Tree Hole Self-Rescue Guide

I walked through the human world with warm sunshine, and was lucky enough to see the vastness of the galaxy...

"Your little grandson lied to you. I wonder where he went to play. My father went to celebrate his 70th birthday with a friend these two days, and the school is closed these days."

The vendor who knew the situation said this, but in his heart he was thinking of the boy who always greeted him with a smile when he walked past his stall. He seemed to have seen him today.

"I remember now. He came to the school today and stood at the school gate for half an hour. Then he left with the county magistrate's son and their servant."

"Which direction did they go?" The old woman found a clue and naturally could not give up this possibility, so she pulled the vendor's sleeve and knelt down.

"Old man, no, no. Let me think about it. I was very busy at the time and didn't pay much attention to it. My child was also playing in front of the school. I asked him. Ah Shu, Ah Shu, come here for a moment?"

The man shouted at the child who was squatting on the ground washing dishes, and called him over.

"Dad, what's wrong? I still have half a basin of dishes to wash." The boy wiped his dripping hands on the clothes around his waist, and his cracked and red hands trembled in the wind.

"Weren't you playing with that smiling kid in your school at the door today? Do you know where he went later?"

"Ah, him, he was taken away by Zhang Lang and his gang, saying they were going to explore the back mountains."

The boy grabbed the corners of his clothes with both hands and smoothed out the wrinkles, not daring to look up at the old man.

"Then he should have gone to the back mountain. Old man, don't worry, it's almost dark, let's ask the villagers to look for him together."

"Well, Dad, it's nothing. I'll continue working." The boy turned and left, his steps slightly slowing down, as if he remembered something. He clenched his fists, and without looking back, he returned to the wooden basin and continued to work.

"Thank you. The kid's father will be back in the evening, and he will also come back from the road behind the mountain. Maybe we can run into him."

The old woman looked at the setting sun and prepared to go home to wait for her children and grandchildren. Maybe they would come back together in the evening.

At the county magistrate's mansion on the other side, the fat and big-eared county magistrate was lying on the couch, watching a beautiful woman dancing, and was deeply in love with her when he was interrupted by his son who rushed in in a hurry.

"Dad, I beat the kid from the Wang family to death and threw him in the back mountain. Don't worry, we handled it very cleanly this time."

The county magistrate, who had just taken a sip of wine, sprayed it all over the dancing beauty. The red liquid slid down the tip of the beauty's chin and fell into the mountains, making her even more alluring.

"Got it. Go ahead. You don't need to come to me again after you've dealt with this kind of thing."

The county magistrate was busy dealing with his physiological problems and sent his son away.

"How boring! He can't even beg for mercy. Before he died, he was still thinking about going back to help grandma sell vegetables. I don't have even a tael of silver in my pocket, so I have only a few copper coins. I'll give them to you as a reward."

Zhang Lang played with the coin in his hand for a long time, as if he was playing with an ant. Then he strung six coins on a thread and threw them to the servant, ending today's story lightly.

The group of people who were returning home together on the path behind the mountain stopped because of a piece of cloth exposed on a branch.

"Brother Wang, what are you looking at?"

"This piece of cloth looks like the clothes I bought for Yaoyao when I left this spring. It was the only batch of cloth left, so I bought it and made clothes for my family."

The man tore off the strips of cloth from the branches and discussed with the people around him.

"Ergou, look, isn't the material of the clothes I'm wearing the same as mine?"

"Really? Going up the mountain to pick wild vegetables at this time? Yaoyao should be busy in the vegetable garden with Auntie, why are you running here?"

"That's true, but I'm still uneasy. Let's see if there are any strips of cloth elsewhere. I remember there seems to be a trap down there. Let's go down and take a look. In case someone is trapped, we can help."

Brother Wang rushed straight to the trap that had been abandoned for a long time. Seeing that the hole was mostly covered with newly broken thorn branches, he had a bad premonition in his heart that became stronger, as if something bad would happen if he opened the hole.

Ergou immediately pulled the branches apart, revealing the bottom of the pit. The orange sunlight passed through the thorns and finally reached the child covered in blood.

"Who is this wicked guy who hides this hunting pit again? Isn't he afraid that passers-by will fall into it?"

"Ayao, ah..."

The man called Brother Wang dropped the bag in his hand, jumped into the bottom of the pit, stretched out his fingers to feel the boy's breath, and getting no warm response, he hugged the boy and burst into tears.

"Ayao, Dad is back, please wake up, please wake up, Dad brought you a portrait of the general, Dad has seen the general, and the general is waiting for you to be his soldier..."

Souls that have long gone, please look back. People who are favored by the sun, forget the sorrows of this world and go to heaven.

"Hey, Brother Wang, is this A Yao?"

Ergou called his companions and jumped into the pit himself. He looked at the patched cloth shoes on the boy's feet and stopped talking.

After the man calmed down, Brother Wang and Ergou led the boy up along the rope and waited for the coroner and officials to arrive.

The coroner rushed over and saw the bloody body. He urged people around to go to the river to fetch water to clean the child. When the clothes were removed and the blood was wiped off, the boy's body was covered with deep and shallow scars, and the large bruises seemed to be mocking the warm sun.

"The child accidentally rolled down the mountain, hit his head on a rock, and fell into a hunting pit, where he died from excessive blood loss. However, the repeated friction injuries on his body should be caused by rolling down from the top of the mountain many times, and we cannot rule out the possibility of intentional behavior." The coroner came to the conclusion and told the policeman about it after the examination.

"The child was just playing around and rolled down the hill and died. Okay, let's go, just take the child home and bury him."

The leading officer hastily classified the case and took a large group of people back, but was grabbed by Brother Wang.

"It's unfair. How could my son die because he fell down while playing? Who would want to roll down the mountain again and again? My son is not a fool. He has always been the top student in the school."

"Brother Wang, considering that you gave me a living, I'll tell you the truth. This case cannot be prosecuted. You won't get an answer even if you go before the emperor. You should quickly finish Yaoyao's funeral, move away with your aunt tonight, and never come back."

The leading officer pulled Brother Wang under a locust tree, spoke in a low voice, pointed his finger at the sky, and then raised his voice.

"I don't think you want to raise your son, so you just leave him here. Take your son home right now. It's really unlucky."

Where no one else could see, he took out a purse from his pocket and put it in Brother Wang's arms.

"This is the money that Ajuan and I collected. It's not much. You and Auntie should spend it sparingly. I won't give it to you, brother."