Chi training
Chapter 1, Act 1
He rushed them away: "Okay, okay, let's all go to sleep!"
The children made faces at her, and the woman shook her head and sighed, seemingly helpless.
Xiao Ai wanted to cry.
Father asked for a pack of cigarettes and bought a cream popsicle. He handed it to Xiao Ai, but Xiao Ai dared not take it.
"Silly son." The father said with a smile, and the father and son sat on the threshold of the grocery store.Xiao Ai looked towards the entrance of the mahjong hall, and her mother picked up Ai Xin and walked towards them.
Father put the pack of popsicles on Xiao Ai's face.
"Your mother..." Father swallowed, and touched Xiao Ai's head, "She is just a little anxious."
Xiao Ai said: "Because you are going to gamble!"
Father laughed twice: "I won't gamble in the future, I won't gamble anymore."
The father looked at Xiao Ai and said, "My brother is a big boy."
Xiao Ai said: "But everyone is still a child, why should I be a big child?"
Father patted him, and Xiao Ai lowered her head and cried.
When Shen Ying was young, Shen Huaisu often read to him, first some easy-to-understand fairy tales, then "Moby Dick", "The Old Man and the Sea", "The Loud and Restless", and later "Rashomon" , "Brain Hell" and "Brave New World".He also used a slide projector to show Shen Ying various pictures, realistic landscape photos, various flowers, various trees, colorful, lush, vibrant, famous paintings, Raphael, Da Vinci, Mo Nye, Cézanne, Munch, Dunhuang murals, and pictures of animals, jaguars, rattlesnakes, moths with skull-like patterns on their wings, giraffes, elephants, praying mantises, ants, etc. The images of people are cut one after another on the white curtain, Marilyn Monroe standing on the air vent with her skirt covered, Alain Delon standing on the deserted street, all the beautiful men and women are finished, they just look at ordinary people , ordinary faces, children, old people, living people, and dead bodies.
Once, Fifth Sister accidentally ran into Shen Huaisu showing a slide show for Shen, a bloody human head followed by an epiphyllum blooming in the dark night.Fifth Sister was so frightened that she rushed in, hugged Shen Ying and ran away.Later that day, Shen Huaisu secretly carried Shen Ying out of Fifth Sister's bedroom and brought him into Chilian Peak.
In Chilian Peak, there are many flowers, many trees to see, and butterflies fluttering lightly, passing by the water. Elephants and jaguars do not live here, but there are many ants.The ants in the mountains are very big, and some of them can bite people. Shen Huaisu is very good at identifying this kind of ants that can bite people. He caught one on a big rock covered with moss on a half side of a stream.He put it on Shen Ying's right index finger.The ants crawled along Shen Ying's fingers, and Shen Huaisu and Shen Ying said, "This kind of ants are the ones I said can bite people."
As if to confirm Shen Huaisu's statement, the ant's big head was lifted up for a moment, and then lowered heavily, leaving a small red spot on Shen Ying's finger.Shen Huaisu looked at Shen Ying: "When you are bitten, you will bleed and it will hurt. Do you feel pain now? Pain is to describe your current feeling. Of course, this is just a very slight pain. People will hurt, and the most important thing is to bring people The meaning is that the next time you see something that hurts him, your first reaction is to be afraid of it and hide away."
Shen Ying remained expressionless and didn't move. The ant crawled on his hand and fell down by itself into the grass, where it couldn't be found.
It was the dry season, and at the end of June, the water level at the entrance of the General's Treasure Cave had already risen to the height of Shen Huaisu's calf.He led Shen Ying to wade into the cave.
Shen Ying is five years old, taller than other children of the same age, wearing a shirt, stockings, and plaid overalls, dressed like a little British gentleman, the water wets his shoes and socks, but he is not at all Embarrassed, he didn't care, went into the cave, took off his shoes and socks, and walked barefoot beside Shen Huaisu.Shen Huaisu illuminated the road ahead with a flashlight, and the sound of dripping water could be heard from time to time. Shen Huaisu spoke a little louder: "This is where the savages live. I don't know where the savages will come out. They love to catch children and catch them." After I left, I took it home and baked it.”
The cave is not big enough to generate an echo, Shen Huaisu's voice seemed dry, he asked Shen Ying: "Are you afraid?"
Shen Ying blinked with her leather shoes in her arms.
Shen Huaisu further said: "If you are eaten, you will die." He asked Shen Ying, "Do you know what death is?"
The sound of dripping water became louder and louder, but the frequency became lower and lower. It took a long time to hear the second sound after the first drip. Shen Ying didn't look at the road or Shen Huaisu, he looked at the place where the dripping sound came from.
It was a place deviated from their path, not invaded by any light, and it was dark, as if the darkness had grown deep on the wall there, as if it had existed since the birth of the earth, far beyond any kind of light. The breath existed long before it passed through it, long before human activity.As if it will never be disturbed.
Shen Huaisu was still talking: "Death is...you can't feel anything anymore."
Shen Ying was still staring blankly at the dark place, what attracted him so much there?Shen Huaisu couldn't help but also looked over, he couldn't see anything except darkness, so he took a flashlight to shine on it, there was nothing unusual, it was just another uneven wall, and it was overflowing in sight before. The darkness hides at the edge of the light beam.On the wall was a circular aperture with furry edges.
Shen Huaisu laughed softly, removed the flashlight, continued to walk forward, and continued: "No wonder you are not afraid of death, don't you feel nothing now?"
He also said: "Once upon a time there was a general who won battles and looted a lot of gold and silver treasures, but he didn't want others to know that he had so many treasures. He wanted to use them when he needed them. He wanted to find a place to hide them, just as he passed this cave, he thought, I want to hide these treasures here, so he took a golden battle robe, a golden mask, and many other treasures They are all hidden here. But before he could use the treasures, he died. The people who took the treasures from him resented him, haunted him and killed him after death."
Shen Huaisu walked a little faster, and when he turned around, Shen Ying was left far behind by him. Shen Huaisu shone the flashlight behind him. On the muddy path, a long shadow of a small child was slowly approaching him.Shen Ying left one small footprint after another on the ground.He walked to Shen Huaisu's side. I don't know if it was out of fear or for some other reason. Shen Ying tugged at Shen Huaisu's hand. Shen Huaisu was excited for a moment: "Are you afraid? Are you afraid?"
He was suddenly a little proud, but immediately he was swallowed by a sense of loss, he looked at Shen Ying, and asked one after another: "Why don't you speak?"
"Did you have the wrong birth?"
"Are you my child?"
"Is it so difficult to speak?"
"Dad, say Dad, Dad, is it so difficult?"
"As long as the lips touch together up and down, and then separate." He squeezed Shen Ying's chin and pulled his upper lip, Shen Ying broke free, Shen Huaisu reached out again, opened his mouth, and put his fingers in, he I don’t understand, he has a tongue, and his vocal cords are intact—at least every doctor told him so, and many doctors said that Shen Ying has a psychological problem—nonsense, nonsense, a child, Is it possible to suffer from mental illness right from the womb?A baby is a blank sheet of paper, how could there be any blank sheet of paper that would make it impossible for any kind of pen to write?
Shen Huaisu slapped Shen Ying across the face.Shen Ying touched his face and looked up at him. When Shen Huaisu raised his arms again, Shen Ying still looked at him like this.There is no resentment, no confusion, and no grievance in his eyes. He is not born with these emotions. He is born without any emotions. He is born with no fear of darkness, fear of scolding and violence. The ancient primitive man gained life in one day, opened his eyes, stood on a field and looked at everything.He has not yet experienced darkness, he has not yet experienced battles for food or mates, he does not know that the ground beneath his feet grows food, that food nourishes him and sustains his life, and he does not understand that sunlight allows him to see clearly Many things can bring him warmth and bring the earth a good harvest. At that time, he did not need fire to keep warm and cook. At that time, he was ignorant of anything, and nothing could touch him.He will understand when the first dark night of his life comes.
