Half River Autumn Moon and River Spring [Rat and Cat]

There was a sour smell coming from the door, and the interior of the room was very plain. Zhan Zhao walked in after everyone, and before he could speak, he was shocked by the person on the bed!Although it has long been heard that the son of the village chief was found without his hands and feet, but seeing him lying on the bed with only his torso is another matter!It is really unimaginable how he survived such pain!

Village head Wei tied the curtain at the head of the bed, and said, "Son, someone from the yamen has come to see you again."

Li Chengsi stood where he was, without the slightest intention of going forward to visit him. He just said to Wei Huxiang: "Cillage Chief Wei, if you need anything, Mr. Ling, you can tell us, we will do our best to help if we can."

As soon as his words fell, Wei Quan on the bed suddenly began to tremble, and let out a roar of "Ah!" from his throat, as if he was extremely angry. Village Chief Wei was startled, and hurriedly wanted to appease him. Feeling emotional, Ye Hong on the side stepped forward and said: "Village Chief, this junior knows some medical skills, let this junior come and see your son."

Wei Huxiang was stunned for a moment, then quickly vacated his seat.

Strange to say, after hearing Ye Hong's voice, Wei Quan suddenly calmed down and stopped roaring, but his chest still heaved violently and his breathing was short of breath.

Ye Hong sat on the side of the bed, touched Wei Quan's forehead lightly, and stroked his chest again: "Don't be afraid, Mr. Wei, take it easy, I won't hurt you."

After the words fell, Wei Quan really began to slow down his breathing, and then the corners of his mouth began to tremble, the tip of his nose turned red, and a sobbing sound came out of his mouth, the voice was like an abandoned cub, howling in despair in the cold wind, Want to cry but can't make it out loud...

It was a kind of relief, a kind of grievance, a kind of mournful cry.

His crying really shocked everyone present.

Ye Hong was in a hurry. While wiping the blood and tears from the corners of Wei Quan's eyes lightly, he said worriedly: "Mr. Wei, don't cry anymore. You are suffering from a serious loss of vitality and your life is in danger. You can't worry about the night and day. No matter how powerful you are, The mood swings are afraid that even the gods will not be able to save them!"

After Ye Hong finished speaking, Wei Quan was still shedding blood and tears, and seemed unable to recover from his grief and indignation. Ye Hong still stroked Wei Quan's chest, and said slowly, "Look, it's been halfway since I fell off the cliff. Fate, my brain is still broken and I lost my memory, and I lost a lot of organs in my body for no reason. To be honest, I didn’t live for a few days, but I never wanted to die in the past. You, I finally survived. Stop torturing yourself, life is so precious, since you are alive, try to live!"

Wei Quan stopped crying, his mouth seemed to be saying something vaguely, but he couldn't utter a complete sentence, no one knew what he was talking about, it was pitiful and pathetic.Ye Hong could only wipe the corners of his eyes lightly, and patted his chest lightly like coaxing a child. After a while, Wei Quan gave up talking, and gently rubbed Ye Hong's finger with his forehead, looking very gentle and well-behaved .

"Master Ye, my silly son hasn't had a decent meal for several days, and he refuses to touch anything you give him. I think he listens to you. Otherwise, I'll go and heat up the vegetable porridge. Are you tired and help feed it?" Wei Huxiang stood aside and asked a little embarrassed.

Ye Hong agreed without even thinking about it: "Okay, old village chief, you go and heat it up, and I'll feed him."

The old six on the side said: "I'll go heat it, I'll go heat it! The village head's stove is familiar to me!" After saying that, he ran out, and Zhan Zhao followed after seeing this.

Followed to the stove, Lao Liu was about to light a fire, Zhan Zhao took the tongs and said, "Master Liu, I'll help light the torch, you go and get the vegetables and porridge."

"Okay, big brother, thank you." Seeing someone helping, the sixth child burst into tears of gratitude.

Zhan Zhao scraped the stove with tongs, and was about to stuff some straw into it to start a fire, when he suddenly found a black thing in the stove, he fished it out, and found that it was the one that was burnt and only the base was left. The wooden sign seems to be a spiritual tablet, but the words on it have been burned away, and there is no reason for it.

After taking the fire folder and lighting the fire, Zhan Zhao found that there was a small stove next to the stove, and there was a casserole on top of the stove. He opened it out of curiosity, and saw a ginseng whisker lying inside, and the ginseng soup had bottomed out. .At this time, Lao Liu came back with the vegetable porridge that had been completely cooled. He added water to the pot and placed the steaming rack, put the vegetable porridge on it and started to steam. Ginseng, Old Wei used it to keep his son alive."

"Thousand-year ginseng?"

"That's right, for his son, Old Wei pawned the family's ancestral jade pendant in exchange for this ginseng. I think when he goes to the underworld, he will be chased by his ancestors and scolded as an unfilial son." While saying that, he put the lid on the pot, and went to the stove to add some firewood.

"After all, it is my own child who is in trouble, the ancestors will still be considerate."

