Chapter 213: Mountain Village People
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At dusk, on the small bridge.
Blameless fell like a pile of rotten mud.
Covered in blood, covered in dust, and dirty, he threw away his cane and staggered and collapsed on the edge of the bridge.
Vaguely, after the sound of surprise, a figure ran over with broken steps, hurriedly put down the bamboo basket, reached out and picked up the tips of the hair around his ears and leaned over to look: "Oh, how much suffering does this have to endure to become like this, I'm afraid that the beggar has met the jackal, it's really pitiful......"
Rather than looking, this is a young man on crutches, unclothed, scarred, and dying, lying on the bridge with his whole body, only his head leaning against the railing of the stone bridge, his eyes half-open and half-closed, as if he had passed out, but his mouth squirmed, as if telling the suffering and hardships along the way.
She couldn't help but pull up her hands, empathize, and immediately looked back, panicked for a while.
Do you want to go back to the village and find a helper?
And except for their own yard, which is not far from the bridge, the other residents are a mile or two away, if something goes wrong when they forget to return, won't this poor man suffer again!
She bit her lip, hesitated for a moment, and said softly, "Let's go to my backyard for a while......
The soft voice is kind, very warm, and very good!
Blameless's mouth opened and spat out one word: "Uh-huh......"
She didn't have time to think about it, she reached out to help, but before she touched the bruised body, she retracted her hand with a little shyness, and then secretly blamed herself, simply ignored it, grabbed the arm of the man on the ground and put it on her shoulder, and called out: "I'll help you up......"
The arms are smooth and slender, but there is no lack of strength that a village woman should have, the thin shoulders are calm and firm, the coarse cloth clothes, the white neck, and the wet hair all reveal a faint fragrance and charming atmosphere, which makes people feel calm in a trance, and I want to fall asleep.
There was no answer, and he stood up in a daze and struggled, and with the last trace of thought, he staggered forward.
She picked up the bamboo basket, took a slight breath, and then grabbed the arm on her shoulder, and slowly moved forward with a strange man.
After getting off the stone bridge, I went to more than ten zhang, and there was an independent courtyard built on the soil slope. Three stone houses, separating the courtyard. The front yard is planted with trees that seem to be lit up, and the back yard is a firewood house next to the courtyard gate, surrounded by miscellaneous items.
Two figures, one tall and one short, struggled through the courtyard gate and came to the door of the firewood room in the backyard.
She dropped the bamboo basket and reached out to open the door, and the man she was supporting slipped off his shoulder and planted directly into the room. She was in a hurry to inquire about the situation, but there was a snoring on the ground, and it was clear that someone had fallen asleep. She froze in place, not knowing what to do.
At this time, a shout and scolding sounded in the front yard: "Chunxiu, you damn mother-in-law, wash your clothes and grind, if you don't roll back to cook, I'm going to starve to death......"
Her name is Chunxiu, she hurriedly answered, raised her hand to wipe the sweat on her forehead, breathed a sigh of relief, glanced back, gently closed the door, and walked to the front yard with a bamboo basket. After passing through an alley at the top of the house, you will reach the front yard. Under the two big trees in the front yard, there are stove rooms, stone tables and other things. She hung the clothes in the basket on the rope between the trees, walked into the stove, turned back to eat with the dishes and chopsticks, and walked into the door of the hall with her feet.
There are three stone houses, the first room is the main entrance of the hall house, and the corner doors on both sides are the residences or storehouses, and the surrounding furnishings are simple, but the walls are hung with all kinds of animal skins, animal bones, and dusty bows, crossbows, knives, axes, etc. In this case, it should be a house of hunters.
On the side of the corner door on the left side of the hall, there is a wooden table and a bamboo couch. On the wall above the wooden table, an oil lamp hangs. On the couch, half-reclining and half-lying was a man in the prime of life, dressed in coarse cloth clothes, with a cloth cloth on his head, with a dark face, a beard, and a face full of anger, staring at a pair of eyes.
A woman approached, it was his mother-in-law Chunxiu.
With the help of the light of the oil lamp, although Chunxiu has a coarse cloth dress, her complexion is fair, her cheeks are red, her eyebrows are beautiful, her eyes are graceful, and she is a rare beauty in the mountain village. Especially her washed hair, open neckline, and sweat beads and water traces on her face and neck, like dewy flowers, are particularly moving!
The man snorted contentedly, sat up with his legs shifted, reached out to take the dishes and chopsticks, and still kept looking at his mother-in-law.
Chunxiu went and returned, sitting next to the wooden table with a bowl of rice in his hand.
The man wolfed down his dinner, threw the dishes and chopsticks on the wooden table, burped comfortably, and then thought about lying down comfortably, and suddenly sat up straight, and said suspiciously: "Why didn't you return for a long time when you washed some clothes today?"
Chunxiu Wu held the rice bowl and chewed slowly. Xu was already accustomed to seeing her man's suspicions, so she said disapprerovantly: "I went to the fire spring to wipe my body, so I delayed ......."
A few miles away from the west end of the village, there is a spring of water, which is hot all the year round, called a fire spring, and occasionally the mountain people of the village go to wash their bodies. To put it bluntly, it is a common hot spring in the mountains.
"You are not afraid of being looked upon and your innocence ......"
"It's evening, and no one ...... in the wild"
"That's not going to work! I'll break your leg next time!"
