Pictures of pomegranates

Chapter 24 Unclean
"Tell me, what's going on? I'm different from others, tell me!"

"Don't blame me, we are superstitious. The feng shui of our village is not good. Immortals say that our place is easy to hide in the dark, so this village is not clean. It has unclean places. Remember what the village chief said about the tens of millions of ancestral halls? You can't go, right? It's a taboo in the village, but this unclean place is not just the ancestral hall in the village. In fact, my home is also unclean, you know it's unclean? It's just dirty, and it's haunted! My home, my home is haunted, Don't, don't be afraid, you are an outsider and she won't hurt you!" Zhang Mei's mother said mysteriously.

"Haunted???" Zhang Zhaodi seemed to have heard the legendary Book of Heaven.

Seeing the teacher from the city, his eyes widened like bells with a look of disbelief on his face, Zhang Mei's stepfather hurriedly explained the reason.It turns out that Zhang Mei's mother's parents died when she was young, and she took her five-year-old sister to earn a living.Later, she married an older man from her village, and her sister has been living with her sister's family.

A few years later, after her daughter Zhang Mei was born, Zhang Mei's biological father unfortunately died of a serious illness.Zhang Mei's mother, who lost the source of her experience, chose to remarry with her sister and daughter because she was too sick to do heavy work.With this premise, her life of remarriage will naturally be more difficult. Zhang Mei's stepfather, a strong man, is also a homeless man traveling alone in the countryside. In order to have a so-called home, he chose to stay in this remote village. Make an inverted door.

After getting married, the strong man relied on selling his physical strength to support his three families. However, because Zhang Mei's mother could not give him a biological child, he became angry and threw pots and bowls.Later, one night he accidentally took the wrong path and broke into a strange ancestral hall in the village. He often went crazy like a ghost.When he went crazy, the strong man disowned all his relatives and would often beat and scold Zhang Mei and others.

Zhang Mei's aunt loved her sister and Zhang Mei very much. When facing her crazy brother-in-law, in order to protect her sister and Zhang Mei, she was often beaten seriously by him.Under this situation, my aunt has never been in good health, and because her family has no money, she has never gone to school.In this way, after a period of time, Zhang Mei's old and frail mother actually gave birth to a healthy boy. The strong man was so happy that he forgot about everything and focused all his attention on his son and making money.

What is puzzling is that the strong man's madness actually improved with the birth of his son. For a long time, the strong man never punched or kicked Zhang Mei and her aunt again.During that time, Zhang Mei's aunt took Zhang Mei, who was ten years younger than her, everywhere, and the two girls, who were ignored and loved by no one, lived dependent on each other.But the misfortune seemed not to have forgotten them. One day, the aunt who went up the mountain to cut pigweed found an old lady with white hair and her cat in the valley. They were both bitten by poisonous snakes. One person and one cat were dying from the poison.

The kind-hearted aunt followed the village method and found herbs from the valley, and saved the old lady who almost died and the old cat who was all black.Seeing the frail people and cats, Zhang Mei not only secretly hid them in her own sheepfold, but also boldly stole the family's money and food to help them.At this time, the old lady and the old cat recovered quickly, but on the night when the man and the cat left, Zhang Mei's mother discovered that a lot of money in food was missing from the house.

Zhang Mei's parents had worked hard to save this money and food, and planned to use it to hold a banquet in the village for their son, who was about to be one month old.When they found out that their aunt had used it on a stranger, the couple immediately became furious. The strong man went crazy on the spot and beat and scolded his aunt regardless of the situation.

What was different from the past was that for the first time, my aunt's sister chose to stand by and watch indifferently in the face of such a heartbreaking beating.When her aunt was about to be beaten to death, the young Zhang Mei tried her best to protect her, which allowed her to survive.Two days later, my aunt, who had gradually regained her breath, struggled to get up. With a bruised nose and face, vicious eyes and staggering steps, she found the couple and cursed at the top of her lungs: "You are so inhumane, your son will not live to be four years old. I will definitely change your fate against the will of heaven, so that you will not have a good death!"

After saying that, the bruised aunt staggered out of the door and did not return home until it was completely dark. "I know I'm sorry for the girl, but I don't really want to beat her to death. Teacher, you don't know how poor the family is. The child is going to have a party for the full moon, so she gave all the money and food she finally saved to strangers. The full moon is over. What should we do if we don’t hold a banquet? If we don’t hold a banquet, people in the village will laugh at our family to death. I, we are really anxious, that’s why we acted stupidly!” Zhang Mei’s mother said guiltily.

The strong man also sighed and said: "I know she hates me, but which man who is the head of the family won't beat and scold his children? I fed her, housed her, and clothed her, and I raised her sister for seven or eight years in vain. , I just beat her up, and she was so cruel that she actually asked us to pay for her with our lives!"

"Pay for your life??? Pay for what?" This explanation made Zhang Zhaodi even more confused.

Although she understood from the bottom of her heart the helplessness and embarrassment of a poor family, she could not agree with what Zhang Mei's parents did. She felt heartbroken for no reason for the aunt she had never met.

At this time, Zhang Mei's mother was heard explaining with fear on her face: "She, she is dead. The bad feng shui in this village turned her into a ghost, and she wants to kill her!"

It turned out that her precious son would turn four in about twenty days.That is to say, since teachers from Xin'an University came here to teach last Sunday, Zhang Mei's home has become uneasy.According to Zhang Mei's parents, when it gets completely dark every day, figures walking around will appear in the center of her yard.After repeated observations, the frightened couple discovered that the strange figure was none other than Aunt Zhang Mei, who had been missing for many years.

At first, when Zhang Mei's parents found out that their aunt hadn't returned home all night, they didn't take it seriously.In their opinion, children are not so angry. Moreover, the aunt has no money, has never read a book and does not know how to read. Naturally, she cannot survive outside and will definitely go home by herself in a few days.But two months have passed, and the thin aunt still has not returned home, let alone brought any news to her family.

At this time, in addition to Zhang Mei who was clamoring for her aunt at home all day long, Zhang Mei's mother, as her biological sister, also began to become unable to sit still.She was also worried about her sister who had disappeared for many days. She was very afraid that her sister would have an accident outside or be bullied. So after discussing with the strong man in charge, she planned to go to the police station in a nearby town to report the crime. , want to find someone as soon as possible.

(End of this chapter)