Chapter 4 Chapter 2 The Cursed Fourth

Time will slowly heal the pain in people's hearts, but it will add new pains to people's hearts every moment. Such as sunspots. After going to school, his nightmares in the middle of the night gradually became rarer.He found an effective way to escape the nightmare, that is to study vigorously. Heizi went to stay at the mute uncle's house every night. The dumb uncle turned the oil lamp very brightly, and he sat aside, watching Heizi read and write without saying a word.The dumb uncle's eyes were full of love.The dumb uncle dozed off while sitting, his head bobbing up and down like a chicken pecking rice.Heizi gently pushed the dumb uncle to wake him up, and the dumb uncle smiled awkwardly.Heizi gestured to him to let him go to bed first.The dumb uncle quickly waved his hands and made a cheeping sound, meaning that he would not sleep with Heizi until he finished his homework.Heizi knew the nature of the dumb uncle, so he ignored him.Heizi was tired from reading, and fell asleep as soon as he lay on the bed.After he fell asleep, he would naturally put his hands on the dumb uncle's chest, just like putting his hands on his father's chest, giving him a great sense of security.

The boatman and his mother didn't object to Heizi going to live at the mute uncle's house. The boatman was deeply afraid of Heizi's screams in the dark, and the screams made him feel unstable.He was afraid that Heizi's mother would suddenly leave Quliu Village and his home one day, and he would regret it for the rest of his life.How important a woman is to him, in Quliu Village, which woman is willing to marry him.The boatman felt that it was a good thing for him that someone in Quliu Village could keep Heizi.Heizi could kill two birds with one stone when he moved to the dumb uncle's house. He no longer had to suffer from Heizi's screams in the middle of the night, and at the same time he kept his wife.

Seeing that the dumb uncle was kind to Heizi, the mother felt an indescribable feeling in her heart. As long as Heizi was happy, she would definitely not object to Heizi being with the dumb uncle. How important happiness is, no matter what age you are in, happiness is a good medicine to heal the wounds of the soul, but how hard it is to be happy.Mother hoped that Heizi would laugh carefreely in the sun.But that might just be a wishful thinking. Heizi was gradually getting rid of the nightmare brought by his father, but quickly fell into another kind of pain in reality. That kind of pain was brought to him by the young fourth child in Quliu Village.

Whenever Heizi sees the strong fourth child running fast on the playground track of the primary school, there will be a moving light in his eyes. He hopes that he can also have a strong body and run fast on the track. Like a deer.The fourth child's running posture is fit and stretched, which moved Heizi for no reason. Heizi was afraid of the fourth child. The classmates in the school are afraid of the fourth child. The fourth child is a fourth-grade student, three grades higher than Heizi, who is in the first grade. He is the little bully in the elementary school. Don't say that the classmates are afraid of him, even the teachers in the elementary school have nothing to do with him.

The story of the math teacher Tong Ling crying because of the fourth child is spreading like wind in the school. The fourth child never pays attention to the lectures in class, either dozing off or deserting.It doesn't matter if he doesn't do a good job in class, but it still affects other students. He will use chalk to draw a turtle on the back of his classmates in the front row, which makes the students laugh. What kind of bird calls... To him, these are still pediatrics. I had math class that day.Mathematics teacher Tong Ling is not from Quliu Village. It is said that her family is in the county seat, and her dress is different from that of country girls. The biggest feature that distinguishes her from country girls is her pale face. Milk is the most appropriate way to describe Tong Ling's pale face.For such a delicate female teacher, the fourth child does not have a shy respect for her like other students. On the contrary, there is something vicious in his heart, and he wants to make Tong Ling look ugly.The fourth child often heard from the second brother that if he could marry a woman like Teacher Tong, he would be willing to die, and it would be worth it to be a cow and a horse for her!The fourth child kept this sentence in his heart.He took it seriously, he didn't know that the second brother was just making a gossip.The fourth child is dreaming, yes, it would be great if the beautiful teacher Tong Ling could be her second sister-in-law.Once, after school, he didn't go home. He came to the window of Teacher Tong's dormitory, and lay on the window to watch Teacher Tong eat in small bites.Teacher Tong found him and asked, "Why don't you go home?" The fourth child laughed and said, "Mr. Tong, you look so good eating." Tong Ling said, "Go home soon." The fourth child laughed again. Said: "Teacher Tong, your face is so pale." Tong Ling's heart skipped a beat, what evil did this kid do.She said: "Don't make trouble here, go home!" The fourth child laughed again: "Teacher Tong, I want to talk to you." Mischievous master, but I really can't figure out what is going on in his mind.She said, "Just say what you have to say." The fourth child stopped smiling, and became serious, and said, "Then I said it?" Tong Ling smiled and said, "Say it." The fourth child said with a serious face: "Ms. Tong, my second brother said that he likes you. Can you marry my second brother? My second brother said that as long as you are willing to marry him, he is willing to die. He is willing to be a cow and a horse for you! You marry Give it to my second brother!" Tong Ling's face as white as jade immediately turned red, and the fourth child made another shocking discovery, Teacher Tong looked a thousand times better when she was blushing than when she was white.Tong Ling changed her face and said sharply: "You little rascal, get out, get out!" The fourth child also changed his face, "Why are you so angry? If you don't agree, don't agree. What's the big deal!" , he left, whistling nonchalantly as he walked, looking like a fool.Tong Ling was so angry that tears rolled in her eyes, she didn't know that the fourth child began to hate her in her heart, and began to plot against her.

