Chapter 81 The Fall of Xiushan Village

Xiushan Village, 18 miles of cropland.

"Village head Zhao, village head Zhao, it's not good, it's not good..." Bai Eryu ran to the door of village head Zhao's house and shouted.

"What's your name, Soul?" Village head Zhao poked his head out and looked confused and reluctant. He pushed the window fan with one hand and said, "What are you doing early in the morning?"

Bai Erzi held on the doorpost outside the gate of the village head of Zhao's house. He was dressed rudely. It seemed that he must be exhausted. He took a long breath and said, "Village, village head Zhao, what's wrong?"

"What's wrong with the jerk?" Village head Zhao came to open the curtains and put a dress on his body. Looking at the anxious appearance of Bai Erluzi, village head Zhao also guessed that something bad had happened: it would not be those destructive educated youths who entered the village again, right? As he fastened the button, he asked, "Is the educated youth coming again?"

"No," Bai Erqi shouted along the crack of the door, "Dead!"

Hearing this, village head Zhao slowed down, and his nervous nerves relaxed a lot and said, "Isn't it going to die?" What's the fuss? I thought the educated youth was here again?"

"The man died on the edge of the mountain at the entrance of the village." Bai Erzi drew a picture and said, "The face is very horrible, like a ghost."

"What?" Village head Zhao quickly picked up his trousers, moved the figure to the edge of the kang, and his hand went down. A shoe was taken from the ground to his hand. He put his shoes on his feet...

"Old man, you're going out," the old woman turned over and asked.

"Yes? Didn't you hear the white dick? If something happens in the village, I'll come back as soon as I go!"

"Weep more, it's cloudy and cool. Be careful of your rheumatism."

"I know," said village head Zhao, who walked out of the inner room and muttered in a low voice, "This woman is really grinding."

With a 'squeak', the door opened. Village head Zhao came out of the room and blew a cool air on his face. He couldn't help shivering, breathed a sigh of relief, and gasping, as if he hadn't slept well. The sky was gray and white. He remembered to look at the clock in the inner room when he was about to leave the house, just four. More points.

"You're out. I've been waiting for a long time." Bai Erzi looked at the village head Zhao anxiously and said.

"I know!" Village head Zhao took the key and opened the door. There was a crisp sound. The lock of the door was opened. Village head Zhao pulled hard, and the wood of the door was 'thorned'. He scratched the original scratch, and the door opened...

"Who died?" Village head Zhao came out and closed the door again.

"Look at the figure, like the sister-in-law of the Hu family." Bai Erzi replied.

"Hu's sister-in-law." Village head Zhao repeated, "How did you die?"

"I don't know?" Bai Erzi shook his head and said.

"Let's go and have a look." Village head Zhao took a step.

Bai Erzi nodded and walked to the front of village head Zhao...

As soon as the village head Zhao took two steps, he suddenly stopped and shouted at his window, "The door is not locked. I'll go back."

Bai Erqizi took the village head Zhao to the mountain outside the village, walking very fast...

"Have you arrived?" Village head Zhao asked.

"Immediate!" Bai Erqizi pointed to the front and said, "It's right there."

Village head Zhao looked in the direction he pointed, and saw a dark thing falling there from a distance.

"Is that it?" Village head Zhao asked.

"Yes, that's it." Bai Erzi said.

Soon, the dark body appeared completely in front of the village head Zhao. Village head Zhao was also shocked at a glance. Except for the figure that looked like the sister-in-law of the Hu family, there was no way to distinguish other aspects. The face, hands and body are black, as if they were crawling out of the fire.

"How did you find her?" Village head Zhao looked at Bai Erqi and asked.

"It rained for half a night last night. I was afraid that the geographical crops would be flooded, so I came to see it early. I wanted to release the water in the ridges and ditches. When I came here, I saw something dark. At that time, it was not dawn. When I approached, I found that it was a dead person. At that time, I was scared." Bai Erzi looked at the dead body and said.

Village head Zhao looked up at the land of Bai Erzi's house not far away and said, "How's your house? Is it flooded?"

