When Bai Li arrived, there were already many people outside the Xu family. She originally planned to go back with a glimpse of the excitement, but she didn't expect to be squeezed into the house by those who watched the excitement.

Hanging from the beams was a woman with her hair scattered and her scarlet tongue sticking out three inches long. The snow shone through the lattice and shone on the ground, and the bright red embroidered shoes fell off the woman's feet, just in the halo of light.

The whole room was silent, and a mouse, poking its head out of the hole in the wall, stared at the embroidered shoe with dark eyes.

It is Chunliu, the only daughter of Father Xu and Aunt Xu.

In the entire Huaxi Village, except for Uncle Dong, Bai Li's impression of Xu Chunliu is the best. She is not only good-looking, but also good-natured, and kind-hearted. When she came down from the mountain that day, the first person to find her injured and bring herbs to bandage her was Xu Chunliu. She still thought that she would send the pot of wheat ear dumplings she had just made to Chunliu, but she never thought that before the dumplings were delivered, the people would be gone.

She looked up, feeling uncomfortable and her nose was very sore.

I don't know who pushed it down, Bai Li "plopped" on the ground, and when he got up, he just saw the embroidered shoe that fell on the ground. Hidden in the shoe was a piece of paper, on which were written four crooked words in coals: "Man's words are terrible".

Looking up along the shoes, I saw a pair of dangling feet, one of which had the same vague four words printed on the soles of the feet.

Give a dog a bad name and hang him?

Could it be that Chunliu couldn't stand the discussion of others, so he couldn't think of hanging himself? But what kind of words can make this girl with a kind nature and a relatively cheerful personality ruthlessly abandon her elderly father and choose to die in this way.

Puzzled, he got up and looked up at his feet, his gaze hitting a face that had turned blue. Rao was a little mentally prepared, but Bai Li was still startled, and she quickly bit her lip, lest she let out a panicked scream.

Chunliu was hanged, just like the hanged ghosts in the earlier stories, her tongue sticking out of her mouth at least half a bit, and her two eyes turned upward, at least two-thirds of them were whites. The black pupils almost rolled into the upper eyelids. There was a very weird smile on the corner of her mouth.

Bai Li had goosebumps, and a layer of coolness appeared on the back of her neck, she hurriedly turned around, but saw that the people who were standing behind her were all looking at the room with a frightened look.

I only heard "Bang!" from behind me. When he turned his head to look again, Chunliu's body had fallen from the beam. A broken rope landed right at Bai Li's feet. She subconsciously took a deep breath, closed her eyes, pushed away the crowd and ran out.

As soon as he ran two steps, he fell into the arms of a person, and the other party did not move.

"What are you afraid of, isn't it just a dead man."

"You're talking light." Hearing Old Man Tao's voice, the original fear turned into grievance, his nose was sore, and he almost burst into tears: "Although I know that it was Sister Chunliu who hanged her, I was still inexplicably scared when I saw her." ”

"A girl is a girl, this dead person is not forced to die by a living person." Old man Tao took half a step back and sighed lightly: "It's okay or not, if she doesn't die, where will your master and I come from." ”

"Eat, eat, eat, it's all this time, and I just want to eat." Bai Li thought that Old Man Tao was thinking about eating the master's tofu soup, so he glared at him fiercely: "I tell you, I don't have to eat." You know what's going on right now. This Xu family has nothing else to eat except ground vegetables. ”

"Not necessarily." Old man Tao touched his beard: "Wait, in two days, there will be delicious food." ”

Bai Li was in a bad mood, too lazy to argue with him, and walked out of the Xu family's courtyard wrapped in a cold body. As soon as I arrived at the gate of the hospital, I met Xiucai Zhang Xi. His brows were tightly knit, his expression was remorseful, and the body under the green cloth robe was too thin, and the whole person looked like a wandering spirit floating outside the Xu family's courtyard. It's daytime, and if it's night, nine times out of ten, he'll mistake him for a ghost who came to pick up Chunliu and go to the underworld.

"Brother Zhang Xi, you're here to see Sister Chunliu, right?"

Zhang Xi raised his head, met Bai Li's eyes, didn't say a word, turned around and left.

Bai Li followed a few steps and said loudly: "Brother Zhang Xi, Sister Chunliu is so miserable, she liked you so much when she was alive, do you really want to leave without looking at her?" ”

Zhang Xi stood abruptly, his back seemed to tense for a moment, then he raised his foot and quickly disappeared on the path in front of the door.

"Bai Li, don't shout, Zhang Xi won't come back." Dong Li clapped his hands and squeezed out of the crowd watching the excitement, he was called by the village chief to help. After Chunliu hanged herself, her father and mother couldn't stand the stimulation and all fainted.

"Aren't Zhang Xi and Sister Chunliu in love? I've heard my mother talk about them. ”

"That's what your mother said before." Dong Li grabbed a handful of cleaned vegetables from his pocket and chewed them in his mouth: "Before this Zhang Xi was admitted to Xiucai, their Zhang family was eager to marry Chunliu back as soon as possible." Why? Because the Haruyanagi family has a field. As far as our family is concerned, having land is equal to wealth. Don't say that he Zhang Xi likes Chunliu, you go and ask which of those unmarried young men in Hualiu Village doesn't like Chunliu. But this is not a war, a famine year, even if this Xu family has a few more acres of fertile land than us, isn't it as hungry as us. As soon as this year of famine came, Zhang Xiniang changed her mind and fell in love with Chunliu's daughter-in-law. ”

"Then when this famine year passes, will Aunt Zhang change her mind again?" Bai Li asked, with a bit of banter in his tone.

"No, Zhang Xiniang wants Zhang Xi to take the top prize and marry an official lady in the future." Dong Li said, looked left and right, and said in a low voice: "It is said that this is something that only women will say." I, that is, for this Chunliu, I heard that this Zhang Xi Niang arranged Chunliu everywhere in order to prevent Chunliu from continuing to communicate with Zhang Xi. She didn't say that she forgot her righteousness for the sake of profit and deliberately ruined the marriage of her two children, but said that Chunliu didn't abide by women's morals and secretly had other friends. ”

The words "human words are terrifying" suddenly appeared in Bai Li's mind.

"Sister Chunliu hasn't come out of the cabinet yet, Aunt Zhang said this, wouldn't it cost people's lives?"

"Not really." Dong Li glanced in the direction of Zhang's house: "I just heard from someone that the reason why Chunliu can't think about it is because Zhang Xiniang is talking to people everywhere, saying that Chunliu is pregnant, and this child is still begging for food." Tell me, tell me what it's called. ”

"Wai...... Isn't this ruining people's reputation? Bai Li was angry. A girl who is innocent and has never been out of the cabinet has suddenly become a bad girl who misbehaves in the eyes of others, and is even unmarried and pregnant.