Rebirth of Medicine Garden Space

When Grandpa Liu and the others came back, their faces were very solemn, and Grandpa Guan's face was even a little pale. Guan Chaoyang's cute little face, which has always been sunny, also lost its vitality, and he followed Liu Si'an with his back.

Only Liu Si'an was still ignorant, dozing off with half-closed eyes.After seeing his brother, he rubbed his eyes, twisted his body and wanted to throw himself from Guan Chaoyang's back into his brother's arms.

Liu Sichen felt a little better, and reached out to take his younger brother. The child hugged his neck and lay on his shoulders and continued to sleep.

"Grandpa, what's the matter?" Liu Sichen watched his grandfather put down the medicine box with a tired expression.

"The little granddaughter of Liu Wuye's family at the east end of the village is gone." Grandpa Liu looked a little regretful, "The little girl is only 17 years old."

"Stupid, Brother Liu, it's heartbreaking." Old Master Guan shook his head.

"What's wrong with Miss Xiaoqing? I heard my uncle said that he couldn't bear it, so it can't be true?" Liu Sichen hugged his younger brother and sat down. Liu Si'an was not light, his arms became sore after hugging for a while.

"That silly girl hung her neck on a clothesline. It was already too late by the time Grandpa Liu rushed over." Guan Chaoyang obviously remembered something that made him uncomfortable. There was a mixture of disgust and a little fear.

Liu Sichen was stunned with his mouth open. When he went to the county seat on Friday morning, he met that girl with Guan Chaoyang, and he was on the road alone with a cloth bag on his back, as if he was in a hurry.Liu Sichen specifically asked her if she wanted to give her a ride, but the girl seemed frightened, and hurriedly declined, saying that she was not on the way.

Liu Sichen didn't think much about it, and seeing that she really didn't want to, he let her go. He didn't expect that the girl who looked like a flower would just disappear like this after only two days.

"Liu Quande and his wife are going to marry her to Zhao Sheng from Changning Village. The child ran away two days ago and was arrested by her father and brought back. She was beaten up and locked up for two days without water or food. Today In the afternoon, her mother brought her food and found out that the child..."

"That Zhao Sheng?" Liu Sichen shook his hands, Liu Si'an in his arms was already asleep, and twisted his body uneasily. "That guy is almost forty!"

Zhao Sheng from Changning Village is a strange woman, known far and wide, he is a lazy, idle person, no serious family wants to marry his daughter to him, Liu Sichen can't figure out what Liu Quande and his wife are thinking.

Grandpa Liu sighed, "Zhao Sheng took out a piece of porcelain last month and sold it for 3000 yuan. It was snatched by him in the turbulent years. It should have been beaten*smashed* and burned, but he secretly hid it. I got up, and now that the limelight has completely passed, I took it out, I didn't expect it to be a treasure. Liu Quande and his wife asked him for a gift of 2000 yuan, so they married their daughter to him."

There is too much information in this sentence, Liu Sichen was in a daze for a while, and finally asked the point, "2000 yuan? Are they crazy?"

For Liujia Village, which only connected electricity to every household last year, 2000 yuan is a lot of money. Although workers’ wages have risen in recent years, the betrothal gift of ordinary rural households is at most 600 yuan. It will never exceed 800 yuan.

"Your Fifth Master Liu secretly told me that it was to save a dowry for Liu Quande's son. That kid fell in love with a girl in Yucheng County. She was from the city. He wanted their family to buy a house in the city before they would talk about marriage." Grandpa Liu took the little grandson in his arms and sent the child to his room to let him sleep peacefully.

Liu Sichen frowned and thought about it, the son of Liu Quande's family named Liu Jiaxing, if he remembers correctly, was in the same class as Liu Changxing, and he didn't go to high school, so he found a restaurant in Yucheng County to serve dishes. State-run restaurant, his mother has been promoting it in the village for a long time because he found such an errand.

"What age is it? Women don't have the freedom to marry. If the girls in Kyoto who advocate freedom and equality know about this, I don't know how surprised and sad it will be." Mr. Guan rubbed his forehead, obviously very tired .

"Grandpa Guan, go and rest quickly, don't hurt yourself." Although Liu Sichen was also very troubled, but Grandpa Guan couldn't bear the torment, and quickly helped him back to the room to rest with Guan Chaoyang.

Before dawn the next day, the sound of suona came from the village. Liu Sichen lay on the bed with his eyes open. Grandpa Liu got up early, and only Liu Si'an was still sleeping soundly beside him. Liu Sichen turned over, Wrapping the Nuanhe child into his arms, the child is warm and soft, with a peaceful and sweet face, and the long eyelashes trembling slightly, he looks like a cute little angel.

The door was gently pushed open, and there was a creaking sound, Liu Sichen raised his eyes and glanced at the door, only to see Guan Chaoyang sneaking in.Seeing the child looking at him, he rubbed his nose and smiled awkwardly.

"My grandpa and Grandpa Liu went out to gather medicine, and my uncles followed. I don't want to be alone."

Liu Sichen shrugged his shoulders, looked at the edge of the bed, and motioned for him to sit down.

