My Wife, Something is Wrong

  Chapter 61 The Dilapidated Village

   Three-way intersection.

  Xiaodie was wearing an emerald green dress, standing anxiously under a big tree, looking forward to the foot of the mountain.

   not long.

  Her eyes lit up, and a joyful smile finally appeared on her face.

   "Master..."

  She ran up with tears in her eyes.

  Luo Qingzhou gently hugged her still trembling body, and comforted her softly: "It's okay, don't be afraid."

   It was the first time for the little girl to see such a **** scene, and it was the first time she saw him kill someone, so she was naturally scared.

  Xiao Die cried and said: "My lord, there is a lot of blood on your body, let's go home quickly..."

  Luo Qingzhou took her little hand and looked at the way he came.

  Paused, he bent down, and whispered into the little girl's ear: "Xiaodie, we won't go home for the time being, the young master will take you to a fun place."

"what?"

  The little girl was stunned when she heard it: "Where...where?"

  Luo Qingzhou looked at another path with complicated eyes: "The place where I was born."

  Xiao Die opened her eyes wide.

   "Let's go."

  Luo Qingzhou didn't dare to stay here for too long, so he dragged her to another path that was covered by weeds and was already unfamiliar.

   It is not yet possible to go home directly.

  If there is an ambush on the road, with his current state, he and this little girl are probably going to be in trouble.

  I can only go to that small mountain village for one night.

  Wait until dawn tomorrow, and then take a carriage back to the city by surprise.

"Oh."

  Xiaodie didn't say anything more, she was led by him obediently, and walked on another path, her eyes were full of dependence.

  No matter where the son goes, she will follow.

  Even if the son sells her, she is willing.

  If the young master really sells her, at worst, after the young master gets the money and leaves, she will sneak out and go to find the young master.

  Anyway, she will be the childe's man for the rest of her life, the next life, forever and ever.

   Never separate from the son!

  The master and servant walked on the deserted path, neither of them spoke.

  Luo Qingzhou pricked up his ears, still remaining vigilant, looking back from time to time to see if anyone was following him.

  The small mountain village in my memory is only four or five kilometers away from here.

  However, this small road has been neglected all year round, and weeds have spread, and the road can no longer be seen in many places.

   At noon.

  The two finally saw the small mountain village ahead.

   Today's small mountain village is desolate and dilapidated.

  After several attacks by monsters, most of the young people in the village died. Except for some widowed and lonely old people who had lost their relatives and stayed there stubbornly, there were no young people in the village, let alone children.

  The bustle of the village once seemed like yesterday.

  But even in the past, what remains in Luo Qingzhou's memory is almost all shadows.

  The mother conceived before marriage, and after giving birth to him, even the father didn't know who the father was. There was a lot of discussion in the village, and the two of them were nailed to the pillar of shame.

   Almost every day there are vitriol, sarcasm and insults.

  Even children don’t play with him.

  In order to raise him as an adult and let him study, his mother suffered all kinds of blind eyes and humiliation in the village, but she still persisted.

After his grandfather and grandmother passed away, and his uncle and uncle left the village and never returned, his mother was lonely and had no protection. She was afraid that he would be hurt and wanted him to live a better life, so she brazenly took him into the city. , into Chengguo Mansion.

  Since then, the mother and son have never returned to the village that made them sad.

  Luo Qingzhou thought about these things in his heart, and took Xiaodie to wash briefly in the river in front of the village before entering the village.

  The village that was once full of children playing, dogs barking, and adults scolding, has become silent now.

  Weeds grow all over the front and back of the house.

  The iron locks on the gates are rusty, and the courtyard walls of some houses have collapsed.

Luo Qingzhou took Xiaodie, walked and watched all the way, through the gate of the courtyard, only saw two old people sitting alone in the small courtyard, with their eyes closed, basking in the sun, as if they were waiting for that The day comes.

  Luo Qingzhou did not stop, and came to the small courtyard where he once lived with his mother.

  The gate has decayed and collapsed, and half of the courtyard wall has collapsed. I don’t know if it was caused by the wind and rain for a long time, or it was pushed down by the villagers after their mother and son left.

  The small courtyard is full of lush weeds, broken bricks, and some tattered cloth buried in the soil.

  There is nothing left in the house.

  Even the tables, stools, and beds were removed.

   Fortunately, the four walls are still there, and the roof is still there, which can also provide shelter from wind and rain.

   "Son, is this where you and your wife used to live?"

   Xiaodie looked at the scene here with a sad expression on her face.

   "Clean up the room, we'll just spend the night here tonight."

  Luo Qingzhou didn't say much, walked out of the house and said: "I'll go see what to eat, you must be hungry too? Don't run around, just stay in the house."

"oh oh."

  Xiao Die agreed and went to find the broom.

   There is a broom in the small courtyard, but it is already rotten.

   But it doesn't matter, you can wrap it in a cleaning cloth and continue to use it to sweep the floor.

   There should still be water in the well.

  Luo Qingzhou walked out of the small courtyard and walked to the end of the village, watching from house to house.

   When approaching the end of the village, he saw an old woman.

  The old woman in a shabby padded jacket was sitting on a chair in front of the door, looking at the distant mountains with muddy and confused eyes, not knowing what she was thinking.

  The old lady has white hair all over her head, her face is wrinkled and weathered, her back is bent, and she is in her dying years.

  But Luo Qingzhou recognized her the first time he saw her.

  The person in front of him was the most vicious and worst person to his mother in this village back then.

  He still clearly remembers that one summer, his mother came back from picking up a wild watermelon from the mountains.

