Chapter 9 Marching to Dragon Mountain 1
At daybreak in the morning, Yike had a simple breakfast of roasted duck eggs and purslane soup. After this meal, Yi Ke ate a lot and took half of the remaining eggs and roasted them on the fire. This is for eating on the road, as there is no time to cook on the road. She also boiled a large pot of water and put it in the kettle. She didn't know if she could find a water source on the road, so she had to have water ready.
After Yi Ke finished his preparations, he walked into the forest with his backpack on his back. However, Hanjiagou Village outside the mountain was already in an uproar yesterday.
"Oh my God, how can I live like this? Which damn thief stole my pot?"
Early in the morning, Yang Huaihua went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast. When she saw that the pot on the stove was gone, she started shouting. In the past, Yike always got up early in the morning to cook breakfast. Now that Yike had run away, Yang Huaihua was already unhappy about having to get up to cook breakfast, and now she found out that she had attracted a thief. The shouting could probably be heard from miles away. The other people who were still sleeping in the room were also woken up and hurried out of the room.
"It's so noisy so early in the morning. Do you still want to sleep?" Han Jiabao said dissatisfiedly with sleepy eyes.
"Sleep, sleep, sleep, all you do is sleep. There's a thief in our house."
"Dad, what should we do? Our pot was stolen by a thief."
"Why are you arguing? Is it useful? Why don't you go and check if there's anything missing from your room?" Han Dajun shouted. No one else dared to say a word and ran back to their rooms to check what was missing.
Yang Huaihua hurried to the kitchen to check if there was any food missing, as this was the food ration for the whole family. It turned out that not only the rice was missing, but more than half of the coarse rice was gone. Before Yang Huaihua could breathe a sigh of relief, she discovered that all the salt in the salt jar was gone.
"Ahhh! You thief! My salt! Such expensive salt is gone! This is going to kill our whole family!" Don't blame Yang Huaihua for caring so much about the salt. The main reason is that the price of salt was very expensive in that era, several times the price of rice. You could not buy it even if you had money. Every household was subject to purchase restrictions. Without a salt ticket, you could not buy any salt.
"Yang Huaihua, what are you doing so early in the morning? You've beaten all the grass away, you don't know what's good for you, and you still have the nerve to make a scene? If you have the energy, go and work."
The team leader and the villagers were attracted by Yang Huaihua's scream, and the team leader bluntly blamed Yang Huaihua. In the captain's mind, Yang Huaihua was the epitome of cunning, laziness and greed. He was ugly and had bad behavior. He had forced that poor little grass into the mountains, and it must have been eaten by the jackals long ago.
The whole village was in a mess, and when the news got out, the whole village was ashamed.
The captain became angrier and angrier, and shouted with a dark face: "Don't you want to stay in the village anymore? If you don't want to stay, get out of the village. Don't disturb the mood of the members so early in the morning."
"No, it's not like that, Captain. This time I'm not the one making trouble. There really is a thief in our house!" Yang Huaihua didn't dare to yell anymore. "If you don't believe me, ask my child's father?"
The captain glanced at Han Dajun who was standing silently beside him and asked, "Did thieves really break in?"
To be honest, the team leader looked down on this man at all. Not only was he lazy and gluttonous, but he was also unfair. The whole family relied on Xiaocao'er, a child, to work and get food, and he had grown a big guy for nothing.
"A thief broke in and stole a lot of things." Han Dajun mumbled incoherently while smoking a tobacco pipe.
The captain asked as he walked into the yard and looked at the surrounding walls. There was a stool placed by the wall near the kitchen. He stood on the stool and looked out. He saw two overlapping stones in the corner of the wall and a few small footprints. The captain immediately had an idea in his mind: "Could it be that the child is back?"
"Captain, this damn thief stole all the pots and kitchen knives in my house. How can we cook? He also stole my axe. Not only did he steal the food, he also stole all the salt. Even the hoe I borrowed to take home yesterday is missing. Captain, you must do something about it."
Iron pots are hard to buy these days. Sometimes you can’t buy one even if you have money and tickets.
"That damn thief. I curse his whole family to die a horrible death." Yang Huaihua cursed.
The captain said to himself, "Curse! You are cursing yourself. It is most likely that Xiao Cao came back and stole it."
"Mom, two sets of my clothes are missing. A quilt is also missing. That quilt was new, and I was going to put on a cotton one when it gets cold." Xiaocao's sister Guihua also hurriedly reported the loss in her room.
"What! The clothes and sheets are missing. Oh my God, I can't live like this. Damn thief! Damn thief! Don't let me know who it is? I will pull out his tendons, peel off his skin, drink his blood, and beat him to death, beat him to death." Yang Huaihua cursed viciously and glanced at the onlookers ferociously, as if the thief was hiding in the crowd.
"Mom, is it that damn Xiao Cao?" Han Guihua's clothes could only be worn by that dead girl. Yang Huaihua's son Han Jiabao pulled his mother and said.
"Yes, it must be your little Cao who came back to take revenge on you. Throw away the pot and the knife. It's your fault for not giving her food. And throw away the clothes. The child has grown up and you haven't even pulled a piece of cloth to make clothes for her. Oh, you are worse than a stepmother." Some villagers laughed.
