I looked in the direction Lulu pointed and saw a thin woman sitting alone on the ground among the enthusiastic and shouting stall owners, with two baskets of beans in front of her.
She hugged her legs and had a green scarf wrapped around her head. Her face was full of vicissitudes of life, and there were some bruises at the corners of her mouth.
I stood up and waved my arms to Aunt Zhang: "Aunt Zhang!"
Aunt Zhang raised her face and looked around following the source of the sound. She also had so many bruises on her face!
But when Aunt Zhang saw me, she put away the beans in a panic and limped away...
Strange, why do I use the word escape?
Lulu frowned and said: "Aunt Zhang and her family are really heartless. In order to save Uncle Zhang, Aunt Yun almost died in a fight with the big black snake. Nuan Ting's eyes are still... they didn't even come to take a look!"
Xiaopang pulled the corner of my clothes and asked me to sit down: "You don't know yet, right?"
"What's the matter?" I turned to look at Xiaopang.
Xiaopang's face was full of sighs: "We passed by Beicun when we came back. I heard that Uncle Zhang beats Aunt Zhang every day for some reason."
"This is impossible!" Uncle Zhang is known to love his wife, so how could he hit Aunt Zhang? And I have seen it with my own eyes. When Aunt Zhang was talking, Uncle Zhang didn't interrupt.
Xiaopang became anxious when he heard that I denied him: "It's impossible. It was Grandma Qi who runs a small shop in Beicun. She also said that their village was robbed! Grandma Qi is the most well-informed in their village. She won't
Incorrect!"
Lulu held me down and looked over: "What happened to the thief?"
"Grandma Qi said that starting from the day before yesterday, the chickens and ducks in their village began to disappear. They must have been robbed."
The day before yesterday was the fifteenth day of July.
Now when I mention July 15th, I feel uncomfortable all over, and my head seems to be covered by an iron cage. I always feel that July 15th is such an ominous day, and many things happen on this day.
"Could it be bitten by a weasel or something?" I asked Fatty.
"Grandma Qi said that if a house loses its chickens and ducks, you will see stacked bricks outside the wall the next day. Who's house has weasels stealing chickens and stacking bricks?"
The three of us also ran out of grilled sausages, and it happened that my second uncle also came back.
The second uncle said it was getting late, we had to go back early, and he had to polish the mirror.
We sent Little Fatty to his grandparents and reluctantly said goodbye to Little Fatty.
It was already noon when I got home. My mother had already prepared food. Our family sat in the yard to eat.
During the trip, I talked to Lulu about Beicun, and my dad said: "The thief will have to be caught sooner or later, and there will be no good fruits to be eaten by then."
Lulu and I looked at each other in shock. We had only heard of thieves but had never seen them.
The second uncle smiled and gave each of us a piece of fish belly: "You two little adults, why do you care about so many things?"
After dinner, Lulu and we carefully put Yingluo under the pillow. We really didn't want to put down such a beautiful thing for a while.
Lulu closed the curtains and urged me: "Nuan Ting, take a nap quickly. It's too late and you won't be able to sleep at night."
"oh."
We both held hands and fell asleep.
Maybe it was because I was worried, so I had a dream.
It was very dark in the dream. The big black snake was standing in front of me covered in blood. I was as insignificant in front of it as an ant standing under a big tree.
The black snake's golden vertical pupils stared at me viciously: "Yun Nuanting, you killed me with your own hands, and I will make your life worse than death! I will also take revenge on those who have hurt me.
go back!"
I was so scared, but I couldn't move or scream.
Fortunately, the black snake turned into a plume of black smoke and disappeared.
But after the black smoke, patches of red mist floated over, finally condensing into the appearance of the old spider spirit.
He was holding a pipe pot in his hand, with eight green eyes criss-crossing his face, and eight long and thin spider legs moving back and forth on his back.
"Yun Nuanting, I will come to you again, the snake eyes are mine!"
