Chapter 208: Joy (4)
"Is your eldest man really drunk and stumbled, fell into the furnace and died?"
"What do you mean, ma'am?" Dalang's daughter-in-law wiped her face with her sleeve: "My eldest man was naturally drunk and fell into the furnace and died." ”
Xing Ruyi didn't look at Da Lang's daughter-in-law, but turned to Grandma Liu, looked into her eyes and asked, "Grandma, can I go and see the furnace where Da Lang had an accident?" ”
Grandma Liu glanced at Xing Ruyi, with a hint of strangeness in her eyes, but she didn't say anything.
As the magpie said, the Liu family's iron-striking shop is different from others. The shops of others are all along the street, which is convenient for guests to see, but the Liu family hides the shops in the inner house. From the outside, the blacksmith's shop was a rough hut that looked more like a place to store miscellaneous items.
Xing Ruyi stroked his stomach, closed his eyes, and opened them again, with a trace of red in his eyes. When I looked at the iron-striking shop for the second time, I found that the whole shop had turned red, the color of the flames burning in the furnace.
"Strange, how do I feel hot and irritable." The magpie originally ran to see the blacksmith shop, but as soon as he arrived at the door, he couldn't help but pull the collar of his shirt with his hand, and then turned to Xing Ruyi and said, "Don't go this way, the shopkeeper." This blacksmith shop is different from our shop, it always makes people feel hot and dry, and a little upset. ”
"It doesn't matter! I know what's going on. ”
Xing Ruyi glanced at the red color of the whole body again. It is normal for magpies to feel irritable, because it is the anger and resentment of the deceased who are entangled. Ordinary people can't see it, they only feel upset and inexplicably irritable, but she can see and even hear.
I took a few steps forward with my stomach in my hand, and the sound coming from the shop became clearer.
It was a man's voice, like hysteria, babbling incessantly.
"Why? Why? Why is that? ”
"Alas!" Xing Ruyi sighed, pointed to the lock hanging on the shop and said, "Is it possible to open this door lock?" ”
Grandma Liu gave her eldest daughter-in-law a look, and the eldest daughter-in-law of the Liu family hesitated for a moment and took down the string of hanging keys from the outside of her close-up coat. The key is made of brass and is some years old.
The key touched the door lock, making a "click" sound, and the chattering sound in the shop seemed to pause because of the sound of unlocking. Xing Ruyi pinched his ears, put his hands on his bulging lower abdomen, raised his feet, and took a step. The magpie has always been clever, and when Xing Ruyi raised her feet, he had already held her arm.
Entering the shop, the burning sensation seemed to be even stronger, and even the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of the Liu family felt extremely uncomfortable. The eldest daughter-in-law of the Liu family first pulled the clothes on her body uncomfortably, then frowned and walked to the stove that had already been extinguished, pointed to the furnace and said, "This is the stove that my eldest man fell from." ”
Needless to say, Xing Ruyi also saw it. Not only did she see the furnace, but she also saw the man standing naked in the furnace. He was surrounded by fire, staring at the eldest daughter-in-law of the Liu family with an inexplicable look. The mouth that had been babbling was also closed.
Drunk, stumbling, it seems that the truth is not so.
This thought had just flashed through his mind, and the man who was originally standing in the stove suddenly reached out and grabbed the neck of the eldest daughter-in-law of the Liu family. The eldest daughter-in-law of the Liu family instantly widened her eyes. Her hands were clutched around her neck, and the more she grabbed them, the more fear grew in her eyes, and even Grandma Liu and Magpie, who were standing on the side, were shocked by this sudden change.
"This ...... Is this haunted? ”
Magpie asked, stammering.
Grandma Liu screamed strangely and stumbled out of the shop.
"Magpies."
"Hmm."
"Go out and have a look."
"What?"
"Let's go out to see Grandma Liu, she is old and her body is inconvenient, after such a period of scare, I'm afraid something will happen."
