Raising Gu Notes

(Chapter 2 is here. Thank you for your support.)

For Xie Lin, although this notebook of raising Gu is useless, it has extraordinary significance, because it was left to him by his father, and it can also be said to be the only property he got from his parents.

For as long as Schelling could remember, he had been wandering with his alcoholic father, living in nowhere.As for his mother, his memory was almost blank, and he almost never heard his father talk about his mother.

As for other situations in the past, Xie Lin knew almost nothing, not even where his hometown was, whether he had other relatives, and why his father took him to wander around.

Every time Schelling wanted to ask his father for more information about the past, his alcoholic father, who was crazy all day long, would be furious, swear at each other, and seemed very impatient, as if he was unwilling to bring up the past.

As Xie Lin became more sensible, after being injured several times, he also discovered the difference between himself and others, so he asked his father, but he still didn't get any answer.

And when Schelling asked his father about his mother's situation, his alcoholic father who liked to talk to himself would become unusually silent, and would not answer Schelling's questions, and even a few times, he would Sitting blankly all night, not speaking, not eating or drinking.

Sometimes, Xie Lin couldn't help but suspect that his mother just couldn't stand his father, so after giving birth to him, she abandoned their father and son.

The father's abnormal reaction made Xie Lin feel a little scared. Later, he rarely asked his father about the past.

Every time his father took him to a new place, he would leave Xie Lin to work part-time for the local people, but the wages he earned from the part-time work, except for some food for Xie Lin, he used almost all of it to buy wine and drink .

When the exchanged wine is all drunk, he will take Xie Lin to the next place, and then work part-time, and exchange the money earned from part-time work for wine.

In Xie Lin's impression, his father never seemed to eat anything other than wine, but although his father was addicted to alcohol, his drinking capacity was very small, and often a bottle of rice wine could make him sleepy all day. Drunk, so he is rarely fully sober.

He also often asked Schelling to drink with him, but at that time, Schelling, who was hungry all day long, wanted to eat other things, but had no interest in wine, and every time Schelling refused, he would curse at Schelling.

So in the days with his father, Xie Lin hardly felt the slightest paternal love and warmth.

When he was three or four years old, he experienced all kinds of hardships early on, and gradually became sensible. He finally began to realize that his father had mental problems, and even said that he was a lunatic. He gradually discovered the cruelty of reality and became more and more silent. .

During the wandering days, Xie Lin could say that he had suffered a lot.He almost never had a full meal. He had robbed wild dogs for food, was chased and beaten by other children, and was mistaken for a thief by others. He was tied with a rope for two days and almost starved to death.

The difficult and difficult life of homelessness made Xie Lin taciturn and even withdrawn since he was a child, but it also honed his will and taught him to be strong and optimistic.

From the age of four or five, he no longer relied on his father. When his father was working or was not around him, he would go alone to find food, fish in the river, pick wild fruits on the mountain, and even Begging for food from other people's homes, or snatching food from wild dogs.

In those few years, he was swept by the rushing river and almost drowned alive. He also ate unknown poisonous fruit, almost poisoned to death, and was bitten by wild dogs with bruises all over his body.Fortunately, his life is tough enough, and his body is a little different from ordinary people, otherwise he would have died a long time ago.

This kind of life lasted until the day of their eighth birthday. They came to a remote town in the south. His father changed his usual indifference and brought him many delicious things at night, including white-cut chicken and roasted chicken. Fish, and spiced beef.

It was the most sumptuous dinner he could remember, and it was also that night that he learned from his father that it was his birthday.

He was also very excited when he learned of his birthday for the first time. Originally, because of his father, he had always been very repulsive and even hated alcohol. He felt that alcohol had harmed his father. A lot of wine.

But the next morning, when he woke up, he found that his father was missing again.

Originally, he thought that at night, or after a day or two, his father would come back to find him again. Even when he was young, he still had some expectations, hoping that his father would bring many delicious things when he came back.

But the days passed by, but my father never appeared again.

