My eyes still hurt from time to time, and my second grandmother often gave me the red medicine. (.)
It is said that a year after I ran into a ghost, I went to visit my second grandma's house as usual, and when I passed by the second grandma's cow pen, I turned my head and took a look at the big yellow cow.
The big ox was lying listlessly on a pile of hay, and when he saw me, he raised his head and glanced at me. When he blinked, huge tears flowed out.
I have never seen a cow cry. I rushed to the second grandma's house as quickly as I discovered the new world. Before I entered the house, I shouted: "Second grandma, second grandma, your cow is crying."
But after entering the room, I stopped talking immediately, because the second grandmother was leaning back on the chair, looking at the eaves, muttering something I couldn't understand, and pus was about to leak from her shriveled eyes.
I stood for a while, then slowly approached her and asked, "Second Grandma, what are you singing?"
The second grandma seemed to have fallen asleep and was awakened by me. She turned her head and grabbed my arm, crying from the pain. After realizing it was me, she let me go and muttered on her back: "Yaoer, Yaoer, hurry up!" return."
I didn't know why the second grandma was like this, so I squatted on the sidelines and looked at it. After a while, the second grandma turned around and asked me: "Haiwazi, do you want me to give you my sister as my daughter-in-law?"
She asked this question before, and I said yes at the time, but this time for some reason, I dared not nod, and I reluctantly nodded after struggling with my thoughts for a while.
Seeing me nodding, the second grandma smiled with tears in her eyes.
I didn't stay at Second Grandma's house for too long that day, and I went home within ten minutes. That night, I heard from my grandfather that Second Grandma's son, that is, Ye Xiaoxiao's father, was killed in a dispute with someone outside. His daughter-in-law also ran away with others, and Ye Xiaoxiao might be sent back in a few days.
To be honest, I didn't have any special feelings when I heard the news. I just felt that Ye Xiaoxiao was very pitiful. Her father died and her mother ran away at such a young age.
Three days later, Ye Xiaoxiao was brought back, along with the ashes of Ye Xiaoxiao's father.
The custom here is to find an auspicious day for burial, and before the auspicious day for burial, a funeral needs to be held.
The second grandma was so skinny that Ye Xiaoxiao saw her grandma crying, and she cried too. I saw Ye Xiaoxiao, and she cried too. At that time, I didn't know what distress was, so I didn't know why I was crying.
On the night of the funeral, Second Grandma brought Ye Xiaoxiao and me a piece of filial piety cloth.
The closer the kinship, the longer the filial cloth. It stands to reason that Ye Xiaoxiao's filial cloth must be longer than mine. I don't know if the second grandma took it wrong. My filial cloth is exactly the same length as Ye Xiaoxiao's.
Three days later, Ye Xiaoxiao's father was buried, and the second grandmother asked me to kowtow to Ye Xiaoxiao in three steps, and followed the urn to the burial place.
Ye Xiaoxiao was very small and delicate, so fragile that everyone in the village felt distressed when they saw her, and they all sighed and said that her fate was too short.
The second day after Ye Xiaoxiao's father was buried, Second Grandma took Ye Xiaoxiao to the city, and I didn't see Second Grandma and Ye Xiaoxiao again until the fifteenth day.
The second grandma said that she went to the city this time to change Ye Xiaoxiao's name. She said that she had calculated that the Ye family was not easy to support, but the Mu family was easy to support, so she changed her name to Mu Xiaoxiao.
Ye Xiaoxiao used to stay and play with me for a while, and she is quite familiar with me. She is very quiet on weekdays and doesn't like to talk. It became more obvious after her father died. Only when I went to the second grandmother's house, she Just say a few words to me.
When she came back from the city, the first thing we said when we met was, "Brother Ye Hai, my surname is not Ye anymore. My grandma said my name is Mu Xiaoxiao."
I don't care about the surname issue at all, it's just a different name. There was a woman in our village who had a physical problem. The second grandmother showed her and asked her son to change his name. After the aunt, her illness really recovered.
After Mu Xiaoxiao changed her name, Second Grandma didn't allow me to call her younger sister anymore, and asked me to call her Xiaoxiao directly, saying it was for luck.
It doesn't matter to me, Xiaoxiao seems more familiar.
After I ran into a ghost, very few children in the village are willing to play with me, but Mu Xiaoxiao, she doesn't go with other children, she always follows me, brother Ye Hai is long and brother Ye Hai is short .
Sometimes when I was grazing cattle in the field, she would always find me, and then sit with us on the ridge of the field and watch the cattle.
On weekdays when the cows are not herding, she will often come to my house to look for me. She has a lot of toys, but as long as I like them, she will give them to me without hesitation.
And all I can do is to prevent her from being bullied by other children.
But things backfired. Once I had a conflict with another child. The child threw a stone at me and missed me, but broke a piece of skin on her head.
