fierce god

After guarding the spirit for three days, on the day of Gao Zhongshui's funeral, due to seeing a doctor in the past two years and looking for people to borrow money everywhere, his aunt's family's relatives had no contact. The villagers who paid money to help, no one was willing to come at first, but seeing the generous rewards, many people let go of their courage one after another, and then a bunch of people rushed in, and the road was lively and lively, which was fine. Gao Zhongshui's temperament of saving face was revealed.

Burials are popular in Moran Village, and it took about four to ten minutes to reach the ancestral grave of the Gao family. Gao Kun was busy back and forth, and his aunt was only taken care of by Li Yinglan, who cried out of breath several times In a fit of anger, Li Yinglan almost half-dragged her up the mountain. The freezing temperature made his underwear wet.

Fortunately, after a ceremony, the man was finally buried in the ground safely.

Taking advantage of the last moment when they burned incense and kowtowed, Li Yinglan went to the side to take a breath, it was not long before he was injured by the fall, and at this moment her chest and abdomen began to ache again.

At this moment, I heard the sound of discussions behind me, all of them were aunts and aunts who appeared to follow the funeral together, but were actually watching the fun.

"...This rule is wrong. Respect the ancestors first and then bury them. There are not many crying souls, tsk tsk..."

"...Let's not talk about ancestors, Kunzi didn't even glance at the grave next to him...that's his father..."

"What's wrong with Dad, Guan Sheng doesn't care about raising him...he's not even one-tenth of a million times better than his uncle...I didn't kiss him when I was young, otherwise why would people not learn well and make a fuss..."

"...Thinking about how hard life is for this family, the crazy, disabled, sick, and dead are all caught up,..."

"You haven't heard of it. Zhang Po from Qianyuan North Village was the one who cured Li's Xiaoer and Qu Laosan. She was very clever. Didn't she say that when He Qiao was just born? After all, this child's life is hard, and the evil star is reincarnated..."

"Shh, softly."

"I'm not talking nonsense. Look at the Gao family who is doing well now. Dad was drunk and fell to his death. Mother also went when she got sick. Gao Juan's madness is getting worse and worse. Even everyone recognizes her. Not coming out, the husband ran away again, and the daughter met such a thing at a good age, and now it's Brother Shui's turn, leaving a widow with a wife and no children, what should I do when I get old... This is bad What a crime."

"...Thinking about it this way, it's really true. Some things have to be believed, so it's better to hide..."

A few people were talking enthusiastically, when they suddenly felt a gloomy cold light in front of them, and when they looked up, they saw a tall and thin young man looking at them with a cold face, obviously his face was extremely beautiful, but his gaze could freeze people to death, They were so startled that when they recognized the other party as a friend who came with Gao Kun, they quickly shut up and scattered like birds and beasts.

Li Yinglan withdrew her gaze and walked towards Gao Kun. Gao Kun was standing up, Li Yinglan said, "Give me three incense sticks too."

Gao Kun was startled, smoked three, lit them, and handed them to Li Yinglan.

The village women supporting him seemed to want to remind him, but seeing his aunt just staring at him without saying a word, they finally swallowed the words with a wink.

After Li Yinglan finished offering incense to Gao Zhongshui, and burned some paper money, she turned her head and saw the name of "Gaoboshan" next to him, but there was nothing engraved on his stele except for his own name, birthday and death. , no wife, no son, Li Yinglan thought that Zhang Heqiao's grave was on the other side of the hill from here, he couldn't help but glanced at Gao Kun, and saw that the other party didn't raise his head, as if he didn't see him at all.

After the paper money in the basin was burned out, Gao Kun stretched out his hand to pull Li Yinglan: "Let's go down the mountain."

Li Yinglan just nodded.

After going down the mountain, Gao Kun went to pay the villagers. Li Yinglan wanted to help, but Gao Kun only said that he was rich, and asked Li Yinglan and her aunt to go back to rest first.

However, before leaving, Li Yinglan suddenly stopped Gao Kun, and then stretched out her hand towards Gao Kun.

"Give me the keys to your house."

Although Shouling has been staying with his aunt temporarily for the past few days, Li Yinglan knew that Gao Kun would definitely go back after knowing that, thinking that Gao Kun would be worried, he added another sentence.

"I haven't slept for a few days, I just want to find a quiet place to rest for a while, I know where your quilts are placed."

Gao Kun understood what Li Yinglan was thinking, but he still hesitated and stood there for a long time without moving. In the end, Li Yinglan did it himself and took out the key from his pocket.

"Hurry up. If I'm not here when you come back, you can come to your house and look for me. I'll wait for you."

Perhaps it was the sentence "I'll wait for you" that touched Gao Kun's heart, and he finally agreed, but he turned around in a hurry and forgot to even tell his aunt.

His aunt's mood has calmed down a lot, but Li Yinglan still didn't feel relieved to let her stay alone. She was so tired that she couldn't stand up straight, but she took a bench and sat by the door like this, but she saw her again after turning around. There is a bowl of millet porridge on the table.

"My child...you're hungry. There aren't many things in the house, so eat what you can first." Aunt handed Li Yinglan a pair of chopsticks.

