Chapter 319: Ghost in the Well, Ma Baosheng
His name is Ma Baosheng. He has lived in the village since he was a child and does not have much knowledge, but he can use his diligent hands to cultivate a piece of fertile land for his survival.
His parents died early, but he was very popular and his helpful nature made him recognized by all the villagers.
Every time he was praised by villagers and neighbors, he would smile very honestly.
But what no one knows is that behind this honest smile, there is always a kind of secret joy and satisfaction hidden.
He likes to be praised and also likes to be relied upon, which gives him a sense of accomplishment from the bottom of his heart.
Finally, after years of hard work, he successfully built a large square yard. Although he had spent all his savings, he felt it was all worth it when he saw his relatives and neighbors helping him cut red silk and set off firecrackers to celebrate.
Through the introduction of his relatives, he found a beautiful wife.
She had received two years of education, was well-educated and well-mannered, and her family was well-off in the town, so she could be considered a lady from a prominent family.
I still remember that when we first met, he was not very good at speaking, and he was very embarrassed and stammered, but he felt that his honest and down-to-earth image made the other party very satisfied.
This sense of recognition from the opposite sex made him feel extremely happy.
And she was really beautiful, and he fell in love with her at first sight.
Although his father-in-law and mother-in-law were quite rich, they still asked for a large sum of betrothal money. He scraped together money from various sources for a long time before he finally got the amount of money his father-in-law and mother-in-law asked for.
The wedding began. Under the hospitality of relatives and friends, he got drunk and staggered after seeing his relatives off before closing the door.
After all his relatives left, he fell silent as he looked at the mess in the yard.
For some reason, he always felt that there was something wrong with the eyes of several young people when they looked at him.
It seems like sarcasm, but also like pity.
This feeling made him very uncomfortable. He didn't like this attitude. His parents' early death made him very sensitive. He just wanted to be respected and recognized by others.
For this, even if he was so tired that his hands and feet ached, he would still help others dig the ground with an iron rake.
Even though his hands were shaking, he would help others cut weeds with a sickle, and even bought a hammer to help others more.
It's just that this hammer has never been of much use...
He thought about it for a long time, but didn't know what the strange look came from, so he had to return to his new house alone.
Inside the room, the woman was waiting for him.
That night, he enjoyed warmth for the first time and became a real man.
He decided to take charge of everything and take care of the family.
But when he lifted the sheets in the morning, he was struck by lightning. He found that the sheets were snow-white, without any other color.
This phenomenon made him so angry that his face turned pale and his whole body trembled. It was the first time he lost his temper.
He woke up the beautiful woman who was still sleeping and questioned her.
The woman seemed a little surprised, but seeing how angry he was, she was afraid and could only tell him the truth.
It turned out that she had lost her virginity on a stormy night, and the man who had cheated on her had secretly run away.
And I was just the choice that she had no choice but to make.
In addition, he received another piece of news that was like bad news: the woman married him while she was pregnant.
He froze, pain and regret filling his mind.
He knew why those young men were looking at him.
This made him walk out of the room in a daze.
His figure had appeared by the river and in the rice fields, but on this day, he was not working and seemed to be stupid.
Many villagers who had smiled at him yesterday were pointing fingers at him behind his back today. Although he didn't know what they were saying, he always felt that those words were secretly mocking him for marrying a slut.
This made him feel so ashamed that he felt embarrassed.
But when he returned home in the evening, he saw a hot meal on the table.
That was what the woman prepared for him, four dishes and a soup, still steaming hot.
She also poured the remaining two bottles of old wine from yesterday into the glass.
The dishes and chopsticks were neatly placed, as if they were waiting for him to come back.
The spicy taste of the old wine and the steam of the hot soup melted his cold heart.
"Let's live a good life."
After eating and drinking, the woman suddenly burst into tears, hugged him, and said these words to him in a pleading voice.
On this day, he finally accepted this shameless woman.
Yes, even so, he still left an indelible mark on her in his heart.
He hid everything in the deepest part of his heart, because he knew that if he really spoke out these things, it would completely shatter the image he had worked so hard to maintain outside.
He wanted to be good to her and turn all the truth into rumors.
Let time smooth everything out.
He expanded the yard and built a well, no longer having to share an old well with other villagers where they had to queue for a long time.
More than half a year later, his child was born.
The villagers started talking again.
But he was particularly kind to the children. He wanted to prove with his actions that what the villagers said was all false and fabricated.
These are a pair of twins, very cute. It can be seen that the man before should not be bad looking either.
Whenever he saw the two children's pretty faces, he couldn't help but feel hatred towards them.
If it weren't for that man, he wouldn't have suffered so much.
But in order to maintain everything he had worked so hard for, he still hid this hatred deep in his heart.
Yes, he has always been a contradictory person.
Life was getting better and better, and the children were growing up, but the gossip in the village never stopped.
Every sarcastic remark made him feel like a knife cutting into his chest.
