Father came down from upstairs. Carrying a white rattan box in his hand and a datewood cane hanging on his arm, he walked down the stone steps of the attic to the yard step by step. It was the time of wheat harvest, and the courtyard was quiet.The willow and pine branches inserted on the door during the cold food have been shriveled by the sun.A cluster of Xifu Begonias beside the rocky mountain has also lost its flowers and leaves. Xiumi was holding a pair of underpants in her hand, and she wanted to secretly take them to the backyard to dry, but she bumped into her father and didn't know what to do.

This was the second time she saw the blood on the underpants, and she lay down by the well and scrubbed for a long time.A few bees were buzzing, flying back and forth in front of and behind her.The sound of the bees added to her worry.She felt an unbearable pain in her stomach, as if a lead weight was falling down, and she sat on the toilet, but she couldn't pull it out.She took off her trousers and secretly took a look in the mirror at the bleeding place, but immediately blushed with shame and her chest was pounding.She randomly stuffed a cotton ball into it, then pulled up her trousers, threw herself on her mother's bed, hugged an embroidered pillow and murmured: I'm going to die, I'm probably going to die.Her mother went to her uncle and grandma's house in Meicheng, but the bedroom was empty.

The problem now is that the father came downstairs. This lunatic rarely goes downstairs.But every year on the first day of the first lunar month, his mother asked Baochen to carry him to the grand master's chair in the hall downstairs to accept congratulations from the whole family.Xiumi felt that he was originally a living zombie.The mouth and eyes are crooked, the salivation is constant, and even coughing makes me gasp for a long time.However, today, this lunatic came downstairs by himself with quick legs and high spirits, carrying a heavy rattan box.Standing under the crabapple tree, he calmly took out a handkerchief from his sleeve to blow his nose.Could it be that his madness was cured overnight?

Seeing him carrying a suitcase, Xiumi seemed to be about to go on a long journey, and accidentally caught a glimpse of the brown bloodstains on the underpants in his hand. She was flustered for a moment, and shouted towards the front yard: Baochen, Baochen.Tilting her head, Baochen... She was calling the accountant at home, but unfortunately no one answered.The petals and dust on the ground, the lazy afternoon sun ignored her; the crabapple, pear tree, moss on the wall, butterflies and bees, the green willow filaments outside the door, and the draft that swayed the branches ignored her . "What are you calling?! Don't call." Father said.

He turned around slowly, stuffed the dirty handkerchief into his sleeve, squinted his eyes and looked at her with some reproach in his eyes.His voice was deep and hoarse, as if it had been polished by sandpaper.It was the first time she heard him talking to herself.Due to the lack of sunlight all year round, his face was as black as charcoal, and his hair was brown and yellow like fluttering ears of corn. "Are you going out?" Seeing that Baochen was not there, Xiumi had no choice but to calm down and bravely asked him. "Yes." Father said. "Where are you going?"

Father laughed twice, looked up at the sky, and said after a long while: "To be honest, I don't know at this moment." "Is it far away where you want to go?" "It's far away." He faltered with a gray face, and looked at her motionlessly. "Bao Chen, Bao Chen, Tilting Head Bao Chen, Dead Dog Bao Chen..." Father ignored her cries.He slowly walked up to Xiumi and raised a hand, probably wanting to touch her face.Ke Xiumi screamed and escaped from under his hands.She jumped over the bamboo fence, stood in the vegetable garden, looked at him from a distance with her head tilted, the pair of underpants twisted and twisted in her hands.Father shook his head and smiled.His smile was like ashes, and like paraffin.

Just like that, she watched her father walk out of the waist door unhurriedly, carrying the suitcase with his back bent.Her mind was a mess.My heart was beating wildly.However, the father came back soon.An otter-like head came in from the door, with a half-smile, a shy face, and eyes looking around. "I want an umbrella," he whispered. "Puji is going to rain soon." These were the last words her father left her, which she didn't know at the time.Xiumi looked up at the sky, there was not a single cloud, it was blue, high and far away. Father found an oilcloth umbrella from the chicken coop and opened it.The umbrella surface has been riddled with moths, and the ribs are exposed. When it is closed and shaken, only the ribs are left.After hesitating for a while, he carefully propped the broken umbrella against the wall, lifted the box, and walked out backwards, as if he was worried about disturbing someone, and gently closed the door.Both doors were closed.

