One hundred and eight, the pain of the heart
At some point, a middle-aged woman walked out of the house, and all the hardships of life turned into wrinkles and climbed on her once smooth face. The pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info three silk flowers inserted in the bun in the past are gone, replaced by a red gold hairpin.
The monkey didn't think it was her mother, until the middle-aged woman reached out to serve the food, and the emerald jade bracelet around her wrist confirmed her identity again. This man was her mother, and the bracelet was her dowry, and when she was very young, she wore it on her hand, and she could not take it off unless she cut off her wrist.
What happened to bring my mother back to life? Or was my mother always there, but he was too young to misunderstand the words of the neighbors who beat their wives and dumped them in mass graves......
The monkey left the yard quietly as he came. He needed an answer, and he couldn't ask anyone, so he had to find it himself.
For the rest of the day, he lurked in his homes on both sides of the Iro River every night, trying to find out the truth of the matter through the occasional words passed on by these people.
The hard work paid off, and after eavesdropping on the nightly chatter of seventy or eighty households, he finally figured out the whole thing.
On the day he fell overboard, a boy also fell overboard. Sadly, the boy died, and his body was taken away from the South Umbrella.
The father mistook the boy for him, thinking that he was dead and that the body was quietly taken away and sent to a place where they would never find him.
Speaking of this, it is also related to the customs of the South Umbrella.
In order to appease the souls of those girls who drowned in the Yiluo River, the rich families of the Southern Umbrella like to marry relatives. Tie the body of the drowned boy to a boulder and sink it to the bottom of the Iro River forever to appease the girl who was abandoned by her family.
The man died of his son, and he could not find the body, so he vented his resentment on the woman. He beat the woman as he had done before, and when he found that the woman was not breathing, he called out to his relatives and threw the woman's body in a mass grave overnight, falsely claiming that the woman had gone out to look for her son......
In the following days, the man was generally looking forward to remarrying until the woman's relatives came to the door. The man had no choice but to tell the truth and was willing to work with the woman's family to find the woman's body and bury it alive.
Everyone went out to look for the woman's body, only to find that the body that should have been in the mass grave was missing......
The two families quarreled over this, until the dead woman suddenly returned home, saying that she had been enlightened by the gods and had come back to help sentient beings answer questions and point out the future.
The woman's words stunned everyone, and in order to prove that she was indeed enlightened by the gods, she told the secrets of many families in one breath.
After that day, the woman who came back from the dead became a well-known immortal, and people would ask her for an errand every day. The man rented the land directly to others to cultivate, and helped the woman at home to receive the neighbors who asked God for divination.
Why the monkey was able to figure out everything that happened a few years ago in just over ten days was not his luck, every time he eavesdropped, he could hear the news he wanted. But the woman herself is a well-known miracle, and everyone likes to talk about her miracles and gossip about her.
Have women really been enlightened by the gods?
The monkey was skeptical, and planned to ask the woman about the whole thing in person.
The woman was in retreat every few days, and the monkey chose to break into the woman's room during the days of her retreat.
The woman was at first surprised when she saw the monkey that could speak human language, and then quietly listened to the monkey introduce herself. When she heard that the monkey was her long-lost child, she hesitantly held the monkey in her arms, and tears fell like a downpour.
The monkey asked her what she had experienced, that she had really come back from the dead, that she had really been enlightened by the gods?
The woman did not answer, but asked the monkey how he knew about these things.
The monkey told the woman what he had overheard, and that the monkey could break into someone's house as easily as the wind, and the woman asked the monkey a lot about the private affairs of those people.
For this, the monkey did not hide it, and honestly told the woman why those people discussed her, and what she needed to help solve. Or which family hates a woman and thinks she is a liar, far less effective than anyone else.
During the few days of the woman's retreat, the monkey stayed with her.
The two of them were as if they had been before, he could make as many demands as he pleased, and the woman did her best to meet them. Seeing the cradle in the retreat room, he asked the woman if she was preparing for the baby who was about to be born in the house.
The woman told him no, that the cradle was the one he had used. The woman's time in retreat is all about thinking about him, praying for him, hoping that he will not be wronged in the other world.
Hearing these words, the monkey burst into tears. This is motherhood, this is maternal love.
The days of retreat were short, and on the day of the retreat, the woman said that she would go to the temple to pray for the monkey and let the monkey wait for her at home.
