After a splash, there was the sound of water splashing, and then Silas He's panicked scream, like a slaughtered pig struggling to its death.
Elliot Huang looked at the man standing on the shore, his back turned to him, and he couldn't see his expression.
It doesn't get any better even if I think about it.
Anyone who hears his deceased brother being talked about like that will be angry.
The atmosphere by the pond was depressing.
Elliot Huang hesitated, should he take a few steps forward and say something to Rowan Li?
After all, he will be very passive when the other party questions him.
While Elliot Huang was thinking about it, Silas He had already swam ashore. He was a good swimmer. When he woke up, he kicked his legs and paddled wildly, and was greatly frightened.
"Cough cough cough..."
Silas He fell to the ground and kept coughing. He was scared to death. He felt like he was being grabbed by the leg by the Lord of Hell, and he almost entered the underworld.
"Are you sober?"
There was a voice from Leng Buding, and He Weicai noticed that there was more than one person standing behind him.
Damn, what's going on? It's late at night. Are these two people here specifically to see him get flooded?
Rowan Li squatted down, put one hand on his leg, held a cigarette in the other, and smiled with his teeth bared, extremely white.
"Where did you drink? You were so drunk that you died on the floor."
Silas He was stunned, "Ah?"
Rowan Li blew out a cloud of smoke in Silas He's face, "You drank too much."
"Wesley Zhang and I were passing by and saw you lying on the ground, so I planned to send you back, but you shouted that you wanted to take a bath, so you pushed us away and jumped into the pond."
Silas He choked on the smell of cigarette smoke and coughed even more violently. He twisted his neck back.
Seeing Silas He looking over, Elliot Huang nodded, "That's it."
After saying that, he noticed Rowan Li's gaze and gave him an "I know what to do" look in return.
Silas He wiped his face. He went to drink his nephew's full moon wine tonight and saw a newly married couple on the wine table.
The man graduated from elementary school and still has a hunchback, but his wife is very good-looking, with a nose like a nose, eyes like eyes, and a figure as plump as Isla Wu.
Silas He felt indignant. He considered himself decent-looking, in good health, graduated from junior high school, and had a good family, but he just couldn't find a decent wife.
Seeing the man's smile, Silas He felt that he was mocking himself. He lost his temper on the spot and was dragged to another table by others, but his anger did not go away.
Silas He poured one glass after another of liquor into his stomach. He drank too much. He remembered that he walked to the door of Isla Wu's house, grabbed the iron ring of the door and patted it a few times. After scolding for a while, he walked towards the small mountain forest.
From falling in the small mountain forest to falling into the pond, this section is completely blank.
My brain was broken into pieces.
Silas He's stomach turned, and he vomited it out.
The turbid and unpleasant smell dispersed, frantically wanting to embrace the cool air, and quickly merged into one.
Elliot Huang felt a little nauseous. He swallowed and moved aside.
Rowan Li patted Silas He on the shoulder, "Can you walk alone?"
The force on his shoulders was so strong that half of Silas He's body was tilted, and his face almost touched the vomit on the ground. He was disgusted, but he did not break away.
When he was ten years old, Li Dagui went to Yinzhuang to hook up with someone, and Silas He went with him. Unexpectedly, the woman had other lovers. A group of people had a conflict, and they picked up bricks and smashed them.
Silas He and Li Dagui were young and suffered a defeat. He had a bruised nose and face, and Li Dagui had a bloody head.
Just when the two of them were about to be pushed down and Fcuked like lost dogs, Rowan Li appeared on a bicycle, holding a steel pipe in his hand, and single-handedly defeated the group.
Silas He was originally afraid of Rowan Li, but became even more afraid after that. He would follow Li Dagui and call him brother, and would never openly confront him. Even if he was treated like this, he would not dare to express his anger.
If someone else had pressed him like this, he would have cursed him.
Silas He turned his head and gasped, "Brother, you go back with Wesley Zhang."
Rowan Li held the cigarette and smiled, and kindly reminded him, "Drink less in the future. It's easy to say the wrong thing."
Silas He's face turned pale.
Even when he was the only one left by the pond, he still felt that the chill that came out did not dissipate and seeped into his heart.
