Chapter 2 Father and Son
In Xiaogou Village, there is such a person, and there is only one person. Even the village chief Liu Zhugui dare not offend him easily. This person is Long Han.
Long Han is not from Xiaogou Village. The villagers don’t know much about his origin. They only know that his wife is from Xiaogou Village. She is named Lin Xuejiao. Lin Xuejiao worked outside when she was young. Once when she came home, she brought Long Han back. Long Han seemed to be born with a murderous aura. When he first came to Xiaogou Village, anyone would feel that he was overwhelmed when he saw him. Liu Zhugui had a deep impression of Long Han, which was deeply unforgettable. Liu Zhugui still remembered the feeling when he first met Long Han. At that time, he heard that such a person came to the village and planned to see what kind of character it was. When he went to see Long Han, he also dragged an evil dog he raised. The evil dog he raised was named "Gray Wolf", and "Gray Wolf" was a
A vicious dog has bitten people a lot when he was in the village. When he went to see Long Han, he almost saw Long Han. The "gray wolf" he raised didn't even scream. He turned his head and ran away with his tail. He couldn't even pull it. He even pulled him to the ground. He sat on the ground and looked up and saw the Long Han who seemed to cover half of the sky. From that time on, he felt that Long Han could not be provoked. With the eyesight and feeling he had trained during the years of eating and drinking outside, he felt that Long Han had a faint murderous aura all over his body. It was not deliberately forced out, it was something carved into human bones after breaking through the sea of swords and blood. Since that time, Liu Zhugui has never raised a dog again, and the "gray wolf" he raised was also killed by him and drunk.
Less than a year after Long Han and Lin Xuejiao returned, Lin Xuejiao gave birth to a boy for him. The child was named Long Liexue, but the good times did not last long. Just when Long Liexue was just one year old, a group of gangs who escaped from pursuit broke into Xiaogou Village and fought for trapped beasts. While the gangs and the pursued police were fighting in the village, a bullet shot Lin Xuejiao, and Lin Xuejiao died on the spot. There were nine gangs at that time, who fled to various provinces to commit crimes and did everything they could to kill and rob. This time, they fled to Yn Province, who wanted to cross the border and go abroad, but they didn't want to be discovered by the police. They were chased all the way to Xiaogou Village, a poor place. When the gangs were ruthless, they were ready to go.
Xiaogou Village occupied a place and fought with the police to the death, and Lin Xuejiao suffered a disaster. When Long Han came back, he discovered Lin Xuejiao's situation. Long Han roared to the sky, picked up a machete for chopping firewood, and rushed towards the house occupied by the gang of gangsters. The police and villagers present at that time had no time to stop it. Long Han rushed out like a cheetah. When everyone thought Long Han was dead, they found that Long Han rushed through a hundred meters of gunfight with the gangsters at strange speed and movements. He rushed into the house occupied by the gangsters from the window. For a moment, everyone only heard the gunshots in the house, terrible anger.
Roars and screams, but the sounds in the house ended in a while. From Long Han entering the house to the sound stopping, it was less than ten seconds. After waiting for a while, Long Han walked out of the house, with blood everywhere on his body, and he was holding the blood-dropped hatchet in his hand, like a blood-stained demon god. When the first group of policemen rushed into the house, they quickly retreated in less than three seconds. All the policemen who rushed in came out vomited wildly after they came out. The scene in the house made the old policemen who were used to life and death shocked. Although the people in Xiaogou Village did not see the scene inside, there were two things that everyone understood. One was that Long Han killed the people in the house, and the other was the house.
The scene in it is extremely terrifying. You can guess this from the pale faces of the police officers who collected the corpse and the black plastic bags they used to hold the corpse. It was not like collecting corpses, but rather like picking up rags. Because of this, no one dared to go in the house occupied by the criminals, a public house in Xiaogou Village, from then on, and gradually became abandoned. Even after more than ten years, the people in the village still felt that they could smell a bloody smell as soon as they approached the house. When the adults in the village scared their children, they usually said: "If you are disobedient, you will send you to the public house to the evening!"
Long Han killed so many people, so he was naturally taken away by the police. The people in the village didn't know what was waiting for him. Some people speculated that Long Han might not be able to come back now. After Long Han was taken away, the police in the provincial capital came to Xiaogou Village several times to learn about Long Han's information. The cadres in the village cooperated very well and told everything they knew. Long Han and Lin Xuejiao registered information in the village when they got married, household registration certificates, and other things were taken away by the police. Some of Long Han's affairs also spread in the village. Except for knowing that Long Han was a veteran, the people in the village knew nothing. After nearly two weeks after Long Han was taken away, he returned to Xiaogou Village and came from Wang Lizhi.
