I Am A Big Villain Chapter 30

The Best Brother in the World 4

Translator: Kies.h.i.+

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“This weather is really strange. It has been raining for many days. The field drained over and over again. I'm afraid that the seedlings will be damaged.”

There were no leisure activities in the small village on the mountain. On rainy days like this, many women gathered together to mend clothes and shoes, while men went to that empty room of the village council to set up tables, played mahjong or cards to kill time.

Originally the elderly in the mountain expected that this rain would last for two or three days. But it was the fifth day now. The sky was cloudy, and the air was full of water vapor. In October nearing November, the mountain had begun to turn cold. It was bone seeping cold, especially for some of the elderly with weak resistance, they had carried out their big cotton-padded jackets.

“Sī[1], you don't say. This weather was too cold quickly. It's not practical to sleep without heating the furnace at night. It's not like the coldness of the previous winter. This coldness is seeping to the bone.”

Lǎo Gēn tóu was dressed in a cotton-padded jacket and wore scarf by wrapping it around. In the past, he had worn such a dress at the very least in December. But now, even if he was so warm, he felt gloomy and cold. He even drank two home-brew sorghum liquor to warm himself up.

“Old uncle, I think your body health isn't good. You have to take advantage of these past two years to save money and buy a daughter-in-law for your son. Don't keel over without holding your grandson.”

Lin Youcai smiled and played a pair of □□, and the last two pái[2] released under the attention of everyone.

“Give me money, give me money.” He smiled.

"Hū——"[3]

A cold air went straight to his neck. Lin Youcai hurriedly looked back, but there was no one behind him. It seemed that it was just his hallucination.

“Don't mention it. I really have enough money.”

Lǎo Gēn tóu's words pull Lin Youcai's thoughts back, and he didn't think much either. Looking at Lǎo Gēn tóu's complacent face, he asked with a smile, “How? The young man who lived in your family's house has given you a lot of money, right?”

People in the village thought that Lǎo Gēn tóu was lucky. It was raining heavily these days, and it's hard to walk on the mountain roads. No one wanted to go up the mountain at this time and could see any beautiful scenery. It was easy to have an accident.

The young man in Lǎo Gēn tóu family's house came in the rain, to see the sunrise when it was sunny. He had stain Lǎo Gēn tóu family's house for five days. Besides the cost of food for every meal and bathing water, at least let Lǎo Gēn tóu earned □□ hundreds. Seeing if the weather was good, and he stayed for a while, my G.o.d, he would earn a year's harvest in the field worth.

The land in Wude Village was not much, and it was mostly barren mountain areas. Usually, it was not much for taking out money except for their own rations. They would hunt and sell some wild games with those who collected mountain products. They were unable to do anything. It was already the sky-high to earn two or three thousand a year from the field.

“Hēi hēi hēi[4], I old man very lucky, just relying on the money from that lad, I have enough to buy a daughter-in-law.” Lǎo Gen tóu smiled, didn't answer.

“Youcai, please tell Lai San for me, and leave me a big b.u.t.tock to raise. Don't let the villages down the mountain pick out all the good things.”

Lin Youcai grabbed the pái and nodded. He and his dàgē were very meticulous in this matter. The villagers didn't know, every time they bought a daughter-in-law, he and his dàgē got a share. For example, if a woman who sold 30,000, they, two brothers, could draw 3,000. This was also the reason why they, brothers, never farmed the land but lived a better life than anyone else.

“But I can't get in touch with him these past two days. I don't know if there's something wrong with the signal tower on a rainy day. I can't even make a phone call. When the rain stops, my gē and I will go down the mountain to let people have a look. You can rest a.s.sured that we'll leave you the one who can have a son.”

Lin Youcai thought that since yesterday, the phone at home was busy for some reason, and there was no signal from his mobile phone. But now it was raining very heavily that he and his dàgē didn't want to go down the mountain, so they dragged it on.

It was not that the village hadn't seen this situation before. Sometimes people at the foot of the mountain would find that they had to rush to repair the signal tower. However, it didn't matter. People in the mountain had fewer opportunities to use those things. Playing pái and drinking were more interesting to them than other things.

