Bamboo horse let's go home

Luo Jiangkai sent Feng Zi to the station, and while waiting in the waiting hall, ran to buy Feng Zi a cup of hot eight-treasure porridge, carefully helped Feng Zi put on her scarf and gloves, and held Feng Zi tightly under the cover of her schoolbag. Azusa's hand.

Feng Zi with red eyes was holding his schoolbag, and after sipping the porridge, he felt quite calm. He looked at Luo Jiangkai from the side and felt very heartwarming. He rubbed Luo Jiangkai's hand hidden under his schoolbag with his fingers nostalgicly. .

"Don't panic, if you have anything to call me, I'll go find you." Luo Jiangkai brought Feng Zi something to eat distressedly, and told him in a deep voice.

Feng Zi still had six or seven hours to ride in the car, and he couldn't survive without eating, so he obediently ate the food that Luo Jiangkai handed over, and nodded, "Well, I'm going to get in the car soon, hurry up Go back to school! It's snowing and slippery outside, so be careful."

Being able to remind himself proves that Feng Zi has slowed down a bit. Luo Jiangkai watched Feng Zi check the ticket and get on the bus, raised the phone in his hand, and left after watching Feng Zi's shuttle bus start.

Sitting in the car, Feng Zi warmed up. He took off his gloves and hat and stuffed it back into his schoolbag. Seeing that his schoolbag, which only had his mobile phone ID card and wallet, was suddenly filled with water glasses, snacks and a can of hot coffee, his eyes felt A little sore, I sent Luo Jiangkai a text message to reassure him, and closed my eyes to rest my mind.

Most of the funerals in rural areas are burials, and the remains will not be sent to the funeral home. Most of them set up mourning halls in their own yards, and borrow an ice coffin to put the mourning and music for three days before burial.For the elderly, especially those over [-] years old, the funeral should be more solemn.All the descendants of the old man wear sackcloth and filial piety, and the whole village must go to help and remember the old man. Finally, the village cadres or the respected old man will read the memorial speech and express their condolences.

Feng Zi actually didn't quite understand these details, but the scene of his father's unexpected death suddenly popped up in his memory. At that time, he was very short, wearing sackcloth that was about to be dragged on the ground, and knelt beside the ice coffin. One day and one night, in the end it was because of a sudden high fever that the aunt from the same village who helped her found her and took her into the back room to rest for a night and take some medicine.

The small TV in the bus is showing an old kung fu movie, which is probably about a boy from a poor family who accidentally finds a famous teacher, but the villain from a wealthy background is jealous of the boy's talent, so he framed the boy and tried to kill the boy's master, and raped the boy sweetheart.Of course, in the end the boy successfully counterattacked, killed the villain to avenge his master and regain his lover.The exaggerated "呯呯呯呯叮" sound of the sword was more like the sound of shaking iron sheets due to poor post-production sound effects. Few people actually watched old movies in the car, and the closed and hot air made Feng Zi feel a little sick to his stomach.

The six or seven hour long-distance bus was too boring, the crying child in the rear compartment just now fell asleep peacefully, and the uncle sitting next to Feng Zi was also snoring, putting his hat on obliquely to cover most of it Opening his face, Feng Zi looked at the rapidly flashing scenery outside the window, and found out the memory that he didn't want to recall all the time.

Feng Zi didn't tell anyone what he saw during the three days after his father passed away suddenly.

The frail mother took her father's body back to the village from the city hospital, gritted her teeth and fainted several times after setting up the mourning hall.Feng Zi and Feng Yuan, who had been staying at grandma's house waiting for their parents to come back, did not know that what awaited them was not their father's strong arms and their mother's gentle reprimand, but the coldness that could no longer respond to their stiffness.

Because his father passed away unexpectedly in middle age, his brothers and sisters were afraid that Feng Zi's grandparents would not be able to accept the loss of a son in their later years, so they forced Feng Zi and Feng Yuan not to cry.A child under 11 years old and a little over five years old, with no parents around, just put on big sackcloth, waited foolishly at the gate, hoping that their parents would come to pick them up.

Feng Yuan was too young, he would cry when he couldn't see his parents, he was almost out of breath in his brother's arms, Feng Zi also hugged his brother to find adults in fear.But the adults who were busy arranging the mourning hall, cutting filial piety clothes, and even buying vegetables and meat locked Feng Zi and Feng Yuan directly.Feng Zi couldn't understand why his aunt, uncle, and many, many strangers suddenly appeared in his yard, and even broke open the locked door, tearing off the creeper that his father had planted for them.

Feng Zi, who broke open the door with his brother in his arms and ran out, secretly hid in the kitchen. The strange aunt who helped the cook was startled when she saw the two children in filial piety, and hurriedly sent the two children to Feng Zi's grandparents.Feng Zi remembered that from the moment they received the mother who was with his father in the hospital saying that he would take him home, the pictures and voices he saw couldn't match.

