Doomsday Allure

In the countryside around Changfeng, there are a few special trades, no matter how the world changes, certain characteristics of these trades remain unchanged.

One of them is selling tofu.

One of the most notable features of the business of selling tofu is: early.

In five winters and six summers, I always go out at Yinzheng time, and when the sun comes out, at breakfast time, the tofu seller will return to his home.

Grandpa Wei made good tofu. He used to deliver ten boxes of tofu to the largest supermarket in Zeyang City every day. He always drove a small truck to go out at four o'clock in the morning. Village, sold two boxes of tofu, arrived at Zeyang around five o'clock, put the tofu in the receiving box at the door of the duty room of the supermarket, and then headed west.

After leaving Zeyang New City, cross the boundary between the new city and the old city—the Mengze River—and then start shouting, pass the old town, Laoyaling and other villages, turn a semicircle, and finally go home from Foxpo.

One winter day 26 years ago, when Grandpa Wei was passing through Mengtangzhai in the early morning, he heard a very noisy house, the crying of a young woman and a baby, the shouting and yelling of old men, women and young men.

Three months later, one morning in the early morning, Grandpa Wei heard a baby crying from a well room several hundred meters away from the village at the east end of the village. Later he knew that it was the child who was so angry when he fell asleep and him. Together with my mother, they were driven to live in the well room.

Two months later, the well room returned to its original silence. Grandpa Wei heard that the young mother took her child to another place after she took the initiative to sue for divorce.

Grandpa Wei breathed a sigh of relief for the mother and son.

One day in winter 23 years ago, Grandpa Wei finished delivering tofu to the supermarket, walked to the edge of the old city, and was about to drink, when he vaguely saw two figures by the Mengze River, one tall and one short, the short one was very short , small, like a round ball, it was about ten degrees below zero, a little past five o'clock in the morning, it couldn't be someone doing morning exercises, Grandpa Wei was puzzled, after hesitating for a moment, he decided to go over and have a look.

So, he rescued Lin Mingyue and his son, three-year-old Lin Yi.

After Lin Mingyue left the Tang family, she took her five-month-old son to other places to work. When she got there, she realized that it was impossible for her to go out to work because her son Lin Yi couldn't be taken care of by anyone other than her. Once the secret is discovered by outsiders, what awaits their mother and child is being evicted by the landlord.

During the divorce, Lin Mingyue asked Tang Wenyuan to pay her son's support in one lump sum. The Judiciary Court sentenced her to 36 yuan, but Tang Wenyuan only gave her [-] yuan. If she said more, his mother would hang herself.

Lin Mingyue once asked the judicial court to enforce it. Tang Wenyuan's mother hit the wall, hanged herself, and described all kinds of horrors about that little devil to everyone who came to the house for mediation. Lin Mingyue didn't want to let more people know about her son. , had to leave.

It is even more difficult to keep secrets in villages and small towns. Lin Mingyue took her son to Shanghai.

Because of the special phenomenon in her son, Lin Mingyue couldn't get the most basic care after giving birth. She was scolded and made things difficult by her parents-in-law and husband every day, and she had to always be on guard against her son being given away. A little milk will soon be gone.

Without a job, renting a house, and buying milk powder to feed his emaciated son due to lack of nutrition, for more than a year, 10 yuan is barely left.

Just when Lin Mingyue was in trouble, the landlord introduced Lin Mingyue to a job to take care of other people's children: instead of going to other people's homes as a nanny, they would send the children to Lin Mingyue's rented house during the day and pick them up at night.

Lin Mingyue ecstatically agreed.

She saw the child from six months to one year and four months, raised the child fat and clean, and the child's mother became friends with her.

However, because the child had a fever once, Lin Mingyue lost that job: when she was waiting for the parents of the child in the hospital with her employer's child in her arms, Lin Yi, who was sitting next to her, fell asleep...

Lin Mingyue was scolded bloody by the child's father, who seemed to be a gentle and elite child. A few hours later, she was kicked out of the rental house by the landlord.

Lin Mingyue brought Lin Yi back to Zeyang. She rented three acres of land in a small village south of Zeyang City, and built two simple bungalows on the land. She wanted to grow a la carte to support herself and her son.

The first few months were good. Although she strongly refused, some people in the village offered to help her connect the water pipes and other jobs that men should do by default.

But the good times didn't last long. One afternoon, when Lin Mingyue was watering the vegetable field behind her house, a usually very enthusiastic aunt opened her locked door...

Lin Mingyue and her son were evicted again. The family where she rented the land said that Lin Yi had brought bad luck to their family and refused to refund her the money for renting the land. However, renting the land and building the two bungalows cost almost all of Lin Mingyue's money. savings.

