Volume 2: Entering the Ghost Feast Verse 48: The Wolf Child
In the east of the museum, the Liuquan community that is only two streets away from the museum, in recent days, you can always hear a sound similar to a wolf howling in the middle of the night, and the wolf howl for several days has caused panic among the residents of the community, some people say that there may be a wild wolf breaking in, but they don't know where to hide, some people say that it is the prank of whose child, and some people say that it may be because of the bankruptcy of stock speculation some time ago and the suicide of Xu Datou who jumped off the building to commit suicide is not gone, and there are different opinions, but no one can find the root cause.
On the eleventh floor of Building 7 in the community, in broad daylight, the room was still covered with curtains and chandeliers, a man and a woman sat on the bed, the woman put her arm around the man's shoulder, buried her head in the man's arms, and whispered to the man: "I can't stand it anymore!" ”
"Wife, hold on a little longer." The man comforted him weakly and hugged the woman tighter into his arms.
"Husband, when do you say Xiao Han will be well, it's been nearly half a month, since Xiao Han attended his grandfather's funeral, he came back and looked like a demon, he grabbed and bit when he saw someone, just like the kind of wolf child on TV, wasn't the piece of meat in your hand bitten off by him, why did you say our son became like this?" The woman spoke.
"The doctor said that it may be some kind of mental illness, or some kind of special encephalitis, we have also done a brain CT scan for Xiao Han before, and we did not find anything abnormal in a short time, saying that we need to ask a more advanced expert for consultation, let's wait for the diagnosis first." The man informed his wife of the hospital's reply.
"I have found several experts one after another, all said that they can't find the reason, I think modern medical technology can't save Xiao Han at all, I asked relatives and friends for help, and told them about Xiao Han's situation, the third aunt's sister Ying said that she had heard of similar things, saying that Xiao Han may have hit an evil spirit, she gave me a company phone, saying that it was specifically to deal with this matter." The woman lifted her head from the man's chest and said to the man.
"What era is it now, it's still so feudal and superstitious, you have to believe in science, Xiao Han should have some kind of disease, and he will find a solution." After listening to the woman's words, the man persuaded bitterly.
"I know you don't believe this, I have secretly called that company a few days ago, and they charge a hundred hundred, saying that they can pay after solving the problem, I think whether they are in charge or not, they will try it first, and there will be no loss anyway." The woman looked at the man with tears in her eyes and explained.
"Why don't you discuss it with me, didn't they make any special requests?" The man was somewhat angry when he heard that the woman had secretly called.
"No, they just asked me to provide the address, saying that they were not sure about the processing time, and that I could just go about my life as usual." The woman replied.
The man wondered if there was anything wrong with this, except for the provision of the address, there were some hidden safety hazards, and the rest of the conditions did not have an adverse impact on their home, and he was suspicious of the ideological struggle, and finally sighed and said: "Hey, forget it, Xiao Han is like this, there are many ways and multiple roads, and if this kind of thing occurs in the future, you must discuss it with me in advance, do you know?" ”
The woman didn't reply, and slipped into the man's arms again, staring blankly ahead, as if she was already thinking about the worst.
Ding-dong, ding-dong.
Just when the men and women shrunk together, the doorbell rang suddenly, obviously someone rang the doorbell outside the door, but since the son Xiaohan became the same as a wolf child half a month ago, no one has ever rang the doorbell at home, everyone is afraid of Xiao Han's crazy appearance like a beast, worried about whether Xiao Han has any special infectious disease, for fear that this infectious disease will spread to himself, even the care and greetings between relatives and friends are conveyed through mobile phone messages, some ask about the condition, some guess whether Xiao Han has rabies, Xiao Han's family seemed to be isolated from the world.
"Who?" The man heard the doorbell ringing and asked suspiciously.
"I'm here to see Ling Lang." The voice outside replied.
The man and the woman thought that some hospital specialist was coming, and quickly got up and went to the living room, the man stepped forward and opened the door, and the woman quickly wiped her tears and followed behind the man.
"Hello, is this Ms. Zhang Qiaoyun's home?" Seeing someone open the door, the person outside the door asked.
The man looked back at the woman behind him in confusion, and the woman followed, nodded and said, "I am." ”
"Hello, just call me Xiao Zhang, I came here after receiving the order you placed in our company, the information you described before is quite detailed, but I still have to meet Ling Lang to accurately judge his condition, and I hope Ms. Zhang can show the way." The outsider was Zhang Su, who had just arrived from the museum, and pleaded to the lady in the room.
"Okay, you don't have to change your shoes, just come in with me, my son is in his auxiliary bedroom, we have tied his limbs with ropes, and he is now lying on the bed." The lady rubbed her nose and replied softly, walking quickly towards a recumbent person.
Zhang Su nodded, and his figure followed.
