snow corpse

Chapter 18

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"Hey, it's mainly about the year Han Wei's father died." Li Dabao stopped coddling, and simply said everything in one go, "We want to know more thoroughly."

Han Ningye wiped his eyes with dusty hands, he knew this day would come, but he didn't expect it to be so soon, "Okay, you go down first, there is no one to clean it here, it's all dust, it's not good to get on clothes Wash. You go down and sit for a while, I will come right away."

Uncle Li and Lin Tao agreed, turned around and went downstairs to sit at the dining table in the living room and wait for him.It's not that they didn't see the reluctance in Han Ningye's eyes, but it might be part of the case.A rotten scar, if the rotten granulation is not scraped off cruelly, the wound will never heal.

Han Ningye came down not long after, patting the ashes on his body while walking, and sneezed twice.He washed his hands, sat down at the table, and said after a while, "What do you want to know?"

"Master Han, please tell me." Li Dabao thought for a while, but he really didn't know how to speak, "Let's just listen. As for what happened back then, we thought about it for a while, and we always felt that there was something wrong with what you said last time." The place……"

"It's right if it's not right..." Han Ningye said lightly, "This missing story will never fit together."

Seeing his calm tone, Li Dabao guessed that there must be something hidden back then, so he looked at him silently without interrupting.

"Do you know why I am so nice to you?"

"Ah?" Li Dabao was taken aback by the question. She turned her face to look at Han Ningye. The wrinkles on the old man's face were intertwined. She was used to seeing Han Ningye's smiling face. Suddenly, seeing his seriousness, she couldn't help being in awe. It's not without reason that the people in the village elected him as the village chief...

"I have a daughter, who is Yifeng's older sister."

7.2

Both of them were taken aback for a moment, and looked at each other in surprise, apparently completely unaware of this.The village chief and his wife never mentioned it, and Han Yifeng never mentioned that he has an older sister.When they came to the village, they saw only three members of the village chief's family, so they thought there were only three members.Unexpectedly, Han Yifeng actually has a sister?

"Then... may I ask, where is your daughter now?"

Han Ningye squinted his eyes and didn't speak. After a while, he suddenly asked, "Is there any smoke?"

Lin Tao was startled, "Yes."

He took out the pack of Yunyan bought at the grocery store from his pocket, unpacked it and handed one to Han Ningye, and when Han Ningye put it on his mouth, he found that there was no lighter. Han Ningye waved his hand, "Forget it, that's it."

Han Yening held a cigarette in his mouth, and he was silent for a long time before speaking again. He looked at Li Dabao, his old eyes full of age marks revealed a kind light, like the longing to look up to the newborn sun in the long darkness.

"If Nannan was alive, she would be as old as you."

Li Dabao secretly thought it was terrible, she confronted Lin Tao in a panic, and he was also at a loss.Li Dabao stuck out his tongue in embarrassment, being careful not to touch Han Ningye's wound, "Then... how, how... died?"

"Missing." Han Ningye said, squinting his eyes, as if he saw his daughter through Li Dabao, "I was born not long ago, and disappeared about eight months ago."

"Missing?" Lin Tao was surprised. He originally thought it might be due to illness or other reasons, but he never thought about missing. He frowned, "Could it be that there are people who resell children in this village?"

Han Ningye shook his head, his movements were slow like an old-fashioned movie, frame by frame of images emerged from his eyes and quickly pulled away, the blood-stained stone road and dirt at the entrance of the village, the horrible corpses, covered in blood Wei... Another turn, a middle-aged man in a white coat, his wife crying, and a small shaker with residual warmth...

The eye sockets are sore, as if cut by the cold wind.

Seeing that Han Ningye was lost in thought, Li Dabao's eyes were red, and he couldn't help feeling depressed.

"It was summer when the accident happened that year, and I remember it very clearly. In summer, Han Qi would always help out at the forestry farm during the day, and at night, he would go to the casino to play cards after drinking a few cups of yellow soup with some villagers... At that time, the casino Before it was demolished, it was next to the grocery store in the village. It was always very lively at night. The big guys like to gamble. The villagers just planted land and didn’t have so much money to gamble. After all, the forest farm is a fat job. Qi's condition is also better than other villagers. They have a lot of fun, but if someone gambles, others will gather to join in the fun. It's all like this, nothing special..."

They usually play very small games, one or two yuan a game, but that day, Han Qi was instigated by someone, and played 123, 123 is Pinghu. The Hu card player offers two yuan, and draws himself with the kong. Each player offers three yuan to the Hu card player. Of course, they can also buy it.