He can hardly hold on any longer.
His wife seemed to have changed as well, and began to dislike him. He was just a farmer, and could not take care of such an educated intellectual.
He felt bitter in his heart, and these days were becoming more and more torturous.
Until one day, he heard the old lady Li and Cuihua's mother in the village talking about the news that his wife's first man had returned, made a lot of money, and was coming back to take her away.
Only then did he understand the reason why his wife had changed her mind.
Although this kind of life is painful, he has adapted to it. If his wife leaves him, he feels that he will become a complete clown and will never be able to hold his head up in the village again.
In his panic, he tried to please his wife and children.
But he found that not only his wife, but his children also began to look down on him, as if they did not regard him as their father at all.
He endured all of this.
That year, there was famine in the village and the fields had no harvest.
The real disaster began.
His stored food was soon eaten up, and his hungry wife and children cursed at him and tried to run away from home several times.
He had no choice but to cry and beg them not to leave, even kneeling down, and promising that he could find more food.
His wife seemed to sympathize with him as well, and finally stayed with a complicated expression.
But no one knew that this sympathy hurt him even more.
He began to wander around the village, trying to find something to eat, but all the edible things in the village had already been found by other villagers.
Eventually, he gradually gave up his dignity and went to borrow grain from the family of Li Baotian, the richest man in the village.
Li Baotian was really kind and gave him enough food for three days, which made him so grateful that he wanted to kneel down to Li Baotian.
But Li Baotian pulled him up instead and told him that everyone has difficulties and they just need to get through them.
These words gave him hope.
No one knows how many times he has experienced despair over the years.
He cried, the first time he cried in front of others.
It took him a long time to calm down.
But Li Baotian comforted and accompanied him from beginning to end, without any airs of a landlord at all.
He left and returned home happily with three days' worth of food.
But this time, he saw a scene that he would never forget even if he died.
The door was closed and two children were guarding outside. When they saw him, they shouted as if they had seen a thief.
He thought of something, pushed the two children aside, and kicked open the wooden door that had been broken at some point.
When he entered the room, he saw his wife and the man hurriedly getting dressed.
The food that Li Baotian lent him fell to the ground.
The most precious things in this famine have become worthless at this moment.
He was completely furious. The anger that had been accumulating for some time finally erupted at this moment!
He fought with the man.
But he found that his body, which had been working in the fields for many years, was no match for the man and he was knocked to the ground in a few strokes.
He knew that it was not because of the physical difference, but because he had not eaten for three days.
He also saw that the woman's panic at his sudden intrusion turned into a sneer when he fell to the ground.
This smile seemed to be frozen in his brain, completely defeating him.
With tears in his eyes, he growled and crawled to his feet, searching for a weapon.
Finally, he saw the hammer that he had used long ago to help others but had not used.
The moment he picked up the hammer, he seemed to know what it was used for.
It was as if God had arranged it in advance.
After several screams and muffled sounds.
Four figures of different sizes fell to the ground, their bodies covered in blood, their expressions filled with extreme panic and disbelief.
But in this terrifying situation, he laughed, as if he felt an unprecedented sense of relief.
He locked the door and pulled four figures into the room.
He is hungry...
When he made all traces of the four people completely disappear from this world, he cried again.
He looked at the gray sky, his heart completely enveloped by darkness. He came to the steps he had built, which had now become a dry well, and jumped down.
He wanted it all to be over.
However, he found himself waking up again.
And the four guys in the room also woke up.
He is very strong, stronger than those four guys.
In the following days, he began to torture them endlessly, and also noticed that the famine in the village had passed at some point.
The villagers seemed to have changed, as if they had become the same as him.
Another thing is that there are always outsiders coming to the village.
These people made him feel extremely desired, and they all possessed unimaginable energy.
He began to kill people, and gradually he realized why he existed.
Also addicted to the pleasure of killing.
Until one day, he saw two men and one woman walking into the yard. He had become accustomed to it, so he relaxed his vigilance and took the initiative to leave the dry well during the day.
But he discovered that one of the men was extremely sharp and discovered him directly, and his power was so terrifying that he could not imagine it.
However, he couldn't get too far away from the well and couldn't escape the man's clutches.
Fortunately, at the critical moment, the arrival of the villagers attracted the man's attention.
He successfully merged with the well and escaped the crisis.
Now that night had fallen, his strength increased again, giving him a bit of confidence again, so he slowly left the well.
Because he knew that at night, his strength increased, and even if he wanted to hide, he couldn't.
He wants to make a break.
Just as he was about to reveal his figure, he felt a darkness above his head, and the moonlight seemed to be blocked by something.
He subconsciously looked towards the wellhead and was suddenly startled and trembled.
A strange smiling face appeared there...
…
Lin Chen stared at Ma Baosheng, with an even more enthusiastic smile on his face . He actually had a muscular body, and was definitely an expert in mining. He couldn't help but waved and greeted him:
"Hello!"
