"Second aunt, what do you mean by this?" I rubbed my eyes, confused.
"Oh, do you want to pretend to ask or don't know?" The second aunt stretched her head and looked into the courtyard, and continued to spit on her hips.
Her mouth was very poisonous. Without a serious word, she would just swear. Whatever nasty swearing would be, afterwards, the second uncle Liu who was standing behind him couldn't listen anymore. She grabbed her second aunt by the arm and said, "If you have something to say, okay? Said, they are all folks in the village, and you can't look up and see you, what are you scolding?"
"You kill a thousand swords!" The second aunt stood up, pushed Second Uncle Liu aside, pointed to his nose and cursed: "Are you looking at that fox? The second uncle called you upset? You are I'm so happy, do I have to live the life at home! You can see clearly, your two sons are waiting to marry a wife!"
The more I listened, the more confused I became. The two of them were arguing in a mess here, and I still don't know what they are talking about.
"If you have anything, you tell me, you always scold like this, who can understand?" I hated the second aunt's mouth, and my words were not so polite. It was in the middle of the night, and the door was blocked by people, and no one could bear it.
The second aunt was still cursing. Liu Ershu was probably a little angry, so he pulled her aside and told me.
I rarely deal with people in the village, and I basically don't go out to show my face. I leave early and return late every day. I don't know the people in the village very well, and I don't know anything about the village. Uncle Liu said that since three or two months ago, the chickens and ducks raised by the households in the village were always bitten to death by something in the middle of the night. Can admit that it is unlucky.
A few days ago, an old hen laying eggs in Liu Er's family died. She lived a fine life and refused to suffer this loss. Tonight, there was movement in the sheepfold behind her house, and the rustling sound rang for a long time, awakening Aunt Liu Er. Farmers in the countryside usually raise livestock such as pigs and sheep, and they cherish them very much. Second Aunt Liu asked Second Uncle Liu to get up and go to the sheep pen to have a look. After seeing this, she found that a sheep that had been raised for a year had died.
There was a wound on the sheep's neck. In that state, it was like something biting the neck and sucking away a lot of blood. The second aunt Liu got a hairy, anxious and angry. This sheep has been raised for a year, but it hasn't fully grown up. Once she dies, the family loses a lot.
At first, Ershu Liu thought it was because of heavy snow these days that some wild animals were so hungry that they ran to the village to find food and killed the sheep in the family. But Aunt Liu saw that footprints were left on the snow.
The footprints are a little messy, from the soles of the shoes, it is obvious that they belong to one person. Those who left their footprints slipped into the sheepfold from other places, and then slipped out of the sheepfold. Because the snow is deep, so the footprints
very clearly. As soon as Aunt Liu saw someone harming her sheep, she couldn't bear it. She called both of her sons who were sleeping and followed their footprints.
After searching, I found my home.
"Don't say I'm spitting blood! Take a look at yourself!" The second aunt was unreasonable, pulled me by the arm, dragged me out of the yard, pointing to the footprints on the ground, and said: "Our family came here to avoid Make this footprint lest you deny it! Look for yourself!"
The footprints on the ground were really clear. Aunt Liu asked her two sons to guard the gate of my house. She dragged me in one breath and watched the footprints completely. Her mouth was poisonous, but she didn't lie. The footprints on the ground stretched from my house to the sheepfold behind her house, and from the sheepfold back to our door.
Looking at it, I made a squeak in my heart, because everyone is in Maodong at home, and very few people go out. After it snows, almost no one has moved in the snow outside. I can probably tell the footprints in the snow. The footprints are not big, they are obviously women's.
"What else can I say?" Seeing me being silent, Aunt Liu started howling in chaos, crying and wiping tears, as if a sheep had died, and their family would be ruined.
Second Aunt Liu was crying, and Second Uncle Liu came over with her two sons. She was probably also afraid that her second aunt would cry here in the middle of the night and would disturb other neighbors.
I'm a bit stubborn, if it's not my fault, it's hard to ask me to admit my mistakes. However, I saw all the footprints in the snow, and for a while, I was a little confused.
"Uncle Liu, if you can trust me, go home first. I will go back and ask my family to see what happened. If it is really my family's fault, I will pay you a lot of this sheep."
"Speaking lightly, take us away, you go back and pack your bags while slipping away at night, who are we looking for to get the sheep?" The second aunt cried for a long time, but no tears were seen. Once I heard my words, she was reluctant at the time: "No! We have to follow!"
"Have you been crying enough!" Liu Ershu's temper is softer, but after being cried for a long time by the second aunt, he may have really become angry: "It's just a sheep, it's worth not even the family!?"
The second aunt was arrogant, but Liu Ershu was reasonable and asked the two sons to help the second aunt home first.
"Uncle Liu, you go home and wait, I will find you when I have news."
I persuaded the family to leave first, and then hurried home. My mind is unstable. Although Aunt Liu's mouth hurts others, some words are really impressed in my heart.
I ran home in one breath, and called Cheongna, but Cheongna didn't say a word. I yelled a few more times before Qingluo responded.
"Ching Luo, open the door, I have something to ask you."
After a while, Cheongna opened the door of the house, lost in love
Glancing at me, "What's the matter?"
"You..." I just wanted to ask, when I swept my eyes, my heart sank to the soles of my feet.
I clearly saw that Qing Luo's mouth was stained with blood, and there were some fluffy wool on the blood. The blood stains were already dry, and a dark red blood stain appeared so dazzling at the corner of her mouth.
At this moment, the figure of the old Taoist priest I met before suddenly flashed in my mind.
Two months ago, I met an old Taoist priest. Although I was puzzled at the time, after a long time, I first forgot about it. Until this time, I remembered the words that the old Taoist priest said to me.
There is a demon in your house, the demon is very strong, even you are contaminated...
"Qingluo, did you go out just now? Where did you go?"
Qing Luo didn't say a word, and looked at me timidly. As soon as I saw her behavior, I knew in my heart that there must be something strange in this matter. After being in contact with Cheongna for so long, I know her somewhat. She is simple in heart and will not lie, and if there is anything she asks in person, Qingluo will be afraid and hesitate.
"Tell me, what did you go out for?" The more I looked at her expression, the more I felt that I had to ask things clearly. This is no longer just a question of a sheep.
"I didn't do... I didn't do anything..."
Without saying anything, I pushed her away, went to the room and took out a small mirror, held it up to her, and said, "What is the corner of your mouth?"
As soon as Qingluo saw herself reflected in the mirror, she panicked, and hurriedly wiped her mouth with her sleeve.
My head grew bigger in an instant, and I thought about it carefully, do I really understand her? Before the master’s accident, I didn’t even know that there was a person named Qingluo in this world, because it was Yu Bo who sent her to her, and I didn’t think about her carefully because of the fact that I was so close to the master. origin.
At this moment, my heart was ups and downs. When I met that old Taoist priest two months ago, I felt that he was an old liar. But now, I suddenly realized that the words of the old Taoist priest did not seem to be nonsense.
"Qingluo." I settled my mind, the matter has reached this point, it's better to ask clearly first. To be honest, Cheongna takes good care of me on weekdays and takes care of her, making me angry with her. I really can’t get up: “If you have anything, you might as well tell me.”
"You... don't you believe me?" Qing Luo looked up at me when she heard what I said, "I'm just an ordinary woman on the beach, you... don't be suspicious..."
I didn't answer, but I probably knew it in my heart. A few years ago, Qingluo estimated that she was really an ordinary woman in the river beach countryside, but since she met the river god Shouren and the three-eyed floating corpse, some changes may have occurred.
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