At that time, I was so angry that I picked up the stones on the ground and rushed to his house. I swear, if I really caught him at that time, I would definitely greet him with a stone on his head.
The child was scared into the house by me, and I slammed a stone on the door of his house several times before giving up.
In the afternoon, my grandparents came back and criticized me, saying that I didn't protect Mu Xiaoxiao well. I didn't say anything at that time, but I just felt unhappy.
On the way to send Mu Xiaoxiao home at night, Mu Xiaoxiao stared at me and said, "Brother Ye Hai, your eyes are red again, does it hurt?"
I didn't feel it until she said this, and my eyes hurt a little again. I thought that I would go to the second grandma's house and take medicine again, but I shook my head in front of Mu Xiaoxiao and said it was okay.
After sending Mu Xiaoxiao home, the second grandma frowned when she saw the injury on Mu Xiaoxiao's forehead, and immediately asked me what was going on.
I told the whole story, and the second grandma also accused me after hearing it, saying that I should protect her well.
I felt very wronged at the time, and I didn't know where the stone was going. If I knew its trajectory, I would definitely block it.
The second grandma scolded me there for a while and I was a little unwilling to listen, so I turned and left.
It was only when I got back under the chestnut tree that I remembered that my eyes were getting more and more painful. I wanted to go back to the second grandma for medicine, but when I thought about her blaming me just now, I stubbornly went back home, and I didn't want to go to the hospital at night. Grandpa and grandma said that they have been enduring it.
At eleven o'clock in the evening, the pain in my eyes was so unbearable that I turned over and got up from the bed, ready to turn on the light and go out to the next room to find my grandparents.
I reached out and touched the rope connected to the switch, but no matter how I tried, I couldn't touch the rope. Now I panicked. I tried it again, and what I touched frightened me completely.
What I touched was not a rope, but a cold hand. I was not sure at first, and stroked it twice before retracting my hand. What I touched was an arm, very cold, like winter wood.
After I touched the thing, I didn't dare to yell, for fear that if I yelled out, the person standing by my bed would find out where I was staying, so I withdrew my hand and quickly moved inside.
There was no moon at night, and it was dark inside. There was no visibility at all, and I didn't know who was standing in front of me, so I got into a stalemate with him.
After a long time, there was no movement in front of me. I slowly stretched out my hand again, stretched out my hand and squeezed it lightly, and touched the thing again.
Seeing that he hadn't moved for so long, I thought he had touched something else, so I swung forward with all my strength, and finally caught the rope that turned on the light.
I turned on the light with a ding, and looked at the scene in front of me. I was scared to death at that time.
Standing in front of me was none other than the old man I bumped into a few months ago.
As soon as I saw him, I yelled out. As soon as he heard me yelled out, he leaned forward and rushed towards me, and then my body became cold, and he disappeared.
After that, my grandparents rushed over to ask me what happened.
I pointed straight ahead and said hell, my grandparents didn't see anything, and it didn't look like I was pretending, so they drove me to the second grandma's house overnight.
The second grandma and the others had already gone to bed, and they knocked on the door for a long time before they opened it.
As soon as Second Grandma opened the door, my grandfather said, "Second Grandma, hurry up and see if Haiwazi is dead, and if he has bumped into a ghost again."
The second grandma put a piece of clothing on her body, looked away from my eyes, and said, "It's okay, you go back first, and stay here tonight."
My grandparents were naturally unwilling, and it was the second grandma who forced them away.
After they left, she turned her head and said, "Xiaoxiao, I'll bring a kitchen knife and a bowl."
When Mu Xiaoxiao saw that I had become such a fool, she was naturally anxious. As soon as Second Grandma said, she walked into the kitchen and took out these two things after a while.
After taking it out, the second grandma said to Mu Xiaoxiao: "Xiaoxiao, don't be afraid of pain for a while, or your brother Ye Hai will die, you understand?"
Although Mu Xiaoxiao was puzzled, she nodded.
I squinted my eyes and saw Second Grandma took Mu Xiaoxiao's hand, and then cut her hand with a knife. Mu Xiaoxiao frowned in pain, but didn't cry out.
When I saw it, I suddenly widened my eyes, regained my energy, sat up and asked, "Second Grandma, what are you doing Xiaoxiao?"
The second grandma turned her head and smiled at me, and then pushed me to the ground. After a while, she asked Xiaoxiao to go into the house to scoop some water into the bowl she was bleeding just now.
After everything was over, it was poured into my mouth suddenly.
Only now did I realize that I drank blood all the time before, but unfortunately I thought it was some kind of medicine, no wonder there was a fishy smell.
But Xiaoxiao's blood seems to taste different, it's quite delicious and useful, after drinking it, her eyes don't hurt anymore, and her sense of fear is also reduced.
After a while, I sat up. I was about to speak, but Mu Xiaoxiao frowned, then sobbed softly, and showed her grandma the big cut on her hand, crying about the pain.