Chapter 4: A Thrilling Nightmare
Linlang slipped into the room, and the moonlight shone through the window onto the bed. Linlang patted the dust on her feet and lay back on the bed. With the soft moonlight, I fell asleep after a while.
The sky was gray, raindrops were falling on the ground, splashing tiny bubbles, and the air smelled of earth. A woman in a red shirt, with a cinnabar mole between her eyebrows, her skin is like clotted fat, her red lips and eyebrows, and there are countless water waves in her eyes. She held a small oil-paper umbrella, stood in front of Linlang, her fingers were slightly bent, the back of her hand gently touched Linlang's cheek, she smiled brightly, and softly shouted Linlang's name in her mouth.
"Linlang, Linlang."
Linlang looked at the woman in confusion, wondering why she knew her name. She was puzzled and asked, "Who are you?" Why do you recognize me? ”
The woman in red laughed a few times, slowly lowered her fingers, stroked her slender neck, and said softly: "You don't remember me, haha, you really don't remember me, it's good." After speaking, the woman's face suddenly changed, and her fingers were as cold as frost. She retracted her fingers and stuck her fingers around Linlang's neck, her eyes were red, and she seemed to be dripping blood. Her nails also became sharp, and Linlang seemed to feel her nails digging into the flesh.
Linlang couldn't breathe, the pain was unbearable, and her hands clasped the woman's wrists tightly, but she couldn't exert her strength at all. Linlang felt like she was going to die for a while, and a beam of light suddenly crossed the gray sky.
Linlang sat up from the bed with a bang, and it was already bright outside the window. Linlang covered her neck and breathed heavily, she reached out and picked up the bronze mirror on the table, and carefully looked at her neck, and there was no trace. It's just that the dream feels too real, and it's weird.
Linlang got up quickly, washed up briefly, and dressed up and went downstairs. Downstairs, Cai Wei was chatting with Xiao Lianzi, saying that there were no more flatbreads in the kitchen, and I was afraid that there were really mice.
Little Lianzi's face was pale, and he wanted to say something weakly, but he thought they would not believe him, so he did not open his mouth to tell what he had seen last night. He just felt that he was too weak, otherwise he would be the only one who could see something unclean. He also felt that he was cowardly, Linlang was not afraid of ghosts and gods, but he was afraid. Every time he was ridiculed by a little girl, his face was really dull.
Cai Wei took a few copper coins from the counter, handed them to Xiao Lianzi, and said, "Hurry up and go to the pharmacy to buy some rat poison, the damn thing is getting more and more rampant." ”
Xiao Lianzi took the money expressionlessly and hurried out. Linlang sat at the table, and his face was not very good. Cai Wei walked over, touched her head, and asked softly, "Why is your face so pale, is it because your body is uncomfortable?" ”
Linlang shook his head and said, "I probably didn't sleep well last night, so I'm a little tired." ”
Cai Wei said again: "If you are tired, just go and rest for a while, do you still go to the school today?" ”
Linlang suddenly became irritable, "It doesn't matter if you don't go to the school, Mr. is very pedantic, and what she says all day long is that a woman is not talented, and a woman should stay at home to teach her husband and children. Such a contemptuous woman, I always get angry when I go. ”
Cai Wei smiled and said, "Mr. Mo Fei Na found out that you are a woman?" Why is the temperament so great? If you're bored, don't go. ”
Linlang snorted, "If Mr. knew that I was a woman, I am afraid that I would have been kicked out of the school long ago." After speaking, he stood up and muttered: "I'd better go to school, my mother has paid the tuition, and I can't waste it in vain." ”
She staggered upstairs, and after a while she went downstairs, changed into men's clothes, her hair was tied up, and she wore a gray crown band, and ran to the kitchen like a wind.
After a while, Linlang came out of the kitchen, her face was smeared with a layer of black pot ash, and her original fair and clean skin was a little darker, and she really looked like a delicate and naughty boy. She jumped out the door, and Cai Wei shouted behind her, "Always have some breakfast before going to school." ”
Linlang turned around and patted the cloth bag she was carrying, "I brought bread to eat." ”
Linlang was in the school, and listened to her husband's discrimination against women, and originally wanted to argue with him, but Cai Wei kept telling her that she had to learn to keep a low profile in the school, otherwise once she was found to be dressed as a man, she would not be able to continue studying in the school. Fortunately, in addition to being a little pedantic in his thinking, Mr. Na is very knowledgeable.
