Outside the village of Locust Tree, the reeds are deep.

The night was even more cold, even the sound of insects was hidden, a gust of wind brushed through the reeds, and the teeth of the cold people trembled.

Several villagers carried two burlap bags and ran into the reeds from the river, running all the way, sweating profusely, and along the way, none of them said a word, even those who talked a lot on weekdays, they held their breath, felt the cold things on their shoulders, and their legs trembled.

The wind behind him swept one after another, and the sharp reed leaves blew through the exposed skin, which could bring up the flesh and skin, and the blood flowed downward, mixed with the cold wind, and the air was filled with a frightening blood.

Under the wind, the river began to roll, as if an unknown hand was dancing its teeth and claws under the undercurrent, and the waves hit the wet mud on the shore one by one, washing away all the footsteps that had fled from the wilderness, and a little scarlet flashed by.

Several villagers rushed into the village almost numbly, found a light house, and shouted in sweat: "Open the door!" Open the door! ”

The girl who was sleeping on the low stool in the room was startled by the sound and almost fell to the ground, she opened her eyes, her eyes were clear, she glanced at Xiao Zhengtai, who was still sleeping on the other side, put on her coat and walked out.

Seeing the visitor, the girl was overjoyed, and her round eyes lit up: "What's wrong?" Uncle Zhou, is my father and mother back? ”

When several villagers saw her, they immediately lit torches and lightly placed two sacks on the ground.

When Zhou Zhonglin, the leader of them, heard her words, his eyes immediately turned red, and he choked up: "Brother Cha, my uncle has no ability, and I couldn't bring your father and mother back safely, uncle, I'm sorry for you and Xiaozhen......"

The girl who came out in a shabby coat was stunned for a moment, and looked at the sack on the ground in disbelief, the sack was wet and had a muddy smell, which was the smell that had been in the room before.

Her head was almost masked, her hands trembled, and she untied the strings of the sack, revealing a blistered, white, swollen, festering face that was almost unrecognizable.

How could it be......

The girl recognized the person in the sack at a glance, incredulous, sad and frightened, instantly invaded her body, she sat on the ground with her buttocks, and reached out to untie another sack, her hand was soft and painful, and it took a long time to untie the other rope.

It is still a white and swollen face, or a stiff and cold body, the difference is that on this face, there is a wound cut by a sharp object, and the wound has been turned white by the river blister, like a centipede hovering over the face, which makes people tremble.

But the girl is not afraid, in her eyes, they are her dearest people in the world, and they only said goodbye to each other in the morning, and now they are farewell.

The pain and sadness made her miserable.

She threw herself beside the two sacks, tears streaming down her face, and she cried hoarsely: "Dad! Mother! ”

In the middle of the week, Lin saw the girl's sadness crying, and his heart was also uncomfortable.

"Your father and mother are fine in the morning, somehow, in the blink of an eye, there are no people, there are many big fish in the river recently, everyone is in the east and west, they are busy with their work, I thought it was a different place to cast the net, we didn't think much about it, but unexpectedly, they didn't come back at noon......"

"We searched along the river beach for a long time, and only found a broken fishing net in the middle of the stream, but there was no one to be seen, and there were no footprints around......"

Zhou Zhonglin said as he spoke, something was a little dignified: "Realizing that something might have happened, Gen'er and his father continued to look down, and found that in the afternoon, we found their scraped clothes and rags downstream, and soon saw them floating in the small Tan under the river, their bodies were soaked white, and the whole was stiff ......"

He choked up several times, but he still insisted: "It was very dark at that time, and a few of us could only use a sack to bring them back quickly......"

"Uncle I'm sorry for you," Zhou Zhonglin finished speaking, and knelt down for the girl as soon as his legs were weak, "It's my uncle who didn't save them, it's all my uncle's fault......"

The girl cried in front of the corpse, and she didn't seem to hear what he was saying, and she had only one thought in her heart, her father and mother were gone, and she would never see them again.

Thinking about it like this, she couldn't stop her tears.

The cry in the yard soon attracted the neighbors next door, who carried oil lamps, lit fires, and rushed in one after another, and were stunned when they saw the corpses on the ground, and immediately took pity on the girl who had become an orphan before she could finish it.

This one is big and one is small, and there are no relatives, how can I live in the future!

