In the dark room, an oil lamp swayed in the wind.
Village head Wu sat on a bamboo chair. He lowered his eyes and stuffed the dry grass smoke into his pipe. The pipe was lit by the oil lamp with a sound of "Yi".
The old man took a puff and looked at the flickering light at the end of the cigarette bag, and his sight was a little fuzzy.
The darkness in front of me faded away and everything came alive.
In the memory of village head Wu, young carambola was four years old that year. His father left home, and headmaster Yang of Shangyan village brought his wife back. The woman's name was Su Rong.
In that year, a lot of things happened in Shangyan village, which were not only setting off the whip but also inviting wine.
Su Rong, President Yang's lover, is a woman who loves to laugh. Her tenderness is reflected in her bones. She treats these children very attentively. Besides teaching the children their lessons, she will organize activities to teach the villagers to speak Putonghua, starting with the most basic pronunciation.
The next year, young carambola was five years old, and Yang Ye, the eldest daughter of aunt Yang next door, was 14 years old. Ye liked teacher Su Rong very much because she told them a lot about things outside the mountain.
From the description of teacher Su Rong, Yang Ye knows that there is another world outside Dashan. She is full of yearning for the outside world described by teacher Su Rong. She wants to be an excellent person like teacher Su Rong.
At home, Yang Ye's family did not allow them to go into the Tulou. Although they did not understand the reason, they did not want to get angry with their parents. Yang Ye secretly went to the Tulou to look for Su Rong teacher while his parents were working.
In the past, there was no Xiayan village. There were all residents of Shangyan village. All the residents of Shangyan village lived in earthen buildings. Later, internal conflicts occurred because a small number of people could not stand the custom of sharing wives left by their ancestors.
That was a particularly violent incident. This is how Xiayan village came from. The name of Xiayan village came out of the Tulou voluntarily. After leaving the high cage, people in Xiayan village felt that the air they were breathing was fresh.
Headmaster Yang loves his wife very much, so he can't accept sharing a wife. However, his father is the patriarch of this generation. Headmaster Yang has no ability to resist. Finally, he finds a way to save his wife. He hits Yang Ye's body and asks Yang Ye to replace his wife.
That year, Yang Ye was 14 years old. She was a young girl in the village. She was graceful and generous. After being baptized by the knowledge of Su Rong, her whole temperament was sublimated.
In the summer of that year, thunderstorm, 14-year-old Yang Ye finally understood why his parents didn't let himself into the Tulou. This was hell.
And Su Rong didn't know about it.
Yang Ye didn't commit suicide. She was killed. On that day, Su Rong organized a spring outing. Yang Ye didn't want the teacher to suffer the same experience as herself. She told Su Rong the truth. Su Rong, who knew the inside story, was angry. She went to headmaster Yang for theory. She said she would go to the police. Su Rong couldn't believe it. In what era, there was such a custom in the village.
Headmaster Yang's elder brother is a lame man. The whole family carries him in the shape of President Yang. He has a bookish temperament. The rest of them go out early and return late to do farm work. Because he is a lame man, his elder brother can't get a wife.
Elder brother Yang is not anxious to get a wife because his brothers share a wife, and his younger brother's wife is his wife. However, no one thought that his younger brother was unwilling to share his wife. After several disputes, President Yang was forced to drag Yang Ye into the room.
At the time of the incident, elder brother Yang was grazing cattle on the hillside. When he heard that Su Rong wanted to call the police, everyone was full of anger. The man in the Tulou said that he would shut up and the woman would not dare to speak.
Only the woman who was married by her younger brother was spoiled by her younger brother as a young lady. Now this woman still dares to call the police to arrest people. Brother Yang is cruel. He raises the whip of herding cattle and goes to beat Su Rong. As a result, Yang Ye is blocked. In the struggle, Yang Ye falls off the cliff.
Later, this incident was covered up as an accident by President Yang. At that time, Su Rong was pregnant for five months. After being locked in a Tulou for a month, Su Rong died with a group of children in her arms. No one knows how she died.
These things were supposed to be secret, but who let the young carambola be the follower of the poplar leaf. Yang Ye suffered that kind of torture, and did not dare to tell his family. When the little carambola was small and did not remember, she cried and let out her anger while holding a little girl. She also warned the young carambola not to go to the Tulou.
"There are all human eating monsters in the Tulou," Yang Ye said to the young carambola while crying. "People in the Tulou must hide, especially those from headmaster Yang's house. Remember?"
Young carambola remembers that she saw Yang Ye pushed down the cliff by President Yang and his brother, and witnessed the accident.
Little carambola was frightened and had a high fever that night. Her mother-in-law went to Shanao village to invite village head Wu.
Village head Wu and mother-in-law Yang have known each other for a long time. At that time, if the family of Mrs. Yang did not dislike the fact that village head Wu had no money, she should have married village head Wu.
But in that month, mother-in-law Yang was married to Shangyan village. It was a secret that only those who stepped into the Tulou knew it.
Fortunately, the man who married Mrs. Yang also really liked her and took her out of the Tulou.The little carambola had a high fever, and the little girl unconsciously told her mother-in-law all the things she knew. In the view of small carambola, her mother-in-law and the village head and grandfather were good people.
Mrs. Yang and village head Wu were shocked to learn about the situation. After being shocked, they couldn't expose them. They were useless. They had to protect Shangyan village. Village head Wu had no way to deal with it. The final result was that the young carambola was "dumb".
Village head Wu fed the medicine to small carambola. At first, she just let the little carambola not speak. Later, mother-in-law Yang warned every day that little carambola was forced to be a mute. For the safety of small carambola, she asked village head Wu to get some herbs for her, and the skin of the malnourished carambola was waxy yellow.
Later, mother-in-law Yang was not at ease. She would deliberately make the small carambola dirty, and smear carbon ash on the face of the small carambola.
As a doctor, how could village head Wu not find the abnormality of the children in the village? Wu Xiaoyun is not the first one in this situation.
All the old people left behind in the village were old people. The old man didn't know that his grandson had a stomachache. When he asked village head Wu to see him, he found out the problem.
This time, the arrival of Qinghuan and others is a turning point for village head Wu. Village head Wu has a good eye and finds that Lu Chengze is different from ordinary people. During the chat and observation, he also finds the brilliant orchid heart of Qinghuan and Shen Yinian, so village head Wu decides to gamble.
God has an eye, village head Wu took a puff of grass smoke, spit out a thick smoke, the whole person looked out of the window at the moonlight, he bet right.
Over the years, these things have been pressing on the head of Wu village. He feels that if he can't solve them, he can't die in peace.