Forest Kindergarten

The next day was Saturday, Fei Ya Fei Miao didn't have to go to class, Yun Daxin and the little civet cats looked after the house, Ye Kong went to the village chief's house early in the morning to borrow a bicycle, and set off for the town.

The morning sun rises above the dense forest between the mountain depressions, and the dawn drives away the only remaining cold air and misty morning mist like tulle, peeling off the armor of the night layer by layer, from pitch black to blue, and then fades to transparent with crow blue , and then poured into a suit of brilliant platinum.

Ye Kong was wearing a straw hat and a thin denim shirt with short sleeves. He only brought a bottle of water. He hummed a song and was in a good mood.

There is only one way in and out of the village, that is, the dirt road he walked to Zongshan Village on the day it rained heavily a week ago.

Not far from the entrance of the village, the back seat suddenly sank, he grabbed the handlebar, the front wheel shook a few times, the brakes didn't help much, it all depended on the foot brake.

"Can you stop being so surprised." Lian Pei sat on the back seat, her long legs directly supporting the ground.

"..." Ye Kong said angrily, "Damn it! Who was surprised?!"

Lianpei: "It's all agreed to take me there. You can just borrow the car and leave without waiting for me. I don't think you want to take me with you, do you?"

Ye Kong: "How do you want me to take you? I can't accept your method of possession."

Lian Pei: "What can't I accept? I'm not a woman, a big man still cares about this? No dedication at all! Be stingy!"

Ye Kong: "Get down!"

Lianpei: "I don't! I'm going! I haven't been down the mountain for so many years, the farthest is Zongshan Village..." His voice became weaker and weaker, "I'm trapped here For so many years, you are the only human being who is not afraid of me...I treat you as a friend..."

Ye Kong is soft-hearted, he is the most soft-hearted, and sighed: "That's fine. But... Is this really necessary to possess the body?"

Lianpei took out a big bag from his bag, nodded excitedly and said, "Yes, this is the old mud I dug in the swamp at the center of Zongshan last night. If you apply it on your body, you will be like Zongshan." , if I follow you, it's equivalent to being attached to Zongshan, so I can go out! Come, I'll paint it for you!"

He reached out and took out a handful of mud, about to stuff it into Ye Kong's clothes.

"Wait a minute, I'll do it myself!" Ye Kong wiped the mud in his palm and stuffed it into his clothes. The cold peat and rough fiber plants have a special smell, and the moment he wiped it on his body , Ye Kong had goosebumps all over his body.

"Is it alright?"

Lianpei: "Where is this enough!" A handful of mud was on his waist, and Lianpei was good at smoothing it evenly.He felt it and said, "It's done, so much is enough for today!"

He jumped out of the car and walked into the woods, Ye Kong called him: "Why are you going?"

Lian Pei: "I wash my hands, it's so disgusting!"

"……"Oh shit!You know it's disgusting too!

Ye Kong let go of the handlebar, and the bicycle fell to the ground. Lian Pei turned around when he heard the sound, just in time to see him digging out a handful of mud and rushing over with gritted teeth.

Five minutes later, a person and a ghost who had fought with the kindergarten fighting method squatted by the stream, washing their faces, and the clear stream suddenly became turbid.

Lian Pei: "You're pretty good."

Ye Kong snorted coldly: "Accept."

Lian Pei: "I let you, or do you think you can catch me?"

He even kicked his nose on his face!Ye Kong stood up and shouted: "You really have something wrong with you!"

Lianpei caught up with him: "Okay, I'll let you wipe it off too, don't be angry."

Ye Kong got on the bicycle, stepped on the ground with his left foot, and kicked his right foot, the bicycle creaked and started to walk. After riding for a while, seeing that Lianpei didn't follow, he turned around and shouted: "I'm not on the car yet!"

Lianpei floated over and sat on the back seat. He could control his weight at will, and sitting on it didn't increase the burden on Ye Kong's pedaling.

The scenery in the mountains and forests is excellent. It was raining last time and I didn’t take a closer look. This time I can enjoy it while riding a bike.

After reaching the top of the mountain, it is all downhill. The wind in the forest blows on the body and blows through the ends of the hair, which is very comfortable.

Ye Kong didn't need to pedal at all, as long as he was careful of the bumps on the road.Speeding up, the two excitedly looked like children on a roller coaster.

More than half an hour passed, and after passing the minibus station, it was uphill, the excitement was replaced by pain, Ye Kong was sweating all over his body, the mud was almost airtight on his body, and he was dizzy from the heat.

Lian Pei: "Shall I help you?"

Ye Kong: "That's right! You use your sorcery!"

Lian Pei: "What sorcery! I am the spiritual power bestowed by Zongshan! But if I leave Zongshan's realm, I may not have so much spiritual power..."

Suddenly a gust of wind blew from behind, pushing the bicycle up the mountain.

Ye Kong felt much more relaxed, and in a good mood, he praised: "It's pretty amazing, Lord Shangui!"

As soon as Lian Pei was proud, the wind generated by spiritual power became stronger, and he reached the top of the mountain in less than 10 minutes.

You can see Zongshan Town from the top of the mountain, Ye Kong pointed to the town in the distance and shouted: "It's almost there!"

