Chen Jin Hua collapsed after finishing making a new quilt for her son.

No matter what Huang Dan said, Chen Jin Hua refused to go to the hospital, if forced, she would scold Huang Dan for being unfilial, saying that she couldn’t stay at home even if she wanted to. Not only that, she also refused to take the medicine, saying it was a waste of money.

Chen Jin Hua was ill, so there is no celebration of the New Year at home. On New Year’s Eve, only Huang Dan and Li Gen had a meal of braised pork. They’ve got something on their minds so no one said anything.

Every year from the first day to the fifteenth day of the lunar new year, the dragon and lion dance teams run from village to village, bringing the festiveness of the New Year, which is very lively.

Chen Jin Hua listened to the sound of gongs and drums, her body was failing, “Son, Mom knows, you have already seen it.”

Huang Dan pretended not to understand, “What?”

Chen Jin Hua held his hand, “Do you think Mom is a bad person?”

Before Huang Dan could answer Chen Jin Hua, she said, “Yes, Mom has a poisonous heart, so people like Mom doesn’t deserve to live to old age.”

Huang Dan said, “Mom, whatever it is, let’s talk about it after you recover.”

Chen Jin Hua shook her head, “Mom is afraid it will be too late.”

Her breath was weak, sometimes absent, relying on a little bit of consciousness to talk about that period of the past, all rotten. She dug it out abruptly and spread out in front of her eyes.

Although Chen Jin Hua didn’t have a very good life back then, she still had a beautiful appearance. She and Old Li were childhood sweethearts, and they fell in love very early, and they also had a relationship when they were ignorant. The friendship between the two families was very good. It was discussed that they would get married in the Spring Festival of the second year.

Unexpectedly, one evening, Chen Jin Hua ran into Wang Yue Mei and Old Li hugging by the haystack, instead of dashing forward, she ran away.

Not long after, Old Li came to Chen Jin Hua and said that he fell in love with a woman named Wang Yue Mei.

At that time, Chen Jin Hua was already pregnant. She couldn’t let the child in her belly be born without a father, so she made a choice and told Old Li about it.

Old Li was shaken, and said that he would no longer associate with Wang Yue Mei, but would marry her and live a good life with her.

Who knew that Wang Yue Mei would came to find Chen Jin Hua.

Chen Jin Hua really had nothing to say to her and was about to leave.

When Wang Yue Mei caught up from behind and fell down, she bumped into Chen Jin Hua and the child miscarried.

A woman who has not yet married, lost her maidenhood, and conceived a child is a matter of immorality. Not only will she be cast aside, but her family will also be affected. Chen Jin Hua couldn’t let the neighbors know, she could only endure the pain of losing her child, and go to work in the fields, never falling behind.

That was the most difficult time in Chen Jin Hua’s life, and it was also a grief that she would never forget.

In the second year, Old Li married Wang Yue Mei. There were so many days in a year, and any day would work, but it happened to be the day when he was supposed to marry Chen Jin Hua.

That was Wang Yue Mei’s decision, and Chen Jin Hua only found out about it later.

In the same year, Chen Jin Hua married Zhang Ma Zi, she thought, Zhang Ma Zi was very kind to her, so let’s do it.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Ma Zi’s soul also was taken away by Wang Yue Mei.

From then on, Chen Jin Hua’s life was no longer peaceful. She and Zhang Ma Zi quarrelled more and more. It was not until the birth of her son that Zhang Ma Zi returned home and put his heart on their side.

Wang Yue Mei was a decent person, she was very good at dressing up, she was arrogant and indifferent, she obviously has no flirtatious taste, but she can lead men by the nose.

The saliva in the village can drown people to death, and death of old age is nothing.

Of course, Chen Jin Hua had hand in this. She felt resentment in her heart, and whenever she found out that Wang Yue Mei was talking with a man or something, she would deliberately lure Old Li over.

Once or twice, Old Li became suspicious and want to watch over Wang Yue Mei.

But who is Wang Yue Mei? How could she be willing to be controlled by a man? She spoke with hidden needles, and the needles pierced people’s hearts.

Chen Jin Hua originally thought that the two would divorce at most, but she didn’t expect that Old Li would be driven mad to death .

However, Wang Yue Mei became a widow.

