jealous tail

I put my hands on my head and lay flat on the pillow, with my feet facing the head of the coffin, which is more peaceful and prosperous.

The stars in the sky are very irregular, one here and one here. I thought of the uncle just now, and wanted to go after him and ask him, if the stars in the sky are wandering and won’t go home, do you want to go up to the sky and preach one by one.

I stretched out my palms and looked at the night sky through the gaps between my fingers, which were not big enough to hold even a corner of the moon.

When I put down my hand, I saw a red mole on my right wrist. Others have said more than once that your mole is so beautiful and it grows too long. Some girls said that they would go to a medical institution to order one. The same position, same color.

I didn't tell her that it doesn't need to be so troublesome, as long as there is a grandma who doesn't like you, you can have all kinds of tattoos, some will fade with time, and some will accompany you to death.

I closed my eyes, and in this quiet night, I thought of my painful childhood. The thick needles used to sew insoles were stuck on my body without any scruples. The dead branches are scraped on the calf unceremoniously...everything she can find, think of, see, she can use on me, as long as she is unhappy, angry, uncomfortable, or even bored Now, she'll have fun with me.

I also told me that I hurt and I hurt, but no one paid attention to me, so I stopped screaming, and I just stood quietly, and she stopped beating when she was tired, and she would give me a piece of corn bread to eat when she was satisfied. I won't die at home and cause criticism.

My dad would stop me at first, crying to mom, don't beat the baby, Xiaofang will be angry when she comes back, but the more he said the whip on me would fall harder, he didn't dare to stop me, and then I waited and waited Xiaofang didn't come back either, and he started to look at me coldly.

Sometimes he would applaud me when I was beaten. He said that if the beating was good, the baby should suffer for Xiaofang’s mistakes.

So he often pinches and cries me, the louder I cry, the happier he is, and then I don’t cry anymore, since it’s going to hurt, I don’t want them to be happy, I hang my breath, but their life is too good up.

I haven't slept for a long time, lying down like this, caressed by the breeze, I will feel drowsy, so I simply turned my body on my side and pillowed my arm, and began to take a short sleep with the dead.

After not sleeping for a few minutes, footsteps came, heavy and powerful. I suspected that the woman had instructed her husband to kill me, but I didn’t want to move. If I really wanted to kill me like this, I couldn’t avoid it.

"Are you awake?" There was an unfamiliar voice, and the tone of the tone was very familiar. I opened my eyes and couldn't see anyone, so I could only sit up. The filial hat fell to the ground as soon as I fell asleep. I also threw away the torn rags on my body, and threw them into the vegetable garden like the director throwing fruit cores, feeling refreshed.

The man looked like he was a few years older than me. He leaned against the door and looked at me. The summer night was not dark. I saw that he held an unlit cigarette in his hand, and his face was indifferent with a strange temperature. .

I came interested, "Who are you?", with a laugh.

"Going out to smoke?" I stood up from the ground and patted the dirt on my hands.

"Can't it work here?" He looked at the coffin and said without hesitation, "The smell is too strong."

I rubbed my injured knee and followed him out the door. He was still leaning against the door, just like the door god, but lost his way. I sat on the stone pier and reached out to him.

"Why?" he wondered.

"Smoke."

"What do I want?" I was also surprised, "Didn't you say go out to smoke?" He realized that he had made a mistake, weak and direct, "No."

I smiled and withdrew my hand, "What does the smoke taste like?" He bit it twice in his mouth, then held it in his hand to play with.

"forget."

What a genius, I asked him: "Then why are you pumping?" "Just take it, don't smoke."

I shook my head, "If you quit, quit it, what are you doing for addiction."

He didn't speak, and I asked: "Who do you like who doesn't like cigarettes?" He froze for a moment, then squatted down, as if he was tired.

"younger brother."

I saw him squatting and suddenly realized, "Are you that good brother next door?" He finally had a smile on his face, "What a good brother."

"When I saw you when I was young, I thought you were a good brother. Probably I have seen too few brothers."

Holding a cigarette, he drew circles on the ground, and said in a lonely tone, "A good brother will never make a brother sad."

I also picked up a stone and drew orthographic characters on the ground, "You make the little fat man sad?" He looked at me, and I stuck out my tongue, "When I was young, I was quite fat."

He drew a big circle and said, "Well, now I'm thinner and look better."

I wondered if my elder brother looked like this, and my younger brother was not much different. I watched him draw a small circle inside the big circle, and asked him, "Why did you make my brother so sad?" His hand stopped at the closed part of the small circle, without Pulling it into a complete circle, it retreated and retraced the same trajectory as before.

"Boundary crossed."

I won't ask any more questions, I guess he won't want to talk about it, so let's stop.

"Rest early, you can leave this ghostly place after the funeral tomorrow morning."

I threw the stone into the ditch where the mosquitoes gathered, "What a ghost place?" "He said that, it must be a ghost place."

Okay, there is a dead person in the courtyard, it is indeed a ghostly place.

He got up and walked to the next door, Zhila opened the door, and I asked him, "Why did you come to see me?" He paused, and then went in.

"Probably, the helpless look is as pitiful as him."

I slid off the stone pier, what are you kidding, I look helpless, I can still get involved with this?I locked the door, and opened the door wide from the inside, so that they could come in and lift people up while I was sleeping, and then I used the sky as my bed and the ground as my bed, and had a good night's sleep. I was woken up at five o'clock, pretending After finishing the itinerary, everyone was impatient, and I was even more helpless.

There was only Uncle Li in the yard, and I asked him to sell the house and the one-acre wheat field in front of the gate for me. He told me that someone had already taken a fancy to our house, and he had negotiated with my grandma, and the price was negotiated.

How wonderful this is, the old woman died suddenly, without a word of will, I am the sole heir, I have taken all the benefits of my troubles, I guess I will be so angry that I vomit blood.

I asked Uncle Li to help me. He asked me how to give me the money. I said that after getting the money, I would give 1000 to each funeral family as a thank-you gift, and the rest should be donated to charity organizations, such as helping poor children get out of the mountainous area.

He gave me a complicated look. I put my little soil-stained schoolbag on my back, stepped out of the yard, and picked a pear before I left. go.

From now on, you will replace me and be the helpless Xia Zhushen from before.