Hearing this, the sixth child laughed "Hey", then glanced at Zhan Zhao and said, "I don't think the three of you are from Linzhou Prefecture, are you?"

Zhan Zhao nodded: "The old man has sharp eyes."

The sixth child was a little flustered, and said with a smile: "Little brother, don't look at me like this. In fact, the sixth child, I run around all year round to help the village buy food, and I know something about the outside world."

Zhan Zhao began to rub his hair: "Yeah, I see that Liu Ye is very shrewd and hospitable! Hey, by the way, Liu Ye, are the young people in your village in good health?"

"Ah? How do you say that?" Lao Liu rubbed his forehead inexplicably.

"Just before we entered the village, didn't we pass a cemetery? I saw that the tombstones were all very old people, and there were no young people. Doesn't this mean that the ancestors of our village are blessed, and the children and grandchildren are all healthy and long-lived?"

Lao Liu patted his thigh, pointed to the direction outside the house and said, "Oh, the cemetery you passed by is a new tomb that has only been piled up in the past ten years, and the grave of our ancestors is at the top. There are also people who died young on it, just so and so, the son of Aunt Li’s second uncle, who was only 15 years old and couldn’t get out because of a fishbone. The grave was dug early, and it’s all on top! You can’t see it when you go up the mountain. After a long time, there are not enough cemeteries, so you slowly go down and down, and now it’s all by the entrance of our village!”

Zhan Zhao nodded and said, "I see."

The sixth child sighed, and continued: "What's more, there are no young people in our village now. You should have found out when you just entered the village. They are all old men and women, and there are still a few teenagers. Gua Wazi."

"Sixth Master, I am also a newcomer to the Yamen, and I don't know much about the affairs of your village. I only heard that all the young people in the village have gone out to work?"

"Hmm..." Lao Liu responded vaguely, "I don't know whether it's dead or alive, I'm afraid they won't come back, so there's no need to build their graves."

"It's just a job, Liu Ye, you don't have to be so pessimistic, do you?"

"We didn't think so at first, but it's been three years, no one came back, and only half of them came back with great difficulty, and we still can't figure out why. What can you make us think?"

Zhan Zhao thought of Wei Quan's torso, and couldn't help but sighed too.

"Let me tell you, little brother, the son of the village head used to be as handsome as you. At that time, many girls in the village liked him. Later, they said that there is a place where you can make a lot of money by working, as long as you are under 30 years old. , both men and women over the age of 15 are welcome, just a group of people are clamoring to go, the village head originally disagreed, fearing that he would encounter a liar, Wei Quan encouraged the whole village to make trouble with the village head, and the village head tried his best to persuade him They have been for a few days, these babies are stupid, as you said, the newborn cubs are not afraid of tigers..."

"Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers."

"That's right, that's the same sentence. To put it bluntly, it means young and energetic! I feel that our village has no future, and staying here is a dead end, and I want to go out and venture into the world! The village chief can't hold back so many people, so in the end he can only tell Wei Quan to take care of him. Good brothers and sisters in the whole village, and then they went on the road. I still remember that when they left that day, they waved to us, all of them were smiling, that was a beautiful one! As a result, after three years, there was not a single child When I came back, the village chief’s wife waited and waited until her hair turned white, but she finally didn’t wait for her son to come back, fell ill, and left just like that..."

Zhan Zhao paused for a while, then carefully asked, "Haven't you ever gone to them?"

"I've searched for everything I can find, and I've tried all the ways I can think of. It's like disappearing. There is no news at all. Until a while ago, one early morning, the old man went out to pee, and I vaguely saw a few dogs at the entrance of the village. The dog was biting something. When I finished peeing and chased away the dogs, I saw a bloody thing lying there. After a closer look, it wasn’t that kid Wei Quan! I yelled loudly, the whole village Everyone came out, and when the village chief saw his son turn into this appearance, he was also crying so hard..."

At this time, the pot on the stove boiled away, and Lao Liu hurriedly jumped over to lift the lid of the pot. Seeing that the porridge was hot but not dry enough, he dug a spoonful of water into the water tank and poured it in again. I found a spoon to stir it, and then put the lid on the pot, and then said: "You said, this Wei is all like this, how can the rest of the children be better?"

"Young Master Wei is truly unbearable to watch, but luckily he is still alive."

"What's the use?" Lao Liu made a cutting movement, "His tongue was cut off, and he made it clear that he didn't want him to talk. No matter how serious the grievances were, he couldn't speak or write. He couldn't even make gestures." No way, to live is to suffer. In my opinion, they must have been kidnapped by bad guys. Wei Quan ran away and was arrested again. In order to prevent the rest of the people from running away, they chopped off his hands and feet. , Gouging out his eyes and tongue to warn others not to run away."

"But, if you want to warn the rest, why did you throw Wei Quan at the entrance of the village?" Zhan Zhao asked rhetorically.

"This..." Lao Liu's eyes flickered, "The vegetable porridge is ready, let's go and bring it to him!"

The author has something to say:

It’s still early in the morning when I have a lot of inspiration. In the next chapter, we will jump to Kaifeng Mansion to see Mr. Gongsun and the others~