I can't hear the sound, but the house is full of adults walking around. Before the brother who is crying with hunger in his arms can get close, he is ordered not to cry by the aunt or uncle who suddenly appears, and even pinches them not to appear. In front of grandparents.Feng Zi didn't really match the picture with the sound until he saw the deep bruises on his younger brother's arm. The whole figure was like clockwork, and he wiped away his tears and stood up from the corner of the house.

Feng Zi, with a dull expression, went directly to the back room and took out a small blanket to wrap his brother up. He ran to the kitchen to find some leftover soup from the last meal, and warmed it up for himself and his brother to drink.Perhaps learning to be strong is just a moment away. Feng Zi half knelt on the ground and hugged his younger brother. The two of them hid in the corner, watching strangers come to comfort their grandparents. Aunt and uncle were crying very sadly. Their children followed them It felt like the sky was falling behind me.Even exaggerating a bit, his second aunt was still kneeling next to the coffin that had just been punched out, crying and yelling that she would die too.

Everyone around was crying, only two children, Feng Zi and Feng Yuan, were hoarse from crying for too long before, and they hid in the corner and hugged each other.Feng Zi bit her lower lip, looked at the relatives who suddenly changed their appearance, and quietly took her brother's hand and ran back to her home through the night.

Feng Zi leaned against the car window with her eyes closed, took out the hot coffee in her schoolbag and drank a couple of sips, it seemed that only when she warmed up would she have the courage to continue recalling.

The real breakdown came when the two children ran home in filial piety.Because the grandfather's house did not allow Dad's body to pass by, the door of my own house was pried open, and uncles, aunts, and aunts I didn't know walked around my house.The yard is full of white flowers, white flowers of mourning and joy, even some uncles and aunts who can't remember are looking at him and his brother and sighing, "What will we do with such young children in the future?"

Feng Zi stared and led his younger brother into the house, and before he opened the door, he heard the voices of his aunts, "You leave the family money and these houses, and remarry!"

Then I heard a kneeling sound of "plop", a very weak but familiar voice, "I will not remarry, let me live with two children, the father of the child is lying here now, and has not been buried in the ground, you Are we trying to force our orphans and widows to death!"

The voice inside was still going on, Feng Zi's expression became more and more hateful, Feng Yuan tugged at his brother's hand in fear, "Brother, why is Dad lying there, why does Mom kneel down for Auntie and the others?"

After kissing his younger brother on the forehead, Feng Zi ran directly to the side room and took out the bone chopping knife that was often used to cut meat at home, and kicked the door open.

Feng Zi saw her mother kneeling on the ground, and immediately ran over to help her up, Feng Zi rushed in front of her mother and younger brother, put the knife in front of her, and smiled coldly, "Aunts, are you going to give our family a funeral today? ? Do you want to come together?"

Feng Zi's three aunts were terrified when they saw Feng Zi's appearance, and the second and third aunts who shouted the most fiercely just now dared not say anything, so they faltered and asked Feng Zi to put down the knife.This kid has practiced martial arts, who knows if he will cut and hurt the three of them when he goes crazy.

On the other hand, the aunt who had been silent all this time reprimanded Feng Zi sharply, "Who taught you to use a knife to your elders, put the knife down!"

Feng Zi directly slashed the knife in a half circle, passing in front of the timid second aunt, and asked his younger brother to help his mother up.Xin Hua's liver is not good, and he easily faints when he gets angry. When Feng Zi saw his mother's face was paler than paper and subconsciously began to tremble, he felt his blood rushing up.

"Auntie, elders? Elders will force my mother to remarry? My father, your younger brother, is lying in the next room now, unable to wake up again. What, you want me to wake up together or you together !" Seeing that Sangu was about to sneak out, Feng Zi picked up the mirror next to her and threw it on the ground, "Stop!"

Feng Zi's second aunt and third aunt trembled in fright, standing behind their elder sister as if asking for help, Feng Zi's elder aunt frowned, trying to explain in another way, "Feng Zi, you don't know what your father gave me. How much money and the house you left, if you follow your mother, your mother will definitely give these things to others as soon as she remarries, what will you and your brother do in the future?" He choked up while talking, "You don't know, no Father's children are not living well!"

Xin Hua also brought her husband's body back overnight, had a closed door at Grandpa Feng Zi's once, and had no choice but to rush home to set up a mourning hall to prepare for the funeral. The incident happened suddenly for several days and nights, and Xin Hua is now in a cold sweat and is about to faint. Hearing that Aunt Feng Zi had slandered her so much, she wanted to explain angrily.

Feng Zi signaled to Feng Yuan to ask Feng Yuan to feed his mother some water. Feng Yuan didn't understand why his brother and aunts were arguing, but obediently took out the water bottle hidden in his clothes, half-supported Xin Hua, "Mom drinks sugar water, and my brother asked me to hide it on my body."

"Oh? Auntie, it's up to you. My mother leaves the house and remarries. Who cares about me and my brother?" Feng Zi lowered his head and spoke, making it difficult to see the truth in his eyes.

