Chapter 35 short story blue light in the sky

When A'e was playing the game of "catch the robber" in the yard, a piece of sharp broken glass cut her foot, and blood gushed out. She immediately cried and limped towards the house.Behind her, the children were still running wildly, and no one noticed her leaving. A'e stopped crying as soon as she entered the door. She opened the cabinet, found a rag from the bottom drawer, and wrapped her feet around it.The blood kept oozing, and she added another cloth.While she was doing these things, she kept her ears pricked up in horror, worried that her father, who was repairing wooden barrels in the backyard, would come in and see her.The bleeding stopped quickly, and A'e untied the two blood-stained cloth strips, wrapped her feet with a clean cloth, then stood up and wanted to throw the two dirty cloths into the trash can.As soon as she got up, the door opened, but it wasn't her father who came in, but her sister Axian.

"What's that?" She pointed at A'e's feet aggressively and somewhat triumphantly. "Don't tell Dad." A'e begged. "So much blood! Your feet! What a disaster!!" Ah Xian yelled loudly on purpose. For a moment, A'e felt that the sky was about to fall, so she hurriedly hid the two rags in the straw bag behind the door, and a young mouse slipped out of the straw bag with a whimper, and fled desperately.She moved hard a few times, and the soles of her feet began to ooze blood again.Ah Xian observed her sister carefully for a while, then turned and walked towards the backyard.A'e knew that she had complained to her father, so she sat on the bamboo chair and waited in fear. She expected a storm.However, after waiting and waiting, there was still no movement from her father, so she thought, maybe her father was too busy (she saw three people came to him to repair the bucket in the morning) and didn't have time to punish her? not worried.She decided to spend the day in the woodshed.When she left, she took out the two dirty rags from the straw bag behind the door, limped down the steps and threw them into the trash can, and grabbed two handfuls of dead leaves from the ground to cover them.

The firewood shed is about ten meters away from the house, where Ah'e's old friend, the big squirrel lives.As soon as she saw the nest made of grass clippings and broken wadding in the corner of the room, A'e's heart felt warm. She knew that there were a few mice in it, which had been born a few days earlier, and they hadn't opened their eyes yet. The big squirrel peeked at the little, almost transparent things while out foraging.Ah'e sat down far away from the mouse's nest.A Xian's voice could be heard from the firewood shed. What was she talking to her father about? Maybe they were discussing about punishing her.And in the front yard, the children playing "Catch the Robber" were yelling again.

In the afternoon, the hungry A'e finally couldn't bear it anymore, and she planned to sneak into the room to eat.She walked into the kitchen and saw Ah Xian washing dishes, and Ah Xian stared at her suspiciously. "The food was left in the cupboard and Dad kept talking about you, we thought something happened to you!" Ah Xian's voice became very soft, almost flattering, Ah'e was really flattered.Ah Xian quickly arranged the food on the table, Ah'e sat down, and began to wolf down as if in a dream, while listening to her sister chattering beside her. "A'e, Dad said you would die of tetanus, what do you think? You should know that mother died of tetanus. I always disapprove of your playing with those wild children, why don't you listen to it? Actually I knew there was a lot of broken glass over the fence, I smashed a few wine bottles there last year, but I didn't expect you to get hurt so quickly. But then again, now that you're hurt, I'm so envious of you In the morning, I saw your foot was so swollen, so I ran to my dad. He was hooping the barrel, and without looking up, he asked me if it was cut by a broken wine bottle, and said that those wine bottles were filled with poison Liquor, you can't escape from death now. My father's words made me very confused. When I calmed down, I remembered the templates you used for drawing flowers. You might as well just give them to me and keep them. You don’t need it anymore. I know you and Xiaomei are friends. She gave you those templates, but if you don’t ask her, she will definitely give them to me. Don’t you think so? Why do you still need those things now? ?"