The couple took away Long Liexue, who was still hungry for feeding. A grown man took his child to a quarry more than 30 miles away from Xiaogou Village. From then on, people in the village rarely saw him and Long Liexue. However, on Qingming Festival and Lin Xuejiao's death, they could see him visiting the back mountain of Xiaogou Village to visit the graves. Although others were not in Xiaogou Village, his household registration was in Xiaogou Village, and his child's household registration was also in Xiaogou Village. Although he left, he still had a piece of land and a house in Xiaogou Village. No one dared to touch his land or his house. Later, his land was deserted, and the village sent someone to ask him for his opinion. Without thinking, he gave the land to the village and asked the village to plant it.
At that time, some aunts and aunts in the village still sympathized with Long Han in private. Lin Xuejiao's parents died early. Now Lin Xuejiao is dead, and only an old man with a child is left. It is really difficult for him. I really don't know if he can raise the child. But the facts prove that those kind-hearted aunts are worried about it. After a few years, Long Han not only raised the child, but also raised it. But the news that Long Han abused his children made those kind-hearted people cry a lot. Some people said that they had seen Long Han often ran around like crazy in the mountains. The child could not run, so Long Han whipped him with a whip; some people saw Long Han inhumanely asking the child to go to the quarry to move stones with him; some people said that Long Han never gave his children any time to play, and the child wanted to play, so he chiseled a big stone and crushed it in the yard for his child to play.
If the child wanted to play, he asked him to push the big stone mill; some people said that Long Han often asked the child to stand motionless under the sun for most of the day; some people said that Long Han often put the child in a big wooden barrel and scalded it with water... In short, Long Liexue was tragically tortured by Long Han. Every time the topic of Long Liexue was spread to Xiaogou Village, several kind-hearted people could shake their heads and sigh. People were speculating whether Long Han torture his children like this would torture the child crazy. Finally, when someone saw that the child was chopping stones with a wooden stick, people felt that their guess had come true. The child was tortured by Long Han because according to the person he saw, the child was crazy at that time, and the stick he held was stained red by the blood in his hands, and was still chopping stones. Everyone imagined such a scene, and their hearts were air conditioning. Several aunts even shouted Long Han, "It's a sin, it's a sin!"
God seems to be joking. Just when everyone was regretting Long Liexue, Long Han actually sent him to the county school to attend elementary school. Obviously, a madman cannot attend elementary school. This incident once again became the focus of discussion in Xiaogou Village. People still have some doubts about whether Long Liexue can read good books. Some people still think that Long Liexue is a madman and cannot read good books at all. Even Long Liexue doesn't know that he has been the focus of discussion in Xiaogou Village since he turned one year old.
Those who suspected that Long Liexue was a madman stopped doubting that Long Liexue had spent a year in school successfully and entered the second grade. Except for his usual indifference and rarely played with his peers, he did not show any abnormality. However, although the suspicion stopped, the kind-hearted people in Xiaogou Village had not stopped sympathizing with him, especially when people heard that he had to travel more than 20 miles to go to school every day and still had to be abused by Long Han when he went home every day.
People's sympathy for Long Liexue did not seem to stop after Long Liexue went to high school at the county No. 1 Middle School. After Long Liexue went to high school, he basically went home once a week and was no longer "tortured" as before. This year, Long Liexue entered the third year of high school and was about to take the college entrance examination. Last year, when Long Liexue came to Xiaogou Village to visit the graves with Long Han, the people in Xiaogou Village met him. Although they could almost see Long Liexue once a year, when they saw him every year, the villagers of Xiaogou Village always felt that Long Liexue was the same as Long Han, the same indifference, the same unspeakable footsteps as he walked.
Today, as usual on Fridays, as soon as the bell for the third class ended in the afternoon, Long Liexue stopped the pen in his hand, closed the book, ignored the surprised eyes of the students around him, and began to pack up his schoolbag and prepare to leave. In terms of grades, Long Liexue is not the best, but Long Liexue is definitely the most eye-catching one. This kind of attention is not the kind of starry light, but the feeling of being mixed with curiosity and other unspeakable things created by distance. The appearance of this 18-year-old boy,
Anyone who has seen him knows that it seems a bit inappropriate to describe the word "handsome". This does not mean that he looks wrong, but that there are some things that cannot be expressed by the word "handsome". It can be said that anyone who knows him should first pay attention to him not his appearance, but the things that cannot be said on him. He is different from the so-called "sunny boys" who make little girls scream. His broad forehead, straight nose, slightly purple face is like a knife cut, and his lips that are often pursed tightly, these things make his face more
A bit of coldness and determination can't go along with the word "sunlight". What makes his face look a little soft is his eyes. Long Liexue's eyes are big, long and delicate, like two pools of deep water covered with fog. These eyes will make people feel beautiful and charming even when placed on girls. However, when placed on Long Liexue, his face looks a little innocent and hazy because of these eyes. Another special thing about Long Liexue's face is his two slightly curved and long flying eyebrows. The eyebrows are not thick, unclear, dispersed, and messy, like a pair of
The wings soaring in the clouds, all of them are combined on the face of this young man named Long Liexue. They are not handsome, but they are unique. At first glance, they only look pretty, and even a little literary. When they look at it, they feel clear and refreshing. The mountains are high and the clouds are light. When they look closely, they are shocking and dare not look at it. He has no family background worth boasting. In a school, there is the daughter of the secretary of the prefectural committee, the son of the president of the court, and the daughter of the millionaire... and Long Liexue's father is a real stonemason. Long Liexue has never concealed this, and he is very calm.
