First dawn

In the evening, at the entrance of the hall of Jinggang Crematorium, Qiao Jue leaned against a tree and stood under the shade. Hurriedly rushing to the scene, he generally showed a somewhat taboo look, and there were intermittent explosions from the incinerator not far away, and the voice of the person in charge in the hall reprimanding Guo Da was heard far away.

"What's the matter with your family?" The person in charge was full of displeasure, "There are a few of you like this every year, take them away after burning, you let me here, he also let me here, my place is a cemetery ?"

The person in charge's voice was loud, spitting stars splashed between the words, Guo Da shrank his neck, did not dare to refute, and aimed his eyes at Qiao Jue at the door, hoping to find a savior.

"It's been a few days. If you don't call, you don't plan to come and get it, right? That person was your dad that day. He answered the phone and said that business was busy, so he turned around and left. I don't want my mother's. Let's go." The person in charge continued to shout, and the people around turned their heads to look this way.

Guo Da blushed and nodded frequently: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, just to clarify, that's my uncle, I don't look like him at all."

"I don't care who it is from your family!" The person in charge sounded like a bell, squinting his eyes and shaking his head to the right, "Forget it, you half-grown child, what am I talking to you, go over there Make up for the expenses of the past few days, and then take your grandma away."

"Okay, I'm sorry to trouble you." Seeing the man finished interrogating, Guo Da ran to pay the money as if he had been saved.

Qiao Jue looked up, the late summer sunset was dyeing the orange afterglow indiscriminately in the rural fields. Jinggang is the countryside of Lianxing County. There are only a few buildings in this field. In the middle, it looks a bit bleak.

As September approached, the days were getting shorter, and when Guo Da finished the procedures for claiming, when the two of them set off on their return trip, it was already dark, and the round-trip car had already stopped.

There are few lights in the countryside, so the starlight is extraordinarily bright, and the Milky Way is faintly visible, reflecting the endless fields under the sky and the unknown solitary graves in the depths of the fields. A square pond dug by myself and a watermelon field with only vines left.

Guo Da was holding a boxy urn, and walked side by side with Qiao Jue. The two chatted without saying a word all the way. Qiao Jue took the small flashlight, and the circular halo swayed on the ground with his footsteps. forward.

"By the way, Brother Sui, you changed to a science class without telling Aunt Xu, isn't Auntie angry?" Guo Da held the box in his left hand and scratched his head with his right.

"Angry, I've been scolded several times." Qiao Jue said as he walked, "After all, it's just that I gave up the liberal arts experimental class. To be honest, I really don't have much interest in liberal arts."

Guo Da kicked a stone with his feet to play, and kicked the stone from the field beside the road to the middle of the road: "How is your mother recently? Don't fight her."

"I know this better than you, and I still use your question type." Qiao Jue said, "My brother and I are as obedient as my grandson at home. I promise not to talk back, but I have learned this science."

Guo Da took pleasure in his misfortune: "The school has changed from grassroots to science and will be divided into classes again. The girls in the liberal arts experimental class will be heartbroken."

"Fuck you." Qiao Sui said, "Arranging me all day long."

"Hey, Brother Sui." Guo Da said suddenly, "It's a good thing you came with me, walking this way is really a little scary."

"What are you afraid of? There seems to be a farmhouse nearby." Qiao Jue remembered something, "By the way, what should your grandma do when you take her home?"

Guo Da thought about what his family had said: "It seems to be that... I bought a cheap cemetery, buried it in a few days, and it's over."

Qiao Jue thought of what Xu Hong had said in the kitchen at noon, so he didn't make a sound.

Guo Da stopped and looked at the depths of the watermelon field, his voice was a little hoarse: "Brother Sui, I drank more water at that time, I want to pee."

"Go, hurry up." Qiao Jue said helplessly, "You have a lot to do."

"Then..." Guo Da pointed to the boxy dark black box in his arms, and said hesitantly, "It's not convenient to hold this, can you help me hold my grandma for a while."

"..." With the light of the flashlight, Guo Da's eyes sparkled. Qiao Sui paused, a little speechless, but he couldn't find a reason to refuse, and spit out two words, "Okay, get out."

Guo Da turned around and got into the depths of the watermelon field. The box was a little heavy, and the small flashlight flashed twice. It was completely dark because of insufficient power. Waiting for Guo Da.

On the small road in Jinggang, Yi Xiao was riding a motorcycle, with earphones plugged in, a white baseball cap hanging on the handlebar, and sunglasses pushed to his forehead. Based on the memory of when he came, he was driving on the bumpy road.The headlights of the car shined on the lonely grave in the distance, a small stone jumped out of nowhere on the road, the body of the motorcycle shook violently, almost shaking Yi Xiao from the car, Yi Xiao felt an unknown fire in his heart, and the phone It happened at this time that it rang, Yi Xiao glanced down at the caller, and stopped the car beside a watermelon field.

"Yi Hanxiang, what are you doing?" Yi Xiao said angrily, "Go to your farmhouse and go crazy, just pretend you never gave birth to my son."

The woman on the other side of the phone was still chattering away under the cover of the surrounding music, but Yi Xiao had already reached out and hung up the phone.

