Chapter 31: Lan Lan
The mountain god saw that he couldn't help Tong Jun under the purple bead, and the head of the wild boar monster had been smashed into a puddle of mud, so he had to put away the green smoke and escape. The remaining huge heads fell to the ground as if the rope had been broken, and they stopped moving after a few turns.
Tong Jun put away the beads and hurriedly ran to Su Su's side: "Su Su, are you okay?"
Su Su opened her eyes, shook her head and said, "It's okay, I'm just a little tired, don't worry." ”
Seeing that the mountain god had left, Bai Xin took Lan Lan to Su Su's side and said, "It shouldn't be a big deal, just take a rest." ”
Lan Lan finally spoke: "Thank you, who are you, why did you save me?"
"My name is Bai Xin, his name is Tong Jun, and her name is Su Su. This is the green dragon. Bai Xin never forgot to introduce the little monkey. "We're just passers-by, and we accidentally learned that you were wronged as a demon girl, and we don't want to see death without help. ”
Lan Lan said to them gratefully, "My name is Lan Lan. Thank you for saving me, you are my benefactors. ”
Lan Lan was about to kneel down towards the three of them as she spoke, but Tong Jun hurriedly stopped her, "Hurry up, we can't afford it!"
Tong Jun pulled Lan Lan up, and then stared at Lan Lan's eyes, Lan Lan was looked at by him for a while, and lowered her head embarrassedly: "Why are you looking at me like this?"
Tong Jun was asked by Lan Lan, only then did she feel that it was a little rude for her to stare at her like this, her face immediately felt hot, and she stammered, "Yes...... I'm sorry, I'm looking into your eyes. ”
Lan Lan wiped her somewhat slippery cheeks and asked, "My eyes?"
"Your eyes are turning red. ”
Lan Lan said a little incredulously: "Impossible. My eyes are black. ”
Bai Xin also echoed: "Really, your eyes are red now. ”
Lan Lan suddenly saw a trace of blood on her hands, could it be in the wooden barrel, and what she was shedding was not tears, but blood?
At this moment, Lan Lan was still white, and even if there were blood stains on her clothes, it didn't affect her divine feeling in the slightest. Tong Jun has never understood how such a pure girl could be framed as a demon girl. Lan Lan saw Tong Jun looking at herself in a daze, and smiled at Tong Jun, as if it was like a spring east wind, which made people's hearts confused, and like a clear stream at the foot of the mountain, it taught people to think rippling.
Bai Xin said to Lan Lan: "You should be safe now, it is estimated that your villagers also know that they have been deceived, you ....."
"No, I don't want to go back. When Lan Lan heard that Bai Xin intended to send her back to the village, she quickly refused: "You take me away." I never want to go back to that village again. ”
"I know you're still blaming the villagers, but they've also been deceived by that Taoist priest. ”
Lan Lan still shook her head and said, "They are all devils, and my father is also a devil." I don't want to go back. ”
Bai Xin didn't expect Lan Lan to be so jealous and hateful, resolute, and said in embarrassment: "It's no problem to take you away, but we are going to the Central Plains, and the journey is very difficult, and I am afraid that your body will not be able to bear it." ”
"I can do it!" Lan Lan said firmly: "As long as you don't send me back, I can do anything, please take me away." ”
Bai Xin frowned and looked at Tong Jun, Tong Jun's face was unbearable: "Take her away first, see if you can find a better village and arrange it for her." The village did cast a big shadow on her. ”
"Thank you Tong Jun's benefactor!" Lan Lan saw that Tong Jun agreed, and hurriedly ran over to hold Tong Jun's arm, happy like a child.
"Okay. Anyway, we are not in a hurry, and we are not in a hurry. It's okay to take her with you. Bai Xin looked at the several livestock heads scattered around, as well as the bodies of pigs, cattle and sheep that the villagers had not had time to collect, the mess everywhere and the broken wooden barrels, and sighed helplessly, saying: "The people in the village are indeed crazy. ”
Su Su took a short rest, and while the villagers who were scared away had not reappeared, the four of them hurriedly left the place.
"Well, can you do me another favor?" Lan Lan whispered.
"What?" said Tong Jun.
"I miss my mother. Lan Lan said and cried again, "I want to go and see my mother." ”
"Isn't your mother already ......," Tong Jun couldn't bear to say.
"She committed suicide to prove her innocence, and I heard that she was buried at the foot of the hill west of my house, and I wanted to go and see her. ”
"Okay, we'll go with you. ”
"Thank you. ”
The afternoon sun was a little dazzling, after the previous abnormal battle, several people were a little tired, Lan Lan was not as fragile as they thought, since she was rescued, she had never cried. Lan Lan led Bai Xin and the three of them far around the village until they walked to the west of the village.
The people of the village were unusually quiet after the previous shock, as if there were no one living there.
Lan Lan took Bai Xin and them to the west of the village, and finally at the foot of a remote mountain far from the village, they saw a low grave piled up with new soil and grass, which must be Lan's mother's grave. Lan Lan hurriedly ran over, looked at the low grave, and was silent.
