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127. The girl in the mountain 3
Jiang Gui walked for more than an hour on a mountain road that usually lasted for forty minutes.
"Why did you come here? You want to starve me to death." Father He, who was grumbling in his stomach, threw away his hoe and walked from the field to the ridge.
Jiang Gui lowered his head, his voice timid: "I fell on the road."
"Didn't the food fall?" Father He only cared about this, and glanced casually at Jiang Gui, who had weeds sticking to his clothes and hair.
"No, no." Jiang Gui quickly lifted the cloth covering the basket, "The food is good."
Father He took the food and ate it, obviously hungry.
Jiang Gui, who was on the side, looked around. There was little land in the mountains, all of which were pioneered by ancestors, so the land was all in the east and the west. For example, the He family's field, where the pestle is solitary, can't see other fields when looking around, and there is no one else.
What a wonderful place to be in the wilderness, with no one around.
Jiang Guikui's eyes slowly fell on the devoured father He, a thin but powerful old man. Jiang Lai, who had just been sold to the Chen family, escaped from that room once, ran into the yard, and was easily caught by He's father. Grab it without any resistance. Although these villagers are short due to their lack of nutrition, they have exercised a lot of strength by running around the mountains all year round. This is one of the reasons why women cannot escape. Even an old lady in her fifties and sixties can easily grab a young foreign woman.
After Father He finished eating, he put the tableware and chopsticks away, wiped his mouth, took out a cigarette and smoked it, squinting his eyes comfortably.
Jiang Gui, who used to collect dishes and chopsticks, smelled a smell of inferior tobacco and approached, she moved without warning.
With his back to Jiang Gui, He's father felt a sharp pain on his back, as if something had pierced his body. He's father screamed and was kicked out before he could react. He lay on the ground and beat him several times. After a roll, Father He raised his head, twisted his facial features and shouted: "You are crazy!"
Jiang Gui looked at Father He coldly.
"Little bitch, are you courting death?" Father He got up and ran over in anger. After two steps, people started shaking, "You!"
The corner of Jiang Gui's mouth twitched. During the half-hour delay on the road, she picked some herbs. This mountain is really a treasure. It can become a cage for abducted and trafficked women, and it can also become a poison to destroy people's scum. Herbs have a special smell that is inconvenient to put in the meal, so she broke a sharp branch and smeared the numbing herbs on the branch. This herb is occasionally used by the villagers for hunting, and the effect is very good.
"Don't think you can run out, you can't." Father He, who couldn't bear it, pointed at Jiang Gui fiercely, and fell down reluctantly, his eyes widened angrily, staring at Jiang with a look that could not help but scratch his bones. Gui, probably thinking about how to torture Jiang Gui after being caught.
However, he has no chance.
Jiang Gui approached, and Father He tried to struggle, but he could barely twitch a few fingers.
Jiang Gui smiled, and the herbs spread throughout the body along the blood, but the duration was very short. She took out the straw rope that she had brought beforehand to tie Father He's hands and feet, and in Father He's surprised eyes, she grabbed a handful of grass and stuffed it into Father He's mouth.
Father He was horrified, angry and frightened, what was she going to do?
Jiang Gui smiled slightly, his eyes cold as a knife: "Four years ago, you fed that baby girl to the wolf."
Father He's dark face turned pale little by little, and the chill emerged from the cracks in his bones. He stared at Jiang Gui in disbelief, his whole body shaking like a sieve of chaff.
Jiang Gui stared straight at his trembling eyes, "It will be very painful to be eaten alive by a wolf."
Father He was hit by five thunders, and the fear was like the wild grass entangled in the heart, tightening and tightening, making it hard to breathe. He struggled violently like crazy, but to no avail, he could only tighten the straw rope wrapped around him. Just like how Jiang Lai struggled, he couldn't escape the clutches of the He family.
Jiang Gui joyfully admired Father He's fear.
He's father killed the baby girl, but the evidence is insufficient.
Father He bought Jiang Lai, but the buyer was innocent.
In the end, the old man died of illness. Before he died, he saw his most beloved grandson, He Jiabao, get the university admission letter, and he had a reluctant death.
Jiang Gui snorted, such a person, no, this is not a human, this is a beast. It is wrong to kill, but what she kills is not a human being, but a beast.
The messy Jiang Gui limped back to He's house, and He's mother's accusation came face to face: "What have you been doing? what is wrong?"