Chen Jin Hua never imagined that Wang Yue Mei, now a widow with two sons, would still have time to walk around wearing a skirt and a flower on her head.

On the day Zhang Ma Zi died, it was pouring rain.

Wang Yue Mei said she wanted to eat meat, so Zhang Ma Zi went to a small shop to buy it for her in the rain, but he slipped and fell into the river and drowned.

Wang Yue Mei told Chen Jin Hua about this in person, with guilt and self-blame on her lips, saying that she should never ask Zhang Ma Zi for help, but in her eyes she was proud and showing off.

See, isn’t your husband obsessed with me.

As for the benefits promised, Wang Yue Mei didn’t mention it, but Chen Jin Hua could easily think of it.

After Chen Jin Hua knew about that incident, she felt more resentment in her heart.

She started a plan that lasted for many years to destroy Wang Yue Mei’s family.

While raising her son, Chen Jin Hua put on a mask and tried to get closer to Wang Yue Mei.

She knew that Li Gen was Wang Yue Mei’s pride, and if she got rid of him, Wang Yue Mei would definitely be desperate, but she never had a chance to do so. One is that Li Gen was different from Li Da Gui, he is very vigilant, and the other is that Li Gen was studying and didn’t have much time to come back.

Although Li Da Gui was not liked by Wang Yue Mei, Wang Yue Mei wished that he would go far away and not come home, but he was a bully in the village who cause trouble all day long.

Chen Jin Hua’s son was repeatedly bullied by a group of older children led by Li Da Gui. He was very lively and loved to laugh, but he began to tremble with fear. Li Da Gui almost blinded her son.

Therefore, Chen Jin Hua could never let Li Da Gui go.

The appearance of Wu Cui Ling was a breakthrough.

When the child was bitten by a wild dog, Chen Jin Hua was there, and she immediately beat the wild dog away with a stick but the child was already dead. Therefore, apart from Wang Yue Mei and her son and daughter-in-law, Chen Jin Hua was the only insider.

Chen Jin Hua intentionally or unintentionally mentioned in front of Wu Cui Ling that in one’s life, there are only a few years in total, so she should be kind to herself, and she also mentioned whose family’s children are cute, and how many children had been born in whose family. She was giving Wu Cui Ling more determination to kill Li Da Gui.

When Wu Cui Ling and Zhang Ying Xiong killed Li Da Gui, Chen Jin Hua watched from the forest to make sure Li Da Gui was really dead before leaving.

When Zhang Ying Xiong pushed Wang Yue Mei down the mountain, Chen Jin Hua was there. She grabbed the branch, limped to Wang Yue Mei’s place, and threw a large handful of honeysuckle towards her.

In that accident, Wang Yue Mei’s lower body became paralyzed. She was prouder than anyone else, unable to accept her paralyzed self, afraid of being ridiculed, she wanted to commit suicide by drinking pesticide, but was discovered by Li Gen.

Don’t know how Li Gen persuaded her, but Wang Yue Mei didn’t seek for death any more. She didn’t give others a chance to see jokes and again was a decent person familiar to the villagers.

Li Gen didn’t go back to the city, and with him around, Chen Jin Hua had to be more careful not to be found out.

Wang Yue Mei wanted to hug her grandson sooner, so she arranged a marriage for Li Gen.

That woman had been with someone before, and she came to the village to look for a good friend, and the two of them were chattering constantly, and Chen Jin Hua also bumped into her, so she deliberately raise that point in front of Wang Yue Mei, but didn’t make it obvious.

Wang Yue Mei talked to the eldest daughter-in-law who had just passed the door, and she found it out as soon as she tried it. No one could bear her disgusting and critical words. The other party was scared, ashamed and embarrassed, and committed suicide by drinking pesticide.

In the two marriages, woman died. The first time was because the woman’s health was poor and her fate was unlucky. The second time was because she couldn’t think aside choosing that path. Li Gen detained the reputation of restraining his wife.

Chen Jin Hua was still worried, she must watch Wang Yue Mei die with her own eyes while she was still alive.

God’s arrangement is really wonderful.

In the past, Li Gen was away all year round. Chen Jin Hua had no chance to strike, and now she doesn’t need to do it either.

Because Li Gen has taken a fancy to her son, Wang Yue Mei is tantamount to losing her children and grandchildren.

Chen Jin Hua finally won a round and completely stepped on Wang Yue Mei’s head.

