Chapter 17 Nightmare
On a snowy day, the roads in the village were difficult to travel, and after walking for about half an hour, Chen Dafa still hadn't stopped.
"Dafa, where are we going? How much further?"
Wang Jinhua rubbed her hands together and couldn't help but ask.
"It's just ahead, once you enter the woods."
Chen Dafa sighed, turned to the two of them and said, "You should prepare yourselves mentally."
After walking for nearly an hour, Chen Dafa remained silent and started talking incoherently, which completely angered Chen Xiaohua.
However, since the other party was an elder, and Chen Xiaohua had a fiery temper, she couldn't say anything. She could only run a few steps faster, overtake the three people, and enter the woods.
Chen Xiaohua ran too fast. Chen Dafa was stunned for a moment, but it was too late to stop her.
"ah!"
With a scream, Chen Tieniu and Wang Jinhua turned pale and quickly ran forward.
My second cousin, Chen Xiaohua, is usually very brave, but this time she let out a terrified scream, clearly frightened.
Lin Yuesha had no choice but to drag her heavy legs and run after them.
The scene before my eyes was so glaring that it was enough to terrify me.
A woman wearing only a bellyband was hanging from a crooked tree. She wasn't even wearing underwear on her lower body, and her body was already frozen, turning blue and stiff.
The woman's hair was loose, covering most of her face, but the part that was visible looked strangely familiar to Lin Yuesha.
"Brother Tie Niu, Sister-in-law Jin Hua, please accept my condolences."
Chen Dafa rubbed his eyes, and his eyes also reddened.
He went to the town market yesterday, intending to stay overnight and return the next day, but unexpectedly, it snowed heavily in the middle of the night, and Chen Dafa had no choice but to travel at night.
By the time he passed through the neighboring village from the town, it was almost noon.
"I was resting and eating dry rations at the edge of the woods when I thought I heard some noises coming from inside the woods."
Chen Dafa's face was pale, and he kept patting his face until he felt some heat on his face.
He entered the woods and found something hanging from a tree, surrounded by snow, but at the very bottom, a pair of women's embroidered shoes were visible.
The surrounding snow has been cleared, revealing a patch of black soil and dry, yellowed weeds.
Chen Dafa was terrified. He mustered his courage and swept away the floating snow. Just as he suspected, it was the woman's body.
The person was already lifeless. He carefully examined her and realized that it was Chen Tieniu's eldest daughter.
On the way back, Chen Dafa kept thinking about this. His family and Chen Tieniu's family hadn't been in contact for decades. What if he went to deliver the message and they tried to smear him?
He was just passing by when he encountered such bad luck.
A perfectly healthy person suddenly appears in a bamboo forest, hanged and not dressed; it looks very strange.
When Chen Dafa got home, he first discussed it with his wife. It was his wife's words that woke him up: "Although the two families don't keep in touch, Chen Tieniu and Wang Jinhua are not unreasonable people. Now their daughter is gone just like that. Put yourself in their shoes. When it snows, the villagers don't come out. Can you bear to let someone's body lie in the wilderness like this?"
Chen Dafa thought about it and realized that it made sense. He thought that delivering the letter was a good deed for himself.
"Waaaaah... Big sister, big sister..."
After the initial shock, Chen Xiaohua was devastated. Why did her older sister have to hang herself?
With the Lunar New Year approaching, her sister told her that she would go back to her parents' home on the second day of the Lunar New Year, stay overnight, and then her sister would take her to town to see the ice lanterns on the third day.
"How could Da Hua..."
Wang Jinhua plopped down on the snow, staring blankly ahead. She felt like she was dreaming, or perhaps it was a nightmare.
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