Everyone followed his gaze and saw that A Chong, who was still sleeping just now, was awake at this time and was leaning weakly against the door frame.
A Chong stared at the old man coldly and said, "Grandpa Li, what's the retribution? What's wrong with my parents?" The ten-year-old child even gave out aggressive eyes.
Zi Yang knew that A Chong was the most taboo against others talking about his parents. The old man also knew that he had failed to speak, and turned his head in embarrassment.
A Chong turned his gaze to the old village chief and asked sternly, "What's wrong with my parents? How did they die?"
The death of A Chong’s father and mother is a mystery. People in the village have always avoided talking about it. Zi Yang and the others only knew that A Chong’s parents died suddenly when A Chong was born. They never dared to ask more about how to get there. The adults never said it.
The old village chief glared at the old man, and said fiercely: "You can't catch your stinky mouth!"
The old man lowered his head to count the ants on the ground. The old village chief glanced at A Chong helplessly, coughed and said, "My child, you are not young anymore. You should know some things too-in fact, I blame me for this. I’m all to blame for being useless as the village head..."
The elderly man looking for the ants looked up and said, "Hey, how can you blame the old village chief for this, back then..."
The old village chief shouted angrily: "You know what an egg!"
The old village chief renewed a pot of smoke, and calmly said with a steady mood: "Back then, when A Chong was just born, there was a great famine, and every household could not open the pot. Your father is a man, but a man of iron. You can’t stand it and don’t have food! Your father has to take care of your ignorant uncle and your mother. People who are not forced to the road will not do that kind of thing!"
A Chong asked, "What did my dad do?"
The old village chief took a puff of cigarettes and said to himself: "Back then, a few outsiders came to the village, dressed well, selling food from door to door, and they didn't need money to sell food, but they had to change things."
The old village chief asked and answered himself: "What is it? It is some broken copper and broken iron left by the ancestors of the family, what kind of incense burner, porcelain, etc. They call that antique, saying that this thing is valuable and can For food."
"Our Li family is a big surname in this area. Our ancestors have been here for many years. Every family has some things left behind by our ancestors. They can't be eaten when they are left. When there is a famine, they don't even want to throw away the booger. In order to be able to sell a bag of noodle houses, let alone anything left behind by the ancestors, everyone vacated their homes for some food."
"I remember I used a pig trough for half a bag of wheat back then." The old man spoke again. The old village chief glanced at the old man, and the man immediately did not dare to speak.
The old village chief went on to say: "The food that was changed back then really saved a lot of people, but your family was a foreigner and later moved over. Your father was a mason, and he was only in his early twenties, and he had no family background. In the days of famine, no one asked your father to work, and there was nothing in your family to exchange for food. The four of the family would starve to death.
Later, I didn't know what method your father used to get food from those outsiders. "
The old village chief stopped here and took out the tobacco from the pipe to renew the cigarette. A relatively mature middle-aged man said, "Is A Chong his father really?"
The old village chief ignored him: "One night, I was so hungry that I couldn't sleep and squatted at the door thinking about things. At that time, there was no one in the street. Everyone lay at home and didn't dare to move. At this time, I saw A Chong's father holding the workman secretly walking back to the mountain. I was curious for a while and followed him quietly. The scene I saw that night... Now that I think of it, I feel crippled. "
The old village chief took a hard smoke, his eyes suddenly blurred in the smoke. "I'm old now, I'm so confused, I can't even remember the name of my daughter-in-law, but I still remember what happened that night."
"I saw A Chong's dad crawling to the back mountain from a distance, and suddenly stopped in a rocky hill. After a while, he suddenly bowed to the open space three times and nine knocks. I think people are hungry. Then you still have time to worship the ancestors? Take a closer look at something wrong, isn't this place the old cemetery before?"
When the old village head talked about this, the others couldn’t help but shiver. Although there have been rumors in the village that A Chong’s father did before, they have never seen it. This is the first time I have heard the old village head talk about it. A Chong opened his eyes wide when he heard it.
The old village chief was already in ecstatic memories at this time, "Achong's father knelt down for a while, and began to plow the ground there. I was so scared that I was so scared that I couldn't even move on the ground. Dad dug the ground for a long time, and then buckled and buckled the things underneath. After a long time, he wrapped a bag of things with a bag, and then rebuilt the graveyard. After a few weeks of worship, he walked back. At that time, I That was scared, shaking like chaff, both legs cramped, and his calf turned to the front. A Chong's father heard my voice and walked over and called out, "The village chief?"".
When the old village chief talked about it, his eyes had been blurred, and he seemed to have returned to the night that year.
"At that time, he said the village chief scared me out of my body. I was trembling and speechless. I didn't expect him to kneel down in front of me with a puff,'Village chief, I'm sorry to the villagers.'" Old The village head pointed his throat to learn from A Chong's father's voice, and he looked very crippled in the silent night.
"I don't think he looks like he's going to kill me, so I feel relieved a little bit. Our father and I kneel and the other lie on my stomach, and talked on the old grave.