She wakes up with a smile in her dreams, Wang Yue Mei, you look down on me, said I’m ugly, only worthy of marrying a pockmark, and said that my son is worthless, but your promising eldest son with the biggest face is bent by my son for real. What a joke.

Knowing that Li Gen’s heart was on her son, Chen Jin Hua stopped, not intending to kill Wang Yue Mei.

But there are some things that can’t be really predict.

The day before death of Wang Yue Mei was the day when Chen Jin Hua and Old Li got engaged and Wang Yue Mei deliberately bring it up.

Chen Jin Hua counted not only old and new hatred, but also other things. Wang Yue Mei was the biggest obstacle between Li Gen and her son.

As long as Wang Yue Mei died, they would leave the village and go to the big city. Besides, once Wang Yue Mei died, she would receive a lot of gift money.

Li Gen would not let her family’s Dong Tian suffer. Life will definitely get better.

Chen Jin Hua’s murderous thoughts arose, and she waited for the opportunity.

On the day of the happy event in Shanghechang, when no one in the village was there, she made all preparations, stabbed Wang Yue Mei to death with scissors, and let the blood out like killing a chicken.

A person who has been doing farm work for most of his life is so strong that even a cripple can drag a corpse.

Chen Jin Hua dragged Wang Yue Mei to the chicken coop, put on her a honeysuckle that was soiled with chicken feces, and stuffed her into the stinking chicken coop.

After doing this, Chen Jin Hua went back calmly and hid the blood. She sat in the yard and cut the pepper with the pair of scissors that killed Wang Yue Mei, relying on the pungent spicy smell to cover up the bloody smell on her body and numb herself from the fact of killing someone.

Chen Jin Hua’s voice stopped, and her breathing became weaker and weaker. She looked at her son with tears and reluctance in her wrinkled eyes, “Don’t bury your mother with your father……Mom, no one……no……”

Huang Dan turned his head telepathically . The man was standing at the door, he must have just arrived, and he heard the second half, the part where Chen Jin Hua killed Wang Yue Mei.

When he turned his head again, Chen Jin Hua had already closed her eyelids, her hands were hanging down, resting on the side of the bed, dead.

It’s a actual death with no regrets.

There was still a lion dance being performed outside, the sound of gongs and drums was loud, and the children laughed and ran past the gate of the yard, beaming with happiness.

Huang Dan was sitting on the stool, and Li Gen was standing at the door. They maintained that posture, and neither of them broke the oppressive atmosphere.

A beggar knocked on the door, wanting to ask for something delicious on the first day of the new year. No one paid him any attention.

Huang Dan didn’t bother Li Gen, and when he passed Li Gen, he didn’t raise his head. He went to the village chief for advice and the village chief agreed.

When Huang Dan return, Li Gen was nowhere to seen.

He breathed a sigh of relief. He was really afraid that Li Gen would lose control and beat him, and beat him to death by mistake.

Chen Jin Hua was buried at the foot of a hill, next to a forest, and she was alone, quietly.

Zhang Ying Xiong’s parents knew that Chen Jin Hua was dead, but they didn’t gloat. She was gone, so it was meaningless to say anything or do anything.

Huang Dan feeds the chickens and ducks at home, draws in a notebook with a pencil during the day, and looks at the beams of the house with a kerosene lamp in a daze at night. Li Gen did not return all along. He reckoned that, he most likely wouldn’t meet him before leaving this world.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, the grievances of the previous generation disappeared with the passing of the previous generation, and there is no need to mix them into the future life.

This is the understanding of the Huang Dan.

He couldn’t ask Li Gen to be the same as himself.

After all, Huang Dan is just a bystander, an outsider, but Li Gen is different, he is the son of another party.

When the rapeseed blossoms bloomed, Li Gen came back.

Huang Dan was drawing in the courtyard, but before he could react, Li Gen dragged him into the house.

The points have been used up, and the one chrysanthemum flower spirit given by Mr. System is not enough at all. Huang Dan asked it to credit, and it tried its best to apply for three for Huang Dan.

The result was, still not sufficient.

The miserably pressed Huang Dan died because of pain.

Huang Dan opened his eyes, he was still in the room, alive again, “Mr. System, what’s going on?”

The system made a sound, “Mr. Huang, maybe it’s not time for you to leave.”

