Chapter 54 Chapter 45: The Way Home

When I was seven years old, I caught that cicada, thinking I could catch Xia Tian. When I was seventeen years old, I kissed his face and thought I could be with him forever. As the Mayday song says, seventeen is a beautiful age. Every teenager is radiant and has an irresistible allure.So sunny, but an inexplicable sadness spreads in the rainy day again; so melancholy, as cold as ice, but there is a fire burning in my heart day and night.The first love in my life may have been when I was seventeen years old. I experienced so many thrilling things quietly. That Gemini skateboard boy, in the night, in the evening wind, on the street with fallen petals, passed through the moonlight like water The next park, passing by the lighted convenience store, all the way to your downstairs, just to say a few nonsense to you, and then walk in front of you whistling.

The bravery like a meteorite hitting the earth is just to give you the gentleness like a butterfly kissing a flower. What can the constellations explain? Two people born in the same year, the same month, and the same day have completely different fates. Xiao Mengquan was born on Children's Day in 1995. His father was uneducated, so he named him Xiong Liuyi casually. DNA test results confirmed that this animal child was not a blood-sucking murderer, but a child lost by the Xiong couple ten years ago. When he was seven years old, he got lost in the deep mountains and spent ten years in the primeval forest. When he was seventeen years old, he was mistakenly captured by the special case team as a vampire, and was later taken home by his parents.To be precise, it should be tied up and carried back home. Xiao Mengquan has lost his mind and lost his ability to speak. Years of living in the wild have turned him into a beast boy, no different from a beast.

The story goes back to ten years ago, when the child disappeared. The mountain village is remote and has electricity, but no running water. There is a pressurized well in the yard of his house.There are sunflowers planted by the fence, morning glory has climbed to the clothesline, and a poplar tree grows in the corner, the tree is higher than the eaves, and its branches and leaves spread around, covering a corner of the red brick bungalow. This is his home. When he was wandering in the wild mountains, did he often miss home, and how did he forget it? His father's name is Xiongji, which is not his real name, but a nickname.My father sells tofu for a living. He has a simple and honest personality and is relatively useless. The villagers joked like this--he slammed the bear's head with the palm of his hand, and then said: "Look at your bear cheek."

The seven-year-old Xiao Mengquan didn't understand what it meant, but just laughed. Father Xiong Ji sells tofu on a bicycle. There is a wooden trough tied to the back of the car. The tofu in the trough is covered with a white cloth. Every morning in the surrounding villages, you can hear his yelling. He raised his voice, Prolonged the voice and shouted: soybean powder, sell soybean powder. Their family always eats tofu, stewed tofu with cabbage, stewed tofu with eggplant, tofu and potato soup, Xiao Mengquan sometimes said, Mom, can we stop eating tofu. After getting lost in the mountains, he ate grasshoppers, frogs, birds and their eggs.He was so afraid of snakes that he had to eat them.When he eats tree roots, does he miss the tofu stewed in the big iron pot at home?

Xiao Mengquan was very afraid of the dark. At that time, his family borrowed a sum of money and was chased for debt.The creditor knocked on the door every night, and his mother covered his mouth and pretended to be nobody.The mother and son stayed in the dark, not daring to breathe, for fear that the creditor would break in.During the ten years of living in the barren mountains and mountains, he forgot his home and tofu, but he remembered the sound of knocking on the door. Even the sound of a woodpecker knocking on a tree trunk could make him fear. This is his surviving recollection of human life.

That night, there was another knock on the door. This time it was not the creditor, but the family planning committee cadre from the town.Xiaomengquan's mother was pregnant, and the township family planning committee wanted to take her away and force her to have an abortion.My mother once asked Xiao Mengquan, do you want a younger brother or a younger sister?Before Xiaomengquan could make up his mind, officials from the family planning committee came, and his mother took Xiaomengquan to relatives’ houses to hide in Tibet. There were slogans painted with whitewash on the walls of every village, and a few excerpts, which showed the rural plan The hard work of childbirth.