When the mother and son were about to share happily, this person whom his mother called Aunt Nine suddenly broke into the house with someone, slandered his mother for stealing her watermelon, and then cursed, with all kinds of vicious and dirty words in his mouth. words, and scratched his mother's hair with his hands, scratched his mother's face with his nails...

   Finally, the watermelon was taken away.

  Mother hugged him, weeping silently in the corner.

   At that time, he swore secretly that when he grew up and had the ability, he would make this vicious woman suffer.

   But at this moment, looking at the old man in front of him, seeing her white hair, wrinkled face, quiet and aging appearance, he could no longer hate her.

   "You...you are Qingzhou? The Qingzhou of Yuer's family?"

  The old man looked at him with a surprised expression on his face.

  Luo Qingzhou came back to his senses, walked forward, with a smile on his face: "Ninth Granny, it's me, Qingzhou."

The old man opened his eyes wide, stood up, stared at him and looked up and down. Seeing the tattered robe he was wearing, he couldn't help asking: "Didn't you go to the city with your mother? Why are you back again? ... was kicked out by others?"

  Luo Qingzhou nodded without explaining, "Well, I was kicked out."

  The man who was used by the Chengguo government as a tool to repent of the marriage was kicked out.

The old man sighed and said: "Poor, your mother is also pitiful. After entering the city, she didn't enjoy a few days of blessings. She passed away at such a young age. According to them, she was buried on the Zixia Mountain in front of our village. Right? Hey..."

  Luo Qingzhou was silent for a while, and said: "Ninth Granny, people in your family..."

  The old man was already indifferent: "They are all dead, except for my old woman, there is no one left."

  Luo Qingzhou didn't dare to ask any more questions. He glanced at her yard, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Ninth Granny, do you have food at home?"

  The old man glanced at him, turned around and staggered into the house, sighed and said, "There are two more pancakes, too hard for me to eat. If you are hungry, you can eat them."

   "Hey, poor, look at you, your mother is dead, you can't even eat a meal now, as I said earlier, what's the use of reading? It's better to learn to farm..."

  The old man rambled, went into the kitchen, and took out two dry and hard pancakes.

   After thinking about it, he went into the room again, took two eggs, and handed them to him together.

"Hey, the last hen was taken away by a weasel. There is nothing alive in this village except for us old men. In recent years, even those cannibals have stopped coming. ..."

  The old man sighed.

  Luo Qingzhou took the pancakes and eggs, took out a piece of silver from his pocket, and handed it to her: "Ninth Granny, take the silver. If there are vendors coming to the village, you can buy something to eat."

The old man looked at the money in his hand, did not take it, shook his head and said: "You take it yourself, it's useless if I want it, and there are no peddlers here now. I am still in good health, and I can grow a few mouthfuls of grain to eat .You are young, and you still have a long way to go, so keep it for yourself.”

  Luo Qingzhou glanced at her, said nothing, and was about to leave.

When he walked to the door, the old man suddenly said: "Qingzhou, it turned out that the ninth mother-in-law treated you mother and child like that. Now that I think about it, the ninth mother-in-law actually regrets and feels guilty. Only when I am old, I realize that those rules and customs are not important. , living happily is the most important thing. It was not her fault that your mother got pregnant out of wedlock back then, we shouldn't have treated her like that..."

  Luo Qingzhou suddenly turned his head and asked, "Ninth Granny, do you know how my mother conceived me back then? Do you know that person?"

The old man shook his head: "I don't know, no one in the village knows who that person is, that's why they treated your mother like that. But in the end, I heard that your mother was forced... Hey, at that time, even if it was forced, A woman's reputation can be regarded as ruined, and no one can take it seriously, not to mention that your mother is too stubborn, and has always refused to say who that person is..."

  Luo Qingzhou said nothing more, nodded, and walked out the door.

  The old man also followed out, talking to himself, rambling, not knowing what he was talking about.

   Just as he was about to continue to sit down on the stool at the door, he suddenly found that there was an extra piece of silver on the stool.

   When she looked up, the boy had already walked away.

"Hey…"

  The old man sighed, picked up the silver, and sat down, recalling the things about the mother and child in his mind.

  Luo Qingzhou returned to the dilapidated small courtyard, and after sharing pancakes and eggs with Xiaodie, he sat down in the room and practiced his inner strength.

  Xiaodie didn't dare to disturb her, so she went out of the house and looked around in other rooms, the courtyard, and the door.

   After a while.

  She couldn't bear it anymore, went out the gate, and wandered curiously in the village.

  The sun goes down quickly.

  Luo Qingzhou felt that the pain on his body had eased a lot.

When Xiaodie came back, she even brought needles and threads, and said happily: "My lord, I met an old lady in the village, and I chatted with her all afternoon, and I borrowed all these needles and threads from her. Take off your clothes quickly, and this servant will mend it for you."

  Luo Qingzhou's heart moved, he took off his clothes and said, "What did she talk to you about?"

Xiaodie took the clothes and said: "I didn't talk about anything. The old lady kept talking about the past, and the slaves didn't dare to ask about the son and wife, and the old lady didn't mention it. By the way, the old lady told us not to go out at night. Here It's haunted."

   Speaking of which, the little girl had a frightened expression on her face.

   "Haunted?"

  Luo Qingzhou's eyes flashed.

  Xiao Die nodded and said: "Well, the old woman said that at night, the village was full of weeping. She said she saw many black shadows floating around, and she said it was scary."

  Luo Qingzhou looked outside.

   Is it scary?

  Why does he still have some expectations?

  Outside the house, night falls.

  A crescent moon rises into the sky.

  The entire village was shrouded in darkness, dead silent.

  (end of this chapter)