A gust of wind blew, and Silas He remembered how Li Dagui looked when he was fished out of the pond. His body was swollen, there was a lot of mud in the fingernails of his hands and feet, and his eyes were wide open, protruding outwards, and he could not close his eyes.
There was a shadow of a tree swaying not far away, as if someone was standing there. Silas He shuddered, hugged his arms in panic and ran away.
The small mountain forest connects Shanghechang and Shatang Village. There are graves in the mountains. This one and that one are a bit far apart, which is different from the dense mass graves.
There is also a coffin exposed in the forest. Everyone is not surprised. They don't see if there are any treasures in the coffin, and they won't bury the coffin again.
What people in the village care about is the harvest, how many eggs their chickens can produce, and how many eggs their daughter-in-law can lay.
Elliot Huang was walking on the path, and a piece of the sole of his shoe fell off, which made him panic.
A voice rang in his ears, "Why are you here in the mountains if you're not sleeping at home?"
"If you can't sleep, just go out for a walk."
Elliot Huang said, "I saw Silas He and thought he was uncomfortable and fainted, so I went to call him."
"Later I heard that Silas He mentioned Brother Dagui..."
Rowan Li interrupted the young man, "Why didn't you expose it just now?"
Elliot Huang said angrily, "Silas He deserves it when he says that to Brother Dagui!"
Rowan Li half-squinted his eyes and said with unclear meaning, "I remember Dagui accidentally hurt you." He couldn't remember the specific incident. He only remembered that his mother beat Dagui and took him to apologize to Meredith Chen.
If it was an accidental injury, it was intentional. Elliot Huang found it in the memory of the original owner, and it was very clear.
The original owner was still young at the time, and he was picking peaches under the tree. Li Dagui was playing with a few people throwing sandbags, and called him twice, saying he wanted to eat peaches.
If the original owner didn't give it, Li Dagui felt shameless and picked up the stones and threw them away.
The stone hit the original owner's eye, causing a lot of blood.
Elliot Huang said, "It happened a long time ago. Everyone was still young at that time, so it was nothing."
He pursed his lips, "Anyway, Brother Dagui is gone."
Rowan Li finished his cigarette in a muffled voice. He flicked the cigarette B*tt to the ground and ran it over with his shoe, "Let's go."
"Just pretend what happened tonight never happened."
"I know."
The man in front suddenly stopped. Elliot Huang bumped into him and hit his back with his nose, which was painful.
Elliot Huang frowned and tears instantly flowed out.
Rowan Li turned around and asked, "Are you okay?"
Elliot Huang covered his nose. The pain was so bad that he couldn't straighten his back. "Something's wrong, I'm almost in pain."
Rowan Li's expression was strange, just like that time in Tianli. He looked like he was half-dead after a small bump.
He looked at the young man's hair and asked, "Are you afraid of pain?"
Elliot Huang's lips turned white, "Yeah."
Rowan Li teased without sympathy, "This is a disease contracted by young masters from rich families. How did you get it?"
Huang Danxin said, I am the young master of a rich family.
It's just that fate is more twists and turns.
Pain nerves are too sensitive, causing all kinds of inconveniences in life, and easily attracting the eyes and contempt of others.
On the way back from get off work, I ended up here inexplicably. The guardian asked questions and didn't know anything. It's really hard to explain.
After that night, Silas He did not appear in the village for several days.
When Elliot Huang was watering vegetables in the vegetable field, he heard a few women talking, and then he learned that something had happened to Silas He. He had a high fever and was talking nonsense.
His family suspected that they were being haunted by an imp, and were planning to ask a Taoist priest to do the trick.
Put the dung scoop next to the cucumber stand, remove the paper ball from your nose, and don't do anything bad, and don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night. If you do something bad, you will inevitably be worried and afraid.
When Elliot Huang went back, he passed by an old locust tree and saw Rowan Li playing cards with someone under the tree. There was a circle of people around him, all puffing away.
"Have you finished watering the vegetables in winter?"
The one who spoke was Zhang Yingxiong, and except for him, no one else paid attention.
Turning around, Elliot Huang walked over.
One woman waved her hand in front of her nose and said, "It stinks. Did you pour feces on yourself in winter?"
The others laughed.
Elliot Huang lowered his head and said nothing.