Xiumi let out a long breath, draped her trousers on the fence, hurried around the flower gallery, and went to the front yard to call for someone.Baochen was not there, nor were Magpie and Cuilian.This lunatic really knows how to choose a date, as if he had discussed it with the whole family. He searched the front of the hall, the wing room, the firewood house, the stove, and even the back of the toilet curtain, but he couldn't find a single person.Xiumi had no choice but to go through the courtyard, to the gate, and looked around, but there was no trace of her father. She saw Hua Erniang next door drying sesame seeds on a bamboo plaque in front of the door, so she asked her if she had seen her father, and Hua Erniang said she hadn't.Xiumi asked her if she had seen magpies and green lotus, but Hua Erniang said she hadn't.Finally she asked about Bao Chen, Hua Erniang laughed: "You never let me watch him, how would I know."

Xiumi was about to leave, but Hua Erniang called her again and said, "Isn't your master locked in the attic? How did he get out?" Xiumi said, "I don't know how he can get out. Hey, let's go anyway." That's it. I watched him go out through the waist door." Hua Erniang was also a little anxious, "Then I have to ask someone to look for it. If he is such a dizzy person, if he steps into the latrine and drowns, It’s also a waste of life.” While the two were talking, Xiumi saw Cuilian coming from the east of the village carrying a basket full of golden needles.Xiumi rushed over to meet her.When Cuilian heard about this, she didn't seem flustered, she said to herself: "You said he is carrying a suitcase, and he can't go far now, let's go to the ferry to intercept him and let him cross the river. It's going to be difficult." After she finished speaking, she put down the basket, took Xiumi's hand, and the two ran towards Jindu.

Cuilian has a pair of small feet, her whole body trembles when she runs, and her chest is choppy.Wang Qidan and the brothers Wang Qidan in the blacksmith's shop just stared straight at him and couldn't close their mouths.I met two wheat harvesters on the road, and when I asked them, they said that they didn't see Master Lu passing by.The two ran back again, to the edge of the pond at the head of the village. Cuilian swayed her legs and sat on the ground. She took off her embroidered shoes to rub her feet, and unbuttoned her green jacket, wheezing Panting: "There is no way for us to run so madly. Your father will not take the ferry, and there is only one road behind the village. It is important to tell Yitou quickly."

"I just don't know where he went." Xiumi said. "I know," Cuilian said, "Nine times out of ten, I'm watching cards at Granny Meng's house. Come and pull me up." Cuilian put on her shoes and tucked her green jacket, Xiumi helped her up, and the two stumbled towards a big apricot tree in the village.Only then did Cuilian remember to ask, when did the master come downstairs?What did you say?Why is the magpie not at home?Why not hold him back?After asking back and forth for a long time, he suddenly became angry again, "I said the lock on the attic door can't be unlocked, but your mother wants him to go to the pavilion to bask in the sun, this is good." Granny Meng was shaking cotton under the apricot tree. The spinning wheel was spinning too fast, and the cotton thread was about to break.Cursing and swearing, he was angry with himself.Cuilian said: "Mother-in-law, take a rest, let me ask you a question, did our Baochen come to play cards at mother-in-law's house?" "Come here, why didn't you come?" Granny Meng murmured, "He just won 20 taels of money from me and left. Let's go, no matter how much you ask him to beat him around, he will eat two big persimmons before he leaves." When she said this, Cuilian laughed: "Grandma just don't play cards with him in the future." "If I don't fight with him, who will I fight with?" Granny Meng said, "There are only a few old friends in Puji, and without any of them, we can't make up a table. It's also my fault, and the cotton thread is broken." "Does mother-in-law know where he has gone?" "I watched him take my two persimmons, eat them all the way, and happily went to the back of the village." "Did you go to Miss Sun's house?" Cuilian asked. The old lady smiled but didn't answer, Cuilian pulled Xiumi and was about to leave when Granny Meng said behind her: "I didn't say he was at Miss Sun's house." She still laughed after she finished speaking. Miss Sun's house is in a small courtyard with a single family beside the mulberry garden at the back of the village.There is a pond outside the courtyard, around which hangs strands of wild roses or honeysuckle, the courtyard gate is closed tightly, silent.At the door sat a hunchbacked old man with all white hair, leaning against the wall to bask in the sun.Seeing the two people