Chapter 39: Creatures of the Night
"I didn't expect you to catch fish, and you catch so many in one catch."
As the old saying goes, everyone gathers around the grilled fish, and the ghost ghost says while flipping the fish: "It's easy to catch fish."
"You think it's easy, but it's hard for me to look at!"
Sun Da said from the bottom of his heart that Sun Da watched the ghost catch fish in the stream, almost every shot, and he naturally admired the ghost ghost for a foodie like Sun Da.
"It's really simple, this is a kind of common sense in life, and you will know it when you understand it."
Everyone watched the ghost throw firewood into the fire, and they also wondered how to catch fish, and they learned that when the ghost child left, they could catch fish and eat it themselves, so they didn't have to eat salt and boiled wild vegetables.
"A very simple common sense of life"
The ghost ghost muttered to himself, and raised his voice to tell them: "Everyone should know, take a bowl of water and put a pair of chopsticks in it, the chopsticks in the bowl look broken, right?" ”
Everyone nodded, and they couldn't figure out what it had to do with catching fish, so no one spoke.
In the mountains at night, there is only the sound of the wind blowing the bamboo forest, and it is quiet, and there is no cat meow at all.
"Do you know why?"
Everyone thought about it in silence, and Li Yixin suddenly raised his hand and replied, "I know, it's the principle of perspective."
The ghost nodded and said approvingly to Li Yixin: "It's the principle of perspective."
Sun Da looked at Li Yixin unconvinced and asked, "How do you know?"
Li Yixin smiled and replied, "Sun Da, have you forgotten?" I learned to draw, the principle of perspective is the most basic thing to learn to paint, and the teacher also told us that the chopsticks feel broken when they are put in the water because of the principle of perspective. ”
Li Yixin paused, raised his head and continued to ask: "I just don't understand, what does catching fish in this river have to do with this perspective principle."
"It's the same with fish in the water, you can see where the fish is in the water, and you can basically catch it by just going a little bit to the side of the fish."
"Impossible, right??"
The golden bell interjected, and the ghost glanced at it casually.
"If you believe it, you can first take a bowl of water and put a pair of chopsticks in it, try to pick up the chopsticks from the broken place, and you can go to the water to catch fish when you are proficient, practice makes perfect."
"I think it's possible!"
Sun Da said with certainty: "I just stood at the water's edge and watched him catch fish in the water, I thought I could try, and we could open the meat."
The ghost son nodded approvingly at Sun Da and said, "Now I have taught you how to catch fish, and I caught all the fish today." You invited me to dinner this afternoon, and I'm going to treat you to grilled fish tonight. Please also help keep the leftover fish bones, and help grill the leftover raw fish, you can do without salt, I will be useful later. ”
Gu Yan was puzzled, so he leaned over to the ghost and asked, "What are you doing when the fish is cooked?"
The ghost spit out the fish bone in the palm of his hand, then placed it on the stone in front of him, pointed it, and said, "Catch the cat."
In the face of such a night, in the face of the missing female corpse in the cave, and in the face of the cat spirit that may really exist in zài, everyone's heart is afraid, including the ghost.
Night.
The cries of those unknown insects and frogs, some far away and some near, the night wind blows this bamboo forest, sometimes light and sometimes fierce.
Everyone didn't speak anymore, looking at this strange sky and earth, thinking of the missing female corpse, no one dared to sleep, they all gathered around the campfire, and the two tents next to them were silent in the night.
The ghost didn't speak, just looked at the burning flames in a daze, and sometimes looked at the place of the cave, and when he looked at it, he would think something, and he shook his head and nodded, and no one knew what was in his heart. His long hair was cold in the night, and when the night wind blew, he thought of the black, dancing ribbon.
Gu Yan and Sister Yang sat together, on the right hand side of the ghost ghost, whispering together about tomorrow's itinerary, and they secretly speculated about the ghost ghost's intentions together.
