devil's son

Li Kangjian's son, Li Xiping died.

In hot weather, he sneaked into the river to swim with the village children and drowned.The child is only eight years old, and he looks like a tiger. Unlike his honest and honest father, he has a very sweet mouth and is very lovable.When he was picked up, his body was soaked beyond recognition.

Li Kangjian and his wife had only one child. His wife, Sun Xing, had a difficult labor when Li Xiping was born, and was sent to the county to have a knife. The doctor told Li Kangjian that it would be difficult for his wife to get pregnant again.Lijia Village is remote and closed, and the implementation of family planning is not strict. Many families in the village have more than one child.People in the village value sons over daughters, and those who gave birth to daughters in their first and second children will have to live until they give birth to a son no matter what.

Although Sun Xing suffered from dystocia and hurt her body, she gave birth to a son in her first child. Many people said that she had a good life. Li Xiping was smart and sensible since she was young. Therefore, even if there is only one child in their family, Sun Xing's waist is still straight .

Unexpectedly, the child was raised until she was eight or nine years old, and she was not sick or in pain. In the morning, she would ask her for pocket money to buy popsicles like twisted candy, and if she said no, she would be gone. Sun Xing's world collapsed in an instant.

Those children who went swimming with Li Xiping came back and said that he was washed away by the water. She still hoped that her son would be lucky, and maybe he would meet good people and save him.When she really saw her son's deformed body, Sun Xing's eyes went dark and she fainted.He was brought home and lay on the bed without a drop of water for several days.

Li Xiping died both prematurely and violently. According to the local customs, he could neither do funeral affairs nor enter the ancestral grave.In the past, children who died prematurely in the village would dig a hole in their own fields and bury them. If the conditions were better, they would get a small coffin for the child; It's over, not even a tombstone.

In mid-August, the weather was extremely hot this year. Li Xiping's body was already damaged by blisters. After three or four days at home, the smell became stronger every day. Breathtaking.Ordinarily, it should have been buried a long time ago, but Sun Xing disagreed desperately. If anyone wanted to get a little closer to Li Xiping's small coffin, she would go up to find someone desperately.

"Brother, sister-in-law can't go on like this. You'd better come up with an idea and let Pingping go to the ground for peace." The two brothers lived in the same yard, with the door to door, and the stench kept drilling into his house, scared The youngest of his family cried all day long. He sent his wife and children to his mother-in-law's house early this morning, and was scolded by his mother-in-law. They asked him to come back and persuade his brother and sister-in-law to send Li Xiping out as soon as possible.

Since his son's death, Li Kangjian, who was honest and silent, became dull, with a slumped face and a sad expression on his face, as if he had aged by more than ten years.Li Kangwei's saliva was dry when he said "Oh", but he didn't listen to it.

With great difficulty, Li Kangwei suppressed the anger in his heart, walked out of the yard with a dark face, strolled to the shade of a tree by the side of the road, sat on the ground, took a big front door from a crumpled cigarette case, and lit it, puffing.

It was hot in the afternoon, and everyone was hiding at home blowing fans. There was no one on the only gravel road in the village for a long time.

Li Kangwei smoked three cigarettes in a row before he saw a motorcycle approaching at the end of the road. The motorcycle was parked at the foot of a mountain not far away. As soon as it was bright, he walked over quickly.

Old Li just came back from the town, probably when the old locust tree was burned that day, Grandma Sun was smoked by the smoke, her cough was not only not good, but even worse than before, and she had a headache and dizziness in the past few days.He told her to go to the hospital in the county town, but she was afraid of spending money and refused, so Old Li went to the town to buy some anti-inflammatory and cough medicine for her, and also went to an old Chinese doctor to prescribe her some traditional Chinese medicine.

The people in the village now treat their family like a plague god, and they quickly avoid it from a distance. They can't find anyone to help him bring things back from the town. I was ashamed to find him again, and took his motorcycle to the town.

Lijia Village is very far from the town. Old Li Tou set off from home with a flashlight at 5 o'clock this morning. Although he met several "motorcycles" who specially rode motorcycles to the town to pick up people, others saw that it was him. , refused to carry him.Old Li stopped and stopped along the way, and didn't reach the town until after eleven o'clock at noon.

The story of Dongzai was not only spread in Lijia Village, but also in several neighboring villages, even people in the town heard about it.Fortunately, in Xile Town, no one knew Old Li, and the residents of the town were not as superstitious as the residents of the village, so they didn't take these rumors seriously.That's why Old Li didn't seem to be in the village, no one even sold him a bag of salt or a knife of toilet paper.

It was not easy to go to the town, so Lao Li stopped by the town to buy some rice noodle seasoning, cut a few catties of pork lard, bought some daily necessities, and bought a few picture books for Dongzai. Chicken cakes and a little snack.

