Chapter 218 Scene 5 (Inverted V) My star is definitely better than "it...
"How, how do you know my name?!" He Fangying was so scared that she stepped back repeatedly, looking at the doll in horror.
"I know you, of course I know your name." He Yuezhe sat on the windowsill, looking at her quietly, without moving.
"No, no, no, no, we don't even know each other!" He Fangying waved her hands. "You, no, didn't I abandon you? Why are you here?"
"This is my home. No matter how long or how far I am away from it, I can always come back."
Sweat broke out on He Fangying's forehead again. She climbed onto the bed nervously and picked up He Yuezhe.
"Well," she said sincerely, "please, please leave here, okay?"
"Of course - you can't do that." He Yuezhe said with a smile.
"Why? No, no, I will take good care of her and let her grow up well. You don't have to worry about that." He Fangying took He Yuezhe out of the house and said earnestly, "I will never do that kind of thing again. I swear to you, okay?"
He Yuezhe was placed on a stone by her. "Are you asking me to believe the words of someone who wants to use his own death to make her grow up properly, and who has ignored my words?"
"Can we please not mention this anymore..." He Fangying also sat on the stone, helplessly supporting her forehead. "I, if there is any other way, I don't want to do that..."
"You were the one who brought it up first. But what do you mean by other methods?" He Yuezhe tilted his head in confusion.
“I…I…”
The wild grass gently brushed against the doll's body in the wind, making it feel a little itchy. A small insect crawled onto the stone and onto He Yuezhe's hand.
The little puppet raised its hand and looked at the bug with interest.
"He Fangying, what's the difference between humans and these bugs?" She twisted her fingers gently, crushing the bug that was curiously looking at her to death. "They're all equally fragile and curious."
"You saw my dream... Are you one of them?" He Fangying's expression suddenly became serious. "What do you want to do by coming here? We've already given up on that matter. Do you still want to kill us all?!"
——She was even ready to fight.
"They?" Unfortunately, He Yuezhe had never heard of what "they" were, and had no way to fight with her.
"No, I don't know them, let alone their people," she shook her head. "I just want to ask you, do you think an ant can shake a tree?"
"you……"
"He Fangying, I know you've always been wary of me, but you and I shouldn't have been enemies," He Yuezhe said. "We're both equally insignificant, vulnerable, and curious. So, why don't we become allies?"
"What a crappy excuse that is, it's so pretentious." He Fangying complained.
"I thought you'd like to hear this kind of reasoning." He Yuezhe blinked. She had seen He Fangying's dream and thought that He Fangying would like such philosophical words. "Well, actually, my goals don't conflict with yours. Since they don't conflict, then instead of fighting each other and letting the fisherman gain the advantage, we might as well cooperate."
"...It's a case of the fisherman profiting from the conflict between the snipe and the clam." He Fangying laughed. "You came back just to tell me this?"
"no."
"What's that for?"
“…”
He Fangying, my grandma, why do you think I came back?
He Yuezhe grinned and did not answer.
"...Okay, I'm convinced by you." He Fangying was silent for a long time before finally speaking.
He Yuezhe looked at her gloomy face and asked expressionlessly, "You lied to me. Why don't you believe me?"
"Hey, hey, I didn't lie to you, I was serious."
He Fangying turned around and looked at He Yuezhe with a wry smile, "Perhaps you are right. Once I argue with you, they will profit from it effortlessly."
"Although I still don't know why you came here, but from what we've been doing together, I think you're more humane than them."
"I can cooperate with you, but if you take any action that is detrimental to the humans of this world, to me, or to her, I will immediately terminate the cooperation and kill you."
"Oh, that's fine then." He Yuezhe smiled nonchalantly and returned to his expressionless state. "Also, you are not allowed to die casually in the future, understand?"
"……I see."
"grandmother."
"...Are you calling me?"
"No, I'm calling my grandma."
"You have a grandmother too?"
"certainly."
"What does she look like?"
"My face was covered with moles. In order to remove them, I used a fire poker to burn them. As a result, the moles were burned off, and my face was also burned."
“How terrifying.”
"That's a sign of bravery."
"...I personally think, personally, ha, although I don't know whether what you said is true or not, but you shouldn't over-emphasize your grandmother's image."
“But my grandma is really amazing.”
"Oh, I see..."
"I miss her so much."
"Is she gone?"
"Leave? Where to? My grandmother, she's dead. She didn't even leave me her body."
Lying flat on the stone, He Yuezhe opened his eyes, which were twinkling in the darkness.
Strange, are these the stars?
"I've heard a legend," He Fangying's voice sounded softly beside her. "Legend has it that deceased family members turn into stars in the sky, watching over the living and protecting them."
"..." He Yuezhe stretched out his wooden fingers and gently touched the small, somewhat inferior lights. "So, which one is more powerful, the 'them' you mentioned, or the stars?"
"You should ask your stars these questions yourself."
"My star, she is right here."
“…”
“…”
"Yeah?"
"My star is definitely more powerful than 'them'."
“…”
"It would be nice if I could see her again."
“…”
“…”
“…”
"good morning."
"Well, good morning, Xiao Su... No, Xiao Su, how did you get into this state?" The girl looked at He Yuezhe, who was lying on her hands and feet, with surprise, and held her up with heartache. "Did someone bully you?"
"No."