Ah Xian frowned when he said this, as if he couldn't figure it out, and seemed to be planning something in his heart.When A'e washed the dishes and was about to go back to the room, she saw Axian still standing by the stove and giggling, so she ignored her and went back to the bedroom alone.This is her and Ah Xian's bedroom. There are two beds facing each other, and there is a wardrobe between the beds. In the morning, Ah'e finds cloth from the drawer under the wardrobe to wrap the wound.Now she opened the cabinet again, took out the key, opened a locked drawer on the side, and took out the template set.The stencils are made of peach wood, smooth and red. There are four pieces in total, which can draw four kinds of patterns. They are all used to embroider pillows. Xiaomei told Ah'e that they stole her mother's. A few days ago, her mother was looking for it everywhere. .A'e doesn't know how to embroider yet, but she is fascinated by the magical template. When she is free, she uses a pencil to trace flowers on old newspapers, one after another, and the feeling is wonderful.After fondling the tracing boards for a while, she carefully put them back into the kraft paper bag, and locked the drawer.The wound was a little painful, but it stopped bleeding.Ah'e recalled what Ah Xian said, and was suddenly a little surprised: Could it be that she is really going to die? Just now she thought that Ah Xian was making a big deal out of a molehill (A Xian never lies).And Dad, every time she and A-Xian made a mistake, she would give them two slaps, this time was really an exception.Is it because her father treated her so badly that Ah Xian said "I envy you to death"? Why did father throw poisonous wine bottles around the house? Ah'e couldn't think clearly about these things, she was too lazy to think The usual way is to wait for time. "It'll be fine after a while." She always said to herself.Sometimes, when a bad thing happened, she would hide in the firewood shed, sleep, and after waking up, the matter would be diluted a lot.The matter Ah Xian said today may be very important. For some reason, Ah E was not in a hurry when she heard it. Now that she went back to the room and revisited those words, she secretly became a little anxious, and she was afraid that Ah Xian would see it. I am in a hurry.She sat on the bed, unwound the cloth strips wrapped around her feet and looked at them again and again, but she couldn't see anything unusual about the wound.She thought, maybe that piece of glass wasn't from the poisoned wine bottle at all. Dad and Ah Xian were too arbitrary, so arbitrary.A'e was determined to go to the entrance of the village. As long as she could reach the entrance of the village, it meant that there was no problem at all. How could a dying person go to the entrance of the village?

When her father caught up, A'e had already passed the firewood shed and was almost at the door of Xiaomei's house. "You're looking for death, why don't you go back and lie down!" He roared fiercely. "I, I'm fine..." A'e defended in a low voice. "Okay! There will be a good show soon!" Father kept a straight face all the time, A'e didn't dare to look at him, and slipped away like a mouse. "Where to go, don't want to live! Hurry up and die on the bed, no one will collect the body when you die outside!" After being chased and scolded by her father, A'e's feet were no longer limping, and she hurried back to the room.As soon as she pushed the door open, she saw Ah Xian playing with the keyhole of the drawer containing the template. She used a wire to fit the lock, and when she heard the sound of the door opening, she immediately threw the wire away, blushing.

"You can't wait any longer, I'm dying anyway." Ah Xian closed the cabinet with a bang, and went out angrily.A'e knew that she went to find her father again.Strangely, my father doesn't like Ah Xian. Compared with the two sisters, he likes Ah'e more, but this Ah Xian has been relentlessly trying to please her father since she was a child, even if her father treats her badly. Never get discouraged. A'e lay on her own bed, closed her eyes and forced herself to fall asleep, she was a little anxious to fall asleep by herself.After a while she was in a daze.She strayed into a forest in her dream and couldn't get out.It was very cold in the woods, surrounded by big trees, she sneezed several times, suddenly looked down, and saw that her foot was pierced by a bamboo tip, and she was nailed to the spot and could not move. The stinging pain described made her let out a scream, and she woke up.Her hair was dripping with sweat, but the wound on her foot didn't hurt. What's going on? Could it be that another person stepped on the tip of the bamboo in the dream, and that person was dying? Pain, but the pain in the dream remains deeply in the memory.The poplar trees outside the window were rustling by the wind, and A'e was afraid to go back to that dream again, but she wanted to go back to that dream for some reason, in order to find out something.She hesitated like this, half asleep, but finally woke up, because Xian broke a bowl in the kitchen and made a loud noise.

Ah'e went to the kitchen to help Ah Xian. She was going to wash the rice when Ah Xian suddenly became polite, snatched the pot from her hand, and said one after another: "You can rest, you can rest." She Ah'e's behavior made A'e full of suspicion.Ah Xian kept busy with her hands and feet, and Ah'e watched from the sidelines. She was very envious of Ah Xian's skillful workmanship, which she couldn't learn by herself.Now she is concentrating on using the tongs to roll the reconciled wet coal into small balls and stack them one by one along the hearth. Her flexible right hand seems to be integrated with the tongs, and she looks a little proud.

