Dream Guide

Shi Dazhuang couldn't connect the young man in front of him, who was as strong as an ox with a black stubble beard on his lips, to Yu Sang back then. At that time, Yusang was working as a child laborer in the drug-making workshop of a drug cartel. She worked fourteen hours a day and only ate one meal. When she was rescued by Shi Dazhuang, she was as thin as a monkey. Even when I met him in Wanziba three years ago, he was still a young mountain village boy with an immature look.

Yusang also saw the beauty, her eyes widened in disbelief and said: "Ah, the beauty has grown so tall, she has really become a big beauty!"

"Really Yusang?!" Shi Dazhuang put down the rattan basket in his hand and grabbed Yusang's broad shoulders, "What a boy, you have grown into a man!"

The woman next to me came over and smiled warmly, "Is that Daddy Shi? I often hear Yusang mention you, but today I can see you in person!"

"Who is this...?" Shi Dazhuang looked at Yusang.

Yusang smiled sheepishly and said, "My mother-in-law."

"Ah! They're all married!" Shi Dazhuang was even more surprised.

The woman was very generous. She brought rattan seats for Shi Dazhuang and Yu Meiren and went to make tea. She said, "We got married last year. Yu Sang also said that he would invite Daddy Shi to have a wedding banquet. I said Why are you coming so far away? You don’t have to leave today because I’m here. I’m going to buy some good food and treat the eldest father and the beauty to eat at home, just as wedding wine!”

Shi Dazhuang was very happy, so he agreed and said to Yusang, "Your mother-in-law is quite a lady!"

Yusang just giggled. The woman smiled and said: "Look at his naive and rough look, I won't do anything if I don't do it!"

The woman went to buy groceries, and Shi Dazhuang sat in the store and chatted with Yusang. When they talked about the changes in the past three years, Yusang became excited:

"Dad, don't you know that the road to Wanziba has been built, and cars can drive all the way to the big bluestone at the entrance of the dam. In the past, when we came to Mangdian, we had to walk for several hours on mountain roads, but now we ride a motorcycle for a while Just there, there is a rural bus every day passing through the Sanchakou outside the dam, and you can go directly to the mouth of Ruihe River. The dam is also different, every family has built a new house, and it is much more beautiful than before."

Shi Dazhuang was also happy and sighed: "That's great!"

Yusang said: "Well, I have to thank Dad and Dad Yu Gang. If it weren't for you, I would still be growing poppies in Qianziba, and I would still be doing dirty work in the poisonous noodle factory!"

When Poppy heard Yu Sang talking about her father, she felt proud and sad at the same time. Her eyes turned red, and she secretly turned her face away, pretending to admire a rattan flower basket to prevent them from seeing her crying.

Shi Dazhuang said: "Thank you to the government, you are living in a good era!" He pointed at the vines all over the ground and asked, "When did you learn to do this? How is the business?"

Yusang said: "Thanks to Nkun Gong for this! After you left, he took everyone up the mountain to collect herbs and old vines. He said that the mountains are full of treasures, why only poppies can make money! I weave vines The craftsmanship was taught by Mr. Enkun. Mr. Enkun also presided over the establishment of a cooperative in Bazi, and each family bought shares on a per capita basis. This shop is not mine alone, but belongs to the cooperative. The year before last, everyone joined together to rent the shop, and the business Not bad. We not only sell retail, but also supply channels in Ruihekou and Proton, and we also open an online store! My mother-in-law is responsible for taking orders, production and packaging are all in Qianziba, and we use a tractor to pull the express delivery every night Company. Everyone is very motivated now!"

Speaking of old Enkun, Shi Dazhuang always felt that he was in debt and asked, "Is Mr. Enkun in good health?"

Yusang's expression suddenly darkened, she lowered her head and said softly: "Mr. Enkun has left!"

Shi Dazhuang was stunned at that time. Poppy had a bad premonition in her heart, but she was not sure. She opened her mouth to ask, but her throat seemed to be blocked by something, and no sound came out.

After a long time, Shi Dazhuang asked: "When did it happen?"

Yusang said: "Just a month ago, I went back during the first seven days, and I haven't even passed the seventh day yet."

The air in the store suddenly solidified.

Poppy finally confirmed the news she least expected to hear. Something burst out in the body, gushing out from the heart, stomach and gallbladder, pouring into the blood and bronchial tubes like a flood, rushing through the body, breaking away the foreign matter blocked in the throat, some buried in the bottom of the heart Long-lost things rushed out together with sad and loud cries, shattering the ice-solid air and shattering people's fragile hearts.

She is a strong girl. I didn’t cry when my father died, I didn’t cry when my mother died, I didn’t cry when I was misunderstood and bullied, and I didn’t cry when I was far away from my homeland and wandering in a foreign land. Only when the tragic music played after her father was rehabilitated and his ashes were moved to the Martyrs Cemetery, her tears burst out like spring water, but she held back her voice and still did not cry.

However, at this moment, knowing that the old man she had been thinking about all the time for the past three years was no longer alive, and she could no longer hear her call Nkun Grandpa, she finally couldn't help it. The years of grievance, loneliness and hesitation were like a flood that broke the embankment. , can no longer stand it.

Until Mrs. Yusang came back, the little girl was still sobbing. The cold and sad atmosphere in the shop could condense into winter frost in the summer air.

The woman shuddered and asked, "What's going on?"

Yusang pulled her mother-in-law aside and whispered what happened. The woman complained that her man didn't know how to speak in a roundabout way. How could she tell such a sad thing to a guest from afar so straightforwardly? She took a deep breath, adapted to the frosty atmosphere in the store, and said in a soft tone like she recalled her grandmother telling her stories while holding the soles of her shoes when she was a child:

"Gong Enkun is our benefactor and the benefactor of the entire Qianziba. When everyone relied on poppies to live, it was he who picked up the sickle to cut the poppy seedlings in his yard and mountains; when everyone had nothing to do and didn't know what tomorrow would bring. As time went by, it was he who walked up the oldest mountain on crutches, brought medicinal materials and old vines from the mountain, and taught young people how to make a living using the things in the mountains; when the things in the mountains could not be transported out, At that time, he walked to Mangdian, to Ruihekou, from the town government to the county government, and finally brought the road construction team back to Bazikou.

Nkungong was very peaceful when he left. In his last days, he sat on the big bluestone at Bazikou every evening and watched the sun set and the stars rise. He said that he had atone for his own sins, the sins of Le Mao, and the sins of Kwan Ziba. He was going to a place where there were no poppies and poppies were in full bloom.

Duke Nkun did not die, he just left and went to where he wanted to go. He will always live in the hearts of Yusang and I, and in the hearts of everyone in Qianziba. We will eventually go to find that place as clear as the starry sky. Enkun Gong is just taking the first step to guide us. "

The poppy stopped crying, raised her bright tearful eyes and asked, "Will he turn into a star?"