Chapter 116 third quarter

Mother said: "I'm afraid it won't work." Luo Yang said, "I'll invite the best doctor." My mother said: "Let me go back to my old house in the county town and die." Luo Yang said: "The old house no longer belongs to us." Mother said: "Bring Liu Xu, and I will pass the jade bracelet to her." Royan said, "Are you rash in doing this?" Mother said: "Liu Xu has taken care of me for so many years, it's time for you to marry her." Luo Yang said: "I have always regarded her as my sister." Mother said: "Don't think she is too old. As the saying goes, a girl who is a third-year junior holds a gold brick, and a daughter-in-law knows how old she is."

Luo Yang said: "There is a legend that I must marry a woman from this county. Maisui should have a family tradition similar to ours." My mother said, "Don't believe the legends. If the legends are true, you can no longer follow them. I have read that people who are close in blood may leave defects in marriage. For example, after you were born, I was pregnant again. Had four children, but none survived, is this a genetic defect?" Luo Yang said: "But, I should have my own choice." Mother said: "The greatest luck for a man is to marry a good wife. Liu Xu can be a good wife."

... My mother said: "One cannot be ignorant of one's conscience." ... The mother said: "If I don't see you put the bracelet on her with my own eyes, I won't be able to close my eyes even if I die!" ... Soon, Liu Xu came and took mother's jade bracelet. The mother died peacefully.During the funeral, Liu Xu, like a filial daughter-in-law, wet the streets and alleys of the village with her hoarse crying. Luo Yang and Liu Xu left Shahu Village.The village and my mother's new grave are hidden in the faint morning light.The saline-alkali land and the Gobi Desert are suffocatingly silent.Walking on the wilderness, they are like two dying trees, as if the yellow sand and pebbles are moving under their feet, not they are walking.

A dark dust storm.Abandoned ruins.Howling wolves in the night.They wait to be a meal for the wolves. Liu Xu hopes that she and Luo Yang can live and die together, and it is best to be buried in the belly of a wolf together.But she didn't want to let her death be unclear.She repeatedly told him the story of the woman who stayed in Shahu Village back then.The real ending of that woman is: she came to the village chief’s yard for her sweetheart, but she didn’t get rid of the choking smell of mohe smoke in the yard from the beginning... Liu Xu cried, her body trembling slightly in the dark night.

"I really appreciate you," Royan said. "I don't need to be grateful." Liu Xu said. "I keep calling you sister." Luo Yang said "I can't be your sister, I'm not your sister!" Liu Xu said. "Okay, I'm in charge..." Luo Yang said.He must bear a consequence for her story.