There was no sound behind him, he turned his head wonderingly, and there was a five or six-year-old child with a pale face sitting in the back seat.

"..." Ye Kong held his forehead, "Are you okay?"

Mr. Shangui, who has shrunk due to excessive consumption: "It's... not bad. The main reason is that I left the old forest of Zongshan... I don't usually do this."

Ye Kong: "I know, why don't we go back first?" Think of it as cycling for exercise.

Little Lianpei said anxiously: "No, I can't go back! Go to town!"

Ye Kong asked sternly, "What are you going to do in town?" Lianpei acted so naturally that he thought he just wanted to play with him, but judging by the expression on little Lianpei, it was definitely not as simple as coming to play.

Lianpei held the rusty iron rod under the bicycle seat with his little hand, lowered his head and said, "I want to go to the newspaper office."

As soon as this remark came out, Ye Kong suddenly felt distressed. There is no such place as a newspaper in this era.

The lonely soul who has been trapped in the mountains for nearly a hundred years has no memory of the cause of his death and his life experience. He just wants to go to the town to find clues.

"I'll help you!" Ye Kong was suddenly full of energy, and with a hard push, the bicycle rushed down from the top of the mountain.

Zongshan Town is just a small town with a radius of more than ten miles and a permanent population of less than a thousand people.

Different from Zongshan Village and Lingshan Village, there are shops, supermarkets, post offices, schools, banks, etc. in the town. People from the nearby villages will come here to buy daily necessities. They can also go to the market on the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year. The food produced in Zongshan Village Fruits and vegetables, as well as game in the mountains, will be transported by the village chief or Lao Hu on a tractor for sale.

Ye Kong pushed his bicycle and took Lianpei with him, inquiring all the way, and found the only bookstore in the town "Langqiao".

"The name is very interesting. The covered bridge is a bridge with a roof, which can shorten the distance between people, people and knowledge, and can also shelter from wind and rain."

Ye Kong parked the car against the wall, and little Lianpei was flexible enough to jump off by himself.He has not shown any signs of recovery, and it seems that he will be able to recover only after returning to Zongshan.

There were no customers in the bookstore, and an old man with white hair was dozing off behind the counter.

Ye Kong didn't wake him up, so he went to choose a book first. Feiya is six and a half years old and in the first grade, a child in the city who knows thousands of characters before going to school. It is not easy to bring up the siblings alone, and they don't care about their study and education, so Feiya even learned her own name in the past few days.

Ye Kong picked two picture books with phonetic notation, with many pictures and few words, suitable for Feiya who just started learning pinyin.

He picked two more cardboard picture books without words, hoping to enlighten Fei Miao.

These picture books are very old, with damage and marks of colored pencils on them. It looks like second-hand books, which should be donated by children in the city to the countryside.

Daxin is in the fourth grade, and already has a certain amount of literacy. Ye Kong picked out a brand new dictionary, as well as children's literature works such as "The Wind in the Willows" and "The Grass House".

Lianpei was wandering in the bookstore and stopped in front of the innermost computer. He had never seen a computer before, so he touched it curiously.

Ye Kong walked over, shook the mouse, and the computer screen lit up.He had inquired just now that there were no Internet cafes in the town, and the only place where computers could be used to surf the Internet was this bookstore.

He hadn't used his mobile phone for several days, and he didn't want to take it with him when he went out, so he could only find a computer to surf the Internet. Looking at this old computer, Ye Kong clicked on the browser: "It's still dial-up..."

It took a full minute for the browser page to load before entering the search engine page.

He entered [Lianpei] in the search bar, clicked search, and 2 minutes later, a page full of results popped up, all of which were advertisements for a hardware manufacturer called Lianpei.

There was no other result after pulling it to the end, so he entered [Zongshan Mountain Fire], and the results were all reports that the occasional mountain fires were extinguished in time in recent years.

"What? No?" Lian Pei asked.

Ye Kong didn't give up: "Well, I'll try something else..."

He searched all possible entries including [Zongshan], [Missing], [Death], [Businessman], and even [Zongshan Monster Legend], but there was nothing related to Lianpei.

An hour and a half passed, Lian Pei was sitting on the chair next to him, shaking his little feet: "Forget it... I was actually mentally prepared. After so long, I have long given up hope..."

Ye Kong rubbed his hair: "Let's go to dinner first, and we'll ask someone in the afternoon."

The old man woke up when paying the bill, pushed his thick glasses, and said slowly: "These books are not for sale, so pay a deposit of 20 yuan and return them within three months." He pointed to the dictionary, "I will not borrow this book... ..."

"I know." Ye Kong handed the money to the old man, "I'll buy the dictionary."

The old man took the money, rummaged through the drawer, and handed the change to Ye Kong. He saw the little Lian Pei, and asked with a smile, "Come out to play with my brother? How old is the kid? What's your name?"

Lian Pei kept silent, but Ye Kong replied with a smile, "My younger brother is six years old, and his name is Lian Pei."

"Lianpei?" The old man pronounced the name, as if smacking his mouth, his cloudy eyes lit up, and his expression became serious immediately, "This is not an auspicious name..."