"I don't know." Bai Erzi looked at the village head Zhao and then looked at the body and said, "As soon as I saw the body, I ran back to tell you."

Village head Zhao said "Ao" and walked to Bai Erqi and said, "Go, inform everyone!"

Bai Erzi nodded, "Uh-huh" and ran back to the village...

When, when, when, when, the sound of the gongs in the village can be heard from afar. This is a call for urgent matters. As soon as every villager hears this sound, something happened. The first few times he heard this sound was the arrival of bandits. This time, everyone came out quickly.

The fog began to dissipate, and the sky was also very white. White clouds appeared in the eastern sky. After a while, there was a red light in the depths of the white clouds. The red light became brighter and brighter, reflecting the dazzling light. First, light red, crimson, bright red... The whole east was red, and half of the face was exposed in the blink of an eye.

Bai Erqi quickly brought the villagers over.

"Er, what's going on?" An older villager asked.

"I thought the bandits were fighting again." A tall man said.

"Someone is dead," Bai Erqizi whispered.

"Who is it?" Another villager asked.

"Then I'll know." Bai Erzi said.

"Isn't it just a dead person?"

"What a big deal?"

"Tossing people early in the morning."

......

Everyone talked about it. You said one by one. Anyway, I was not very happy. In a few minutes, they came to the village head Zhao. When everyone saw the dead body, their eyes were straight.

"Who did this?"

"Is it too conscientious?"

"Is this like the sister-in-law of the Hu family?"

"It's her..."

"It's a bit like..."

"It's simply inhumane!"

Everyone looked at the body and talked about it...

"Hey, hey, hey," village head Zhao waved his hand to signal everyone not to say anything and said loudly, "Don't quarrel first. Listen to me."

As soon as the village head Zhao's words came out, everyone slowly calmed down. There was less and less noise, and finally they couldn't hear it.

"Fathers, listen to me first!" When village head Zhao saw that no one was talking, he hurried to the villagers and said, "Today, we have gathered everyone for three things."

Village head Zhao looked at everyone seriously, so as to show his majesty. He paused, coughed twice and then said, "The first thing is to take back the body of the Hu sister-in-law. Anyway, the sister-in-law of the Hu family is also the benefactor of the villagers. Everyone should still remember. In the past, the devils came to sweep. It was Da Liu, the husband of the Hu family's sister-in-law, who informed everyone that everyone escaped the disaster, but Da Liu was killed by the Japanese soldiers. Everyone should remember the fact that they are all eating water and don't forget to drill wells. We should also remember! The second one." Village head Zhao paused again and cleared his throat and said, "The second thing is to find out the murderer and see who did it. You must find out this pervert. As for the last thing, it's a little difficult!" Village head Zhao frowned and said unhurdenly, "What about the two children left by the Hu sister-in-law, Xiaoping and Xiaohua? What do you mean?"

"What about five in my family?"

"There are four in my family."

"My family can't open the pot anymore."

......

"Oc, okay, okay," Zhao Cun said in a big voice, "Don't quarrel now, okay? Let's go back and think about it!"

A voice of "I'll raise" came from the crowd.

Everyone looked along the sound...

"Can you do it?"

"Are you righteous enough?"

"You are a man!"

Everyone gathered around and patted the white Erqi on the shoulder and said.

"Quiet" The village head made a quiet gesture and said loudly, "Since there is nothing we can do, let him take care of it first!"

Under the command of the village head, the villagers carried the body of Hu's sister-in-law back to the village with sackcloth.

The body is parked in front of the old ancestral hall in the village, which is mainly dedicated to the land master. Every year on the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, the people of the whole village will gather here, put on rich tributes, burn incense and pray for blessings, and sincerely kneel down. In this way, pray that the crops will be drought and flooded, and the grain will be abundant. The land master is in charge of the fertile land in all directions, and the dead also need to be put into the earth, so the body of Widow Han was first placed in front of the land temple. This is an empty venue. In addition to the usual sacrificial activities, this is also a meeting place for villagers and a special place for the autumn harvest.

