After dinner, the family went to bed early. In order to save lamp oil, they asked us to put out the oil lamp early.
This village doesn’t even have electricity!
After the oil lamp was extinguished, the originally dark room became even darker. Fortunately, at night in the mountain village, the moonlight was exceptionally bright. After getting used to it for a while, I could still see things in the room clearly with the moonlight shining through the window.
Suppressing a lot of questions, I really wanted to talk to Ling Ruxue. I felt that she had no need to hide anything from me. If I asked, she would probably answer, right
But the problem is that this bark house has no soundproofing effect at all. Laishun’s coughing and children talking in low voices can be heard from next door, plus the sound of Laishun’s wife scolding her children. How can I open my mouth? Go ask Ling Ruxue about this? They were afraid it would be bad if they heard it.
Ling Ruxue must be sleeping in another bed. It was extremely quiet. At least I couldn't hear a sound. Just when I was hesitating whether to go over and talk to her in a low voice, I heard someone coming from the outer room. He stopped coughing, and through me I heard his footsteps, walking towards our house.
Could it be that this was done with evil intentions? I adjusted my posture, and my whole body was in a state of being ready to go. Speaking of fighting, I have been practicing martial arts since I was a child. I can fight 5 times like this without any problem. I can't let him hurt Hui Gen'er. And like snow.
But Laishun obviously had no intention of coming in. He just coughed twice at the door, and then shouted a few words towards us: "Hey, are you sleeping? Are you sleeping?"
Ruxue's side was very quiet. I didn't know if she was really asleep or if she had the same idea as me, which was not to answer and see what Laishun wanted to do. Fortunately, Hui Gen'er was really serious. He was asleep, otherwise if Lai Shun shouted like this, this kid might just reply in a daze.
After shouting a few words, Lai Shun saw no movement from our side, turned around and left. Then I heard Lai Shun opening the door and leaving the house. Then, I heard Lai Shun's wife also getting up and chasing her out of the house. The two were chatting in the yard.
I don't know if it's because of curiosity, or if I'm born with a '38' nature, but I just couldn't help but quietly roll over and get up, and then I touched the bottom of the window, wanting to hear what they had to say.
But as soon as I walked under the window, I saw a dark shadow squatting there. It startled me and I thought I had encountered a ghost. I thought to myself, am I really a Taoist priest? Do you encounter ghosts wherever you go? After taking a closer look, I found that Ling Ruxue was squatting there, moving faster than me.
I felt happy, it turned out that this girl also has the true qualities of a "March 8"? At least she is much cuter like this than the one who is aloof and cold and emotionless.
When she saw me coming, she moved a little and gave me a seat. I smiled at her and said to her: "So you are also so 'three-eight'?"
Ling Ruxue didn't even look at it, she just said: "I'm not too sure about the things in this village. I just heard vague words from the great witch. Listen, maybe you can learn something."
After saying that, she gave me a 'shh' gesture, and I couldn't say anything.
But I have to sigh, every move of this woman is so moving in my eyes. Perhaps, she is really too calm on weekdays, so a little bit of emotion or a little bit of movement seems particularly moving.
Leaning under the window, I could hear the movement outside more clearly. I heard Laishun's wife yelling at Laishun: "Do you want to go to the town to drink and eat meat alone, and then find a wild cat (Miss)? You can pay for it." You have to hand over at least half.”
"I'll give you fifty at most. I brought the person here and the money was given to me. Why do you share half of it? If I don't go find the wild cat, why am I facing you, an old woman, every day?"
"Are you talking about my old woman? How can you be better? You..."
Their conversation was almost entirely a sterile quarrel, mixed with the sound of coughing, and the reason was because of the hundreds of dollars I threw out.
This made me feel very emotional, what kind of couple are they? They were arguing like this over a few hundred dollars, and from what they said, I could clearly feel that there was no affection between them at all, they were just living together.
Just when I was bored and ready to go back to sleep, I suddenly heard Lai Shun yelling: "I don't care, I won't give you the money! I've already started to have a seizure, and I won't live much longer. Anyway, there are I'm drunk today, so get out of here."
Then, I heard the sound of two people fighting, and then I heard a "thud" sound, like the sound of someone falling to the ground, which made me couldn't help but look up.