As soon as the day is over, she will consider leaving the South Umbrella with the monkey and finding a place where no one is around to start over. If she could, she wanted to help the monkey heal and make it just like a normal person.
The woman went in the morning and returned in the afternoon, carrying a bag of hot leaf rakes in her bag.
Ye'er rake, also known as pig ba, is a traditional local delicacy of the South Umbrella. Because the glutinous rice is steamed with ginger leaves, it is called Ye'er Ba.
Its filling is sweet and salty, the earliest is to use sprouts and pork fried meat stuffing such as glutinous rice flour, wrapped in ginger leaves; the temple is vegetarian, the meat filling is replaced with sesame seeds, or bean paste, the same is wrapped in glutinous rice flour steamed, after steaming, the aroma is rich, the entrance glutinous.
When the monkey was a child, he loved to eat leaf rake, worried that the glutinous food was not easy to digest, and the woman did not let him eat more, and he could only eat half of it at a time.
Today is different, the woman handed the steaming Ye Er rake to him, and said lovingly, "Eat more!"
The monkey stuffed the leaf rake into his mouth with tears in his eyes, and said vaguely: "Is it that there is too much wormwood, why is it a little bitter?"
The woman stretched out her finger and pointed to the monkey's forehead, "You, you've been picking your mouth since you were a child, and this is the smell of Ye Errake." ”
The monkey was pushed by the woman's fingers and fell limply to the ground, unable to move.
The woman looked at him condescendingly and asked, "Are you thirsty?" and I'll pour you water. ”
The kettle in the room was steaming white, and the woman lifted it and poured it into the monkey's mouth.
"Wow!" It was not a woman or a monkey who made the sound, but Xiao Bao'er, who listened carefully to the story.
This exclamation pulled out the monkey who had fallen into painful memories, and he asked, "Master, what's wrong?"
"Why are you still talking?"
"Ventriloquism. ”
"Oh, you go on, what's going on behind the scenes. ”
As soon as Xiao Bao'er interrupted like this, the monkey put away his emotions and came back to his senses.
He is a strong-minded person, and because of this, he still wants to live after being hurt by his mother, and wants to repay Xiao Baoer for the warmth and trust he once gave him.
On that day, the medicine hidden in Ye'er's rake made him unable to move his whole body, and he could only lie on the ground pitifully and be slaughtered. Worried that he would call for help, the woman also burned his throat with hot water.
Making sure that he was completely subdued, the woman finally said something about her resurrection from the dead, and whether or not she had been instructed by the gods.
In the mass grave, the woman did not die, and the beating made her hold her breath and faint, and her face was covered with blood and looked like she was dead.
In the middle of the night, she was woken up by the cold wind, and her body could not move, but her ears could hear someone talking not far from her. Two tomb robbers hid the stolen goods they had obtained in recent years under a boulder in a mass grave, and came to share the stolen goods today.
Seeing that there were more corpses in the mass grave, the two did not forget their duties and planned to make another profit before sharing the spoils.
They approached the woman, attracted by the jade bracelet on the woman's wrist, and tried to pull it off. After some tugging, realizing that if he wanted the bracelet, he had to cut off the woman's wrist, and one suggested that he should guard the woman while the other went to find the tools. Another person said that he could do the things of guarding people, but he did not want to go to such things as finding tools.
The two did not trust each other, and they were both afraid that after leaving, the other would take the stolen goods alone.
At first, the two were able to speak calmly, promising each other not to take stolen goods alone. After a while, they quarreled, accusing each other of being greedy, untrustworthy, and lacking loyalty and responsibility.
The quarrel soon turned into a fight, with two men claiming to have no tools, one with a knife and the other with a shovel for tomb robbing.
After a random beating, the man with the shovel killed the man with the knife, took the shovel and tried to cut off the woman's wrist and remove the jade bracelet.
The woman was already overwhelmed by the fight between the two, and when she saw the man with the shovel walking towards her, she couldn't help but jump up from the ground.
A corpse with a bloody face suddenly jumped up, and scared the man with the shovel half to death, thinking that he had met a corpse. He fled with a cry of surprise, tripped over the corpse of his companion and happened to be planted on a knife, and died a very unjust death.
The woman didn't dare to go back to her home, and she had nowhere to go, so she ran to the house of the more famous goddess of Yiluo River on a whim, trying to calculate how to spend the next few days.
The goddess was a liar, and in the middle of the night she saw a woman with a bloody face rushing into her home, and she was scared half to death on the spot. Without waiting for the woman to ask, she honestly explained her deception over the years.
