Aunt Zhu yelled at him: "Why are you so ugly when I give you money? Let's talk about this. With so much money, you can sell a lot of mountain products. You kid is equivalent to making a fortune."
I'm telling you, from now on, you're not allowed to cause trouble for Jiaolong anymore!!"
Zhou Laoer smiled and took the money from San Meier's hand, spat on his fingers, and counted with a smile until he finished counting, then put the money in his pocket: "Okay, this
Even if the matter is in the past and this kid has learned his lesson, in the future, let him be careful. If he deceives people like this in the village again, I will come again! Madam, I'm sorry to bother you about this matter, otherwise, I'll still
I didn’t expect this kid to call me that! He’s going to drink!”
"roll!!"
Aunt Zhu shouted, until Zhou Laoer picked up his pickaxe and walked away humming a tune, then he turned back and looked at me with a depressed look on his face: "Jiaolong, you can't give me anything."
It’s so enjoyable!”
I lowered my eyes and sighed: "Mom, thank you for this."
"Thank you, I believe you are not a liar. Wei Qiang can see you wrong when he is on TV outside!"
"Auntie, what if the man named Wei Qiang really saw it wrong..."
"What, you can't, you..."
I looked at her with a wry smile: "Auntie, don't look to me for trouble in the future. I really don't have much ability. My second brother is right. I just want to stay here. I am quite a waste."
…”
"Hey, Jiaolong..."
I took San Meier's hand and walked a few steps towards the house. I looked back at Aunt Zhu and said, "Auntie, I don't think I will be seen by anyone again in this village, but don't worry, regarding your son's home
I am definitely not lying, I won’t send you off. Madam, thank you very much for taking care of me..."
Aunt Zhu stood alone in the yard for a while. She wanted to come in and say something to me. She moved her feet twice, and finally shook her head and left with a look of helplessness.
Sanmeier found some topical medicine she brought from the city and carefully rubbed it on my face to reduce the swelling. She asked in a low voice: "Does it hurt?"
I stared blankly at the setting sun in the yard outside the window, shaking my head dumbly and saying nothing.
Third sister's eyes slowly turned red, she bit her lip and helped me wipe some blood remaining under her nose, "If Mr. Zhuo is here, he will definitely not be able to see you being bullied..."
I came back to my senses slightly and looked at San Meier: "Didn't you say, don't mention him anymore?"
Sanmei'er raised her arms and wiped her tears, "I'm sorry, Jiaolong, I forced you to be a gentleman all the time, and I forced you to recover your morality and avenge me... I'm sorry, Jiaolong,
Now I really feel that you shouldn’t come here. I was wrong... maybe Uncle Chou was wrong too..."
I took some toilet paper, rubbed it and stuffed it into my nose. I looked at her and cheered up a little: "Where would I go if I didn't come here? I can't watch you stay here for three years. In fact, it's quite nice here."
Okay, I have to show people some animals. I brought this trouble on myself and it has nothing to do with you, ah."
Sanmei'er sniffed and shook her head: "It's my fault. I retorted to Wei Qiang at the beginning and said it would be fine if you weren't a gentleman. You have been in trouble for days because of the scandal of Aunt Zhu's son. I shouldn't do it anymore.
I'm putting pressure on you, Jiaolong. I will never force you to be a husband again. We will stay together like this for three years. After three years, I will go back to take revenge on my own. Seriously, don't worry about me anymore.
I don’t want to see others bullying you..."
"This is not bullying. If my family broke their leg because of a gentleman, I would be angry. If I think about it from my perspective, it would be nothing..."
Third sister leaned her face on my chest, still sobbing softly, "I hate Yu Xiangling, I curse her every day to die a good death, why do we have to suffer like this, Jiaolong... I hate her...
…“
I patted San Meier's arm gently as a silent comfort, but sadly discovered that I myself didn't even have the strength to curse a person——
…
Zhou Laoer's incident quickly spread in the village. This time, even if Aunt Zhu tried to clear my name, it would be of no avail. Even though most of the people in the village were illiterate, they understood the truth that facts speak louder than words. The so-called
Good things don't go out, and bad things spread thousands of miles. I once overheard two villagers having a heated discussion about whether I was a liar, "That guy from the city, if you don't say anything else, you can't find that even if you ask people for livestock."
If you look at it, then he is definitely not a gentleman!"
"But didn't Aunt Zhu say that this gentleman did a good job of building beams on his son's house? His son is also living a good life!"
"Tsk! That's just confusing! Why don't we just go back and finish confusing Zhu's family and then go to the second daughter-in-law? What's the matter, this time I got confused! I almost lost my life in that ditch.
