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Chapter 11 A marriage with ulterior motives (2)
That day, this joke-like command made the subordinates' footprints spread all over the town.
A few days later, at least half of the townspeople curiously joined the search for red dragonflies. When they saw red dragonflies, they killed them mercilessly, regardless of their color and species.
Gradually, the killing team is getting bigger and bigger. Everyone thinks this is my grandfather's instruction, and it is natural to spare no effort to carry it out. As for the reason for killing dragonflies, no one knows, and no one wants to know.
The town went crazy for a whole month and killed countless dragonflies. Some people make dragonflies into beautiful specimens, or put them together to make unique paintings, or eat them as a strange food. Some people even began to exchange dragonflies as coins for small items such as candy, matches and needlework.
Grandpa seems to know nothing about these things. He almost never leaves home and shuts himself and Donna in the cabin. Illness and love made him more and more indifferent to the world outside the hut.
For him, closing the window, the cabin is the condensation of the whole world, just as Donna opened her eyes and became the center of his life.
One morning, he accidentally saw the strange face in the mirror and was really taken aback.
ever since ...