Cow licking curly hair and big brother anecdotes

After leaving the subway station, when turning to Yao Wang's house, Liu Wu stopped, looked around, and walked to the supermarket facing the subway entrance.

I suddenly wanted to buy a bag of quick-frozen dumplings. If I was alone, I wouldn't want to eat dumplings on New Year's Eve.However, thinking of the two children in the bungalow, he still planned to spend one time.

The owner of the supermarket came out of the house, walked to the freezer at the door, and pressed the door of the freezer with one hand: "Young man, what are you looking for? I'll find it for you. If you rummage like this, everything in this freezer will be broken into pieces."

Liu Wuzhi got up and said, "Special price dumplings."

The boss muttered, "Isn't it a special price?" Then he took out a bag from the bottom of the freezer and handed it to Liu Wu, "Here, mutton and scallions, with a three-month shelf life, 17 yuan, is it worth it?"

Liu Wu quickly paid and left with the dumplings. It was indeed the cheapest bag of dumplings, 800 grams, which should be enough for the three of them.

From the subway station to Yao Wang's house, it is a dirt road, which is bumpy. If you walk at night, you will definitely trip over the octagonal stones. Sometimes you can't see the uphill and downhill clearly, and you will slip.The withered weeds on both sides of the road were about the same height as Yao Wang, and when the northwest wind blew, they rustled, blowing dirt and snow all over the faces of people walking.

Early in the morning, it was very quiet inside and outside the bungalow, Yao Wang was not saying "Immortal", the door of Yao Wang's room was closed and the little one didn't cry.Liu Wuxin thought that it was really a holiday, and the old ghost and the kid were quite honest.

What's even more surprising is that Yao Wang's house didn't have any vacant rooms today. It seems that this kid turned down the guests last night.

Quick-frozen dumplings are hung on the outer wall of the courtyard, and there are natural refrigerators.

He was so sleepy that he didn't even bother to wash his face, so he pulled off the cover of his military overcoat and just touched the pillow.

"what!!!"

In the chaos, Liu Wu jumped up from the bed board and jumped to the ground with a deafening cry, which scared him almost out of his wits.

"Put it down! Immortal! Get out!"

Liu Wu broke into a sweat from fright, and when he heard Yao Wang scolding 'I'm not dead', he knew that Yao Wang's incomprehensible grandfather had returned.

This is a big Chinese New Year, after all, there is no end to it.

He didn't want to meddle in other people's family affairs. First, he was afraid of causing more unsolvable troubles and making his own situation worse. He was also afraid of bringing troubles to Yao Wang who was already struggling.Sitting back on the bed, he heard the new tenant next door yelling, "What's the noise! ​​Let's go to sleep! Made!"

Liu Wu thought that Yao Wang's grandfather came back only to ask for money, but after listening for a while, he found that it was not what he thought. Yao Wang's grandfather wanted to use "his young son" to cover the debt.

"Little grandson, without me, where would you two be? I sell my son, and I need you, little grandson, get out!" The old man cursed endlessly, and the vulgar words seemed to be endless. Keep going out the same way.

Yao Wang seemed to have been beaten, and for a while he just groaned and didn't speak.When Liu Wu heard this, he couldn't help it anymore.He couldn't think of how to help Yao Wang, he just wanted to prevent this child from celebrating the New Year with injuries on the last day of the year.

The thin door leaf was pulled open with a "hula", and the door leaf that was too thin trembled too much and soon fell down.Liu Wu glanced at the empty outer hall, and Yao Wang curled up in the corner, making the same movements as when he was thrown on the telephone pole by a five-year-old man.

As soon as he lifted his foot, the skinny old man with a ferocious face suddenly turned around. His face was red and purple as if he had been scalded by boiling water, and there were signs of being beaten. One side of the hairline, the hair and scalp seemed to be shoveled off. Large, shocking pieces of flesh and blood were exposed, unbandaged, and the blood stuck to the hair, which had already solidified.

Liu Wu was stunned for a few seconds, the door of the outer room opened, and a man and a woman walked in, looking about 50 or [-] years old.The two of them seemed to be used to seeing this scene, and when they entered the room, they asked, "Uncle, what are you doing again?"

The old man turned his head and spat out black blood, "Bah!", pointed at Yao Wang who was curled up in the corner, and cursed again: "Little turtle grandson's wings are hard! My own son, I'll sell it to see who dares to stop it!" He said Shi Shi's voice was extremely loud, but his breath was very unstable, not only the ending sound trembled, but the breath trembled throughout the passage.

Doesn't Liu Wu feel that he is already glaring at the old bastard in front of him, selling his son? !

