The Heartless Mage Chapter 138: Su Tao

Spring 1967, Hebei.

Su Tao walked up to the second floor tremblingly with a canvas schoolbag on her shoulders. The building is an old-fashioned small western-style building, located in a corner of Wenxian County. It is still a building in the late Qing Dynasty and has been vacant for nearly ten years. After escaping here with her father last month, she has never been in the mood to clean up the environment, so the building is dirty everywhere; there is a long dust in the corners, which was originally static, but now the trees want to be quiet and the wind keeps blowing. , in the vibration of the slogan outside the building, the dust also began to flutter softly.

Father sat on a hardwood chair by the door against the wall, and when he saw her coming, he raised an old face. Su Tao stopped and turned to him, and called out in a daze and panic: "Dad."

Lao Su is a soldier, and his life experience is a Xintianyou in northern Shaanxi. When I was young, I was "riding a foreign horse, carrying a foreign gun, my third brother ate food from the Eighth Route Army, and wanted to go home to see the girl, but I would not care if I hit Japan." Guy, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army don’t have wives, and they will fight Yulin City there, one person will be a female student.” Although he did not fight Yulin City, he did marry a female student. The female student is the daughter of a middle-class landlord, and she studied in a middle-sized city. She combines the temperament of a small farmer and a small bourgeois, and finally sublimates a delicate Su Tao. The female student despised her husband all her life, and separated from her husband with her only daughter. Old Su loves her very much, she is unrequited love, it is better to be in love, because she has nothing to say when they meet.

Soon after the Cultural Revolution, Lao Su was labeled a counter-revolutionary gang member. Seeing that his superiors were knocked down in batches and stepped on 10,000 feet, he decided that he could not sit still. However, before he could actually act, he heard that his wife, who was far away from another province, was pushed by the local Red Guards to the stage of a ten-thousand-thousand-denouncement meeting. She slapped her face with a belt in public, and then shaved her head after she finished smoking. She went home after the conference and committed suicide by jumping off the building that night.

After her daughter Su Tao fled to her side alone, Lao Su took advantage of the fact that he was only criticized and not under surveillance, and under the protection of an old friend in the army, he quickly fled to Wenxian County. Temporarily hid in a small building like a haunted house. Before he could catch his breath, the old friend was finished, and the rebels took him to Beijing to explain the problem. Lao Su fell from the head and became a loner, and somehow leaked the news, attracting a new group of people to besiege.

Old Su is still an activist, and locked the gate outside with iron wire and copper locks at night, and used wet mud and broken glass to build a thorny line of defense on the top of the wall. But he can stop people, but he can't stop the sound, and it's also a temporary stop, and it won't stop for a long time. So he stayed up all night and worked all night to figure out everything.

Su Tao stood at the door, not daring to lean towards the window. Through the window, you can clearly see the scene outside the building. There were a lot of people outside the building, including Red Guards and rebels in the local factory. Usually they looked like a group of good-natured people. They were somehow possessed by demons. Surrender and let the father perish. Suddenly aware of her father's attention, she was a little embarrassed, and lowered her head while leaning on the door frame.

Lao Su stared at her and saw that she was like her mother, a beauty. Grabbing his daughter's small hand with his rough big hand, he asked, "Is everything packed?"

Su Tao nodded and replied in a low voice, "I've packed up."

Lao Su smiled, his face full of ravines: "Okay, let's go quickly. They're going to rush in, and the courtyard gate won't be in the way for long."

Su Tao gave him a look, almost stinging her eyes from his amazing oldness. From childhood to adulthood, she could see her father once a year. Because she was not close, she was particularly impressed every time she met. In her impression, her father was still a middle-aged man with a red face and a loud voice.

"Dad, let's go together." She cried: "Mom is gone, you can't leave me alone, I can't live alone!"

Lao Su's voice is hoarse, and his throat seems to be blocked: "My goal is too big, which is not conducive to your safe transfer."

He slapped his daughter's hand fiercely, and he took a deep breath: "Tao Tao, as far as Dad is concerned, death is okay; insulting me is not okay."

He then let go. A pair of eyes stared at her daughter deeply. The daughter is fifteen years old, as beautiful as a peach blossom in season. Gritting his teeth secretly, he forced back his tears, got up and waved to the door: "Let's go. Don't be indecisive and miss the opportunity!"

Su Tao grabbed the door frame with both hands, and cried out in fear and sadness: "Dad, let's go together, I beg you, let's go together. Otherwise, I will die with you, I have no home, I Nowhere to go!"

Lao Su held his breath and tears. Holding up his crying daughter by the waist, he walked down the stairs all the way. The footsteps are heavy, and the ground is full of dust. In a small Buddhist hall downstairs, there is a secret passageway with a small iron door locked when the Buddhist altar is removed. An old friend once told him when he hid him here, saying that the secret passage could be used and lead to the outside world. The door lock was pried open by him at night, and the iron door was half open, revealing the dark world inside. Forcing his crying daughter into the small iron door, he tried his best to squeeze out his voice: "I locked the door, you hurry up! There is no way for you to come back!"

Then he closed the iron door with a bang, and really locked the iron door with a lock. After moving the shrine back to its original position, he carefully removed his fingerprints. There was a clattering sound outside, and they really began to storm the courtyard gate.

