The mute girl is a little mute by nature, and she can't speak.

But there was still a pure smile on her thin face.

She didn't get angry, and others unceremoniously called her dumb.

There was no dissatisfaction in my heart.

She just wants to play with her peers.

It's just a simple piece of happiness.

She doesn't have a name, and the girl is not qualified to enter the ancestral hall in the village, she has always been called mute since she was a child, and she has become accustomed to this name that will follow her for the rest of her life.

I used to ignore her, and even hated her children in the same village, but today I suddenly asked her to play with her, she has always had low self-esteem, is lonely, and longs to play with her peers in the village, she really cherishes this opportunity very, very much.

She really cherishes it!

Cherish it!

She smiled happily.

Even in the ridicule and dissatisfaction of others, she was still happy and simply smiled.

Thin under the thin clothes covered with shabby patches, she struggled to lift the toes of her shoes, which had rotted away, revealing the poor toes of her feet, gasping for breath in the midst of one mute cry after another, struggling to catch up with her peers who were running ahead.

The happiness that the mute girl wants is simple.

"Dumb, you stand there, we didn't shout to hide it, you must not come to us. If you turn around and peek at us, we won't take you with us next time. ”

When a group of children stopped, the other children told the mute girl to stand by the stream and wait for them to hide.

The mute girl smiled happily, nodded her head vigorously, turned her back obediently, and happily played a game of hide and seek with her friends.

It's just that she didn't expect that her peers in the village called her out this time, and they didn't really want to play with her.

It's just that the child lacks fun and wants to play tricks on her.

Bang!

Suddenly, the mute girl felt a pain in her head, and immediately her head broke and blood flowed, and it was a pebble by the side of the stream that hit her head.

More pebbles fell on her in the wake of this.

She was in pain.

She was puzzled.

She wondered.

She was so pained that tears welled up in her eyes.

She wanted to struggle, her two thin arms tried to protect her bleeding head, wanting everyone to stop smashing her, her body was really painful, so painful.

"Haha, this dumb person is such a fool, I really believe we're going to play with her. ”

"When I walked to her, I was stinky, a dirty child, we couldn't hide from her, who would play with her. ”

"Hahaha, that's it, my mother said that she has never taken a bath since she was born and grown, and it smells worse than pig in the pigsty. ”

"My family didn't let me play with the mute, saying that her father and mother were brothers and sisters, so she gave birth to a deformed child, who was born mute and couldn't speak. ”

"When my brother and sister get married and have children, they deserve to be mute, and the dumb father and mother are the sluts who are three rotten, and the mute who is born is also a slut since childhood. ”

The children cursed and cursed the nasty things that their parents had taught, and they continued to smash the mute girl while laughing loudly and gloating.

The dumb girl's crying did not win the sympathy of the children, and in the face of her weakness, there were more stones, and they smashed at her harder.

The mute girl was so painful that she couldn't stop crying, and she wanted to cry when she fell into the cold water, why, why did she treat her like this?

She never wanted to hurt everyone.

Why was she born since she was a child, and the whole village hated her so much?

What did she do wrong?

You tell me!

I'm willing to change!

I'm willing to change!

I just want to play with everyone, I just want to have a playmate and no longer be alone......

Please, don't hit me with stones again......

It hurts!!

The willingness of the dumb girl is really simple and simple.

But she was mute by nature.

Since childhood, he has not been able to speak.

So her crying reached her throat, and in the end only more helpless silent tears remained.

"Oh, dumb turn your head, dumb turn your head, dirty, rotten, not honest dumb at all, we'll never play with you again!"

The mute girl was smashed to the point that her head was bleeding, and she began to run desperately.

She was a head shorter than her peers, her body was thin and she couldn't run at all, and she didn't stand firm, her thin, thin body fell heavily into the stream, and her thin clothes were wet by the stream, and even her palms and knees were cut by sharp stones, and blood flowed.

But no one was pitiful and sympathetic to her, and the other children gloated even more from behind her.

It is like the cruel scene of the people who caught the little sparrow and cut off the wings of the little sparrow, they watched the little sparrow struggling in pain on the ground with blood flowing, trying to flap its wings but unable to fly, without any pity, but laughing even more unscrupulously.

I didn't run a few steps before I stumbled and fell, my knees, palms, broke a lot of skin, and blood flowed out.

She was aggrieved.

But he could only flee with his hair scattered and cry helplessly.

Because she couldn't speak.

So she could only run for her life in panic and helplessly like a little sparrow that had lost two wings.

The group of children behind her were still chasing her and throwing stones, all the while chasing the mute girl into the dense weeds by the stream, perhaps because the group of children finally got tired and began to leave.