Linlang got out of school, carried a small cloth bag, walked in the countryside field, the roadside was full of small flowers, Linlang picked a large handful and stuffed it into the bag. After turning in the field for a long time, passing by the sorghum field that I don't know whose house, the sorghum stalk is already more than one person high, she broke it from the bottom for a long time, and finally broke it, and the white transparent juice flowed out of the branch, put it in her mouth and sucked it, it was very sweet.
Linlang found a tall haystack, and was about to sit down, ready to feast, when suddenly a hare came out of nowhere. Linlang didn't take it seriously, it was very common for hares to appear in the field. She sat on the edge of the haystack, took a bite of the sorghum stalk, chewed the juice out of it, and spit it out. While she was eating with relish, the hare ran back from a distance, stopped two meters in front of her, and stared at Linlang with her eyes, which made her feel furious.
Linlang stood up and stomped at it, wanting to scare it away, but she never thought that it was not afraid, and walked straight towards her a few steps. Linlang was curious, and ran a few steps forward, it turned around and ran, she stopped, and it stopped. Over and over again, Linlang chased for a long distance and finally stopped beside a mound of dirt. There was a small hole in the mound, and the hare swooped into it. Linlang walked to the entrance of the cave and looked at the entrance of the cave a few times, but it was pitch black and she couldn't see anything. She thought it was probably the rabbit's nest, and she was about to walk back, but less than half a meter from the hole, a flash of light caught her attention. She walked over and saw that it was a jade pendant with turquoise. She picked it up and put it in her hand, the jade pendant glowed with a faint green light, clear and clear, warm and shiny, and a dragon with teeth and claws carved on it. Linlang didn't understand it, but she thought it looked good, so she put it in a cloth bag.
Returned to the original haystack, and then finished gnawing the sorghum stalks, the sun shone on the body, very comfortable, Linlang lay on the haystack and squinted, and fell asleep after a while.
She had a very long dream, in which there was a man in a black robe, with waist-length hair, and the hare squatting next to him. The man stood with his back to Linlang, who asked curiously who he was. The man turned around and glanced at it, and at this glance, Knot was really startled. The man didn't have a face, no, no facial features, to be exact, just a piece of skin wrapped around his face. Kept shouting words she didn't understand. He had no mouth, and the voice seemed to come from his chest, and it was too chaotic to hear. Even if she is bold, she has seen some little ghosts, and most of them are human. But she had never seen such a terrifying face. She was so frightened that she wanted to scream, but it looked like a big rock was blocked in her throat. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't make a sound. Linlang was so scared that she ran back, but no matter where she ran, the monster could appear in front of her, he stretched out his hands to Linlang, and was about to grab her neck, Linlang woke up from his dream with an "ah", and was covered with sweat. In the distance, the sun was setting, and she hurried up from the ground and ran towards the city.
She ran back to the inn in one go, her hair disheveled into a chicken coop, grass on it, and a cloth bag with a mess of wild flowers stuffed into her chest, looking really embarrassed.
Cai Wei saw Linlang's dirty appearance and hurriedly asked her if she had a fight with someone. Linlang gasped and didn't say a word, and drank a pot of tea. After a while, he stammered that he had been chased by a wolfdog.
Cai Wei laughed at her that she must have provoked the dog, otherwise how could she not chase others and chase her. Linlang was stunned, and she didn't refute, just sat there stunned.
It was almost dusk, Cai Wei was cleaning up the dirty schoolbag for Linlang under the lamp, she suddenly remembered the jade pendant in the bag, if Cai Wei saw it and said where she stole it, she thought about it and snatched the schoolbag from Cai Wei's hand. Cai Wei looked at her in surprise, and was about to get angry, so Linlang hurriedly said: "Mr. Today said that you have to do your own things." ”
Cai Wei sneered and said, "Okay, I've finally learned a little better." Okay, you pack your bag here, and I'll wash your soiled clothes. ”
After Cai Wei left, Linlang hurriedly took out the jade pendant from the schoolbag, and put it under the light to shine, it was green and transparent, glowing with crystal light, which was very good-looking. Linlang found a red rope, put the jade pendant on, and tied it around her neck.
Linlang's forgetfulness was so big that it was easy to be diverted, and she only thought about the jade pendant in her heart, and she forgot the strange dream in the field.