second to none

Chapter 46

Six years passed by in a hurry. The incident of the evil spirit made Han Nu decide to give up embroidery. Ah Chu was weak and had to use soup and medicine from time to time. The family could not have no income. Fortunately, the place in the mountains is large, and the land is still fertile. He eats the vegetables by himself, and disguises himself to sell the extras at the foot of the mountain. The small money can only make ends meet.

But after all, Ah Chu is getting older, and she looks so beautiful, how can a sister have the heart to see her wearing patched clothes all day long?Although her body is weak, her playful and lively temperament has not changed. She often goes to the town to play. There is a small restaurant in the town. The old couple has no children and they like Ah Chu very much. She came to help, and she paid some monthly money every month, but it was not much, just enough to buy some rouge and gouache for herself.

The Han girl sorted out some old clothes, took some cloth from each piece, and sewed a new one. Although the colors were different, she was ingenious, and the clothes were better than those made by some tailors.

Ah Chu couldn't put it down, and walked around in front of her several times before she smiled and said, "Sister, you are so skilled, why don't you embroider any more? Your embroidered flowers are so good, it's a pity not to do more." Huh? What's more, that one makes more money."

Han Nu shook her head: "That evil ghost, have you forgotten?"

Ah Chu hated: "Those people are not good at themselves! Old man Zhang cheated me of money, he deserved to die! Those children bullied me all day, they deserved to die! The villagers beat us out, everyone deserved to die! Why did you want to Escape? It’s better to stay and let the evil spirits eat them all! They’re all bad guys!”

Han Nu looked at her in surprise, Ah Chu had an extreme temper, she knew this, but she didn't expect her to be so extreme.

"It's an unlucky thing. If you keep it by your side, you will cause disaster sooner or later." Han Nu said lightly, "I didn't alarm the real experts this time. If the powerful immortals know about it, we will really die without burial." Land. You don’t know that the previous painting of the evil ghost was requested by a family in Wangcheng. Later, many people died in the house, alarming the immortals, and subduing the evil ghost. The picture is from the embroidery workshop in that small town last time, if I continue to embroider, it will be really bad if someone finds out."

Ah Chu pouted, not convinced, after a while, she suddenly smiled and said in a low voice: "Sister, don't think I don't know, haven't you secretly embroidered things in private these past few years? I've seen it all! In fact, you still like to embroider things, you just don’t want to sell them.”

The Korean woman is a little embarrassed. She has indeed secretly embroidered flowers and plants these years. It is not for a living. She just loves embroidery. When she sees a flower and a grass, she always thinks about how to match the colors with silk threads so that they will always bloom and live in the world. on silk.

"Since you like embroidery so much, why don't you just sell it? You like it, and you can make money. You don't have to work so hard to grow and sell vegetables. How nice it is?"

Ah Chu didn't understand this kind of feeling, she started to act like a baby as usual, Han Nu always spoiled her, what kind of wrong thing, as long as she acted coquettishly, Han Nu couldn't lose her temper, and let her go with a wry smile, from childhood to Although she is not as comfortable as other children, she is spoiled lawlessly and is very bold.

But this time she was so coquettish that her mouth was dry, and the Korean woman just didn't nod her head, and she just said at the end: "I won't sell embroidery for money anymore, don't pester me anymore."

Ah Chu was so angry that she burst into tears, and choked up, "I'm 16 years old! I still wear patch clothes all day long, and I can't even afford a decent bead flower! Do you know how I feel when I see Brother Anping every day?! "

"Brother Anping?" The Han girl immediately grasped the three unfamiliar words, who is it?Did Ah Chu meet any man in the town?
Ah Chu seemed to realize that he had slipped his tongue, his face blushed, he lowered his head slowly, and remained silent for a while.

Han Nu seems to have only now remembered that Ah Chu is old, a 16-year-old girl can marry, and her young girl Huaichun is really normal.She seemed to have just suddenly realized that Achudu is so slim, with snow-skinned appearance, delicate and pitiful, she must find a good family for her, a husband who loves her and can take care of her for the rest of her life.

Han Nu smiled softly, and said in a low voice, "Who is Brother Anping? What does he do? Let my sister see him next time, okay?"

Ah Chu blushed even more, and it took him a long time to murmur: "Brother Anping is just... I don't know what he does, sometimes I see him walking around the casino, he looks very majestic."

casino?move around?The Korean girl was a little uneasy. Could it be that she is a rascal doing nothing?

"I heard that if people come to gamble and cause trouble if they lose, Brother Anping will drive them out. He is tall and in good health. He is completely different from those weak men outside who dare not even kill a chicken!" When Ah Chu talked about his sweetheart, he gradually became more courageous, his eyes lit up, "He takes good care of me, he visits me in the restaurant every day, and even buys me things. Last time... the last time I saw the patch on my clothes , he is still sighing... I, I feel so ashamed!"

Han Nu sighed, and hugged her distressedly: "...It's my sister's fault, I will buy you some new clothes tomorrow."

