Long Sihai picked up the photo and looked at it, his eyes widened wider and wider, and finally raised his head in surprise.

"She? - She's dead. Where did you get it? "

"Is this Mu Tongtong? Are you sure she's it? "

Long Sihai's face was full of panic, and he hurriedly stuffed the photo to me: "Her business has nothing to do with me, I don't know, and I haven't hurt her." Don't ask me, don't ask me. He turned and moved into the mountain road.

I wanted to go up and pull him: "Hey, haven't you finished yet?" "

Long Sihai shouted: "You go, you go!" ——"

I said to myself: "It seems that this Mu Tongtong is Mu Tongtong." "Although he said that Mu Tongtong is dead?

"That's obviously something wrong with her death."

"This means that Mu Tongtong is not dead."

"yes. There must be a mystery about her past. "

"At his age like Long Sihai, he must know the past."

Outside the mountain is the endless plain autumn scene, the sky is high, the sky is blue, and the golden rice waves are lying together. Slowly, the landscape in my field of vision changed from plains to hills, and the undulating hills rolled round and round one by one. Then it got dark...... I asked Long Sihai to go to the hostel to retrieve my luggage and mobile phone, and wandered around by myself, except for the foolish couple, many people in the village were the same as Long Sihai, as long as Mu Tongtong was mentioned, they would not talk about it, or find an excuse to walk away and leave me there in a daze. I asked for a long time, but I didn't ask anything. What's worse is that when I suddenly looked back, in the light and shadow, there were a few figures faintly leaning on it.

In an instant, I knew I had made a fatal mistake. It's a small place, the territory of the locals, and it doesn't matter how much they can find out where I live and what I look like, and my every move is right under their noses. Apparently, now I'm being watched by them. But why?

There should be a secret here. One that can make all the old people tell a lie in unison; What kind of secret would it be that could make the people at that time change the archives and erase the famous Mu family from the history of Longtan? This is certainly not a little secret, and it is also the key point to find Mu Tongtong's former residence. But how do you unlock this secret? A flash of inspiration flashed through my mind, and a sharp plan was formed.

After eating fast food, I pretended to be leisurely and walked around the village. Needless to say, the unique style of the ancient village is not to be said, with cyan carved brick walls, magnificent wood carvings, and deep alleys...... It's all things you can't see anywhere else. I like the corner of the eaves of the ancient house the most, like the eyes of the famous horns in Peking Opera, that style, very seductive, walking through the light gray and light blue wall shadows, there is a trance feeling of time and space intertwined. If it weren't for my important affairs, I really wanted to let go of my feelings and live here for ten days and a half months, as long as I wandered a few steps in the narrow alley and earthen walls every day, watching the old people play chess under the ancient banyan tree, and let time pass by in a pure and inaction. But...... I sighed and pulled myself back from my wanderings, and I pretended not to be aware of it, and walked through their intertwined gazes to the outside, continuing to look for someone who was destined to be.

It wasn't until after noon that I saw the shriveled man who had sold me the broken jade, and the moment I saw him, my heart went to my throat. This man was greedily rubbing a wad of small amounts of renminbi with his hand. On closer inspection, I saw that he should be no more than fifty years old, and he looked like he was stiff and strong, and his demeanor and movements did not look old. It's just that he is skinny, and his hair is slightly frost-white, and his face is black and red, so he looks older. I shook my head, the copper-smelling voice of the man from before was still echoing in my ears, according to my experience, once a person has a certain craving, he will become stubborn, and unless the goal is achieved, that craving is like a snake buried in the heart, which will come out from time to time to bite and make people crazy.

Waiting was a difficult process, and I used to look at it in a laid-back way, but in fact I didn't see it at all. Not to mention being watched.

The twilight came very late, when the last touch of sunset returned to the night, at half past seven, I passed by him, I closed my palms tightly, walked up to him and stretched out my hand: "Hello, may I ask your surname?" ”

Reluctantly, he put the money and jade back in his pocket and shook hands with me. His hands were dry, calloused and overworked. "My surname is Dragon." Dragon is the surname of Longtan, and 70% of the people have the surname Long.

"Uncle Long, I'm going to buy the rest of your jade, can you tell me, where is Mu Tongtong's former residence?"

The shriveled stall owner showed a hint of hesitation between his eyebrows, and slowly sat down, his eyes glancing at the bag of jade and the pink renminbi peeking out between the palms of my hands. After a while, he seemed to have made up his mind and said, "That house is long gone." "I was stunned, if the house was long gone, then where was the house I entered?

"Why not?"

"Burned."

After experiencing war and ten years of turmoil, it is not surprising that the old house has such an experience. "So where is the old house? Tell us about this too. I asked.