One person is sterilized, the whole family is glorious; I would rather shed blood into rivers than give birth to one more. type it out!Fall out!flow out!Just can't be born! The town family planning committee secretly monitored, and finally blocked the mother and son of Xiaomengquan at home. They knocked on the door politely, but there was no response. A staff member of the Family Planning Commission said: Don't pretend to be a fool, I have found out everything, and I know you are at home. Another cadre of the Family Planning Commission said through the door: Haiyan, you already have a child, why do you want to have one?

They lost their patience and broke into the door. Xiongji stopped everyone, and mother Haiyan ran up the mountain with Xiao Mengquan. The mother and son hid on the mountain all night in fear. The next day, the mother Haiyan found that Xiao Mengquan was gone. At that time, Xiao Mengquan fell into a mountain pit. The pit was deep and the terrain was complicated, covering the branches and leaves of vines.There are many such mountain pits in Daxinganling, and each of them is bottomless. Therefore, the next day, the villagers went up the mountain to look for the child, but found nothing. Xiao Mengquan survived by luck.

We don't know how long it took the seven-year-old to climb out of the pit, a week, or a month? Above the mountain pit is the endless Daxing'an Mountains, and he has forgotten the way home. Such a large virgin forest, even if an adult gets lost, it is difficult to get out, let alone a child.He wanted to go home, but he went further and further away, crying in the forest while walking, no one could help him, only fear and helplessness accompanied him.Soon, he ran out of tears.Everything he fears, he must accept. In the spring, he caught snakes, bit off the snake's head, and sucked the blood. This little boy was so afraid of snakes, but he had to eat snakes for a living.

In summer, he climbed up trees to avoid wild boars and wolves, climbed from tree to tree, and dragged vines across the valley like a swing, just to avoid being eaten by wild animals. In autumn, he learned to crawl. He crawled very fast on all fours, which made it easier for him to hide in the grass and bushes to catch prey. In winter, he sleeps in a cave in order to keep out the cold. Judging from certain living habits, his posture and movements are very similar to bears, and he may have lived with bears for a period of time. For ten years, nothing but weeds grew in his heart. We lived in the primeval forest for ten days, maybe we can understand how he got here in the past ten years.

The environment in which people grow up is very important. A seven-year-old child who survives in the wild will either die or become a beast. He gradually grew up, and his range of activities became larger and larger. Ten years later, he looked like a human, but he was no different from a beast. One day, he came to a place where the land was very flat and the smell was different from the jungle he was already familiar with. There were some big stones in a square shape. He vaguely saw many animals walking slowly through the cracks in the stones. Walking in and out, the figures were vaguely visible. Those animals were somewhat similar to him, which not only made him feel scared but also made him feel a little kind.In fact, he only dares to attack animals smaller than himself. He can catch turtledoves and wild pigeons with his bare hands. When he was hunting at night, he found that the turtledoves and wild pigeons here are very docile and bigger. Later, the animals caught him. Xiao Mengquan was already seven years old when he disappeared. He used to be able to speak, his instincts were not lost, he had brief contact with human society, and he retained the initial impressions of his life, including the love of his parents.The sound of his mother Haiyan knocking on the window awakened the remaining memory from the bottom of his heart.Ten years later, his parents brought him back home. At first, he would steal chickens from the village, crawl on all fours, and rush into the air like a vicious dog to catch chickens and ducks.His father, Xiongji, can only keep him at home, allowing him to slowly adapt to human life. Mother Haiyan found that the child was very frightened by the sound of knocking on the door. Whenever he knocked on the door, he would be very scared, quiet down, and motionless. At this time, his mother would patiently bathe him, feed him, and teach him to walk and talk.The mother looked after her seventeen-year-old child as if she were a young child. The village primary school is not far from his home. It is a row of red brick bungalows, and a red flag is erected on the campus. The two iron gates, painted green, are open all day long, and there is nothing of value in the village primary school.There are two grocery stalls at the gate of the school. On the left is a hunchbacked old man, and on the right is an old lady. There are such grocery stalls at the gates of many rural schools. Many children’s childhood memories are related to this grocery stall.A year later, when Xiao Mengquan was eighteen years old, the hunchbacked old man and the old lady who sold groceries saw a strange scene. There was a pair of parents who brought their son to elementary school. The son was an adult and taller than his parents. The teacher said to the students in the classroom, today, we welcome a new classmate with applause.