Chapter 1: The Fox
My name is Zhao Tianming, and it is rumored in the village that I am a disaster star and must die to thank for all my sins.
And about my life experience, I have to start with an adventure of my father twenty years ago.
At that time, my father was just the year of the weak crown, and he had not yet met my mother, in a poor and backward village in Longshan County, Xiangxi, my father lived in a stormy thatched hut, lit candles and studied hard every day and night.
Because my grandfather suddenly one day when my father was very young, he never came home on the grounds of going out, so my father became an orphan and grew up from a hundred family meals, but my father has great ambitions, he believes in the truth that knowledge changes fate, and looks forward to the day when he can succeed in his studies and be able to break out of this deep mountain village and change his life.
Late that night, it was pouring rain outside, and my father, who was reading in the hut at night, suddenly heard a sharp knock at the door.
Knock knock knock!
Knock knock knock!
The continuous knocking on the door disturbed my father's thoughts, and at the same time, a dark wind blew inexplicably in the house, which made my father shiver, thinking that he studied behind closed doors on weekdays, and there were few people in the village to disturb him.
This rainy night in the middle of the night? Could it be a ghost knocking on the door?
The knock on the door never stopped, and the sound of the majestic rain was particularly strange when it came into the house, and my father, holding a candle, had the courage to go to the door, and asked through the wooden door; "Which one?"
A weak woman's voice soon came from outside the house: "I am a relative from another village, I never thought that I would encounter heavy rain on the way here, and I got lost at night, so please be good and let me go in to take shelter from the rain." ”
My dad didn't think much about it at the time, and he only remembered that before my grandfather disappeared, he once said that knocking on the door in the middle of the night would be full of ghosts. Three are people, four are ghosts, and there are five knocks on the door, so it's definitely not a ghost.
What's more, where is there a female ghost with such a good voice?
So, when my father opened the door and looked through the candlelight, although he was drenched, the woman's appearance really lived up to his expectations, it can be said that he was shocked.
The most beautiful woman in the village is the daughter-in-law of the village chief's son Zhang Quandan, but the woman in front of her wearing a cyan silk skirt is simply a fairy compared to Zhang Quandan's daughter-in-law.
It was the beginning of spring, the frozen ground had not yet completely melted, the weather was very cold, and the woman shivered with the cold, so my father led her into the door and boiled a bucket of hot water to wash her body.
The thatched hut is simple, and the bathing place is simply separated by a thin layer of gauze, and my father is looking down and continuing to read on the surface, but his heart has long been absent-minded, and he glances in the direction of the gauze from time to time.
The sound of the water teased my father's surging heart, and through the gauze, a beautiful body with white flowers faintly twisted in an arc, and my father was in a trance.
When the woman came out after taking a bath and putting on her clothes again, she suddenly came out of the bath like a concubine, smiled at my father, and said inexplicably: "Do you want a wife?" ”
My dad smiled dumbly and nodded in despair: "Yes!" ”
At that moment, after confirming his eyes, the thunder hooked the earth's fire, and the wind and rain outside the house instantly became more violent, and inside the house, the candle flame also danced extremely cheerfully and strangely.
From that night on, the beautiful woman stayed in my house, and naturally became my father's wife, serving my father's diet and daily life every day, it can be said that she was meticulous, and the relationship between the two was also very affectionate.
My father suddenly got such a beautiful woman as his wife, and this incident suddenly exploded in the village, and many people came to see the woman's appearance, saying that this is not like a mortal, it must be a goblin.
My father just thought that they were jealous that he had picked up such a flower-like wife for nothing, and they didn't care, not to mention, since the woman entered the house, she had never hurt others, which made my father more convinced of his judgment.
But as time went on, the gossip in the village became more and more serious, and my father gradually became suspicious, and every time he asked where the woman's maiden home was, he only said that it was in the mountains far away, and when he asked where his relatives were, he couldn't tell why.
At the beginning, the woman said that she went to her relatives and got lost at night, but the village is only deep in the mountains and old forests inside and outside, how can a woman who has no power to walk at night? Could it be that her relatives also live in the deep mountains and old forests?
Could it be that my wife is really a monster?
But as the woman's belly grew bigger day by day, my father's doubts were completely dispelled, how could the goblin get pregnant?
Our Zhao family has been passed down from generation to generation, and when it comes to my father's generation, it is finally time to continue the incense, and my father is naturally very happy, so he simply gave up his studies and took care of his pregnant wife with peace of mind.
After the pregnancy in October, the child in the woman's womb was finally born.
And that woman is also my mother, and that child is me.
And strange things began gradually after I was born.
I was very weak when I was born, and the night after I was born, my mother mysteriously disappeared!
Even with me, it's gone!
My father searched for me all night but couldn't find it, and the whole village was filled with trouble, but at dawn the next day, my mother carried me home again.
A young woman who has just given birth, a baby who didn't even open her eyes, disappeared overnight, where did she go, my father asked my mother, but my mother said seriously: "You don't care about this matter, everything is for the good of Tianming." ”
And then, every night, my mother would take me and disappear mysteriously, and come back at dawn, sometimes every other day, but later, as I grew up day by day, it became that she had to take me away every night.
And every time I come back, the changes in me are also very obvious, from the beginning of weakness, to the face gradually shiny, and the physical condition is getting healthier and healthier.
After all, the matter reached the village, and the gossip continued to spread, saying that my mother must have a wild man outside, and I was born of a wild man who had fornicated with that wild man, and my father had been kept in the dark as a wronged man.
Where can my father stand this nest of anger, when he came home, he forced my mother, who knew that my mother also got angry, saying that if she forced her again, she would take me away and fly high, and never come back.
My father had no choice but to give up and continue to ask, but he decided in his heart that my mother had an adulterous idea outside, so he remained silent and stopped.
But in fact, he took advantage of my mother's relaxation of guard and followed my mother until one day, he finally discovered the secret of my mother.
It turns out that my mother is a fox!