Lǎo Gen tóu got a satisfactory answer. The wrinkles on the corner of his eyes as deep at night.

He had been waiting for his daughter-in-law for more than 20 years, and these days were not bad. He begged for a long rainy day and earned another 12,000 from that lad so that he could have all the money for the New Year.

******

“Dàsǎo[5], has the meal been cooked yet?”

Lin Youcai spat on his hand and counted a handful of zero paper money. He had a total of more than 40 kuài[6], which he won in one afternoon.

“Cooked, I steamed a fish and cooked a pot of bone broth. Your dàgē has already drunk wine, just waiting for you?” Lin Youde's wife was five years younger than him. Because she had three daughters in a row, she couldn't lift her head in this family.

Lin Youcai's wife was very compet.i.tive and gave birth to a son. It was the only seedling of the Lin jiā. Lin Youde was kind to this dìdi, but she didn't want to ask that big nephew to help for her retirement life.

The two brothers estimated that they knew what they had done was shameful. Before Lin Youcai's son began to understand things, they sent him and his mother to study in the county. The two brothers raised money to buy a set of more than 100 flat commercial housing in the county. The living expenses were sufficient. Each month, the two brothers went to see him in the county several times to contact with each other.

As for Lin Youde's three daughters, they were not so lucky. The female dolls had little value, to be able to eat their fill of food was pretty good. They should read some books and wait to get married when they were old enough in exchange for a sum of money for a gift, but it was their contribution to this family.

It was funny to say that all the people in the village were concerned about their sons and grandchildren. Because a family couldn't afford to have too many children, some of the baby girls born became ill, and because they were unwilling to pay for treatment, they all die of illness. Some of them were just born and drowned in the back hill or the toilet.

When their son and grandson grew up to marry a wife, they found out how they couldn't even find a girl with a suitable age. They bit their teeth and spent money to buy a daughter-in-law. They came back again and again. It was a vicious circle, but no one found that they were wrong at the root.

Lin Youcai didn't have any respect for this dàsǎo. None of them had been born to their old Lin jiā. Such a woman to cook a meal to eat in return was not bad.

He hummed a little song and went into the room and lit a brazier in the room. It was warm. His brother had drunk wine. When he saw his dìdì coming, he moved inside the kàng and asked him to take off his shoes and went to the kàng.

The big bone stew was very fragrant. Lin Youcai took a nibble in his hand directly, ate a mouthful of fat, and didn't forget to drink wine.

“Lǎo Gen tóu has raised enough money. We can earn at least this amount.”

Lin Youcai made a little gesture with his fingers, and Lin Youde was pretty happy.

“Xiǎo Bao said that he wanted a lover a few days ago, just bought one for him.”

Lin Youde loved his nephew, but after listening to him, he remembered. He didn't know what it's called love, but the villagers bought two daughters-in-law, it should be enough, right?

“Hēi hēi, that kid is blessed. He has an uncle who loves him so much.” Lin Youcai smiled. It's his son who took this advantage.

“That's Xiǎo Bao's own ambition. He always takes the first place in the exams. He will go to college in the future. Our Lin jiā has a bright face, ah.”

Lin Youde drank up all the shaojiu in the bowl. Suddenly, the thunderbolt drew and rang in the room for a spell, and then the light extinguished, the room suddenly darkened.

“I guess the bulb is broken, gē. Do you have a spare bulb?” Lin Youcai put down his gla.s.s, untied his legs, and spread them under the kàng to put on his shoes.

"Ah!"

He suddenly screamed, which almost scared Lin Youde to pee.

“There is… There is something tugging at my feet…”

It was ice-cold, Lin Youcai had gooseb.u.mps all over his body. He had stiffly mentioned it to his family's dàgē. He dare not look down.

“You're in the mood for wine, aren't you?” Lin Youde took a look at his dìdì. He climbed to the kàng, pulled a candle out from the cabinet, and lit it with the match he had with him.