The shriveled stall owner's gaze suddenly became complicated, and panic, hesitation, and fear were mixed together. Gritting his teeth, he said, "I can tell you, but you must not go there, absolutely not." In the last five words, he bit very hard, his eyes stared at me without blinking, they were wide open, and the cloudy eyeballs were clearly visible. For no apparent reason, an eerie chill enveloped me.

"Why?"

"Because, because, there is ...... there," the shriveled stall owner's body trembled slightly, glanced out the window tightly, and lowered his voice and said, "There are ghosts there." ”

I handed over half of the money that Shi Ling had hidden in my underwear to the shriveled stall owner, and I believe that he would be more courageous with a stack of money. "Tell me everything in detail, and give you the remaining half."

However, I miscalculated, the shriveled stall owner was distracted, and he looked around, and there must have been some accident that caused this benevolent brother to retreat. But what kind of accident was it? I remembered the watchmen in the afternoon. A place like Longtan Ancient Village, where people were born and grew up, almost everyone knows each other, and their every move is in the eyes of acquaintances. I chose to ask the brother at night to avoid the many eyes and ears, but fortunately, the people who are watching have dispersed now, and they haven't come until now, so it is very likely that they have not avoided it. After all, they also have families. But...... Or is it something that the shriveled stall owner fears?

My heart moved, and I felt that things were more complicated than I had ever expected. "You can't take money for nothing, you have to tell me why Mu Tongtong's former mansion is haunted?"

The shriveled stall owner coughed dryly, "This, this, haunted, how can I possibly know the reason?" Haunted is haunted, and it's not uncommon to have haunted houses everywhere. As he spoke, his hand holding the canvas bag squirmed unnaturally, his jagged knuckles flushed blue. According to Shi Lingren, this posture showed that he was afraid, and that he was lying.

I reached out and grabbed the RMB in his arms and said, "It seems that my uncle has no intention of cooperating with me, and this money will have to wait for the next friend's goods." ”

"No, no." The shriveled stall owner sideways dodged my hand and hugged the money and bag tighter. Obviously, he has regarded this money as something in his pocket, how can he be willing to get rid of it. "You ask, you ask, I'll tell you all." Greedy people, greedy tones.

I slowly withdrew my hand and thought, where do I start? Until now, Mu Tongtong's ancestral house and what happened in the ancestral house are wrapped in a fog, where to cut in to reproduce the original appearance of things? I laughed, remembering Shi Lingren's teaching, let a person pour beans in a bamboo tube without scruples to say the secret in his heart, there are no more than two skills: one is to start from the irrelevant place, slowly eliminate the other party's defense, so that he unconsciously say everything; The other is to break his mental defenses at the beginning and make him think that you have mastered the core part. Now, I've decided to go with the second option.

"It's strange that while death is empty, some secrets come to the surface. Isn't it? ”

"Little girl, I'm ...... There's no way for me to come in and say it. ”

"I know, please think about it, can we start somewhere else?"

The shriveled stall owner pondered for a moment and said, "No." ”

"Is there really no other way?"

"Yes."

"Then it seems that I can only contact and trade with others." I was determined to provoke him. Sure enough, he was fooled, and said hurriedly: "Don't, little girl, don't, don't." But...... It's really not convenient now. ”

My heart moved, and I asked him, "Who sent those wanderers?" He hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Yes, there are some old people." ”

"What is their intention in spying on me?"

"Well...... Alas, it's hard to say, but it's also for everyone's good, and it's also for everyone's good. ”

I really can't understand what he said, it seems that Mu Tongtong is extinct, and the secret is extraordinary. As I spoke, I had returned to the driver's seat, and sure enough, looking at Grandpa Mao's magic, the shriveled stall owner sighed, and he explained: "Most of the people in the village are from the Long family and the Yue family, of course they don't want to talk about it, and they can bring out a lot of things when they talk about it, such as those disgraceful things in the past." Although my surname is Long, I am a child bought by my adoptive father and adoptive mother outside the village, and I have no blood relationship with their old Long clan. I came here when I was six years old, and I heard them say that my father's surname is Shen, and I should have been surnamed Shen, and Shen, who is deep at night—"

"Hey, your original surname is Shen?" I said happily, "My surname is Shen, you see, I have an ID card." "

"Ah, your surname is also Shen?" The man was excited, as if he had seen a relative. "I came here when I was a child, and I haven't looked for anyone in my room in my life, and I can't find it. In addition to the surnames Long and Yue, there are also people surnamed Liu, Bei, and Lin in this village, and there is no other surname, you are the first surnamed Shen I have seen in more than 60 years. We are one ancestor, some people say that it was one family five hundred years ago, but I think it may be one family two hundred years ago. I didn't expect you to come to this place. "

"I came to know about Mu Tongtong, of course, and Mu Tongtong's mother, the mother of the Mu family.

