At this time, the streets are bustling, which is different from the usual bustle.

There are still ten days to go before the Moon Festival, and every family is busy preparing reunion cakes and things needed for the festival.

Of course, that day was also the day I got married, and a few days ago, someone sent me a dowry gift, and there were a lot of things, but there was nothing to eat.

I sat down next to the stupid nest again. Yesterday, my mother asked me to remove this grass nest, and then she made room to dry the herbs, but I was always reluctant, and the money for the dowry was enough for her to sell the herbs for several years.

When I think of being stupid, I think of Xiao Er, as if I haven't seen him since I left that day, it's been many days. Even Hu Jingfeng hasn't seen that kid, by the way, I heard adults say that you can't see each other before you get married.

I heard from the people in the town that outside the town of Wuhua is a grassland, the grassland is very beautiful, but there is a small country over there, where live the people of the Western Regions who like to drink human blood. I hope Xiao Er won't be eaten as a delicacy.

"Yes! Yet! ”

It's my mother calling me again! I reluctantly got up and patted my buttocks, it was certainly not a good thing, "What's the matter, mother?" ”

"Today is your father's sacrifice day, you go to Xiaohua's house to borrow a pot of wine." The mother said to me without raising her head.

No one in our family drank alcohol, and the only one who drank was my unmasked father, who died before I was born.

I looked at my mother's busy and bent back, and I couldn't say anything if I didn't want to go.

For as long as I can remember, I don't seem to have seen my father, let alone what he looks like. I heard from my mother that my father was crushed to death when he was building the city wall for the emperor, and my mother struggled to survive because she was pregnant with me, otherwise she would have gone with him.

At this time of year, my mother would worship my father and talk to him as if my father was sitting in front of her, and I was the only one who listened to it in a daze.

When I came back from borrowing wine, my mother had already set up a table of meals, which was a sumptuous dinner that was rare in ordinary times.

I looked at the food on the table, swallowed, and didn't dare to move. One is that my mother didn't speak, and the other is that my father is in the center of the table, which feels a little weird.

"Daddy, how are you doing there? I'm fine, I'm fine. By the way, I brought you your favorite wine this time, and I forgot to bring it last time, so I didn't get angry...... I know you're not going to be angry...... Our daughter is getting married, and she is a kid of the Hu family......"

Every time I brought wine to my father, my mother would drink it all in the end, and I would get drunk every time. I looked at my mother's already reddened face, and then looked at the wooden plaque engraved with my father's name, and I felt sad for a while, not for him, but for my mother.

At this time, I was startled by a few dog barks from a distance! Suddenly something was wrong, because that's not what they usually call it.

I glanced out the window, a few scattered stars and faint shadows of trees, but beyond that, there was nothing.

The dog is still barking, it's not one anymore, it seems to be in the city.

When I turned around and called my mother, I found that she was already drunk, and a few strands of gray hair from her sideburns spilled on the table full of alcohol. I suddenly felt a wave of fear, mixed with the unsettling barking of dogs. I dragged my mother to the bed, covered her with a quilt, and blew out the candles, and the room was immediately plunged into darkness.

This is what Xiao Er taught me, he said, if you feel scared at night, blow out the candles, let yourself merge with the night, and you won't be so afraid.

After glancing at the bright moon outside the window, after thinking about it, he gritted his teeth, raised his feet and ran out the door. I'm going to Xiaohua's house, and I can hear that a dog bark is coming from Xiaohua's house.

But before I could run a few steps, Xiaohua's dog barking stopped abruptly. It was as if my feet were pinned to the ground, and I couldn't move a single bit.

It wasn't too dark, but I always felt like there was something in the darkness that I didn't know.

What to do? What to do?

I stroked myself to my chest, where a dagger lay there. After a moment's pause, I took a step.

When I got closer, I could already see her house through the low earthen wall, and I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when there was light coming from the window.

When I got closer, I noticed that the door of her house was wide open, and I covered my mouth sharply when I looked at it from afar! A large patch of blood stretched down from the edge of the door, and there was a man lying there, and I could see by the moonlight that it was Xiaohua and his father!

I walked in step by step with trembling legs, and saw her father's eyes wide as if he were also frightened, but he was godless.

"Xiaohua, Xiaohua, are you there?" I don't know if I'm really stupid, but I still have the strength to make a sound, and I don't know whether I'm alive or dead.

When I entered the back room, I was breathlessly breathless!

Xiaohua's mother was lying on the ground, with a large wound on her back, revealing a white bone inside. The bones were no longer white, they were stained blood-red. Her hand reached for the bed in front of her, as if trying to grasp something.

And Xiaohua was lying quietly on the bed, her body was not an inch, her white and smooth skin was covered with bruises, and her face, which was still beautiful and ruddy yesterday, was now so red and swollen that it was miserable.

I sat on the ground, unable to believe what was happening in front of me. At this point, the brightness of the room gave me a chill, and I hurried out into the night to escape the suffocating smell of blood.

In fact, there are several other families who live outside the town, and my family is the most remote one I live in, and now I am so weak that I just want to go home. I pulled my legs forward, not daring to turn back.

Rushing to the door of the house in one breath, I dared to slow down, the cool breeze blew, and my back was cold. I walked into the house cautiously, and I finally breathed a sigh of relief when I heard my mother's sound of snoring.

I felt that this place had begun to be unsafe, and the scene just now flashed in front of my eyes, and I gritted my teeth and dragged my mother out step by step.

Xiao Er said that when encountering danger, you must not do nothing. I remember all the words he said that I couldn't understand today.

I dragged my mother to a more remote place, and I didn't dare to stop until I couldn't see my home. Putting my mother on the grass, I gasped for breath while carefully observing my surroundings through the grass.

It was very quiet, except for the sound of my mother's heart, and even the barking of dogs. At first glance, it looks like it's the same as usual, but when I was hiding here, I knew that everything was different.