Everyone stays indoors during the winter, but those who are adventurous enough go into the mountains to hunt for food they can't finish or to exchange for money.
Every winter, Gu Zhenjiang would find time to go back and exchange some for food. He would tell people outside that it was a hunting trip organized by the rural team and that these were given to him by his eldest brother.
The Tian family who lived next door would occasionally give them one or half a piece when they saw them.
This time, Gu Zhenjiang didn't agree: "The old lady may not be able to make it this year. There are so many people in our family this year that I may not be able to take care of her myself. I also want to ask your family, Dashan, to go to the mountains in the suburbs together when we are free and try our luck."
Old Mrs. Tian was a little disappointed, but she also knew that prey was hard to come by, and she couldn't let someone give it to you without eating it.
"Okay, when you have time, come and visit my Dashan. But don't go too deep into the mountains. If you run into wild boars or blind bears, you're doomed."
"Oh, I see. I'm going to work now."
In fact, Gu Zhenjiang would also go up the mountain for a walk in previous years.
Although he was not a professional, he had a hunting rifle. His third brother had given him two when he came back and had also taught him how to use them. It was no problem for him to just wander around the periphery to protect himself.
The old lady was in a hurry to go home for dinner, so she didn't talk to Jiang Mengxue anymore. She went out for a walk in the morning and didn't expect to hear the hustle and bustle at the Liu family, so she came back late.
"My niece Cuiying, I'll come to your house after dinner. Please wait for me." He left before Jiang Mengxue could reply.
Jiang Mengxue had no choice but to close the door, but didn't lock it.
I went back to the house, brought out a chair and sat in the yard. I took out the wool and started knitting.
This was prepared for Gu Qingbei before, but he left in a hurry and only had time to knit one set. Jiang Mengxue planned to send this set to him after she finished knitting it.
Jiang Mengxue's hands were very quick, relying entirely on her feeling, and she didn't even look at it.
The old lady ran back home to finish her meal and then hurried over to the next door. She had nothing to say to her daughter-in-law at home.
No matter what gossip you say, there will be no response, and people will lose their passion to talk about it.
Jiang Mengxue saw the old lady push the door open and went back to the room to get a chair.
"Old lady, come sit here and enjoy the sunshine."
"Niece Cuiying, you don't have to go to work these days, right?" Old Mrs. Tian said with a smile as she sat down. She just liked looking at beautiful people.
"No, I've been more relaxed at work lately, so it's okay if I don't have anything else to do."
In the following time, Jiang Mengxue realized the power of the old lady's gossip.
Although this was not the countryside and there was no gossip from the surrounding villages for her to hear, the old lady already knew everything about the area where they lived.
"The child born to the eldest daughter-in-law of the Li family in the east is her brother-in-law's. The couple have been married for so many years without having children. It must be because her husband is not good enough, so she asked her to borrow sperm from her brother-in-law. Anyway, the child born will be the Li family's, so it doesn't matter whether it is the eldest or the second child."
"The second daughter-in-law of the Wang family has had affairs with so many men. Wang Laoer is a loser. He was still waiting outside the door while his wife was having sex with someone. The men outside must have given him a lot of bribes, otherwise how could he be so generous? People suspect that the children in his family are not his, especially his youngest son, who looks very similar to another man who often visits his house."
"Life was so hard in the past. It wasn't easy for women. I remember there was a young woman in the village next door. She married into our village. Her parents' family and her husband's family lived in the same village. How could they get along well? Her parents' family was well-off, so her husband's family would ask her for money whenever they were short of money, and would also come to her for anything they needed.
But she was at her husband's house. When she suffered any grievances and wanted to go back to her parents' house to tell them, her parents would scold her and not let her speak. Her father always said that it would be embarrassing for both families to have two families living in the same village. So what could she do? She suffered grievances at her husband's house, but she couldn't tell her husband's family or her parents' family. In the end, she was left with two children, one just over three years old and the other less than a year old, and she drank poison and died. If this wasn't a death from suffocation, what could it be?
Do you know how outsiders knew about these things? She had a cousin who was weak, and every time she walked past her cousin's house, she would follow her back. Later, she became very strong, and she called her parents and her in-laws' sisters-in-law together and began to complain about her grievances. She was bullied by her mother-in-law and sisters-in-law at her in-laws' house, and when she returned to her parents' house, she was scolded by her parents and was not allowed to say anything. She had grievances, and she couldn't bear it anymore.
She said she hadn't left for all these years and was just staying at home to take care of her two children."
As Jiang Mengxue listened, she felt that the story was becoming a bit metaphysical.
Perhaps she could see that Jiang Mengxue looked a little bit unconvinced, but Mrs. Tian didn't care.
"Don't believe it, then I'll tell you another one.
You also know that the weather in our north is cold, and we can only take a bath at the beginning of winter, especially when we were in the village before, unlike in the city where there are bathhouses, everyone would boil some hot water in the tub, and the whole family would line up to take a bath.
The girl's family took a bath the day before, and the next day one of her younger sisters was also preparing to take a bath at home. She thought that she could go to play with her younger sister and take a bath at her house again.
As a result, she was scolded by her father, who asked her to wash it again after she had already washed it at home. Maybe the scolding was not nice at the time, and the girl got so angry that she drank medicine and died.
The young girl was not married and could not be buried in her mother's ancestral tomb, so she could only be buried somewhere randomly.
This girl's grandmother lives with her uncle's family and helps take care of the children, but she always suffers from the bullying of her aunt.
Because her grandmother also died from drinking poison. On the day she died and was released from confinement, all the men went to see her off while the women stayed at home to wash and clean. Then, this girl possessed her second aunt's body and began to speak. The voice was exactly the same as hers when she was alive. Many people witnessed this at the time."
The old lady deliberately changed her tone and emphasized when she started to learn: "I told her to come with me, but she refused to go. She stayed at home all day to help take care of the children and had to endure the bullying of her family. My sister-in-law and I are selling flowers downstairs every day and we have a good life. I asked her to go with me to sell flowers, but she still refused to go.
Her second sister-in-law is the one I told you about being wronged by her husband's family. You said this story must be false. So many people saw it with their own eyes. Many people suspected that her grandmother had let her take her away.
Jiang Mengxue got goosebumps after hearing this. Why did it sound so scary?
"Grandma Tian, let's talk about something else. This is so creepy. How can I sleep tonight?"
The horror movies Jiang Mengxue accepts the most are those directed by Lin Zhengying. She doesn't dare to watch any movies that are even slightly scarier.
She has never thought about trying to watch horror movies like "The Old Corpse in the Mountain Village" that many people have circulated online. Just imagining it is scary enough.
The old lady laughed even though she saw Zhang Mengxue was so scared.
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