Chapter 37: Poppy
"Canu!" Xiao Hai scolded: "If you talk such nonsense again, I will slap you to death!" ”
Ganu was stunned for a moment, smacked his lips and stopped, it may be the first time Xiaohai has been so fierce to him, he lowered his head and was so aggrieved.
"Forget it." Da Lei shook his head, he was holding his breath in his heart, thinking about how this little kid was so lawless, and he couldn't wait to slap him first. But when he saw Ganu's pitiful virtue, his heart softened again.
"Canu." Da Lei patted him on the head and said softly: "Uncle asked you, you said that day, you often see a black shadow next to me, what's going on?" ”
Ganu lowered his head and didn't speak, and bean-sized tears crackled and fell.
Seeing this, Xiao Hai sighed, squatted down, wiped Ganu's face, and coaxed softly: "Ganu, it's my brother who is wrong, my brother shouldn't yell at you, but you can't be so big and small, say something unlucky, if there is a next time, I will really be angry." Do you hear that? ”
"Hmm." Ganu nodded, his eyes still red.
"Okay, then tell me, did you really see that dark shadow?" Xiao Hai asked.
Ganu nodded, her mouth pursed.
"Male or female?"
"Female."
"What does it look like?"
"A little girl about my age, very beautiful." Canu's voice was muffled, and he could tell that the child was still playing tricks.
Da Lei had already guessed in his heart that the black shadow was Senua.
When she was at the entrance of the village with the sixth child that night, she was there.
When she was at the entrance of the village with Xiaohai, she was also there.
But was it the fact that she had not allowed herself to leave the village, or was it the will of the tomb owner?
But it seems that she is on the same page with herself, and she will not let herself go easily.
"Alright." Da Lei waved his hand: "Send Ganu back, this kid is still sad." ”
Xiao Hai glanced up at Da Lei, feeling that his brother had something in his heart, nodded, and didn't say anything more. Patting Ganu on the shoulder: "Let's go." ”
Da Lei planted his head on the soil kang, closed his eyes and didn't know how much he sighed. He lay back and forth for a while, and finally got up and rolled a leather cigarette, squatted in the doorway and smoked.
The sixth man on the opposite side pushed open the door, saw Da Lei's helpless appearance, and asked, "Leizi, what's wrong?" ”
Da Lei glanced up at him, opened his mouth and didn't know where to start.
The sixth man walked over, squatted down next to Da Lei, and asked, "I saw that woman went to your house for a while during the day, what happened?" The gloom on your face. ”
"Nothing." Da Lei scratched his head, dandruff crackled down like goose feathers and snow, water is scarce here, it would be good to have something to drink, I don't know when the last time I took a bath, and I played with Xiaohai two days ago.
"Sixth brother, do you think this kid is a little abnormal?" After thinking for a while, Da Lei asked.
The sixth child probably didn't expect Da Lei to ask this, he was stunned at first, and then nodded: "Hmm." You just found out? He pointed to his head and said, "He's not normal here, he's often talking crazy." What's wrong? ”
"It's nothing, I just think this kid is weird, ask."
"This child has no father or mother, he was raised by the patriarch, and the people in the village don't like him, if he tells you anything, you should be the wind in your ears." After a pause, the sixth man saw that there was no one around, and whispered to Da Lei: "Ganu said one day that the patriarch would be strangled to death by a rope sooner or later, and the old guy almost didn't break his leg when he heard it!" ”
The topic of death is a taboo everywhere it goes.
Da Lei shook his head and smiled bitterly, and told the sixth child about Senua.
After hearing this, the sixth child didn't say a word, and his face was ugly.
Da Lei sighed and said, "I'm just wondering now, whether the tomb owner won't let me go out of this village, or Sena won't let me, or whether they don't want me to live." ”
Lao Liu's brows were furrowed, as if he was thinking about something.
Da Lei didn't notice it at all, and still muttered to himself: "I don't know what evil I created in my previous life, how many times I almost died along the way, but I survived." Thinking that since he survived, he should live well, but he found that he had been in a trap and couldn't escape at all. ”
"It's all the same." After a long time, the sixth said sullenly.
"Huh?"
"It's Poppy."
"Baby? What baby? How old is a baby? ”
"It's not." Lao Liu shook his head, stretched out a finger, and wrote the word "poppy" on the ground.
"What do you mean?"
"I always thought you were coming across a yellow mound, but now it doesn't seem to be."
"It's not.... Sixth brother, can you stop selling the lawsuit? Let's talk about it! ”
"Huangkouzuka refers to a child who died unexpectedly, in order to continue his life, he found a living person to be a substitute for the dead ghost. He was a real person when he was alive. The poppy is different, the poppy is the combination of all the grievances of a person before death, and the 'son' is its form. ”
"You're saying that the thing I came across was the manifestation of someone's dying resentment?"
"That's right."
"In other words..."Da Lei's heart tightened.
"Yes."
Senna is the Poppy of the tomb owner.
Da Lei's heart sank, but he always felt wrong...... What else, since this is the case, there must be something that falls on its own! Think about it, think about it...
"Poppy is a manifestation of the resentment of the tomb owner during his lifetime, so the Senna you saw also looks the same as the tomb owner, before this, have you seen the tomb owner?" The sixth asked.
!!!! Right!!! That's right!!!