I know that now, both of them are gone, I want to know about the past, can Uncle Long tell us? "

"It was decades ago." The man smacked his flabby lips a few times, squinting at the flickering sparks in the cigarette pouch pot, "I calculated, I was twelve that year, and now Chinese New Year's Eve one, it has been twenty years." "

In the shriveled man's low adobe house, I sat on a small bench in the middle of the hall and listened intently to the man across from me about the past of Longtan Village. On the kang on one side of the house lies the wife of a shriveled man who is not old and decrepit. The shriveled man said that the old woman was a child daughter-in-law, more than ten years older than him, and she was blinded by a disease when she walked on a mountain road many years ago, and usually lay there talking to the donkey except for eating and drinking. Because the donkeys were fed in this house, and from the other room came the foul smell of animal excrement. This small mountain village is stunningly dilapidated.

"I remember that autumn," the shriveled man exhaled a thick cloud of smoke, "it seemed that after the frost fell, it was a light fog and rain, and it was the day when the mother of the Mu family came back from thousands of miles away." She was thinly dressed and sat in the pit of the village chief's house. The whole village came to see her, and they all said that the Mu family was capable, because everyone knew that the first time the Mu family headed out was to find a daughter-in-law to inherit the ancestry - the Mu family's ancestors were wide, but unfortunately the family fell into the middle of the road, and even her daughter-in-law thought that the Mu family was poor in the house, and ran away with a pot from outside the village. The man of the Mu family begged the people in the village to go with him to find it. They went outside the village for more than 20 days and found his daughter-in-law in the village on the south bank of the Haihe River. The villagers brought her back with a strap. Unexpectedly, within two months, his daughter-in-law ran away again. The head of the Mu family went out to look for it twice, and a few pairs of shoes were worn out, and there was no news from his daughter-in-law. His family has a thin background, no money to entangle, and the people in the village can't help him find it, the Mu family man took the baby to Kanto in a fit of anger, thinking that he would not die outside this time, and he would come back empty-handed, but he didn't think that this kid would hit a big luck, and it is said that he picked up a German missionary halfway and saved him. After the death of the Mu family, he asked the missionaries to take his doll abroad to go to university, came back to become an engineer, made a fortune in the three eastern provinces, and later followed the army to prospect everywhere, if it were not for the illness of his son and daughter-in-law, people would not want to return to this poor and remote country. "

"Village Chief Long is making a joke, and the others are just peeking at the new daughter-in-law. She was in her thirties at the time, with a wide body, and a clear-eyed person could see at a glance that she was a good child, and someone called outside the door. The son of the Mu family squatted at the door and laughed. The mother of the Mu family didn't mind, and beckoned everyone to sit in the hall, as if she deliberately told everyone that she was a hard-working person who met a hard-working person, her husband died in a car accident, she was helpless and bullied, and she happened to meet the eldest brother of the Mu family, and came with him after knowing his life experience. After she finished speaking, she fascinated several young people around her!

The person outside the door asked the head of the Mu family, how do you know that woman? The head of the Mu family was talking to the villagers at the door just now, and he didn't hear the woman's explanation, so it was different from what she said. The head of the Mu family said that the woman was from the three eastern provinces, and she was the daughter of an old man, who used to learn oil painting from a painter who was collecting style in the countryside, because there was money in the house when the liberation was born, and the land reform was assigned a landlord component, and after the death of her father, she was bullied in the village, and she was accused of not abiding by women's morals, which made her angry and threw herself into the river. He happened to meet and saved her, and she came with him. When the head of the Mu family said this, everyone was still a little envious, and they no longer envied him, but felt that good people had good rewards. "

"The son of the Mu family inherits his father's business, and has been prospecting outside for many years, the woman is literate and hyphenated, she is a smart person, there are not many literate people in the village, especially women, only the younger generation can read, and few mothers-in-law like her can write their own names. The men all looked at the eyes of the Mu family, and they paid special attention to the changes in the Mu family's family. Later, she had a nanny in her house, and the woman didn't talk much and was very spicy, and cleaned up the house inside and out. She would also cut the window grilles, cut out hens, monkeys and other things and stick them on the windows, so that the gray house has a spirit. Later, there was that girl, Mu Tongtong. The mother of the Mu family cleaned up Mu Tongtong, according to her nanny, she didn't let other people hug indiscriminately, and she had to wash her hands first when she wanted to hug! ”

I suddenly interjected: "I want to ask, is Mu Tongtong missing a little finger?" "

"Yes, there's a little finger." The man didn't even think about it, and immediately replied, "My wife knows best." The mother of the Mu family often comes to my godmother's house with her child in her arms, and Mu Tongtong has also eaten her milk. He lit another bag of cigarettes and shouted to his wife on the kang: "Old woman, is Mu Tongtong missing a little finger?" "

"Yes," said the old woman, "I was born without a piece, but it's a pity that it's a pretty little thing." "

"What's the gap?" I deliberately asked her, "Tell me about it." "

"It's half the size of a thumb." The old woman said, "At that time, I didn't break it, and her nanny always hugged Mu Tongtong to breastfeed." Others wanted to hug Mu Tongtong, but her nanny never let go, nor did she let Mu Tongtong's mutilated little finger be touched. Just let me hug and let me feed her. "

So Mu Tongtong lied to me at the beginning?

