[001] picking up knots along the way
Under the supervision and care of Zhiqing and his wife, Jiang Rong maintained good health.
When He Pengfei learned that he could go to Hanmei Town, he happily prepared everything and met at Zhiqing's house in advance.
The old man is going to travel far. As his wife, Xu Min is somewhat worried. But if he is not allowed to go, Jiang Rong and He Pengfei don’t know what will happen in the future. Did Junjun really die in an accident? Are Lingcun really irrelevant? These are questions that have not yet been answered.
Hanmei Town; the place Jiang Rong was searching for in her dream, but in reality its exact location could not be marked. She could only rely on the direction in her memory and the route on the map to find it.
If this road continues, I don't know if there will be an end. Zhong Kui doesn't know, and neither does Zhiqing, who is driving the car.
Jiang Rong and He Pengfei didn't even know.
They were too uninterested to comment on the beautiful scenery along the way. They were too preoccupied and ignored everything. Even the playful Jiang Rong couldn't cheer up.
Zhong Kui felt that this was not good. Before they could formally confront the hidden enemy, their morale was low and they were defeated. That would be a prelude to inevitable defeat.
"Hey, let me tell you; what's going on with you? Just be happy when you should be happy. Don't look so sad, as if you owe money to someone."
"..." When Jiang Rong heard this, she raised her head and glanced at her father, then at Uncle Chen who was driving the car seriously, and then her eyes stayed on He Pengfei's face, "He Pengfei, why don't you say anything?"
He Pengfei is reading a little book. The name of the little book is: "The Strategy of Drawing Soldiers," which is a story about the Three Kingdoms.
He looked up hastily and said, "Oh, don't interrupt, I'm reading so wonderfully." After saying that, he lowered his head and continued reading. He said: This time when he went out, he didn't bring anything else but a carton of little people's books. He was so special. I loved reading books about the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and I was fascinated by them. When I was in junior high school, I even cut out the humanities pictures in the little books and competed with my friends.
Jiang Rong knew that he was a fan of the Three Kingdoms, and she also knew that he was also a collector of cigarette boxes. At that time, there were no amusement parks, and the children's favorite game was hide and seek. Boys especially liked to play with cigarette boxes folded into various shapes. Play with paper shells.
He Pengfei accumulated a lot of cigarette boxes of various styles and brands.
Seeing her father's eyes still staring at her, Jiang Rong couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "Uncle, who do you think has a sad face?"
"You," Zhong Kui said seriously.
"Me," Jiang Rong asked, pointing to herself, pretending to be surprised.
"Girl, I will give your uncle a 'pink memory' and he will be happy," Zhiqing looked forward and chatted casually.
When he heard that Jiang Rong was asked to sing, He Pengfei stopped reading and clapped his hands in an exaggerated way, saying "Pah~pah~pah": "Okay, I want to hear it too,"
"Listen, you big-headed devil, huh," Jiang Rong raised her eyebrows and curled her lips in refusal. She was very fond of music, but her left throat and right throat, to be honest, she was not afraid of singing. What she was afraid of was that when singing, It frightened them.
'Pfft,' He Pengfei knew Jiang Rong's details best. He suddenly remembered that there was a text recitation competition in class. If you lose, you have to sing a song. Jiang Rong lost. At the request of her classmates and teachers, she reluctantly sang. It seemed like the guy from "Beijing Jinshan Mountain", who sang so hard that the whole class covered their ears and grimaced with grinning teeth.
"Why are you laughing? Look, I won't take care of you." Jiang Rong knew that He Pengfei was laughing at her. It was hard to get angry in front of her uncle and Uncle Chen, so she just warned in a low voice, and then pretended to be nothing, and said with a smile: "How about that? , I’ll tell you a story,”
Zhong Kui agreed, "OK,"
He Pengfei disagreed, "Is it said that once upon a time there was a temple, and there was an old monk in the temple, and the old monk was telling stories... Once upon a time, there was a temple, and there was an old monk in the temple, and the old monk was telling stories,"
"You...bastard," Jiang Rong was so angry that she wanted to reach out and pinch his ears with all her might.
"Hey, people are making fun of you, why should you be angry," Zhong Kui scolded with a straight face.
"He bullies people," Jiang Rong pouted and said coquettishly.
Zhiqing, who was driving the car, glanced sideways, turned around quickly, grinned and said: "Girl, you won't be angry, Zhong Kui, you daughter, you are a ghost, don't be fooled,"
"Ha, you guys, unite against me," Jiang Rong said aggrievedly, deliberately pretending to be aggrieved, and turned to look at the trees and fields that were passing by.
"Hahaha,"
A burst of hearty laughter finally erupted in the car, and Zhong Kui, who smiled informally, also made an exception and burst out laughing.
By the way, they started out from the north gate of the city, went straight to several small towns, and then meandered up into the valley area, which was the section Zhiqing saw on the map. It had already taken shape but had not yet been laid. Asphalt road.
After leaving the noisy and prosperous area and entering a desolate and sparsely populated area, everyone's heart felt heavy and depressed. Jiang Rong's cold humor was as short-lived as a flash in the pan, blown away by the cold wind.
The smile disappeared from his face, and the environment in front of him became more and more desolate. Zhiqing asked Jiang Rong more than once, and she seemed to be familiar with this place. She shook her head and said she didn't remember.
In Jiang Rong's memory, the car she was riding in arrived at the destination at dusk that day, but dusk had already arrived before the group of them could find the location.
Drive safely, this is what Xu Min said to Zhiqing when he was going out. He looked around cautiously. He could not see any familiar crop fields in the vast deserted field, but he could see patches of silk grass lying in the cold wind. environment.
This night, they were destined to rest in the car all night. This night, Jiang Rong had a nightmare. In the dream, she kept running, and was chased by a group of irrational monsters who were not like humans.
In the nightmare, she panicked and ran into a gloomy forest. She fell into the forest and was so frightened that she almost collapsed due to the overwhelming fear.
At this moment, her mother suddenly appeared. She looked at her with a reproachful expression, "I told you not to come, why are you still here? You are disobedient."
When Jiang Rong called her mother, Zhong Kui, Zhi Qing, and He Pengfei were all watching her sleeping soundly.
Ever since she had that nightmare, Jiang Rong's words have become less and less frequent.
Zhiqing took the trouble to ask about the route, but she either shook her head or remained silent. When the car drove into a barren, secluded and narrow road with not many vehicles, she suddenly exclaimed, "Yes, I seem to have been here before."
An N-shaped road section, a big wooden sign, and the scrawled slaughterhouse font on the sign are still there, including a bunch of familiar tombs on the roadside, they are all fragments in her memory.
Chapter completed!