Chapter 4 The third knot

When he walked into the small courtyard of the clean and tidy adobe house, it was very late at night, but with the starlight in the sky, Chu Feng could still see the beautiful flowers everywhere in the courtyard, he couldn't help nodding secretly, this must be a A hardworking and kind Hui woman.Because Hui women like neatness, cleanliness, and beauty by nature, they will keep their yards clean and tidy, even spotless, and no matter how poor their family is, their homes will always be full of flowers, even if there are a few. Money wildflowers. The aunt is very quick, and as soon as she gets home, she starts to boil water and draw notes.Soon, a large plate of strips was brought in front of Chu Feng, and the burst of aroma made his stomach keep "rebelling".Chu Feng blushed from the first time the "gululu" sound came out, but fortunately, he has grown a beard now, but no one can see it.So when the aunt asked him to eat, he didn't twitch any more, held it in his hands, stroked his face, did a routine Muslim ritual before eating, and then ate a large plate of strips with a few strokes. Stomach.

"Oh, that's what makes him look like a man!" The aunt smiled and watched him gobble it up, and after he finished eating, she praised him and asked him to rest in her guest room, leaving him a basin of water to wash his feet , leaving with an empty plate. Chu Feng didn't feel it when he was eating, but now he was going to sleep and felt that he was really stretched.Thinking of walking around in the yard, but I have scruples. After all, this is someone else's house. When I entered the door, I saw the daughter-in-law of this family. She was walking around in the yard in the middle of the night. Don't be beaten as a thief.

But let's not go, my stomach felt uncomfortable again, after thinking about it, Chu Feng slipped out of the door quietly. This courtyard is a very common residential style in Xinjiang, with three bedrooms in a row, a low kitchen on the right hand side, and a dry toilet behind the courtyard.Chu Feng paced around the yard for a while, holding his breath and finished part of the "inventory" in his stomach in the toilet, and then came out with his pants up, when he heard voices. "Mom, really, why did you bring such an unknown person home again?" The complainer was a young woman, her tone was very light, and she felt a little helpless inside.

"What's wrong! Isn't it just a slap in the face, your heart hurts?!" Aunt Ma's tone was really her usual style. "Mom, you really are! Hey, do I care about the slapstick? I'm afraid that you will lure wolves into the house! Who knows who he is? He is just acquainted, and there is someone who knows people but doesn't know them? What's more, you Always picking up some tramps of unknown origin. If this..." "Okay, okay, isn't there still Dayong at home? What are you afraid of? These people either have difficulties for a while, or they just can't think about it for a while. Your mother and I are not stupid. I can't tell the difference between a good person and a bad person? Last time Didn’t you say that I shouldn’t bring it home, that young man, what happened? His father found it, and thank you every mouthful, don’t you accept it?” Aunt Ma still didn’t think so, as she could see blindly with her eyes. ?Can you bring the bad guy home?This daughter-in-law is good for everything, but she is a little confused!

"Mom, last time was the last time, that young man was thin and weak, not as strong as a girl, so we are not afraid of bad intentions, but this time you brought back..." "Why, don't you think he is not short and has a stubble on his face, but do you feel scared when you look at those eyes?" The aunt asked without answering. "I don't think I'm so scared!" The daughter-in-law thought for a while, but in fact, although the clothes on this man's body were a bit torn and his beard was unshaven, he still felt quite gentle, "But this man knows people, knows his face, but doesn't know his heart! "

"Okay, look at this man. He is in rags, but he speaks slowly. When he enters our yard, he knows that we are Muslims. He also knows that we have to do Namaz (Prayer) before eating. He is very hungry to eat. He didn't make that 'snoring' sound when he was in the house, and his upbringing is so good, I think this person's family background must be not bad, and he has read a lot of books, don't worry, nothing will happen!" The aunt is really observant . "Then, mom, why did he go to Devil City like this? Could it be that he is just as confused as the young man last time?"

"Who knows, it doesn't look like he's going to find fault with that. I guess he can't think about it for a while. This person just loves himself and competes with himself. He wants to create something for himself when he's fine. Let me tell you, This person lives his whole life, no one has any ditches, he has to compete, and he will not be happy until the day he dies. It's better to live happily every day, and leave everything to the back of his head. It's all right!" The aunt said this, implying something. Chu Feng was startled when he heard this, and thought, could it be that the aunt knew that he was listening to the corner here?I didn't dare to listen any more at the moment, so I went back to my room quietly.

Here, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law smiled at each other when they heard the slight sound of closing the door, and Aunt Ma's face showed a bit of a naughty look of a girl. Back in the room, Chu Feng lay on the bed tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep. He is not young anymore. People say that he is not confused at forty, and it is not two years away from being forty. Why is the word not confused so far away from him? What the aunt said just now was for himself, Chu Feng knew it very well, and was very grateful for the kindness of the enthusiastic aunt, but when he thought of the CT scans of the brain he saw that night, he couldn't calm down.

It was a set of films, a shadow on the film changed from the size of a soybean to the size of an egg, and it took only ten days.He couldn't believe it the moment he saw it, but his name was clearly written on the medical record.The doctor also found out the reason - "brain lipoma abnormality under severe nuclear pollution", the conclusion is "may rupture at any time", and the result of rupture is "the patient has a 100% chance of death"!Because of the seriousness of the condition, the doctor thought he could not even have the slightest violent mood swings. After reading this, he knew he was right, otherwise he would not be able to explain how he was treated these days.He sighed, not knowing whether his act of undermining everyone's good intentions was right or wrong.In any case, he would rather die clearly than live in confusion.

