After all the villagers left, Mr. Cai bid farewell to the workers, and took Lu Rong to the back seat of an off-road vehicle. The puppy rushed up in a hurry and lay quietly at his feet.
Bang bang bang, someone was knocking on the car window, Lu Rong looked out and found that it was Master Hong.
The driver pushed down the car window, and Master Hong waved to Lu Rong: "Xiaowa, go to my temple to offer incense later, and bring your brother with you."
Lu Rong hurriedly glanced at Cai Ye, turned his head and pretended not to know anyone outside.
Cai Ye said goodbye to Master Hong: "Master, don't you want to move down the mountain? Everyone in the village has left."
"I won't move it anymore. My temple is fine, and it's still a cultural relic. I have to guard it carefully." Master Hong laughed.
The cross-country started slowly, Master Hong was left behind, Lu Rong stretched out his head to look, saw him still standing there, waving and smiling at himself.
He was so scared that he quickly retreated into the car.
After a while, he secretly turned his head and saw that Master Hong was hugging a tied chicken on the ground, and the hem of his monk's robe was swept into the muddy water.
When he passed the place where he could see the village, he leaned on the car window and stared at the ruined wall without blinking.
He saw the old banyan tree in his yard. Although it had lost all its leaves and was covered with broken branches and scars, it was still standing upright among the rubble.
Lonely silent and stubborn.
I saw a lot of soldiers there, they were covered in mud, and they were walking to the side with tweeters that were also covered in mud. I also saw a pile of items piled up on the side of the road, two of which were white, like a TV antenna on the roof of a house.
Other than that, the village can no longer be seen as it once was.
The earthen walls covered with green vines, the high stacks of wheat hay, the clothes on the clothesline, and the plum wine on the beams seemed to turn into mud and sink under the rubble along with the years that passed.
Lu Rong suddenly felt sad, pursed his lips and said nothing.
The rich man also looked there, and after a while he called out, "Fluffy."
"Um."
The rich man touched his head: "We have a house in the town and a small courtyard. If we plant a sapling now, it will grow up in a few years, and we are still eating under the tree."
Lu Rong wiped tears on his sleeves: "Is there plum wine in that town?"
"Yes, grandpa will make it for you, and the taste is exactly the same as the one on the beam of our house."
"But can pigs still be ridden in town?"
The rich man said: "Don't keep thinking about riding pigs. Those pigs are so long that you ride them."
Lu Rong turned around, buried her face in the rich man's arms, and asked in a low voice, "Can I take Murakami's phone with me? I'm afraid my brother won't be able to find me if he calls."
The rich man was silent for a while, and said: "The phone may have been crushed, even if it is good, I can't find it."
With tears in his eyes, Lu Rong didn't make a sound.
The rich man patted him on the back and said: "There are all kinds of fun in the town, and everything is better than riding a pig. Then grandpa will show you enough to play. And there will be new classmates, new brothers."
"I don't want a new brother, but that one." Lu Rong raised his head and said.
The rich man wiped away the teardrops hanging on his eyelashes: "Okay, as long as that one brother. My hairy is long-term love, nostalgia."
The off-road quickly went down the mountain, and the rich man told the driver not to drive to Yulu Village, but to Longtan Town at the foot of the mountain, saying that he had a house in the town.
"Aren't you going to Yulu Village? There are resettlement houses prepared there, as well as bedding, clothes and other disaster relief items. Besides, Yulu Village is next to Yulu Town, which is bigger than Longtan Town." The driver kindly reminded.
The rich man smiled kindly and said, "No need, my house is quite good, so leave the resettlement room to others."
Lu Rong leaned on Caiye, and listening to the conversation between the two, he felt that Grandpa really didn't want to leave Longtan Mountain. The town is at the foot of the mountain, so it's not difficult to go back to the village.
The driver stopped talking, and drove forward along the route given by the rich man, and slowly left the main street of Longtan Town, turned onto a grassy fork, and stopped in front of a small courtyard two or three minutes later. .
