C31 (1/2)

When Mother and I returned home from the South Pit, our eldest sister, Jin Yuxia, had already barged into the west room. What are you doing in your brother's house? Jin Yuxia said that she could not find the toilet paper, so she came to the house to see if there was any more toilet paper. I took a roll of toilet paper from the headboard and tore off the first piece and gave it to her.

Jin Yuxia said that there was no one else on the bed. Mother said she woke up when you went to work in the fields, got out of bed and went back to her parents' house, and stayed there for a few days before coming back.

We came to the East Room to look at the Second Sister Jin Yuhong. She was lying in bed, crying. Mother asked if it still hurt. She said it didn't hurt too much. Mother said it won't hurt anymore, so why are you crying. After all, she said, it was a piece of flesh that had fallen from her body.

By midnight, I was asleep. Suddenly, he was awakened by a mournful scream. Opening his eyes, he heard once again that the miserable wails came from the East Room, coming from the Second Sister Jin Yuhong. Could it be that something happened to her after taking the formula? I turned on the light, got out of bed, and walked out of the west room as fast as I could.

My mother got up and went out into the yard. The screams of the Second Sister continued. In the serenity of the night, it was exceptionally ear-piercing.

”What's going on? ”Quickly open the door!” Mother slammed on the East Room door and shouted anxiously.

Sister Jin Yuxia opened the door, saying that I do not know what happened, and was deep in sleep, when I suddenly heard Er Nizi scream, which nearly gave me a heart attack.

He entered the house and took a look. Seeing Second Sister Jin Yuhong sitting on the bed, he was only wearing a small singlet, with no clothes on his lower body. I turned my head away. She was crying and patting her stomach.

”What's wrong, Er Nizi?” cried the mother, and then: ”Put on your trousers, your brother is here!”

When she pulled them on, my mother made me turn my head.

Second Sister Jin Yuhong's tear-stained face was filled with panic as she said, ”I was sleeping soundly when something suddenly burrowed into my stomach from below!”

”Ah?!” His face was filled with disbelief as he said, ”Er Nizi, are you having a nightmare?!”

”No!” It's moving in my stomach now! What was he supposed to do, Mom? I'm so scared! Am I going to die!? ” Second Sister Jin Yuhong screamed as she slapped his stomach or the bed. She wasn't as excited as she was now.

”Don't scream! The people from the neighboring eight families heard it! Come here and let me touch your stomach! ” The mother yelled and sat on the edge of the bed.

Second Sister Jin Yuhong laid down and gave her belly to her mother.

There was no need to touch it. Because you could tell there was something wriggling inside her belly. I said don't say anything, just be quiet. Everyone held their breath. You could hear ”gulp gulp” sounds coming out from Second Sister Jin Yuhong's stomach while she was chewing.

”Mom, did you hear that? Isn't this voice quite familiar?!” ”No,” I said.

Mother said: ”Isn't this the same sound we hear when we go to the edge of the Southern Pit and die, when the living things in that hole eat? Listen to the rhythm, it's exactly the same!”

”Isn't the one that drilled out of the hole just a little person the size of a fist?!” I fought back shock.

”I thought there was a rat! Who would have thought that the little fellow had entered it! What's it doing in your sister's stomach? ” Mother was panicking.

”He likes to eat stillbirths,” I analyzed. The fetus in Er Nizi's stomach had yet to die, and had attracted it to enter. Don't worry, after it finished eating the shattered embryo in Er Nizi's stomach, it might have come out already! ”

His mother asked the Second Sister Jin Yuhong, ”Do you feel pain in your stomach now?”

”It doesn't hurt too much. It's just that there's something moving in my stomach. I feel so nervous!” The Second Sister Jin Yuhong said.

Mother said: ”Don't be afraid, there's no big deal. After eating it, it will come out by itself! We'll accompany you and take a look later! ”

Thus, the three of us did not sleep and stared blankly at Second Sister Jin Yuhong. The sound of chewing in her stomach continued for more than an hour. During this time, the thing that was moving around on its belly was very dishonest. When the chewing stopped, so did it.

”Finished! It should be finished! ” His mother stared at Second Sister's belly and whispered. She seemed very nervous.

Another ten minutes passed. The thing in Second Sister's stomach still remained motionless. Second Sister could not hold back and anxiously asked: ”What's wrong, didn't it already finish eating? Why isn't he coming out yet? ”What are you doing in my stomach?”

Mother said angrily, ”I don't think he wants to come out! He might have dozed off. You want to settle down in Er Nizi's stomach! ”

After thinking for a moment, I said, ”Shoot it out!”