Chapter 039: Born Ominous
The carriage traveled along the official road, jolting from time to time.
The man, the woman, and Fengbei sat on a carriage piled high with straws, coming from the south and all the way to the north.
The coachman shouted and shook the whip, and the whip sounded loudly.
"Fengbei, we're almost there."
In the bumping, the woman with a gentle expression gently patted the little face of "Zheng Xiu".
Zheng Xiu was in a trance for a while.
"He" not only did not hide, but also took the initiative to post it.
The man with a heroic voice on the side laughed loudly: "I heard the townspeople say that there is a village in front of it, called Baili Village, the villagers are hospitable, the morning cooking star rice, the folk customs are simple, our Feng family of three, we will definitely find a place to settle in that remote village." ”
"Mother, Fengbei is afraid."
"Zheng Xiu" made a childish voice in his mouth.
This is...... Fengbei's memories?
Zheng Xiu was stunned, what is the situation now?
"Don't be afraid," the woman hugged Fengbei: "Do you know why my mother named you Fengbei?" ”
"I don't know."
"That's because we were born in the south, and now we're down and have to go north. But your father and I both hope that you, even if the southern geese fly north, can not be afraid of the cold in the north and grow into a wild goose. ”
"But Fengbei is still afraid."
"Your father's knife skills are good, and you are not afraid to go anywhere."
The man laughed: "Hey, when you grow up, Dad will teach you a few tricks." ”
He was like a bystander, watching Fengbei and the middle-aged couple sitting on the pile of straws in the carriage, talking and laughing.
Since the war broke out in the north, the Son of Heaven had no intention of governing the country, and the local officials in the south began to act arbitrarily, levied taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and bandits rebelled, and many people could not make a living, so they migrated to the north one after another.
No one expected that this battle would last for several years, and the country was in a depression, and the middle-aged couple migrated from the south all the way to the north, living in a town for half a year along the way, and gave birth to Fengbei.
The Feng couple went north, and Feng Bei grew up day by day, and he was three years old at the age of three, and he was babbling.
The picture turns, and time passes.
The Fengbei family opened a butcher shop at the foot of Baili Village, and the men went up to the mountains to hunt, using skillful knife skills to divide tendons and bones, and exchanged raw meat for food with villagers, so as to make a living.
"Ahem, ahem...... Feng Lang, Aunt Li next door yesterday said that there were traces of bandits on the official road outside, and the prey on the mountain became more and more scarce due to the disturbance of the bandits, should we find another place to live? And during this time, Xiao Fengbei's eye disease was getting worse day by day, cough cough cough cough ...... The village is powerless to heal, so we should go to town. ”
"Fengbei's eye disease is not a big problem for the time being, but it is you, who are infected with wind and cold, and you need to go into the city to find a wise doctor to treat you."
"Feng Lang, but we ...... Ahem, ahem. ”
"It's okay, I'll find a way, you can recuperate."
The scene staged in front of Zheng Xiu's eyes seemed to have more than just Fengbei's memory.
The memory fragments were not continuous, like flashbacks, and in the blink of an eye, Zheng Xiu didn't know from whose perspective he saw the back of the man carrying a bloody deer leg on his back, fading away.
The journey to the city is far away, and the man is gone for ten days.
During the period when the bandits entered the village, the village chief saw that the Feng family, the man was not there, the woman was handsome and plump, and knew that the bandits were fierce and lustful, so he asked the woman and Fengbei to hide in the reeds in the river.
Unexpectedly, the bandits ate and drank in the village, feasted for three days, and emptied the village's grain reserves.
When the man returned from the city, he brought back only a small packet of medicine and was silent.
When I returned to the village, I saw the bandits, the man's face was like a rakshasa, and he wiped his knife to kill all the bandits who had invaded Baili Village.
Later, he chopped up the flesh and blood of all the bandits and threw them into the river, destroying their corpses.
The woman froze in the water for three days, and the wind chill was heavier, and the fever did not go away.
One night, Fengbei heard his father chattering and talking to himself in the room.
"Blame them, blame them, blame them, blame them......"
"It's all them, the deer leg, it's obviously worth ten taels, they say half a tael of silver, they say half a tael of silver!"
"Hey...... Don't blame me! Don't blame me! ”
Feng Bei looked at his father and cried and laughed that night, vaguely knowing that his father was bullied in the city, and he killed someone inadvertently and was wanted all over the city.
That night, Fengbei's right eye was bleeding, blind, itchy and painful, but she didn't dare to tell her father.
Later, the dying woman squeezed out a smile on the bed, saying that the village was full of good people, kind and simple, and that the husband had killed many bandits, and that they would definitely come to trouble the villagers in the future. also said, although you put down the knife, don't forget the chivalry, the third aunt and the sixth aunt Uncle Dou are all good people, and don't let them go hungry.
The man took the woman's hand and choked up.
"I, Feng Nantian, swear to heaven that I will repay them for taking them in! Don't let them go hungry, don't let them go hungry......"
On this day, a man named Feng Nantian made a heavy promise.
Later, the river in the east of the village somehow gave birth to a nest of white carp, which grew up in a few days. The villagers caught and boiled the soup, and the white carp was fresh and sweet, and there was no meat at all. The villagers sighed that God has the virtue of a good life, and renamed "Baili Village" to "White Carp Village", hoping that the carp would live for a long time, so that they would not go hungry.
