idle mistress

Chapter 36
She had no choice but to move here and share a room with Xu Xiaoke. The room was originally small, and the bed was too small. It was a bit cramped for two people to sleep in. Xu Xiaoke was born to be very lazy, and kept things in disorder, making the bedroom a mess. She endured it all, but this person still likes to pick things up. Since she moved here, she hasn't been able to have a good night's sleep.

Xu Xiaoke wanted to find someone to quarrel with, and kicked Xu Weiqiu. Xu Weiqiu was so sleepy that he really didn't have the energy to fight with her, so he closed his eyes and ignored her. Xu Xiaoke sat there and stared at her. to her gentle breathing.

Xu Xiaoke lay down annoyed, and squeezed her side specially: "Sleep over."

In a haze, Xu Weiqiu replied to her: "You are so fat, what do you want to do if you take up two-thirds of a bed." She said so, but she still moved to the side of the bed, and then I fell asleep again.

She thought that her patience would bring her a good night's sleep, but unexpectedly, when she was sleeping soundly, the person behind her suddenly pushed her out of the bed.

Without any precautions, the back of Xu Weiqiu's head was hit hard, she covered her head in pain, and asked the person on the bed: "Xu Xiaoke, why are you crazy?"

Xu Xiaoke was lying on the bed pretending to be asleep, and she occupied the whole bed by herself. Xu Weiqiu beat her with his hand, but she didn't open her eyes.

"Pretending to be dead?" Xu Weiqiu pushed the person in hard, and managed to free up a little space. She hadn't gone up yet, but Xu Xiaoke pretended to turn over and took up all the space.

Xu Weiqiu was so sleepy that he really didn't have the energy to continue arguing with her, so he hugged his pillow and went out. As soon as she walked forward, Xu Xiaoke sat up. She looked outside the door with a triumphant smile on her lips.

Xu Weiqiu walked into Zhang's room in the dark, and asked softly, "Er Niang, are you asleep?"

"Is it Qiu'er? What's the matter?" Zhang Shi, who was lying on the bed, heard her voice and got up to light the lamp.

Xu Weiqiu stopped her: "Stop lighting the lamp, I'll come and sleep with you."

"That's kind." Mrs. Zhang quickly made room for her, and Xu Weiqiu walked over and lay down beside her.

"Is that girl Xiaoke making trouble with you again?"

"Well, it's so noisy that people can't sleep..." Xu Weiqiu complained a few words, then closed his eyes in a daze.

Mrs. Zhang said something, but seeing that she didn't respond, she got up and saw that she was already asleep. She gently tucked her under the quilt and lay down too.

When the two were soundly asleep, a dark figure entered the room.

In her sleep, Xu Weiqiu felt something pressing on her. She thought it was a ghost pressing the bed in a daze, until a hand touched her waist.

When she opened her eyes, she was so frightened that the seven souls disappeared and the five souls disappeared, and she screamed: "Father, it's me, Wei Qiu."

Xu Lian was startled when he heard his daughter's cry, and quickly jumped away: "Xu Weiqiu, why did you come to your second mother's room?"

Zhang Shi was woken up, and was shocked when she heard her husband's voice, so she quickly got up and lit the oil lamp: "Master, why are you back at this hour?"

Xu Lian stood aside with a sullen face, he was also confused by this sudden situation.

Seeing his sullen face, Xu Weiqiu hugged his pillow wisely: "Father, Second Mother, go to sleep, I'm going back."

"No need, I'll go to sleep in the west room." Xu Lian flicked his sleeves, turned and left without looking back.

The two women were left looking at each other in the room.

"Er Niang, this... Dad finally came back... you..."

Xu Weiqiu was frightened and spoke incoherently.

But Mrs. Zhang understood what she meant immediately, she shook her head: "It's okay, child, just lie down and sleep."

Xu Weiqiu turned his head and looked outside, at this moment, Xu Lian must have entered Rong's room, so she had to lie back in bed again.

Before dawn, Xu Weiqiu got up, unexpectedly Erniang woke up earlier than her, she washed up hastily, and saw Erniang carrying a bucket into the door.

"Er Niang, let me do it." She quickly took Er Niang's burden.

There is only one well in Xigang Village, which is quite far away. It takes about ten minutes to go back and forth. The villagers have to go there to get their drinking water. Sometimes there are too many people to get water, and they have to queue up to get there.

When Xu Weiqiu went out with the bucket, she was in a daze. Many villagers were already walking back with the bucket. She lived in the village for more than two years. Although she didn't know the villagers very well, she didn't see each other when she looked up. Everyone will say hello.

Some villagers saw her face and expressed concern, but she just smiled and said she was fine.

Walking halfway, there is a fork in front, the road leading to the well platform on the left, and the road leading to a banana forest on the right. She once heard from the villagers that there is a dilapidated house behind the banana forest, which has been abandoned for a long time.

When she came to the fork, she hesitated for a moment, then turned to the path on the right and walked through the plantain grove. As expected, a house appeared in front of her. It was a rammed earth house. Green climbing vines grew on the roof, and a corner of the roof collapsed.

The wooden door was ajar, and the iron ring on the doorknob had already lost its paint due to the age. She stepped forward and pushed it, but she didn't expect that the door was still in good condition.

Pushing the outer door, she walked in and turned around, and there were traces of fire on the two walls of the house.

Xu Weiqiu walked around the room, looked at it carefully, and silently had a measure in his heart.

While fetching water, she met a peasant woman who also came to fetch water. She inquired about it and learned that the dilapidated earthen house belonged to Mr. Xu's family in the village, and it had been abandoned for more than ten years.

At that time, Mr. Xu's mother got a strange disease. She developed blisters all over her body. The doctor said that the disease could be passed on to others. There was no other way, so Mr. Xu had to build this rammed earth house for his mother to recuperate.

The old man lived for about half a year, probably because she couldn't bear the pain and couldn't think about it. She often committed suicide and was rescued by her son several times. Later, she secretly knocked over an oil lamp while no one was around at night, and she was burned alive like this. .

The woman asked her why she was inquiring about this, and she expressed her desire to move there.

"I can't, I can't, I can't!" The woman turned pale after hearing this, and said three times in a row.

"This house where people have died is uninhabitable."

After hearing this, Xu Weiqiu smiled indifferently: "Don't be afraid, no one has died in any house."

The woman also advised her: "The end of life is not the same as death. Besides, what kind of ruins are there in the mud house, how can people live in it?"

The woman persuaded her a few words, and she didn't carry the water back until she dispelled the idea.

Looking at the back figure carrying the water away, Xu Weiqiu felt warm in her heart. She was not superstitious, but she also knew that the aunt cared about herself from the bottom of her heart...

(End of this chapter)