Chapter 3: The Middle Daughter
Life in the mountains is as calm as water, and the Ye family has spent two years of cold and summer without incident. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
In the autumn of that year, an old apricot tree in front of the Ye family's wooden house, which had long since died, suddenly had new branches, and a few days later, it was lively and full of apricot blossoms. I don't know if such a strange phenomenon is a blessing or a curse? Ye Shen has always been in awe of the gods, and after thinking about it seriously for two days, he thought that he had never done anything harmful to heaven and reason in his life, so it would be gone if he saw that nothing strange happened in the future, and he put all his previous thoughts on the little grandson who was about to be born.
On the day of the autumn equinox, it rained heavily in the evening, lightning and thunder, and there was nothing to do, so the Ye family went to bed early. A bolt of lightning lit up the entire dark night sky, and the rumbling thunder followed, and suddenly there was a loud bang, and the apricot tree next to the wooden house was split by the thunder, split in two, and then fell down, and the apricot blossoms were sprinkled with snow.
Zheng Ji, who had been pregnant for more than nine months, was taken aback by the sudden situation, and suddenly had unbearable abdominal pain, and she was about to give birth. Waves of labor pains hit, sweat soaked deep clothes, Zheng Ji's lips were biting out blood and turned over and over on the bed in pain, but the child could not be born for a long time, and she finally had to kneel on the ground to relieve the pain a little. After tossing and turning like this all night, no one in the family closed their eyes, and the child did not fall to the ground until early in the morning.
Zheng Ji, who walked through the ghost gate, looked at the baby girl who was lying next to her, wrapped in a small quilt, and was looking around with big black round eyes, sighed, and turned her head to look away with tears in her eyes. After giving birth, she lay on the bed weakly, and in a daze, she saw her husband Ye Yan hurriedly enter the door and take a look, knowing that she was giving birth to a female baby, so she turned her head with a cold face and went out without saying a word.
The more Zheng Ji thought about it, the more she felt wronged and sad, and she blamed all her grievances on the child, and she didn't even bother to look at it. Biting his lip and sobbing lowly, child, child, do you know that your arrival, even if it affects me, I will have to live in the future. Crying and muttering, "Why, why do you want to be a baby girl!" ”
As soon as Zheng Ji cried, the child seemed to be sensible, blinked his eyes, and his small mouth cried with Wow.
Ye Jiangyuan was cleaning up the things that his daughter had worn and used when she was a child, and looked at Zheng Ji from time to time, where would she not understand the feelings of her brother and daughter-in-law at this time. Thinking of Old Man Ye's cold and frozen face when he heard that he had given birth to another female doll, Ye Jiang sighed helplessly, aren't they all poor people? walked to the edge of the bed and bent down to pick up the child, put it in his arms and gently patted and coaxed, and comforted Zheng Ji in a soft whisper: "Don't cry when you just gave birth, you and your fourth brother are still young, and you will have the opportunity to have a son in the future." His eyelashes trembled slightly, and he sighed lightly before continuing: "Where is it like me, just a daughter like Meng Ye." Ye Jiang said as she looked at the baby in her arms, the more she looked at it, the more she liked it.
As long as the child coaxes and stops crying, the pink little face is cute, the big black eyes look around, waving his little hands, babbling as if he wants to talk to someone. Although he was just born, he couldn't tell who his eyebrows looked like, judging from the appearance of Ye Yan and Zheng Ji alone, this child will definitely be a little beauty in the future. "Brother and sister, look at it, this child's watery eyes are so cute!" As he spoke, he hugged the child and leaned over.
Zheng Ji was still crying, and when she saw the child approaching her, she hurriedly waved her hand and shouted with all her might: "Take it, take it, take it away!" ”
The child was so frightened by his mother's shouting that he cried, and Ye Jiang had no choice but to go away to coax the child. Zheng Ji is only sixteen years old, after all, she is young, she is also worried, she doesn't know what to do, but she is also angry in her heart, and muttered: "It's all born in this life, you can't do without her!" ”
Han Yuan brought in a bowl of hot bird egg soup at this time, and when she just walked to the door, she heard the words of Zheng Ji and Ye Jiang, and shook her head: "Evil!" What's wrong with the child, it's all the meat that fell from the mother's body! It was rare to take up the posture of being a mother-in-law, looked at Zheng Ji and said sharply: "What are you crying about!" Be careful of crying and break your body, quickly drink the soup, and take care of the child only after raising yourself. ”
Zheng Ji is a smart person, even if she doesn't want to see this child, she can't make her sister-in-law and mother-in-law unhappy, then she really won't have a good life in the Ye family. Hurriedly wiped his tears, supported himself to get up, took the hot soup and drank it. glanced at Ye Jiang's daughter in Ye Jiang's arms hatefully, and only after she had her body taken care of could she have a son again.
This girl is not favored, and even the title is very arbitrary, so she is called 'middle girl' in order. With her mother-in-law and eldest sister-in-law there, Zheng Ji fed her middle daughter until she was weaned even if she was unwilling. Since the middle daughter was born, Zheng Ji has rarely hugged her, basically Han Yuan is taking care of her, and Han Yuan also found that this granddaughter never cries or makes trouble, and when she is full of food and drink, she looks around with her big black and bright eyes, or she smirks at the air blankly, or stretches out her little finger and points everywhere, and she can't speak when she is two years old, which looks normal but has an indescribable weird feeling.
