Last Words of Rebirth

"Is anyone watching?" Ji Tong handed him the box in his hand and opened the car door.

The man sat in the driver's seat and threw the sunglasses aside, then turned his head and blinked at Jitong with his slender Danfeng eyes, "Don't worry about my work!"

"Ye Chang said..." The corners of Ji Tong's mouth curled up slightly, but he didn't mention the second half of the sentence.

If the man hadn't buckled up his seat belt, he would almost jump violently, "What did the dead leaf say about me?! I haven't slapped my skin for a month and it's itchy again..."

"Say, Sida has pretty eyes." Ji Tong shook the phone in his hand in the rearview mirror, "I recorded what you said just now."

Fan Sida seemed to be suffocated by a burst balloon in an instant. The off-road vehicle roared and ran out of the airport road. After driving two kilometers away, he pouted contemptuously, "I must have been blind when I thought you were the boss!"

Ji Tong closed his eyes and meditated, "Your thin eyes don't look far away. Keep them wide open, in case the surveillance cameras think you're sleeping and driving and your driver's license will be revoked..."

"Damn it, why did I come to pick you up eagerly, I'll be a pig next time I pick you up." Fan Sida muttered, watching Ji Tong in the back seat frowned unconsciously with his eyes closed, and his voice dropped.

Driving all the way to the small county town, it was already a golden age, and Fan Sida booked the best hotel in the county for Ji Tong to have a good rest.

Sure enough, Ji Tong washed up at eight o'clock and was ready to go to bed, but before going to bed, he called Fan Sida through the internal line, "Get up at two o'clock in the morning and follow me up the mountain."

Fan Sida, who was about to find a place to have a drink, changed into a T-shirt and lay down straight in depression, closing his eyes and cursing Ji Tong to death from overwork [-] times.

Next door, Ji Tong, who was laying on his back with his hands folded on his stomach in a standard posture, stared at the ceiling for a long time, and slowly exhaled, "Jiamu, don't blame me for disturbing her, because you don't want to miss you. You will understand me."

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The shopkeeper who carved the stele took the shop assistants down the mountain, and soon the four-wheeler drove away.

Pei Jiamu sat on a small open space in front of the tomb with the baby in his arms, and while pressing out every bit of paper ashes, he guided Aunt Zhang to chatter intentionally or unintentionally.

I sorted it out from the cries that were played upside down and played in a loop.

It can be concluded that Mother Pei, whose name is not known, is a beautiful and docile daughter-in-law, the most beautiful among the nearby mountain villages, and the most beautiful in the town.

It's just that I probably have some intellectual problems, laughing all day long, forgetting about things, and barely able to do some housework to fill my stomach.Because the first child was a girl, she was beaten a bit, and it didn't get better until Pei Jiamu was born.

Then two years later when Pei Jiaye was born, she was already quite old, about 35, in short, more than [-] years.

In Aunt Zhang's description, this is an extremely rare thing.There are many local girls who marry and have children as soon as they are sixteen or seventeen. There are few girls in the mountains. Whether it is to exchange marriages for brothers or for the family's livelihood, they are all old enough to have children and marry others.The legal age of marriage in the outside world is simply a cloud for the mountain people here.

According to Pei Jiamu's understanding, what Aunt Zhang cried was probably, "Your mother has suffered a great crime. You only gave birth to a baby at an old age, and your first child is a younger sister. What's the use of being beautiful, and it can't be passed on to the next generation. No, beauty is also useful." , if she wasn't pretty, she would have been replaced if she couldn't conceive Pei Laosan within half a year."

Pei Jiamu counted the time and didn't notice that Aunt Zhang used "change out". Pei Jiaying was 22 and a half years old, she was 19 years old, and Pei Jiaye was soon 17 years old.If Pei's mother was already 35 when she gave birth to Pei Jiaye, she would have her first child at about 30 years old.

From these intermittent narratives, in Dashan Village before being moved to the town, a 30-year-old could almost be a grandmother. This Aunt Zhang is only 33 years old this year, and she already has a daughter-in-law.

"Why, I've heard you say that my mother is a lady. I've heard you say it several times." Pei Jiamu was about to tear off his clothes to wipe Aunt Zhang's tears.

Aunt Zhang wiped her snot and wiped it on the leaves of grass next to her, "Your mother's background is unusual, even if she is giggling, she looks beautiful like a painting when she eats with a bowl and drinks with a cup of water. Straightforward. When we got married together, she was the prettiest girl in the group, and Pei Laosan spent more than 1 yuan to buy it..."

The words came to an abrupt end, and Aunt Zhang opened her mouth wide like a duck being choked by the tearful eyes of the Pei Jiamu brothers and sisters but remained silent.

From her terrified expression, Pei Jiamu thought of the nearby mountains and the economic situation, and deduced a reason that might be the truth.

Perhaps they were not married, but were abducted and sold into the mountains from different places.Mother Pei seems to be a woman from a very good family background. It is almost certain that she is stupid for a specific reason, otherwise it cannot explain that she maintains a good demeanor even if she is stupid.With a good birth and upbringing, these things will become habits engraved in the bone marrow.

Pei Jiaye is not stupid either, she was frightened by the deduced facts in her mind, she seemed to have completely collapsed, her fingertips struggled to grab the grass leaves on the ground, she looked at Pei Jiamu for help, "Brother..."