How much can a two-and-a-half-year-old son sell for? !

In terms of weight?

When the middle-aged men and women heard this, they looked disgusted but didn't persuade them, and said to themselves: "It's New Year's Eve, noisy people are uncomfortable, what people think of us, your grandpa and grandson discuss it quickly, there are a lot of people gathered outside the yard Watch the fun..."

The red-faced old man waved his arm and shouted louder: "I'm afraid those sons of bitches are watching the show! Open the door and come in! Come in and watch!"

Liu Wu walked behind the yelling old man, squatted in the corner, lifted Yao Wang's head to look, and asked in a low voice, "How is it?"

Yao Wang just shook his head, and the muffled moan was gone, and the crying of the two and a half year old child in the back room never stopped.

"At home, the grandson who eats rice, sold the debt for a year, and I can still divide the money every year in the future. What is the use of raising it at home? Ah! What's the use!" The old man yelled and entered the back room, and the child cried The sound stopped abruptly with the sound of fabric being torn, as if the world had become silent.

Yao Wang, who was curled up on the ground without moving, suddenly bounced up, tears streaming down his distorted face.

The stooped and skinny old man came out of the back room with Yao Wang's younger brother, his son, in one hand. The child's eyes were round and his nostrils were wide open, and he was flailing to hug Yao Wang.It's just that the mouth was stuffed with a big ball of rags, and the skin of the mouth was so thin that it was transparent.

"Wooooow..." The two and a half-year-old child was frightened like never before, and the whining sound in his throat made goose bumps all over the body of a person with normal senses.

The middle-aged men and women finally couldn't stand it anymore. The man suppressed his anger and asked loudly: "Uncle, have you thought about it? Sell it to the seven cripples, and the youngest will not be able to come back in the future. If it doesn't work, they will be disabled..."

"What are you doing when you come back? Come back to eat my rice and waste my money?" The old man pushed the middle-aged man who was blocking the way, obviously with great strength, the strong middle-aged man was pushed against the wall by the skinny old man's arm On the ground, the middle-aged woman behind her was also slapped to the ground by the mad old man.

Yao Wang kept chasing the old man with his hands on his stomach, and when the old man was about to walk out of the courtyard, he suddenly rushed up and hugged the old man's thigh, making a strange sound like a trapped animal, and opened his mouth to bite the old man's thigh.

The purplish-faced old man let out an "Aww" and slammed his fist on the top of Yao Wang's head. Yao Wang didn't let go of his hand or mouth as if he didn't feel any pain.

Liu Wu followed closely and ran into the yard. Seeing this, he went up and snatched Yao Wang's younger brother. He had just heard the middle-aged man say that the child was going to be sold to some cripple. He guessed that he had thrown Yao Wang on the pole before. on the man.

A big, thick, and fleshy bastard.

If he guesses correctly, this two and a half year old child will be a 'crawler' on the road in the bustling center of Yaocun in the future. This is a word he often heard during the time he lived in Yaocun, the road 'crawls' "Things" refers to those children who are disabled to beg along the street, blind, deaf, missing arms and legs...

He couldn't imagine such a child who cries loudly every day, what kind of "processing" would a child with sound limbs go through to become a "crawler" on the road.

The old man turned into a red-eyed beast, holding Yao Wang who was biting on his leg, turned around and chased Liu Wu.

"If you meddle in your own business, if it doesn't end well, your son will have to earn money for me..."

Liu Wu stood the frightened child by the wall and took off the rag that gagged his mouth. The child twitched all over, his convulsed hands and feet shaped like sharp claws, and his thin chest heaved greatly, as if he would suffocate to death in the next moment.

Liu Wu kept running along the child's chest and back in a panic.

Suddenly, the child screamed, Liu Wu suddenly turned around, and saw the old man pick up half a piece of red brick, lifted it up high, and threw it at the top of Yao Wang's hair.

Liu Wu squatted in front of the child, turned his head to look back, and got up and rushed over at the first reaction, but his awkward posture delayed his movement. When he stood up, he shouted loudly: "Yao Wang! Let go!"

The middle-aged men and women obviously didn't expect that the old man would pick up a brick and slap his grandson on the head. If one brick falls, he will be finished.

For a while, there were exclamations one after another in and out of the courtyard. Someone kicked open the wooden fence door and entered. Liu Wu and middle-aged men and women ran towards Yao Wang at the door. When many people rushed to one place at the same time, a thin figure , passed through Liu Wu's armpit, faster than everyone else, and hit Yao Wang like a cannonball.

The force of this smash was moderate, the old man's figure swayed, and the hand that was clutching the red brick that fell inertially happened to hit the head of the child who was lying on Yao Wang's side.

