Reborn in the fiery age, I am a salted fish in the mountains

Parked in the yard is the shelf cart of Zhao Sanniang's family who sells cold noodles with ice powder.

Although this shelf car has been carefully cleaned, the blood on the car board can be discerned if you look closely.

The weather in this early morning is still a bit cold, and blowflies are already known to be eager to lie on the blood stains, licking the residual smell on them.

"Hello, Uncle Liu."

Jiang Yue, with a white burlap cloth on his head, came out first, and first half-kneeled towards Liu Hezuo as a gesture of politeness.

This kind of trivial matter, as an Ai family, when a guest comes to the door, the host family must come out and kneel down to others, but it cannot be said to welcome.

After all, this is not a good thing, but I dare not say welcome or something.

Jiang Yue saluted Liu Hezuo, then turned slightly, and knelt down to Han Xiaokang.

Han Xiaokang stretched out his hand in the air as a gesture of return, then took out a red envelope from his pocket and stuffed it into Jiang Yue's hand.

"Thank you uncle, please come inside."

encountered such a tragedy.

It stands to reason that all relatives of the deceased's family, regardless of gender, age or age, should come to the gate of the yard to greet guests as long as they come to the house, and then kneel down to show their thanks.

But what makes people feel very strange is that Jiang Yue was the only person who came out to salute and meet the guests today, and his younger brother Jiang Tao was nowhere to be seen.

To say that this approach is actually a very rude behavior.

If Jiang Tao didn't come out and kneel down, he would be accused of being unfilial and impolite.

Enduring the surprise in his heart, Liu Hezuo and Han Xiaokang walked into the room side by side.

At this time, the dead father of Jiang Yue's two brothers was lying on the door panel upright, with an old sheet covering his body and a yellow paper covering his face.

The light of the clear oil lamp was weak and wobbly, like a soybean that would fall to the ground at any time. As the rush wick burned, black smoke curled up, emitting an extremely unpleasant special smell.

Two white candles, three incense sticks.

Plus a one-inch black and white standard photo, placed on the wooden table.

Looking intently, the man in the photo has regular features and a handsome appearance, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, smiling at Liu Hezuo and Han Xiaokang.

And facing the direction of the gate, there was an iron pot in front of the door where the corpse was parked, and there were still remaining ash from burning paper money in it.

On the side of the door, Jiang Tao knelt on the ground in a daze, motionless, like a miniature statue.

It turned out that the little guy was tired and sad, so he fell asleep while kneeling on the ground.

Even the arrival of guests at home failed to wake him up.

If a guest came to burn paper for his father, as a descendant of the master, he had to kneel beside him.

Jiang Yue knelt aside, waiting for Liu Hezuo and Han Xiaokang to burn the paper before he had to kowtow to the guests to express his gratitude.

He knelt down to burn the paper, stood up, and bowed three times.

Jiang Yue accompanied him and kowtowed three times.

Originally he wanted to shake his younger brother to wake him up, but Han Xiaokang stopped him with his eyes.

Just because Xiao Jiangtao was sleeping very deeply, from the looks of it, I'm afraid he has already entered a deep sleep state.

At this time, if he was suddenly shaken awake, Han Xiaokang was worried that the little guy would suddenly fall into confusion and unconsciousness.

Is that what everyone usually calls the madness?
After finishing all this work, everyone will lift Jiang Yue's father to the shelf car and start delivering it to his old man's house.

"Dad, don't sleep. Let's go to Grandpa's house. You can sleep well when we get there, okay?"

Jiang Yue walked up to his father first, bent down, put his mouth close to his father's ear and whispered, "Father, this road may be a little bumpy, so bear with it a little bit. Dad, you lie down and don't move, we I'm going to start lifting you."

"Father, run!"

At this moment, Jiang Tao, who was kneeling beside him, suddenly woke up!

I saw him pushing the man on the door panel with anxiety and tears in his eyes, "Father, move quickly! Run quickly, leave us alone, no matter what they do, they won't treat our children like father , you run, woo woo woo."

"Father, you are the main force of the basketball team in the machinery factory. If you really want to run, who can catch up with you?"

At this time, Jiang Tao may have lost his mind, "Where is my mother? Why didn't she come back with you? I miss my mother."

