Xinnan County, Hexi Village, Chu Family Courtyard.
"This girl has been lying in bed for three days, and the fever has not gone away at all. Don't be a fool with the fever." Chu's mother sat next to her and reached out to put a hot towel on the forehead of the person on the bed. The next second, she felt cold. Meet a pair of black eyes.
She was so frightened that she trembled all over, her hands shook, "Pah!" The wet towel fell on Chu Ye's face.
Chu Ye was lying on the bed, with the thick quilt covering her body barely visible. She was motionless, and her brain was like a paste and couldn't function.
"Hey, you damn kid! You don't know what to say when you wake up. You want to scare your mother to death!" Chu's mother reached out and patted her chest. Seeing that Chu Ye was silent, she reached out and picked up the towel.
The darkness in front of my eyes faded away, and the sunlight hit my eyes directly, causing a momentary sting. After a long while, when Chu Ye calmed down, she turned her head and asked in a confused tone, "Mom, why are you here?"
After speaking, she realized that her throat was unusually hoarse.
"What did you say, girl? You've had a fever for several days. Where can you go if I'm not by your side?" Chu's mother poured warm water from the thermos at her feet and helped her drink it.
The warm water entered the stomach along the mouth, and there was sugar specially placed by Chu's mother at the bottom of the bowl. The more you drank, the sweeter it became, as if a pair of warm hands calmed the uneasiness in your heart.
After drinking, Chu Ye quietly looked at everything around him.
On the dusty concrete floor, there is a wooden wardrobe in the corner, and next to the bed is a small table with several junior high school textbooks on it. She was covered with a thick pink floral quilt, and there was a large wooden box piled at the end of the bed with an iron lock on it.
Looking to the side, a cloth curtain was hung on the door opening. Under the cloth curtain, a few black table legs could be vaguely seen.
Chu's mother, who was sitting by the bed, was looking at her expectantly. Her face was not as old as she remembered, and her head was still full of black hair.
The person in front of him opened his mouth and asked questions, "How do you feel now? Does your head still hurt?"
What's going on? Why is she at home? She clearly remembered that she killed Zhao Xuesong and then lay in bed waiting for dawn. Why was it that when she opened her eyes now, she was at home?
Is this the world after death?
"You kid, are you crazy because of the fever? Why haven't you said a word for a long time?" Chu's mother muttered, then stretched her hand to her daughter's forehead uneasily.
"You've been having a fever for several days in a row, and I've given you medicine but it's not getting better. I invited the goddess at the entrance of the village to come and give it a try. I didn't expect it to be useful! You girl, be careful when you come back next time. You may not be so lucky if you fall into the river again.”
Chu's mother's words were nagging, but they seemed to fall from the sky and hit her ears.
Fall into the river? fever? Invite the goddess? She remembered this happening when she was fifteen.
That day, she went home from work as usual. While walking by a stream, she accidentally fell into the water and was hit on the head by a stone and passed out. Later, a fellow villager saw her passing by, fished her out and carried her home.
It's strange how I can think of something so far away. Moreover, why was the hand that Chu's mother touched her forehead just now so warm?
Is this really the world after death? A bold suspicion gradually arose in her heart.
"Mom, what time is it today?" Chu Ye wanted to confirm her guess.
"Today? You girl are not really stupid, are you? Today is March 2, 1976." Chu's mother wondered if she should invite the goddess back and show her child again.
On March 2, 1976, Chu Ye seemed to be shaken by something in his heart. She hurriedly opened the quilt and walked out of the house quickly.
It is now afternoon, and most people in the village go to the fields to earn work points. The roads are empty and there are no people around. A patch of golden rapeseed flowers can be seen in the distance. It was a cold spring, and Chu Ye was alerted by the cold wind blowing in his face, and his brain became much clearer in an instant.
In front of her was a familiar village where she had lived for more than ten years. She lowered her head and looked at her white and tender hands. Different from the thick calluses worn out by working in the fields, the nails on these hands were slightly longer, the knuckles were distinct, and there was another one on the middle finger of her right hand. The calluses are the marks left by years of holding pens.
She clenched her fists tightly, feeling the sting of her nails digging into her flesh, and she felt happy in her heart.
Her suspicion is true! She is not in hell, she is back when she was fifteen years old! Thinking of what happened next, pain flashed in her eyes.
It was also at this time in her previous life that she followed her parents' arrangements and met Zhao Xuesong, who was introduced by the matchmaker. At that time, the matchmaker only said that Zhao Xuesong's family was well-off and he was an honest person.
Who would have thought that this was all Zhao Xuesong’s disguise! After she married into the Zhao family, Zhao Xuesong pretended to be a little bit at first. After she gave birth to her first son, the Zhao family felt that they had a handle on her, and their attitude toward her was completely different from what it was at the beginning!
Zhao Xuesong even revealed his true colors, drinking and playing cards every day. She couldn't stand it. Every time Zhao Xuesong came home, they would have a big fight. Later, it even turned into a fight between the two! Zhao Xuesong punched and kicked her after being drunk, blaming her entirely for the unhappiness of losing money after playing cards.
idiot! Even Chu Ye could tell that the people playing cards with him were plotting against him! But Zhao Xuesong fell deeper and deeper into trouble and lost all his family's money. The Zhao family's parents couldn't stand it anymore, and despite Chu Ye's objections, they took their grandson back to raise them and refused to let Chu Ye have contact with their children.
