Chapter 12: Jiang Chumei
At this time, a middle-aged man wearing a thin black suit got out of the car, he was the mayor of the town, and he was wearing a suit in this weather, not that the leader couldn't do this. The second aunt had never seen such a big official, so she hurriedly accompanied the smiling face and warmly invited the mayor home for dinner.
I lowered my head and passed by the side of the car, Jiang Chumei stuck his head out of the car window and said to me with a smile: "Shuisheng, go to my house for dinner!" ”
"You dead girl, what are you going to eat?" The second aunt twisted Jiang Chumei's arm, and she grinned in pain, and the second aunt patted the driver who was driving, and said anxiously: "Big brother driver, let's go, enter the village!" ”
I didn't pay attention to her, Jiang Chumei has heard my mother speak ill of me since she was a child, so she is also afraid of me, and she runs away when she sees me, it is better than Xiong Fang. Now I have nothing to do to show my affection, I just want to show my closeness to the people in front of the mayor.
I had hot leftovers for dinner and drank three bottles of wine, but even then I couldn't sleep well, and the eyes of that big fish always appeared in my mind, as well as his skin, yellow and black, much lighter in color than the scales on my back, but it was also piece by piece, I don't know if there was a relationship between them. and Jiang Chumei, who couldn't figure out why she was an undergraduate student from a key university, why she wanted to come back to be a village official, and dared to take the initiative to talk to me.
Just as he was about to fall asleep in a daze, there was a knock at the door outside, and then a girl shouted, "Open the door!" "It's in a hurry.
"Who?" I asked.
"I, Chu Mei, someone is chasing me, open the door, open the door quickly......" She was very panicked, and I could hear the panting sound inside.
Although I was a little surprised, I quickly opened the door, she quickly got in, I looked outside, it was pitch black, how could anyone follow her.
"No one!" As I spoke, I picked up the flashlight on the table and shone it, and it was very quiet in the woods and the grass, and I didn't see a single ghost.
"Definitely, I just came from the woods and heard footsteps behind me." She was pale, wiped the beads of sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand, and I didn't think she was lying. "It's not the sixth bear."
"Why is he following you?"
"As soon as the mayor talked to him, he got angry and said that I would run away in less than a month." Jiang Chumei took a tissue and wiped the sweat on his face and neck.
"What are you doing here?" I asked, puzzled, just about to fall asleep, but she disturbed me again.
"The mayor wants to have a meeting with the villagers, and you can go too." She said.
"What am I going to do?"
"The first thing I put forward is to rehabilitate you."
"Rehabilitate what? I'm not Dou E. ”
"You must be allowed to enter the village, and you are not allowed to say that you are a disaster star, a ghost seed, or anything like that."
"You think you said that when you were a kid, right?" I asked, staring at her.
She smiled a little embarrassedly, "At that time, I was young, and I was always brainwashed by my mother's superstitious words, don't you mind, now that I am studying, I feel guilty about you, so I agreed to be the head of this village." ”
"Thank you for your kindness, no need, you can go back!" At that time, it was because of her ghost seed that I knelt and begged Uncle Liu to cut the scale armor on my back with a knife, and it was impossible for her to come back to be the village chief for me, I was not familiar with her.
"You go, everyone is waiting for you, those people from outside are also there, and they have to discuss the matter of finding people, Feng Shui Group said, as long as we cooperate with the salvage, we are going to invest in building a tourist village here in the future, maybe you can find something to do."
"Who will travel to this place?" I asked.
"The key is that superstition makes everyone dare not come, the feng shui group said, assuming that there is really a cave or something under the Guillotine Mountain, then the mouth of the Guillotine Gorge will be intercepted, so that the cave will be exposed, so that everyone can visit, even if you can't let the cave leak out, you can also do diving tours in the future, you may not know, the Yangtze River includes tributaries, and it is rare to see clear waters like Jishuitan." Jiang Chumei is full of confidence, she is really an ignorant little girl.
"I'm not going, you can go back!" I'm not interested in her ambitions, she probably didn't know that the pond was originally called the corpse pool, and let people go down to dive and see the corpses?
