did not meet tonight

After all, Ye Jian had lived in the village for so many years before, so he knew a little about the Zhu family. Both of them were honest farmers, and the girl was Ma Meijing, who was married from Heming Town.The year they got married was summer vacation, and Ye Jian had just graduated from junior high school, so he took Yu Yuanyuan to watch the excitement, the bride wanted to show her happiness, and gave them two red eggs and a bag of sugar.The old man in the village said he was unlucky and told him to leave quickly, but Zhu Qingping, who was beaming at that time, smiled and said that they were obedient and good boys, how could they be so superstitious, so let them stay here.

Ye Jian still remembers the events at that time. The bride in the red dress was so beautiful, and the usual naive Brother Zhu smiled so brightly. The whole room was covered with red happy words. Everyone had a smile on their faces. Firecrackers sounded amid bursts of cheers, and Yu Yuanyuan pulled the hem of his clothes and said, "Ah Jian, I will also be a beautiful bride in the future."

Ye Jian scratched her little face and laughed at her for being shameless, but in the blink of an eye, Yu Yuanyuan had grown into a slim girl, and she was really going to be a bride soon, but the ordinary and happy family at the beginning had suffered a lot in recent years. unforeseen accidents.

Ye Jian didn't know what the reason was, but he heard people talking vaguely that Zhu's daughter-in-law had been married for two or three years and hadn't had a child yet, she must be in bad health, no wonder she, a girl from the town, was willing to marry into our poor mountain corner, It turned out to be a hen that couldn't lay eggs!At that time, Ye Jian was already in high school, and he would come back twice a month. He would occasionally pass by a small shop, and he could always hear people talking about it with great interest. Ma Meijing, she also had a sallow complexion and a haggard look, she was a different person from before.

Later, when Ye Jian was admitted to university, the villagers thought it was a glorious thing. Every household contributed some money, and together with the subsidy from the government, they finally got together the tuition fees for the first year.The day before the report, Zhu Qingping brought him a basket of eggs. He was very embarrassed to say that he spent a lot of money on medical treatment, and the family really couldn’t afford anything, so he boiled a basket of eggs for him. Don’t be disgusted, save it for eating on the road .

The eggs are still hot, and they are heavy to carry. I heard from my grandma that Zhu Qingping has led his wife to seek medical treatment all these years. He has used up all the small remedies in big hospitals, and the work in the field can't be taken care of. The money he saved has been wasted, God. Finally, she still had a little conscience, which finally made Ma Meijing's stomach bulge.Ye Jian doesn't understand how important a child is to a couple, but seeing the smile on Zhu Qingping's face, he is also really happy for him. Eggs are indeed worthless, but they are just like the bag of wedding candies a few years ago, they are worth remembering for a lifetime something in the heart.

I thought their life would gradually get better, but the bad luck did not go away. When Ye Jian heard about them again, Ma Meijing had become a demented fool.No one knew what happened. The day before she was carrying the child to work in the fields, but the next morning she ran around the village barefoot, crying and laughing, with snot and tears all over her face. If you want to be cured, you can put up a magic card in the house, and three sticks of incense in the morning and evening, maybe there is still room for recovery.

Days passed, and the former "sister-in-law Zhu" became a "crazy horse" in the villagers' mouths. Zhu Qingping's piety did not bring her sobriety, but intensified her madness and beat everyone.Zhu Qingping had no choice. When she took the child to the field during the day, she had to lock her in the house. She often screamed when she was hungry. The villagers felt sorry for her, so they stuffed some food into the window.

Two or three years passed in a blink of an eye, and everyone got used to the existence of this lunatic. Someone persuaded Zhu Qingping to send her back to her natal family and find another woman, which was better than living like this now.Zhu Qingping never responded to these words, and worked hard with his children every day. As a result, last summer, he fell off the slope while picking plums. It took a long time before some villagers heard his cries for help and called for someone to come over. He was sent to the town hospital, but unfortunately it took too long, the root of the disease fell on that leg, and he could barely walk with crutches.

The villagers said that the child was also at the scene when the accident happened, sitting motionless on the slope, watching Zhu Qingping rolling and mourning in the pit, with no expression on his face, and he didn't cry at all. It doesn't look like a son like that, it's clearly I came to collect debts in my previous life!

"That child's name is Zhu Wenhao. I met him once when he was over a year old. He is very cute. If so many things don't happen, their family should be very happy." On the way, Ye Jian told Xiao Yu what he knew. After saying it again, thinking of these things, he couldn't help but sigh deeply.

