When they got home, Ergou's mother hurriedly closed the door, and Ergou staggered to take a shower.
He buried his entire face in the basin and rubbed the area where the blood had splattered vigorously.
Ergou's mother took off her son's clothes, which were stained with blood and flesh, and stuffed them under the earthen pot.
He stuffed several handfuls of firewood into the pile and lit the matches with trembling hands.
Watching the raging fire spit out flames and devour the black clothes.
Only then did Ergou's mother feel that she was alive again.
Cuihua was awakened by the noise outside, and quickly got up and shouted in the yard: "Mom, is Zhiping back?
It's late at night, and I don't know why you're running outside!"
She shouted for a long time but received no response, so she walked towards the kitchen in confusion.
"Mom, haven't we finished our meal? Why are you still boiling water?"
Ergou's mother's heart tightened, and she quickly said with a smile: "Your father would like to have a cup of tea in the evening. I'll boil some water."
"Oh, then have you seen Qin Zhiping?"
"No, I, I didn't go out, how could I see him?"
"What about my brother? Tell him to go out and look for him. He has to go to work tomorrow.
If you don’t sleep now, you won’t be able to get up tomorrow morning.”
Cuihua was mumbling to herself when Ergou came over with a steamy look on his face: "Xu Qian is nowhere to be found either. I have to go out and look for her."
When Cuihua heard that her man and that bitch had disappeared together, she was immediately furious. She rolled up her sleeves and shouted, "Let's go, let's go. I want to see where these two have gone."
Ergou's eyes flashed as he looked at his sister who picked up the carrying pole by the door.
He raised his foot and followed.
"Sister, I just heard someone outside say something like 'what little woods?' Are they going to go into the woods?"
Cuihua looked at her brother suspiciously. Isn't that right? What if Xu Qian went into the woods with someone else?
Shouldn't his brother be angrier than her? Why did he look so nonchalant at this moment?
She suppressed her confusion, put her hands on her hips and said, "Let's go over there and take a look. Damn, if these two dare to mess around under my nose, I will break his other good leg!"
Her voice was quite loud, and the woman in the green headscarf who was washing clothes in the yard heard it and said: "Good fellow! Who is having an affair with whom?"
He quickly threw away the clothes in his hands and ran out.
They knocked on the doors of several young ladies in a row, and four or five people followed Cuihua and Ergou stealthily.
"Daniu, who is having an affair with whom?"
"Yeah, you didn't explain clearly in the middle of the night. We were all ready to go to bed."
"Who else could it be? Look at the attitude of Cuihua and Ergou, who do you think it could be?"
The lady with the green headscarf slapped her thigh, and her voice became louder.
This caused Cuihua to turn her head back in surprise.
"What are you looking at? Go find it quickly, and then go back to sleep. You're exhausted after a long day's work!"
Ergou kept urging with impatience in his tone.
When Cuihua turned around and continued walking forward, several women hiding behind the big tree patted their chests and poked their heads out with lingering fear.
The closer Cuihua got to the grove, the faster her heart beat.
Her intuition told her that nothing good would happen ahead.
But when she saw her brother looking calm and composed, she felt a little relieved.
What is there to be afraid of? Her brother will take care of everything for her!
Ergou led Cuihua towards Qin Zhiping and the others.
It was a dark forest with occasional glimpses of moonlight.
Barely enough for people to see the road clearly.
The lady with the green scarf: "What are these two doing in the woods?"
An old lady nearby quickly replied: "You don't understand this, this is our village..."
"Yes, Widow Wang and her friends only go to the corn stalks and these woods.
My wife said that he heard the noise several times after he came back from the mountain, tut tut tut......"
The lady with the green scarf slapped the aunt who was speaking and spat, "Tell them anything you want."
The aunt stuck her neck out and said stubbornly: "I am telling the truth, stop talking nonsense, you are just like an old sow wearing underwear, pretending to be a virgin!
You are in your 60s and you are still shy about this.”
The old face of the lady in the green headscarf turned red and then green, and then green and then white, which was very beautiful.
Cuihua, who was walking in front, saw two people lying on the ground at a glance.
My heart was beating fast: Let her say it, let her say it, it’s nothing good!
She took two steps back, revealing her brother. Ergou pretended to be surprised and asked, "Sister, are there three people lying over there?"
Cuihua hid behind Ergou and only poked her head out: "How can there be three? Aren't there two people? Are they Qin Zhiping and Xu Qian? What's going on?"
Her heart was pounding. It didn't seem like there was anything going on between the two of them.
"Brother, let's go call for help. Did they faint? Call the captain over to see what's going on."
This was exactly what Ergou wanted, and the two of them hurried to the captain's house.
The green-turbaned ladies following behind them were full of confusion: "Where are they going? There's no one here?"
A round-faced lady said with a gleam in her eyes: "Look at their panicked steps, they don't look like nothing happened.
Let’s go and have a look…”
Under her instigation, the lady in green headscarf and others ran over there at a rapid pace.
"roar!"
“Yoho!”
"Oh my god, those two people may have fainted."
Several people made the same sound at the same time.
The round-faced lady's curiosity overcame her fear and she bravely moved over there.
An old lady was quick-witted and took out a candle from her pocket and lit it.
When he came closer with a candle and saw the person lying on the ground, he was so scared that he shouted, "This, this, isn't this the leader from some province?
And this, isn’t this Qin Zhiqing? "
With the help of the firelight, the lady in the green headscarf could clearly see a figure hidden by the weeds.
There was a tremor in his voice: "Behind, there is another one."
The round-faced lady felt a layer of white sweat on her back and quickly turned around to look.
When he saw clearly the specific situation of the person lying on the ground, he let out an "owl", his eyes rolled back and he fainted.
The lady holding the candle also moved closer to look forward, and as soon as they met, the candle fell to the ground. No, it fell on Qin Zhiping.
The heat woke him up in a daze.
He happened to meet Aunt Candle who was so scared that she collapsed to the ground.
"Ah... Mommy..."
The lady holding the candle also went dark and fainted.
The lady with the green scarf and the other two ladies were shaking their legs and asked with sad faces: "Qin Zhiqing, what's going on?"
Qin Zhiping only felt a throbbing pain at the back of his head, and a burning pain at the place where he was burned by the candle.
For a moment I couldn't remember what happened.
At this moment, voices were heard not far away.
"Is there really any movement here?"
"Of course not. Don't be a thief. We have to go and see if Director Lin has returned safely."
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