"woooooo"

Jiang Yue sighed heavily, then walked in front of her younger brother haggardly, stretched out her hand and forcibly pulled Jiang Tao up from the ground: "Stop howling. Even if you cry to death here, it won't change anything.

Brother, let's send dad to grandpa's house!Grandpa's house is in the country, and there is a bamboo forest, so I will let my father sleep in the bamboo forest. It will be quiet there. "

When Jiang Yue was talking and doing things, his tone was always very calm, making it hard to see what was going on in his heart.

In fact, his series of words and deeds are completely inconsistent with his age.

It seems that overnight, this child who was only 12 years old seemed to have grown up all of a sudden.

In the end, Jiang Tao, whose thinking gradually became clear, reached out to wipe away his tears, and very obediently helped carry him.

I don't know if I don't lift it.

When he lifted it, Han Xiaokang was quite surprised: it turned out that Jiang Yue and Jiang Tao's father was actually a strong man with a height of at least 1 meters!
You must know that in this era of widespread malnutrition, especially in the Yandu area, people are usually not particularly tall.

And with a body like Jiang Tao's father, in Fushun County, he can really be regarded as a burly man.

He is tall and heavy, and the body of the dead is getting heavier. Otherwise, how could there be the word "dead heavy, dead heavy"?
But fortunately, Liu Hezuo's body is not bad, not to mention Han Xiaokang, after all, he has a background in martial arts, and he still has a lot of strength!

Even so, if he wanted to lift Jiang Tao's father from the door panel into the trolley, it would also tire two strong men.

Fortunately, there are two brothers Jiang Yue and Jiang Tao to help. Although these two little guys are not very old, they are still in good shape.

It can be seen that this family is poor, but in terms of children, they have not treated them badly.

After finally carrying Jiang Tao's father into the rack car.

The two brothers carefully took out the sheets from the room and covered him again.

Then Jiang Yue went to open the door, Liu Hezuo pulled the cart in front, and Han Xiaokang and Jiang Tao helped push it behind.

A group of people just walked out the door quietly.

Jiang Yue walked in the front, holding his father's one-inch photo with both hands in front of his chest to lead the way. While walking, he took out two pieces of paper money from his schoolbag from time to time and threw them out.

It is said that this is called "leading money".

At this time, the sky had begun to light up, full of dust and the smell of excrement and urine, and people had already started walking on the streets of the dilapidated Fushun County.

When these people saw Jiang Yue with a white cloth on his head and a hemp rope tied around his waist, leading a creaking carriage approaching, they were so frightened that they ran away quickly.

Some superstitious guys even turned their heads and walked back!

It is said that encountering such a thing when going out early in the morning will make it easy for people to "encounter evil spirits".

Like these more superstitious people, today they will not go out again, but will lock themselves at home, so as not to encounter any accidents when they go out.

Lonely for a long time, the atmosphere is cold.

The four of them silently walked across the asphalt road, walked across the ancient stone arch bridge, and finally left the city through the east gate of Fushun County.

Along the way, no one spoke, and no one cried.

Four people, a rack car, just creaking and walking forward
When I got out of the city, there was about 4 or 5 miles away, but I saw a large group of people resting there on the edge of the bamboo forest in front of me.

"Huh? Comrade Han Xiaokang?"

When the four people approached, Ma Guotou immediately recognized Han Xiaokang who was bending over behind the shelf cart and pushing the cart.

"Comrade Xiaokang, what are you...?"

Glancing at the situation on the carriage, Ma Guotou said in shock, "Comrade Xiaokang, could it be?"

Han Xiaokang straightened his waist and shook his head, "This man is the father of the two children and I are not related, and I am only here to help today."

"Oh that's good, that's good."

Pat the head of the pot on his chest, and finally feel relieved.

He didn't think about it, but Jiang Tao and Jiang Yueliang brothers glared at him, causing him to nod and bow to the two brothers quickly, "I'm really sorry for my condolences, my mouth, it doesn't have a handle."

Then Ma Guotou asked Han Xiaokang, "Where are you going?"

Where to go?

Han Xiaokang looked at Jiang Yue.

"My grandfather's house is in Shanwangmiao Village." Jiang Yue replied.

"Shanwangmiao Village? Oh, even now it has been changed to the Shanwangmiao production team, and it happens that we have to pass there too."

