Monument of Life and Death

  Chapter 8 Boundary Monument

  It seems that everything has an answer.

  Aunt Lin’s sister has been here, but she still looks very worried about Xiaolan.

  When Xiaolan stood in the middle of the living room and greeted politely, she just hurriedly smiled at her, with unconcealable precautions and embarrassment behind her smile.

Xiaolan saw Uncle Cheng. Uncle Cheng was not too old, but one night after Xiaolan moved and Cheng Lin disappeared, Uncle Cheng was suddenly crushed by a stroke and became a person in a wheelchair. Aunt Lin chose to accompany him. By her husband’s side, waiting.

  Uncle Cheng could still see a little excitement when he saw him. Xiaolan held Uncle Cheng’s hand and listened to Aunt Lin saying many things.

  Xiaolan feels sad for Aunt Lin, and sad for Uncle Cheng.

  But this is not what Xiaolan wants to hear. _____________________________________

   “Auntie, you haven’t told me where did Xiaolin go.”

  In the middle of the night, Xiaolan lay beside Aunt Lin, under the faint night light, Aunt Lin looked haggard and weak.

Aunt Lin was silent for a while, turning her face to stare at Xiaolan.

   “Xiaolan, do you… know where the ‘boundary monument’ is?”

  Boundary Monument?

  ”Boundary monument… is it a national boundary monument, or something else… a boundary monument…”

“do not you know?”

   Xiaolan nodded honestly.

   Seeing this, Auntie stood up half-lying while propped up, Xiaolan also leaned against Aunt Lin, who was half-lying like Aunt Lin.

   “I will start talking after you move away.”

Aunt Lin rubbed Xiaolan’s hair and stared at the dark corners that were not illuminated by the lamp. Her eyes seemed to fly not far in the past. “When you moved out, we hadn’t decided where to go. Our two discussed it. Now, it is decided that you should go back to Fengwu for a while, find a suitable place, and then contact us. Your Uncle Cheng and I have just found a job in Yangjiang and are preparing to live a stable life.

   “When you set off, our two families were sad, Xiaolan, you were crying while you were walking, and Lin Zi was right by to comfort you and said that we must find you soon, alas, our two families are just like a family…

“In the first year you moved away, we kept in touch every day. At that time, you said that although Fengwu was poor, but as soon as there were fewer people, there were fewer rumors. It’s better to stay in my hometown. I think it makes sense. You two are young. After experiencing this, we only hope that you can grow up peacefully. We decided to let Lin Zi finish junior high school in Yangjiang, and we should also go back to Fengwu, Lin Zina. When I changed school, I missed you every day, but on the surface it was not noisy or noisy. I only called occasionally. When I heard you urging him to go back, I would secretly cry for a while at night.

“Things have changed since the second year. In the second year after you moved out, we lost contact. It’s not that we have lost contact here. It’s Sisi and Lao Liao. I listened to them and found it. This place was about to move to another place. We were all very anxious at the time. We didn’t ask them where we were going. After a while, we couldn’t contact you anymore.

“We are calling desperately. Your phones are all turned off. We contacted Fengwu’s old acquaintances. We all said that we haven’t seen you for a long time. Lao Cheng and I ran back to your old house. The furnishings are the same as before, except that the luggage of three people is missing. We guess you just moved out, but we can’t figure out why you just left without telling us.

   “The Linzi has been in trouble for a long time. We have never seen Linzi like that. Later, I probably felt sad, so I didn’t mention it again.

“After another year, we have been trying to contact you all this year, but we have failed. You are really like the kind of people in the news that the world has evaporated. It is summer again, and the forest is out on the road. In a car accident, a particularly serious car accident, that time the forest was almost… almost gone. The forest lived in the courtyard for nearly two months. After returning home, the people were a little different. He always evasive and likes to be alone. When I was looking in the mirror, I didn’t dare to look directly at both of us. We simply thought it was a minor sequelae after a serious illness, so we didn’t care too much.

“Then one day, Lao Cheng and I were working outside. Suddenly, we received a text message from Linzi saying,’Mum and Dad, I will go to the boundary marker to find Xiaolan, don’t read it.’ With just that sentence, we both hurried home. I was still calling the teacher, and the teacher said that he didn’t go to class. When I went home, I saw that Linzi’s cell phone was placed on the table. The person was gone. Since then, I haven’t seen my forest again. , Never heard a word about him…”

   Before the distressed and lonely Aunt Lin, Xiaolan was first attracted by the words left by Xiaolin.

  Go to the boundary monument to find Xiaolan?

  Boundary monument, is it a place name?

  Why did I appear in the attic in Yangjiang, where did my parents go, where did Xiaolin go, and what happened to me?

  All of this, if you find the boundary marker, you can have an answer.

“Xiaolan, I am telling you about this, not for you to find the forest for us,” Aunt Lin hugged Xiaolan, her voice began to tremble slightly, “To me and your Uncle Cheng, you are like us. Like my daughter, after Lin Zi is gone, I really feel like my life is over. I am so happy to see you again, Xiaolan, I beg you, stay with your uncle and aunt, okay?”

   Xiaolan was silent.

  Auntie seemed to see something in Xiaolan’s eyes, sighed lightly, and lay down.

  A few days later.

  It is late at night, the darkest hour. Under the faint light of a small party in the living room, a thin figure was writing at the desk.

  Aunt Lin, Xiaolan wants to be by your side.

  But Xiaolan still has her own way to go.

  A shadow appeared at the door of the bedroom, and it disappeared after a while, Xiaolan did not see it.

  Closed the pen, Xiaolan looked around, folded the paper in front of him in half, rubbed it a few times, and placed it neatly on the table.

  With apologizing to her uncles and aunts, Xiaolan is about to embark on her own journey.

   Quietly put on her coat, Xiaolan was afraid of waking the sleeping uncle and aunt, and after avoiding the tables, chairs and benches in the narrow living room, she came to the gate.

  A schoolbag is quietly leaning against the middle of the door.

  A white envelope is inserted in the school bag.

   Xiaolan pinched the envelope out, and there were only three large characters on the envelope.

   “To Xiaolan.”

  Xiaolan’s hands began to tremble, and the envelope was not sealed. If you side the envelope, you can see the thick stack inside.

  Money.

   is all money.

  The shadow at the bedroom door appeared again.

   Xiaolan turned her head, the shadow disappeared again.

  But she could hear, a low sob. The looming sob, desperately restrained sob, seemed to echo in her ears.

  Xiaolan lifted the backpack, which was heavy, but there was a strange warmth when she carried it behind her back.

   “Auntie…”

   Hoarse voice echoed in the living room.

  Can’t go on.

   Xiaolan opened the door, quickly stepped out, closed the door lightly, and rushed down the stairs like a run.

  　 The new journey begins, Xiaolan and everyone are going to cheer ducks. Thanks for reading, tweeted!

  (End of this chapter)