The wall of this small courtyard is different from the earthen wall in the village. It is made of cement and looks strong. There is also a large iron door that opens in the middle, painted with brown-red paint, and several stone steps are also repaired very evenly.
Not far away is a small river with gurgling water and cool fresh air.
"Uncle, it's no wonder you don't go to Yulu Village. This house is much better than the resettlement house." The driver looked out the window and sighed sincerely.
The rich man explained: "My baby is growing up, and I will come to the town to go to middle school after all. The family moved to the county seat last year. When I found out about this, I bought the house so that the baby can go to middle school in the future. .”
"Foresight, uncle, you are really foresight." The driver said sincerely.
After the off-road vehicle left, Cai Ye took off the key hanging on his trouser waist and opened the courtyard door. Lu Rong followed him in with his schoolbag on his back and looked around. The puppy clung to him nervously with its tail between its legs.
The small courtyard is empty, but clean. The building has two floors, and the walls are painted white.
Cai Ye looked around and sighed, "Rongrong, this is our home."
The house buyer did not take away the furniture, everything that should be there is there, only daily necessities and bedding and clothes need to be added. The rich man took the pocketbook and change from Lu Rong, and went to the street to buy urgently needed items. Lu Rong sat on the steps with the puppy.
The puppy remained motionless against him, but its nose was sniffing around. Lu Rong patted its head and said, "Do you like the new home?"
The little dog didn't answer. He looked at the small river not far away and the smoke from the kitchens farther away, then turned his head to look at the flower bed made of bricks in the yard, and said to himself, "I quite like it."
In the next two days, Cai Ye and Lu Rong started to tidy up the house. Always after tidying up for a while, I suddenly remembered that there was nothing there, so I hurriedly took some change and went to the street to buy it.
"This place is indeed much more convenient than the village. You can buy everything." The rich man returned home with a fresh fish in his hand, sighing in his mouth.
Lu Rong likes to eat fish, but how can there be fish for sale in the village? The occasional meal is also a small fish and shrimp that someone found in the river. When the rich man met him, he spent money to buy it and made him a bowl of fish soup to satisfy his hunger.
Now that the grandpa and grandson moved to the town, there is a fish shop that specializes in selling fish, and the rich man will cook the fish continuously until Lu Rong makes a fuss and gets tired of eating.
When everything was almost ready, the rich man took the certificate and went to the elementary school in the town to handle the transfer procedures for Lu Rong.
In the dead of night, Lu Rong was lying in his own bedroom, looking at the moon from the window beside the bed.
The same tranquility, the same softness, everything seems to be the same as before.
The moonlight cast a veil on the whole town, and the only street was deserted, only some windows on both sides were still shining.
The white fawn crossed the long street without a sound, its hooves raised lightly, and it landed on the ground without making a sound.
A yellow dog twice as big as it was followed, and the deer stopped and snorted twice, as if saying that it was not sure to follow, so go back.
The big yellow dog could only walk back in a daze.
One step and three turns.
The little deer was hard-hearted, unwavering, and did not continue until he saw it enter the courtyard gate.
Lu Rong ran on the road to Longquan Village, with the clear air in his nose and the whistling mountain wind in his ears.
He didn't follow the road all the way up the winding path, but sometimes took a short cut across the woods.
The night birds that threw themselves into the forest were awakened, chirping and rushing to the sky, and the panicked hares hopped and sank into the depths of the vegetation.
He has been running for a long time, and he is a little hot, and there are spots of sweat all over his body. The white fur glistens in the moonlight, like fine silk and satin. Black Nose continued to spew out white air, wheezing.
However, running freely like this is also very enjoyable, and you can stretch out your mouth from time to time to tear off a cluster of the tenderest green leaves, chewing them deliciously.
There is no one on the winding mountain road at night, only a white deer galloping swiftly in the moonlight.
He finally ran across the pass and crossed several paddy fields. After turning here, you can see the village. When school is over, the puppy always squats there, and when it sees itself, it rushes over from a distance.
But when he turned around, what appeared in front of him was no longer the village he was familiar with.
After standing there for a while, Lu Rong followed his memory to the row of houses of the village committee.
