The dust settles

Chapter 36

38. Killer

Tana tried to get into bed and I kicked her off.

She curled up on the carpet like a cat, making a very pitiful look.She said: "I don't want to think about anything anymore, I can't think that much, I'm going to sleep."

But she hadn't fallen asleep, and the soon-to-be chief magi didn't come to see his lover.In the sutra hall upstairs, the sound of lamas chanting sutras was humming, like a dark river flowing overhead.The sound of cowhide drums and copper coins sounded one after another, like waves on the river.Every time something happened in this land, the monks would be busy for a while.If nothing bad happened to the world, the clergy wouldn't exist.But they never worry about survival, because bad things always happen in this world.

I said to Tana: "Go to sleep, the toasts have something to do tonight, so they won't come to see you."

Tana's body was curled up on the rug, with only her head up, in a way that reminded me of a snake again.This beautiful snake said to me, "Why do you always hurt a woman, a beautiful woman?" The way she acted was so charming that even I believed that she was very innocent.I can't talk to her anymore, besides, it's not her who made the mistake, but me.

It was a mistake for me to speak. When I do not speak, I still have some strength.As soon as you start talking to these smart people, you are at a disadvantage.I learned my lesson in time, covered my head with a quilt, and stopped talking.After sleeping for a while, I seemed to dream that I became a toast.Later, I dreamed of an earthquake again.I dreamed that the entire Guanzhai was shrouded in a large puff of smoke and dust in the rumble of the earth. When the smoke cleared, the Guanzhai no longer existed.I woke up, sweating a little.I go out to pee.In the past, I was served by a maid to urinate in a copper jug.Ever since sleeping with Chieftain Ronggong's beautiful daughter, he hasn't urinated in the house again.She wants me to go to the toilet.It is also good to get up in the middle of the night, walk outside the house, listen to yourself making the sound of rain, and look at the moon and stars in the sky.At night, even if there is no moon and stars, the river water will also flash with faint light.From the day Maggie Toast announced his abdication, I stopped going to the toilet.I'm a fool and don't need to play by the rules of the wise.It was the same that night. I walked out of the room and peed on the crack between the railings of the stairs. After a while, there was a sound like someone applauding on the stone floor downstairs.I pulled up my trousers, and the piss still slammed on the slate for a while.I didn't go back to the house immediately, but walked upstairs and downstairs in the dead of night in the middle of the night.

It's not that I want to go, but the purple dress on my body is pushing me to go.I also saw the killer.He has been going up and down in the official village, inside and out, for many days.At this time, he was standing in front of the chieftain's window.My footsteps scared him away.The sound of his panicked footsteps woke the chieftain up again.The chieftain rushed out of the house with a pistol in hand, and shot the killer in the back.Seeing me standing not far away, he raised his gun again and aimed at me.I remained motionless as a target for his gun.Unexpectedly, he yelled in horror and fell to the ground.Many windows were lit.People opened the door and came out of the house, and the young master also ran out of the house with a gun.The chieftain was helped up, and he stood up again, pointing at me with trembling fingers.I think he's going to kill me with his clever son.My brother seemed like he couldn't see me at all.More and more people rushed out of the house and surrounded the terrified chieftain.

Or to make a long story short.

My father saw me as a guy he ordered to kill.This is because of the purple dress on my body.

The purple clothes I wore from the executioner's house made him see me as someone who had been dead for many years, a ghost.Most sinners have already succumbed to the law of the chieftain's family when they are about to be executed, but this man in purple has not.His soul will not reincarnate, but stubbornly stays on the land of Mai Qi's family, waiting for the opportunity.The man in purple is lucky.The foolish son of the Maggie family gave him a chance, a good one.It wasn't me that Chief Maiqi saw, but another person he killed.The chieftain was not afraid when he killed people, but when he saw a person who had been dead for many years standing under the moonlight, he was very frightened.

They made a fuss and went back to bed.

Tana is an extraordinary woman. When there was a lot of noise outside the house, she didn't go out to take a look, but climbed into bed while I was out.Now, it's my turn to wonder if I should go to bed or not.Tana saw my unwarranted appearance and said, "It doesn't matter, you can come up too." "

As if it really didn't matter, I climbed into bed and lay down beside her.

The night was almost over.

In the morning, if you want to see everyone, you have to go to the dining room.I went.Father had a silk scarf wrapped around his head. Last night, he bruised his head.He said to his clever son: "Think about it, how can so many strange things happen all at once."

The young master didn't speak, and concentrated on the food in front of him.

The chieftain said to the two wives again: "Did I make a mistake?"

Yang Zong never said anything.

The mother thought for a while and said, "I don't know about this, but I have to tell your son that he can do everything without being a chieftain."

