After Gu Chao's matter was resolved, it didn't take long for December [-]th, Christmas Eve in the West.

We are not a big city, so most of the people who celebrate this kind of festival are fashionable young people and school students.Ordinary people don't like this kind of foreign festivals.

When the fifth brother heard what I said, he smiled and stretched out his big hand to rub my head vigorously, and said, "Aren't you a young man?"

I giggled, and answered casually: "But my heart is not young anymore."

The fifth brother scolded with a smile: "Stinky boy, you dare to say that you are old when you are only 20 years old, so am I even older?"

"No way!" I said half-jokingly and half-sincerely, "You don't look like 25 years old, very young!"

He laughed and said: "Since we are both young, let's go, let's go shopping in the street!"

So, I was forced to go shopping by him.

Because it was shopping, Wu Ge didn't drive.The two of us walked out of the community and walked directly to the pedestrian street.If it is summer, the street will be very lively after dinner, but in the cold winter, the street at night looks very deserted.

I'm afraid of the cold, and since winter, I've basically turned into a sticky bean bag.Hats, scarves, gloves, down jackets, cotton trousers, cotton shoes, all of which are indispensable. After being fully armed, walking is a bit strenuous.

Look at the fifth brother again, there is only a scarf and a coat on the outside, and even the leather shoes are the kind of second cotton, which is really frost-resistant!

"Crack" and "Crack" stepped on the snow on the street that hadn't been cleared in time, and the two of us walked slowly like taking a walk.After walking to the main street, there was some excitement.There are many hawkers selling Ping An fruit on the street, and the value of those fruits doubles immediately when they are packaged in exquisite wrapping paper.

Brother Wu insisted on joining in the fun and buying one, but I couldn't stop him.The hawker introduced enthusiastically, saying that apples represent peace, oranges represent the fulfillment of wishes, oranges represent reunion, and dragon fruit represents prosperity...

I couldn't help complaining in my heart: Do plums, chestnuts and pears represent separation?Homophony or something is really enough.

After listening to the peddler's introduction, Fifth Brother waved his hand and said boldly, "Give me the same one!"

I:"……"

Knowing that he is a local tyrant, there is no need to prove it in this way!

In the end, he took a bag of fruit and took me to continue shopping, not afraid that the fruit would be frozen and could not be eaten.

Along the way, many young lovers passed by us, Wu Ge suddenly came over and asked me: "Are you envious?"

I looked back at him, and he winked at me deliberately.This is not the first time I have been teased by him, I have long been used to it.

"There is nothing to be envious of. It's good that I'm single now." I said.

He rubbed my head through the hat and didn't say anything more. Seeing that my nose was running from the cold, he hurriedly hailed a taxi and took me home.

When he got home, he gave me all those fruits, saying it was for good luck.

After I warmed up, I took an apple and ate it.He sat aside and looked at me with a smile. I was a little uncomfortable being looked at by him, so I asked him why he didn't eat.

He thought for a while and said, "That's half for each person!" As he said that, he snatched the half-eaten apple from my hand, and then "clicked" and took a bite.

I:"……"

That's what I've eaten. Can't he eat another fruit?I am not afraid that I will infect him with a cold.

Fireworks were suddenly set off in the night sky outside the window, and it was unknown that the young man was using this to please his lover.

I walked to the French windows and looked at those beautiful fireworks, suddenly feeling a little melancholy.Beauty is just for a moment, is it worth it or not?Just like a short life, how to prove that you didn't live in vain...

"If we like it, let's buy fireworks to set off." Fifth Brother's voice sounded behind me.

I turned around and smiled at him, and said, "Let's wait until the New Year's Eve, let's buy some nice ones!"

"Okay." He replied with a smile, his eyes were very gentle.

***

We planned to eat hot pot at home on New Year's Day, but after Fifth Brother answered a phone call, we were on our way immediately.

This time we are going to a rural village in the countryside, which will take more than an hour's drive.However, this time we are not going to show people things, but to be guests.

The family that invited Wu Ge is surnamed Ding, butchering a pig today, and let Wu Ge go to their house for the festival.Brother Wu asked me if I wanted to go, I was more greedy for butchered vegetables, so I said I wanted to go, and he took me with me.

At the end of April, Fifth Brother went to Ding's house to watch things and rescued Ding's eldest brother's daughter-in-law. But at that time, Ding had no money, so he didn't pay Fifth Brother. It is said that the meal he was invited to eat at that time was only a plate of scrambled eggs.Big brother Ding felt sorry, so he invited fifth brother to come to the door again when he was slaughtering the pig, and planned to treat him well.