The second time, Shen Huaisu couldn't hit it.
After he and Shen Ying came out of the mountains, Fifth Sister was trying to find an assistant for Shen Huaisu. At Shen Ying's age, several aunts seemed to give up trying to make him normal. Only the youngest sister, Shen Huaisu, came here every now and then. The Shen family lived idle, and the Fifth Sister said to Shen Huaisu earnestly: "To be honest, I don't think Shen Ying's problem can be solved in three to five years. You teach him and take care of him. I can see that you have spent a lot of time. Thoughtful, but you can’t waste your academic research just because of this child, can you? I’ve heard about things being stolen from Tianfu Palace a while ago. Although it’s not a treasure, it’s something left by the older generation There is always research value, maybe you will find them useful for your mural research in the future? It’s not that you are not allowed to take care of your children, even your major should not be neglected. I will find you an assistant, and I can help you anywhere Wouldn't it be nice for you to do me a favor?"
That's how graduate student Xiao Liu came to the Shen family.
Although Xiao Liu was nominally Shen Huaisu's academic research assistant, Shen Huaisu soon discovered the real purpose of Fifth Sister's placing Xiao Liu by his side. She was afraid that he would show Shen Ying horror photos and tell him horror stories. It's his fifth sister's eyeliner, I'm afraid he will ruin Shen Ying's teaching, hurt her, or lose it.
Xiao Liu also carried out his own monitoring tasks brilliantly: Shen Huaisu was going to take Shen Ying into the mountain, and before he went out, Fifth Sister followed behind with an umbrella. After walking a few steps in the mountain, he led Shen Ying to go home Shen Huaisu asked Shen Ying to learn how to ride a horse, and Xiao Liu went to hold the reins immediately; Shen Huaisu read "Lolita" to Shen Ying, while Xiao Liu stood quietly, and the next day Nabokov disappeared from the bookshelf.Xiao Liu claimed that the university majored in sociology, and Shen Huaisu suspected that he was from the police school. In short, Shen Huaisu couldn't get rid of him no matter what.But Shen Huaisu found that when he was teaching Shen Ying to paint, Xiao Liu not only helped take the palette, set up the easel, and accompanied him silently, he would occasionally look into the garden.
Every afternoon at three o'clock, when they were drawing in the study, Mei Jian would go to the garden to look at the roses she planted.
Shen Huaisu didn't take Shen Ying into the mountains anymore, and he didn't go riding a horse anymore. He just played chess with Shen Ying in the study, watched him draw, and taught him how to read. I have to go to the study to copy the research materials and sort out the mural photos.
The weather is getting hotter and hotter, Mei Jia's neckline is getting lower and lower, the color of the dress is getting brighter, and Xiao Liu's eyes are falling on Mei Jia more and more.
When the summer of that year was coming to an end, one day, Shen Ying took a nap, and the house was quiet. He walked from his bedroom to the living room, passed through the kitchen, and walked into the garden. The servants at home were all in the kitchen Taking a nap on my stomach, the huge garden is full of sunshine.Shen Ying walked to a small wooden house in the garden where sundries were stored.There was a square window on the wall on one side of the wooden house. The glass was a little dirty, but someone could still see clearly inside.a woman.his mother.
The mother half closed her eyes, and Xiao Liu was leaning against her chest. The mother looked very intoxicated and enjoying herself.
Shen Ying looked up, down, left, and right, a group of ants slipped by his feet, he squatted down, pinched one of them and put it on his fingers, there was a moaning sound from the cabin, and the ants crawled from his index finger to his middle finger .A black shadow covered Shen Ying's body.Shen Ying raised her head, and Shen Huaisu was standing behind him.
Shen Huaisu glanced at the wooden house, and asked Shen Ying with a smile: "What are you doing?"
Shen Ying rubbed her hands, the ant on his finger fell to the ground and did not move.
"You killed an ant?" Shen Huaisu was excited, "Why did you kill it? Do you hate it? Or is it because it bit you?"
He grabbed Shen Ying's finger and looked at it again and again, there was no sign of being bitten on it.Shen Ying didn't speak, Shen Huaisu smiled and asked him again: "Do you know what mother is doing inside?"
"Do you think Mom is a bad woman?"
"She has a husband and a child, but she still behaves like other men, it's immoral, she can't do this, such a woman will be arrested, tattooed on the face, stoned, beaten to death .”
Shen Ying blinked her eyes, dropped her hands on the grass, and scratched the grass on the ground.
Shen Huaisu still looked at him and asked, "If I go in now, what do you think will happen? Do you want me to go in now?"
"Mom and Xiao Liu will be so ashamed..." Shen Huaisu glanced at the cobblestone path, and also picked up an ant. The ant froze in his palm, its tentacles kept shaking, and it looked very panicked.
"They might want to die right away." Shen Huaisu said, he stood up, the ant fell to the ground, he patted his pants, looked down at Shen Ying: "I should go and tell my mother, you told me she was here , will she hate you? Or will she be more ashamed? Will she die?"
Shen Ying was still squatting, with her arms on her knees.There was a slight smile on Shen Huaisu's mouth: "Anyway, you don't know what death is."
He walked to the cabin.
Shen Ying stared in the direction of the wooden house without saying a word.
Ai Hongshan ran away from home again.He stole some copperware and diving equipment from Tianfu Palace, and was chased into the mountain. He grew up on Chilian Peak, and entering the mountain was like stepping into his own backyard. After a while, those scholars and professors in Tianfu Palace had no choice but to find the elder of Chilianzhai and ask him to go into the mountains to arrest people, otherwise they will call the police and let the police uphold justice. For the elders, first arrest the captain of the Qiongling Police Station for them. I was invited, and the big guys sat around a copper stove for boiling water at the elder's house, drinking tea, smoking tobacco, smoking cigarettes, talking about it for a long time, the elder asked Wang Yunmei to come over, and secretly smoked Yes, tell her to bring a pair of children.Wang Yunmei understood what the elder meant, and found two sets of worn-out clothes for Xiao Ai and Ai Xin to change into, and dragged the family along.She kowtowed to everyone when she entered the door. Xiao Ai saw it and kowtowed, and Ai Xin saw it and learned to kowtow. She didn't know the severity, so she hit her head hard on the ground and kowtowed. The two old professors couldn't see it. After going down, the mother and son were stopped, and they kept saying: "It's not worth it, it's not worth it."
Captain Guan chimed in and said, "It's not a valuable item. The valuable ones have already been donated to the museum. Get up, get up, it's a mess..."
Another person said: "Even if we don't want things, you should always look for them. What if you are in danger on the mountain?"
Wang Yunmei wiped her tears, the elder waved her big hand, and ordered her two sons to organize people from the village to go to the mountain to find someone tomorrow, vowing to bring Ai Hongshan back and give everyone an explanation.
The next morning, more than a dozen people from Chilian village marched into the mountain, and at noon, everyone happily fought against the two wild boars and returned to the village.Wang Yunmei shared some pork and stewed meat soup at home. Xiao Ai didn't eat it, so she ran to the mountains to find her father in the afternoon.The next day, no one entered the mountain again, and Xiao Ai continued to run up the mountain. For two days, three days, and four days, he searched Chilian Peak and found no trace of Ai Hongshan. Everyone said that Ai Hongshan was early. So I turned down Qiongling. If you want to catch him, you might as well go to Yusong's pawnshop and inquire about it.
But Xiaoai will still go into the mountains.In the dark, he felt that his father was still in Qiongling, hiding in a certain big tree or sleeping in a certain cave.After looking for Chilian Peak, he went to other mountains to look for it. On this day, he took a boat to Qianshan and searched in the heavy rain.
The rain was too heavy, like a heavy rain in the wet season. The rain water poured down from the sky like a waterfall, and the greenery on the trees was washed to the ground, forming a river of green.Xiao Ai struggled to walk on the slippery and muddy mountain path with his slippers on. The accumulated water on the mountain path had reached his calf, and the current was still very fast. After walking for a long time, his slippers were washed away. Xiao Ai Had to climb the mountain barefoot.