"Did they go to the hospital for an examination?" Xiao Yu knew that this was obviously a mental illness, and it was unfounded to say that he hit the immortal and lowered his head. serious.

"I don't know the specific situation. I should have been there before, but maybe it didn't work, so I brought him back." Ye Jian shook his head, looking very helpless, "People in the village are superstitious, and they are used to looking for Zhang Banxian when something happens. Fortune-telling, if my sister-in-law can get proper treatment earlier, she may have recovered by now."

Zhu's family lives in a remote place, in the innermost part of the village, and there is only this house nearby. The yard is surrounded by a wall of yellow mud and stones. It looks dusty from a distance, and it looks even more lifeless amidst the lush greenery. .The door was locked tightly, Ye Jian walked over and knocked, but there was no movement inside for a while, but through the crack of the door, people could be seen passing by.Ye Jian shouted: "Brother Zhu, I'm Ye Jian, are you home?"

The figure inside the door paused for a moment, and there was a sound of releasing the bolt. A dark and wrinkled face appeared in Ye Jian's sight. He was stunned for a moment, and he could hardly recognize that the person in front of him was Zhu Qingping.He remembered that Zhu Qingping was only ten years older than him, and he should be only 35-[-] this year, but that tired and haggard face looked like he was nearly half a century old, the drooping eyelids were lifeless, and those dull eyes tortured by the years Qing looked over at him, and after a long time said, "A Jian, it's really you, when did you come back?"

"I just arrived yesterday, I haven't seen you for a long time, so I'll come and have a look, Brother Zhu, are you okay?" Seeing his appearance, Ye Jian couldn't help but feel tears in his eyes.

"They are all half-dead. What good can there be? One day is one day." Zhu Qingping opened the door, "Come in and sit." He had a crutch under his left arm, which was obviously made by himself. There was still a thick strip of cloth wrapped around it, Ye Jian subconsciously wanted to help him, but was afraid of hurting his self-esteem, so he withdrew his hand abruptly.

There were some shredded sweet potatoes and dried vegetables drying in the yard. A little boy was sitting under the eaves. When he saw someone coming in, he hid behind the pillar and peeked out half of his body. Ye Jian recognized him as the little boy with the basket he met earlier. The boy and Xiao Yu looked at each other in surprise.Zhu Qingping moved a bench for them to sit down, and said, "You haven't been back for three or four years, right?"

"Yeah, time flies by so fast." Ye Jian couldn't help but sigh.

"Is it fast? Why do I feel that this day is like a year?" Zhu Qingping looked at him with envy and helplessness in his eyes, "How about you, you can get out of our poor mountain valley and live in a big city , like me, I can only stay in this place for the rest of my life and wait to die."

Ye Jian didn't know how to comfort him, the days had come to this point, any words would only make things worse.He looked at the little boy and changed the subject: "Wen Hao is already this old, should he go to school?"

"Based on my current conditions, it's good enough to feed him. What else do I need to study?" Zhu Qingping said.

"If you don't go to school, won't you delay the child?" Ye Jian was surprised.The location of Baliping is special. In the past, children had to walk long distances to go to school, and there would be accidents from time to time. A few years ago, the government allocated funds to build a school here, and the tuition fee was only a few dozen yuan. Transferring to the primary school in the town is already a very good support measure, and it is impossible for Zhu Qingping not to know.

"It's good to be alive these days. What's the use of studying?" Zhu Qingping lit a cigarette, and the bad smell made him cough twice. Do farm work, or what the family eats and drinks."

Zhu Wenhao hid behind the pillar, his face was dirty, his clothes were full of stains, his eyes were terrified, and when he saw Ye Jian looking towards him, he turned and ran into the house.Ye Jian knew that he had no right to judge other people's lives, because he was not them, and he would never be able to truly appreciate the hardships in it. He sighed, and got back to the business: "Brother Zhu, this is the Municipal Public Security Bureau Captain Xiao, came to our village to investigate a case with Zheng Anmin, but this morning he was found dead in Wang Xinggui's plum forest, do you know about this?"

Zhu Qingping originally had a smug expression, but when he heard this sentence, his expression changed instantly: "Then you should go to Wang Xinggui, what are you doing here?"

Ye Jian was taken aback by that fierce tone, and Xiao Yu said, "According to our understanding, you had contacted Zheng Anmin before the incident, is there such a thing?"