【021】 Midnight firelight
The daughter-in-law of the Zhang family jumped into the river, the river of the South Gate Bridge was turbulent, the whirlpools were one after another, and as soon as people jumped down, they were immediately rushed by the turbulent river, and several tumbled. In addition, the situation happened suddenly, no one noticed that there were people jumping into the water by the river, and when they realized it, they had already rolled and disappeared into the water under the impact of the river.
The drizzle was flying, and the raindrops were like tiny pearls, hanging on the hair of those onlookers. Under the plane tree by the river, a crowd of onlookers was full of discussions, and some well-wishers from the neighborhood brought clothes poles from their homes and stretched them into the river to poke.
When the Zhang family heard the news, they rushed to cry with remorse. Relatives also joined in the search and shouting along the riverbank, and the groom looked at the river with a sad face and a desperate face, and shouted, "Xiang'er...... Xiang'er, come out! What is easy to discuss, don't look for a dead end! ”
The bride's name is Zhou Fengxiang and she is eighteen years old. Pity her beautiful woman, by the old traditional customs of the rock-solid old ideas, the old ideas suppressed and influenced, and then forced to accept the traditional etiquette of "the order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker", although she is eager to pursue her own life, but unfortunately she is a weak woman who does not know how to use the law to protect herself, what she can do is to fight to death.
Zhou Fengxiang's body was found at a dam downstream, and she was dead, because it was an abnormal death, and the family could not take the body with her. We still have to wait for the forensic examination of the Public Security Bureau and the procedures of the relevant parties before we can deal with the aftermath.
It's a good person who says it's gone, it's gone, it's sudden, it's so sudden that it feels unreal.
When Zhong Kui and the others returned to the store, everyone's heart was heavy. No one broke the silence, and sat on the bench one by one, just stunned......
Zhong Kui still has an imprint in his mind when he sees the newcomer pouring wine.
Especially vanilla, she also personally made beds for the couple, sprinkled with dates, peanuts and other local specialties. According to the older generation, when the newlyweds get married, sprinkling dates on the new bed means (early birth of precious children) peanuts (flowering and fruiting), which is a popular custom in many places.
If it doesn't happen, it has already happened, and neither Zhong Kui nor the Zhang family can do anything.
What should we do with the rest of the living? Xiang'er's mother's family, how should the Zhang family explain?
Vanilla is also well-known in the neighborhood, and Zhong Kui asked her to go the next day to see what Xiang'er's family had to say, meaning to call her to act at the opportunity. If you can turn hostility into friendship, that's the best.
Because we had to do something the next day, everyone was ready to rest.
Ran Qin and Xu Qian also have vanilla to live in.
Zuo Xiaomu and Zhong Kui temporarily live in the shop.
Zhong Kui's sullen heart was in a panic, and after the herbs left the store, the two of them didn't talk much, and washed and slept separately.
Truth; Zuo Xiaomu was very unhappy to rest in this store that sold dead people's supplies. But how can you disobey the arrangement of the owner's family? Besides, he just came with Xu Qian. At most, he has to leave for a few days, and in a few days, he can hold on.
The conditions of a good county and a good city cannot be compared. It can't be said that people are more people than dead people, just that the electric lights in the big city are brighter than the county seats.
Big cities are now coming up with neon lights, and the lights are flashing beautifully. In this county, at night, the surroundings become dark and rumbling, even if there are street lamps or something, it is especially like a ghost fire.
Coincidentally, as soon as the three of them came to the county seat today, they encountered the unfortunate incident of the Zhang family's daughter-in-law jumping into the river and committing suicide. Isn't it bad luck? Zuo Xiaomu thought about it over and over again, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that the county seat was not as good as the urban area.
He was depressed, and he didn't know how Zhong Kui fell asleep. There seem to be fleas or something on the bed, anyway, after he went to bed with Zuo Xiaomu, he felt that something was crawling all over his body, and he secretly stung him from time to time.
It hurt a lot and it hurt and then it itched, and he scratched his legs, and his waist seemed to be stung again. I'll go! He muttered under his breath, scratching again and again, and tossed for a while before he slept in a daze.
A black and ghostly thing appeared in his sight. He couldn't see clearly from a distance, so he tentatively approached to see that the black mass seemed to be wriggling.
Zuo Xiaomu was confused, he remembered that he had slept in Zhong Kui's shop just now. How did you come to a place that was both strange and familiar? He looked around and picked up the black slimy thing on the ground, and looked at it to see that it was a sailboat he had bought at the handicraft shop.
Isn't the sailboat in a tote bag? Why did you go back to the craft shop again? He looked at the sailboat, the black filament was the main body of the sailboat, and the thinnest filament was the mast, which was very delicate.
There seemed to be no one in the store, and there was a dead silence in the huge space. "Anyone?" The other place seemed to respond to him, 'Is there anyone?' 'Scared! Hearing this nonchalant response, a cold sweat broke out on his face, and his whole body was instantly embraced by an unknown sense of fear.
Suddenly, a very soft and cold female voice appeared, like the air in the space, "Are you looking for me?" "Keep wrapping around the left little fungus, and it seems to be babbling to him.
"Who?" The body turned around mechanically, and the sound flickered far and near, as if it was behind him, as if it was in his ears, and more like it was coming from his own body.
What a strange voice, with a sense of demagogy, made him want to stop, and he couldn't get rid of this restraint. Zuo Xiaomu tried his best to restrain the panic that was constantly breeding in his heart, and tried to remember what had happened.
Just when Zuo Xiaomu was trapped in a dream by a nightmare. A blinding beam of light swept into his eyes, and his eyes lit up...... Trembling all over, he woke up suddenly, opened his eyes and looked around, it was dark...... After groping with my fingers for a while, it dawned on me that I was having a nightmare just now.
When he rolled over and got up, something in his arms rested on him...... Reach for the wire switch and take a closer look at what you're in your arms. It turned out to be the sailboat I bought at the handicraft shop, and before I went to bed, I couldn't sleep until I was old, so I played with the sailboat...... Sailing boat? Could it have something to do with the dream you just had?
Think about it! And he remembered what had disturbed him. Looking at the electric beam, the impression came to my mind, yes, it was firelight! Where did the fire come from? Thinking about it, he looked at Zhong Kui not far away.
Zhong Kui and Zuo Xiaomu each slept in a bed. When the eye fell on that bed, there was no one at all except the messy sheets!
When did he leave? Or did you go to the public toilet outside? Zuo Xiaomu kept speculating, but he didn't dare to get up and look.
Zuo Xiaomu curled up on the bed and sat for a long, long time, but he didn't see Zhong Kui appear. His heart was empty, his eyes were scattered, and he looked around in a daze.
It was quiet, so quiet that you could hear your own heartbeat. In particular, the paper figures who were leaning against the corner of the wall were blue, their faces were white, and their eyes were black in circles.
He didn't want to look, but he couldn't take his eyes off it, staring at a paper figure leaning against the wall. At this moment, the paper man Bai Sensen's face moved invisibly, and his black-circled eyes suddenly blinked, as if smiling at him......