I'm wandering in the world

Chapter 54 Ayang (Rest World)
Chen Qingyuan found an empty seat and sat down. Soon his grandfather brought him the rice noodle soup. He used to dislike this thing when he was a child, but now for some reason he felt very hungry for it.

He drank the noodle soup, the hot steam on his face, and looked at his busy grandpa and grandma. Grandpa seemed to have died of liver cancer. Before he died, he was very thin and his skin was very yellow, like a skeleton. When he was dying, he wanted to reach out and hug him, but he was scared by his grandfather's appearance and cried, and he didn't hug him.

The heat is steaming.

Chen Qingyuan has always cared about this matter. At this moment, when he saw his living grandfather again, his nose couldn't help but feel sore and his eyes moist.

after eating.

He walked over and praised: "I heard people say that Ah Xi's noodle soup is delicious when I first entered the town. I didn't expect it to be so good!"

Reach out.

Grandpa was a little surprised and asked, "What is this for?"

My grandmother was from a wealthy family when she was young, but she fell into poverty later on. However, she was more knowledgeable than my grandfather and said, "This is a handshake. It means two people extend their hands to shake hands and become friends!"

Grandpa suddenly realized, quickly wiped his hands on the rag, and held Chen Qingyuan's hands with both hands: "Thank you, thank you, if you like it, I'll make you another bowl, no charge!"

Chen Qingyuan felt the warmth from his grandfather's rough hands, gritted his teeth and held back his emotions, and said with a smile: "Grandpa, you should pay more attention to your health when you are busy with business. Staying up all the time is not good for your liver. In our place, we go to the hospital or clinic for a checkup every year."

Grandpa laughed and said, "Why go to the hospital? If you don't go in, you won't be sick. If you go in, you will be sick all over. But thank you for your kindness!"

Chen Qingyuan left the shop and headed home.

When I was a child, my home was just a flat-roofed house with a few simple stone rooms inside. But there was a fenced yard full of green vegetables, and there were always people who liked to secretly come and pick vegetables at night...

He stood dozens of meters away, looking at the strange yet familiar house silently.

Just then, a voice came from inside. A child in open-crotch pants came out from the front door, saying in a baby voice, "I'm going to Ayang's house to play with statues."

The kid in open-crotch pants is Chen Qingyuan.

Ayang was the neighbor's kid, about two years older than him. It was Ayang who was lost that year...

Card description: [If you meet yourself in this time and space, you will leave this world early. ]

When Chen Qingyuan saw Xiao Qingyuan, it was just a one-sided meeting, which could not be considered a meeting. As expected, the conditions for returning were not triggered.

After a while, several children aged five or six gathered at the door of Ayang's house. They held large and small net bags in their hands and agreed to go to the mountain to catch butterflies and cicadas. They said that someone was collecting cicadas, and the bigger the cicada, the more valuable it was. I heard that someone in the town was selling them for fifty yuan each.

Chen Qingyuan frowned, sounding something was wrong.

There were six or seven children in the group, and Xiao Qingyuan was the youngest. He followed behind with his crotchless pants swaying. Chen Qingyuan felt a chill in his crotch when he saw it...

The children left happily.

Chen Qingyuan stood outside his fenced yard in a daze. There were rape flowers in the vegetable field, and there were clearly small white butterflies flying around, but the children didn't catch them in the yard, but had to go to the mountains to catch them. What a shame...

Just then, a woman's voice sounded: "Excuse me, is there anything you need?"

Chen Qingyuan looked in the direction of the sound and saw a 26-year-old girl standing at the door. No, it should be said that she was a young woman. His heart skipped a beat. He was calm in the face of evil spirits and demons, but when he saw this woman, he felt like he couldn't breathe for a few seconds...

mom.

It turns out that my mother was once this young and beautiful.

He clenched his fists, suppressed his emotions, and said with a smile: "Excuse me, is this Chen Axi's home? I heard that he grows and sells vegetables. I want to buy some to take away."

The mother suddenly realized and put down the rag in her hand, saying: "There are more bamboo vegetables and water spinach. There are other vegetables as well, but they are less. How much do you want? I will pick some for you."

Chen Qingyuan said: "Pick the 100 yuan one."

My mother was stunned and said, "Ah? All these dishes I bought cost less than 100 yuan."

