The woman has clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, with a bookish atmosphere, her long hair is braided into a handful of twisted flowers at her side, and she is wearing a pale green floral skirt, which is already an old style many years ago, but the color is still bright.

She is fair-skinned, not like a perennial farmer in the village, and her Mandarin is also very standard, with an occasional hint of an S city accent.

I was invited into the house by her, and the wooden house was very dilapidated and shabby, with a rusty fan spinning overhead, and a foul smell in the room, which was due to the long-term lack of ventilation.

The smell made me uncomfortable, and I walked to the window and wanted to open it, but she stopped me, "Xiaobao is weak and afraid of the wind. ”

I had no choice but to give up, and she was kind enough to turn up the fan overhead, and I felt a little more comfortable.

She looked at me gently throughout the whole process, and her tone was soft, "I'm hungry, I haven't eaten yet, I went to the street today to buy some meat and vegetables, if you don't mind, eat with us." ”

I hesitated for a moment and nodded.

Actually, I don't have the right to choose at all.

The woman seemed pleased, picked up the oil-stained apron hanging from the chair, put it on her body, washed her hands, and said to me apologetically, "Please wait a while, the meal will be ready soon." ”

The sound of food coming out of the kitchen sounded from the kitchen, and I looked around the cabin with my peripheral vision.

The wooden house was dimly lit, with only one room, a bamboo bed in the corner, and the family of three probably slept together.

There were some clothes thrown on the bed, and there was some mud on them, and I didn't see Ergouzi's father.

The furniture in the wooden house was limited, there was not even a decent electrical appliance, and the ingredients were messily laid out on the table next to the stove, and a large piece of gray meat could be faintly seen, with some red blood hanging on it.

The fire on the stove never stopped, but I couldn't smell the food.

The second dog was tired of playing outside, so he ran to the woman's side and went around in circles, and the woman didn't feel annoyed, and hugged the second dog and kissed it for a while before letting go.

The two black hands of the two dogs were pulled on the table, and the black eyes were staring at the meat tightly, and he swallowed his saliva.

The woman's stir-fry movements were skillful, and she stroked his head, "Wait, you will be ready to eat soon." ”

The second dog nodded, and obediently ran to the dining table, sitting side by side with me, but his eyes did not want to take off the stove for a minute.

The woman brought the finished dishes to the table, took a few chopsticks from the bamboo tube, carefully arranged them for us, took off the apron, folded them, and hung them on the chairs.

There are two dishes on the table, one side is fried meat with green onions, and the other is broth, which is also only meat, and some chopped green onions are sprinkled on top. Two dishes were steaming, but I didn't feel the heat at all.

Seeing that I had been staring at the food, the woman scratched her hair embarrassedly, "I was going to cook some rice, but when I opened the rice jar, I saw that the rest of the spoonful of rice was eaten by mice......

I didn't hold chopsticks, I felt a breath in my heart, I couldn't go up, I couldn't get down.

Ergouzi didn't care about these things, picked up the chopsticks and ate them, he hadn't eaten meat for several years.

I couldn't stand it, and wanted to stop Ergouzi, but my hand was stopped by the woman, and she shook her head at me softly.

I got up and walked out the door, indeed, this is their family matter, I should not interfere, out of sight.

She hurriedly chased after her, "The hospitality is not good, if this meal is not delicious, I can make some other ......"

Her next words were interrupted by a cold look from me.

The two of us fell into a long silence.

I sighed and said, "You're dead, why don't you leave." ”

She first covered her mouth in surprise, and then she was relieved, without the slightest embarrassment of being exposed, and said mischievously, "You can see it." ”

Looking at her demeanor and movements, she doesn't look like a mother who gave birth to an eight-year-old child.

I nodded.

She looked back at Ergouzi a few times with loving eyes, and realized that she had been indifferent to me for a long time, and then reluctantly withdrew her gaze, "I want to accompany Xiaobao for a few more days, from now on, he will no longer have a mother, so who in this world will care about him, he is still so young." ”

"The meat?" I felt sick to my stomach, and she lied, and the meat was not what she bought on the street at all, but human flesh.

Her expression was flat, "Anyway, I'm already dead, and the corpse is also used to rot, it's better to eat it when you go underground, Xiaobao hasn't eaten meat since he was born, give him nutrition." ”

My nose was sour, and my eyes were a little red, "You can fool for a while, but you can't fool for a lifetime, he will grow up after all, and he will know the truth." ”

How could she not know this, it was just self-deception, she showed a lonely expression.

