Chapter 103:

It was late night, Zhang Lin silently cleaned the rubble on the ground, and she let many people read her jokes. Compared with physical pain, she actually minded a swollen face the next day. Facing the pointers of relatives in this yard.
The roof was smashed into a hole by the meteorite falling from the sky, and the little meteorite that had not burned was still embedded in the floor of the house with black smoke. However, her man was frightened at the very first moment and stopped violating himself. At this moment, he was already asleep on the bed.
Although the roof was damaged by a sudden accident, Lin felt very fortunate. If it hadn’t been for this accident to interrupt her husband, she didn’t know when the man in a state of excitement would continue his atrocities. .
Lin straightened his sore back and looked at the messy room. There is no extra decoration in this barren bedroom, only an ink painting scroll hung on the wall.
The painting depicts a big river, spring rivers with wild waters, light smoke and declining grasses, and lucid reeds nearby, and a corner of the fairy mountain pavilion is faintly revealed in the clouds on the opposite bank.
The most eye-catching thing is a small carp with its tail swinging freely in the vast smoke. The fish swims in the heart of the river. Its body is blue and black, and its forehead is red with its presence, which makes the whole faint picture alive and vivid. Smart.
Lin stared at the touch of red and looked a little ecstatic. She didn't remember when the painting was hung at home. I don't know why, these days, she has always dreamed of the fish in the picture scroll, so that all her recent embroidery has been habitually showing up as carp.
Although no one can know the scenes in her dreams, even if she thinks about it, it is enough to make Lin ashamed.
Since childhood, her parents have disciplined her strictly in terms of ethics. Since marrying into the Zhang family, she has abided by the ethics of her wife, is cautious, and regards her husband as the heaven, and never missed a step.
But I don’t know why I would have such dreams. In those dreams, the flexible carp slowly swims out of the picture scroll, comes to her, turns into a young and handsome man, and makes a blind date with her skin. , Lying cross-necked.
The person whispered softly in her ear every night, and said words that made people's mind trembling.
Lin covered her face, feeling a deep self-blame, she spit on her own licentiousness in the bottom of her heart. But she had to admit with shame that in those dreams, she got a joy that she had never had before.
The fish entangled her so tenderly and meticulously, she could even clearly recall the touch of his cold fingers on her skin, cold and smooth, like a real fish, which made her tremble Trembling, let her fall all the way to the abyss.
Lin raised his head to look at her husband who was sleeping soundly on the bed. He was full of alcohol and didn't even take off his shoes and socks. He who had just beaten his wife was asleep on the bed.
Lin sighed, like any time before, calling in hot water, serving his husband to clean his head, take off his shoes and change clothes.
While taking off the outer robe for her husband, a dazzling powder was shiningly dyed on the drunken jacket.
Lin took his hand back, her husband likes to wander around fireworks, it is not uncommon.
In the beginning, she also wanted to resist.
Parents always persuade her with all their heart,
"The saint says that when born as a woman, humbleness is the first. If you are married to a husband, only respect and obedience is a gift for a woman."
"Child, bear with me. After a long time, my son-in-law understands your benefits and naturally respects and loves you."
The mother-in-law pointed to the bridge of her nose and screamed, "Men are socializing outside for the sake of this family. You don’t know how to serve me carefully, but you are jealous. Jealous, it’s one of the seven who make trouble for the family. The fire comes, send your home."
From then on Lin did not dare to say anything.
At this moment, she looked at the man lying on the bed, with loose skin, fat belly, and a skin emptied of wine, but she was able to fist and frustrate herself at every turn, and foul language.
For this kind of life, the only thing that can be done is to endure endlessly, and is required to be meek, diligent, and not jealous. When is such a day a head? Maybe for ten or twenty years, when she gave birth to a son, and his son married a daughter-in-law, she would become a woman like a mother-in-law, and would pour the backlog of anger on her daughter-in-law.
Lin took a few steps back, and happened to touch the picture scroll. The fish on the picture scroll was beside her, the huge fish body, with a bright red forehead, almost swam out of the picture, and her smoky eyes stared at her.
She was taken aback.
Is this fish this big from the beginning?
When did it change to this position?
"Since you have been so hard, why bother yourself. Come with me and go happily together." The man's seductive voice sounded from the screen.
Lin twisted his handkerchief to sit on the ground, trying to escape, but couldn't move. I watched the big fish swim slowly, the huge fish head protruded from the canvas, and the dark fish eyes looked at her condescendingly.
The fish finally opened its big round mouth towards her and swallowed her in one bite.
...
Yuan Xianger did not sleep well, and she could always hear the rushing of water in her sleep. Yuan Xiang'er opened his eyes and found that he was on the edge of a vast smoky river, in the reed field, and an old man in white was sitting by the river fishing.
Beside him, a blue-black carp floats slowly in the air.
Yuan Xianger knew that she was probably in a dream.
"He Bo." She came to the old man's side, "I have come to Lianghe Town, what do you want to tell me, where are you now?"
The old man seemed to have not heard him.
He smiled, relaxed and contented, he was fishing on the riverside, with his chin in one hand and said: "I said Danluo, you don't want to eat humans, okay?"
The fish swimming in the air turned around and looked at them. Yuan Xiang'er discovered that the fish’s head and mouth were stained with bright red blood.
"Why? I want to eat. What is the difference between humans and other creatures? Tigers and wild boars can eat, and humans can eat naturally." The fish made a muffled sound in its belly, "What's more, It was they themselves who sacrificed their kind to me."
"But I used to be a human race. If you want to eat my compatriots like this, I have to stay away from you." He Bo said.
Dan Luo swam around in the air, and then again, and finally he said, "I always feel very lonely after living for too long. It is rare that there is someone who can speak, forget it, I will not eat while you are alive Humans are."
