Chapter 0089: Falling to the Ground and Becoming a Fly
I asked Awen to take care of Zhang Hanzhu, and I took Zhang Hanzhu's mobile phone to a children's clothing store, where I bought two sets of clothes and diapers for Abao. He wore one set and left the others in the store.
While putting on clothes, the salesperson kept looking at Abao who was almost naked and asked: "Don't you have any clothes at home? Do you want to buy a few more?"
I reached out to help her put on her clothes, but Bao, wearing a mask, bared his teeth and growled at her, so I quickly picked him up.
He also bought a waist stool and tied Abao around his waist, to prevent the little guy from jumping out if he was unhappy. Then he rode Zhang Hanzhu's electric bike to the area of Zaoshan.
Zaoshan used to be full of jujube trees, and it seemed that the whole town planted them uniformly. We even organized an organization to pick jujubes when we were in junior high school.
My dad was afraid that something might happen to me when I climbed the tree, so he asked my mom to follow me.
That was the first time my mother followed me everywhere, for fear that I would run around. She picked some dates and accompanied me to wash and eat them, then we chatted and asked me what I wanted to do in the future.
I was very happy at that time and said a lot to her. I can’t remember what I said, but I still remember that I was very excited. Maybe it was the first time I was so close to her.
Thinking about it now, it’s really ironic.
They followed me because they were afraid that I would cross the boundary marker.
Zaoshan is not far away. The boundary marker is on the bank of the stream at the southern foot of the mountain. It will be safer for me to use the stream as the boundary.
The last time we came to pick dates, Zhang Hanzhu and the others asked me to come to this creek to look for crabs, but my mother wouldn't let me go and dragged me along.
I saw the boundary marker by the stream. There was no one there at that time. When Abao saw the water, he wanted to go down and play, so I hugged him.
He was transformed from Fu Qian's snake egg, and it was not certain whether he could cross the boundary.
After picking a small wild flower for Abao to play with, I walked along the stream bank and found that there was no certainty about this boundary marker.
Ordinary people in the town can come in and out freely, so why can't people from the Xuanmen come in?
People from the Wentian Sect can also enter and leave freely, is it just because Mo Xiu gave them the snake-shaped card?
Just as I was thinking about it, I heard a rustling sound, as if something was crawling through the grass.
Abao turned around immediately in my arms and growled towards the other side of the stream.
When I turned around, I saw a cow running fast on the other side of the boundary marker, rushing towards the not-too-high river bank.
An old man carrying a hoe was shouting "Hey, hey" and chasing the cow at a quick pace, with an old woman following behind him.
The old woman seemed unable to catch up. She stretched out her hands and groaned. After running a few steps, she sat on the ridge of the field and gasped for breath.
It seemed to see me standing by the stream, and it bent down and waved at me: "Girl, help me hold the cow back. Don't let it eat up all the rice seedlings..."
After crossing the stream, the cow just kept eating rice seedlings by the stream and no longer ran forward.
A Bao kicked my waist with his feet and waved his hands. Even with a mask on, he was still yelling at the cow with his teeth bared.
I quickly took out the small toy I bought and gave it to him, walked to the boundary marker, then took two steps back and let the cow eat the rice seedlings.
He just said to the old couple in a deep voice: "Where is Taoist Zhang?"
The old man was wading through the stream, carrying a hoe and looking at me: "There is no Taoist priest."
He even stretched out his hand towards me and said, "Whose sister are you from? Pull me up first and bring the cow back. Others' rice seedlings have all been eaten up, and they will be scolded again."
The boundary marker is just a point, and the river bank on this side is the boundary. As soon as I reached out to pull him, he would definitely pull me down.
Po looked at his hand and his eyes immediately narrowed.
I took a step back while holding Abao in my arms. "I'll count to five. If I don't see Taoist Zhang, I'll leave immediately. If you can't get in, don't even think about me going out to die. I won't show up next time next time by this boundary marker."
Seeing me stepping back, the old man carrying the hoe narrowed his face and snorted coldly: "I thought she was a little girl who didn't know the world, but I didn't expect she was a famous person."
As he said this, he climbed up to the other side and waved to the old woman: "Bring Taoist Zhang over here."
The old woman laughed at me and said, "You are Long Ling, you are so pretty, why don't you have any hair?"
She still looked kind, but she raised her finger and whistled.
In the rice field on the opposite bank, Taoist Zhang, covered in mud, stood up straight.
He walked to the bank of the stream with stiff steps. His upper body clothes were not put on yet and were stained with mud and water. The lumps seemed to be more broken than before.
"Look." The old woman even pulled her clothes and wiped his face.
