Chapter 44: The two lingering ghosts
She stood in front of Xiang Yu's door, looking around until she saw Xiang Yu coming towards her carrying a bundle of firewood.
She took a few steps towards Xiang Yu with difficulty, "Xiang Yu..., let me give you a hand."
There was a tremor in her voice, obviously she was very cold. Her hands were red and swollen with chilblains, and she raised her hands to take off the straps around her shoulders.
But she failed to lift Xiang Yu's backpack after trying several times, and a look of embarrassment appeared on her face. She had not eaten a full meal for a long time and her body had no strength left.
"Don't waste your energy. What's the matter with you coming to see me?" Xiang Yu took out the key and opened the iron gate. After entering the yard, he put the backpack on the ground.
The bamboo rats that were originally nestling at the bottom squeaked. Wu Yue looked towards the bottom of the backpack and saw a few bamboo rats squirming. She swallowed her saliva instantly.
"Mom, let's clean up, Xiaoyu..." She walked forward a few steps, took the firewood from the backpack, and piled it against the wall.
Xiang Yu stood aside, watching her movements silently. After moving the firewood covering the top, Wu Yue also discovered several fat bamboo rats and half a piece of snake meat hidden at the bottom.
"Oh, my Xiao Yu is very capable. He can even hunt," Wu Yue said excitedly, and Xiang Yu looked at her coldly.
There was no expression on her face, but her mind was churning with thoughts, but she soon recovered.
"You and Xiang Lin have never taken care of me since I was a child. You almost always come to me for no reason. You came to me today, so you should just talk directly..."
Xiang Yu picked up the basket containing the bamboo rat and put it directly into the kitchen.
Wu Yue's body stiffened for a moment, but the moment she turned around to face Xiang Yu, a warm smile appeared on her face.
"Xiao Yu, it was all my fault before. Please give me a chance. I want to take care of you. I want to make up for the mistakes I made. It's not too late for us to start over, right?"
Xiang Yu looked at the sincere expression on Wu Yue's face and was in a trance for a moment. What was real? What he experienced in his previous life?
And aren’t all the experiences in the first half of my life real?
"It's too late, Wu Yue... I'm 19 years old, an adult, and I don't need anyone's care anymore. As you can see, I can live well on my own..."
It’s too late, too late, it’s already two lifetimes.
Xiang Yu had a sneer on his face. He had to admit that this was indeed Wu Yue's forte. She was also better at talking than Xiang Lin. When Xiang Lin came in a hard way, she would come in a soft way.
The smile on Wu Yue's face froze. For a moment, she didn't know what expression to show. She originally thought that she had already controlled Xiang Yu.
Unexpectedly, Xiang Yu didn't fall for her trick.
"Xiao Yu, how can you live as a girl? Everything is in chaos right now. How about you come with me, or I bring your brother here and we can live together?"
Wu Yue spoke softly and gently, using a tone she had never used before to talk to Xiang Yu, as far as she could remember.
Xiang Yu has always been a person who particularly longs for family affection, especially now seeing Xiang Yu go up the mountain to chop firewood and bring back some game.
She said she would never give up such a laborer.
"I will go with you. When your food is gone, you can sell me to feed your son."
"Or you can move in, and I'll take care of your family's food, drink, and defecation. Wu Yue, you and Xiang Lin, please don't bother me again, or I really won't be polite."
Xiang Yu was so angry that he laughed. Last time, Xiang Lin's leg was broken, and he had been quiet until now. Now without him, Wu Yue is jumping around again.
They really are haunting.
Like a mouse whose tail was stepped on, Wu Yue jumped up and down instantly.
"What are you talking about? Your grandparents are gone, and you'll be all alone from now on. If you don't get along well with your brother, aren't you going to be a good person in the future?"
"You should be nice to your brother now. When you get married in the future, I will let him send you off. This way, others will look up to you and won't bully you at will."
Xiang Yu was too lazy to talk nonsense with her anymore. To deal with Xiang Lin, all he had to do was beat him until he couldn't get up.
But Wu Yue just opened her mouth and kept talking a lot, which was very annoying.
Xiang Yu walked up to her, raised his hand and hit her hard on the back of the neck. Wu Yue, who hadn't eaten properly for three months, suddenly collapsed.
Xiang Yu found a cart. Now she had removed the wheels at the bottom of the cart and replaced them with two skis, so it was easy and convenient to push it with both hands.
After putting the unconscious Wu Yue into the cart, Xiang Yu lowered his head and saw the thin shirt she was wearing underneath.
The original color of the cotton coat outside was almost unrecognizable. Pushing the cart, Xiang Yu placed Wu Yue on a roof outside the village. Wu Yue would wake up in approximately three minutes.
Along the way towards Yu, a lot of snow was loaded into the space. When passing by grandma's yard, Xiang Yu saw Xiang Yi standing at the gate of the yard.
Since they came back from the city last time, the two have rarely interacted with each other. Even when they meet, they just nod to each other.
After seeing Xiang Yu kill someone for the second time, Xiang Yi's first thought was to stay away from Xiang Yu. Partly because he was afraid that this man would cause trouble in the future and affect him.
Second, he felt that a person who killed people without blinking an eye could not be any good.
Xiang Yu naturally understood what Xiang Yi meant. Sometimes when he met Uncle Xiang outside, he rarely greeted him.
When Xiang Ling was playing outside with her child, she met Xiang Yu and quickly took the child into the house.
Xiang Yu noticed the estrangement between their family, but she didn't have any thoughts about them. The only person she wanted to thank from the beginning to the end was her great-grandmother.
The prejudice in people's hearts is like a mountain, insurmountable, just like what Xiang Cheng complained to her on the mountain today.
Ever since he participated in the murder of Xiang Wu, his two playmates in the village have distanced themselves from him. They used to go up the mountain together, but now they both avoid him.
But if the incident happened again, he would raise the knife in his hand without hesitation and kill Xiang Wu.
When Wu Yue woke up, she was terrified at first, then she looked around, and after finding that it was a familiar place, she started cursing at Xiang Yupokou.
"You little bitch, you are a mean, cold-blooded creature. If I had known I couldn't tame you, I would have thrown you away..."
A gust of cold wind blew, and Wu Yue shivered instantly. She stood up with a trembling body and walked towards the next village.
She thought that she had helped her move some firewood, which was a waste of effort. She should have just snatched a few bamboo rats and left. That little bitch must have been guarding against her.
He had actually moved the things into the house so early. Thinking about Xiang Yu's actions, she felt extremely angry.
When she returned home and opened the door, a cup fell at her feet. Wu Yue looked up and saw that it was her baby son, and a smile appeared on her face.
"Nannan, who are you angry with? Tell mom and I will help you teach him a lesson."
"I'm hungry. I want to eat, eat, eat."
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