Chapter 12 The Ring Woman Returns to Zhao Wenjun's Hometown
"What are you calling? Isn't the baby in your arms?"
The sister-in-law who came to bring breakfast to the woman said to the woman that she had made her egg noodles.
"Oh!" the woman glanced at the child in her arms, she was sleeping soundly. She wiped the cold sweat from her forehead, and it turned out that she was dreaming again.
Suddenly, a girl dressed in white floral clothes on a blue background ran in, and she picked up the girl's child and ran. The ring woman was stunned for a moment.
"Alas, alas, who are you, where are you going to hold the baby?" the sister-in-law grabbed the girl's arm.
"It doesn't matter who I am, it's important that this baby can't stay here anymore!" the girl roared.
The woman in the ring only reacted at this time, she jumped out of bed and snatched the child: "Who are you, you are Qingguang robbing the baby during the day?" The child cried "Wow!" The woman quickly patted the child's back with her hand.
The sister-in-law looked at this girl and felt a little familiar. But I couldn't remember who it was.
The girl knelt on the ground with a "pop!" sound: "Sister Huan, save my grandfather!"
"Oh, are you grandpa's magnolia?" the sister-in-law finally remembered.
"Hmm!" Magnolia nodded.
The ring woman also remembered, it turned out to be the little granddaughter of the grandfather's family. She saw it when she was young, but she didn't expect to see her for a few years, and she became a big girl.
"Yulanzi, what do you have to say? The sister-in-law said as she helped her up and sat down.
"My grandfather suddenly fell ill yesterday, and he said that it was Sister Huan's baby who came to ask for his life!" said Yulanzi wiping tears from her eyes.
When the woman heard this, her lips trembled with anger: "You go, hurry up! I didn't expect you to be so unreasonable at such a young age?"
Yulanzi immediately stood up and ran over to grab the child: "Grandpa said that only by throwing her away can his illness be cured!"
The woman hugged the child tightly with one hand, and pushed Yulanzi hard with the other: "Are you a bandit or a robber?......?"
After a while, a lot of neighbors came to the house.
"Stop, what are you doing here?" the eldest brother walked in, and he pulled Magnolia over to him.
Yulanzi sat on the ground and shouted: "Oh my God, it's terrible, I've killed someone!"
The eldest brother was angry: "Who beat you?"
At this time, the onlookers all started to discuss:
"That's it, who hit her?"
"In broad daylight, I came to someone else's house to snatch the child!"
"At such a young age, why are you so unreasonable?"
......
At this time, the sister-in-law called her mother, and the mother helped Yulanzi up and took her out. The sister-in-law also followed.
The neighbors also dispersed, only the eldest brother did not leave. He looked at the woman who was trembling with anger, brought her the egg noodles, sighed and went out.
The woman cried while eating noodles.
The mother sent Yulanzi back to her house, and went to see the sick uncle by the way. The uncle was really sick, he looked at his mother and seemed to have a lot to say, but he didn't say it after all. Mother actually understands in her heart.
She got home, took out the wooden box containing the phoenix hairpin, and came to the woman's house.
The woman's eyes were swollen from crying, and she lay on the bed weakly. The child was well fed and was sleeping in her arms.
She knew that her mother was coming, but she still didn't move.
The mother didn't speak, she took out the phoenix hairpin in the wooden box. Feng Hai suddenly shone with golden light, illuminating the room brightly.
The ring woman opened her eyes, stunned.
My mother was also stunned.
Feng Hai suddenly turned into a blue phoenix and flew towards the child, and the child also opened his eyes at this time and looked at Feng Hai with novelty. The blue phoenix flew up to the child, flapping its wings and screaming. The child stretched out his hand, and the blue phoenix fell into the child's hand, turned into a phoenix, and did not move. The child grabbed the phoenix hairpin with both hands, as if he was holding a toy, and laughed "hehehe".
The mother and the woman seemed to be frozen, and there was no reaction at all.
By the time they came to their senses, it was as if nothing had happened. The phoenix hairpin is still in the wooden box, and the child is still asleep. The ring woman looked at the child's hand again, and the two birthmarks were still there.
The ring woman shook her head, feeling as if she had just had another dream.
