Chapter 17 Chapter Seventeen

She opened the sanitary box, took out the silver needle and the herbal ointment in the copper box, and started working on his back.He willingly let her stab.She told him that it was the she-wolf curse, and whoever was stabbed with the she-wolf curse would also be swallowed by him, and betrayal would be punished. Except for the village head and his wife, many people in the village are like Lu Sheng, as long as Xiaoyue is mentioned, they will keep silent, or find an excuse to walk away and leave them there in a daze.The two asked for a long time, but they didn't ask anything. When I met Uncle Wang Youliang at noon, he explained: "More than half of the people in the village are members of the Wang family and the Yang family. Of course they don't want to talk about it. Talking about it can reveal a lot of things, such as the disgraceful things in the past. Although my surname is also Wang, I am a child bought by my adoptive father and mother outside the mountains, and I have no blood relationship with their old Wang family. I was abducted here when I was 6 years old. I heard from them that my biological father’s surname is Wu, and my father’s surname is Wu. The surname should be Wu, but the mouth is Wu—”

"Hi, your original surname is Wu?" Wu Bingbing said happily, "My surname is Wu. Look, I have an ID card." "Ah, your surname is also Wu?" The old man was very excited, as if seeing a relative. "I came here when I was a child, and I haven't looked for my family members in my whole life, and I can't find them. In addition to the surnames Wang and Yang, there are people surnamed Shi and Zhang in this village. There is not even a person surnamed Wu. You It is the first person surnamed Wu that I have seen in more than 60 years. We are one ancestor, some people say that we were one family 500 years ago, I think, maybe we were one family 200 years ago. I didn’t expect you to come to this place.”

"We came here to know about Xiaoyue, and of course, about Xiaoyue's mother, Yingniang. I know that both of them are gone now. We want to know about the past. Can the old man tell us ?” "It all happened decades ago." The old man clicked his slack lips a few times, squinting at the sparks flickering in the pipe pot, "I figured it out, I was 32 that year, and 67 this year, so it's been 35 years. " In Uncle Wang Youliang's low adobe house, Wu Bingbing and Zhang Qun sat on a small bench in the middle of the main room, listening intently to the old man on the opposite side talking about the past in Shimen Village.Uncle Wang's wife was lying on the kang on one side of the house.The uncle said that she was blinded by an eye disease many years ago, and she usually lay there talking to the donkey except for eating and drinking.Because the donkeys were being fed in this house, there was an unpleasant stench of animal excrement coming from another room.

"I remember that autumn," Uncle Wang exhaled a puff of thick smoke, "it seemed that Fulai brought Yingniang back after the first frost, when Fulai brought Yingniang back. On the pit. The whole village, old and young, came to see her, saying that Wang Fulai was capable. He just lost his wife and found another one. Because everyone knew that Wang Fulai went out to find his wife—her daughter-in-law thought her family was poor. He ran away with a pot repairer from outside the mountain. Fulai begged the villagers to go with him. They went outside the mountain for more than 20 days and found his wife in a village on the south bank of the Yellow River. The villagers tied her up and tied her to the ground. The escort came back. Unexpectedly, within two months, his wife ran away again. Fu Lai went out to look for it twice, but several pairs of shoes were worn out, and there was no news of his wife. I couldn't help him find it, I thought he would come back empty-handed this time, but I didn't expect this kid to be lucky and pick up a woman on the way."

"She was in her 30s at the time, with a big ass and a wide body. Anyone with a discerning eye could tell at a glance that she was pregnant, at least for a few months. Someone called outside the door, Wang Fulai, you don't have to worry about it. Now, I became a father without any effort. Fulai squatted at the door and laughed. Yingniang didn't mind, and invited everyone to sit in the main room, as if deliberately telling everyone that she was a poor person. Her husband died in a car accident. She was helpless and bullied. She happened to meet Brother Fulai. After learning about his background, she followed him. After she finished speaking, she sneezed, scaring the children around her into laughter. Then she ran to the other room and rummaged in the closet, and finally found a piece of Fulai's wife's jacket. Regardless of so many children looking at it, she took off her upper body and changed it. She walked out with her buttocks twisted, and put the wet clothes on Fulai Throwing it in her arms, she said to take me outside to cool off. Fu Lai listened to her orders with a smile, and everyone inside and outside the house laughed coquettishly."

