"Dongzhu is dead!" The neighbor Wang Po attached to the punishment Ruyi's ear and said mysteriously.

"It took me a long time to find out!" Seeing that the punishment Ruyi did not reflect, Wang Po hurriedly added: "When I was carried back, my face was rotten, I saw it with my own eyes." Speaking of which, this Dong Zhu Niang is also a poor person. When I was young, I was abandoned by my own man. At that time, she was already pregnant with Dongzhu, and on a snowy day, she knelt in the snow and begged her man, and even we, the neighbors, couldn't bear to see it. Later, the man didn't know whether he was soft-hearted, or he cared about his own face, so he went back to the room with Dong Zhuniang. In the second half of the night, we didn't hear any movement, only knew that the next morning, Dongzhu was born, and the mother and mother were lying alone in the small broken house, and Dongzhu's father was gone.

We all guessed, but we were afraid that it was the negative man, seeing that the neighbors around him were scattered, he hardened his heart and left Dongzhu Niang behind. As for this Dongzhu Niang, as soon as she is excited and stimulated, the child will be born early. It's also a loss, the neighbors found out early, and invited our Ji Shengtang's shopkeeper Liu, oh, the shopkeeper Liu was still young at the time, but the medical skills were already quite good, and he didn't ask for any money, so he saved the two of them.

Finally, the orphans and widows were supported by hardship, and no matter how difficult the days were, they slowly survived. Dongzhu, this girl, is good-looking, not to mention, her hands and feet are still diligent, and her heart is kind, and when she is a teenager, she also tells her that the door is not bad. As a result, God deliberately made it difficult, this family business was not done yet, and the man went to join the army, and there was no news for three years. Dongzhu thinks about it day and night, and everyone has lost a whole circle. That year, I didn't know what was crazy, so I secretly went out to find her fiancé without telling her mother. As a result, something happened, I heard that it was robbed by mountain bandits, think about it, such a beautiful big girl, meet a group of bandits, what other good things can be? This girl's temperament is also fierce, and she guesses that she wants to keep her innocence, so she suddenly found a short-sightedness.

This process is all guessed by us, but ** is not far from ten, in those years, there were a lot of similar things, but few people in the city saw it and knew less. Anyway, in the end, Dongzhu Niang took someone to look for it, and it took many days to find Dongzhu's body, and she was carried back. You don't know, the smell on that body has been dissipating for days. However, we don't care, we all watched Dongzhu's child grow up, and when we encounter such a thing, we are all sad in our hearts, right? ”

Wang Po said, secretly pointed at Dong Zhu Niang, and asked quietly, "Girl, what are you doing?" I saw you following Dong Zhu Niang, could it be that she went to you to see her daughter? ”

"I'm not a doctor, I'm a seller of rouge gouache, and this mother-in-law bought rouge in my store today, paid for it, but didn't take anything. I saw that she was in a trance, so I quietly followed, on the one hand, to give her something, and on the other hand, I was not at ease, I wanted to see if there was anything that needed help from this mother-in-law's house. ”

"I knew at a glance that you were a kind girl, too. But rouge gouache is not needed. Wang Po waved her hand: "This Dongzhu Niang, just Dongzhu has a daughter." After Dongzhu's death, her brain was a little abnormal, and she always told us that her daughter was still alive and alive. But if you think about it, your face is rotten like that, and the stench of your whole body can smoke people to death, how can you still be alive. ”

When Wang Po said this, she lowered her voice again, and whispered to Xing Ruyi: "Girl, listen to your mother-in-law, don't give the rouge to you, and when Dongzhu Niang remembers it one day, she will go to ask you." I'm not asking you to be greedy, but you can't go to that house. ”

"Why?" Xing Ruyi asked rhetorically.

When she was in Ruyi Rouge Shop before, after listening to Dong Zhuniang's story, she also offered to go back with her and try her best to help her daughter diagnose and treat. But Dong Zhuniang said that she didn't want to say anything. Just after listening to the words of her neighbor Wang Po, she probably had a conclusion in her heart. If Dongzhu really passed away back then, then at present, the one who stayed in Dongzhu's family could only be the same as Dongzhu Niang, a living dead.

No! It can't be the living dead!

But all the living dead need to have a prerequisite, that is, to retain a breath of life. Just now, Wang Po has already said that Dongzhu was found and carried home, her face was rotten. At the moment, although it is not possible to judge whether Dongzhu's face is broken, bumped or rotten, the strong corpse smell emitted from her body is enough to show that Dongzhu is not a living person.

Sure enough, Wang Po's words also confirmed Xing Ruyi's guess just now.

