Chapter 4 Past
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For Xie Lin, although this notes on raising a Gu are of no use, they have extraordinary significance, because this is left to him by his father, and it can also be said to be the only property he obtained from his parents.
Since Schelling can remember, he has been wandering around with his drunkard father, without a place to live. His mother was almost blank in his memory, and he had almost never heard his father talk about his mother.
As for other situations in the past, Xie Lin knew almost nothing, even knew where his hometown was, whether he had other relatives, and why his father took him to wander around.
Every time Shelin wants to inquire about more news from his father, his drunkard father, who is crazy all day long, will be furious and verbally whispering to each other, seemingly impatient, and seems unwilling to mention the past.
As Xie Lin gradually became sensible and after being injured several times, he also discovered the difference between himself and others, so he asked his father, but he still did not get any answers.
When Schelling asked his father about his mother's situation, his drunkard father who liked to talk to himself would become extremely silent and would not answer Schelling's questions. On several occasions, he would even sit blankly all night, without saying anything, without eating or drinking.
Sometimes, Xie Lin couldn't help but suspect that his mother could not stand his father, so after giving birth to him, he abandoned them.
Xie Lin felt a little scared by his father's abnormal reaction. Later, he rarely asked his father about the past.
Whenever his father took him to a new place, he would leave Schelling and work for the locals in a short-term job. He would only pay for the work. In addition to buying some food for Schelling, he would buy almost all of it for wine.
When all the wine he received was drunk, he would take Xie Lin to the next place, then work, and exchange the money he earned from working for wine.
In Schelling's impression, his father never seemed to eat anything other than wine, but although his father was addicted to alcohol, he had a very small amount of alcohol. Often a bottle of rice wine could make him drunk all day long, so he rarely had completely sober.
He often asked Xie Lin to drink with him, but at that time, she was hungry all day long and wanted to eat other things, but she was not interested in wine. Every time Xie Lin refused, he would curse Xie Lin again.
So during the days with his father, Schelling had almost no feeling of fatherly love and warmth.
When he was three or four years old, he had experienced all kinds of hardships early on. He gradually became sensible and finally began to realize that his father had mental problems. He was even a madman. He gradually discovered the cruelty of reality and became more and more silent.
During his wandering days, Schelling said he had suffered a lot. He had almost never had a full meal, had snatched food from wild dogs, was chased by other children, and was mistakenly regarded as a thief by others. He tied a rope for two days and was almost starved to death.
The difficult and difficult life of displaced and difficult made Shelin quiet and even said he was withdrawn since childhood, but it also tempered his will and taught him to be strong and optimistic.
From the age of four or five, he no longer expects his father. When his father goes to work or is not by his side, he will go to find food alone, go fishing in the river, pick wild fruits in the mountains, even go to other people's houses to beg for food, or grab food from wild dogs.
During those years, he was swept by the turbulent river water and almost drowned. He had eaten unknown poisonous fruits. He was almost poisoned to death. He was also bitten by wild dogs and was bruised all over his body. Fortunately, his life was hard enough and his body was a little different from that of ordinary people, otherwise he would have died a long time ago.
This kind of days lasted until their eighth birthday. They came to a remote town in the south. The father changed his indifference and brought him many delicious foods at night, including white-cut chicken, grilled fish, and five-spice beef.
It was the most hearty dinner he had ever had in his memory, and it was that night when he learned from his father that it was his birthday.
He was also very excited when he learned about his birthday for the first time. He had always been very repulsive and even hated wine because of his father, thinking that it was wine that harmed his father, but on that day, he drank a lot of wine for the first time.
But the next morning, when he woke up, he found that his father was missing.
Originally, he thought that at night, or a day or two, his father would come back to find him again, and even when he was young, he was a little expectant, hoping that his father would bring a lot of delicious food when he came back.
But as the days passed, my father never appeared again.
