Uncle Gao carried Lu Rong into the village and asked several children about Wang Cuihua's home.
They talked in tongues. Although Lu Rong didn't understand much, the voices of his peers aroused his interest, so he stopped lying motionless in silence, and slightly raised his face to look over there.
There is a wonderful attraction between children that allows them to forget other things and look at each other intently.
Not shy, not ashamed, staring straight.
Lu Rong temporarily forgot the sadness of being abandoned by Wang Tu, and the children also forgot that they were still holding the cow.
It wasn't until the cow raised his head and rolled away a pile of peanuts spread on the platform next to him with his tongue, chewing with a click, that one of the children screamed and anxiously urged the others to leave quickly.
The group of children drove the cattle along the dirt road, and a fat woman rushed out of a room next to the platform, jumping on their backs and cursing.
Her voice was very loud and her appearance was very fierce. Lu Rong felt that she was more terrifying than any aunt she had ever seen, and she couldn't help but feel a little worried about the children.
Uncle Gao walked forward with him on his back, and he kept turning his head and looking back. After the children ran away, they were not afraid of the woman. They talked back while running, and turned their heads to make faces.
Especially when he found that Lu Rong was turning his head to look at them, he used a more exaggerated expression and tone than usual to provoke the jumping woman.
But his eyes secretly glanced at Lu Rong. ——After all, none of them have ever seen a better-looking doll than him, like a doll pulled from a pictorial.
Seeing that they were twisting their asses and grimacing again, Lu Rong couldn't help but pursed his mouth and smiled.
Not long after he finished crying, his face was still tight after the tears dried out.This smile pulled his skin, and he suddenly remembered what he had just cried, and remembered Wang Tu. The mood that had just been raised went down again, and he turned his head and continued to lie on Uncle Gao's shoulder.
After the conversation between Uncle Gao and the group of children, he was obviously in a bad mood. He stopped coaxing Lu Rong to be obedient, and walked quickly under his feet without saying a word.
Lu Rong turned his head and looked to the side, and saw a big yellow dog squatting under the eaves of a yard, with a few puppies beside him, rolling around like a ball of meat. A little yellow dog ran out of the eaves, his paws were frozen by the snow in the yard, and he ran back shivering.
Lu Rong kept looking at the group of puppies, as if in a better mood.Until they disappeared from view, Uncle Gao stopped in front of a courtyard with closed doors.
Bang bang bang, bang bang bang.
Uncle Gao knocked on the courtyard door for a long time. At first, he knocked, then he knocked and shouted, and finally smashed it with his fist. Lu Rong always felt that the old wooden door was about to collapse.
They moved too much, the door of a nearby family's room opened, and a man in a padded jacket with a rice bowl walked out.
"Are you looking for Li Zhu?"The man asked Uncle Gao in a dialect.
"Li Zhu?"Uncle Gao turned his head and looked at the courtyard gate, "I'm looking for Wang Cuihua."" "Wang Cuihua is Li Zhu's cousin, they are a family."The man shaved his mouth and said with a smile.
Uncle Gao asked, "Are they not at home?"I just met a group of children and said they were gone."
The man replied: "Yes, they just left." "Where did you go?" "I went to work in Guangdong."
Uncle Gao asked, "Then do you know when they will come back?""
The man shook his head and said, "I don't know, I just left, at least I won't be back until the Chinese New Year next year."
Uncle Gao turned and stared at the courtyard gate out of his mind, while Lu Rong was attracted by the vegetable plot not far away.
The vegetables in the vegetable plot were cut off, and only some vegetable piles were left, still with frost, and three or four pigs were chewing and eating with their tails wagging. The man's gaze fell on Lu Rong, as if he had thought of something, and asked, "Is this the doll ordered by Wang Cuihua?"They didn't want dolls anymore. Wang Cuihua was pregnant. Li Zhu took her to Guangdong specifically and said that the hospital over there was good, so she was born there."
Uncle Gao's face was calm, and Lu Rong heard him swear an unpleasant swear word in a low voice.
Two more children came out of the door behind the man, both holding bowls, standing in the courtyard while planing rice and staring at Lu Rong. Uncle Gao walked back and forth with Lu Rong on his back, and the man enthusiastically invited: "Come and have a meal, on such a cold day, drink a bowl of hot soup."
Uncle Gao didn't have the mind to answer, he just waved his hand and kept walking forward under his feet.
Lu Rong kept lying on his back, very quiet, and didn't ask where they were going now. Soon I walked to the entrance of the village, and the surroundings were very quiet. Except for the sound of the wind, there were only a few dog barks floating in the distance.
As soon as he walked past a pile of wood stacks, a monotonous electronic music suddenly sounded, breaking the silence of Murano.
From the first note came into his ears, Lu Rong buzzed in his head, and suddenly sat up straight from Uncle Gao's back, his face full of disbelief and shock, his body collapsed very tightly. This is Wang Tu's mobile phone ringtone, called Nokia.After ringing this bell many times, Wang Tu would shout in the kitchen or yard: "Rongrong, bring the phone to Brother Tu and put it on the coffee table.""
Lu Rong quickly looked around, trying to find Wang Tu.
His heart was pounding, and he was about to cry uncontrollably. Along the way, he almost believed that Wang Tu had thrown himself away. It turned out not to be. He had already found it.