"Ah Xian, I had a strange dream. I dreamed that I was going to die." Ah'e couldn't help but say it. "Shh! Don't let Daddy hear you." "It was just a dream," she added. "Not necessarily?" Ah Xian looked at her inquiringly and then lowered her head to work. During dinner, my father didn't say a word, until Ah Xian stood up to clean up the dishes after eating, he said: "A'e, don't go outside." "I'm fine, I'm fine." A'e argued red-faced. Her father ignored her and walked away with a wave of his hand. "So stupid, so stupid!" Ah Xian said, snatching the bowl from Ah'e's hand, "Go and rest!"

The lights are on in Xiaomei's house, and the family is devouring their meals.After A'e entered the room, Xiaomei simply nodded her head to signal her to wait, and stopped looking in her direction.They ate pumpkin porridge and pancakes, and everyone was sweating. Xiaomei's two younger brothers buried their faces in the big sea bowl.Xiaomei's father and mother didn't look at A'e either, they both seemed a little angry.A'e stood against the wall for a long time.The whole family went to the inner room after eating, only Xiaomei was left to clean up the table.A'e thought, Xiaomei is really weird, now that her parents are not here, why does she still not look at her A'e? She piled up all the bowls and carried them to the kitchen with both hands.A'e also followed, but Xiaomei grabbed a rag in the kitchen and turned back to wipe the table, which bumped into A'e.