Tana understood that it was about her and her brother, and immediately choked on the food.She didn't expect that the Maiqi family would talk about the scandals in the family so frankly.She said to my mother, "Please, ma'am."

"I've cursed you, let's see if you can be the new chieftain's wife." My mother asked me again: "Don't you want to do something? My son."

I shook my head.

Father groaned and said, "Don't say any more, I'm getting old and getting worse every day. You don't want me to die before I abdicate, do you?"

The elder brother smiled and said to his father: "If you are worried about this, why not formally hand over the power to me earlier."

The chieftain moaned and said, "Why do I see dead people?"

My brother said, "Maybe they like you."

I said to my father, "It's me you see."

He smiled at me with some embarrassment and said, "Are you kidding me that I can't even recognize people?"

It's a waste of time to talk to these self-righteous people. I stood up and deliberately stretched the purple red clothes in front of the toast, but he turned a blind eye.He said to the servants: "You help me go back to the room, I want to go back."

"Remember this day, the toast will not come out again." After everyone dispersed, the clerk stood up from the corner and stared at me, his eyes said to me.

I said, "So soon, you'll be fine."

He still had a painful expression on his face, but his eyes said: "This is the time when you can't leave, when something big happens." He took the notebook and pen I gave him and walked to the door, and took another look at me: "Remember, today is an important day."

The clerk was right. From this day on, the chieftain never left his room again.I asked Umboyesi what history was when he still had a tongue in his mouth.He told me that history is the knowledge of knowing today and tomorrow from yesterday.I said, isn't that the learning of lamas?He said, it's not divination, it's not asking God to ask divination.I believe in him.Toast Maiqi never went out again.During the day, he sleeps.Asleep, all night, all night, with the lights on in his window.The maids came and went, without pausing for a moment.The two wives visited him occasionally, but I never once, nor did his heir.Sometimes, after urinating after getting up in the middle of the night, I stood under the starlight and watched the maids come in and out, and I thought that my father was sick.He was so strangely ill, and needed so much water, that the maids kept pouring in pots of hot water from the kitchen downstairs.Shortly after the hot water was brought into the room, it became cold.It was about to be poured out when it was cold. In the quiet night, basins of water were continuously poured from the tall building and fell to the stone floor downstairs. The sound was a bit thrilling.

I am glad to see that my unfaithful wife is afraid of the voice.When a basin of water splashed on the ground with a splash, her body couldn't help shaking, even in a dream.At this time, I told her not to be afraid."What am I afraid of? I'm not afraid of anything," she said.

"I don't know what you're afraid of, but I know you're afraid."

"You idiot." She scolded, but there was something seductive in her voice.

I was still wearing the purple torture clothes when I went out to pee.If you want to ask me why I like this dress, because during this period of time, I also feel like I have fallen into the hands of the executioner, and I feel sad.

I am used to the thrilling sound of water splashing from the maids, but the sound of me urinating downstairs is nothing at all.I don't know how many days have passed, winter is over, and it is almost spring again.When I got up in the middle of the night, the Milky Way in the sky, like a dragon waking up, was slowly turning around.When the seasons change, the dragon always changes its body slightly.The flow of the Milky Way is very slow, and there is not much change in one or two nights.I started peeing, but I didn't even hear a sound.I couldn't hear the sound, so I wasn't sure if I was peeing or not.Without being sure of that, there was no way I could go back and put myself back to sleep.

Downstairs, the tall stockade blocked all the light from the night sky. I lay on the ground, looking for the smell of urine with my nose like a dog.Unlike dogs, when they move their nostrils and sniff here and there, they are looking for the smell of their partners, but I am looking for my own smell.I finally found it.I did urinate, but the voices of the servants pouring water in the care of the patients were too loud and violent, which overwhelmed the sound of my excretion.I breathed a sigh of relief, straightened up, and prepared to go upstairs.At this moment, a large basin of water fell from the sky and landed on my head. I felt myself being knocked down to the ground by something warm, and then I heard a heart-stirring sound.

I yelled and fell to the ground.Many people rushed downstairs from the chieftain's room, but in my room, even the lights were turned off, it was dark and there was no sound.Possibly, my unfaithful woman ran into the young master's room again.

The servants helped me into the chieftain's room, and took off the purple clothes I had been wearing all the time.This time, I couldn't resist them.Because a thin layer of ice has formed on the purple clothes.What I didn't expect was that Tana also came in from outside the house.

She said, "I went downstairs to search around, what did you do?"

I fluttered my nostrils like a dog and said, "Pee."

Everyone laughed.

This time, Tana didn't smile, she rolled up the purple dress on the ground and threw it out the window.I seem to hear a desperate cry from a dying person, and I seem to see a person's soul like a banner, like that purple dress, unfurled in the cold wind in the middle of winter.Tana told the people in the house: "He was not so stupid, this dress made him stupid."