Second Aunt Feng Zi answered immediately, "You and your brother are too young, we aunts and uncles are your father's sisters and brothers, I will help you store these things and return them when you grow up. You guys!" "Yes, yes, Feng Zi, you see you have so many relatives, can't our family take care of your two children?" Feng Zi's third aunt also came over to persuade her.

Xin Hua choked, his eyes darkened, and he stretched out his hand to pat Feng Zi, telling him not to believe the words of his aunts.But he couldn't do what he wanted, and he lost his balance and fell down.

Feng Zi immediately supported her mother, Xin Hua panted and wanted to talk to Feng Zi, but Feng Zi stopped her, "Mom, don't worry."

Whether he is pure or not an idiot, why can't he understand the words of these aunts.If he wanted what his father left behind, he would force his mother to remarry, and then he and his younger brother would join together to raise them, so that it would not be true, saying that they sealed off the family and forced the widow to take away the family property.

Feng Zi put his foot on the iron shelf next to him, and said viciously, "We follow my mother, whoever dares to think about these things in our family, I will kill him, look at me, right, and there are so many people in the village Well, you are going to drive us to death, our family of four will not let you go even if they are ghosts!"

The people outside the house were always people from the village who came to help. Feng Zi's three aunts couldn't please her, so they cursed secretly, "The Feng family eats the little wolf cub!" and went out.

Feng Zi hurriedly ran out of the house and saw some familiar friends of his mother coming, so he immediately ran over and brought a few aunts over, "Auntie, auntie, please help me see my mother." As soon as the aunties received the letter The news of an accident at Zi's family came, and he hugged Feng Zi distressedly and hurried to the back room to be with Feng Zi's mother.

When more and more people came, father's friends and buddies, mother's classmates and girlfriends all came, and the Feng family also fell silent.Feng Zi pulled Feng Yuan to kneel in the mourning hall, and thanked everyone who offered incense to his father.When others were not paying attention, I secretly reached out to touch my father's hand. The cold and stiff hand seemed to be warmed up just like that.

Feng Zi, who was sitting in the car and lost in memories, suddenly shuddered at this moment, rubbed his face, and sat up straight.Shaking his head, he calmed down the negative emotions that surged up in his heart just now, and let out a faint breath.

What happened after the funeral was not something he could control when he was only ten years old at the time, but Feng Zi was able to go to the kitchen to feed himself and his younger brother when he didn't care about them, and asked the aunt he knew well to hang two bottles of needles for his mother. , I sent my dad off for the last time with all manners of etiquette.

As for the much-disputed property, it became an exchange.The village is also silently watching the fate of the orphan and widow. Any legal inheritance is false, and it is nothing compared to the words of Grandpa Feng Zi, the heart and bone of the head of the family.In the end, Feng Zi stood in front of his mother like a little wolf cub, negotiating with his grandfather.Mom made an oath in front of grandpa, and gave back the gift money collected in the past few days to a few aunts and uncles, so she reluctantly let this matter go.

Feng Zi looked at his side face printed on the car window, and smiled ironically, regardless of whether grandpa tacitly allowed a few aunts and uncles to make trouble during father's funeral, it was for their own sake or for the sake of maintaining the superficial peace of the entire big family , the resentment in my heart is not easily dissipated.

The uncles and aunts bullied them, but they felt that their family didn't have a man who could support their appearance, and then they were envious of that little family wealth.And why did Feng Zi's grandfather make Feng Zi and the others lose money and presents in order to appease everyone.The little money in their family was earned by their parents from scratch together, and it was saved for him and his younger brother to go to school. The family of four imagined the future, and they had half a dime relationship with others!

If Feng Zi's grandfather had always been indifferent to Feng Zi and the others, it would be easy to explain, but why did the grandfather who loved him so much suddenly reverse his attitude and turn his heart towards Feng Zi's uncle and the others?Or maybe the most embarrassing and naked reason is that Feng Zi's father can't provide for him until his death, so he only cares about his younger sons and daughters who can provide for him?

However, as for the reason, Feng Zi no longer wanted to pursue it.

After eating the food in the bag, Feng Zi rubbed his eyes, now he lives with his mother and brother, no one dares to touch their things, and they don't think about other people's things, that's the best state.There are a lot of idle things in the family, they don't get mixed up and don't get fishy, ​​and they will do their filial piety for their grandma instead of their father.

Finding a pack of shrimp crackers from his schoolbag, Feng Zi suddenly remembered that when he was young, he wanted to eat snacks. In the evening, his grandfather was not afraid of trouble, took his little hand and took him to the canteen at the head of the village, happily waiting for him to eat After that, the grandpa and grandson walked back slowly, their hearts trembling, and the corners of their mouths raised a small arc of nostalgia.

Sniffing, Feng Zi ate the shrimp crackers bite by bite, wiped away the tears that appeared at the corners of his eyes at some point, leaned his head against the car window, and mouthed lightly, "Grandpa, goodbye. "

Regardless of resentment or forgiveness, or reluctance or love, the moment the breath stops, nothing is so important.