I remembered it, Da Lei remembered it!
No wonder.... No wonder, when I saw Senua, I felt familiar, but I couldn't remember where I had seen it... It's that time, it's that time...!
It's that mirror! Gloomy golden silk nanmu mirror!!
When I first saw the mirror, I was not only surprised that it was preserved in the desert, but also what I saw in the mirror!
He saw a little girl in the mirror, a very beautiful, very stunning, very sad girl.
The girl looked like Senua.
Originally... I see.. So it was....!
Thinking of the time at the Loulan site, why did I fall into the Octagonal Building, why I experienced this, why it was me, it turned out to be a foregone conclusion.
It turned out that since then, he has not been able to escape......
"Haha......" Thinking like this, Da Lei suddenly laughed.
"What's wrong with you?!" This smile frightened the sixth child, he thought that Da Lei was scared stupid, and hurriedly asked.
"It's fine." Da Lei shook his head, after thinking about all this, he unexpectedly felt relaxed.
What kind of ease?
It's like a sharp knife, slashing at his body every day, the force is very light, but it hurts, again and again, never stopping, the flesh and blood all over the body are blurred, and the knife is still scratching on the wound of the flesh and skin... Now, the knife has finally turned into a sharp big knife, and it is directly inserted into the heart with a "poof", blood splattered, and it is finally over.
"It seems that I can't hide in the end..."Da Lei sighed and said: "In the future, you will go out with Xiaohai, and during the New Year's holidays, remember to burn some paper money for me, don't forget me." ”
The sixth snatched the leather cigarette from Da Lei's hand, lowered his head and sucked it vigorously.
"After I go out, give me some paper money, so that I can bribe and bribe the king of Hades below, and maybe I can become a big official."
"Leizi!" The sixth child interrupted him with a scolding: "I... I ......" Lao Liu raised his head, his eyes were red, and he looked at Da Lei and stopped, but that strong and burning look was enough to explain everything.
Da Lei knew what he was going to say.
The sixth child is grateful to him and ashamed of him.
While looking forward to the outside world, he is sad about his end.
Da Lei patted him on the shoulder: "Take care of my brother for me." ”
“...... Well. ”
"Oops... I'm numb in my legs! Da Lei stood up slowly, stretched his waist, and looked up at the gray sky, the sun was buried in tens of thousands of dust, and the sunlight was revealed, just like his mood at the moment.
Sister Zhu next door pushed open the door, and was stunned for a moment when she saw Da Lei and the sixth child, probably sensing that something was wrong between the two, she nodded and smiled awkwardly.
"Sister Zhu!" Da Lei waved at her.
The sixth child also stood up, threw away the cigarette in his hand, tilted his head close to Da Lei, and asked in a low voice, "What do you call her?" ”
"Sister Zhu." Da Lei responded in a low voice.
"And what's her name?"
"I don't have a name, I'm called Sister Zhu."
"People don't have names."
"Aren't you also called the Sixth?"
"My name is Cheng Liu, because everyone else calls me Lao Liu, and over time I will be called Lao Liu."
"Then you also call her Sister Zhu."
"I'm a lot old, why do you call her..."
"Da Lei!" As she was talking, Sister Zhu came over and asked, "Is your brother here?" During the day, I was not in a good mood, and I didn't say thank you to him, but now I have slept and feel much better. ”
"He's out."
"That's right."
"Ahem," the sixth coughed unnaturally, and said, "That... Small... Xiao Zhu? Are you used to it in the village these two days? ”
"Alas... It's good to be able to pick up a life, what is not used to it. Sister Zhu smiled: "This big brother...?" ”
"Ah, my name is the sixth brother, you can call me the sixth brother." The sixth child scratched his head embarrassedly.
"Yo!" Da Lei saw the sixth man like this, and just wanted to say something fun to change the atmosphere, but the old guy made an excuse to leave first.
Looks like he hasn't seen a woman in a long time......
But so what, he's out anyway......
"What's wrong with you?" Sister Zhu stretched out her hand and shook it in front of his eyes.
"It's nothing, why do you ask?"
"I see you've been smiling, but it's sad in your eyes. Got something on your mind? ”
I don't know why, as soon as Sister Zhu's words came out, the smile on Da Lei's face instantly stiffened, and the corners of the two mouths seemed to be puppets, and with a "bar", the rope broke.
"Sister Zhu." Da Lei sighed, paused and said, "The story is too long, and I don't know how to tell you." Anyway, I don't have long to live, but to be honest, I'm quite down-to-earth. It's good to know your fate too early, it's better than a heart hanging from morning to night. ”
Sister Zhu didn't say anything after listening, looked at him quietly for a while, and after a while, she took out a jade bracelet from her pocket and handed it to Da Lei: "This is given to me by the son of my family before his death, which means to keep safe." There are too many dangers in the desert, I didn't dare to wear it, I was afraid of breaking it, so I kept it in my pocket, I don't know what happened to you, but since it blessed me with safe life, it can also bless you. ”
"I can't ask for this, it means too much to you."
"It's okay, take it."
Da Lei saw that Sister Zhu was resolute, so he didn't say anything more, and thanked him.
But the bracelet actually has a bit of a sense of déjà vu.
It was emerald green, and there were some red impurities in it, as if it was an undercurrent of blood.