The weather is getting cooler, autumn is coming, and everything is shrouded in a kind of sadness.

A woman in a long purple dress walked through the village, her hair was messy with a few straws in between, the dirt on her face obscured her true face, blurred, her eyes drooping, and she muttered something in her mouth.

"Crazy! Lunatic! ”

"Ominous woman!"

Several children ran past her, shouting, and throwing stones at her.

This woman is Qiu Yun. She's gone crazy. After Li Mang's death, she went crazy.

Li Mang died in that well, which was the well where Shi Tou fell into the water. That dream that seemed to be real and illusory was the process of Li Mang's death.

Qiuyun became an ominous woman in the eyes of everyone, she was kicked out of the house by Li Sui's mother, and they didn't recognize this daughter-in-law. Qiuyun, who was kicked out, wandered on the street, and she never returned to her home, and gradually went crazy. She spends her days unkempt and chattering. A bold child approached her to hear what she was saying, and he leaned over, tilted his head, and soon smiled with satisfaction, and he ran to his little friend, and said to them, "I hear you clearly, she is talking about 'retribution,' and she keeps saying these two words." ”

On the first day after Li Mang's burial, Qiuyun was seen walking north along the dilapidated asphalt road.

Someone in Shijia Village saw Qiuyun coming, they were very strange, what was she doing here? It doesn't have anything to do with her anymore. They saw her look dazed, her eyes swollen, and they didn't know what had happened.

Qiuyun passed the house where she had lived and walked towards the distant woods behind the house.

Walking through the woods, she came to Shi Tou's grave, and that day she was wearing this purple dress, which Shi Tou had bought for her when she was alive. She stood in front of Shi Tou's grave for a long time, and suddenly knelt down, her head slowly knocked down, and her forehead touched the ground with repentant piety. She sobbed sadly、、、、、、

She recalled the day Shi Tou fell into the water-

At about 11 o'clock in the morning that day, Shi Tou came back, Qiu Yun had already set up the meal, and she had always been disgusted with Shi Tou's drinking, and she actually put a bottle of Lao Baigan on the table, which was Shi Tou's favorite wine. Shi Tou was very surprised, and joked: "Is the sun coming out of the west today?" He was glad that Qiuyun had finally accepted his drinking, and he couldn't help but drink more glasses. At this time, Qiuyun lifted the lid of the water tank and said, "Oops! The water is running out, and I still want to do laundry in the afternoon. Shi Tou said, "I'll fight in a while." When Shi Tou was almost full, Qiuyun said, "The decoration of the house is too monotonous, I want to go to the well and pick some wild flowers and put them in a bottle, and then put them on the table." I'll go first, and you'll come later. Shi Tou nodded.

15 minutes later, Shi Tou came to the well, he looked at the mouth of the well and scolded: "Damn! Who pees at the well. It turned out that there were patches of wet water around the mouth of the well, and the edge of the well was made of stones, and in the small recesses of the stones, the water stains collected and turned yellow, so Shi Tou concluded that it was urine, and he thought that it must have been done by a group of naughty children. The urine was connected in pieces around the mouth of the well, and there was almost no place to put his feet, and Shi Tou had to step on it. But as soon as his feet fell, he slipped out, leaned back, lost his balance, and slipped down the well, and Shi Tou screamed in fright, followed by the sound of "plopping" water. Qiu Yun, who was picking flowers more than ten meters away, turned her head when she heard the voice, knowing that Shi Tou had fallen, but she didn't react. She walked to the mouth of the well with a blank face, holding a large handful of flowers and plants in her hand. When she came to the mouth of the well, she threw the flowers and plants on the urine, and then stepped on it to look into the well, and there was no shadow of Shi Tou in the dark and secluded well, and when she came over, she heard the sound of him struggling and shouting for help, and it was estimated that he had sunk to the bottom of the water. There was only one bucket floating on the surface of the water and a rope attached to the handle of the bucket. Qiuyun retreated, walked to the grass on the side of the well, took a rope and a box of unknown things, she tied another bucket with a rope, stepped on those flowers and plants to beat a bucket of water, and then flushed the urine, flushed it again, and opened the box of things, which turned out to be a piece of soap. She picked up the soap and rubbed it on the urine that had not yet been rinsed, and then lifted the bucket to flush, the water foamed a lot, this time it was clean, she didn't seem to feel at ease, and rinsed again. Actually, it's not urine, how can urine slip, it's oil, and Qiuyun wiped it on the edge of the well, just to let Shi Tou slide into the well. He didn't agree to the divorce, so she had to compromise on the surface, but secretly found a way. After careful consideration, she felt that it would not be exposed, so she began to implement it - she first went to the store to buy oil and soap, buried them in the grass not far from the wellhead, and buried a rope with the oil and soap. At noon today, the most important part began, she first came to the wellhead, dug out all the things, and only carried the oil drum to the edge of the well, and the others were temporarily hidden in the grass. She sprinkled the oil on the edge of the well, and the oil was dense and did not flow easily, so she used the corner of her skirt to wipe it apart, and it looked like water. When it is done, the oil is stored, and then it is idle to go to pick flowers, waiting for Shi Tou to fall into the trap. That's the whole process. Now there is only water to flush the oil along the well, and this water will be dried by the scorching sun in half an hour.

The oil drums and soap were thrown into the river on the other side of the earthen dam by Qiuyun, and the rope was taken home. At 1:10 a.m. when she got home, she went to Willow Branch's house, and Willow Branch was embroidering, and she followed it, studied for an afternoon, and learned. When she got home at 4 o'clock, she pretended to think that Shi Tou had gone to the ground, and waited until 5 o'clock when she started cooking and waited for Shi Tou to come back. But at more than 7 o'clock, Shi Tou still didn't come back, and of course, she waited for the news of Shi Tou's death.

