The sharp knife cut through the scarred skin. The wound was not deep. It did not hurt the flesh and blood under the thick dermis, but it was not shallow either. At least the scarred skin was completely scratched. Blood flowed from the wound.

It overflowed and instantly flowed into a thin stream of blood.

Lin Jianguo let out a painful groan, but the expression on his face did not change much. It was obvious that he was used to this kind of pain.

He caught the flowing blood with one hand, stood up quickly, picked up the terrifying skull statue, and placed it on his wound. The blood quickly and strangely seeped into the black statue.

Lin Jianguo did not waste the statue, nor the ones on his hands, and smeared them all on the black statue.

He gave a silly "hey hey" smile, and it seemed as if the wound on his abdomen was not on him, and the blood flowing seemed not to be his. And this smile was also very neurotic. This kind of smile can only be seen often in mental hospitals.

The smile like a lunatic, the smirk with unfocused eyes, but there is an element of great peace of mind in it.

This strange ceremony ended quickly. Lin Jianguo's wound stopped bleeding, and the skin at the wound had a strange pale color, as if the blood in that area had flowed cleanly.

At this time, Lin Jianguo finally put down the black statue in his hand. The statue had obviously absorbed enough blood, but the mottled blood stains seemed to be darker. However, Lin Jianguo didn't care about this, but slowly stood up and used the statue again.

The statue was wrapped in floral cloth, placed in the kang hole, and then completely buried with kang ashes. Then, it covered its abdomen and moaned happily several times.

Then he stood up and dug out a cloth bag under his pillow. The cloth bag was full of clean white cloth strips and a bottle of wine. He took out the wine and took a big sip, then sprayed it on the wound with a 'pop' sound.

On top, the severe pain caused by alcohol disinfection made him groan again, as if he was taking medicine. He quickly swallowed the remaining wine in his mouth, and a sickly reddish color appeared on his pale and haggard face, and he felt better now.

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Gritting his teeth, Lin Jianguo tied a white cloth strip to the wound, and then breathed a sigh of relief. Then he suddenly raised his head nervously and murmured: "No, there was so much blood just now.

I have to make up for it, I have to make up for it.”

So, under the cold moonlight, the sound of cooking on the fire sounded again in the dilapidated shack.

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Mr. Liu enters the threshold of his home at about this time every night. Naturally, the old lady at home has to complain the moment he enters.

"Every time I eat, I throw down the bowls and chopsticks and leave. What did you say you did?" Women are always quick to talk. Even if they are an old couple for decades, a man's silence cannot change a woman.

A man's mouth can be long-winded, just like a woman can't change a man's silence.

Facing the old woman's daily 'required lessons', Mr. Liu also chose silence as usual and entered the room with a flattering smile.

But it seemed that the old woman was not going to let him go today, and she was still scolding: "If you don't speak, I don't know what you did? Didn't you just go to find that Lin Jianguo? After eating every day,

I also helped clean up the dishes and chopsticks, it was unbeatable

Go, I don’t work very well during the day, so I go to him when I get the chance. But I work in the lumber transportation office, so I don’t have to worry about food and drink. What about you? Don’t forget, our youngest son hasn’t said anything yet.

Where is the wife! Besides, that Lin Jianguo is very strange, he"

Mr. Liu has a good temper, but his old lady's temper is quite fierce. In the Northwest, where male chauvinism is prevalent, his family has a certain attitude of strong women and weak men.

So Mr. Liu kept squatting at the door, smiling, holding a cigarette in his mouth, and letting his old woman scold him. But when the old woman finished scolding him, the smile on Mr. Liu's face disappeared and became a tigerish one.

A face shouted: "My mother-in-law's job is to cook and wash clothes. What are you talking about when you don't understand?"

The old woman was dumbfounded. She didn't understand why Mr. Liu dared to contradict her like this today. She was furious. She immediately rushed over and yelled: "What do you mean, I have long hair and short knowledge? I have to do a lot of housework all day long.