Sun Dabian and the Golden Bell sat directly across from the ghost, bowing their heads and whispering.
Yang Erwa wrapped her arms around her knees alone and buried her head in her knees, and everyone thought he was asleep alone.
He didn't sleep, in fact he didn't dare to sleep.
He paid all his attention to the changes around him, and kept listening to their whispers, but he couldn't hear anything.
On the left hand side of the ghost is Li Yixin and Zhu Wen, and Zhu Wen deliberately approached the ghost to block Li Yixin and the ghost ghost.
Within reach of the ghost's right foot were fish and fish bones, the same pile.
Sun Da felt that it was a pity to use these delicious fish to catch cats, and the ghost also taught him how to catch fish, and he also balanced his heart, otherwise he would definitely snatch the fish with his character.
The night was quiet, and everyone listened to the silent night with their ears pricked up.
This is the second time they have come to Maoling Mountain, they are still not used to the night, they have been living in the city, and now they know that the night is so frightening.
The more I waited for dawn, the more I couldn't get to dawn, everyone was waiting for dawn and yawning in fear, everyone was groggy.
As long as people get tired and sleepy after two o'clock in the night, they will lose their consciousness in a deep sleep. In the early hours of the morning, people are the most sleepy and have no resistance.
The ghost didn't sleep, he didn't dare to sleep.
Thinking of the old ghost's explanation, I was scared in my heart.
Like Yang Erwa, Zhu Wen actually didn't sleep on his stomach, although Zhu Wen was very sleepy.
Everyone was sleepy, and last night they were so scared that they didn't fall asleep, and tonight again.
Yang Erwa, who was resting her head on her knees, didn't know when she fell asleep, she just felt that there was a cold wind blowing behind her all the time, and she just didn't want to wake up.
Jin Ling, Li Yixin and Sister Yang lived in a tent, Jin Bell and Li Yixin finally couldn't hold back and fell asleep, but Sister Yang sat and fell asleep with her feet in the quilt and her forehead against the quilt.
Sun Da couldn't hold back his sleep for a long time, he ate too much, and he was the first to go to sleep.
Now, it's 1:37 a.m.
Only four people were still sitting by the fire, and there was no one to add firewood to the fire, and there was only a little bit of fire and temperature, which was about to be extinguished.
Gu Yan's left hand supported his cheek, his elbow on his knee to support the weight of his head, and he was sleepy facing the mountain inside, wanting to sleep, wanting to sleep, and his eyelids were heavy.
The ghost was still sitting in that position, and he kept looking in the direction of the cave, and he also wanted to go to see what was different in that place at night, but he didn't dare, the cave couldn't be seen at all, and the ghost was afraid that some terrible sound would suddenly appear from there.
Like Yang Erwa, Zhu Wen, who had been lying on her stomach and had not slept, didn't know when she fell asleep, making an even and subtle snoring sound.
The ghost looked at the time, it was almost two o'clock, the time was really too hard, and he really wanted to sleep. If I hold it for too long, my eyes hurt so much, it's a little hot, and there are mosquitoes flying over my face, and it's painful and itchy.
The ghost rubbed his aching eyes, rubbed his forehead, and then propped his cheeks with his elbows like the old saying. The difference is that the ghost uses his right hand, facing the cave.
The eyelids were really heavy, and the ghost couldn't hold it anymore, so he slowly closed his tired eyelids, and forgot about the scared qiē.
I don't know how long it took.
The bamboo forest in the dark made a "whoosh" sound, and then a group of large and small things came out of the bamboo forest, observed in the bamboo forest in the distance for a long time, slowly and slowly jumped over the broken bamboo and dead branches that would make a sound, and quietly came to the ghost and ghost, surrounded him.
The world is quiet, and dreams are beautiful.
It's like being in your own home.
Night, so quiet.
Who knows what happened during the night?!
Li Yixin was the first to wake up, because she heard some strange sounds in her dream, as if she was dreaming, and as if it was real.
got up, Li Yixin was awakened as soon as Yang Damei moved.
