Chapter 349 Parting is the most worrying thing, but reunion is the happiest
Early in the morning on New Year's Eve, large stoves were set up in the large open space in front of the cottage. Even the cold north wind could not dampen the enthusiasm here.
Some of the living animals caught in the mountains were brought to an end at this time. Their screams of fear and tears of begging did not stop the butcher's knife at all. In a corner of the school grounds, they were already full of blood.
As soon as Chen Mo opened the door, he saw Xiao Yanyu sitting on the fence outside the stilted building. His two little feet stretched out from the gap in the wooden fence and fell outside. His little head just happened to stick out from the gap. His shoulders were stuck, and one hand
Holding on to the wooden railing, he was gnawing on a big cake he got from nowhere in one hand. His two little feet were swaying, as if he was watching something interesting.
Chen Mo walked over, sat down next to her, rested his head in the gap between the fences in a similar posture, and looked in the same direction as her, at the lively school ground.
"Not with them."
Chen Mo looked at the children chasing on the school field and asked.
"Don't follow, that's childish."
Xiao Yanyu said boringly.
"How old are you."
"Bigger than them."
"Then take your time and watch."
Chen Mo was about to get up.
"It's already a holiday, you still want to go out?"
"What's the difference?"
For Chen Mo, festivals are dispensable.
"Can't you stay with me?"
Xiao Yanyu had no playmates at all in this village, either at Chen Mo's place or at Thirteen Niang's place. Although Xiao Yanyu didn't like to talk to those children, there were children who would call out "Little Fish" when they were playing.
", it doesn't matter if Xiao Yan Yu rejected him. But since their child Wang Lu Daneng was betrayed by Chen Mo, those children didn't dare to approach Xiao Yan Yu, let alone Chen Mo.
In the past, no matter where I went, I always had a companion. If Chen Mo wasn't with me, I would still have Sister Jiayue. The little kid could have fun with her. Over there in the reed swamp, I could still have new playmates. It was just a matter of going up to the mountain.
, those children are not childish, how can they be childish and have fun? She just doesn't want to integrate, so she is isolated.
"good."
Chen Mo sat down again and returned to his previous appearance. The two of them were lying on the fence like two prisoners yearning for the freedom and joy outside the cage.
The slaughtered animals were placed in pots on a long table, ready to be baptized by the chef in the village.
Xiao Yanyu heard from Thirteenth Niang that people in the village would gather at the school grounds to spend New Year's Eve together, bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new.
Children were playing, a few women were making dough, some men were preparing ingredients, and other men were carrying thick logs back from outside the village and building them in the school yard.
Xiao Yanyu is like a host introducing his guests to what he can do.
"Thirteenth Niang said that there will be a huge bonfire tonight and there will be fun activities. As for what they are, she didn't say." Xiao Yanyu looked at the wood being built and continued: "I think that should be
It's just the wood used for the bonfire. Look at the size of it, it's really big. Do you think if it burns, will it light up the entire top of the mountain?"
Xiao Yanyu had never seen a large bonfire. Before, with Chen Mo, it was just a small cluster that could roast food and illuminate them.
As soon as he thought of the huge bonfire, Xiao Yanyu's clear eyes seemed to reflect the image of the bonfire.
"Won't."
Chen Mo's words always offended the scenery, but they could not dampen the little girl's interest.
Then Xiao Yanyu started nodding.
"The one holding two butcher knives, clanging against each other, and chirping, was Ah Xiao. He was also the one who pulled me away that day to watch you and Thirteenth Niang fight. It was also he who threw you, who was seriously injured at that time, into him.
Cars, hum, are very annoying."
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"That big winter shirtless guy named Ah Keng looked silly. Don't look at him for being silly. I heard that he used to spy on women taking baths. He was shameless and very annoying."
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"The child whose nose is often unable to be wiped clean is called Slug. Although he is young, he pesters Thirteenth Niang all day long to ask when he will bring his wife back. He has been kicked in the butt countless times by Thirteenth Niang, but he still asks shamelessly.
, thinking about these things at a young age is very annoying."
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"The guy over there who is carrying the wood has a scar on his face. You also know him. That scar is a gift from you. His name is Lu Daneng. He is the kid king of those kids. The kids in the village all admire him.
, In the past, I surrounded him like a follower, but recently he no longer plays with the kids. He often goes out with the adults and likes to be alone when he returns to the village. He even clamored for me to be his wife before.
Very annoying, but now I'm honest."
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"The one holding the headscarf and kneading the dough is called Aunt Li. Well, she doesn't hate it. In this village, Thirteenth Niang is the number one bad guy, and she is the number one good person."
As Xiao Yanyu was talking, Chen Mo's hand touched the top of her head, blocking the "fatal blow".
