Chapter 217 Scene 4 (Inverted V) He Fangying, what did you dream about...
"thump!"
The dagger and sickle fell into the mud with a "thump", splashing mud and hitting the girl's body, hands and face.
“…” The soil gradually turned scarlet.
“Ah, ah, grandma!! Grandma!!!”
"No, no, it's not like that. It shouldn't be like this. It shouldn't be like this! I didn't want to kill anyone! I didn't want to kill anyone! Daughter, daughter, listen to me. I didn't want to kill her!"
"Well……"
The girl ignored the woman who was backing away with her head covered in fear. She turned over and hugged the old woman who was lying on her. "Grandma, are you okay?!"
"Ah..." The old woman frowned and looked at the girl with her eyes opening and closing.
"Daughter, daughter, I really don't want to kill her, I really don't want to kill her!" The woman crawled over on her knees and grabbed the girl's arm with her muddy hands.
The girl's hands were rarely covered in mud, because the man said that women's hands are beautiful and should be used for appreciation, not for work.
Women have always agreed with this.
This poor, cowardly woman has always identified with that man, like a pet in captivity who has no thoughts of her own and is always silent.
But how did she become like this?
The girl felt warm flesh and blood in her hands. She looked quietly at the woman with bloodshot eyes who was desperately trying to explain to her and was always indifferent to everything that had happened to her.
Was it because she had killed that man and destroyed the family she thought was normal?
So she became real, flesh and blood, she became... somewhat unlike herself, but perhaps, this was the real her.
“…I don’t have time to talk to you about this right now,” the girl said without shaking off the woman’s hand. “I need to save someone.”
"I, I have medicine, daughter, take it. These medicines will definitely be useful, they will definitely be useful!" The woman forcefully stuffed a handful of old, pungent-smelling pills into the girl's hands.
The girl couldn't help but frown at the sticky feel of the pills and blood mixed together.
She had just checked her grandmother's back and found no wound from the sickle. The blood seemed to be caused by a few rotten tomatoes. So for a moment, she suddenly didn't know what to do.
Should I throw these things away or keep them?
"Uh, uh...thank you..." Without saying anything, the old woman swallowed the sticky pills in one gulp.
"Grandma!" the girl said anxiously, "These are not medicines for healing wounds!"
“Uh…? Cough cough cough cough…!!!” The old woman suddenly started coughing violently.
The girl glared at the woman, then patted her on the back. "Grandma, you're such a fool! You ate it without even asking what it was. And you, don't mistake candy for medicine. It can't cure anything."
"But, but after I eat those things, I'm not hungry anymore, and my body is healthy." The woman's condition was not right, she tilted her head a little dazedly.
"Uh cough cough cough!!"
"……have eaten."
"What?"
"Medicine for your brain."
"……oh."
"Uh cough cough cough!!!"
“…”
"What should I do? Am I not injured? Why are these pills still expired candies? How am I going to die? Oh my sweet roasted milk, I can't die! Can you stab me?"
"Alas, my advice is that you should just stay alive."
As a puppet, He Yuezhe successfully blocked the "fatal" blow (in fact, even if it really hit the old woman, she would not die). She had been broken into several pieces and was moving around in the old woman's clothes with her movements.
He Yuezhe had actually guessed early on that the old woman would not change her mind so easily. Moreover, from her conversation with the girl that day, it could be seen that these two people not only had no words, but also liked to swallow everything to themselves.
So she made preparations early in the morning and secretly climbed onto the old woman.
"Who told you to block that attack?" The old woman knelt on the ground and coughed, criticizing He Yuezhe's actions in great dissatisfaction. "Everything was clearly going according to my plan, and she would soon receive her..."
"Her what?" He Yuezhe fumbled around, "I need to remind you, I came here just to let her grow up well."
"Do you understand what 'grow up well' means?"
"A happy family, an interesting and memorable childhood, and a promising and down-to-earth future."
"Or rather, she doesn't need these overly beautiful things. As long as she's not in pain and is happy every day, that seems pretty good too."
"Wait, you're not going to help me?"
"perhaps?"
"Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh!"
"Grandma, are you still not feeling well?"
"Lao He, water."
"Uh, cough, cough, cough..."
In fact, He Yuezhe has always been curious about why the old woman was so obsessed with "using her own death to cause her pain."
But she didn't dare to ask this question now. She was afraid that the answer to this question would really be the same as she thought. Then, how sad would that girl and herself be?
"..." The old woman drank the glass of water that Grandma Sun handed her, and finally stopped her endless coughing. She exhaled heavily a few times, "Xiaobao, grandma is fine. I feel much better after drinking some water..."
