Chapter 8: Spring Buds

My consciousness faded away, and when I woke up, I found myself in an unfamiliar environment.

It looks like an old village pile that has not been renovated before, and the sun is warm in the middle of summer all year round.

I was like a visitor from the sky, and no one could see me.

My presence was like a shadow of light, a group of children passed through me, running happily into the distance.

Someone shouted: "Come and see, come and see, Lao Xiong's new daughter-in-law, eat candy!" ”

I followed, and saw a woman wrapped in a black scarf standing next to a man of five big and three thick from a distance.

And the woman was holding a little girl, and the little girl was very cute, and she smiled at me when she raised her eyes.

My heart was choked, my eyes widened, could she see me?

Where the hell is this? It's not like I'm in the same world anymore.

And everything that happened in front of me was projected as quickly as an old movie, and later I learned that the little girl's name was Chunya.

The woman was too weak to work, and she had a towel wrapped around her forehead for many years, and she always sat at the threshold with an old pipe in her mouth.

The first half year was fine, but after the days went by, the man who called Lao Xiong disliked women for not being able to work, and began to beat and scold them for no reason.

When the woman was away, the old bear maliciously burned the chin and eyes of Chunya with the cigarette butt he had smoked.

After a long time, Chunya's eyes were so hot that she could barely see clearly.

The woman asked her what was going on, and Chunya cried and said that Daddy had burned it with a cigarette.

But the woman didn't dare to resist the old bear, although she felt sorry for her daughter, she didn't dare to say anything.

Later, Chunya's chin also burned through a small hole, drinking water leaked, and eating leaked.

The villagers were not used to it, and at first they would condemn two sentences, but the old bear was about to beat people when he copied the guy, and scolded people's homes.

Everyone didn't dare to provoke him, and no one said it anymore.

Spring Bud was tortured to lose her human shape, and the blood hole in her jaw was inflamed and infected, and it was summer, emitting a foul smell.

The old bear drove her to sleep in the cowshed, and forbade her to come in.

One evening, the kind grandmother in the village quietly brought some food to see her.

Seeing that she was untying the black towel that wrapped her chin, she squinted her eyes and stepped forward to look at it for a long time.

Grandma stepped forward curiously, only to see that the black towel was not only stained with pus and blood, but also white maggots rolling.

Grandma immediately couldn't bear to cry and said that she would take her to the town to see the doctor.

The old bear refused to let him, and all the vicious words were scolded.

The last time people saw spring buds was on an early autumn evening.

Barefoot and dressed in old red clothes, she walked through the fields and disappeared into the old forest, never to return.

The villagers carried torches and went to the mountains to search again and again, but strangely enough, they did not even find Chunya's body.

People only said that she was eaten by wild beasts in the mountains.

Three days after the spring buds disappeared, the woman found herself hanged under a large locust tree at the entrance of the village.

On the last night of the first seven, a strange wind blew in the mourning hall, blowing the burning paper into the sky.

The old bear was called to eat and drink, and when he heard someone outside calling him anxiously, the house was on fire and asked him to hurry back.

By the time he returned, the house had been burned to the ground, and his ten-year-old son had burned to death.

The old bear suddenly shook the bucket in his hand, and suddenly clapped his hands and laughed.

Screaming: "It's all burned!" It's all burned! Well burned, well burned, hahahaha......"

Since then, the old bear has been crazy, homeless, wrapped in a tattered cotton coat, and sleeping wherever he wants.

Relying on the kindness of the villagers to receive some food to live, sometimes they go crazy, which is very scary.

Pointing into the distance and shouting, she's coming! Here she comes! A little girl in red, she's going to take me away!

……

I was an outsider, but it was as if I had experienced this tragedy firsthand, and the helplessness and loneliness in her eyes made me not know what to do.

"Giggle...... Hehehe......"

There was a strange laugh in his ears, and the world in front of him changed abruptly, and Chunya was being chased by the group of children and rolled down the hillside.

"Kill her! Kill this ugly monster!! ”

"She has bugs on her, it stinks, don't play with her!"

……

"Don't hit her, don't do this to her!" I tried to stop them, but in vain, they passed through my body and chased after Chunya.

Heaven and earth changed in an instant, and I saw Chunya flee to the soy sauce factory at the foot of the mountain, and more than 100 jars of soybeans would be sealed.

In order to escape the pursuit of the children, Chunya was afraid to take advantage of the workers' inattention and hid in a water tank filled with soybeans.

Heavy chains seal the cylinder head, soybeans ferment for a year, and the workers have to leave when they finish their work.

"Don't go! There's still someone in there, come back! Spring sprouts are inside...... Who's going to save her?! ”

They couldn't hear me, and even though I saw all this, I was just an outsider, a phantom.

Chunya slapped the lid desperately, but no one came to save her, and the whimpering sound gradually became weaker until there was no more movement.

It was so cold and dark, she must have been terrified and helpless.

Later, when the factory closed down and the vat full of beans was never opened, she 'slumbered' in it for more than fifty years, with endless resentment.

"Lingsheng! Zhang Lingsheng, wake up! Wake up! ”

Who? Who's calling me? A voice, very eager.

I searched around, and suddenly a fog came up, obscuring everything around me.

"Lingsheng, come to me."

The wind blew up and scattered the layers of mist, and not far away stood the man, dressed in a moon-bud robe, holding a blood-colored prayer bead, noble and handsome like a breeze and a bright moon, and handed out his hand to me.

"Young Master Chu?"

"You are in her nightmare, she can't get rid of her resentment, she will keep repeating the most painful memories of being alive, and if you can't come out of her nightmare, you will also be buried in her painful nightmares, and the endless cycle will be."

I took a step towards him, and suddenly my hand was grabbed, and when I looked back, the spring sprouts behind me were still very cute, and the village pile was still the quiet and peaceful village pile.

"Little sister, play with me. Chunya is so scared alone, don't leave Chunya, they don't want Chunya......"