coming around from the pond, the old man stood up vigilantly, his small mouse-like eyes rolling around.Cuilian said to Xiumi, "Stand still by the pond and wait for me to call Baochen out." Then she walked quickly on tiptoe.Seeing Cuilian's aggressiveness, the old man opened his hands to stop her, and shouted: "Big mouth, which one are you looking for?" Cuilian ignored him, opened the door and rushed in.The old man didn't stop her for a moment, he stretched out his hand and grabbed her skirt tightly.Cuilian turned around, immediately put her face down, opened her eyes wide, and spat at his feet: "Immortal, if you touch me again, I will immediately push you into the pond and choke to death." " The old man was angry and impatient, but there was a lot of laughter on his face, and he lowered his voice and said, "Miss, please speak softly." "What are you afraid of? Your small courtyard is so secluded, your little bitch is shaking the ground on the bed, and no one will hear it." Cuilian sneered, and yelled more and more. "As the saying goes, if you scold Lilac, you will make the girl ugly," the old man said, "You are not afraid of dirtying people's ears, but aren't you afraid of dirtying your mouth?" "Fuck your mother." Cuilian scolded, "If you don't let go, I'll burn your kiln down." The old man threw away his hands and stomped his feet angrily. Cuilian was about to go in, when the door of the inner wing opened, and a person came out tumbling out.It was Baochen who tilted his head.When he came to the gate of the courtyard, his head was still tilted to one side, he was buttoning up his buttons indiscriminately, and he was laughing: "Big mouth, big mouth, tell me, this day...will it rain?" It did rain.It rained heavily from evening to midnight.The stagnant water in the courtyard is higher than the flower beds, and it is about to overflow into the corridor.Mother had already returned from Meicheng, she was leaning on the grand teacher's chair in the hall, looking at the rain curtain outside the door, she couldn't stop sighing.Cuilian was also yawning profusely, with a strand of twine in her hand, she couldn't figure it out.The magpie sat next to its mother: when the mother sighed, she sighed too, and when the mother smacked her lips, she smacked her lips too.None of them spoke.The windows were slammed by the wind, and the sound of rustling rain on the roof was already connected. "Hello, go and pick some golden needles." Mother said to Cuilian.She has said this many times, and seeing that Cuilian didn't answer, she said to Magpie: "You are also a person without ears. I told you to wait for the new wheat to be harvested before you go to grind the flour. You have to be impatient. Run to the mill." Finally, she looked at Xiumi again, and said coldly: "Although your father is crazy, but it is your father after all, if you drag him to stop him, he may not be here with you. Take a bite out of your hand." Finally, she scolded the dead dog Baochen again, repeating those few words over and over again.When she had had enough of scolding, she asked the magpie, "Where did that tilted head go all day?" The magpie just shook his head.Cuilian also said that she didn't know.Seeing that Cuilian didn't speak, Xiumi didn't make a sound.Her eyelids were fighting, and even the sound of the rain didn't sound so real anymore. In the middle of the night, Baochen came back.He carried a lantern and rolled up his trouser legs, and came into the hall dejectedly.He has led people to search the ground in a radius of more than ten miles, and chased him all the way to the Guandi Temple at the foot of the mountain. He has asked about 1,000 or 500 people, but he still hasn't gotten any information. "Could it be that he went to heaven?" Mother cried, "He's a lunatic, and he's carrying a suitcase. Where can he go now?" Baochen stood there without saying a word, his body constantly falling down. dripping water. How did father go crazy?This mysterious case has been weighing heavily on Xiumi's heart for many years.One day, she asked Ding Shuze, the teacher of the private school, about this matter. The old man turned his face down, sneered twice, and said, "Go home and ask your mother." Xiumi came back and asked her mother.Her mother immediately slapped the chopsticks on the table, causing the four bowls on the table to jump up at the same time.In her memory, the four bowls jumped off the table at the same time, which may be the real reason why her father went crazy.She went to pester Cuilian again.Cuilian said confidently: "It's nothing else, it's all caused by Han Changli's bullshit Taoyuan picture." Xiumi asked her who Han Changli was, and Cuilian said that it was the one who defeated Jin Wushu back then. that person.His wife, Liang Hongyu, is a famous beauty all over the world.Later, Xiumi read Han Yu's "Jin Xue Jie", and knew that Han