I found a god on the roadside 1

"Cough cough cough" on the poor rural dirt road

A man in a white shirt was coughing because of the dust from the tractor passing by.

A pair of rough hands stretched out from the side and pressed on the thin shoulders of the man. A woman in coarse clothes stood beside him and spoke in a rough dialect.

"Xiao Li, I'm sorry, but I really can't afford to raise this child. You are so rich and live in the city, so please take him away."

The woman pushed the timid boy in front of her

The little boy looked severely malnourished. He was so thin that his clothes couldn't even hang on his body. His long, messy hair was piled on top of his head like a chicken coop.

Lu Li lowered his head and looked at the boy who was cowering beside him. He coughed several times with a pale face.

It was not until she squatted on the side of the road, her back arched due to coughing, and gasped for breath that the woman exclaimed

He quickly grabbed the man's finely crafted briefcase, took out the medicine from it and fed it to the man.

The boy also patted him on the back carefully

"Ahem, what are you doing, sister?"

This woman was his childhood playmate, referred to as childhood sweetheart

When Lu Li was a child, he lived in this village and played with other children. The woman had a good relationship with him and was three years older than him. Lu Li respected her and called her "sister".

When Lu Li was three years old, he was diagnosed with congenital heart disease and was taken to a big city by his parents who worked in the city for treatment.

Until now, when I was twenty-three or twenty-four, I returned to the village to mourn Grandpa Lu Li who had died of illness.

The village is a well-known poor village. The woman stopped going to school after graduating from elementary school. Her parents married her to a divorced man who was ten years older than her. The man was good at eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, but he had no ability to make money.

Lu Li had been in contact with her until she got married. He stopped as he was afraid of gossip from the villagers.

He knew that his sister had always had a hard life, and he had secretly helped her, but every time the man stole her money to buy alcohol and beat her up. Now, Lu Li had no way to control her.

But the woman also worked hard and gave birth to two sons for the man, and their life was good afterwards.

But what did the woman say now that she brought her little son here?

Give it to him? Are you kidding?

Looking at Lu Li's pale face, the woman hesitated, afraid that he would be unable to breathe accidentally, so she hardened her heart and pushed the boy out.

"Look for yourself. My family thinks he's unlucky. Now my parents-in-law don't like me anymore."

The woman lifted the boy's hair and showed it to Lu Li, sobbing.

Lu Li saw the boy slowly open his dazzling golden eyes and paused.

Although surprised, I still tried my best to stay calm.

"It's just a genetic mutation, it's not a big deal. Can you bear to abandon such a young child?"

The woman was shaking and crying even harder.

"What can I do? I have no other choice but to trouble you, wuwuwu."

The woman was about to kneel down to him, but Lu Li quickly grabbed her and coughed for a long time.

When the woman stopped crying, Lu Li bent down and comforted her for a long time, and then persuaded her to take the child back home.

Seeing the boy looking back at him every few steps, Lu Li stood on the ridge of the field in silence for a long time.

When walking back to his grandfather's house, a rural old lady sitting on the roadside with a small stool and chatting pointed at him.

"Hey, look at the grandson of the old man on the east end of the road. Wow, look at his white face, as if it was painted on a wall, so white, so white."

"It looks like he won't live for many more years. I'm afraid we'll have to hold a funeral for him in a few years!"

"I saw him whispering with the wife of the old Zhao family in the village. Could he be her lover?"

"It's possible that the people in this city are just not clean."

“That’s right.”

…

Lu Li pursed his lips, lowered his head and walked quickly back home under the sharp and critical gaze of a group of old ladies with bound feet.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw a huge coffin standing in the middle of the mourning hall. The black coffin against the all-white funeral hall made people feel terrified.

Lu Feng was sitting in mourning at the side of the lobby, resting. When he saw Lu Li come in, he nodded and said without surprise.

"Are you going to see Lao Zhao's wife again?"

"Hmm" Lu Li paused to take off his shoes and responded in a low voice

"Alas, you are not a child anymore, you should stop associating with her, so as to avoid those gossipy women in the village. The last time your mother came back to the village, she heard them talking more and more outrageously and almost got into a fight with them. Fortunately, your mother didn't come with us this time, otherwise she would have been scolded again."

Lu Feng shook his head and sighed

"Dad, what's the situation with Sister Guiying's youngest son?"

Knowing that Lu Feng was concerned about him, Lu Li was silent for a moment, but still couldn't help asking

"I don't know either. Your third uncle told me that the child was fine when he was born. Three years ago, the children went to the mountains to play and got lost. The whole village went out to search for him in the mountains for three days and three nights before they found him in a pit."

Lu Feng thought for a long time before he said

"What about the other kids?"

Lu Li sat aside, listening attentively, and asked

"Dead" Lu Feng's face darkened

"Dead?" Lu Li was extremely surprised and opened his mouth wide.

"The bodies of the other children were scattered all over the mountain, some on the slopes and some on the top... I heard that the bodies looked like they had been eaten by wild animals, with blood and flesh all over the place, and all the organs missing, leaving only an empty piece of skin.

The key point is that he still had a creepy smile on his face. After your third uncle and the others found him, they vomited all over the place and couldn't get out of bed for three or four days. It was only after I came back to take care of him that he grabbed my hand and told me..."

Lu Feng described it in great detail, as if he had personally experienced it.

"This sounds very strange. I originally thought that the child was quite pitiful." Lu Li shuddered and said silently.

"Anyway, after that day, the entire village boycotted the only surviving child. Not only because of the golden eyes he later gave birth to, but also because the child himself was very strange. He often woke up in the middle of the night and stood in the middle of the yard looking towards the mountain. Sigh..."

"How do you say that?"

"After that day, the villagers called in a fortune-teller from a neighboring village. The fortune-teller said that some kind of evil ritual seemed to be going on in the mountain. After the ritual was completed, evil spirits had descended and frightened several elderly villagers to death. The fortune-teller was driven away the next day.

Later, the young people in the village didn't believe it and called the police. The police came and said it was a human trafficking organization that came here to commit crimes. They set up a cordon around the mountain and still haven't allowed people to enter. They haven't found out the cause."

Lu Feng had been mourning all night and was very tired. Seeing his son was in a good mood, he forced himself to tell him the story. The more he talked, the more energetic he became. In the end, he was so scared that he almost fell asleep.

"What does this have to do with that child?" Lu Li became more and more puzzled as he listened.