"Did you hear that?"

"What did you hear?"

"The boss of Luo Siye's family and Xiong Si went back to the village yesterday."

"Really? Did the police ask? ”

"No!"

I was doing needlework in the courtyard when I heard two women passing by the gate of her courtyard and talking in a whisper. I put down my needlework and walked out of the courtyard gate and looked up.

I saw two women walking towards the stream with a wooden basin filled with clothes, and I vaguely heard them discussing that the boss of Luo Siye's family and Xiong Si had gone to the city to listen to the inquiry.

At this time, Xiong's fourth daughter-in-law had washed her clothes and returned from the stream. When he saw me standing at the door, he greeted me: "What are you looking at, Sister Banlei?" ”

Her fat face was piled with a kind smile, showing only a row of teeth, and no eyes could be seen.

"Hello fourth sister-in-law!" I nodded to her.

"Look, a person who is literate is a person who is literate." When the fourth sister-in-law saw me saluting her, she was very happy to praise her.

"The fourth sister-in-law smiled", and I didn't care about her praise, "I heard that the fourth brother Xiong is back?" ”

"I'm back, I'll be back yesterday."

"What's the point?"

"It's not all that, they ask how the child died, where did the arsenic come from." When the fourth sister-in-law saw that someone was asking, she became interested and said it openly.

"The eldest of his family originally replied, 'Erya touched the sweet potato on the stove and ate it before he was poisoned.'" But as soon as he was scolded by the police, he was so frightened that he couldn't talk nonsense. ”

"They know he's talking nonsense?" I asked.

"No, they're the police!" Xiong's fourth daughter-in-law boasted for a while, and then said: "What do you think, whose sweet potatoes are arsenic indiscriminately, who does the boss of his family want to say, Uncle Luo in the east of his house, or Luo Sanye who lives in the west, although their old man is powerful, but these two are also not easy to mess with!" ”

"And then, what did the police ask?" I saw that she was going off topic, so I quickly pulled the topic back.

"Later, the eldest of his family was so frightened that he had to say that his wife put it in order to kill the mouse, and was accidentally eaten by Erya."

"Did you put arsenic to kill mice?" I don't believe that.

"Isn't it, who would kill rats with arsenic? But the police still believed it! ”

"What, believe?" My eyes widened.

"yes!" The fourth sister-in-law held the wooden basin and looked around mysteriously, and then approached me and whispered: "The man of my family saw what the boss of his family said secretly, and then he believed it, and let the man of my family be a witness, and the two of them made a record and came back." ”

"That's the end of the case?" I asked her in surprise, I couldn't believe that the case had been closed in such a daze.

"So what? There is no one in this case, and no one has come to sue. ”

"Isn't there a second sister-in-law? And it's a personal homicide! ”

"Can you expect the second daughter-in-law to sue their man? Even if she dares, is Fourth Master Luo willing to let it? ”

"That'...... The ...... "I really don't have anything to refute, but I always feel like something to do, is that child unjustly killed like this?"

"When the police saw that there was no sufferer and no one complained, they were happy and relaxed, so the case was closed."

The fourth sister-in-law continued to talk for a while, and seeing that I was not interested in listening, she also took a sneer and said goodbye to me and went home.

I went back to the yard and picked up the needlework again, "Alas, poor baby! I let out a long sigh and lowered my head to start embroidering. Suddenly, a dark shadow seemed to fall out of the corner of my eye, just under the old locust tree.

I looked up and saw a small thin figure squatting under the old locust tree, it was Erya, I had seen it at Luo Siye's house, still dressed in rags, with unkempt hair, digging the soil under the tree with the branches in his hands.

I was about to get up and walk over when the little figure suddenly disappeared. I blinked, and when I looked closely, under the old locust tree, it was indeed empty, and there was nothing.

I subconsciously covered my chest, "Is that Erya, I'm not mistaken?" ”

"Meow" a cat meow, the little black cat jumped from the roof to the branch of Laohuai Village, stomped a few steps slowly on the branch, and jumped onto my shoulder.

Its jump scared me back to my senses, "Xiao Hei, you scared me!" ”

I tore off the little black cat and rubbed it in my arms, until the little one "meowed" and meowed, so that I forgot what had just happened.

The next day, I carried a basket of clothes to the creek to wash, and Xiao Hei followed me. The stream was murmuring, crystal clear, the small fish swam leisurely, and when Xiao Hei saw the small fish, he threw himself into the stream with a "porphyr", and I didn't care about it, let it play with the little fish freely, and I picked a smooth big stone and washed my clothes.

There were also a few village daughters-in-law washing clothes next to me, and I didn't know them well and didn't go over to wash with them. I only heard them chattering.

"Hey, Sister Qionghua, have you seen it?" A woman in a flowered dress asked the woman next to her.

Qionghua next to her asked, "What did you see, sister-in-law Chun?" ”

Sister-in-law Nachun looked back, approached Qionghua and whispered, "It's a ghost shadow!" ”

"What a ghost, sister-in-law Chun, don't scare people!" The woman on the other side asked, and although Sister-in-law Chun pretended to be very soft, her voice was still heard by the others.

"It's not a ghost of Erya!" Sister-in-law Chun saw that everyone was listening with their ears pricked up, and she didn't whisper anymore.

Everyone couldn't help but shudder when they heard this, "Sister-in-law Chun, don't scare us!" ”

"It's true, at first it was my girl who came back and said that a few girls and boys who played together on weekdays were playing in the woods, but the second girl also followed them to play, and after playing for a while, the girl from Wang's sister-in-law found her and screamed, and they found out that it was Erya, and they were so frightened that they ran home."

Everyone sighed, and some of them saw that Sister-in-law Wang was also washing among them, so they asked: "Sister-in-law Wang, what did your girl say when she came back?" ”

Sister-in-law Wang nodded and said, "I talked about it when I came back yesterday, and I also said that the dead girl was talking nonsense and scolded her!" ”

"That's true!" Someone asked.

"We don't know if it's or not!" Sister-in-law Wang suddenly put away her clothes, took the wooden basin and walked back.

When the other women saw that she was gone, they didn't dare to wash it anymore, so they packed their clothes and left, leaving only Sister-in-law Chun.

"Hey, hey, why are you all gone!" Sister-in-law Chun called, and when she saw that they were all gone, she turned around and saw me who was also washing clothes not far away, smiled wryly, packed up her things, picked up a wooden basin to catch up with them, and went back.

"Blackie, do you think they're telling the truth?" I asked tired of playing and came back to my feet, lazily lying on my stomach little black.

Xiao Hei raised his eyes, meowed, and made a lazy appearance of answering me.

"It seems that what I see is really Erya, but why does she like to come to play under our old locust tree?"

I'm not afraid of Erya, but some poor girls died miserably, not to mention that I have a ghost on my body!