I asked, "Eldest sister, what did Mu Tongtong look like when she was a child?" "

"Beautiful, white and fat, with eyes bigger than her mother, like porcelain dolls. She comes to my house every day, and the fragrance on her body smells good. Later, I learned that her mother washed her with homemade perfume. When there was nothing during the ten years of turmoil, the mother of the Mu family asked her nanny to go to the mountains to pick wild flowers, soak her in water with flower petals to wash her body, saying that this is poisonous! “

"Look at this old thing, I don't usually speak, but I talk so much!" The shriveled man smiled and said, "She likes Mu Tongtong, Mu Tongtong used to come to my house often, until she was a teenager, I knew that she always hid that little finger in the palm of her hand." I heard the head of the Mu family say that the missing little finger is a genetic trait passed down by the mother and ancestors of the Mu family, and once I asked, Mu Tongtong said that her mother would not let anyone see it. "

At first, the mother of the Mu family didn't take the initiative to interact with people, maybe because the child was young, or maybe she just came to meet everyone - anyway, after Mu Tongtong grew up, her heart was idle and she began to walk around the village. At that time, there was a primary school in the village, and the teacher was a young man who graduated from junior high school, which was considered a high degree at that time, and the mother of the Mu family volunteered to become a supernumerary teacher, she wore the military pants that were popular in that era, and the upper body was wrapped in a bulging waist, and the two sleeves were neatly rolled up, revealing arms like lotus roots, and she lectured the dolls in a nice city dialect there, but the men in the village could not see enough. They are a little jealous of the Mu family, why should they still occupy that good daughter-in-law when they die. A few men began to beat the idea of the Mu family's housewife. Old Man Long's son, Village Chief Long, and Yue Laotian, who worked as a worker in the county seat, were even more anxious, and the two made a bet with a cow to see who would get her first. By the way, Yue Laotian, you don't know, but he has a son, Yue Moye, who is said to be a big man outside! "

Yes, he's a rich man, and he's dead.

"Village Chief Long was the village chief at that time, and he went to her house twice in three days. But what made him unconvinced was that in the end, it was Yue Laotian who got started first. Yue Laotian's ancestors were too broad, but before liberation, he lost his family business and became a glorious poor middle peasant. As a result, during the ten years of turmoil, he had an elder brother who joined the Revolutionary Committee, and later became a deputy county magistrate, and arranged for him to work as a worker in a fertilizer factory in the city. It shows that the Yue family is a person with face, and everyone in the village respects him. That time, when he came back to return to his hometown, he saw that the Mu family's housewife and Village Chief Long were there, and Village Chief Long avoided it with interest. He talked to the Mu family's housewife about outside things, and I happened to squat at the door to listen to them, and it was the Mu family's housewife who sent me away. She asked the Mu family's nanny to get some snacks and food, and she wanted to leave Brother Yue for dinner. The nanny of the Mu family went to the market outside the village to buy meat, I went to help, and when I came back, they were still chatting, I didn't enter the door and saw Yue Laotian go to grab the hand of the Mu family's housewife, the Mu family's housewife smiled and blocked him, I didn't dare to say anything. It was fine at noon that day. After dinner in the evening, I came home and fell asleep unconsciously. I heard that Yue Laotian went to find the Mu family's housewife that night. Since then, he has reconciled with the Mu family's housewife. "

Why did you happen so coincidentally? I didn't ask, this can be recalled, but it was already clear at the time. According to the shriveled stall owner, at that time, half of the children liked to go to the Mu family, and everyone also came up with various countermeasures. For example, some half-grown children are tied to the bed with hemp rope, and some are locked in rooms with locked doors and windows...... But no matter what the method, after a while, there will always be people who will go out and bloom in their youth, and at that time their strength is always very strong, and the hemp rope with the thickness of their thumbs cannot be tied, and the eight-centimeter-thick wooden door cannot be blocked.