Yang Huaihua didn't care who it was. She just cared that a thief had been caught and she wanted to find the team leader to deal with it. It would be best if the team compensated her for the stolen items. If the captain knew her idea, he would definitely sneer and say, "You wish!"
Yang Huaihua said to the team leader: "Team leader, you have to take care of this matter, otherwise my family will starve to death."
The team leader had no choice but to ask the members to go out and look for her. If they saw any, they picked up the pot and knife. If they saw Xiaocao'er, they also brought the child back, wondering how he would survive outside.
The members went in groups of three or four to look for it.
People of that era were still very simple and honest. Although they despised Yang Huaihua's character in their hearts, they were still willing to help when they saw her house was thieved. The members searched the village thoroughly and also searched the outskirts of the mountain. In the end, nothing was found. Although the item was not found, the identity of the thief was identified, and it was Xiao Cao from Yang Huaihua's own garden.
Because the footprints behind the kitchen belonged to a child, and they extended all the way to the river. Everyone speculated that it might be Xiaocao's revenge, and he wanted to make Yang Huaihua suffer before he died. Stealing the pot and the knife left Yang Huaihua without a pot to cook, and without salt she had no strength to work. The clothes should be Xiaocaoer herself, who had never worn new clothes since she was born, so everyone imagined that it was Xiaocaoer who put on her sister's new clothes, held a package in her arms, walked into the river miserably, and fell into the arms of the river god.
People who imagined this result shuddered and quickly left Yang Huaihua's house, fearing that Xiaocao'er's ghost would come back to haunt them.
But the locust flowers will definitely be entangled. Isn't it pitiful for Yang Huaihua who is haunted by ghosts? She deserves it. She is his own daughter, and he is too partial to her.
Yang Huaihua was enjoying herself by scolding Xiao Cao'er when she suddenly noticed people were looking at her with strange eyes: some were sympathetic, some were sarcastic, and some were even terrified. Yang Huaihua felt confused. Among them was a like-minded lady who reminded her implicitly not to turn off the lights at night, so that she would not be afraid after the seventh day after Xiaocao'er's death.
Yang Huaihua then realized that Xiaocao'er was dead and the ghost might come back for revenge. Yang Huaihua was so scared that she jumped out of the room with a whoosh, grabbed the woman and said she wanted to stay at her house for the night.
That woman would definitely not agree, because Yang Huaihua is the culprit! If Xiaocaoer wants to take revenge, she will definitely come after her. Anyone who dares to let her stay overnight is asking for trouble!
So during the days before Xiaocao's seventh day, Yang Huaihua's house kept the lights on at night. Yang Huaihua didn't even dare to close her eyes at night. Once she closed her eyes, it was as if Xiaocao was standing in front of her, trying to grab her, and she kept saying, "I'm so cold, mom, hug me, I'm so cold."
On the seventh night, Yang Huaihua finally broke down and yelled, "Don't come over here! Don't come over here! I'm not your mother, go find your real mother and hug me, don't come over here!"
"Ah..." Yang Huaihua's crazy scream woke up the villagers.
The members gathered together again and heard what Yang Huaihua said. Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. No wonder Yang Huaihua treated Xiao Cao'er so badly. It turned out that he was not her biological child.
When the captain saw the man jumping and shouting like a madman in the yard, he said to Han Dajun: "Knock out your woman and send her to the hospital tomorrow. She is possessed by a demon." ”
Wang Dajun knocked Yang Huaihua unconscious and carried her back to the room. Seeing that there was no fun, the villagers started talking and went home.
Of course, no one knew what happened in Hanjiagou Village.
The saying “A horse will die if it runs too fast” is absolutely true. It took Yike three days of non-stop walking to finish the first mountain. Longshan is located inside the mountains and one has to cross several mountains to get there. The forest is scary at night and no matter how brave one is, one would not dare to walk in the forest at night.
"There is no cave tonight. Where should I spend the night? Should I spend the night in a tree or in a hammock?" Yi Ke said to himself.
“My arms and legs are so small. Why are they so short? I won’t grow taller in the future. I was a great beauty in my previous life. I don’t want to be an ugly monster in this life.” As a “VIP customer” of the Appearance Association, it would be really disgusting if I were that ugly. However, judging from her face shape alone, her face is still very delicate. Her eyes are double eyelids, oblong in shape, and slightly upturned at the tails. This type of eyes was called almond eyes in her previous life, and gives people a particularly pure feeling. She has a round face. If she wasn’t so thin, she would be a cute and adorable girl when she gained weight in the future. But it’s really strange to think about it. None of Yang Huaihua’s family members have round faces. Could it be that the original body is not Yang Huaihua’s biological child?
No matter what you think in your mind, you still have to do what you should do. Yike put down the backpack, looked around, found the biggest tree, and prepared to climb up the tree to spend the night. He felt disgusted when he saw the short arms and legs.
She climbed up the tree using her hands and feet, tied herself to the branch with a rope, sprinkled some snake-repellent herbs on her body, and closed her eyes to rest.
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