Lao Su touched the ring of explosives tied to his waist and the gun in the holster. His legs suddenly regained vitality, and he ran upstairs, trying to find a perfect shooting spot.

When Lao Su was hiding by the window to count bullets, and Su Tao desperately shook the iron gate in the dark tunnel, Wuxin followed the crowd and poured out of Wenxian Railway Station.

The aftermath of the National Student University Series is still unfinished. The number of passengers on the train is comparable to that of canned sardines. When Wuxin got on the bus in Tianjin, he had no intention of going through the door at all. The man was getting ready on the platform, and before the train stopped, he slammed the window and swam in like a four-legged snake. Seeing that there was an empty space under the three-person seat beside him, he continued to drill without saying a word, occupying the dark space under the seat. Lying on his side comfortably, he, like Su Tao, also has a canvas schoolbag. The bag was empty, and he was rolled into a ball as a pillow. After sleeping for a while, he looked up and suddenly remembered that there was a little white snake in his schoolbag. He hurriedly bowed to open his schoolbag, he looked down and saw the little white snake tilted his head, staring at him with one eye.

He brought out the little white snake from Daxinganling, and the ghost of Bai Liuli was attached to the snake. Since the death of Saiwei and Shengyi, he has gone to Daxing'anling. The mountain forest has changed its appearance, large tracts of trees have been cut down, and large trucks have been transporting wood to the mountains around the clock. But the forbidden area where Bai Liuli was located was still the same. One is that the place is remote, and the other is that the lumberjacks are afraid to come. The trees in the mountains block the sky and the sun is haunted during the day.

He found Bai Liuli in the bunker. Bai Liuli watched the flowers and snow for more than 20 years, and she was bored. Seeing him suddenly appeared, she was really surprised and happy: "Are you here?"

Wuxin walked back and forth in the bunker: "It's not easy to mess around outside, it's better to be a savage in the mountains."

Bai Liuli asked again: "Are you alone?"

Wuxin sat on a broken wooden box: "Well, my wife starved to death last year."

Both Saiwei and Shengyi failed to survive the Great Famine.

Seung Yi was married twice and divorced twice in her life. The misfortune of love life made him live as a resentful child. After a long rough meal, he stubbornly shut his mouth and refused to eat bran. But Saiwei could only find chaff at that time.

Sheng Yi died fat, malnutrition caused his body to be swollen and deformed.

There is no food in the city. Inadvertently leaving his batter to Saiwei, he wants to go out and find another food. However, all the birds and beasts in the city entered the human stomach. As he walked out of the city, the bark was stripped on both sides of the road. The trees are hanging in the air with their white flowers, like two rows of white bones that are welcomed by the aisle.

Later, Saiwei didn't eat it either.

Sai Wei boiled the only little cornmeal into porridge, and then closed the door to prevent Wuxin from leaving. A small pot of porridge is Wuxin's next meal. She lay on the bed angrily, she wanted Wuxin to accompany her, and she could see Wuxin as soon as she opened her eyes.

She's not swollen, she's skinny. For more than ten years, she has held the entire family in one hand, earning and spending money like a big parent, trying to hide her wealth when she is decent, and trying to keep her decent when she is poor. She never dared to show herself upright, because her father was a traitor, Ma Haoran. So far, she is tired of the hidden head and tail of the business.

She won't let Wuxin go, Wuxin won't go. Unintentionally lying beside her, the two shared a quilt. He is her husband and like her child. As soon as Saiwei turned 30, when he saw women of the same age leading children on the street, he knew that he was greedy.

Savi leaned on his arm and walked away quietly. Wuxin traced her eyebrows and eyes with her fingers, thinking of the quarrel between the two for more than ten years, and her delicate appearance when she was young. Thinking of the last, a big tear welled up in his eyes. Tears are viscous and transparent gelatinous, which condenses on the face and refuses to flow.

Wuxin began his wandering after burying Saiwei. After living in the bunker with Bai Liuli for a few years, he learned that the famine outside had completely passed, so he began to think about activities again. Hearing that he was leaving, Bai Liuli immediately attached to a white snake: "Take me too! I've lived in the bunker for too long and want to see the outside world."

Wuxin shook his head: "If you don't bring it, I will bother you."

Bai Liuli said nothing. When Wuxin fell asleep, he coiled it around Wuxin's neck, opened his mouth to reveal barbed fangs, and took a bite at the tip of Wuxin's nose. Wuxin almost died of pain, Bai Liuli was stained with Wuxin's blood, and almost lost her soul. Both sides lost, and had to negotiate. The result of the peace talks was that each side took a step back, unintentionally taking Bai Liuli out to see the world, but Bai Liuli had to be obedient on the way.

Wuxin lived in the mountains for four years. I never imagined that after four years, the world would change drastically and the world would change. He judged the situation and immediately learned a lot of new revolutionary words. With his tender face, he pretended to be a college and high school student and sneaked into the Red Guard reception stations all over the country with a forged letter of introduction. Mixed and mixed in Wenxian, he left the train station and walked alone on a quiet side street. He didn't know that in an hour, he would meet the beautiful little girl Su Tao.