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“This weather is so strange. It has been raining for many days. The field drained over and over again. I’m afraid that the seedlings will be damaged.”
There were no leisure activities in the small village on the mountain. On rainy days like this, many women gathered together to mend clothes and shoes, while men went to that empty room of the village council to set up tables, played mahjong or cards to kill time.
Initially, the elderly in the mountain expected that this rain would last for two or three days. But it was the fifth day now. The sky was cloudy, and the air was full of water vapor. In October nearing November, the mountain had begun to turn cold. It was bone seeping cold, especially for some of the elderly with weak resistance, they had carried out their big cotton-padded jackets.
“Ssh, don’t say it. This weather is too cold quickly. It’s not practical to sleep without heating the furnace at night. It’s not like the coldness of the previous winter. This coldness is seeping to the bone.”
Oldman Gen was dressed in a cotton-padded jacket and wore a scarf by wrapping it around. In the past, he had worn such a dress at the very least in December. But now, Oldman Gen felt gloomy and cold even if it was so warm. He also drank two home-brew sorghum liquor to warm himself up.
“Old Uncle, I think your physical health isn’t good. You’ve to take advantage of these past two years to save money and buy a daughter-in-law for your son. Don’t keel over without holding your grandson.”
Lin Youcai smiled and played a pair of mahjong tiles, and the last two tiles were shown under the attention of everyone.
“Give me money, give me money.” He smiled.
“Hu—”
A cold air went straight to his neck. Lin Youcai hurriedly looked back, but there was no one behind him. It seemed that it was just his hallucination.
“Don’t mention it. I’ve indeed enough money.”
Oldman Gen’s words pull Lin Youcai’s thoughts back, and he did not think much either. Looking at Oldman Gen’s complacent face, he asked with a smile, “How? The young man who lived in your house has given you a lot of money, right?”
People in the village thought that Oldman Gen was lucky. It was heavily raining these days, and it was hard to walk on the mountain roads. No one wanted to go up the mountain at this time and could see any beautiful scenery. It was easy to have an accident.
The young man in the Oldman Gen house came in the rain, to see the sunrise when it was sunny, and had to stay for five days. Besides the cost of food for every meal and bathing water, at least let Oldman Gen earned a few hundred. Seeing if the weather was good, and he stayed for a while, my God, he would get a year’s harvest in the field worth.
The land in Wude Village was not much, and it was mostly barren mountain areas. Usually, it was not much for taking out money except for their rations. They would hunt and sell some wild games with those who collected mountain products. They were unable to do anything. It was already sky-high to earn two or three thousand a year from the field.
“Heh, heh, heh. I, this old man, am lucky, just relying on the money from that lad, I’ve enough to buy a daughter-in-law.” Oldman Gen smiled, did not answer.
“Youcai, please tell Lai San for me to leave me a big buttock one to raise. Don’t let the villages down the mountain pick out all the good things.”
Lin Youcai grabbed the mahjong tiles and nodded. He and his big brother were very meticulous in this matter. The villagers did not know, every time they bought a daughter-in-law, he and his big brother got a share. For example, if a woman sold 30,000, they, two brothers, could draw 3,000. This one was also the reason why they, brothers, never farmed the land but lived a better life than anyone else.
“But I can’t get in touch with him these past two days. I don’t know if there’s something wrong with the signal tower on a rainy day. I can’t even make a phone call. When the rain stops, my brother and I will go down the mountain to let people have a look. You can rest assured that we’ll leave you the one who can have a son.”
Lin Youcai thought that since yesterday, the phone at home was busy for some reason, and there was no signal from his mobile phone. But now it was raining very heavily that he and his big brother did not want to go down the mountain, so they dragged it on.
It was not that the village had not seen this situation before. Sometimes people at the foot of the mountain would find that they had to rush to repair the signal tower. However, it did not matter. Mountain people had fewer opportunities to use those things. Playing mahjong and drinking was more interesting to them than other things.
Oldman Gen got a satisfactory answer, the wrinkles on the corner of his eyes deepened.
He had been waiting for his daughter-in-law for more than 20 years, and these days were not lacking. He begged for a long rainy day and earned another 12,000 from that lad so that he could have all the money for the New Year.
“Sister-in-law, has the meal been cooked yet?”
Lin Youcai spat on his hand and counted a handful of zero paper money. He had a total of more than 40 Yuan, which he won in one afternoon.
“Cooked, I steamed a fish and cooked a pot of bone broth. Your big brother has already drunk wine, just waiting for you?” Lin Youde’s wife was five years younger than him. Because she had three daughters in a row, she could not lift her head in this family.
Lin Youcai’s wife was very competitive and gave birth to a son. It was the only seedling of the Lin family. Lin Youde was kind to this younger brother, but she did not want to ask that big nephew to help with her retirement life.
The two brothers estimated that they knew what they had done was shameful. Before Lin Youcai’s son began to understand things, they sent him and his mother to study in the county. The two brothers raised money to buy a set of more than 100 flat commercial housing in the county. The living expenses were sufficient. Each month, the two brothers went to see him in the county several times to contact the other.
As for Lin Youde’s three daughters, they were not so lucky. The female dolls had little value, to be able to eat their fill of food was pretty good. They should read some books and wait to get married when they were old enough in exchange for a sum of money for a gift, but it was their contribution to this family.
It was funny to say that all the people in the village were concerned about their sons and grandchildren. Because a family could not afford to have too many children, some of the baby girls born became ill, and because they were unwilling to pay for treatment, they all died of illness. Some of them were just born and drowned in the back hill or the toilet.
