Chapter Eighty-Eight: Loving Beauty and Hating Youth
"I was groggy, I kept hearing someone laughing in my ear, hey, hey, giggling, like phlegm stuck in my throat, broken and chaotic, I felt very bad at the time, and hurriedly looked around, and saw a rickety old woman sitting under my feet, with her head scattered, and the reflection on the wall was fangs and claws, she faced me, leaning over the table and fiddling with something, while fiddling, while laughing miserably, like a lonely ghost in the mountains......"
Zheng Zhuzhu took a broken breath, she had never seen Granny Xie, and the first time she heard about it, she was naturally more scared than us.
"I thought it was a dream, but no, my whole body was very sore and painful, and the smell of rancid smell kept getting into my nose, there was no such a real dream, and suddenly came to such a gloomy haunted house-like place, I was naturally scared, and I almost vomited, the old woman moved, I quickly closed my eyes, I didn't dare to face him."
But the strange old woman knew that I was awake, and she threw down what she was doing, and the bottles and cans seemed to be broken a lot, and there was a lot of heavy smell of fat powder in the air. Before I could prepare, she suddenly pounced on me, her coarse rancid stench and grease on my face, like a madman. ”
Zheng Zhuzhu swallowed and said tremblingly, "She...... Why is she touching your face? She's not a man......"
"I asked her, I asked her what she wanted to do, and she also pretended to say that she was kind enough to save me because she saw me faint, but her expression and behavior didn't look like she was saving me with kindness, but wanted to maliciously imprison me." Xia Xia said hatefully.
"If she's just an old man, then you're young and strong, you should be able to escape, right?"
"I tried, but she didn't know what medicine was given to me, I couldn't move, my whole body was weak, and I couldn't even speak too loudly. I tried to say that I was leaving, but she suddenly lost her temper and pinched my arm fiercely, saying that I had no conscience and would leave as soon as I woke up. ”
I imagined that scene because I had secretly seen the nervous way of Old Lady Xie.
"I saw that she was so vicious and sensitive, so I changed my tone, saying that I was afraid that Sister Fei would worry and would go back to take care of her, but this strange old lady didn't listen at all, she also said that she had been alone for a long time, and she wanted to keep me with her for the rest of her life, and happily hugged a bunch of weird-tasting rouge gouache to me, saying that it was specially prepared for me."
Zheng Zhuzhu swallowed again, and said with a sigh of relief: "She-why did she prepare these things for you?" You're just a little girl—"
"yes, I find it hard to understand too, I said I don't need these things, but she suddenly got angry and smashed all those bottles and cans on me, yelling and hysterical there, and I said that she was an ugly old woman who couldn't put on makeup, and said I didn't know what to do-"
Zheng Zhuzhu leaned in towards me, and I felt her trembling, real people and real stories were far more terrifying than those anecdotes.
"I knew I couldn't go against her will, so I had to say a few perfunctory words, and she immediately put away her temper again, twisted her waist and stroked her face, saying that she was also a beautiful girl, and she didn't rarely get these cheesy rouge gouaches at all——"
"Yes, yes, yes, I once secretly saw that she was wearing a young woman's clothes in the yard, wearing a hair cover, twisting her waist, wearing heavy makeup, pretending that she was a young woman, and cursing God, saying that she was a beautiful lady, and she should have been in her twenties or something, and that appearance really scared me away." I remembered the last time I saw Jin Niang, I saw the scene in Xie Po's backyard.
Xia Xia said strangely: "Sister Fei has also seen it?" ”
I nodded: "I've seen it, it's really scary." ”
Xia Xia said: "She has been cursing and complaining, hating Jin Niang for causing her to lose her youthful appearance, and smashing all the things in the house, I think if Jin Niang was in front of her at that time, she would definitely tear her to pieces." ”
I was a little nauseous and wanted to vomit, and said, "Why does she hate Jin Niang so much?" ”
Xia Xia said: "She hates everyone, especially young women - after she lost her temper for some reason, she picked up those broken bottles again, said that she wanted to dress me up, and asked me to - let me choose my favorite clothes and accessories......"
Xia Xia's voice trembled, and her hands instantly became cold.
"What's wrong? You follow her, is she still crazy? ”
Xia Xia gritted her teeth and said: "She is really a crazy person, there is no cure, the clothes and accessories she wants to show me are all neatly worn on a skeleton, each skeleton is wearing different clothes, wearing a different wig, the white bones on her face are also painted with red rouge, and the blackened gums are smeared with bright red lip red!" ”
"Ahh Zheng Jewel screamed tremblingly, and I retched a few times.
The more Xia Xia spoke, the faster she was scared, even if she recalled, it made her terrified: "Those skeletons were like people, and they opened their mouths at me gloomily, and I fainted at once, I really hoped that I wouldn't wake up again, I didn't want to see such a heinous thing again, but soon I woke up again, but I didn't dare to open my eyes, I didn't dare to look at these things again, the strange old woman still knew that I was awake, she saw that I refused to open my eyes, and kept pulling my eyelids and tearing them apart alive, I had to show me the eyebrows she had drawn for me—I was so scared that she was going to break my eyes, so I had to open them! ”
Zheng Zhuzhu was already close to me, trembling with my body, and no one dared to ask her what she saw when she opened her eyes.