One day when the middle daughter was three years old, Han Yuan was cooking on the fire, and not far from the door, the middle girl was playing with her sister Meng Ye. I don't know why, Meng Ye suddenly pushed the middle girl to the ground heavily, and with a bang, the middle girl's forehead hit the wooden stake on the side and suddenly turned red, but she pursed her lips and didn't cry. Seeing that the middle girl was looking at herself with a clenched little fist hatefully, the eight-year-old Meng Ye was actually frightened by her sister's appearance, and stood in place and began to cry.
Hearing Meng Ye's cry, Han Yuan looked up, hurriedly put down the work in her hand, ran out in a few steps, picked up the middle girl sitting on the ground, dusted off the soil on her body, looked at the redness and swelling on her forehead, felt distressed, and asked while rubbing, "Is it still hurt?" ”
The middle girl blinked with her big watery eyes, then shook her head.
Because she was brought up by herself, Han Yuan naturally loved her daughter a little more, and turned her head to look at Meng Ye: "Tell me, why do you want to bully your sister?" ”
"Not me." Meng Ye sniffed, rubbed his eyes, and choked up: "It's my sister's fault, it's all her fault!" "Sister she, she let go of the little swallow I caught." ”
Han Yuan was just about to say that she would let it go and catch it, but before she could say anything, she saw the middle girl frowning, leaning on Han Yuan's lap, and said in a milky voice with her little hands behind her back: "If it doesn't leave, it will die here in winter, so I let it go, and you don't catch them again in the future." ”
The middle girl has never spoken, Han Yuan thought she couldn't speak, and she was always afraid that she would be a mute, but now she has said so many words as soon as she opens her mouth, and she still thinks clearly and speaks clearly. No one had ever said it in front of her, so how could she know about it? Han Yuan was stunned by her little granddaughter, and in a few words, she walked away from Meng Ye, who was crying and crying, and hurriedly turned over the middle daughter's body, looked at her with a frown, and asked, "Tell grandmother, how do you know this?" ”
The middle girl played with her fingers, tilted her head, and replied innocently, "As the little swallow said, its companions have all left. ”
Children don't lie...... Han Yuan looked around, lowered her voice and asked the middle girl, "What else did it tell you?" ”
The middle girl thought about it, and Xiaoyanzi said that she couldn't tell others, but her grandmother shouldn't be someone else! Word by word, he repeated: "If you don't go around the mountain, you will be reincarnated in 30,000 years." ”
Han Yuan's brows furrowed more and more, although she didn't understand her little granddaughter's words, she was sure that these words really weren't something that a three-year-old child could make up. I don't know if it's because of nervousness or fear, her heart is about to jump out of her throat, Han Yuan knows that her husband doesn't want to see this granddaughter in the first place, if he knows about the abnormality of the middle daughter, what will he do? Will you worship her like a god? No, no, he would think that this child was possessed by demons and monsters, and he would throw her into the mountains out of fear. People with a cowardly temperament sometimes become decisive and powerful, such as Han Yuan at this time. No matter what, she is determined to protect her middle daughter and will not let anyone hurt the child she raised, absolutely not.
Han Yuan sat down on her lap, tried to make her tone sound smooth and soft, and stroked her hair, "Good girl, don't tell anyone else what you hear in the future, just tell your grandmother, understand?" ”
The middle girl nodded as if she didn't understand. "Isn't my sister okay too?"
"No, I can't. Remember to stay away from your grandfather and father in the future. ”
Still nodding obediently. Although she was young, she seemed to know that she was not likable to her grandfather and parents, so she naturally did not get close to them.
Since then, Zhongnu has always said strange and scary things in front of Han Yuan. For example, the middle girl always sat beside the apricot tree with only half of the stump left and talked to herself, and when Han Yuan asked her, she said that there was a beautiful woman with long hair sitting on the stump, or she was crying all over the house as if she had seen something terrible. For another example, she had to say that there were many people in the house, and that she could fly when she saw a small person with big fingers, a man with a hairy face and only one eye, a rock with long legs and long legs that could speak, a fish with horns, and a child with long rabbit ears......
Although the middle girl didn't speak and hid when she saw him, Ye Shen still saw the strange behavior in his eyes, at first he thought that she was deliberately trying to win the attention of her family and ignored it, but then gradually the middle girl made more trouble, so he paid attention to it, combined with the strange phenomenon before the middle girl was born, the deeper he thought about it, the more scared Ye Shen became. There was a thought of throwing her into the mountains and ignoring her, but he was afraid that she was the reincarnation of some kind of demon and monster, and he himself would be punished, but as long as he took a look at the middle girl by his side, Ye Shen would feel creepy.
Ye Shen secretly observed for a long time, and found that the middle girl was only acting strangely, and did not cause any disaster, and his hanging heart calmed down a little.
A year later, Zheng Ji finally gave birth to a son as she wished, this time Ye Yan and Ye Shen had a very different attitude from before, they were smiling all day long, and they couldn't wait to worship Zheng Ji as an ancestor, and held the newborn male in the family in the palm of their hands from time to time. There was a happy event in the family, so naturally Ye Shen no longer paid attention to the middle daughter, and over time, the middle daughter became unpopular again, and life seemed to return to the peace of the past.