Lan Lan slowly squatted down, grabbed the soil from the ground and added it to her mother's grave. Finally, I couldn't help but shed tears. The three of Bai Xin stood behind her, and they all didn't speak quietly.
"My mother's life is more bitter than mine, my father went to a distant village to exchange things when he was young, and on the way back he saved my mother by chance, my mother had nowhere to go at that time, so she came back with her father. My father was an alcoholic when he was young, and no one in the village was willing to introduce him to a daughter-in-law, so he led my mother back to the village, so he simply lived with my mother. Although my family is not very wealthy, but after my mother came back, the house was well organized, and my father did not walk around with the people in the village, but because of my mother's arrival, my family's relationship with the village gradually improved. ”
Bai Xin and the others listened to Lan Lan's words, and they all sat beside her. Lan Lan said: "Later, I was born, but my mother was not happy. Because I was not like any other child in the village, I was born with white skin and white hair. My dad doesn't like me, and even my mother always follows me and gets beaten. My mother had nowhere to go, so she had to worry about it every day, and I don't know when Daddy drank too much and grabbed us both and beat us up. The people in the village were still a little afraid of my birth, so they gradually distanced themselves from my family. ”
"It wasn't until later, as I grew up, that the villagers realized that I might just be an ordinary person, and they began to disagree with my family. It's just that Daddy still drinks every day, and no matter how good my mother and I do, he always beats and scolds. ”
"In the first two years, several children were lost in the village, and the crops were always destroyed overnight, and the villagers barely harvested for two years. ”
"I remembered. Bai Xin suddenly said: "When we passed by the village fields, the ravines in the fields were obviously arched by the wild boar!"
"You mean the Taoist priest?"
"Yes, that Taoist priest is a boar monster. ”
Lan Lan continued: "That Taoist priest, he said that it was because I angered the mountain god that the crops were not harvested, and he also said that I stole the children I lost a few years ago. The Taoist priest said that because I was a demon girl with evil stars during the day, heaven and earth would not tolerate it, so I would cause the mountain god to be angry and punish the entire village. ”
"Two mornings ago, after my mother and I woke up, we heard a noise in the yard, and we didn't know what was going on, so we hurried out of the house and saw half of the village crowded around my house. The village chief led a few people to rummage through the courtyard of my house, and two corpses were turned out. My mom and I were stupefied and didn't know what was going on. Then the village chief took them to surround me and kept insulting me and saying that I was a witch. My mother stood in front of me, kneeling and begging the villagers not to scold. I'm not a witch at all, and I don't know where those two bones came from. The Taoist priest stood in the crowd and said that he would use me as a sacrifice to the mountain god to save the village. The whole village is crazy and wants to pay me tribute to the mountain god. My mother has been in front of me, protecting me to the death, but in exchange for another violent beating from my father. ”
"That corpse must be the ghost of the Taoist priest!" In fact, Bai Xin had long known that Lan Lan and her mother were buried by the Taoist priest after Lan Lao Er was drugged, but at this moment he pretended not to know.
"Until that night, when the villagers finally dispersed, I was locked in the house and my father watched me. My mother kept crying and crying, but my dad didn't even pay attention to her. In the middle of the night, my dad thought I was asleep and crept out of the house. But how could I sleep when this happened, and I heard the sound of my father closing the door, and I saw through the crack in the window that he had met the Taoist priest! The Taoist priest said something to my father, and I was too far away to hear clearly, but I felt that the Taoist priest was very satisfied with my father, and he gave him a lot of broken silver, and I knew that I had been sold. I almost broke down at that time, although my father has always been bad to me and my mother since I was a child, I never dreamed that my father would sell me as a sacrifice. Lan Lan said with her head in her hands, obviously unwilling to think of this terrifying thing again. Su Su squatted beside Lan Lan and gently hugged Lan Lan to calm her down.
Lan Lan took a deep breath and continued, "I've been thinking about this all night. Yesterday, at a faint light, I heard my mother calling me softly outside the door. I squatted in the door, and my mother whispered to me that Daddy hadn't woken up yet, and that he had gone crazy. It turned out that my father met with the Taoist priest last night, and my mother also saw it. My mother secretly opened the door for me and told me to flee before my father woke up. I told her to run away with me, and she said she couldn't go, she came to hold my daddy, and I want to live well. Lan Lan began to cry as she spoke.
"Later, my mother still didn't go with me, so I ran out of the yard and fled the village alone. Lan Lan covered her face with her hands and couldn't stop trembling and said: "My mother committed suicide by hanging from the beam, in order to prove my innocence, in order to drag my father who chased me with death." I ended up getting caught, and I couldn't outrun them. After I was arrested, I found out that my father didn't even lower my mother's body from the beam, so he beckoned the villagers to chase me!"
Su Su couldn't help but say, "Your father is too much!"
Lan Lan was already in tears, and said, "What is this, what is our mother and daughter? In my father's heart, are we not even worth a few taels of silver? In the hearts of the villagers, would they rather believe in a stranger they have never met than believe in us?"
Speaking of this, Lan Lan finally collapsed, shaking her head and crying.