"The people outside the door asked Fu Lai, how did he know that woman? Fu Lai was talking to the villagers at the door just now, but he didn't hear the woman's explanation, so it was different from what she said. Fu said that the woman was from Hubei. , is the daughter of an old man. Because the family was rich at the time of liberation, she was classified as a landlord. After her parents died, she was bullied in the village, and no one married her when she was 30. I didn’t expect a painter who was reformed through labor in the countryside to follow her. She fell in love with her and made her conceive a child. The painter later went to the city. He used to have a wife and didn't want her anymore, which made her throw herself into the river. He happened to meet and rescued her, so she came with him. Fulai In this way, everyone is still a little envious, and no longer looks down on him, but thinks that good people will be rewarded."

"That woman can read and write. She is a smart person. There are not many educated people in the village, especially women. Only the younger generation can study. Few women as old as her can write their own names. The men They all looked at Fulai with jealousy, so they paid special attention to the changes in Fulai's house. That woman is also very aggressive, tidying up the inside and outside of the house neatly. She can also cut window grilles, such as hens and monkeys, and stick them on the windows It made the disgraced house look more energetic. Later, she gave birth to a girl named Xiaoyue. Yingniang cleaned up Xiaoyue. It is said that she would not let Fu come to hug her. Ask him to feed the child. I heard that once Fu Lai kissed the child’s face, and Ying Niang slapped him in the face when he saw it. He scolded Fu Lai for having bacteria on his mouth. Fu Lai had to be killed if she got sores. As expected of a doctor’s daughter, she went up the mountain to pick a lot of herbs and boiled them into soup to wash the children’s body. However, Fu Lai was sick, and she also saw other people in the village who were sick, and used those herbs. , Those soups and waters really helped a lot of people."

Bingbing suddenly interjected: "I want to ask, is Xiaoyue wearing a longevity lock?" "Yes, there is a long-lived lock." The old man replied immediately without thinking, "My wife knows best. Yingniang often comes to our house with the child in her arms, and Xiaoyue has even eaten her milk." " He lit another bag of cigarettes, and shouted to his wife on the kang, "Old lady, did Xiaoyue wear a longevity lock?" "Yes," said the old woman, "it's been worn since birth. It's a pretty thing." "What's it like?" the old man asked her deliberately, "tell the two girls."

"It's silver, about the size of half a cake." The old woman said, "There is a grinning animal head on the face, I don't know if it's a dog's head or a wolf's head; At that time, my pillar was big, and my milk supply was not broken, and she always hugged Xiaoyue to nurse. When others wanted to hug Xiaoyue, Yingniang never let go, and never let the longevity lock on her neck be touched. Let me hold her, let me feed her." Bingbing asked: "Ma'am, what did Xiaoyue look like when she was a child?" "Beautiful, white and fat, with eyes bigger than her mother, like a porcelain doll. She comes to my house every day, and her body smells delicious. Later, I found out that her mother washed her with herbs. Ying My mother went to the mountain to pick wild orchids, soaked her body in water with petals, and said that this way of detoxification, the child was healthy and healthy, and grew up strong and beautiful. I didn't think about it, and I didn't expect that the pillar was like a mud monkey all day long. Like. I like Xiaoyue to come home, every time she comes to my house, the house is full of fragrance, it is the fragrance of wild orchids on the cliff, it smells very good—”

