Holding the jade pendant left by my mother, my heart is even more miserable, she has been dead for many years, and she is still protecting me.

Now was not the time to be sad, I was dragged into the water and couldn't breathe, and soon I couldn't stand it anymore and quickly paddled hard.

Children who grew up in the countryside are not bad at water, I will go down to the river to bathe at the age of six, and after a while, I will swim to the shore, at this time, the second uncle also desperately wielded the knife, and quickly swam to the shore under the siege of those water ghosts, grabbing a handful of floating grass to borrow strength, and the very beautiful harrier turned over and quickly fell to the shore.

But I can see that he is not easy, those water ghosts left a lot of scratches on the neck and shoulders of the second uncle, he was short of breath, his body was also shaky, and he spit out a mouthful of black water as soon as he came ashore, and he didn't forget to reach out to grab me,

"Let's go, it's also unsafe in the river, the one surnamed Wang didn't plan to leave us a way to live, but fortunately, we were lucky enough to climb to the shore, and it is estimated that the surname Wang didn't think that we would survive."

He took me by the hand and went to hide in the woods.

I struggled hard and looked at him with defensive eyes, "Are you my second uncle?" ”

He was stunned and looked at me with a very surprised gaze, "What's wrong with you, of course I'm your second uncle." ”

I still didn't move, inhaling the cool air and looking at him, "Grandma has three sons, my father and third uncle are ordinary farmers, why are you so good at catching ghosts?" ”

The second uncle was stunned for a moment, and his eyes flickered when he looked at me.

This time he didn't answer, just shook his head, "It's really strange that you're concerned, and you're still in the mood to ask this?" ”

I took a step back and said, "You must answer me, where did you learn this skill, and what is the purpose of returning to the village this time!" ”

Even though I was just a kid at the time, I had the mind of an adult after all these changes.

The timing of the second uncle's appearance was too coincidental, the last time I left the village with the help of my grandfather, he happened to be blocked on the way out of the village, nominally saving me, but he brought me back to Zhoujiagou again.

He kept saying that he had received a letter from the prince and rushed to help, but since the second uncle returned to the village, the prince had disappeared from the world, and there was no proof of death.

I thought about a lot of things, the message on the note, and the story of the decapitation meal that night, when Huzi said that he saw a strange man poisoning the villagers' wells......

These incidents and events are connected, and I have reason to doubt the motives of the second uncle.

The second uncle didn't know what he was thinking, his eyes flickered at me for a while, then he smiled bitterly, shook his head and said,

"You're very smart, since you can think of so many suspicious points, it seems that I can't continue to hide it from you."

"Who the hell are you!" I became agitated and got up and asked loudly.

"Shh

The second uncle put his index finger to his mouth, made a silent motion, reminded me not to make a big noise, and then sat down, panting and said,

"I am indeed your second uncle, your father is my eldest brother, this can't be wrong, you don't have to doubt my identity. Just ......"

Halfway through the words, the second uncle paused, and a trace of numbness flashed on his stiff face, "Although I am a descendant of the old Zhou family, I have a bad relationship with your grandmother, I was born with a disability, and they felt that they couldn't support me, so they threw me into the mass grave, it was you who were too kind-hearted to carry me back and raise me with goat's milk for three months, and I survived with great difficulty." ”

Although the second uncle was lucky enough to pick up a life, his grandmother always disliked him, and gave the second uncle the worst things and did the dirtiest work.

The second uncle had no feelings for this family, and always wanted to leave Zhoujiagou to go outside, but he was still very young at the time and had no ability to survive outside.

"Your grandmother has abused me for a long time, and that time really beat me to the ground, so I ran into the mountains fiercely, and fell into a ravine while running, I thought I was dying, but I didn't expect to be blessed by misfortune and met a person who could change my life."

The second uncle glanced at me with a slanted gaze, and continued, that person was his master, who was cultivating in the Taoist temple in the mountains, and after learning about my second uncle's tragic childhood, he was moved with compassion, not only cured the second uncle's polio, but also secretly passed on some Taoist techniques to him.

"Later, I went to the Taoist temple every once in a while to learn from the master, and your grandmother didn't care about me, anyway, she never treated me as a son."

The second uncle laughed at himself, saying that it was not until thirteen years ago that his master died of illness that the second uncle stopped running into the mountains.

"Originally, I planned to do something for the villagers by relying on the skills I had learned, but who knew that not long after that, your grandfather actually brought a crazy woman from outside the village!"

When the second uncle said this, he paused unconsciously, and his eyes became more complicated,

"Originally, your father-in-law planned to hand over that crazy woman to me to take care of, but I can see that that woman's life is different from ordinary people, and if I marry her, I will definitely be affected by her."

The second uncle resolutely refused to marry the crazy woman, and the grandfather had no choice but to hand over the crazy woman to my grandmother and let my father marry her.

When I heard this, my mouth shook violently.

There is no doubt that this crazy woman is my mother.

But why is my grandfather so stubborn that he has to send my mother to my house?

The second uncle saw my doubts, sighed and said, "The ancestor of the old Zhou family has been a prime minister, and it is said that the ancestor of the Zhou family was a wealthy family hundreds of years ago, although it is now in decline, but it will still be blessed by the ancestors." ”

"The princess sent your mother to the Zhou family to take advantage of the ancestral shade of the Zhou family to protect her and conceal her existence, but it's a pity, it's a pity, it's a pity......"

The second uncle suddenly sneered, shook his head and said,

"You are too public to miss a little, the Zhou family is no longer the wealthy family of hundreds of years ago, and the only remaining bit of ancestral shadow has been almost defeated by later generations, not only can you not shelter your mother, but you pushed her into the fire pit."

I was silent, thinking back to what happened to my mother after marrying into the Zhou family, and there was a colic pain in my heart.

"At that time, I expected that sooner or later there would be this day, so I always opposed your mother marrying in, but your grandmother ...... Hehe! ”

The second uncle gasped and shook his head, saying that after that quarrel, he simply left Zhoujiagou and went outside to set up his own door, until thirteen years later, on the day he calculated that something had happened, he took the initiative to go back to the village to collect the body for our family.

My heart shook violently, "Is it you the helper that Taigong is looking for?" ”

"It's not."

The second uncle shook his head very frankly, "Your grandfather is looking for another person, but that person is not at home, and it happened that I saw him when he delivered the letter, so I entered the village under this name." ”

I see.

I suddenly realized, continued to look at the second uncle, and asked the last question word by word,

"Just now, before the third uncle's ghost was dispersed by you, he said that you, like the people outside, came back to get something from my mother, is it or not?"

The corners of the second uncle's mouth twitched, and he stared at me with dark gray eyes.

I couldn't hide from staring at him, and time seemed to stand still.

After a long time, the second uncle nodded heavily,

"That's right, I also want to get what your mother left behind, but I didn't look for it to hurt people, and I never wanted to hurt you from beginning to end, you should be able to see that I have been saving you."