Dark clouds covered the sky and the sun was covered with wind and rain. Not to mention tourists on the road, not a single mountain dweller could be seen, and no one who wanted to ask for directions could be found.Xiao Ai got lost in the front mountain.He didn't heave a sigh of relief until he encountered a small river flowing down and followed it to the General's Sword Washing Pool.He knew that Taoyuan Village was nearby, and as long as the rain subsided, he believed that he could find the way to Taoyuan Village.But right now, he has to quickly find a place to shelter from the rain and warm himself up. Xiao Ai glanced at the treasure cave behind the pool. with people.Xiao Ai rubbed his eyes and looked again. Suddenly, he seemed to see a cluster of flames.Xiao Ai jumped into the pool and swam to the entrance of the cave.
Xiao Ai is good at water, and the black fish in the pond don't bite him, they pass close to his body, some of them will touch his hand as if they are playing with him, and swim around him.Xiao Ai quickly swam into the treasure cave. There was no rain in the cave, but he regretted it after walking in a few steps. He didn't have a lighter or a flashlight, so he couldn't see anything immediately , and the flame was nowhere to be found.
Xiao Ai touched the wall of the cave and called out, "Abba..."
no respond.
Could the flame be his illusion?Could it really be his father?still……
Xiao Ai thought of the story of the savage.He trembled, touched the wall and wanted to leave, he could call his mother over, call the elders over, and come here with everyone to find his father, he didn't want to be captured by wild men, he didn't want to die, but the strange thing is, Mingming entered When I was in the cave, I just walked a few steps forward, still walking along the wall, but I went backwards to go back the same way, but I couldn’t find the entrance. It was dark everywhere, there was no wind around, and the water covered the back of my feet. Cool.Xiao Ai sneezed, and he felt dizzy for a while. Maybe he was hungry, tired, or too scared. He leaned against the wall, squatted on the ground, and shivered with his arms folded.At this time, someone patted him on the shoulder, and Xiao Ai clenched his fist and swung it out.It's a savage!he thought.I'm going to be eaten!he thought again.He was about to run, but suddenly, a ray of light hit him, and his eyes were white, Xiao Ai screamed, he is really a savage!The savage is all white!Xiao Ai ran towards the white space, and wanted to run, when a familiar voice rang in his ears, and a big hand grabbed his thin arm.
"It's me! Your father!"
Xiao Ai closed her eyes, threw herself on Ai Hongshan, and hit her with a few more fists.Ai Hongshan pulled Xiao Ai away, and Xiao Ai's legs softened, and she sat on the ground and cried loudly: "I thought it was a savage! You want to scare me to death! I was scared to death by you!!"
Ai Hongshan couldn't laugh or cry, patted Xiao Ai, wiped his face, and picked him up from the ground.Xiao Ai became quiet, wrapped her arms around her father's neck, leaned her head on his father's shoulder, and sniffed hard.Father had a faint fishy smell, like herbs mixed with snake blood.Xiao Ai smelled her hands, and he seemed to have the same smell.He hugged his father tighter.
"Where are your shoes?" Ai Hongshan asked Xiao Ai.
"I lost it." Xiao Ai muttered, "It's because I came to look for you."
Ai Hongshan looked at him and rubbed the back of his head: "I'm going to be scolded by your mother again."
Xiao Ai asked him: "Are you afraid of being scolded so you don't go home?"
Ai Hongshan held a flashlight in one hand, hugged Xiao Ai in the other, walked through one door after another, and finally got into a low hole with a cat on his waist. A fire was lit in the hole, and the fire was a little weak. Ai Hongshan put Xiao Ai , I took out some firewood from a backpack leaning against the wall and threw it into the bonfire. A few sparks flew out, and the fire ignited.Xiao Ai took off her vest and held it by the fire to dry it.
Ai Hongshan asked him: "Did you not get bitten by Ai?" He pulled Xiao Ai to his side and helped him hold the clothes to bake. He looked at Xiao Ai and said, "You are too courageous, if you really meet Savage, what do you do if you encounter tigers and wolves?"
Xiao Ai looked at Ai Hongshan's backpack, which was bulging.Ai Hongshan put his backpack on his back, smiled, and continued, "There are snakes! I can't see the road clearly at night, let alone snakes. Chi Lian bites me and kills me."
Xiao Ai bit her lip tightly, and sat on the ground, leaning against Ai Hongshan, holding his big hand, without speaking.
Ai Hongshan asked Xiao Ai: "Are you afraid after entering the treasure cave?"
Xiao Ai nodded, her stomach growling.
Ai Hongshan smiled, threw the vest to Xiao Ai, and said, "Just know you're afraid!"
After Xiao Ai got dressed, he saw Ai Hongshan pull out a red snake from a corner where the light of the fire could not reach. Xiao Ai trembled, and Ai Hongshan winked at him, holding the long and thin red snake Shake twice in front of him.The snake is dead.Xiao Ai turned her face away in anger, and stopped looking at Ai Hongshan.
Ai Hongshan peeled the snake's skin with a dagger, dug out the snake's gall, and swallowed it raw with his head up. He got some snake blood on his hands, and he wiped it on Xiao Ai's forehead.
Xiao Ai wrinkled her nose, and Ai Hongshan picked a slender wooden branch from the fire, blew out the flames above it, skewered snake meat, and grilled it by the fire.Then, he grabbed a smaller and shorter red snake from the corner.He handed the dagger to Xiao Ai.
Xiao Ai leaned under the light of the fire and skillfully peeled off a piece of snake skin. He looked at Ai Hongshan, Ai Hongshan nuzzled his chin, Xiao Ai cut open the snake's belly and took off the snake's gall, Ai Hongshan nudged his chin again, Xiao Ai frowned and put the snake gall into her mouth.Ai Hongshan lifted his chin up sharply, and Xiao Ai swallowed the snake gall.This is the first time he has eaten snake gallbladder raw.It was too bitter and fishy, and he wanted to vomit.Ai Hongshan covered his mouth, his eyes were burning and scalding horribly, Xiao Ai quickly swallowed his saliva, grabbed his pants tightly, held back, and endured it. After a while, Ai Hongshan let go of his hands , There was a warm smile on his face again, and he said to Xiaoai: "Don't be afraid in the future, you are a man now, you have to take good care of your sister and mother, you know?"
Xiao Ai said in a low voice: "Father, let's go home."
He also picked a branch, blew out the flames, put snake meat on a skewer, and inserted it into the fire.
Ai Hongshan turned back and patted the backpack, leaned on it, and sat more comfortably, sighed, smiled, and said nothing.Xiao Ai looked at her feet, picked up a branch and poked the fire, and the fire burned even more vigorously, making crackling noises.Xiao Ai couldn't help but asked Ai Hongshan: "Abba, why are you going to gamble?"
"Abba is useless. Abba can't let you live a good life."
"Do useless people go to gamble?"
"Useless people can only gamble on luck."
"You still steal things."
"Yes, stealing is not good, Dad is a bad person." Ai Hongshan said.
"A useless villain."
Ai Hongshan patted Xiao Ai, stretched out his hand to touch the snake meat, and suddenly said, "Daddy, let me dance for you."
Xiao Ai shook her head: "I don't want to watch the dance, you and I go home."
"Go home after dancing."
"Go home and dance."
"In the future, you will have to dance this dance to pretend to be a god. You have to learn it early and late." Ai Hongshan said, "In a few years, when you are seventeen, you will dance every year."
"I'm seventeen, are you too old to dance?"
"Immortals don't like to look at old bones."
Xiao Ai blinked, and Ai Hongshan got out of the short hole, and stood at a place where the fire was faint and a thin stream of water flowed through.He took off his shoes, walked into the water, and danced for Xiao Ai.