"Look at this old thing, she doesn't usually talk, but she talks so much!" Uncle Wang said with a smile, "She likes Xiaoyue. In the past, Xiaoyue often came to my house. I knew she always wore that dress until she was a teenager." Longevity Lock. I heard from Fu that the Longevity Lock was handed down by Ying Niangzu, and it is very precious. I asked about it once, and Xiaoyue said that her mother would not allow it to be taken off.” "At first, Yingniang didn't take the initiative to interact with people, maybe because the child was young, or maybe she just came to meet everyone—anyway, after Xiaoyue grew up, her mind was free and she started to wander around the village. There was an elementary school in the village at that time, and the teacher was a young man who had graduated from junior high school. Yingniang volunteered to become a non-staff teacher. She was wearing the military trousers that were popular at that time. Rolled up, showing arms like lotus root joints, speaking nice city dialect to give lectures to the dolls, but the men in the village couldn't get enough of them. They were a little jealous of Wang Fulai, why would they find such a good wife? A man started trying to trick Yingniang. The village head, Wang Nao, and Yang Hongde, a worker in the county, were even more impatient, and they bet with a cow to see who would get her first."

"Wang Nao was the head of the village at that time, and he visited her house every three days. But what made him unconvinced was that Yang Hongde took the lead in the end. Yang Hongde had an older brother who was the deputy county magistrate, and he was arranged to work in the fertilizer factory in the city. The worker, his wife and children are still in the village, and he often comes back to see them. The Yang family is a respectable person, and everyone in the village respects him. When he came back to see Yingniang, Wang Fulai and Wang Nao were there. He avoided it out of curiosity. He and Yingniang talked about outside affairs, and Wang Fulai squatted at the door listening to them. Yingniang sent him away. She asked Fulai to get some snacks, and she wanted to keep Big Brother Yang for dinner. Fulai went to buy meat at the Badong market outside the mountain. When they came back, they were still chatting. They didn't go in and saw Yang Mingde grab Yingniang's hand. After dinner at night, Fulai fell asleep unknowingly because he drank the heat-relieving water cooked by his wife. I heard that Yang Hongde went to find Yingniang that night. Since then, he and Yingniang have gotten better." "Yang Hongde later said that it was Yingniang who wanted to touch him, but he couldn't control himself. He said that Yingniang would please men and seduce people's hearts. Every time Yingniang was in bed with him, she always liked to press on his back. Biting him half-truth, the kind of light bite, leaving only a shallow tooth mark. After repeated tooth marks, the marks on it became deeper and deeper. One day she opened the door from the mountain He took out the health box he brought outside, took out the long silver needles and the herbal ointment in the copper box, and started to work on his back. He willingly let her stab it, and asked her casually why? She told him it was his mother. The wolf curse, whoever is stabbed with the she-wolf curse, will be swallowed by whoever betrays her. Yang Hongde didn't mind it with a smile, and he didn't believe that the spell worked. Later, when he was taking a bath in the mountain stream, the villagers watched When it comes to the pattern on his back, it is the head of a wolf with a ferocious face, green eyes and fangs, and the place where its tongue is is a scar formed by peeling off a strand of skin." "Yingniang started arguing with Yang Hongde for a few years, asking him to divorce her, but Yang Hongde refused. He had a wealthy wife who gave birth to a son who was about to grow up at that time. It is impossible for him to leave his wife and abandon his son to live with her. Yingniang was discouraged when she failed to achieve her goal. She asked Yang Hongde to swear to help her at any time, and not to dislike her even when she was old. She still She and Yang Hongde privately arranged baby marriage for the two children, and let Xiaoyue grow up to be Yang Hongde's daughter-in-law and marry his son Yang Li, so that she could take her daughter out of the valley. She didn't want her daughter to be like her in the mountains. on." "How old was her daughter Xiaoyue?" Zhang Qun asked. "About six or seven years old." The old man thought for a while and said. "It's absurd to get engaged to your daughter at such an early age!" "There are