"I heard my father and aunt say that the mute brother and sister parents were poisoned because they ate the wild vegetables that the dumb man dug in the mountains. ”

"I've also heard my grandmother talk about this, my grandmother often scolded this mute for being so vicious since she was a child, and actually poisoned her parents, why didn't she die with her. ”

"I seem to have seen her head bleeding just now, wasn't it a little too much for us to smash the dumb just now?"

"What's too much, even your own parents can be poisoned to death, and you don't need to sympathize with her. ”

"That is, who wants to play with this mute, the brother and sister are born dirty, smelly little. Let's hurry up, when we go home late, we will be beaten by my father and mother again. ”

Fang Zheng was silent all the way, following the group of children to chase and beat a mute girl with a poor background.

He watched the group of children leave without guilt after cutting off the wings of the little sparrows, and then turned his head to look at the injured mute girl whose head was bleeding, panicked and hid in the grass, and silently hugged her knees and cried, she was so lonely, thin, aggrieved, desperate at this time... Evil spirits?

Why is such a thin, timid, fatherless and motherless mute girl recorded in the county annals as such a heinous crime?

What's really going on behind the scenes?

Call!

By the stream, a cool breeze blew.

Fangzheng, who had been standing still, was gently blown by the cool breeze at the corners of his clothes.

He just kept standing.

Didn't move.

Because he knew that the mute girl at this time had not yet given birth to resentment.

It won't become a wraith yet.

What really made her resentful and turned into a resentful spirit, there must be something more significant going on.

It's getting late.

Under the hazy moonlight, it was a cold night that was dark and frightening, and the dumb girl with thin clothes wiped the tears from her face and carefully crawled out of the grass.

She was very careful in her movements, her hands and feet were slow, and she was afraid that the child who was bullying her was still outside.

When it was confirmed that there was indeed no one, under the hazy black moonlight, a thin little figure, with bruises and staggering, prepared to return to the village.

As if she didn't see Fang Zheng, she walked in front and Fang Zheng followed.

Across streams, farmland.

Night.

It's darker, it's darker.

Gradually, the vague outline of a small village gradually appeared in front of Fangzheng's eyes.

When she saw the village, the mute girl suddenly quickened her pace, and her figure ran into the village and disappeared in one fell swoop.

Fang Zheng hurriedly caught up as well.

As soon as he approached the village, Fang Zheng heard the noise of many villagers gathering in the village, and saw that in a certain direction of the village, the lights were especially bright. Fang Zheng, who had lost the mute girl for a while, walked in the direction where the noise of the village came from with suspicion and caution.

Along the way, I met a lot of villagers.

But these villagers, without exception, seemed to be unable to see him, and ran past him.

They all hurried in the direction of the noise.

In the eyes of these villagers, Fangzheng is like transparent air.

It didn't take long for Founder to finally get closer.

There are two male students in their twenties who are wearing the characteristics of the Republic of China student clothes and whose childish features have not completely faded, and they are protecting a lame girl with thin clothes with their arms to prevent other villagers from throwing stones at the lame girl.

The girl looked to be sixteen or seventeen years old, but she had a lame foot, her clothes were thin and patched, and she looked disgraced and embarrassed because she had been stoned by the villagers.

It's hard to see what he looks like for a while.

"Don't fight anymore! Don't fight again!"

"Why do you have so many adults bullying a weak girl! Don't you have a little pity!"

The two students shielded the lame girl and angrily stopped the surrounding villagers.

"She is mute, she was born to be the broom star of our village, the mourning star, why can't we beat her!"

"The little things born by incest between brothers and sisters, cheap, rotten, it's good to kill her, die early and be born early, let this dirty, smelly little rotten thing, go to hell as soon as possible to reunite with her shameless parents!"

"Yes, that's right, her parents don't care about etiquette and honesty, brothers and sisters are cheap when they get married, and they are also small sluts when they give birth to a little slut, why can't we fight a little slut!"

The villagers said it rightly, as if they took bullying the mute girl for granted.

"At first glance, you are a foreigner from the city, and we are also a foreigner for your good, I advise you to leave this dumb girl alone, you don't know how vicious this dumb girl is!"

"She was not yet eight or nine years old when she had a vicious heart, and when the crops were not planted in time because of the war, and everyone was so hungry that they couldn't even afford to drink a bowl of thick thickness, this vicious and dumb person deliberately poisoned her parents with poisonous wild vegetables for a bowl of rice. This mute has been so vicious since he was a child, no wonder he was born unable to speak, this is God can't see that he is taking her, you are saving her now, it is against God's will, it is God's curse!

A village elder stood up, holding a cane in his hand, and kindly persuaded the two students.

"Kill this vicious woman!"

"I've been so vicious since I was a child, I deserve to be dumb by nature, I can't speak, this is God punishing dumb!"

Other villagers also chimed in, and the crowd became angry.

Fang Zheng, who was standing outside the crowd, looked at the lame girl who was protected by two students, and was a little silent.

