Uncle Gao went into the village with Lu Rong on his back, and asked several children about Wang Cuihua's home.
They talked in dialect, although Lu Rong couldn't understand much, but the voice of his peers aroused his interest, so he no longer lay silently on his stomach, and raised his face slightly to look over there.
There is a wonderful attraction between children, which can make them forget everything else and focus on each other.
Don't shy away, don't be shy, and stare straight.
Lu Rong temporarily forgot the sadness of being abandoned by Wang Tu, and those children also forgot that they were still leading the cow.
It wasn't until the cow raised its head and rolled away a pile of peanuts spread out on the platform next to it with its tongue, chewing them loudly, that one of the children screamed and anxiously urged the others to leave quickly.
The group of children drove the cattle along the dirt road, and a fat woman rushed out of a room next to the platform, jumping and cursing at their backs.
Her voice was loud and her appearance was very fierce. Lu Rong felt that she was scarier than any aunt he had ever seen, so he couldn't help feeling a little worried for those children.
Uncle Gao walked forward with his back on his back, but he kept turning his head and looking back.
The children were no longer afraid of the woman after they ran far away, talking back while running, and turning their heads to make faces.
Especially when he found that Lu Rong was turning his head to look at them, he provoked the jumping woman with a more exaggerated expression and tone than usual.
But his eyes secretly glanced at Lu Rong.
— After all, they have never seen a better-looking doll than him, like a doll cut out of a pictorial.
Seeing them twisting their buttocks and making faces again, Lu Rong couldn't help but pursed his lips and smiled.
He had just finished crying, and his face was still tight after the tears had dried. This smile twitched his skin, and immediately remembered what he was crying just now, and thought of Wang Tu.
The mood that had just risen fell again, and he turned his head and continued to lie on Uncle Gao's shoulder.
After the conversation between Uncle Gao and the group of children, he was obviously in a bad mood. He stopped coaxing Lu Rong to be obedient, kept silent and walked quickly.
Lu Rong turned his head and looked to the side, and saw a big yellow dog squatting under the eaves of a yard, and there were a few puppies beside him, rolling around like meatballs.
A little yellow dog ran out of the eaves, his paws were frozen by the snow in the yard, and he ran back tremblingly.
Lu Rong kept looking at the group of puppies, and seemed to be in a better mood. Until they disappeared from sight, Uncle Gao stopped in front of a courtyard with a closed gate.
Bang bang bang, bang bang bang.
Uncle Gao knocked on the courtyard door for a long time. He knocked at first, shouted as he knocked, and finally smashed it with his fist, which made Lu Rong feel that the old wooden door was about to collapse.
They made a lot of noise, the door of a nearby family's room opened, and a man in a padded jacket came out with a rice bowl in his hand.
"Are you looking for Li Zhu?" the man asked Uncle Gao in dialect.
"Li Zhu?" Uncle Gao turned his head to look at the courtyard door, "I'm looking for Wang Cuihua."
"Wang Cuihua is Li Zhu's guest, and they are a family." The man said with a smile after eating.
Uncle Gao asked: "Are they not at home? Just now I met a group of children and said they left."
The man replied: "Yeah, they just left."
"Where did you go?"
"I went to work in Guangdong."
Uncle Gao asked: "Then do you know when they will come back?"
The man shook his head and said, "I don't know, I just left, at least I won't come back until the Chinese New Year next year."
Uncle Gao turned around and stared at the gate in a daze, while Lu Rong was attracted by the vegetable field not far away.
The vegetables in the vegetable field had been cut off, leaving only piles of vegetables with frost on them, and three or four pigs were chewing and wagging their tails.
The man's eyes fell on Lu Rong, as if he had thought of something, he asked, "Is this the doll ordered by Wang Cuihua? They don't want the doll anymore. Wang Cuihua is pregnant. Li Zhu specially took her to Guangdong and said that the hospital over there is good." , live there."
Uncle Gao's face was sullen, and Lu Rong heard him curse in a low voice.
Two children came out from the door behind the man, both carrying bowls, standing in the yard, planing rice and staring at Lu Rong.
Uncle Gao walked back and forth with Lu Rong on his back, and the man warmly invited him, "Come and have a meal, it's such a cold day, let's have a bowl of hot soup."
Uncle Gao didn't even bother to answer, he just waved his hands and kept walking forward.
Lu Rong kept lying on his back, very quiet, and didn't ask where they were going now.
Soon we reached the entrance of the village, and the surroundings were very quiet, except for the sound of the wind, there were only a few dogs barking in the distance.
Just after passing a pile of firewood, a piece of monotonous electronic music suddenly sounded, breaking the silence of the village.
From the first note to his ears, Lu Rong buzzed in his head, and sat up straight from Uncle Gao's back, his face was full of disbelief and shock, and his body collapsed tightly.
This is the ringtone of Wang Tu's cell phone, it's called Nokia. After ringing this ring many times, Wang Tu would shout in the kitchen or in the yard: "Rongrong, bring the phone to Brother Tu, put it on the tea table."
Lu Rong looked around quickly, trying to find Wang Tu.
His heart was pounding, and he was about to cry uncontrollably.
Along the way, he almost believed that Wang Tu had thrown him away, but it turned out he was not, he had already found him.
