It is not so much that Xiang Huai, the father, takes care of his daughter, but that Xiang Huai has been taken care of by Xiang Ling.

At a young age, Xiang Ling learned all kinds of housework, in the third or fourth grade of primary school, she was not as tall as the stove, she stepped on the small bench to cook for her father, and in the fifth or sixth grade, she would run to the stream to wash her father's heavy work clothes.

Other people's children have flower skirts to wear, but Xiang Ling does not, because wearing skirts will hinder her from working, and more importantly, the family is too poor, so she has to save money to buy school supplies.

Finally, Xiang Ling has finished junior high school and is ready to leave the village to go to high school.

But at this time, Xiang Huai fell ill.

Xiang Ling, with the help of the villagers, sent Xiang Huai to the hospital outside the village, and soon returned again.

First, because the doctor said that Xiang Huai had reached the terminal stage of cancer and had no value for treatment, and second, because the treatment of cancer was indeed astronomical, and Xiang Ling's family couldn't make up so much money at all.

I thought that even if I didn't have money, I would take good care of my father and let him finish the last part of his life, but I didn't expect that the village chief would say that he would let his father be a sacrifice for mountain ghosts.

Although he was born in a small mountain village, Xiang Ling has always disbelieved in the superstitions of those gods and ghosts, so he can't listen to a word of the godly words spoken by the village chief.

However, she is just a woman, and how to make a long-rooted tradition in the mountain village.

Therefore, despite all his reluctance, Xiang Ling still watched Xiang Huai being carried out by the villagers.

The village chief led the villagers to hold a loud ceremony in the village hall, inviting the village elders and those "masters" specially invited from other villages to burn incense and petition and rattle the bell to pray.

From beginning to end, Xiang Ling was like an ownerless soul, looking at Xiang Huai who was placed in the middle in a daze, everything in the ceremony seemed to have nothing to do with her at all.

The ceremony is over, and Xiang Huai is about to be sent up the mountain.

Xiang Ling rushed over and said that he would follow his father up the mountain, but in the end he was pulled down by the villagers.

It's just that worrying about his father, Xiang Ling finally ran up the mountain quietly while everyone was asleep.

The mountains were unusually cold, and he was not familiar with the terrain, so Xiang Ling got lost not long after he went up the mountain.

After turning around in the mountains, Xiang Ling fell into a hole without paying attention.

The hole was very big, and it took Xiang Ling a lot of effort to climb out.

Crawling out of the cave, Xiang Ling looked up and saw the moon hanging high in the sky before he finally came back to his senses, but he suddenly felt that his head was dizzy for a while.

It may have hit his head when he just fell, so Xiang Ling didn't pay much attention to it, and continued to look for Xiang Huai's location.

This time, he was lucky to find Xiang Huai, who was already dying.

Xiang Huai was already very weak because of his illness, but now a cold wind is blowing in the mountains, and the cold wind is in his bones, and the whole person has become a little trance-like.

Xiang Ling saw Xiang Huai's situation and knew that he might not survive tonight, so his heart was sour for a while, and he cried when he threw himself on Xiang Huai's body.

Xiang Huai stretched out his hand and gently stroked Xiang Ling's undulating back because of sadness, and there was a sudden reluctance in his eyes.

has not seen his daughter get married, nor has he let his daughter live a good life for a few days, Xiang Huai feels that he is really ashamed of his father's duty.

Where the heart is moving, it is inevitable that the old tears will be rampant. In this way, the father and daughter hugged each other and cried until dawn.

Xiang Ling didn't know when she fell asleep, and when she woke up, the sun was already high on the horizon.

She realized the environment she was in, hurriedly got up, and saw that Xiang Huai was still closing her eyes, and her heart was wide, so she sat quietly next to her and waited for Xiang Huai to wake up.

Just hugged his knees and waited for a long time, Xiang Huai didn't move, and Xiang Ling's heart suddenly gave birth to a strange feeling.

Her heart was suddenly cold, and the hand she stretched out to probe Xiang Huai's snort was trembling slightly in the sun.

The warm sunlight sprinkled all over the valley, but Xiang Ling's heart at the moment fell to the bottom.

Xiang Huai was lying there quietly, no longer breathing, but the corners of his mouth seemed to have a hint of a smile.

Xiang Ling just sat still, motionless, like a rock.

The sun rises and sets, and in the blink of an eye it is dusk.

The people in the village found that Xiang Ling did not appear for a day, and the village chief guessed that she might have entered the mountain, so he brought a few strong young men to look for her.

Sure enough, when they came there, they found Xiang Ling sitting next to Xiang Huai.

But now Xiang Ling is like a shell that has lost his soul, and no matter how much the village chief calls Xiang Ling, there is no response.

Seeing Xiang Ling's expression, the village chief knew that Xiang Huai must have left, and his face was a little happy and a little painful.