The man closed the door behind Zhang Su, didn't say anything, followed behind Zhang Su, looked around at Zhang Su's back, and felt that Zhang Su was like an ordinary young man, not like he had any special abilities at all, and he was not optimistic about handing over his son's problems to people like Zhang Su.
"That's it." Coming to the side door, the woman said.
The woman gently opened the door, carefully opened the chandelier in the room, and what greeted Zhang Wei's eyes was a mess, torn books, papers, smashed cups, toys, boxes and chairs that had been turned on the ground, as well as the scratches and deeply dented tooth marks on the desk and the headboard, all of which showed what kind of scene had happened in this room.
Zhang Su glanced at the bed, lying on the bed was a seven or eight-year-old child who kept struggling, his limbs were firmly tied to the frame of the children's bed with ropes, and a towel was stuffed in his mouth, so that he could not speak or chew on things, but he could still hear the whimpering sound from the depths of his throat, and the most frightening thing was that the eyes, full of bloodshots, looked directly at the male owner of the family behind Zhang Su, as if he had some deep hatred.
"Xiao Zhang, no, Master Zhang, what do you think is wrong with my Xiao Han, why did he become like this?" The woman asked earnestly towards Zhang.
Zhang Su turned on the yin and yang and looked at the child in front of him, and at the same time his soul heard an old voice roaring: "Unfilial son, inhuman thing, I gave birth to you is giving birth to a mongrel, expecting you to give me a pension, you didn't go home to see me for decades, and you didn't give me a pension, causing me to die of poverty on the street, and you pretended to be a good person to send me to the end, I won't be happy and I won't let you have a good time!" ”
"It's not necessary, but I want to ask you two more questions, I don't know if it's okay?" Zhang Su didn't look back and asked calmly.
"Master, please speak." Zhang Qiaoyun was the first to answer.
"I wonder if there is any contradiction between this gentleman and your biological father?" Zhang Su turned his head to look at the man and asked.
The man looked at Zhang Su in surprise, obviously Zhang Su's words seemed to have brought some shock to the man, a sentence pricked a sensitive nerve in the man's heart, the man was silent for a moment, entangled in whether to tell the young man in front of him his secret, but when he saw the young man in front of him staring at him, he felt that his secret seemed to have been seen through by the young man in front of him, and breathed a sigh of relief, and talked about the relationship between him and his biological father.
When the man's name was Wang Sa, he was born in the countryside forty years ago, and his family was poor at that time, and then he caught up with a natural disaster and caused a famine, and his mother starved to death in the famine, and when he was less than a year old, he was taken to the city by his father and sold to a family that could still make ends meet, and his father got a few rations from that family and survived that difficult period.
At that time, he was still young, he didn't know this, and when he grew up, he learned about his life experience from his adoptive parents, and when he was a teenager, he secretly went to find relatives, and after inquiring all the way, he also secretly met with his biological father, but he did not identify himself, just said that he was a student, and the school had an investigation activity, and wanted to investigate the hardships of the natural disaster a few years ago, in order to remember the bittersweet memories.
When his biological father mentioned the situation of "holding the last ration in his arms and watching his wife starve to death", Wang Satie felt disgusted with the biological father in front of him from the bottom of his heart, and when his biological father mentioned that "if he hadn't sold his son for food at that time, he might have eaten his own son", Wang Satie completely collapsed, and he didn't listen to the drunk biological father to continue, Instead, he ran away angrily, took the car back to the county seat, and returned to the adoptive parents' house who took care of him in every way.
His biological father didn't know where he got the news of him, and knew that the young man who came to do the investigation was a child who he had abandoned for many years, and he had gone to the county town to harass him many times.
The adoptive parents knew that this kind of scoundrel could not even do anything about the law, so they used their family savings to buy a house in this Qicheng, sold the original house at a low price to a relative who was involved in the underworld back then, and disappeared in the original county seat.
His biological father originally wanted to continue to track the whereabouts of their family, but he got into trouble with the underworld relative who bought his house, his leg was directly discounted, and he could only limp back to his hometown again, and the east family borrowed the west family to barely survive, and later married a stupid daughter-in-law in the village, and lived for more than 20 years.
Wang Fengshi's father was found after more than ten days of death, and the village party secretary did not know where to find Wang Fengshi's information, and contacted Wang Fengshi, hoping that Wang Fengshi would give his biological father a funeral and burial, because according to the customs and habits of their village, the father and son can be buried in order to be reinvented, which is the so-called linen to the end and into the ground.