"I fell into the ditch when I came back." Jiang Gui whispered.
"Useless things, you can't walk all the way, what do you think I want you to do!" Mother He pouted, causing her to worry for nothing, almost thinking she ran away and was about to take someone to look for it. Mother He suddenly remembered the serious business, "Wait a minute, you didn't break my bowl." There were not many bowls in the house, and Mother He suddenly felt distressed, and the picture was fierce.
Jiang Gui hurriedly raised the basket: "No, no, I hugged it, and the bowl didn't break."
Mother He looked at the whole bowl and was relieved: "Fortunately it's not broken. If it breaks again, watch me peel off your skin." Mother He turned over Jiang Lai's rice delivery before accidentally wrestling and ruining the bowl He felt distressed about his old account, and hit Jiang Gui twice in the back.
Jiang Gui clenched his back molars and waited.
"Mom is so stupid. I can't even break the bowl." He Jiabao gloated. He Jiajin and He Jiayin followed the music. At a young age, they already knew that their mothers could make fun of them at will.
"No, your mother is stupid and not as smart as ours." Mother He laughed cheerfully.
Jiang Gui lowered his eyelids and took the dishes to wash.
Little by little the setting sun was sinking in the west, the sky was gradually darkening, and the chilly mountain wind was blowing. He blew his mother's heart up and down, "This dead old man, it's getting dark, why hasn't he come back."
Usually, it was not dark, and Father He came back. The road in the mountains was difficult to walk after dark, and snakes, poisonous insects, and even wild boars and wolves were too dangerous, although generally speaking, they would not come near their village.
"What's the matter with this old man, he has become more diligent." Mother He sneered.
"I'm hungry! Grandma, I want to eat, and the baby wants to eat." He Jiabao frowned and called out unhappily.
Brother Jin and Yin shouted hungry: "Grandma, I'm hungry."
Mother He was reluctant to let her baby grandson go hungry, so she shouted at Jiang Gui in the kitchen, "Let's eat, don't wait for the old man, he will come back."
Jiang Gui brought out the food. Mother He took her three grandchildren to eat on the table. Jiang Gui held the rice in the kitchen to eat. She was not qualified to serve at the table, and the food she ate was different from them. There was no white rice. Just a few old sweet potatoes.
This family did not treat Jiang Lai as a human being. In their eyes, Jiang Lai was just a reproductive tool and a free servant.
After the meal was over, Chen's father still didn't come back, and He's mother began to fidget. Like that useless woman, she also fell and couldn't get up. Recalling that He Youcai fell into a ditch and froze to death overnight, Mother He couldn't sit still and said to Jiang Gui, "Look at the child, I'll go to the second child's house."
Jiang Gui agreed, and watched Mother He leave in a hurry.
Mother He ran to the uncle's house next door, "My old man hasn't come back at this point, don't worry."
Second He said, "Is something delayed?"
"What's the matter? I asked Jiabao to fuck her, and she said she didn't hear what the old man said. I was afraid that the old man would be like He Youcai." He's mother was in a hurry.
He Lao Er was also worried about what she said, "Then I will take the two brothers Dakui to the field to see."
This is what Mother He is waiting for. How dare she, a woman and a Taoist family, go into the mountains at night.
He Lao Er and two sons brought their wolf dog and a hunting gun out of the house. Guns have been banned for many years, but the sky is high in Yabu Village, and the hunting gun has never been confiscated. It is not that the local government does not want But the villagers of Yabu Village are too sloppy, and they go to hide in the deep mountains and forests when they encounter something, which is helpless.
Jiang Gui stood in the yard, watching He Lao Er and his son leave. If you can find it, count me as a loser.
The three and one dog shouted all the way to the ground, but no one was found. The wolf dog in his hand did not respond at all.
The blood on the ground has been disposed of by Jiang Gui, and she has also covered the smell with herbs that interfere with the dog's nose.
"Dad, are you still looking for it?"
He Lao Er hesitated for a while before saying, "Where are you going to find it at night? It's not like you don't know how dangerous the mountains are at night. Go back, maybe your uncle will go home by himself."
The two sons hurriedly echoed: "That's right, my uncle must have gone back." It was not midwinter, and the two brothers panicked.
