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Chapter 23 The Maiden and the Crow

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    Li Ling promised to accompany Huainan to visit Grandma Chi, so he found a day to rest in Huainan, and the family went to visit together with gifts. When they arrived there, Grandma Chi was groping around the corner and carrying a bucket of water home.  , Because the eyes can't see, I stumble.

    Li Ling hurried forward to help, surprised by the living conditions of the old man.  A few days after returning home, I contacted the public welfare organization and agreed on a date to make material donations to Grandma Chi and the left-behind elderly and children in the village.

    Several cars were loaded with all kinds of flour, rice, oil and salt, as well as children's books, toys and clothes, and they were parked in the square at the entrance of the village together, giving away and counting from door to door.  There are not many people in the village, and there are only about 20 households living in the mountains and the mountains, and most of them are old people and preschool children who cannot work.

    Huainan followed the adults, carrying toys and giving them to families with children. Liliu followed at first, but then he followed them boringly, so he climbed up the tree and took a leisurely nap on the tree.

    When Huainan came out of a family with his parents, there was no sign of the raccoon on the tree.  When the group arrived at Grandma Chi's house, Liliu was already at Grandma Chi's house, playing with a group of earth spirits.

    Since Dudu's matter was resolved, all the earth spirits sealed in the puppets have been unsealed, except for the three that were taken out and temporarily fostered at Ye Li's house, the remaining dozen earth spirits, because Huainan can't find those earth spirits  As for the storage place of the puppets, they can only be kept at Grandma Chi's house.

    Seeing so many people coming at once, a dozen earth spirits all hid behind Liliu, who looked up at Huainan.  Huainan signaled that he was fine, as long as he didn't run around.

    In the yard, Li Ling left some extra rice noodles for Grandma Chi, went to the well with a few volunteers to fetch water, filled the two large urns in the house, and cleaned the courtyard and the house.  The bedding was replaced with new ones.

    The group was busy, and the earth spirits looked at it for a while, and then they were no longer afraid. Some jumped on people's shoulders, some stood on the fence, and some climbed on the roof, or followed behind people.

    In the eyes of others, apart from the busy crowd, there is nothing else in the yard.  But from Huainan's point of view, apart from the crowd, there are also lively earth spirits among the crowd.

    After they finished packing, they rested for a while under the locust tree in front of the door, and then went to visit the next house.

    Huainan was tired from walking, so he accompanied Grandma Chi under the tree and waited for his parents to come back.

    Liliu meowed and jumped onto the bench next to him, Huainan picked up the fruit and handed it to Liliu, and the dozen or so land spirits looked at Huainan eagerly, as if they wanted to eat it too.

    A bird flew by in the sky, landed on a branch in the distance, quacked a few times, and flew into the distance again.

    Lili looked up, and Grandma Chi suddenly asked, "Did a crow fly away?"

    Huainan looked at the crow with only one black spot in the distance, nodded and said: "There are two."

    Grandma Chi nodded, remembered something for a moment, and murmured: "Everything in this world will have some aura after living for a long time."

    Huainan didn't know what Grandma Chi was going to say, so she took a knife to peel an apple for Grandma Chi, only to hear Grandma Chi continue: "That was more than sixty years ago, I was sixteen years old at that time, and I lived here alone.  One day, something fell from the sky and hit the window lattice, I fumbled to find it, and heard the sound of birds flapping their wings under the window sill"

    "I was stunned for a moment. The sound reminded me of a past event a long time ago. The sound should be a crow, right? I groped to pick it up. The crow's leg seemed to be broken. I found some cloth for it.  Bandage. In the winter, it should be difficult for crows to find food, so I made a small nest and kept it in the house."

    "The crow seems to be sensible. It has never left the nest in the winter. In the early spring, I opened the window and let it fly out. The crow seemed to understand what I said, so it flapped its wings and flew away.  Out of the window sill. I heard that it didn¡¯t seem to fly far, so I waved my hand at the window and let it fly to the mountain to have a look. I heard the sound of wings flapping away. Not long after, the crow flew back again.¡±

    "When the ear was planting, everyone was busy cultivating. I was also groping in the yard to plant some grain and vegetables. I heard that crows sometimes landed on the fence and sometimes on the mound. It would also  I took the seeds and threw them in the hole I dug. In summer, the fruits are ripe, and when I pick them, the crows jump around. Sometimes it doesn¡¯t know where to get some wild fruits. At the end of autumn  I peel the persimmons I picked and hang them under the eaves, and sweep the snowflakes in the yard with a broom in winter.¡±

