At this time, Lin Xueyan was scared to death by the abandoned mansion and two weirdos in the house. She has returned to the city center. She hurriedly called Zhao Yuxiu and asked him to meet her at the door of the workshop. Soon Zhao Yuxiu came to the fart.
Lin Xueyan decided to go to the supermarket to buy some fresh vegetables and fruits before inquiring about Li Ying’s news. Zhao Yuxiu pushed a shopping cart with Lin Xueyan and looked at him respectfully. Lin Xueyan couldn’t help but want to laugh.
"The big lady finally smiled. Even if it clears up, it’s really suffocating me these days." Zhao Yuxiu looked relieved. Obviously, because Lin Xueyan had been sullen, his heart was terrified. Lin Xueyan didn’t come at him, but because a series of things happened these days, she kept her emotions in chaos.
Think about it for so many years. Although Zhao Yuxiu always eats and drinks for various reasons to borrow money every time he comes back, he never pays back his brother’s identity. Lin Xueyan is often dragged by the hotel owner to pay back the money. She still doesn’t hate him for living alone in reinforced concrete and building a city for so many years. She gradually regards him as her closest relative, a brother who is not very successful.
Lin Xueyan and the cashier girl asked about Li Ying, and there was still no news from Li Ying. The supermarket manager was very angry and had removed him from the store door, which inspired the managers to recruit brains.
Chapter 12 Child bride
Back home, Lin Xueyan got into the kitchen, and Zhao Yuxiu was smart enough to help her pick vegetables and wash vegetables. Two people were busy chatting while working. Suddenly the doorbell rang, and Lin Xueyan opened the door and found Bai Re and Long Xiaofei outside.
"How do you get together?" Lin Xueyan wondered.
"Who are you talking about?" Long Xiaofei asked inexplicably and then looked around.
"Ha ha, he followed me as soon as he entered the community. I also paid this person on purpose …" Bai Re Long Xiao Fei said slowly around him.
No wonder Long Xiaofei’s expression is a bit strange. It turned out that Bai Re regarded him as a sex maniac.
"Ha ha, the police are sometimes treated as bad guys." Lin Xueyan left the door open and two people outside. "How long are you two going to talk outside? Since it’s such a coincidence that you’re here, come on in and try a young lady’s cooking. "
It didn’t take much time. Lin Xueyan’s dishes were all cooked. Everyone gathered around and sat at the table.
"There isn’t anything valuable in Xueyan’s home, is there? Recently, these things should not be as simple as some chat people just coming in and browsing?" Long Xiaofei said over dinner.
"If there were anything of value, I wouldn’t get tired of this bitter day. I would eat, drink and be merry with something of value." Lin Xueyan gave Long Xiaofei a pie mouth.
Zhao Yuxiu suddenly put chopsticks leisurely and said, "Don’t say this, I really know a little about our family …" Seeing Lin Xueyan staring at his eyes, Zhao Yuxiu suddenly changed his mind, "Oh, no, it’s not that your family really has something that is said to be very valuable and quite mysterious."
Lin Xueyan withdrew her eyes and stared at him intently to deal with a piece of braised pork ribs in the bowl. She said, "Our home is our home. Please don’t be so ignorant, okay? Although my dad accepted your righteousness, I didn’t recognize you as a brother. If you brag, I will starve you for three days without food."
"Snow geese, what do you mean? Even if it’s not that my brother is a few years younger than you, somehow you have to respect it. Why do you always say I brag? It seems that I have to tell you a story. "Zhao Yu’s expression is still very serious, not like a joke. Lin Xueyan swallowed everything on her lips and listened carefully to his story.
"Xueyan, do you still remember your aunt?" Zhao Yuxiu stared at Lin Xueyan with a pair of small eyes.
Lin Xueyan shook her head and never knew anything else. Strange to say, it seems that she was a child with poor memory since she was a child. Because of this, Bai Ruo was ridiculed that she was suffering from childhood dementia.
Zhao Yuxiu just ignored her childhood dementia and said slowly, "Great grandfather Lin Delu has a son and a daughter. Of course, it is Grandpa Lin Yucai. The daughter’s elders are very taboo. If we talk about seniority, we should call her aunt. Her name is Lin Yimeng.
Say this name, Zhao Yuxiu stopped outside the window, and suddenly there was thunder, thunder and heavy rain, and the window cracked. This damn weather is really changing, and it is getting darker and darker. Four people roared around the table in the wind and listened to Zhao Yu’s self-cultivation a long time ago. Although it was about Lin Xueyan’s own family affairs, she felt like a former life when she listened.
Lin Yimeng died of illness in her thirties. She had too many puzzles. She was a strange person. When she was born, there was a fortune-telling blindness in the village, so please give it a blind mind. She shook her head and said that this child’s father, mother, brother, and husband could not enter the genealogy even if he was dead. Perhaps it is because of this that the family has always been afraid to talk about her affairs. Therefore, it is not easy for Lin Xueyan, a junior, to hear about Zhao Yuxiu. When she was a child, her grandfather and father talked about Zhao Yuxiu once.