One evening, after eating, Tong Ling walked out of the school with another female teacher and took a walk on the embankment.They walked on the embankment for a while, when they heard barking dogs.Tong Ling has been afraid of dogs since she was a child. Whenever she heard a dog barking, goose bumps popped up on her body one by one.Her companion said: "Don't be afraid, dogs have nothing to be afraid of." Before they finished speaking, they saw the fourth child walking in front of them leading a tall and strong hunting dog.The fourth child smiled hey.He suddenly let go of the rope in his hand, and the dog rushed towards Tong Ling like an arrow off the string.Tong Ling screamed and collapsed on the ground.The hunting dog just sniffed at Tong Ling's feet and ran back to the fourth child.The fourth child led the dog and walked away, saying as he walked, "I'm afraid of dogs, I thought it was so great!" After finishing speaking, he whistled.Tong Ling's tears flowed down.The next day, the principal called the fourth child to the office, and the principal said to him sternly: "You are too disgraceful, how could you let the dog bite Teacher Tong! Huh?!" Is it?" The principal was furious, "Don't think we can't cure you!" The fourth brother went out without any reason, and threw the principal who was turning blue with anger.No matter what, the fourth child is a child of poor and lower-middle peasants, and he did not break the law. What can the principal do to him?

After going around in circles for a long time, it was time to talk about the math class that shocked the elementary school. Halfway through the class, the classroom was still quite quiet.Tong Ling taught the class very seriously.The fourth child is sleeping on the desk.Tong Ling wished that the fourth child was sleeping. For such a black sheep, he was lucky to be able to calm down.But the quieter it is, the more it looks like something is about to happen.Sure enough, after a while, a female classmate in the front row of the fourth child screamed loudly.The female classmate passed out after screaming.Tong Ling immediately asked: "What happened?" Seeing the fourth child standing up, "What can happen, the sky will not fall!" Tong Ling was surprised to see the fourth child stretching his hand from the female classmate's back Go in and take out a long green snake as thick as a thumb. Everyone in Quliu Village knows that it is a very poisonous green snake with bamboo leaves.Tong Ling was stunned. She watched the fourth child walk up to her with the snake, and then saw the fourth child throw the snake on her body, and heard his voice from hell: "Mr. The snake is not poisonous, I pulled out all its fangs, it doesn’t matter, if you don’t believe me, try it? I put it in my schoolbag, how did it get on Cuilian?” Tong Ling yelled and ran away crying out of the classroom.The fourth child whistled.

Heizi naturally knew about this. Although he didn't see the whole process, when he met Teacher Tong that day, he found that her eyeballs were red and swollen. A beautiful teacher, her eyes were crying like rotten peaches.The school was going to expel the fourth child, but his three fierce elder brothers entered the principal's office... The fourth child still stayed proudly.But later, the fourth child was no longer so mad at the teacher, the reason was that his three brothers who hoped that he would become a man beat him up severely, and the brigade secretary of Quliu village also came to their house to give him a rather severe beating. Lecture.