His shadow on the wall was also dancing, and his shadow on the ground was dancing too, and in the water, it was crooked, like the reflection of a snake dancing.Lots of fathers dancing.
After the dance, Ai Hongshan stood panting. Xiao Ai picked up a string of snake meat and handed it to him. Ai Hongshan took a big bite.
"You have to be able to survive without eating meat for seven days."
"I haven't eaten meat for half a month." Xiao Ai swallowed, "Grandma said, meat is nutritious, I ate too much nutrition in my grandma's stomach, I don't need it, I leave it to Ai Heart to eat."
Ai Hongshan tore some snake meat and gave it to Xiao Ai. Xiao Ai took only a small bite, held the rest in her hand, and said, "I'll take it back for my grandma and Ai Xin to eat."
"Silly, it will be cold and it won't taste good. Eat it quickly."
Xiao Ai just took a second bite.
Ai Hongshan said again: "I still need to meditate."
He pulled the backpack out of the hole and put it on the ground. He sat down, leaned on the backpack, straightened his back, crossed his legs, put his hands on his knees, and hung them up."It's like this," he said.
Xiao Ai learns from others.Ai Hongshan said again: "Close your eyes."
Xiao Ai didn't dare to close his eyes. His father was sitting not too close to him, in a very dark place. It took him a lot of energy just to see him and to see every expression on his face clearly.He is very tired.
Ai Hongshan smiled at Xiao Ai, and said: "If you meditate in a room like this, you will not be able to open your eyes for seven days and seven nights when the god is on your body, but don't worry, someone will serve you when you eat and take a bath. Someone will paint on your body, it may be a little itchy, and you can't open your eyes, the eyes of the gods cannot be polluted by this world... You can think about it..." Ai Hongshan paused, looking at Xiao Ai, Xiao Ai still opened her eyes and looked at him.Ai Hongshan stood up, reached over to close Xiao Ai's eyes, and covered Xiao Ai's face with his big hand, and continued: "You can think about Ai Xin, your mother, you have been thinking about it for a long time, and you have been thinking about it for a long time. Thinking about it, you can see them without opening your eyes, and you won’t feel lonely. With them to accompany you, you won’t be bored in those seven days. As long as you are devout enough and hardworking enough, then you You don't have to see them, you've seen them.
"Remember, you must close your eyes, close them tightly, and don't look around."
"Pious enough...you can't look around..." Xiao Ai didn't quite understand the meaning of the word "pious" at that time, he just repeated it to his father intermittently.
He didn't open his eyes, and he didn't look around.He fell into a heavy sleep.
Father left and never came back.
The mother beat Xiao Ai bitterly, and said bitterly: "Okay, you can go! You can go! Get lost!"
She was scolding her father, maybe she was also scolding Xiao Ai, but Xiao Ai didn't leave, he was bad, he didn't do good things before he was born, and made his sister an imbecile, after he was born, nothing happened What a good thing, I can't do anything well, I can't take good care of my sister, and I often make my mother angry, and even found my father but couldn't bring him home.He can't go on like this anymore, he must make up for his sister and take good care of his mother.
Ai Xin began to yell without knowing what to say on the bed again, Xiao Ai went to hug her.
Shen Ying has been exposed to a game similar to drumming and passing flowers in a school for special children. The rules are simpler than the drumming and passing flowers he learned later. Next, the one got the flower, held it firmly, and signaled to the teacher's child that he could get a candy.
Whose life is not a drumming pass?
Specifically reflected in Shen Ying's "flower", the process of this game is as follows: He first stayed with Mei Jian for a while, and then he was surrounded by his five aunts, the gods and Buddhas in the sky, the holy father and the holy spirit, and the majestic spirit of heaven and earth. He took over one by one, and then he was passed on to Shen Huaisu, the drums continued to beat, who was beating the drums?What kind of mentality do you have to watch a good show?Anyway, the accompaniment drumming disturbed Shen Huaisu, he handed Shen Ying over, and Shen Ying returned to Mei Jia's hands.
Mei Jian had an affair with Xiao Liu, and after the Dong Chuang incident, she did not commit suicide in shame, her face was not tattooed, and she was not stoned to death by anyone, she and Shen Huaisu filed for divorce, and she wanted to take Shen Ying away.Shen Huaisu's reaction was very violent, he didn't care about the property of the house, but Shen Ying absolutely wanted to stay by his side, his research on Shen Ying was not over yet, he didn't want to admit defeat yet, if necessary, he would go to the court with Mei Jia to go to court, Shen Ying must not go with her.
Mei Jian laughed at this, and talked a lot with Shen Huaisu, she said: "Okay, I have no objection if you want to go through this procedure, but let me remind you, go to the court to sue for divorce, what do you want to sue me? Sue me Haven’t fulfilled the responsibility of being a mother? That’s a big joke, confinement wife and nanny can testify for me, I breastfeed him, I change his diaper, I help him bathe, coax him, accompany him, I’m afraid Others didn't take good care of him, he was careful, and he didn't dare to neglect at all. Where were you at that time? He didn't cry, he didn't talk, and your sisters came up with ideas one by one. I said to their ideas and opinions. Have you passed a 'no'? When did I not do it honestly? They said that Shen Ying has a problem because of my breast milk. Okay, then I won't feed, and they said that my horoscope and Shen Ying are not compatible. If you want to drink talisman water, you need to ask the master to make it. Okay, I drink it, I cook it, I eat vegetarian food, I chant Buddha, I kowtow to some master or Buddha every day, my forehead is broken, and my knees are numb. Have I complained? I I can't figure it out either. There is nothing wrong with the physical examination and screening. The baby was checked after birth, and there is nothing wrong with it. Why doesn't he cry, talk, and ignore people? Does he really have no soul? Where does his soul go? What? I dream at night that I call him in an empty room. I am his mother. I can always call him back, right?
"Where were you at that time? Oh, invite this expert, find that scholar, take the lead in restoring murals, and also be the leader of the treasure hunt. I am very busy, but I can't see the results at all. A lot of money has been invested. It doesn’t matter, you have money, you don’t care, you are noble, your pursuit is so refined, ancient language, mysterious mural, the secret of the beginning of human birth, the true meaning of language, you see, you are so good at research Language, have you researched what the ghost symbols on the murals of Tianfu Palace say? Have you let your son speak? Have you introduced your son to your expert friends? As far as I know, no Right. You're so perfect, how can your son be a freak?
"I don't mind at all if he doesn't talk, he may be deaf, dumb, stupid, he is my child, no matter what he is, he is my child, I don't need him to be too smart, understand There are too many, and there is no need for him to study any mysteries and find any treasures.
"You want to divorce, have you asked your sisters for their opinions? Don't you need them? Your parents are gone, don't they have been giving you advice on your life? Your eldest sister also gave me advice, not only persuading me There is another one, and she came to persuade me to divorce you. You see, your sister thinks farther than you, and has more foresight than you. I still remember her telling me, Xiaomei, you are still young. Shen Ying, let us help you. , you can find a better next home by yourself. Next home, your eldest sister is a real businessman. At that time, I thought, I will never get divorced at this time, and I will go back to my mother's house in desperation and crying. I have to wait for a while , I have to endure. Isn’t marriage all about patience? Let’s see who can bear it. I think I can endure it better than a person who can’t do anything without parents or sisters? Am I right? No Your parents, how did you go to London to study, how did you graduate successfully? Without your sisters, you might not even cover yourself with the quilt when you sleep at night, right?
"Let's talk about money, you don't care, I'm vulgar, I care, of course, what I care about is whether you will share my money, you may not know, you don't care, let alone care about what I did after we got married My investment, my career, right? You want to sue me for cheating, cheating, you can go try it, Xiao Liu ran away early, you don’t have physical evidence in your hand, and second, human evidence? You expect you can’t speak, it’s like something I don't even understand, and the son who doesn't understand accuses his mother of cheating? If he can give any testimony, I will definitely be better than Ren
The children made faces at her, and the woman shook her head and sighed, seemingly helpless.
