Chapter 1: Borrowing Life
I heard that my mother was a woman who was immoral.
Before I was a full moon, she left me behind.
What brought me up was an adoptive father who was not related to me by blood.
My adoptive father's name is Shi Shan, and he is a paper shop. He also helps others to tell fortunes, read palmistry, name newborns, and bury the dead.
In my impression, my adoptive father is very thin and good-looking. However, his personality is a little dull, and he is not good at words.
When the adoptive father was young, there were also matchmakers who tried to protect the matchmaker and wanted to tell the adoptive father about the daughter-in-law, but the adoptive father refused one by one.
Later, until he was in his early 40s. inexplicably handed over a peach blossom luck.
There are several construction sites next to the village. Where there are many men, there are naturally corresponding small industries that flourish.
So, on the edge of the village, a red shampoo room was raised.
The women who wash their hair are all selling skin and flesh.
Among them, there is a girl named Huang Xiuxia, and the men call her Xiuxiu.
Xiuxiu is not very old, twenty-four or five years old. The man was white and tender, with a small round face, like the moon in the sky.
Xiuxiu occasionally patronizes her adoptive father's paper shop, where she buys small items for good luck. Women in that industry like to wear waist chains and anklets. Give yourself a good fortune.
Then somehow.
Xiuxiu took the initiative to beg my adoptive father to marry her.
Huang Xiuxia's career is disgraceful. But after all, she is more than ten years younger than her adoptive father. If you want to say that it is a match, maybe your adoptive father is not worthy of her!
I only heard that at first my adoptive father refused. Later, the woman whispered a word to her adoptive father.
Because of this sentence, the adoptive father couldn't help but say that he brought the woman home. The two of them didn't have a certificate, and they just held a simple banquet in the village.
7 months later, I was born!
Everyone in the village knows that I am not a seed of Stone Mountain. Huang Xiuxia married Shishan in order to support Gu.
But his adoptive father didn't care, he bought boxes of nutritional products at home and waited for Xiuxiu's confinement.
My mother had just finished confinement, and when the moon was dark and the wind was high, she left me who had just been born and ran away without a trace.
Since then, Shishan Bai has picked up a cheap son. He named me Stone.
My adoptive father has never treated me badly since I can remember.
He treated me very well, even more so than my own.
And because of me. The adoptive father would always be gossiped about by the people in the village.
Because he opened a paper shop and told fortunes for people. After my mother ran away, the villagers always deliberately tried to distract him.
"Shanzi, don't you know how to tell fortunes? Didn't you figure out that the girl cuckolded you? ”
"Shanzi, you want me to say. You can count who your wild father is!
Send the wild seeds to the door. Falsely accusing his father of a sum of money, and you will not be mixed up with the current virtue! ”
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Whenever this time. The adoptive father always smiled helplessly, and then insisted on it.
"My stone is my seed!
He is my son, my own son! ”
Ishiyama bit him to death, saying that I was his biological baby.
When I was younger, I used to think so.
Until I was 7 years old, because of an unwarranted disaster. I realized that my adoptive father was not an ordinary person, and he had a big secret hidden in him.
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Ishiyama and I live in Babao Village.
When I was 7 years old, I was just starting elementary school. During the summer vacation, I went down to the river with a few children from the same village.
There is a small river near Babao Village, and the water is crystal clear.
Four or five of us boys came to the river, stripped off our clothes, and ran barefoot into the middle of the river.
It was noon, and the sun was shining in the sky.
The river water is warmed by the sun, and soaking in it is like taking a hot spring. I don't know how cheerful it is.
When a few of us babies have played enough in the water, we climb ashore one by one. I found that all my clothes, shoes and socks were gone.
The other boys quickly put on their clothes and ran away. And I, on the other hand, could only stand by the river naked.
There are clothes thieves in the village! Even my pants were gone!
At this moment, a noble lady suddenly walked out of the roadside.
That lady is not from our village. The face is raw, but the dress is very fashionable. Wearing gold and silver, he looks like a wealthy city person.
Suddenly, I saw an outsider. I was embarrassed to hide myself in the grass.
When the lady saw me, she covered her mouth and smiled. Then he waved at me very kindly.
"Little doll, come here! Why don't you wear clothes? ”
I was a little shy and blushed.
"When I went down to the river just now, my clothes were touchable."
"Oh!
Otherwise, I'll drive to your village to visit my relatives. There was a new set of clothes I bought for my nephew in the car.
I'll put it on you first. Wait until you get home and change your clothes, and then give them back to me. ”
"Really?" I asked cautiously.
Your lady was very dignified, and she asked me to wait in the grass. Said it was to pick up clothes in the car.
Only 5 minutes passed. Your lady really came back to me with two garment bags.
In a garment bag is a set of small pants. The other bag contained a brand new pair of blue cloth shoes.
I've never seen clothes like this. All are dark blue, slippery to the touch, and placket. It is a retro silk thread buckle.
"It's beautiful." I was amazed.
Mrs. Fu helped me put my clothes on my body.
"It's a good fit."
She didn't smile when she spoke, and she looked a little serious.
"Put your shoes on, too." The woman commanded me.
I obediently put on those blue cloth shoes. For some reason, I wore this dress and small shoes very well. It's as if the clothes were made for us.
Put on new clothes. My heart rejoices.
I made an agreement with your lady to ask her to wait for me by the river. My house is close, and I will return the clothes to her within 10 minutes!
I threw off my stride and ran home. As soon as he entered the house, his adoptive father was stacking gold ingots in front of the table.
"Dad, there are thieves in our village......"
I was just about to say something when Ishiyama looked up and saw that I was wearing a new outfit.
His expression immediately became extremely frightened.
"Stone, what are you wearing?"
I muttered about the situation just now.
When Shi Shan heard this, his expression changed from panic to resentment.
"! Who would dare to hit my son with a bad idea? Stone, take off this garment.
That is not a good person, she is holding back to hurt you! ”
Growing up, I had never seen my adoptive father look like this.
I slid back into my room and changed back into the rags I was wearing.
My adoptive father took my hand. Go to the river and settle accounts with the woman!
As soon as I arrived at the river, the car on the dirt road was long gone.
The woman is gone!
The adoptive father squatted down angrily and hammered his brain with his fist.
"Dad, what's wrong with you?" I asked cautiously.
Ishiyama said bluntly.
"Silly boy. Where is that girl giving you a new set of clothes, she is asking for your life!
That...... That set of clothes is a longevity dress, a mile for the dead!
Dress the living in a shroud, she is borrowing your life. ”
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