    "The crow seems to have identified the small nest I made for it. Sometimes it flies out for a day or two, then a week, and then flies out for more than a month. When I thought the crow would not returnHere it is, when I opened my eyes in the morning, I heard the sound of flapping wings in the yard. I knew the crow had come back, so I went to open the window and heard the crow flapping its wings and landing in the small nest.  "

    "I was stupid at that time, so I hurriedly got up and went to feel in the small nest to see if the crow was injured or lost weight after being away for so long. The crow stayed there obediently and wiped it with its beak from time to time.  The palm of my hand. Five years have passed like this. At that time, I was already in my early twenties. Someone from the village came to make a matchmaker. They all said that a girl¡¯s family kept a crow in the house. The crow is specially called the dead.  Yes, how unlucky."

    "They asked me to throw the crows away, but after so many years of keeping them, I didn't want to part with them. But I was afraid that others would say so, so I groped to build a nest on the hill behind the house and moved the crows there. But even so,  I talked to the matchmaker several times, but none of them succeeded."

    "And then there was a snowy night, there was a burglar at home, I heard the sound of them rummaging in the yard, all of a sudden, it was like going back to when I was a child, after my mother passed away, I lived alone, and a burglar broke into the house, they robbed  After taking away all my food, I hid under the firewood by myself, covering my mouth with all my might, tears falling from my eyes in fright, but I didn¡¯t dare to take a breath.¡±

    "After so many years, I still locked the door and closed the window in fear, and let them rummage in the yard, but I still didn't dare to make a sound. At this moment, I heard a sound coming from the yard,  It¡¯s the crow that¡¯s back. I thought it¡¯s too bad, they don¡¯t catch the crow. In winter, the mountains were covered by heavy snow, and there was little food. Maybe they caught the crow to make soup. Although I was scared, I still touched the stick on the door and opened the house.  Door¡­¡­"

    As Grandma Chi was speaking, she stopped suddenly, and slowly curled up her hands that were clasped together. She seemed to encounter something tense, pondered for a moment, and then continued: "There seems to be a dazzling light outside the open door, and that  For a moment, in that light, my eyes seemed to be able to see"

    "I can see clearly my small courtyard, the three panic-stricken thieves in the courtyard, they are still copying things in their hands, and I can also see clearly a man in black clothes standing in front of me.  , wearing a very low bamboo hat, which was still covered with a black veil, so I couldn¡¯t see his face clearly. I just remember that the light flashed suddenly, and when I looked again, there was no one in the courtyard, and I was stunned in front of the door  After a long time, I passed out directly"

    Huainan was surprised, only to hear Grandma Chi continue: "When I woke up, I was still sleeping in the room. I thought for a long time before I remembered what happened just now. I was busy groping for the flint, but my eyes still couldn't see anything. I got up in surprise,  I fumbled to the yard, where the tables and chairs were complete, as if nothing had happened. I hurried to the mountain again, but found no trace of the crow. I went back home to see if the crow could come back. Just as I was groping for the tabletop  Suddenly, something fell to the ground, and I quickly picked it up, it was a string of bells."

    Grandma Chi fumbled for a washed, whitish handkerchief from the cloth bag at the waist of her trousers. She opened the handkerchief with trembling hands, and a string of bells slid to the ground without making any sound.  When Lili saw the bell, he was startled and hurriedly backed away.  Those earth spirits also hurriedly hid behind Liliu.

    Huainan looked at Liliu strangely, and didn't think there was anything special about the bell, so he bent down to pick it up. The bell was only half a string, but it was well preserved. Grandma Chi thought she should take it out and wipe it frequently, and there was no rust on the bell.  It's just that there is no sound.

    At the end of the bell, there is also a black feather tied.

    "Is this the string of bells?" Huainan said, "Why is there no sound?"

    Grandma Chi picked up the bell, rubbed it slowly, and said, "From the moment I got it, it has never rang. I asked the old people in the village to take a look, and everyone said they hadn't seen it. Then I thought  , since it is left by the crow, it will come back one day."

    "Unfortunately, in the blink of an eye, a lifetime has passed The crow has never come back"

    "Perhaps, it's gone" In the end, it was Grandma Chi's inaudible sigh.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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