Xiao Ai wanted to cry.
Father asked for a pack of cigarettes and bought a cream popsicle. He handed it to Xiao Ai, but Xiao Ai dared not take it.
"Silly son." The father said with a smile, and the father and son sat on the threshold of the grocery store.Xiao Ai looked towards the entrance of the mahjong hall, and her mother picked up Ai Xin and walked towards them.
Father put the pack of popsicles on Xiao Ai's face.
"Your mother..." Father swallowed, and touched Xiao Ai's head, "She is just a little anxious."
Xiao Ai said: "Because you are going to gamble!"
Father laughed twice: "I won't gamble in the future, I won't gamble anymore."
The father looked at Xiao Ai and said, "My brother is a big boy."
Xiao Ai said: "But everyone is still a child, why should I be a big child?"
Father patted him, and Xiao Ai lowered her head and cried.
When Shen Ying was young, Shen Huaisu often read to him, first some easy-to-understand fairy tales, then "Moby Dick", "The Old Man and the Sea", "The Loud and Restless", and later "Rashomon" , "Brain Hell" and "Brave New World".He also used a slide projector to show Shen Ying various pictures, realistic landscape photos, various flowers, various trees, colorful, lush, vibrant, famous paintings, Raphael, Da Vinci, Mo Nye, Cézanne, Munch, Dunhuang murals, and pictures of animals, jaguars, rattlesnakes, moths with skull-like patterns on their wings, giraffes, elephants, praying mantises, ants, etc. The images of people are cut one after another on the white curtain, Marilyn Monroe standing on the air vent with her skirt covered, Alain Delon standing on the deserted street, all the beautiful men and women are finished, they just look at ordinary people , ordinary faces, children, old people, living people, and dead bodies.
Once, Fifth Sister accidentally ran into Shen Huaisu showing a slide show for Shen, a bloody human head followed by an epiphyllum blooming in the dark night.Fifth Sister was so frightened that she rushed in, hugged Shen Ying and ran away.Later that day, Shen Huaisu secretly carried Shen Ying out of Fifth Sister's bedroom and brought him into Chilian Peak.
In Chilian Peak, there are many flowers, many trees to see, and butterflies fluttering lightly, passing by the water. Elephants and jaguars do not live here, but there are many ants.The ants in the mountains are very big, and some of them can bite people. Shen Huaisu is very good at identifying this kind of ants that can bite people. He caught one on a big rock covered with moss on a half side of a stream.He put it on Shen Ying's right index finger.The ants crawled along Shen Ying's fingers, and Shen Huaisu and Shen Ying said, "This kind of ants are the ones I said can bite people."
As if to confirm Shen Huaisu's statement, the ant's big head was lifted up for a moment, and then lowered heavily, leaving a small red spot on Shen Ying's finger.Shen Huaisu looked at Shen Ying: "When you are bitten, you will bleed and it will hurt. Do you feel pain now? Pain is to describe your current feeling. Of course, this is just a very slight pain. People will hurt, and the most important thing is to bring people The meaning is that the next time you see something that hurts him, your first reaction is to be afraid of it and hide away."
Shen Ying remained expressionless and didn't move. The ant crawled on his hand and fell down by itself into the grass, where it couldn't be found.
It was the dry season, and at the end of June, the water level at the entrance of the General's Treasure Cave had already risen to the height of Shen Huaisu's calf.He led Shen Ying to wade into the cave.
Shen Ying is five years old, taller than other children of the same age, wearing a shirt, stockings, and plaid overalls, dressed like a little British gentleman, the water wets his shoes and socks, but he is not at all Embarrassed, he didn't care, went into the cave, took off his shoes and socks, and walked barefoot beside Shen Huaisu.Shen Huaisu illuminated the road ahead with a flashlight, and the sound of dripping water could be heard from time to time. Shen Huaisu spoke a little louder: "This is where the savages live. I don't know where the savages will come out. They love to catch children and catch them." After I left, I took it home and baked it.”
The cave is not big enough to generate an echo, Shen Huaisu's voice seemed dry, he asked Shen Ying: "Are you afraid?"
Shen Ying blinked with her leather shoes in her arms.
Shen Huaisu further said: "If you are eaten, you will die." He asked Shen Ying, "Do you know what death is?"
The sound of dripping water became louder and louder, but the frequency became lower and lower. It took a long time to hear the second sound after the first drip. Shen Ying didn't look at the road or Shen Huaisu, he looked at the place where the dripping sound came from.
It was a place deviated from their path, not invaded by any light, and it was dark, as if the darkness had grown deep on the wall there, as if it had existed since the birth of the earth, far beyond any kind of light. The breath existed long before it passed through it, long before human activity.As if it will never be disturbed.
Shen Huaisu was still talking: "Death is...you can't feel anything anymore."
Shen Ying was still staring blankly at the dark place, what attracted him so much there?Shen Huaisu couldn't help but also looked over, he couldn't see anything except darkness, so he took a flashlight to shine on it, there was nothing unusual, it was just another uneven wall, and it was overflowing in sight before. The darkness hides at the edge of the light beam.On the wall was a circular aperture with furry edges.
Shen Huaisu laughed softly, removed the flashlight, continued to walk forward, and continued: "No wonder you are not afraid of death, don't you feel nothing now?"
He also said: "Once upon a time there was a general who won battles and looted a lot of gold and silver treasures, but he didn't want others to know that he had so many treasures. He wanted to use them when he needed them. He wanted to find a place to hide them, just as he passed this cave, he thought, I want to hide these treasures here, so he took a golden battle robe, a golden mask, and many other treasures They are all hidden here. But before he could use the treasures, he died. The people who took the treasures from him resented him, haunted him and killed him after death."
Shen Huaisu walked a little faster, and when he turned around, Shen Ying was left far behind by him. Shen Huaisu shone the flashlight behind him. On the muddy path, a long shadow of a small child was slowly approaching him.Shen Ying left one small footprint after another on the ground.He walked to Shen Huaisu's side. I don't know if it was out of fear or for some other reason. Shen Ying tugged at Shen Huaisu's hand. Shen Huaisu was excited for a moment: "Are you afraid? Are you afraid?"
He was suddenly a little proud, but immediately he was swallowed by a sense of loss, he looked at Shen Ying, and asked one after another: "Why don't you speak?"
"Did you have the wrong birth?"
"Are you my child?"
"Is it so difficult to speak?"
"Dad, say Dad, Dad, is it so difficult?"
"As long as the lips touch together up and down, and then separate." He squeezed Shen Ying's chin and pulled his upper lip, Shen Ying broke free, Shen Huaisu reached out again, opened his mouth, and put his fingers in, he I don’t understand, he has a tongue, and his vocal cords are intact—at least every doctor told him so, and many doctors said that Shen Ying has a psychological problem—nonsense, nonsense, a child, Is it possible to suffer from mental illness right from the womb?A baby is a blank sheet of paper, how could there be any blank sheet of paper that would make it impossible for any kind of pen to write?
Shen Huaisu slapped Shen Ying across the face.Shen Ying touched his face and looked up at him. When Shen Huaisu raised his arms again, Shen Ying still looked at him like this.There is no resentment, no confusion, and no grievance in his eyes. He is not born with these emotions. He is born without any emotions. He is born with no fear of darkness, fear of scolding and violence. The ancient primitive man gained life in one day, opened his eyes, stood on a field and looked at everything.He has not yet experienced darkness, he has not yet experienced battles for food or mates, he does not know that the ground beneath his feet grows food, that food nourishes him and sustains his life, and he does not understand that sunlight allows him to see clearly Many things can bring him warmth and bring the earth a good harvest. At that time, he did not need fire to keep warm and cook. At that time, he was ignorant of anything, and nothing could touch him.He will understand when the first dark night of his life comes.