In my heart, love for her surged again, yes, I knew from the beginning, she is so beautiful and unique in the world, so no matter what mistakes she made, as long as she is willing to change her mind, I will forgive her .

The chieftain said suddenly: "Children, I'm glad to see you like this."

Come to think of it, I haven't seen him since that breakfast.He has not passed the throne to my brother, nor has he become old or terminally ill as I thought.Yes, he was old and gray, but that was all.His face was fatter and paler than before.In the past, he had the face of a firm and resolute man, but now, this face is like a mother-in-law.The only way he could be sure he was ill, or rather, he could convince himself that he was, was that he had hot towels wrapped almost all over his body.He was barely wearing anything, but he was covered with hot towels one after another, and his whole body was steaming.

My father said to me in a voice more like a patient than a patient: "Come here, come to your father's bedside."

I went over to sit with him and noticed his bed had been remodeled.In the past, the chieftain's bed was more or less high, and they sawed off some of the feet of the bed and turned it into a low couch.And moved from the corner of the room to the middle.

Father raised his hand, and two or three towels fell to the floor.He put his limp hand on my head and said, "I put you at a disadvantage, son." He beckoned Tana over again, and Tana knelt down when she came, and my father said, "When do you want Go back to the border and go back, it’s your place. I’ll give you that place and ten villages as a wedding gift.” My father asked me to promise not to attack the new Chieftain Maiqi after his death.

Tana said, "What if he attacks us?"

The father removed the hot towel from his forehead: "Then it depends on whether my little son is really a fool."

Toast Maiqi also said to Tana: "It depends on which of my sons you really like."

Tana lowered her head.

My father smiled and said to me: "Your wife is unparalleled in the world." After saying this, my father sneezed heavily.As he spoke, some of the hot compresses on his body turned cold.Tana and I backed away from him, and the maids surrounded him again.Father waved and we exited the house.When I went back to my room and went to bed, there was another thrilling sound of splashing water downstairs.

Tana rolled into my arms and said, "My God, you finally took off that weird dress."

Yes, the purple dress left, and I couldn't help but feel a little bit at a loss.Tanuo said again: "Don't you hate me?"

I really don't hate her anymore.I don't know if it's because I took off the clothes attached to the wronged soul.The idiot son of the chieftain's family hasn't made out with his wife for a long time.So when she rolled into my arms, it counteracted the feeling of being lost.I want Tana.Possessed her with all the strength and ferocity that love and hatred gave me.The woman was not disturbed by her fault.She yelled wantonly on the bed, had enough of her addiction, then curled up naked in my arms and fell asleep.It's like she never threw herself into the arms of another man—and this man happened to be my brother and opponent—in my most difficult time.She fell asleep, breathing evenly and steadily.

I tried to think clearly about what a woman was, but my mind was too full to hold anything more.I shook Tana: "Are you asleep?"

She smiled and said, "I didn't fall asleep."

"When are we going back?"

"Until Maggie Toast changes his mind."

"Do you really want to go back with me?"

"You are such a fool, am I not your wife? Didn't you have to marry me at the beginning?"

"But...you...and..."

"With your brother, right?"

"Yes." I said with difficulty.

She smiled and asked me in a very naive tone: "Aren't I the most beautiful woman in the world? Men always want to hit me. There will always be a man who will impress me at some point."

In the face of such innocence and frankness, what else can I say.

She also said, "Don't I still love you?"

Such a beautiful woman still loves me after sleeping with a smart man who is about to become a toast, what else can I say.

Tana said, "Don't you want to sleep yet? This time I really do."

After speaking, she turned around and fell asleep.I also closed my eyes.Just then, the purple dress appeared in front of my eyes.I close my eyes and it's there, I open my eyes and it's still there.I watched it unfurl like a flag in the wind when Tana threw it through the window.The clothes were soaked in water, so they froze as soon as they were unfolded.It (he? she?) fell down even harder.Below, there is a person waiting.In other words, there happened to be a person below, and the clothes covered his head.The man struggled for a while, and the frozen clothes stuck to him again.

I saw his face, a face I knew.

He is the killer.

It has been several months since he arrived at the official village of Maiqi's family, and he still hasn't made a move. It seems that he lacks enough courage.

When I saw this face, I was tortured by hatred, timidity, and severe cold. It became paler than the moon and more sensitive than a wound.

The purple clothes I took off floated down from the window, and he was standing at the base of the wall, looking at the light streaming out of the chieftain's window, his teeth chattering from the cold.He would not refuse to put on a dress that fell from the sky in such cold weather.What's more, there is another person's remaining will in this clothes.Yes, although many things are not happening in front of my eyes, I can see them.

(End of this chapter)