Huang Dan rolled his eyes and was startled by a savage in front of him. He opened his eyes wide, “Ge?”

His voice was hoarse, and he probably lay there for a few days.

System, “Five days.”

Huang Dan asked, “Then why didn’t Li Gen bury me?”

The system showed him the saved data video.

Huang Dan was silent.

The video recorded that after Huang Dan died of pain, Li Gen was stunned, helpless, angry, hugging his body, cursing, and crying bitterly, with snot and tears all over his face, embarrassed and pitiful.

In addition, Li Gen fetched water to scrub Huang Dan’s body, put on clean clothes, held him in his arms, sang to him, said a lot of words in a soft voice, and started crying again as he spoke. A kind of silent tears, not wailing.

After the video was played, Huang Dan came back to his senses. He looked at the man with an unshaven beard, sunken eye sockets, thin cheeks, and protruding cheekbones.

It was very quiet in the house. It was dusk, the wind blew the window, and the afterglow of the setting sun spilled in through the gap, swallowing up the lingering gloom.

Li Gen touched the young man with trembling hands, his hair, his eyes, nose, and mouth.

Huang Dan said, “Ge, it hurts a little when you touch it.”

Li Gen was stunned, “Ge, will do softly.”

Huang Dan grabbed a stubble of the man’s beard and exerted some strength.

Li Gen shook for a moment, as if he had just come out of a dream, he hugged the young man into his arms and strangled him tightly.

Huang Dan hurts so much, his whole body hurts, “Didn’t you say, to do gently, you tricked me.”

Li Gen’s throat choked, he was excited, surprised, and incoherent, “I’m sorry, Ge was wrong, Dong Tian, don’t leave, please, Ge really knows it’s wrong.”

Huang Dan said, “I forgive you.”

Li Gen raised his head suddenly, cautiously, “Really?”

Huang Dan said, “Um, really.”

Li Gen burst into tears. A man with a strong face and a strong body cried terribly, Huang Dan sighed, “Ge, don’t cry in the future, so ugly.”

Li Gen was stunned for a while, then wiped his face, his tearful eyes were full of happiness, “Okay, whatever you say, Ge will do whatever you want.”

Seeing the man approaching him and wanting to kiss him, Huang Dan said, “Go brush your teeth and wash your face first.”

Li Gen, “……”

Huang Dan wondered why Li Gen wasn’t curious, and didn’t ask a single question. After all, a person who had been dead for five days came back to life. This was very strange to anyone, and it was impossible to believe it.

He soon learned the reason.

Li Gen is normally sober but also crazy.

When Huang Dan went to the latrine, he followed, never leaving.

When there is nothing to do, Li Gen will stare at Huang Dan every once in a while, and even touch him. Sleeping is even more outrageous. Don’t know how many times, have to wake up in one night to be sure that Huang Dan is alive. This is already neurotic performance.

Huang Dan tried to appease, but it was useless.

The grief of losing his lover left Li Gen with great psychological trauma, so after regaining possession, he took good care of it and dared not recall the past.

Huang Dan was worried that if Li Gen had a shadow, he would not be able to do it, because he died of pain when he was doing it.

As a result, after staying in the rapeseed field all afternoon, Huang Dan knew that he was thinking too much. Li Gen is very strong man and has no problem at all.

In May, Li Gen took care of everything. When the villagers were still dreaming, he took his luggage and left with the Huang Dan, heading for the big city.

The big city is an insatiable guy who takes away people’s dreams and courage, but cruelly watches most people struggle, disappoint, give up, and suffer, and only rewards a very small number of people.

Huang Dan has been by Li Gen’s side, watching him change from working for others to working for himself, from only a few hundred deposits to an astonishing net worth.

Mobile phones, computers, TVs, cars, buildings, everything. They still have each other only.

Those individuals and those things about Shatang Village were tumbling and fell silent in the long river of memory, no need to dig them out again.

For Li Gen, the lost time made him realize that nothing is more important than a living person, and he chose to slowly forget those grievances and entanglements.

Just when Huang Dan thought he was going to grow old in this world, an accident happened.

That day was the tenth anniversary of the company, and also the tenth anniversary of Huang Dan and Li Gen’s coming to the city. They got involve in a serial car accident on their way home.

Huang Dan surprisingly suffered a little skin trauma only, which was reported by the media as an unprecedented miracle.