Pei Jiamu's voice was trembling, "Auntie, we are not children anymore, I will be the pillar of the family from now on. My mother is not doing well. If I have the ability, maybe I can help her find relatives. Please tell me everything you know. Do you? I beg you." As he spoke, he was about to kneel down with his knees together.

Aunt Zhang was knelt down in front of her mother's grave by a well-known Wen Quxing from all over the world. She knelt tremblingly and grabbed Pei Jiamu, saying tremblingly, "In front of your mother, in front of your mother... ..."

Pei Jiamu took advantage of the situation and sat back on the grass again, "Just tell me."

Probably because recalling the past was too bitter, Aunt Zhang cried again before she could speak, and then hiccupped and tried to talk about the trivial things in memory.

It is not far from what Pei Jiamu speculated. When I was in the mountains, because of the drowning of a girl, I stuttered and a little medicine was given to boys. In the end, there were many men and few women.

There are frequent traffickers in the village, and they can always bring one or two daughters-in-law here every year.Aunt Zhang and Mother Pei came here in a group. At that time, Mother Pei was very stupid, and Aunt Zhang was told by the traffickers to take care of her.

Although it is stupid, as long as it is a woman in the mountains and can have children, someone will want it.Not to mention she was beautiful, so Pei Laosan bought this daughter-in-law twice as much as the Zhang family bought Aunt Zhang.

Afterwards, there were daughters, domestic violence, sons, and daughters. When Pei Jiaye was three years old, because the population of the nature reserve moved out, the small mountain village was moved to the town and lived in collectively built red brick houses.

So far, Mother Pei has grown old to the point of gray hair and skinny bones, and it can only be seen from the outline that she was once a beauty.

Aunt Zhang herself was from a poor village nearby. When she went to the mountains and gave birth to her son, she was treated better. When she moved to the town, her conditions were no different from those of her former family, so she could live with peace of mind.

Pei Laosan gradually became addicted to alcohol after entering the town, and occasionally gambled twice, and beat his wife and children when he lost and ran out of alcohol.

"Your mother gradually came to her senses at that time, sometimes she looked like the shrewd daughter-in-law of the mayor's family, talking to herself about the world and hell." Aunt Zhang had already cried her eyes like rotten peaches , still trying to speak, "But it often takes a while, and soon becomes confused again. Then the one who killed a thousand swords..."

Pei Jiamu had already heard tears unconsciously, and wanted to cover his ears, but he had to listen.

There is so much filth and darkness in the world, I can't even imagine it...

Pei Lao San drank and owed gambling debts, boasting that his mother-in-law was the most beautiful in the mountains when she was young, and was held down by someone to sign the IOU. Of course, she was reluctant to sell her daughter. The daughter is more valuable in exchange for a bride price when she is raised. very.

The daughter-in-law hadn't been pregnant for several years anyway, and probably couldn't continue to have children, and wasted food, so he took his family back home.In the past few years, Mother Pei, who only occasionally woke up for a moment, fully understood the moment she was held down. Facing the ferocious smile and the sudden realization of the truth, she turned over neatly and bumped away from the person who was pulling her clothes, hitting her head against the gable wall. superior.

That's it...

That year, Pei Jiaying was 11 years old, Pei Jiamu was eight years old, and Pei Jiaye was five years old.

As the eldest elder sister, even though she was locked in a nearby room at the time, Pei Jiaying vaguely knew what had happened and was powerless to resist, so she had to take on the responsibility of taking care of her younger siblings from then on.

Pei Laosan was awakened by the red and white broken skulls all over the floor, and his friends and friends dispersed. The old lady Pei, who was still alive at the time, gave him a lesson, saying that one of the three children can pass on the family line and the other two can be exchanged for a bride price, so it can't be broken. , He has only restrained himself a little for three or four years. Every day when he wanders around, he opens his mouth and slaps people, but the frequency is less.

Because there is a school in the town, the three siblings of the Pei family enrolled one after another. Pei Jiaying was nine to 15 years old. She finished middle school very smartly.

Pei Jiamu knew all about the latter, because growing up in such a family, Pei Jiaying probably had serious psychological shadows or mental disorders. She tried her best to send her younger siblings to boarding schools to leave the family, but in the end she repeated the same mistakes and found a Domestic violence men cannot escape.

The sun was already halfway down and after reaching the dense forest, the damp and cool air rose up in the mountains. Pei Jiamu shivered, feeling the chill piercing through his bones. Compared with these, it was a joke that he died in his previous life.

After being stunned for a while, Pei Jiamu realized that the baby in his arms was also shivering from the cold. Pei Jiamu struggled to stand up, hugged the baby tightly, and said in a hoarse voice, "Go down the mountain, it's late."

Pei Jiaye and Aunt Zhang supported each other down the mountain. They walked for nearly an hour to the side street. From a distance, they saw brightly lit lights, the gate of Zhang's courtyard was wide open, and a female voice cursed shrilly.The door of Pei's house was ajar, and there were people coming in and out.

Pei Jiamu felt his forehead was burning hot, his chest was hot, but his whole body was cold, with sticky sweat oozing out. He bit the tip of his tongue and asked Pei Jiaye, "Did you bring everything?"