"Who is he?"
Liu Xuzhu saw that Xi Bo looked sad, so he also lowered his voice, for fear of disturbing his memories.
Xi Bo looked at the bone altar and was silent for a long time, his yellow eyes seemed to become more chaotic, but after that, he suddenly rolled up a smile on his lips, "In fact, it's not such a great thing, everything stems from the fact that the people in this altar are too stubborn, and they can't live in peace after death, which makes the whole village restless, and even kills, so the villagers avoid this bone altar." ” "What is it that makes the villagers afraid of being like this?"
"Her name is Leng Yu, she is the only daughter of the master, she has been favored since she was a child, so her temperament is very high, after the death of the old man Leng, Miss Leng lived in isolation, rarely interacted with the villagers, occasionally met on the road, and did not say much, and left sideways with a cold glance, which really responded to the word 'cold' in her name."
"Since she doesn't like to interact with people, how can her death involve the whole village?"
Liu Xuzhu asked puzzled.
"That winter was very dry, and even the Yuhe River was almost dry, leaving only a small pool of water, barely enough to sustain the water supply of the whole village, but on the day of the winter solstice, even the only waterhole was frozen, leaving only a small ice hole in the middle.
On that day, almost the whole village gathered around the bank of the Jade River and sighed, not knowing where to go to get water after the puddle froze solid.
I was also in the crowd at the time, and I was fighting with the old man Yan next to me over where to get water, but at this moment, I don't know who shouted: 'Miss Leng......
How to get on the ice.
I looked up in amazement, and sure enough, I saw her, dressed in a wide white robe, walking cautiously on the ice, with a barrel in her hand. ” "Did she want to get water from the ice cave?"
Liu Xuzhu couldn't help but interrupt Uncle Xi's words.
Xi Bo nodded solemnly, "She has a withdrawn personality and is reluctant to contact people on weekdays, so when she encounters important things, she can't let go of her face to ask others for help, I think she is in urgent need of water, and she can't hold on, so she has to go to the ice alone to get water."
But the ice was slippery and cold, and she stood a foot away from the hole in the ice, and threw the barrel several times, but she didn't throw it in.
I saw that it was really dangerous, so I called to her from the shore: 'Miss Leng, let it go, and in a moment find some young men to smash the ice, and then you can take out the water.'
But she didn't even look at me, but when she didn't hear my persuasion, she threw the bucket into the hole in the ice, and when she missed, she dragged it out again, and threw it again.
This was repeated more than a dozen times, and seeing that she really did not understand the point, she had to move forward, catch her breath, and throw the barrel over again, but her strength was greater, and this time the barrel fell into the water as she wished, but her whole body also threw herself forward, and fell into the ice hole with the exclamations of the people.
Now everyone panicked, and rushed to the river, trying to save her from the river, but several people went up at the same time, and the ice could not bear it, and a crack broke out at once, so that we immediately jumped back to the riverbank, and stood there not knowing what to do.
Go up, it's really dangerous, if you don't go up, you can't watch Miss Leng drown in the river.
Just when everyone was hesitating, we heard the sound of 'crackling' on the ice, it turned out that Miss Leng wanted to climb up with both hands to support the ice floe next to her in order to save herself, but the ice was so frozen that it was unreal, and she was so pressed that it suddenly shattered and fell into the water, and Miss Leng, together with the ice floe, fell back into the water with a 'plop'. ” "What happened?"
Liu Xuzhu asked anxiously as if he was there.
When the people on the shore saw this, they did not dare to go any further, because they all found that the ice was not as strong as we had imagined, especially the circle next to the ice hole, which was very brittle, so it was impossible to stand there and pull her out of the water.
We hurriedly shouted to the people in the outer circle to find the rope and the stick, but there was still time, and everyone knew that even if they found the rope and stick, no one dared to go out on the ice and hand them to her.
There was a burst of cracking ice in her ears, and the sound of someone falling into the water, Miss Leng tried her best to climb up again and again, but was brought down by the broken ice again and again.
I just watched as she ran out of strength in the icy water, and even her skin turned blue and purple little by little.
Finally, she slowly slid down, but her nails were still scratching at the ice floes beside her, as if she was unwilling to die like this.
It was a long time before her hands disappeared from the ice, but for days after that, I could not forget the ten white fingers and the purple nails that had frozen on them.
I don't know how desperate she was at the time, or if she didn't have hope for us at all, because she didn't cry out for help the whole time from birth to death. ” Liu Xuzhu shuddered: frozen to death, no, she was frozen to death in front of everyone, what a tragic death, she just wanted a bucket of water, how could she have thought that the bucket of water would kill her?
"How did you find the body?"
"Because the ice was not frozen, no one dared to salvage the body, but the day after her death, snow fell in the sky, and the drought was lifted, and at the beginning of spring, the ice melted, the river was unsealed, and the whole jade river returned to its former vigorous posture.
One day, a villager was fishing in the river, and the hook hooked something, but it couldn't be pulled back, and finally the fishing line broke, and the thing slowly floated up from below.
It was her, she was still wearing the white robe, but the robe was swollen by the water, and the sleeves seemed to be fluttering in the wind.
It may be because of the ice, her face has not changed, she still has a cold and noble appearance before her death, but her eyes are closed, and a few bloodlines flow from the corners of her eyes and nose at the moment she surfaces. ” "The body has appeared, you want to bury her properly, why should you burn it to ashes and seal it in the bone altar?"
"Because of the dead."
"Dead people?"
Although her death had nothing to do with the villagers, everyone still felt sorry for her, after all, everyone watched her die in the ice water, and she had no one to rely on, so when her body was found, the villagers pooled some money and bought a coffin to bury her.
But on the third day after she entered the earth, the youngest grandson of the Bai family drowned in the Jade River, and his death, like Miss Leng, was also lost in front of everyone. ”