Xiang Huai originally had a month to live, but now he is leaving so quickly, which means that the mountain ghost accepted this sacrifice and took away his soul.

The mountain ghost festival is completed, and the body is about to be sent back to the village.

Seeing that Xiang Ling did not move, the village chief shook his head and commanded several young men to send Xiang Huai's body down the mountain.

After Xiang Ling returned to the village, he locked himself in his room and never came out. Several people in the village helped deal with Xiang Huai's death, but Xiang Ling, as a daughter, never appeared, although the people in the village had a lot of complaints about Xiang Ling's behavior, but considering that she was young, she might not be able to accept this fact, so she didn't blame her too much.

The mountain ghost festival is over, but the nightmare in the village doesn't seem to have stopped.

The sick people still have one after another, and the pregnant women have also miscarried one after another, and what is more, many women in the village have frequent miscarriages after marrying in other villages.

It seems that the mountain ghost festival did not play a big role, the village chief sighed all day long, and the people in the village were still in fear. The village, which thought it would end in a nightmare, suddenly ushered in the dawn one day.

On that day, a physicist from another province got lost while climbing the mountain and did not intrude into the mountain village.

Seeing the strange expressions of the people in the mountain village, the physicist was very strange and asked the villagers why the whole village was filled with a smell of death.

The villagers didn't bother to deal with this outsider, and they didn't want to publicize this strange thing in the village, so they just dealt with a few words casually, and the physicist said in a fog.

Only Xiang Ling, after knowing that he was a physicist, told him exactly what happened in the village.

In the end, Xiang Ling said that she didn't believe in the legends of those mountain ghosts, and it turned out that the mountain ghost sacrifice could not change the fate of the village. So he hopes that physicists can help them find out what is going on in the village and what caused all this.

The physicist carried some simple testing instruments with him, and from Xiang Ling's story, he vaguely felt that what happened in the village had something to do with the loud noise on the mountain that night, so he took the instruments into the mountain.

Xiang Ling followed the physicist into the mountain, and the physicist held a small detector in his hand and lined up the entire mountain like a row.

It took almost seven days, during which the physicist was relaxed and frowned, and the instrument in his hand was buzzing and silent for a while.

Xiang Ling didn't dare to disturb him, just followed him and guided him.

On the eighth day, the physicist asked Xiang Ling to gather the villagers.

Xiang Ling was a little at a loss, but she knew that the physicist must have discovered something, so she went to find the village chief.

Although the village chief was a little skeptical, he tried many ways to deal with the strange things in the village, but to no avail, and now there was a glimmer of hope, so he finally agreed.

The physicist looked at the villagers gathering, his expression was very serious, he looked around at the crowd, looked at the listless appearance of the villagers, cleared his throat, and solemnly opened his mouth.

After seven days in the mountains, physicists discovered a strange phenomenon, the mountains have a strong radioactive substance, but they are very unstable.

Although the villagers do not know much about radiation, they at least know the dangers of radioactive substances, which can make people suffer from cancer and make people inert.

The village chief wondered why the town government had sent someone to check when someone was always sick in the village.

The physicist looked solemn and said that this is the strange place, the radiation intensity on the mountain is difficult to measure, because it comes and goes, and the frequency is even more weird, and the radiation frequency is different every time. Therefore, it is very normal to not be detected once or twice by chance.

The physicist's explanation confused everyone, but the village chief found the crux of the problem and asked the physicist how to solve the problem.

The physicist said that the village could no longer stay, and if he continued to stay, the whole village would die, and that he would report to the relevant authorities when he returned, and go here as soon as possible to find out the radioactive materials.

With that, the physicist said goodbye to the villagers and hurried away with the package on his back.

That evening, the village chief called a meeting of the villagers to discuss whether they should leave or stay.

The final discussion was soon in, with the young people agreeing to move their families, while several older ones said they were nearing their days and planned to stay.

When asked about Xiang Ling, Xiang Ling was silent.

Her ancestors lived here, her parents were dead, and she was the only one left, with nowhere to go to her.

The village chief saw that Xiang Ling was pitiful and planned to take her with him, but the village chief's wife had a lot of complaints.

Xiang Ling is an understanding person, and after thinking twice, she decided to stay.

First, she wanted to wait for the experts to know what was on the mountain, and she could also comfort her father about what killed him.

Second, the old people in the village stayed and had no one to take care of them, so Xiang Ling volunteered, saying that he would do what he could and try to let them grow old as much as possible.

Although they all feel sorry for her, everyone can't protect themselves, moving to another place, everything has to start over, and the people in the village are not rich, which is really a difficult thing for them.

If you are too busy to take care of yourself, where can you take care of Xiang Ling?

After the decision was made, the villagers sprang into action.

In less than a week, the village was basically gone.