Traveling through the eighties, squeamish Longbao is three and a half years old

Chapter 13 Where Are People, Has They Disappeared?

Mrs. Qin knew that her daughter-in-law was going up the mountain, so she hesitated for a while and didn't stop her. She only asked her grandson Qin Shu to accompany his aunt.

The three of them walked halfway up the mountain, and met the fourth aunt and fifth aunt who came down from the top of the mountain. The two of them were carrying a basket full of pine hair.

"Is Xiao Jiaojiao going too? The road up the mountain is not easy, can you take them alone? Why don't you wait a little while, and I'll put down my things and go up with you?"

Song Xiu declined with a smile, while Qin Shu at the side patted his chest with his sister's pannier on his back and said he could do it without the help of his aunts.

"That's okay. I'll send Songmao to my second uncle's house later, and let your brother catch rice flower fish to cook tonight. You guys have to come back early."

After walking a few steps, my aunt suddenly turned her head and called them to stop.

"By the way, in the morning, I ran into the house next door to Qin Bao. She said that early in the morning, Qin Bao's mother went up the mountain to worship the grandma of the mountain god. Be careful when you go up. The old lady is very dissatisfied with your family. Be careful of her. embarrassing you."

"Okay, I just watched her hide. Besides, there are two of us here anyway, and she can't deal with us alone. Don't worry, sister-in-law, you go down the mountain quickly."

After climbing another section, Qin Shu asked Song Xiu: "Auntie, Second Grandpa said that Jun'er and I will go to study in the county next semester and live on campus. I don't want to go. There is no other labor at home, so let's go." Now, everything at home is on you and my mother."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Song Xiu stood on the side of the road to catch her breath with a basket on her shoulders, and persuaded Qin Shu by the way.

"Your mother expects you to be successful, so that your grandma has no place to regret. If you don't go to school, your mother will feel very sad. Besides, we don't have any heavy work in our family. Next year your uncle will be discharged from the army and change jobs." Now, when he comes back, the family doesn't need you two children to worry about it."

Hearing this, Qin Shu pouted and remained silent for a long time.

Song Xiu glanced at him and said with a smile: "Your grandma is not good to your mother, but your father is not bad, but he is too filial to your grandma. Your mother is a person who can't stand it, so it's not anyone's fault that they separated. Wrong, don't blame your dad, did you hear it?"

Qin Shu snorted, "What kind of man is he if he can't even protect his own wife?"

Song Xiu pointed at him dumbfounded: "Don't say that when you go home, or your mother will be sad again. After a few years, your grandma may change her temper, and maybe your parents will remarry by then."

"Don't." Qin Shu looked up at the top of the mountain, showing a serious expression like a little adult, "It's just my father's soft temper, and he wants to use him to change my grandma's temper, that's the old widow's dead son—no count on."

While talking, a milky voice came from the back basket: "Brother, what is an old widow?"

Qin Shu choked up, and patted his back basket with his backhand: "What are you asking, you little baby, sleep with you, and you won't be here in a while."

Qin Jiao leaned on her cousin's shoulder, pinched his earlobe and asked him to tell him something, while Song Xiu who was standing next to her laughed and refused to help her nephew out of the siege.

Talking and laughing, I can already vaguely see the small temple of the mountain god grandma.

"Hey, didn't the fourth aunt just say that Uncle Qian's grandma is on the mountain, why didn't we see it?"

Although there is more than one road up and down the mountain, the other roads are covered by weeds. The road they came up was walked all the year round, so there were no dead branches and weeds.Qin Bao's mother is not young, and it is said that it is impossible to go on a wild road.

Song Xiu didn't have any affection for Qin Bao's mother, but in this situation, she also became worried unconsciously.

"Let's go up to check the situation first. If we don't see anyone, we can look around and go down the mountain to ask if she has gone back."

He quickened his pace and came to the statue of the grandmother of the mountain god, and saw some offerings on the incense table, as well as a foot of red cloth and a stick of unburned incense.

Judging by the burning length of these three incense sticks, they have been lit for at least 10 minutes.

Putting down Qin Jiao's pannier and carrying the little sister out, Qin Shu said he would go and have a look around.

Qin Jiao held her brother's hand and insisted to follow, but Qin Shu had no choice but to take her with her.

Song Xiu was anxious, and the movements of her hands quickened.After placing the sacrifices, he prayed a few words and lit the joss sticks.She had to watch here, for fear that a dead leaf would accidentally float over and cause a wildfire.

While waiting, she picked up a big broom made of bamboo branches and cleaned around the small temple of the mountain god's grandmother, tidying up a clean place.

A few minutes later, Qin Shu came over with Qin Jiao in his arms, and shook his head: "I didn't see Uncle Qin's grandma, did she go down the mountain by another way? Or, she saw us and hid."

He looked at the several roads that could go down the mountain around him, but there was no trace of anyone walking by.

Qin Jiao yawned. Seeing her mother frowning, she reached out and pulled her to squat down.

"Mom, I'll take you to find a big carrot."

Song Xiu didn't realize it, and was stunned: "What big radish? There is no radish growing on the mountain..."

After finishing speaking, he thought of the scene where Xiao Jiaojiao was hugging wild ginseng and talking about radishes, so he quickly held her down.

"Jiaojiao, don't be too busy. I haven't finished eating the radish I pulled out last time. Let's talk about it when it grows up."

Qin Jiao glanced at her ignorantly, nodded after a while, and said, "Then, what about the money for my brother's study?"

Song Xiu laughed, hugged her daughter and babbled: "Don't worry, grandpa is saving for my two elder brothers, don't worry about Xiao Jiaojiao."

Qin Shu also laughed beside him, and pulled out the leaves of grass to weave a grasshopper for his sister.

Almost half an hour later, the incense sticks were all burned out.Song Xiu took the children to pay respects again, packed up his things and planned to go down the mountain.

Just then, she heard a faint cry for help from the side of the mountain.

"Did you hear that?"

"It seems to be the voice of Uncle Qin's grandma." Qin Shu also heard it, and stood up to follow the sound. It came from down a steep slope, just opposite to where Xiao Jiaojiao slid down last time.

"Why is she down there?"

At the end of the steep slope is a small cliff, seven or eight meters high. Although there are thick dead branches and leaves piled up under the cliff, there are many strange rocks here. No one knows whether the rotten leaves are humus or hard stones.

"We can't go down here, let's go around from the side."

Glancing down at the small tree on the steep slope, Qin Shu stepped back, led his aunt and Xiao Jiaojiao along the road, then found a gap in the woods, and followed the sound that came from before. Not far away in the direction, I heard a clearer cry for help.

This road is at the seam of steep slopes and cliffs. There is basically no road, and there is no place to step on.

"Aunt, is that you, Aunt? How's the situation?"

The person calling for help below paused for a moment and didn't answer, only yelling louder.

Relying on his youth and strength, Qin Shu asked his aunt to watch over his younger sister, while he carefully slid down the cliff by grabbing the branches and vines.

Because of the terrain, Song Xiu couldn't see his nephew, so he could only confirm the situation with him by shouting.

Not long after, Qin Shu descended to the bottom of the cliff, but still did not find Qin Bao's mother, and then called her again, but no one made a sound.

Unconsciously, Qin Shu felt that something was wrong, he suddenly turned around, and heard Song Xiu's exclamation from above.

(End of this chapter)