There was a drop of water on my face.

I opened my eyes in a daze, and when I looked at the moonlight, I found my aunt crying.

I was resting on the crook of her arm, wrapped in a blanket. It seems to be cold outside, and the temperature difference is not small.

She gently stroked my face, the corners of my mouth.

It turned out that she felt sorry for me.

I felt like I saw the white moonlight......

At a certain moment, a sentence of "mother" was about to blurt out.

But the carriage was upside down, and the shackles and nails on my feet rattled, and my consciousness was pulled back to reality.

What to do? She is still the "host" of my next life, holding the power of "life and death" for me. Escaping has already been tried, and neither Daddy nor Grandma have the strength to snatch me from her. Or rather, there is something I don't know about, so that they will firmly hand me over to my aunt.

"Heaven has mercy", and it can be regarded as giving me some host's affection.

Then I took advantage of the situation, and through my aunt's sad color, I also cried pitifully, and tears glistened.

She hurriedly patted me gently: "Oh, it was my aunt who woke her up, and she went back to sleep." ”

I said, "It hurts." ”

She stroked my forehead: "Sleep again, when we get to the place, give the medicine to the dodder, and it won't hurt." ”

The carriage seemed to be climbing, not like the official road, and I couldn't help but wonder: "Auntie, where are we going?" ”

My aunt said, "Go to a hometown on the way, sleep, and you'll know when you get there." ”

Aunt Mei folded up from the seat on the other side: "Adult, if you don't ask the child to sleep here, you can rest too." ”

My aunt waved her hand and began to pat me to sleep.

I closed my eyes and cut the "good" and "bad" of my aunt in my heart. At the moment, shield the bad, leave the good, and enjoy the few good in the world - how many people will coax a child over the age of fifteen like this.

You can only put your mentality like this, otherwise how will you live in the future?

It winds all the way to the second half of the night.

The mountain road is getting narrower and narrower, and it can only be accessed by a horse-drawn carriage. The road is getting worse and the slope is getting harder to climb.

After passing through a deep cave, Yu Yu walked forward for two or three miles, and finally saw a village.

Some people have been waiting at the entrance of the village, and when they saw a convoy, they greeted them briskly. The leader seemed to be the patriarch, and when he met his aunt, his face was full of smiles, and he said with an accent: "I've been waiting for three nights, and I've finally waited." ”

Then the group of villagers lit up our team with torches, and the carriages began to enter the village slowly.

I was curious to lie on the window and look at it, it was too classic and simple!

Several watchtowers at the entrance of the village are seven to nine storeys high, which are used for lookout and robbers. Further inside, most of the houses are small buildings with two or three floors. The specifications are different, and the height is different. The stone stairs and wooden ladders are all over the place, and they are extremely casual.

The houses are crowded and shoulder to shoulder. The walls made of stone blocks are stacked on top of each other, like mille-feuille, with gaps next to each other. The tile is a black tile, the road is a stone road, and the households extend in all directions, and the lanes are deep and mysterious.

The village is also rarely flat, the terrain is undulating, the neighbors are jagged, and even the lanes can be built in the air. Therefore, as far as the eye can see, the whole village is full of richness, and there is an intriguing maze.

Horse bells, car wheels, and footsteps play an unforgettable echo in the quiet night.

Eventually, the carriage came to a halt on a larger platform.

I was about to get out of the carriage, but the leg cuffs embarrassed me, so I silently put the chain on my calf so that no one could see it.

But I was too worried, and a tall male attendant came and carried me directly into a large room, and the speed made me feel as if I were going to run away as soon as my feet touched the ground......

There were two mothers-in-law in the house, and they went out with them. I took some daily necessities from the carriage and changed into clothes.

I looked around, low tables, low chairs, low wooden beds, simple in structure, slightly carved.

On the table was a burlap tablecloth, an oil lamp, and a brand new set of teapots and cups. Put a few plates of pecans, green dates, and persimmons.

The top of the head is a wooden roof, and the wall is the same as from the outside, with a primary color of black, gray and blue stone. There are a few nails nailed, a bed brush hanging, an embroidered picture, and a woodcut doll. The doll is dressed in colored cloth and her hair is draped with velvet rope.

The bed was very wide, and the bedding was all old coarse cloth, and I touched it, although it was a little hard, it was also breathable and comfortable.

Next to the bed is a hanger at the base of the wooden pier, and next to the hanger is a basin rack with water in the basin.

I hurriedly went to scrub and scrub my little black hands, which were stained with water, and I made a "ha" sound of pain, only to realize that my palms may have been wiped because of falling on the ground.

Then I saw blood on my sleeve......

There was a large lump of blood, although it was completely dry, but it was still salty.

I looked up at the mirror and was startled.

I'm pretty much a flowery cat.

The right corner of the mouth is purple, and the lip has a cut. The face, cheekbones, there are a few red marks. When I got closer, I saw that there were still blood stains hidden in the nasal groove.

The sleeves and pants are stroked, and the elbows and calves are all spent. The slender wounds were like a drizzle of indiscriminate beating, shallow cuts on the skin. The knee was a little heavier, but the mouth had begun to solidify.

I wet my handkerchief, squatted on the ground, and silently wiped the ashes from my wounds.

It may seem pitiful like this, but my aunt came in and sighed when she saw it, and asked someone to fetch several basins of warm water to scrub me. After cleaning the wound, apply a brown sticky ointment.

Before it was over, the villager's mother-in-law brought me a large bowl of herbs, which my aunt took and handed to me, and obediently coaxed me to drink it.

A bowl of clear soup with little water, and unrecognizable leaves floating on it, I was scared and confused.