That valley is coveted because of those radioactive things.The Russians even quietly brought in nuclear submarines.Chu Feng remembered that after he was stunned for a moment, his first reaction was to look for other people's medical records. As a result, all the people who had been to that valley were fine except himself. After reading everyone's medical records, he breathed a sigh of relief, but he couldn't figure out why the whole expedition team entered the valley, but he was the only one who had a problem? He thought and thought, and remembered that the only place he had been alone in the valley was the so-called holy place.Because of the obstruction of the priestess, only she and herself went in.Thinking of this, Chu Feng shuddered. Was the statue with the human head and the snake body the root cause of his mutation?

That day, Chu Feng followed the priestess into the back of the stone gate, and behind the stone gate was a long corridor.At the end of the corridor, there was only a stone statue that looked about three meters high. What stunned Chu Feng was that this stone statue had no face. The face was a flat piece, but the body was the head of a snake.The stone statue held a clay tablet in both hands, which he took out later, and he also rubbed the characters on the clay tablet.It's a pity that the last clay tablet was still destroyed in Nisha's hands. By the way, that "Mu", Chu Feng suddenly remembered that in the temple, when he was fighting with the group of Russians, he borrowed a spell, and he seemed to have a certain relationship with that magical humanoid "Mu" of unknown origin. At that time, I felt that there seemed to be something more in my mind. Could it be that time?Among all the people, except for the priestess, it seems that only I have commanded the "Mu", and it has obeyed.Could this be the origin of that egg-sized thing in my mind? Chu Feng thought for a while, and the feeling of dizziness came again. Thinking of the sentence in the doctor's order "Don't be overjoyed or sad, don't worry too much", he couldn't help smiling bitterly. The brain, the head will be dizzy and uncomfortable.Thinking about it, after staying in the hospital for ten days, the thing could grow from the size of a soybean to the size of an egg. It has been almost ten days since it came out again. "It" should be bigger, right?How much time do you have left? Suppressing the discomfort caused by the dizziness, Chu Feng continued to think, what the aunt said made sense, don't care about him, don't care how many days are left, we should live happily every day, but, why are you so sad?Actually speaking, my parents are gone, and I am alone, even if I suddenly leave one day, it can be regarded as coming and going naked without any worries!But as soon as this idea came up, a voice in Chu Feng's mind protested weakly: I'm afraid it's not like this? By the way, there is also the teacher. If he hears the news of his death, the teacher will definitely be very sad. His health is also very poor. It is better not to let him know. My choice is right.Chu Feng touched the suicide note he had written long ago in the pocket of his jacket, feeling a little more at ease.With this, even if one day he suddenly passed away in a strange place, someone would help him deal with the funeral, and the teacher, Ling Ning and the friends he wanted to protect should never know the bad news. In fact, I have already arranged everything, and I have already made plans. It seems that I have accepted my fate, so why am I still a little unwilling?Chu Feng shook his head, trying to drive away the dizziness that was so strong that it would make him vomit.He seems to be wandering aimlessly, but in fact he is still going south all the way.Thinking of Nisha's mother's words when she was leaving: "Go south! Go south! You will find what you want!" Chu Feng smiled wryly.Just such an inexplicable sentence of "going south", where is he going? Forget it, anyway, where is death not a death?Just go south all the way, if I can't hold on any longer, just lie down somewhere.Isn't there an old saying, where the loess does not bury people?Anyway, you're going to die, so let's go wherever we go! After finally waiting for drowsiness to strike, a light flashed in Chu Feng's mind, as if something was about to be caught, but unfortunately he was too sleepy, and soon he fell into a deep dream. When he woke up the next day, Chu Feng couldn't remember the reason for his last flash of light before going to bed last night.I thought too much and my head was spinning, so I had no choice but to throw it away and greeted the enthusiastic aunt. Although she was still in tatters, she still set out on the road in good spirits. Even though what Ri Nisha told him to go south, Chu Feng was not a fool. He walked all the way, and occasionally hitched a ride along the way. If not, he walked on his own. There are many drivers in the city, and he can catch a section every day, as long as it is roughly in the direction of southbound, and it is not required to go exactly south.Most of the overnight stays are still in the city. Even in the countryside, they are staying with other people, and they have never slept in the wild. There is no obsession in my heart, so I have no burden. I have been walking all the way, and I am used to watching the sun rise and set in the desert, the wind rises and the sand falls, and the depression in my heart dissipates a lot. It's more peaceful! There are a lot of beautiful scenery along the way, and the word golden autumn is not wrong at all for Xinjiang.Everywhere is golden yellow, and some fiery red pops out from time to time, which makes this autumn more festive and fiery. This road is full of golden forests, not to mention the birch and Populus euphratica along the Irtysh River, even the small piece of Populus euphratica that suddenly came into view on the Gobi Desert and the desert is also golden and red.Coupled with the blue sky, white clouds, and the vast empty space, no one can feel depressed. No matter how arid the desert is, there are still tenacious psammophytes standing and guarding. You can always see some green in the yellow sand all over the sky. Their tenacity and persistence often attract Chu Feng to look at them for a long time. Along the way, Chu Feng walked here accompanied by these scenery. Not only did he see the colorful stones and Huoshao Mountain on the Gobi, but he even saw the extremely rare mirage once.When the fairyland-like pavilions and pavilions were in front of him, Chu Feng almost thought that he was dying, and hallucinations appeared in his mind.It was only when I heard the exclamation of others that I realized that I had won the lottery. Although there are legends of mirages in the desert and Gobi, the chances of people seeing them are actually less than the chances of winning the five million prize. Chu Feng didn’t bring a camera, so he just watched with a smile. The picture of the 3D movie gradually disappeared. Hearing the annoyed complaints of the people around him and the continuous "click" sound of the cameras held by the people who quickly seized the opportunity, Chu Fengyun smiled lightly, without taking away a trace of dust. leave.