Dragon Seeker

For the country, the wheel of history is always rolling forward. No matter how hard you struggle, it is useless. You either follow the progress or get crushed into dust. The same is true for people. The rings of time are constantly increasing and will not stop because of human will. Even if the past is unbearable, it cannot stop the torrent of fate. It must continue to move forward.

The old man is now obviously trapped in such a pain. He can't bear to look back, but he knows that he can only look forward and uncover all the scars and wounds of the past. Even if some things have not been smoothed by time and still look bloody, he doesn't have much choice.

He told me a story, a story that is quite far away from now.

In the first year of the Republic of China, China changed drastically, the Qing Dynasty collapsed, and more than 2,000 years of feudal history came to an end. On February 12, the day when Puyi announced his abdication, a baby girl was born in Heixiazigou.

History has opened up everything new, but the lives of ordinary people seem to have not changed at all, at least, there is no guarantee when giving birth.

The mother of the baby girl encountered a life-and-death test that all women in the old society had to go through - difficult labor.

The midwife did not have any professional skills. When the baby girl's two little feet stretched out, the rest of the body could not be pulled out no matter what. At least, the baby girl's father, a strong farmer, tried his best but failed to pull it out.

So the midwife found a mule, tied a rope to it, and pulled the baby girl out.

As a modern person, my first reaction to hearing this was absurd! !

Using a mule with a rope to pull a difficult labor? What's the difference between this and taking human life lightly?

The ghost old man looked like he was not surprised, and sneered and told me to go home and ask my grandma, listen to the stories of the old society, and understand what women in the past did when they had difficult labor!

In the case of the baby girl, it is basically one body and two lives!

However, this baby girl is very lucky, she survived, and her mother died.

The man was widowed and was in great grief.

The villagers who heard the news gathered together and were beaming with joy.

Anyway, no matter whether a child was born or someone died, the whole village had to eat at their house. In the era of food shortage, didn't everyone wait for this? So, what does the life and death of this family have to do with them? Anyway, the result is the same for them. They can't escape this meal. Why cry when they can laugh?

People are sometimes so ugly that they always need a thin thing to cover up, called a fig leaf, covering their faces, looking hazy, so that others can't see their true faces. This is probably hazy beauty.

The villagers all need this kind of hazy beauty.

The village chief heard the string and knew the elegant meaning, and immediately said-this child is a blessed person. Although the mother died, at least she survived. Think about the previous difficult births to this point, which child survived? In all likelihood, her body was torn apart. This is a blessing in a disaster. If you survive a disaster, you will have good fortune in the future. We should be happy for them!

Look, educated people speak differently, don't they?

After all, she has studied in a private school for half a year and can write her own name. She is the most educated person in the village. Under the villagers' clamor, the village chief, in order to show his affinity, smiled and picked up the baby girl with a kind face. He even wanted to use his few inks to give her a meaningful name.

However, the village chief took a closer look at the baby girl, and immediately shouted "Oh my God", raised his hand and threw the baby girl out.

So, in full view of the public, everyone saw clearly that the black and blue marks on the baby girl's legs gradually disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye...

I don't know who started it first, shouting "monster", and the villagers fled in all directions.

So, this baby girl became a monster.

There was even a rumor in the village, which was spread by the midwife. She said that the baby girl must have killed her mother. Otherwise, based on her experience, ordinary difficult labor would not be able to do anything to her.

In this way, the baby girl became a monster that killed her mother.

This baby girl was An Ru.

Later, An's father set up a banquet and prepared to invite the whole village to dinner.

That day, no one in the village came, which was probably a rare sight in a thousand years. Because of fear, the villagers gave up their favorite thing.

An's father felt very lost, as if he was abandoned by the world. This honest man felt inferior to the villagers, but when facing his daughter, his temper was amazing.

The gossip of the masses can melt gold, and he finally chose to believe the masses instead of his own flesh and blood.

That night, he threw An Ru to the ground. An Ru's head was bleeding and she cried loudly, but her wound healed at a speed visible to the naked eye...

An's father was even more frightened. Since then, he rarely paid attention to his daughter. Even though she was not even a month old, he still stuffed some food into her mouth every day. But An Ru's vitality was as strong as weeds, and she survived like this.

Perhaps, dying at that time would be the most correct choice for her.

But she didn't, and stubbornly walked on the unfair life arranged by God for her.

She still grew up, and the villagers still avoided her like a snake and scorpion. When others were playing together, she always sat silently at the head of the village and stared at the vast mountains in the distance.

Extreme environment is destined to breed extreme personality. An Ru is also extreme. Unfortunately, her extreme is not hatred, but an extreme hope to be needed and accepted by others. If there is anything in the village, she will always be the first to do it.

Unfortunately, this is useless.

When she was eleven years old, a group of old ladies squatting at the entrance of the village eating melon seeds said that the children in the village were not strong. They heard that there was a wolf den on the mountain. If they dug out the wolf cubs and stewed them for the children to eat, the children would grow up to be as strong as wolves. They urged An Ru to go dig out the wolf den.

An Ru really went. When she came back, she was holding a wolf cub in her arms. It was covered in blood and its skin was torn. However, when she handed the wolf cub to the old ladies with hope, they ran away with disgust on their faces, and asked why they didn't feed the wolves. It would be clean if it died.

They may never think about what this child has done to them when he grew up...

There are too many things like this...

Hearing this, I have basically confirmed that the villagers of Heixiazigou should be the descendants of the Ran tribe, and An Ru... is exactly the so-called extraordinary person in the Ran tribe! !