Zhang Yingxiong doesn't read many books, and his thinking is relatively simple. He feels that introverts talk less and have more inner thoughts. He doesn't like that kind of people and is afraid of being cheated.
However, Wesley Zhang was his cousin, and he didn't feel very happy hearing everyone laugh at him in front of him.
So Zhang Yingxiong argued with the woman in the lead and started to quarrel.
Rowan Li, who had been playing cards, called out the yellow ticket. He threw out an ace of hearts and said, "Go buy a pack of cigarettes for me."
Elliot Huang said, "No money was given."
Rowan Li squinted, "You can't ask for money when playing cards, it will affect your luck."
Elliot Huang still didn't leave, and Zhang Yingxiong winked at him to no avail.
There were several women onlookers, whispering there that Elliot Huang didn't know how to behave, had no eyesight, and was not even half as good as his mother.
Some people flattered me and said they wanted to buy it for Rowan Li.
"Play your cards first."
After saying this with a smile, Rowan Li continued playing cards.
At the end of the hand, a buddy got the chance to play, and played the lowest straight, 3 to 7. He kept it specially, thinking that no one would be able to afford it, and he would definitely be able to leave. He was about to take the extra 3 He threw it away, but he didn't expect Rowan Li to pick it up and went directly to the other party's path.
Li Genliu had a hand waiting for him. From 4 to 8, no more than five cards, he just walked away. The friend was dumbfounded.
The other two people were busy feeling sorry, and they both felt that their cards were good.
Rowan Li turned the matchbox in a circle and glanced at the young man, "You go and say you want it, and the shop can keep accounts."
Only then did Elliot Huang leave.
Rowan Li shouted while shuffling the cards, "Do you know which brand to buy?"
Elliot Huang said, "I know."
Rowan Li only smokes 7-up in gold packaging, which costs one dollar per 51 pack. The cigarette has a long and slender body and no filter. He always has that smell on his body and can smell it from afar.
Elliot Huang bought cigarettes and went back. The card game was over and Rowan Li was counting the bills. There was a pile of 10-20 cents.
Rowan Li took the cigarette and tore off the transparent outer cover. "You didn't bind your feet. Why are you so slow to buy a cigarette?"
Elliot Huang said that he met a madman on the road and chased him. In order to get rid of the madman, he ran off the road.
The young man replied seriously. Rowan Li was stunned and couldn't continue joking, "Where is the madman?"
Elliot Huang said he didn’t know.
Taking a cigarette and lighting it on the table, Rowan Li suddenly came closer and frowned, "You do stink, didn't you get feces?"
Elliot Huang said, "It's stained on my shoes."
Rowan Li lowered his head and saw a stain on the grinning shoe on the left side of the young man, "...Fcuk."
"Your shoes are so rotten, what are you wearing?"
Elliot Huang said, "I have no shoes to wear. My mother is making them for me."
Rowan Li put his cigarette behind his ear, collected the tickets and playing cards on the table, and said, "Follow me."
Elliot Huang followed silently, guessing that this man wanted to give him shoes, and there must be old shoes that he couldn't fit into.
In the courtyard, Isla Wu was picking beans, and Wang Yuemei was feeding chickens in a wheelchair, "Winter is coming."
Elliot Huang called out, "Auntie, Sister Isla Wu."
This was the first time he met Rowan Li's mother, Wang Yuemei. She was a few years older than Meredith Chen. She didn't have a rough and vicissitudes of life, and there was a sense of age between her eyebrows.
Wang Yuemei is tidy and well-dressed. She pays great attention to her appearance. Her fingernails are trimmed, there are some silver threads on her temples, which are all tucked behind her ears. A few honeysuckle are fixed in her hair with black clips.
Even in her early fifties, she still had a temperament about her that other women in the village did not have, including Meredith Chen.
Elliot Huang learned from the memory of the original owner that Wang Yuemei loved the eldest son, disliked the second eldest child, and was hopeless. He only knew how to make a fool of himself outside and wiped his a** at home.
Wang Yuemei turned the porcelain basin over and patted it, "Winter, what are you looking at?"
Elliot Huang came to his senses and said, "That chicken with a black tail looks like my chicken."