Changli was not Han Shizhong, and his wife was not Liang Hongyu, so Cuilian's explanation was self-defeating.She asked the magpie again, and the magpie replied: "It's just crazy." In her opinion, there is no reason for a person to go crazy, and everyone will go crazy one day. In the end, she had no choice but to follow Bao Chen's mouth. Baochen has been with his father since he was twelve years old. His father was implicated in the "salt class" case, and he was dismissed from school in Yangzhou and returned home. He was the only entourage who moved south with his father.According to Baochen, there was indeed a picture of Taoyuan.It was a gift from Ding Shuze to the master on his father's fiftieth birthday.In the first few years when my father was dismissed from office and came to Puji, the two of them sang poems and sang poems, and expelled them for food and drink.More than 20 years ago, Ding's library was reduced to ashes in a fire, but this treasure map survived miraculously.This picture is not only in the collection of the Golden Chamber, the industry of the famous mountain, but also in the possession of Jinyu, but Ding Shu was able to generously donate it to him, which shows that the relationship between the two is really extraordinary. Until one day, when Baochen went upstairs to make tea with a pot of boiling water, he heard a crackling sound downstairs.When I went up to see it, it turned out that two people were fighting.Mr. Ding slapped the master, and the master slapped him back. The two of them stood there without speaking, and beat each other to death.Bao Chen was also in a daze watching, and forgot to persuade the fight for a while.It wasn't until Ding Shu spat out a front tooth with blood and phlegm that the master stopped.Na Ding Shu whimpered, covered his face and ran downstairs, and sent his disciple to deliver a letter of resignation after a while.The master unfolded the book under the oil lamp and read it seven or eight times in a row. He was amazed and said: "Good words, good words."His cheeks were also swollen, and when he spoke, he seemed to have an egg in his mouth.Bao Chen couldn't tell why the two turned against each other, but he just sighed: "The scholars in the world are originally a bunch of lunatics." This is Bao Chen's explanation. Mr. Ding Shuze's explanation is: In a poem written to Ding Shuze, his father borrowed an allusion from Li Shangyin's poem and mistakenly wrote "golden toad" in the sentence "golden toad bites the lock and burns incense" as "golden cicada". "This is obviously purely a clerical error. Your father is a half bottle of vinegar in learning, but he is still familiar with Li Yishan's poems, so he wouldn't really make such a big joke. I kindly pointed it out to him, and I definitely didn't mean the slightest bit of sarcasm. Unexpectedly, he got annoyed immediately, and shouted on the spot to check the book with me. Knowing that he was wrong, he still insisted on arguing, with a domineering air of a gentleman. Now that he is out of office, he is not a gentleman. He has been a Jinshi, I have never won; he was a state official, and I have never been, but a good toad cannot turn into a cicada just because he recognizes you as a Jinshi or a professor of government studies. He listened to me and stood up. He gave me a slap in the face when I got up, and he also knocked out a tooth." A few years later, Ding Shu still couldn't let go of his resentment when he talked about this incident. Student inspection.Therefore, Xiumi sometimes felt that the cause of her father's madness was Ding Juren's knocked out front tooth. Anyway, my father was crazy. Ever since his father got the treasure map of Han Changli, he hid it in the attic, regarded it as a treasure, and refused to show it to others easily.After Ding Shu had a falling out with his father, he asked his family members to ask for it repeatedly. His father only said, "If he comes to take it himself, I will return it in person." .However, since it was a gift, if he came to ask for it by himself, he still couldn't let go of his old face.Bao Chen said that his father went crazy looking at that picture. Every morning after her father got up, Cuilian would make the bed and fold the quilt for him.Once, she saw that her father's bed was neatly made, but he fell asleep on the desk.The table is full of books.There are dots circled on the picture, and it is covered with lamp ash.Cuilian pushed him awake and asked him why he didn't sleep on the bed?Father didn't answer, he rubbed his bloodshot eyes, turned around, and stared at her.Seeing his clear eyes and strange expression, Cuilian brushed the hair around her ears and asked, "After all these years, have you not gotten tired of watching him?" Father still looked at her motionless.After a long while, she sighed and said, "Cuilian, look at me, do I look like a turtle?" Hearing