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I sat on the ground, gasping for breath.
A chilling wind swept through the air.
The leaves in the forest rustled incessantly.
Fortunately, Master Ma hadn't turned into a ghost.
If he had, I could only imagine he would be a formidable one.
I glanced over and realized with dread that the incense was nearly consumed by the surrounding restless spirits! Normally, the incense would burn for a long time, but with these ghosts gathered around, it was burning quickly; a whole bundle of long incense was about to be extinguished.
Once the incense burned out, they would surely continue to draw on the living energy.
I didn't have time to deal with Master Ma anymore. I shoved the Wooden Bell into my pocket and ran toward the crowd.
I first reached my father and shook him awake.
He blinked groggily, looking at me in confusion.
I hurriedly said, "Dad, don't talk! The situation is dangerous. We need to wake everyone up and quietly head down the mountain. Hurry!"
My father rubbed his eyes and then slapped the back of my head. "Song Fei, did you get us into trouble again? Master Ma doesn't want you talking or waking him up; you..."
I quickly covered my father's mouth and said, "Dad, don't say that. There are ghosts over there. Just trust me this once, okay? Hurry up and wake Mom."
My father was about to argue that there were no ghosts, but then he remembered Lian's situation and fell silent.
I rushed over to shake my mother.
No matter what I did, she wouldn't wake up. However, Yu stirred awake after just a couple of shakes.
"Dad, I'll explain everything when we get back to the village. For now, you need to take Mom home. If we wait any longer, it will be too late. Go! I'll go wake the village chief..."
This time, my father believed me. He carried my mother on his back and took my younger brother down the mountain.
I managed to wake the village chief. I noticed something: the stronger the man, the easier it was to wake him up. Many of the women simply wouldn't budge. I didn't know what to do about that, but for now, we needed to get everyone down the mountain.
Once Hao Dafu was with me, everything became much easier. Together, we woke as many people as we could, and then we helped carry everyone down from the village.
Looking back, the entire Yinpo Forest was shrouded in an eerie energy, almost like dark clouds hanging overhead. It felt like the end of the world.
I dared not linger any longer and quickly ran down the mountain with everyone else.
When we reached the bottom, many people were utterly exhausted.
The village chief told everyone to go home and rest while he followed me to my house.
Once inside, Hao Dafu closed the door and looked at me. "Fei, what on earth is going on? Why do we suddenly need to come down from the mountain?"
"I said, 'Village Chief, we've all been deceived. Here, have some brown sugar water first.'"
My father, Hao Dafu, and I sat down at the table. I asked my father to prepare the brown sugar water. After drinking it, I indeed felt a bit stronger and more spirited.
I shared everything I had seen at the Mountain, along with my own speculations.
Finally, I asked, "Dad, Village Chief, this Master Ma is clearly out for revenge. He wants to harm everyone in our village. But what grudge do we have against him? And what's the deal with Xu Cuihua?"
My father and Hao Dafu sat in silence, both smoking and ignoring me.
Seeing this, I knocked on the table and said, "Why aren't you two saying anything?"
Hao Dafu paused for a moment, then stood up and ruffled my hair. "Fei, you're doing great. You've made a significant contribution. I'll remember this, and I promise to take care of your family in the future." With that, he walked out.
I glanced at Hao Dafu as he left. What on earth happened thirty-three years ago?
My father continued to smoke quietly.
"Dad, tell me about it. You must have been over ten years old back then; you surely remember something."
He pulled out another cigarette and lit it with the stub of the previous one. After taking a couple of puffs, he sighed and said, "Of course I remember."
"Then please tell me."
My father nodded slowly, looking at me with an unusual expression in his eyes.