many people in the countryside. The old people have a good relationship, drink blood wine, and make friends with brothers; there are many people who want to kiss each other, exchange marriages for their children, and order baby kisses. Rarely. This is all Yingniang’s thoughts, she hopes that her daughter will have a good home in the future. Looking around, only Yang Hongde can be counted on. After she broke up with her and moved the whole family into the city, she didn't come back to see her for several years. Later, she got in touch with the village chief, Wang Nao. After all, in this valley, besides Yang Hongde, only Wang Nao is the most capable , to be the village head of so many people, like an emperor." "Fu Lai turned a blind eye to Yingniang. She didn't expect this man, who was as honest as a rock, to be angry. One day, she and Yingniang had a big fight. They closed the door, beat and scolded, and made a fuss. It was dark and dark. Someone heard Wang Fulai yelling at Yingniang for being ungrateful, saying that she killed the painter's wife, but he didn't save her and lead her out. She might not be where she is now. It would be hard for her if he was in a hurry , Ri Niang must send her to prison. Ying Niang gritted her teeth in anger and flew into a rage, saying that she did not harm anyone, but he was talking nonsense with red lips and white teeth, because he disliked her and didn't want her anymore, so he made up excuses to abuse her. She sat in the courtyard and cried loudly. Someone called the village head, Wang Nao. Wang Nao is Fu Lai's elder. Yingniang. This incident made Fu Lai a bad person inside and out. Since then, he has been sick from anger, and the family has no money to see a doctor, so Yingniang can only pick some herbs for him to eat. It took more than a year to die..." "It's always good to have a man in the family. After Fulai's death, Yingniang and her mother suffered. Yingniang devoted her attention to her daughter - Xiaoyue was studying in Batong Middle School 20 miles away, and Yingniang went back and forth every day. Picking her up on the mountain road. Xiaoyue is good-looking, and she cares about reading. Yingniang is full of hope. She teaches her daughter to draw, saying that she has something in her father's blood, smart and spiritual. Xiaoyue She is really ingenious, drawing door gods, cutting window grilles, sewing dolls, and doing anything. There is nothing like it. The Spring Festival couplets in the village are all used for her to write. When Xiaoyue is not in school, she often draws on the hillside, draws trees, Drawing birds, I drew them out with a few strokes of a pencil, as if they were alive. One autumn, a group of painters from other provinces climbed a mountain to paint. They saw Xiaoyue sitting on a rock and drawing. They didn't expect her to paint so well. Ask her who taught her? Xiaoyue said it was her mother. When they met Yingniang, they realized that Yingniang didn't know much about painting and only knew the basics of painting. They all said that this child would be successful in the city Before leaving, they took Xiaoyue’s paintings away, and asked her to study hard, draw a lot, and when she grows up, she will be admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts and become a painter. A female painter who was a teacher at a university also sent her home The address of the letter was addressed to her mother and daughter. Later, a letter was sent from Hunan, and there was a pictorial in it. The two paintings recommended by the female teacher for Xiaoyue were published in the pictorial. Half of the people in the village came Look. There seems to be a house in the mountains and the sun in that painting, but I can't remember what it was." "Years after the man's death, Yingniang only got along with Wang Nao. Unexpectedly, Wang Nao also started to be indifferent to her later. Wang Nao later told people that this woman was too complicated, her identity and experience were confusing, and her heart was very serious. It's deep and dark, and the closer you get to her, the more frightened she is. He doesn't want to stick to her anymore, and he doesn't even think about falling out with her. She will kill him as an enemy. When she is with him, she is also there He stabbed the she-wolf curse on his back with silver needles and herbal ointment. He said that after he cast the curse that time, she handed him a small mirror to let him lie there and look at it, and she used another small mirror to look at his back for him Look, he saw the scary wolf head in the mirror as if alive. Then, she moved his body over, sat on him and kept stroking him. She held the silver