Crossing the field path, we arrived in front of Wu Hua's house.

The road is still the same small dirt road, but the courtyard wall is lower and not as high as before. The door is still the same wooden door, but it is much mottled. There is no door god stuck on the door, and there are no Spring Festival couplets on the door frame. I feel a little strange.

Pushing open the door and entering, the yard is still the same as before. Their home is still the same as before, without any dogs. The whole yard is surprisingly quiet.

Is there no one?

If no one is around, the door should be locked.

My eyes searched the courtyard. The door of his main hall was open.

I quickly walked in.

The cold hall was filled with the smell of burning paper money.

There were some pots and pans scattered on the ground, and a rope hung on the dilapidated wall, with three old handkerchiefs hanging on the rope.

Suddenly, I heard a faint sound of sobbing. It was really scary.

I bravely shouted: "Is there anyone there?"

No one responded to me. But the faint sobbing disappeared.

I shouted again: "Is anyone there?"

At this time, a weak voice came from outside the main room: "Who are you looking for?"

This voice is both familiar and unfamiliar. It feels like the voice of Wu Hua's mother.

I responded loudly: "I'm here to play with Wu Hua."

I didn’t know what was going on. As soon as I replied this sentence, I heard loud crying.

I quickly exited the main room and went to the side room in the corner of the courtyard. The closer I walked, the clearer I could hear the crying.

Yes. That's where the crying came from.

I pushed open the ajar door. Light shone through the door into the cold and damp side room. I finally saw clearly that Wu Hua's mother was lying on the bed crying.

I quickly walked over and took Wu Hua's mother's hand: "Ms. Wu, what's wrong with you? Why are you crying so sadly when you're celebrating the New Year?"

Madam Wu no longer recognized me. She struggled to sit up.

I quickly helped her up and sat on the edge of the bed.

Madam Wu: "Who are you?"

Me: "Ms. Wu, my name is Mu Yi. Don't you recognize me? Wu Hua and I are good friends. We were classmates in elementary school. I even came to your house to play."

Madam Wu slowly raised her head and looked at me carefully: "Oh, it's Mu Yiha. You look so good that I don't even recognize you. You were so small, thin and dark before."

Me: "Ms. Wu, are you feeling unwell? Are you sick? Where are Wu Hua and the others? Why aren't the three of them at home?"

Madam Wu's tears were like broken pearls, rolling down her prematurely old cheeks, and she choked and said: "This short-lived bastard is gone..."

I whispered: "No more?"

Madam Wu: "Dead...Wu Laoer is dead...went to see his short-lived father..."

As soon as I entered Wu Hua's house, I felt something was wrong. It was particularly depressing and cold. What I didn't expect was that I would never see him again.

My tears couldn't stop flowing down...

Why did Wu Hua die? There are too many questions swirling in my mind. In my mind, Wu Hua still looks like the enthusiastic, cheerful and upright Wu Laoer, a thin, tall and dark primary school student. Still the same

The same way he carries me to study every day. The same way he goes with me to beg for cement to fill rat holes.

Wu Hua, why did you die? Why did you die?

I also started crying. I even lost my basic alertness. So much so that I didn’t even know that Wu Hua’s brother was back.

Suddenly someone tapped me on the shoulder, which shocked me so much.

I turned around and saw that the person standing in front of me was Wu Hua's brother. I quickly called out: "Brother." I couldn't help crying again.

Wu Hua’s brother Wu Ye: “You know everything?”

I nodded.

Wu Ye walked over and helped Madam Wu up, and helped her sit up in the main room.

Wu Ye took some corn stalks from the courtyard dam and brought them to the kitchen to light a fire for cooking.

He heated up a pot of rice with cabbage and moss. He first scooped out a bowl for Madam Wu, then scooped out a bowl for me, and finally scooped out a bowl for himself.

Concubine Wu took the rice but didn't eat it. She just held the rice bowl with both hands and put it on her knees, looking at the empty main room in a daze.

Wu Ye ate very quickly, just like when he was a child. He finished it in three times, five times five times two times. I was so worried that I really couldn't eat anymore.

Wu Ye: "Muyi, it doesn't taste good, can't you eat it?"

I quickly shook my head and said: "Brother, it's not that I don't think it tastes good. It's just that I feel uncomfortable, can't accept this, and can't eat it..."

Wu Ye: "It's his fault that he can't think about it. Those who are alive have to survive. To survive, you have to eat."