What Wang Po said was: "Dongzhu was carried in by people watching me, but since I was carried in, I have never been carried out." In the early years, we also asked Dong Zhuniang about it, but she was a person, since the man left, her temperament was originally withdrawn, and then she became more and more eccentric, and even her eyes became terrifying. We are all ordinary people, and we all sympathize with her plight, thinking that even if she has a dead person in her house, she will not be able to make any waves. But after all, this man and ghost have different paths, you look at the houses around us, they are all hung with red cloth to ward off evil spirits. This is because, Dongzhu's house is haunted! ”

"Thank you, Granny Wang, what you just said, Ruyi has written it down in my heart. It's just that this rouge, I'm still going to send it. In addition, this theory of ghosts and gods has always been believed to exist, and if you do not believe, you do not. If you are jealous, Granny Wang, you might as well invite a Bodhisattva and place it at home, so that you can have a comfort. ”

"Oh, you girl, why are you so disobedient? My princess is for your own good, not a random tongue chewer. Wang Po waved her hand: "You go to my house and take a look, I have invited more than one Bodhisattva, but what is the use?" I can hear Dongzhu walking around the house every night. I'm also a person who has already been buried in the ground for a long time, and I can't talk about being particularly afraid of this ghost, weird, and everyone will die after all, right? At most, two years later, my wife will become like her, and I can't say who is afraid of whom. I'm looking at you as a little girl, young, and I don't want you to provoke those bad luck. It's better for you to bury me with some words. ”

"As the old saying goes, don't do bad things for people, and don't be shocked when you knock on the door in the middle of the night. Mother-in-law, the reason why you can hear the sound of Dongzhu walking next door is not because Dongzhu's ghost is haunting, but because you have a ghost in your heart. Xing Ruyi said, suddenly grabbed Wang Po's left hand and lifted it up. On the wrist of the princess, she wore a gold bracelet. The color of the bracelet is average, but it is very bright to wipe.

"This bracelet in my mother-in-law's hand was originally from Miss Dongzhu, right?"

"You, what nonsense are you talking about? This bracelet is mine, and it was given to me by my old man when I got married. ”

"Mother-in-law is lying!" Xing Ruyi held her hand and didn't let go: "This bracelet was originally a pair, and it is a style that has only emerged in the past ten years, whether it is the thickness of the bracelet or the carved pattern, it is suitable for young girls to wear." So, mother-in-law, what you just said, this is an object when you got married, and it is a lie in itself. ”

"This is what I later saw that the girl was looking good, so I destroyed the original bracelet and asked the craftsman to make it else, is there a problem?" Wang Po stubbornly protected the bracelet on her wrist.

"There's no problem, but it's the pattern on this bracelet that has a problem." Xing Ruyi grabbed Wang Po's hand: "Mother-in-law, you carefully wipe it every day, and I think I am very clear about the patterns on this bracelet." As Dongzhu's neighbor, mother-in-law, do you know what the word Dongzhu means? Let me tell you, that's because she was born in the winter, and the silver moon was in the sky, and the moonlight shone through the tattered window lattice on the face of the newborn baby girl, making her glow as charming as a pearl. In addition, she herself is the only hope of her mother, and in her mother's heart, she is naturally as precious as a pearl. ”

"What does this have to do with my bracelet?"

"Absolutely! Because this bracelet was originally a pair, it was a gift carefully prepared for Dongzhu by Dongzhu Niang before she was born, and it can be regarded as a dowry for her in the future.

What is painted on this bracelet is not the dragon and phoenix that we usually see, or other simple patterns, but the scene when Dongzhu was born, which is not the habit of our Central Plains people, but a custom unique to Dongzhu Niang's hometown. ”

Xing Ruyi said, took the bracelet off Wang Po's hand, and then raised it to Wang Po to see: "This bracelet adopts the method of yin and yang carving, that is to say, its pattern is one yin and one yang, one concave and one convex respond to each other, and the pattern on the front and the pattern on the back, the pattern on the left hand and the pattern on the right hand are also linked to each other. ”

Xing Ru was stunned when she thought that Wang Po was stunned, then smiled and said, "Wang Po, are you very curious?" Curious why I knew the bracelets were a pair? And you're even more curious, why didn't you see the other one when you stole the bracelet? ”

Wang Po's shriveled mouth was pursed.

"Now, let me reveal the answer for you!" Xing Ruyi held the bracelet in his hand: "The so-called providence in the underworld, the reason why I know that this bracelet was originally a pair is because the other one is in my home." But I'm different from you, your bracelet was stolen from Dongzhu's house, but mine was a gift from a friend. Mrs. Wang, you still remember what you just said. It was Ji Shengtang's shopkeeper Liu, who saved Dongzhu's mother and daughter, and didn't take a penny. ”

Wang Po nodded.

In fact, the shopkeeper Liu did not take a penny back then, he took another pair of bracelets. Under the circumstances at that time, Dong Zhu Niang had no other valuables on her body except for this pair of bracelets. The grace of saving life is greater than the sky, according to Dong Zhuniang's temperament, she is definitely not willing to accept this kindness in vain, so she gave one of the bracelets to the shopkeeper Liu as medicine.

Later, the shopkeeper Liu got married and gave the bracelet to his wife. As for me, I am also close friends with Mrs. Liu, and I have also done their Liu family a great favor, so this bracelet was given to me by Mrs. Liu. Coincidentally, Mrs. Liu also gave me the origin of this bracelet, and the description in it was exactly the same as what Dong Zhuniang told me. ”

"Based on these alone, you can't say that I took this bracelet from Dongzhu!"

"Of course it's not just that, I have other discoveries, Wang Po, do you want to listen to it too?"

(Education 123 Literature Network)