The dumb girl was born a little dumb, she couldn't speak.
But there was still a pure smile on her thin face.
She wasn't angry when others called her dumb directly.
There is no dissatisfaction in my heart.
She just wants to play with her peers.
It's such a simple pleasure.
She has no name, and the girl is not eligible to enter the village ancestral hall. She has been called dumb since she was a child, and she has become accustomed to this name that will follow her for the rest of her life.
She used to ignore her, and even hated her fellow villager. Today, she suddenly asked her to play with her. She has always been inferior, lonely, and eager to play with her peers in the village. She really cherishes this opportunity.
She really cherishes it!
I cherish it!
She smiled happily.
Even amidst the ridicule and dissatisfaction of others, she was still happy and simply smiled.
With a thin body under the thin clothes covered with old patches, she tried her best to open her feet with rotting toes, showing poor toes, panting for breath amidst dumb cries, struggling to catch up and run ahead peers.
The happiness that the dumb girl wants is very simple.
"Mute, you stand there. We didn't tell you to hide. You can't come to us. If you turn around and peek at us, we won't take you to play next time."
When a group of children stopped, the other children asked the mute girl to stand by the stream and come to find them after they were hidden.
The dumb girl smiled happily, nodded her head vigorously, turned her back obediently, and happily played hide-and-seek with her friends.
It's just that she didn't expect that the people of the same age in the village didn't really want to play with her when they called her out this time.
It's just that the child lacks fun and wants to play tricks on her.
boom!
Suddenly, the dumb woman felt a pain in her head, and immediately her head burst into blood, and some blood flowed down. It was a pebble by the stream that hit her on the head.
Then, more pebbles fell on her.
She suffers.
She doesn't understand.
she wondered.
She was so painful that tears flowed from her eyes.
She wanted to struggle, and tried to protect her bleeding head with her two thin arms, hoping that everyone would stop hitting her. Her body was really hurting, so painful.
"Haha, this dumb is such a fool, I really believe that we will play with her."
"Walking next to her, she stinks. She's a dirty child. We can't even hide from her. No one will play with her."
"Hahaha, that's right, my mother said that she has never taken a bath since she was born and grew up, and it smells worse than pig feces in the pigsty."
"My family doesn't let me play with the mute, saying that her parents are brothers and sisters, that's why she gave birth to a deformed child who was born mute and unable to speak."
"Brothers and sisters get married and have children. They deserve to be dumb. The dumb parents are sluts, and the mutes they give birth to are also sluts since they were young."
Those children were swearing ugly words, which were taught by their parents. They continued to hit the mute girl hard, while laughing loudly and gloating.
The dumb girl's crying didn't get the sympathy of those children. Facing her weakness, more stones hit her even harder.
The dumb girl was in so much pain that she couldn't stop crying. She fell into the cold stream and wanted to cry, why, why did she treat her like this
She never thought of hurting everyone.
Why did everyone in the village hate her so much when she was born
Where did she go wrong
You tell me!
I am willing to change it!
I am willing to change it!
I just want to play with everyone, I just want to have a playmate, so I won't be alone anymore...
Please don't throw stones at me again...
It really hurts! !
The wish of the dumb girl is really simple, very simple.
But she was born dumb.
I have been unable to speak since I was a child.
So her crying reached her throat, and in the end, only more helpless tears were left.
"Oh, turn the dumb, turn the dumb, dirty, rotten, dishonest dumb, we will never play with you again!"
The mute girl was beaten to the point of bleeding, and she began to run away desperately.
However, she was a head shorter than her peers, her body was thin, and she couldn't run at all. One of them didn't stand firm, and her thin, thin body fell heavily into the stream. Even the palms and knees were cut by sharp stones, and blood flowed continuously.
But no one felt sorry for her or sympathized with her, and there were even more gloating voices from other children behind her.
It's like the cruel scene where the person who caught the sparrow cut off the sparrow's wings. They watched the little sparrow struggling with blood on the ground, trying to flap its wings but couldn't fly. They showed no mercy, but laughed even more unscrupulously.
After running a few steps, he stumbled and fell, his knees and palms were broken a lot, and blood flowed out.
She is wronged.
But he could only run away with disheveled hair, crying helplessly.
Because she can't speak.
So she could only run for her life in panic and helplessly like a little sparrow whose two wings had been lost.
The group of children behind her was still chasing her and throwing stones, chasing the mute girl into the tall wild grass next to the stream in panic. Perhaps the group of children started to leave after they were finally tired.
"I heard from my father and mother that the dumb brother and sister's parents were poisoned to death because they ate wild vegetables that the dumb dug from the mountains."
"I also heard my grandma talk about this. My grandma often scolded this mute for being so vicious since she was a child. She actually poisoned her parents to death. Why didn't she die along with her?"
