Chapter 4: Death
Autumn goes to spring, and it has been three years in the mountains, and the middle daughter has added a new younger brother, but she has forever lost her grandmother who loves her the most. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Han Yuan walked peacefully without pain, and was buried on the hillside behind the Ye family's wooden house after her death. On the day of the burial, the adults and children of the Ye family, including Ye Shen, were all sad and weeping, only the middle daughter stood aside, indifferent, and even looked around ignorantly, one moment at the grandmother who was wrapped in sackcloth in the dirt pit and sleeping peacefully, and the other time stared at the empty space beside her with a strange expression. She didn't understand why everyone was crying, why all of a sudden there were two grandmothers? The middle girl wanted to ask the reason, but as soon as she spoke, she was stopped by the grandmother beside her shaking her head, so she had to keep silent.
Since marrying into the Ye family, Ye Jiang has always gotten along with Han Yuan like a biological mother and daughter, her husband died before, but fortunately, with her mother-in-law, her life is still a little bright, and now that her mother-in-law is gone, Ye Jiang suddenly feels that her world is really bleak and there is no light. Wiping her tears and sighing deeply, her mother-in-law is gone, and the poor child who is disgusted by her own mother will have to be taken care of by her in the future. Thinking of this, Ye Jiang's mood became more and more sad, and she turned her head to look at the middle girl, but the next moment she was so angry by the expression on the middle girl's face that her chest was stuffy, and she actually saw a shallow smile on her bright little face! Obviously she was the most favored granddaughter of her mother-in-law before her death, how could she be so hard-hearted and ignorant, even if the six-year-old child didn't understand death, how could she not react at all when she saw her dearest person being buried by the soil little by little. Ye Jiang's heart was a little blocked for a while, and his concern for the middle daughter instantly became cold.
Although she has ignored it all these years, she is also her own daughter no matter what, Zheng Ji just caught a glimpse of her husband's displeased eyes, and felt that the middle daughter had lost her face on such an occasion. Zheng Ji kept looking at the middle girl, and the more she looked at it, the more angry she became, and finally she reached out and pulled the middle girl vigorously in anger, pinched her arm fiercely, and yelled without any ladylike image: "Grandmother is dead, why don't you cry!" ”
It hurt to be pinched, the middle girl pressed her arm, lowered her head and stubbornly held back her tears, but she didn't cry, bit her lip, and didn't say a word. He's dead? Her grandmother didn't die even though she was fine!
Ye Shen added the last handful of soil to Han Yuan's grave, didn't even look at the middle girl, and coldly threw out a sentence, "If you really have no conscience, it is in vain that she loved you so much when she was alive." ”
Being said by his father was tantamount to a slap in the face, Ye Yan only felt that his face was hot, and hurriedly responded: "Dad, don't be angry, I will definitely discipline her well when I turn around!" As he spoke, he glared at the middle girl fiercely, gritted his teeth and said, "Look how I clean you up when I turn around!" ”
After coming down from the mountain, the middle girl naturally couldn't escape the beating, and she was really helpless without Han Yuan's protection. Before, Han Yuan felt sorry for her because she was young, and she didn't teach her to do any work, and now no one will protect her, laundry, carry water, chop wood, cook, peel hemp, twist hemp, spin hemp, weave cloth...... All of this work naturally fell to a six-year-old child, and even Meng Ye began to blatantly bully her.
After dark, the middle girl still has to prepare firewood for cooking tomorrow morning, Ye Shen and Ye Yan are going to hunt in the mountains, Zheng Ji and Ye Jiang are also going to pick wild fruits, if breakfast is made late, it will inevitably be another scolding.
The middle girl held the firewood back and forth, her small body looked thinner and thinner in the moonlight, and the middle girl was always followed by a faint silver shadow, which was Han Yuan's soul because she was worried that her granddaughter would not leave. This shadow can't be held, there is no temperature...... Later, the middle daughter slowly realized that her grandmother was really dead, and she vaguely understood what death was at a young age. Despite this, the middle daughter was not pessimistic, nor did she feel lonely, because her grandmother was still by her side, she could see her, she could hear her, they just got along in a different way.
