Li Xumu followed the middle-aged woman to the house.

On the way, I learned that the middle-aged woman's name was Xiufen, and her sister, who had gone crazy, was called Ah Fang.

"Her child, dead?!" Li Xumu didn't know what was going on.

Xiufen pulled Ah Fang's tied hand and sighed sadly. "My sister has a hard life, and she gave birth to a child who is a ghost baby."

Li Xumu didn't understand the meaning of this sentence, he only felt that the whole thing was getting more and more complicated, his mouth was dry for a while, and he glanced at the bottles and cans on the table, all of which were empty.

Xiufen saw Li Xumu's thirsty intentions, so she tied Ah Fang's hand to the top pillar to prevent her from escaping again. After tying it up, he sat on the bench next to Li Xumu and said, "Young man, although I don't know why you came to Jinye Village, after listening to me, you must bring the news to other places to help us." The people in this village really can't survive anymore. ”

After hearing this, there was only endless surprise, Li Xumu sat up straight, very curious about what was going on in this village, so that many residential houses along the way had been empty.

"It hasn't rained here for seven years, and the river next to the village is drying up, and you see, the village is very deserted, and that's because the people here are dying and running. The only thing left to survive on is a well in the village chief's house, but now the well is bottoming out. The root of all this is when my sister gave birth to that child. ”

Speaking of this, a look of fear appeared on Xiufen's face, and she glanced at Ah Fang, who was smirking at the side, and her eyes were full of pity and hatred.

"That child was possessed by evil spirits from birth! The neck is crooked from birth, and that is a symbol of evil! It was that kid who caused the drought here and hurt our whole village... Hurt my husband... So much so that when he was seriously ill, he couldn't even drink saliva..."Xiufen said as tears fell down.

"I really regret that I didn't listen to the village chief earlier... Get that beast early..."

Hearing this, Li Xumu didn't dare to guess, but Xiufen's next words confirmed this terrible conjecture.

"That's right, we burned the child to death."

Li Xumu chuckled in his heart, quickly stood up, and couldn't help but get goosebumps when he heard Xiufen say this thing so plainly. At this time, Ah Fang, who was chained to the side, also became emotional, frantically trying to get rid of the restraints, and screamed in a tearing voice: "My child is not dead!" She's alive! She was watching us from the beams! Hahaha! My child didn't die! Not dead! ”

Ah Fang almost frantically picked the abscess on his face with his fingernails, and a smell of red soup flowed all over his face.

Li Xumu looked at the beams of the room, which were empty.

"Don't scream anymore!" Xiufen kicked Ah Fang in the stomach, and Ah Fang immediately squatted down and coughed violently.

"Crazy, you're all a bunch of crazy people!" Li Xumu couldn't help but tense his nerves when he saw Ah Fang, whose face was full of pain, squatting there and wailing. He could not accept that a child was burned to death without evidence that he was possessed by an evil spirit. One can imagine a 7-year-old girl alone facing the cold faces of the villagers who surrounded her.

The fear of imminent death suffocates people but is powerless to change anything.

The little girl's head was resting on her shoulders, and her eyes were bright, looking at the adults with torches in their hands. She didn't understand why they had left her mother alone, only to hear her screaming as hard as she could.

"Don't kill my child! Let her go! She doesn't know anything! She's only 7 years old!! Do you treat your children like this!?? Please!! Please..."

But all the shouts were in vain, and all the villagers had to look firm and indifferent.

"Be good, go home with your aunt, stay at home, and don't come out no matter what happens!" Xiufen led the little girl into a thatched hut. There is a sign on the door of the thatched hut that reads No. 180 Jinye Village.

"Run! Run out of that house!! Ah Fang used all his strength to break free from the two villagers who were holding his arms, but to no avail.

Xiufen walked out of the thatched hut alone, silently left a few tears, walked to a man about 50 years old, wiped his tears, sighed, and then turned to a firm tone and said, "Village chief, let's start." ”

The village chief nodded, and glanced at the few villagers around him who were holding torches. After that, torches were thrown at the hut.

