The return of natural disasters before the end of the world

Lei Li came out of the kitchen with two bowls of egg noodles, and grinned at him when he saw Lei Xiao come out of the room after putting away his things.

"Hurry up and eat while it's hot. Si'er said before that he would come back, but he didn't expect to come back with you. You didn't tell the family first. Did you pick up Si'er from school?"

Lei Xiao took a bowl of noodles and followed Lei Li to the main room

"Si'er went to the team to find me, and came back together."

Lei Li looked at Si'er who was being held and touched by grandma's hand, subconsciously frowned.

"Si'er, didn't you eat well at school? If you hang a rope for you, you can fly in the sky."

Yao Ziqing looked at Lei Li with a smile on his face

"Brother, it's not as exaggerated as you said. I have a good meal, and I probably have grown up recently, so I'm drawing a stick."

Lei Xiao glanced at him, put the noodles in front of him, then sat down beside him, picked up chopsticks and lowered his head to eat his bowl of noodles.

At the age of sixteen or seventeen, Si'er was as thin as a bamboo pole. At that time, he was also climbing upwards, which is called normal growth.

Grandma patted the back of his hand gently

"I'm already twenty and I'm still growing up. Who are you kidding? Go eat quickly. When you're full, go to sleep with your second brother and have a rest. Let your elder brother prepare delicious food for you at night."

Yao Ziqing nodded repeatedly, picked up the chopsticks and lowered his head to eat.

The old-fashioned chimney stove, a big iron pot, and the food made with dry firewood. Yao Ziqing has eaten it for more than 20 years. This is the real taste of home for him. The taste of home that gas stoves can never burn with natural gas .

Yao Ziqing ate with his head buried in earnest, he was afraid that tears would fall into the noodles when he raised his head.

Lei Xiao sat next to him, aware of his emotional fluctuations, took a deep look at him but didn't do anything extra, just picked out the egg yolks in the bowl, and put the egg whites in his bowl.

When they were young, eggs were equivalent to luxury food for them, and they had to keep the money to sell them to pay their school fees, and they were never willing to eat them.

At that time, Yao Ziqing was young, and his body was not as strong as Lei Lang's. He would get sick every few days, and the family would always save an egg or two for him to nourish his body.

Yao Ziqing was young and didn't understand what an egg meant. He didn't like dry egg yolk at all, and he hated the fishy smell even more if it turned yellowish.

If it is made into custard, in the eyes of the old man, the nutrition is not as rich as that of a complete egg, so that he is always forced to eat it all.

Probably because I was forced a lot when I was a child, and I can choose when I grow up, so I don't eat egg yolks anymore.

Looking at the extra egg whites in the bowl, Yao Ziqing blinked his eyes, dissipating the warmth and moisture from his eyes little by little, picked out the yolk of the egg in his own bowl and put it in the second brother's bowl, just like every time In that way, nothing seemed to have changed.

Lei Zheng was still on the sidelines blah blah blah, yelling that he would go to Yao Nai's house to grab some delicious food at night, Lei Li put the dustpan full of sweet-scented osmanthus flowers on the stool outside the main room and spread it out, letting the sunlight evenly sprinkle on it.

The village was quiet in the afternoon, and the occasional crisp birdsong made the tranquility even more peaceful.

Grandma looked at her two grandsons who were eating deliciously, with kindness and satisfaction in her smiling eyes.

Time seems to freeze this moment into an ink painting, and the tranquility in the painting slowly spreads through the fragrance of ink, making people's hearts calm down.

The food made at home is always full of portions. In the past, Yao Ziqing couldn't finish eating that much, but now these are extremely precious things to him. His body can't bear it, but his heart greedily wants more, feeling that there is nothing enough.

Seeing the clean and fresh room, and the quilt still smelling of being sunburned, I knew that my elder brother must have prepared everything in advance before they came back.

Lei Xiao washed the dishes and went back to the room, seeing him leaning against the head of the bed with his eyes closed and hands covering his stomach, his eyes sank

"uncomfortable?"

When Yao Ziqing was a child, he was prone to illness, and they had no money to go to the hospital in the town, so the third uncle always took medicine for him.

If you drink too much Chinese medicine, you will easily lose your stomach and can't eat. Sometimes you will vomit out the medicine together when you force it. After a long time, your stomach will naturally become not very good.

The best way to treat gastroenteritis is to use traditional Chinese medicine to treat it slowly from the inside out, but Yao Ziqing suffered from that bitter taste too much when he was young, so he didn't even think about it.

I used to pay more attention to what I ate when I was at home. Now that I am studying abroad, [-]% of them have never paid attention to these aspects. I guess even if I am sick, I will take some western medicine to deal with it.

Yao Ziqing sat up a little bit, but did not take his hands off his stomach

"Eat too much, it hurts a bit"

Lei Xiao opened the travel bag, took out the small medicine bag inside, and poured out two digestive tablets for him to eat

"sleep for a while"

Yao Ziqing shook his head, "It's uncomfortable, I'll sleep after I digest it later"

"Sleep, I'll rub it for you"

Seeing that the second brother insisted on asking him to sleep, Yao Ziqing had no choice but to lie down obediently.

