Mountain Village Murder, Train Murder Chapter 1 The man and the little girl in the small county town
In 2016, in a small county on the border of the northwest region of Beihu Province in Central China, there lived a man and a woman, one older and one younger.
In this small county with a population of about 350,000, these two people are so inconspicuous. The older one is a man about less than thirty years old. The man is very handsome, with very three-dimensional facial features, slender and
With a strong body, in fact, such a handsome and manly man is very attractive. Of course, this is not the eye-catching part. The most attractive thing is the man's silver-white hair.
Her shawl and long hair are so eye-catching no matter where she goes.
This year is New Year's Eve, and the county town is filled with a New Year atmosphere. In a somewhat shabby-looking red brick house on the outer ring road of the small county town, there are two people living there, one large and one small. Two people are standing at the door.
The man was holding Spring Festival couplets with black characters on a red background in one hand and a brush in the other hand, and was applying paste on the door frame. Next to the man, stood a little girl about five or six years old.
The little girl is very cute, with a pair of shiny black eyes, pink cheeks, and two ponytails. She is holding a small stainless steel washbasin, and the washbasin is full of white water.
A lump of paste.
After the man used a brush dipped in paste to smear the door frame clean, he put the brush into the basin held by the little girl, held a Spring Festival couplet in both hands, made slight gestures on the door frame, and then patted the couplet on it.
The little girl looked at the man's actions with her clear eyes and found that the Spring Festival couplets were posted crookedly. She immediately pouted and said in a sweet voice, "Dad, you posted them crookedly."
The man turned around, glanced at the little girl, took two steps back, looked carefully, and found that the Spring Festival couplets were indeed posted crookedly. He touched his nose awkwardly, then coughed twice and said, "It's okay, stick them."
If it’s crooked, it’s crooked, and no one will see it anyway.”
"Dad...the Spring Festival couplets are posted crookedly." When the little girl heard what the man said, she did not choose to give in. She still pouted her small mouth and looked at the man's back.
The man turned around and looked at the little girl condescendingly. The smile on his face gradually disappeared and his face gradually became serious. The little girl didn't seem to be afraid of the man. She raised her little head and looked into the man's eyes, still breast-feeding.
He said in a coquettish voice: "It's really stuck crookedly."
After the two people looked at each other for a while, the man's originally tense cheeks suddenly burst into a bright smile. He reached out his hand and thought of rubbing the little girl's head, but the clever little girl dodged her. The man had to retract his hand angrily.
, turned around, lifted up the Spring Festival couplets that had just been pasted, and after comparing them carefully, re-pasted them. Then, he turned around, looked at the little girl, and said helplessly: "My aunt
Grandma, is it okay now?"
The little girl held the washbasin, took two steps back, and after carefully looking at it, she made sure it was not crooked. Then she nodded in an old-fashioned way and said, "Well, I finally got it right."
The man looked at the little girl's appearance and became more and more helpless. He suddenly had an idea, walked up to the little girl, stretched out a finger and dipped it in the basin, and then touched it with the tip of his finger.
The little girl tapped her nose a few times, took two steps back, and looked at the little girl laughing like a child who had done something bad.
The little girl was stunned for a moment, then raised her head and glared at the man with long snow-white hair in front of her. Then, she shook her head, like a little old man, sighed heavily and said in a sweet voice.
: "Hey, what a child who won't grow up."
If anyone else was present, they would be very surprised. This sentence was not said by the man to the little girl, but by the little girl to the man, and it was said so naturally and casually that it is unimaginable that this nose is still
The little girl covered in white paste is actually only five years old. Of course, after the Chinese New Year, she will be six years old.
The man did not feel embarrassed by the little girl's words. Instead, he smiled even more happily, like a child who stole candy behind an adult's back.
Next, the two people posted another Spring Festival couplet and a door picture on the door. The man clapped his hands, looked at everything in front of him, nodded, and felt very satisfied.
"Hey, what a worrying child."
The little girl's faint voice came from behind the man.
Just as the man was about to turn around and say something to the little girl, a woman in her thirties walked past the door of the family. Seeing this scene, the woman stopped and said with a smile: "Hey, where are you two posting Spring Festival couplets?"
What? It’s the two of you celebrating the New Year together again this year?”
Hearing the woman's voice, the man and the little girl turned around at the same time, with harmless smiles on their faces. This expression was almost carved from the same mold. The little girl spoke first, sweetly speaking to the woman.
I called out to Sister Zhang.
In fact, the woman is already thirty-seven years old and she is the mother of the child. The little girl should call her aunt. However, when the woman heard the little girl call her, the woman, who was already smiling brightly, smiled even brighter.
He got up, grabbed a large handful of candies from the bag in his hand, handed them to the little girl, and said, "Yueyue is so good."
The little girl, who was called Yueyue, was holding the basin with both hands and could not pick up the candy. The woman also discovered this, walked a few steps quickly to the little girl's side, and stuffed the candy in her hand into the little girl's purse.
Then he stretched out his hand and rubbed it
After rubbing the little girl's head, she raised her head and looked at the man who had been watching the scene with a smile.
The two people looked at each other, and the woman looked away quickly as if she was electrocuted. Her fair cheeks were covered with blush, and she hesitated and said: "Xu Lang, it's been a few years since you moved here.
It’s you and me who celebrate the New Year every year. Why don’t you come to our house to celebrate the New Year this year and have a reunion dinner together.”
After the woman said this, she suppressed the shyness that should not appear at her age and looked at the man expectantly.
After all, she is a woman from a small county town. She is not as open-minded and simple-minded as those in big cities. She likes the little girl named Yueyue and even more likes this handsome man with a child.
"Sister Zhang, it's too troublesome. It's just the Chinese New Year. We just made do together at home and we've bought all the New Year's goods anyway." Under the look of the woman's expectant eyes, the man politely refused.
When the man said this, the smile on the woman's face suddenly froze, and she couldn't hide her disappointed expression. She lowered her head, stretched out her hand, and straightened her black hair that was not messy. She didn't know what to say for a moment.
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Next, the two people exchanged some mild words. The woman asked the man if there was anything missing at home and if he had bought all the things. If not, she would go to her house to get them. Finally, she asked the man to bring them.
He asked the little girl to go to her house to celebrate the New Year, but the man politely refused. In the end, the two of them really had nothing to talk about, so the woman left with her things.
The man saw the woman leaving with her things. After a long time, he let out a long breath. Apparently, he couldn't stand the enthusiasm of Sister Zhang.
While the men and women were chatting, the little girl had been standing quietly aside, watching all this silently, her smart eyes turning gurglingly, not knowing what she was thinking, and occasionally a sly smile would appear at the corner of her mouth.
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The little girl is called Xu Yueyue. She is five years old this year and will be six years old after the Chinese New Year. The man with the snow-white shawl long hair is called Xu Lang. They came to this small county called Zhuxi County one summer five years ago.
Live there.
When the two of them first came together, Xu Yueyue was still a baby, and Xu Lang had not yet grown long hair. However, at that time, he had already turned gray in his youth.
In these years, Xu Lang was the one who raised the little girl by himself, both as father and mother. Five years passed in a flash, and the little girl gradually grew up.
However, Xu Lang's snow-white hair never turned black again for some unknown reason, and Xu Lang actually grew his hair long for some unknown reason.