Yi Xiao cursed, took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, and pressed the lighter. The summer night wind came from a distance, bringing a rustling sound from the field. The lighter was almost out of gas. , took a small spark, completely extinguished.

The cool night breeze blows out Yi Xiao's nameless flames, and at the same time brings a trace of fear along the way.

Yi Xiao remembered that when he came here by bicycle in the afternoon, he seemed to have heard people say that there was a crematorium nearby, and that no one would come here except for funerals. Thinking of this, Yi Xiao felt an inexplicable chill in his heart. The rustling of the grass and trees also carried a somewhat eerie meaning.

He moved a few steps towards the motorcycle parked by the side of the road, as if he had kicked something hard, and made a dull and empty sound. Yi Xiao's scalp was numb for a while, and he looked down, and there was a white shadow at his feet, quickly throwing him off Be careful what you mentioned and hold it in your arms.

Yi Xiao lowered her head, only to realize that the thing she kicked just now was a boxy wooden box. With the light of the iPhone4s screen in her hand, she could just see that it was an urn. On the black and white photo in the center of the box, An old man was staring straight at him.

And the group of white shadows on the ground suddenly said: "F*ck, you don't have eyes when you walk, you almost messed up other people's grandma."

Yi Xiao: "..."

The pale light of the mobile phone screen hit the black and white photo and the man's face, the gloomy photo just stared at him reluctantly, and the crow who was sleeping late nearby let out a groan just in time, and the last thing in Yi Xiao's mind The string snapped.

No matter how you think about this situation, this scene is very strange. Yi Xiao took two steps back, staggered twice when he stepped on the stone on the ground, rushed onto the motorcycle, and quickly rushed into the distance.

Qiao Jue, who was sitting by the watermelon field, was slapped with exhaust fumes.

"Damn, what are you talking about, a motorcycle?" Guo Da got out of the watermelon field, just in time to see the motorcycle go all the way, "Is there still a person using a motorcycle on this broken road? If there is a means of transportation, just drag it."

"That's a fool. I tripped over the stone you mentioned in the middle of the road and stopped for a while." Qiao Jue was speechless, and began to scold Guo Da, "Why did you take so long?"

"Hey, don't talk about it." Guo Da scratched his head, "I saw a hunk in the melon field, so I chased it."

Qiao Sui: "..."

However, he turned his head and saw the tears in the corners of Guo Da's eyes, and did not refute.

"School is about to start, brother Sui." After a moment of silence, Guo Da said.

Qiao Duo hummed as an answer.

"Now we are all in science classes, I hope we can be in the same class as you." Guo Da chuckled, "Go on with my brother, you won't lose in a fight."

"Come on, I haven't washed my hands for many years." Qiao Sui said disdainfully.

The night was getting darker and the road was still very long, so the two of them measured this long road in the countryside step by step.

It was nearly two o'clock when Qiao Jue arrived home. There was no sound in the promenade of Tongzilou, but cheers and howls could be heard from the small bungalow outside the building from time to time. Qiao Jue frowned, opened the door, and the window was still open. , The courtyard of the bungalow downstairs is brightly lit.

The residents of the one-story house opened a simple casino at home, which attracted a group of gamblers every night. These people were dressed in shabby gray colors, their faces were tired from a day's work, and their trousers were stained with stains. There are mud spots or paint on the sleeves, but they are all lavish when they gamble.The soil of poverty breeds evil, gambling, whoring, and fraud are not uncommon in this land in the north of the bridge.

Qiao Sui closed the window to isolate the sound from outside the window a little, and was about to lie down when the screen of the mobile phone on the bedside table turned on.

The sender of the text message was Xu Jiajia, who was the daughter of Xu Hong's younger brother and Qiao Jue's cousin.

"Qiao Qiao, have you slept yet? Tomorrow afternoon, I have something to do and I can't go to a part-time job. Can you help me with a shift? Later sister treats you to spicy skewers." Xu Jiajia said in the text message.

"I didn't sleep, what kind of part-time job, you say, I depends on the situation." Qiao Jue replied.

"Youlong Park Playground, look for Boss Wang, I'll transfer the call to you, I don't worry if I leave it to you, I'll go to bed first." Xu Jiajia replied quickly.

Qiao Jue pressed the button: "Wait a minute, sister, when will there be a playground in Youlong Park?"

After 10 minutes, the other party still did not reply, Qiao Jue yawned, shrank under the bed, left the pillow out, and fell asleep.

On the afternoon of the second day, at the gate of Youlong Park playground, Qiao Jue and Boss Wang stared at each other. A corner of Youlong Park was temporarily surrounded by a field, and some children's trains and coin-operated amusement vehicles were moved. Seesaw, surrounded by a small shed, set up a small shop to sell all kinds of snacks, it is called a park playground, and it even attracted a lot of people.

"I can't replace this class, you can deduct her money, you can deduct it as you like." Qiao Jue turned around and left.

"Hey, don't be handsome, you've come all this time, you see I'm very busy here today." Boss Wang chased after him, "Just change your clothes, no trouble, no trouble."

Qiao Jue insisted on leaving, but the phone rang, and Xu Jiajia started howling, "Qiao Qiao..."