"what!"

The scream was piercing and burst out, half of it cut through the air, and half of it was swallowed back into the stomach.

The inertia of Liu Wu and the middle-aged man rushing forward made them push away the skinny old man at the same time.

The old man fell to the ground on his back, and his vocal cords were scratched by the sound of heavy panting, as if more than a dozen people were panting heavily at the same time.

The middle-aged man picked up the child who had rolled his eyes with both hands, and kept shouting, "Youngest! Youngest! Old..."

Yao Wang fell to the ground together with the old man, supported the ground with one hand, propped up his upper body in pain, and stared blankly at the little face covered in blood, the white and burning blood red eyes, forming a pattern on the face of a two-year-old child. A stark contrast.

Liu Wu was so stimulated by that bloody face that he couldn't breathe.

Suddenly, a large piece of bright red splashed across the sky, engulfing his entire world, and the smell of blood filled all his senses...

"Bang!" The bullet passed through the temple, bringing out gushing blood, like a coquettish poppy flower, and pouring blood poured down from the top of his head...

"Ah!!!" A woman's scream is always the source of nightmares, and it is also a good medicine to wake them up.

When Liu Wu came back to his senses, the sudden breathing in the cage and the chaotic shouts around him made him understand that he was still alive and that the one who died was not him.

Yao Wang fought like crazy and beat the skinny old man who was lying on the ground rolling, the middle-aged woman and the man knelt in front of the lifeless child, the man shouted and the woman cried.

Liu Wu exhausted all his strength, turned his back to the sky, and sat down on the bottom of the wall.

Soon, the district police came, and 120 and the police car stopped in front of the bungalow.

Seeing the police car, Liu Wu regained his panicked nerves and regained all his consciousness. Taking advantage of the clutter, he climbed over the wall and left Yao Wang's house.

Hiding in the broken house not far from Yao Wang's house, listening to the noisy and chaotic voices, crying, shouting, cursing, and numb jokes.

The sound of car tires running over the dirt road gradually drifted away. The crowd watching the excitement on New Year's Eve dispersed very quickly. After a while, it seemed to return to the silence when he returned to the bungalow early in the morning.

Except, the winter wind is still there.

The sunset was slanting to the west, and the northwest wind suddenly picked up, ravaging the ruined walls where Liu Wu lived.The adobe house is blown by the wind and the loess is flying, floating down, mixed with the afterglow of the setting sun, giving it a sense of bleak beauty.

Liu Wu forced himself to close his eyes briefly for two seconds, the sore and painful eyelids were closed up and down, and the eyeballs were frosted as if they were rusty.In just two seconds, the nightmare still persisted, pouring blood poured down the head, and the bullets passing through the temple brought out 'flowers' like poppies blooming...

"Whoo~~~"

The sky is finally dark, and the darkness gives people fear and courage.Standing up with the help of the earthen wall, the rough wall scraped against the palm of my hand, touching my five senses.

Liu Wu stood up straight, listening to the distant or near sound of firecrackers.

New Year's Eve is here.

He turned his head to look at Yao Wang's house, there was actually a light, very faint, and it was on and off.

Knowing what the light was, Liu Wu walked towards Yao Wang's house uncontrollably.

He couldn't save Yao Wang, and he couldn't save the two-and-a-half-year-old child either.

As Wu Qiang once said, he is a ruthless person who treats everyone the same, an unfamiliar wolf cub.

He admits, not fully, that he is ruthless, but he is not ruthless to everyone.

It's just that he is extremely ruthless towards the person who gave him a ruined life.

The middle-aged woman was squatting in the yard. In the middle of the yard was the big iron basin that Yao Wang used to do laundry. There were piles of unburned yellow paper money in it.

"Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

"That's enough! Crying for the New Year's Eve, don't be discouraged!" The middle-aged man stood behind the woman, kicked the woman's lower back angrily.

The woman cried and turned around and cursed: "Look at the sins your family has done, you are the ones who are ashamed, and you are the ones who killed..."

The man suddenly burst into shock: "You're never finished! But divorce!"

As if being strangled by the neck, the woman suddenly silenced, neither crying nor shouting, just shedding tears indifferently.After shouting, the man turned around and left the yard, and walked to another bungalow not far away.

The woman threw the last two handfuls of paper money into the brazier, got up, took a look into the room, and left.

After Liu Wu stood outside the door and listened, he passed the woman.Passing the big iron basin for burning paper money in the middle of the courtyard, I took a look in and saw that the pitiful little paper money had been burned, and the bottom of the basin was not covered by paper ash.