Uncle He smiled, "Thank you then, my friend."
...
Yuan Xianger was awakened by a slight knock on the door.
She opened her eyes, and Dahua had gone to open the door. Outside the door of the dark room before dawn, stood a pale girl Dong'er.
"Dong'er, why are you here?" Da Hua led her little niece into the house, "Why did you come here alone in the middle of the night?"
"Auntie, I... Can I sleep here, OK?" The little girl was obviously frightened, shivering in the hot summer night.
Dahua hugged her on the bed, let her sleep between herself and Yuan Xianger, patted her back gently,
"What's the matter, is it scared by your father's reckless man? Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, I will sleep with my aunt and sister Axiang tonight."
The little girl curled up in the thin blanket, her tiny body trembling,
"It's not father...it's mother..."
Her small whispering voice was drowned in darkness, and neither Dahua nor Yuan Xianger, who was sleepy, had heard it.
After dawn, Da Hua got up early to clean the courtyard, boil water and cook, and was very busy.
Yuan Xiang'er saw her husband before breakfast. The scholar who had been studying hard all the year round was a little gentle and weak. After nodding and saluting Yuan Xianger from a distance, he avoided suspicion and planned to leave.
Da Hua curbed her liberating temper, stood outside the door and talked to him in a respectful and restrained manner, handing him a box of freshly steamed snacks, and watching him go to the study.
In Yuan Xiang'er's eyes, the man's head and back were pulling several innocuous little demons, and the invisible weight made his back a little bit cramped.
This is probably a man who is a little weak and stressed. When a person's momentum is weak, and there is anxiety in his heart, the little demons will prefer to squat on his shoulders and bully him like this.
After Dahua came back, Yuan Xianger teased: "Why are you so nervous talking to your husband? You have been married for half a year, and you are still shy?"
"You don't know, since my husband passed the exam, the whole family is pointing to him in high school. People are looking forward to asking questions every day, which makes me nervous." Dahua sighed, "I hope he will make progress in my heart. , And I was afraid that he was really hit and became an official. Then I am afraid that a daughter of a butcher’s house like me will not be even more successful in his eyes."
"Don't sigh all the time. How much do you sigh when I came to this day." Yuan Xianger patted her on the shoulder like a child. "You feel nervous. Your husband is afraid that the pressure in your heart will be greater. I think You should encourage him more. Instead of holding him respectfully, you will increase his pressure instead."
"Is that so? My husband reads sage books. How can I be such a crude person to encourage him?"
"Sister Dahua is the best girl in our group, don't look down on yourself. Listen to me and show off the energy you used to. You are already a husband and wife, and I think he needs your encouragement very much."
After having breakfast with Dahua, Yuan Xianger is going to take Nanhe to visit the Heshen Temple today. Verify that unexplained dream last night.
Dong'er’s mother Lin’s money went through the ear door and came to pick her daughter back.
"Dong'er, go home with your mother." Lin's smile was gentle and loving. Last night, her husband's drunken violence did not seem to have any effect on her. Not only did she look less tired and haggard, but a little radiant.
When Yuan Xianger saw her yesterday, she habitually hunched her chest and lowered her eyebrows. But at this moment, he straightened his waist and neck, smiled sweetly, and talked with people calmly, as if a flower suddenly bloomed, adding that rare radiance.
But Dong'er shrank behind Dahua uncharacteristically.
"You child, what's the matter? Can't you keep annoying your aunt, go back with your mother?" Lin's voice was mild, and his white face looked down at his daughter, and stretched out to pull her.
The five or six-year-old girl seemed to see some terrifying monster, shook her head desperately, and avoided in fear.
(Nan He, did you smash the roof yesterday? Did you notice anything? I feel a little strange.) Yuan Xianger contacted Nan He who was still on the roof.
(No, she looks like a human, but there seems to be something wrong. I'm not good at distinguishing this. If Wuyuan is there, I can tell at a glance.) Nan He's voice came.
(Yes, I always feel that this Zhang Lin is different from yesterday. But I don't know what's wrong.) Yuan Xianger hesitated.
"Sister-in-law Lin, Dong'er was probably scared last night. I happened to be going out, so it's better to let her follow me to relax." Yuan Xianger smiled and said to Zhang Lin, talking in a negotiating tone, but with He has taken Dong'er in his own hands.
With the morning sun behind his back, Lin's smile looked stiff and false.
She opened her mouth to speak, but saw a silver-white Sirius fall from the sky and jumped into Yuan Xiang'er's arms, turning her cold eyes to look at her.
"So..." Lin took a step back, "Well then."
Yuan Xiang'er embraced Nan He and walked outside the gate with Dong'er.
Yuan Xianger remembered the weird fish that could eat people in her dream last night, and couldn't help but ask.
(Xiao Nan, I ask you, if we never knew each other, would you also eat humans?)
(Before the wreckage period, my body needs a lot of hunting and eating. Although I will not kill indiscriminately, humans and other animals are not high or low to me when hunting.)
(Then not eating now, is it just because of me?)
(Well, because I like Axiang, I also like all humans.)
For the first time, Yuan Xiang'er truly realized that for many demons, human beings are just one link in the food chain.
The town of Queqiu where she grew up was quiet and peaceful, and she had never seen excessive gloom, probably because there had always been a powerful monster like Master living there.
Walking all the way to see, Kyoto, where the public security is the most stable, is also because of the wonderful way of the national teacher.
In this way, if there are big monsters restrained or where powerful humans live, there will be much fewer little monsters who want to eat people.
Lianghe Town had always been a quiet town because of He Bo's control.
But now, new little monsters can be seen everywhere on the streets here.