Chapter 2 The Mountains Move, the Ghosts
Yue Jianghong didn't take the so-called ominous person to heart, compared to his second uncle and second aunt, it was not a matter for him to be ridiculed.
The children of the poor are in charge of the family early, not to mention that Yue Jianghong is not even a child of the poor.
He is the child of the dead.
Yue Zhong is his second uncle, and he took over the responsibility of raising him, and naturally inherited his family's inheritance. It is said that it is an inheritance, but in fact, it is nothing more than a family with four walls, only some living utensils. Except for pots and pans, there are hardly any decent ones.
What is more special is only a piece of blue-green residual jade tied around his neck, which is engraved with a Jiang character. Yue Zhong and his wife wanted to get this piece of jade down more than once, but no matter how they thought of it, they couldn't get this piece of jade.
The thread that tied this piece of jade was just enough to fit around his neck, and as Yue Jianghong slowly grew up, the thread slowly became longer.
If Yue Zhong and his family wanted to get this piece of jade, they had to cut off Yue Jianghong's head.
Fortunately, although the two of them coveted the remnants of jade, they couldn't have the heart to kill, let alone cut off their nephew's head.
Yue Jianghong ran back to the haystack where he slept, picked up the sickle for cutting wheat in numbers, and went straight to the field.
Yue Zhong didn't care that Yue Jianghong ran out of the house at all, it was not the first time that Yue Jianghong had been run out of the house noisily from home. Every time I run, I will go back obediently after a long time.
They're used to it.
Today, Yue Jianghong is back as expected.
They saw Yue Jianghong's figure from a distance in the field, and Yue Zhong shouted at the top of his voice: "Dead finch, don't come to work quickly, the sun will be on your heels." ”
To the surprise of the two, Yue Jianghong did not return the mouth, he hung his head, buried his head in the wheat field, and let the sharp wheat mangs pierce his face, and the shiny face exposed by the sun was so hard that it could block steel needles, so he didn't have to care.
Yue Jianghong also worked much slower than usual, and the grass in the wheat field was hoeed clean, but the wheat did not grow well. This year's drought has caused the wheat to grow poorly, and the wheat kernels have only grown halfway, as if they were a joke on the croppers.
Yue Jianghong's second aunt pushed Yue Zhong with her elbow, signaling Yue Zhong to look at Yue Jianghong carefully, Yue Zhong looked at Yue Jianghong's grinding appearance, and just wanted to get angry, Yue Jianghong opened his mouth and asked: "Second uncle, when I was five years old, was the second aunt's child really gone?"
Without waiting for Yue Zhong to speak, Yue Jianghong's second aunt denied it sharply: "No, you are a dead baby, where did you hear about these messy things, if you don't work hard, the two steamed buns for lunch today will be gone!"
"It was my grandfather who told me, I have always felt strange, why have you not given me a cousin or cousin for so many years, Aunt Lin gave birth to four babies to Uncle Lin before, it turned out to be because of me. ”
"Don't think about it, it's because your Aunt Lin wants to be lazy and doesn't want to work, so she doesn't have to work after giving birth to a child. Aunt Yue Jianghong hurriedly denied it.
Yue Jianghong shook his head: "Second aunt, I'm not young, I'm twelve years old, and my grandfather told me a story, saying that some people outside have their own babies." I want to go outside and have a look, so as not to continue to bring misfortune to everyone. The grandfather has said that I am an ominous person. ”
Yue Zhong was furious on the side, and walked over viciously with a sickle, scolding and scolding in his mouth: "You deflated calf dead finch took the wrong medicine today?
Yue Jianghong stopped talking, lowered his head and quickly cut the wheat. After all, no matter how much you have to eat today's meal.
He was hungry, and he was scared of hunger, so he cared a lot about eating.
At this time, there was a rumbling sound on the earth, and Yue Jianghong immediately straightened up, and said in the direction where the voice came from, "Second uncle, did you hear any sound?"
Yue Zhong pricked up his ears and listened vigilantly, but he didn't find any sound, and instead looked at Yue Jianghong viciously.
Yue Jianghong was about to bow his head to work, when another rumbling sound came, and this time the three of them heard it, and it was extremely clear.
"It's from the Lonely Mountain!"
Yue Jianghong was shocked, and pointed his finger in the direction of Lonely Mountain.
"Got it, get to work!"
Yue Zhong disagreed, as long as it didn't affect him to cut wheat, he wouldn't stop working. Yue Jianghong once suspected that his second uncle, as long as there were no knives in the sky and no thistles growing in the ground, he would not stop working.
Work more to have more food and not go hungry, this is Yue Zhong's idea.
However, at this moment, the earth shook, and for a moment, the solid ground shook as if it were sifting chaff. Fortunately, the crops had their legs with the earth, and the three of them did not fall
As the earth shook, countless birds were startled in the jungle around the lonely mountain, colorful and beautiful, Yue Jianghong was so stupid that he was stunned.