Seeing that she still didn't mention the business of selling embroidery to make money, Ah Chu ran away angrily.

Hannu didn't sleep well that night. She hoped that Ah Chu would live a happy life more than anyone else, but she herself is just a weak woman, and she has no other strengths except embroidery, but embroidery can no longer be sold for money. He found out that she was the witch who embroidered the evil spirit, she was killed and cut to pieces, what would Ah Chu do?
She opened the box, and there was a lot of white cloth covered with sundries at the bottom of the box. After shaking it gently, countless flowers and grass fell to the ground. Over the years, her embroidery has become more and more exquisite, and all the embroidered things have become living creatures without exception. , She also gradually knew how to make these spirits return to the embroidered cloth and become embroidery again.

But she embroidered flowers, embroidered birds, embroidered evil spirits, all of these can turn into ghosts and wander around, but she can't embroider dead things.In the most difficult time in the past, she even thought about embroidering a few piles of gold jewelry. After the needle and thread were threaded and the embroidery was completed, she stared at it for several days, but the gold did not turn into a living thing and ran off the embroidery. Since then, she has given up on the idea.

Unable to make money from embroidery, at least she can still cut some beautiful clothes for Ah Chu.

The next day Ah Chu got up very early and went down the mountain to the town early in the morning. Han Nu took all the savings she had left, dressed up in disguise, and followed her to the town.

When it was almost noon, a handsome, tall, long-legged young man entered the small restaurant, and Ah Chu came out to greet him with a smile, and the two chatted happily.

This person should be Brother Anping. The Han girl hid in the dark and looked at this man secretly. She was indeed handsome, but the way he spoke and some inadvertent small movements could tell that this person was flamboyant and unsteady, let alone him. His two eyes were darting around Ah Chu's face and body, obviously he didn't have any good thoughts.

Han Nu felt even more uneasy, Ah Chu blushed, eyes filled with spring, obviously deeply rooted in love with this man, could she believe her elder sister's one-sided words?Or maybe she thought too much, and decided that a man is not a good thing based on the first meeting, maybe it was too fast.

She turned around and left, and bought a few batches of cloth with the little savings left, plus a few unique pearl flowers and rouge and gouache, hoping to make Ah Chu happy.

Seeing that it was getting late, Han Nu was about to go back to give Ah Chu a surprise, when she suddenly saw Brother An Ping staggering towards him with a few young men who seemed to be rogues, Han Nu suddenly moved in her heart, how many people would be left? He took out the money bag of copper plates and deliberately bumped towards him. The money bag fell to the ground, and several copper plates rolled all over the ground.

"Where the hell are you hitting!" Brother Anping got angry immediately, and raised his hand to slap the Han girl on the ground.

"Brother Anping, you've been quite angry recently! I heard that you're looking for a girl? Haven't you got it yet?" The servant on the side smiled and joked.

Brother Anping smiled obscenely: "It still looks like a baby, it may take a while!"

Hannu watched them walk away in horror, she could hear their conversation clearly, did Anping mean Ah Chu by "Chicken"?This man is a scum at all!Ah Chu must not be handed over to such a rascal!

She slowly returned to the mountain, measuring and cutting the clothes restlessly, all the way in fear, until it was dark, when Ah Chu came back, her face was flushed, obviously her mind was still on that brother Anping.

Seeing that the Korean girl was making clothes, and there were brand-new beaded flowers and rouge on the table, she cried out with joy, and hurriedly picked the most beautiful beaded flower, and without thinking about combing her hair again, she put it next to her ear, left and right. Looking to the right, he repeatedly asked, "Sister, is this pretty?"

Han Nu forced a smile: "You look good in anything you wear."

Ah Chu blushed: "Why do you say the same thing as Brother Anping, it's really... everyone speaks sweetly to please people."

Han Nu frowned, and said in a low voice, "Ah Chu, that Anping...you don't want to have any more contact with him."

Ah Chu's smile froze: "...why?"

"He is not a good person who can be entrusted for life." Han Nu thought for a while, told what happened today, and said, "You are not allowed to associate with him in the future."

Achu was stunned for a long time, then suddenly sneered, and smashed Zhuhua on the ground: "You lied! I don't believe it!"

"He's idle. Such a big man doesn't want to make a living by himself. Instead, he hangs out all day long, works as a thug for the casino, and runs rampant in the streets. Don't you have eyes? Can't you see? He just gave you some things, and you are willing followed him?!"

It is rare for Han Nu to scold her with such sharp words, but at this moment, she was so angry that she couldn't care less.

"From tomorrow onwards, you are not allowed to go down the mountain!"

Ah Chu's face turned pale, and he said sharply: "Why do you control me like this?! I can follow whoever I like! If you don't allow me to go down the mountain, I'll jump off! Brother Anping is a good person, you're talking nonsense, I don't believe it!"

Han Nu said sternly, "It's better for you to die by jumping off the mountain than to spend your whole life with that rascal!"