Under the moonlight, I could see clearly. It turned out that Lai Shun's wife was kicked to the ground by Lai Shun, and then Lai Shun went out cursing. I could vaguely hear him cursing someone who wanted me to die. I'm afraid of that. , let’s take a gamble first, then go to town tomorrow or something like that.
I was shocked inside. Likewise, I saw a hint of shock and intolerance in the eyes of Ling Ruxue beside me.
The people in this village are so poor that they even have a gambling house, which shows how depraved and hopeless their life is. I seem to have heard some clues from Li Shun's words, but I can't quite grasp them, but Ruxue must have known something clearly.
Before I could whisper anything, I heard the sound of a child getting up and going out again next door. I poked my head out to look, and saw a little boy and that very cute little girl going out.
I have some impression of that little boy, because I always feel that Laishun’s wife takes special care of him. Not only does she give him big potatoes, but she even gives him two extra bones in the broth. I don’t know if I am overthinking it. Well, I always feel that the little boy is the only child who has some similarities with these two couples.
The little girl rushed to Laishun's wife first and shouted to her mother not to cry. However, Laishun's wife pushed her away and had to stand aside pitifully. On the other hand, the little boy was held in her arms by Laishun's wife. , said: "Mom has no other hope. I just hope that you can live a good life in the village, which is better than being a piglet in this village."
"The people in the village are so cruel, Mom." The little girl couldn't help but said something nearby, but Laishun's wife pushed her and said, "What do you know? You will never be able to go there in your life. Take the fate of the pigs and go back to sleep."
After saying that, Laishun's wife stopped crying, picked up something from the ground, and then led her two children back to the house cursing equally. I noticed that what she picked up was actually two 10-yuan notes, and said In the end, Lai Shun still threw twenty yuan to her. As for her scolding, it was a bit unpleasant to hear. They were all about how it would be better to die early, die early and be born early. If you die, you will be liberated, and you will also use the money. You have no conscience and so on.
After that, there was the sound of entering the house and lying down. After a long time, there was no sound from there.
But Ling Ruxue and I both squatted under the window and didn't move for a long time. It was probably that both of us were shocked by what the other said and needed to digest it before we could think normally.
I really wanted to discuss something with Ruxue, but when the words came to my lips, I still felt that I didn’t dare to accept them, so the two of us didn’t say anything, we just stayed quietly for a while, and then went back to bed.
Early the next morning, we got up and set off. Of course we didn't see Lai Shun. As he said, if you have money, you have to enjoy it. He wouldn't come back so soon. I don't know what my heart was, but I still gave him to Lai Shun quietly. Shun's wife stuffed her with 500 yuan.
I said to her: "It's not for you, it's for the children. If you treat the children better, it will also accumulate virtue for you in your next life. You don't want your next life to be as miserable as this one, right?"
Laishun's daughter-in-law was originally overjoyed when she saw this 'huge sum of money', but after listening to my words, she looked at me as if she was in danger and said, "What do you know?"
I actually didn’t know anything, but just because I wanted the money to be used for the children, I pretended to be profound and said: "You don’t need to ask me what I know. You just need to know that the three of us are going to the village. Just the guests of the village are fine. The money, you listen to me, is best spent on the children."
After saying that, I left. I found that Ling Ruxue had been staring at me, and she probably saw and heard my performance!
I held Hui Gen'er's hand and walked side by side with her on the road. I said, "You asked me not to ask anything and not care about anything. I finally couldn't help but take care of it. You won't blame me, right?"
She gently pulled back her hair that was blown by the wind by her ears, and then said softly: "If it were me, I might tell that woman that I am a very important guest in the village. If I knew that the money was gone, If you use it on the children, I will guarantee that your son will not be able to enter the village and will have to stay in this village for the rest of his life. If you don't believe me, you bet."
When I heard this, I was shocked. I turned around and looked at the calm woman in front of me. I thought it was too cruel. If I hit the snake within seven inches, I would capture the thief first. Capture the king first. She is a hundred times more powerful than me.
"Then why don't you say it?"
"Because I have no money to give her. I spent all the 500 you lent me last time."