"Let's go, let's go! I'll look for you later." She said hastily, pushing A'e out of the door forcefully. A'e fell down from the steps of Xiaomei's house, she sat up and checked her feet immediately.Fortunately, the wound on the foot is fine.As soon as I looked up, I saw Xiaomei gesturing to her anxiously, shouting in a low voice: "Go quickly, go quickly!" Then she retracted and could not come out again. Ah'e really felt a little dangerous now, thinking of her father's order and that demeanor, she couldn't help shivering.It was dark all around, and in the dark, two people were hurriedly walking with lanterns. They passed by A'e very quickly, and heard one of them say: "As long as you hurry, you will always be in time. In the past, people from our hometown Ah..." Ah'e was about to get up and go home, but Ah Xian rushed over again.Ah Xian was out of breath, leaned on Ah'e's face and said: "I dare not stay in the room alone." "Is Dad going to hit someone?" Axian shook his head vigorously. "What's going on?" "I was thinking about you in the room, and the more I thought about it, the more afraid I became. Why do you keep wandering outside? But it's so nice outside, it's so dark, it seems that there is no need to be afraid." She took A'e's hand very considerately, and walked slowly on the path with her, which made A'e very moved.In the past, she always thought that A-Xian was talking nonsense, thinking that she provoked her father to oppose her, but at this moment, she felt confused. Maybe A-Xian was really more sensible than her, and knew something she didn't know? She Why did she take over all the housework that A'e should do? Ah Xian has a clear mind since she was a child, and she is a scheming person. A'e has learned this many times.Thinking of this, Ah'e felt dependent on Ah Xian. She held her hand tightly and murmured in her heart: If something happens, wouldn't Ah Xian be there? She is so virtuous, Everything is arranged for her, so I should rely on her.Thinking of this, Ah'e suddenly realized that she had been following Ah Xian. They didn't go far, they circled around Xiaomei's house.There is really no one on the road now, and the wind blowing from the mountains seems to be singing.Ah Xian has been silent, what is she thinking? Or is she thinking nothing? "Let's go to Dad." After going around several times, Ah Xian finally suggested. Father was chopping wood in the dark when they entered the backyard, making rhythmic noises.A'e was very surprised, and did not believe that her father could still see in such a dark night.The truth is, my father is obviously working in an orderly manner, just like during the day. "Dad, Dad, we're scared!" Ah Xian said in a trembling voice. "What are you afraid of?" Father put down the work in hand, came over and said kindly. Ah'e couldn't see her father's face clearly, and his tone made her feel relieved, thinking that her father was no longer angry. "A'e shouldn't be afraid, right? Ah Xian should learn from A'e. I am chopping firewood here, and I am preoccupied with the two of you. Since your mother passed away, I have always been in fear, sometimes in the middle of the night. I got up to chop wood, if I were afraid, I should be afraid, what have you to be afraid of?" After saying this, he bent down to work again. That night, whenever A'e fell asleep, she would see the forest, and she herself was in the forest.At the beginning, only one scorpion was found, but later on, there were scorpions everywhere, poking under the dead leaves, above the tree trunk, and behind the leaves.When A'e wakes up, she often sees Axian standing motionless on the opposite bed, as if watching the night outside the window.Finally, A'e didn't want to sleep anymore, she turned on the light and sat on the bed covered in sweat. "A'e is so brave." There was jealousy in Ah Xian's voice. Ah Xian jumped out of bed, moved to Ah'e's side, and wiped her sweat with a towel. "I was there when daddy threw those broken glass bottles along the fence and he wouldn't let me in, as he always does. I tell you in the daytime that I threw broken bottles, it's vanity ." Ash is thinking.Ah'e suddenly felt that Ah Xian's face had turned into a shadow under the light, so she couldn't help reaching out and scratching at her face, but what she grabbed made a sound like a dead leaf.Immediately, Ah Xian moved her body and said reproachfully: "What are you doing? I'm so ignorant. I've told you so many times, but my nails never get cut. Guess what Dad is doing? Listen!" Ah'e heard nothing.Ah Xian looked extremely nervous, tiptoedly opened the door, and slipped out gently.A'e was too lazy to go out with her, so she turned off the light and sat on the bed thinking about something.She thought more than once that if she woke up after a long sleep, everything would change.But she was afraid of falling asleep and seeing the scorpion, so she felt conflicted.However, in a daze, he finally couldn't stop his drowsiness, and walked into the woods again.This time she closed her eyes tightly and didn't look at anything. When she woke up, it was already daylight. Only one day later, she found that the wound on her foot had healed, which showed that her father and A-Xian were making a fuss out of a molehill.Although I think so, my heart is not easy. I can never forget those dreams of bamboo and scorpions at night, and those dreams are connected with the wound. Every time, the injured foot is bitten and pierced, and the part happens to be the wound. Where is the place, I really saw a ghost.Then go outside, find Xiaomei and others, maybe Xiaomei wants to cut pigweed, then she will go to cut pigweed with her, test her while mowing, and see what her attitude towards herself is. Change no. Ah'e went to find Xiaomei after chopping pigweed at home. "Xiaomei! Xiaomei!" She stretched her neck and shouted. No one answered in the room, but after a while, Xiaomei's parents cursed, calling A'e a "broom star".A'e had no choice but to back out from the gate, walked along the path unhappily, and arrived at Ajun's house in a while.Ah Jun is leveling the soil in the vegetable garden in front of the door.A'e called her several times before she slowly raised her head, looked around in horror, and gestured for A'e not to approach.However, when Ah Jun's mother came out, the woman quickly walked up to Ah'e, put her arms around her shoulders, looked at her carefully, and said in her mouth: "Be good, be good..." Ah'e was very embarrassed, very embarrassed. He wanted to break