At the beginning, Xie Lin refused to believe that his father had just left like this, and looked for his father like crazy in the town. Some villagers in the town told him that he had seen his father leave the town and told him not to look for him, but Xie Lin had no idea where his father had gone. After a few rounds around the town, he returned to the town.
After that, he stayed in the town. At that time, he firmly believed that his father would definitely come back to find him. Although his father has been bad to him over the past years and has always been very cold and not even like a father, no matter how difficult life is, his father has never abandoned him. Besides, he has no relatives except his father, so naturally he is unwilling to admit that his father would leave him.
Moreover, although his father often spoke ill of him and rarely had a good attitude, he never beat him, so no matter what, Schelling never resented his father.
But a month passed and two months passed, but he had not waited for his father.
He finally realized that his father had really abandoned himself.
He finally understood that the reason why his father changed his attitude on his birthday was so good to him was because he decided to abandon him, so he let him have a good meal.
His last affection and hope for his father was completely shattered. After so many years, although he had never had any hatred for his father, whose memory was becoming increasingly blurred, he had long been extremely disappointed, or had completely given up.
The only thing that made Xie Lin a little difficult to understand was that on the day his father left inexplicably, he only left this strange note for Xie Lin. Even on his birthday, although he bought a lot of delicious food for Xie Lin for the first time, he still didn't talk to Xie Lin much from beginning to end and did not explain anything to Xie Lin.
Judging from the handwriting on the notes and the content recorded in the notes, the notes were obviously not written by my father. From the time when Xie Lin was sensible to his father's departure, although Xie Lin had seen his father's writing, his handwriting was obviously different from his handwriting, and his father had never written any traditional characters.
More importantly, he had never seen his father raise any Gu. His drunkard father spent almost all his money on wine, and even himself and Xie Lin could hardly support him, let alone raise other things.
Moreover, in those years, my father never took out this note in front of me. When I was wandering around, my father almost never brought anything. So this note was more like somewhere my father picked it up, and he kept it on the day he left.
But no matter what, this is the only thing my father left to him. Although he had little feelings for his father since he realized that he was abandoned by his father, he still couldn't bear to throw away this note and kept it with him.
This note is like a mark left by the past, confirming the sufferings and bitterness of Sherlin in the past, but it is also like a line connecting the past, carrying a unique memory of Sherlin.
After arriving in the town, Xie Lin bought five mouse clips in a grocery store next to the vegetable market, and bought a few sticky papers specially used to stick mice. Then he went to the vegetable market to pick up some fish internal organs.
After returning to the dormitory, he placed five rats on the edge of the squatting pit, forming a circle and a half. The rest was covered with sticky paper, and then placed the fish internal organs he picked up on the sticky paper.
He was worried that a few mouse clips would not be able to catch the little monster who stole the fish, so he used this simple chain trap. If the little monster came to steal the fish again, even if he could recognize that the mouse clip was in danger and avoid the mouse clip, it would definitely be stuck with sticky paper. Moreover, there were fish internal organs on the sticky paper, which would make it easier to tempt the little monster to go to the sticky paper side.
After setting up the trap, Xie Lin went to the library until 10 o'clock in the evening. He helped the library teachers sort out the books returned by the students, cleaned them up, and then returned to the dormitory with anticipation.
But when he returned to the dormitory, he found that the mouse clips on the toilet had sticky paper without any signs of moving, and the two goldfish in the fish tank were safe and sound.
Xie Lin was slightly disappointed, and removed the mouse clips and sticky paper, took a shower, turned on the computer of the classmate on the opposite table and went to the Internet, and climbed onto the bed.
But he just lay down, but immediately sat up. After thinking about it, he jumped out of the bed, put the mouse clip and sticky paper on the edge of the squat pit, and then returned to the bed.
I just waited in bed for a long time, but there was no abnormal movement in the toilet.
Xie Lin slept unconsciously... Late at night, Xie Lin was suddenly awakened by a strange smell, and a familiar sound sounded in his ears, as if boiling water was churning.
Chapter completed!