His father Achong said that he saw people in the village exchange things for food with foreigners, and his family had nothing to exchange. He thought that there were many old graves on the deserted rocky hills, and there might be valuable burial guys. . After a few days, I was really hungry, so he ran to the back mountain at night to find those wild graves that hadn't been enshrined for a long time. He really dug some porcelain, and he exchanged these things for food with outsiders.
31 novel app download address
A Chong's father said that there is no way people are forced to this level. I am a man of seven feet, and I can't just watch my wife and children starve to death! "
Speaking of this, some people in the room have already begun to sigh. Except for A Chong and Zi Yang who are still young, the older generations have more or less experienced those years. They think of the tragic famine that year. Sorrowful.
When A Chong heard this, he almost slumped on the ground with exhaustion, and Zi Yang's mother hurriedly took a blanket and surrounded him. Turning around and said to the old village chief: "Then later, the old village chief, you..."
The old village chief wiped a tear and said, "Me? What else can I do? In those days, the living could not have enough to eat, and who could care for the ancestors! Besides, what he planed was a wild grave without a master. None of our ancestors moved."
"Later I said to A Chong's father, you go, I didn't see anything tonight. A Chong's father knocked me a few times and left without looking back. I stayed there forever. It took a long time before I had the strength to get up."
"Later, for a while, do you remember that relief food was distributed in the village?" The old village head tilted his head and asked everyone, probably because he was really old and his mind was a little confused.
Someone next to him immediately agreed and said, "Yes, yes, the old village chief is still very good, and other villages didn't have this treatment back then, as long as our old village chief has the ability to get relief."
The old village head tapped the grandmaster's chair with a pipe pot and said: "The shit relief food, the food is the life of A Chong and his father!" Everyone was shocked again.
The old village chief continued: "At that time, there were not many things that every household could exchange for food, and the gang of outsiders asked for higher and higher prices. After slowly tossing, the outsiders did not come, everyone was bored at home and waited for death. ."
"One day in the middle of the night, I heard someone knocking on the window of my house, and A Chong's father's voice said outside,'Village Chief, I got food in exchange. I'll put it at the door. You can divide it for the big guy'
Everyone suddenly realized that if it hadn't been for the old village chief to speak out tonight, no one would know that there was still this hidden secret back then.
The old village chief flicked a couple of cigarettes and was silent for a while and said, "You all know what happened afterwards. The hard days have come to an end and the famine has passed. The village finally began to live a stable life.
Since then, A Chong’s father has rarely seen his face in the village. In addition, everyone’s life has gradually improved, and there has been more bricklaying work. A Chong’s father often walks the streets and alleys to work, leaving early and returning very late at night. I rarely meet with people in the village. Sometimes I don't come back for several days. It is rare for the villagers to see him. "
A Chong continued to ask: "Then, how did my parents die?"
Uncle Li, who squatted on the ground, leaned his body and wanted to speak, but the old village chief stared back at him with a fierce look.
The old village head tilted his head and thought about it carefully: "Which year did I go there? I can't tell. I remember one day when A Chong and his mother went to the street and said that his man was missing, and asked everyone to help find it. Everyone was busy with spring plowing, and no one paid any attention to A Chong's mother yelling. A few days ago, A Chong's mother became a little crazy."
A Chong choked up, yelling, "Why don't you look for it."
The old village head was ashamed and said, "It had just rained in those few days, it was a good time for spring plowing, and the planting was only a few days away. No one wants to miss the solar terms. Every family is busy in the ground. Who cares? It’s something other people’s family. Besides, your dad often worked outside to help people at that time, and it was common not to go home for a few days. Everyone thought your mother was making a fuss."
"Later, when A Chong’s mother saw someone, he said, A Chong’s father was taken away by the bad guys, save him, save him. I also felt that something was not right at the time. Is it because of the old problem and causing trouble outside? Up?"
"I remember just a few days before Achong's father's accident, a few people from the village came to look for him, and one of them seemed to have come to the village to exchange food. Ah, the youngest, do you remember this?"
Uncle Li, who had been eager to interject before, nodded and said, "I remember that day I happened to be chatting with Widow Wang's neighbor on the street, and saw a man with a bare head with scars on the door taking a few people to A Chong's house. , I saw him before when changing food. He was short and stout with a fierce look. It didn't take long for A Chong to enter A Chong's house and he was blasted out by A Chong's father. The two seemed to be quarreling. I just thought It’s been a long time since no one in the village came to exchange food. What are these people doing here again? Did A Chong’s father owe others the money? Seeing that they were all angry, I didn’t dare to go up and ask..."
The old village chief nodded and said: "Well, the person who changes the food is not very authentic. At first glance, he doesn't look like a good person. I was worried about the connection between A Chong's father and these people, so I didn't want to ask this at first thing."
"After a few days of delay, Achong's father never showed up again, and I also felt something was wrong. Later, I organized the young and middle-aged in the village to search everywhere, and finally found the dead body of Achong's father in the ravine next to the old cemetery. It was broken. A Chong's mother recognized that the corpse was A Chong's father from her clothes. She couldn't think of it for a while, and she slammed her head on the rock."