Chapter 16: Leaving Home (2-in-1)
I don't know what the child daughter-in-law looks like, because it's like a standing shadow, I can only see the eyes on my face, and the song I heard her sing in the room before combined with what the old man said, so I didn't suspect it at all!
Now it seems that let alone me, it is estimated that even the old man does not know that it is not Chen Xiufang in front of him, and now it will be dark, and if he doesn't rush back, I'm afraid it will be too late......
Thinking of this, I didn't care about explaining anything to this water ghost, so I turned around and ran back to the Dragon King Temple like crazy, and saw the lights lit up inside through the night.
When I came to the backyard, I saw the old man standing in the doorway, which made my heart loosen violently, and I stopped and almost fell to the ground.
"You kid, I said where you went, what's the matter? Running in a hurry, white-faced. The old man looked at me as if complaining, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, wait for you, if you don't come to be a witness, how can I visit the church." β
I raised my head, and just wanted to say that it was not Chen Xiufang who wanted to worship him, but out of the corner of my eye, I swept to a black shadow pestle wearing a red cotton jacket on the upper body at the door, staring at me and the old man without saying a word.
I swallowed the words back, and casually perfunctory the reason for such a hurry, the old man smiled, pointed to the black shadow at the door and introduced: "This is your Grandma Chen, remember to call her that in the future, she has been alone for decades, she is not used to talking, don't be uncomfortable." β
I nodded and did not speak, and the old man saw that the time was almost up, so he pulled me into the house, and a very humble wedding began hastily.
It's really sloppy, if it weren't for the few letters on the wall and the pair of red candles on the table, no one would have thought that a wedding was being held here.
However, the old man said that there were more weddings than this humble one.
The room was dimly lit, and I stood to the side as I watched an old man in a black coat and a shadow in a red cotton jacket stand side by side.
"Worship heaven and earth."
"Two worship the high hall."
"Husband and wife worship each other."
Because the old man's parents are no longer there, so I can only put two empty chairs in front of me, which is considered to have such a meaning, and after the two of them also bowed to each other, I opened my mouth, but I couldn't say the word Licheng anyway.
The old man turned his head to look at me, not urging, but with a hint of doubt on his face.
I can be said to have a hard time, how can I say this, I said that the old man is really going to marry Xu Cuiling, and he will enter the cave room after the ceremony is completed, and I will definitely not be able to stay here at that time.
As soon as I leave, won't the old man be ironclad and cold?
After thinking about it for a while, I put one hand in my pocket, and then walked over to the old man, who also knew that something was wrong, so he couldn't help but ask me what was wrong.
"No, you're not dressed properly, I'll give you a whole fit."
I walked up to the old man with a smile, then took out the peach wood dagger in my pocket, stabbed Xu Cuiling hard, and then pulled the old man and ran out of the house.
"Yu'an, what's wrong with you?!" The old man asked with a shocked expression.
I couldn't wait to carry the old man up and run at this time, and when I heard the inquiry, I couldn't help but say: "Master Li, this is Xu Cuiling, Chen Xiufang was killed by her a few years ago!" β
The old man's body was shocked, and then he broke free of my hand, tears welled up from his eyes, and he asked in disbelief: "Cui Ling, kill Xiufang?!" β
I looked at the old man who refused to leave and couldn't help but be anxious, because at this time Xu Cuiling also chased out, the speed was extremely fast, and there was an empty hole in the place where she was originally pierced, it seems that Du Qing is not lying, and the peach wood dagger is very useful even if it is held by ordinary people.
However, now is not the time to struggle with whether the peachwood dagger is good or not, and I shouted loudly while dragging the old man: "Really! Can I still lie to you? Let's go, Master Li! β
"I'm not leaving!" The old man burst into tears and asked Xu Cuiling, who had already caught up, with a trembling voice, "You, are you really Cuiling?" β
Xu Cuiling didn't make a move after catching up, just looked at the old man quietly, didn't speak, but it was already a tacit.
"Why did you kill her!" The old man's body bent a lot, and he said in a desolate tone: "Do you have any grievances and come to me to say no?" Why do you have to kill her! β
"Go back and get married." Finally, Xu Cuiling spoke.