At the beginning, Schelling still refused to believe that his father just left, and frantically searched for his father in the town.Some villagers in the small town told him that they had seen his father had left the town and told him not to look for it, but Xie Lin had no idea where his father had gone. After a few laps, it was still back in town.

After that, he stayed in the small town.At that time, he still firmly believed that his father would definitely come back to find him.Although in the past few years, his father has been treating him badly, has always been very indifferent, and is not even like a father, but no matter how difficult life is, his father has never abandoned him, and besides his father, he has no relatives. Naturally, he didn't want to admit that his father would abandon him.

And these years, although his father often spoke badly to him and seldom had a good attitude, he never beat him, so no matter what, Xie Lin never resented his father.

But a month passed, and two months passed, but he never waited for his father.

He finally realized that his father had really abandoned him.

He also finally understood that the reason why his father's attitude changed drastically on his birthday and treated him so well was probably because he decided to abandon him, so he let him have a good meal.

His last goodwill and hopes for his father have been completely shattered since then. After so many years, although he has never had any hatred for his father whose memory is becoming more and more vague, he has long been extremely disappointed, or has already Completely give up.

The only thing that made Schelling a little hard to understand was that on the day his father left for no reason, he only left this strange note for Schelling.Even on the night of his birthday, although he bought a lot of delicious land for Xie Lin for the first time, he still didn't talk to Xie Lin much from the beginning to the end, and he didn't explain anything to Xie Lin.

Judging from the handwriting on the note and the content recorded in the note, the note was obviously not written by my father.From the time when Xie Lin was sensible until his father left, although Xie Lin had seen his father write, his handwriting was obviously different from the handwriting, and his father had never written any traditional characters.

More importantly, he has never seen his father raising any kind of Gu. His alcoholic father used almost all his money for alcohol, and he could barely support himself and Xie Lin, let alone other things.

And in those years, my father never took out this notebook in front of him. When he was wandering around, his father almost never brought anything with him.So this note is more like my father picked it up somewhere, and left it behind on the day he left.

But no matter what, this is the only thing his father left him. Although he has little affection for his father since he realized that he was abandoned by his father, he is still not willing to throw away this notebook and keeps it with him all the time.

This notebook is like an imprint left by the past, testifying to Schelling's past suffering and past bitterness, but also like a thread connecting the past, carrying a unique memory of Schelling.

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After arriving in the small town, Xie Lin bought five mouse traps in one go at a grocery store next to the vegetable market, and also bought a few pieces of sticky paper specially used to stick mice, and then went to the vegetable market to pick up some fish offal.

After returning to the dormitory, he put five mouse traps on the edge of the squatting pit, forming a half circle, and put sticky paper on the rest of the place, and put the fish viscera he picked up on the sticky paper.

He was worried that a few mouse traps would not be able to catch the little fish-stealing monster, so he used this simple chain trap.If that little monster comes to steal fish again, even if he can recognize the danger of the mousetrap and avoid the mousetrap, he will definitely be stuck by the sticky paper, and the fish internal organs are placed on the sticky paper, making it easier to lure the little monster Go over the sticky paper.

After setting the trap, Xie Lin went to the library until ten o'clock in the evening. He helped the teacher in the library organize the books returned by the students, and after cleaning again, he returned to the dormitory full of expectations.

But when he returned to the dormitory, he found that the mousetrap and the sticky paper on the side of the toilet had not been touched at all, and the two goldfish in the fish tank were also safe and sound.

Xie Lin was slightly disappointed, removed the mousetrap and stickers, took a shower, turned on the computer of his classmate on the opposite table, connected to the Internet, and climbed into bed.

It's just that he just lay down, but immediately sat up again. After thinking for a while, he jumped out of bed, put the mousetrap and sticky paper on the edge of the squatting pit again, and then returned to the bed.

I just waited on the bed for a long time, but nothing happened in the toilet.

Xie Lin also fell asleep unknowingly...

In the middle of the night, Xie Lin, who was sleeping soundly, was suddenly awakened by a strange smell, and there was a familiar thumping sound in his ears, like boiling water tumbling.

coming!