Seeing that Liu Si'an was still asleep, Guan Chaoyang carefully sat down on the edge of the bed, and whispered after a moment of silence, "You know, that girl's tongue is sticking out, I really regret that I have to go up to see it, but I covered An An's eyes from the very beginning, and he had an awkward fight with me all night because of this."

"Are you afraid?" Liu Sichen could imagine the impact. He suddenly remembered that when his grandparents passed away one after another, they had a custom that after a person passed away, all relatives had to take a look at it before covering the coffin and transporting it to the cremation. field.

That last sight will appear in front of his eyes repeatedly in the next few years, over and over again, time and time again.

"Kind of, but more of a strange discomfort, choking on me, Tebby."

Guan Chaoyang patted his chest as he spoke.

"Hey, I said, let's go and have a look." Guan Chaoyang frowned, "Grandpa and the others seem to be very sad. They went up the mountain. To be honest, they are very sensible. I can't breathe after hearing this sound."

"What are you going to do? It's even more troublesome." Liu Sichen turned around and spread himself out on the big bed.

The suona sounded intermittently, and the thick and long tone seemed to never stop. Liu Sichen turned over again in agitation, successfully waking up his younger brother.

The three of them sat in the yard after breakfast, but the long and hoarse suona sound became more and more clear.

In the end, Liu Sichen couldn't sit still anymore. He and Guan Chaoyang led Liu Si'an slowly to the east of the village. Almost all the idlers in the village gathered at Liu Wuye's house. Apart from the funeral band, there were also those who practiced rituals. Monk, incense is lingering in the air, and the smell of burning paper money is in the air.

This has only been raised in the past two years, and it is only in the village. After all, it has been counted among the feudal superstitions to be cracked down on for more than ten years.

He stopped on a small slope tens of meters away from Liu Wuye's house, and watched from a distance, he suddenly didn't want to go there, at least not with Liu Si'an.

The black monkey and Ah Hua happened to see them and ran towards them. The black monkey stopped panting and said, "We're fighting."

"What?" Liu Sichen was puzzled.

"Zhao Sheng from Changning Village brought people here, and a fight broke out below." Ah Hua struggled to explain.

"Why?" Guan Chaoyang was very puzzled, and then muttered, "The girl is gone."

"Zhao Sheng said that Sister Xiaoqing's parents had already collected 800 yuan. Now that she is gone, he asked to pay back the money, but Uncle Quan De couldn't get the money." The black monkey added.

"What about the money?" Liu Sichen was puzzled, 800 yuan is not a small sum for the people of Liujia Village, so it is impossible for such a large amount of money to be spent in just a few days.

"Who knows, brother Jiaxing disappeared early in the morning, and Uncle Quande is going to die of anxiety." A'hua was a little confused, "People in the village said that they exchanged Miss Xiaoqing's life for money."

Liu Sichen heard the sound from below getting louder, the sound of the suona and the monks chanting scriptures finally stopped, but the sound of people arguing became louder, accompanied by the sound of furniture, tables and chairs colliding.

Liu Sichen hugged Liu Si'an who had rubbed against his leg, preventing the child from seeing the slope down.

"They're right. Her parents really wanted to sell her, but it's a pity that the silly girl didn't succeed, so she ended herself." Guan Chaoyang looked down indifferently, and stated lightly.

"It's over...I, what do you mean?" The black monkey looked at Guan Chaoyang in horror. The cause of the girl's death was kept a secret by her family.

"Literally, you guys don't care about it, go back, don't go through the chaos below." Liu Sichen can probably imagine the cause and ending of this farce, but it's a pity that the girl's life has disappeared, such a thing When will it stop?Liu Sichen thought of Grandpa Guan's sigh last night, the girls in Kyoto are already pursuing freedom and equality, while the girls in Liujia Village can't even choose their own marriage.

The children walked back in silence, Liu Sichen looked at Hei Hou and A Hua, but what he was thinking about was Liu Changxing, wondering if working in other places was hard, tiring, or homesick.

He suddenly felt that he had an additional responsibility. This is his hometown, which is beautiful and beautiful, and has carried his memories for so many years. He has always enjoyed the takers, but he never thought about what he could do for it.He turned a blind eye to the poor and even ignorant people here; he took it for granted that the elderly and children were suffering and struggling, until this moment he suddenly felt that he could do something so that such tragedies would never happen again.

But no matter what Liu Sichen thinks, there is almost nothing he can do at his nine-year-old age.He just suppressed the discomfort silently and lived his life step by step.

On Tuesday, when he came back from school, he was pleasantly surprised to find that his parents and Gu Yao had returned together.

"Brother Gu Yao, why are you back? Are you on vacation?" Liu Sichen circled around Gu Yao after greeting his parents.

"Uncle brought me back a set of test papers, and I took two days off to take a mock test." With a smile in his eyes, Gu Yao hugged Liu Si'an who was surrounding him with his brother.

"What test paper?"

"The mock papers for the provincial and city entrance exams, after you finish the exams, you will know whether your brother can pass the Tsinghua University." Gu Yao pressed his forehead against the forehead of the child in his arms, then looked at Liu Sichen, and the two looked at each other and smiled , Guan Chaoyang who was on the side immediately rolled his super supercilious eyes.