"I opened my eyes and saw nothing, because the strange old lady was a madman, and she gave me a black mirror, and I couldn't see anything at all, but she kept asking me if I was beautiful in the mirror, and I didn't know what she had become, so I could only follow her wishes and say that it was beautiful, and begged her to let me out, so that everyone could see my beauty."
"Don't, she's going to go crazy!" Zheng Jewel whispered hurriedly.
"No, she didn't lose her temper again, on the contrary, she was still very happy, and hurriedly helped me up, but I was really scared, ready to run away at any time, I lay down for a long time and had strength, as soon as she approached me, I immediately pushed her away and jumped out of bed——"
Zheng Zhuzhu grabbed my arm tightly, and she was more excited than me.
"But I didn't make it, and as soon as I jumped out of bed I fell to the ground, but I had a little strength, but it was impossible to escape. The strange old lady knew my intentions, and immediately started a big temper again, stomping and kicking on me, and saying that I broke my legs, and let me stay with her in that ghost place for the rest of my life, so that I could not survive and die—I didn't want to please and beg for mercy anymore, so I let her beat, and she beat and I scolded! ”
"Do you dare to scold her, don't you want to live anymore?" I screamed.
"Anyway, she won't let me go, why should I be wronged - I scolded her for being an ugly bastard and told her to die quickly, but the strange thing is that when I scolded her like this, she didn't get angry, on the contrary, she cried and kept asking why this happened, asking why God did this to her and so on - she always seemed to refuse to believe that she was an old woman, and always wanted to be a young woman."
I was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt a little sad, I had seen Granny Xie crying alone in the courtyard, very desolate and lonely.
"While she was crying, I slowly crawled out, but before I reached the door, she was dragged back, she was so small, her strength was so great, she threw my whole body from the ground to the bed, my whole bones fell apart, and I couldn't scream in pain."
I was distressed and said, "With so many injuries on your body, did this end up?" ”
Xia Xia said: "However, after she threw me on the bed, it was over." She suddenly pounced and pulled away the beads that I was hanging from my neck, and it hurt so much that it almost broke the back of my neck. You touch it, and there are still thick scabs. ”
Xia Xia took my hand to touch the back of her neck, and sure enough, it was a thick arc, and I was worried: "It won't be scarred, right?" ”
Xia Xia said: "No, it's good to avoid water." ”
"What beads did Granny Xie pull you from? Why don't I remember what beads you have hanging? ”
"It's the one that the third brother gave me, Sister Fei, you also have one, the ugly old lady snatched my beads, and she had to let me give them to him, I was so angry that I kicked it, and then the light suddenly went out——"
Cold Crystal? I unconsciously touched my chest.
"Has anyone come to your rescue?" I was very nervous, because Meng Wu said that it was Yan who saved Xia Xia by mistake.
"I don't know, I just know that the lights are out, the black lights are blind and I can't see anything, the ugly old lady is like crazy in the house scolding, but there has been no other movement in the house, I thought the wind blew out the lights, but suddenly the candlestick also fell, I heard something moving fast, and the ugly old lady's exclamation, something fell on my body, a slight glow, it was the beads that the ugly old lady snatched, as soon as there was light, I looked up to find the ugly old lady, her expression was very weird, turned her head to stare at something on the wall behindand fall—"
"What's on the wall?! What is it?! "I was nervous.
"I followed her gaze—I saw something floating there on the wall, and a cold gaze looked at me menacingly, terrifying—"
"Floating? It's like- like I told you before, is there a grimace floating on the wall? Think about it, have you seen that person's face clearly? "I tried to be sure.
Xia Xia said: "It's so messy, I didn't see it clearly, I fainted, and then I didn't know it, I woke up and was brought back by the third brother." ”
I asked Zheng Zhuzhu, "Was Xia Xia's face terrifying when she came back?" Is it that his face is painted pale, his eyebrows are painted black like branches, and his lips are as red as blood? ”
Zheng Zhuzhu thanked him several times and said, "What kind of grudge do you have against this Mother-in-law Xie and you, why do you want to do this to Sister Xia Xia?" ”
Xia Xia hated: "No resentment or hatred, she is a madman." ”
Granny Xie's behavior is indeed disgusting, but I always remember the day I saw her singing alone in the courtyard and muttering: "Actually, she is also very pitiful, she is old and has no reason, and she is addicted to youth and irreparable." Once I passed by her yard and saw her crying and singing alone, and she sang a very sad song, and I felt as if she was waiting for someone, waiting for someone who had not come back......"
Xia Xia hated this Granny Xie to the core, and said: "She is an old immortal, and the horror of waiting is also a ghost, this kind of person is not worthy of pity at all!" ”