My aunt said, "It's not bitter." There are ups and downs in her mood today, and this soup can calm your nerves. ”

I knew that I had to drink if I didn't drink it, and I couldn't refuse it, so I had to cooperate. After drinking obediently, he lay down in peace.

I cautiously asked, "What about the spikes?" ”

"In the courtyard."

I was squeezed against the wall, and my aunt slept outside. She said it was cold in the mountains, and then she tucked the quilt very tightly for me.

But she didn't remove the shackles for me, and she didn't care if I was comfortable wearing a hard iron, so she put her arms around my head and fell asleep.

In less than two hours, the sky will be dawn.

It is said to be a soothing soup.

Actually, it's sleeping pills.

Soon after lying down, my eyelids sank, and I fell asleep, and I didn't have a dream.

But perhaps by all means, they ignored the spikes, and every morning, the spikes would peck at my scalp and wake me up.

The same is true today.

I was pecked twice by the tip and was already half-awake. Vaguely, I could feel them knocking the spikes out.

I tried to sit up with my eyes open, but I found that my eyelids were as tight as glue, and my whole body was like an electric current rolling through, and I couldn't move at all.

Why is the lower body cold, it seems that there is no quilt, and my intuition tells me that there is something wrong.

I pulled myself up and felt someone break my thigh......

I'll go! What is this for?!

I tried to close my legs, but to no avail. There were fingers still breaking at the place, as far apart as they could.

I immediately understood.

I went back to Liangsu County with Xue Moxuan. In the eyes of others, it is a lonely man and a widow who have been together for several days. This is a quiet check that I am not perfect.

So, tell me to drink the decoction and proceed quietly.

A strange woman's voice came: "No problem, it's still a child." ”

Aunt Mei sighed and said, "I'll just say it, your lord, you're too worried." ”

Then they stopped what they were doing, lifted my pants, and covered me with the quilt.

My aunt said, "This little thing still has a sense of understanding." You look at her, and I'll go to the ancestral hall to discuss with the patriarch. ”

……

I didn't hear the rest of the words, and I couldn't stand it.

When I woke up after the medicine had passed, the sun had risen.

Vaguely recalling their actions, he blushed with shame. I tugged at my head and wiped away the tears that flowed from my eyes. If I had not been a virgin, would you have left me in this mountain?

I try to comfort myself and not let myself get too busy. Let's just think it never happened.

When I got dressed, I found that the cuffs were gone. Yes, if it was seen by the villagers, wouldn't everyone be disgraced.

ate two bites casually, and was dragged by Aunt Mei to the door to bask in the sun with a few mothers-in-law and aunts. I sat on the rocks a few steps away from them, smelling the scent of this village.

The sun in the mountains is already much thinner in the Mid-Autumn Festival, just like I am dizzy and thin, and I am sick.

On the platform in front of them, several leather-bodied little boys were still wearing short-sleeved shirts and gowns, playing with stones. Seeing that I was eating iced kumquats, they came over one after another.

The child king asked me, "Are you a new guest?" ”

I said, "yes." ”

"Then are you surnamed Bai or Yuan?"

I sipped the jam in the kumquat: "Oh? Why do you say that, there are more surnames. ”

The child king glanced at my snacks a few times, swallowed his saliva and said: "There are only these two surnames in our village, and they have always been closed and never interacted with outsiders. Even if you add things, it's just a matter of sending people out to the mountains every season. Therefore, the guest from outside should also be his own surname! ”

I handed him a kumquat, his eyes lit up, and he held it in both hands, as if he was taking some treasure.

The half transparent orange became the pearl of his palm, and he looked at it for a long time before picking it up and biting it gently. Smash your tongue and savor it to your heart's content.

The other children gathered closer: "How's it going?" ”

The child king nodded with an exaggerated expression and smiled at me with his big white front teeth.

I said, "Do you still want to eat?" Then tell me about your village, and I'll give you another one." ”

He threw the remaining half into his mouth and chewed happily: "Our village is called 'Orphan Girl Ridge Village', and it has been established for a hundred years. At first, it was all surnamed Bai, and later the surname Yuan came. Therefore, in the village, these two surnames have always been married to each other. ”

He lowered his voice: "I'll tell you secretly, our surname Bai is more powerful than the surname Yuan, and there has been a big person!" ”

The tail of my eyebrows mentioned: "Bai Xianzhao? ”

He nodded: "Yes, sister, you also know, I just said that the guest who came back must be the descendants of our village, and you still don't admit it." ”

Belch......

But I didn't dissociate myself from him in person, but only asked him, "What else?" ”

He looked around, and then said, "I heard this from my own father. Also, my eldest grandfather, second grandfather, and fifth grandfather also served as a senior official in Beijing for several years! Later, the family road declined, and he fled back to our village. ”

I frowned: "What about the surname Yuan?" ”

The child king said: "There are also those who go out, but there is no big name." ”

I had a spider web in my heart. Bai Xianzhao, Yuan Po, aunt, and even Xie Tian, they must have a deeper relationship......

I rolled my eyes: "Where is the ancestral hall?" ”

The child king pointed out: "If you go up this platform, the largest house in the village will be." Your mother passed early in the morning, does my sister want to go to her? I'll take you. ”

I quickly nodded, pursed my lips again, and pointed to the side: "They won't let me run around." ”

The child Wang smiled and said, "Ahem, this is not easy to do. Then he took my hand and shouted to them: "Fourth aunt, ninth aunt, my father said, ask me to call this sister to the ancestral hall." ”

Before the words fell, I ran away, and Aunt Mei wanted to chase after her, but was persuaded by several women, and their dialect was strong: "Don't panic, don't panic, you can't lose it." ”

"It's very difficult to get in and out of our village."