Ma Dagui originally did not want to give the jade bracelet to Grandma Hong as a token of love. It was a token of love that she gave to her wife. It not only represented its own market value, but also contained an emotional value that could not be replaced by money.
At this moment, he said to Granny Hong, I agree with what you said. As long as I have money, I will redeem the jade bracelet. Grandma Hong said, just do it. Then he picked up the box and hid it in his homespun robe again. Then he walked out of the threshold, looked back at the earthen jar that was still full of smell, and said, "If you want to throw it far away, it's best to bury it in the soil." inside, lest the wandering Japanese pirates find out and cause trouble. Also, you need to take good care of the baby and try to make it cry less, preferably not at all, as crying is easily exposed.
This frightened Ma Dagui. He said, if the child wants to cry, what can I do to stop him from crying?
It's up to you to figure it out. Grandma Hong dropped these words, took the shovel and left in a hurry like a farm worker.
Ma Dagui ran to the bed and lifted the quilt to look at the baby with red cheeks. The baby's eyes were clear and quiet, like water without any impurities. He called Ma Sheng lovingly, but his heart was heavy. Liu Zhen whispered, "The child's father, you need to get some money to live."
Liu Zhen stretched out her hand with the jade bracelet strangled and showed it to him, as if to say: You made me so poor that I sold all my jewelry. Ma Dagui turned his back unhappily and said in a sullen voice that the first thing now was not to make money, but to find a secluded place to live. If he was discovered by the Japanese pirates wandering outside, it would be too late.
He had been thinking about what Grandma Hong had reminded him. At this moment, he crossed the threshold and went to the main room. He squatted down and picked up the earthen pot with a strong smell. He didn't want to smell it, and raised his neck to look towards the bedroom where he had just used the delivery room. , said to Liu Zhen, I want to take out a jar of afterbirth and dispose of it. Grandma Hong also told me.
Ma Dagui guessed that Liu Zhen heard it, so he walked out. Suddenly he remembered to bring something with him, so he went to the side room on the left side of the main room where debris was piled up to find a hoe. Then he went out and put it on his shoulder, holding it with one hand and carrying the hoe with the other. The smelly earthen jar walked towards a copper-brown dirt road on the field.
I walked to the farm and planned to dig a deep pit and bury it. But when he looked around, something was wrong. This terrain is surrounded by villages on three sides, and there are only a few people working in the fields. If something is done somewhere in the fields, it will be easily discovered or exposed.
He then thought about it and decided to find a hidden place to deal with it. There is only one hidden place, which is across a field behind the house and up a cliff mountain covered with ancient trees. The mountain is also called Vulture Mountain, named after its towering peak. At that moment, Ma Dagui turned back and changed his route, taking a straight path and heading towards Vulture Mountain.
Vulture Mountain is four kilometers away from this farmland. It looks very close at first glance, but it is far away when walking. There are ditches and ridges in the farmland. The water in all the gullies and ridges flows into a big harbor. The source of the big harbor is in Vulture Mountain. It It flows through Dafan, passes through thousands of villages, and merges into a large river in the distance.
Ma Dagui walked along this big port. After walking for a while, he had to cross an arch bridge, and then walked along the other side of the big port. He repeated this way and passed several arch bridges. The Vulture Mountain was really close, but when he really had to go At the foot of the mountain, there are two passes through.
On the way, he heard a crow crow, and when he looked up, he saw the ghostly black shadow flying over his head. He was not afraid and did not believe that the crow was an omen of bad luck.
His hand holding the earthen jar felt a little sore, so he carried it in another hand, and the shoulder he held the hoe also changed to the other side. Just like that, we really arrived at the foot of Vulture Mountain. Halfway up the mountainside, there are lush green cedar trees. The top of the mountain is full of bare rocks. Looking up, the steep mountain looks like a leaning tower. A narrow bird path leads from the foot of the mountain. Curved and stretched towards the peak.
He had walked this road several times and had not climbed it for a long time. He originally wanted to dig a hole at the foot of the mountain to bury the dirt in the jar, and he also planned to find a more secluded place on the top of the mountain to build a shed. The family members moved here to live in peace to avoid the evil done by Japanese pirates. In this way, he continued walking towards the mountain. Suddenly he heard the cry of magpies. A flower-winged magpie was wandering on the mountainside. He didn't believe that seeing a magpie cry would bring good news, so he ignored it. But in terms of his mood, this was much better than hearing the crow.
After walking for a while on the mountain road, he was covered in sweat. He began to breathe heavily and put down the earthen pot and the hoe. Here was a raised mountain rock with thick and flat edges facing the sky. He sat on it and looked at the vast and empty land below the mountain. In one area, his house seemed to be at the end of the field, as small as the rock he was sitting on.
However, the most important thing in his mind is family affection, the affection for his child Ma Sheng, for which he has gone through so many troubles without feeling tired.
After a while, he stood up and walked into the bushes with a hoe and a can. He peeled off a rotten leaf and saw that there were no rocks hidden on the mountain. He dug a hole and dug out a layer of fresh soil. However, he hit a rock and the hoe shook. When sparks appeared, he turned aside and dug out a pit about one meter deep. He poured the dirt from the earthen jar into it, then filled it with soil and built it tightly with a hoe.
In order not to show traces, those rotten leaves were also applied on top. Of course, he couldn't restore it to its original appearance, but he felt pretty good, so he walked out of the jungle with a hoe and was about to hit the road. He remembered that the empty earthen jar that was left in the jungle was not broken and was still useful, so he went back to pick it up.
He walked on a nearly steep mountain road and felt the top of the mountain. When he looked up, it was not the top of the mountain. If the mountain really looked like a vulture, then it would only be up to its neck.
There was a lawn here, about three or four acres in size. There were cliffs several feet high on both sides of the lawn. Directly in front of it was a narrow stone path. He walked in and saw that there were rocks more than ten feet high facing each other on both sides, forming a line of sky.
When Ma Dagui was a child, he went up the mountain to cut trees with his father, but his memory was vague. Later, he heard that the Eight-Power Allied Forces were fighting with the Chinese soldiers. During the melee, his father took his mother up the mountain to hide in the dark at night. They slipped and fell deeply from the rock. Died at the bottom of a ditch. As for which rock slipped his father's foot and which ravine caused his father's death, Ma Dagui didn't know.
Now that he came to this stone path, he suddenly remembered the death of his father, and felt sad. It also aroused his incomparable indignation against the invading Eight-Nation Allied Forces.
After walking through the stone path, there is an open grassy slope, and beyond the slope are endless mountains. Ma Dagui looked around and found two huts on the left side of the slope, which were probably resting places set up by cattle herders. He walked over to take a look and saw that the hayloft was not damaged, but there was a musty smell inside.
Two thatched huts are connected together. One has a stove, and the stove pot has been rusted; the other is a bed, covered with gray straw, obviously no one has lived in it for a long time. When Ma Dagui came here, he had an idea: It would be safe if he brought his children here to raise them, otherwise, he would be worried about the harassment of Japanese pirates all day long.
