"The weather is really weird. It's been raining for so many days. Water is poured on the ground over and over again. I'm afraid that the seedlings will be soaked."
There are no leisure activities in the small village on the mountain. On a rainy day like this, many women gather together to mend clothes and shoe soles, while the men go to the empty room of the village committee to set up a few tables, play cards, and pass the time.
Originally, the old people in the mountains expected that the rain would only last for two or three days, but now it is the fifth day, the sky is overcast, and the air is full of water vapor. October is almost November, and the mountain has begun to turn cold , The bone-piercing cold, especially some elderly people with weak resistance, carried all the big cotton jackets at home.
"Hiss, don't tell me, the weather is getting cold too fast. It's hard to sleep without a stove at night. It's not like the coldness of the previous winter. This coldness seems to be oozing from the bones. .”
Lao Gentou was wearing a cotton-padded jacket and a scarf. He used to be dressed like this at least in December, but now, even though he was dressed so warmly, he still felt cold. He even took two sips of homemade sorghum wine to warm himself up. .
"Uncle, I think it's because you're in poor health. Take advantage of these two years to save some money and buy a wife for your son. It's serious. Don't kick your legs and miss your grandson."
Lin Youcai chuckled, played a pair of bombs, and played the last two cards under everyone's attention.
"Give me money." He smiled.
"call-"
A chill went straight to his neck, Lin Youcai hurriedly looked back, but there was no one behind him, it seemed to be just his illusion.
"Don't tell me, I really have saved enough money."
Lao Gentou's words brought Lin Youcai back to his thoughts, and he didn't think much about it. He looked at the complacent Lao Gentou and asked with a smile: "Why, the young man who lived in your house all these years gave you A lot of money, right?"
Everyone in the village thinks that Lao Gentou is lucky. It has been raining heavily these days, and the roads on the mountain are not easy to walk. No one wants to go up the mountain at this time, not to mention not seeing any beautiful scenery, but also prone to accidents.
The young man at Lao Gentou’s house came before it rained, in order to wait for the sun to watch the sunrise. He has lived in Lao Gentou’s house for five days, plus the food expenses for each meal, as well as bathing and boiling water. The expenses, at least let Lao Gentou earn eight or nine hundred. Seeing that the weather is not getting better, if he stays for a while, my good guy, he has earned all the harvest in the field for a year.
There is not much land in Wude Village, and most of them are barren mountainous areas. Usually, apart from their own rations, they can’t sell much. They can hunt, and they can also sell some game with those who collect mountain goods. They can’t do anything. They rely on land for a year Earning two or three thousand is already as high as the sky.
"Hey hey, I'm also an old man, I'm lucky, just relying on that young man to save enough money to buy a wife." Lao Gentou smiled and didn't answer.
"You have talent, tell Lai San for me, leave me a big ass to give birth to, and don't let the villages at the bottom of the mountain pick out all the good stuff."
Lin Youcai nodded while holding the cards. He and his elder brother were very concerned about this matter. People in the village didn't know that, in fact, he and his elder brother got a commission every time they bought a daughter-in-law. For a woman with 30,000 yuan, the two brothers can smoke 3,000 yuan, which is why their brothers have never farmed the land, but their lives are better than anyone else's.
"However, I can't get in touch these two days. I don't know if there is something wrong with the signal tower on a heavy rainy day. I can't make calls. When the rain stops, my brother and I will go down the mountain to let people have a look. You Don't worry, I promise to leave you with one who can give birth to a son."
Lin Youcai thought about why the phone at home had been busy since yesterday, and the mobile phone had lost signal, but now that it was raining heavily, he and his elder brother didn't want to go down the mountain, so they just dragged on.
It’s not that this situation didn’t happen in the village before. Sometimes people at the bottom of the mountain will find that they have to urge them to repair the signal tower themselves, but it doesn’t matter. People in the mountains rarely use those things. It's more interesting to them than anything else.
Lao Gentou got a satisfactory answer, and the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes deepened as he laughed.
He has been waiting for his daughter-in-law for more than 20 years, and it's not too late, so he begged that the rainy days would be longer, and he could earn another one or two thousand from that young man, so that he could spend the New Year's money have it all.
*****
"Sister-in-law, is the rice burned?"
Lin Youcai spat on his hands, and counted the handful of change notes in his hand, a total of more than forty yuan, which he won all afternoon.
"It's burnt, and I steamed a fish and boiled a pot of bone broth. Your elder brother has already drunk, so how about waiting for you?" Lin Youde's daughter-in-law is five years younger than him, because she gave birth to three daughters in a row. Some of the family can't hold their heads up.
Lin Youcai's daughter-in-law was upbeat and gave birth to him a son, the only child of the Lin family. Lin Youde was kind to this younger brother, and he probably didn't mean to want that elder nephew to help him take care of him.
The two brothers probably knew that what they did was shameful, so they sent Lin Youcai and his mother to study in the county town before Lin Youcai's son became sensible. It was enough, and the two brothers went to the county to visit him a few times a month to get in touch with each other.
As for Lin Youde's three daughters, they are not so lucky. Girl dolls are worthless, and it would be nice to feed them well. If they study books, they will marry someone in exchange for a gift money when they are old, just treat them as their own. contribution to this home.
It's ridiculous to say that people in the village are thinking about their sons and grandchildren, because a family can't support too many children, some of the baby girls who are born die because of illness and don't want to spend money on medical treatment, and some are thrown to the back mountain or It was drowning in a toilet.