what he said, Cuilian left her father behind and rushed downstairs, telling her mother exactly what her father said.At that time, my mother was angry because Baochen went to Meicheng to visit brothels without telling her, so she ignored her.Unexpectedly, that night, when the family was preparing to eat in the living room, my father suddenly opened the door and came in.This is the first time he has gone downstairs in more than two months.However, he was not wearing any clothes.Seeing his naked appearance, all the people in the hall looked at each other and I looked at you, and were stunned for a moment.However, the father still tiptoed to the back of the magpie, suddenly stretched out his hand to cover her eyes, and asked her, "Guess who I am?" The magpie shrank its neck in fright, waved the hand holding the chopsticks in the air, and replied timidly, "It's the master." The father smiled like a child and said, "You guessed it." Mother was so frightened that she took a mouthful of rice in her mouth and was speechless for a long time.That year, Xiumi was twelve years old.Until now, she still remembers her father's silent smile, his face turned ashen. Mother didn't seem to believe that father would suddenly go mad.At least, she still had great hopes for her father's recovery.For the first few months, she was in no rush.First, he invited the doctor Tang Sixth Master, poured soup and medicine on him, and had acupuncture all over his body.Xiumi remembered her father wearing only a pair of shorts, tied to a rattan chair by Bao Chen, covered with gold needles, howling like a pig.Followed by monks practice, Taoist exorcism.Afterwards, Mr. Yin Yang and the Blind Eyed Witch also came along, and tried all the sackcloth physiognomy, Liu Ren Shen class, Qimen Dunjia, and almost removed his bones and boiled them in a pot.From the beginning of spring to the end of summer, my father calmed down, but he gained weight in circles. When he walked, his fat dangled, and even his eyes were squeezed into slits. This summer, when my father was walking in the garden, he was tired and leaned lightly on the stone table, which turned over.Baochen called a few strong men from the village to straighten the table. They sang and danced for a long time, but the table still remained motionless.As long as he is happy, he likes to beat people.He could slap Baochen four or five times on the spot.One day, he got a long-handled machete from nowhere, and he cut down trees in the garden by himself.When the mother led the family to rush over, she saw the machete flying up and down with a cold light, and wherever it went, trees and flowers fell down.He had already chopped down a piece of wisteria, a pomegranate, three cypresses, and two horned dragon claws, but his mother asked Baochen to stop him.That Baochen walks on a deer crouching on a crane, with his ape arms lightly stretched, he walks around his father with a series of beautiful gossip steps, but he can't get close.This incident prompted my mother to make a bold decision. She asked Wang Qidan and his brother Wang Qidan from the blacksmith shop in the village to make iron chains and copper locks overnight, and she wanted to tie her father up like an animal.When she came to the Earth Temple, she told the land about her idea, and the gods agreed; when she talked to Guanyin, Guanyin immediately entrusted her with a dream and told her to implement it quickly, and the iron chain should be made as thick as possible.But before the Wang brothers delivered the chains, something happened to my father again.Late one night, my father started a fire in the attic for no reason. By the time the acrid smoke woke the family up, the flames had already licked the eaves of the attic.This time, the crooked head Baochen finally showed his loyalty to his master. He rushed into the sea of ​​fire wearing a quilt soaked in well water, and miraculously carried a weight three times his own. Father, with a stack of books in his arms, and a picture of Taoyuan, which his father regarded as a treasure, was in his mouth, but it was a pity that a corner had been burned away by the fire.The entire attic was destroyed in the fire. The sudden fire made the mother finally realize that the father's madness and a series of misfortunes in the family were all caused by that treasure picture, so she went to discuss with Baochen.Baochen said that since this picture was originally an old property of Ding's family, and Ding Shu sent people to the door twice or three times to demand it, it would be better to be a favor and return the picture to him, which would kill two birds with one stone.Although a corner of the treasure map has been burned off, the paper is black, hard and brittle, if it is carefully mounted, it can be regarded as a complete return to Zhao.As soon as the mother heard it was reasonable, she followed