I observed here that every day my mother would send a chicken, duck, goose or other live poultry to the wing.
What is locked there? What secrets does my mother have that we don’t know about?
I want to know, but I have never found a suitable opportunity here. My mother is at home almost every day, and I have no chance to approach the wing.
That night I lay on the kang as usual, getting ready to sleep. At this time, the sound of "clattering" chains sounded in my ears.
Suddenly, I was awakened by this strange sound and looked out the window. Because the window was blocked by a curtain, the moonlight clearly printed the outline of the thing outside the window on the curtain.
It's a figure!
I quickly turned over and got off the kang. Because I was in a hurry, the barrel hit the ground with a sound, and there were several continuous sounds of chains outside.
When I lifted the curtains, I saw only a remaining shadow disappearing into the door of the wing.
I could see clearly that it was a person, and judging from the figure, it should be a man.
There was actually a man hiding in the wing, a man wearing chains. Who could that be?
There is a man in this family, is he Jing Yong? But my mother said he was not at home, so who was this man?
How could a person eat live chicken every day? Thinking of this, I felt like my stomach was churning and I was about to vomit. It was a physiological reaction.
That thing was hovering in front of my window just now. What did it want to do? Are you going to eat people?
The person hiding there must have been bitten by a snake and became like this. Even though this is the case, my mother still doesn’t give up. Who else can she have besides her precious son?
I really can't think of any other answer. I said that the dark energy in my mother probably had something to do with him.
Many years have passed since that snake disaster, and no one in the village has heard of anyone being bitten by a snake.
I can understand that if something happened to my grandma, it must have something to do with the thing in the water. He wanted to lure me back, but something happened to my mother too. Does it have anything to do with me? Or it happens.
Another week passed and nothing happened. The man hiding in the wing never came out again, and everything returned to normal. I wasn't paying attention to him either, I was focused on dealing with the things in the water.
The day came soon, and a round and big full moon hung in the sky. My cousin asked me to put on the red wedding dress, and I followed his instructions.
They went to prepare, and I put on the cumbersome Xiuhe clothes at home. Originally, my mother wanted to stay and help me, but I refused. I'm not used to anyone else messing around with me except my grandma.
When I finished packing and was about to leave, I passed by the wing where the mysterious man was kept. I looked at the door that had been locked. Now it was opened, and it was dark inside.
My steps stopped, and in this daze, I felt the wind behind me suddenly blowing up. I quickly turned around and saw a dark figure. He was hunched and wrapped in rags, and his appearance could not be seen clearly.
I saw black energy lingering all over his body, and this thing was already rushing towards me. I was busy dodging.
There was half a chain hanging around his neck, so he was obviously the man locked up in the wing. He chased me from behind, I ran in front, and we ran out of the house like this.
I ran all the way to the river beach and knew that my cousin and the others were there. There was something wrong with this thing, and I believed that only they could subdue it.
I ran to the river beach, but I didn't find my cousin and uncle. The river beach is not big and there is no one here.
The thing behind me was already rushing toward me. Even though he was wearing half an iron chain, he could still move very quickly.
He threw me into the water so close that I could finally see his appearance clearly from such a close distance.
The face was covered with thick scales, sparkling in the silver moonlight. He opened his scarlet mouth, revealing his sharp fangs, and wanted to bite me.
"Jing Yong, I'm your sister!" In desperation, I could only take a gamble.
Sure enough, when the monster heard me calling him, he was stunned for a moment. In this moment, my hand groped for a pebble in the river.
Immediately I raised the stone and waved towards his head. At that critical moment of life and death, I spared no effort and used all my strength to strike hard.
The thing's body shook slightly after I hit it, and I wanted to take the opportunity to escape.
But when I just got up, he grabbed my ankle tightly. "Plop" I fell into the water again, my forehead hit the pebbles, and blood flowed out instantly. My thin stream of blood has been flowing deep into the river.
He got even more excited when he saw me bleeding. Those eyes hidden in the darkness shone with a strange light, and there was so much filth and darkness hidden in those eyes.
When his mouth was close to mine, I could smell rot all over him and in his mouth.
He is still a human being!
My strength is no match for him, and I just had a chance to hurt him once. There is no such chance this time. Now I can only wait for death.
I closed my eyes resignedly and thought about my grandma. Did she die like this in the end? How hopeless.
Just when Jing Yong was about to tear my throat out, the river surged more intensely, as if there was a huge invisible stick stirring the river water.
A wave came over and hit Jing Yong right on the body, knocking him away.
In my whole life, I have never seen the river water be so turbulent. As soon as the wave receded, another force brought my body into the river.
I felt like my body was wrapped in something, but I could hear some noisy sounds in my ears, as if my cousin and the others had arrived.
They wanted to pick me up from the water, and I heard my cousin’s urgent voice, but it felt so far away...
My body began to fall continuously, falling into the darkest place. I seem to have gone back to the time when I was five years old and was pushed into the well by my mother.
The weak and helpless me who was hesitant, frightened, and in pain just wanted a little bit of love, but maternal love was luxurious and out of reach for me, and I didn't deserve it.
I could finally die, be free, and go find my grandma.
A pain came from my arm.
Do you still feel death?
I struggled to open my eyes, and what I saw was a man with a stunning face. His face was like fresh snow, his eyebrows were like willows, and his body was like a jade tree. It's just that the lips are redder than ordinary people, that's because they are stained with my blood.
"Who are you?!"