!Have you heard that Yuqin almost suffered from hemiplegia? If she doesn’t die, she will have to save her life!”
"Why is it serious? I saw Yuqin go up the mountain two days ago. I heard that she had a broken leg and was being raised at home for a few days. I didn't hear that she was still hemiplegic!"
"I'm almost paralyzed, and I might be prone to delaying childbirth! You know what the heck! It's all because of that gentleman's nonsense!"
"Oh, it's so serious. Wei Qiang even said that he had been on TV somewhere outside."
"I just heard that kid talking nonsense, but now he's not sure. Maybe he got the wrong person. He said the gentleman he knows is not as cool as this guy. This guy in our village is 100% a jerk. You
Don’t believe it, I’m going to put your wife in a ditch and become paralyzed!!”
After hearing this, the third sister almost burst into tears. When she came back, she yelled at me for talking nonsense, saying that they were the ones talking nonsense. When did Zhou Lao Er's wife become hemiplegic because her bones were out of place?
It's not that serious at all, but it's delaying fertility. The calf and the uterus are thousands of miles apart. What kind of fertility is being delayed?
I listened to this quite calmly, repeatedly doing the work of pressing the water from the well into the bucket and then pouring it into the bucket. She had never lived in the village, so she didn’t know how fast information spreads in the village. Generally, you spread the word
What went out was a thread, so what came back might be a sweater.
I don’t think the transformation has been spread very much in this matter. There are some things that you feel like you are listening to when you hear something new. This is the power of people’s saliva to polish it. Maybe after spreading it a few times, it will become
I kicked Zhou Lao's second daughter-in-law into a ditch and made her sterile by the way. This is not a matter of disappearing. Why did it spread that you really can't control it.
"Jiaolong, stop fighting. I won't drink it. Why do you get this water every day?"
I looked at her with a smile: "Just find some work for yourself. If you are idle, you will be idle."
The third sister nodded and said nothing. She carried the basket and went to collect the wild fungus we picked from Uncle Chou down the mountain and some medicinal herbs we learned from Aunt Zhu. I brought the money to repair Uncle Chou's house.
In addition, they paid out another five thousand, which was a bit of a waste of money, so the third sister imitated Aunt Zhu and carried a basket when she went up the mountain. She picked whatever she saw, and after saving a basket, she went to the receiving station of the village elder's son.
In exchange for some money, it will be enough for the two of us to meet our basic needs.
There is something deep in my heart that I haven’t told San Meier all the time. As time goes by, and the villagers criticize me, although everyone doesn’t obviously reject me, except Aunt Zhu, no one likes to talk to me.
I, Sanmei'er, have always felt guilty. I feel that it was her repeated encouragement for me to continue to be a husband that caused today's situation. I don't care. It is indeed not suitable for people to see things now, so I can be considered happy and pure.
The days were monotonous and simple, and Sanmei'er never mentioned the purpose of my coming here again. She seemed to have forgotten on purpose, and seemed to be avoiding exposing my scars. It seemed that she cared more about the recycling bin.
The recycling price of mountain goods in Li was only a few yuan and a few cents, and he was embarrassed by the village chief's son who would say a few words to Aunt Zhu from time to time.
Of course, Sanmei's Rong Danfeng is a very smart girl at heart. She saw my depression, so she didn't dare to touch me again. She was just afraid that if I broke out again, the consequences could be imagined. To put it simply,
It's just that she is using another way to relieve my pressure. To put it more simply, she is afraid that I will not be able to think about it, and she is afraid that I will die secretly.
And what I didn't tell her was that I discovered a secret, a secret about water. On the day Zhou Laoer came to make trouble about his wife Yuqin, I could be sure that my understanding was given to me by water.
Yes, that is to say, water makes my body spiritual. After drinking it, it will open a certain door in the brain, allowing you to understand and realize. But water Sanmeier will be astringent as soon as you drink it. If I drink it again, it will
It's also astringent.
I repeated the experiment several times, that is, I fetched water in the morning, came down from Uncle Chou's mountain in the afternoon, and drank it afterwards. It tasted sweet, and it was very clear in my mind, but Sanmei'er couldn't touch the water.
, if she drinks it, the whole tank of water will become astringent, and if I drink it myself, I can’t drink more than three sips, that is, scoop it out three times, otherwise, it will still be astringent, and after it becomes astringent, people will not be able to drink it, even if my brain is broken.
If you feel empty, drinking astringent water will be of no use.
