My lady, something is wrong

Chapter 61 The Ruined Village

Three forks.

Xiaodie, dressed in a green dress, stood uneasily under a big tree, looking forward to the foot of the mountain.

Soon.

Her eyes lit up, and a happy smile finally appeared on her face.

"Son..."

She ran up with tears in her eyes.

Luo Qingzhou gently hugged her still trembling body and comforted her softly: "It's alright, don't be afraid."

It was the first time the little girl saw that kind of bloody scene, and it was the first time she saw him kill, so she was naturally scared.

Xiaodie cried and said, "Young Master, you have a lot of blood on your body, let's go home quickly..."

Luo Qingzhou held her little hand and looked at the road where he came.

After a pause, he bent down and whispered into the little girl's ear: "Xiao Die, we won't go home for the time being today, the son will take you to a fun place."

"what?"

When the little girl heard this, her face was stunned: "Where...where?"

Luo Qingzhou looked at the other path with complicated eyes: "Where I was born."

Fluttershy opened her eyes.

"Let's go."

Luo Qingzhou didn't dare to stay here for too long, so he pulled her and walked towards another unfamiliar path covered by grass.

Can't go home right now.

If there is still an ambush on the road, in his current state, he and this little girl are probably going to be more fortunate.

I can only go to that small mountain village to stay for one night.

Wait until dawn tomorrow, and then take a carriage back to the city by surprise.

"Oh."

Xiaodie didn't say anything more, she was led by him obediently, and walked down another path, her eyes were full of dependence.

No matter where the son goes, she will follow.

Even if the son sells her, she is willing.

If the son really sells her, the big deal is that after the son gets the money and leaves, she will sneak out and go to the son again.

Anyway, she will always be the son of the son in her whole life, in the next life.

Never be separated from your son!

The two master and servant were walking on the deserted path, but they did not speak.

Luo Qingzhou pricked up his ears and remained vigilant, looking back from time to time to confirm whether anyone was following him.

The small mountain village in my memory is only four or five kilometers away from here.

However, this small road has been neglected all the year round, and the grass has spread, and the road can no longer be seen in many places.

noon.

The two finally saw the small mountain village in front of them.

Today's small mountain village is desolate and dilapidated.

After several attacks by monsters, most of the young people in the village died. Except for some lonely and widowed elderly people who had lost their relatives and stubbornly stayed there, there were no young people in the village, and the children were missing.

The liveliness of the village used to be like yesterday.

But even in the past, what remained in Luo Qingzhou's memory was almost all shadows.

The mother was pregnant out of wedlock. After giving birth to him, she didn't even know who the father was. There was a lot of discussion in the village, and the mother and son were nailed to the pillar of shame.

There are vitriolic, sarcastic and insulting words almost every day.

Even children don't play with him.

In order to raise him as an adult and let him study, his mother suffered all the scorn and humiliation in the village, but she still persevered.

After his grandfather and grandmother passed away and his uncle and second uncle left the village and never returned, his mother was alone and without protection. She was afraid that he would be hurt, and wanted him to have a better life, so she shamelessly took him into the city. , into the Chengguofu.

Since then, the mother and son have never returned to this sad village.

With these things in mind, Luo Qingzhou took Xiaodie to the river in front of the village to briefly clean it before entering the village.

The village that used to be full of children playing, dogs barking, and adults scolding, has now become silent.

Weeds overgrown the front and back of the house.

The iron locks on the gates are rusted, and the courtyard walls of some houses have collapsed.

Luo Qingzhou took Xiaodie and walked and watched all the way. Through the courtyard gate, he only saw two old people, sitting alone in the small courtyard, closed his eyes and basking in the sun, as if waiting for that. A day comes.

Luo Qingzhou did not stop, and came to the small courtyard where he once lived with his mother.

The gate has rotted and fallen, and half of the courtyard wall has collapsed. I don't know if it was hit by the wind and rain for a long time, or was pushed down by the villagers after their mother and son left.

The small yard was full of lush grass, broken bricks, and some tattered cloth buried in the dirt.

There is nothing in the house.

Even the tables, stools, and beds have been moved clean.

Fortunately, the four walls are still there, the roof is still there, and it can also shelter from the wind and rain.

"Master, is this where you and your wife used to live?"

Xiaodie looked at the scene here with a sad expression on her face.

"Clean up the room, we'll be here for one night tonight."

Luo Qingzhou didn't say more, walked out of the room and said, "I'm going to see what to eat. You should be hungry too, right? Don't run around, just stay in the room."

"oh oh."

Xiaodie agreed and went to find the broom.

There are brooms in the small courtyard, but they are already rotten.

But it doesn't matter, you can wrap it in a cleaning cloth and continue to use it to sweep the floor.

There should still be water in the well.

Luo Qingzhou walked out of the small courtyard and walked towards the end of the village, watching from house to house.

Near the end of the village, he saw an old woman.

The old woman in a shabby padded jacket was sitting on the chair in front of the door, her eyes clouded and confused looking at the mountains in the distance, not knowing what she was thinking.

The old woman was full of white hair, her face was full of folds and frost, her back was hunched, and she was dying.

But Luo Qingzhou recognized her at the first sight of her.

Back then, this village was the most vicious to his mother, and the worst person was the person in front of him.

He still clearly remembered that one summer, his mother picked up a wild watermelon from the mountains and came back.