It was really too sad and depressing. I put my rice bowl on the table and said to Wu Ye: "Brother, where is Wu Hua buried? Can you take me to see him?"

Wu Ye shook his head.

Me: "Brother, please take me to see him."

Wu Ye: "It's not that I didn't take you to see him. It's that he didn't bury him."

I stared at Wu Ye with wide eyes and shouted hysterically: "It's not buried??? Why isn't it buried? What's going on?"

Wu Ye said coldly: "Follow me." Then he quietly pointed at Aunt Wu with his finger.

I think he means he doesn't want to irritate Aunt Wu.

I followed Wu Ye out and walked around to the apple tree behind his courtyard. I was shocked! Wu Hua couldn't be under the apple tree, right?

Wu Ye: "Muyi, let me thank you on behalf of my second son. You are the only friend who comes to see him."

I didn't say anything, just looked at Wu Ye quietly.

Wu Ye: "After you graduated from elementary school, Wu Hua stopped studying. He followed Wang Laosi and others to go out into the society. Because he didn't have a diploma, he couldn't find an ideal job there. Wang Laosi and others started to work in society and stole

He robbed whatever he could to get money. Wu Hua didn't dare to do it, so he wandered around by himself, doing hard work and doing small jobs. Sometimes without work, there was no income, and he couldn't even eat a mouthful of food for several days." At this point.

Wu Ye also choked and shed tears.

After a moment, he continued: "I don't know how much suffering he has suffered outside alone in these years. He came back on the 30th night. We were all surprised and happy to see him. Because these years

I don’t even know whether he is dead or alive alone outside.”

"Our family happily had the New Year's Eve dinner. Then my mother started to nag. She said that Wu Hua had been away for so many years without writing or bringing a letter, so that she would not worry about him. All these things

Nothing happened yet. As he spoke, things changed. My mother began to complain that my father was dead, and she had to endure all the hardships for us three brothers. We suffered so much, suffered so many grievances, and were bullied by so many people. She said that we were not living up to expectations.

It didn't work out, I'm sorry for her. She cried and made a fuss. She couldn't be persuaded no matter how hard she tried. Wu Hua got angry. Wu Hua said: You are suffering, but we are not suffering? If you want a good life, you should get married early.

No one forced you to stay in Wu's house. Mother raised her hand and slapped Wu Hua. This slap stunned Wu Hua. Wu Hua cried, and cried out all the grievances he had held in his heart for these years.

. He just said that he was sorry for dragging his mother down and that he should die. He rushed out of the house. We thought he just went out to relax, or ran away from home to work like before. Who could have thought that he would die like this."

I held Brother Wu Ye's shoulder and patted him. I didn't know how to comfort him or what to say.

I just wonder why it was said that it was not buried. Then where did Wu Hua go?

Me: "How do you know Wu Hua is dead? You saw him die." There is still a trace of fantasy in my heart. I hope he is just gone and not dead.

Wu Ye's words completely shattered my fantasy. "On the first day of the Lunar New Year, someone in the village went to set off firecrackers at the dam gate of 'Datangyan'. They found a man in clothes floating on the water and not floating.

As we started to leave, we called the police. The police car came blaring its siren. We heard it and ran to watch the excitement. As a result, the man was fished out and his whole body was soaked and swollen. The police asked everyone to come forward and see if they recognized themselves.

I got to know the corpse. Then I went up to take a look, my God! I couldn’t believe it, the corpse lying on the ground was Wu Hua. I felt like the world was spinning..."

I waited for Wu Ye to calm down. He continued: "We identified the body. The police understood the situation. We talked about what happened that night. But we knew that Wu Hua was very good at water. We suspected him.

Is it possible that he was assassinated? The police arranged for a forensic doctor to conduct an autopsy. As a result, the forensic doctor said that Wu Hua committed suicide. He wanted to die. There was a large amount of sleeping pills and alcohol in his stomach. It is speculated that he first

He took a lot of sleeping pills, drank a lot of liquor on the gate, and then fell into the water below the gate and drowned. Everyone was afraid that his ghost would linger, so they burned him at the cement dam where he was dissected. At home

All his belongings were burned and then swept into the river and washed away."

At this point, I finally understood what was going on.

Wu Ye smiled bitterly: "That's fine. Once and for all, it will be burned clean. I hope he will be reincarnated into a rich family in his next life."
Chapter completed!