“It's frightening. The kàng underneath is all sealed. It's a ghost. She can get under the kàng and catch your feet, can't she?” Lin Youde didn't believe that there were ghosts in the world. He thought it was his dìdì's illusion.

“What's on your feet? Don't scare yourself.”

He went down to the kàng and looked at his dìdì's feet. They were clean, and there was nothing, ah. At this time, Lin Youcai felt the piercing cold disappeared. He thought maybe it was just his own illusion.

He took the courage to look down at his feet. There was nothing more than what should not be. He breathed a sigh of relief. He put on his shoes and going to ask his gē where the spare light bulb placed. When he looked up, he saw under the candlelight, a b.l.o.o.d.y girl with open blood empty eyes at dàgē's back, smiled at him.

"Ah ah ah ah——"

This time, Lin Youcai was really scared. The smell of urine saturated the room, his face turned pale and shrieking, and he lurched to the corner.

“Youcai, what are you doing? You make noise again, dàgē worried with you, ah.”

Lin Youcai's reaction was too abnormal. Lin Youde felt a little sullen in his heart and scolded him, but he didn't dare to look back.

What did his dìdì saw that made he would show such an expression?

One second, two seconds, three seconds……

Lin Youde swallowed his saliva, felt that his throat was dry, and he couldn't help sweating.

"Hū——"[3]

Cold air came up from his nape, and Lin Youde's heart had cooled a lot. He didn't dare to move. He stood on both his legs and cursed in his heart. This much big sound of activity, his woman and some girls were deaf and didn't come in to have a look.

His neck was itchy, like the feeling of being scratched by a fingernail. His heart jumped to his throat. Lin Youde's eyes looked downward, but there was nothing in the blind spot. He just felt that the thing seemed to poke more and more into his neck.

“Amitabha, Amitabha”

He even read aloud a few words of Buddha names in a row. He turned around fiercely and waved his fist to smashed his rear side ferociously.

Nothing. There was only a ma.s.s of air in the gloomy environment.

Lin Youde collapsed on the ground, ignoring his dìdì, who was shaking with fear and rushed outside of the door.

******

“Those people are dirty. Yinyin is a good child. You can't touch that kind of dirty blood.”

Yan Chu stayed in his room. He stood, a little girl in a white dress sat on the chair and put her hands on his hands.

It was strange, she could not touch Yan Chu's ent.i.ty, but as long as Yan Chu thought about it, he could meet her virtual body.

At this time, Yan Chu took a clean pad and patiently helped her wipe her finger one by one. Every time he finished wiping, her fingers would show beautiful white and pink. However, after a while, the black air would diffuse once again, turn into ** color, and her nails would be severely damaged and not neat.

The little girl's eyes were empty. She didn't understand the meaning of the man in front of her, but she listened to him subconsciously, revealing a grievance and guilty conscience.

“Clean it up. Look at our Yinyin, very pretty, ah.”

In front of them was a dressing mirror. On the first day of Yan Chu's coming, he cleaned the dust on the mirror carefully.

In the mirror, there was only Yan Chu's reflection, but the little girl took his hand and looked at the mirror and smiled, not knowing what she saw.

Those filthy things, ah, couldn't be touched by clean people. Their blood was too dirty and would pollute the pure white ones, so sin should be eliminated by sin.

Yan Chu's corner of the mouth was rising slightly. He and his mèimei wouldn't do it. They would go to h.e.l.l by themselves.

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[1] 嘶 [sī]: hiss; neigh; Ss! (sound of air sucked between the teeth, indicating hesitation or thinking over)

[2] 牌 [pái]: mahjong tile; playing card; game pieces

[3] 呼 [hū]: (onom.) breathe out; exhale

[4] 嘿嘿嘿 [hēi hēi hēi]: heh heh heh, indicating excitement or cheekiness; hey hey hey

[5] 大嫂 [dàsǎo]: older brother's wife; sister-in-law; elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman)

[6] 块 [kuài]: measure word for money and currency units; the colloquial term for yuan