Yan Tian'er's daughter-in-law sat in the courtyard of her house, aiming at the basin of clothes in front of her, holding a mallet in her hand and beating it again and again, and the water splashed on her haggard face, but she didn't realize it, and the beating was even stronger.
She has not come back to the senses, why is there only one family left in the family, and her husband, who is still busy with her father-in-law's funeral during the day, is now lying in the coffin that has just been purchased with her father-in-law, and is hastily buried in the ground by the panicked villagers.
She shuddered when she thought of the hands that held her husband, and the ten fingers were red and purple, as if they were frozen by ice and snow, but they firmly grasped Tian'er, and even trapped him in his flesh.
She didn't know who the man who killed her husband was, she hadn't married into this village ten years ago, she only knew that her family was secretive about what happened that year, no matter how she asked them, they didn't want to tell the truth, and it wasn't until she saw it with her own eyes today that she understood their distress, that person didn't show his face, only stretched out ten fingers, which was enough to make her frightened, and she couldn't pull it out until now.
The child in her belly waved her fists and kicks fiercely, she came back to her senses, and once again raised her mallet and smashed it at the clothes, which was the most common dress worn by her husband when he was alive, and she thought about washing it and burning it to him again, and he died so quickly, so suddenly, that he didn't even have time to change his clothes.
There was a humming sound behind him, and the sound came from inside the house, like a flute, low and tactful, and it looked particularly desolate against the backdrop of the lonely moonlight.
She turned her head and held her mallet in the air, "Who?"
” No one answered her, and the open door was still the same, with only a few necessities and nothing else.
She bit her lip, thinking she had misheard, but the moment she turned around, she smelled a sudden extra scent from the tip of her nose.
The smell was like the aquatic plants in the river, fresh, moist, and with a faint fragrance.
Her heart shrank suddenly, and her hand holding the mallet began to tremble.
"Who is it?"
There was a cry in her voice, and she wanted to shout loudly, but her neck seemed to be stuck, and she screamed a few times, only making an intermittent "uh-uh" sound.
"Smack."
A circle suddenly rippled in the basin, and the water ripples expanded layer by layer, and finally disappeared into the basin.
She looked at the center of the basin without blinking, as if she was enchanted, her eyes slightly bulging from their sockets, and covered with a faint red light.
"Smack."
There was another slight sound, and the waves appeared again, this time, in the middle of the circle, a red point protruded, and then another point.
It didn't take long for all ten fingers to poke out of the basin, and they grew deeper and longer, slowly caressing her round belly.
Watching her fingers move back and forth on her belly, she suddenly came back to her senses, screamed, raised the mallet in her hand and threw it into the basin, one after another, as strong as a man.
There was a crisp sound of bones breaking in the basin first, and then the sound was gradually replaced by another dull sound, which was the sound of smashing meat, "bang, bang, poof, poof" I didn't know, I thought the Yan family was chopping stuffing and making dumplings.
I don't know how long it took, but the whole basin of water was stained red with blood, and the minced meat stuck to the clothes, and the white was powdery.
She stopped, and took a few hard breaths into her chest, but she was blocked by the nausea in her throat, unable to enter her lungs, her eyelids rolled up, and the mallet fell to the ground, and she leaned back.
Before the day was completely dawn, Zhang's sister-in-law, who lived in the village, saw the Yan family's daughter-in-law with a big belly, walking towards the direction of the Yuhe River with a wooden basin in her hand.
"The daughter-in-law of the Yan family, go out so early."
She called after her.
"Tian'er's clothes are dirty, I'm going to wash him."
Her voice sounded like a dream, straight and unheaving.
Sister-in-law Zhang caught up with her and grabbed her arm, "Where is this clothes dirty, very clean, if you feel dirty, I'll wash it for you, your belly is about to give birth, and now it's hot again, don't toss something wrong." ” The daughter-in-law of the Yan family raised her lips upward, and forced out a smile, this smile is not as good as crying, it is extremely ugly, "This clothes are all blood, you can't wash them, let me come." ” "Blood?"
Sister-in-law Zhang looked carefully into the wooden basin, "Where is there any blood, aren't you frightened" She swallowed back the sentence "Everyone is scared stupid", and took the hand of the daughter-in-law of the Yan family, "Go back with me first, I have washed my clothes all my life, what kind of clothes can't be clean." ” The hand was thrown away fiercely, and Sister-in-law Zhang realized that the hand she was holding just now was so cold, and this coldness was so abrupt in this July day, reaching her heart and lungs, making her have a layer of fine goosebumps from head to toe.
The daughter-in-law of the Yan family touched her belly, her fingers drew circles on it, she suddenly raised her head, her eyes were blue and shining, "Tian'er died so unclearly, do you dare to wash his clothes?"
He died under your gaze, and you didn't help him then, and don't come and talk to me about these fake things now, I sound weird. ” Sister-in-law Zhang was stunned by her, and she couldn't spit out a word for a long time, and the daughter-in-law of the Yan family didn't move, just looked at her with a sneer, staring at her until she broke out in a cold sweat.
"Daughter-in-law of the Yan family, don't get me wrong, in that situation yesterday, our women were already driven home by men, where is it our turn to help?"
The daughter-in-law of the Yan family didn't speak again, only let out a cold snort from her throat, but Sister-in-law Zhang understood what she meant, she was clearly saying: Don't deceive yourself anymore, even if you don't go home, you don't dare to help, you all say that you sympathize with the Yan family, but in fact you have done the most unkind thing in the world, pushing our family into the fire pit. ” Sister-in-law Zhang felt that she had never been so uncomfortable in her life, she didn't leave now, and she didn't dare to stay, but fortunately, the daughter-in-law of the Yan family glanced at her coldly, didn't want to dwell on this topic anymore, turned her head and walked towards the river again.
As soon as she left, she untied her shackles and moved her hands and feet again.
Sister-in-law Zhang looked at the back in front of her, her heart was filled with some complex emotions, she sighed sadly, I don't know if she was sighing for others or herself, and finally decided not to meddle anymore, and walked towards her home.
If she could stay a little longer, she would see a strange scene: the appearance of the daughter-in-law of the Yan family had changed, she was dressed in a white robe, her hair hung down on her heels, like the surface of the Jade River, so supple and long.