The third one who woke up was the ghost, he subconsciously stood up and stretched out his peachwood sword, but his raised eyes were stabbed by the sunlight a little painful.
Sun Da chased out, Zhu Wen and Gu Yan woke up, and Yang Erwa looked dazed.
"What's wrong, what's wrong"
Sunda ran out of the tent, shouting and running, and after a while he stopped running because he saw that it was dawn.
"Look, the bones and the grilled fish are gone!"
Onikoko held the peachwood sword in his left hand and pointed to the place where the fish bones and grilled fish were put last night, "Then what came last night?" Sister Yang looked at the ground, and there was not even a single fish bone left.
"There can't really be a cat, right?"
Yang Erwa rubbed her numb arm and came over and asked, it's dawn, and everyone is not so scared.
"Maybe it's a cat, maybe it's some other wild animal, and as far as I know, it's a cat that likes fish."
The ghost ghost looked around, holding the peach wood sword in her left hand and instinctively walked to the left, Li Yixin saw that the ghost ghost was gone, she walked to Gu Yan's side and whispered: "Brother Gu Yan, I heard a strange voice last night, and it came from over there."
Li Yixin pointed to the right, which was the direction of the bamboo forest. When the ghost heard this, he also knew that Li Yixin deliberately said it to him, so the ghost man stopped, turned around, came to Gu Yan and Li Yixin, and asked uncertainly, "Is it really over there?"
The ghost ghost also pointed in the direction that Li Yixin had pointed to, Li Yixin nodded affirmatively, and the ghost ghost suddenly smiled, stroked his long hair and said, "Sure enough, it's right what I expected."
Everyone doesn't understand, isn't there something wrong with this ghost? Or was your head caught in the door, or kicked by a donkey? Why did he go in a direction where there were no fish-eating animals at all, knowing that the sound was coming from the bamboo forest?
Seeing everyone's doubts, the ghost naturally smiled happily, looked at everyone, and said, "I know all your doubts, but why I want to go to the cave you will know tonight."
The ghost ghost also proudly sold Guanzi, and he didn't care what Gu Yan was thinking, he just beckoned and shouted at Sun Da: "Fatty, we are all left-handed, let's go, let's catch fish again, I'll teach you how to catch it."
Sun Da was also puzzled, but when he heard that the ghost was going to catch fish and teach him, he didn't think about it so much, and followed the ghost to the right side of the cliff.
Everyone watched as the ghost ghost took Sun Da away and disappeared on the edge of the bamboo forest.
Zhu Wen walked to Gu Yan and Li Yixin's side, and everyone also gathered around, Zhu Wen asked, "Is there anything under that cliff?"
Hearing Zhu Wen's question, everyone looked up at the cave covered by the bamboo forest, and Gu Yan shook his head and said, "I don't know, but it feels weird, as if this ghost really guesses our hearts."
"I don't think he's a bad guy." Li Yixin said.
"How do you know?"
"Feeling."
After Li Yixin answered Zhu Wen's question, he pulled Yang Damei away, as if he had something to say to Yang Damei.
Everyone went to look for firewood, and Jin Ling and Yang Erwa came back with some wild vegetables that seemed to be edible nearby, waiting for Sun Da to come back and identify them.
About half an hour later, Sun Da and the ghost came back, the ghost walked in front, and Sun Da followed behind and tied the caught fish with some tender tree bark, and happily came to the ancient sayings.
"We're going to go to sleep after eating, and tonight we're going to catch the cat. Gu Yan and I still have lines to sleep, and you all keep it. And who else is that? Oh - Li Yixin, pay attention to what voice you listen to, you call me if you have something. I also have to trouble everyone to help grill the fish, and don't put salt, salt is too precious here. It's a waste to feed those brutes."
The well-fed ghost really fell asleep.
"Is there really a cat in the bamboo forest?"
Everyone was puzzled.
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