When she was kicked out of that small village, it was three days before Lin Yi's third birthday. Lin Mingyue took her son back to Zeyang, went to the mall to buy a new set of clothes for her son inside and out, and then went to the best place in Zeyang. The hotel registered the room, and Lin Mingyue and Lin Yi spent the happiest and warmest three days in the hotel.

It's Lin Yi's birthday, and Lin Mingyue bought him a birthday cake for the first time.

When making a birthday wish, Lin Mingyue replaced her son: She heard that people who died on the same day as they were born on the same day would have a good afterlife, and she hoped that her son would have the best life in his next life.

"My mother ordered the best cake for me. I still remember how the cake looks like. It's so big." Wei Buzheng compared a circle with a diameter of about ten centimeters. "The white cream smells sweet and delicious. There are green grass, pink flowers, and the words are written by her mother after discussing with the cake shop's master: happy birthday, baby.

The hotel room was very warm, but when my mother finally hugged me and said, 'Honey, happy afterlife', her mouth and hands were cold..."

Shen Wei turned sideways and hugged Wei Buzheng tightly.

"I didn't realize it before, my mother is very beautiful, she put on her best dress that day, put her hair up again, and smiled happily at me, that's the first time I found out.

When we went to the Mengze River, my mother told me that all the rivers in the world are connected. , Mom will definitely make you the happiest person.

……

As soon as my mother finished speaking, I heard the sound of a car. My mother said that we had to wait for the car to pass, because we were going to Wangchuan River and we couldn’t let others see it. If we saw it, our wish would not work. "

Shen Wei brushed off the carmine petals that fell on Wei Buzheng's hair: "From now on, I will be filial to my grandparents."

Wei Buzheng said: "Maybe because of my special physique, I remember things when I was very young. I remember that when the child was sent to our rental house, my mother was happy like a festival. After the child's mother left, my mother treated me Said, 'Ayi, as long as the mother raises this younger brother well, in the future, someone will let the mother take care of the child, and in the future, the mother will have money to buy cakes and new clothes for you'.

I remember that on my second birthday, my mother steamed a big steamed bun for me as a birthday cake, and on it were the extra candles that the child had made during his birthday.

I remember in the hospital, the child’s father pointed and scolded my mother on the forehead; I remember a woman in Shili Village spat at my mother...

……

On my seventh birthday, my grandfather and grandmother told me about my mother for a long time. They told me not to forget her, and told me to find a way to be better to my mother when I grow up. "

Shen Wei asked: "If we meet again, will you still recognize your mother?"

Wei Buzheng looked at him with a smile: "I don't need to see her, I can recognize her."

Shen Wei looked at Wei Buzheng for a moment: "Sang Yuan, Zhao Jili's house?"

Wei Buzheng smiled and nodded: "I smell my mother's breath."

Shen Wei sat up: "Why didn't you say it then?"

Wei Buzheng said: "At the beginning, grandpa left our home address and his own name to my mother, so that when she misses me, she can just visit me. When I was in my third year of high school, she even went to school to visit me and secretly watched me. Yes, I can't see her, but every time she visits me, I know."

Shen Wei said: "Mom, she doesn't want to disturb your life, now, you decide not to disturb her?"

Wei Buzheng said: "It depends on the situation. If she is happy, I won't bother her. I feel her breath today, and I think she is at least in a good mood. I don't want to wait for a day to kill Gong Fengmin. I just want to let her go." She can be more secure."

Shen Wei let out a long sigh of relief: "Tomorrow, let's go there and take Mom to Shouxing Peak or here."

Wei Buzheng said: "Let's see when the time comes, I respect her choice, but no matter where she is, I will find a way to help her."

Shen Wei said: "That's right, after all these years, Mom may have a family again, and we'll get to know each other rashly, which may cause trouble for her."

Shen Wei suddenly thought of a question: "That old witch, why did they call you Xiaoye?"

Wei Buzheng said: "It may be my name when I was in the Tang family. Lin Yi is the name my mother changed to me after the divorce. I follow her surname. She hopes that I will be happy and comfortable for the rest of my life."

When Shen Wei thought of how he was in Zhangjia Village, in order to deceive Meng Guangyu and Miao Duanduan into Wei Buzheng's "Shen Yi", he felt a burst of irony in his heart: I should be Buqiu's husband, I even thought of naming him like my mother-in-law Same.

Wei Buzheng touched his neck: "I picked up the jasper pendant about five months after I came to Duoyu Village. It was spring at that time. One day, after lunch, my grandparents asked me to go to the orchard with them. It was my mother who came and waited in the orchard. My grandparents took me there and asked my mother to watch secretly.