free, but the woman held him tight, and he couldn't help but want to show her intimacy. "A'e, your father's craftsmanship is good, and he can make a lot of money, right? But I don't think it's so great to make money, and I don't want my children to cling to such people. I'm not the kind Short-sighted people. Let me tell you, if a person is too lofty and knows many things that ordinary people don’t know, he will be in great trouble. In fact, it’s better to be like us Ah Jun, who is ordinary and innocent. Worry-free, as the saying goes: Contentment and happiness. How are your feet?" "Foot? Are your feet fine?" A'e was taken aback. "Haha, don't lie to me, this matter is already an open secret in the whole village. Think about a person like Ah Xian, she can still keep things secret? It seems that you are not happy about this kind of thing, So I said, it’s better to be mediocre. I always think, what is your old father thinking? Hey, Ah Jun! Ah Jun! Where did you go, lost your soul? Don't feed the pigs!" She let go of Ah'e suddenly and yelled at Ah Jun.Ah Jun immediately threw the hoe and ran into the house. A'e wanted to leave, but the woman grabbed her shoulder tightly to prevent her from leaving. "Your elder sister, Ah Xian, is a very curious person. She has made herself so emaciated. I don't appreciate her at all, and I don't allow my family, Ah Jun, to associate with her. When it comes to you, it's another matter. You fascinate me. You smile and show me, smile! Ah, you can't smile, poor boy, that guy is too hard on you. I can't let you in my room, Jun has Jun after all Everyone knows what your father is doing, and they all want to know what will happen to him. This is called waiting and seeing, you understand?" "I don't understand! I don't understand!" A'e struggled hard. The woman clenched her shoulders tighter, and pressed her mouth to her ear. "So you don't understand! Let me teach you, listen: don't let your temper wander outside, when you stay at home, don't sleep late, always open your ears to listen to your father's movements. This kind of thing will start Don’t get used to it, it will be fine after a long time.” A'e twisted her neck and looked over the woman's shoulder, and saw Ajun and Xiaomei standing at the door of the house talking, both of them looked very excited, gesticulating with their hands.A'e thought of the happy days when she played with them, and felt very sad. "Xiaomei! Xiaomei!" she cried in despair. Xiaomei was taken aback for a moment, then pretended not to hear and continued talking and laughing with Ah Jun. "You little girl, you are really hopeless." Ah Jun's mother said through gritted teeth. Suddenly the woman scratched her back violently, the pain made her eyes go dark, and she sat down on the ground. When she opened her eyes again, the woman was gone, and so were Ajun and Xiaomei, as if they were not here just now, only the pain in her back reminded of what had just happened.A'e recalled what the woman said about her father, although she didn't quite understand it, she knew it was not a good thing.After the scene just now, she has given up her desire to find a companion.She was weak all over, and it took a long time to stand up unsteadily.That woman must have hurt her back just now, it's really vicious.Ah'e wept and walked slowly towards the entrance of the village. For some reason, she had that stubborn wish in her heart: she must walk to the entrance of the village.It was as if she was competing with her father and Ah Xian.She walked and rested, but there was no one on the road, and the door of the house was quiet. If she hadn't been walking in a familiar village, she would have doubted that she was in another place.Even on the slope where cows used to graze, there is now no shadow of a cow.A'e finally came to the old camphor tree at the head of the village. She leaned on the tree trunk to take a rest, but the dead silence around her gradually made her panic again.There was a long brown snake on the tree, swinging back and forth, spitting at her. Suddenly, all the terrifying scenes in the dream reappeared. She ran back wildly with her head in her arms, and stopped after running a long way.Sitting on the ground and taking off his shoes, he saw that the unlucky wound was open again, and it was still a little red and swollen. "A'e, hurry home, time is running out." She looked up and saw her father on top of her.That's weird, is Dad following her? "I can't walk," she complained timidly. "Come on, I'll carry you." My father squatted down after saying that. A'e lay on her father's sweaty broad back, full of thoughts.She pressed her small, thin ears to her father's body, and heard the man's sobbing clearly.But the father didn't cry, so where did the sound come from? The father was scolding A'e, and talking about the bottle containing poisoned wine; A'e was concentrating on catching that cry, so she didn't care what his father said what. The father walked and walked with A'e on his back, and A'e found that they were not walking towards home, but walking towards the river from a fork in the road.A'e was a little frightened at first, but the cries from her father's back attracted her attention like a magnet. She forgot the danger and the resentment towards her family. Said softly on the back of the neck: "My feet don't hurt anymore." Father laughed.At this time, they had reached the river, and the river was flooded to her father's neck. A'e supported her father's shoulders to lift her face out of the water, but her father's big hands gently pulled her into the water; she heard the wind blowing along the river. Hearing Ah Xian's mournful cry, she thought, Ah'e might be jealous of herself? She closed her eyes and drank a lot of river water in her sleep. She was surprised that she could see the blue light in the sky without eyes. Ah'e woke up very late the next day, and the sun was already shining on the mosquito net. Ah Xian stood motionless in front of the bed and watched. "A'e, you're completely healed. Get up and chop pork vegetables. I've been exhausted for the past two days. It's time for me to rest. Xiaomei came to ask you for the drawing template yesterday, but you fell asleep. I found the key from your pocket, opened the drawer, and gave it to her. I didn’t expect her to think about it for a while, and then gave the template to me. God knows what she thought. But to be honest, you took it. What's the use? You don't know how to embroider." "It's useless." A'e's voice was light and ethereal.