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Chapter 41 Dirt Road II

This village is very remote, almost isolated from the world, surrounded by many mountains, there is no means of transportation in the village, and there is only one dirt road to leave the village. The nearest country town is very far away from here, and it takes about a day to walk. People in the village occasionally go out to buy and sell something, and go out for two or three days.

Mercury walked to the road in the village, cut pig grass on the nearby ridge, recalling the pesticide bottle I found before, thinking about how to do it.

Liu Xiangxue is a fool and has been at peace for many years. They are used to her cooking and will not be wary of her, but she has smelled the smell of pesticides and is a bit heavy. The things they usually eat are tasteless. If they really put pesticides directly inside, the taste will be very obvious. They are not stupid, so they have to use foods with a heavier taste to cover up some of the smell.

She only has one chance and must succeed once.

Mercury stood up and looked over the river. Some people in the village would catch fish and improve their lives. Occasionally one or two dead fish would float over the river. The people in the village were not so particular. Even the dead fish that was smelly would be picked up and eaten, and it could be considered a good dish.

If it is a dead fish that is a bit smelly and has a strange smell, it will be much easier to deal with. There is no need to add too much medicine at that time, and it is okay not to have a lethal dose. As long as they faint and vomit, they will not have the strength to fight back.

The mercury surface was still Liu Xiangxue's usual stupid expression. She squatted on the edge of the field, but was thinking in her heart that if she couldn't find a dead fish, she could only go to the nearby pond to catch some small fish. The small fish with the thumb was fried and then stewed in water. You don't need to remove the fishy fish, and maybe it's feasible...

"Hey, fool!"

Someone walked over on the road and shouted at her jokingly. Mercury buried her head in mowing the grass, pretending not to hear it.

The man on the road grabbed the little thorn fruit on the side of the road and hit the back of Mercury, "Idiot, hey, look here!"

Mercury still ignored him. The man probably felt bored and left again with a basket on his shoulder pole. Mercury waited until the sound of footsteps left, and then slowly relaxed the knife in his hand.

The pig grass was almost cut, and Mercury decided to go to the river to see if she could find dead fish floating on the shore. Passing by the cow pen behind a house, Mercury saw someone standing by the window of the cow pen, staring at her with her eyes.

Liu Xiangxue is not the only madman in this village, but also this woman locked in a cow pen. I just don’t know if she was sold from outside or a mad woman married from a nearby village.

In the plot in Mercury's mind, this woman is completely different from Liu Xiangxue. Liu Xiangxue became a great mother, and this woman who didn't even have a name never gave up escaping, and finally fell off the cliff and died because of her escape.

"After several children, they have to run away, and they deserve it!" This is the reaction of the villagers after the woman died. In their opinion, when a woman outside comes here, she will not run away as long as she gives birth to a child. This is a normal woman.

Those who want to run away and refuse to live a good life are abnormal women, madmen, and they are locked up.

This family has a dog, and the dog often runs around the road without tying a chain, which is tied to the woman in this cow pen.

Mercury passed by the bullpen, and the woman kept looking at her. The woman was a mute, unable to speak, and her eyes were scary when she looked at people.

[Compared with her, Liu Xiangxue's life is much better. The Liu family is good to you. You should know how to be grateful and don't do anything futile]

[Look at her final outcome, do you want to be the same as her too]

Mercury walked around the river and found nothing. She carried half a basket of pig grass back, and was indeed scolded by the old woman again. However, the fool had no idea about these things. Mercury pretended not to understand and sat under the stove and burned the fire.

When it was lunch in the afternoon, the second son of the Liu family suddenly talked about going to the town to buy things tomorrow. Mercury sat on the side and ate sweet potatoes and slapped her slightly. She didn't know that the second son of the Liu family was about to go out. If he really went out, he would have to wait three days before he came back. Could it be that she would have to wait three days before continuing her plan?

But she didn't want to wait too long, and the anger in her chest was burning her all the time.

That night, Mercury tossed and turned on the simple bed covered with straw for a long time, and a thin quilt full of smell, blackened color covered her body without any warmth.

The next morning, Liu Laoer got up early and went out early. Mercury also had to get up early, so she had to go to water manure on the vegetable fields.

The vegetable field was just around the road in the town. Mercury saw Liu Lao Er coming from afar. When she passed by her, Liu Lao Er stopped. He looked left and right, suddenly put down the kettle and the bag with grain on his back, and walked towards the mercury in the vegetable field while untiing his belt.

Liu Laoer is in his thirties now. Because his family is poor and cannot afford a second woman, he shares a wife with his brother. The Liu family is too small, and everyone can hear any movement at home clearly, so the two brothers sometimes do that kind of thing with Liu Xiangxue outside.

Just found a corner outside where no one was there, and casually venting the fire, lifting my pants and finishing it. Obviously, Liu Laoer suddenly became interested at this moment. He probably forgot that Liu Xiangxue had just given birth to a baby for less than two days, or maybe it was because he didn't care about this at all.

Mercury watched him walk towards him, and suddenly felt that this was a good opportunity. Her hand touched a sharp awl at the top. This was what the old woman used to make shoes. Mercury secretly hid it on the first day she came to this world. When she could not feel at ease with her environment, she had to carry a weapon that could protect herself with her. This was her habit.