The girl held He Yuezhe in her arms and looked around. She found that the old woman and the woman were still asleep, so she breathed a sigh of relief: "Then let's go outside and treat your wound."
"I'm not hurt."
"Xiao Su."
"Yeah. I'm here."
The girl swept the dead insects off the rocks and said, "Xiao Su, you were the one who saved grandma yesterday."
Her voice was very soft, as if she was afraid of waking up the two people in the house, but at the same time, her voice was resounding, and He Yuezhe's heart trembled.
Only then did she realize that she seemed a little afraid of the girl in front of her.
"I, saved, grandma?" He Yuezhe had to play dumb.
"Well, anyway, thank you, Xiao Su." The girl saw through her pretense at a glance. "If it weren't for you, I really can't imagine that grandma would... Anyway, thank you, Xiao Su."
The girl moved quickly and had great skills in repairing dolls. He Yuezhe felt that every part of his body had been repaired.
"Xiao Su, thank you so much. Thank you for saving grandma. Really, thank you."
The girl kept repeating these words until she reached the end of the wasteland, when the red sun slowly rose and its soft light made her hair hot.
"Daughter..." A woman's figure appeared at the door, facing the light.
She leaned weakly against the rickety door that was patched up with many patches, with a forced, dark smile on her face.
"...Mother." The girl raised her head and looked at her.
"Am I..."
“…”
"daughter……?"
"Mother, it's not your fault. You didn't do anything wrong. Don't blame yourself."
“…”
"Even though I hate you, you are not allowed to hate yourself."
“…”
"Mother."
"I, I'm here!" The woman raised the hand that didn't hug the girl back, at a loss.
The girl continued to bury her head in her clothes, the soft, mud-stained fur coat that the woman always wore before, and the scent of perfume that she hadn't smelled for a long time.
The woman hadn't worn this dress in a long time. She hadn't even used perfume on it.
When the girl left home, she wanted to take them with her, but looking at the woman's messy hair and her young but hunched body, she suddenly felt that the woman should use the fur coat to cover her hunched body and use the old bottle of homemade perfume to smooth her hair.
Maybe there were other reasons. In any case, the girl did not take them away. She even hoped to see the day when the woman would put on the coat and spray the perfume again.
And now, her wish has come true.
"Mother..." The girl held back her tears.
"I'm here." The woman's hands trembled.
"...I hate you, I really hate you!" The girl roared out with almost all her strength, "I hate you for giving birth to me, I hate you for not stopping my father from beating me, I hate you for giving everything for our family, I hate your messy appearance, I hate your skinny body, I hate you, I hate you!!"
"You always look at me with such pity, forcing me to take care of you like an adult! But I'm the daughter, and I'm the one who should be taken care of!"
The girl's eyes were filled with tears, which wet her fur coat and mixed with mud, making the fur clump together.
"But why is it that you haven't done anything wrong? Why can't I really, really hate you?"
The girl's father told her that the woman's brain was born bad. The girl did not believe it and tried to get the truth from the woman, but she did not believe it. When she asked her father, he beat her.
As for the woman, she would protect the girl at first, but later, for some reason, she became numb and indifferent.
From then on, the girl and the woman were like two strangers, indifferent to everything about each other.
Until the day the man died, the girl asked the woman if she wanted to go with her. That was the first time the girl saw light in the woman's eyes.
But the light only lasted for a moment, and then the woman shook her head, showing the ring on her hand, and grabbed the man's hand again, with the two rings pressed tightly together. The woman smiled with tears in her eyes and said, "Wherever my man is, there I will be. Even if he is dead, I cannot abandon him."
After a long while, the woman said in a hoarse voice, "I'm sorry..."
"You are so stupid! I don't need your apology! I just regret that I didn't cut that man into pieces so that you would have no choice but to go with me!" The girl's hug became tighter and tighter.
She seemed to want to embrace the woman into her body, turning her into flesh and blood, penetrating into her bones, so that they could no longer be separated.
As He Yuezhe looked at her, he realized that his mother seemed very similar to Liu Zhaodi.
They share the same outdated ideas and are trapped in prison. There are countless mothers, or wives, like this in this world where the strong are respected.
Unreasonable ideas and behaviors should be punished.
It's like this everywhere.
If there is no one to serve as the executioner, He Yuezhe will be happy to serve.
In fact, she has always done so in the past.
"Alright, you're still crying here this early in the morning, hugging each other. Aren't you two hungry?" He Fangying stretched and walked out of the house. She separated the two of them, picked up the doll on the stone, and said sarcastically, "They are just mother and daughter. I'm still your grandmother, and some children won't even hug me."
"My daughter's grandmother..." The woman looked at He Fangying, somewhat inexplicably excited, "Are you my mother?"
"Huh?!" He Fangying looked at the woman in surprise, one eye wide and the other small, "I don't have any children!"
"That……"
"Okay, okay, I'll hug you too, okay?" The girl walked over and gave He Fangying a big hug.
He Fangying then said with a smile: "Alright, alright! Let's go in and have breakfast. Today's breakfast is tomato noodles!"
"Are they those tomatoes you used to pretend blood, Grandma?"
"What? What?! Kid, stop talking nonsense!"
"I'm not talking nonsense!"
“Yes!”
"No!"
"You just have it!"
"Grandma is still lying!"
"Hey! Little kid, you want to be spanked, don't you? I'll spank you until your butt is bruised!"
"Hey, don't, don't hit me!!"
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