When their son and grandson grew up to marry a wife, they found out how they could not even find a girl of a suitable age. They bit their teeth and spent money to buy a daughter-in-law. They came back again and again. It was a vicious circle, but no one found that they were wrong at the root.
Lin Youcai did not have any respect for this sister-in-law. None of them had been born to their old Lin family. Such a woman to cook a mouthful of a meal to eat in return was not bad.
He hummed a little song and went into the room and lit a brazier in the room. It was warm. His brother had drunk wine. When he saw his younger brother coming, he moved inside the Kang79Kanga heatable brick bed and asked him to take off his shoes and went to the Kang.
The big bone stew was very fragrant. Lin Youcai took a nibble in his hand directly, ate a mouthful of fat, and did not forget to drink wine.
“Oldman Gen has raised enough money. We can earn at least this amount.”
Lin Youcai made a little gesture with his fingers, and Lin Youde was pretty happy.
“Little Treasure said that he wanted an iPad* a few days ago, just bought one for him.”
Lin Youde loved his nephew, but after listening to him, he remembered. He did not know what it was called the love clique*, but there was a villager who bought two daughters-in-law. The money should be enough, right?
“Heh, heh, that kid is blessed. He has an uncle who loves him so much.” Lin Youcai smiled. It was his son who took this advantage.
“That’s Little Treasure’s dream. He always takes first place in the exams. He’ll go to college in the future. Our Lin family has a bright face.”
Lin Youde drank up all the Spirit Usu in the cup. Suddenly, the thunderbolt drew and rang in the room for a spell, and then the light extinguished, the room suddenly darkened.
“I guess the bulb broke, Brother. Do you have a spare bulb?” Lin Youcai put down his glass, untied his legs, and spread them under the Kang to put on his shoes.
“Ah!”
He suddenly screamed, which almost scared Lin Youde to pee.
“Some… something is tugging at my feet…”
It was icy. Lin Youcai had goosebumps all over his body. He had stiffly mentioned it to his big brother. He dare not look down.
“You’re over the top from wine, aren’t you?” Lin Youde took a look at his younger brother. He climbed to the Kang, pulled a candle out from the cabinet, and lit it with the match he had with him.
“It’s frightening, and the Kang underneath is all sealed. It must be a ghost. She can get under the Kang and catch your feet to pay back, can’t she?” Lin Youde did not believe that there were ghosts in the world. He thought it was his younger brother’s illusion.
“What’s on your feet? Don’t scare yourself.”
He went down to the Kang and looked at his younger brother’s feet. They were clean, and there was nothing. At this time, Lin Youcai felt the piercing cold disappear. He thought maybe it was just his illusion.
He took the courage to look down at his feet. There was nothing more than what should not be. He breathed a sigh of relief. He put on his shoes and went to ask his brother where the spare light bulb65light bulbunwanted third guest; the third wheel had been placed. When he looked up, he saw under the candlelight, a bloody girl with open blood empty eyes at big brother’s back, smiled at him.
“Aaaah—”
This time, Lin Youcai was truly scared. The smell of urine saturated the room, his face turned pale and shrieking, and he lurched to the corner.
“Youcai, what’re you doing*24doing*from 干 [gàn] that can mean as to do or to f*ck (vulgar)? You make racket again, Big Brother worried about you.”
Lin Youcai’s reaction was too abnormal. Lin Youde felt a little sullen in his heart and scolded him, but he did not dare to look behind.
What did his younger brother see that made him show such an expression?
One second, two seconds, three seconds…
Lin Youde swallowed his saliva, felt that his throat was dry, and he could not help sweating.
“Hu—”
Cold air came up from his nape, and Lin Youde’s heart had cooled a lot. He did not dare to move. He stood on both his legs and cursed in his heart. This much big sound of activity, yet his woman and girls were deaf and did not come in to have a look.
His neck was itchy, like the feeling of being scratched by a fingernail. His heart jumped to his throat. Lin Youde’s eyes looked downward, but there was nothing in the blind spot. He just felt that the thing seemed to poke more and more into his neck.
“Amitabha, Amitabha-“
He even read aloud a few words of Buddha names in a row. He turned around fiercely and waved his fist to smash his rear side ferociously.
Nothing. There was only a mass of air in the gloomy environment.
Lin Youde collapsed on the ground, ignoring his younger brother, who was shaking with fear and rushed outside of the door.
“Those people are dirty. Yinyin is a good child. You can’t touch such dirty blood.”
Yan Chu stayed in his room. He stood up as a little girl in a white dress sat on the chair and put her hands on his hands.
It was strange, she could not touch Yan Chu’s entity, but as long as Yan Chu thought about it, he could meet her virtual body.
At this time, Yan Chu took a clean pad and patiently helped her wipe her finger one by one. Every time he finished wiping, her fingers would show beautiful white and pink. However, after a while, the black air would diffuse once again, turn into bloody color, and her nails would be severely damaged and not neat.
The little girl’s eyes were empty. She did not understand the meaning of the man in front of her, but she listened to him subconsciously, revealing a grievance and guilty conscience.
“Clean. Look at our Yinyin, very pretty.”
In front of them was a dressing mirror. On the first day of Yan Chu’s coming, he cleaned the dust on the mirror carefully.
In the mirror, there was only Yan Chu’s reflection, but the little girl took his hand and looked at the mirror and smiled, not knowing what she saw.
Those filthy things, could not be touched by clean people. Their blood was too dirty and would pollute the pure white ones, so sin should be eliminated by sin.
Yan Chu’s corner of the mouth was rising slightly. He and his younger sister would not do it. They would go to hell by themselves.