Liu Lao Er moved quickly to pull her pants. Mercury pretended to struggle for a while. When his attention was distracted, he suddenly burst out and used all his strength to pierce the sharp awl into the man's neck. At the same time, she pressed Liu Lao Er's head tightly to prevent him from making a sound.

The man made a gurgling sound, right next to the mercury ears, and her hand pressed steadily on the back of the other person's head.

The blood stained the soil in the vegetable field red, and people slowly stopped twitching.

Mercury pulled out the awl, wiped the slippery blood from his hands, quickly cleaned up the dry food kettle on the side of the road, and dragged Liu Laoer's body to the cow pen. There was a large septic tank over there, throwing the body there, and no one would find it within a few days.

The woman in the cow pen looked at her again. Mercury ignored her and tied a stone on Liu Laoer's body and sank him into the black mud-like cesspool swamp. Seeing the body slowly sinking and finally being swallowed by the stinking septic tank, Mercury was a little regretful. If a person was still alive, it wouldn't be better to sink directly into the septic tank and drowned.

Without staying there for too long, Mercury quickly dragged the kettle of dry food to a bridge hole by the river and hid it.

She was so tired that she had no rest after giving birth. She was almost burning her life to do all this every day. Fortunately, Liu Xiangxue's body was used to working at high intensity and had enough strength to deal with the body, otherwise it would be very troublesome.

She washed her hands calmly, took off her blood-stained clothes and rubbed them clean. Mercury ate the dry food that Liu Laoer brought to replenish her energy. She has not eaten enough for the past two days and has to do a lot of things next. She is always hungry and may not have the strength.

Maybe she was really lucky. That afternoon, she actually picked up a smelly fish by the river. She was already preparing to go to the pond to catch small fish and took the fish back. She smiled like a fool, pointing to the black boy of a few years old and said, "Fish, son, eat fish."

Like a real good mother.

She started making fish as she wished, and followed her plan, meticulously doing every step.

After emptying the pesticide bottle, rinsed it with water and put the water in the gourd. The old woman came to the kitchen and took a bowl to fill her baby grandson with candy, and the mercury added the scoop of water to her in front of her.

The smell of smelly fish and the choking spicy taste of dried peppers floated in the kitchen, completely covering up the smell of medicine. Mercury also dug a spoonful of oil and put it in the pan. The old woman was so angry that she kicked her and pointed at her and cursed her. But the oil could not be retrieved. She could only murmured that it was a pity that she brought the fish to the table and advised her husband, son and grandson to eat it quickly.

The fish was served on the table, and everyone except mercury could eat it - no matter what good dish it was, Liu Xiangxue, who is the bottom of the house, was not qualified to touch it, even if the smelly fish was picked up by her.

They were very happy to eat mercury and also enjoyed eating sweet potatoes under the stove. She looked at the table over there from time to time. No one noticed anything unusual, but Boss Liu said, "This fish is not prepared well, it tastes a bit bitter", but he ate it a little.

The fish is very fragrant and has added so much oil. According to the Liu family's habits, it is absolutely impossible to waste it. Even if it tastes a bit strange, they will eat it.

During dinner, every family closed the door, and no one heard the sound of a few people in the Liu family's kitchen vomiting. Mercury put down the bowl of sweet potatoes and picked up the hatchet that had been prepared long ago next to him.

...

It was very cold in the autumn forest at night, and Mercury walked out of the house to wash her hands. Soon she took the remaining half pot of stewed fish to a family in the village.

Before they got close, the dogs in the family's yard barked, and someone in the room asked who it was.

Mercury stepped forward and placed the basin of the fish in the corner outside the door, luring the dog out to eat, and he gestured foolishly, "Borrow, borrow cotton thread."

This family had no doubts. This was the case with the villagers. They borrowed each other after losing their needles and threads. The Liu family was famous for being poor and deducted. This was not the first time they had come to borrow. They walked out with a small ball of cotton thread, and mercury carried the dog that had been spitting all over the floor and then smashed her to death into the nearby feces tank.

This is the only dog ​​in the village, and the cow pen is also from this family. The woman in the cow pen was woken up by her subtle movements, got up and walked to the window of the cow pen to look at her.

Mercury still ignored her. She returned to Liu's house, cleaned the big pot, smashed the open grain cabinet, took out rice and flour to make cakes, first carried the bowl and ate a full meal, and then put the kettle of dry food into the cloth bag containing the rice and cleaned it up.

The whole Liu family was quiet, with Mercury alone breathing, and it was quiet and terrifying at night. But she was not afraid. She slept half-dream and half-awake. When it was almost dawn, she left the Liu family with a bag and a hatchet, and locked the door.

At this time, there was still no one on the road. When I passed by the cow pen again, Mercury found the woman huddled by the window and reached out to her.

She opened her mouth in vain, as if she wanted to squeeze herself out of the narrow wooden railing.

Mercury walked forward, held her hand and asked her, "You want to leave too?"

The woman opened her mouth and cried, screaming.

Mercury pressed her mouth and said, "Don't make noise."
Chapter completed!
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