The second time, Shen Huaisu couldn't hit it.
After he and Shen Ying came out of the mountains, Fifth Sister was trying to find an assistant for Shen Huaisu. At Shen Ying's age, several aunts seemed to give up trying to make him normal. Only the youngest sister, Shen Huaisu, came here every now and then. The Shen family lived idle, and the Fifth Sister said to Shen Huaisu earnestly: "To be honest, I don't think Shen Ying's problem can be solved in three to five years. You teach him and take care of him. I can see that you have spent a lot of time. Thoughtful, but you can’t waste your academic research just because of this child, can you? I’ve heard about things being stolen from Tianfu Palace a while ago. Although it’s not a treasure, it’s something left by the older generation There is always research value, maybe you will find them useful for your mural research in the future? It’s not that you are not allowed to take care of your children, even your major should not be neglected. I will find you an assistant, and I can help you anywhere Wouldn't it be nice for you to do me a favor?"
That's how graduate student Xiao Liu came to the Shen family.
Although Xiao Liu was nominally Shen Huaisu's academic research assistant, Shen Huaisu soon discovered the real purpose of Fifth Sister's placing Xiao Liu by his side. She was afraid that he would show Shen Ying horror photos and tell him horror stories. It's his fifth sister's eyeliner, I'm afraid he will ruin Shen Ying's teaching, hurt her, or lose it.
Xiao Liu also carried out his own monitoring tasks brilliantly: Shen Huaisu was going to take Shen Ying into the mountain, and before he went out, Fifth Sister followed behind with an umbrella. After walking a few steps in the mountain, he led Shen Ying to go home Shen Huaisu asked Shen Ying to learn how to ride a horse, and Xiao Liu went to hold the reins immediately; Shen Huaisu read "Lolita" to Shen Ying, while Xiao Liu stood quietly, and the next day Nabokov disappeared from the bookshelf.Xiao Liu claimed that the university majored in sociology, and Shen Huaisu suspected that he was from the police school. In short, Shen Huaisu couldn't get rid of him no matter what.But Shen Huaisu found that when he was teaching Shen Ying to paint, Xiao Liu not only helped take the palette, set up the easel, and accompanied him silently, he would occasionally look into the garden.
Every afternoon at three o'clock, when they were drawing in the study, Mei Jian would go to the garden to look at the roses she planted.
Shen Huaisu didn't take Shen Ying into the mountains anymore, and he didn't go riding a horse anymore. He just played chess with Shen Ying in the study, watched him draw, and taught him how to read. I have to go to the study to copy the research materials and sort out the mural photos.
The weather is getting hotter and hotter, Mei Jia's neckline is getting lower and lower, the color of the dress is getting brighter, and Xiao Liu's eyes are falling on Mei Jia more and more.
When the summer of that year was coming to an end, one day, Shen Ying took a nap, and the house was quiet. He walked from his bedroom to the living room, passed through the kitchen, and walked into the garden. The servants at home were all in the kitchen Taking a nap on my stomach, the huge garden is full of sunshine.Shen Ying walked to a small wooden house in the garden where sundries were stored.There was a square window on the wall on one side of the wooden house. The glass was a little dirty, but someone could still see clearly inside.a woman.his mother.
The mother half closed her eyes, and Xiao Liu was leaning against her chest. The mother looked very intoxicated and enjoying herself.
Shen Ying looked up, down, left, and right, a group of ants slipped by his feet, he squatted down, pinched one of them and put it on his fingers, there was a moaning sound from the cabin, and the ants crawled from his index finger to his middle finger .A black shadow covered Shen Ying's body.Shen Ying raised her head, and Shen Huaisu was standing behind him.
Shen Huaisu glanced at the wooden house, and asked Shen Ying with a smile: "What are you doing?"
Shen Ying rubbed her hands, the ant on his finger fell to the ground and did not move.
"You killed an ant?" Shen Huaisu was excited, "Why did you kill it? Do you hate it? Or is it because it bit you?"
He grabbed Shen Ying's finger and looked at it again and again, there was no sign of being bitten on it.Shen Ying didn't speak, Shen Huaisu smiled and asked him again: "Do you know what mother is doing inside?"
"Do you think Mom is a bad woman?"
"She has a husband and a child, but she still behaves like other men, it's immoral, she can't do this, such a woman will be arrested, tattooed on the face, stoned, beaten to death .”
Shen Ying blinked her eyes, dropped her hands on the grass, and scratched the grass on the ground.
Shen Huaisu still looked at him and asked, "If I go in now, what do you think will happen? Do you want me to go in now?"
"Mom and Xiao Liu will be so ashamed..." Shen Huaisu glanced at the cobblestone path, and also picked up an ant. The ant froze in his palm, its tentacles kept shaking, and it looked very panicked.
"They might want to die right away." Shen Huaisu said, he stood up, the ant fell to the ground, he patted his pants, looked down at Shen Ying: "I should go and tell my mother, you told me she was here , will she hate you? Or will she be more ashamed? Will she die?"
Shen Ying was still squatting, with her arms on her knees.There was a slight smile on Shen Huaisu's mouth: "Anyway, you don't know what death is."
He walked to the cabin.
Shen Ying stared in the direction of the wooden house without saying a word.
Ai Hongshan ran away from home again.He stole some copperware and diving equipment from Tianfu Palace, and was chased into the mountain. He grew up on Chilian Peak, and entering the mountain was like stepping into his own backyard. After a while, those scholars and professors in Tianfu Palace had no choice but to find the elder of Chilianzhai and ask him to go into the mountains to arrest people, otherwise they will call the police and let the police uphold justice. For the elders, first arrest the captain of the Qiongling Police Station for them. I was invited, and the big guys sat around a copper stove for boiling water at the elder's house, drinking tea, smoking tobacco, smoking cigarettes, talking about it for a long time, the elder asked Wang Yunmei to come over, and secretly smoked Yes, tell her to bring a pair of children.Wang Yunmei understood what the elder meant, and found two sets of worn-out clothes for Xiao Ai and Ai Xin to change into, and dragged the family along.She kowtowed to everyone when she entered the door. Xiao Ai saw it and kowtowed, and Ai Xin saw it and learned to kowtow. She didn't know the severity, so she hit her head hard on the ground and kowtowed. The two old professors couldn't see it. After going down, the mother and son were stopped, and they kept saying: "It's not worth it, it's not worth it."
Captain Guan chimed in and said, "It's not a valuable item. The valuable ones have already been donated to the museum. Get up, get up, it's a mess..."
Another person said: "Even if we don't want things, you should always look for them. What if you are in danger on the mountain?"
Wang Yunmei wiped her tears, the elder waved her big hand, and ordered her two sons to organize people from the village to go to the mountain to find someone tomorrow, vowing to bring Ai Hongshan back and give everyone an explanation.
The next morning, more than a dozen people from Chilian village marched into the mountain, and at noon, everyone happily fought against the two wild boars and returned to the village.Wang Yunmei shared some pork and stewed meat soup at home. Xiao Ai didn't eat it, so she ran to the mountains to find her father in the afternoon.The next day, no one entered the mountain again, and Xiao Ai continued to run up the mountain. For two days, three days, and four days, he searched Chilian Peak and found no trace of Ai Hongshan. Everyone said that Ai Hongshan was early. So I turned down Qiongling. If you want to catch him, you might as well go to Yusong's pawnshop and inquire about it.
But Xiaoai will still go into the mountains.In the dark, he felt that his father was still in Qiongling, hiding in a certain big tree or sleeping in a certain cave.After looking for Chilian Peak, he went to other mountains to look for it. On this day, he took a boat to Qianshan and searched in the heavy rain.
The rain was too heavy, like a heavy rain in the wet season. The rain water poured down from the sky like a waterfall, and the greenery on the trees was washed to the ground, forming a river of green.Xiao Ai struggled to walk on the slippery and muddy mountain path with his slippers on. The accumulated water on the mountain path had reached his calf, and the current was still very fast. After walking for a long time, his slippers were washed away. Xiao Ai Had to climb the mountain barefoot.