When Lin Yimeng was born, her mother fell ill and never walked around again. Just as the fortune-teller said, Lin Yimeng’s father fell ill in a hurry when he was a month old. At that time, Xueyan’s grandfather Lin Yucai was a ten-year-old poor boy who was in charge early. He served his sick mother at the kang and served his sick father at the kang’s end. It was really hard and pitiful to support his sister Lin Yimeng for a month, but this Lin Yimeng was really hard to live.
Lin Yimeng has a problem. As soon as dinner is put on the table at dusk every day, she starts to grin and cry until the sun and the moon are dark, and she doesn’t stop cursing. More than every time, she has to cry until the moon climbs the treetops before she will eat and sleep. This kind of crying is three years. Strange to say, as soon as her mother died, she immediately stopped crying and got up and played like nothing happened. From this day on, she never lost a tear.
After that, Lin Delu lay on the kang for another year and got a folk prescription disease before she got better slowly. Because of her serious illness for many years, her family had been in debt for a long time. As soon as Lin Delu was well, she sent her son Lin Yucai to the drugstore as an apprentice, thinking that she could learn some skills to make a living. Secondly, she could eat less at home. At that time, Lin Yimeng was too young to leave her alone, so Lin Delu took her with her. The ferry boat crossed the river every day and saved money to pay off debts. It was very difficult to live.
When Lin Delu was boating, she obediently fiddled with the only thing her mother left her, a hand-sewn doll. But one day she accidentally dropped the doll into the water. Because the water was too deep, Lin Delu didn’t intend to get it for her. When she saw that the doll couldn’t be found, she pulled her father’s sleeve and shook her mouth. On how Lin Delu advised her to find the doll, Lin Delu was so upset that she didn’t know why she was possessed. She picked up Lin Yimeng’s little feet and threw her into the river.
At this time, an acquaintance saw Lin Yimeng being thrown into the river after a long distance, and running all the way was so scared that he jumped into the water to save people without taking off his clothes.
Lin Yimeng had half a life when she was rescued. At that time, people didn’t know anything about artificial respiration, so they found a horse to put her belly on the horse’s back and drove the horse to pick up uneven paths. Lin Yimeng’s horse bumped for a long time before he spit out the water poured into his stomach. Even after picking up a life, he choked into water in his lungs. Since then, he has been coughing and falling into tuberculosis.
Later, Lin Delu felt that it was inconvenient to take Lin Yimeng with him, and someone encouraged him to send Lin Yimeng out as a child bride. Lin Delu could not stand the grinding and agreed to accept ten large sums of money to send Lin Yimeng to a rich family named Ding.
Being a child bride is tantamount to jumping into a fire pit. Seven-year-old Lin Yimeng has to wash clothes, wash dishes, draw water and sweep the yard every day. She is also beaten and scolded, and even she can’t eat enough. At that time, she couldn’t brush the dishes, and she could do a good job with a small bench. God is not too cruel. Even though she was so sleepy, she was never burned by boiling water in the pot.
Lin Yimeng began to learn to cook when she was a little older. At that time, Ding Jia hired more than a dozen long-term workers. Lin Yimeng had to get up at four o’clock every morning to make breakfast for the long-term workers, often steaming two large pots of bean curd and stewing a pot of cabbage soup.
One day, everyone got up early and found that the bean bag in the kitchen was wrapped in half a pot of steamer, and it was still steaming in the pot. Lin Yimeng was nowhere to be seen, so everyone looked around the house and said it was strange that the girl couldn’t even find a shadow as if she had evaporated.
Ding Yunchang, Lin Yimeng’s husband, shouted her name at the top of her voice until three strokes a day before she heard the weak response from the well where she usually draws water. Everyone ran over and saw that Lin Yimeng was standing upright in the deep well. Immediately, someone found a rope waist to hold her and asked her what would happen in the well. She seemed to have just woken up and felt in a daze. At this time, people found that her fingers in her right hand were all broken and her fingers in her left hand were all messy, but her hand had a beautiful brocade box.
The box is one foot square and made of good mahogany. The box cover is painted with dragons and carved with phoenix styles. Lin Yimeng can’t tell how the box came from. Whoever wants to show it to her won’t let go. It is said that someone once reached out to touch the brocade box and felt soft and greasy, just like a girl’s skin can be seen as a wooden box. I don’t know what will happen. At that time, Lin Yimeng was very alert. The horse hugged the box tighter. It is impossible to touch it again. Everyone speculated that Lin Yimeng had met a fairy fairy and looked at her pitifully and gave her a treasure.
Ding Yunchang directly carried Lin Yimeng into the back room. Since then, no one has seen the box. The more I don’t know, the more people will think about it. It is said that the box is a cornucopia, and it contains night beads …
Chapter 13 If white habits
Zhao Yuxiu lowered his voice and said, "What I said is true. My aunt Lin Yimeng died young when she was only thirty-five years old. Before her death, she became a bone because of tuberculosis. She couldn’t lie down and sleep every day, and she could sit on a pillow. Her death was really shocking."
The three of them watched Zhao Yu fix the mystery and unconsciously forgot the horror story in the attention of eating.
