"Er Guo, Er Guo...where did you get it?"
From the bottom of the hillside, a sweet and waxy shout came, and Li Shiqiang trembled all over, his eyes full of surprise.
"Where am I?"
"Why is this scene so familiar?"
He remembered that he had just negotiated a medicinal material purchase contract with others, and he would be able to sell the medicinal materials grown at home immediately.
While driving home, a dazzling white light suddenly shone through.
The last scene in my mind seemed to be a truck that seemed to be unable to stop.
But now, his surroundings were suddenly replaced by a familiar forest, and there were folk songs that seemed to be buried deep in his memory.
He looked back and immediately saw a thin little girl of about five or six years old with a ponytail, shouting with all her strength while carrying a bamboo basket that was taller than her.
"Xuemei...!"
Xuemei's real name was Li Shimei, and she was his fourth sister. The two had a very good relationship since childhood, but after Xuemei got married, her life seemed to be very bad, and she often ran back to her parents' home with her children.
Although Xuemei never said that, what else could the conflict between the couple be about besides money?
In the early days, Li Shiqiang often helped Xuemei, but later his family's situation became worse and worse, so he could only live like this.
I remember that Xuemei got divorced in the end, raising a pair of children alone, and never remarried.
Li Shiqiang looked down and saw that he was wearing straw sandals that he had not worn for who knows how many years and patched clothes.
I am reborn! ?
What year was that back to?
"Erguo, why are you so dazed?"
Li Shiqiang suddenly woke up from his memories and looked at Xuemei who had walked up to him and was stuffing a small thing into his mouth with her dark little hands.
A familiar yet unfamiliar sweetness spreads in your mouth...
sweet potato!
Seeing the familiar figure of the fourth sister, Li Shiqiang couldn't help but feel a sore nose. He reached out and grabbed the bamboo basket behind Xuemei and held it in his hand: "You can eat it, the second brother won't eat it."
Xuemei wiped the tears from the corners of her second brother's eyes, stuffed sweet potatoes into her mouth, and said, "Erguo, I didn't cry when I was six years old. Why are you crying for an adult like you?"
In an instant, Li Shiqiang knew which year he had returned to.
This was the year he least wanted to look back on when he was young - 1979, the year his father had an accident.
I still remember that in March 1979, my father Li Nongchang had an accident in his lower body. He was pierced through the chest by several bamboos and died in the river. In the end, even his body was not recovered.
Jinsha Village is located in the mountains. The mountains are rugged and there is not that much farmland for farming.
Fortunately, there are still large bamboo forests in the mountains, and there is a Minjiang River next to it.
Most of the people in the village make a living by farming, and occasionally tidy up farmland or go hunting in the mountains when they have free time.
The defecation relies on rivers to transport wood.
In this business, you basically risk your life to eat.
One mistake can lead to the destruction of a family.
In the last life, after his father Li Nongchang passed away, the entire Li family was in ruins. With no other choice, Li Shiqiang had no choice but to continue his father's old business.
But after working for less than a year, the higher authorities issued a "cutting ban", and he had to work hard with his family to farm, suffering for decades.
Li Shiqiang forced a smile and asked casually: "Mom?"
Xuemei replied: "Mom has to help the old man prepare food!"
Li Shiqiang suddenly frowned, stared at Xuemei and asked anxiously: "Old man, are you going to get off the row today?"
"yes!"
"Oops!!"
With a loud roar, he immediately dropped what he was holding, ran to the cliff and looked down. On the riverside at the bottom of the cliff, next to piles of tied bamboo, a group of men were lighting firecrackers and shouting loudly.
Li Shiqiang's heart tightened and he immediately spread his legs and ran down.
God!
I don't know why I was born again.
But since you let me go back to this year, please let me catch up!
While Li Shiqiang was running wildly on the mountain road, he was paying attention to the river flow under the cliff, looking forward to seeing his father's bamboo raft.
Unfortunately, soon, a blue torrent flashed through his eyes, like a blue dragon.
Li Shiqiang bit his lip and immediately changed direction and ran to the other side of the mountain road.
He was now on the mountain, and it was almost impossible to catch up with the bamboo raft that had set off.
Unless he can immediately go down the mountain and run to Guitou Beach, he can catch up.
The Guitoutan river is very fast and it is a particularly difficult pass.
Only then will the bamboo raft stop and rearrange its rafts in order to cross the pass safely.
And it was when I was passing Guitou Beach that something happened to my father.
Li Shiqiang ran to the other side of Qingxia Mountain and came to a soil slope with complicated grass.
He looked at the steep hillside and the dense stones, closed his eyes, closed his legs, hugged his arms, and "slipped" down.
...
On the surface of the rushing river, several men stood on a bamboo raft. Behind the raft were tied rows of bamboos, one after another like a chain.
Standing on the leading bamboo raft was a shirtless lean man, who was Li Nongchang, the leader of the lower row this time.
He was about to use the pole to push the bamboo raft to the beach when he suddenly saw a figure covered in grass and leaves rushing towards the beach, shouting as he ran: "Old man! Old man!"
As soon as Li Nongchang felt that the voice was familiar, a handsome second brother behind him muttered: "Why does this voice sound a bit like Li Erwa!"
"Second baby!?"
When Li Nongchang heard this, he quickly turned around and saw that the running figure looked a bit like his second son.
Although he was anxious, he still held the bamboo raft steadily to the beach.
Because he was the leader of the raft, one mistake could cause all the bamboo rafts behind him to fall apart and fall into the river.
When Li Nongchang came ashore, he finally saw clearly that the messy figure was indeed his second son.
His face became anxious and he shouted: "Er baby, is there something wrong?"
He has five children, two boys and three girls.
The eldest son, Li Shiying, has a docile personality and is already married. However, he did not get married out. Instead, he hired a son-in-law who came to live in the house and lived quite well at home.
The third child, Li Shiping, has a fiery personality and can't stand anger, so she can't stand being bullied outside.
The fourth and fifth eldest children are both still young. Only the second eldest child, Li Shiqiang, is like a boring gourd. He rarely speaks a few words and has no idea what is going on in his head every day.
So at this moment, Li Nongchang was filled with surprise and uncertainty when he saw the uncharacteristic Erwa running to the beach.
"Old man, I want to go down the row with you!"
"Bottom row!?"
Li Nongchang looked surprised, but still smiled and said: "Aren't you scared when I called you before? Why do you want to sit down with me again today?"
Li Shiqiang stared at the old man standing in front of him with mixed feelings in his heart.
I will never let anything happen to you this time and let you leave our whole family alone.
He went directly to the beach, took off his shirt and jumped into the river without hesitation.
