Chapter 1

I was born a child who can't cry. According to the folk saying, children who can't cry are not adults and grow up.

The night I was born, it was stormy and thunderous.

Although grandpa was a doctor, he avoided the embarrassment of delivering his daughter-in-law and found an experienced midwife in his village. It is said that when I was born, I was like a big mouse. I was very thin. The midwife mentioned that no matter how I patted on the soles of my feet, I was silent, let alone shed tears.

"The child is his father. The baby can't cry. It's the first time I've met." The midwife ran to the outer room and told Grandpa.

Grandpa was smoking cigarette rolls without mouth and frowning silently. He knew better than anyone about the folklore. What's more, he is not a doctor in the real sense. According to the old generation, he is called "witch doctor". What's my situation? His heart is like a mirror.

My father was still a "big boy" at that time. He was only happy when he heard that he had added a son. He didn't care that I didn't cry. Grandma knew these things. She cried and said to my grandpa, old man, you have saved people all your life. You have to save your grandson this time. Grandpa looked very upset. He threw his cigarette butt on the ground and stamped it out. He was going back to his house.

Then suddenly a woman ran to our house and called, "Uncle Liangzi, my sister is very uncomfortable. Go and have a look."

This is widow Wu's sister. After less than a year of marriage, widow Wu's husband died. After two years of widowhood, she suddenly became pregnant. All the people in the mountain village were old feudal, stabbing her back and scolding her for not abiding by women's morality. But grandpa is kind-hearted. No matter who is ill, he won't refuse.

Grandpa hurried to the inner room, took the medicine box and went out with widow Wu's sister. My grandmother knows about widow Wu. She's only been pregnant for more than five months. It's not time to give birth. It's estimated that she's had fetal Qi or something. Grandpa will be back soon. She was afraid that my mother would hear another good or bad about her child, so she didn't say anything and wrapped a red envelope to the midwife to let her go home.

I didn't expect grandpa to come back five hours later. It's already three o'clock in the morning. When the old man came back, he lost his soul and said nothing. Before he had dinner, grandma quickly brought a plate of boiled soybeans and a large bowl of stick batter. Grandpa likes to eat and drink. At present, grandma doesn't bring him wine because it's late.

Unexpectedly, Grandpa sighed and said, "let me have a drink. I'm afraid I can't drink it again in the future."

Grandma was surprised at this and hurriedly asked, "what's the matter?" Then he weighed the wine bottle.

Grandpa sighed again and said, "widow Wu is dead!"

"You killed people?"

Grandpa poured the wine and said it again. Widow Wu was pregnant with a freak. Grandpa knew it very well. It didn't look like it was conceived by a man. And this freak can't be killed. Maybe it's one corpse and two lives. But just after I went there, I heard widow Wu's sister say that she bought some fetal medicine when she came back from going to the city yesterday. As a result, her sister began to have a stomachache in the middle of the night.

This pulse changed the color on Grandpa's face. No, he couldn't keep the tire. But it concerns one corpse and two lives. Grandpa hurriedly asked widow Wu's sister to find some chicken blood and dog hair. It was only later that I realized that the witch doctor was actually a branch of Zhu Youke, who saved people and treated diseases. He never used western medicine tablets and rarely used herbs. What strange things such as mouse tail, chicken crown blood, bastard's eyes and so on, combined with the harmony of Rune ash, drink it and get rid of the disease.

Widow Wu had a chicken and dog at home and immediately brought the things. Grandpa burned the dog hair into ash and mixed water with chicken blood and Fuhui to let widow Wu drink. However, he persisted for several hours and finally failed to keep the fetus. But what was terrible was that the freak hollowed out widow Wu's whole body. Finally, there was only one skin wrapped in a skeleton, and she died miserably. After the fetus emptied its internal organs, it suddenly broke through its belly and flew out. It was a blackbird like a crow, but its small face was a human face. In a flash, it broke the window and disappeared into the stormy night.

Grandpa knew that a great disaster was coming. This freak would not let him go, and it would harm three generations. Not only will he not live until dawn, but his children and grandchildren will also suffer from the fish pond.

Grandma was stunned when she heard this. In addition, her grandson was not born to cry. The old lady couldn't turn around at one breath and fainted. When she woke up, she found that it was dawn and the rain had stopped. Grandpa was hanged on the big elm in the yard. But I was put in the bathtub. I didn't know what potion to soak, and the house was filled with strange fragrance.

Grandpa went like this. According to grandma, he left a suicide note before his death to burn all his medical guys and medical classics in front of the grave. Maybe they don't want future generations to inherit this witch doctor, or they may hide some hidden secrets.

In the 1990s, the world outside the mountain was very prosperous, and the life in the mountain village was still very poor. After grandpa died, he lost his source of income, so my father went out to work as a worker in a nearby mine. When I was five years old, I was killed when an earth gun collapsed. My father was the only one who died in that accident. Grandma said, this is a disaster that can't be avoided. But she didn't shed a tear, and the pain in her heart was bigger than anyone else.

Later, my mother went to work outside the mountain. I heard that she had a good relationship with a foreman. They eloped. I was only six years old. For a while, there was a lot of discussion in the village, saying that I was not born to cry. I was a bad star. I killed my grandfather the night I was born. Later, I killed my father. A good home ruined me.

The villagers don't let their children play with me to avoid bad luck. Although I was only six years old at that time, I knew everything. My father died and my mother didn't want me. Although my grandmother regarded me as the apple of her eye and said something bad. I was afraid of falling in the palm of my hand and melting in my mouth, I was discriminated against by others. I was often bullied and abused by those children when I went out. My young heart felt very, very lonely.

That summer, it was another windy and rainy weather. I'm always bullied by those little bastards and don't dare to go out. Now they don't come out. It's time for me to go out and play. At that time, I was too young to tell my grandmother. I took a fertilizer bag and ran out. I didn't dare to play in the village, so I ran up the back mountain.

We are located in the aftervein of Taihang. There is not much vegetation on the mountain. Most of them are bare mountains. Only there are thick woods on the hillside behind the village. He ran to the woods and took a few breaths, then opened his voice and shouted loudly to vent his long suffocation in his heart. Anyway, the wind and rain are heavy, and the villagers won't hear it.

After my father's death, my mother's elopement surged into my heart. I couldn't help crying, but I lost my voice and didn't shed a tear. A six-year-old child, lonely and thin, like a weak grass in the miserable wind and rain, looks extremely lonely and infinitely small!

I don't know how long I howled. Suddenly I heard a "chirp" sound, like the sound of birds and pheasants. It was a child. Hearing the sound, I looked up curiously. For a moment, I was scared to pee. It's been nearly 20 years since that terrible picture at that time, and I still remember it vividly.