"Marriage?" The old man laughed and tears flowed down, only to see him reach out and grab the red cotton jacket on Xu Cuiling's body: "This is what my mother made for her at the beginning!" You don't deserve it! Give me! β
This sentence seemed to infuriate Xu Cuiling, who took a few steps back and shouted in a shrill voice: "She was the one who pushed me down in the first place!" β
The old man's body was shocked, he looked at her in disbelief, shook his whole body a few times, and sat on the ground.
Looking at his appearance, the tears were gone, but there was no expression, as if his heart was dead.
"Get married, marry me." Xu Cuiling walked up again.
The old man shook his head and said, "If you don't marry, I won't marry anyone." β
Xu Cuiling's hand shook, and there was an extra pair of scissors in her hand, and then she stabbed the old man violently.
"Then come and stay with me when you're dead!"
The scissors pierced very deeply, and the old man's blood gushed out of his body.
I originally thought that things would turn around, and my eyes turned red all of a sudden, and I rushed forward with the dagger in my hand and stabbed Xu Cuiling fiercely!
However, Xu Cuiling's body shook, and almost in the blink of an eye, it disappeared, and then I felt a pain in my back, and I felt some liquid flow out at once, and soon soaked my upper body.
Fueled by the pain, I turned around and stabbed with a dagger, but I still stabbed an empty ......
"If you kill him, let alone live, even if you die, I will never marry you." The old man on the other side said bitterly.
Sure enough, Xu Cuiling hesitated, took back the scissors that she stabbed at me, stood aside and looked at the old man, and said coldly: "Go in and get married." β
The old man gasped and said, "Tomorrow, today...... The injury was so bad that I couldn't stand up......"
Xu Cuiling was silent for a moment, and finally nodded, telling the old man that if he didn't marry her tomorrow, he would kill me.
As soon as it left, I hurriedly stepped forward to help the old man up, but the old man lying in a pool of blood waved his hand and said with a wry smile: "Don't bother, I don't know if my kidney or lung was pierced by her, it's too late......"
I said no, and then put my hand on his chest to stop the bleeding, and then I had to carry him out! My mind went blank, I didn't dare to think, I didn't dare to think what the old man would do if he really died.
"Yu An...... Talk to the master, really, don't bother......"
The old man insisted on refusing to leave, and he was probably right, because the small clinic in the town could not do anything about his injury, and it was too late to call an ambulance from the city.
I knew that the old man might be gone, and my inner emotions collapsed at once, and I couldn't help but kneel on the ground and cry.
"Ahem, ahemβI've been a fool in my life." The old man seemed to sigh: "Yu'an, don't cry, this day is not bad, at least you are old, and you are by your side." β
"Ye has been running away all his life, but he didn't escape in the end, two women, let me cry without tears, if I had a little more courage at that time, the result would have been different today."
Cui Ling...... Poor, don't hate her, because of me, she lost her life, plus what I said yesterday, she hates me now, thinking about getting married, but she is just unwilling, but I really don't hate her, you don't want to help the lord take revenge, the lord really doesn't need it, I die, the debt will be cleared, and I will be comfortable when I die. β
As he spoke, he took my hand, clenched it very tightly, and instructed: "Don't cry yet, remember, I died, I was cremated and burned directly, these two women are too ruthless, I don't want to go down and be bullied by them, do you hear?" β
I held back my sadness and nodded.
"Then you can rest assured, I understand now, there are some things that you can't help but do, otherwise you will regret it when you get old, so you have to go out in the future, and the master won't stop you."
"It's just that you have to remember, come back to see your parents more often, do you hear me?"
I nodded again.
"Okay, don't, don't cry, grow up - after that, you can't cry in the future, ugly ......"
As he spoke, the hand tried to touch my head, but it fell down again.
Looking at the old man's lifeless eyes, I rubbed my eyes, I couldn't cry, and I would never cry in the future.
With trembling hands, I closed the old man's eyes with a hint of nostalgia, and I lifted them away to look at the starry sky, and for the first time in my life, I felt that my heart was gone.