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Yue Laotian later showed that it was the mother of the Mu family who wanted to climb his big thick legs, but he couldn't control himself. He said that the mother of the Mu family would please men and confuse people's minds. Every time the mother of the Mu family is in bed with him, she always likes to press on his back and bite him half-truthfully, which is the kind of gentle bite, leaving only a shallow tooth mark. After the tooth marks were repeated again and again, the marks on them became deeper and deeper. One day she opened the experimental equipment she had brought from outside the village, took out a long probe and perfume paste in a copper box, and worked on his back. He willingly let her stab, and casually asked her what she stabbed? She told him that he was a tiger spell, and whoever stabbed him with a tiger spell would also be swallowed by whoever swallowed his heart, and he would be punished for betraying her. Yue Laotian smiled and didn't mind, and he didn't believe that the spell worked. Later, when he was bathing in a mountain stream, the villagers saw a pattern on his back, which was a fierce-looking, green-eyed, fanged tiger head, and its tongue was a scar formed by a lock of skin peeled away. "

After the Mu family's mother got along with Yue Laotian for a few years, she began to ask him to divorce her, but Yue Laotian didn't agree. He had a wealthy wife and gave him a son, who was about to grow up at that time, and it was impossible for him to leave his wife and leave his son with her. If the mother of the Mu family could not achieve her goal, she was discouraged. She asked Yue Laotian to swear that she would help her at all times, even if she was old, and not dislike her. She also changed her household registration for Mu Tongtong privately with Yue Laotian, and even set a baby kiss! ”

"Son...... Is it Yue Moye, and how old was her daughter Mu Tongtong at that time? I asked.

"About six or seven years old." The man thought for a moment and said.

"It's ridiculous to get engaged to your daughter with such a big age gap!"

"It's more common in rural areas. The elders have a good relationship, drink blood wine, and worship brothers; There are many people who want to kiss and kiss, change their children's relatives, and order baby kisses, and it is not surprising that they are so good to marry their children. Although she is half older, she looks down on the men in the village, and thinks they are all dirt buns and wretched. It's a pity that she still walked away. I didn't think that Yue Laotian, a man who was as angry as a stone egg, didn't plant it. The wife of the Yue family has always turned a blind eye to the Mu family's housewife, but she was also angry when she knew about the marriage, and one day she quarreled with the Mu family's housewife, and the two closed the door, beating and scolding, making a lot of trouble. Someone heard the head of the Yue family scolding the Mu family's housewife for being ungrateful, saying that she was a foreign spy, and it wasn't the Mu family who rescued her and brought her out, so she might not be where she is now. It's not easy for her to be anxious, and her mother has to send her to prison. The mother of the Mu family was so angry that she gritted her teeth and jumped like thunder, saying that she didn't harm anyone, and the other party was talking nonsense with red mouth and white teeth! "

We all thought it was a shrew scolding the street, but soon we found out that it was groundless, and it may not be for no reason. Someone brought up the past vividly. Recalling the three years of natural disasters from 1959 to 1961, a large area of the country was affected by the disaster, and countless people died of starvation. Longtan is located in a remote corner with a temperate climate, and there are few disasters, but most of the food has been requisitioned for relief to refugees in other places. The people in the village had to tighten their belts to get by, followed by three anti-five anti-five, the people's commune canteen, and ten years of turmoil. For a while, everyone's faces were full of vegetables, and the three women in the Mu family's house lived a good life unchanged, although they did not develop a round and jade body, their complexion was much better than everyone else. And the smell of meat often wafts from the house, which is an incredible thing in such a famine year.

This smell of meat made everyone in the village salivate, and there were many discussions in private, and I didn't see the women in the Mu family's house raising pigs and chickens and ducks, but where did this meat fragrance come from? There are a lot of birds and beasts in the deep mountains, the village regularly organizes everyone to go up the mountain to hunt, but the porridge is less and the monks are more, and the prey distributed to every household is pitiful. Because the three women of the Mu family did not contribute, Murakami did not share the prey for them. Not to mention the smell of meat, the people in Longtan all burn firewood, and the Mu family's house is closed all day long, where does this firewood come from?

Although some people said at the beginning that the housewife of Mu Mansion was not ordinary, in the face of the long-awaited monster, the people of Longtan Ancient Village began to become panicked. However, before they could get used to it, a bigger, stronger and more absolute monster came.

In the blink of an eye, the situation of natural and man-made disasters in the whole country has been greatly eased, because the number of people dying of hunger and starvation has been greatly reduced, and the grain quota handed over by the people of Longtan has also been reduced, and each family can eat enough food and meat. The pressure of survival instantly became lighter, and the three women in the Mu family's house became more and more abrupt. Like a thorn in the bones, like sand in the eyes, it reminds everyone all the time that there is a huge hidden danger lurking in a quiet and peaceful life. That's when imagination also begins to run wild.

Although the housewives and girls are not threatened by foreign agents, they are just as worried, in case their husbands or lovers are seduced, and they will lose a lot if they do other services. The ancient village of Longtan, shrouded in a faint horror, is filled with all kinds of whimsical ideas.