When their sons and grandsons grow up and it's time to marry a wife, they realize why they can't even find a girl of the right age, so they grit their teeth and spend money to buy a daughter-in-law back. Just wrong.
Lin Youcai didn't have much respect for this sister-in-law, and none of them were born to the old Lin's family. It would be nice for such a woman to give her a bite to eat.
He walked into the house humming a little tune, the brazier was lit inside, and it was warm. His elder brother had already drunk the wine, and when he saw his younger brother coming, he moved into the kang and asked him to take off his shoes and get on the kang.
The big bones were stewed very fragrant, Lin Youcai took one and gnawed it, his mouth was full of oil, and he didn't forget to drink the wine.
"Old Gentou has collected enough money, we can at least make this amount."
Lin Youcai gestured a few fingers, and Lin Youde was suddenly happy.
"Didn't Xiaobao say he wanted an Eppie a few days ago, and I just bought one for him."
Lin Youde loved his own nephew, but he remembered it after hearing what he said. He didn't know what that thing called Ai Paide was, but it should be enough for the villagers to buy two daughters-in-law. Bar.
"Hehe, that kid is blessed to have an uncle who loves him so much." Lin Youcai smiled, and it was his own son who took advantage.
"That's because Xiaobao strives for his own strength. Every time he takes the first place in the exam, he will be admitted to the university in the future. Our Lin family will have a bright face."
Lin Youde drank the shochu in the bowl in one gulp, suddenly, the lights in the room clattered and bang, then turned off, and the room suddenly became dark.
"The light bulb is probably broken, brother, do you have a spare light bulb?" Lin Youcai put down his wine glass, untied his crossed legs, spread them out on the bottom of the kang, and put on his shoes.
"what!"
He suddenly let out a cry of alarm, which almost scared Lin Youde to pee.
"There...something is pulling my foot..."
It was cold, and Lin Youcai had goosebumps all over his body. He said this to his elder brother stiffly, not daring to look down.
"Are you drunk?" Lin Youde rolled his eyes at his younger brother. He climbed to the top of the kang, took out a candle from the cabinet, and lit it with the match he had with him.
"It's a surprise. The kang underneath is sealed. Even if there are ghosts, she can still get under the kang and grab your feet." Lin Youde didn't believe that there were ghosts in this world, so he thought it was his younger brother's. illusion.
"There's something on your feet, don't scare yourself."
He got off the kang and looked at his younger brother's feet. They were clean and there was nothing there. At this time, the biting coldness that Lin Youcai felt just now disappeared, and he thought that maybe it was really just his own illusion.
Gathering up the courage to look down, it was still his foot, and there was nothing wrong with it. He breathed a sigh of relief, put on his shoes, and was about to ask his brother where the spare light bulb was, when he looked up, there was Under the candlelight, behind the eldest brother, a bloody girl smiled at him with bloody and hollow eyes.
"Ah-"
This time Lin Youcai was really frightened, a smell of stench permeated the room, the blood faded from his face, he screamed, and staggered to hide in the corner of the wall.
"Talented, what are you doing? I'm going to make trouble with you again."
Lin Youcai's reaction was so abnormal that Lin Youde felt his heart shudder and scolded him, but he didn't have the courage to look back.
What on earth did his brother see to make such an expression.
One second, two seconds, three seconds...
Lin Youde swallowed, feeling his throat was dry, and he couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat.
"call-"
A cold air came from the back of his neck, and Lin Youde's heart went cold. He didn't dare to move, stood on his feet, and cursed in his heart. With such a big commotion, his mother-in-law and the girls were deaf. Don't come in and have a look.
The neck was itchy, as if being scratched by a nail, and his heart was in his throat. Lin Youde glanced down, but he couldn't see anything in the blind spot of his viewing angle. He just felt that the thing seemed to be poking more and more into his neck. up.
"Amitabha, Amitabha"
He chanted a couple of Buddha's mantras, turned around abruptly, and punched his head hard with his fists.
There is nothing, only a cloud of air in the dark environment.
Lin Youde collapsed on the ground in a collapsed state. He could no longer care about his trembling younger brother, and rushed out the door.
*****
"Those people are dirty, Yinyin is a good child, you can't get that kind of dirty blood, you know?"
Yan Chu stayed in his room, he was standing, and a little girl in a white skirt was sitting on a chair, obediently putting her hands on his.
Strange to say, she couldn't touch Yan Chu's physical body, but as long as Yan Chu wanted to, she could touch her as an incorporeal body.
At this time, Yan Chu was holding a clean handkerchief, and patiently helped her wipe one finger at a time. Every time she just finished wiping, her fingers would appear beautiful white and pink, but after a while, black Once the air diffuses again, it will turn into a corrupt color again, and the nails will also be incomplete.
The little girl's eyes were empty, she didn't understand what the man in front of her meant, but she subconsciously listened to his words, showing a grievance and guilt of doing something wrong.
"Wipe it clean, look at our Yinyin, how beautiful it is."
In front of them was a vanity mirror. On the first day Yan Chu came here, he carefully wiped off all the dust on the mirror.
In the mirror, there was only Yan Chu's reflection, but the little girl held his hand and looked at the mirror and smiled, wondering what she saw again.
Those dirty things cannot be handled by clean people. Their blood is too dirty and will pollute the pure white. The evil should be eliminated by the evil.
The corners of Yan Chu's mouth were raised slightly, he couldn't do anything, and neither could his sister, so let them go to hell by themselves.