Chapter 111 Being too old to die is a thief
The golden sunshine fell from the eaves, and it was bright. Feng Yushu put the mobile phone back in his pocket and stood up from the stone under the tree at the entrance of the village.
Ji Taixun’s shadow disappeared shortly after entering Yanglao Village. Maybe he happened to walk under the shade of a tree, maybe he hid in a certain house. Under the thick ink clouds, the Tengu eclipses the moon. Special Jean could no longer find him.
To be on the safe side, she chose to tell Ning Zhe about her previous encounter and waited under the tree at the entrance of the village until dawn before going deep into Yanglao Village to continue her search.
The sunny day is her home court.
Feng Yushu gently put her hand on her chest. The three life coins that Ning Zhe gave her were tied around her neck with a red rope and buried in the ditch. This was her safety guarantee for this trip.
When you walk into the village entrance, the first thing you see is a crossroads. The layout of the houses in Yanglao Village is very interesting. If you use a drone to take aerial photography from above, what you will see is a house hidden in the green. The word "sheep" comes to mind. The entrance to Feng Yushu's village is at the bottom of the word "sheep". Going up, you will reach the crossroads.
The area of Yanglao Village is not large, so you can try it slowly one by one. Feng Yushu first walked to the left fork of the intersection and saw an old woman who had gotten up early, hunched over and standing on the steps at the door of the house, with her hands in her hands. He held the lever of the water well and shook it up and down, laboriously pumping water from the ground to wash vegetables.
Such pressurized water wells are common in towns and rural areas in southern states such as Qinzhou. Yunzhou belongs to the Central Plains region and has relatively less groundwater that is easy to exploit.
Feng Yushu noticed that even though the water pressure well was equipped with a labor-saving lever structure, the old man's movement of shaking the water was still very difficult. It seemed that her body was extremely old.
Judging from her thin figure and stooped waist, she should be at least an elderly person over seventy years old.
For such an old man, he still has to get up early to wash vegetables?
In a place like this, every tiny detail is worth noting. Feng Yushu walked over carefully, her sandals clicking on the hard concrete pavement. The old man was laboriously shaking the water well on the roadside. The aging lever made a tired groan of metal friction, giving her an indescribable feeling. weird feeling.
Squeak - squeak - the old man shook the water silently, submerging the vegetables in the basin, and let Feng Yushu pass by in the middle of the road in front of her without looking up.
This is even more strange. Even if you didn’t see yourself coming at first, and now you hear footsteps and know that someone is approaching, a normal person’s reaction should be to look up. Even if you are too lazy to look, it is more or less There will be a slight reaction.
But the old man in front of her didn't react at all to Feng Yushu's arrival, as if she didn't exist at all. She didn't see the figure walking in front of her, nor heard the clicking sound only a few meters away. She just shook her head to herself. Water, lowering his head but not raising his head.
Feng Yushu hesitated for a moment and did not continue walking forward. She stopped where she was and looked at the old man's laborious movements without saying a word.
The water level in the wooden basin gradually rose, submerging two bunches of green vegetables, but the old man's movement of shaking the water did not stop. The clear groundwater was still being pulled up from the pressurized well, and the The entire wooden basin was completely filled, and finally overflowed from the edge of the basin.
Wow, the water overflowing the edge of the basin wet the cloth shoes on the old man's feet. This time she finally realized that the water was full, and her skinny hands quickly and awkwardly let go of the handle of the water well, her movements stiff. He squatted down and put his hands into the basin, as if he was about to start washing vegetables.
As the old man no longer lowered his head and shook his head, Feng Yushu finally saw the old man's face, and the next moment, her expression froze.
What kind of face is that... There is no trace of fat or collagen on the old man's face. The dry and skinny skin is like a plastic wrap covering a human skull specimen, thin and The dry skin clearly outlines the shape of a skull, and inside the sunken eye sockets are a pair of dry, necrotic, dehydrated eyeballs. It is obvious that he has no vision at all. This old man is blind.
The ears may also be deaf, because she did not react at all to Feng Yushu's footsteps walking in close distance.
"Mom——?"
"Mom? Where are you running to..."
Suddenly, a thick man's voice came from the house behind the old man. Feng Yushu saw a short-haired man wearing short-sleeved trousers leaning out his upper body from the second-floor window, frowning and looking at Blind Eye, who was washing vegetables downstairs. The old man: "Why are you looking for something to do again? There's no need." What are you doing, secretly doing something for nothing...fuck..."
The short-haired man muttered, and when he raised his head, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he saw a brightly dressed and plump figure as beautiful as jade. Niangzheng stood tall and graceful in the middle of the road, looking up at him curiously. The man's face turned red and he ran downstairs in excitement, grabbed the old mother's hand and dragged her into the house.
While tugging, he whispered: "I want you to stay at home. Why do you have to go out and let outsiders see it?"
The short-haired man was in a hurry. He pushed the blind old mother who looked like a mummy into the house, closed the door, and approached Feng Yushu with a shy smile. A few steps: "Sister, you are not from our village, are you? Why are you standing in front of my house so early in the morning?"
"..." Feng Yushu frowned and said: "I'm looking for someone, this There is a family in the village who married their only daughter to Yundu. Do you know where that family is? ”
"I know, I know, Uncle Mu, he is the only one in the whole village who has no son." The short-haired man grinned and said cheerfully: "Uncle Mu's home is at the east end of the village. There is a two-story building in a bamboo forest. Okay, big girl, you definitely don’t recognize her from outside. "I'll take you there now, shall we?"
"Thank you, I can just walk by myself." Feng Yushu politely declined the short-haired man's offer to lead him, and turned around without any hesitation. We arrived at the intersection just now.
Feng Yushu didn’t want to stay at that place for a moment, because just now, when she was asking the short-haired man for directions, out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of bricks pressing down the corners behind the pressure well and under the eaves. There was a black coffin covered in the snakeskin bag.
The black coffin, which is more than two meters long, is placed beside the door, simply covered by several snakeskin bags containing urea. Through the crack of the unclosed door behind the man in the village, Feng Yushu saw a pair of deep sunken eye sockets, inside which two dry and shriveled eyeballs stared blankly through the crack in the door panel.
Feng Yushu jogged all the way back to the crossroads. The houses along the way were all ordinary houses. Every once in a while, you could see some covered with snakeskin bags, tarpaulins, straw sheds and the like. The dark coffins were parked near the house without any hesitation.
There are coffins everywhere in Yanglao Village, coffins placed in the open air.
(End of this chapter)