devil's son

Halfway up the mountain, Lao Litou’s family raised a silly son. He was three or four years old and still couldn’t shout at people. He only stared at people with his dark eyes that were too big. A child’s appearance is a rare sign. , but for some reason, after being stared at by his eyes for a long time, it always makes people feel creepy.

The village is in the mountains, far away from the city, surrounded by mountains, very remote, the villagers are pitifully small, there are only 34 families with the same ancestry and surname, and all of them are related to each other.Everyone has no sense of making money, and there is no way to make money. It seems that there is nothing else to do after planting one-third of an acre of land.

During the slack season, men and women in the village especially like to go to the door to chat about other people's parents.

Three or four years ago, Lao Li and his wife came back from the city with a baby in their arms, and their family quickly became the most frequent gossip in the village.

From the fact that Old Li got rich outside, to whether the child was born to them, to the fact that the child has something wrong...there are all kinds of rumors in the village.

Old Litou and his family were the only ones in his father's generation, and his father had only one son, so although he was related to the villagers, he couldn't get close.Old Litou's father passed away early, there was a lot of gossip in front of the widow's house, and his mother was a notorious shrew, so their family's relationship with the villagers has not been very good.

Their house is on the mountainside at the outskirts of the village. After they returned to the village, they spent some money to renovate the old house. After that, the couple closed the door to live their own lives, rarely interacting with the villagers. His son never left the house for half a step, and more than half of the people in the village have never seen his son.

Of course, these did not prevent some people in the village from happily saying that Old Li and his wife picked up a fool outside and brought them back.

Old Li and his wife are simply crazy about their son, even fools are not spared.

Behind the scenes, many people were waiting to see the joke of Lao Litou's family.

"Dong cub, it's time to eat in the house!" The first thing Grandma Sun did after finishing dinner was to call her son into the house for dinner.

She looks very old, her face was not fleshy, but now she is so thin that only a layer of sallow skin is left, wrinkled, and her hair is more than half gray. People in their 50s look like they have He looked like he was in his sixties or seventies, and he was depressed.The overly thin face made her look very sharp and difficult to get along with, but when her eyes fell on the little doll, there was a touch of warmth in the deep-set eye sockets, making her alive .

Grandma Sun yelled several times, and the little doll sitting under the locust tree blinked her overly big eyes, stood up slowly, grabbed the small plastic stool under her buttocks with her bony little paws, and took a step with her short legs Walked towards the house in a flash.

Although the old house has been refurbished, but now that he has a son to support, Lao Li is not willing to spend too much money. He mainly replaced the rotten tiles and built holes in the walls to ensure that the house does not leak As long as the rain can live in people.

Although the old house was kept clean by Mrs. Sun, it still smelled of decay and corruption everywhere.

The house is on the hillside, far away from other houses in the village. There is no electric meter and wires installed in the house. Old-fashioned kerosene lamps and candles are used. The direction of the house is somewhat backlit. After noon, the sun cannot shine into the yard. At one o'clock, four or five o'clock, the house needs to be lit to be visible.Every day at this time, Dongzai would move the small stool by himself to the old pagoda tree in the yard to sit and play for an entire afternoon.

Dong Zai liked the old locust tree in the yard very much. After learning to walk, he liked to wander around this old locust tree that couldn't tell the age of the tree.Dongzai is a very quiet baby, he seldom cries or loses his temper, but the fly in the ointment is that he also can't talk or laugh, his face is beautiful, but his expression is pitiful, just like a lifeless doll.

Old Li and his wife once wondered if Dong Zai had been held in the mother's womb for too long and had turned into a fool.

However, Old Li and Mrs. Sun have stayed in the hospital for several years, and they have seen what a real fool looks like. They can't control themselves at all when they eat, drink, and sloppy, and occasionally beat people.Dongzai is different. Dongzai has never peed his pants since he was one year old. When he is hungry, he knows to find food for the old couple. Now he still dresses and eats by himself...

"...Our winter cubs are just a little slow to react, why are you so stupid? Next time, let me see those people who chew their tongues, and see if I don't tear their mouths!" Grandma Sun muttered angrily, and then moved her hands and feet. Dexterously serve the freshly prepared meals on the table.

Old Litou and Mrs. Sun both have fields in the village, and tending the fields is much harder than working in the hospital. After paying the national tax on yellow grain, there is not much left.In the past, when they went to the city, their fields were planted by two families with whom they had a good relationship, and the taxes were also borne by these two families.After they came back, they did not take back these fields, and continued to let those two families plant them. However, in addition to paying agricultural taxes for them, those two families also sent some rice and vegetable oil to their homes every year.

Old Litou and Mrs. Sun bought some grain from the village, which was enough for their family of three to chew for a year.

The old couple also opened up the wasteland around the house and planted some vegetables and corn. The three vegetarian dishes on the table were grown by themselves. The old corn was ground and used to feed the three hens at home. The eggs all went into Dong Cub's stomach.

Dongzai is not picky about food, but he obviously prefers meat to vegetarian dishes.

The village is closed, and if you want to buy meat on weekdays, you have to go to a distant town, and it takes a long time to go back and forth.Moreover, Lao Li and Mrs. Sun have no stable jobs now, and their only source of income is a few half-sized goats.The goats were bought in the town. At that time, Old Li was only planning to buy a ewe as a pacifier for Dong cubs. The seller insisted on selling them together with a few newborn lambs. Bought it back.Unexpectedly, after the lamb was raised, it would be sold for some money. When Lao Li and his wife got together, they cleared up the barren hills around the old house and raised goats.