"I seemed to see her head bleeding just now, didn't we hit the dumb a little too much just now?"
"What's too much, even my own parents can be poisoned to death, there is no need to sympathize with her."
"That is to say, who wants to play with this mute, the brothers and sisters were born dirty and smelly little bastards. Let's go quickly, and when we come home late, we will be beaten by our parents again."
Fangzheng was silent all the way, following the group of children chasing and beating a dumb girl with a poor background.
He stared at the group of children as if they had cut off the wings of a sparrow, and left without any guilt, and then turned his head to look at the injured mute girl with a bloody head, panicking and hiding in the grass, crying silently while hugging her knees. At that time, she was so lonely, thin, wronged, desperate... Is it an evil spirit
Why was such a thin, timid, dumb girl who had no father or mother since childhood, recorded such a heinous crime in the county chronicles
What happened behind the scenes
call!
There was a cool breeze blowing by the stream.
Fang Zheng, who had been standing still, his clothes were gently blown by the cool wind.
He just stood there.
didn't move.
Because he knew that the dumb girl hadn't felt any resentment yet.
It will not become a wraith of the underworld.
What really made her resentful and turned into a resentful spirit must have been something more important.
It was getting late.
Under the hazy moonlight, it was a frighteningly dark and icy night. The dumb woman in thin clothes wiped away the tears on her face with aggrievedness, and carefully crawled out of the grass.
Her movements are very careful, her hands and feet move very slowly, she is afraid of the children who bully her and she is still guarding outside.
After confirming that there was no one there, under the hazy black moonlight, the thin figure, with bruises all over his body and staggering steps, was about to return to the village.
It was as if the evil spirit hadn't seen Fang Zheng. She walked ahead and Fang Zheng followed.
Through streams, farm fields.
night.
Darker, darker.
Gradually, the vague outline of a small village gradually appeared in front of Fangzheng.
When she saw the village, the mute girl suddenly quickened her pace, ran into the village, and disappeared in an instant.
Fangzheng hurried to catch up.
As soon as he ran close to the village, Fangzheng heard the noise of many villagers gathering together in the village, and saw that in a certain direction of the village, the lights were particularly bright. Fang Zheng, who had lost sight of the mute girl for a while, walked towards the direction of the noise from the village with suspicion and caution.
Along the way, we met many villagers.
But these villagers, without exception, ran past him as if they couldn't see him.
They all hurried towards the direction of the noise.
In the eyes of these villagers, Fangzheng is like transparent air.
Not long after, Fangzheng finally approached.
There were already three floors inside, and many villagers surrounded the outside three floors. Two male students in their twenties, dressed in the style of the Republic of China, whose childish features had not completely faded, were protecting a lame girl with thin clothes with their arms. Stop other villagers from throwing stones at the lame girl.
The girl looked about sixteen or seventeen years old, but she had a lame foot, and her clothes were thin and patched. Because she was stoned by the villagers, she looked disheveled and disheveled.
It was hard to see the face clearly for a while.
"Don't fight anymore! Don't fight anymore!"
"Why do you adults bully a weak girl! Don't you have any compassion!"
The two students protected the lame girl and angrily stopped the surrounding villagers.
"She is dumb, and she was born to be the broom star of our village, the mourner star, why can't we beat her!"
"The little thing born of brother and sister incest, bitch, scum, kill her, die early, let this dirty, smelly little scum go to hell and reunite with her shameless parents!"
"Yes, that's right. Her parents don't care about etiquette, justice and shame. Brothers and sisters are sluts when they get married, and they are also sluts when they give birth to children. Why can't we beat the little sluts!"
The villagers spoke with confidence, as if they took bullying dumb girls for granted.
"At first glance, you are foreigners from the city. We also do it for your own good. I advise you to leave this dumb girl alone. You don't know how vicious this dumb girl is!"
"She was vicious before she was eight or nine years old. That year, because of the war, the crops were not planted in time, and everyone was so hungry that they couldn't even afford a bowl of thick soup. This vicious dumb, for a bowl of rice, Deliberately poisoning her parents with poisonous wild vegetables."
"This mute has been so vicious since he was a child. No wonder he was born unable to speak. This is God who can't see that he is taking her in. If you save her now, you are against God's will. It is God's punishment! It is bringing trouble!"
A village elder stood up, leaning on a cane, and persuaded the two students with good intentions.
"Kill this vicious woman!"
"Since I was so vicious since I was a child, I deserve to be born dumb and unable to speak. This is God punishing the dumb!"
Other villagers also echoed and became angry.
Standing outside the crowd, Fangzheng was a little silent as he looked at the limping girl who was protected by two students.
Just now by the stream is the childhood memory of the mute girl.
