Chapter 1 Who Are They? Who am I?
(This article is all overhead, and the starting point of time is after the founding of the People's Republic of China, but the specific plot avoids sensitive content and will not be written in accordance with the real historical background.) )
The wind was cold, and the sky was gloomy and gray, as if it was going to snow.
On the edge of the Hulu River near Caojia Village, a group of people appeared, one of whom was the village party secretary of the village, who came to the Hulu River with two gray-haired old men, as well as a woman, two men and three middle-aged people.
The two old men squatted down to burn the paper, and one of the old women choked up and said: "It's all my fault, it's all my fault, I didn't look at them back then, and I was robbed of Yirou by bandits······"
At the bottom of the water, a pale-skinned, long-haired, beautiful woman, leading a pink-carved child, was about to pass by, and when she heard the word "Yirou", she immediately stopped her body like a swimming fish.
"Mother, what's wrong?" The pink-carved boy was stunned for a moment, not understanding the sudden change in his mother's expression.
The glamorous woman muttered to herself, "Yirou is my name!" ”
The little boy still didn't understand, but when he saw that his mother seemed to be in an inexplicable emotion, he didn't ask, and silently stayed by the beautiful woman's side.
The woman listened to the chatter and self-blame of the two old men on the shore, as well as the three children behind her, and lowered her head, as if mourning the dead Chu Yirou, her sister and sister.
Chu Yirou saw her relatives on the riverbank and wanted to rush up to recognize each other, but she was stopped by an invisible force and couldn't get out at all.
Failed again and again, Chu Yirou's head broke and bled to no avail.
The people on the shore left one after another, and it was empty.
Chu Yirou cried frantically, but no one could hear it. The little boy next to him frowned, and he understood his mother's strong desire to be with his relatives.
It was getting dark, and just as Chu Yirou was about to give up and leave with the little boy, there were two more people on the shore. One of them was the gray-haired old woman in the afternoon, and the other was the old woman's daughter.
Chu Yirou looked at her mother and sister on the shore, why didn't they come to her earlier? She had been dead for almost fifty years.
It's just that just when Chu Yirou burst into tears and regretted that she couldn't reunite with her relatives, she heard the middle-aged woman on the shore ask, "Mom, the eldest sister is so pitiful!" I jumped into the river at a young age! ”
"Huh······ Elaine, you are so naïve! The old woman smiled, and instead of the sadness of the afternoon, there was a smug smile on her face, "If she is not pitiful, you will be the one who died." ”
Chu Yirou was stunned, is this old woman really the mother who cried so much that she was about to faint in the afternoon?
"What's going on?" Chu Yilian asked puzzled, "Can't you not die?" After all, my father was so sad! ”
The old woman whispered to the middle-aged woman beside her, showing a disdainful sneer from time to time, Chu Yirou could see the old woman's expression, but she couldn't hear the content clearly.
Chu Yirou's revenge has been avenged, but for her life experience, she is only a little eyebrow now, from the completely different attitude of this old woman day and night, she feels very strange, she can guess some things, this old woman is definitely not her own mother, maybe that father is Chen Shimei?
Chu Yirou's desire to find out the truth became stronger and stronger, and the whole person was about to go crazy.
Xiao Hebo, who was beside him, felt his mother's anger and eagerness, so he silently took out the Hebo jade he had collected and arranged it into a pattern to form a formation.
Suddenly there was thunder and lightning, and torrential rain poured down.
It was too unusual in winter, and the old woman and middle-aged woman on the shore left in disarray.
Just after the thunderbolt with the thickness of the bucket above his head hit that formation, after a whirlwind, Chu Yirou's voice sounded in his ears from his son Xiaohebo: "Mother, after you go back, you must come back to me!" ”
After that, Chu Yirou lost consciousness and didn't know anything!
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In the small courtyard of the farmhouse, with low earthen walls and mud houses, chickens and ducklings ran around in the yard, competing for grass seeds that they didn't know where to find them.
At this time, a woman wearing a thick cotton jacket was sleeping on a stone table.
"Xiaorou, Xiaorou, wake up, your sheep have run along the river, you hurry up and chase it back!" An old woman roared urgently.
Chu Yirou was suddenly pushed and stood up violently.
When Chu Yirou followed the voice she heard, she turned her head to look over, it was actually Aunt Li, the mediator in the village, looking at the age of Aunt Li, it was about the same as before she died.
Oh, my God?
Could it be that she really left the bottom of the Hulu River with the help of Xiao Hebo and came back to life?
"Aunt Li, what did you just say?" Chu Yirou asked, "I didn't hear it clearly just now, you say it again!" ”
"Your sheep have run along the river, you should hurry up and chase it!" Aunt Li said anxiously, but there was a malicious light hidden in those dim eyes.
After a moment of surprise and panic, Chu Yirou quickly calmed down, and then regardless of Aunt Li, who was anxious, she quickly ran to the poorly printed almanac hanging on the wall of the house and saw this page.
November 8, 1950.
Chu Yirou was particularly impressed by this day, not only because it was Laba Festival, but also because it was the day she died.
By the way, it was also this Aunt Li who came to inform her that her sheep had run away, and she was anxious at that time, worried that her mother-in-law would scold her, so she hurriedly ran over to look for them, but those sheep ran farther and farther, and she followed those sheep far away, unconsciously getting farther and farther away from the village.
In a small mountain pass, Cao Dewang and Cao Shigui were ambushed there, trying to do wrong to her.
Just when Chu Yirou fell into memory, Aunt Li outside said to Mrs. Cao, who had just entered the door: "I said sister-in-law, your Xiaorou is really big-hearted, I told her that your sheep ran west along the river, and she didn't chase it, so she ignored me and hid directly in the house." ”
When Mrs. Cao heard this, she immediately became anxious, and shouted into the house: "You are a mourning star, don't hurry up to find sheep, those are the sheep that our family has raised for two years, and we hope to sell these sheep for a good year!" ”
Chu Yirou heard her mother-in-law's scolding in the house, and a sneer hung on the corner of her mouth, her son died on the battlefield, and she didn't kill him, so why blame her?
At the same time, Chu Yirou also felt that she was very stupid, she knew since she was a lowly child daughter-in-law, and she did all the dirty work, and she was grateful to this old woman for picking her up from the river, giving her food, and raising her.
But she made a cow and a horse to honor Mrs. Cao and Old Man Cao, but she couldn't warm their hearts.
In this case, she also let it go, and threw away its bullshit etiquette, its bullshit kindness, and its bullshit child daughter-in-law!
She wants to start over and live for herself, and she also sent Cao Shigui and Cao Dewang to prison, and she has to avenge the unmasked and stupid mother, as for Chen Shimei's father, and the ruthless old woman, you wait!