Baochen. Early the next morning, when the green smoke was still on the ruins of the attic in the courtyard, she left the waist door with the treasure map in her arms and headed all the way to Mr. Nading's house.Walking under the west window of Ding's house, he could not help but stop and listen carefully when he heard someone whispering.Ding Juren's wife, Zhao Xiaofeng, said: "...the Lu family took over our family's treasures for no reason, and refused to return them alive or dead. This is a good thing, and they burned them all. This picture has been in our house for several lifetimes. Bad luck turned into good luck, disaster turned into good luck, nothing happened, but once we got to that wicked person’s house, strange things kept happening, how can this treasure map be seen by those unlucky and uneducated passers-by, and drive him mad for nothing.” The words made her mother turn around and leave, she returned home angrily, and wanted to burn the picture on the spot, Cuilian said: "What are you burning it for, why don't you let me use it to make shoes." He grabbed the picture and went back to his room. At the end of summer, my mother asked Baochen to invite craftsmen to rebuild the attic in the backyard.When the season changes in September, there are constant torrential rains.A dozen carpenters and masons had turned this delicate courtyard into a stinking cattle pen.These people were not restrained, they ran around everywhere, and they didn't dodge when they saw magpies and green lotus, they just looked around with their eyes, and Xiumi was so scared that she didn't dare to go downstairs for more than a month. Among them was a man named Qingsheng, who was eighteen or nineteen years old, with a thick back and a chest as thick as a wall. He walked with a tinkling sound, shaking the copper ring handle on the door.He has a nickname called "Disobedient". He usually wanders around in the yard, even his master can't control him.If his hands don’t obey, he’ll run to Cuilian’s waist and squeeze her. If his feet don’t obey, he can stray into the wing room while the magpie is taking a bath, causing the magpie to jump out of the tub naked. , got under the bed.Mother and Baochen went to discuss with his master, but the old man just laughed: "He just doesn't obey his orders, he doesn't obey his orders." On the day when the attic was completed, Xiumi stood at the upstairs window and watched the craftsmen leave.That birthday celebration was indeed strange, while others were walking well, he would walk backwards, and while walking, he looked up and down the courtyard house.While watching, he nodded frequently.When his eyes caught Xiumi standing at the window, both of them startled each other.He gestured to her, winked, and grinned.He walked backwards like this and walked out of the village until he bumped into a big neem tree at the entrance of the village.After the group left, my mother took the family to shovel away the mud in the hall with a shovel, whitewash the walls with lime, disperse the stench in the house with incense, and send out the grand master's chair that was collapsed by the craftsman for repairs. It took eight days for the courtyard to restore its former tranquility. The Wang brothers sent the iron chains and copper locks, but they are no longer needed.After being frightened by the fire, my father was as quiet as a sleeping baby.Sitting in a daze on the gazebo next to the attic all day long, or talking to the earthen cauldron for washing hands and face.It's okay, I always love to suck my fingers.On the west side of the attic, there is a shelf, under which there are flowers.There is a stone table among the flowers, and every early summer, when the flowers are blooming, and the small white flowers are hanging down, and the flowers are fragrant, my father will let Baochen support him, come downstairs, and sit on the stone table under the table for a long time. one afternoon. In the winter of this year, my mother will set up a banquet for apprenticeship, and let Xiumi go to school with others.After picking and picking, I still picked Ding Shuze.When Xiumi first went there, Ding Shu didn't give lectures or teach her how to read, but just kept scolding her father.He said that although his father was full of lamentations about returning to seclusion and mourning the world, and imitated Tao Yuanming to pick some wild chrysanthemums by the fence to make tea, his heart never left the Yamen of Yangzhou Prefecture.The so-called "a crane in the cloud, flying around the prime minister's office". Xiumi asked her husband, why did his father set fire to the book?The gentleman replied: "Your father was squeezed out in the officialdom, and he had nowhere to vent his anger. In the end, he had to use books to vent his anger. It seems that his failures all his life were caused by reading. When he was not crazy, he clamored