Chapter 65 Cinnabar Talisman
Chapter 65 Cinnabar Talisman
In the morning after snowfall, the sky was gray and gray, without the slightest hint of clarity.The dry firewood prepared last night had been burned, and the room became cold quickly, Lin Jin almost woke up from the cold.
She shivered and pushed away the quilt that had become cold again, found a clean suit of clothes from the small cabinet next to the bed and changed into it, and frantically lit the fire again, only then did she feel alive.
It was still early, and there was no sound in the courtyard. Because of the previous experience, when Lin Jin went out, he almost held his breath and tapped his toes, for fear of making any noise and causing trouble.Even so, he accidentally kicked something with his toe, but fortunately there was no sound.
Lin Jin swallowed his heart back into his stomach, bent down and picked up the greased paper bag that was stuck with snow water, it looked a bit like the old Beijing cakes he had eaten before, they were all wrapped in this kind of packaging, and he didn't know who it was put it at her door.
Lin Jin looked around, and it seemed that everyone in the yard was still sound asleep. She was about to go back to the house with her things, but she saw a faint figure on the red-clothed window diagonally opposite.Hong Mei got up so early, could it be that she gave this thing?But what reason does she have to prepare these for her when she can't even eat enough?Lin Jin couldn't figure it out.
A few cock crows came from the entrance of the village, and people in other rooms started to move. Lin Jin retreated to the door and closed the door behind him.She put the pastry on the table and didn't eat it.
When Lin Jin went to do odd jobs in the front yard, he "met" Hongmei many times, but Hongmei never mentioned it, as if it really had nothing to do with her. Puzzled.
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For the next half month, no matter what time Lin Jin got up every morning, she would see a package of exquisite pastries in front of the door, but she never caught the person who brought her something.At first she was worried that there would be something in the pastry, so she didn't dare to eat it, but later, because she couldn't bear the hunger, she ate it cleanly and didn't find anything wrong, so she ate it openly, and even tried to share it. To Hongxie, but Hongxie refused every time.
During this period of time, Lin Jin had no chance to go out. The Meng family seemed to have changed her mind. She no longer let her go outside to do those dirty and tiring jobs, but left her at the Meng house to clean the corners, remove dust, and Compared with before, the days now are extremely leisurely, except that I have been thinking about Zhang Xi all the time, and there is nothing to do at all.
The whole Xicun Village is as quiet as a real ancient village that has nothing to do with the world. People work at sunrise and rest at sunset. Occasionally, there are some things that can be used as one or two conversations, but they are just some rural anecdotes, not much to say.
Just when Lin Jin thought that he was going to spend most of the winter in this deserted and secluded place, he finally heard something unusual.
When several families in the village went out in the morning, they found that their gates had been pasted with yellow talismans painted with cinnabar, which could burn people's flesh and blood when they touched them. There was such a big commotion without a sound.
When such a thing happened, in order to show their benevolence, the Meng family sent a few maids and servants to deliver herbal medicines from door to door to those who were accidentally injured.Lin Jin and Hong Mei are in charge of several households at the east end of the village.It's ridiculous to say that he has already gained a bad reputation, but he must act like a hypocrite. I don't know if he wants to show others, or he is blindfolded to deceive himself.Lin Jin looked at the woman who was standing in front of the porch with her sickly and frail body dragging her dying years with the help of the maid, instructing them to take the medicine, feeling inexplicably sympathetic in her heart.I don't know what is the purpose of living so pretentiously and aggressively.
In her previous life, when Ms. Meng passed away, there were only Lin Jin and Hong Mei left beside her. Her family property was divided up by the villagers she was now hypocritically helping, and she only played a ridiculous banner of eliminating harm for the village.
Those days were very difficult, Meng was so weak because of her serious illness that she didn't even have the strength to open her eyes and look at the two girls who had been bullied by her all the time.But even so, she still had to get up early every day to wash up, then put on thick makeup, put on the few remaining pieces of jewelry and lie on the bed, ready to die decently at any time.
When she dreamed back at midnight, she would think that she was back in Xi Village again, the same Mrs. Meng who had a good-for-nothing husband but was very resourceful.
Obsession is too deep.
Lin Jin didn't have time to think about it, so she followed Hongmei to the east of the village, thinking that after delivering the things, she might go to the back mountain to have a look, Zhang Xi might be there.Instinctively, she was willing to believe that Zhang Xi would not lie to her, and she also analyzed the cause and effect, but she was still not at ease. She had to see that Zhang Xi hadn't left before she could rest assured, otherwise the miss would last for many years.
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The injuries to the first few households were not serious, only slightly scalded flesh, but the injuries to the last household they went to were more horrific.
The injured man was a man in his early thirties. He didn't care when he saw his neighbor was injured by the talisman paper. He almost stuck his entire palm on the talisman paper at once.At the beginning, the talisman paper didn't work and he was still complacent. He didn't expect that after a while, the palm of his hand began to hurt slowly from the bone, and then the skin of the whole hand was torn, exposing the bloodshot flesh.When Lin Jin handed the medicine to him, he stared at his hand for a while, feeling that something was wrong, but he didn't say anything specific.
This person's hands are strangely shaped, with very slender fingers and small knuckles, which are almost invisible. According to Lin Jin's archaeological research, if the skin and flesh covering the hands are removed, only the bones are left, probably this person The phalanx of the finger is like a whole stick, with no room for bending at all.
The man only injured one hand. Although the injury was serious, it wasn't to the point where he couldn't move.But he was lying on his back on the bed as if his bones had been torn apart, his mouth was screaming, his eyes were tightly closed, and he looked like he was severely paralyzed and hemiplegic.
Hongmei knew that this person was a well-known scoundrel in the village, and didn't want to talk to him, but this person reached out and grabbed Hongmei's sleeve when they were about to leave.
Hong Mei opened his hand angrily, and scolded: "Feng Liang, what on earth do you want to do? Madam has brought you the medicine, what else do you want!"
Feng Liang opened his eyelids and glanced at her, and continued to moan and chirp, Lin Jin had been holding back just now, for fear of kicking him again if he couldn't hold back anymore.
Seeing that he didn't speak, Hongmei simply threw all the herbs left in the basket on him, but unexpectedly, this insatiable person waved the herbs in vain to the ground, and said with a corner of his mouth: "You idiots, sir! I don’t even know when disaster is imminent.”
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