There's no shortage of work to do, don't think you're the only one taking care of it

Home! You got into trouble today, didn't you? What? You don't allow people to say a word about you, Lin Jianguo? What's the relationship between you two? Are you closer than your wife and children? Are you doing something shady?

You don’t want me to say it, but I have to say that if that person doesn’t live in a good place, he insists.”

Mr. Liu was angry. Lin Jianguo was a man of great ability. How could he dare to say such nonsense? It was all because he was too indulgent to this woman. He even said such ugly words. He was not afraid of thinking about it. Mr. Liu's courage

The son was also male, so he rushed over and yelled at the naughty old woman: "Shut up, do you believe I will deal with you today?"

"You dare? You try to touch me? I'm going to say it today, Lin Jianguo." The old woman in her fifties was so violent that she was not ordinary.

Forced to no avail, Mr. Liu finally couldn't hold it any longer, rushed over, and slapped his old woman firmly on the face.

The slap was crisp and loud, making both of them stunned. In the end, the old woman reacted first. It was like poking a hornet's nest. She rushed forward and grabbed Mr. Liu, and then shouted: "

I will fight with you." As he spoke, he took off his shoes and hit Mr. Liu on the head with all his strength.

"That's enough, stop!" Mr. Liu was forced to have no choice but to shout, but he was met with an even fiercer 'attack'. Even his youngest son at home was alarmed. He came out and watched the fight at a loss.

As parents, Mr. Liu had no choice but to hug his mother-in-law tightly, and then whispered in her ears: "Stop fighting, there is a reason for this. Lin Jianguo is very capable."

people."

"What did you say?" The old woman finally stopped what she was doing and looked at Mr. Liu suspiciously.

"How can I do something without a reason?" Mr. Liu said in annoyance, then looked at his little son and yelled: "What are you doing standing here? Go back to the house! You won't go to work tomorrow.

What happened?"

Mr. Liu was afraid of his wife, but his sons were afraid of Mr. Liu. Seeing Mr. Liu yelling at him like this, the younger son lowered his head silently and turned around to go back to the house. Then Mr. Liu said to the old woman: "This matter,

I'm ready to die in my stomach, I guess everyone who knows me thinks so. But today, look at you, I can't do anything about it."

"What's going on?" The more Mr. Liu behaved like this, the more doubts appeared on the old woman's face. She knew her man well, and with such an expression and such words, it seemed that something big had happened.

Mr. Liu raised his eyes and looked around, then sighed again, picked up the tobacco pole that had been thrown to the ground during the fight, and said to the old woman: "Let's go into the house and talk."

In the room, an oil lamp was lit. Uncle Liu and the old woman sat cross-legged on the small table on the kang. Mr. Liu lit the cigarette pole again. The two were silent for a long time, and Mr. Liu did not speak.

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"You were so mysterious just now, why aren't you talking now?" The old woman couldn't bear her temper and spoke first.

Mr. Liu blew out a puff of thick smoke, then raised his head and said, "Bring me a pot of wine."

"Are you looking for a reason to drink?"

"Why should I find any reason to drink? There are some things that you can't say if you don't drink to be brave." Mr. Liu said helplessly to the old woman.

Although the old woman was a little dubious, she still brought a pot of wine to Mr. Liu from the house. By the way, she made some side dishes to go with the wine from the leftovers from the evening, grabbed some peanuts, and put them on the kang.

small table on top.

Mr. Liu picked up the jug and took a sip without caring about pouring it into the cup. He didn't touch the side dish that went with the wine. Then he said to the old woman: "Do you remember how Lin Jianguo came here?"

"We are here because we are fleeing from famine, right?" The old woman recalled for a moment, and then said uncertainly.

"Yes, it looks like he came here to escape famine, but the key is why he entered the timber transportation office. If you think about it carefully, what else happened that year, the year he came?" Liu Erye said.

After saying this, his expression changed, and he quickly grabbed the wine bottle and drank a sip of wine for himself.
Chapter completed!