The mother took the black box back and hid it in the cupboard, then went to the street health center, bought some alcohol, gauze, anti-inflammatory drugs, and went home to get a pair of scissors and came to the woman's house.
As soon as the woman looked at the things her mother was holding, she understood, she quickly hugged the child tightly, and was so frightened that she was incoherent: "Mother...... Mother...... You! You...... To be ...... What?"
"You don't care, give me the child!" the mother snatched the child hard.
"No, mother, no!" the woman grabbed her mother's hand and cried.
"Let go, I'm doing this for your good, for the baby's good!" the mother shook off the woman's hand violently. The woman covered her eyes and cried.
The mother held the child, held the scissors in one hand, held the child's hand in the other, and slashed the scissors to the birthmark on the child's palm, and the child's hand suddenly flowed blood. The child cried "wow".
"My baby, my poor baby!" the woman cried, got up and fell to her knees, fainting.
When the woman woke up, she was already lying on the bed. The child lay beside him, his hands wrapped in thick gauze.
The woman hugged the child and cried again.
The next day, the mother came to the uncle's house with the child in her arms, and the uncle looked at the child's hand and felt a little guilty, but he still shook his head.
The child was left behind for the time being, and soon, it was full moon.
According to local customs, when a child is full moon, he must make a full moon wine. However, the ring woman did not do it. However, Zhao Wenjun's in-laws did have many relatives who sent some noodles and eggs, as well as 2 chickens.
Since they had only rented a room, they went back after lunch. Huan Nu and Zhao Wenjun also did not stay.
On the second day of the full moon of the ring woman, the grandfather died. A week later, the grandson of the second grandfather's family also fell into the river and drowned.
The elders of the clan all pointed to the girl in the ring. They summoned all the relatives of the clan to remove the name of the ring girl from the family tree, and also asked the ring girl to roll away and no longer make a home here. Otherwise, the only way to do this is to put the ring girl's baby to death. After the ring woman learned the news, she took the child and hid in Zhao Wenjun's hometown overnight.
Zhao Wenjun's hometown lives in a ravine, surrounded by mountains.
The mountains are verdant, like a green cradle, holding this small mountain village in its arms. There are some houses scattered around the mountain, and at noon or night, cooking smoke rises from the mountain. Some crops are also hidden in the green hills. In the distance, there are also rolling mountains, often shrouded in a light veil, and the shadows are full of shadows, flickering near and far in the misty clouds and smoke, if they are about to leave. There is a small stream at the bottom of the mountain, and the water of the stream beats the large and small stones in the stream every day, and some small fish drill under the stones. Every morning, the rooster crows on time, urging people to get up early. In the evening, the sun sets, dyeing all the mountains golden, the sunset waving a gorgeous scarf in the sky, and a crescent moon quietly hangs on the treetops of the mountaintops. The shepherd boy rode the ox and blew the leaves, and the people were in twos and threes, some carrying hoes, some carrying poke baskets, and some carrying firewood...... Call it a day and go home.
As soon as the woman came here, she was fascinated by this dreamlike scenery. However, the good times did not last long, and this peaceful and comfortable day was shattered.
One is that it is far away from the street, and it is inconvenient to buy things, and it takes more than two hours to walk the mountain road to get to the street. The ring woman felt very unaccustomed.
The second is that Zhao Wenjun's mother is a well-known local "tigress", very capable, very strong but also very difficult to get along with. Zhao Wenjun's father is loyal and gentle, but he is out all the year round, picking up the bamboo products he makes and selling them everywhere.
When the ring woman first came to that meeting, she just cooked, cooked pig food, and took the children. Huan Nu has never learned to do farm work since she was a child, so she has no habit of working on the slope. Seven or eight days later, her in-laws looked at her very unpleasantly, so they gave her a look. Moreover, her in-laws like to quarrel with their neighbors, and she will scold them for a long time for a little thing. The woman couldn't stand it anymore and was ready to go back to her home.
But after she came here, her eldest brother and mother also saw her a few times, and asked her to stay here for a longer time, and said that every day there were people from the clan walking around her house.
What to do?
Suddenly, she thought of a place that was close to home, where she could not stay at home, but she could also go home often.
So, she quickly packed up her things at night, and the next morning, she left Zhao Wenjun's hometown with the child on her back.