Chapter Seventy-Four: The Story of Mending Flowers and Lao Li III
Faced with the problem of mending flowers, the woman really didn't have the slightest fear, she cried and said: "I'm not afraid of anything for my son, I just hope he can live normally." (You can find this site)"
"If you have to bear two eggs, you won't live for five years." Buhua said to the woman seriously.
There was a hint of fear in the woman's eyes, and she stopped talking, but turned around and kept stroking her son's hair.
At this moment, Buhua's eyes were cold, and a sneer appeared on her face, no one knew what she was thinking, only one Miao girl who came with Buhua and was responsible for taking care of Buhua's life on weekdays, trembled slightly with fright.
She is too familiar with the expression of mending flowers, and it looks like it is, as I thought, and when she shows this expression, it is absolutely impossible for the mother and son to survive.
The Miao girl actually sympathized with the mother and son, although they were Han, what did it have to do with her? She is just an ordinary Miao girl, she doesn't expect longevity, nor power, she just wants to be stable and happy all her life.
The atmosphere froze at this moment, and no one knew what the silent patch would decide, but at this time, the woman spoke again, she said: "I calculated, 5 years, my son is also 13 years old, I think he can do something at the age of 13, and he can do something without me." ”
At this moment, there was finally a different change in Buhua's face, she suddenly turned around and left, and then said: "Just do as she said, and put all the eggs that will be put on his son in the future." ”
Even Buhua herself didn't know that from this moment on, a crack appeared in the hard ice of her heart.
Since then, there has been a slight change in the flower, she will not be able to control herself, often go to the 'livestock' village to check the lives of the two mothers and sons, sometimes directly to ask the Miao people in charge of the village, sometimes she stands from a distance and watches.
Life in the village of 'livestock' is very hard, everyone has limited food rations, and there is nothing to do and no freedom, material poverty, spiritual emptiness, like two giant hammers, can hammer a strong man alive.
But these two mothers and sons are different, there is no desperate look on the mother's face, it is often peaceful, and the mending flower has seen it more than once, and whenever this mother's eyes fall on her son, there will be a strange satisfaction.
doesn't understand why she likes to observe them from afar, as if everything in their lives is a secret she likes to snoop on.
Another year passed under such subtle changes, and soon it was early spring again.
This day is Mending Hua's birthday, a day she doesn't care about, and even a little repulsive, although she can't say why she is rejected, early in the morning of this day, she thought she would spend it like every year before, that is, to do nothing, as usual, with Zizi.
However, at dusk, she always thinks of the mother and son, and when they eat, the mother will try to make her son eat more, and she looks full, but in fact, how 'pitiful' their rations are, and the flowers are clear in her heart.
She always remembered the scene she had seen one night, when the mother was quietly in the dim light, sewing a tattered shirt for her son, and she was standing outside the fence of the yard and suddenly burst into tears, although she did not know why.
Thinking of this, she always felt a little irritable in her heart, and finally she walked out of the wormhole, and walked into the stockade at ten o'clock at night, when the whole village was quiet.
Buhua thought that she would go back to her house, and she thought that she was at most bored and wanted to go, but she unknowingly walked to her former home.
Of course, her parents are still there, but because of her attitude, naturally the people in the village do not dare to get too close to them, they live like marginal people in the village, and they don't know why they don't have any more children.
Surprisingly, the lights were still on in her house, and she heard a heart-rending cough, the one she was supposed to call her father, and then she heard the woman she should have called her mother: "Why are you coughing so badly again?" You're too old to hunt, and we have to hand over rations to the village, to feed the people in those villages, and to find a witch doctor for you to get medicine from those eggs, you have to stay."
Over there, the man's cough seemed to subside a little, and he gasped and said: "It's okay on weekdays, but today is the birthday of Mending Flowers, I always want to boil a few eggs for her, she was looking forward to her birthday when she was a child, she can eat two eggs a day, hey"
The man sighed deeply, and the woman said: "Every year we ask people to help send it, but every year we always return without moving, she will not forgive us, maybe we think we are scolding her, so insistence will not make up for anything"
Hearing this, Buhua suddenly felt that she couldn't listen to it anymore, her whole heart was like being wrapped in a handkerchief, and then a pair of hands were twisting the handkerchief vigorously, and she was panicked, she didn't dare to listen to it.