With a basket full of messy things, Lao Li got off the motorcycle with difficulty, paid the money, and walked slowly up the mountain with a limp.

"Uncle Gui, Uncle Gui!" Li Kangwei yelled twice from a distance, stepped forward quickly, forced a smile, and said in a pleasant way, "Uncle Gui, what's wrong with your feet?"

Old Li looked at Li Kangwei in surprise, wondering why this cheap nephew, who had always been less kind than his brother, even stopped farming their fields, and never came to talk to him, suddenly struck up a conversation with him today.

The feeling of being isolated by the whole village was uncomfortable, and suddenly someone greeted him, and Old Li was somewhat relieved, with a smile on his face, "A few days ago, I turned over the house and accidentally fell off the ladder. I fell."

Fortunately, no bones were injured, but the sprain was serious, and the ankle was red and swollen. I went to the town today and applied medicine to make it better. Walking with heavy things on my back, I can't help but feel a little lame.

Li Kangwei said without much sincerity, "It turns out that's the case. Fortunately, nothing happened. As people get older, their bones are fragile. You and your aunt should pay more attention."

Old Li nodded and said: "Who says it's not. If you're okay, Kang Wei, I'll go back first. Your aunt is still at home waiting for me to get the medicine to boil for her."

Li Kangwei hurriedly said: "Uncle Gui, don't be too busy. I really have something to ask you. Pingping is drowned, have you heard?"

Ever since the old Litou injured his foot, he has stayed at home all the time, and he went down the mountain to visit the town when he got better today. He really didn't know about it.

"Pingping, you mean Xiping from your brother's family?" Old Li widened his eyes, "Okay, how could such a thing happen?"

Li Kangwei said with a bitter face: "Isn't it! No one would have thought that children are naughty. In this terrible weather, my eldest brother and sister-in-law have put Pingping at home, so I can't go on like this. My eldest brother has always listened to your uncle the most. If you say so, you can go with me to persuade him."

Old Li was a little dazed by the sudden news. Although he didn't grow up watching Li Xiping grow up, every year when Li Kangjian asked someone to bring him rice and oil to the county town, he would bring back something for the children.That child has a sweet mouth and doesn't recognize him. Every time he sees him, he will call him out loudly...

Old Li couldn't help feeling a little sad, and when he came back to his senses, he had already nodded in agreement with Li Kangwei, "...you go back first, I'll come when I bring my things home."

Li Kangwei was afraid that he would go back on his word, so he said, "Uncle Gui, I will wait for you here, and we will go there together."

Old Li thought for a while and said, "Your aunt has been very ill recently, I have to go back and cook dinner for her and Dongzai first, why don't you come to our house and eat dinner before going back?"

Old Li bought a lot of good things in his back basket. If it were in the past, he would definitely be willing to do it, but now...he cut down the ghost tree that day, and saw it with his own eyes. When something like blood came out of the tree, even if he had a hundred courage, he wouldn't dare to go to such a wicked place again.

"I still won't go up. My eldest brother and my sister-in-law are staying at home. I'm afraid something will happen to them. I have to go back and be with them. Then uncle Gui, we have agreed that you must come over later."

Li Kangwei could talk more than his elder brother, and there was no room for old Li to refuse after a few words.

In fact, when Old Li nodded his head just now, he already regretted it a little bit. In the past, he was still a little bit sure of persuading Li Kangjian, but now...

After all, Li Kangjian has called him uncle for so many years, so it is good to be able to contribute.

Of course, Old Li still had a more secret plan in his heart - he and the old woman were not in good health every year, and he was afraid that they would not live well for a few years, so he was worried about handing over the winter cub to others.He knew about Sun Xing's dystocia back then. At that time, he was already working at the County People's Hospital. He helped find the doctor who performed the operation on Sun Xing, so Sun Xing could no longer conceive a child. He knows it better than anyone.

Li Kangjian is a rare honest and kind person in the village, if...

Old Li headed back home to calm down, and when he thought about it carefully, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that there was something for him, and his heart felt like grass growing.After dinner, after Grandma Sun drank the traditional Chinese medicine, he hurried down the mountain in the dark with a flashlight.

Dongzai didn't have a story to listen to today, so he was a little unhappy. Grandma Sun was tidying up in the kitchen, and he sat beside the candle with a picture book, slowly flipping through it.

Dongzai liked the colorful patterns on the book very much, and he was fascinated by it without knowing it. His big lifeless eyes seemed to be brighter than usual.

"Clatter..." "Bang..."

There were two loud noises from the side, and Dongzai raised his head blankly to follow the source of the sound. Grandma Sun had already fallen to the ground, unconscious.