My father used to look at me like a contractor looks at a wage earner, always ready to give me a lesson and let me go to work. But this time, my dad looked at me more like a stranger. I was startled and said, "Dad, what's wrong with you?" My dad shook his head, took another sip of brown sugar tea, took a deep breath, and said, "Fei, that incident thirty-three years ago, um, Well, it must be our village’s fault, but it’s been a long time. I was eleven years old, okay, I’ll give it to you. Let’s have a good chat tonight.” Looking at my dad, I always feel as if my dad has made some decision. His attitude towards me tonight is a bit special. My dad blew out a smoke ring and said, "Thirty-three years ago, our Shantai Village was not considered a poor village at that time. As the saying goes, we rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, and we rely on the water to eat the water. There are mountains behind our Shantai Village. There is a big river in front of us, tsk tsk, we were very wealthy back then. When you and I were in the 1980s, ordinary people couldn't fill their stomachs, but in our Shantai Village, we could still eat game, fish and shrimp, haha. , transportation was less developed at that time, and few people had ever left the village. One day, a woman suddenly appeared at the entrance of the village dragging two children, trying to enter the village..." My dad took a few puffs of cigarette, as if As I reminisced, a perverted smile appeared on my face. My dad: "At that time, our Shantai Village had never left the village. The wives and old ladies in the village were all wearing coarse clothes, and their dirty hair could stand up. But, the woman from the entrance of the village, oh, she is Xu Cuihua, she took her two children and walked to the entrance of the village. When I saw her at that time, she was like a fairy sister descending to earth... She was so beautiful, just like the person in the painting, and she wore the clothes that an aristocratic grandmother could wear. Cheongsam, she is thin, tall, but very fair, not the thin kind that is hungry, but pretty thin, her eyes are like stars..." My dad was looking at the roof in rapt attention, and his expression was simply... It's just the feeling of remembering your lover. If my mother saw her, she would slap her twice. I saw my dad nagging at this, so I quickly interrupted him, "Dad, the point is, Xu Cuihua is very beautiful, and then..." "Then? Oh, yes, at that time, although our village It is close to mountains and water, but to be honest, there is not enough food, so the village was not willing to accept outsiders at that time. But, well, Wang Cuihua is very beautiful, and there is no man, so he took two with him. Baby, at that time, some young people in the village asked the village chief to take him in. "My dad rubbed the corner of his mouth and said, "I was too young to understand this at that time, but I knew that the old ladies and wives in the village were. , looked at Xu Cuihua with evil intentions, but the men in the village, who were originally afraid of their wives, decided to take her in at that moment, and even took the initiative to clean up the former militia duty room in the village and let Xu Cuihua lived with a family of three... In those days, the law was not good, especially in mountain villages like ours. The police probably didn't even know that our village existed. At that time, Xu Cuihua couldn't live with two children. , So, at night, there would always be some men, um, including the village chief at the time, who would bring food to Xu Cuihua, and then forcefully give it to Xu Cuihua. "When my dad got here, He sighed and said: "Really, humans are just beasts, just higher-level beasts. At that time, men in Village, whether they were married or not, as long as they were braver, would run to Xu Cuihua's house, I was 11 years old at the time, and I was lying outside the window with a group of friends. I saw the militia captain in his fifties, kneeling down to Xu Cuihua, and picking up Xu Cuihua We didn't understand it at the time, but it was very exciting to watch..."
I listened to my father's words, feeling a tightness in my chest that made me uncomfortable. A movie came to mind, "The Talented Mr. Ripley," and I thought of the heartbreaking female lead.
I quickly interrupted my father, saying, "Dad, please don't go into such detail. It's hard for me to listen. What happened next?"
"Later... later the village was thrown into chaos because Xu Cuihua was pregnant. Almost every adult man in the village could be the father of that child. The men in the village split into factions and started fighting. Some wanted to claim Xu Cuihua for themselves but didn't want to marry her or take on the responsibility of being a father. In short, they all saw Xu Cuihua as their property. Then the women became angry too; unable to control their men, they went after Xu Cuihua, pulling her hair, tearing her clothes, throwing dung at her... It was a sin! A terrible sin! Eventually, Xu Bansian stepped in. He discussed with the Old Village Chief that keeping Xu Cuihua would be a disaster for the village. What was once a united village was now filled with fighting and insults, no peace at all. So, Xu Bansian and the Old Village Chief decided that the police were coming; all you men are criminals, guilty of rape, and you will face severe punishment. The only way out was to drive Xu Cuihua away, to send her into the mountains to escape..."
My father seemed saddened as he spoke, wiping his eyes.
Listening made my heart ache even more. They tore apart something beautiful; Xu Cuihua was innocent—she had simply faced misfortune at home and fled with her child to escape famine. But she was too beautiful; to the villagers, she was like a fairy. In the end, she became a complete tragedy that exposed the ugliness of human nature!
My father extinguished his cigarette butt and said, "It was during a heavy snowstorm when the whole village drove Xu Cuihua away. The poor woman, heavily pregnant and with two children in tow, was chased into the mountains by everyone in the village. Everyone knew that once she left, she would surely die because even a strong mountain dweller might not survive out there, let alone frail Xu Cuihua who was pregnant and dragging along her children..."
That was it; my father waved his hand dismissively. "Don't ask anymore; I don't want to think about it." He took a big gulp of water and resumed smoking.
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