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Chapter 45: The Road Home

Chapter 45 The Road Home

When I was seven years old, I caught the cicada, thinking I could catch summer.

When I was seventeen, I kissed his face and thought I would be with him forever.

As the Mayday song goes, seventeen is a beautiful age.

Every boy is radiant, with irresistible temptation. So sunny, but an inexplicable sadness spreads on rainy days; so melancholy, as cold as ice, but there is a fire burning in my heart day and night

.The first love in life may have been when I was seventeen years old. I quietly experienced many thrilling thoughts. That Gemini skateboard boy walked through the water at night, in the evening breeze, on the street with fallen petals.

In the park under the moonlight, passing by the convenience store with lights on, all the way to your downstairs, just to talk nonsense with you, and then pass by you whistling.

I am as brave as hitting the earth with a meteorite just to give you the tenderness like a butterfly kissing a flower.

What does the zodiac sign mean? Two people born on the same day, same year, same month, have completely different destinies.

Xiao Mengquan was born on Children’s Day in 1995. His father, who was uneducated, casually named him Xiong Liuyi.

The DNA test results confirmed that the beast boy was not a blood-sucking murderer, but the child of the Xiong couple who lost ten years ago.

When he was seven years old, he got lost in the mountains and spent ten years in the virgin forest. When he was seventeen years old, he was mistakenly thought to be a vampire monster by the special case team and captured. Later, he was brought home by his parents. To be precise, he should be tied up.

After being carried back home, Xiao Mengquan had lost his mind and lost the ability to speak. Years of living in the wild had turned him into a beast boy, no different from a beast.

The story goes back ten years, starting when the child disappeared.

The mountain village is remote and has electricity but no running water. There is a pressurized water well in his yard. Sunflowers are planted beside the fence. Morning glories have climbed to the clothesline. A poplar tree grows in the corner. The tree is higher than the eaves and has branches and leaves all around.

It stretches down and covers a corner of the red brick bungalow.

This is his home. When he was wandering around in the wilderness, did he often miss home, and how did he forget it?

My father’s name is Xiong Ji. This is not his real name, but a nickname. His father sells tofu for a living. He has a simple and honest personality and is relatively useless. The villagers joke like this - slap Xiong Ji’s head with the palm of his hand, and then say

:Look at your bear gills.

Seven-year-old Xiao Mengquan didn't understand what he meant, but he just laughed.

My father, Xiong Chi, sells tofu on a bicycle. There is a wooden trough tied to the back seat of the bicycle. The tofu in the trough is covered with white cloth. In every surrounding village, every morning, you can hear his shouting. He raises his voice.

He shouted in a long voice: Bean flour, sell bean flour.

Their family always eats tofu, stewed tofu with cabbage, stewed tofu with eggplant, and tofu and potato soup. Xiao Mengquan sometimes says, Mom, can we stop eating tofu?

Lost in the mountains

After that, he ate grasshoppers, frogs, birds and bird eggs. He was so afraid of snakes, but he had to eat snakes. When he ate tree roots, would 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 being called for debt. The creditor knocked on the door every night, and his mother covered his mouth and pretended that no one was home. The mother and son stayed in the dark,

He didn't dare to breathe because he was afraid that his creditors would break in. During the ten years of living in the wilderness, he forgot about home and tofu, but he remembered the sound of knocking on the door, even the sound of a woodpecker knocking on a tree trunk.

It can make him fearful.

These are his remaining memories of human life.

That night, there was another knock on the door. This time it was not a creditor, but a family planning committee official from the town. Xiao Mengquan’s mother was pregnant, and the town family planning committee wanted to take her away and force her to have an abortion. The mother once asked Xiao Mengquan

, do you want a younger brother or a younger sister? Before Xiao Mengquan could decide, the Family Planning Commission cadres came. The mother took Xiao Mengquan to hide in relatives’ houses. The walls in every village were covered with white ash.

The slogans and a few excerpts illustrate the difficulty of family planning work in rural areas.

If one person is sterilized, the whole family will be honored,

It would be better for a river of blood to flow than to give birth to one more child.

Beat it out! Fall out! Flow out! Just can't be born!

The Town Family Planning Commission kept a secret surveillance and finally cornered Xiao Mengquan, mother and son, at home. They knocked on the door politely, but there was no response.