Tong Ling left Quliu Village soon after. The fourth child did not let Hei Zi go. Except for the brigade secretary's son who hadn't been bullied by the fourth child, all the classmates in the elementary school had suffered from him.The fourth child has a set of very effective and cruel means of torturing people. Anyone who does not listen to him has been punished by his means.In fact, there are many methods used by the fourth child to deal with people, but it is the method that makes Heizi shudder when he thinks about it. It is a kind of torture that destroys people's will. After school, Heizi rushed home in a hurry. He had to finish his meal and deliver it to the boatman when he got home.As soon as he left the school gate, he saw the fourth child and several older children squatting by the wooden bridge on the water pond talking, and every time he passed by a classmate, the fourth child would say a word to that person.Heizi was afraid of seeing the fourth child, because the dumb uncle was not around and no one was protecting him.

That was the way he had to go home. His heart was pounding, and he walked over bravely. Before he reached the wooden bridge, he heard a boy say to the fourth child: "Fourth child, that dumb follower is here." The fourth child sneered, "Good time!" Heizi approached them. The fourth child said to him, "Stop!" He dared not stop, his legs were shaking. The fourth child said: "Follower, you heard me clearly. I will wait for you here after school in the afternoon. You must give us five cents, otherwise you will not go home." Heizi was terrified, cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

