Chapter 17: The Snake Child
I didn't dare to move in the dark, and after waiting for half a minute, I was about to speak, when I felt a pair of hands touch my stomach, and then hugged me tightly......
Many times people have to choose between nature and reason...... At this moment, the nature of being a normal man triumphed over reason......
I was woken up by a siren, opened my eyes, it was not dawn, Wu Jinghan was lying on my side, breathing evenly, I took a towel and covered her, and quickly put on my clothes and came outside.
Last night's rain was really not small, the river level obviously rose a lot from a distance, several police cars parked not far away, there were many people on the dam slope, there were villagers, there were also police. Examine.
Suddenly, I thought of the scene I saw in the heavy rain last night, and my heart suddenly trembled, the Yellow River embankment should be fine.
Getting closer, I first recognized Xiao Bin, who was drinking with me at noon yesterday, and then recognized Lao Wang, the village party secretary, and Director Liu of the police station.
When I saw Director Liu, I always had a sense of foreboding.
"Uncle Wang, what's wrong?"
I hurriedly walked towards Lao Wang.
When Lao Wang saw me, he hooked his hand and let me pass.
"Xiao Liu! You stayed at the dam last night and didn't notice anything out of the ordinary, did you? Director Liu just said to ask you. ”
Abnormal? I pondered for a moment, but shook my head.
Lao Wang continued: "Last night, a dozen or so women in the village disappeared, and some people saw them go out of the village, and the comrades at the police station suspected them...... They threw themselves into the river! ”
This shocked me, and the scene I saw last night came to my mind again, could it be that the woman who was missing in the village slowly walked forward on the dam in the heavy rain?
More than a dozen women disappeared, and they threw themselves into the river en masse, this is not a trivial matter, almost the entire police station that morning, all the inspectors were dispatched, plus dozens of neighbors in the village who took the initiative to help, everyone searched along the riverside carpet, and sure enough, several bodies were found in the mud by the river, and after identification, they were all missing women in the village.
One of the corpses was still me and Xiaobin and two other policemen, who found that her shirt was gone, her whole body was scratched, half of her body was stuck in the mud, her eyes were wide, and she must have been choked to death by muddy water.
What makes people feel creepy is that she died of laughter, and a slightly exaggerated smile froze on her face, making people look a little hideous. The police officer next to me told me that people will keep the expression of the moment of death, and if she dies laughing, then the smile will freeze on her face.
This is very incomprehensible, how can people die of laughter? Especially choking to death by water, the death should be miserable.
It is said that the other corpses were also in the same shape, disheveled, scarred and with exaggerated smiles on their faces.
Policewomen from the Hekou District Police Station visited several nearby villages and found that a total of 17 women were missing, of which 13 were from Hewang Village and the other four were from nearby Demin Village and Qiqing Village.
Back at noon, Wu Jinghan had already left, recalling last night's events, it seemed to be a dream, but it would be nice if there were more such dreams.
I sent her a WeChat message: Go back, right?
After less than a minute, she only replied: yes.
The city police station sent a special team to investigate the situation that afternoon, while the local police station and villagers assisted in continuing the search for the bodies of other missing women.
Worried, Lao Wang smoked cigarette after cigarette, kept sighing, and at night he actually came to the dam house with side dishes and two and a half bottles of North and a half catty.
"Xiao Liu! I'll have to spend the night with you tonight. ”
Lao Wang smiled bitterly.
"Huh? Of course no problem, you are? I asked hurriedly.
"I'm here to sentry, I'm really not at ease!"
Originally, he was worried that someone would throw himself into the river tonight, and this was the only way from the village to the Yellow River, so he wanted to stay here and take care of the last pass.
It's not easy to be a village party secretary these days, especially one like Lao Wang.
Last night's heavy rain burned the voltage device, and now the whole piece has no electricity, Lao Wang is careful, brings a pack of candles, and there is no wine glass in the dam house.
I mentioned the matter of the White Snake again, and Lao Wang smiled: "You kid is really persistent, I definitely can't sleep tonight, so I have time, so I'll talk to you well." ”
The news of the White Snake soon spread to more than a dozen nearby villages, and there was no Internet at that time, otherwise it would definitely spread all over the world. Li Si found Chen Daring and inquired in detail about the discovery of the white snake that day, and then left the village.
When he returned to the village a few days later, he brought seven or eight people with him, and the attentive villagers also found an old liberation car parked in a vacant lot outside the village, with a huge cage on it.
Most of the people at that time were simple, and it is estimated that no one thought that they would dare to catch snakes at the beginning.
Li Si and the process of catching the white snake Lao Wang also heard from a neighbor who died, they found a snake hole on the riverbed, and after leading the snake out of the hole, they first shot with a special gun, and waited until the big white snake was dizzy, and then tied it with an iron chain.
As a result, two of the strangers died on the spot on the riverbed, and two others were wounded, and no one knows whether the white snake was captured or not.
After this incident passed, Li Si disappeared for a month, Lao Wang remembered that he came back a few days ago, and the whole person lost a lot of weight, originally a babbling character, but after coming back, he became silent.
The pace of life in the countryside is slow, and when the spring flowers bloom and water comes from the Yellow River, fewer people will mention this matter.
Li Si also settled down a lot, no longer going out to work, but built a chicken shed at the back of the village and raised thousands of laying hens.
Strange things happened again. Chickens know that the most feared is bird flu, once infected, a large number of chickens will die, I don't know if Li Si is lucky, or good management, none of the chickens he raised died of illness. But just as he began to lay eggs, he would find dozens of dead chickens every morning.
How did the chickens die? He was distressed and curious, so he took two dead chickens to the county to find a veterinarian.
At first, the veterinarian also found the cause of death, and later found a small tooth mark on each of the necks of the two chickens, because it was blocked by chicken feathers, and it was not visible at all if it was not looked for carefully.
The veterinarian concluded: both chickens were bitten by snakes.
After Li Si returned home, he didn't say a word, and even disposed of all the chickens at a low price, and contracted dozens of acres of cotton land in the village with peace of mind, at this time his daughter-in-law was more than four months pregnant.
In the 80s, most of the children in the village went to the town, and some were simply at home, after all, Li Si was a person who had seen the world, so he found a farm car and sent his daughter-in-law to the county people's hospital.
It would have been a great thing to add Ding to the family, but who knew that the most terrifying thing had happened.
His daughter-in-law gave birth to a freak with a human head and a snake body, which scared the doctors and nurses into the delivery room.