Chunxiu smiled, and wanted to defend a few words, but the man's roar was already ringing in the room. She suddenly felt disappointed, got up and walked to the door, suddenly remembered something, turned around and said, "I saved a beggar and left him in the firewood room......"
The man was playing majestic, and he was suddenly stunned: "Male, female, how old?"
Chunxiu replied casually: "Man, it shouldn't be very old......
The man was stunned, grabbed the pottery bowl on the wooden table and smashed it: "I knew that you had hooked up all day long, and now you dare to seduce a wild man to the door......"
Chunxiu jumped out of the door, and the pottery bowl "clanged" and shattered. She was ashamed and angry, her face turned pale, her eyes were filled with tears, and she paused and said: "Damn Fang Da, you don't bully people!" It was a beggar begging for food, I saw that he was pitiful, so I took him in for the time being, and after he woke up, I drove him away!"
The man didn't give up, and roared again: "It's really the opposite! A person who asks for food dares to hook up with my mother-in-law, and I slashed him with an axe......" He moved his feet and wanted to get off, but the struggle was difficult, so he had to give up, and his jealousy could not be extinguished, and he scolded in his throat: "Stinky girl, quickly drive him out of the yard!"
Chunxiu was so frightened that she took a few steps back and begged: "How can you see death and not save ......?"
"Bang-"
Mu Ji was smashed out of the door, and the scolding was endless: "Whistle stinky girl, I'll kill you......"
Chunxiu trotted to the stove room, squatted on the ground and bowed her head and sobbed.
She has a big man, has broken her legs since she went up the mountain, is short-tempered, moody, and suspicious. The young Zhuang in the village saw that she was beautiful, and he also liked to walk around in the past. So Fang Da was even more jealous, and she was not allowed to go out without permission, let alone socialize with others, otherwise she would be beaten and scolded.
And since he is his own man, he has to follow him whether he is good or bad.
However, the poor man who begged for food was badly wounded and dying, and if he was thrown out of the door, it would be unbearable. Besides, who doesn't have a time when he is in trouble, when he wakes up and leaves, the damn nature will be gone!
Chunxiu wiped away her tears and returned to the yard to pack her things. After she cleaned up in all directions, she pretended to be deaf and dumb and endured the scolding, first lying down in the service room, and then going to the back room to rest.
When the sky was bright, there was snoring on the bamboo couch of the big house or the hall house.
Chunxiu quietly got up and walked out of the house, and turned to the firewood room in the backyard.
Pushing open the door, there was a figure lying on the ground full of debris, still unconscious, wheezing heavily. Shallow and easy to see, people are still alive.
"It's cold and wet on the ground!"
Chunxiu breathed a sigh of relief and became worried again. She found a worn-out mattress from the pile of debris, lightly covered her half-naked body, and hurriedly raised her hands and took a step back, looking very embarrassed and helpless.
"Well, there is no Langzhong in the village, and minor illnesses and disasters are all done by going to the mountains to pick herbs. Now you're covered in wounds, but you don't know if you've been bitten by a poisonous insect or eaten by a wild animal, and it's really hard to get the right treatment. Besides, I don't understand pharmacology, and it's inconvenient to ask for help, and that dead thing from Fang Da wants to drive you out......"
She muttered softly for a moment, and then realized that she was talking to herself. She raised her hand and patted her chest, smiled shyly, turned to close the door, and walked out.
From now on, the spring show will come to check it out in the morning and evening. Four or five days later, the man begging for food in the firewood room still fell asleep. In addition to eating and sleeping, Fang Da scolds, and if he is not careful, he has to move his fists. She swallowed her anger and tried her best to be careful, but she was secretly anxious, and finally simply moved a stool to sit in the backyard, silently worrying about the firewood room alone.
After all, man is flesh and blood, and if he does not eat or drink, he will not be able to endure it for seven days at most. And the beggar never woke up, if there was an accident and died in the firewood room, what should I do?
It's another day, in the early afternoon.
Chunxiu sat by the gate in the backyard, sewing the clothes in her hands with a needle and thread.
Damn Fang Da, maybe he fell asleep when he was full. Without his shouting and scolding, the surroundings were quiet. It's just that with the gust of north wind blowing, the small courtyard was suddenly shrouded in a chill.
Chunxiu raised the sewing needle and wiped it on her sideburns, and suddenly lost the interest in sewing, and then put her clothes in the bamboo basket beside her, and turned to look at the firewood house not far away.
If the begging man doesn't wake up again, he has to go to the village to find someone to help, even if he is beaten and scolded, he will not hesitate to watch a big living person die in vain. Besides, Fang Da is sleeping, so I will have to hide it from him when the time comes.
She bit her lip and pondered for a moment, then stood up with her hands on her knees, walked to the firewood room, and reached out to push the door open.
The man on the ground was still the same as he had been six days ago, lying motionless under the mattress, but there was no heavy wheezing, could it be that someone else was dead?
Chunxiu was startled by herself, and quietly leaned forward and shouted, "Hey, wake up quickly—"
There was no response, and the situation in the room was the same.
Chunxiu stretched out her hand to cover her mouth, was slightly stunned, hurriedly lifted the mattress, pulled her arm and flipped the man on the ground over. Unexpectedly, she used too much force, so she dodged herself and fell down suddenly, but she still didn't care about reaching out and touching the man's snort. Her intention is very simple, she just wants to find out whether the other party is dead or alive. She didn't want to give an innocent life because of her own fault!
At this time, someone roared heartbreakingly: "What a pair of dog men and women, dare to proclaim ** lewd ...... during the day"