On the day of the girl's mountain, the heart died.
Now, I feel like my heart is gone.
I don't know if I killed the old man, but I thought it should be, and then I thought, maybe it was a good choice for my parents to throw me directly into the river.
At the very least, there won't be as many things as there will be.
First I hurt the dragon girl, and then I hurt the old man, and it seems that people who are a little closer to me will have bad luck.
What's wrong with me?
I sat until dawn, when the first rays of sunlight shone into my eyes over the wall, I came back to my senses and looked down at the old man, the old man's body was already cold, and my eyes were a little astringent.
But the strange thing is that it seems that the tears are gone, no matter how sad the heart is, no tears overflow.
"Well, at least you won't be disappointed in me."
Carrying the old man into the house, I dipped a towel in water, wiped the blood on his face, and took off the dirty clothes and changed into a clean one.
After arranging the old man's body, I looked at him for a while, and finally went out to get some gasoline, and removed a lot of wood from the furniture in the house and put it in the courtyard.
It's not that I don't want to keep the vigil, but I think that if I don't burn it now, it will be too late for Xu Cuiling to come over in the evening, and the old man died in an accident, and I still need a death certificate issued by the hospital to go to the crematorium, and I obviously can't open this thing.
Fortunately, the old man was alone, and in the town, he didn't have any acquaintances except for our family, and he belonged to the kind that no one remembered when he died.
Otherwise, I don't really know what to do.
The Dragon King Temple is far away from the town, and now it is just dawn, so the fire that ignited did not attract anyone's attention, and it burned for three hours before the fire gradually became smaller.
When the fire was extinguished, I looked again, because it couldn't compare to the high temperature in the crematorium, so it didn't burn clean, but it didn't matter, it was almost okay to burn like this, first wronged the old man, and when I had the ability later, I could come back to make up for him.
Because the old man didn't explain before his death, I took a shovel and dug a pit directly in the backyard, buried the old man's unburned grave in it, and filled in the soil to build a small grave bag, without a tombstone, because the conditions were limited, I could only wait for the grave to be moved later.
It's hard to imagine that in the past, I, who couldn't kill chickens and didn't dare to watch ghost movies alone, will become like this now, I can only say that life has forced people to their part, and if you don't die, you can only be like me.
Metamorphosis, I don't know if it's good or bad.
I felt a little nervous, but I didn't care, maybe I should have become the way I am now.
Kneeling in front of the old man's grave, I kowtowed three times, and then suddenly remembered that I didn't seem to have called him grandpa, I used to think in my heart, but I was embarrassed, so I could only add another Li, called Li Ye, like a girl who still hugged the pipa and half covered her face.
Thinking of this, my heart was a little sour, I knelt on the ground again, and said: "Master Li, my grandfather died early, I haven't seen what he looks like since he was born, you treat me well, from now on, I will also call you grandpa!" β
"Grandpa, you will sleep, it won't be long before I am wronged, I will come back to give you a beautiful funeral!"
After saying that, I stood up and looked at the backyard house where I had lived for several days, and I couldn't help but feel a little confused.
What should you do when you get out of here?
The old man didn't let me take revenge before he died, I decided to follow his last wish, as long as Xu Cuiling didn't come to provoke me, I wouldn't take revenge, but if I went home, I was afraid of affecting my parents.
Now I am a bomb, Xu Cuiling must hate me to death, if I go home, I will definitely affect my parents.
Thinking of this, I pulled out my phone and dialed my mother's number.
"Hello? What's wrong with you, son? Why do you call your mother? "On the other end of the phone, there was the sound of my mother eating melon seeds and the TV.
I wanted to laugh a little, but my nose was a little sour, so I told her that there was an urgent matter at the company, and I would rush back immediately.
"What, in a hurry? Didn't have any effort to go home and see it? My mother was a little unhappy and said, "What about Uncle Li?" Did you say hello to him? β
I said that the old man was going with me, and that I was going to find a job as a security guard for him there, and that the old man had gone to buy cigarettes and could not answer her phone for the time being.