"Did you hear that?" the fourth child said sharply. Heizi nodded and whispered, "I heard." The fourth child said, "Then you can go." As soon as Heizi crossed the bridge, he ran wildly. When I got home, my mother had already prepared the meal. She looked at Heizi's still in shock, and asked with concern, "Heizi, what's the matter, what's wrong?" She put her palm on Heizi's forehead and felt if he had a fever. .Heizi said: "Mom, it's okay, I ran too fast." His mother said: "Don't run so fast in the future, what are you in a hurry for?" Heizi looked at his mother and suddenly said: "Mom, can you give me five cents?" The mother was taken aback, this child never asked for money, what happened today, "What do you want money for?" Heizi bowed his head in silence, he really couldn't tell why he wanted money.The mother said: "Son, it's not good for you to be like this. You can't just ask for money. You have to know that we will die if we save a penny. Five cents can buy a catty of salt!" : "Mom, I don't want it anymore." He carried the rice in the bamboo basket and walked towards the ferry step by step.He was sad and afraid, and what was sad was that he made things difficult for his mother. He knew that the money was in the hands of the boatman, and that whatever his mother wanted to do, he had to discuss it with the boatman before giving it to her after the boatman agreed.The boatman often said: "It would be nice to let Heizi go to school. In the future, the money should be spent less, and nothing that shouldn't be spent should not be spent." What he was afraid of was that the fourth child would not let him go after school in the afternoon. He came to the ferry. The boatman parked the ferry on the shore, and he was sitting on the bow smoking a cigarette, wisps of blue smoke coming out of the pipe made of bamboo roots.Seeing him coming, the boatman took two puffs of his cigarette vigorously, knocked the dung off his pipe on the side of the boat, put the pipe in his cloth belt, and started a simple lunch. Heizi walked into the cabin while the boatman was eating. The boatman had his back to the cabin when he was eating, and Heizi walked to the small bamboo basket on the cabin.It was thrown in by the people on the boat.The punter never cares about the people on the boat asking for money, but the people on the boat will consciously throw money into the bamboo basket, more or less, the punter never cares.When Heizi saw the pennies in the bamboo basket, his eyes lit up. He really wanted to pick up a nickel. He heard the punter cough. He trembled in his heart. He is extremely conflicted. Even if Heizi took the five cents, the boatman would never be able to find out, but there is one word that makes Heizi suffocate, and that is the word "steal".During Heizi's growing up, this word has never been associated with him. He sighed and gave up. He was ready to face the punishment of the fourth child. He walked from the ferry to the village with his head down. He was too preoccupied to straighten his back and lift his head.As he was walking, he suddenly found a round object shining in the sun on the dirt road. He rushed over. It was clearly a shiny new nickel.In this day and age, who would leave money on the road?Maybe God was too pitiful for Heizi, so he gave him a reward.Heizi picked up the coin carefully, put the coin in his mouth, and bit it hard, it was true.He smiled, smiling happily.He wanted to whistle like the fourth, but he couldn't. He thought that today he could escape the torture of the fourth child. That afternoon, he kept holding the coin tightly in his palm, for fear that it would fly.The coin was hot in his palm.The coin was soaked with his sweat. Finally arrived after school. Heizi waited for the students to leave, and then walked out of the school nervously clutching the five-cent coin, and walked towards the small wooden bridge anxiously. He held the coin tightly in his hand. The fourth child was waiting for him by the small wooden bridge. The fourth child saw Heizi, and Heizi walked towards them tremblingly. "Hey, follower, do you have any money?" said the fourth child, his voice full of murderous intent. Heizi opened his hand, startled, and the coins that he had held tightly in his hand for an afternoon disappeared.His voice was bleak: "Wow, it's obviously in my hand." His eyes were wet. The fourth child said viciously: "Follower, you still want to lie to me!" Heizi was terrified. The fourth child waved his hand, and the two boys turned Heizi's hand behind his back.Another kid came over and held his head down.The fourth child walked over with a sneer, and took out a small knife from his pocket, the kind used to sharpen pencils.The fourth child lifted Heizi's ear, and scratched Heizi's earlobe with the back of the knife. This did not cut the skin, but it was very painful.Heizi screamed and burst into tears. The fourth child stopped moving, and he said: "Follower, you know how powerful I am! Tell you, if you don't give me money tomorrow, it's still the same, remember!" After speaking, the group of them walked away. Heizi walked to the school along the old road, but he couldn't find the five-cent coin no matter what. For several days, he was tortured by the fourth child. As soon as he saw the pencil sharpener, his heart became cold, and he couldn't believe that his ears were still there. He dared not tell anyone about the evil deeds of the fourth child. Heizi could only bear the torment of the fourth child silently.He hated the fourth child in his heart and hoped that the fourth child would die.He wants to curse the fourth child in the oldest way in Quliu Village.He found a woman in the country who had done just that. Heizi made a little figure out of clay made from porcelain, and he wrote the name of the fourth child on the little figure.He hid the little man in a hollow under a eucalyptus tree on the bank of the river.As long as he was free, he ran under the eucalyptus trees.He came under the eucalyptus tree, looked left and right like a frightened mouse, and carefully took out the little clay figurine after confirming that there was no one there. As soon as he saw the little clay figurine, his heart was full of anger. Heizi's eyes were full of hatred. He stabbed the little clay figurine's head and heart with a needle, cursing viciously as he pierced: "Fourth, go to death! Fourth, go to death!" After venting, he put the little clay figurine back into the tree hole. No one would have thought that a seven-year-old child would curse an older child in this way. The fourth child tortured Heizi more and more day by day. Heizi couldn't get rid of the shadow of the fourth child. That day, the fourth child's hand was heavy, and blood was drawn on Heizi's earlobe.The fourth child ran away as soon as they saw blood, and they were also afraid of seeing blood. Heizi covered his