Chapter Forty-Seven: The Crane of Jianyang Village
I've thought about what it's like to die several times, including the one I was stabbed by Zhao Cheng. But I never thought it would be so painful to roll out of a car.
Of course, the pain is only temporary. Blood loss, or severe pain leading to neurological failure, or some other medical cause, it didn't take long for me to lose consciousness. I was amazed at how quickly I died, and I wasn't ready for heaven. Hmm, so I'll sleep a little longer......
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"I asked you to guard the road, why did you pick up a person here?"
"Ah, I thought it was a soul, but this is really a human being."
"Nonsense, is the soul so heavy?"
"yes, she's heavier than us."
"Hurry up, become normal, don't scare everyone else to death."
"Oh, good, good. So how did she come to us? ”
"How do I know that! Why do you have so many questions today! Be careful I take you back! ”
"Ah, Master, I was wrong. So what do we do next, you say? ”
"What else can I do when she wakes up? Feed! Say what about you! Whose son, you can't eat this! Pull away, pull away! ”
After a satisfying night's sleep, I thought it would be heaven when I woke up, but who knew that my fingers were being bitten by something, and the tingling and sticky feeling of saliva suddenly stimulated me to wake up. I opened my eyes in a daze, and there was a big-headed child in front of me who seemed to have grown up drinking Sanlu, staring at me with curious eyes, and was gnawing on my fingers with his mouth.
"Ah!!!h I immediately jumped up from the ground and shook the big-headed child in my hand hard, but he seemed to be stuck to my fingers, and he couldn't get down.
The pain hit me again, and I sat back on the floor in pain and began to pull the child's leg to pull him off of me.
That's when I noticed my surroundings. A large group of people dressed like villagers were holding lanterns in the middle of me, silent, staring at me sitting in the middle with curious eyes like monkeys watching a circus. The lanterns in their hands lit up the dark night, and from a distance they looked like a group of wax figures, standing motionless in front of them.
This...... Are these the angels of heaven?
I slowed down in my tugging of the children, and instead stared at them with the same blank eyes as this group of strange people. Was I so unwelcome the first time I came over?
"Please...... May I ask ...... here?" Before I finished speaking, I saw a man dressed like a peasant woman squeeze in from the crowd, grabbed the big-headed child biting my finger, and said to me with a smile on his face: "Hehe, my child is naughty, he has never seen anyone, and he wants to taste everything." ”
"Imp! Did you steal my cigarettes? See if I don't clean you up! Another gruff voice rang out from the crowd. As soon as the child and the peasant woman-like man heard this, they immediately ran away from me and got into the crowd.
The others also stirred up, whispering out of the way, and respectfully watching the owner of the voice on the other end of the road come towards me.
From afar, I heard the sound of this person pulling his slippers and rubbing them on the ground, and sure enough, the person was like his voice, and this person's hair was messy on his head, like an explosive version of Li Mobai. He was wrapped in clothes that he had picked up from nowhere, or more precisely, a cloth robe. The thin bare legs wore brown slippers on one foot, and the curtain on the other slipper had fallen and dragged aside, stained with dust on the ground. The expression on his face is even more like you owe me five million, his eyelids drooping, and he looks listless. To be honest, I really can't tell the age of this person.
The man dragged his shoes over to me, and I couldn't help but touch my nose with the strange smell coming from his body. He looked left and right at the crowd, not paying any attention to me in the middle.
"Dead imp, next time I catch you, I'll take you back!" He swore at the crowd.
The whole process was like watching a movie, as if I was not in this world at all, and everything that happened in front of me had nothing to do with me. I stared blankly at the strange man in front of me, plucked up my courage again, and asked, "Excuse me...... It's ...... heaven."
"Jianyang Village," he replied without looking back, his tone very impatient, "my territory." ”
"Then I'm still alive......" Seeing that the villagers were so afraid of this strange man, I didn't dare to ask any more.
"Nonsense! Of course you're human! He finally stopped turning his back, turned his head and spat out the words from his mouth, then scratched his hair, which looked like it had not been washed for hundreds of years, and shouted at the crowd:
"Don't look at it! It's people! I'm going home and sleeping! Stone, you wait a while, and bring her to my house. As soon as the words fell, the crowd that had been surrounded by water quickly disappeared, I rubbed my eyes, and it took them almost less than a second, so fast that they were almost not human.
All I had in front of me was a strange man and a strong-looking man. He lifted me up on his shoulders like a rice bag and followed the strange man to the end of the village.
After the crowd left, they all took the lanterns with them, and the village suddenly returned to the darkness of the middle of the night. The streets are still primitive dirt roads, uneven, and the mud and sand are scattered into the air as you walk. The houses on both sides of the road are old, and they can even be said to be old houses. Through the dark hollow of the room, the dust piled up as if no one had lived in it.
