Chapter Twenty-Five: Gu Su in the Belly (I)

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The eldest cousin woke up and turned on the greasy little green lamp, so that I could face her gray and expressionless face again. She half-sat up, her hair down, just looked up at me, and stopped talking, just sighed heavily. "Sister-in-law, you've been talking in your dreams just now. I walked back to the bed, sat down, settled down, and struck up a conversation with her. "Some are dream-talking, and some may not, Lichan, can't you sleep?" put on a piece of clothing and got up and came to my bedside. "Scared you, didn't you? You must wonder why my light bulbs are painted this color?" the eldest cousin seemed to be able to read my thoughts, and her tone returned to her normal state. I was completely sleepy, and began to listen to her tell an unbelievable story in the shadow of the lamp.

When the second aunt hanged herself, the eldest cousin had just moved in from the door, she was straightforward and rough, coupled with her low level of education, her speech was not so good, and she had just arrived in the village and did not know other people, so the eldest cousin had to nest in the new house and did not go out much. At noon on the day when the second aunt hanged herself, the eldest cousin finished lunch and waited at the door for the eldest cousin who was working in the field to come back. In the distance, I saw the second aunt and a woman in red clothes, hurrying out of the village, talking and laughing as they walked. The eldest cousin shouted two sentences to the second aunt, but the second aunt didn't seem to hear it, and walked farther and farther, but the direction was Beishan. The reason why I was deeply impressed by the woman in red was because the woman was in her thirties and had a beautiful face, and she had never seen her in the village. The clothes that can be worn are not the clothes of that era, bright red and red, and they are embroidered with the pattern of a hundred birds and a phoenix, which looks like the style of the previous dynasty. The eldest cousin didn't care too much, and went to her own field with her eldest cousin in the afternoon, but when she came back, she found that the courtyard gate was hidden.

Pushing the door in, the couple was frightened, the courtyard was full of door curtains, dressing ropes, scaffolding, branches, dense, white flowers, swaying, swaying with the wind. This is the craftsmanship of the second aunt, and everyone is familiar with it. The eldest cousin shouted, "Mom, are you here?" and entered the main house. The main room was full of noodles, long, hanging to the ground, and in the gap of the noodles was the body of the second aunt hanging from the beam. Slowing down, the eldest cousin found that the second aunt was very different from the person who usually hanged herself, although she had not seen it with her own eyes, but she wanted to hang her with her eyes protruding and her tongue spitting out, her face purple and her body stiff, and her ugly death appearance. But the second aunt was like she was asleep without a rope, her face was calm and serene, and there was a smile on the corner of her mouth. The hands are not hung down, but crossed in front of the chest. But the calmness of the second aunt made the eldest cousin have an indescribable weirdness.

The family couldn't guess why the second aunt committed suicide, so much so that someone from the county public security bureau came, and of course there was no result. When the funeral was organized, the eldest cousin told everyone what she had seen at noon that day. Strangely, no one was surprised, and no one asked for any details, as if it were an obvious fact. The eldest cousin just told her not to think too much, maybe she was just dazzled for a moment and recognized the wrong person, but the priest and uncle persuaded her that it would be good for her family to talk about it, and not to mention it to outsiders again, the impact was not good. But the eldest cousin always felt that they must know who the woman in red was, and the death of the second aunt was not so simple, just didn't tell her.