They were talking nonsense, she didn't want to know, she hugged herself, like a walking corpse.

Until a small figure came out of the house rubbing his eyes, he called her in a glutinous voice: "Sister, Zhen'er woke up and didn't see you, so scared ......"

The girl turned around like she had just woken up from a big dream, and saw the little child, as if she had found the backbone of the heart, and ran up to hug him crying, tears burst out of her eyes, "Don't be afraid, my sister is here!" Sister is here! ”

The child blinked his eyes in confusion, reached out and touched the tears on her face, he closed his mouth, and was about to cry, "Sister, sister...... I'm really not afraid, don't cry......"

"Good ......"

She stretched out her hand to wipe away her tears, and tried to keep her calm to look at Zhou Zhonglin, "Uncle Zhou, can you help me carry my father and mother into the main house?" I want to groom them. ”

Zhou Zhonglin wiped his eyes, couldn't say anything, stood up weakly, and asked someone to carry the body to the house where he lived before.

After carrying it in, the girl had already collected all her expressions, bent down and bowed, and said calmly: "Thank you Uncle Zhou and everyone for your concern, it's too late, everyone is scattered."

Before the words fell, Zhou Zhonglin hesitated: "Let's go, can you do it alone?"

"I want to be alone with my mom and dad for another night."

Zhou Zhonglin expressed his understanding: "I will be at Aunt Liu's house next door, if there is something, you call me."

"Okay."

After Zhou Zhonglin took all the neighbors away, the girl calmly closed the door, turned around and walked to the main house with Xiao Zhengtai, who didn't know anything.

On the bed in the main room lay two corpses with blurred faces and a foul smell.

The girl looked quietly at the ragged corpse by the help of the oil lamp, her red eyes were gone, and her face was devoid of sorrow, and her keen gaze fell straight on the corpse's face, from the soaked white eyes that were still full of horror, to the wound on her forehead.

According to Zhou Zhonglin, that kind of wound should have been cut by a stone in the river after drowning, but the depth and strength of the wound are simply not what a stone can do.

The wound was so deep that it would have cut the head in half.

The edge of the wound has an imperceptible purple, which is a bit strange.

She took two steps forward with an oil lamp, and Xiao Zhengtai, who followed the same steps behind her, dragged her sleeve, "Sister, I'm afraid ......"

He was only two years old, and he was all small, huddled together, staring at her pitifully, with an innocent face and clean eyes, and he didn't know what death was.

She sighed softly, bent down and touched his face, and soothed, "Don't be afraid, my sister will take you back to sleep in a while, okay?"

Xiao Zhengtai nodded obediently, but his fingers grabbed her, "Sister, Daddy, why haven't you come back yet, I really miss them." ”

She paused, lowered her eyes and kissed his head: "Daddy and mother left in the morning, and it will probably take some time to come back, recently...... Is it true that my sister will take care of it? ”

Xiao Zhengtai looked up with a red-toothed, white-toothed, cute fleshy face, tilted his head and thought for a while, nodded, "Zhen'er listens to my sister's words." ”

"Good."

The girl coaxed the little guy aside and waited, turned around and found a pair of scissors, and quickly cut the wet clothes from the corpse's body, and the clothes were uncovered little by little, and the whitish wounds on the body that could not be concealed became clearer and clearer in the light, some of them went deep into the bones, hideous and frightening.

Until the moment her scissors fell to her heart and she peeled off her clothes, the heart of the corpse was actually a hole the size of a bowl, the wounds were uneven, there was no trace of blood, it seemed that she had been dug open with her fingers and took out the most important thing inside.

She lowered her eyebrows and glanced at it, but her chest was empty, with all her internal organs and blood in her intestines, and none of them were spared.

Her fingers stiffened, twisted her body, and lifted the trouser leg under her feet, and there was a blue palm print on the corpse's leg, the fingerprint was clear, buckled into the flesh, and she almost tore off the whole leg.

I think it must have been when I was in the water.

She opened the soles of the corpse's feet, and sure enough, there were four sharp holes on the soles of the feet, and the flesh around them seemed to have been torn and bitten, and the whole piece coagulated together, and after losing the blood, it turned into frost.

Both bodies were in the same state, and it was chilling to see.

This is no ordinary drowning at all.

The result made the girl's heart tremble.

What about the little freshness that is good?