Along the way, in addition to the sound of strange men pulling shoes and my rapid breathing due to body pain, I could vaguely hear the rhythmic sound of "knock, knock, knock" similar to that of striking a bronze bell in the distance. The two didn't talk, and the quiet streets suddenly made me feel like I was home.
I followed the two men to a house in such a frightened way, but fortunately there was a lantern hanging at the door of the house, and it looked much more vibrant.
The strong man put me on the floor of one of the rooms, said Master, I am going back, and took my leave. The strange man lit the candles in the room, and the structure of the whole room slowly appeared before my eyes. This strange old-fashioned building is actually made of wood, and the ceiling is so low that it seems to hit it as soon as you look up.
I don't know what this strange man dragged me to his house in the middle of the night, but I can't run around with pain all over my body anyway, so it's up to him to decide whether to live or die.
"Master......" I shouted to him, following the example of the group just now, "why did you bring me here?" ”
As soon as I finished speaking, the man burst out laughing, grinning out with a few mottled yellow teeth, and a strong smell of smoke hit me, and I immediately frowned.
"Hahahahaha! You actually call me Master! Hahahaha! Little girl, I can't take you back! I didn't understand the joke in the words, and I looked at him blankly and smiled like a madman in front of me.
"Ho ho, hey, I'm laughing to death." Finally, the guy finished laughing, moved closer to me, stared at me carefully for a while, raised his eyebrows and said to me, "Yo, the little girl is not human, I said how can you come to my territory." ”
"What!" I was almost blown up by him, I'm not a human being, why do you scold me for not being human. However, it is not good to spread wild on other people's territory, this person is a country rogue with a high degree of ability, and he spontaneously organized an organization similar to bandits, and it is still important to save his life. "My name is Wu Chao, the editor-in-chief of Persona. Are you ......? ”
"Well, tapir, it should be tapir." He was still staring at my face, nodding thoughtfully with a pout, not listening to me in the slightest.
"What is your name? You saved me, and I thank you for the future. ”
"Oh, no, it's not all tapirs. Aha, interesting. "He still ignored me.
"Hey!" I finally couldn't take it anymore. How long is this weird man going to talk to himself?
"Oh, me, Tsuru. Hello hello, Miss Tapir. He stretched out his equally dirty, bony arm from his dirty robe and shook my hand. The moment I touched his palm, my right hand suddenly swelled and ached, and the dark red imprint that had only appeared in dreams actually appeared at this time, which couldn't help but make me break out in a cold sweat. This thing is going to devour a living being.
"Yo, glutton." Tsuru said as he rubbed his palm against my palm. I was afraid that he would be sucked in, so I hurriedly pulled my hand back. Of course, it's even stranger to be constantly touched by a strange man.
"Mr. Tsuru," I said good-naturedly, "thank you very much for taking me in, can you tell me the ins and outs of my here?" ”
Hearing me so polite, he waved his hand again and again, looked annoyed, and said, "Ah! What Mr. Tsuru, do I look so old! Crane! It's the crane! ”
"Okay, good, crane, crane ......" Look at his dirty face, although he can't tell his age, but Mr. can always be called, it's still too old, I'm really drunk.
"How did you get here, um, let me think about it......" He began to scratch his hair again, the sound of "creaking" made the scalp tingle. "Oh! My little one picked you up. ”
"Little one?" I asked.
"Ah, it's Shikigami! I'm annoyed, let me explain it. He began to talk to himself again.
"And here it is?"
"Can't you understand me, little girl? Jianyang Village! Jayo Village! It is a village between the sun and the underworld! He yelled and began to scratch his cheek again, as if he was not feeling well.
"To be honest, I didn't know how you got here at first, after all, this is the good place I found. But I can understand that you have a tapir with you, it's about the same frequency wavelength here. All right! Since you're here, you're going to listen to me! He crossed his legs, and his face was full of the pride of his master. Sometimes I think he is an old man who is nearly half a hundred years old, and sometimes I think he is just an adult, which is unpredictable.
"Go to bed early and wake up early! That's the first point, huh. Second! Well...... Second, we'll talk about it tomorrow. Let's sleep! With that, he got up and yawned for five seconds, then turned and walked down the hallway of the room.
But...... "I still have a lot of questions, big brother."
"Oh, this is my home! I've got the final say! Go to bed! ”
I watched his departing figure, and 10,000 grass and mud horses galloped away in my heart. Well, I'm tired too, just sleep. I looked around, and there was a carpet and quilt in the corner, and I don't know when it appeared there. I couldn't care so much, crawled over and lay down in it, I was so tired today.
It's a miracle to be thrown out of a car running at breakneck speed and still be alive. Tomorrow, I must find a way to contact Qin Chuyi and them, and once they find out that I am missing, they will definitely look for me. You can't think too much about things, and your brain hurts when you think about it. I sighed, closed my eyes and soothed the nerves in all corners of my body.
With a bang, the candles in the room went out at the same time. In the corridor, I remembered the high-pitched voice of the crane: "Turn off the lights!" ”
What a strange man.