Ah Chu has probably never seen such a cold appearance of a Han girl, but the more she presses down, the more she will bounce up. The two sisters have the same stubborn and extreme character.

"You want to control me now, what kind of airs are you putting on my sister!" Ah Chu screamed without hesitation, "If it weren't for you, my life might be ten thousand times better than it is now! If it weren't for the things you embroidered became Jingmei, my parents won’t be mad at you! If you weren’t a witch, would I have been bullied when I was a child?! It’s all because of you! I don’t want to live in the mountains! I don’t want to wear clothes all day long. Patch clothes live like a beggar! You just want to live in seclusion by yourself, why drag me?! Do you think I like you very much? I hate you to death! I wish you would die soon!"

She was weak, and after yelling at this moment, she suddenly couldn't stand still, leaning against the wall and gasping for breath.

Han Nu was stunned, she didn't expect Ah Chu to have so many complaints towards her, but at this moment Ah Chu was on the verge of collapse, no matter how chilling she was, she couldn't let her go, she immediately went to support her, and said softly: "How do you feel? Sit down and breathe slowly."

Ah Chu shook her hand away, gave her a gloomy look, pushed the door and ran out, Han Nu hurriedly chased after her, but it was already dark, she had not gone up and down the mountain as many times as Ah Chu, and was not as good as the mountain road She was familiar with it, and after chasing for a while, she couldn't see Ah Chu again. She shouted anxiously: "Ah Chu! Come back quickly! It's my sister's mistake! It's my mistake! Come back soon!"

There was no one, and the only answer was the sobbing cold wind. The Han girl searched in the mountains all night, but she couldn't find Ah Chu. After finally waiting until dawn, she ran to the town again. There was no one in the restaurant. Go to the casino to find Anping, but Anping is not there.Han Nu searched the town for three days and three nights, but Anping and Ah Chu were nowhere to be found, so she had to go back to the mountain with a glimmer of hope that Ah Chu would be waiting for her at home.

But the simple wooden house was empty, and she didn't lock the door when she left. The house seemed to have been turned over by robbers. The box next to the bed in the bedroom was turned upside down. The robbers probably didn't find anything of value, only the few horses The white cloth embroidered with flowers and plants was taken away.

The Han girl was exhausted, and she went down the mountain every day to search for it, but she still found nothing.

On the fifth day, someone finally came to the wooden house in the mountain. The people who came were not Ah Chu, but a few "celestial masters" pretending to be gods and ghosts. When they saw Hannu, the heavenly masters immediately chopped up with peach wood swords. , the Korean woman did not eat, drink or sleep for several days. She was already extremely weak. She was hit on the head and body with a mahogany sword, and she fell to the ground immediately. ——The bright red one is dog blood!

"Bold evildoer, don't surrender quickly!"

The celestial masters rushed up and tied her tightly with a rope. Seeing that the trip had successfully caught her, the celestial masters were relieved and carried the bloody Han girl down the mountain.

For some reason, she lived in seclusion in the mountains for six years without being noticed, but now she was suddenly found out, even the government was alarmed, she was tied up and lying on the ground, there seemed to be many people around, some people were watching her, some people She was scolding her, some she knew, they were villagers from that village, some she didn't know, they should be people from the town.

"Look at the witch who released the evil ghost and eat people that day, but she?" The county magistrate was quite trembling, pointing to the Han girl and asked the villagers.

"It's her!" Someone yelled, "My son was killed by her!"

"It's her! I didn't expect to hide in such a close place! If the magistrate of the county is not so wise and powerful, I don't know how many people this witch will kill!"

Countless stones, bricks, and even vegetables were thrown at her. Just like when she was driven out of the small village six years ago, she was bloodied again, but this time she couldn't escape.

How was it discovered?Is it because she ran around the town for three days without a disguise?

It is meaningless to think about this now, the fire has been set up, the flames are raging, and the fate of the witch is to be burned alive by the fire.There are countless pairs of eyes looking at her around, some are elated, some are resentful and cast aside, some show slight pity, and some dodge in fear.Han Nu was elevated above the fire, and her eyes finally fell in a distant unknown direction.

Fortunately, Ah Chu was not found, but Ah Chu was left alone, so how could she feel at ease?

Tan Yin covered her eyes with her sleeves, and she couldn't look directly at the scene of the Korean girl being swallowed by the flames.

The cloudless sky suddenly became cloudy, but in the blink of an eye, big raindrops poured down, and the burning fire of Xiongxiong was extinguished in one fell swoop. She wasn't dead yet, her eyes stayed stubbornly in the direction of the cabin on the mountain, as if she could really see Ah Chu come back safely.

The fire torture was extinguished by the heavy rain. In ancient times, the people were ignorant and believed that the sky would protect her. No one dared to speak. The county magistrate was so frightened that his face turned blue. A doctor took care of her, and no one dared to mention the witch again.

(End of this chapter)