Lei Xiao's big dry hand reached into Yao Ziqing's clothes, and placed it on his slightly swollen stomach even when he was lying flat, it seemed that he was really supporting it.

Gently and regularly rubbing his hands slowly

"In the future, you can eat as much as you can, if you can't eat it, don't eat it"

Yao Ziqing responded, but he didn't feel it just now, but he seemed to start to feel sleepy as soon as he lay down.

The curtains isolate the sunlight outside the house, the room is bright but not glaring, there is no mechanical noise, no noisy hustle and bustle, it seems that everything is still, making people feel sleepy involuntarily.

Lei Xiao kept the same speed and strength, rubbing gently on his stomach, watching him slowly fall asleep, and still didn't stop with his hands.

The thick eyelashes of the sweet person sleeping on the bed covered those beautiful clear eyes, the fair skin could be seen faintly with fine fluff, and the lip color was extremely pale with a slight hint of paleness. He just fell asleep quietly. It looks extremely fragile.

Obviously he should be a soft person, but his personality is so strong, so stubborn and stubborn.

Lei Xiao will never forget the fright he gave him when he saw Yao Ziqing for the first time.

Then a little milk baby carved in powder and jade should smile so hard that one's heart will melt.

But when he saw him for the first time, he kept crying to find his mother, no matter how grandma tried to coax him, he would not listen, even if he was aggressive, he deliberately frightened him not to cry, it didn't work at all.

In the end, his crying face turned blue and purple, and he took his breath away. Fortunately, the third uncle was there at the time, and hurriedly pinched him a few times to wake him up, so that he didn't pass out from suffocation.

Probably the first scare was so deep in my memory that whenever I faced Yao Ziqing later, I would always pay special attention to it, and I must put him under my nose to be at ease.

Lei Xiao didn't know if it was because he had developed such a habit, so even now, no matter how many people are around him, the first thing he looks for is always Yao Ziqing.

No matter where he is, the first person that comes to mind must be Yao Ziqing.

Even if Yao Ziqing was by his side, he still focused more on him.

Perhaps these habits have accumulated over time and become an instinct.

Lei Li opened the curtain to see Lei Xiao's movements, and asked with his eyes when he saw that Si'er was fast asleep.

It was only then that Lei Xiao realized that it had been almost two hours, and Si'er's stomach was not so bulging, so he should not feel uncomfortable anymore, so he lifted the blanket next to him and gently covered him before getting up and going out.

"What's wrong with Si'er, stomach upset?"

Lei Xiao glanced at him indifferently, "I'm holding on."

How could Lei Li feel the heavy complaints from those eyes and tone, which were clearly devoid of any emotion?

"Didn't Si'er finish all the things that Si'er couldn't finish before? I also said that his appetite has grown and he ate an extra bowl of noodles. He actually finished it all. Is it all right?"

Lei Xiao hummed, "Go and see the land where Si'er wants to build a house."

Lei Li came to him just to ask about this matter.

"Are you really planning to build a new house this year? The money you sent back plus the savings at home is almost [-] to [-] in total, and the house may not be close"

This is only because Si'er suddenly sent back 2 yuan two months ago.

When he went to college, he borrowed the money. Lei Xiao went to the military academy to avoid some expenses and made the family more comfortable. Later, Sier went to college with Lei Xiao’s saved money, and the family’s expenses were less money-making. It was too much, and only then did I pay off the money owed to outsiders little by little.

Lei Xiao didn't care and said, "Don't worry about money."

Seeing how relaxed he was, Lei Li didn't worry about the lack of money anymore.

He also wants to build a new house as soon as possible. Now that the house is old, some places will inevitably leak when it rains.

The last time it rained for more than a week, luckily the water flowed along the ditches on both sides to the pond below, otherwise the house would have been flooded long ago.However, if the house is too old, the humidity in the house will become heavy, and the elderly are not suitable for living in such an environment.

If it weren't for various reasons, he actually hoped that his family could live in the town, rather than being inconvenient to come and go in and out of the village.

Lei Li didn't plan to go to university at first, and he was already educated in the village after he went to high school, but his grandma insisted.

If he chooses another major and then engages in other things, there will be no one in the family who can go to the fields, so he simply chose agriculture.

It's not that he is short-sighted, being able to get out of the mud is probably the dream of all rural children, but there is one thing that still haunts him, something he has never told anyone.

Now we pay attention to scientific development and oppose feudal superstition, but there are various things that cannot be explained by science in many rural areas.

There are three villages in Wan'an Town, one of them is Leijia Village, and there are Lijia Village and Fanjia Village.

There is a river running downstream along the three villages. There is a tributary of the river between Lijia Village and Fanjia Village, which was later built into a small reservoir.

In midsummer, people in the village like to go to the reservoir to play in the water, but their family has never been there.

When they were young, their parents would not let them go. Later, after their parents had an accident, he and his second brother had to help the family with work, and they had to take care of the third brother, so they didn’t have the time to play in the water to cool off the heat.

Lei Li still remembered that that incident happened the year before Yao Ziqing came.