Li Yinglan quickly took it: "Just call me Yinglan."

His aunt nodded: "Then you can call me along with Kunzi, Yinglan, it's been hard these few days, thanks to your help."

"Where is it, it should be." Li Yinglan had never said such polite words to anyone, but he blurted out these few words.

His aunt just sighed: "You are all good boys, you are, and so is Kunzi."

"Gao Kun is fine..." Li Yinglan echoed in a low voice, but her words were sincere.

His aunt heard it and squeezed a smile: "Kunzi was smart since he was a child, unlike us peasants who have shallow vision. I always watch TV and know that poor places can produce top students. If it hadn't happened before That matter, he must not be what he is today. In the final analysis, we dragged him down, so we can't see right from wrong, so we should learn how other people do business..."

"Auntie, don't say that," Li Yinglan frowned, "If you want to blame it, blame me."

"No, you don't know, we didn't treat him well, not as well as you thought." His aunt's eyes were red again, "We knew his father was nothing, but we didn't dare to help, leaving him orphaned and widowed He suffers every day, Kunzi is really filial... If he hadn't been capable and knew how to protect his mother, the two of them would have been beaten to death long ago..."

Li Yinglan was stunned, then listened to the other party.

"Gao Boshan died well, what is retribution, this is retribution...God still has eyes, but it's too late, too late, Heqiao hasn't had a good life for a few days, and Kunzi is so young! We I'm sorry for him, and I'm sorry for Heqiao..."

As he spoke, his aunt began to cry again, crying and crying, she suddenly stood up and walked into the room, and took out a big box from inside after a while.

"This thing...you will give it to Kunzi for me later."

"This is..." Li Yinglan was at a loss.

His aunt said: "This is Heqiao, left by Kunzi's mother. At that time, she was already seriously ill. She knew better than us that if she stayed in such a place, Kunzi would have to live in poverty all her life. So she hoped that Kunzi could go out, and she begged Ah Shui to take him with him when he went to U City... In fact, the money was not ours, it was left by Heqiao to his son, he...he should have enough to finish reading Three years of junior high school, but Ah Shui lost money in business, so he... took some money from it to make up for it. He thought he could make it back quickly, but who knows... Who knows... We have been hiding it from the truth. Said, in fact, he didn't stay in U City because he really has no face, and we all have no face to see Kunzi..."

Aunt burst into tears.

"He is like this, and he still sends us money every month. I know he is suffering, but we are too miserable. We are really nothing...not things..."

"Auntie." Li Yinglan stepped forward to support the crumbling woman, "It's all in the past, now he doesn't suffer anymore, and he won't suffer in the future."

"Okay, that's good..." Auntie nodded frequently, "I just hope he can be well, he must be well, otherwise Ah Shui will be sorry for He Qiao, and he won't have the face to see her..."

Li Yinglan talked with his aunt for a while, and finally calmed down her mood and went to sleep.

Li Yinglan sat for a while, didn't know whether it was the injury or something else, but felt the pain in the chest and abdomen was getting worse, he looked at the time, thinking that he should go to rest, in case he fell ill again, the gain would not be worth the loss.

Since entering Moran Village, Li Yinglan's mentality has been controlled fairly well. He has been working hard to keep himself in a state of not being too tense. Once there are ups and downs, he immediately seeks Gao Kun's support. Even if it is within the normal range, he feels that he should be able to continue. After all, the matter is over and they can leave soon. As long as he can pass his level, this place will be nothing from now on.

But when she stepped into the small courtyard of the Gao family and saw the gate stuck in front of her, Li Yinglan's heartbeat still fluttered.He looked at the position under his feet, here, this is here, he remembered, the man he saw right here at that time, the man also looked at him, then turned and ran away, then fell down, leading himself to walk towards him...

Li Yinglan was startled, but suddenly came back to her senses.He took a deep breath and told himself over and over again that it was over, that person would never exist again, and there would be no danger, everything was destroyed with Gao Kun's hands.

Li Yinglan stepped forward and opened the door with a key.

The furnishings in the room looked the same as he and Gao Kunlai did back then, and even the pervasive smell inside could evoke Li Yinglan's past memories. He stood by the door for two seconds before walking in slowly.

Open the window, and the north wind blows in from outside. Although it is cold, it takes away the rotten atmosphere of the house. Li Yinglan also opened the wardrobe like Gao Kun, took out the quilt from inside and started to make the bed, and then made a simple cleaning.

After finishing it, it was already dark outside. Just now Gao Kun called back and said that he was on his way and would be there in a while. Li Yinglan hung up her phone and sat silently on the bedside looking at the moonlight outside. The winter night was very cold, but the sky was exceptionally clear, as if one could look straight into the heart through the semicircle. Li Yinglan stared at it for a long time, then slowly shifted her gaze to the box beside her.

The uneven tin box, the pattern and color of the ancient one belonged to the last century, probably because of frequent use, the corners have long since peeled off the paint, revealing a mottled rust color.

Li Yinglan stretched out her hand and touched it lightly, then touched it again, scratched the edge with her nails, went back and forth several times, and opened the box with a click...