Wang Yuemei joked, "The chicken-red swab on the neck is different from yours. Your swabs are all on the B*tt0cks."
Elliot Huang said, "Yes."
"Auntie, I made a mistake."
Rowan Li took out two pairs of shoes and said, "See if I can wear them."
Elliot Huang took off his dirty shoes and stuffed his feet into his blue-gray sneakers, "You can wear them."
He went to try on another pair, which also fit.
Rowan Li said, "These two pairs are my old shoes. Since they can be worn, you can take them back and wear them."
Elliot Huang said, "Thank you, brother."
Rowan Li waved his hand and went to the henhouse to touch the eggs.
Elliot Huang held a pair of shoes in his hands, "Auntie, Sister Isla Wu, I'm going back."
Isla Wu suddenly said, "Winter, wait."
She went back to the house and picked up a few books, "These are Chinese and mathematics for the first grade of junior high school, and there is another book containing three hundred Tang poems."
"I heard Hero mention it two days ago, saying that if you want to study, you should take these back and read them first. If you don't understand, you can ask me."
...
Besides saying thank you, what else can Elliot Huang say? He put the book in his arm and turned away.
Two roosters were flapping their wings and fighting in the courtyard, and the porcelain basin in the middle was shaken all over.
Wang Yuemei asked Isla Wu to take away the porcelain basin. She frowned, "When did you wash your hair? Why is it so greasy?"
Isla Wu said, "It's been two days."
"It's such a hot summer. If you don't wash your hair for two days, it's going to go rancid."
Wang Yuemei's words were strong, "Wash your hair before cooking lunch."
Isla Wu responded, "Okay."
Wang Yuemei seemed to have remembered something, "Silas He is sick. Please find time to take an old hen there."
Isla Wu raised her head, "But Mom, Silas He..."
Wang Yuemei said impatiently, "Isla Wu, Mom knows that you are a cultured person and have read a lot of books. You don't need Mom to teach you about the ways of the world."
Isla Wu held the porcelain basin and said, "That's what mom said."
The conversation between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law didn't end until Rowan Li came over with eggs.
Elliot Huang went home and told him about the shoes.
Meredith Chen pulled the hemp rope to catch the chickens in the rice bed, "Take what is given to you. After you have been busy for a while, mom will finish making your shoes, and we will have new shoes to wear."
It doesn't matter if it's old or new, it doesn't matter whether it's new or old shoes, as long as they fit your feet, they are good shoes.
He went to wash and cook rice, something he had never done since he was a child. If the housekeeper saw this scene, he would faint from fear.
Meredith Chen limped into the kitchen, washed the gourds and put them on the chopping board to cut them.
Elliot Huang sat by the pot hole, grabbed a handful of pine hair, struck a match to light the fire, and quickly stuffed the hole into the pot when it lit up, throwing finer wood into it.
He couldn't do it at first, but now he can do it well.
They were all forced.
Elliot Huang poked at the hole in the pot with the tongs and asked casually, "Mom, can you tell me about Aunt Wang's past?"
Meredith Chen's voice was caught in the chorus of "dang dang dang", "Why do you ask this so suddenly?"
Elliot Huang said, "I saw Aunt Wang sitting in a wheelchair today, but she still couldn't stand up."
"She was so stimulated that she had a stroke. It was very difficult."
Meredith Chen said, "It was harder than it is now."
Elliot Huang's face was reflected in the firelight and turned red, "Really?"
Meredith Chen said yes, it was very painful. She also said that there was no food at that time, there was a famine, and she would be beaten to death if she committed any crime. Later, she slowly got better.
Elliot Huang listened carefully.
"Your Aunt Wang could dance and sing when she was young. She was very decent."
Meredith Chen put the gourds cut into pieces into a bowl, "She and I were married to the village. She married the village chief at that time, and I married a pockmarked man, who was your father."
Elliot Huang said, "Mom, you are better looking than Aunt Wang."
Meredith Chen listened to her son's words with a smile on her face, "Just make your mother happy."
Elliot Huang put down the tongs and held his chin to look at the crackling firewood. Wang Yuemei, who was in her fifties, looked younger than Meredith Chen, who was less than fifty years old.
To be exact, of all the women in the village put together, no one is as good as Wang Yuemei.