Zhao Yuxiu told what happened eleven days after Lin Yimeng’s death. Speaking of the moment when Lin Delu put his hand into the curtain, he suddenly stopped talking. His eyes stared straight out of the window at the dark sky and his mouth was holding a strange smile.
"elder brother! Don’t scare people, will you? What happened after Grandpa put his hand into his aunt’s coffin? "
Zhao Yuxiu said "I don’t know" as lightly as if he suddenly woke up from a dream.
"Pa" A Lin Xueyan threw chopsticks on the table and said unhappily, "What a hole this is! I’ll make an exception and call you a brother. You are so unkind."
Zhao Yuxiu sighed naively. "Grandpa and Dad said this when they talked about it, but they refused to talk about it here. No one knows what happened in the back. However, before this incident, everything in the village was evil, especially the brocade box. It was said that Lin Yimeng didn’t die. She became a monster and wandered in the Woods every day. It was also said that Lin Yimeng had died long before her death. It was the family who confused others and deliberately created false news. It was even more outrageous to say that she was a peony fairy who came to complete the world. She had already been robbed. Holding the brocade box, I went back to heaven. Some malicious people tried every means to get the box many times, but they didn’t find it. During the Cultural Revolution, some people found a trick and thoroughly raided Ding Guke, but they still didn’t find the box. People are not afraid of anything. I think those strange things that have appeared recently are that someone is running for the brocade box. "
Lin Xueyan looked at Zhao Yuxiu with a grain of salt and then at Bai Re and Long Xiaofei. Everyone seemed to have fallen into the fog, and their faces were full of question marks.
Zhao Yuxiu is very serious. It’s not like cheating at all.
"What’s in the box? Where is the box now? What, you know this and I don’t know it? " Lin Xueyan asked Bai Re and Long Xiaofei questions.
"When I was a child, I listened to my adoptive father, that is, Xueyan’s father. Xueyan should also hear it next to me, but …"
Lin Xueyan said naively with a sigh, "But I can’t remember."
Zhao Yuxiu went on to say, "Dad hasn’t seen the box, and he doesn’t know what’s in it, and he doesn’t know where the box is now. Dad said that when Grandpa died, he didn’t leave anything, so it became a mystery."
Bai Re silently into the mouth steak with rice magnum Xiao Fei frowning lost in thought.
Say this while eating Yu Xiu and Long Xiaofei and drinking some wine. Dinner didn’t end until more minutes later. The rainstorm outside the window didn’t stop. Lin Xueyan left Long Xiaofei and Bai Re for the night at home. Bai Re slept with her in her bedroom. Long Xiaofei and Yu Xiu slept in Yu Xiu’s room.
Before going to bed, Bai ruo said to Lin Xueyan, "Xueyan, I have the habit of getting up early and running for more than ten years. Early in the morning may disturb you."
Lin Xueyan was so sleepy that she vaguely replied, "I have a habit of sleeping like a dead pig every morning without me. If you don’t lift the house, you won’t bother me."
I don’t know when I slept soundly. Lin Xueyan was awakened by a gust of cool wind. Her eyes were still hard to open. She stretched out her hand and touched the position next to her. Bai Re was no longer in bed, leaving a crumpled quilt. It seems that she has been up for a while.
Why did Xiao Ni open the window when she was running? There was just a heavy rain in the early morning of late autumn, and there was a wet chill in the wind, so that Lin Xueyan’s exposed arm was like frozen into ice.
Lin Xueyan got up lazily and went to the window full of dissatisfaction.
Walking to the window, the cold wind blew against my face. Lin Xueyan shivered violently. It was still dark outside the window. She consciously looked at a watch at two o’clock in the morning. Where is this morning exercise? It is tossing in the middle of the night! She began to feel a little puzzled if she was used to dialogue.
At the window, Lin Xueyan consciously glanced at the building and saw that there was a white shadow in the square. The shadow was moving around the square quickly … The speed was even as accurate as walking. Is it Bai Re running there?
Lin Xueyan didn’t have a horse to go back to bed. In fact, she was already sleepy. At this moment, she found Bai Re passing through a bush where something was flashing and burning. If I didn’t guess wrong, who should be smoking there?
The fire slowly moved out of the trees and was running a little closer to Bai Re Lin Xueyan. She thought it was bad to run in the middle of the night. Bai Re seemed to be stared at by some bad guy and ran to the living room in a panic, banging on Long Xiaofei and Zhao Yu to repair the door. Long Xiaofei was wearing pajamas and just opened the door when she pulled it and ran downstairs.
"What’s the matter with the earthquake? Didn’t all "Long Xiaofei rubbed his eyes and followed Lin Xueyan to run.
"Earthquake?" Zhao Yuxiu ran faster than Long Xiaofei. Lin Xueyan watched him disappear into the corridor in vest and shorts.
"If something happens to Bai," Lin Xueyan doesn’t explain too much. Because she ran too fast, she fell violently on the stairs and it didn’t hurt. She got up and ran to the entrance of the building. Soon they arrived at the building, but the community square was swinging, and there was no one except two sharp night owls screaming at the root.
Lin Xueyan immediately shouted "Bai Ruo!"