Just now by the stream is the childhood memory of a mute girl.

Is it now the memory of the mute girl when she was sixteen or seventeen years old?

glanced at the dumb woman's lame right foot, and Fangzheng's heart was a little uncomfortable.

I can't imagine how many painful experiences a mute girl who grew up as an orphan and grew up without a father or mother since she was a child, and even had a lame leg......

Angry?

Sigh?

But such scenes abound in that ignorant and backward old society.

It was the most feudal dark age of savage growth.

The two students were still trying to protect the timid and cowardly mute girl, and one of the students roared indignantly: "I don't know what God's punishment is! I don't know what God doesn't know! I only know that you are killing people!"

"An eight- or nine-year-old girl, does she know what poison is? I prefer to believe that she is innocent, she accidentally dug up poisonous wild vegetables by her unintentional mistake, when an eight or nine-year-old child does not want to see her parents hungry, she goes into the mountains to dig up wild vegetables, and is reluctant to eat them for her parents, but because of her own fault, when she sees her parents fall in front of her, can you ever experience her pain at that time?"

The mute girl cried.

She fell to her knees and wept silently.

She never spoke.

No one in this world has ever given her a chance to defend herself.

All the injustices, grievances, self-blame, and guilt that I have endured for more than ten years all erupted at this moment.

As the two outlander students tried their best to protect the mute girl, the villagers began to disperse.

"Brother Zhengping, these villagers have dispersed, the mute girl has been saved, we have been delayed in the village for a long time, we have to leave the village immediately and continue to hurry up on the road. ”

One of the two students persuaded the companion who defended the mute girl.

But the Zhengping brother in his mouth did not answer immediately, but squatted down and took out a clean handkerchief on his body, not disgusted with the dust and dirt on the dumb girl's body at all, and handed his handkerchief to the dumb girl with a gentle gaze.

The mute girl froze.

I forgot to take the handkerchief for a while.

Maybe it's because since she was a child, no one has ever treated her so kindly.

Her eyes widened in disbelief for a while, and she hesitated to pick it up.

"Brother You, I want to stay in this village. ”

"What! Are you crazy! Now we're being arrested everywhere outside, and if we don't leave, we really won't be able to leave!"

"Brother You, have you just seen the numbness, unkindness, ignorance, ignorance, and madness of those villagers! One by one, they do not believe in killing people to pay for their lives, but they only believe in God's punishment, if all the people of China are insensitive, China is finished, China is really finished, and no matter how many books we read, we will not be able to save an insensitive nation! If all of China is like the people in this village, where do you say we should flee! Where else can we flee to!"

"Brother Zhengping, I know your feelings, you have always been kind and want to save more people. However, now that there are warlords at home and invaders from outside are pressing on us every inch, and the land of China is now in the most critical moment of internal and external wars, we should all the more apply what we have learned from studying abroad to serve the motherland. ”

"If we can't even save an ordinary woman today, how can we talk about saving a country? Today I am not saving a poor woman, but by saving a person to awaken the insensitivity of a village! Awaken the insensitivity of more Chinese! Saving the country is not only the Western industrial revolution that we learned from studying abroad can save the country, a country's nation is awakened, and the people of all China are rescued from the feudal poisonous thinking, and eventually the spark can ignite the plain, which is also a kind of national salvation! Brother Friend, don't persuade each other again, I'll pay attention to the decision!"

Revolutionary fire?

Fang Zheng stood quietly, looking at the two students in front of him whose childishness had not faded, and finally one of them stayed and gave up continuing to escape.

The other chose to leave the village and continue to go to the front line of the war to serve the country.

......

Fang Zheng followed the memories of the evil spirit of the underworld, and continued to follow the mute girl all the way.

Perhaps, this memory with that international student is the happiest and happiest time in the life of the mute girl.

This memory is very delicately recalled.

After the international student chose to stay to save the dumb girl, he chose to live in the dumb girl's house despite the gossip.

Then teach the mute girl to read.

Teach the mute what the Industrial Revolution is.

Teach the mute what a steam engine is and what an ironclad steamer is.

Teach the mute how big the outside world is.

Teach the mute what a revolution is!

Only industrial civilization can save the country.

Feudalism and seclusion will only lead to misrepresentation.

For the first time, an international student taught a mute girl to write, not by his name, but by "revolutionary".

The second international student taught the dumb girl to write, not his name, but to help the dumb girl choose a name, Haiyan.

I hope that one day she will be able to fly out of this cage-like village and pursue the freedom she wants, and see the wider sea and the world outside.

The bits and pieces of daily life constitute the happiest month of the dumb girl.

International students have never discriminated against mute women because they are born with disabilities and lameness.

Instead, treat it as your own.

Stop the villagers from bullying the mute girl anymore, and start teaching the villagers to read and write, and gradually, the villagers who have awakened their wisdom will bully the mute girl less and less.