The blazing firelight flickered on the expressionless faces of the villagers, Xiufen couldn't bear to look at it anymore, gritted her teeth and turned around, only to see clouds of black smoke rising into the sky.

That day, Ah Fang's screams resounded almost throughout the entire Golden Leaf Village. To this day, Xiufen will never forget that desperate and hateful voice.

The image shattered and dissipated in Xiufen's mind. In the end, his gaze was fixed on Li Xumu's angry eyes.

Xiufen lowered her eyelids, and it seemed that there were many images that she didn't want to recall. "We're not crazy, it's my sister who is crazy. Ever since I saw my own child burned to death that day, I have gone crazy. ”

"Foolishness! Stupidity! Burning an innocent child solves the problem? Isn't it just as desolate here?! Li Xumu kicked over the wooden stool, and he didn't want to stay in this room for a moment longer. Compared with those demons and monsters, I feel the horror of these villagers even more.

Xiufen was still sitting there, and said with a trembling voice: "Yes, there is still a shortage of water here, there is still no rain, and people continue to die of thirst and starvation. That's because the evil spirit wasn't burned at all that day! Now it's attached to another person! As he spoke, he looked at Ah Fang.

When Li Xumu heard this, he suddenly remembered the line of words on the blackboard. Among the eight people who participated in the project, one person was possessed by a demon, and this person will be the biggest threat. Thinking of this, he stopped talking, and fell into deep contemplation, could it be that what this cold-blooded Xiufen said was true? Are evil spirits real?

The village chief said that this evil spirit is very likely to be on Ah Fang. I don't need to say much about what will happen after that. But Ah Fang is the only family I have left... What should I do now..."Xiufen lay on the table, grabbing her hair with her hands in distress, her voice a little crying.

"So you grabbed your own sister to burn her? If it still doesn't work out this time, have you ever thought that you will be the next person to be possessed by evil spirits? What will happen then? ”

"Nope! I don't want Ah Fang to die! It's just that... I don't know what to do..."Xiufen burst into tears, recalling the previous events before the Jinye Village disaster.

It was a harvest autumn, and the warm red sunset on the mountainside spread over the golden wheat fields. The maple leaves on the side of the road are slowly falling, and the hues of everything are so warm and warm. Jinye Village is also named after this beautiful scenery.

Xiufen took off her straw hat and wiped the sweat from her forehead. The neighbor's second pillar ran over from the field, shouting as he ran: "Sister Xiufen! Your sister is born! It's a girl! ”

"Huh?! Are mother and daughter safe?! The setting sun hit Xiufen's joyful face.

"Hmm... Production went well, just... The child's neck is crooked! ”

Xiufen put down the harvesting tools and hurried home. Seeing Ah Fang, who was weak lying on the bed, he showed a bright smile.

"Sister, have a good rest! I'll see the kids go! ”

Ah Fang, who was lying on the bed, looked melancholy for a moment, but for a moment, smiled: "The child's neck is a little deformed, but it doesn't matter, I believe she will be a sunny and happy child in the future!" ”

Xiufen smiled and nodded, took Ah Fang's hand and said, "It's okay! Mother and daughter are safe! It's okay for children to be ugly and beautiful! Fang, have you thought of the child's name? ”

Ah Fang's eyes narrowed with happiness.

"Born in the sunset, let's call it Xiaoxi."

"What a name! We will definitely be able to grow up healthily! Xiufen and Ah Fang looked at each other happily.

The good memories are only frozen in the past, and the cruel reality of the future eats away the last bit of beautiful pictures.

Xiufen looked at Ah Fang, who was tied to the pillar, with crying and swollen eyes, and the corners of her mouth twitched sadly.

Ah Fang was unkempt, sitting on the ground and smirking, saliva and pus and blood on his face flowed all over the ground, and his mouth kept muttering that he was not dead, not dead, not dead.

Li Xumu couldn't bear to see this scene again, and was about to walk out of the house, but at some point outside the house, three villagers were already standing, holding sticks and looking into the house.