Chapter 036: Ghost Mother (1)
Qin Xiaodie's life is quite bitter.
Qin Chuan glanced at his daughter lying on the bed, and smoked the dry cigarette in his hand: "I also listened to my mother about this." ”
If you think about it, this was all ten or twenty years ago.
At that time, Dongze Township was not as rich as it is now, and the road leading to the county town was not as smooth as it is now. Qin Chuan's father was driving a big car, and people in the nearby villages had to take his car if they wanted to go to the county seat.
Qin Chuan remembers very well that it was one morning in early winter, and his father was going to help a family in a neighboring village go to the county seat to pull goods. He wanted to go to the county town to see the excitement, so he pulled his father's clothes and didn't loosen them, but his father was helpless, so he wrapped him in a shabby big cotton jacket and carried him into the car.
The donkey cart walked slowly along the country road, and the wind of early winter, although not as strong as in the middle of winter, was also blowing in his face like a knife. He was drowsy in his big padded jacket. I don't know how long it took for him to wake up by his father's slap, who rubbed his hands and asked him if he heard the baby's cry. He opened his eyes in a daze, and was about to tell where the baby had come from in the wilderness, when he saw his father shove the whip into his hand and go out into the field by the roadside.
Qin Chuan rubbed his eyes and got up from the donkey cart, and the baby's cry drifted to his ears along the wind.
Intrigued, he grabbed the whip his father had given him and climbed out of the car.
Walking through the barren grass, I saw a new towering tomb, from which the cry of the baby came.
A gust of wind blew, and the wild grass swayed in a piece, swaying with the wind. Qin Chuan was afraid, hugged his father's thigh, and hid behind his father.
Father was also afraid, so he dragged Qin Chuan's clothes and wanted to lift him out. After taking two steps back, he suddenly stopped, he pointed to the new tomb and asked Qin Chuan, "Could this tomb be your seventh uncle's family?" ”
Qin Chuan suddenly remembered that the little daughter-in-law of the seventh uncle's family had a difficult birth, and the child did not land, so he went with the adult. The wasteland in front of me is just at the boundary of the old Qin family, and according to the rules of the village, the death of the mother and child is a big murderer, and it cannot be buried in the ancestral grave, but can only be buried in this kind of wasteland.
The little daughter-in-law of the seventh uncle's family was buried yesterday evening, this baby...... Thinking of this, Qin Chuan raised his head and looked at his father in surprise. Her father nodded at her and told him to keep watch by the graveyard, while he hurried back to Dongze Township with a donkey cart.
Qin Chuan said that after his father left, he squatted alone in the barren grass next to the grave, staring at the new grave without blinking. It's strange to say, when I didn't know who the grave was, I was scared in my heart, but after I knew it, I wasn't afraid, but I was curious about what the cry was.
Speaking of this, Qin Chuan knocked the cigarette on his hand.
"It's a strange time, like when I fell asleep in the donkey cart, I thought I had been walking for a long time, and when I opened my eyes, I was out of the village. While waiting in the cemetery, I felt that the time was very short, as if it was only a short time before my father came back with the people of the Seventh Uncle's family. ”
Qin Chuan squinted his eyes, and the picture of that time came to his mind.
Uncle Seven's family led people to dig the grave and open the coffin, a little baby girl who had just been born was lying in the coffin crying, and her mother, the little daughter-in-law who went because of difficult childbirth, was already cold. Everyone couldn't bear to look directly at this tragic situation, and sighed for a while.
That little girl is the later Qin Xiaodie, it is said that she has a butterfly-shaped birthmark on her body, as for how the birthmark came about, there are different opinions in the village. Some people say that Qin Xiaodie is the reincarnation of a butterfly fairy, saying that only a fairy can survive a catastrophe and be rescued after lying in a coffin all night. Some people also say that Qin Xiaodie's birthmark is innate, just like a butterfly. Some people also say that there is a butterfly-shaped hairpin in the funeral goods of the daughter-in-law of the seventh uncle's family, saying that the birthmark is printed by the butterfly hairpin. Either way, it has not been confirmed.
When Qin Xiaodie was born, her grandmother was still there, and the old man felt very sorry for this ill-fated little granddaughter, and in order to take care of her, he specially chose a kind stepmother for her, hoping that her stepmother could treat her as if she were her own.
"Qin Xiaodie's stepmother treats her badly?"
"It was good at first." Qin Chuan sighed: "When this stepmother first entered the door, she was quite good to her, not only hugged her all day long to coax her, but also paid for her to hire a nurse. Until Qin Xiaodie was two years old, her stepmother was dedicated to her, just like a real mother and daughter. But with the birth of the child born by her stepmother, her attitude towards Qin Xiaodie became cold. ”
"It's reasonable to be cold and stepdaughter." Ryu Han Mountain Road.
"It's reasonable, but Qin Xiaodie doesn't know that she is a stepdaughter." Qin Chuan smiled bitterly: "She thought she was born by her stepmother, she didn't understand why her stepmother would snub her after she had a new child." ”
"What did Qin Xiaodie do?" Nan Jinyi frowned.
"She lost the child." Qin Chuan took a puff of cigarette: "The two-year-old child has just returned to walking, no one thought that she would throw away the child born to her stepmother because of jealousy." If it weren't for the fact that the boy was so hungry that he cried, no one would have known that he had been thrown into that kind of place. When the child was found, the stepmother was distressed, and she dragged Qin Xiaodie to beat her. It was also that beating that Qin Xiaodie knew that she was not a child born to her stepmother. ”
Because of the loss of the child, Qin Xiaodie was locked in the firewood room by her stepmother, and stayed with those rats and cockroaches for two days and two nights hungry. No one knows what she has experienced as a little girl, only that her personality has changed since she came out of the firewood room. She no longer likes to talk, she no longer likes to talk and make trouble, and even when she eats, she hides in the firewood room with her small bowl. According to the people in Uncle Seven's family, they had seen Qin Xiaodie distribute her food to those rats and cockroaches.
When Qin Xiaodie was more than three years old, the child born to her stepmother died of illness. The overly sad stepmother blamed all this on Qin Xiaodie's head, thinking that it was her act of losing her child that caused her child to contract the bad disease, and she cried and made a fuss about letting Uncle Seven kick her out of the Qin family. The stepmother made a fuss in the courtyard of the seventh uncle's house for a day, and it didn't stop until the evening.
When the family is ready to sleep, they find that Qin Xiaodie is gone.
It's a big deal that the child is missing, even Qin Chuan and Qin Chuan's parents went out to help find it, but they searched in the village all night, but they couldn't find Qin Xiaodie. Just when everyone thought that something might happen to the kid, Qin Xiaodie returned. Dirty, with a skull in his hands.
Don't say Uncle Seven, even the other people in the village felt panicked from the bottom of their hearts when they saw that scene. At that time, Qin Xiaodie was like a little ghost who had just crawled out of the Hades Palace, with messy hair, holding a skull in his hand, and an innocent smile on the corner of his mouth. The most terrifying thing is what she said: "Seventh grandfather, I got my mother back!" ”