But how can parents who have raised such a temperament as Zhao Xuesong educate their grandson well? By the time the child was seven years old, he was doted on and turned into a gangster. He had no respect for Chu Ye and insulted her when she was not satisfied at all. Chu Ye originally planned to bring the child to his side to educate him personally, but what happened? The Zhao family's parents stopped him, saying that the young couple was not living a good life and they did not want to send their grandson back.
Zhao Xuesong even spread his hands and did not interfere in the child's affairs at all.
Until that time, Chu Ye came home from working in the fields and saw the child lying on the bed with Zhao Xuesong's cigarette in his mouth and puffing away.
This made Chu Ye so angry that he scolded the child. Unexpectedly, he went back and lied to Zhao's parents, slandering Chu Ye and beating him! Then he felt complacent under the protection of Zhao's parents, as if he had a grudge against his mother.
Too many trivial matters made her breathless. How many times she went back to find Chu's mother to cry, but she always got the same sentence: Woman, just be patient and let it go.
Be patient? How long will it take to endure it?
She said she wanted a divorce.
Chu's mother said, my brother is planning to marry a wife recently. If you dare to do such a shameful thing as divorce, I will beat you to death first.
She had no choice but to break her bones and swallow the blood and tears in her heart. Like thousands of women, she stopped telling the pain of life.
She originally thought that such days would never come to an end, but she didn't expect that Zhao Xuesong would come home drunk that day and vent his resentment for losing cards on her. She couldn't help but struggle, and finally burst out with amazing strength and strangled Zhao Xuesong alive. .
After the trance passed and her head cleared, Chu Ye realized that she had actually strangled the person alive!
In addition to the fear at the beginning, she felt relief in her heart, and the boulder that was weighing on her heart was overthrown by her. She let out a long breath, ending all the unhappiness she had had since getting married.
Smelling the stench of alcohol in the air, he touched Zhao Xuesong's gradually cold body. She regained her composure and lay peacefully on the bed, placing her hands considerately on her chest. Then she opened her dark eyes and stared until the rooster crowed outside the house and until dawn broke outside.
Then she got up and planned to surrender to the village brigade, hoping that they would arrest her.
Unexpectedly, he stumbled and fell. When she opened her eyes again, she saw Chu's mother guarding the bedside.
Holding on to the door frame and facing the cold wind, she couldn't help but tremble all over. It was so pitiful that she could go back to the time when everything had not begun. No matter what this time, she would not repeat the previous path - before her parents. Marry young under the arrangement of others, let others bully you without confidence, and then live a useless life.
After making up her mind, she turned around and asked Chu's mother about the current situation at home. Chu's mother didn't know why, but she replied honestly: "Your brother Chu Guangyao is still in school and won't be back until next week. Your father goes to work in the fields in the afternoon. Earn work points while living.”
Sure enough, everything was as she remembered. She suppressed the ecstasy in her heart and began to think about how to change the fate of this life.
According to the experience of her previous life, after she woke up after falling into the water, Chu's mother saw that she was in good health, so she started to talk about a blind date.
As if a prophecy of fate, just as Chu Ye's thoughts flashed across his mind, Chu's mother's voice came from behind, "Girl, I want to tell you something. The matchmaker from the next village came to the house a while ago and said he wanted to Arrange for a personal meeting with you.”
As Chu's mother spoke, she quietly measured Chu Ye's reaction with her eyes, and then said, "What the matchmaker means is that that person has good looks and a good family background, so you have to seize the opportunity. If someone doesn't like you, then based on our family's conditions , you are still not ranked.”
Although Chu Ye didn't show it on his face, alarm bells were already ringing in his heart!
Come, come, these words are exactly the same as in the last life.
Chu Ye knew clearly in her heart that the person mentioned by the matchmaker was Zhao Xuesong, her future partner, husband, and enemy.
There was a turmoil in her heart. If she had just woken up, she would have been a little happy to realize that she was reborn. Now it was a real fear, as if the big hand of fate was pushing her step by step onto the established track.
It was the same in her last life. She had just woken up from a serious illness. When she heard Chu's mother's words, she was instantly confused. Before she could react, she heard Chu's mother cracklingly persuading her. She had already gone to junior high school. In the countryside, at your age, you should Think about these things and stuff like that.
Then he met Zhao Xuesong inexplicably under the arrangement of the matchmaker.
I have to say that Zhao Xuesong is really good at pretending. Every time he gets along with her, he always looks polite. When the two of them talk, he coaxes her everywhere, for fear that she will be dissatisfied at all. Chu Ye quickly fell in love and agreed to Zhao Xuesong's proposal a year later.
Then they got married and had children, and everything went smoothly until Zhao Xuesong exposed his true nature after marriage, Chu Ye's happy life came to an abrupt end, and fate finally revealed its vicious fangs to her.
Chu Ye remained calm. She pretended not to know and asked Chu's mother, "Did the matchmaker tell me what the man's name was?"
"It seems that the surname is Zhao, the name is Xuesong, it sounds like a good name. Learn from the pine, learn from the pine tree." A smile appeared on Chu's mother's face. She was very satisfied with Chu Ye's inquiry about the man. She thought it was a child A sensible act.
Sure enough, it was Zhao Xuesong! Chu Ye's mind was running rapidly, and she had to come up with an excuse to refuse in a very short time.
(End of chapter)