Dark clouds covered the sky and the sun was covered with wind and rain. Not to mention tourists on the road, not a single mountain dweller could be seen, and no one who wanted to ask for directions could be found.Xiao Ai got lost in the front mountain.He didn't heave a sigh of relief until he encountered a small river flowing down and followed it to the General's Sword Washing Pool.He knew that Taoyuan Village was nearby, and as long as the rain subsided, he believed that he could find the way to Taoyuan Village.But right now, he has to quickly find a place to shelter from the rain and warm himself up. Xiao Ai glanced at the treasure cave behind the pool. with people.Xiao Ai rubbed his eyes and looked again. Suddenly, he seemed to see a cluster of flames.Xiao Ai jumped into the pool and swam to the entrance of the cave.
Xiao Ai is good at water, and the black fish in the pond don't bite him, they pass close to his body, some of them will touch his hand as if they are playing with him, and swim around him.Xiao Ai quickly swam into the treasure cave. There was no rain in the cave, but he regretted it after walking in a few steps. He didn't have a lighter or a flashlight, so he couldn't see anything immediately , and the flame was nowhere to be found.
Xiao Ai touched the wall of the cave and called out, "Abba..."
no respond.
Could the flame be his illusion?Could it really be his father?still……
Xiao Ai thought of the story of the savage.He trembled, touched the wall and wanted to leave, he could call his mother over, call the elders over, and come here with everyone to find his father, he didn't want to be captured by wild men, he didn't want to die, but the strange thing is, Mingming entered When I was in the cave, I just walked a few steps forward, still walking along the wall, but I went backwards to go back the same way, but I couldn’t find the entrance. It was dark everywhere, there was no wind around, and the water covered the back of my feet. Cool.Xiao Ai sneezed, and he felt dizzy for a while. Maybe he was hungry, tired, or too scared. He leaned against the wall, squatted on the ground, and shivered with his arms folded.At this time, someone patted him on the shoulder, and Xiao Ai clenched his fist and swung it out.It's a savage!he thought.I'm going to be eaten!he thought again.He was about to run, but suddenly, a ray of light hit him, and his eyes were white, Xiao Ai screamed, he is really a savage!The savage is all white!Xiao Ai ran towards the white space, and wanted to run, when a familiar voice rang in his ears, and a big hand grabbed his thin arm.
"It's me! Your father!"
Xiao Ai closed her eyes, threw herself on Ai Hongshan, and hit her with a few more fists.Ai Hongshan pulled Xiao Ai away, and Xiao Ai's legs softened, and she sat on the ground and cried loudly: "I thought it was a savage! You want to scare me to death! I was scared to death by you!!"
Ai Hongshan couldn't laugh or cry, patted Xiao Ai, wiped his face, and picked him up from the ground.Xiao Ai became quiet, wrapped her arms around her father's neck, leaned her head on his father's shoulder, and sniffed hard.Father had a faint fishy smell, like herbs mixed with snake blood.Xiao Ai smelled her hands, and he seemed to have the same smell.He hugged his father tighter.
"Where are your shoes?" Ai Hongshan asked Xiao Ai.
"I lost it." Xiao Ai muttered, "It's because I came to look for you."
Ai Hongshan looked at him and rubbed the back of his head: "I'm going to be scolded by your mother again."
Xiao Ai asked him: "Are you afraid of being scolded so you don't go home?"
Ai Hongshan held a flashlight in one hand, hugged Xiao Ai in the other, walked through one door after another, and finally got into a low hole with a cat on his waist. A fire was lit in the hole, and the fire was a little weak. Ai Hongshan put Xiao Ai , I took out some firewood from a backpack leaning against the wall and threw it into the bonfire. A few sparks flew out, and the fire ignited.Xiao Ai took off her vest and held it by the fire to dry it.
Ai Hongshan asked him: "Did you not get bitten by Ai?" He pulled Xiao Ai to his side and helped him hold the clothes to bake. He looked at Xiao Ai and said, "You are too courageous, if you really meet Savage, what do you do if you encounter tigers and wolves?"
Xiao Ai looked at Ai Hongshan's backpack, which was bulging.Ai Hongshan put his backpack on his back, smiled, and continued, "There are snakes! I can't see the road clearly at night, let alone snakes. Chi Lian bites me and kills me."
Xiao Ai bit her lip tightly, and sat on the ground, leaning against Ai Hongshan, holding his big hand, without speaking.
Ai Hongshan asked Xiao Ai: "Are you afraid after entering the treasure cave?"
Xiao Ai nodded, her stomach growling.
Ai Hongshan smiled, threw the vest to Xiao Ai, and said, "Just know you're afraid!"
After Xiao Ai got dressed, he saw Ai Hongshan pull out a red snake from a corner where the light of the fire could not reach. Xiao Ai trembled, and Ai Hongshan winked at him, holding the long and thin red snake Shake twice in front of him.The snake is dead.Xiao Ai turned her face away in anger, and stopped looking at Ai Hongshan.
Ai Hongshan peeled the snake's skin with a dagger, dug out the snake's gall, and swallowed it raw with his head up. He got some snake blood on his hands, and he wiped it on Xiao Ai's forehead.
Xiao Ai wrinkled her nose, and Ai Hongshan picked a slender wooden branch from the fire, blew out the flames above it, skewered snake meat, and grilled it by the fire.Then, he grabbed a smaller and shorter red snake from the corner.He handed the dagger to Xiao Ai.
Xiao Ai leaned under the light of the fire and skillfully peeled off a piece of snake skin. He looked at Ai Hongshan, Ai Hongshan nuzzled his chin, Xiao Ai cut open the snake's belly and took off the snake's gall, Ai Hongshan nudged his chin again, Xiao Ai frowned and put the snake gall into her mouth.Ai Hongshan lifted his chin up sharply, and Xiao Ai swallowed the snake gall.This is the first time he has eaten snake gallbladder raw.It was too bitter and fishy, and he wanted to vomit.Ai Hongshan covered his mouth, his eyes were burning and scalding horribly, Xiao Ai quickly swallowed his saliva, grabbed his pants tightly, held back, and endured it. After a while, Ai Hongshan let go of his hands , There was a warm smile on his face again, and he said to Xiaoai: "Don't be afraid in the future, you are a man now, you have to take good care of your sister and mother, you know?"
Xiao Ai said in a low voice: "Father, let's go home."
He also picked a branch, blew out the flames, put snake meat on a skewer, and inserted it into the fire.
Ai Hongshan turned back and patted the backpack, leaned on it, and sat more comfortably, sighed, smiled, and said nothing.Xiao Ai looked at her feet, picked up a branch and poked the fire, and the fire burned even more vigorously, making crackling noises.Xiao Ai couldn't help but asked Ai Hongshan: "Abba, why are you going to gamble?"
"Abba is useless. Abba can't let you live a good life."
"Do useless people go to gamble?"
"Useless people can only gamble on luck."
"You still steal things."
"Yes, stealing is not good, Dad is a bad person." Ai Hongshan said.
"A useless villain."
Ai Hongshan patted Xiao Ai, stretched out his hand to touch the snake meat, and suddenly said, "Daddy, let me dance for you."
Xiao Ai shook her head: "I don't want to watch the dance, you and I go home."
"Go home after dancing."
"Go home and dance."
"In the future, you will have to dance this dance to pretend to be a god. You have to learn it early and late." Ai Hongshan said, "In a few years, when you are seventeen, you will dance every year."
"I'm seventeen, are you too old to dance?"
"Immortals don't like to look at old bones."
Xiao Ai blinked, and Ai Hongshan got out of the short hole, and stood at a place where the fire was faint and a thin stream of water flowed through.He took off his shoes, walked into the water, and danced for Xiao Ai.