"Let's go back to bed when we're done chopping these, it's enough to make breakfast." Han Yuan could only see that the middle girl was busy but couldn't help at all, she was distressed and helpless, so she had to urge her to go back to sleep over and over again.
The middle girl wiped the sweat from her forehead, and said with a sweet smile: "The middle girl is not tired, you can talk to your grandmother here for a while." Because she couldn't show her strange appearance in front of others, when she returned to the house, she had to pretend that she couldn't see Han Yuan, couldn't talk to her, and couldn't go to see her.
Han Yuan sighed deeply, her transparent figure was blown a little weakly by the mountain wind, and her voice was a little desolate and sentimental, "Poor child! ”
The middle girl shook her head, raised her dirty little face, her big black eyes were still bright and clear, and the crisp childlike voice replied: "Grandmother is here, it's not pitiful." ”
The full moon is like a silver plate hanging on the branches, and the gentle moonlight pours like flowing water, coating the entire mountain forest with a layer of silver light, and every corner is illuminated clearly by the silver light, and occasionally a few cuckoo cries are heard in the distant mountain forest, which sets off the silence of the night more and more.
After a long time, the firewood was almost chopped, the middle girl was really tired and sleepy, squatted down to clean up the chopped firewood, and when she bent over, she caught a glimpse of a figure hiding behind a thick poplar tree not far away. The middle girl turned her head sideways to look at it out of curiosity, and at a glance, she was so frightened by what she saw that she sat down on the ground and trembled.
There is indeed a person hiding behind the poplar tree, to be exact, a ghost, he is wearing leather armor should be a ghost who died on the battlefield and floated here, but the death is tragic, and naturally the situation is terrible after becoming a ghost. The robe was torn, the cloak was scattered, and there was blood all over the body, and half of the skin and flesh on the face turned out the bones that could see Bai Sensen, and the other half was quite complete, but the eye sockets were prominent, and there was a piece of rotten flesh hanging from the meridians under the eyelids, but it was an eyeball that fell out. Seeing the middle girl looking at him, the ghost suddenly opened another bloodshot eye, grinned strangely without lips, and the laughter was creepy, rough and terrible, like the strange cry of a crow, and like the wailing of a wild beast, and moved stiffly, step by step in the direction of the middle girl.
"Ahh Just in time to meet the bloodshot eyes of the soldier ghost, the middle girl was so frightened that she broke out in a cold sweat, and sat on the ground and instinctively stepped back again and again.
"Don't look at him! Stand up and run inside! Hurry, hurry! "This deep mountain seems to have a natural barrier, and it is difficult for souls and demons outside the mountain to enter, so although Zhongnu can see things that ordinary people can't see, most of them are some elven mountain demons in the mountain, they have a strange appearance but they are not terrifying and terrifying, and they have no intention of harming people, but now this ghost that suddenly broke in, Han Yuan didn't know what it was going to do, and whether he could stop it.
Hearing Han Yuan's words, the middle girl swallowed her saliva, quickly got up, and ran desperately in the direction of the wooden house, shouting as she ran: "Grandmother, run away!" ”
"Grandmother was supposed to go." Han Yuan muttered, standing still and not moving, staring at the thin back of the middle girl, until she entered the wooden house, Han Yuan suddenly smiled slightly, as if using all her strength, she shouted: "Child, you have to live well!" ”
Fortunately, the ghost seemed to be stiff and unable to move, so the middle girl ran back to the house and quickly bolted the door, leaning against the door panel and gasping for breath, her heart was pounding, and she was so frightened that she wanted to cry but couldn't bear it. Finally managed to calm her breathing, the middle girl looked around, but found that Han Yuan did not follow her into the house, and her heart, which had stabilized a little, suddenly rose to her throat again. Suddenly remembered that before closing the door, it seemed that she heard her grandmother say that she wanted her to live well, and the middle daughter suddenly understood that her grandmother was in danger! Although she was afraid, she still couldn't resist her worries about Han Yuan, and the middle girl had the courage to lie on the door panel and look out through the gap in the door. Outside the door, it was quiet as if nothing had happened, the moonlight was still as soft as water, and there were firewood scattered on the ground not far away, could it be gone? The middle girl was suspicious, and was about to breathe a sigh of relief, when suddenly, the silver-white moonlight through the crack in the door was blocked by a blood-red, and the middle girl was startled, and looked at it, the red bloodshot thing turned out to be the ghost's eyes!
