Chapter 44: The Girl in His Mind
At that time, the people who believed in the land lord were not so big, and the strength of his magic was only in the number of people who believed in him. For a low-level little immortal with low mana, there is also a weak heart.
After Zhang Sisi's death, he has been in a mess, and he doesn't care much about running the land temple. Just like that, decades passed, until I met Zhang Xiaoying.
I don't know why, the moment he saw Zhang Xiaoying, he always had a feeling that the sixteen-year-old girl was back again.
At this moment, he glanced at Zhang Xiaoying, her bright eyes were as crystal as black gems, as pure as clear lake water, and those eyes were full of novelty and fantasy.
Yes, it is novelty and fantasy, as well as the desire for life, that makes people can't help but have hope.
This person has no hope and has lost the meaning of life at all. This is true of people, and so are gods.
The reason why he was willing to risk giving her a chance to be reborn for her sake was for this little hope.
Zhang Xiaoying added paper money to the brazier, and the firelight reflected her face, red.
She said: "I know you are sad in your heart, but aren't you immortals without desires?" How can you be liberated from being caught in the midst of seven emotions and six desires? ”
Wuliang smiled slightly, "If I can abandon my seven emotions and six desires, I won't do any land, and I will already fly into the sky and become a god." It's not like now, there is not even a place to settle down, and it almost disappeared between heaven and earth. ”
Zhang Xiaoying smiled when she heard this, "With the appearance of a scoundrel, you can't become a god, right?" ”
As the two spoke, the last handful of paper money was almost burned.
Zhang Xiaoying stood up and clapped her hands, and suddenly turned around and saw a person standing on the ground.
He had a torch in his hand, and he didn't know how long he had been standing there, and his face was full of astonishment.
Zhang Xiaoying was also shocked and shouted, "Brother, why are you here?" ”
Zhang Xiaoqing felt that he was wrong, he came out to look for Zhang Xiaoying, and he didn't see it for a long time in the village. He wanted to take a look outside the village, but as soon as he arrived at the west of the village, he saw a fire on this side and there.
He took a closer look, Zhang Xiaoying was sitting in a wasteland burning paper money, the brazier in front of her was bright, she was burning, talking at the same time, and laughing from time to time, it felt like she was talking to someone, talking and laughing.
In the middle of the night, whoever sees this scene will feel extremely weird, and at that moment, Zhang Xiaoqing only felt that his scalp was numb.
There was a thought in her heart, did she fall for evil?
Zhang Xiaoying looked back for a moment and looked at him.
Zhang Xiaoqing said in a low voice: "Xiaoying, what are you doing?" ”
Zhang Xiaoying stood up, her hands were stained with a lot of black ash, she patted it lightly, and then wiped it with the placket of her clothes.
She looked calm, didn't show a trace of panic, and only whispered, "Can't my brother see it?" I'm burning paper money. ”
"Burn paper money for whom?"
"Of course I burned paper money for my father, my mother asked me to buy paper money, isn't it just to burn it for my father?"
Zhang Xiaoqing sighed softly, "Who were you talking to just now?" ”
Zhang Xiaoying smiled slightly, "Brother, what's wrong with you?" Of course, I was talking to my dad, and I was telling him what had happened to me in the past two years. I quit my family, got admitted to high school again, and made a little money, and my life is getting better and better. ”
Zhang Xiaoqing sighed: "You girl too, where to burn paper money, why did you come to this wasteland?" They all say it's not clean, and you know it scared the hell out of me. ”
Zhang Xiaoying picked up the brazier on the ground, the brazier was still a little hot, she rubbed it on her ear a few times, and made a "hehe" sound.
Wuliang looked at her and smiled: "You are so stupid, you can't take it, I'll take it later." ”
Zhang Xiaoying shook her head and didn't say anything, found a few leaves and picked up the brazier, turned to Zhang Xiaoqing and said, "Let's go home." ”
Zhang Xiaoqing glanced back a little suspiciously, he didn't know why, he always felt that there was someone standing behind him.
It's not that he saw anything, but just looking at Zhang Xiaoying's expression, he was obviously communicating with someone.
He touched his head and said in his heart, in the middle of the night, could it be that he was thinking too much? There can't be any ghosts in this world, right?
Zhang Xiaoying walked in front, he was busy following behind, looking back from time to time as he walked, in the dark night, there was nothing, but the more like this, the more people felt bottomless.
Zhang Xiaoying didn't take this matter seriously, but the seeds of doubt were planted in Zhang Xiaoqing's heart.
When he returned to the room, Wang Cuilan hadn't fallen asleep yet.
While taking off his clothes, he whispered, "Cuilan, do you know the one who sees the incense?" ”
Wang Cuilan was stunned, "What do you see the incense?" ”
Zhang Xiaoqing said: "Do you think my sister is a little wrong?" ”
Wang Cuilan wondered, "What do you think is wrong?" ”
In fact, Zhang Xiaoqing can't say that there is anything wrong, anyway, since the day of the meeting, Zhang Xiaoying has changed a lot. Not only is the personality different from before, but the behavior is also very different. In the past, she always spoke carefully, and she never dared to quarrel with her mother, but later she dared to fight, and she was not afraid of anything, as if she was possessed by something.