In the back room, Yao Wang was kneeling on the kang, holding a wet towel, and was wiping the child's face.

Liu Wu stood at the door, his stomach convulsed, and said, "I'll help you."

The movements of Yao Wang's hands were very mechanical. He wiped and washed the towel with holes over and over again. Liu Wu went in and poured out the blood-red basin of water, and replaced it with a new one.

This was repeated until the water in the basin was clear, and Yao Wang stopped what he was doing.

The child lying flat on the kang seemed to be asleep, with a clean face.

Liu Wu shifted his gaze to Yao Wang's profile and asked, "Cremation or..."

Yao Wang suddenly opened his mouth and said softly: "Brother, my brother, he is a fool and he still can't speak. Tell me, selling him to a seven-crime man and making him a beggar would be better than dying?"

Liu Wu mentally sank slowly, his feet weighed a thousand catties, but his body lost weight, wobbling as if he would take off into the air the next moment.

Yao Wang looked at the fair and transparent face and said: "I hurt him, I was hit by a brick, I hurt him, I can't be a beggar, I, brother, just... woo woo woo..."

The broken words cannot be spoken, and the whimpers cannot be tuned.

Liu Wu felt the unprecedented cold, he took two steps towards the earthen kang with his heavy feet, leaned forward, and stretched out his arms to embrace the trembling Yao Wang who was crying.

For a child who was only ten years old, the accident happened so fast and so fiercely that an immature child felt guilty and took all the blame on himself.

Even if he took a step back, the result was so unbearable that Yao Wang even thought of giving in.

If so, Yao Wang's life might be ruined.

Liu Wu held Yao Wang in one hand, the clothes on his shoulders were soaked with tears, he carried the man back to his room, put on his bag, wrapped Yao Wang in a military coat and said, "Do you know where there is a coffin seller? "

Yao Wang's eyes lost their shape from crying, and when he opened them wide, there was only a thin slit, "Yao, Yao, Yaocun, there is!" He paused and said, "Brother, I have no money!"

Liu Wu brushed his face indiscriminately with his big hands, and suppressed his congested throat and said, "I'll lend it to you, you stay, we'd better go together."

Yao Wang stared fixedly at the child lying on the kang in the back room, thought for a long time and said, "Brother, can you cover my brother with a quilt? I'll go with you."

Yao Wang didn't know if he was stupid, or he was going mad with grief, so he arranged the child to lie on his side, with his knees bent, his head lowered on a pillow, his body covered with two thick quilts, and he muttered, "My brother likes to sleep on his side. Facing me, don't rest on the pillow, no, I'm afraid of the cold..."

Liu Wu couldn't listen anymore, closed his eyes, his head was in a daze, he wished that he would turn his head away now, hatred rose from the bottom of his heart, he wanted to step forward and lift the quilt covering the child, Skip the pillows...

Two tears hit the ground, he suddenly woke up, took a deep breath, and opened his eyes again, everything in front of him was blurred to a beautiful scene under the filter of tears.

Yao Wang who was standing on the ground was surrounded by a soft halo, and the child lying on his side seemed to be laughing, celebrating his departure from this annoying world.

Yao Wang took three steps and fell twice. Liu Wu picked him up and threw him on his back, carrying him, carrying him back.

When he came back, he had a small coffin under his arm. When the grandfather who made the coffin heard about it, he discounted the coffin and gave him a large bag of paper money, two of which were cleared.He told a bunch of children under three years old what to do, but Liu Wu didn't remember, and he guessed that Yao Wang didn't remember either.

Yao Wang seemed to be insane all the way, crying and laughing for a while, and talking non-stop when he was neither crying nor laughing.

"Brother, the police said that my brother is too young and malnourished. He was cremated without ashes...Brother, I will never die, and I will have a meal from now on...Brother, do you think prison food is delicious? Brother... …elder brother……"

Liu Wu's scalp became tense and numb from his yelling.

The crazy Yao Wang insisted on sleeping with his younger brother for another night. An ignorant and fearless ten-year-old boy, who had no concept of ghosts and gods in his brain, really fell asleep while holding his younger brother on the kang.

Liu Wu stood against the wall in the outer hall all night, throwing cigarette butts all over the floor.

On the first day of the new year, amidst the sound of firecrackers in the morning, the smoky outer hall was illuminated by the morning light, and the beauty became a solidified painting.

'In the painting' Yao Wang walks through the solidified smoke with his younger brother in his arms.

Maybe Yao Wang at this time is just like him many years ago, who doesn't know that what is gone will be lost forever.

The author has something to say:

What is gone is lost——"The Future Will Never End"