Shi Tou, who almost broke his broken bicycle apart, didn't care what Liu Changshan was thinking. He rode hard towards the end of the village, almost breaking the chain.
But he had never been to Lamagou, he just knew its approximate location.
Shitou could only ask as he walked, and once he even took the wrong path.
At a fork in the road, he happened to choose the wrong path. When he came across a village, he asked around and realized that he had taken the wrong path. He was so angry that he almost slapped himself twice.
There was no choice but to ride back with all my strength.
Because the incident happened suddenly and Shitou was in a hurry, he didn't wear gloves or a hat when he came out.
His hands and face were red from the cold wind, but the tip of his nose was covered with sweat beads, which turned into small ice chips when blown by the cold wind.
And there was sweat inside the cotton jacket.
The roads in the countryside are all dirt and bumpy.
In some places, the only path is a small one because so many people walk on it. You can imagine how difficult it is to walk on it.
So there is no need to mention the bumps.
Because Shitou was riding too fast, his butt was shaken so much that he could no longer sit still. He could only stand up and pedal hard.
He didn't know when the Shen family set out? He also didn't know if they had reached Lamagou now? Was Shen Siyue still safe? Was she beaten?
These unknown situations made Shi Tou extremely anxious.
It was not until Shitou rode into the mountains along a road that looked relatively wide that he finally came across a village.
Most of the houses in this village are made of a mixture of stone and earth, and are built along the mountainside.
Shitou got off the bicycle, and before the bicycle stopped, he carried it on his shoulder using the forward inertia. He climbed a few steps and came to the house closest to the residence, and knocked on the door.
"Who is it? Why are you knocking on the door? Just come in!" A woman's voice came from inside.
The woman was very surprised. There were almost no outsiders coming here. They lived in the same village and knew each other. No one who came to visit would knock on the door, but would just come in directly.
Why are there still people fussing about this today?
Shitou had just entered the yard carrying his bicycle when the woman came out of the house.
The woman was startled when she saw that it was a stranger carrying a bicycle. She took a few steps back involuntarily and pointed at Shi Tou and asked nervously, "Who are you? What are you doing here?"
Shitou stopped in his tracks and asked anxiously, "Auntie, I want to ask you about a place. How far is it from here to Lama Valley? Which road do I take?"
The woman was startled, and looked up and down at Shitou. Seeing that he was very anxious and didn't look like a bad guy, she said, "This is Lamagou! Who are you looking for here?"
"Is this Lama Valley?" Shitou's eyes lit up when he heard it and he asked in surprise.
The woman nodded.
Shitou quickly asked again: "Is there a family with the surname Huang here? Does he have a sick son?"
The woman frowned and looked at the stone and said, "Most of us here have the surname Huang, but if you want to talk about a sick family, it's probably Huang Ziyuan's family. His son has been ill for the past few years."
Shitou was overjoyed. It seemed that he had found the right place.
He quickly put the bicycle down from his shoulder, letting it fall to the ground, took out 50 cents from his pocket and handed it to the woman.
"Auntie, take me there, and I'll treat this money as your hard work fee, okay?"
The woman raised her eyebrows and looked at the 50 cents handed over in surprise: "Hey, hey, what are you doing? I'm just showing you the way, you don't have to do this!"
Although he said this, the movement to push it away was very small.
They live in this poor and remote area and barely make any money all year round.
You can earn 50 cents just by running errands. This is really pie in the sky!
Shitou stuffed the money into the woman's hand, then pulled her out and said, "Auntie, I'm in a hurry. Let's go now. Take me there quickly."
The woman was dragged out of the yard by the stone. She hurriedly shouted: "You...your bicycle is still at my house?"
Shitou has no time to care about the bicycle now.
This Lama Valley is built on the mountain, with a step every three steps and roads paved with stone slabs everywhere.
The terrain of each house is different, so it is impossible to ride a bicycle. It might be faster to walk.
"I'll leave it at your house first, and I'll come back to get it later."
Seeing that the young man was really anxious, the woman also started to jog in front to lead the way.
While running, he turned back and asked, "Young man, what do you want from his family? Did you find a secret remedy?"
Shitou blinked his eyes and then started to lie: "Yes, that's why I'm so anxious!"
Woman: "Oh, oh, we need to hurry up, I just... I don't know if it's too late?"
"If the folk remedy really works, then you are really blessed. At least the girl won't be buried with you. Alas! What a sin!"
Shitou paused, staring at the woman who was still running in front of him, and asked her in disbelief: "Buried with him? Are you saying that his family wants to bury his daughter-in-law with him?"
The woman turned around and saw that he was stunned. She took a few steps back and pulled the stone: "Yes, let's go quickly, otherwise it will be too late."
"Last night I heard from my old man that Yuanzi's son was in trouble and he bought a girl from outside. Yuanzi was afraid that his son would be alone in the afterlife, so he wanted to arrange a ghost marriage for his son!"
"Don't you think this is a sin? How could the girl's parents be so cruel? They had the heart to bury a living girl?"
Shi Tou only felt a chill in his palms and feet, he thought it was bad enough that the Shen family forced Shen Siyue to marry for money, but he didn’t expect that he would think well of the Shen family.
When he realized what was happening, he immediately grabbed the woman and ran forward: "Where is their home? Quick, take me there!"
After all, the woman is old. She can jog, but she can't stand being pulled by someone to run all of a sudden.
"Hey, young man, slow down a bit, my old bones can't stand your pulling like that!"
Shitou thought the woman was running too slowly, so he half-knelt down and carried her on his back: "You show the way."
This time the speed is much faster.
Under the woman's command of "left", "right", and "uphill", the two finally arrived at a house higher up.
There was a donkey cart parked outside the door.
Shitou recognized the donkey at a glance as the one from their Dongliang Village.
He squatted down and put the woman down, then quickly ran up the steps in front of the house and rushed in without caring about anything.
The woman he put down stood there, not realizing what was happening.
She looked at Shitou's rabbit-like figure and finally said, "Whose son is dying? Why does it seem like this guy is more anxious than Ziyuan?"
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