"Ahh
This shout was heart-rending and disturbed the whole family. Ye Yan put on his robe and walked out angrily, looking at the middle girl who was sitting on the ground and was scared, "What are you shouting at night?!" As he spoke, he walked past the middle girl to open the door.
"No, don't ......" The middle girl's little face was covered with tears, and she hurriedly hugged Ye Yan's legs, "Don't, don't open the door!" He pointed his finger out of the door, his eyes full of horror, "There is a ghost outside the door!" ”
Ye Yan was taken aback by her words, but he didn't show cowardice, and pretended to be bold: "What nonsense are you talking about!" The hand that was about to open the door silently retracted. Go back to bed, and get up early tomorrow morning! He turned around to leave, but the middle girl still held his legs, Ye Yan glared at her, "I listened to you, I didn't open the door, what else are you going to do?" ”
"Grandmother is still outside, please, save her!"
At night in the deep mountains, the blood-like chirping of cuckoo birds was heard from time to time, coupled with the words of the middle girl, Ye Yan suddenly felt a layer of cold sweat on his back, "Nonsense! Your grandmother, she's long gone! ”
Hearing the sound of talking in the outhouse, Ye Shen also walked out and said sharply: "Whatever the trouble, go back to sleep!" He walked straight past Ye Yan and walked to the middle girl, took her by the arm, and took her back to the back room.
I didn't see Han Yuan, where would the middle daughter be at ease, and she had to break free of Ye Shen with her hands and feet, "You let go of me, grandmother, grandmother-"
"Talk nonsense, be careful that I'll throw you out now!" Ye Shen glared at the middle girl fiercely, and grabbed her arm even harder. This child was born strange, maybe she really saw something, or maybe that thing was simply attracted by her, but it seemed that the thing was afraid to come in, and at this time it was impossible to open the door anyway. However, if he wanted to throw the middle girl out, Ye Shen didn't mean to scare her, if the thing outside the door really broke in, in order to protect everyone's safety, he would not hesitate to push her out as a shield.
Ye Yan followed behind Ye Shen in a daze, and couldn't help but look back, although he didn't see anything, the eerie sense of horror lingered.
Ye Shen forcibly brought back the middle daughter, and later nothing happened except for the creaking sound of the wooden door, but the family didn't dare to close their eyes, and they finally survived until dawn in fear.
After dawn, after last night's trouble, no one had the heart to go up the mountain to work. After making breakfast listlessly, the middle girl hurriedly ran out and looked for Han Yuan, but Han Yuan seemed to have really disappeared, no matter how much the middle girl shouted and looked for her, she did not appear again.
The next day, the middle girl met the rabbit that always appeared beside her before at the back of the wooden house, not far from Han Yuan's graveyard, and was also a spirit with a hundred years of Taoism. It told the middle daughter that Han Yuan was devoured that night in order to stop the ghosts, and there may not even be reincarnation. The rabbit spirit also reminded the middle girl that she is full of spiritual power and easy to provoke evil creatures, although the soldier ghost is unconscious, but as long as he believes that he is obsessed with terrible, he will definitely go back to find her again, and then take her soul and body, let the middle girl be careful herself, and remember not to leave her family after dark.