In the eyes of those who don’t know Long Liexue, Long Liexue is a weird person. Long Liexue is not like to talk and rarely expresses opinions on any questions. Sometimes, in the classroom, Long Liexue’s words will not add up to 10 sentences. Usually, he has never done anything special. Even in class, he is not active. Although he is never late, unless the teacher calls him, he never raises his hand to answer questions. But it’s such a person who feels nothing surprising. If you go there, you will never raise your hand to answer questions.
In the classroom of Class 3 (1) of No. 1 Middle School, sitting in the classroom of fifty or sixty students, the first person you see is only Long Liexue, not others. This is a very difficult feeling to explain. Just like putting a date in a sieve filled with mung beans, the first thing you see is only the date. At this moment, after a whole afternoon of self-study, the whole class was sitting in the seats, only Long Liexue was still sitting straight at this moment. Even if you were collecting things, it was the same.
At this time, the few people sitting next to Long Liexue stared at Long Liexue with envious eyes, watching him calmly pack his schoolbag and prepare to leave. He was so cruel that he was like Long Liexue, and he wanted to leave, but when he thought of the eyes behind the glasses of the "old class" shrank again. When the No. 1 Middle School was about to take the college entrance examination, the class of the third year of high school usually studied in the afternoon, and the self-study time was extended by one and a half hours, which was only two class hours. The school did not explicitly stipulate that this should be done, but this seemed to have become a tradition in the third year of high school. In order to ensure the admission rate, a few more college students were added. The class teachers of each senior high school class asked their students to take two more self-study classes. In the third year of high school (1), if you don’t take the words of the "old class" seriously, you can’t find a second person except Long Liexue. What makes people wonder is that their "old class" seems to have also acknowledged the specialness of Long Liexue!
Sitting next to Long Liexue was a young man who looked a little white and thin, with big eyes and wearing a grass-green T-blood with a big dog Snoopy printed on it. From the outside, it was the type that little girls liked. Seeing Long Liexue leaving, the boy couldn't help but ask in a low voice: "Boss, you really want to leave, right? The old class said today that he wanted to extend the self-study time, so you are leaving? She will come to check in a while."
Long Liexue looked at the gentle boy sitting next to him, and the corners of his mouth curled up. Those who were familiar with Long Liexue knew that this was Long Liexue smiling. Then he nodded gently, which was an answer!
"oh god ! I was convinced that even the old classmate could be like a silence. The boss is really worthy of being the boss!" the young man sighed.
"Don't envy you, a thin monkey, the boss is not something you can measure, right, boss!" A little fat man with a few youth beans on his face sitting behind the boy wearing glasses poked the boy who was called "slim monkey" with a pen, and then looked at Long Liexu with a flattering smile.
Long Liexu didn't seem to see his bright smile. After packing up his things, he only said to a young man sitting behind him, who was sitting next to the fat man who had been writing with his head down: "Tianhe, you are supervising Xiaopang and ask him to do another set of Chinese test questions!"
The young man who had been writing with his head down and raised his head when he heard Long Liexue's words. He looked at Long Liexue, smiled, and said, "Okay!" The little fat next to him immediately screamed.
Long Liexu ignored Xiaopang's screams, packed up his things and left. The class monitor wanted to stop him, but as soon as the words came to his mouth, he swallowed them again and watched Long Liexu walk out of the classroom.
As soon as Long Liexue left, a student in the class seemed to mutter to himself: "Long Liexue is so arrogant!" A person next to him quickly hit him. When he turned his head, he saw Xiaopang and Skinny Monkey turning their heads and staring at him with a cold look. He shrank his neck, lowered his head and read the book, and stopped talking.