Before the Ran tribe's beliefs and heritage were obliterated by time, the extraordinary were the messengers of the three gods and had a very high status in the tribe. However, in Heixiazigou, it was quite different…

I no longer knew whether to lament the ruthlessness of time or to spit on the unpredictability and ignorance of human hearts.

"Then what?"

I couldn't help but ask: "How did An Ru… die? You've been talking about her. Is it related to her that something happened in this village?"

In fact, I really want to hear a story that broke out in silence, at least it's hearty and sounds great.

But the reality is that An Ru's temperament destined her to die in silence.

An Ru eventually grew up, became a beautiful lady, and became a beauty, but she was still an outlier in the village. Not to mention getting married, she didn't even have a friend.

It was precisely because she was lonely that Ma Liuzhi targeted her and harassed her on weekdays. Ordinary people said she was a disaster star, but Ma Liuzhi was not afraid and had no taboos.

Most of the ruffians have a very obvious characteristic, that is, they are spineless.

When they meet a hard one, they are more cowardly than anyone else, and when they meet a soft one, they are more poisonous than ghosts.

After all, there is only one ruffian like Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty who dares to conquer the world with a three-foot sword in his hand in thousands of years. His style is too high, and ordinary ruffians are not in the same style with him at all.

Obviously, Ma Liuzhi is such a scumbag.

He is rampant in the countryside and bullies ordinary people. At most, he asks for money and food, and dares not force people to death. He is a smart man and knows what things should not be touched.

Undoubtedly, a beautiful woman like An Ru, who no one cares about, is exactly the kind that is easiest to bully.

That day, he drank two taels of cat urine. When he returned to the village, he saw An Ru standing in a daze at the village head. He had evil intentions in his heart, so he dragged An Ru into the ditch...

That night, the whole village could hear An Ru's screams. At first, some people came out to ask what happened. Later, after a few kind-hearted old ladies said it was An Ru, they all went back to sleep.

Only the ghost old man couldn't stand it anymore, so he stood at the village head and yelled, and the screams stopped.

Not long after, An Ru fled back to the village crying. She knocked on doors from house to house, begged people from house to house, trying to find someone who could make the decision for her.

The villagers gathered together, and the whole village was in chaos.

The village chief had to call out Ma Liuzhi because of the endless noise. Ma Liuzhi led his brothers and appeared like a victim. He sat on the ground and pointed at An Ru, saying that it was this woman who was ruining him. This woman couldn't get married, and she came to harm him because she saw that he was drunk.

No one said anything, including An Ru's father.

I don't know if they were afraid of Ma Liuzhi's brothers, or if they were happy to see this.

Anyway, they subconsciously ignored the fact that the one who was screaming and crying was An Ru. Their ears were collectively deaf...

Ma Liuzhi saw the situation and looked at An Ru who was entangled, and suddenly jumped up and said that the village had been poor for many years. It must be that the existence of this disaster star had collided with the three gods. Now it has begun to harm living people and cannot be kept.

Finally, he and his brother dragged An Ru into the ditch again. This time, An Ru did not come back. The villagers still did not speak, and even breathed a sigh of relief, as if this indestructible and unbeatable girl had frightened them with her tenacious will to grow, and now that she had destroyed the other party, this was actually a huge victory.

"Dirty, too dirty! Perhaps, the village has fallen to this point because God has opened his eyes!"

The ghost old man couldn't say any more. He found a place to sit down, covered his head and gritted his teeth and said: "Later, when Ma Liuzhi and his brothers were drinking, they said that they pressed An Ru to the ground and Ma Liuzhi smashed her head with a big stone. When they hit her for the first few times, the child would still move and kept begging them, saying that she didn't do anything and didn't hurt anyone, so don't hit her...

That animal was still laughing when he talked about this...

Later, about half a year later, one day at noon, when everyone was eating, An Ru came back..."

My eyes lit up and I looked up and asked: "So, she killed everyone in the village?"

The ghost old man looked at me silently and asked back: "What do you think?"

My face froze, but I couldn't say anything.

Anyway, at this moment I feel like there is something in my chest that wants to explode, and I really want to hear a story about someone killing someone in anger. This is the most basic demand in my heart.

However, the ghost old man seemed to be making things difficult for me. He just refused to say what I wanted to hear. Instead, he said leisurely, "She went back to find her father and told him that an earthquake was about to happen, and asked them to leave the house and find a safe place..."

The result was obvious. Her father was so scared that he fled in panic. Later, the whole village fled in panic...

An Ru kept chasing them, reminding them to run to an open place...

"I'm old and can't run anymore..."

The ghost old man smiled bitterly and said, "Xiao Mi is too young and can't run either. We all thought An Ru came back to take her life, but not long after, an earthquake really happened...

None of the villagers who escaped came back.

An Ru came back instead. She said that when the villagers ran down the mountain, the mountain suddenly cracked and buried everyone alive...

She also said that it was all her fault. She shouldn't have run back so recklessly..."

Finally died!

Hearing this, I finally breathed a sigh of relief, but I still felt uncomfortable in my heart, and even... I hated An Ru a little.

I really don't know why a person has such strong endurance?

Or, why is the contrast between good and evil in people's hearts so strong, so kindness is always trampled by malice?

After a long time, I finally calmed down, and then I found a loophole.

"So, at that time, you and Xiao Mi actually survived, right?"

I looked at the ghost old man with a gleaming look: "Then, how did you die? Whether it's you or Xiao Mi, it seems that you didn't die from a natural disaster, right? But... murder!!"