Chapter 18 river bend

The bell of the night hunting awakened Binu in the river bend. She was dreaming of death, and the bell pulled her out of the dream.Binu wakes up in the earth pit half as high as a person, and sees a small piece of low starry sky, implicitly covering the river bend, covering the earth pit beside the water, and covering all the details of death.It seemed that Xingkong was stubbornly holding on to her life. She was alive, and her life became a miracle, but this miracle was daunting.A few drops of water condensed on Binu's face, and she knew that it was not dew, but tears from a dream.With so many tears flowing, why am I still alive?She remembered that her mother said that her father shed a tear for Mr. Xintao, and that shed a tear on the top of the mountain, and he lost his life when he walked down the mountain.She shed so many tears, tears flowed for three days, in the morning she predicted that she would die in the night, when the night came she thought she would die in the dawn, she thought she had been dead for three days, when she raised her eyes, she saw the sky again the stars!

Binu stood in her grave and looked around the bend of the river. The bell came from the woods on the other side of the river.The water and the weeds were all cold white in the moonlight, and the boy was sleeping by the edge of the pit.Binu couldn't wake up her gravedigger, the boy must be exhausted, he has been waiting for Binu to die for three days, digging a hole while waiting, he said, you are still alive, how can I bury you?Didn't you say that the people of Taocun will die if they shed tears?I'm waiting for you to die, you can only be buried after you die!I'm afraid you'll lie, if you lie to me, I'll steal this hoe and this shovel for nothing!Binu is also confused now, she doesn't know if she lied to the boy, or Taocun's daughter has lied to her.Maybe her tears are worthless, shed when she shed, and shed does not count, maybe her sorrow is not sorrow, her pain is not pain, her face is full of tears, no one cares to look at her!She has been waiting for death for three days, and she is so emaciated, she is still alive!Her god of death is also full of resentment for waiting, saying death, but not dying, she can see that the boy is impatient for waiting, he fell asleep, still breathing contemptuously from his nostrils, he slept on the mound , still holding the hoe tightly in his hand.

Binu couldn't wake up the sleeping boy. In the night, she carefully looked at the cemetery she had chosen during the day. What a wonderful place. It was next to the water and the road. It was a piece of virgin land formed by the river bed. Far away, not far from the bustling Baichuntai, the boy said that sooner or later, the new land in the bend of the river will be included in the property of Baichuntai. That is the future, and she has already fallen into the ground in the future, and she has already turned into a gourd.The people in Baichun Terrace were busy, they gave up the swale in the river bend to loach, reed flower, and binu.In the evening, a caravan of yellow jackets of a big man passed by the river bend. The people in the car stopped for no reason when they saw them.A few people came down, and an old official was supported by the stars, walking towards them.Binu thought she was here to chase people away again, and she thought that it was not allowed to dig holes in the bend of the river, so the old official asked her from a distance, "Sister, what do you open up wasteland to plant?"Binu didn't dare to tell him, so he said casually, open up wasteland and grow gourds!The old official said, planting gourds is not good, but cotton is good. Sister, do you know that the west is at war and the south is also at war. You planted cotton for spinning and weaving, and made war robes for frontline soldiers. Women also have to contribute to the country. !Binu knew little about his accent and diction, and when they returned to the road, she asked the boy if the man was Heng Mingjun.The boy said, what about this person and that person, they are imperial envoys!He came by the king's side, even Heng Mingjun was afraid of him!Binu said, I don't care where he comes from, I won't take their car anyway, just don't stop us from digging a hole.

The torches in the woods on the other side of the river gradually turned half of the sky red, and the wind brought the voices of people, deer and horses to the bend of the river.Binu didn't know what happened to Baichuntai, she pushed the boy again, the boy finally woke up, he jumped up from the ground, heard the call of the deer whistle in the distance, and shot!Half asleep, he looked at the woods on the other side of the river, and said, It's night hunting, night hunting!I have never caught up with the night hunting, I will not build your grave, I will go back to be a deer man! You can't go, child.Binu said, if my sister said she would die, she would die. Maybe I would die when the sun comes out. Who will throw dirt on my grave once you leave?

