XXXI. The treatment of the marsh mother-in-law
In the days that followed, every day the Numa Granny would bring bitter medicine and some food and fresh water. I couldn't speak, and she didn't say much, and every day she came to scrape the rotting flesh off my body, and my cries of pain resounded through the depths of the valley, and gradually I stopped screaming, and everything became commonplace. The festering wounds on my body were healed day by day, and my skin was smooth.
In this barren valley, time is spent in the dark, life is so lonely, when will this night end? I don't know how many days I have been drowsy, drinking bitter medicine that tears my lungs all day long, suffering from the pain of scraping my bones and removing my flesh, life has no love, and death is boring.
Time passed, the night seemed to be too dark, one day when I opened my eyes, there was a blur of light in my eyes, and I found that my eyes seemed to see a glimmer of light, I rubbed my eyes vigorously, trying to make that glimmer of light expand a little more. Gradually, I saw the place of existence.
It was a simple wooden shed, in which tables and chairs with simple wooden pillars were placed in the middle of the shed, and two thick haystacks were laid out in the corners, where I and the marsh woman rested. On the table was a worn, bean-shiny oil lamp, which dimmed the wooden shed.
With a "whew", the curtain of the broken door opened, and the rickety body of the numa grandmother reached in, carrying a pot of water and a roasted leg of mutton in her hand and throwing it on the table to greet me: "Eat." ”
I approached the table and sat down with a leg of mutton in my hand and gnawed on it, and Granny Nush watched me eat and said slowly: "The three young people of Xiyun Palace are about to get married. ”
I slowly put down the leg of lamb in my hand, and a chill rose in my heart.
"It's Chunjiao, the daughter of the Peerless Immortal Gu. Granny Numa looked at my expression and said cautiously that she was afraid of hurting me.
They were originally childhood sweethearts who grew up together, and it is not strange to get married, and my heart has frozen into ice.
There was silence for a long time, and the room was quiet and only the crackling sound of sparks from the burning cores of the oil lamps could be heard.
I looked at Granny Numa and asked hoarsely, "Why did you save me?"
Granny Numa looked into my eyes and smiled, "Well, can you see?
"You can only see it at night, and it's still pitch black during the day. I squinted my eyes and tried to adjust to the light that I hadn't seen in a long time.
"Well, I don't want to see you beaten like a reservoir dog so I saved you, you don't have to thank me. There is a lack of food at the bottom of this valley, and I may have eaten you one day, and now I am raising you, just to store food for the winter. Granny Numa said to me jokingly, as if she were laughing at herself.
"Okay, you can come whenever you want, it doesn't mean much to me to live. I smiled indifferently, and my heart was like ashes.
"Hmph, it's not easy to die? It's the hardest thing to live, and it's even harder to live in this chaotic world of demons and demons. Numa picked a stool at the table and sat down.
I got up from the ground and wanted to sit next to Granny Swamp, and when I got up, something fell on my body, and when I looked down, it was a bag that Liuyue had given me, and there was a jade plate in the bag, and Liuyue had told me that with this jade card, the land of Xiyun Palace would come and go freely, and no one would stop me.
Looking at the jade plaque in my hand, the name of Liuyue was clearly engraved on the jade plaque, and I was heartbroken.
"If you have me in your heart, how can I have you in my heart? "I suddenly burst into tears when I held the jade plaque in my hand.
"I don't see you crying like this when I cut your flesh and scrape your bones, does a jade plaque make you sad so much?" Granny Nush squinted at the jade plaque in my hand.
"The most bitter thing in this world is not suffering, not the pain of flesh and skin, but the indifferent glance of the beloved in my heart, which is the real pain of breaking bones and tearing out my heart. "My tears rolled down my eyes and fell to the ground and shattered to slag.
"Yes, heartache. Since he has forsaken you, why should you think of him again? Granny Nush stared out the window into the deep valley.
"I know he's abandoned me, but I can't help but miss him. Life is too lonely, you have to find someone you miss to accompany you, otherwise how to spend this long night. I sighed faintly.
The marsh woman sat like a clay statue, and did not answer, but looked at the secluded valley with great attention.