In the eyes of others, Vanilla Niang twisted a thin, trembling spider web in her hand. What she saw in her own eyes was a very beautiful and bright red ribbon.

The red ribbon is one of the dowry items that can only be owned by every girl who is ready to get married. Vanilla Niang feels that she is living a very confused life in this life, and she is confused to marry a man she doesn't like. The confused red apricot went out of the wall, and then fell in love with a man who didn't belong to him.

Vanilla Niang's fingers danced softly with the spider webs, and she hummed vigorously in her mouth: "The red ribbon is fluttering, my sister misses my brother, and I have a long affection." My brother helped my sister tie a red ribbon and loved each other forever. The spider silk she twisted in her hand imagined that Zhong Mingfa was right in front of her, and personally tied a red ribbon for her.

Vanilla Niang thought that she was going to marry Zhong Mingfa in a dignified manner, and she directed and acted in the dark room in her heart, playing the trick of worshiping heaven and earth and worshipping the high hall.

Looking at Vanilla Niang like this, people who want to see her show have no interest. In the end, under the consultation of the villagers, Vanilla Niang was not punished in any way, and she was unconditionally released from the black room.

Since then, there has been one more crazy woman in the village, there is no pity, and no one is interested. But there is one less beautiful young woman who loves to show off and attracts bees and butterflies everywhere.

Vanilla Niang's crazy words should not be believed, how can the words of a madman be believed? However, in this barren mountain village, the quality and knowledge of the people have not been further improved. Gossip kills people without seeing blood, and the mother-in-law who was guarding the door muttered out the words of the madman when she was cooking at home.

With this in mind, Vanilla had to plan to leave this suffocating little mountain village. Vanilla quietly left, and someone spoke again. said that vanilla has a virtue with her mother, and she likes the freak Zhong Kui, maybe she will go to him.

After Zhong Kui left, he did not enter the gloomy purple bamboo forest. He chose the path of going back, trying to find the answer to his unexpected situation.

Zhong Kui remembered that he had eaten three strange fruits before, and then he found that there was something strange in his body, fever, tendons and blood pains. Then there was the look of fear they had when they saw him, and even Vanilla barely recognized himself.

The noise gradually faded away, and Zhong Kui, who was hiding behind a big tree, came out of his hiding place.

When he walked into the woods, Zhong Kui searched for them one by one. But he never saw the strange tree full of fruit again, and he thought that he had not looked closely, or that he had lost his eyes. He drew a mark on the branch with a stone, and carved a Y-shape on the branch where he had walked.

I searched all over the slightly larger branches, but I still didn't find the strange tree, but I accidentally found the package where the herbs were hidden. When he took out the package, he found that there was food inside, as well as a bottle of water in a shochu bottle.

Zhong Kui sat under a big tree, took out a sip of water, and ate the bun in one gulp. Eating in the mouth, the stomach is filled, like a machine with enough energy. The energy evolved into an energetic and agile mind, and he suddenly thought of something about what was happening in the mountain village, including the situation at home before his father's accident.

What's going on with the upturned beds at home? According to the time of his father's death, he should have never returned home when the Yan family was at the funeral. So who came into the house and took away the house where the piglets were bought by the family?

Thinking of the money to buy piglets, Zhong Kui thought of the good deeds he did that day, tearing up the portrait of his ancestor and wiping his buttocks. That is, from that day on, it was as if everything had changed. Grandpa is gone, dad has an accident, and the house is burglarized, is it all a coincidence, or is it something in the dark?

Zhong Kui also thought about the incident that he had lied to his father, because the children in the village were influenced by the adults, and they all regarded him as a monster. will be cold and ostracized.

Dad went to work, locked the door with a big iron lock, and Zhong Kui began to cry. Later, he became accustomed to staying at home alone, and he liked to look at the curves of the cracks on the earthen walls. Those curves have been stared at for a long time, and let him stare at the fame.

Tiny curves can be seen as living objects. There is the head that can be seen as an old woman, and there is the hair that is more like a human being. On the walls, there were a lot of people, women, men, children, and all kinds of animals.

When his father went to work, Zhong Kui was at home talking to the people on the wall. Although they were all quiet and didn't say a word to themselves, Zhong Kui was easily satisfied.

What impressed Zhong Kui were the two, one black and one white, whose whereabouts were mysterious and came and went without a trace. The two of them are the 'people' with real skills, and when he found that the vanilla was gone, he stared at the water in a daze.

Just as Zhong Kui was staring at the water in a daze, two friends appeared in front of him without warning.

Zhong Kui knew that the two of them were like mutes and had never spoken a word to him. But the two of them saw the action of his heart, and without hesitation, they jumped into the reservoir and took out the vanilla that was already drowning.

Eating the food delivered by Vanilla, thinking about saving Vanilla. Zhong Kui suddenly felt that he should go and see the situation of vanilla, why hasn't she turned around after she has been gone for so long? Could it be that something is wrong?

Zhong Kui didn't dare to enter the village, not because he was timid, but after discovering his changes. He was afraid of arousing public outrage, and there were hundreds of people in the village. If they all treat him as a monster, it will be even more difficult to escape safely than to ascend to the sky.

Zhong Kui could only look and dodge, waiting for dark.

The days at the end of summer are still very long, and Zhong Kui wanders around to kill time.

At first, Zhong Kui stood on the top of the village from afar, and he saw that the whole village was like a boat. The north and south villages are the stern of the boat, and the east and west villages are slightly wider hulls. As dusk approached, a little smoke rose from the stern and hull of the ship.

Zhong Kui didn't want to stop his eyes on the ship, full of sad memories. He slowly walked away from the highest point, remembering that the villagers scolded him for being a monster born from the cemetery, and he remembered to go and see the cemetery.

Zhong Kui felt self-pity and kept comforting himself, maybe his father gave them some kind of trouble, so he would talk nonsense that he was a son of a tomb. Think about it, how can a cold and gloomy cemetery give birth to a child.

Thinking about it while walking, Zhong Kui came to the village cemetery to concentrate on burial. The cemeteries covered with silk thatch are like poor old men, missing their front teeth and suffering in the cold wind. The silk thatch that undulates in the wind on the tomb seems to be a pair of children's hands, welcoming his arrival.

Zhong Kui checked one by one and searched one by one. In his memory, his father never allowed him to come here, so he said that he was born in the grave. He could only hear it, but there was no real and reliable basis to prove his origins.

Zhong Kui walked to a bare and fresh-looking tomb and stopped. He had seen so many tombs, but he felt that the one in front of him was the strangest.

There is no tombstone on this tomb that records whose tomb it is, but not far from this tomb is a larger tomb. Zhong Kui walked from the bare tomb to the larger tomb, reached out to pull away the dense silk thatch, and looked at the font carved on the tombstone.

(End of chapter)