He was about to come out from a certain corner, stretched out his hand and said to himself, "Furry, let's go, Brother Tu is here to pick you up, let's go home."
The ringing continued, but Wang Tu didn't come out, but Uncle Gao stopped, wrapped Lu Rong in one hand, and took out a mobile phone from the black bag hanging on his chest with the other.
The phone was black, a flip Nokia, Lu Rong recognized it, and it was exactly the same as Wang Tu's, except for the color.
Uncle Gao looked at the number of the caller, his face became very nervous, and he quickly pressed the answer button.
"Hey Hey hey… "
The signal on the mountain was not good, so he fed for a long time until the other party hung up.
He put Lu Rong on his back to the ground and started calling back. Anxiously looking at the signal above the screen, he first trotted to a yard on the left, but when he found that it was not working, he went to climb the firewood pile next to him.
"Hey... You said, you said, there was no signal just now." Uncle Gao climbed up the tall firewood pile, and the voice of the phone seemed to be shouting.
Lu Rong stood there blankly, from the moment he took out the phone, the color faded from his little face, and his eyes did not move.
"... to my house? Did my mother tell me?... My brother went in?... I understand, I understand..."
Uncle Gao's phone call was very long, but he didn't talk much, he was basically listening, but he would echo and say yes, or understand clearly.
When he finished the call and got down from the firewood pile with a face full of panic, he lost his grip and fell, and a bundle of firewood hit him firmly.
He pushed away the firewood and quickly got up, ignoring Lu Rong who was still standing on the road, and hurried towards the outside of the village.
After walking a few steps, I remembered Lu Rong, turned around and said in a perfunctory tone: "Lu Rong, Uncle Gao is going to do some business ahead, you just wait here for me, and I will come back to pick you up after finishing the business."
Lu Rong stood still, and only after hearing this sentence did he look up at Uncle Gao.
He didn't cry and want to go together, as if he didn't understand anything. But in those big dark eyes, there is clearly panic and understanding, and it seems to understand everything.
Uncle Gao met his gaze, swallowed the rest of the words, and said, "Uncle Gao is in trouble, so he can't take you with him. But don't panic, many people in this village want children. You see, that family just invited you Go to his house for dinner, you won’t be hungry. You first find a family to live in, and Uncle Gao will pick you up after solving the trouble.”
After finishing the call, he stopped talking about Lu Rong, and continued to make calls while running along the road out of the village.
The figure became smaller and smaller, and soon disappeared at the end of the road.
Lu Rong stood on the dirt road, and on the right was someone's yard. The door was closed, and there was a faded and white New Year picture on it, a fat doll holding a golden carp.
On the left is a cattle pen made of a wooden shed, which is empty and covered with a lot of hay.
The snow floated up again at some point. He felt a little cold and didn't know what to do, so he walked in the direction Uncle Gao left.
He wasn't chasing Uncle Gao, there was only one road here, he decided to keep walking until the end, and he should be able to go home.
Wang Tu had told him not to go home, but it would be nice even if he lived in the woods opposite his home.
What's more, when he went to a place where there were no houses or people, he could turn into a deer and run very fast.
Some parts of the dirt road are icy, slippery and hard, and the places where there is no ice are full of mud.
The rim of Lu Rong's chubby snow boots was already full of mud, making him look even fatter. The down jacket was also filthy, and the fleece underwear inside was not tucked into the waistband of the trousers, and when it fell to the ground, the tender and white waist was exposed.
The wind swishes in.
The child walked straight ahead, and stopped abruptly when he reached a corner. He looked straight ahead in horror, his pupils dilated, and he was breathing rapidly.
Just a dozen meters away, a big black dog with shiny fur was blocking the middle of the road, baring its teeth and growling at him.
Lu Rong likes small dogs, but is also afraid of fierce big dogs. Every time he goes out with Wang Tu, he hugs small dogs, and Wang Tu hugs big dogs. He is so coquettish.
He looked around, but he didn't see anyone he could rely on, so he said in a crying voice, "I'm sorry, Big Dog, I want to pass here, is that okay?"
The big black dog looked very difficult to discuss, and took two steps forward.
"Forget it then." Lu Rong turned around with a pale face, and walked back quickly.
It was only after walking back to the entrance of the village that I dared to look back, and found that the big black dog hadn't followed. I was relieved and my legs were trembling.
He stood at the entrance of the village and hesitated for a while, feeling even colder, and his nose seemed to run endlessly.
Children who usually like to clean have to use two sleeves to wipe them in turn. The sleeves are made of non-absorbent fabric, and the nose will be covered with mucus.
The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and no one in the village came out. Seeing that the sky was getting dark, Lu Rong didn't know if the black dog was still stuck there, so he didn't dare to go there, so he got into the empty cowshed by the road.
The cowshed is made of wood, with three sides shielded from the wind, and there are only two thick logs across the front.
Lu Rong got in through the gap between the logs, and huddled on a pile of hay in the corner.
He thought, when the sky completely darkened, the big black dog would go home too, and at that time he would turn into a fawn and no one would notice, so he could go down the mountain very quickly.
It doesn't matter if you are hungry, he likes to eat grass after he turns into a deer, and when he comes, he can see that although there is no grass, some trees still have leaves.
But the leaves look old and bitter, very unpalatable.