Creation of Animals in the Extermination of Corpses and Ghosts in Xiangxi

With a "creak", the door inside finally opened, and a woman who had just finished her dressing walked out, wearing a coarse cloth gown and standard southern women's attire. Seeing Shuang Tang outside the door, she frowned and asked, "Who are you?"

Tang Mengya said: "Ma'am, we are passing guests. We have driven all night. There is no place to rest. Let's drink water as an excuse." Neck asked: "Auntie, are you alone in this room? Why didn't you see uncle and your child?" "

The woman sighed and said: "Don't mention it, the head of the family was arrested a few years ago, and the second child and I were left alone in the family, alas." Seemingly arousing something sad, the woman's expression darkened, and said: "You two You haven't eaten breakfast yet, so let's just eat here together, but seeing that the two of you are dressed as urbanites, I don't know if they can eat our country food."

Tang Mengya took out a little change from her bosom, handed it to the woman, and said with a smile, "Thank you, Ma'am, we two are not rich people, so we don't have to eat it."

None of the pistols in Tang Mengya's hand were cheap. In this regard, Tang Mengya was definitely not from a small family, but the change Tang Mengya gave to the peasant woman was not too much, not too much, just enough for a meal. It's not about being stingy, but about knowing how to keep your money secret. From this, it can be seen that Tang Mengya is definitely not one of those brainless rich ladies who read chivalrous novels like Seven Heroes and Five Righteousness all day long and want to go out and wander the rivers and lakes.

"Wake Erwazi up, it's fun to eat together when there are too many people." Tang Mengya tentatively said.

"Erwazi sleeps like a dead man, on weekdays he won't get up until the sun rises, so let's forget it."

"I'll call him." Before the woman answered, Tang Mengya had already walked towards a relatively small bedroom in the house very impolitely.

Opening the simple curtain inside the room, it turned out that the white boy was sleeping on a wooden plank, curled up all over, with his hands clasped tightly in front of his chest, his whole face was tense, his brows were furrowed, Tang Mengya sized him up carefully in front of him. After a while, he asked, "Is this the kid?"

"En." Tang Fang nodded, thinking of Bai Tongzi's special hobbies, he felt uncomfortable for a while.

Tang Mengya walked forward, patted Bai Tongzi's body lightly, and said softly: "Little friend, get up, the sun is drying your butt." Bai Tongzi didn't respond at all, Tang Mengya increased his strength and patted Bai Tongzi several times, but still didn't wake up Bai Tongzi, Tang Mengya simply lifted Bai Tongzi off the bed, and Bai Tongzi woke up now, as if blaming Tang Mengya for disturbing his clear dream, he gave Tang Mengya a hard look, ran out, and apologized to the woman who was coming in Said: "This child has a weird temper since he was a child, alas." Sighing, he looked at his child with infinite love and compassion.

Tang Mengya's heart moved, and he asked: "Erwazi is not sick, it's okay, we learned some medical skills in the city, maybe it can start to help."

The woman shook her head and said: "Forget it, nothing can be cured, this is fate, you two should sit outside the main room, and I will prepare breakfast."

The woman lighted the fire to cook, and the white boy was holding on to his mother's clothes, keeping close to each other, sizing up the stranger vigilantly, and never said a word from the beginning to the end. Taking advantage of the woman's inattention, Tang Fang whispered: : "Go back after dinner, it's better to leave these things alone."

Tang Mengya snapped her fingers and said, "Eat first."

When the food came to the table, there was only one vegetarian scrambled egg in front of it, and the rest were side dishes, and there were even a few wild vegetables in the mountains. There were also some sweet potatoes mixed in the rice, and this was already enough for this family to serve guests. The woman and the white boy each held a few sweet potatoes, and said apologetically, "That's all we ordered at home..."

Tang Fang frowned, not because he disliked the food, but because he thought of eating at the same table with Bai Tongzi, he felt extremely uncomfortable. Bai Tongzi still ignored the two of them, squatting in the corner with the sweet potato in his hand , carrying everyone behind his back, started to chew, Tang Mengya kindly picked up a few pieces of eggs, took the bowl and walked towards Bai Tongzi and said softly: "Little friend, eat some eggs, you are growing your body." The rice bowl fell to the ground, and the rice spilled all over the floor.

The woman suddenly stood up, dragged down the cloth shoes under her feet, and beat the boy face to face, cursing at the same time: "You bastard who was struck by thunder, you..." The woman cried while scolding, while the boy On the other hand, he looked stubborn and kept silent, let alone begging for mercy.

Tang Mengya didn't stop her, she just wanted to see how different this white boy was. The woman seemed to be tired, so she picked up all the rice grains that had been scattered all over the floor, and said to Tang Mengya apologetically, "Little Children are ignorant, you see..."

Tang Mengya knew that this might be the last bit of rice in this poor family, otherwise the woman wouldn't feel so distressed, so she took out some change from her pocket, handed it to the woman, and said, "It's okay, little one." The child is playing with me, so please accept the money and buy some delicious food for the child. The child is growing up, so I can’t be wronged.” Because the family is poor, the woman does not refuse, she is very grateful Xie took it, and tentatively said: "Why don't I go to Auntie Zhang's next door to borrow some, his family should have some food left."

"No need, we're not very hungry anyway," Tang Mengya hurriedly excused. To be honest, the food on that table was really a torture for her who was used to being pampered. Bai Tongzi's move actually relieved her. She squatted down, touched Bai Tongzi's head, and said softly, "How is it? Does it hurt?"

Bai Tongzi still kept silent, knocking off Tang Mengya's hand forcefully, his eyes glaring.

At this time, a few children with clean clothes suddenly came outside the house, clapped their hands and surrounded the city, and shouted at the door of Bai Tongzi's house:

dumb fuck,

big fool,

Watery sweet potatoes for washing feet,

It's so bright that it's face and yarn again.

eat in bed,

bed lila,

Farting and popping popcorn under the covers.

The woman ran out from the house with a broom, and cursed at the door: "You guys are timeless ghosts, you have your heads chopped off, some people raise them and no one teaches them, get out of here with my old lady, get out of here, get out!" Throwing the broom outside, the children outside the house rushed away. The woman returned home in dismay, and said to the two awkwardly, "I'm sorry, the children are not sensible..."

There is a lot of gossip in front of the widow's house, and there is no man at home to support them. It is not easy for the mother and son who depend on each other. They are always looked down upon by others. Tang Mengya smiled and said: "It's okay, Erwazi..."

"Oh, yes, he is dumb. Why is my mother's life so hard?" The aggrieved woman couldn't help it anymore, sobbing softly, and it was Bai Tongzi, who still stood in the original place without making a sound. land, nor to persuade his own mother.

"Is he... born?"

"It's not... this child, it's better to be able to talk than not to be able to speak, alas." After finishing speaking, the woman looked at her son lovingly. A piece of meat that fell out of the bed hit my son, it hurt but this mother.

"How do you say it?" Tang Mengya's heart moved, and she asked after what the woman said just now.

"This child is not born dumb. When he was three years old, he spoke for the first time, and the whole family was very happy, but who knew that his grandfather fell from the mountain the next day, and he has not been found until now. Seven years old When he opened his mouth a second time, his grandma fell ill and went away. Last year, he spoke again. As a result, the third uncle who was taken away with his father came back the next day, but his father died... "Speaking of this, the woman couldn't hold back her tears any longer, lowered her head, and said in a sobbing voice: "I don't know if the next time I speak, I will be accused of killing me. It doesn't matter if I die, but who will take care of the second child." The more the woman spoke, the more sad she became, and she kept wiping away her tears.