Fang Zheng followed the mute girl's memory and continued to look down.

A month later, the international student suddenly announced to the villagers that he was proposing to the mute girl, hoping that the mute girl would marry him.

And set the wedding date in a week.

Everything is so beautiful.

So complete.

This short month is the happiest time for the mute girl.

But on the second day of the international student's proposal to the mute girl, when the dumb girl went into the mountain to dig wild vegetables for the foreign student and came back, she saw a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and the international student covered in blood was hanged on a long pole at the entrance of the village and exposed to the sun.

The mute girl is crazy.

The wild vegetables dug in the bamboo basket fell to the ground, and she limped hysterically to the pole where the student was hanged, but she was greeted by stones and insults from the villagers.

"It's the dumb woman, this damn poisonous woman is back!"

"She is a mourning star, she killed her parents since she was a child, and now she kills her fiancé!"

"Why was the dumb guy not there when the international student was caught by those traitors! Why did the dumb man come back as soon as the traitor lackeys left! It must be the dumb man who was greedy for money and secretly went into the city to inform those traitors!"

The villagers were furious and chased and beat the mute girl.

The mute girl is crazy.

She was chased and beaten by the villagers, escaped from the village, and fled into the mountains.

Before escaping into the mountains, the mute girl took a deep look at her fiancé, who was hanged and exposed to the sun at the entrance of the village.

See this.

Fang Zheng sighed.

The mute girl did not commit treason.

It was someone else who killed the student.

Witnessing her fiancé being hanged at the entrance of the village, the mute girl began to go crazy all day long, living in the mountain temple in the mountains every day, and she began to sew a red wedding dress with stitches and threads......

A few days later.

On the day of the wedding of the mute girl and the international student, the mute girl, who had been missing, was suddenly found bathing in a stream by several men in the village who went into the mountains to hunt.

When they saw the body and face of the mute woman, the eyes of the men straightened directly.

She has always been regarded by the villagers as a dirty and smelly dumb girl, and she looks very beautiful, and this is the first time that the villagers have seen the face of a dumb girl after taking a bath.

The villagers, whose eyes were straight, began to run towards the mute girl bathing in the stream.

The mute girl did not resist.

Instead, his face was numb, and he took a bath calmly.

What is the most brutal way to kill a person?

Killing hearts is the most cruel!

With the last ray of sunshine in her life extinguished, from the day she saw the international student being hanged at the entrance of the village, the dumb girl's heart was already dead.

Then more villagers got the news.

Later, the mother-in-law of those men heard the wind and rushed to ......

Founder can't do anything.

One can only look at the numbness and darkness of the people of this old society.

Because he held it too much, the hand holding the ghost head knife burst out one by one.

Looking at the mute girl who has been bullied by these insensitive villagers since he was a child, there is a wave of anger in his chest.

......

The memories of the mute girl continue.

Her face was expressionless and numb, and she finished taking a bath.

I put on the wedding dress that I had sewn by hand.

This is the date of her marriage to an international student......

The mute girl dressed in a red bloody wedding dress limped to the entrance of the village under the stunned and surprised eyes of the villagers.

The bodies of the international students are still hanging at the entrance of the village.

The body was still being exposed to the sun.

It is impossible to settle in the ground.

The mute girl who has been missing for a few days, she doesn't come for anything else today, she is wearing a bloody wedding dress, knowing that she will die today, but she still comes to the marriage with a vow.

But the mute girl in the blood-colored wedding dress has not yet reached the entrance of the village, she has not yet completed her marriage with the international student, and she has not carried the body of the international student into the ground, but she was taken away by the women of the village and brought into the ancestral hall of the village.

"Slut!"

"!"

"Bah, the three rotten sluts who seduce men, you are the same three rotten as your shameless parents!"

"Peel off her skin, see how she will seduce other people's men in the future!"

In the vicious cursing of the mother-in-law of the men who had abused the dumb woman, the dumb woman was skinned.

The villagers resorted to extremely brutal lynchings.

Just as the dumb girl was being skinned, a voice suddenly broke through the chaos and sounded in the memory of the evil spirit.

"Do you hate?"

"Do you resent the world?"

"Who is scolding your parents?"

"Who pushed you into the darkness step by step?"

"Who made you taste despair again and again?"

"The world has abandoned you. ”

"If you resent the world, I can help you ......"

Who?

Fang Zheng turned around suddenly.

Look for the direction the sound is coming from.

Recruitment.

He saw a man.

The man was vague and hazy in the memory of the evil spirits, and he couldn't tell his age, and he stood at the door of the ancestral hall, looking at the mute girl who was being executed in pain... And the villagers in the ancestral hall who were frantically executing didn't seem to be able to see this man, and no one looked at this strange man who suddenly appeared.