roommate she never sleeps

That year, she heard from others that many people died outside.

After listening to other people's jokes, Ah Su turned around and went back to her work.She lifted the lid of the pot on the stove, and the hot steam jumped up like a frightened snake.For this reason, she took a few steps back to stir the noodles in the pot with chopsticks.A Su was doing things without saying a word, but in the yard outside, the people there were talking non-stop.

In the blink of an eye, it was time to choose the person who sacrificed the soul.Selected children are given specific medicines, then die at home and are buried in the earth.When a group of older people suddenly came to her house for dinner, she had more or less guessed who it would be this time.

The people outside are trying their best to keep their family members alive, but the people here are discussing which tribe to kill.This is something that can't be helped, it's a custom after all.It's always closed here.Take the people who can enter the village as an example. Unless they are married to a woman with a different surname here, people with other surnames can only enter here once, and if they want to come again next time, there will be retribution.

A Su stared at the pot for a while.After the noodles were cooked, she wiped her face and brought the first bowl of noodles with gravy to her daughter's room.The child was sitting on the bed obediently, waiting for others to finish eating.Seeing her mother give herself the first bowl of noodles, she stared at her with wide eyes in puzzlement.

A Su turned her back and hurriedly opened the curtain to go out.

At night, Ah Su's husband went to sleep in another room, and the person who accompanied her was her mother-in-law.The woman with withered fingers watched her bow her head while she was doing her needlework, and said after a long look, "Actually, she's not really dead."

The person holding the needle paused.

"I also heard from older people. There used to be a boy who had been buried for 30 years. His mother found a woman and poured her blood on the child's coffin, and the child came back to life. Because After being buried for 20 years and collecting enough money for the clan, no one said anything at that time."

"Whose blood is that?" A Su asked immediately.

"Hey, it's useless for you to ask. The child was lucky to be found after being buried for 30 years. You know, the body can be kept for a hundred years at most. You have to find a suitable woman for more than 100 years. Who can Live for a hundred years or so, and keep looking for it.”

"Then her brothers and sisters, the children of her brothers and sisters can always help to find them." Ah Su finally saw some hope, and refused to give up.

After hearing this, the mother-in-law smiled and said, "How much do you think they care about. After all, who really cares about children except mothers?"

The mother-in-law was old, and after saying a few words, she was so tired that she fell asleep on the kang.A Su couldn't close her eyes for a long time, so she sat on the edge of the Kang with a needle in her hand in a daze.Around midnight, she heard the family dog ​​start barking.

She called her husband's name first, but he seemed to be asleep and didn't respond.A Su thought for a while, put on a dress and went out by herself.

"Rhubarb, what are you calling?"

Rhubarb was barking at the closed door.A Su didn't dare to open the door for a while, after hesitating for a long time, he opened the door a little, and saw a person lying on his stomach outside.

Aso immediately opened the door.Lying on the stomach outside was a young and thin girl.

The next morning, A Su looked at the girl lying on her kang, and the more she looked at the girl, the more pitiful she felt.She touched the girl's body and felt only a handful of thin bones.At this time her daughter woke up and came to ask her for food.

"Mom, who is this person?"

"Hush, darling, let's go out to eat and let this sister sleep for a while."

Xu Changsi lived here for a while.

She gradually found out the situation in the village, and found that the woman named A Su was crying more and more every day.Her body is not well, so she can only stay on the kang.Sometimes she could hear the cries of A Su who was working in the yard.

A Su's daughter often comes to play with her.She asked Xu Changsi: "Sister, did many people really die outside?"

Xu Changsi, who had just come back from the road where bandits ravaged, nodded his head.

"Then sister, don't go out, if you can't, you can still marry us."

"You are a foreigner. If you go out, you will never be able to return to our good place."

The little girl persuaded Xu Changsi seriously.Xu Changsi smiled, and was about to say something when Ah Su walked in and carried the child out: "Mother doesn't think this place is so good, it's done, you go out and play."

"That... Eldest sister, I heard what you and the old lady said last night. If you need someone who can live for hundreds of years, you can find me."

Xu Changsi behind Ah Su said suddenly.

A Su turned her head, looked at the thick black concoction boiled for Xu Changsi on the table, and said with a wry smile, "Girl, I know you want to repay your kindness, but look at your bones, I didn't curse you, you really don't look like that." A man who can live for hundreds of years."

"No matter what, if you tell me where the child is buried in the future, you won't suffer any disadvantages, will you?" Xu Changsi continued, "There are no funeral objects around the child, and I don't want to find someone to rob the tomb in the future. You Don't worry about this. You just need to tell me where the child is buried, and as long as I find a qualified woman in the future, I will definitely help you with this."

A Su and Xu Changsi looked at each other, and they were silent for a long time.The little girl looked at her mother and then at Xu Changsi, wondering what happened.

In the end, A Su held the mentality of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor, and said, "Okay, girl, I will tell you when the patriarch decides on a place."

Since then, Ah Su's spirit has improved a lot, and he has been preparing for something.In the evening, she sat beside Xu Changsi, pointed to the things on the table and told her: "This is a needle, a steamed bun, and a handkerchief. In our place, when girls leave their mothers and marry, they have to carry these. I Think about it, put all these things in the coffin."

A Su knew that after a few years, most of these things might be ashes, but she still insisted on putting them away: "The patriarch said that if there is a child who can wake up, relatives will help raise her. I will grow her up in advance. Prepare what you need later.”

After A Su finished speaking, he looked at the wall in a daze.Xu Changsi could tell that she was imagining what her daughter would look like when she grew up.Thinking of this, Xu Changsi glanced at the tightly tied package around him.Inside is a lotus lantern made of white jade.

When Xu Changsi left, she only brought this thing with her, and now she is a little annoyed, if she brought out another thing, it might be able to satisfy Ah Su's wish now.

Ten days later, Xu Changsi was about to say goodbye.Her health is not yet fully recovered, but she knows that someone in the village is already watching her.Some want her to be a daughter-in-law, some are guessing what is valuable in her package, she has to go.

The day she left happened to be the day the little girl took her medicine.That day, A Su prepared scalding hot water to bathe her daughter for the last time.Xu Changsi hugged her lotus lantern tightly and walked out of the village step by step.At this time, a strong wind blew up on the road, and a few pieces of paper money were rolled up.The name of the person who worshiped the soul was written on the paper money.She reached out and grabbed a piece easily.

"Moon dye."

After saying the name, Xu Changsi let go of his hand and let the wind blow the paper to another place again.She clutched her pack tightly and staggered on.

People are still dying outside, many people have died.After that, she saw many people who couldn't live their lives.Their parents, spouses, and children all hope that they can live their lives, but they can't.

Xu Changsi would cry because of this at first, but in the end, she hurried past like a passer-by, and even if there was compassion in her eyes, it only passed by in a flash.

Holding her lotus lantern, she slowly approached a certain day.

Just this person, where did she come from?

No one knows.