Long Liexue's home is more than 20 miles away from the school. Outside the small county town, there is only one road leading to his home. The road is a dirt road, which is barely enough for two trucks to drive side by side. Because most of the vehicles are load-bearing, you can clearly see the dirt ditch that two wheels rolled over on that road. This road is full of gray on the sunny day and a lot of mud on rainy days, which is very difficult to walk on. On this road, as long as you pass by Xiaohezui, Long Liexue is walking on another one. A philosopher once said, "There is no road in the world, and when more people walk, it becomes a road." Long Liexue likes this sentence very much, so the way he went home was made by himself. Compared with that dirt road, walking this road is just a few more hills and more than ten miles of roads without roads.
Long Liexue has a special relationship with this family. Almost since I have remembered, every bit of this family has accumulated in Long Liexue's heart. From the simple hut supported by thatched grass and several wooden sticks at the beginning, to the small red building faintly at the foot of the mountain, his sweat is flowing in every inch there. His father is not a person who can raise children. Rather than saying that he was raised by Long Han, he was raised by Long Han, like a soldier, and Long Han's character was directly passed on to his son. Both father and son are those kind of taciturn people. Sometimes, when the father and son are together, they say more than fifty words a day, but even so, the father and son have a rare tacit understanding. Long Han once said that communication between real men does not require too much language.
Long Liexue's home is at the foot of the mountain behind the quarry, about two miles away from the quarry. On the mountain next to Long Liexue's home is full of rhododendrons. When the flowers bloom, the mountain seems to be on fire. Every time Long Liexue goes home, he has to pass the quarry. Today is still the same as before. The quarry is still busy. As long as the sun has not set and it is not raining heavily, the quarry is usually busy until after eight o'clock. When you are working on it temporarily, you may be busy all night. It is also a distance from the quarry. The louder sound of the quarry gravel crusher reaches Long Liexue's ears. Following that road, the louder the sound in his ears. When passing by the quarry
At that time, Long Liexue took a look inside and saw several trucks parked there. Several people dressed in gray and blue were "cutting" the car. The owner of the quarry was surnamed Cao. He was a short and strong man. He was also a demobilized soldier. He was one of the few people that Long Han and his son knew. He had a good relationship with the Long family and was quite a real person. After returning from the Vietnam War, he happened to catch up with the country's new policy and took the courage to start a quarry. The first few years were in a bleak operation, but later it gradually improved. Now it is getting more and more prosperous. The business of the quarry is getting better and better every year. Long Liexue passed the quarry and walked two rounds along the mountain road. His small building became clearer and clearer.
Long Liexu's home is not far from the foot of the mountain. It is a two-story house with a "l" shape. The house is not big, only ten square meters, but the house is surrounded by a large yard. The courtyard wall is very high, and two rows of cypress trees are planted around the courtyard wall, like soldiers standing guard! Therefore, even if people outside the yard climb up the mountain, they cannot see the situation in the yard clearly.
At this moment, there was a stone lion that was not carved and formed in Long Liexue's yard, as well as hand-chisels, stone hammers, knife repair and other equipment. The stone lion used was a large bluestone in the quarry, which was almost two meters high. Although it had not been fully formed, it looked like the stone lion had a powerful force. On the left side of the stone lion, there was a large stone more than two meters high. The stone had not yet been carved. There were several stone locks on the corner of the wall in the yard. On the edge of the stone lock were several stone mills of different sizes, and the small ones looked like they were.
The one with a hundred kilograms is probably less than a few thousand kilograms. In addition to these two things, there are more than a dozen people carved from stone next to the stone mill. The people carved from stone have rough faces. It can be seen that the purpose of carving them is obviously not for aesthetic needs. The stone men each have different postures. Some stone men also hold weapons such as knives or daggers in their hands, while others have bare hands and empty fists. Their postures are different, but if you are careful, you may find that the postures of these stone men are basically in a fighting state.
Everything in the yard is not much different from that of ordinary farmers except those stone people who seem a little confused about outsiders. If you have to find a difference between the two, it is that the things in the yard are arranged too neatly. The tools carved with stones are placed in line in front of the stone lion. The stone locks of different sizes and the stone mills are also arranged in a row in order of sizes, and the stone men are also arranged neatly in two rows, without any scattering.
As soon as Long Liexue entered the door, he found that a man had already come out of his house. The two met. The man smiled at Long Liexue. In Long Liexue's eyes, the muscles on the man's face twitched slightly. Compared with the depressed expression on his face, it was really not a smile. Neither of them said anything, and the man hurriedly left. Although he only looked at the man, Long Liexue still recognized him. The man was from Xiaogou. Why did the people from Xiaogou Village come here? Looking at the man just now, it seemed that there was something else. With these questions, Long Liexue pushed open the door.
Chapter completed!