If you were twenty or thirty years younger, the gap would definitely be even greater.
"Is Aunt Wang a village beauty?"
"Not a village belle."
Meredith Chen wiped the large pot with a rag and poured in a little rapeseed oil. "Your Aunt Wang is famous throughout the county and has many suitors."
As expected, Elliot Huang was curious about what Wang Yuemei looked like when she was young. There must be photos at home, and he would like to see them if he had the chance.
"I think Auntie is a little biased."
Elliot Huang still had the same casual tone, "I don't really like Brother Dagui."
"The eldest brother has been sensible since he was a child and studies well. He goes to college and works in a big city. The second brother is naughty and mischievous. He runs away as soon as he goes to school and doesn't want to study. He spends today and tomorrow and accomplishes nothing in the end."
Meredith Chen said, "No one can handle a bowl of water evenly."
Elliot Huang threw in a piece of firewood, so who is the murderer?
Silas He, Isla Wu, Rowan Li, and now there is another Wang Yuemei.
However, no matter how partial he is, he will not kill his son.
Elliot Huang asked the system if it could give him some hints, and the elimination method could also be used.
System, "Sorry, there's nothing I can do."
Elliot Huang changed his question and asked, "Why haven't the points dropped again?"
System, "I think it's not the right time."
Elliot Huang, "Oh, I know."
Just tell him tactfully that the progress of the task is too slow and he still needs to work hard.
In the evening, Meredith Chen asked Elliot Huang to cut pigweed and come back.
"Hurry up, don't waste time, the pigs are waiting to be eaten, otherwise it will be dark."
"oh."
Elliot Huang went to cut pig grass with a sickle and a big bamboo basket on his back, and met Rowan Li herding cattle.
The two met each other.
Rowan Li's eyes glanced at the young man's feet, then moved away. He pointed to a place, "There are more over there."
Elliot Huang went over and stood in the middle of a piece of green pigweed, bending down and doing it.
Rowan Li squatted on the wooden pier, "I heard from Isla Wu that she gave you textbooks and Tang poems?"
Huang Shan said, "I haven't read it yet."
Rowan Li blew out the cigarette on the ground without asking any more questions. He picked up the radio on the ground and turned it on. Then he rode on the back of the cow, put his hands behind his head, and listened to the song comfortably.
The ox slowly ate grass, just like its owner.
The atmosphere was quite good.
A buffalo came over from the other side. She was a female. She kept barking at the buffalo and blatantly seduced her. It was simply lawless.
The scalper was hooked and ran wildly towards the buffalo.
Rowan Li jumped down from the cow's back at the critical moment. He didn't stand firm and knelt down directly, right in front of Elliot Huang.
Yellow slip, ...
Seeing the young man's mouth pursed and the corners of his mouth bent, Rowan Li asked with a dark face, "Is it funny?"
Elliot Huang said, "It's not funny."
He has never been able to smile since he can remember. He doesn't understand what the emotion is, so he can only imitate it. When others grin, he will grin too. When others laugh, he will cover their stomachs, so he will do the same.
What he is best at currently is laughing, because it is easy to learn and not difficult.
Everything else is something you learn and forget. You must focus on the reference target and learn it now.
The mouth shape of this body is a bit upturned, and it looks like it is smiling.
Elliot Huang threw the pigweed in his hand into the bamboo basket and said seriously, "Brother, stop kneeling. The ground is covered with mud. Get up quickly."
Only then did Rowan Li realize that he was still kneeling. He had been thrown away and had not recovered yet.
He stood up with an ugly expression on his face, "Damn it!"
There is still a song playing on the radio, singing about the blue sky, white clouds, green mountains and green water, and the tune is very good.
The buffalo and the ox quickly became familiar with each other, and they talked in a very quiet manner.
Elliot Huang continued to cut pig grass. After a while, he changed places. When he was walking, he accidentally tripped his foot on a grass vine and leaned forward uncontrollably.
Rowan Li subconsciously caught Elliot Huang. Their lips met, and their four lips collided. His teeth hit each other, and his mouth bled.
The smell of rust entered his lungs with his breath, and Rowan Li's face turned green. He pushed the young man away vigorously, wiped his mouth in disgust, and spit several times on the ground.
Yellow slips are bah.
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