When my mother was leaving, my grandparents asked me to follow them to the Qingliu River to gather Quhuang, oh, it’s a kind of wild vegetable. It’s delicious when steamed. When the ash tree was yellow, I saw the jasper pendant, lying so cleanly under the leaves of the ash, very beautiful.

After I picked it up, I liked it very much. When I got home, my grandma found a red silk thread to help me put it on. I kept it with me until the global catastrophe six years ago, when it suddenly disappeared, and then I often dreamed about what it looked like in the sapphire space. "

Shen Wei pinched Wei Buzheng's cheek and said, "You have never crossed the Wangchuan River and reincarnated, so you are already so blessed."

Wei Buzheng patted his hand away: "You have always been blessed, and you still envy me for this little blessing?"

Shen Wei squinted his eyes to look at the sky, full of complacency: "It seems that the old devil and my mother are the best parents, and then I met you again, hehe, my life is really worth it."

Wei Buzheng straightened up and stood up: "Okay, I've finished speaking, and I feel very relaxed. Now, start practicing."

Shen Wei jumped up and hugged him tightly from behind: "Shuangxiu."

Before Wei Buzheng could open his mouth, he immediately said again: "You said it this afternoon, do it again when you get home."

Wei Buzheng said: "You will be reborn in Haiyue Province in your next life. If you get married at 16, you won't be so hungry or thirsty."

Haiyue Province is one of the seven provinces in Huaxia State where the legal age of marriage is 16 years old.

Shen Wei gnawed at his hair and said, "Then you have to be with me, otherwise, I'm alone, it's useless to die of thirst."

The two of them returned to the bedroom of the hut, had a kiss, took a bath, and then began to practice.

The two of them were sitting in the elixir field, Wei Buzheng was in a completely relaxed state to run the chaotic energy, and the Shendan multilingual roots were running at the same time, but only released wood-type clear spirits to the elixir field.

Wei Buzheng can easily enter the state of meditation, but most of the time, he does not enter deeply. Like the rose bushes in Yajin and Dongli Village, he rarely spends a few days in meditation after returning. Today, he does not know Before I knew it, I entered a deep meditation state again.

His consciousness traveled in the boundless world of stars, and he saw himself when he was just born, an ugly little baby, crying loudly, but it was only for a moment, and it passed.

He saw Tang Wenyuan snatch a baby from the young and haggard mother's arms, push the mother to the ground, and then locked the door;

He saw the woman who claimed to be his grandma throw a small swaddle outside the ticket office of Zeyang Railway Station in the middle of the night;

He saw his mother kneeling at the door of the ticket office with her baby in her arms, crying loudly in the heavy snow.

He saw the mother holding a baby and opened the iron door of the well room; saw the mother running on the platform holding the child in one hand and dragging a large trolley case in the other; saw a child standing in front of the mottled coffee table, looking at himself The mother of a woman took a smaller child from a woman...

He saw the birthday cake with pink flowers; he saw the dark Mengze River flowing in the early morning;

Seeing grandma smilingly holding a small bowl to a child; seeing grandparents' hair from black gray to gray...

He felt the time passing by his cheeks, and the broken hair on his forehead was flying in the air, turning the taciturn boy into a quiet and indifferent youth;

He saw that the thread of time was like spring rain, covering the sky and covering the earth, coming silently from the infinite distance in front of him, passing through his chest, and flowing away silently behind him...

Wei Buzheng opened his eyes, staring blankly into the distance.

He slowly raised his hand to grab the thread flowing through the air...

Nothing at all.

He turned his head in a trance, he felt that there should be a private place, the green grass and wild flowers swaying in the wind, no different from the grass and flowers in other places.

Wei Buzheng was a little panicked, he stood up and looked around blankly, he was the only one in the picturesque world.

He ran in the direction of the thatched cottage, and after passing the elixir field, he somehow remembered that this was the sapphire space, and he could teleport through his consciousness.

Instead of teleporting, he stopped there.

Closing his eyes, he felt something directly touching the bottom of his heart. It felt as comfortable as a hot bed before dawn in winter. However, there was a thin layer of sheet between him and the bed, so that he couldn't really feel it. Feeling the warmth of the quilt, his comfort is just an imagination.

Wei Buzheng opened his eyes, and pressed his right hand on his chest, that thing seemed to be in his heart, but he couldn't touch it, and he couldn't describe his feeling at the moment, it was comfortable and uncomfortable, very similar, when he was in extreme joy, there was only a slight difference. Silk, unable to reach the top.

He heard the happy voice of the overalls, the little guy was picking eggs with the others, waiting for him to praise, but he had no time to care about him at the moment, and sent the fruit of the optimized hut to the door of Xiao Taohua with a conscious mind. Flash read out the space.