The boy's dirty little face was full of hatred. He stared at Binu, and suddenly dug up a pile of soil with a hoe and threw it at Binu. Throw soil and soil, I will throw it now!It's all your fault, you keep saying you're going to die, but you just refuse to die!How many things have you delayed me, just give me an ear spoon for picking out my ears! Don't blame me, kid, I'm also wondering, why am I so lucky?It's not easy to live, and it's not easy to die!Binu looked up at the sky at the river bend and said, I just asked about the stars in the sky, why didn't they let me die?I dreamed that I was dead, and I dreamed several times, and when I opened my eyes, I saw stars again!

The boy said, if you are lazy, you will just sit and wait to die!You refuse to hang from a tree, saying that the hanged ghost sticks out his tongue and dies an ugly death, and you refuse to jump into the river, saying that the soul of a drowned ghost will float away on the water. Why do you insist on dying in the soil? Is it so easy to die in the soil? Binu said, child, I am a gourd, how can I turn back into a gourd if I don’t die in the soil? The boy suddenly roared, you are not a gourd, but a dung beetle, and the dung beetle burrowed into the soil to die! The boy ran away in the night, and Binu saw him nimbly jumping over the fallen hoe, and his back disappeared after a while.Binu couldn't hold back the boy, so she stood in the pit and looked at the hoe outside. The hoe shone lonely in the moonlight. Once the boy left, there was only one hoe to accompany her.She was a little chilled, is it so hard for a person who has been transformed into a gourd, even death is so difficult!The boy scolded her for being lazy, thinking she was standing in a pit waiting to die. Where had she ever been lazy since she was a child?She didn't know that a person's life would be so hard that even if he died, he would die diligently!Binu got angry and climbed out of the pit.The moonlight outside the pit was very cold, the strong wind blew through the reeds on the shore, and the wind messed up Binu's hair. She lowered her head and saw a shadow of a person dragging on the ground. Ghosts don't have shadows. She still has a shadow, three days and three days. It's night, why is she dragging her shadow along the river bend?Binu remembered the method of death provided by the boy. Hanging from a tree is the quickest and easiest way to die. No help is needed, just a cloth belt, but Binu is unwilling to hang herself on the tree. She has seen hanging ghosts since she was a child. The one who sticks out his tongue is so scary to die.The second way of death is right in front of you. Go to the depths of the river and drown yourself. It is not difficult. Go down and let the big mouth of the river swallow her and die. Fish, water is not soil, water flows everywhere, what if she dies in the water?What should I do if the gourd seedlings don't sprout? If the gourd seedlings can't get out of the ground, she can't turn back into a gourd. If she doesn't turn back into a gourd, she will have no afterlife!Binu looked at the river under the moonlight. The cold and fluctuating water made Binu feel afraid. There was no afterlife in the water. If there was no afterlife, all her hardships and tears for more than 20 years would be in vain. How many days and nights in more than ten years, every day and night is like this river, flowing away in vain!

Binu stepped on the river with one foot, but the other foot was retreating. Her two feet had different opinions on the water. After a stalemate for a while, Binu took the initiative and put the foot in the water back to the shore.Not in the water, not easy to die!She seems to be consoling her feet, and she seems to be convincing herself that sooner or later she will die, or die in the soil, where she can feel at ease. It was quiet at the river bend, and there was one or two frog croaks from somewhere far away. She guessed that the frog was in the grass. Binu stood up to look for the frog, and walked a few steps along the water's edge. , and suspected that the sound of frogs was coming from the other side of the road, she muttered, whoever plays hide-and-seek with you, go to find your son, I don’t care about you.She gave up her attachment to the frog.They have parted ways, they are no longer companions.It would be great if it was really a frog alone, and they could be good companions. Unfortunately, they are two women, separated by Yin and Yang. The road is different.

Binu decided to go back to the earth, the earth pit looked like an unfinished tomb under the moonlight, and also like a simple home, the pit was warmer than outside, and there was no wind.She was about to slide slowly down the pit when she suddenly saw the frog. The frog was squatting in her grave, listening with its head upturned. I hadn't seen it for a few days. Sadness is more desperate. Go out and find your son!Binu squatted down and yelled to the frog in the pit, come out, I will never be so kind to you again, I tied the package for Qiliang, and let you get in!You ran to squat in the grave I dug with so much hard work!You frog is also here to bully people, such a small frog wants to occupy such a big hole for me!The Reach is full of mud, where can't you bury a frog?You have to come and lie in my pit!