Nine apple trees

Liu Zhaodi is the owner of these nine apple trees. The tree was planted in the backyard of her hometown. Since she was born, her father planted one by himself on her birthday every year, until Zhao Di was nine years old, and nine apple trees were planted in one day.

at the age of nine, my mother killed my father, and then she went crazy. The number of apple trees also stays at nine. Since then, Zhao Di's relatives from all walks of life have constantly appeared in that old house, coveting the property in the old house under the name of taking care of Zhao Di. In the end, Zhao Di was picked up by her grandmother in the city and lived a quiet life from then on.

Only every once in a while, grandma will take Zhaodi back to the old house in the countryside, the dilapidated old house, to water the nine apple trees in the backyard. Every time grandma would cry silently under the tree, Zhao Di thought it was her grief for her crazy daughter.

Zhao Di's crazy mother was a delicate and pretty lady when she was young. When the women in the village were chatting with melon seeds, she made a pot of tea and sat at the door of the old house watching them smile. When everyone was working in the fields, she sat at the window and watched her husband leave, embroidered with sachets she made for him.

Zhao Di's mother, in the words of the villagers, is an ungrounded fairy from the city.

and it is such a woman, after having Zhaodi, all this vanished with the birth of Zhaodi. It's broken.

Since then, I haven't seen her curl her hair or dye her lips. It's as if she had fallen to the ground. People have never seen her sitting at the door drinking tea, nor have they seen her picking flowers on the mountain, but when passing by that house, they sometimes see the figure swaying through the window, a black and whining shadow.

from then on, Zhao Di's mother wore that coal-gray robe every day, cut her hair short, shut herself in the house all day, and didn't play with Zhao Di.

In Zhao Di's limited memory, her mother is a shadow, but on her birthday every year, her parents and children cook a pot of broth for Zhao Di. It was the only time every year when my mother would go out and do some work.

as for the broth, mother only allowed her to drink soup on her birthday, but she was not allowed to eat meat. This birthday soup was only drunk when Zhao Di was nine years old. After her mother went crazy, Zhao Di never celebrated her birthday again.

No one knows the reason why Zhaodi's mother killed her husband except the crazy Zhaodi's mother herself. Although Zhao Di's mother has been a ghost since she can remember, her father loves her very much. A rough man who works in the fields has to take care of all the housework at home, such as cooking and washing, but he doesn't complain, and often brings back some flowers and plants to his mother from the roadside on sunny days.

It is such a man who was laughed at by the villagers as a "wife slave" and was suddenly killed by the "ancestor wife who did nothing". It was chased from the house to the apple tree in the backyard, and then hacked to death. Meat is embedded in the soil under the body, and blood is sprayed on every tree.

everyone who witnessed the tragic scene gasped. What a great hatred it should be.

Zhao Di's mother went crazy and was locked up. Zhao Di heard that her mother was pregnant and induced labor when she was locked up. It was a boy.

since Zhao Di was a child, everyone who knew her name told her, "Your parents want a little boy, so I asked you to recruit a little brother to your home."

However, the mother did not continue to have children, and Zhaodi was the only only child in the village.

When people asked why my father didn't add more talents, my father also said with a smile, "Not yet, not yet." , and then walked away. Doesn't explain anything

After grandma died, Zhao Di sold her old house, together with the nine apple trees in the backyard.

It wasn't long before a policeman came to the door and took Zhao Di away.

The new owner wanted to renovate the old house and remove the apple trees in the backyard. As a result, bones were dug up under the trees, and a pair of white, small and thin bones were buried under each tree. One * * * nine.