needle of the stabbing curse on his chest Shakingly said, there is an acupuncture point two wheat leaves away from the nipple. If you prick it lightly with this long needle, your heart will stop beating, and one needle will kill you. She gestured there with her finger and asked him if he wanted to try it. Try? Wang Nao said you were joking. She said I was not kidding, one day you will betray me like Yang Hongde, I will give you an injection while you are asleep. She also said that she really regretted not giving that damn Yang Hongde an injection. Wang Thinking about Fu Lai's death, did you ask Fu Lai to die? I didn't expect her face to change drastically, and she started crying like an anxious cat. Wang Nao hurriedly said it was a joke, and quickly apologized Wang Nao said that since then he has been a little afraid of her, whenever he is with her, he will think of her silver needle and what she said, and when he thinks of Wang Fulai's death, his body will feel tingly. Cold, goosebumps. He started to distance herself from her, not seeing her..." "Wang Nao's change of heart made Yingniang very angry. When she tried her best to pull Wang Nao back, she began to take revenge on him. She seduced Wang Nao's son, Wang Bao. At that time, Wang Bao was less than 20 years old. He stopped going to school before graduating from junior high school, had nothing to do at home, wanted to marry a wife but there was no suitable one, and ran around like a little male dog every day. He actually fell in love with Xiaoyue. At that time, Xiaoyue was 14 years old and looked like She is a big girl, whoever thinks she looks good, many men want to play her bad idea, thinking that her stepfather is dead, and mother is so casual, sooner or later she will be the same as her mother. Yingniang doesn't think so, she thinks The daughter bleeds the blood of the people in the city, and she was not born in this poor mountain valley. In the future, she will definitely go to the city to marry someone who is capable in the city. As the girl grows older, she naturally keeps her eyes on him more and more closely. She often Tell your daughter, before you grow up and go to the city, remember not to let any man in this valley touch you. Whoever wants to plot against you, whoever wants to bully you, you tell mother, mother will fight him desperately, dig his Eye, peel his skin! When she found out that Wang Bao wanted to get close to Xiaoyue, she told Wang Bao what she had said to her daughter, and the little guy was frightened. Then Yingniang seduced him intentionally, Make this little kid who has never seen the world fascinated." "She deliberately provoked Wang Nao, which made Wang Nao very angry and felt pain and itching in his heart. Wang Nao warned her not to associate with his son again, but she ignored her, saying that she had the ability to manage your son. You have to eat like this I, who just wiped his mouth and left, can still raise a son who is not tempted by a woman? He also said that you thought I was old and tasteless, but your son didn’t say that I was old. I also like young people like him, more than you Ten times and a hundred times stronger. Wang was so angry that he trembled all over. In order to fight her, he thought of various ways, and finally said that you will fight against me again, and I messed up your Xiaoyue. You try it, if you dare to touch her with a finger, I will destroy you. Wang Nao doesn't believe in evil, say you, just wait and see." "When Xiaoyue came back from school that day, she asked for tuition and miscellaneous fees. There was no money at home, so Yingniang went door to door to borrow money. Xiaoyue was waiting at home. Wang Nao brought a large stack of money and put the money in front of Xiaoyue. Shakingly said, Xiaoyue, as long as you let me cuddle, I will give you the stack of money. Wang Nao later told someone when he was drunk that he took public funds that day, and he used this money as an introduction. Give her the money. At that time Xiaoyue asked, Uncle Wang, is that real money or fake money? Wang Nao said of course it was real money. Xiaoyue said that I will give you my arms, Uncle Wang, you have to let me find out if the money is real. Wang Nao gave her the money, seriously! Unexpectedly, Xiaoyue grabbed the money, turned around and ran out of the door, and ran to the middle of the village. Wang Nao got up and chased her. She threw the money while running. Wang Nao threw money one by one. Afraid that others would pick them up, Wang Nao kept bending over to pick them up while chasing them. Xiaoyue just ran forward. Before Wang Nao finished picking up, Xiaoyue had run away without a trace. As