According to the old man in the village, the sister-in-law of the Hu family is rampant. She has to put it in front of the land temple for a day. The land master's power is boundless and will suppress her resentment. I heard that no matter when that person dies in vain, there will be a great resentment in his mouth. If this resentment is not suppressed, it will endanger the vulnerable people around him, so that the disaster will be repeated and repeated. Therefore, the village head agreed that she would stay overnight in the land temple and carry her home the next day so that it would not affect her family.

Putting down the Hu sister-in-law, Zhang Daxian walked three times in front of the body of the Hu sister-in-in-law. He didn't know what was muttering. At this time, the person next to him had already taken out a wooden case. There was an incense burner on the wooden case. Zhang Daxian stopped, walked to the wooden case respectfully, picked up the three incense sticks, and Zhang Daxian bowed three times seriously. He inserted the incense into the incense burner, then walked into the crowd and whispered a few words in the village head's ear.

"The villagers have worked hard." The village head walked out of the crowd: "That's all for today. Let's meet here at six o'clock tomorrow."

"Are you still coming?"

"Go, go"

"Let's see what happens tomorrow!"

Everyone dispersed all of a sudden, hurriedly walking out and muttering...

The weather became cloudy again. The sun that just came out was soon covered by clouds. The weather began to become gray. With the arrival of the dark clouds, the wind also came. As soon as I came out of the land temple, I ran to the Hu's sister-in-law's house. The Hu's sister-in-law's family lived in the east of the village, and the land temple was in the center of the village. Zi's home is on the west side of the village.

Bai Erqizi came to the door of Hu's sister-in-law's house. The door of her house was closed. Bai Erqi casually opened the door and shouted, "Same, Xiaohua..."

"Who is it?" The window was pushed open with a 'squeak', and a seven- or eight-year-old girl poked out her head and breathed in her mouth...

"I, you uncle" Bai Erzi did not go directly into the door, but walked to the window.

"Uncle, is it so early?" The little girl knelt in front of the window sill, looked back at the room and shouted a few times: "Mom? Mom? Uncle Dog is here"

There was no response in the room. The little girl turned her head and said, "My mother is not here. Maybe she has gone to the ground."

At this time, the quilt moved, and a little boy got his head out of the quilt...

"Xiaohua, come here" Bai Erqi waved his hand to Xiaohua, who was lying in the quilt.

"I'm not going to play with you?" Xiaohua covered his head with a quilt.

"Is the girl hungry?" The white girl gently patted the little girl's head with his hand.

The little girl nodded "um" and said, "My mother hasn't come back yet?" However, it's time to cook." The little girl jumped off the ground from the kang, and was immediately blocked by the edge of the kang. Needless to say, she was wearing shoes. Bai Erzi left the window sill, opened the door and walked into the room.

The little girl came out of the house, picked up a handful of dry firewood in the shed, returned to the house, and put the firewood in the gap next to the stove, which was a special gap left by firewood. Then the little girl opened the lid of the pot, and then brushed it in the big pot. She used a brush to brush the water in the pot into the furnace pit, and then poured the water from the inside and outside of the jar into the pot with a gourd ladle, and covered the lid...

"Why don't you like to play with me?" Bai Erqi lifted Xiaohua's quilt with his hand.

"If you don't love, you don't love." Xiaohua covered the quilt back again.

"I don't like to pull down." The white Erqi raised his buttocks, did it from the edge of the kang, opened the door and walked to the outside house...

"Uncle, it's choking here. You'd better sit in the inner room!" The little girl leaned her body and raised her head diagonally. After saying that, she restored her body to its original state. Her mouth was facing the mouth of the stove and blew it in. The smoke came straight out of the stove, but there was no fire. The smoke poured out violently. The little girl was choked by the back smoke from time to time.

"Let me come," said the white man patted the little girl on the shoulder.

"Uncle, no, I often do this." The little girl poked her head.