Hearing that the old man was going to be with me, my mother was a lot more relieved, but she still couldn't help but complain a little in her tone: "You remember to listen to Uncle Li's words outside, and also, call back every once in a while, really, I will leave without saying hello for a few days, I am really a white-eyed wolf who does not love home, hum β―^β°!" β
I rubbed my sour nose and said, "Don't worry, next time I come back, I won't leave." β
"That's what you said, you have to bring me a daughter-in-law back, do you hear?"
"Hey, promise to get the job done!"
"Okay, get out."
Putting away the phone, I wrote another note with my phone number on it and put it in the most conspicuous place in the house, in case Du Qing couldn't reach me when he returned.
After doing this, I stepped on the bus to the city and looked out the window at the familiar scenery with some reluctance.
I know that this time, if you successfully find the dragon girl, then everything is easy to say, if it doesn't go well, even if you don't lose your life, it is estimated that it will take a few years.
In the dark, I felt like I had embarked on a road, a road from which I could not turn back, and I did not know how far it would be.
Can you still come back?
I shook my head, not wanting to think about it anymore.
The bus stopped at the bus station, and after I got off the bus, I bought a hat at the door, because my hair was ripped like a dog's gnaw, so everyone looked at me strangely along the way.
When I put on my hat, sure enough, no one looked at me with strange eyes, and even if there were, they were all some little girls, and there were two people who came to ask me for WeChat, and I wouldn't give it before, and now I don't have this heart.
Walking all the way to the train station, I was confused when I saw the bustling crowd in the square.
Hands that can't be washed cleanly.
It's like a dumb riddle, how to guess it, and I can't figure out what is stuck on my hands that won't be clean.
It's paint, and it's time to wash off a layer of skin.
But anyway, there must always be a place for water to wash your hands, and there are several public toilets outside the station, so I decided to patrol back and forth, but what makes me helpless is that I didn't sleep at night, and I looked back and forth several times, but the train station is so crowded that people keep going to the bathroom even in the early morning.
So, even if there's anything dirty here, you don't dare to wash your hands with a faucet in front of everyone.
Although I think the public toilets in the train station should be the same, but I have no choice but to buy a random ticket to go in and have a look, after all, although the old dragon king doesn't like me, it shouldn't hurt me.
It says it's at the train station, so it must be at the train station, and as for whether it can be found or not, then it doesn't matter.
When I went to the train station, for two days, I ran upstairs and downstairs between the toilets, I would lie down on a chair and sleep when I was tired, and buy a bucket of instant noodles at a convenience store when I was hungry.
I searched for a long time, and when I was a little discouraged, I suddenly felt something was wrong while lying on the chair and resting with my eyes closed, and when I opened my eyes, there was a person standing in front of me.
Female, she looks like she is in her early twenties, wearing a police uniform, and she looks pretty good, but at this time, I look a little unkind.
My heart sank, could it be that the old man's death was discovered? Come to think of it, what I did was too rough, if I get caught, should I tell the truth? But I said that the old man was killed by a ghost, will the police believe it?
It should be, after all, I was stabbed in the back, if it weren't for Du Qing's thick vest, my wound would be very shallow, I'm afraid I would have to go to the hospital to lie down for a few days, but what if the police don't believe me?
Am I going to be unjustly imprisoned, squatting for decades or even indefinitely?
In just a few seconds, I thought a lot, and my face was cloudy, and so was the policewoman's face, which became more and more gloomy.
"What, you're so weak-hearted?" She said in a deep voice, although her tone was not very good, but her voice was crisp and quite nice.
I stood up helplessly and said, "I'll go with you, you will give me innocence." β
The policewoman sneered and said, "If you do the right thing, the law will naturally give you innocence, but I'm afraid that you have done something wrong." β
I stretched out my hand, a group of helpless people on my face, although I wanted to run, but I couldn't run away in the train station, I could only hope that Du Qing or someone could come to catch me.
"What? Watched too many Hong Kong films? The policewoman frowned and said, "Come with me, I look like a dog, I didn't expect to be down-to-earth, and I just thought of some crooked ways." β
I was stunned.
In other words, even if a few people are arrested to arrest murderers now, don't they even need handcuffs?
I seem, misunderstanding something......