Is this the memory of the dumb girl when she was sixteen or seventeen
Looking at the dumb woman's lame right foot, Fang Zheng's heart felt a little uncomfortable.
It is unimaginable how many times a dumb girl who grew up as an orphan without a father or mother had to suffer so many painful experiences that she became lame in one of her legs...
angry
sigh
But such scenes abound in that ignorant and backward old society.
It was the most feudal dark age that grew savagely.
Those two students were still trying their best to protect the cowardly, innocent dumb girl, and one of them roared angrily: "I don't know what God's punishment is! I don't know what God is not God! All I know is that you are killing people!"
"An eight or nine-year-old girl, does she know what poison is? I prefer to believe that she is innocent. She accidentally dug up poisonous wild vegetables by mistake. When an eight or nine-year-old child wanted to help her parents, she went into the mountain When you dug up wild vegetables and were reluctant to eat them for your parents, but because of your own fault, you watched your parents fall in front of you, can you understand her pain at that time?"
The dumb girl cried.
She knelt on the ground and wept silently.
She was speechless from novels.
No one in this world has ever given her a chance to defend herself.
All the grievances, grievances, self-blame, and guilt that he had endured for more than ten years all broke out at this moment.
In the dark lights.
Under the protection of the dumb girl by the two foreign students, the villagers began to gradually disperse.
"Brother Zhengping, these villagers have already dispersed, and the dumb girl has been rescued. We have been wasting time in the village for a long time. We have to leave the village immediately and continue to hurry up on the road."
One of the two students urgently persuaded the companion who defended the dumb woman angrily.
But the brother Zhengping he was talking about didn't answer right away, but squatted down, took out a clean handkerchief, and didn't dislike the dust and dirt on the dumb girl's body at all, and handed his handkerchief to the dumb girl with gentle eyes.
The mute girl froze.
Forgot to take the handkerchief.
Maybe it's because since she was a child, no one has ever treated her with such kindness.
For a moment, she opened her eyes wide in disbelief, hesitated, and dared not pick it up.
"Brother You, I want to stay in this village."
"What! Are you crazy! Now everyone outside is arresting us, if we don't leave, we really can't leave!"
"Brother You, have you seen the insensitivity, inhumanity, ignorance, ignorance and madness of those villagers just now! They don't believe in murder, but only believe in God's punishment, and believe in God's punishment for nothing! If all the people in China are like this kind of insensitivity , China is finished, China is really finished, no matter how much we read empty books, we will not be able to save a callous nation! If the whole of China is like the people in this village, where do you think we are going to escape! Where else can we escape go!"
"Brother Zhengping, I know how you feel. You have always been kind and wanted to save more people. But now there are warlords fighting at home, and invaders are pressing every step of the way. The land of China is now at the most critical moment of internal and external wars." , so we should apply the knowledge we have learned from studying abroad to serve the motherland!"
"If we can't even save an ordinary woman today, how can we save a country? Today I am not saving a poor woman, but saving a person to awaken the insensitivity of a village! Awaken more Chinese people Insensitivity! Saving the country is not only the Western industrial revolution that we learned from studying abroad can save the country. The nation of a country is awakened, and all Chinese people are awakened from the feudal poison of seclusion. In the end, it will start a prairie fire with a single spark, which is also a way to save the country. !Brother You, don’t try to persuade me any more, I’ve made a decision!”
Revolutionary salary
Fangzheng stood quietly, looking at the two students whose childish faces had not faded, and finally left alone, giving up and continuing to escape.
The other person chose to leave the village and continue to go to the forefront of the war of resistance to serve the country.
…
Fangzheng followed the memory of the evil spirit of the underworld, and continued to follow the dumb girl all the way.
Perhaps, the memory with that foreign student was the happiest and joyful time in the mute girl's life.
This memory is very delicate.
After the international student chose to stay to save the dumb girl, he chose to live in the dumb girl's house regardless of the rumors.
Then teach dumb girls to read and write.
Teach dumb girls what European industry is.
Teach the dumb girl what is a steam engine and what is an ironclad steamship.
Teach dumb girls how big the outside world is.
Teach the dumb girl what revolution is!
Only reading can save the country.
Feudalism and seclusion will only harm the country.
The first time an overseas student taught a mute girl how to write, it was not his name, but "Revolution".
The second foreign student taught the dumb girl how to write, not his name, but a name for the dumb girl, Haiyan.
I hope she can fly out of this cage-like village one day, pursue the freedom she wants, and see the wider sea and the world outside.
The daily bits and pieces made up the dumb girl's happiest month.
Foreign students have never discriminated against mute women because of their natural disabilities and lameness.
Instead, treat it as your own.
To prevent the villagers from bullying the mute girl, he began to teach the villagers to read and write.
Gradually, the villagers whose wisdom was awakened, bullied dumb girls less and less.