"Then..."
"Old old old old old old Sun?!!! Aren't you dead?! Didn't your entire head just snap off?!!!"
Grandma Sun looked at the terrified old woman lying on the ground, shook her head repeatedly, and said with a smile, "Look how scared you are! Look, this little girl came to the vegetable garden today and asked me to act out a fake death with her, saying she wanted to scare people. Unexpectedly, the people she scared were you and your granddaughter."
"You, you, you, you! How could you agree to someone else's request so casually?! Do you know that I, I almost got scared to death by you! Old people can't stand being scared!" The old woman stroked her chest with one hand, gasping for breath.
Grandma Sun laughed out loud, looking up to the sky: "Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Back then, you, Old He, loved scaring people the most. How come you're scared to death now when I just scare you?"
"Hey, hey," the old woman jumped up from the ground when she heard that, and covered Grandma Sun's mouth with a pair of dirty hands, "My granddaughter is still here, can you please set a good example for me!"
"Grandma, are you okay?" The girl looked at the old woman who was sick and coughing bitterly in the last second, and became full of energy and stuttered in the next second.
"Uh!...Uh, I, I have something to do..." As soon as the girl finished speaking, the old woman suddenly frowned and covered her head.
Seeing this, the girl's mouth twitched: "Grandma, you are too fake."
"No, I really do..."
"grandmother!!?"
Before the old woman could finish her words, she fell straight into the mud and lost consciousness.
"thump!"
"thump!"
"thump!"
"How many is this today?"
"The eleventh one jumped in, and the second one went in with his back to the enemy."
"The suicide rate in the city has become too high recently, so the higher-ups ordered us to seal off all the rivers."
"We should give everyone a way to escape."
"You're going to disobey the orders of those above you? They made the world what it is now, and they also have ways to make us humans suffer!"
"Just because they are so powerful, should we just blindly obey them?"
"Do you want to die? Or not!?"
"That's not suicide! Only the ignorant weak facing the strong can be called suicide. But we are not ignorant. The past, present, and future of this world are made up of us. We understand this place better than they do! Even if we are weak, one day, we can overthrow them!"
"The cost of doing this is too high. We might as well..."
"Coward. You're even more of a coward than those who went to die. And you're a manager, someone who can enforce the rules of the workplace."
"You are absolutely crazy!"
"Whatever you think."
"Aren't you afraid that I will report you to them?"
"Do you think they'll care?"
“…”
"If they knew how to care, they would have done it as early as the first person who committed suicide appeared, instead of waiting until now to give orders to humans like you and me."
"……What's the meaning?"
"They just want to watch us kill each other. Suicide is not fun for them at all."
"You, no, how do you know so much? Haven't they only been here for a little over a week?"
"They like to tell fools something, making people collapse because they see the truth right in front of them but cannot put it together completely."
"Is this why you've been playing dumb, to get the truth?"
"Um."
"...You are indeed very good. You are the best among our group. You have been like this since we were students."
"So, do you want to join us? Together we can overthrow them and give everyone a happy and peaceful home."
"I……"
“I want to join!”
"Student He, please save me. I don't want to die yet. Please save me, please!"
"Sister He, I'm sorry, I failed. I... wish you success!"
"He, I sacrificed myself for everyone. You must not forget me. You must carve a tombstone for me like they did. Got it?"
"Xiao He, you've grown up now. In the future, this career will be handed over to you. I... cough cough cough... can rest assured..."
"Sister He, you are our elder sister. No matter where we go, we will always remember you. We have a long way to go. See you later!"
"Lao He, you're scaring me again! Aren't you afraid that one day I'll have a heart attack and be scared to death by you?"
"——He Fangying!"
"He Fangying! You have to keep going! Even if we die, don't give up, keep going! You have to keep working hard! We will always be with you!!!"
"Ha!!!" He Fangying woke up from her past dream, and countless familiar faces flashed through her mind.
Covered in sweat, He Fangying carefully looked at the girl, then at the woman curled up on the sofa, and made sure that she did not wake them up before she lifted the quilt and got out of bed.
Approaching the water tank, she scooped a ladle of water and swallowed it. The coolness spread throughout her body with the water.
Putting down the scoop, He Fangying walked back to the bedside and was about to go to bed when she saw the doll she had secretly thrown away sitting on the windowsill, covered in blood, looking at her with bright eyes.
"He Fangying, you are dreaming."
She clearly heard the puppet say.
"He Fangying, what did you dream about?"
He Fangying suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.
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