I was shaking all over and breaking into a cold sweat.
A red shadow floated over very quickly, roaring and tearing apart the old spider spirit's body.
I looked closely and found it was Aunt Li.
She looked so terrible, her hair was long, thick and messy in front of her face, and most of the exposed skin was ulcerated, skin to skin and flesh to flesh.
Her nails are ten centimeters long and painted with red nail polish.
Her red dress was also dripping with blood.
Aunt Li suddenly walked toward me stiffly, her body making a rattling sound.
I was so scared that my blood flowed backwards.
But when Aunt Li came in front of me, she changed back to her human form. She hugged me and said, "Girl Yun, it's okay. Aunt Li drove them all away. Please wake up quickly."
As soon as I finished speaking, I woke up with a start and saw Aunt Li standing above me, looking at me and smiling.
"Auntie, just now..."
"It's okay, July isn't over yet. It's normal for two ill-intentioned people to come in occasionally. Don't worry, I won't let you get hurt."
Aunt Li's smile was so gentle, completely different from the one in her dream.
I woke up with another jolt.
It turns out that it was just a dream within a dream.
I rubbed my eyes and suddenly heard a quarrel at the door of my house.
Turning my head, I found Lulu hiding behind the curtains and looking into the courtyard, so I moved closer.
"What are you looking at?"
"Shh." Lulu pulled me down and asked me to watch it with her.
There is nothing in the yard, it must be noisy outside.
"Second brother! Why are you pulling me? I'm telling you, don't try to get close to me. You and Yun Hai are on the same side, so don't get close to me!"
Hey, Uncle Li's voice.
Even though Uncle Li was a big man with a round waist, his voice sounded like there was a layer of oil stuck in his throat, and he was still whining, as if he was afraid that others wouldn't hear him.
Such a loud volume shook me completely awake.
"Brother, what are you talking about? We are all neighbors. Didn't I know that you and my eldest brother had a conflict, so I went out of my way to apologize to you? Come in, my sister-in-law has prepared a big table of food."
Second uncle is really good.
Able to bend and stretch.
Uncle Li's tone is not polite at all, even the second uncle can...what do you call it, hypocritical and submissive! That's right!
Uncle Li paused for three seconds, then lowered his voice: "Did Yunhai ask you to come?"
"No, my eldest brother regretted it when he came back the day before yesterday. He said that you and I grew up together, and we still have a brotherly relationship. It's really not good-looking to make trouble for a corpse stitcher."
After the second uncle finished speaking, Uncle Li became arrogant again. Before anyone came in, his stomach came to the door first.
"It seems that Yunhai still knows something."
My second uncle invited Uncle Li inside with a smile on his face.
Uncle Li was extremely angry. His big, oily face was covered with wrinkles. When he spoke, his small, black teeth like sesame seeds were looming.
With his fat head and big ears, he looks like a 300-pound spotted pig.
Every time I see Uncle Li, I wonder why Aunt Li fell in love with him in the first place? Do you have to live with him?
The second uncle invited Uncle Li to the table, poured a bowl of water for Uncle Li, and then shouted to the kitchen: "Sister-in-law! Let's serve!"
"Hey!" My mother came out of the kitchen with a smile, carrying a plate of pig's trotters and a bowl of haggis soup.
oops!
These are my favorite foods! How can I feed them to him?
"Nuan Ting, why is he here?" Lulu's tone was very bad. She didn't particularly want to see Uncle Li.
"Let me tell you..." I lay next to Lulu's ear and explained Aunt Li's matter in detail. Lulu was dumbfounded and angry at Uncle Li for treating Xiaoyun so badly.
In the yard, my mother put two plates of vegetables on the table and wiped her hands with her apron: "Brother, there are still vegetables. It's good to eat and drink."
But Uncle Li's squinting eyes stuck to my mother like glue, and he stretched out his hand thicker than a pig's trotter towards my mother.