The moment he came out, he was embraced by someone, and Shen Wei had lingering fears: "After so many days, you almost scared me to death."

Wei Buzheng just forgot to check the time: "How many days?"

Shen Wei kissed him vigorously for a while before saying: "When I came out, it was seven o'clock in the morning on the 27th, and now it is 09:30 on the morning of April [-]th. You have been in meditation for a total of thirteen and a half days."

In terms of space time, it is about 81 days.

Wei Buzheng was stunned by this time, he reached out and hugged Shen Wei: "I, I seem to have touched some kind of rules, but when I woke up, I forgot again."

Shen Wei patted him on the back lightly: "If you forget it, forget it. Cultivation is a chance. If you can touch it once today, you can have it twice or three times in the future. Don't worry."

Wei Buzheng's sense of loss was relieved a lot, yes, he still has a chance in the future.

He kissed Shen Wei: "I made you worry, how about grandparents? Has anyone from Gong Fengmin gone to the mulberry garden to take revenge?"

Shen Wei said: "I told my grandparents, your situation is the dream state of many cultivators, and it is very kind to you, so they don't worry about it.

Gong Fengmin died, and all his subordinates became like that again. The little minions below fell and scattered, and they disappeared long ago.The house where Gong Fengmin lived was rumored to be a haunted house, and no one dared to live in it. The people in Tongluo Town are now the same as Qingmang Town. Without the devil around, the common people are much more relaxed. "

Wei Buzheng asked: "Have you dug up the mulberry tree? You, have you met everyone in Zhao Jili's family?"

Shen Wei said: "Zhao Jili looked at Rucha, but he was actually very cautious. I have only seen him and Zhao Jifang so far. However, I feel that the two brothers are very decent-minded and care about their families very much. If my mother is at their house, Should not be abused."

After several months of getting along, Wei Buzheng trusted Shen Wei's vision of seeing people very much, he nodded: "That's good, we will go over a few more times in the future, it is impossible for him to keep us from seeing their family members. How about the mulberry tree?" gone?"

Shen Wei said: "We dug [-] trees, Xiang Zhen brought a few earth-type guys to help, Huhupo and Qiujiafang each planted [-] trees, we planted [-] trees, and the rest were all In our orchard, Luo Chong, Wei Feng, and Yang Hang use Mu Qingling to warm and nourish those trees every day, and I will help when I have time, otherwise, just this day, the trees will die long ago."

If Wei Buzheng did not appear, Shen Wei would not be able to enter the Qingyu space, and he would not be able to receive the tree into the space.

Wei Buzheng stood up and walked out: "Let's go quickly and bring the tree back to the space."

Shen Wei said: "Go to the kitchen first, let grandpa and grandma watch you eat something."

Wei Buzheng didn't realize until he was eating in the kitchen that he didn't show up for so many days, and the family could only eat vegetables from the orchard.

A few days ago, he often practiced in the bedroom at random, and cooperated with Shen Wei to control the release of the non-attribute Qingling with very little chaotic energy to spread to Duoyu Village and Fox Slope. , has already seen the effect, the fruit trees in the house have signs of sprouting, the most obvious is the several kinds of vegetables he planted with the optimized seeds, which grow rapidly and taste very good, of course, the ones produced by He Qingyu Space are still Can't compare.

Wei Buzheng was very guilty, and he took out two big bags of various vegetables, and some eggs that Xiao Taohua left at the door, and he took out two big baskets.

Grandma pushed him: "Take the eggs back into a basket. We already eat much better than others. We can't ask too much. If you do too much, you just do it. God will punish you."

Wei Buzheng said: "Grandma, the chickens I raise myself are not stolen from others. God won't say anything because of this."

Grandma said: "There are only a few of us, and one basket is enough. If you have more, you can give some to Xiang Zhen and Niuzi, as well as the base. If you don't come out, those children can't even eat root vegetables."

Wei Buzheng originally wanted to go to the mulberry garden first, but after listening to his grandma, he went to the orchard to collect mulberry trees, and immediately went to the base with Shen Wei.

On the way, looking at the desolate scenery all around, Wei Buzheng felt very heavy in his heart.

It is about to enter the middle of April, and there will be no harvest in summer. If the temperature does not rise, there will be no snow and rain, and the corn will not grow, and there will be no harvest in autumn. At that time, I don’t know what the world will be like.

I don’t know if Wei Buzheng’s thoughts are too heavy, or if it’s true, Wei Buzheng and Shen Wei sent a thousand kilograms of various vegetables and five baskets of eggs to the cafeteria of the base. When he came out, he seemed to smell the smell of rain. .