The three father and son rushed back to the village at a faster speed than when they came. The expectant eyes of Mother He were instantly saddened when she found that only three people came back, and her voice was crying: "I didn't find it."
Second He: "Brother hasn't come back yet?"
"No!" Mother He angrily patted her thigh: "Where did the old man go? This is not a worry."
He Lao Er's face paled slightly, and the villagers who heard the news also had a bad expression, and began to talk in a low voice. They all felt that there was an accident in nine out of ten. Everyone in the village knew that the mountains at night were dangerous and they couldn't stay there. Father He was old, so how could he not know, it was just that he couldn't come back instead of not wanting to come back.
The sound of the discussion reached Mother He's ears, and she was so frightened that she shivered, her upper and lower teeth rattled, her face was bloodless, and her whole body was shaky.
"At dawn tomorrow, the big guys will look for it together." He Jianmin, the village chief, stood up and spoke, "Call Dapeng back."
Mother He's lips twitched: "Tomorrow, if it's too late tomorrow." Even an old hunter wouldn't dare to spend the night with a gun in the mountains at night, how could the old man of her family resist.
He Jianmin looked at He's mother: "I can't let everyone help you find someone at night."
"That's not possible, there are wolves at night."
"The snake also came out, and it was bitten suddenly, and it was going to kill people."
"You can't make fun of everyone's life."
The villagers are not happy anymore, who is willing to take the risk to save others.
He's mother was stared at by the dissatisfied eyes of the villagers. She didn't dare to say anything. She also knew that it was impossible. At the beginning, everyone went to look for He Youcai at dawn, and He Youcai's own son did not dare to look for it at night.
"Okay, let's go. Go back and have a good rest. We will meet at my door at five o'clock tomorrow morning. At least one person will be from each house." He Jianmin is very prestige in the village. The woman ran away, and it was he who gathered his officers to arrest her.
Jiang Gui, who was standing silently on the side, glanced at He Jianmin without a trace, who was only sentenced to seven years.
This is the end of the matter, no matter how reluctant, Mother He can only go home with a belly full of worries. She didn't sleep well all night, and got up before dawn, it was only after four o'clock.
Mother He tiptoed out of the room, afraid of waking up the three precious grandchildren on the other bed. As soon as she was born, her grandson slept with her, so that she could raise her relatives. Just like her son, kissing his grandmother but not her mother, when the dead old woman was there, the son helped the old woman bully her mother.
When she went out, Mother He slammed the door to wake Jiang Gui and asked her to cook quickly. Maybe she had to find a day, so she had to prepare dry food.
Jiang Gui got up to cook and was in a good mood.
"You watch the child at home." After leaving a sentence, Mother He left with dry food after breakfast.
Jiang Gui raised the corners of his mouth and smiled lightly.
At three or four o'clock in the afternoon, Mother He came back. She was supported by someone. Her face was full of snot and tears, and she would cry from time to time, "Old man." The sadness and pain were hard to hide. .
The people who stayed in the village gathered around, Jiang Gui also moved up, and his eyes fell on the bamboo basket in the center, a blood-stained shoe, a pile of broken clothes soaked in blood, and a pile of fresh bones.
"What's the matter? I really met a wolf!"
The villagers who didn't know the inside information asked in a row.
He Jianmin said with a sullen face: "It's time to encounter a pack of wolves. After being eaten up, only these bones are left."
"That's not necessarily Dapeng's father." Someone said.
"Clothes and shoes are on the side, who else could it be if he wasn't!"
The villagers gasped for breath, and their heart skipped a beat: "Why did we meet wolves, we are not missing this mountain." The villagers would rush out on a regular basis with guns, and wolves would not dare to come to them.
He Jianmin replied, "It's not here, it's on the other side of Xishan."
"Don't be the one who went to pick wild tobacco leaves and met the wolf." There is a field of wild tobacco leaves in Xishan, and the old smokers in the village will pass by from time to time. Father He is one of them.
The villagers thought, this is really something that Father He can do, but it really makes people not know what to say.
He Jianmin frowned: "Maybe, big guy, be careful, this wolf has just eaten a man, and it is fierce, don't run around if you have nothing to do."
The villagers who had lingering fears agreed with each other, and the rest of the people dispersed, only the He Dapeng family, who was close to the family, went to the He family to discuss the funeral.
When someone dies, there is a funeral.In Yabu Village, white events are more solemn than red events, and the whole village will participate.