There is a crazy woman in Fanjia Village. It is said that the woman used to be a psychic.

The psychic in the village is that sometimes children are frightened out of their souls, they can help call out their souls, or if someone in the family wants to talk to the dead, they can also do it through a psychic. Of course, these are all what Lei Li heard from adults Haven't really seen it.

I don't know why that woman went crazy. I asked my grandmother, but my grandmother only told him to stay away from that crazy woman. Don't ask if you shouldn't ask.

He remembered that summer, he went home with a few classmates after school. At that time, they all had to go to the reservoir to play. Lei Li had no time to go home to help with things, but he was still a child after all, so it was unavoidable that he felt itchy. Or go home, just go with them, just look, see him and go home.

Later, I met the crazy woman on the way. The crazy woman pointed at them and yelled, telling them to stay away from the water, because there are hooks in the water.

There were also children from Fanjia Village who walked together. They all knew that this was a crazy woman, and they had thrown stones at her many times, so they were not afraid at all of facing crazy women, and directly threw stones at her.

It was the first time for Lei Li to see this crazy woman. Hearing her keep talking about the hook in the water, he felt chills inexplicably, so he just gave up and went home.

One of the people who went to play in the reservoir the next day was still complaining, saying that the aquatic plants in the reservoir should be cleaned up, and he stretched out his feet while talking.

Lei Li saw a very thin wound on his ankle, which almost cut through most of the ankle.

Rural children are used to being wild, and there are very few who have not been scratched by leaves and weeds. Don't look at the grass and it will break if you are not careful. If you are not careful, it will be quite sharp.

So they all thought that they tripped over aquatic plants or scratched the broken branches of plants in the water while swimming, and didn't think much about it.

But Lei Li suddenly remembered what the woman said, there are hooks in the water.

Seeing that they still wanted to go after school, I couldn't help persuading them a few words to tell them not to play, it was too dangerous, and there was nothing they could do if they didn't listen to them.

But something happened that day, and three of the five children died, all drowning in the reservoir.

Although Lei Li and them are classmates, they just walk together after school sometimes, and the relationship is not very good.

Moreover, those three children are all from Fanjia Village, and the family would not let him go to the funeral of a child of the same age who died unnaturally.

Later, someone from Fanjia Village in the class said that the three children were trapped by aquatic plants and were too late to break free, so they drowned. Each of their ankles had a circle of very thin and deep scars, that is, they were entangled by things. from.

Lei Li was quite frightened, he always felt that the student's ankle wound that day was not scratched by water plants, but by a sharp iron object.

He didn't dare to say this, but since then he has become more in awe of this kind of thing that science can't explain.

After that, he never dared to leave Fanjia Village again.

He thought he would never meet that crazy woman again if he stayed away from Fanjia Village, but one day he happened to be alone, and on his way home alone, he saw that crazy woman sitting on the side of the road, smirking and picking weeds Wear it on your head as a flower.

Lei Li was so frightened that his legs were so weak that he fell to the ground and sat down. To him, that woman was just as terrifying as a murderous ghost. The bright sun in broad daylight made him shiver all over.

But the woman just tilted her head and looked at him blankly for a moment, and didn't rush forward like last time.

Lei Li backed up cautiously and wanted to stay away from her, when he saw the woman suddenly smiled at him, and then spoke crazily

"The land is good, it is a good thing, you, you must stay in the field all the time, you know, if you stay in the field, your family will be able to eat enough and not be hungry, yes, if you are full and not hungry, you want Remember, stay in the field so that the family will not be hungry, hehe, don’t be hungry, never be hungry, if you are full, you will not be hungry..."

The crazy woman kept repeating this sentence, bouncing and giggling and running away with a pile of weeds in her hand.

So when his grandma asked him to go out to become a promising person after college, he stubbornly chose agriculture even after college, and stayed at home to take care of the elderly and work in the fields after graduation.

Although I have learned a lot since I grew up, and I know a lot of things just because I don’t understand them, so I have been given supernatural explanations, but as long as I think about leaving the village, I always feel a little uneasy and have an indescribable chill in my heart.

However, Lei Li did not regret his choice. He was not good at talking, and he was more comfortable in the life of step-by-step farming in the fields where he could reap as much as he paid.

And now there are more and more poisonous things, gutter oil, poisonous milk powder, and even poisonous rice are rampant.

At least he can guarantee that the rice and vegetables eaten by his family are all natural green and free of pesticides.

Sometimes when thinking of that crazy woman who has passed away for many years, Lei Li wondered if she knew that there would be more and more unscrupulous things in the society in the future, so she said those words.

As for the idea of ​​simply moving to the town since he had the money to build a house, it was dismissed after a flash.

Although the town is convenient, grandma has lived in the village for decades, so it’s hard to say whether she’s used to it or not. When she goes to the town, she definitely won’t have a big yard, and she doesn’t have acquainted neighbors. not good.

It's better to build a new house, the elderly can live comfortably, and it's better for them to live together like this all the time.

The author has something to say: The thing about the hook in the water really happened. It is a real story that happened in my mother’s hometown. When I heard the story, I was horrified.