The house was gone, and the soldiers had cleared away the bulky items during the day, leaving only bricks and tiles on the floor.
Leaping lightly onto the rubble, he began to paw, rummaging through it...
There was silence all around, except for the constant rustling of sand and stones being planed. Lu Rong moved very quickly, and it didn't take long before he took a lot of small objects and put them on the side.
There was a deflated kettle, a seal, a small shovel for shoveling briquettes, and tongs.
The white fawn turned into a muddy fawn, and its whole body was filthy black. But he didn't care about these at all, and just buried himself in the rubble.
Suddenly, along with half a broken brick, a long strip was turned halfway out, and the exposed part had a semicircular head covered with mud.
His heart skipped a beat, he stopped digging, and then stretched out his front hooves, carefully flicking the object out.
It was indeed a landline microphone.
Lu Rong was both surprised and delighted, a smile appeared on his furry dirty face, and he snorted white.
He patiently continued digging along the microphone cable, and finally dug the entire landline out of the ground.
The little deer sat down on the rubble, wiped the dirt on the phone with its front hoof, revealing the milky white shell, then wrapped it in an apron it picked up, and held it in its arms like a baby.
The sky is pale, and the sun is about to rise.
The big yellow dog that had been lying at the gate of the courtyard suddenly pricked up its ears to listen attentively, and poked its head out from the half-open door.
In the distance came a small deer whose original color could not be seen, with a small bundle tied around its neck. His four hooves were crooked, his walking was unsteady, and he looked very tired, but his round eyes were shining with joy.
"Wow, woof." The big yellow dog barked twice happily.
The little deer quickly raised its front hoof to block its mouth: "Shh."
Lu Rong pushed open the half-open courtyard door with his head, closed it again, and returned to his room lightly. He took off the bundle and hid it under the bed, turned into a muddy little boy again, and tiptoed to the bathroom to take a shower.
After washing, take out the bag, open it, take out the phone inside, and wipe the mud spots on it with a wet rag.
He wiped it very carefully, and hollowed out the small holes on the microphone one by one with a needle. He waited until the whole body of the phone was as clean as new before he satisfactorily put it next to his pillow.
After thinking about it, I put another pillow cover on it.
He lay back on the bed, took a look at the pillow cover from time to time, and then touched it with his hands.
Now I am not afraid that my brother will call but no one will answer, I am right next to the phone and can answer it anytime.
You can also talk to your brother for a long time, and you are no longer afraid of others urging him.
Lu Rong yawned while thinking, turned over and closed his eyes contentedly.
the capital.
a district.
"Shen Jize, this is the third time I'm asking you, if you don't come out to eat, then don't eat." Mother Shen reached out to knock on the door and said calmly.
Shen Jize lay on the bed and pulled the quilt over his face.
"Put the food in the refrigerator, he likes to eat it or not." Mother Shen turned and said to Father Shen who was standing at the door of the kitchen.
Shen's father, who tied the apron around his waist, was in a bit of a dilemma: "A man is like iron, rice is steel, and he is so small, if he doesn't eat—"
"At such a young age, you know you are against your parents?" Shen's mother interrupted him: "Which child would be like him, stubborn and unwilling to go abroad?"
"It's human nature for a child to be reluctant to part with his classmates and teachers. You have to talk to him slowly."
Shen's mother turned her head and walked to her bedroom: "I still have to hurry up to pack things, throw away what should be thrown away, and give away what should be given away. I don't have time to talk to him. Tell him what you want to talk about."
Listening to the voices outside, Shen Jize turned over impatiently.
After a while, there was a sound of closing the door, and he knew that his parents had gone out, so he got up and walked out of the bedroom, and went to the coffee table in the living room to make a phone call.
After dialing the number he had memorized by heart, he waited quietly with the microphone in his hand. Unfortunately, after seven or eight seconds of connection, he still heard the prompt that he could not dial.
Shen Jize hung up the phone, spread his limbs and slumped on the sofa.
The sunlight came in from the window, casting a layer of light on his side face, and also outlined the perfect facial features of the young man. But at this moment, he was frowning tightly, with irritability written all over his face.