Han Qi was lucky at the beginning, and even touched two hot peppers, each of which cost more than 1000 yuan. At that time, more than 1000 yuan was the salary of a villager for two months. He was lucky, and he earned a small 3000 yuan after sitting there for an hour. .Han Qi was so happy that he kept shouting to come again.The three people who fought with him were pre-planned. At first, they shirked and said that you have won so much. Don't you want to play dead brothers?

Han Qi was not happy when he heard it, and scolded with a tigerish face, why did you want to play you to death, didn't you agree at the beginning, now you say you don't want to play after losing money, who is more clumsy?Standing next to him were a few folks from the village, who couldn't help but help out when they said this, and those who said it blushed, and reluctantly agreed to Han Qi to play a few more rounds.

No one ever thought that this game would lead to misfortune. Just like all gambling traps, it will always give you some sweetness at the beginning, and then it will be an endless abyss.After playing a few rounds, Han Qi lost the money he won back, and after that, he lost more and more.

Han Qi stared at the game of cards, breaking out in a cold sweat. He had already lost his savings for many years, if he lost again in this hand...he touched a card, it was Nanfeng.He rubbed the face of the card with his thumb, and the plastic utensils were scalding hot after being fumigated by the high temperature in summer, and he sweated after a while.

The person who sat him down got impatient and urged him straight away.Han Qi gritted his teeth and knocked Nan Feng out. The young man who sat him down was stunned for a moment, then glanced at his own card, and was immediately ecstatic.He played tricks!

Han Qi was suddenly taken out of his backbone, and now he is finished.

The game was over, and Han Qi owed several people more than 5 yuan, which was not a small amount at that time. He originally wanted to ask the villagers to borrow money, but unfortunately no one responded to him.The folks are not unreasonable. If something happens to any family, natural disasters and man-made disasters will definitely help, but no one agrees with this gambling. Not only do they disagree, but their attitude towards Han Qi It also got worse.On weekdays, he would bow his head but not look up, and would always say hello, but now he was avoiding him like the plague.He had no choice but to stay at home and smoke all day, and he didn't go to the forest farm.

After being decadent for a few days, a man came to the door and said that he could pay back the money for him.Han Qi is now alive, the man is one of his poker friends on the day he lost money, surnamed Liu.Lao Liu heard that he was a surgeon. He came to this mountain only after participating in the "Three Supports and One Branch" project. He didn't have any hobbies in life, but he liked playing cards.

Han Qi felt that Lao Liu was very reliable, so he went down the mountain with Lao Liu to borrow money.I didn't know it was a usury loan until I got there, but it's already at the door, so I have to borrow it, right?Han Qi gritted his teeth, borrowed 20 yuan, repaid the 15 he owed, and left [-] yuan.He went to the gambling table again with the money in his pocket, dreaming of getting rich overnight, and then he was woken up from the dream by being slapped one after another.

15 yuan was lost within a few days, and the borrowed money had to be 20% interest when borrowing it at the beginning, and the monthly interest was not only not able to gamble back the borrowed [-] yuan, but also made him bear the burden within a month. Not a small debt.It's not that Han Qi didn't want to use the forest farm, it's just that many people working in the forest farm rely on this forest for their livelihood, Han Qi can't make the decision, and the children don't have to eat all day long.

"Han Qi felt that going on like this was not an option, so he put Han Wei in my house, handed over the forest to an old man who usually followed behind him to take care of it temporarily, and went down the mountain to work by himself, saying that he would go to the city to do coolies and earn more money. At that time, I also thought that he was willing to go to work honestly, and usury could not be touched! It was too late for him to regret it! More than 20 yuan... Honest farmers like us can only earn this much in a lifetime!" Han Ningye let out a long breath, thinking about the events of that year, he still had lingering fears, "Later he went to the city, and I heard that he was doing a small job for a construction site, moving bricks and cement, and he could save some money a month , I went to see him a few times when I went to the market and brought him some food. He works outside alone and drinks rice soup for three meals a day. The money he saves is used to repay the loan sharks. I was skinny and skinny just a week ago...but I paid back some money."

"What then?"

Han Ningye seemed to see that Han Qi was mixing cement at the construction site that year, wearing a shabby and dirty old man's shirt, with large and small wounds all over his body. He said to himself that he was sorry for his son for helping him take good care of Han Wei.There was no good flesh on that man's body, his lips were shriveled and peeled, and his face was disheveled.The nails were full of coagulated blood and dried cement. Han Ningye seemed to see Han Qi sitting in front of him, crying and eating steamed buns, swallowing the dirty ashes and tears together.

"Within a few months, something happened on the construction site. A bundle of steel bars fell from the construction building. Han Wei was moving sand and soil in the open space downstairs. The steel bar hit his shoulder and broke his shoulder blade.