It costs almost nothing to raise goats, but the goats grow slowly, and they can’t sell for much money in a year. Fortunately, they live in their hometown and don’t have any big expenses. Not surprisingly, the money from selling goats every year is enough to maintain their daily life Expenses.

However, Dongzai is still young, but the two of them are getting older every year, and there will be more places to spend money in the future, so even though they still have a lot of savings in their hands, they don't dare to spend extravagantly.

Except during the holidays, there is basically no meat in the house.

Therefore, Dongzai especially cherishes that he can only eat eggs the next day.

Grandma Sun waved the steamed eggs, which were steamed so tender and yellow, in front of Dong Zai, and said softly and patiently, "Good boy, call mom, and mom will give you steamed eggs."

Dong Cub's big dark eyes glanced at the steamed egg, and then stared straight at Grandma Sun, pursing his mouth without any intention of opening his mouth.

Dongzai's hair was cut by his grandma. It's a slightly silly watermelon head. Fortunately, Dongzai is good-looking. His body is much thinner than children of the same age, but his face is fleshy. His delicate cheeks are white and almost transparent. The eyelashes are dense and curled up, and the pupils of the eyes are more than two circles larger than ordinary people. They are very dark but lack luster, like a pool of stagnant water.Ordinary people are stared at by his strange big eyes, only feel terrified. Grandma Sun is used to it. She can even see Baba's longing from those lifeless eyes. Coupled with the little guy's silly hairstyle, Grandma Sun only lasted for three seconds before being defeated.

She touched Dongzai's head, put the steamed egg in front of him resignedly, and murmured: "If Dongzai is willing to call me mom at any time, even if I die immediately, I will be willing."

Old Li picked up a chopstick of pickled vegetables, mixed them into the rice, and scolded: "You don't want to die, don't say unlucky things in front of your son!"

The origin of Dongzai is really strange. Three or four years later, Old Li still dare not recall the scene of the night Dongzai was born.According to his original idea, he didn't want to raise a winter cub at all, but after all he couldn't hold back the grandma who was already crazy about wanting a child.He had no choice but to raise the child secretly, and lost his job in the city, and hid in his hometown in the countryside in desperation, and lived a life with his head on the loess and his back on the sky.

Regret?

It would be a lie to say that I have no regrets at all, but...

Dong Zai scooped up a spoonful of steamed eggs and brought it to Old Li, staring at him with eyes like stagnant water, his heart almost melted, he said cheerfully: "Dong Zai is really good!" Be good, eat by yourself!"

Dong Zai tilted his head, without any persistence, retracted his paws, and put the tender steamed egg into his mouth, smacked his lips, narrowed his big eyes, and instantly looked like a cat who had stolen the fish.

Swallowing the steamed egg in his mouth with some aftertaste, Dong Zai scooped up another spoonful of steamed egg and brought it to Grandma Sun. Grandma pinched his cold little face and smiled like a stretched chrysanthemum: "Be good, eat by yourself. Mom will go to the village tomorrow to ask if anyone is going to the town, and if anyone goes, Mom will ask someone to make chicken cakes for you."

Chicken cake!

Dong Zaiwu's heavy eyes seemed to light up. This time, instead of taking the spoon back, he gave it to Grandma Sun again.

Old Li snorted sourly, and said, "Don't feed your child sweets, or you may damage your teeth."

Grandma Sun said disapprovingly: "Our boy's teeth are fine, and he will change his teeth in the future, what the hell are you doing?"

Old man Li picked up a chopstick of potato shreds, frowned and said, "A loving mother is a loser! If someone goes to town tomorrow, you can ask someone to bring back two catties of meat, and make some minced meat for the cubs."

Looking at Dong Cub's too thin body, Grandma Sun frowned again and nodded emphatically.

After dinner, Dong Zai took his little stool and sat under the locust tree again. It was midsummer, but it wasn't very hot on the mountain, and it was very cool under the tree.Old Li took a look at the goats huddled together in the sheep pen, and made sure that all the sheep had entered the pen obediently. Then he lay on the rocking chair under the locust tree with an old pipe in his mouth, smoking while smoking. Tell Winter Cubs a story.Old Litou's education level is not high, he can't read a few baskets of Douda's characters, and he doesn't know how to tell fairy tales at all.

He told Dongzai stories at the beginning just to make Dongzai talk. After telling the story for a year or two, Dongzai didn’t even make a sound. He wasn’t even sure if Dongzai listened to him, but he himself He got into the habit of not telling Dongzai such a paragraph and a half before going to bed every day, which made him feel uncomfortable.

Fortunately, Emperor Tian paid off. Old Li had persisted for so long, and Dongzai finally gave him a little reaction. Recently, when he was telling stories, Dongzai would look at him. He deliberately stopped at exciting places. Dongzai Will also pull his sleeve to let him continue talking.

All kinds of signs convinced Old Li that Dong Zai was not a fool.

"...Monkey King killed the Bone Essence with a stick, Tang Seng..." Old Li was talking about something exciting, when there was a sudden knock on the door outside.

"Uncle Gui, Uncle Gui, it's not good, something serious happened, something serious happened!"