I asked Brother Wu how he saved people, and he talked about the incident while driving.

Since the Qingming Festival, Brother Ding has noticed that something is wrong with his daughter-in-law. She always cries secretly, and sometimes sits there motionless in a daze.The Ding family has never had a child, and Brother Ding thought that his wife was worried about this matter again, so he didn't think much about it except to comfort her constantly.

But one day when he returned home after finishing his work in the field, he found his wife standing under the big pear tree in the yard, ready to hang herself.This frightened him, so he hurriedly hugged his wife down, but his daughter-in-law burst into tears immediately, saying that she couldn't survive, and asked her husband to leave her alone.Brother Ding persuaded him and began to cry, telling his wife that even if they had no children, they could grow old together, but the wife told him that she hanged herself not because she had no children, but because someone always told her to die.

Under Ding's repeated questioning, the daughter-in-law told the whole story in tears.

After the Qingming Festival, their family took off the plastic sheets wrapped around the windows to keep out the cold, and the paper that pasted the window seams was also removed. At noon, when the weather was warm, they would open the windows to circulate the air.One day, a woman suddenly appeared from the rear window, smiling at Ding's daughter-in-law.

The woman's hair was pulled back in a bun, her face was very white, but her mouth was very red, and she was wearing a red cheongsam, a bit like the dress of the Republic of China.

Ding's daughter-in-law asked who she was and why she was standing by the back window of her house, but she kept laughing without saying a word.When Ding's daughter-in-law went to the backyard to look for her, she found that she was gone.

Since then, that woman appeared from time to time and started to talk, but the same sentence was repeated over and over again: "It's better to die, it's better to die, save a little flowered coat in summer, and a little padded jacket in winter..."

At first, the daughter-in-law of the Ding family ignored her, but the woman always said this sentence when she was alone at home, and even more fiercely when she was sad after a quarrel with her husband or worried about not having a child.Gradually, when Ding's daughter-in-law felt wronged, she really developed thoughts of world-weariness.

When she couldn't think about it again and really decided to hang herself, if her husband hadn't happened to come back early to save her, then she would have died.

After listening to his wife, Brother Ding knew that the woman who appeared out of the back window was definitely not a human being, so he hurriedly asked someone to find out who would be able to see it, and after a few turns, he found Fifth Brother.

After the fifth brother went to his house, he looked at the back window and found out the direction of the female ghost with the Taoist talisman, and then led Brother Ding to the north field with a shovel.

Sure enough, they saw a small soil bag, Fifth Brother ordered "dig", and the two dug it up.As expected, the soil bag was a lonely grave, and inside was a skeleton without a coffin.The two got some diesel oil and poured it directly on it, burning the bones clean.

Fifth Brother said that the location of the solitary grave was facing the back window of Ding's house, that's why the wild ghost came to the door in order to take a dead man as company.Originally, there was an earthen wall in the backyard of the Ding family, but it collapsed due to a heavy rain in the early spring. Brother Ding was thinking about finding a time to build the wall after the land was planted. He never thought that something like this would happen during this period.

Brother Ding settled the matter of the Ding family. Brother Ding wanted to thank him, but in the past few years, the husband and wife spent all their savings on the treatment of infertility. Come.At that time, he promised Fifth Brother that when Piggy grows up to be slaughtered, he will be invited as a guest.

"Keep your promise and repay your kindness. This family is good." After listening to Fifth Brother's speech, I have a good impression of Ding's family.

"Yeah." Fifth Brother nodded, "Such a person will definitely have good fortune."

Near noon, our car pulled into a village road.Maybe it's because this place is relatively remote. As soon as the car entered the village, it was chased and watched by many children.

Outside the simple wooden gate that was opened, Fifth Brother stopped the car.After I got off the car with him, he pointed to the inside of the gate and said, "Here we are, let's go in."

I just took a step forward, and out of the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of a little girl hiding in a corner. I stopped and turned my head to take a closer look at her.After the little girl looked at me, she turned around and ran away.

Seeing that I didn't follow, Fifth Brother came back and asked me what was wrong.

I thought about it, and told him what I saw: "That little girl is a little strange..."

"What kind of weird method?"

I tried my best to search for a suitable adjective in my mind, and explained with difficulty: "When I look at her, I seem to see double images, and for a moment I seem to be unable to see her face clearly..."

Fifth Brother hissed softly, a look of surprise flashed across his face, and then he fell into deep thought.

The author has something to say: save a little flower jacket in summer, and a little padded jacket in winter... ho ho ho ho

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