His shadow on the wall was also dancing, and his shadow on the ground was dancing too, and in the water, it was crooked, like the reflection of a snake dancing.Lots of fathers dancing.
After the dance, Ai Hongshan stood panting. Xiao Ai picked up a string of snake meat and handed it to him. Ai Hongshan took a big bite.
"You have to be able to survive without eating meat for seven days."
"I haven't eaten meat for half a month." Xiao Ai swallowed, "Grandma said, meat is nutritious, I ate too much nutrition in my grandma's stomach, I don't need it, I leave it to Ai Heart to eat."
Ai Hongshan tore some snake meat and gave it to Xiao Ai. Xiao Ai took only a small bite, held the rest in her hand, and said, "I'll take it back for my grandma and Ai Xin to eat."
"Silly, it will be cold and it won't taste good. Eat it quickly."
Xiao Ai just took a second bite.
Ai Hongshan said again: "I still need to meditate."
He pulled the backpack out of the hole and put it on the ground. He sat down, leaned on the backpack, straightened his back, crossed his legs, put his hands on his knees, and hung them up."It's like this," he said.
Xiao Ai learns from others.Ai Hongshan said again: "Close your eyes."
Xiao Ai didn't dare to close his eyes. His father was sitting not too close to him, in a very dark place. It took him a lot of energy just to see him and to see every expression on his face clearly.He is very tired.
Ai Hongshan smiled at Xiao Ai, and said: "If you meditate in a room like this, you will not be able to open your eyes for seven days and seven nights when the god is on your body, but don't worry, someone will serve you when you eat and take a bath. Someone will paint on your body, it may be a little itchy, and you can't open your eyes, the eyes of the gods cannot be polluted by this world... You can think about it..." Ai Hongshan paused, looking at Xiao Ai, Xiao Ai still opened her eyes and looked at him.Ai Hongshan stood up, reached over to close Xiao Ai's eyes, and covered Xiao Ai's face with his big hand, and continued: "You can think about Ai Xin, your mother, you have been thinking about it for a long time, and you have been thinking about it for a long time. Thinking about it, you can see them without opening your eyes, and you won’t feel lonely. With them to accompany you, you won’t be bored in those seven days. As long as you are devout enough and hardworking enough, then you You don't have to see them, you've seen them.
"Remember, you must close your eyes, close them tightly, and don't look around."
"Pious enough...you can't look around..." Xiao Ai didn't quite understand the meaning of the word "pious" at that time, he just repeated it to his father intermittently.
He didn't open his eyes, and he didn't look around.He fell into a heavy sleep.
Father left and never came back.
The mother beat Xiao Ai bitterly, and said bitterly: "Okay, you can go! You can go! Get lost!"
She was scolding her father, maybe she was also scolding Xiao Ai, but Xiao Ai didn't leave, he was bad, he didn't do good things before he was born, and made his sister an imbecile, after he was born, nothing happened What a good thing, I can't do anything well, I can't take good care of my sister, and I often make my mother angry, and even found my father but couldn't bring him home.He can't go on like this anymore, he must make up for his sister and take good care of his mother.
Ai Xin began to yell without knowing what to say on the bed again, Xiao Ai went to hug her.
Shen Ying has been exposed to a game similar to drumming and passing flowers in a school for special children. The rules are simpler than the drumming and passing flowers he learned later. Next, the one got the flower, held it firmly, and signaled to the teacher's child that he could get a candy.
Whose life is not a drumming pass?
Specifically reflected in Shen Ying's "flower", the process of this game is as follows: He first stayed with Mei Jian for a while, and then he was surrounded by his five aunts, the gods and Buddhas in the sky, the holy father and the holy spirit, and the majestic spirit of heaven and earth. He took over one by one, and then he was passed on to Shen Huaisu, the drums continued to beat, who was beating the drums?What kind of mentality do you have to watch a good show?Anyway, the accompaniment drumming disturbed Shen Huaisu, he handed Shen Ying over, and Shen Ying returned to Mei Jia's hands.
Mei Jian had an affair with Xiao Liu, and after the Dong Chuang incident, she did not commit suicide in shame, her face was not tattooed, and she was not stoned to death by anyone, she and Shen Huaisu filed for divorce, and she wanted to take Shen Ying away.Shen Huaisu's reaction was very violent, he didn't care about the property of the house, but Shen Ying absolutely wanted to stay by his side, his research on Shen Ying was not over yet, he didn't want to admit defeat yet, if necessary, he would go to the court with Mei Jia to go to court, Shen Ying must not go with her.
Mei Jian laughed at this, and talked a lot with Shen Huaisu, she said: "Okay, I have no objection if you want to go through this procedure, but let me remind you, go to the court to sue for divorce, what do you want to sue me? Sue me Haven’t fulfilled the responsibility of being a mother? That’s a big joke, confinement wife and nanny can testify for me, I breastfeed him, I change his diaper, I help him bathe, coax him, accompany him, I’m afraid Others didn't take good care of him, he was careful, and he didn't dare to neglect at all. Where were you at that time? He didn't cry, he didn't talk, and your sisters came up with ideas one by one. I said to their ideas and opinions. Have you passed a 'no'? When did I not do it honestly? They said that Shen Ying has a problem because of my breast milk. Okay, then I won't feed, and they said that my horoscope and Shen Ying are not compatible. If you want to drink talisman water, you need to ask the master to make it. Okay, I drink it, I cook it, I eat vegetarian food, I chant Buddha, I kowtow to some master or Buddha every day, my forehead is broken, and my knees are numb. Have I complained? I I can't figure it out either. There is nothing wrong with the physical examination and screening. The baby was checked after birth, and there is nothing wrong with it. Why doesn't he cry, talk, and ignore people? Does he really have no soul? Where does his soul go? What? I dream at night that I call him in an empty room. I am his mother. I can always call him back, right?
"Where were you at that time? Oh, invite this expert, find that scholar, take the lead in restoring murals, and also be the leader of the treasure hunt. I am very busy, but I can't see the results at all. A lot of money has been invested. It doesn’t matter, you have money, you don’t care, you are noble, your pursuit is so refined, ancient language, mysterious mural, the secret of the beginning of human birth, the true meaning of language, you see, you are so good at research Language, have you researched what the ghost symbols on the murals of Tianfu Palace say? Have you let your son speak? Have you introduced your son to your expert friends? As far as I know, no Right. You're so perfect, how can your son be a freak?
"I don't mind at all if he doesn't talk, he may be deaf, dumb, stupid, he is my child, no matter what he is, he is my child, I don't need him to be too smart, understand There are too many, and there is no need for him to study any mysteries and find any treasures.
"You want to divorce, have you asked your sisters for their opinions? Don't you need them? Your parents are gone, don't they have been giving you advice on your life? Your eldest sister also gave me advice, not only persuading me There is another one, and she came to persuade me to divorce you. You see, your sister thinks farther than you, and has more foresight than you. I still remember her telling me, Xiaomei, you are still young. Shen Ying, let us help you. , you can find a better next home by yourself. Next home, your eldest sister is a real businessman. At that time, I thought, I will never get divorced at this time, and I will go back to my mother's house in desperation and crying. I have to wait for a while , I have to endure. Isn’t marriage all about patience? Let’s see who can bear it. I think I can endure it better than a person who can’t do anything without parents or sisters? Am I right? No Your parents, how did you go to London to study, how did you graduate successfully? Without your sisters, you might not even cover yourself with the quilt when you sleep at night, right?
"Let's talk about money, you don't care, I'm vulgar, I care, of course, what I care about is whether you will share my money, you may not know, you don't care, let alone care about what I did after we got married My investment, my career, right? You want to sue me for cheating, cheating, you can go try it, Xiao Liu ran away early, you don’t have physical evidence in your hand, and second, human evidence? You expect you can’t speak, it’s like something I don't even understand, and the son who doesn't understand accuses his mother of cheating? If he can give any testimony, I will definitely be better than Ren
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