The three women in the Mu family's mansion were like gods on top, clamping down on the people of the entire Longtan Ancient Village. Of course, the people who turned over from the old society and became masters were not happy, and they were entangled in groups in private, discussing how to get rid of the black hands behind the scenes. Since negative confrontation cannot work, we can only hope for a head-to-head confrontation. But how do you go head-to-head to address the threat once and for all? Everyone didn't estimate it, the solution hadn't come up with yet, and the head-on conflict came in advance. And this head-on conflict was provoked by the old and decrepit wife of the Yue family.

"Actually, we all know that it was Yue Laotian who disliked her and didn't want her, so he let his wife make up a reason to abuse her. The mother of the Mu family sat in the courtyard and cried loudly. Someone called the village chief Long. As the elder of the Mu family, Village Chief Long slapped the head of the Yue family a few times, scolded her so much that she was bloody, and asked her to promise not to bully the Mu family's housewife again in the future. This incident made the head of the Yue family not a person inside and out. Since then, he has been sick, and Yue Laotian has not given money for medical treatment, so he only relies on his son to pick some leftovers for him to eat cold, and his body is sometimes good and sometimes bad, getting thinner and thinner, and he died after more than a year...... Yue Laotian was pointed out by Qianfu, but blamed the Mu family's housewife for being a fox! After moving the family into the city, she didn't come back to see her for several years. Since Yue Laotian broke off the relationship with her, later, she got along with the head of Long Village. After all, in this ravine, except for Yue Laotian, only the village chief Long has the most ability, and being the village chief of so many people is like the emperor of the soil. "

"We also know that it is not easy for her, after the death of the head of the Mu family, the mother and son of the Mu family will suffer. It's always nice to have a man in the room. Even if the Mu family's housewife could keep it, she had to spend her mind on her daughter-Mu Tongtong was studying at the Bingcun Middle School twenty miles away at that time, and the Mu family's housewife sent a nanny to pick her up on the mountain road every day. Mu Tongtong is good-looking, reads and cares, and the mother of the Mu family is full of hopes. She taught her daughter to draw and recognize ores, saying that she had something in her father's blood, and that she was smart and aura. Mu Tongtong is indeed ingenious, painting door gods, cutting window flowers, sewing dolls, doing anything, there is nothing that is not like it. The couplets in the village were all used for her to write. When Mu Tongtong was not in school, he often drew pictures, trees, and birds on the hillside, and sketched them out with a few strokes of a pencil, like a living one. One autumn, a group of painters from other provinces climbed the mountain and painted, and when they saw Mu Tongtong sitting on a stone and painting, they didn't think she could paint so well, and asked her who taught her? Mu Tongtong said that it was her mother. When they saw the Mu family's housewife, they knew that the Mu family's housemother was still a talented girl! ”

"It's a pity that talented women can't be eaten. For many years after the man's death, the mother of the Mu family was only good with the head of Long Village. Unexpectedly, Village Chief Long also began to be cold to her later. Village Chief Long later told people that this woman was too complicated, her identity and experience were confusing, and her heart was also very deep and yin, which made people feel more afraid the closer she got to her. He didn't want to stick with her anymore, he didn't think about falling out with her at all, she would treat him as an enemy. When she was on good terms with him, she also stabbed the Tiger Charm on his back with a probe and perfume ointment. He said that after stabbing him that time, she handed him a small mirror for him to lie down and look there, and she used another small mirror on top of it to look behind his back, and he saw that the tiger head was terrifying in the mirror as if it were alive. Then she moved him over and rode on top of him, stroking him all the time. She held the probe of the stabbing spell and dangled it on his chest and said, "There is a vital point two wheat leaves wide outside, and if you prick it lightly with this long needle, your heart will stop, and a single needle will kill you." She gestured with her finger and asked him if he wanted to try it. Village Chief Long said you were joking. She said I'm not kidding, if you want to betray me like Yue Laotian one day, I'll prick you while you're asleep. She also said that she really regretted not giving the damn Yue Laotian a needle. Village Chief Long remembered the death of the head of the Mu family, and said Did you stab the head of the Mu family with a needle and a tiger curse, and he betrayed you before he died? I didn't expect her face to change drastically, and she began to cry like an anxious cat. Village Chief Long was busy saying that it was a joke, and he was busy apologizing and apologizing, and kept coaxing her to give up. Village Chief Long said that since then, he was a little afraid of her, as long as he was with her, he would think of her probe and what she had said, and when he thought of the death of the head of the Mu family, he would get chills and goosebumps. He began to distance himself from her, and he didn't see her......"