"Wad girl, this is not right." Bai Erzi took the little girl's hand, and she suddenly followed. Bai Erzi put her aside and said, "This branch is too thick. How long will you blow it like this?" With that, Bai Erzi walked out of the door and came to the firewood shed. He squatted down and grabbed a handful at the bottom of the firewood shed. Some small firewood branches were grasped into his hand. The white Erqi walked into the outside house, put the twigs on the mouth of the stove, pressed the thick branches on it, took out a box of 'foreign fire' from his pocket and pulled out one from it, and slipped to the grinding surface. Down, with a 'thorn' sound, a fire lit up in front of his eyes. The white Erqi leaned towards the twigs with the stroked 'foreign fire'. The branches exploded, and the firewood lit...

Not long after a while, the water in the pot rang, slammed, slammed, and the water was boiling. The little girl opened the lid of the pot. She took the basin and approached the big pot. The basin was filled with rice noodles. The little girl pulled down a piece with her hand and let the rice noodles walk between the two hands to form a ball. The little girl opened her hand and worked hard. The bract rice dough flew out in an instant. She only heard a 'pop' sound. The sound was very crisp. The bracted rice dough was tightly attached to the side of the cauldron. The original roundness has now become a round cake. The same action is repeated, one, two, three... It will be pasted in a while. The pot is full. The little girl covered the lid of the pot tightly. In this way, she waited until the water in the pot was almost dry before boiling the pot. She shoveled down the rice dough pasted on the edge of the pot with a spatula. This is the 'big cake'. One side is yellow and charred, and the other side is the fragrant and crispy 'Hu Jiabu'. The little girl put the 'big cake' on the curtain. On top, take out two pickles from the jar, put them in the gourd ladle, and cut them twice on the vegetable pier, and the rice is ready.

"I'm going to the field to call my mother for dinner," the little girl ran out...

"Girl, come back" Bai Erqi ran out and grabbed the little girl's hand.

"Uncle Dog, I'm going to find my mother!" The little girl shook off the white man's hand and said.

"Woth, don't go. Your mother is not in the field." The white girl took the little girl's hand and walked into the room.

"You lie." The little girl shook her hand and said, "You adults know how to lie to children."

"Really, your mother asked me to watch you!" Bai Erzi said.

"Where's my mother?" The little girl asked.

"Your mother has something to do today and can't come back." Bai Erzi looked at the sensible little girl, and tears rolled in his eyes. He suppressed and said, "Girl, why don't you eat with your brother quickly?"

"Brother, it's time to eat." The little girl walked into the inner room with a curtain.

Big cakes, pickles, and chopsticks are all placed on the edge of the kang...

Xiaohua just climbed out of the quilt. He reached out and picked up a small 'big cake'. He held the big cake with both hands and worked hard. The thick layer of 'Hu Jiafu' on the 'big cake' was separated. Xiaohua bit 'Hu Jiafu' and ate it and stuffed the burnt yellow 'big cake' into his sister's hand...

"Uncle, you can eat it too!"

Bai Erzi looked at the sister and brother and shook his head: "Uncle has eaten it"

"Sister, where's mom? I miss my mother." Xiaohua said.

"Brother, be obedient." The little girl looked at Xiaohua and said, "Uncle said that my mother has something to do today and will be back tomorrow."

"Girl, uncle asks you." Bai Erzi sat next to the little girl and continued, "If your mother doesn't come back, would you like to follow your uncle?"

The little girl looked at the white girl with sharp eyes. She didn't say anything, as if she felt something. Tears flowed from the corners of her eyes...

Village head Zhao sat under the oil lamp, with a long big eye bag in his mouth. He smoked hard, and the cigarette pot lit up, and then the cigarette pot darkened again. He curled his mouth, and a thick smoke came out of his mouth...

"The old man smokes less," the old man said.

"Isn't this bothering?" With that, the village head stuffed the cigarette bag into his mouth again.

"It's annoying, what's the use of smoking?" The old woman gave a white look and said, "Smoke less, so that you don't have to sleep and cough at night."

"What do you think an old woman knows?" The village head turned around and said, "It's really a long hair and short knowledge."

"Ok, okay, okay, you can do it." The old woman continued to hold the upper in her hand and said, "I'm too lazy to care about you."