In fact, she tried to push Shi Tou directly into the well many times, but she couldn't do it, first, she was a little unbearable, after all, the two had lived together for so long, and second, she might be afraid of being cursed, so she wanted to kill Shi Tou, but she didn't want Shi Tou to think that she did it.

Still, she was cursed. The happiness she had already received was fleeting. She was homeless until she went insane.

She spends most of her time muttering to herself, and her ghost wanders around the village like a ghost. Sometimes when she saw a child, she would say quietly, "Come here!" I'll tell you the story of a well. The children were frightened and scattered. If this story is heard, within a few days, Qiuyun will be taken away by the police, right? But no one listened to her, because she was crazy.

There is a man in the village who does not believe in evil Meng Si, because he is the fourth in the family, so he is called Meng Si, he is a hard-working and honest man, but because of his bad legs and feet (he was naughty and was stoned when he was a child), he has never been able to get a wife. On this day, he limped to the matchmaker's house and begged the matchmaker to propose marriage to her. "It's that crazy Qiuyun." He said. "What?!" The matchmaker's eyes almost popped out, "She's an ominous woman!" "Superstition! I don't believe it, I'm going to marry her. As long as you tell me about it, I'll give you a silver bracelet! Meng Si said. Then you asked me to say this, don't blame me if something happens! The matchmaker said. Feel relieved! Life and death, I don't blame anyone. ”

The matchmaker went to find Qiuyun's father, although the father and daughter had already made a quarrel, but Qiuyun was crazy, so she had to discuss with him.

"Qiuyun is going to have a master again, Meng Si of our village is an honest child, do you agree?" The matchmaker spoke in his ear like talking to a deaf person. Because the old man was so drunk that he almost fell asleep.

"Oh," Qiuyun's father said in a daze, "My Yun'er is getting married again?" All right! But she didn't see me, and when you saw her asking her to go home, you said that Daddy was wrong. It's cold, it's cold、、、、、、" The old man choked up and burst into tears.

The matchmaker shook her head, sighed, and said to herself, "You old thing is finally sensible." Quit drinking. ”

Qiu Yun married Meng Si, she seemed to be a lot more sober on the wedding day, and when Meng Si lifted her hijab, Qiu Yun smiled like a child. She no longer has to sleep in the wilderness, no longer sleeps on haystacks, no longer has to drink dirty ditch water, and no longer has to pull grass roots to eat. Her skin won't freeze black or purple, and her face won't blur to the point where it loses its original appearance.

When resting, Qiu Yun took the bedpan to the house, did not allow Meng Si to go out for convenience, locked the door from the inside, moved the chair cabinet against the door, and took a rope to tie her and Meng Si's hands together. Meng Si asked her why she did this, and Qiu Yun put her index finger between her lips and motioned for him not to speak, her eyes rolling from side to side, as if someone was eavesdropping outside. "Something is going to hurt you." Qiuyun whispered. Meng Si was inexplicably scared, "Who、、、、、 who?" He asked. We have to step up our guard every night. Qiu Yun didn't answer the question, and his eyes were still dripping around. The two of them sat on the bed like this, with the lights on, on guard. The night was getting deeper and deeper, and the two finally couldn't bear to sleep.

I don't know what time it is, Qiu Yun was awakened by the sound of the door opening, she immediately got up to check, there was no Meng Si in the house, the door, the door was wide open. Her heart raced wildly and she rushed out. Meng Si was like Li Mang's night, fluttering like a piece of paper and going north. Qiu Yun chased after him desperately, but couldn't catch up, she shouted: "Shi Tou ——, let him go——, I'll go with you-" She knew that Shi Tou's ghost was attached to Meng Si's body, and he dominated Meng Si's body, leading him to death and punishing her for persecuting him. But the shadow still walked forward, and finally came to the well, Meng Si stood by the well, looked at the dark and secluded well, and jumped in、、、、、、

"You still won't let me go!"

At Meng Si's funeral, Qiu Yun kept muttering this sentence, her eyes were straight, the corners of her mouth were salivating, and her shape was like a withered tree.

Qiuyun has become a monster that everyone avoids, except for her father. This "wine Mengzi" old man finally reformed himself and said goodbye to wine. He took Qiuyun home and took care of her, and Qiuyun was so crazy that he didn't know him. Dad wouldn't let her go out for fear that she would be beaten because more and more children were throwing stones at her.

"Dad, I'm leaving."

One cold morning, just after dawn, a voice spoke in the courtyard.

The old man felt less, the old man had already woken up, but he was lying down and didn't get up, he heard Qiu Yun talking in the yard, and hurriedly opened the window to look, only to see Qiu Yun kneeling in the yard, kowtowing to the window, as if to say goodbye to him. Audible to her voice, she regained her senses. Dad saw her clean and fresh face, neatly dressed clothes, neatly combed hair, but her hair was all white! It seems that she has recovered her consciousness and faces the miserable life more clearly, and finally can't stand the blow and turns white overnight.

She kowtowed and walked out the door, and she kept going north. Dad went to chase him, but he was too old to catch up. Qiuyun's white hair was gently fluttering by the wind, and her figure looked tired, which was the tiredness of the heart, the tiredness of despair of life.

Qiuyun finally stopped by the well and jumped in without hesitation、、、、、、

After the daughter died, the father also died, and he was lying in the yard with an empty bottle next to him, which was not a wine bottle, but a pesticide bottle.