"Again and again, Village Chief Long's change of heart made the Mu family head angry. Some people say that when she couldn't get back the village chief of Long with all her might, she began to take revenge on him. She seduced Yue Moye, the son of the head of Long Village. In fact, we all know that Yue Moye was less than twenty years old at that time, he stopped going to school before graduating from junior high school, he had nothing to do in the room, and there was no suitable one to marry a daughter-in-law, and Mu Tongtong looked like a big girl, who looked at it and thought it was good-looking, many men in the village wanted to beat her bad idea, thinking that her father was dead, and her mother was so casual, and she would be with her mother sooner or later. The mother of the Mu family doesn't think so, she thinks that her daughter is bleeding the blood of the people in the city, and she should not be born in this poor ravine, and she will definitely enter the city in the future to marry someone who has the ability in the city. As the girl got bigger and bigger, she naturally stared more and more closely. She often said to her daughter, "Before you grow up and go to the city, remember not to let any man in this ravine touch you." Whoever wants to beat your idea, who wants to bully you, you tell your mother, your mother is desperate with him, gouging out his eyes, picking his skin! When she found out that Yue Moye wanted to get close to Mu Tongtong, she told Yue Moye what she had told her daughter, and the little guy was frightened. Then the mother of the Mu family deliberately tempted him and made this hairy boy who had never seen the world fascinated. "

"I feel that she is trying to protect her daughter, and she is also deliberately stimulating Village Chief Long, which makes Village Chief Long very angry, and feels painful and itchy in my heart. Someone saw Village Chief Long warn her not to associate with his son anymore, but she didn't even pay attention to it, saying that she had the ability to take care of your son. With Lao Tzu like you, who eats a fishy mouth and leaves, can you still raise a son who is not moved when he sees a woman? He also said that you think I'm old and tasteless, your son didn't say I'm old, and I also like young people like him, ten times stronger than you. Village Chief Long was so angry that his whole body trembled, and in order to fight with her, he thought of all kinds of methods, and finally said that if you want to fight me again, I will mess with your Mu Tongtong. The mother of the Mu family said that if you have the courage to try, if you dare to touch her finger, I will abolish you. The village chief of Long does not believe in evil, and says that you will see. The shriveled stall owner said leisurely, and my heart tightened.

"That day, I met Mu Tongtong who came back from school and said that he wanted to take some tuition and miscellaneous fees, but there was no money in the room, and then the Mu family's housewife went to borrow it from house to house. Mu Tongtong waited in the room. Someone said conclusively that Village Chief Long came with a large stack of money, dangled the money in front of Mu Tongtong and said, Mu Tongtong, as long as you let me hug me, I will give you this stack of money. When the village chief Long was drunk later, he said that he took public money that day, and he used this money as an introduction, and he would not give her the money when he succeeded. At that time, Mu Tongtong asked, uncle, is that real money*? Village Chief Long said that of course it was real money. Mu Tongtong said Uncle, I'll give you a hug, you have to let me touch the money first, whether it's true. Village Chief Long gave her the money to touch, really, really! Unexpectedly, Mu Tongtong grabbed the money, turned around and ran out of the door, and ran towards the middle of the village. The village chief got up to chase her. She threw the money as she ran, one by one. Village Chief Long was afraid that others would pick it up, so he kept bending down to pick it up while chasing. Mu Tongtong just ran forward. Village Chief Long didn't finish picking it up, and Mu Tongtong had already run away. As a result, she threw away half of the money, and buried the remaining half under the roots of a tree at the head of the village. On the same day, the village chief of Long went to her room to make a fuss, she pretended to be innocent, saying that the money was thrown away on the road and she never took any money from him. When the other party's voice was high, she cried, so that Village Chief Long had nothing to do with her. Later, she used that money to pay the school fees, and even the tuition for the second year. After this incident, they all said that Mu Tongtong, a girl, is really good, and she will definitely be better than her mother in the future. Since then, Village Chief Long has also taken the initiative to give in to the Mu family's housewife. "

When I heard this, my heart fluttered, and I didn't expect that Mu Tongtong, who was generous in middle school, had such a past. I remembered our first encounter, and I was crying alone in a corner of the county, and my mood was as dark as the school building. Of course, we can't force a 50-year-old house to still be new, not to mention that it is still a tube building imitating the former Soviet Union, with limited floor height and cramped space. Due to the shallow foundation and the invasion of ground gas, the room exudes a damp musty smell all year round. In the rainy season, "small umbrellas" will grow in the corners. Once, my sister and I picked a lot of sake to drink, and it was delicious and I still remember it vividly.

It's hard to put into words how bad this house is. In a sentence from my sister, I may be able to summarize one or two: grandma's, the grave is also stronger than it. But I still like to be here, the humid and cool air makes me wary, and my brain is so active that I forget the unpleasant gossip.

In addition, the room has the advantage of the south-facing window, which opens very large and low, completely different from the Soviet architectural style, which may have been changed later. The window faces the main road of the school, about 20 meters apart. There is a row of cannas in the middle, half-covered and half-hidden, which does not hinder the smooth view, but adds a bit of romance. When you look up, you can see people coming and going behind the shadow of the flowers, and you can hear the faint sound of laughter when you look down. The two worlds, one bright and one yin, are not completely separated. I was very intoxicated by this feeling of lightness.

