whole family had finished eating, she still diligently cleaned the pots and pans, boiled a pot of clean hot water, cleaned herself up, and put on a set of neat clothes that she left in advance. .

Seeing that evening was approaching, a blood-colored fire cloud appeared on the horizon.

When Liu's mother stepped out of the gate of Liu's house alone, she looked back. In the yard, Liu's father was holding a thick coiled rope in his hand, and her son was carrying a small bucket filled with clean water. , with a wooden sign stuffed in his arms.

Mother Liu knew that the auspicious day for her tribute was written on the wooden sign.

She wanted to ask her son how many days would be the next day, but she was afraid that her son would find her troublesome again, so she finally closed her mouth silently, bowed her head and left without saying a word.

On the broad and old stone street of the small town, Liu's mother walked in front, and Liu's father and son followed behind.

If passers-by hadn't seen what the Liu family and his son were holding in their hands, they would have thought that the Liu family had come out together for a walk after dinner.

But even if the people in the town could see that the family was going to the north of Zhenbei, at most they just looked at the three of them a few more times and then looked away.It's just that the family sent an elderly woman to pay tribute first, there's nothing to see.

If it is a young woman who is unlucky to send, or if there is a scene where the original partner and San'er are fighting, then they will be able to arouse their interest in watching.

The road from Liu's house to Zhenbei is not far.

It was Liu's mother who walked slowly, and both Liu's father and son followed her patiently.

It didn't take long for the three of them to arrive at the place.

Separated single-family cabins can be seen everywhere here.

Once Liu Quanshuan arrived at the place, he conveniently searched for those wooden houses without wooden signs outside the doors, because such wooden houses showed that there was no one inside, so he could put his mother in them.

But at this moment, many wooden houses on the periphery have wooden signs hanging on them.

Liu Quanshuan had no choice but to walk further inside, looking for an empty wooden house.

He didn't walk very fast, and kept looking left and right.

Because if you walk a little further, you can see the ancient well and willow tree near the ancestral house and the house.

Twenty years ago, when he was a child, he tricked a foreign woman into coming here.

Later, he saw with his own eyes that the adults in the town captured the foreign woman as a tribute.

Ten years ago, he met a young and beautiful girl from another country, and even thought of marrying her.

But that girl fell into the ancient well beside the big willow tree when she came to the town, and never came up again.In the past ten years, he had already married and had a son. He only vaguely remembered what the girl looked like.

But at that time, the fear of the ancestral house still remained in his heart, lingering.

Liu Quanshuan carefully searched for the empty wooden houses, but what was strange was that all the wooden houses he saw along the way today had wooden signs with auspicious times written on them.

When did such an old man exist in the town?
Why didn't he notice it at all?

When he found that he couldn't find an empty wooden house, he could only continue to walk forward bravely, and there were already strips of willow leaves swaying in the wind in the open space in front of him.

The emerald green branches have not been wilted during the daytime exposure, and now it is even more tender and green in the evening, and I don't know if it has absorbed some fertile nutrients from the well next to it.

At this time, Liu Quanshuan, who had been searching hard for a wooden house, finally found an unlisted wooden house.

Before he finished rubbing his hands happily, he took out the wooden sign in his arms and hung it up. Out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly caught a glimpse of something strange moving nearby.

Liu Quanshuan paused immediately with the hand holding the wooden sign, and looked towards a strange corner ahead.

At this time, behind him, Liu's father and Liu's mother were standing together silently, waiting for Liu Quanshuan to come back and lead the way.

Because Liu Quanshuan walked inside for a long time, Mother Liu, who had not seen anyone after waiting for him for a while, felt that something was strange.

She was about to ask if she should go in and speak, when Father Liu beside her suddenly said something that she didn't expect.

"Juanzi, why don't you run away."

Juanzi is Liu's mother's baby name, which she told Liu's father when they first got married.

When the two were sleeping with their necks together, Juanzi, who had just tasted human affairs, chose to tell everything about herself to the man beside her.

At that time, she naively thought that as long as she loved this man, as long as she worked hard enough and continued to contribute to the Liu family, this man would also fall in love with her and hold her in his palm and love her dearly.

But in the later time, after all, I witnessed that some things could not stand the wear and tear of life at all.

Liu's mother knew that Liu's father told her to run away not because he loved her, felt sorry for her, or felt guilty, but for some other reason.

She lowered her head, thought for a while, and said, "If you let me escape, where can I escape? Besides, if I leave, what should I do about the tribute? The little grandson at home has to find a way to get it." God anoints and prays for blessings, otherwise he will be weaker than other people's children when he grows up..."

Liu's father interrupted her in a cold voice, "You're about to die, so you still have the time to take care of these things?"

"As long as you are willing to nod your head and say that you don't want to go, I will take care of you for paying tribute."

After hearing his words, Mother Liu raised her head in astonishment, as if seeing the man in front of her for the first time in her life.

"You said you were going to replace me? Why?"

"No reason, I just feel that I am a bit too tired to live. It's fine to pay tribute, but it's all over once I die."

When Father Liu said this, his tone was full of unspeakable compassion.

He is not pitying anyone else, he is pitying himself.

Someone from the older generation said that people have to live when they are sober, and they have to live when they are confused, but they just don’t want to live anymore.He couldn't find any meaning to live anymore, he found that there was nothing worthy of his nostalgia in this world.

If there is any regret, it is that he still hoped that when his mother was locked in the wooden house, she could say even a few words to him outside.

It's a pity that his mother was determined not to say anything, and in the end he had no choice but to leave.

Just as Liu's father and Liu's mother opened their hearts to each other for the first time, Liu Quanshuan, who was located near the ancestral house, discovered a major event.

That is, he actually saw the mayor on the muddy ground next to the ancestral house, who was tied up with ropes, his hands and feet, and his mouth was stuffed with cloth strips!
(End of this chapter)