The prettiest bird he had ever seen was a yellow finch at the back of his old house when he was eight years old. The yellow spring had golden feathers all over its body, and somehow injured its left leg. At that time, he had been starving for a day, and saliva was coming out of his mouth, but he held back, did not eat the wounded yellow finch, and bandaged it. The yellow finch was wounded in his old house for two days before flying away. During this period, Yue Jianghong quietly hid some of his black-faced steamed buns every day, and sneaked to the old house when he slept at night, and fed the black-faced steamed buns he hid to the golden feather yellow finch.
At first, the golden-feathered yellow finch refused to eat the black-flour steamed buns, but then the yellow finch seemed to be hungry and couldn't do it, so he reluctantly ate the black-flour steamed buns.
At that time, he thought that the golden-feathered yellow finch must be the most beautiful bird in the world, and he never thought that he would see so many beautiful birds in the jungle today.
"Why are the birds so pretty? Are their feathers dyed?"
He watched with fascination as the beautiful birds flew in the air, hovering in the air, and passing through the white clouds. At this moment, he imagined himself to be the flock of birds, flying freely.
Immediately, his illusion was shattered, Yue Zhong kicked him on the ass, he couldn't help but fall to the ground, and then he only heard Yue Zhong say viciously: "You dead finch, what are you doing? Don't you see that it's going to rain? Why don't you hurry up and help finish the wheat harvest and wait for the wheat to become moldy?"
Yue Jianghong put away his mind and hurriedly harvested the wheat, although he had never seen anyone's wheat moldy after the rain since he was a child. But harvesting grain in the rain is a normal behavior, and he didn't think much about it.
There are three people, one of them carries a rack of wheat, although Yue Jianghong is only twelve years old, he carries more than his second aunt, and not much less than Yue Zhong's.
The three of them returned to the village, where several families had already returned, and apparently, the shaking of the lonely mountain. The change in the sky made everyone choose to go home.
Working and eating are important, but they are not as important as living.
Only by working can we eat, and only by living can we eat.
The heavy rain finally came down with a bang, and the rain and fog shrouded the lonely mountain in it, and it was impossible to see clearly in Jianglin Village. Half an hour later, the whole village gathered in the courtyard of the village chief, Mrs. Yue's house.
On weekdays, everyone is working, and it is rare to get together, so this is also an opportunity to get together. More than 50 people braved the rain to gather together, and they didn't care about the rain pouring on them.
Since Yue Jianghong could remember, he had not found anyone in the village who had ever been sick. Therefore, the men in Jianglin Village are in the land all year round, and the women are the same as men except for the time when they give birth.
"Titfucker, did you provoke the Lonely Mountain Shake today? You have this ability in the whole village!" said a woman angrily.
"Third Aunt Zhu, what's the matter with me? Don't slander people out of thin air!" Yue Jianghong was not to be outdone, and immediately asked back.
Aunt Zhu is a well-known broken mouth in the village, and she loves to scare people the most, and she is especially disgusted. Once after she scolded Yue Jianghong, the whole village not only did not dislike her, but had a good impression of her.
Since then, she loves Yue Jianghong when she has nothing to do, and she is too happy to do this kind of thing that can scare people and win the favor of her neighbors.
At the beginning, Yue Jianghong was obedient and let her be scared. Later, Yue Jianghong couldn't bear it anymore and went back.
This time, everyone agreed that it was still Yue Jianghong's reason.
Because Yue Jianghong is an ominous person, he killed his parents and brought many misfortunes to his village. If it weren't for the old lady Yue in the village, the people in the village would have driven him out a long time ago.
Therefore, when there is nothing to do in the village, he likes to trouble Yue Jianghong, in order to make Yue Jianghong unable to stand it and run out by himself. But Yue Jianghong disappointed them for twelve years. To this day, Yue Jianghong still has no intention of going out.
Yue Jianghong didn't go out because there was his only thought here. Aside from the piece of jade around his neck, all his parents left for him was two old houses. After going out, there was nowhere to go.
Old lady Yue stopped Aunt Zhu and Yue Jianghong again. He is one hundred and twenty years old, and the village can only live to eighty years old under normal circumstances, he is a miracle, and the most important thing is that he is still strong and energetic, which is very strange.
The rain continued to rain and fell into the middle of the night without stopping for a moment.
Because of the rain, Yue Jianghong did not continue to sleep in the haystack, but slept in the old house.
The wind rose in the middle of the night, and a cool breeze blew into the house from the broken window, and Yue Jianghong couldn't help but tremble.
"Why is it so cold?"
He had never felt cold, for the first time in his life.
Then, he heard a whining sound outside the window. He couldn't help but open the window and look out, but saw nothing.
He carefully closed the window, and then it was blown open again, and the whining outside the window grew louder and louder. In the end, he simply left the window closed and curled himself into the corner of the room
The whining sound became clearer and clearer, and Yue Jianghong heard a sentence mixed with the whining sound-
"Lonely...... Jiang Lin......"
"Lonely...... Jiang Lin......"