for Burn all the books in the village, after all, he is still greedy for the sensuality of officialdom. Look at him, at his age, why does he still want to keep a white and tender prostitute at home?" Xiumi knew that he was talking about Cui. lotus.Xiumi asked again: Then why did my father chop down trees with a knife?Ding Shu replied: "That's because he wanted to plant peach trees in the yard. He came to discuss with me that he wanted to plant peach trees in front of every house in the village. I thought he was joking." "Why did he plant peach trees?" "Because he believed that the Puji area was originally the Peach Blossom Spring discovered by Tao Yuanming in the Jin Dynasty, and the big river in front of the village was Wulingyuan." "how could be?" "Crazy, how can it be brought to common sense? There are even more absurd things. He wants to build a wind and rain corridor in Puji to connect every house in the village. Haha, he thought that in this way, The Puji people can avoid the suffering of the sun and rain." Mr. Ding's wanton ridicule and insults to his father aroused Xiumi's sympathy for him. Moreover, she couldn't understand, what's wrong with her father wanting to build a wind and rain corridor? "Can……" Seeing her asking endless questions, Ding Shu frowned, waved to her impatiently, and said, "At your current age, it's too early to understand these things." Now, Xiumi is fifteen years old.On the night when her father ran away from home, she was lying on the bed, listening to the sound of rain rustling on the roof, smelling the smell of moss and rain in the dark, without any sleepiness.She knew that she might be too young to find out the real cause of her father's madness; she was still too young to understand what happened in the vast world beyond Puji. There are many people coming to the house this day. First, Tan Shuijin, the helmsman of the ferry, and his wife Gao Caixia came to talk about things.Shui Jin and his son Tan Si had been playing chess in the cabin yesterday afternoon because there was no one on the ferry.Both father and son are good at Go, and their skills have been passed down from their ancestors.Shuijin said that his grandfather died while playing chess, vomited blood, and died.That afternoon, they played a total of three games of chess. Tan Si won the first two games. Before the last game was finished, it started to rain heavily.Shuijin said: "It rained so hard." Gao Caixia said: "Big, big, very heavy." Mother listened patiently to their noise, and then she couldn't help but interjected and asked: "You guys, did you see my house?" Is the old man here?" Gao Caixia said she hadn't seen it, and Shui Jin shook her head: "Yesterday afternoon, no one crossed the river, not to mention people, not even a bird flew over. We came early in the morning. In order to tell you this, we have never seen your master. My son and I have been playing chess in the boat, and we played a total of four games." Gao Caixia said: "Not four games, but three games. It's raining." They talked back and forth again, and they left in noon. Just as the Tan couple left, Baochen brought a ragged old woman from somewhere.The woman firmly insisted that she watched her father leave.The mother asked her, in which direction did the father go?The mother-in-law said: "You first bring me something to eat." Seeing this, the magpie hurried to the kitchen and brought a plate full of steamed rice cakes.The old man didn't say a word, and grabbed them with her hands and ate them. She ate five of them in one go, and carried three more in her bosom, hiccupped heavily, and walked out.Cuilian stopped her and said, "You haven't said where my master has gone." The old lady pointed to the roof: "It's heaven." "Old man, what do you mean by that?" Bao Chen said. The old woman pointed to the eaves above the patio again: "Go to heaven. You don't have to wait for him. A purple auspicious cloud floated from the southeast, landed at your master's feet, and immediately turned into a unicorn. Your master Ride on it and go up to the sky. It flew into the air and dropped a handkerchief..." The old man tremblingly pulled out a handkerchief from his armpit and handed it to Cuilian: "Come and see, it belongs to your master no?" Cuilian took the handkerchief, looked at it again and again, and said: "This is really the master's handkerchief. The handkerchief is worn out, but I embroidered the plum blossoms on the corner for him. It can't be wrong." "That's it." After the old woman finished speaking, she folded her sleeves and left. After the old man left, the mother's face showed a look of hesitation, and her eyes became mysterious and clear, and it took a long time to say: "It's impossible to say that the master has gone to heaven, but where did the handkerchief come from?" Woolen cloth?"

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