Han Dongcao curled up in a pile of hay, and next to the hay, there were three things: an uncovered paper bag, aged rice wine, and a rusty iron knife.

The hay was piled up in that cellar not far from Han's house. The cellar was dug by Han Dongcao's grandfather when he was alive to store grain and vegetables for the winter. But Han Dongcao's father is not angry, since Han Dongcao's grandfather passed away, not to mention storing things, even eating in front of him has not had a meal.

The county government was an experienced old man, and he soon came to a conclusion. This Han Dongcao was not killed, but committed suicide. She first secretly took away the rice wine of her father Old Man Han, and followed herself to the pharmacy to buy arsenic, saying that there were many mice in the house, and the medicine mice were used. That knife should have been picked up by Han Dongcao somewhere.

She took these three things down to the cellar, gathered up the hay, and sat down on it. What she thought, no one knows, only that she took arsenic, which was drunk with rice wine. Later, probably worried that he would be in pain when arsenic attacked, he cut his wrist with the iron knife that he picked up from somewhere.

The blood was sprinkled on the hay, and from a distance, it looked like plum blossoms in full bloom in winter.

She died a painful death, but walked peacefully.

The matter was clarified, and the people who were locked up in the prison were also released, but the quarrel between the two families still did not stop. The Han family said that the other party forced their daughter to death, after all, it is a matter of everyone in the town that their daughter is often beaten. The other party claimed that it was Old Man Han and his wife who forced their daughter to death, because they always asked Han Dongcao to come back and ask for money and things. If Han Dongcao didn't open her mouth to ask for it, they kept cursing her, saying that she was an ungrateful white-eyed wolf.

When the two families were making a fuss, a little girl stood silently in the middle.

"Ruyi! If you come here! The aunt of the Niu family, who was watching the excitement, was the first to find the little girl and beckoned her name: "Come here quickly, be careful that they hurt you." ”

"No, it won't." Xing Ruyi stood in the middle, and she first pointed at Han Dongcao's bastard husband: "What are you making trouble, Sister Dongcao hasn't had a good life since she married you." Oh no, it should be that no woman who marries you has ever had a good day. You rely on your father and mother to be rich, do nonsense all day long, and you don't cherish the lady who married into the family, but your father and mother are not immortals, if one day they are gone, what should you do with this bastard? ”

"You little girl!" Han Dongcao's bastard husband raised his hand and was about to hit Xing Ruyi, but before his hand arrived, he let out an oop and rolled to the ground.

"Look, it's been retributed." Xing Ruyi snorted coldly, "Remember to close the doors and windows tightly when you go back at night, and be careful that my sister Dongcao takes those ladies who have passed away with you to go back and eat you alive." ”

Xing Ruyi wasn't scaring her, she knew that the fox had the ability to gather the souls of those people. Ordinary people are afraid of ghosts, not to mention him, a bad guy who has done too many bad things.

His hand was broken, and the fox broke it, but unfortunately he couldn't see the fox.

After teaching Sister Dongcao's bastard husband a lesson, Xing Ruyi turned her face to Han Dongcao's father: "What are you yelling about, Sister Dongcao was forced to death by you." ”

"Little Ruyi, don't talk nonsense, Dongcao is my daughter, how can I be a mother and force my daughter to death."

"Mother? You're embarrassed to say these two words. You go to our town and inquire, and see that the mother will ruthlessly treat his daughter as a maid. It's okay to be a maid, and for the sake of such a small bride price, she sent her good girl to the fire pit. Also, anyway, he hit Sister Dongcao, not you, and the sentence that hit the son's body hurts in the mother's body does not apply to you. But as long as you feel a little bit sorry for your daughter, Sister Dongcao will not be so desperate that she will drink arsenic and use a knife to scratch herself twice. She was worried, she was afraid, she was afraid that she would not die, she was afraid that she would survive. Because if you live, you will continue to be reproached by you, and you will continue to be beaten by him. On this day, there is no end in sight. ”

"It's because she has no ability, it's because she can't win her man's heart, and she doesn't care what we do as parents."

"She's incompetent? Why doesn't she have the ability, and what skills did you teach her as a father? Laundry, cooking, let people beat and scold? If that's what you're referring to, Sister Fuyucao learned well, at least she's the only one who hasn't been killed for marrying that bastard. ”

Han Dongcao's father and mother were silent.

"Forget it, Sister Dongcao is dead, it's useless to say anything." Xing Ruyi pushed aside the crowd: "If you are willing to fight, continue to fight, and if you are willing to argue, continue to argue, anyway, she can't hear or see." ”

After leaving the crowd, Xing Ruyi did not go home, but went directly to the cellar of the Han family. In the cellar, there was still the smell of blood and arsenic. Han Dongcao turned his face back and sat on the pile of hay. Hearing the voice, she turned her head to look at Xing Ruyi, smiled lightly and asked, "Are they still arguing?" ”

"Hmm."