A staff member of the Family Planning Commission said: Stop pretending, I have figured it all out and I know you are at home.

Another cadre of the Family Planning Commission said through the door: Haiyan, you already have a baby, why do you still want to have a baby?

They lost their patience and broke into the house. Xiong Ji stopped everyone, while mother Haiyan and Xiao Mengquan took advantage of the chaos and ran up the mountain.

The mother and son hid in fear all night on the mountain. The next day, the mother Haiyan discovered that Xiao Mengquan was missing.

At that time, Xiao Mengquan fell into a pit. The pit was very deep, with complex terrain, and it was covered with wisteria branches and leaves. There are many such pits in the Daxingan Mountains, and each one was bottomless. Therefore, the next day, the villagers went up the mountain.

Searched for the child and found nothing.

Xiao Mengquan survived by luck.

We don’t know how long it took the seven-year-old child to climb out of the pit. Was it a week or a month?

Above the mountain pit is the boundless Daxinganling Mountains, and he has forgotten his way home.

In such a large virgin forest, even an adult would find it difficult to get out after getting lost, let alone a child. He wanted to go home, but walked further and further away, crying in the forest as he walked, and no one could help him.

He was only accompanied by fear and helplessness. Soon, he shed all his tears. He had to accept everything he feared.

In the spring, he caught a snake, bit off its head and sucked the blood. This child was so afraid of snakes, but he had to eat snakes to make a living.

In summer, he climbed trees to avoid wild boars and wolves.

Climbing from tree to tree, dragging vines across valleys like a swing, just to avoid being eaten by wild animals.

In autumn, he learned to crawl. He crawled very quickly on all fours, which made it easier for him to hide in grass and shrubs to catch prey.

In winter, in order to keep out the cold, he slept in a cave. Judging from some of his living habits, his body and movements were very similar to those of a bear. He may have lived with the bear for a period of time.

For ten years, there was only grass growing in his heart.

We lived in the virgin forest for ten days, and maybe we can understand how he lived in the past ten years.

The environment in which a person grows up is very important. If a seven-year-old child survives in the wild, he will either die or become a beast.

He gradually grew up and his range of activities became wider and wider. Ten years later, he looked like a human but was no different from a beast.

One day, he came to a place. The land here was very flat, and the smell was different from the jungle he was already familiar with. There were some large square stones, and he vaguely saw many animals walking slowly through the cracks in the stones.

Walking in and out, you can vaguely see the figures. Those animals are somewhat similar to him, which makes him feel scared but also makes him feel a little kind. In fact, he only dares to attack animals smaller than himself. He can catch turtle doves and wild pigeons with his bare hands.

, when he was hunting at night, he found that the turtle doves and wild pigeons here were very docile and larger.

Later, the animals caught him.

Xiao Mengquan was seven years old when he disappeared. He could speak once, his nature was still intact, he had brief contact with human society, and retained the first impressions of life, including the love of his parents. The sound of his mother Haiyan knocking on the window reminded him

A few remaining memories were awakened from the depths of my heart. Ten years later, his parents took him home. At first, he would steal chickens in the village, crawl on all fours, and leap into the air like a vicious dog, catching

Chicken and duck. Father Xiong Ji can only keep him at home and let him slowly adapt to human life.

Mother Haiyan discovered that her child was very frightened by the knocking on the door.

Whenever there was a knock on the door, he would be scared, quiet and motionless. At this time, his mother would patiently bathe him, feed him, and teach him to walk and talk. His mother looked after the seventeen-year-old child like a toddler.

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The village primary school is not far from his home. It is a row of red brick bungalows, with a red flag erected on the campus.

There are two iron doors painted green and open all day long. There is nothing valuable in the village primary school. There are two grocery stalls at the school entrance. On the left is an old man with a hunchback and on the right is an old lady. Many rural schools have this at the entrance.

Many children's childhood memories are related to this kind of grocery stall. A year later, when Xiao Mengquan was eighteen years old, the hunchbacked old man and old lady selling groceries saw a strange scene.

There was a pair of parents who brought their son to elementary school. The son was an adult and was taller than his parents.

The teacher said to the students in the classroom, today, we welcome a new classmate with applause.


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