"Bang! Boom! ”

"Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry up and drag someone to the back mountain to bury me!"

"You, what are you going to do, stop, stop......"

The sky is not yet bright, and a dazzling star can still be faintly seen in the distant sky.

Xia Liang, who was still asleep in the wooden house, was awakened by the sound of the sudden knock on the door.

"Grandma, grandma, what's going on......" Xia Liang was barefoot, rubbed his eyes, and when he opened the door of the room and walked out, he happened to see several men in the village putting their father in a black burlap bag.

Her grandmother sat on her knees on the floor of the living room, crying and wiping her tears with her hands that had broken her skin and were still bleeding.

Xia Liang was young and couldn't figure out what was going on, so he could only silently walk up to Grandma's side and ask softly: "Grandma, why are you sitting on the ground crying, where are these strange uncles going to take Abba to?"

Xia Liang's mother only cried so much that she couldn't say a word, and tightly held Xia Liang's little hand and followed behind those people. The back mountain is not far from Xia Liang's house, and it is about a pillar of incense. There, a pit large enough to accommodate an adult's body had already been prepared.

Xia Liang walked carefully and gently to his father's side, and pushed him from the mouth of the bag with his little hand, but he was frightened by the stiff and cold touch. A little frightened, he retracted his little white hand. She raised her pink and tender little face, looked at her mother beside her, and asked again puzzled: "Grandma, why is my father so cold, I push him and he ignores Liang'er!" ”

At this time, a person came next to her and told her: "Xia Liang, your father, he has a strange disease and died, we are going to bury him!" ”

He's dead? What is death? For Xia Liang, who is only four years old, she doesn't know what the meaning is at all. She innocently tilted her head and asked the man, "What is dead?" Are you saying that my Abba, he hasn't woken up yet? ”

No one spoke anymore, and no one answered Xia Liang's question anymore, and when dawn came, there was only the sound of Xia Liang's mother crying on the mountain behind.

At this time, two more men came and lifted Xia Liang's father up, they walked around Xia Liang's side, shook him hard, and threw the person into the mud pit that had already been dug up.

Xia Liang walked to his mother's side, thinking in his heart, this person will be buried like this when he dies, but if Abba wakes up and he is buried like this, how can he go home.

Thinking like this, Xia Liang came to Grandma's side again, and she asked her Grandma in a low voice: "Grandma, they buried my Abba like this, how can I go home if Abba wakes up?" ”

Hearing her daughter ask such words, the woman who had been crying with her head down suddenly hugged her and cried even louder.

Others didn't care about the mother and daughter who were crying sadly, and those people took care of the matter and dispersed.

I don't know how long I cried in the back mountain, until the sun had risen in mid-air, Xia Liang's aunt dragged her weak body and pulled Xia Liang in the direction of home.

Xia Liang reluctantly looked back and again, looking at the new mound that had been filled, and still looking forward to something in his clear eyes.

As soon as the mother and daughter returned to the door, Aunt Hua in the village was already waiting at the door of Xia Liang's house. Xia Liang sat on the threshold of the gate obediently, listening carefully to what Aunt Hua whispered to her mother, and vaguely heard "The village next door...... It's not bad for you to get married, but you just have a drag oil bottle......"

Xia Liang was only four years old, and she didn't understand what the adults said and heard it intermittently, but she still faintly felt something. After waiting for Aunt Hua to leave, she got up and ran to Grandma's side, grabbed her Grandma's hand and looked at her in a daze, "Grandma, Liang'er don't leave you!" ”

Xia Liang's mother hugged her and silently shed tears. However, more and more people in the village are suffering from strange diseases, and even the witch doctors in the village have no way to cure them, and if they continue like this, they are afraid that they will lose their lives.

Coughing, high fever, convulsions all over the body, and then festering to death on the face, the death was terrifying, more and more people died, and the smell of grief was everywhere in the village.

The patriarch had no choice but to convene the people in the whole village to discuss, which means that this year, the village has committed a crime, and a catastrophe has fallen from the sky, and I am afraid that the people in the village have done something harmful to the heavens and reason, and the gods will punish them.

The place where the village is located is a remote mountain forest isolated from the world, with a small population and backward living standards, and the people who are alive at this time are also living in fear. I am afraid that I will also get that strange disease one day, since it is this kind of strange disease that even witch doctors can't cure, then it is better to ask the gods of heaven, hoping that the gods will be merciful and protect the people from the disease and disaster.

After the matter was discussed, the old man in the village decided to perform a grand ritual of worshipping the gods. To the southwest of the village is a continuous mountain, and halfway up the mountain, there is a temple built by the ancients. Usually, people in the village will come to the temple to worship for peace on the fifteenth day of the new year.

This time, in order to bless the health of the whole village, in addition to pigs and sheep, everyone even discussed the selection of a pair of boys and virgins to show the sincerity of their prayers. It's just that this good girl is reluctant, and no adult in any family is reluctant.

"Who is willing to sacrifice their daughter to worship the gods?" Although the patriarch was old, his voice was full of anger, but as soon as these words came out, no one spoke up for a long time.

The patriarch stood taller again, looked at the clansmen standing in front of him, and said, "Whoever wants to, the clan will reward her with three goats as compensation!" ”

Xia Liang was young after all, and she didn't know what was going on, so she held the corner of her aunt's clothes with one hand, and stood in the middle of the crowd playing finger games with another little boy who was about the same age as her next to her.

I don't know how long it took, Xia Liang followed Grandma back to his home, Grandma seemed to have something on her mind, and as soon as she got home, she sat on the bed in the room and thought about things. By the time she came back to her senses, her grandmother had already dressed herself up beautifully.

stared at the beautiful and lovely daughter in front of her, with a floral skirt and two pigtails, and she also deliberately tied a bright red head flower.

Xia Liang also seemed to be frightened by Grandma's actions, she threw herself into Grandma's arms and cried: "Grandma, Grandma......"

Listening to her daughter's reluctant voice one after another, the woman's tears instantly welled up and dripped into her daughter's hair.

At this moment, the door was kicked open with a bang, and the patriarch came in with someone and pulled Xia Liang out of her mother's arms.

Xia Liang was dragged out of the door, she endured the pain and shouted, "Grandma...... I want Grandma...... Let go of me, you bad people......"

Hearing the sound, the woman in the room covered her face with her hands, her shoulders trembled, tears kept oozing from her fingers, she was reluctant, she wanted to send it away, but she never had the courage to stand up again.

Xia Liang outside the door refused to leave, she twisted her body and walked back, shouting as she walked: "Grandma, grandma, don't you want to be cool, why...... Why are you ......?"

The woman in the room cried even more fiercely, but the man who was pulling Xia Liang outside the door was impatient, so he carried Xia Liang on his shoulder, and even stretched out his hand and slapped her hard on the buttocks: "Doll, your grandma has already dedicated you to the gods, and if you make a fuss, you will look good!"

After a slap, Xia Liang was in pain, and she was already crying sadly, and her tears couldn't help but come out one by one.

"Grandma, if our Abba hadn't died, he would have been reluctant to exchange me for those three sheep, I hate you, you are no longer Liang'er's grandma......"

The voice faded away, and the woman in the room hid in the corner of the door with her head in her hands, secretly looking at the distant figure outside and crying bitterly.