This is not the only thing that is strange. After the water is drawn, the first thing we drink is ordinary well water. Sanmei'er and I have to go out and come back later. As long as I drink it, well, it will be sweet, or
I fetch a tank of water at night and drink it in the morning. It will also be sweet. I once tried not to go out for a day and just guard the water tank, but the water did not become sweet on its own. Instead, I went back to the house to sleep that night, and it became sweet in the morning when I woke up.
, so I suspect that there is a person or some animal similar to the 'Snail Girl' helping me secretly, that is, giving me some spirituality in my body, otherwise, the water will not change its taste...
After thinking about it for several days, I experimented and figured it out over and over again, and later I discovered that the spirituality of drinking water was very short-lived at first, and could only last for one or two days, but then slowly, it lasted for three to four days.
, I can actually find livestock for the people in the village, but as soon as Zhou Laoer's incident came out, no one dared to come to me again, and I didn't want to push myself out anymore, so I just looked for livestock to be of no use?
My brain is working better, but my hands are still crippled and I can't see anything else. I'm afraid that if San Mei'er finds out, she will be disappointed in me again if she hopes again.
I am still pressing well water every day, and then doing things that seem like a waste of water in Sanmeier's eyes. In fact, I am looking for this snail who can give me a "spirit" and help me selflessly.
Girl, is she a human, a god, or a ghost, I always want to know who she is!
The winter here is so cold that I leave early and late. Third sister wrapped herself in a quilt and was still shivering when she got on the kang: "Jiaolong, I will go to the canteen tomorrow to buy some plastic sheeting and come back to seal the windows, otherwise it will be too cold.
Let's not catch a cold."
I looked at her a little apologetically: "Wait a moment, I'll go buy it after a while, you go to bed first."
Third sister didn't understand my intention, but she still lay down: "Jiaolong, don't you rush to repair that door? It blows all the time at night."
"Well, we'll do it together with the windows then."
I answered softly, and instead boiled a pot of boiling water and made a cup of strong tea. Sanmei'er fell asleep and gradually lost her voice, while I took the cup of tea, turned off the light, sat by the window, and drank with my mouth.
I melted the ice flowers on the window. Through the corner of the glass, I stared straight at the yard. At this moment, the snow in the yard helped me a lot. The glistening white snow against the moonlight was really beautiful.
Everything seemed extremely bright, and I could clearly see what was going on outside the window without turning on the lights.
It is indeed cold. When I was a child in the countryside, the windows of bungalows had to be covered with plastic sheets, otherwise the ventilation would be unbearable. Sanmei'er didn't know this before. Maybe it was because it was freezing these days. Then I heard from Aunt Zhu.
I also wanted to seal the windows, but I never agreed. I was afraid that the plastic sheet would block my view, because I had been waiting for the unknown "snail girl" to appear.
It's strange to say that I've been blocking this tampering thing in the water for almost more than a month, but every time around two or three o'clock in the middle of the night, I feel like I'm falling asleep, so tonight I deliberately turned off the lights and drank.
The purpose of drinking strong tea is to keep me awake. If I receive favors from others, how can I receive them for no reason? At least I have to know why they helped me and say thank you in person.
In the second half of the night, I heard San Mei'er's cry. This was the time when she was sleeping the deepest. My eyelids also started to tremble a little, but I held on, not daring to move my eyes away from the yard, and I didn't feel like it.
Knowing why I was sure that person or thing would come in from outside the door, I felt sleepy. I drank up the strong tea and pinched my thigh hard. Ma Jiaolong, I must know who he is tonight, I must know.
…
I squinted my eyes and was about to yawn again, when something seemed to jump in through the glass window!
My mouth was still wide open, but my eyes could no longer search. It was so fast. I was surprised when I heard the door outside the kitchen slamming softly as if it was blown by the wind. My sleepiness disappeared immediately.
I didn't even have time to put on my shoes, so I jumped to the ground with a bang and opened the door. I only saw the door of the outhouse wide open, the north wind howling, and it seemed like something was jumping out!
I looked down at my feet, which were only wearing socks. I gritted my teeth, raised my feet and ran after him, "Who is helping me!!"
The cold wind quickly swallowed up my voice. I ran to the door of the yard against the wind. Looking at the dark night in front and behind me, I couldn't help shouting again: "Who is helping?"
I!!"
It was so cold that the dogs didn't even bark. I could hear the sound of wind in my ears. I crossed my arms and turned around to go back to the yard. I heard a woman's sweet smile coming from behind me: "Giggle... My good daughter, yes."
I'm helping you..."
I instinctively turned around and looked at a winking but black face, and I was suddenly shocked: "Ah!!!" (To be continued)