He was about to come out of a certain corner, stretched out his hand to himself and said, "Rongrong, let's go, Brother Tu is here to pick you up, let's go home."
The ringing continued, and Wang Tu didn't come out, but Uncle Gao stopped, holding Lu Rong in one hand, and taking out a mobile phone from the black bag hanging on his chest in the other. The phone is black, with a flip cover, Lu Rong recognizes it, and it is exactly the same as Wang Tu's, except for the different colors.
Uncle Gao looked at the phone number, his face became very nervous, and he quickly pressed answer.
"Hey, hey, hey..." The signal on the mountain was not good, so he fed for a long time until the other party hung up.
He put Lu Rong on his back down on the ground and began to dial back.He kept looking at the signal at the top of the screen anxiously, first trotting to a yard on the left, but found that it didn't work, and then went to climb the wood stack next to him.
"Hey... you said you said, there was no signal just now."Uncle Gao climbed up the high wood stack, and the voice on the phone seemed to be shouting. Lu Rong stood dumbfounded. From the moment he took out the phone, the blood on his small face faded, and his eyes did not turn steadily.
"...have you arrived at my house?Did my mom say it?......my brother went in?......understand, understand..."
Uncle Gao's call was very long, but he didn't say much. He was basically listening, but he would agree and say yes, or understand.
When he ended the call and got down from the wood stack with panic on his face, he didn't even grasp it and fell, and a bundle of wood fell firmly on his body.
He pushed away the firewood and got up quickly, ignoring Lu Rong, who was still standing on the road without moving, and hurriedly walked outside the village.
After walking a few steps, he remembered Lu Rong, turned his head back and said in a perfunctory tone: "Lu Rong, Uncle Gao is going to do something in front, you just wait for me here, and I will come back to pick you up when I'm done.""
Lu Rong had been standing still, and when he heard these words, he looked up at Uncle Gao. He didn't cry and want to go together, as if he didn't understand anything.But in those big dark eyes, there was clearly panic and understanding, and they seemed to understand everything.
Uncle Gao met his gaze, swallowed other words, and said, "Uncle Gao is in trouble and can't take you with him. But don't panic, many people in this village want children. You see, the family just invited you to his house for dinner, and you can't be hungry.You first find a family member to live in, and Uncle Gao will pick you up after solving the trouble."
After speaking of this call, he stopped caring about Lu Rong, and continued to make calls while running along the road out of the village.
The figure became smaller and smaller, and soon disappeared at the end of the road.
Lu Rong was standing on the dirt road, on the right is the courtyard of the family, the door is closed, there is a faded and white New Year painting on it, a fat doll holding a golden carp. On the left is a cowshed made of wooden sheds, which is empty and covered with a lot of hay.
The snow didn't know when it would float again. He felt a little cold and didn't know what to do, so he followed the direction Uncle Gao left.
He didn't go after Uncle Gao, but there was only one way here. He decided to keep walking until the end, and he should be able to go home.
Wang Tu told him not to go home, but even if he lives in the woods opposite his home, it's not bad.
What's more, when he walks to a place where there is no house and no one, he can become a fawn and run very fast.
Some parts of the dirt road are icy, slippery and hard, and the places without ice are full of mud.
Lu Rong's chubby snow boots were covered with mud and looked fatter.The down jacket was also dirty, and the fleece underwear inside was not tuck into the waist of the pants. As soon as it fell to the ground, it revealed a tender and white waist.
The wind whizzed in.
The child kept walking forward and stopped suddenly when he reached the corner.He looked straight ahead in horror, his pupils dilated, and he breathed quickly.
Just ten meters away, a big black dog with shiny fur was blocking the middle of the road, grinning and growling at him.
Lu Rong likes puppies, but he is also afraid of fierce big dogs. Every time he goes out with Wang Tu, he will hug him when he meets a puppy, and Wang Tu will hug him when he meets a big dog. He is too squeamish.
He looked around, but didn't see anyone he could rely on, so he said in a trembling voice: "I'm sorry, big dog, I want to go from here, can I?""
The big black dog looked very difficult to discuss, and took two steps forward. "Forget it."Lu Rong turned around with a white face and walked back quickly.
After walking back to the village, he dared to look back and found that the big black dog had not followed, so he breathed a sigh of relief, his legs trembling.
He stood at the entrance of the village for a while, feeling colder, and his nose was as if he couldn't finish clearing his nose.
Children who usually love to be clean have to take turns wiping with two sleeves. The sleeves are made of non-absorbent fabric, and the snot is all over their faces, and when the wind blows, they form a hard shell.
The snow was getting bigger and bigger, and no one in the village came out. Seeing that the sky was getting dark, Lu Rong didn't know if the black dog was still stuck there. He didn't dare to go over, so he got into the empty cowshed by the road.
The cowshed is made of wood, with windshield on three sides, and only two thick logs are sideways in front of it.
Lu Rong got in through the gap between the logs and shrank on a pile of hay in the corner. He thought, when it gets completely dark, the big black dog will go home too, and no one will notice him when he becomes a fawn, so he can go underground soon.
It doesn't matter if he is hungry. He likes to eat grass after he becomes a fawn. He saw it when he came. Although there is no grass, some trees still have leaves.
But the leaves are old and bitter at first glance, and they are not delicious.