He waved his hand at me and said, "Don't worry, it's okay. He's still in his prime, and we're just using his body to raise some bees. Look, he can still walk and jump, so he's fine."
The old woman took the clothes off Taoist Zhang's face and said, "Sister Long Ling, we have no ill intentions and will not do anything to you."
"Look, I let him go over and you come over, is that okay?" The old woman seemed very kind.
He smiled at me and said, "It's useless for us to keep Taoist Zhang."
It sounded really sincere, so I hugged Bao and nodded.
But Abao turned his head to look at the cow eating straw next to him. It seemed to be eating faster and faster, without even chewing the grass, and just swallowed it with its tongue rolling up the grass.
"Look, you want to leave town too, right? We'll help you and take you to find your parents. How can a little girl like you stay at home alone without your parents and no one to take care of you?" The old woman patted Taoist Zhang on the shoulder and said, "Go back."
Taoist Zhang's eyes seemed less confused. He followed the old woman's hand, looked at me, and asked with some doubt: "Long Ling, why are you here?"
"I'm here to take you back." I looked at his blue face and suddenly felt a little sad.
Taoist Zhang nodded a little confusedly, looked at the couple, jumped off the bank and waded across the river.
When he arrived at the boundary marker, he was injured and his arms were weak. He held onto a small tree on the shore with his hands and tried to push himself up several times but failed.
"Alas..." The old woman stretched out her hand across the bank as if anxiously trying to help him, but she couldn't do anything. She could only say to me, "Why don't you give him a hand? Girl, why are you so stubborn?"
I held Abao in my arms and just stood two or three steps away from the boundary marker and watched.
The old man also shook his head, seeming to be extremely disappointed in me.
When Taoist Zhang climbed up with difficulty, his trouser legs were soaked and water splashed on his face.
He seemed exhausted, lying on the boundary marker, looking up at me: "Long Ling."
“Okay, come here.” The old woman shook her head and sighed, looking like she was no longer human: “It’s really rare to find a girl as cruel as you nowadays.”
I untied the lock that tied Abao to the waist stool and put him aside: "Be a good boy, don't run over there? Do you understand?"
Po might have been a newborn, so he was more sensitive. Even though he knew there was danger, he only made two "cooing" sounds.
Seeing me put Abao down, the old lady chuckled and said, "You can take this doll with you. I like dolls."
I took out the red rope from Qin Mipo from my backpack, then pinched a handful of incense ash and raised it up suddenly.
The incense ash flew up and flew away with the wind, and the old couple opposite immediately coughed heavily a few times.
Taoist Zhang was lying on his stomach just past the boundary marker, his eyes narrowed by the incense ash, and he lay there without moving.
I quickly took advantage of the opportunity, grabbed the red rope, and put it directly around his neck, strangling him.
Taoist Zhang kicked his legs, grabbed me with both hands, and was about to carry me into the river.
Po growled, ripped off his mask and pounced over.
In his anxiety, he moved all his limbs, leaped onto Taoist Zhang, and bared his teeth to bite him.
A Bao was very strong and knocked Taoist Zhang down with one blow.
Seeing that Abao was about to bite off his neck, I hurriedly held Taoist Zhang's head and slammed it hard against the boundary marker next to me.
Taoist Zhang just groaned and then fainted.
The incense ash on the opposite side receded, and I pulled Taoist Zhang back toward the boundary marker.
Just as they were about to load him onto the electric car, they heard a gurgling sound. Then the cow that was grazing seemed to have its stomach burst, and countless worms crawled out of its stomach.
It looked like gadflies, covering the sky and the earth as soon as they came out of the cow's stomach.
It came towards us quickly. The gadfly was huge and buzzed like an engine.
They rushed away , and the strong cow that was originally eating straw was now skinned and boneless, and was just an empty frame.
Po was so frightened that he bared his teeth and growled, but he instinctively knew that he couldn't win.
She quickly shrank back into my arms, calling softly.
I quickly grabbed a handful of incense ash and mixed it with the mixture and threw it over, but no matter how hard I waved my hands, it was useless because there were too many flies.
When the horsefly flies over, it bites into the skin, causing terribly pain.
At this time, Taoist Zhang on the electric bike had been bitten by many bull flies and was lifted up, flying slowly towards the other side of the stream.
Abao was frightened and growled and screamed, then he leaned out of my arms, lay on my shoulders, and waved his hands to prevent the flies from biting my head and face.
But just when Abao was waving his hand, I found that the cattle flies seemed to be very afraid of Abao, and the cattle flies that bit me died as soon as they fell to the ground.
