Chapter 38: The Cat Demon (4)
Although the village chief is old, his steps are not slow, and as we go back to the village, the village chief also leads me into his home!
I had some doubts in my mind, but I was not in a hurry to ask at this time.
I saw the village chief look at me and shout to the room, "Dan'er, grandpa is back." ”
"Grandpa..."
After a while, a child who walked crookedly ran out of the room, and when the child saw who was coming, he threw himself into his grandfather's arms and cried out happily.
"Good boy."
The village chief caressed the child's head with a loving face, pointed at me and said, "This is a friend of my grandfather, call him uncle." ”
"Hello uncle." The kid yelled at me.
I hurriedly responded, but when I saw the child's appearance clearly, my eyes were full of astonishment for a moment!
I saw that this was a little boy about ten years old, his left ear was missing, and a pair of eyes were looking at me and the other was facing the other direction, and at this moment he was standing crookedly in front of me, although he was smiling, but in my eyes it was indescribably weird!
I looked at the village chief in amazement, not understanding his intentions!
The village chief looked at Dan'er lovingly and asked him to go back to the room first, and when Dan'er returned to his room, the village chief motioned for me to sit down and said.
"Didn't you say that there is still a ghost in the coffin, you also saw the appearance of my grandson, in fact, everything that happened in the village was because of that little ghost."
The village chief's words were very sudden, I was stunned for a moment, and asked: "Are you saying that the appearance of the egg and the matter of Grandma Gao have something to do with that little ghost, but what is the purpose of the existence of that cat demon?" ”
"Because I raised this cat!" The village chief spoke amazingly!
I was shocked: "Isn't it forbidden to keep cats in Tiankengzi Village?" ”
"Well, that's my own rule, and after all, it's all my fault!"
I saw that the village chief looked lonely, and he couldn't look back and talk about the cause of the incident!
It all started eight years ago, when Dan'er was born at the age of two!
On that day, in order to choose a birthday gift for his beloved egg, the village chief came to the town alone, and it was on that day that he met a foreign businessman.
It was a man dressed in a long robe, with a pair of inky glasses, and a leisurely expression, like an old storyteller.
The man is holding a dozen puppets with strings, just like the puppets in the early shadow puppetry, with the shaking of the man's steps, the puppets dance their limbs, vividly, as if they have a life to dance, amazing, breathtaking!
Just as the man passed by the village chief, the village chief stopped him, imagining Dan'er's happy expression when he saw the puppet, and the village chief was moved, and he decided to give Dan'er a puppet as a birthday gift.
And it is because of this decision that the village chief has regretted it for life!
That day, Dan'er was very happy to see the puppet, and he slept with the puppet in his arms every night, and the days went on like this for a month, and finally it happened.
One quiet night, the village chief was awakened by the sound of Dan'er's crying, and when he came to Dan'er's room, he saw a hideous little ghost lying on Dan'er's shoulder and biting Dan'er!
This scene frightened the village chief, and he didn't care about anything else, the village chief stepped forward and waved the little ghost desperately, but the little ghost seemed to be like a shadow in the moonlight, with every swing of the village chief, his arm was directly through the body of the little ghost, and the village chief panicked.
Dan'er cried even more, blood flowed down his ears, the village was in a hurry, he didn't know what to do, he could only pull Dan'er's body in the hope of distancing himself from the little ghost.
However, in the middle of this pull, the puppet fell down the hand of the egg and fell to the ground, which inadvertently, the village chief saw the puppet's mouth full of blood, and he instantly understood that the little ghost was this puppet, and in anger, the village chief stepped on the puppet!
The little ghost disappeared and disappeared in front of the village chief's eyes, and the egg was also unconscious because of fright and pain, and the village chief was grief-stricken, holding the missing ear and crying.
It wasn't until this time that he realized what kind of marionette it was, it was clearly a puppet, a puppet for raising ghosts!
The village chief buried the puppet and buried it on the mountain, and the matter seemed to have been resolved, but seeing that more than ten days had passed, Dan'er had been suffering from a high fever and convulsions, and the village chief was afraid.
Originally, he just wanted to please his grandson's grandfather, but now he has become the person who harmed his grandson, the village chief began to blame himself and remorse, he tried his best to invite a doctor or a Taoist priest to seek medical treatment, in the next few days and nights, the village chief looked at the increasingly haggard and motionless egg, he was heartbroken!
Just when the village chief was desperate, he saw the man carrying the puppet, but this time the man was not talking about the puppet, but a kitten cub who had just been born.
The village stood in front of the man in grief and asked him why he had given him a puppet to harm his grandson!
The man calmly said that the puppet was for you, he didn't say that he would sell it, and no one forced you to buy it, and the village chief gave it to him if he wanted it.
When the village chief heard this, he couldn't help beating his chest and feet, regretting it, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing frequently, just begging the man to save his grandson's life.
The man was silent for a while, and when he saw the blood on the village chief's forehead staining the ground, he threw the cat cub in his hand in front of the village chief and told him that the cat's blood could save his grandson.
With just one sentence, the man turned around and left without looking back!
Seeing the man leaving, the village chief half-believed it, but he really had no choice, because the doctor also said that if Dan'er didn't wake up again, he was afraid that he would never wake up again.
Thinking of this, the village chief had a heart in his heart, and he could only try it according to the method the man said!
The village chief still kept an eye on it, he tied the cat cub with a rope in the egg room, and used a knife to take some blood from it, and fed it to the egg little by little, the strange thing is that the egg did not resist the thick and smelly blood, and the village chief swallowed as many eggs as he fed.
The village chief was a little scared, he didn't know whether Dan'er's reaction was good or bad, and he was worried that the man would lie to him, so the village chief decided to observe Dan'er for a night to see if Dan'er would get better.
The village chief kept the egg all night, and when he woke up in a daze the next day, he saw the egg looking at him blankly, for a while, the village chief's face was instantly happy, he kept calling the name of the egg, but saw that the egg was unmoved, just looked at the village chief with his eyes open, as if he had lost his soul!
The village chief burst into tears, shaking Dan'er's body constantly, hoping that Dan'er would come to his senses.
Suddenly, I heard a cat's meow from inside the house, but when I saw that the egg was like a person who had fallen into a fixed place, he threw himself into the arms of the village chief and cried loudly!
The village chief wept with joy, and in retrospect, he thought it was the cat that had called Dan'er's soul back.
After waiting for Dan'er to calm down, the village chief also began to ask Dan'er what happened that night?
It's just that Dan'er was only two years old at that time, and he couldn't speak all when he just learned to walk, let alone understand what his grandfather meant.
In this way, the village chief can guess what happened that night, because a few days later, he found a cut on Dan'er's finger.
Because Dan'er likes to put his fingers into the mouth of holding others since he was a child, thinking that the puppet fell to the ground that night, with his mouth full of blood, the village chief guessed that Dan'er's finger must have cut the hole in the puppet's mouth, and the blood released the little ghost in the puppet!