The day I met Mu Tongtong was an autumn day, a clear autumn day, a clear and crystal-like autumn day.

Outside the south window, the blue sky was like a wash, and the row of cannas stood quietly, the flame-like petals had fallen off and turned into dark brown dry shells. The leaves are still green and red, spreading out, leaving a bit of the style of the past.

I wiped my tears, and my teary eyes caught her pretty figure just in time. Watching her small crotch gently send first, and then twisting her waist to complete a graceful step. Whether a girl walks gracefully or not depends on whether there is a correct way of walking. The shoulders must be flat, the crotch should move first, and the waist should be soft like maltose. If you have everything, you will grow lotus step by step, like Ling Bo Weibu and Luo Socks in the ancient books.

I was ashamed to admire her smooth steps, and suddenly realized that her destination was canna, and I panicked. This old house, the original office building, has been retired from the stage, except for this row of cannas, the other rooms are unobstructed.

I was scrambling to clean myself up, and she was already standing by the peeling red wooden door, raising her hand to knock, but looking at me hesitantly. "Classmates?" She turned her head with crooked eyes and a shallow smile, and said, "What's wrong with you?" ”

What to say? My brain was a little short-circuited, my usual reticence was gone, and after a moment's hesitation, I stammered a little and said, "You...... Are you here to see the canna? ”

"It would have been. I heard that the flowers are blooming very well...... "she looked at me, "I want to paint, not to see...... Yours. ”

I hurriedly said, "I'm also a student here, and no one else comes here, so it's all my ...... It's nothing. After a pause, I introduced myself again: "I am Shen Shuiyue in the second grade. ”

She squinted slightly at me, hesitating.

I took the opportunity to slip away, but I heard her voice say, "Come and sit for a while, and talk for a while." You can see that you have a desire to talk, we ...... Maybe it's going to get along. ”

Strangely, at all times, her gaze is clouded with a layer of fog, which is very moving, but it also makes others have the urge to clear the fog.

I nodded, outwardly armed.

She smiled slightly, and the corners of her mouth pursed a beautiful arc, "My name is Mu Tongtong, a freshman who has transferred to another school." ”

"My name is Shen Shuiyue." I repeat.

"Mirrors." The corners of her mouth deepened, and her smile deepened. I smiled wryly, as if there was a stick gently stirring in my heart lake, rippling in circles. But in the blink of an eye, her smile slipped from the corner of her mouth and disappeared without a trace.

I asked curiously, "Did anything happen to you?" ”

She stared at me deeply, as if to weigh whether I was a trustworthy person, and after a while she said, "It's just Gu Ying's self-pity...... I also have things I want to talk about, such as something strange that has happened to me at some point, but it is so strange that no one will believe me. After saying this, she sighed, her eyebrows furrowed, and her willow-like eyebrows suddenly twisted into an earthworm shape. The mist's faint gaze flickered with fear, anxiety, confusion, restlessness, heat, and something indescribable.

I felt an urge to reach out and smooth her eyebrows. Of course, this was impossible, so my heart had to twist into a ball. At the time, I was really a little smitten and simply understood her expression as a precursor to transfer anxiety.

Her voice was soft, like a spring breeze, and it was all over the canna bushes. If it weren't for the bizarre nature of her story, I would have gotten drunk. It was a dream, which roughly meant the fear of spiders. Dreaming of the reaction of spiders and humans in this state in an intricate labyrinth. This surprised me, could it be the fear of spiders? She spoke quickly, almost quickly, and I had to cooperate with a look of understanding. At that time, I just didn't know how to pretend to understand, unless, like the freak of Shiling people, which middle school student understands the basics of psychology?

The shriveled stall owner was still recalling: "Finally, the village chief of Long and the mother of the Mu family got back together, and the mother of the Mu family was gentle with him as in the past, but she couldn't forget her jealousy of him, and finally took revenge on him quietly." Later, Village Chief Long no longer went to the Mu family's house's house, and when he mentioned the Mu family's housemother, he gritted his teeth. Although Village Chief Long said that he was old, he still did not do his duty, and the women in the village were much better with him. Now those women are saying that the village chief Long has drugged the Mu family's mother. He slept with those women, and he could only move his hands and feet, and he couldn't do anything. The woman didn't understand, so she touched him, laughed at him, and asked him what was wrong? He scolded the mother of the Mu family, this V person was vicious, and he smeared him with perfume, which made him no longer good. He's looking for that woman now, just to have a good time. A woman asked the Mu family's housewife about this, and the Mu family's housewife said I swore that whoever dared to touch my daughter's finger would abolish him, and I did what I said. Only then did people feel that the mother of the Mu family had the means, so they admired the woman from outside this village from the bottom of their hearts. "

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