When the mother and son were about to share happily, the man, who his mother called Ninth Aunt, suddenly broke into the house with someone, slandering his mother for stealing her watermelon, and then scolded him with all kinds of vicious and dirty mouths. He even scratched his mother's hair with his hands and scratched his mother's face with his fingernails...

In the end, the watermelon was taken away.

His mother held him, crying silently in the corner.

At that time, he secretly vowed that when he grows up and has the ability, he will make this vicious woman suffer.

But at this moment, looking at the old man in front of him, looking at her white-haired, wrinkled face, and her quiet aging appearance, he couldn't hate it anymore.

"You... are you Qingzhou? Qingzhou of Yu'er's family?"

The old man looked at him with a surprised expression on his face.

Luo Qingzhou came back to his senses and stepped forward with a smile on his face: "Ninth mother-in-law, it's me, Qingzhou."

The old man opened his eyes wide, stood up, stared at him and looked up and down. Seeing the tattered robe he was wearing, he couldn't help asking: "Didn't you go to the city with your mother? Why are you back? ... was kicked out by someone?"

Luo Qingzhou nodded without explaining, "Well, I was kicked out."

Wasn't he kicked out by being used by Chengguo government as a tool for repentance of marriage?

The old man sighed and said: "Poor, your mother is also pitiful. She entered the city and didn't enjoy a few days of good fortune. She died so young. According to them, she was buried on the Zixia Mountain in front of our village. Right? Hey..."

Luo Qingzhou was silent for a while, and said, "Ninth mother-in-law, the people in your family..."

The old man was indifferent: "They are all dead, except for my old lady, none of them are left."

Luo Qingzhou didn't dare to ask any more questions. He glanced at her yard, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Mother-in-law Jiu, do you have anything to eat at home?"

The old man glanced at him, turned and walked into the house staggeringly, sighing, "There are two more pancakes, too hard, I can't eat them anymore. If you're hungry, take them and eat them."

"Hey, pitiful, look at you, your mother is dead, you can't even eat a meal now, I said earlier, what's the use of reading? It's better to learn to farm..."

The old man babbled, entered the kitchen, and took out two hard and dry pancakes.

After thinking for a while, he went back into the house, took two eggs, and handed them to him together.

"Hey, the last hen was taken away by a weasel. In this village, apart from us, there is nothing alive anymore. In the past few years, even those beasts that eat people have not come. …”

The old man sighed.

Luo Qingzhou took the cake and eggs, took out a piece of silver from his pocket, and handed it to her: "Ninth mother-in-law, you can take the silver. If a hawker comes to the village, you can buy something to eat."

The old man looked at the silver in his hand, didn't pick it up, shook his head and said, "You can take it yourself, it's useless for me to ask for this thing, there is no hawker here now. I'm still healthy, and I can still grow a few mouthfuls of food to eat. You are young, there is still a long way to go, keep it for yourself."

Luo Qingzhou glanced at her, said nothing, and was about to leave.

When he walked to the door, the old man suddenly said: "Qingzhou, it turns out that the mother-in-law nine treated you and your son like that. Now that I think about it, the mother-in-law is actually very regretful and guilty. When you get old, you only know that those customs are not important. , living happily is the most important thing. It's not her fault that your mother became pregnant out of wedlock, we shouldn't treat her like that..."

Luo Qingzhou suddenly turned his head and asked, "Ninth mother-in-law, do you know how my mother conceived me back then? Do you know that person?"

The old man shook his head: "I don't know, no one in the village knows who that person is, so that's why you treat your mother like that. But at last I heard that your mother was forced... Hey, at that time, it was even forced. , a woman's reputation is ruined, no one can look down on it, not to mention your mother is too stubborn to say who that person is..."

Luo Qingzhou said nothing, nodded and walked out the door.

The old man also followed out, talking to himself, babbling, not knowing what he was talking about.

Just as he was about to continue sitting on the stool by the door, he suddenly found that there was a piece of silver on the stool.

When she looked up, the boy had already gone away.

"Hey……"

The old man sighed, picked up the silver, and sat down, reminiscing about the mother and son in his mind.

Luo Qingzhou returned to the dilapidated courtyard, and after sharing the cakes and eggs with Xiaodie, he sat down in the room and ran the inner strength method.

Xiaodie didn't dare to disturb her, so she went out of the house and looked around in other rooms and courtyards, as well as at the door.

After a while.

Unable to bear it, she went out the gate and wandered curiously in the village.

The sun goes down quickly.

Luo Qingzhou felt that the pain on his body had eased a lot.

When Xiaodie came back, she even brought needles and threads, and said happily: "Sir, this servant met an old woman in the village, and chatted with her there all afternoon. These needles and threads were borrowed from her. Quickly take off your clothes, and the servant will help you sew them up."

Luo Qingzhou's heart moved, and he took off his clothes and said, "What did she talk to you about?"

Xiaodie took the clothes and said, "I didn't talk about anything, the old lady kept talking about the past, the slaves didn't dare to ask the young master and the lady, and the old lady didn't mention it. By the way, the old lady also told us not to go out at night, here It's haunted."

Speaking of which, the little girl had a frightened expression on her face.

"Haunted?"

Luo Qingzhou's eyes flashed.

Xiaodie nodded and said, "Well, the old lady said that at night, there are woo-woo cries everywhere in the village. She said that she also saw a lot of dark shadows floating around, which was terrifying."

Luo Qingzhou looked outside.

Is it scary?

Why does he still have some expectations?

Outside, night falls.

A crescent moon rises into the air.

The entire village was shrouded in darkness and was dead silent.

(End of this chapter)