a result She threw away half of the money, and buried the other half under the roots of the tree at the head of the village. When Wang Nao went to her house to make a scene, she pretended to be innocent and said that the money was thrown away on the road, and she never took any money from him. The voice of the other party When she was in high school, she cried, and Wang Nao had nothing to do with her. Later, she used the money to pay the full school fees, even the tuition for the second year. After this incident, everyone said that Xiaoyue was really a fine girl. , will definitely be stronger than her old lady in the future. Wang Nao has also taken the initiative to give in to Yingniang after that incident." "Wang Nao and Yingniang reunited. Yingniang was tender with him as in the past, but she couldn't forget her hatred for him, and finally took revenge on him quietly. Later, Wang Nao stopped going to Yingniang's house. Gritting his teeth. Although Wang Nao is old, he is still irresponsible. The women in the village are much better than him. Those women said to the public that Wang Nao drugged Yingniang. Nothing will work. Women don't understand, so they touch him, laugh at him, and ask him what's wrong? He scolds Yingniang, this woman is vicious, and she rubbed herbal medicine on him, causing him to shrink his penis. Now he is looking for a woman, just Have a heart addiction. A woman asked Yingniang about this, and Yingniang said that I had sworn that anyone who dared to touch my daughter would destroy him with one finger, and I did what I said. People think Yingniang has means That’s why I admire this woman from outside the mountain from the bottom of my heart.” "If you offend Wang Nao, you offend the whole village. In addition to Wang Fulai's death, Wang Nao always said that Yingniang did it. Drowning in saliva. She has a stubborn nature, so she was wronged by herself and supported herself. She desperately protected her daughter and let her concentrate on reading and painting. She opened up wasteland in the valley, planted vegetables in front of and behind the house, and picked wild fruits on the cliff. Feeding pigs and chickens to sell money, trying to find ways to support her daughter to go to school. Xiaoyue was 17 years old that year, and she still had a year to go to high school. I don't want to talk to this old woman. But Yingniang is following her beautiful daughter. His son Yang Li fell in love with him at a glance. In addition, Yingniang took the initiative to figure out the matter of betrothing the baby. Yang Li is almost 30 years old and still has no partner. , I begged my father to help them. Since the son was satisfied, and Xiaoyue was a unique girl, the Yang family and Yingniang formally engaged their children. The Yang family gave a considerable deposit and bride price. To be honest, Xiaoyue High School In the last year, I finished my studies with the money. In addition, Yang Li wanted to get close to her, and spent a lot of money on her until she was admitted to university. In the next few years, it was Yingniang who fought with the Yang family father and son. It's worse than fighting with the king. The two families are fighting to the death, and each bites blood. Alas, after all, I still can't fight these men. First they forced Xiaoyue to death, and later they forced Yingniang to death, and even burned the house No one could have imagined it would be so miserable!—” The old man stopped talking here.The sun was about to set, and he wanted to go up the mountain to retrieve the donkey. When the two said goodbye to the old woman, they found her sitting there in a daze, taking a long breath and dangling a hand in front of her eyes.The two quickly asked, "What's wrong, Madam?" The mother-in-law said: "Scent - I smell it - a scent, so fragrant!" Bingbing inhaled hard, but could smell nothing except the stench of donkey dung. Bingbing looked at Zhang Qun: "Did you smell it?" Zhang Qun sniffed hard while shaking his head: "Nothing?" The mother-in-law said, "Why can't I smell it? It's the scent of wild orchids—didn't you two smell it? It's everywhere in the room. I haven't smelled it for a long time. Maybe we're talking about Satsuki, so let me Xiaoyue knows, she must be back again. Don't be afraid, Xiaoyue has eaten my milk, she will not harm me, a blind old woman..." The more they listened, the more their backs felt chills and their hair stood on end, and they ran out of her house in a hurry... They saw that on the hillside not far away, the fool was still sitting there like yesterday, with the old woman with white hair.The old woman raised her hand again and waved her way to say hello...