The woman came to God full of hope to ask for divination, but found that the person she asked was a liar! She blamed all the injustices she had encountered on the goddess, and viciously made the goddess tell her about the deception over and over again.
After dawn, the woman did not leave, saying that the people in the neighborhood asked her to come to the night to judge the goddess. Everyone found out very early on that the goddess only collects money and does not do things, and uses ghost tricks to trick people and harm people......
Knowing that the deception had been seen through, the goddess packed her bags and ran away, and the woman lingered with her for a while, thinking about many things, and finally decided to go home.
The woman is not dead at all, and naturally there is no such thing as being ignited by the gods.
She simply recounted all the news she had heard from the goddess, and was worshipped as a god by the simple and stupid people. Tasting the importance of being valued, she decided to make herself a goddess and take the place of the runaway goddess.
The woman was very clever and kept the stolen goods of the tomb robbers for herself, and used the money to inquire about the news from temples, hospitals, wine stores, and other places where she often came into contact with the people.
The so-called retreat is actually a day when she goes out to collect information. According to these news, she became a well-known goddess, and an endless stream of believers came to her to calculate the good fortune.
After a long time, she seemed to believe that she really had the ability to divinate bad luck, and she had really been enlightened by the gods. The two tomb robbers who died inexplicably, the goddess who quietly escaped, all of them were the grace of the gods to her.
As the expenditure increased, the wealth hidden by the tomb robbers was obviously not enough to control, and she was reluctant to ask a man for money, so that the information in her hands became less and less, and the accuracy of fortune telling was naturally greatly reduced.
As a person who escaped death, at first sight of the monkey, she was afraid, but more curious. Knowing that the monkey was her own son, her heart was filled not with joy but with inexplicable fear.
Because of the loss of her son, she gained "divine power", does the return of her son mean that her divine power will disappear?
The monkey told her a lot when she learned that believers were secretly questioning her abilities and trying to build their faith on others. The fear of losing a believer had blinded her heart, making her unable to see her son in front of her, and she was bent on regaining her lost believer.
How can she regain a lost believer? She needs a miracle, like the one that came back from the dead.
She overturned the monkey, gathered the believers, and told them that the monkey was a messenger sent by the evil spirits to the southern umbrella. Because of the presence of the monkey, she can't see the future clearly, and she can't accurately help the believers divination.
Fortunately, the gods favored Nan Umbrella, and Tomu told her the demon messenger who was mixed with the crowd so that she could find the monkey and cast a spell to catch it.
At noon, when the sun was shining, she wanted to cut open the monkey's fur so that the believers could see that it was an evil incarnation.
The monkey could hear every word of the woman, and when he learned that his fur was about to be cut open by the woman, he looked at the woman with painful eyes, hoping that the woman would dispel the idea.
He told the woman about harvesting and cutting, and told her that as long as the method of harvesting and cutting was less than a year, with the help of a famous doctor, he had a good chance of returning to normal. If a woman cuts open the fur from his body at this time, and without this monkey skin, and without a new skin, he will completely become a monster that everyone hates.
The believers were boiling, they had never seen the messenger of evil spirits, and they did not believe that the monkey skin could be cut open to see the human body. Seeing that this was about to happen, and they were able to witness such a strange thing with their own eyes, they all shouted loudly: Cut it, cut it, cut it......
The woman was infected by the enthusiastic chanting of the believers, and never bowed her head at all, let alone saw the pleading and despair in the monkey's eyes.
If she asks someone to carry the knife, if she hesitates, if she has a trace of deep affection for licking calves, the monkey will not be sad.
If it was just if, the woman had gone crazy, and she walked towards the monkey with a knife with a cold gaze, and personally dissected the monkey with a knife.
The monkey skin was tightly attached to the human skin, and the woman began to be careful, and when one of the believers screamed and admitted that it was indeed a human body underneath the monkey skin, she knew that the miracle had been done. Swinging the knife again, she showed her attitude towards the evil spirit, and cut off the monkey's skin neatly and cruelly, revealing the flesh and blood of the human body.
How painful it was to cut the child, the monkey forgot, and from the day he was brought into the prison hall, he knew that he would become one of the monsters sooner or later.
How painful the woman's cut was, the monkey didn't want to remember, for fear that the beating heart in his chest would stop because of it. How did avenging the mother become a joke, a lie, a lingering nightmare.