Fang Zheng followed the mute girl's memory and continued to look down.
One day, the overseas student suddenly announced to the villagers that he would propose marriage to the dumb girl and set the wedding date in a week.
Everything is so beautiful.
So perfect.
This short month is the happiest time for the mute girl.
But on the second day after the foreign student proposed to the dumb girl, when the dumb girl went to the mountain to dig wild vegetables for the foreign students and came back, she saw a scene of a bolt from the blue. The foreign student covered in blood was hanged to death on a long pole at the entrance of the village. , exposed to the sun.
The dumb girl is crazy.
The wild vegetables dug in the bamboo basket fell to the ground. She limped hysterically and ran to the pole where the foreign students were hanged, but what greeted her were stones and abuse from the villagers.
"It's the dumb, damn poisonous woman who's back!"
"She is the mourning star. She beat her parents to death when she was a child, and now she kills her fiancé!"
"Why was the mute not there when the foreign students were caught by those traitors! Why did the dumb come back as soon as the traitors left! Even when the mute poisoned her parents when she was a child, only her parents ate wild vegetables, but she didn't eat them. Wild vegetables! This is a poisonous woman! It must be those traitors who sneaked into the city to inform the mutes greedy for money!"
The villagers became angry and chased and beat the mute girl.
The dumb girl is crazy.
She was chased and beaten by the villagers, escaped from the village, and fled into the mountains.
Before fleeing into the mountains, the dumb girl took a deep look at her fiancé who was hanged and exposed to the sun at the entrance of the village.
see this.
Fangzheng sighed.
The dumb girl is not treasonous.
It was someone else who killed the foreign student.
Witnessing her fiancé being hanged at the entrance of the village, the dumb girl started to go crazy all day long, and hid in a ruined temple in the mountains every day. She began to stitch out a red wedding dress stitch by stitch...
in a few days.
On the wedding day of the dumb girl and the foreign student, the dumb girl who had been missing was suddenly found bathing in a stream by some men from the village who went hunting in the mountains.
When they saw the mute woman's body and face, the eyes of those men straightened.
The dumb girl who has always been regarded by the villagers as dirty, smelly, and never takes a bath looks very beautiful. This is the first time the villagers have seen the dumb girl's face after taking a bath.
The few villagers who were looking straight started running to the dumb girl who was bathing in the stream.
The dumb girl didn't resist.
Instead, his face was numb, and he continued to scrub his body calmly.
What's the cruelest way to kill a person
kill heart! It is the cruelest!
With the last ray of sunshine in her life extinguished, the mute girl's heart was dead from the day she saw the foreign student hanged at the entrance of the village with her own eyes.
After that, more villagers got the news.
Later, the wives of those men rushed over when they heard the news...
Fang Zheng couldn't do anything.
I can only look at the numbness and darkness of people in this old society.
Because he was holding it too hard, the hand holding the Ghost Head Knife had blue veins popping out one by one.
…
The dumb girl's memory continues.
She was expressionless and numb after taking a shower.
Put on the wedding gown sewn by hand.
This day is her wedding date with the foreign student...
The dumb girl in the red wedding gown limped towards the entrance of the village under the astonishment and astonishment of the villagers.
The body of the foreign student was still hanged at the entrance of the village.
The body was still being exposed to the sun.
Unable to rest in the ground.
The dumb girl who had been missing for a few days came today for nothing else. She was wearing a bloody wedding gown, knowing that she would die today, but she still came to get married with a vow.
But the dumb girl in the blood-colored wedding dress hadn't reached the village entrance, she hadn't married the foreign student, and she hadn't buried the dead body of the foreign student on her back, but she was taken away by the village women and brought into the village ancestral hall.
"Bitch!"
"Whore!"
"Fuck, you are a scumbag who seduces men, you are just like your shameless parents!"
"Pick off her skin and see how she will seduce other men in the future!"
The villagers resorted to extremely cruel lynching.
Just when the mute girl was being lynched in the ancestral hall, a voice suddenly broke through the chaos and rang out in the memory of the evil spirit of the underworld.
"Do you hate?"
"Do you hate the world?"
"Resent those people for slandering your parents over and over again?"
"Who pushed you step by step into darkness?"
"Who made you despair again and again?"
"The world has abandoned you."
"If you resent the world, I can help you..."
who
Fangzheng turned around abruptly.
Look for the direction the sound is coming from.
Recruited.
He saw a man.
The man was blurred in the memory of the evil spirit of the underworld, hazy, unable to tell his age. He stood at the gate of the ancestral hall, looking at the dumb girl who was being tortured in pain... and the villagers in the ancestral hall who were performing crazy executions seemed to not see this Men, no one looked at this strange man who suddenly appeared.
(end of this chapter)