After a while, he suddenly turned over and sat up again, picked up the receiver and made a call.
"Xiao Yong, it's me... It's over, I have to go abroad... I definitely don't want to go, I'm on a hunger strike... I want to go to No. 1 Middle School with you, but Wang Ziqiu and Shen Ce have already agreed to foreign universities I have quit my job here... They will definitely not let me stay alone, I am still a child... You are laughing, I feel uncomfortable... "
After Xiao Yong finished laughing at the other end, he said, "Forget it, Ze'er, you can't beat them. If the mountains don't turn, the water turns, if the water doesn't turn, turn around. In the future, the brothers will always turn to the day when they meet again."
"But I may not be able to come back during the winter vacation. I must come back during the winter vacation. Someone is waiting for me. I have to see him. This is also a man's responsibility." Shen Jize scratched his hair in annoyance.
"You don't have to come back, as long as I understand your affection in my heart." Xiao Yong was a little moved when he heard this.
"It's not for you, it's for my brother."
Xiao Yong suddenly became unhappy, and said: "You talk about your wild brother every day, what is my brother? Last week I helped you fight with Chen Chong, and yesterday I treated you to ice cream, five yuan and fifty each , not three egg roll skins."
Shen Jize said listlessly: "Didn't I often invite you before? Last semester, your new pencil case fell off. I was afraid that your mother would beat me up. I bought you an identical pencil case and it cost thirty-five yuan."
Xiao Yong said, "Is it a man? Why are you so fussy?"
"Are you a man when you count five yuan and fifty ice cream? Also, I am the closest brother, not the wild brother."
"Tsk tsk tsk, your mother gave birth to you?"
"I don't care if Prince Qiusheng is born."
The two of them didn't talk speculatively, and hung up the phone at the same time.
Shen Jize sat on the sofa with a bad face, and suddenly remembered that he and Xiao Yong had quarreled for a long time, and forgot to talk about the business.
He has been calling Lu Rong for the past two days, wanting to talk about his going abroad, but he can't get through.
When I asked my uncle, my uncle said that the construction of Longtan Mountain had ended and he had already gone to other cities. He didn't know if the phone in Longquan Village couldn't be connected. After all, there was something wrong with the line, and it would be fine in a few days.
But in a few days he will leave the country.
He feels that foreign countries and Longquan Village are like the distance between the moon and the earth, and he doesn't know if it's convenient to contact each other.
If Chichi couldn't get in touch with Lu Rong, he would be anxious, maybe even cry and make a fuss to find his brother.
After all, if someone's husband suddenly disappeared for no reason, that would be a huge blow, and it would destroy the world.
He could even imagine that Lu Rong would suddenly turn over at night and sing mournfully the scene of waiting for Lang to come under the apricot tree.
There were tears in the big eyes, and the black eyes were soaked in them.
It makes me sad just thinking about it.
Shen Jize quickly adjusted his mood and picked up the microphone again.
"Good brother, it's me... a man, with a broad mind... I have a set of cards, which I gave to you. Yes, the whole class was accepted by the teacher. My set was hidden and it was not taken away. It is out of print... But you You have to help me with something."
"Good brother, if you need my help, just say it, as long as I can do it, I will go through fire and water." Xiao Yong patted his chest and said.
Shen Jize considered and said: "I'll give you a phone number, you remember it, and after I leave, I'll be in charge of making the call, and then find Lu Rong, yes, Lu Rong, furry. Tell him about my going abroad, Tell him not to worry, I will go back to China to find him after the winter vacation."
"For your wild brother, you are willing to give me an out-of-print card." Xiao Yong said sourly.
"You don't understand..." Shen Jize closed his eyes, and said quietly, "I have a secret, you don't understand the pain that can only be hidden in your heart as an underage man."
Shen Jize finally failed in his resistance. A week later, he was escorted by his parents and boarded a plane to country X.
Looking at the city gradually disappearing under his feet, he thought to himself: Even if he stole his ID, he still has to visit Lu Rong during the winter vacation.