bleeding ears and cried all the way home. The mother quickly stopped the bleeding of her son.Her heart ached so much that tears welled up in her eyes.She said softly: "Hei'er, it's okay, it will be fine tomorrow. Hei'er, it's okay, Hei'er is a man, he doesn't mind pain." Heizi stopped crying. He stared blankly at his mother, knowing that his mother was as helpless as he was. He didn't expect that the boatman would go to the fourth brother to settle accounts for him. Although the boatman failed to do anything to the fourth child, he had a new understanding of the boatman. The dumb uncle went with the punter. That night, the dumb uncle held a torch, and the boatman came to the door of Lao Si's house with a sharp woodcutter.The fourth child's family was having dinner around a big round table, when they suddenly heard the thunderous voice of the boatman: "Fourth child, get out of here, you little bastard." The fourth child was frightened and hid behind the three elder brothers. behind. His three older brothers came out fucking the dick. The two sides confronted each other. The dumb uncle was chattering, his face was flushed, perhaps because of the firelight, but more because of anger.The boatman asked them why the fourth child was so cruel and almost cut off Heizi's ear. In fact, although the three elder brothers of the fourth child are like wolves and tigers, they are not unreasonable people.Under unknown circumstances, they fucked up and came out. After hearing what the boatman said, they knew that the fourth child was in trouble again. There are many villagers watching. They all like to watch the excitement, it would be great if there is excitement, otherwise, the night in Quliu Village would not be so lonely. A villager said: "The fourth child is too bullying. He has no education at all. He reads books up his asshole!" The eldest brother of the fourth child couldn't hold back his face anymore. He lifted the fourth child out like an eagle catching a chick.He slapped the fourth child hard, and roared angrily, "Don't make amends for such a disgraceful thing!" As soon as the big brother made this move, the people watching the excitement knew it was over.Sure enough, the boatman lost his temper, so he had to go back with the dumb uncle. The boatman returned home, stroked Heizi's head and said, "Son, tell me whoever bullies you in the village from now on, don't be afraid!" Heizi looked at the boatman with strange eyes. The fourth child no longer tortured Heizi, but sometimes when they did, the fourth child would threaten him fiercely: "Follower, be careful that I will cut off all your ears!" Heizi was not tortured by the fourth child anymore, and he never went under the eucalyptus tree. If it weren't for the death of the fourth child, he might have gradually forgotten the little clay figurine, but he would never forget the little clay figure in his life. He always thought that the death of the fourth child was related to his vicious curse, even though he didn't believe in God. ghost.He knew that there was something mysterious that caused the fourth child to die. No matter what, Heizi liked the way the fourth child was running on the playground. The fourth child really looked like a fit cheetah.Every time he secretly watched the fourth child running under the guidance of the physical education teacher, he thought, if one day, he has such a physique, then he can help his mother do a lot of heavy work. The fourth child died in the summer when Heizi was in school. The fourth child was wearing underpants and bare back that day, fishing in the pond.It is said that the fish basket of the fourth child was full of crucian carp that day.The children fishing with him had never seen Lao Si touch so many fish, and those crucian carp seemed to be drilled into Lao Si's hands by themselves. That day, Heizi was pulling rabbit weeds in the field not far from Shuizhen. His industrious mother raised a litter of cute little white rabbits.Under the bright sunshine, the fourth child's heart-warming laughter came. The waves of laughter tempted Heizi's lonely heart. How much he wanted to play and fish with them, but they didn't like Heizi. alternative. Just when Heizi was dreaming, he heard a scream, it was the scream of the fourth child.When he was fishing, he stepped on a broken hoe with his bare feet, and the sharp notch of the rusty hoe pierced into the sole of the fourth child's foot. Heizi saw the blood. The blood of the fourth child flowed all the way back to the village. The fourth child wilted like a frosted eggplant a few days after the injury.His whole body was lazy, he had no strength at all, and sometimes he was dizzy, and he sat there and yawned.People thought it was very strange, how could he be honest all of a sudden?Sometimes he would become irritable again, scolding anyone he saw, and avoiding anyone who saw him.After the mania was over, he yawned feebly again, like a plagued chicken.He lost his former air.People didn't care, including his family members.This is the early symptoms of tetanus.Within two days, the fourth child became like a timid mouse. His facial muscles began to contract violently, and he often had a wry smile on his face, which made people very frightened.Whenever he heard a voice, or saw sunlight, or a gust of wind, all his muscles would cramp.Then he had muscle spasms in his back, and his head was tilted back and twitched, which was equally terrifying. His head was held down by an invisible hand and pressed down on his back, his eyes were sudden, and his distorted face looked extremely painful .No one cared about his changes until he hid at home and dared not go out.That day, after one of his elder brothers came home, he heard the sound of struggling in a dark corner of the house. He walked over and carried the fourth child who was convulsing in the dark to the light. He looked at his The younger brother suffocated to death.The fourth brother's elder brother wanted to cry but had no tears. He didn't understand why the fourth child passed away like this. When the family was busy with their lives, they ignored the fatal injury of the fourth child. The fourth child died of tetanus. The life of the fourth child just disappeared on the village road. The physical education teacher said: "If the fourth child does not die, he will become an excellent sprinter." Heizi was very sad. He came under the eucalyptus tree, and he took out the little clay figurine from the tree hole.His tears fell like feathers, covering the hard little clay figurine.From then on, Heizi never saw the running fourth child again.He believed that the death of the fourth child was caused by himself, and he would feel guilty for it all his life. He dreamed that the fourth child ran so fast that he grew wings and flew into the sun.In that bleak night, Heizi heard the screams of the fourth family.