"Why did you hit me?!" Xiao Yanyu turned around and looked at Chen Mo angrily. "Am I wrong? She, the thirteenth mother, is the biggest bad guy in this village!"
"That's absolutely true."
Thirteenth Niang's cold voice sounded behind her.
Xiao Yanyu's hair stood on end, and he instinctively protected the top of his head with his hands, but he didn't touch the top of his head, but Chen Mo's palm, and he suddenly realized.
"Why do you appear every time I talk about you, and you are so sneaky and silent? Have you been following me?!"
Xiao Yanyu turned his head to look at Thirteen Niang who suddenly appeared, and covered his head with both hands to prevent this bad woman from giving him a violent shudder.
"You were so absorbed in talking bad about others that you didn't notice someone coming. You knew it just by looking at Chen Mo, and he blocked it for you. It means he didn't listen carefully to what you were saying."
Thirteenth Niang continued to stir up their previous relationship.
Chen Mo didn't explain, and Xiao Yanyu pretended that he didn't hear what she said next.
Seeing that her plan failed, Thirteenth Niang had no intention of leaving. She put her hands on the fence, supporting her upper body, lying there, looking at the direction that Xiao Yanyu had just mentioned Aunt Li, and said: "You know, this is my first time.
Aunt Li taught me how to kill. Although her martial arts skills are mediocre, she has killed quite a few people. Now that she is older, she doesn't leave the village much."
The three of them fell silent.
Chen Mo was indifferent, Thirteen Niang was secretly happy, and Xiao Yanyu was so angry that he couldn't speak. He kept hinting to himself: everything she said was false and she was lying to me, she just wanted to piss me off.
While the three of them were thinking about their own thoughts, faces that Xiao Yanyu had never seen walked in one after another from the gate of the village. They were some elderly people and some children.
Chen Mo looked at these people. He had seen some of them before, but they were not in the village anymore, but in other places in the mountains. They didn't seem to belong here.
Xiao Yanyu also became curious. She had never seen these people before. After walking around the village with Thirteen Niang for so long, she had basically seen all the places that belonged to this village. Except for some cellars, could these people have been there all this time?
Cellar? Impossible!
"Those people don't live in the village." Thirteenth Niang said lightly. "They used to be people in the village. For various reasons, they left. However, at this time every year, they would drag their families back and come back to this village.
What was once their home."
"Why did you come back after being kicked out? Can't you just be an ordinary good person?" Xiao Yanyu curled his lips and said.
"First of all, they were not driven out." Thirteenth Niang said simply. She did not need to tell them in detail about Black Tiger Mountain. "Secondly, the scattered villagers in the entire Black Tiger Mountain range were not
Simple villagers, they are more or less related to this village or other mountains."
"If you have it, it's what it has to do with me. Why are you telling me this..."
Xiao Yanyu stopped mid-sentence, as if he thought of something unhappy, his whole head lowered, and then he looked at Chen Mo with some unhappiness in his tone: "Did you know this earlier?"
"Um."
Chen Mo probably guessed what she asked.
"when?"
"When we were in a small town."
Xiao Yanyu stood up.
"Chen Mo! You are also very annoying. She makes things difficult for me everywhere, and even you hide everything from me."
After saying that, Xiao Yanyu, who was about to cry, left without even looking at Chen Mo.
Chen Mo looked at her retreating back, stood up and glanced at Thirteen Niang.
Thirteenth Niang put on an innocent expression: "This little girl is so smart in some aspects. I didn't expect her to be able to think of that thing like this."
That matter, of course, refers to the old man's matter.
Chen Mo didn't mean to blame him, and turned around and left.
"It doesn't matter if you don't have lunch, remember to come back for dinner." Thirteenth Mother looked at the two people's leaving figures and shouted softly.
On the other side of the school grounds, a little boy held the hand of an old man and looked towards the three of Thirteen Niangs. The little boy's eyes were sharper. He looked at the boy next to Thirteen Niangs and said to the old man: "Well, that's not
The man who chased the wild boar in the mountains?"
The little boy remembered a strange thing he saw in the forest not long ago. Wild boars were the biggest danger to them. They not only ate their food but were also very ferocious. But such a ferocious thing was killed by a vigorous man in that mountain forest.
The figure was jumping up and down after him, as if he had seen the king of beasts in the forest, while the boy was playing with his prey like a tiger.
The old man looked to where the little boy was pointing, and he did see the young man, and he was indeed the one he had met some time ago: Is he new to the village? And it seems that Thirteenth Niang has a very good relationship with him.
Thirteenth Niang watched the two interesting guys leave. As soon as she turned around, she saw the old man looking at him. She smiled politely and nodded to the old man.