The woman survived for half a month and died. Lang Zhong in the village sighed, it would be good if he had money to buy medicine.
Since the woman's death, Feng Nantian has been even more silent, going up the mountain to hunt at sunrise and returning at sunset.
Feng Nantian later went out and found a lot of salt, and disposed of the woman's body with ancient embalming methods and put it in the bedroom.
Fengbei was scared at first, but gradually got used to it.
Accompanied by her mother's corpse, she vaguely felt that her mother was still alive and living here.
One day, Fengbei woke up hungry and found that his blind right eye could see clearly, and his body was no longer painful.
But beside her, there is an extra shed of human skin.
The face of human skin is her.
Fengbei panicked and ran into the mountains to find his father.
When the man returned home, Fengbei did not return, so he silently picked up the treasure knife and went into the mountains to find it.
In the blink of an eye.
Zheng Xiu saw that Fengbei's hands were covered with blood, there was a lot of minced meat and vomit on the ground, and a few handfuls of rabbit hair dyed red.
Daddy Feng came and didn't say much about it, only said:
"Don't touch anything after you."
The young Fengbei was shocked, and asked in a crying voice: "Daddy, can't Daddy touch it?" ”
The man shook his head and said in an indifferent tone: "I can't." ”
So Fengbei didn't dare to touch any living creatures again, except for herself.
There was a strange pattern in her right eye, and the village children laughed at Fengbei: "Ugly! Ugly! There is an ugly monster in the Feng family! ”
Later, for some reason, the crops in the village could no longer be planted, the seedlings withered overnight, and the white carp was no longer in the river.
Some people in the village began to say that Fengbei's eyes were the reincarnation of the disaster star, born ominous, and exhausted relatives and friends, and said that her mother was also the one who died in Fengbei.
Some will be skeptical.
Until a certain day.
The number of bandits rampant on the official road is increasing, and they have once again discovered the village of Baili. The bandits poured into the village, and when the man returned, the village was full of minced meat, Fengbei was holding himself in a pool of blood, trembling, and the villagers watched from afar, with horror in their eyes.
Fengbei saw his father and wanted his father to hug him, but his father pointed at him with the tip of a knife and said, "Don't touch me." ”
The man silently poured pieces of the body into the river.
"The one surnamed Feng is the reincarnation of the Calamity!"
"Don't get close to the Feng family's baby, the old evil sect!"
"What a hit!"
"The Feng family is really miserable, she gave birth to such an evil child, her mother must have killed her."
"Don't say it, her hand, whoever touches it will die."
"Don't get close to the evil baby of the Feng family, it will die!"
"You see that her name is unlucky."
"The North North and the North are not good things, and the name of 'North' is so unlucky."
"Why don't we chase them away?"
The villagers were on their minds.
The next day, patches of white carp appeared in the river.
The only thing that is wrong is that the head of the carp is a little bit human.
The villagers chop off the heads of the fish and feast on them.
The thieves knew about the evil sect in this village and did not dare to come again.
Gradually, the white carp in the river withered again.
They finally understood that in order to raise white carp, they had to be fed human flesh – fresh human flesh.
This hunger is ten days.
Ten days later, the village chief couldn't bear it anymore and secretly put up a sign on the side of the road.
On another day, several officials settled here.
The village chief was terrified and entertained the officials with pickled dried white carp.
In the middle of the night, the man dragged his knife and stepped out of the butcher's shop.
The next day, fish began to grow in the river again.
Lots and lots of white carp.
The carp head of the white carp is becoming more and more human.
Fengbei peeked through the crack in the door, whenever an outsider entered the village, his father would go out late at night, chop flesh and bones on the desk, and then go to feed the fish.
Fengbei secretly watched it the next day, until one day, his father used a wooden plank to seal the door.
Fengbei cried, but was driven into the room by his father.
Feng Nantian looked crazy and muttered, "It's all dead!" They're all dead! They're all dead! ”
Unbeknownst to him, the former owner of the farmhouse had left a small hole in the bedroom for the dogs to enter and exit.
One night, in a daze, Fengbei heard the sound of chopping meat at night, she secretly took a look and found that the handle of the knife had grown bones, like a bone claw, and held her father's hand tightly.
Since then, the man's knife has never been put down.
The villagers seem to have forgotten the existence of the Feng family.
Even if Fengbei passed by, they shouldn't have seen it.
Only the Feng clan dared to kill.
The Feng clan dared to kill, so they had fish to eat.
It was the Feng clan who killed people, and all they ate was fish and meat, nothing more.
When outsiders come, the villagers are warmly entertained, and the men go out late at night with knives, go home to chop meat, and feed the fish along the river.
There is a constant stream of people coming to the village, and the fish in the river are always exhausted.
Day by day, day by day, twilight, night by night.
Spring goes and autumn comes.
The man forgot Fengbei, and the villagers forgot Fengbei.
Even Fengbei forgot about himself and why he was here.
Until one day.
A tall and handsome man stopped Fengbei.
His smile reminded Fengbei of his father a long, long, long time ago.
……
"Trust me, I have no ill will! ……”
"I'm Zheng Shan. ……”
"What's your name, little girl?"
"Feng, Fengbei."
"Fengbei! There is a phoenix to come, and the northern geese fly south! Good name! ……”
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