Chapter 20 Fanglin Station

The closer you are to Pingyang County, the farther you are from the mountains. The mountains recede layer by layer like water waves, and finally become some hazy shadows.Yellow and green are mixed on the endless plain, which is a rich and abundant color. After passing a large oat field, there are gradually more cottages in the style of thatched huts. Many chickens and dogs are running in the village, but the figures are very lonely.Clusters of purple-red Polygonum spp. by the ditch look like blooming flowers from a distance.A plain is a plain, the sky is much wider, and the sun is low, roasting the crops in the naked oats like a fireball, and the fields are golden.

Such a good naked oats, why no one cut it?yelled the boy from the coffin truck. There is a plague here, people are almost dead, no one cuts during the day, someone cuts at night, ghosts come to cut!said the coachman. You lied, ghosts don’t eat, so what’s the use of cutting off naked oats? I won't lie to you, you will know when you arrive at Fanglin Station at night.The coachman said that the people here planted naked oats, and before they had time to harvest, they became dead ghosts. The boy said, where do they cut the naked oats to pile up, the ghosts have no place to pile up grain!

The coachman said, do you want them to pile grain into your belly?In a dream, the ghosts of this world also care about themselves, they pile up in their stomachs! The endless plain made Binu feel dizzy, she lost her direction and no longer needed direction, her feet were still handcuffed to Qin Su's coffin.They told her that Qilidong is in the north, on the way to Dayanling.They are going north.The coachman said, after crossing the plain, if you see the mountains again, then you will see the mountains in the north. When you see the mountains in the north, you will see Dayan Ridge. When you see Dayan Ridge, you will see your man. Don't look for life and death again, you should be satisfied!

Binu saw the boy's dirty face shaking on the coffin.He is no longer her gravedigger, he no longer works for the cruel god of death, but accepts Bai Chuntai's despicable mission to keep her with the coffin and keep her alive.The boy transformed into another man, tightly grasped the tail of her life with a small hand, and watched her all the time. Now she lost even the right to die, and Bai Chuntai betrothed her to a dead man.Baichuntai, it is a paradise for so many people, but it has become Binu’s hell alone. They robbed her package, robbed her body, and finally they robbed her sorrow, her tears, Even the right to die!

Binu could see the big iron ring on the coffin, it held her firmly like another big hand, never loosened.The hoop was the hand of that strange man, the hand of a dead man, holding her and repeating a sad and vain command, cry, cry, cry for me, cry louder!Along the way, Binu cried to every passerby and even the chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep on the roadside, I come from Taocun, and I am the wife of Wan Qiliang in Taocun!All the hoarse whimpers were regarded by others as the content of the crying spirit.Along the way, Binu held the coffin and wept bitterly. She cried for herself and for Qiliang. She couldn't make a sound, only tears flowed along the road, dripping into the dust on the road.How many passers-by passed by the coffin truck, but they all regarded Binu as someone else's widow. Those people had bright eyes, but they turned a blind eye to the piece of iron chain protruding from under Binu's white robe. Discussing the white leopard emblem flag and the cypress coffin with fragrance floating under the flag, they sincerely envied the dead man in the coffin, saying, looking at the retainers of Baichun Terrace, death is also beautiful!What a blessing to sleep in such a coffin, with a good wife and filial son beside the coffin!

They locked her in the hole of death, standing up is life, jumping down is death, but Binu can't stand up, nor can she jump down.Binu leaned on a stranger's coffin all the way north, feeling that she was not in the bullock cart, but a gourd drifting along the strange journey.Are you still looking for death?Do you want to go to Dayanling?The coachman and the boy's repeated persuasion made her tired. They didn't know that Binu gave up both life and death.In the morning, her robe was covered with warm sunlight, which made her feel alive. At night, when the ox cart sank in the darkness, the coffin was chilled, and the north became dark, and she felt like going to Dayanling again. The road is longer than her life, she renounced death, and did not promise to live.

The boy came over and pulled her hair from time to time, saying, let me hear you gasp!You are not dead, you are not allowed to pretend to be dead, move quickly, say a few words for me to listen to!Binu pushed the boy's hand away.The boy said, you will push my hand!You don't talk, you don't eat bread, and you don't even pee!How to prove that you are alive?You are half dead at best!Binu looked down at the hay on the car, a large piece of hay was wet, shining with crystal tears, so she said a word, she pointed to the hay and said, my child, my sister is still crying, if she can shed tears, it proves I am alive.

The coffin truck passed Fang County, the birthplace of the plague, and even the sun was pale in the dying village.They had seen a little girl under a tree surrounded by dogs.The dog kept barking at the girl, and the girl beat the dog with a branch, but when the dog couldn't get away, she climbed up a tree.The girl waved to the coffin truck from the tree, shouting, take me away, uncles and aunts, please take me away!The boy stood up and went to pull the coachman. He wanted a better female companion, but the coachman glared at him and scolded, you want to die?Didn't you see that the village was full of flies?Didn't you see wild dogs everywhere in the village?The house is full of dead people, so can the girl be free from plague?She gets in the car and we're all dead!

The boy asked Binu, can't your eyes see death?See if the girl has the plague, see if death is with her?Binu stared at the tree for a long time, saying that she saw the wind between the branches, the wind is the girl's god of death, and the wind has already dug the grave of the leaves under the tree.She told the boy that it was a girl who turned into a leaf, she couldn't jump off the tree, and the night wind blew off the first leaf on the tree, and the girl on the tree would die and turn back into a leaf and fall to the ground . The coffin truck was running non-stop on the beautiful plain in Fang County. On the way, it encountered a crazy old man. He crawled out of the oatmeal field naked, half-kneeling by the side of the ditch, and raised his hand to the people in the car. A sweet potato.The boy said to the coachman, there are no flies in this village, and there are not so many dogs. If you stop, he will give us sweet potatoes and let you give him a ride!The coachman said, if you want to eat his sweet potatoes, you should get out of the car. Didn’t you see that his legs are all rotten, and half of his stuff is rotten. If you eat his sweet potatoes, your whole body will rot, too. Do you want to get out of the car to eat?