Chapter 127: Remorse
Brother Xiao Yi was very dazed, looking at his hand, there was still a black gas there, and when the villagers pulled him up just now, they also had a force to pull him down. If he hadn't died, he would have gone with Ge Chengyou, but he didn't dare to say it.
His face turned pale and he looked into the crowd, unintentionally meeting Ge Youmei's gaze, and I saw panic in his eyes. I suddenly remembered that when I was a child, the old man would often scare me and clamored to follow them to the mountains to collect medicine, and there were many dirty things in the mountains that would replace the dead ghosts. He once mentioned this cliff, saying that there are too many living creatures that fall, and every year someone will stumble and fall here, and that is because the yin ghosts below are looking for a substitute.
Maybe Brother Xiaoyi also remembered the memories of his childhood, and he also liked to pester the old man with me to talk about this.
Where can the village chief listen to Xiaoyi's explanation at this moment, he is like a crazy old cow, desperately pulling Xiaoyi's collar. Brother Xiaoyi was also numbly dragged by him because of guilt.
Soon, everyone else gathered around and persuaded the village chief.
"Second Uncle Ge, Xiaoyi didn't mean it, he didn't want such a thing." Someone persuaded.
"Yes, second uncle, since Xiaoyi is willing to risk his life to save Ayou, how can he want to let him go!"
"Second uncle, this may be the will of heaven and Ayou's life!"
"Second uncle, you mourn! Let's see how the second aunt is doing first, right? ”
Everyone bothered to persuade and pulled the village chief away. After all, the village chief was old and frail, and he couldn't withstand the persuasion of a few guys, so he was soon helped down the mountain by several people. Several women also picked up the daughter-in-law of the village chief who fell to the ground and followed her down the mountain.
On the top of the cliff, only the little brother who was standing alone, the sister-in-law silently accompanied people, and Ge Youmei.
It seems that a month has passed, and in this month, I saw through Ge Youmei's eyes that the people in the village were immersed in an inexplicable sadness and guilt. Ge Chengyou's incident is a shock to most people, and many people are secretive, but his death has since planted a needle in the hearts of the people of Gejia Village.
Several times, I saw Xiao Yige appear in the village in frustration, and many people pointed at him, his expression was indifferent, remorseful, and deeply remorseful. Everything seems to be his fault, although people don't say it to their faces, but there is a lot of talk behind the scenes.
However, people cannot be resurrected after death, no matter how people make up for it, Ge Chengyou's death has long been a fact. It's just that although his death planted the seeds of remorse in everyone's hearts, life is still alive, and life is still the same.
After this incident, there were still some changes in the village, first of all, the village chief's mother-in-law went crazy. She went crazy the next day, maybe it wasn't inexplicable, after all, Ge Chengyou was the baby of her and the old village elders. Ge Chengyou's death hit her huge and heavy, as a mother, she saw the tragic death of her baby son with her own eyes, and it was reasonable that she couldn't think of going crazy for a while.
It's just that this is bitter for the old village chief, and he himself is still immersed in the pain of losing his son when he is old, but his wife is crazy at this time, which is undoubtedly worse for him. People soon saw that the village chief was obviously much older, and the figure that occasionally appeared in front of people's eyes looked like he had aged ten years overnight, which made people feel sad.
However, who can undo this? The saddest thing in the world is that there is no regret medicine to buy. What they can do is to take care of the village chief's family as much as they can with guilt and repentance. This means that people have not lost their conscience, after all, the simplicity of the mountain people is engraved in their bones. At that time, I was blinded by selfishness and danger when I didn't come to the rescue, but now I regret seeing the consequences.
It's just that everything in this world has a cause and must have an effect, and for the people of Gejia Village, this cause was planted when Ge Chengyou died.
On a rainy night after his death, the village chief's mother-in-law jumped off the cliff from which Ge Chengyou had fallen. When it was discovered that she was missing, only one of her shoes could be found at the top of the cliff. The poor old woman went with her son, and was left with no bones like hers. This may be her relief, she is living like crazy, it is better to go early to be happy.
However, this made the originally heavy atmosphere of Gejia Village even heavier, the village seemed to be much quieter all of a sudden, the old village chief became more dull, and people's awe and fear of him became deeper from then on. It all came so suddenly, and so inevitably.
After this, the old village chief became more eccentric, he no longer cared about anything in the village, and he was disheartened by the deaths of his two relatives, and he no longer had the same enthusiasm and honesty towards people as before.
The old village chief has worked hard for Gejia Village all his life, and he is always eager to help whoever wants to do something. He always mediates between who has a quarrel with whom, and those young people also trouble the old village chief. Now what he has gained, the loss of two relatives, makes him sad and disheartened. Who would have expected such an ending?
Life is so strange, when you silently pay for others, people may not see anything, when you finally give up your own pay, people know how precious your efforts are. Therefore, people have a common problem, what they have is too common, and they only know how precious they are when they lose it.
When the old village chief no longer does anything for the village, people know the importance of the old village chief, and only then do they think of how valuable the old village chief is to pay silently for the whole village. But it was all too late, and by the time the old village chief appeared in people's sight with his body bent, things had reached the point of no return. Now, no matter what the people of Gejia Village do, they can't recover the pain of the old village chief's loss of two relatives in a row.
People can often see the old village chief sitting alone under the big banyan tree in a daze, this sitting is a whole day, or he comes down from the mountain alone and goes to the edge of the cliff to miss his wife and children.
Sometimes, I pity this lonely old man, who seems to have aged ten years overnight, and can no longer see his smile. was originally such a kind person, but he became silent and alone.
It's just that there is no regret medicine in the world, people die like lights going out, leaving only the pain of their loved ones. I even think that if Brother Xiaoyi doesn't go down to save Ayou, maybe there will be another turnaround. However, there are always two sides to the matter, and the good or bad are only different from a personal perspective.
Ge Chengyou's incident was indeed the cause of the development of events, and I now understand that everything started because of his death. If so, Brother Xiaoyi saved Ge Chengyou at that time, or Gejiacun would not face the next thing.
It's just that no one thought that it was not Brother Xiaoyi who killed Ge Chengyou, maybe only Ge Youmei knew the reason.
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Continue to serve, there is a shift in the evening, uh, three watches a day is a little stressful, but, the words have been released, no matter how hard you have to persevere! It's good to work so hard, it's good to vote more! (To be continued.) )