"Oh." The magpie nodded in response, and when he turned around, he asked again: "What about the shopkeeper?" This shop seems to be really strange. ”
"It's fine." Xing Ruyi smiled at the magpie.
The magpie took a deep breath and quickly chased after him with the corner of his skirt.
After the magpie left, Xing Ruyi walked to the stove and said to the man, "It's the Liu family, right?" Let's let her go. ”
"Why?" Liu Jialang asked, with anger in his eyes.
"No why." Xing Ruyi stretched out his hand a little, and the Liu family was forced to retract into the furnace. "You have an honest personality, you were originally a very good person, but your fate was not good, and you met a woman with an unstable heart and a watery poplar. In order to cover up the truth of her stealing, she actually ruthlessly killed you, this is her sin, and someone will settle accounts for you in the future. You were a victim, but if you strangle her to death today, you will inevitably have to bear some blame for her when you get there in the future. If you are not liquidated in this life, then in the next life, you will still be bound by her, and you will not die well. ”
"Why? Why will I still die well in my next life, obviously she lied to me, she failed me, and she designed to kill me. ”
"Because you like her!" Xing Ruyi only lightly spit out a few words, and the Liu family completely collapsed. He was such a big man, he actually squatted in the furnace and cried.
Xing Ruyi was right, he liked her.
That year, her family came to the shop to order a few farm tools, because there were many samples and the wages were enough, so after the completion of the work, his father asked him to pull it in a car and send it to others.
He remembered everything that had happened that day, and when he stopped the car and knocked on her door, she showed up.
She stood in the doorway with a smile on her face and a smile in her eyes. Her hair is a little messy, but she looks good. She wore the most ordinary clothes in the country, but she was more beautiful than the boudoir ladies he had ever seen. Her sleeves rolled up casually, revealing a small section of her lotus-like wrist, and her hands were dipped in water.
She is doing laundry, she is a diligent woman, she can live, and she can live.
At that moment, his heart was beating so hard that he couldn't even seem to speak.
He doesn't remember how the farm tools were handed over.
He doesn't remember how the car got home.
Even when he got home, his parents asked him something, and he didn't remember it.
For a long time afterward, all he remembered was her face, her eyes, and the smile she had on her face.
When his father and mother were about to kiss him, her appearance instantly appeared in his mind. For the first time in his life, he stammered his thoughts. Dad didn't say anything, only said to go out and inquire to see if she in his picture had already promised someone.
There seems to be some rumors about her in the village. My father was originally unwilling, but since he was a child, he disobeyed his father for the first time. My father and mother had no choice but to find a matchmaker to say goodbye. Hearing that he was the eldest son of the Liu family's blacksmith shop, her father and mother agreed without even thinking about it, and urged his family to hire him quickly.
He finally married her home.
She is indeed a capable woman, who cleans up the home and the outside properly, but she does not have him in her heart. He knew that she had to go out for a few days every month, either to buy things, or to go to the temple to pray for blessings and incense, he was not at ease, and secretly followed a few times, but every time he could see her with that man.
He was angry, annoyed, and even shook his fist at her while she was asleep trying to punch her. But in the end, he still didn't give up. He thought that it would be good to have a child. After having a child, he thought that in a few years, when the child was older, she would know how to pay attention.
But he never expected that when he accompanied her back to her parents-in-law's birthday to celebrate her parents-in-law's birthday, she would blatantly get tired of being with that man, and even told the man that his daughter was actually his. He finally couldn't suppress the anger in his heart and rushed out.
He was an iron striker with all his strength, but the man was a prodigal who ate, drank, prostituted and gambled, and slapped his face crookedly with a fist. The man fled, and she knelt on the ground and begged him, crying so much that he was so unwilling to wave it again, and he couldn't bear to fall.
He promised to give her another chance, and she promised to treat him well from now on. When she got home, she poured him water, wiped his face, served tea, and served wine, but he only drank half a cup, and he didn't know anything. When he woke up again, he was in a furnace, burned to death by the fires.
The Liu family covered his face and didn't say a word. The stove is dark, but the fire on his body will keep burning, burning.