Ma Guotou asked Han Xiaokang, "Why don't we help? There are many men in our team, and dozens of people can unload a mule and use it to pull the cart. It's better than you using people as donkeys, right?"

Now, it was Liu Hezuo's turn to stare.

"Big brother, don't care about rough people like me. The production team of Shanwangmiao is not close to here, there are still more than ten miles away."

Ma Guotou said, "To be honest, when it comes to this matter, others can't hide in time, but we are willing to help, purely for the sake of Brother Han Xiaokang, how about it? Are you going to do it?"

This is true.

When encountering this kind of thing, others really can't avoid it, who would take the initiative to join in?

Not related, and without reason
Han Xiaokang said quickly, "This is not very good, you are not afraid of bad luck or something?"

"We are afraid of birds! Brother Han, don't be polite to us. Those of us who travel all over the world, eat ten noodles, and live in hundreds of restaurants, we can rest wherever it is dark."

Another man in the team said, "Where a dead bird falls to the sky, we can dig a hole and bury it. What are we afraid of?"

In the caravan, all the men rolled up their sleeves and prepared to come to help: "That's it. Let's not say anything else, just pointing at Brother Han last night, you saved everyone. Let's do this." Should help!"

"Yeah, Brother Han has nothing to do with this family, and they are all willing to help these two poor children, and we didn't just jump out of a crack in the rock.

Brothers, what is there to say?Hurry up and unload the goods, free up a mule to pull the cart! "

With so many people from the caravan to help, the next journey will be much easier. Liu Hezuo and Han Xiaokang just need to follow the shelf car to prevent it from rolling over due to being crushed by stones.

A group of people continued on their way in a mighty manner.

At noon, I finally arrived at the production team of Longwangmiao.

The next thing has nothing to do with the caravan, and they are still in a hurry.

After unloading the horse pot head and the others, Liu Hezuo continued to act as a donkey, pulling the shelf cart in front and walking towards the path.

And rushed forward 3 miles.

Jiang Yue, who was walking at the front of the team, shouted, "Here we are. Hey, the one standing under the pagoda tree at the entrance of the village, isn't that our grandfather?
How did the old man know that we were coming today, so why did he wait here so early? "

"Is it Yuewa and Taozi?"

Jiang Yue, Jiang Tao's grandfather is actually only less than 50 years old, but he is already showing an old look.

But fortunately, his eyes were still good, and he greeted him from afar, "He is pulling a big cart? Could it be someone you met on the road, that's why you go together?"

At this time, Jiang Tao, who was bending over and pushing the cart behind the shelf, just kept his head down and said nothing.

But Han Xiaokang, who was following Jiang Tao, clearly saw two rows of crystal clear teardrops falling down
"Hey, today is a bit weird. What are you doing with white cloths on your body? Don't you know this kind of dress?"

Speaking of this, the old man's words suddenly stopped, and then his eyes were wide open, and his mouth was opened wide.

A pair of shriveled lips trembled violently, "Yes, who is it?!!! Yuewa, hurry up, tell my grandpa, who is... who is it?"

"Grandpa!"

Jiang Yue, who had been very strong all the way, never shed a tear from the beginning to the end, suddenly collapsed!

"Grandpa! Yes. It's my father! He. He. Gone, woo woo woo."

While crying, Jiang Yue fell to his knees with a "plop", and then rolled on the ground so capriciously, "I'm uncomfortable. Grandpa, I have a fire in my heart. I feel so uncomfortable. I can't breathe because of the burning. Grandpa, I can't take it anymore, I can't live without dad, woo woo woo."

"Puff."

The old man fell to the ground and muttered to himself, "How is it possible? How is this possible! Two days ago he came to my place specially and told me that he was going to Xijing City in two days to pick up my Lamei back there. At that time, he was still fine!"

"Just my family's sweet potato porridge, your father drank my 5 big bowls at that time and said that my family's sweet potatoes are called stored sweet potatoes, which are fresher and sweeter than other people's.
Everything is fine, I can eat, drink, sleep and run, how is that possible! "

In the old man's eyes, which had begun to turn white, two lines of hot tears were left, "Yuewazi, you bastard! You are usually dishonest, and you can do anything crooked."

suddenly!

The old man suddenly jumped up from the ground as if he was going crazy, and then went straight to Jiang Yue! (end of this chapter)