Chen Qingyuan came back to his senses, forgetting that the currency and prices were different at this time, and smiled awkwardly: "Five yuan, five yuan for each. My family... doesn't grow vegetables. Oh, can you help me pick them clean and wash them? It's convenient to throw them directly into the pot when I get home." Mom was not busy at this time, and nodded: "Sure."

Chen Qingyuan walked into the yard and sat down on a small bench. He watched his mother picking vegetables in the field and chatted with her. He cherished every second of the moment...

Mom found Chen Qingyuan very talkative and joked, "My little Qingyuan is shy when he sees strangers and can't even say a complete sentence. I hope he can be as eloquent as you when he grows up and have good relationships with people!"

Half an hour later.

She drew water from the well nearby, washed her hands, tied the vegetables she had picked with hay, and brought them over, saying, "Your vegetables are ready. Eat them quickly, otherwise they will dry up."

A total of fifteen yuan.

The yard was not big to begin with, and she had to pluck up almost half of the vegetable patch to make up the 15 yuan, which resulted in three full bundles! She even felt embarrassed and picked up a few raw eggs from the chicken coop and put them in the vegetables.

Chen Qingyuan did not refuse. As long as his mother was happy, that was enough.

Just then, someone came.

It was Ayang’s mother, the next-door neighbor, who came over, and Chen Qingyuan had a bad feeling.

Ayang's mother was about 30 years old. She asked with a panicked look on her face: "Qingyuan's mother, have you seen my Ayang? More than 150 yuan in the jar at home is missing..."

"Ayang?"

Mom was stunned for a moment and said, "Didn't my little Qingyuan go to play with Ayang?"

Ayang's mother's forehead was covered with sweat. She said, "But the money is gone. It's not that I don't want to part with it, but what can a five or six-year-old child do with so much money? I'm afraid he will meet bad people..."

Chen Qingyuan remembered...

In his vague memory, the neighbor's child Ayang went missing, but he couldn't remember which year. Judging from the current situation, it was probably at this moment...

My mother was also a little panicked: "What about my little Qingyuan?"

"No, I don't know."

"How could this happen!" She didn't bother to talk to Chen Qingyuan, she wiped her hands on her body and said anxiously: "I'll go with you to look for it!"

Chen Qingyuan looked at Ayang's mother and said, "When I was about to buy vegetables just now, I saw five or six children holding nets outside your house and saying they were going to the tea mountain to catch cicadas to sell for money. I wonder if they went there."

Ayang's mother was extremely anxious and had no idea why the young man in front of her knew her home.

The two mothers hurried out.

Chen Qingyuan put the vegetables in the yard and followed him out, saying, "What's going on? Is the child running around? I'll help look for him too. There's strength in numbers!"

He knew the direction of the tea mountains.

He ran so fast that he left the two mothers behind him, and then he ran out of the town and went up the tea mountain. Halfway up the mountain, he met a group of children running down in panic!

He saw his childhood self at a glance, and little Qingyuan was actually running in the front, which was unbelievable!
After avoiding Xiao Qingyuan, Chen Qingyuan grabbed a dark-skinned six-year-old child behind him and asked, "Where's Ayang? Ayang's mother is looking for him! Didn't he come with you to catch cicadas?"

The child was frightened by Chen Qingyuan. When he saw who was coming, he said hurriedly: "After Ayang gave the money to that person, he wanted to exchange it for a big iron sword for each of us. But the person said it was fake money, arrested Ayang and wanted to send him to the police station... We were very scared and just wanted to go home and tell Ayang's mother!"

Although it was just a few words, Chen Qingyuan had a clue after sorting it out a little.

Someone must have tricked five-year-old Ayang into selling him a big metal sword. Ayang wanted to buy one for each of his friends out of loyalty, so he took more than 100 yuan from the jar at home. But when he got to the mountain, he not only didn't get the big sword after giving away the money, but he also lost himself...

It would take at least an hour for these children to return to the town. By the time the adults came to the tea mountain to look for them, Ayang would have been sent to nowhere.

Chen Qingyuan asked about the direction of Ayang and immediately rushed out with his fists clenched. The crazy look of Ayang's mother in his memory emerged in his mind, and he couldn't help but feel a bit of anger in his heart!
(End of this chapter)