"If you don't go to the meeting, you have to send me back, otherwise what if someone really follows me, I'm so good-looking, don't you worry about what people think of me." She said very seriously, I was a little puzzled, could she be as unrestrained as her mother? But she is dressed very well now, with a Mickey picture on the chest of a white T-shirt, fashionable jeans underneath, and a few small holes, and white sneakers on her feet, not like a native of Angelica Village, but like a city person.
She is indeed the village flower now, Xiong Fang is not as good as her, the patriarchal style of Angelica Village prevails, but the yin and yang are declining, the girls are very strong, several college students are all girls, I am the only one who has the opportunity to be admitted to a good university, but I have no chance to go to college, there are a bunch of old bachelors here, it is not impossible for someone to beat her idea, no matter how old a man is, he also likes beautiful girls.
It is said that more than 20 years ago, there was an incident in which an old man molested a ten-year-old girl, and later he was reported, only to know that he had insulted several and was caught and sentenced to life. In case Xiong Lao Liu inherited his father's bad habits, Jiang Chumei would be in danger.
It's better to send it, the mass grave is on the top of the mountain, even if no one chases her, it's scary, and she ran over alone with a girl's family, which is sincere enough. It's easy to be superstitious about self-suggestion, it still takes a lot of courage to walk alone at night, and it's still a mountain, full of dense woods, there are countless snakes, ants, trees, and insects, and all kinds of small animals running around at night, I rarely go out at night, in fact, I'm also afraid.
We went into the woods, and she looked around, and it was pitch black, except for the squeaking of insects, and she strode in front of me, with a flashlight in my hand, and an axe in my hand.
"So no one is chasing you, you're just worried that I'm not going, so you let me send you, right?" I asked.
"Who said that, there are really footsteps." She stopped and told me, I walked up to her, took a picture of the dark woods around me, and proved to her that there was nothing, in fact, I was afraid in my own heart, if you were okay in the middle of the night, run to the woods and sweep blindly with a flashlight, you would know what it was like, and there was nothing to feel something. It's just that we're men, so we have to pretend to be a little forced, how can I say that she used to be the girl I had a crush on.
"Even if it's my delusion caused by nervousness, you should send me, I'm a girl, you don't have any demeanor." She said.
"When I was a kid, you didn't tell me about manners." I replied.
"I'm sorry, Shui Sheng, but in retrospect, I did go too far as a child." Saying that, she took my hand, damn, the first time I had close contact with a girl, her hands were very slippery, and they felt very good. "Look, now I dare to touch you."
"You're just trying to prove that you're not superstitious." I say.
"Yes, as long as you are not superstitious, everyone will not curse you and exclude you. Moreover, you have good grades and have also studied in high school, so you can assist me in governing Angelica Village in the future and lead everyone to live a good life. She said innocently.
"The people of Angelica Village, at least our previous generation is not saved. But if you have this heart, you can try hard, maybe when you get old, you can see a new Angelica Village. I replied.
"Well, how do you know if you don't try, what if it succeeds. Besides, you still have to assist me, so it should be that when we are old, we will see a new modern countryside. ”
"Don't be close, I won't live that long." I said angrily that when I was a freshman in high school, I dreamed that she would say something to me, but now I am pretending to be forced.
"Phew...... Phew...... don't talk nonsense. ”
"If you don't believe in superstition, what's the matter with talking nonsense?" I retorted.
She was stunned for a moment, as if my logic was correct, "Okay, okay, I can't say you, do you send it or not?" She asked, starting to be coquettish.
I nodded, I had never taken the trick of coquettishness, and it seemed that I could not resist. When I was a child, I grew up in a cold world, and I especially longed for friends. She let go of my hand as well, and I let her walk in front while I flashed her light in the back. At this time, there was a sudden sound of a tree stick breaking in the woods on the right, as if someone had stepped on a dry branch, Jiang Chumei's face turned pale with fright, and he quickly turned around and hid on my left, dragging my arm tightly.
I'm scared, but can we coax it at this time? Gripping the axe tightly, the flashlight suddenly swept over, and shouted: "Who? ”
No one answered, only a small leaf swaying in the distance, and I didn't know if it was blown by the wind.
"Don't be sneaky, there is a kind of one who comes out and goes it alone." My palms were sweaty, but my tone was very masculine.
"Let's go, let's go!" Jiang Chumei grabbed my hand, and we ran all the way, numbing our ears with panting.