At that time, she didn't think about a deep problem, which was instinctive evasion, because when anyone's worldview is subverted, the first thing they face is the pain of self-denial, and they want to try to prove that they are right, otherwise they are avoiding.
Mending flowers fell into confusion, when accompanying Zizi, they also began to have a lot of time in a daze, Zizi seemed to disdain all feelings, once Mending Hua tried to tell it that she was confused, in exchange for just an expression of Zizi's thoughts, the feelings of the ants are ridiculous, their lives don't even have a purpose, and their vision is also very narrow, what is they worth discussing?
In the past, Mending Flower would definitely be taken seriously, but this time, she was unwilling to respond for a long time, is it really purposeless and ridiculous? So what is that mother for, having such a satisfied gaze?
The time of confusion is painful, and the patching flower has changed again, she used to be just indifferent and emotionless, but now, she has become withdrawn and loves a person in a daze.
No one dared to ask anything, and those who dared to ask, such as those old ancestors, were indifferent to this, and after having the pursuit of immortality, there was nothing worth caring about except everything about the holy worm.
Buhua couldn't think of an answer, and she was not reconciled, she didn't dare to deny her worldview, she thought, again, to see the two mother and son again, maybe she could know something.
Or, it was just an excuse, she just wanted to see the mother and son again.
So she walked out of the stockade and went down the mountain again, but still no one dared to ask or stop her whereabouts, so she went to the village again, and went straight to the place where the mother and son lived.
As usual, she liked to stand under a tree not far from the yard of the mother and son, and look at them from a distance through the sparse fence, but this time, she noticed something different, because she did not see the mother and son, but saw a man standing in the yard.
The man looked very ordinary, with an ordinary figure, an ordinary appearance, and even some like a middle-aged and elderly peasant, he was wearing a washed white dress, and he stood there so casually, but there was an indescribable free and easy, which made people feel that he was standing so naturally that people couldn't take their eyes off.
After a long time, the flower came back to his senses, why was a man standing there? What about the mother and son? Buhua felt that she was very angry and flustered, just like a person who had lost something very important, and after losing it, she found that that thing had been planted in her heart, and once she lost it, it seemed that a large piece of her whole heart was empty.
She unconsciously took two steps forward, wanting to ask the man, what about the two mother and son? I thought I should pull out the Miao people who were in charge of the village and ask where the two mother and son were, but at this moment, the child ran out of the house, and then said something to the man with a smile, and then the woman also appeared, just looking at this scene with a smile.
Buhua was puzzled, but he didn't want the man's gaze to turn to him suddenly, and suddenly shouted in a loud voice: "You have been standing there for a long time, in fact, you can come in and sit." ”
In this village, everyone knows the identity of the mending flower, and they don't dare to speak to the mending flower so casually, plus the people in this village are afraid of the Miao people, where do they dare to invite the Miao people to their houses?
Buhua felt a strange feeling that she didn't know what it felt, and she hesitated for a while, but she didn't think about the question of identity, but she had always been a distant 'peeping' person, and she suddenly wanted to walk into the real life of others at close range, and she was a little afraid to do so.
Just when she was stunned, the man had already walked in front of her, and Xiuhua looked at the man with some surprise, how did he come over like this, why was it so fast?
The next moment, the man opened his mouth to speak: "I heard Xiaopeng say that I often see you standing here, I think you are looking at them, right?" So why don't you get closer and find out, what are you afraid of? ”
There is an indescribable vicissitudes on this man's face, which is the precipitation of the years, but his eyes are clear and clean like a child, which makes people feel very unusual.
Buhua subconsciously asked, "Who are you?" ”
"Me?" The man smiled slightly and said, "I'm Lao Li, and I only sent a few apprentices a few days ago to come to you to take a look." ”