That’s right, it’s still because it’s not time to leave.

But Li Gen couldn’t make it because it’s his destiny to die today in a car accident.

When Huang Dan went to the ward, he saw the man on the bed covered in blood, his eyelids twitched, and he took a long time to hold the hand that the man extended to him.

Li Gen spat out blood in his mouth, “Ge…Ge made a wish on the shooting star…cough…wife…we…we will have the next life…the next life…”

His breathing stopped and his heart stopped too.

Huang Dan sighed, “A shooting star makes a wish, it’s all a lie.”

The boss had an accident, the company’s stock fell, and Huang Dan took over. He didn’t let Li Gen’s business suffer a serious blow.

Li Gen was buried in the cemetery. Huang Dan squatted in front of the tombstone, put the white chrysanthemum on it, looked at the handsome man in the photo, and said in his heart, “Mr. System, I’m the only one left.”

System said, “My condolences.”

Huang Dan stood up and walked towards the entrance of the cemetery. He suddenly stopped and looked back at the tombstone, “Goodbye, Li Gen.”

After returning, Huang Dan spent some time selecting the right child and handing over Li Gen’s business to him.

Afterall, he is a person who has to leave.

In the second half of the year after Li Gen’s death, Huang Dan woke up from a sleepless night and found himself stood in the community when an electric Mercedes-Benz toy car crashed into him, and a little boy in a suit yelled loudly in the car, “You are deaf, I tell you to get out of the way, out of the way, ah!”

Huang Dan has travelled back again. He was wearing a custom-made iron grey suit with a tie under the collar of his shirt, stiff trousers on his legs, a pair of newly bought leather shoes on his feet, and a briefcase in his hand.

It’s really a sudden trip, and a sudden return.

Huang Dan stood there for a long time, and when he came back to his senses, the little boy driving the Mercedes had disappeared.

Someone was passing by, Huang Dan avoided him, he didn’t take a few steps before the mobile phone in the briefcase rang, and the voice of an old classmate was on the other end, “Huang Dan, remember to come over for the class reunion tomorrow.”

Huang Dan said, “Okay.”

There is still voice coming from other side in ear, “Did you hear it?”

Just as Huang Dan was about to answer, a gust of wind blew by, his eyes couldn’t be opened, and his voice became strange, no longer the tone of an old classmate with a northern dialect, but rather old, like an old lady.

Repeating it naggingly, “Did you hear it? Did you hear it?”

Huang Dan was very weak, and wanted to move his body, but he couldn’t move. He tried to open a slit in his eyelids, and an old lady in a fancy dress with a wrinkled face appeared in sight.

“Ah Wang, you are the sole heir of several generations of our Song family, you can’t leave grandma alone just because of the stupid things.”

Huang Dan, “……”

At this time, a lot of information exploded in his mind.

Song Wang, the son of the Song family, was born shortly after his parents passed away due to family strife. He was brought up by his grandmother, who had high hopes for him and sent him abroad to study abroad when he was young. Only returned to town two months ago to inherit the family business.

Last night, Song Wang passed out on West Street for unknown reasons.

Huang Dan jumped out of the body’s memory, not in the mood to sort it out.

Didn’t he just time travel back? Why did he cross again? Can’t let him catch his breath? Could it be that the community is a place like a transfer station, and the people who appear in the community are here to pick him up and cross… NPC?

Huang Dan had a headache, the distance from the community to his home was only two or three roads, why is it so difficult, “Mr. System, is it still you?”

System, “It is next.”

Huang Dan asked, “Mr. System, what’s wrong with me?”

System, “Sorry, I don’t have permission, so I can’t answer.”

Huang Dan asked again, “Mr. System, how many times do I have to travel through time before I can get home?”

The system still give the same answer.

It can only send a task and nothing else.

A screen appeared in front of the Huang Dan, with the familiar typesetting, except that the word task in the upper left corner was changed to traditional Chinese, and so was the task content on the screen.

He looked dizzy and asked the system to change to Simplified.

【Guess who I am: Hehehe, I am a demon. I came to Yueshan Town some time ago and became one of them. I have already quietly eaten several people. Guess who I am. 】

Huang Dan, “……”  

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Arc 1: Countryside Love/Find the killer. Completed

Next Arc: Guess who I am ?