"My younger brother wants to go to Beijing to catch the exam, but my father and my mother can't get that much silver." Han Dongcao's voice was bitter: "My father scolded me, my mother begged me, and they all hoped that I could get the silver back from my in-laws, but I couldn't do it at all." In the eyes of my in-laws, I was bought back by them, and in addition to serving the family, I also had to be beaten and scolded. When I was beaten for the first time, I was still young and secretly ran back to cry, but my mother scolded me, saying that I was the water spilled by my married daughter, and I shouldn't come back to my parents' house to cry my nose. I had no choice but to go back. Later, no matter how painful the beating was, I gritted my teeth and endured it, because I knew that I couldn't die. When I entered the door, my in-laws told my husband that if they beat me to death again, they would never marry her again. ”

Han Dongcao said, looking down at his own belly.

"I've had good days. When I was fifteen years old, I had a child, and my in-laws were happy, and so was my husband. Although he has married many ladies, none of those ladies have been able to give birth to him. Because of my in-laws, my husband stopped beating me and even began to learn to be nice to me. But it didn't last long, and when the child was three months old, he came back from drinking, and when I entered the door, because I didn't hold it properly, his head hit the doorpost, and he hit me like crazy. I lay on the ground and felt the heat on my legs. I know, my child is gone, he has left me. ”

Han Dongcao's eyes turned red.

"After my in-laws found out, they scolded my father-in-law for the first time. That was also the only time they didn't scold me. They asked me to recuperate and add another child to their family. Ruyi, you know what? At that time, I really wanted to have another child. Because I know that I can't leave that home, and my parents won't allow me to leave that house, and if I have a child, there will always be some hope for the future, right? At the age of sixteen, my child returned, but he still did not escape his rightful fate. When my child drove me again, I knew that I would never be a mother again in my life. What do I want my child to do? Let him face my husband's endless beating and scolding like me? Fortunately, they didn't expect me to add incense to their house, and they took him a concubine, a poor woman like me. ”

"Sister Wintergrass." Xing Ruyi looked at her flickering shadows, not knowing what to say.

"Ruyi, my sister wants to live, and she really wants to live. But it's too hard, it's really too hard. My father and mother blame me for not thinking about my brother, blame me for refusing to go back to borrow money, how do they know, it's not that their daughter refuses to go back to borrow, but that they can't borrow at all. I can't face my parents, I can't face my brother, and I don't want to go back to that hellish home. Later, I figured out that since the yang world can't accommodate me, I'll go to the underworld.

When I was a child, I heard the old man mention that there is no way for a person who dies to enter reincarnation and reincarnate as a human after death. I thought about it and thought it was good. When there is nothing good about people, they will be bitter all their lives, tired all their lives, and unhappy all their lives. I'd rather be a lonely ghost wandering in the world, and I'd rather stay in the eighteenth floor of hell than be a human being. ”

"Is it bitter? Is arsenic bitter? ”

"It's not bitter." Han Dongcao still smiled softly: "My heart is already bitter enough, how can I taste the taste of poison." ”

"Since my sister is gone, why did she come back, why did she stay in this place?"

"Nostalgic." Han Dongcao looked at everything in the cellar: "I vaguely remember that when I was a child, there was an old man with a white beard who often carried me here, and he pointed over there and told me that there was a treasure of our Han family hidden there, and that when I grew up in the future and left the cabinet, he would give me that as a dowry." Just as I was about to close my eyes, it occurred to me that the old man with the white beard was my grandfather. So, I wanted to come back and see what the hell was hiding in that place. But I'm a ghost, and I can't open that dirt wall, or get my hands on it. Ruyi, can you help me take a look? ”

Xing Ruyi nodded, walked to the earthen wall, found a broken branch, and gently pried off the adobe little by little. There was a small hole in the back of the adobe, and a very old wooden box was stuffed into it. When it was opened, there was a piece of red silk cloth wrapped in a gold bracelet.

"It's—"

"It's supposed to be my grandmother's." Han Dongcao looked at the gold bracelet: "I heard my mother say that my grandmother, that is, my grandmother, was a young lady from a wealthy family when she was young, but she fell in love with my grandfather, and despite the opposition of the family, she married in a daze." When he got married, he also brought a set of gold jewelry with him. Most of those jewelry, when my father and mother got married, were given to my mother, and later my father took them to the pawn shop and exchanged them for wine money. My mother vaguely remembered that there was a gold bracelet, but I couldn't find it in all the corners of the house, and I didn't expect it to be hidden here by my grandfather. ”

"At least Sister Dongcao's grandfather still loves my sister."

"yes." Han Dongcao's face finally showed a hint of happiness: "Ruyi, can you do my sister another favor?" Take this gold bracelet and pawn it for silver, and then Aunt Tuo Jiang gave the silver to my brother, saying that you lent it to him and asked him to go to Beijing to take the exam. If he's in high school, tell him the truth. If he lands, let him remember to pay back the money. My father and my mother, I have to have a little silver. ”