There was a stone table in front of the hut, and the two of us sat down around it.

"You're not from Pingma Village, are you?" I stared at her, trying to get something out of her mouth.

She opened her mouth, she hadn't talked to anyone about this for eight years, "Yes, I'm from S City, and I studied at S City Medical University before." Her eyes glanced at the sign hanging on my chest, "It's fate, you're my junior...... Is the school okay now? If I had the chance, I would have liked to go back and see it, but I don't have a chance in my life. ”

Her expression is always soft, and her tone is gentle, which makes people listen like a spring breeze caressing their faces.

"How did you get to this place?" I pinched my fingers nervously, and searched for the truth many times, each time to no avail, and this last chance, I suddenly felt a little timid.

Her eyes have been staring at Ergouzi, Ergouzi didn't notice the conversation between the two of us at all, and the two dishes were also eaten with relish, she was stupid and didn't answer my words.

I also kind of understood it, and chuckled, "If I can get out of here alive, I will take Ergouzi away, there is no way to guarantee that his future life will be worry-free, but at least, I can let him live a normal life." ”

This condition is impossible to refuse for a mother who loves her son.

She then looked at me, her eyes full of gratitude, "Thank you......"

"You don't need to thank me, we're a deal." The more feelings are involved, the more unclear it becomes.

"Eight years ago, when I was a junior in college, I came to Pingma Village to develop quality, and you know, it was my dream to graduate from medical university and become a medical worker. However, the shattering of dreams also came so quickly that I was caught off guard. ”

The wind blew, bringing with it the smell of earth.

Listening to her statement, my heart gradually calmed down, and she always had a magic that made people quiet down instantly.

"One day, I was sleeping and woke up in a warehouse for some reason. The warehouse was dim and smelly, and I spent half a month in hell there. Later, I found out that it was my leading teacher, Yang Ou, who sold me. My home is in the countryside of S City, and my parents have five children, and they are patriarchal and have never taken me to heart.

After I disappeared, I never expected someone to come to my rescue. I watched my sisters who had been imprisoned with me either die tragically or were crushed into the back mountains, and I was terrified. Just when I thought it was my turn to die, I met Chen Laohan.

He lives alone in Pingma Village, has no relatives, and his leg was broken when he was young. When he was young, he saved the life of the village chief Ma Hongtao, and Ma Hongtao owed him a favor, so he replaced me on this condition. ”

Swap it out? How could a person as shrewd as Ma Hongtao casually let a college student leave.

Seeing my puzzled expression, she explained with a smile, "They let me go after driving me crazy, and they couldn't be more relieved to be alone, talking crazy, without the slightest human appearance." After I went back, Mr. Chen pushed me on the bed, and from then on, I was his person. ”

I avoided her watery gaze, and what a strong heart I was to be able to calmly speak of these inhuman encounters.

"Eight months later, I gave birth to Xiaobao, who was born prematurely and has always been worse than others. Because Chen Laohan wanted me, all the gold in the village had nothing to do with him anymore. He is forty years older than me, but I feel happy every minute and every second I spend with him. I know I'm already in love with him. He treats me well enough, what more can I ask for? Didn't I steal these eight years? ”

I frowned, "You didn't hate them?" ...... without them"

"But where in the world there will be so many ifs, life is unsatisfactory nine times out of ten, what happens, it happens, you have to know how to shake hands with life, no matter how you struggle, you can't climb the mountain of fate. It is better to cherish every minute and second of life and live in the moment. Do you say I hate? There may be some, but after so many years, those hatreds have also been consumed in time. Only when people live can they have hope, and only when they live can they have the opportunity to change their fate. You can see me, and I see your difference. Xiaobao is a premature baby, his body is different from that of a normal child, and he has a pair of eyes that can see through the disguises of the world. And you, I saw behind you......

”

"What?" I looked back blankly, there was nothing.

"There's a light behind you, a soft light, that illuminates people very comfortably. Po must have seen the light on you to bring you back......"

"Then can you tell me, Ma Hongtao, what are they doing? Moreover, apart from you, there are no women in the entire village of Pingma Village, what is the reason? I asked anxiously, I just wanted to know the answer now.

"This is the curse of Pingma Village, which has existed for a long time, dating back a hundred years, and is also a large village. Since the Japanese army invaded China decades ago, tens of thousands of people's villages have been slaughtered within a few days. ”