The weirdest thing is that she often talks to herself, as if she is talking to someone, but she can't see what the other party looks like.
Just like tonight in that wasteland, although Zhang Xiaoying said that she was burning paper money for her father, she was also talking to her father, but the look on her face really didn't look like she was talking to her father, but like she was chatting with a confidant or friend.
This feeling is so weird that I feel my scalp tingle just thinking about it.
Although Wang Cuilan didn't know what he meant, the two of them had always been used to singing with their husbands, so she nodded and said, "My mother knows a person who watches incense, go back and ask her to help." ”
Zhang Xiaoqing nodded, "Okay, let's go to bed first, and we'll talk about it when we get back." ”
When they got up the next morning, they went to work as usual, and went to school as they should.
Zhang Xiaoying didn't take this matter seriously, the final exam was about to begin, and she was busy studying, so she put this matter aside.
After a few days of exams, it was followed by a two-month summer vacation.
During the summer vacation of school, she didn't have to go to school every day, and discussed the matter of the commissary with Xue Li, as well as the matter of dividing the land in the village immediately.
The commissary is running as usual, and the business is not hot, but it is also profitable, and it is the best way to earn students' money.
The county town is not as poor as their village, and many students have some pocket money in their hands.
This money will definitely have to be spent, so they don't have to worry much about the business of the commissary.
Then the next thing is to divide the land.
Distributing production to households is the top priority in the village this year, and before the meeting, many families began to live.
There are those who walk up and down, and there are also those who give gifts to the village chief and the village cadres' families.
Since it is divided according to the head, how much one person is divided is fixed. If you don't give you any piece of land, it's hard to say if the land is good or bad.
Later, there were too many people looking for the village chief, and Xue Haitian couldn't help it, who to give it to and who not to give it to, and he didn't have the final say alone?
Later, there was really no choice, so he simply divided the hundreds of acres of land in the village into several parts, one for two acres, and the men in the family drew lots to decide which piece of land to give to whom.
In this way, it can be regarded as fair and just.
However, for Zhang Xiaoying, it is not good news.
She is a woman, and she doesn't have her share in the land, so she can only watch others divide it.
She discussed with Xue Wei about planting Ganoderma lucidum, but because Xue Wei couldn't share a few acres of land, it was really difficult to build this plastic greenhouse for a while.
She couldn't help it in a hurry, and then Xue Wei said: "It's useless for you to be in a hurry, let's wait and see, wait and see, the land is divided, see which one has insufficient labor and doesn't want to plant, let's contract the land." It's a big deal, and then I'll give some money to others. ”
Zhang Xiaoying thought about it, so she could only wait quietly for the village to hold a meeting.
At this villagers' meeting, almost all the people in the village were present.
Every family carried a small stool, and the little Maza ran to the threshing floor in the village.
There were not so many people in the village council, so they had to open on the threshing floor.
For the villagers of Wharf Village, this is the livelihood of the whole village in the future, and there will be half an hour before this departure, and the entire threshing floor will already be full.
Zhang Xiaoying also moved a small stool and followed her brother, sister-in-law, and her mother to the threshing floor.
I remember that in my previous life, this conference was also held as scheduled, and it was also held on the threshing floor. At that time, she was already married to Wang Guizi, because the matter of land division had nothing to do with her, she did not attend the meeting at all, but missed the once-in-a-century event in Wharf Village in vain.
Wang Cuilan also rarely goes out to see people, at first glance when she sees so many people, she feels quite fresh in her heart, she looks left and right from time to time, and pulls Zhang Xiaoying and says, "Sister, why are there so many people today?" ”
She said and asked, "How many acres of land do you think our family can get?" ”
Zhang Xiaoying blurted out, "Three acres." ”
Wang Cuilan sighed "ah", "How do you know?" ”
Zhang Xiaoying also felt that she had lost her words, this thing didn't happen, she knew it, it seemed a little too strange.
In his previous life, Zhang Xiaoqing did get three acres of land, and the land in the village was divided according to the head, on average, two acres and five points of land per person.
Later, the village head Xue Haitian discussed with several village cadres, and if the family population exceeded four and there was only one male, the extra land would be divided into five points. In addition, there are three households in the village without men, and these three families are not given land, so how can people live? Later, I made a compromise, according to the woman's head, one acre per person, and a few acres of land after calculation, which is basically enough to live.
The most difficult thing is Liu Sheng's family in the west of the village, their family has six daughters and one son, Liu Sheng left at a young age, and only an old mother lives with seven children. Fortunately, the eldest and second eldest are married, and the remaining six people live on three acres of land.
However, she has many daughters, but she is not worried, and when her daughters grow up, the bride price alone is enough to support her son and an old man.