Roaming in the dark

Chapter 5 Sheng Chuncheng's hometown
Sheng Chuncheng's hometown is in a mountain depression beside Qiandao Lake, which belongs to a mountain village in Shexian County, Anhui Province, at the junction of Zhejiang and Anhui provinces.

It is closer and more convenient for them to go to Huicheng Town, the county seat of Shexian County, Anhui Province, than to go to Qiandaohu Town, the county seat of Chun’an County, Zhejiang Province in the neighboring province. Even in terms of language, their voice is more like that of Chun’an people. It is not the Anhui people in people's impression that they will not say "washing" as "death", "you go to wash first", which makes people listen to "you go to die first".

The people there also feel that they are more like Zhejiang people than Anhui people. When they go out and someone asks them where they are from, they are used to saying that they are from Qiandao Lake, and most people know that Qiandao Lake is from Zhejiang. , I don’t know that part of it actually belongs to Anhui, and its source is Xin’an River, which started from Huangshan.

When they usually go out, including going out to work, purchase and do business, they will not run in the direction of Shendu Town. Instead, they will go to Qiandaohu Town first, and then go to Hangzhou and Shanghai. I will travel by high-speed rail from Qiandaohu Town.

Sheng Chuncheng's parents drove minibuses for more than ten years. The route was from their village to Qiandaohu Town. It's the driver, and his mother is the conductor.

From the time when Sheng Chuncheng was not in elementary school until he went to college, Sheng Chuncheng always took his own minibus to go in and out of the mountains. Even when he was in middle school, it was his father who found a relationship and took him to Qiandao Lake. The middle school in the town, not She County, Sheng Chuncheng only went to She County for the first time in the year of the college entrance examination.

In his sophomore year, Sheng Chuncheng received a call from his younger sister and hurried home from Lishui, Zhejiang, where he attended a third-ben university.

Sheng Chuncheng took a long-distance bus from Lishui, walked for six hours, and arrived at Qiandaohu Town. He rushed to the place where the minibus in their village stopped. There were two cars parked there. The drivers knew him as Lao Sheng's son. , I avoided him when I saw him, not because I was afraid of seeing him, but because I didn't know how to comfort him.

Only Mrs. Wang Lai, who had a good relationship with his mother and also worked as a conductor, saw him with red eyes and tears dripping down her cheeks.

Mrs. Wang Lai told him to rush to the hospital immediately. Sheng Chuncheng was about to leave, but Mrs. Wang Lai stopped him again and told him to get in the car and go home first. You can't help if you go to the hospital now. Go home first to have a look, there are two children at home.

The minibus was only half full, so Mrs. Wang asked her husband to drive.

Along the way, Mrs. Wang Lai kept talking to him, "Chuncheng, you are the pillar of the family now, you must hold on."

Sheng Chuncheng was ignorant and didn't know how to respond.

When Sheng Chuncheng hurried back home, the house was already in chaos. The minibus driven by his father rolled down the cliff, causing a major traffic accident. Six people were killed and three were seriously injured. Inside was his mother.

When Sheng Chuncheng returned home, the family members of the victims occupied the house. His mother was still in the hospital in Qiandao Lake. Except for his younger sister who was in the second grade of junior high school and his younger brother who was in the sixth grade of elementary school, only his uncle was there to help and take care of him. He is blind and works as a massage therapist in a blind massage shop in Hangzhou.

He also received a call, so he hurried back. He took the high-speed train directly from Hangzhou to Qiandao Lake, and arrived half a day earlier than Sheng Chuncheng.

Because of the fact that he started to drive a minibus very early, Sheng Chuncheng’s family belongs to the upper-middle level in the local area, and they are relatively well-off. The two uncles often come to his mother to borrow money for various reasons, and they never return. , Sheng Chuncheng's mother was also annoyed, scolded several times, and scolded her sister-brother affection.

Encountered such a thing, the two uncles did not even see their shadows, and they were worried that their sister and nephew would ask them to pay back the money when they came to their door.

Sheng Chuncheng was stunned by such a sudden change in his family, but he didn't expect that this was just the beginning of the disaster, not the end.

The insurance of his father's minibus is about to expire, and his parents can't stand the clamor of an acquaintance who asks for insurance, saying that they can save more than 300 yuan by changing an insurance company. The parents believed it and handed over the money to this Guy, I thought it was okay, the insurance has been renewed by another company.

Unexpectedly, this guy, with their insurance premium in his pocket, did not rush back to Huicheng Town immediately, pay the premium, and pull out the policy. It takes a few days to do it well, and the white things are not finished there, something happened to Sheng Chuncheng's parents.

As soon as acquaintances heard about this, they were so frightened that they disappeared. When encountering such a thing, the insurance company would not admit it, saying that everything should be based on the policy. As a result, their original insurance company had expired, and the new one I didn't continue, and I was out of insurance abruptly. From the insurance company, it is impossible to get a penny of compensation.

The result of the accident appraisal was that the driver was fully responsible for the accident. Therefore, the family members of the victims all lived at home, regardless of the adults in the family. One had passed away and the other was still in the hospital. .

They only know that now they have nothing else to do except ask Sheng Chun to marry and ask for compensation.

Sheng Chuncheng stayed at home for more than a month. He was so busy and exhausted that he didn't even have time to bury his father's urn at home.

He had to deal with the other family members of the deceased every day, and took out all the money in the family. It was not enough to compensate others. He paid back the house his parents bought for Sheng Chuncheng in Qiandaohu Town and the house he built in the village. They are not enough, but Sheng Chuncheng has nothing else of value to give them.

The mother was discharged from the hospital, and the medical expenses were paid by the uncle. The mother saved her life, but lost one eye and one leg. The whole family had no other place to go, so they had to move back to the village and live in the old house left by their grandparents. in the house.

With the help of the villagers, his father was buried on the mountain behind the house, together with his grandparents. Sheng Chuncheng stood in front of the newly built grave, wanting to cry, but he should have cried for so long. Enough, can't cry anymore, standing there, the wind in the mountains is screaming, hunting, he just feels that the road ahead is boundless, and he doesn't know what to do?
Going back to school is definitely impossible. There is a mother who has lost the ability to work, and a younger sister and younger brother who are still in school. All the pressure is on Sheng Chuncheng's shoulders alone. How can he bear it?How can I bear it?
The uncle stood beside him, sighed a long time, and said to Sheng Chuncheng:
"Chuncheng, you'd better go to Hangzhou with me, there will be no way out here."

Yes, there is no way out in this ravine. There is no land in their place. There is only a forest and a slope at home. On the mountain are masson pine trees that are worthless and cannot be cut down casually. On the slope, only sweet potatoes can be grown. And corn, nothing else can grow, and it is difficult to even feed the whole family if it stays here.

Therefore, Sheng Chuncheng could only leave his younger brother and mother to his younger sister to take care of, and he followed the blind man's uncle to Hangzhou.

This was three years ago.

(End of this chapter)