At this time, Wang was in his forties, married, that is, with the current Zhang Qiaoyun, belonging to the older marriage, the child was just seven years old, he thought about it for a few days, and finally decided to agree to the suggestion of the village party secretary, he also wanted to take this opportunity to let his children living in the city go back to the countryside to see where he was born, the family of three returned to the village, cremation, cemetery has been entrusted to the village party secretary to find someone to help, he only needs to be responsible for burying the coffin when he goes back, so he stayed in his hometown for a day, As a result, who would have thought that their children would encounter this kind of problem.
Although he did not believe in gods and ghosts, he also thought about it, and also suspected that his frail and sick child might be stained with something unclean, but he tried not to think so, because it was contrary to his understanding of science.
"That's pretty much it, I'm not afraid of your jokes when I say it, I don't have any feelings for my biological father, I just have a disgust for his selfishness and scoundrel, when I heard the news of his death, my first reaction was to rejoice and be relieved, glad that he would not harm anyone else, many people in the village where he lived were robbed or stolen or harassed by him; I was relieved because I knew that my greatest anxiety had landed, and I had been afraid that he would come back to harass my current life, and that his death would not happen again. Wang said with a wry smile.
Zhang Su looked at the man's eyes, the man's feelings were not like fakes, Zhang Su nodded to show understanding and sympathy.
"This little brother, no, it's Master Zhang, do you mean that my son's situation is really related to my biological father?" Wang asked when he was full.
"No, just ask, you go out and close the door now, don't come in if you hear any movement, and the matter will be settled when I open the door." Zhang Su said with a serious expression.
Wang Fengshi and Zhang Qiaoyun glanced at each other, then nodded and exited the room, closing the door gently.
"Intermediate ghast possession, although it is not difficult to deal with, but it is really troublesome, you and my soul met just now, if it weren't for the situation of possession that is not easy to solve by soul alone, I wouldn't have bothered to knock on the door of this family at all, do you come out by yourself or will I beat you out?" You're a sea leader! Seeing that the owner of the house had escaped, Zhang Su pouted unhappily.
"If I give birth to him, he should raise me, the father is the son, and he has to be obedient to whatever I say, this is how the ancients passed it down, just because I sold him, he didn't support me? I'm going to give him a taste of his son's disobedience now!" The ghast spirit that Zhang Su called the head of the sea still attached to the body of the child Xiaohan, and he was reluctant to leave.
"Why do you want to have children?" Zhang asked flatly.
"Because raising children to prevent old age, I want him to support me!" The ghast roared.
"Then did you raise a child?" Zhang Su tilted his head and continued to ask.
"No, but I gave birth to him." The ghast argued.
"That's easy to do, you are now accepted by me, strive to let him give birth to you once in the next life, you will be a son, won't you come back?" Zhang Su smiled and looked at the ghast in front of him.
"What you said seems to have some truth, no, you are scolding me, I am Lao Tzu, not a son, I will kill you!" The ghast finally reacted, and roared at Zhang Su, the soul broke away from the bound child's body, and wrapped its messy kelp-like hair around Zhang Su, like a dancing wizard with long hair.
"It's easy to come out by yourself, and I'm afraid of hurting the kid if I forcibly separate."
Zhang Su saw that the ghast was provoked by himself and lost his mind, and suddenly rushed out, and couldn't help sighing, the three green phosphorus arrow arrays were released, and twelve arrows surrounded the ghast, constantly cutting and piercing it, and in less than half a minute, the ghast fell to the ground with serious injuries, and the soul power was lost and kept struggling to move, and finally, Zhang Su put the seriously injured ghast into the stone cup with a wave of his hand, and the second bounty task was completed.
After Zhang was done, he opened the door of the side bedroom from the inside, opened the door and walked out, nodding at the man and woman outside the door, indicating that it was over.
"Less than two minutes? Master Zhang, is my son all right? Wang asked excitedly.
"Well, just untie the ropes that bind him, he will go through a period of weakness, and it should be enough to cultivate for a day or two." Zhang Su nodded.
"Thank you, Master Zhang, thank you, Master Zhang." Zhang Qiaoyun, who was on the side, heard Zhang Su say that it was okay, and hurriedly rushed into the house to untie the rope tied to the child.
"Master, Xiao Han won't have any more problems in the future, how do you charge this fee?" After Wang was excited, he thought of more practical questions.
"No, I'm not responsible for the charges, someone will contact you at that time, and you can just account with him at that time." Zhang Su replied, walking towards the door, preparing to leave this house.
"Okay then." Wang Feng nodded and said.
When Zhang was about to go out, he accidentally caught a glimpse of a half-hidden door near the door, there was a Japanese brand piano in the study, the piano looked beautiful, and the maintenance was very new, as if it had just been bought, and there was a monk-like decorative clay sculpture on it, so he unconsciously asked: "The child learns the piano?" ”
"Yes, I've been studying for more than a year." The king replied.
"It's good to have a hobby." Zhang Su remembered that he hadn't cultivated a hobby since he was a child, and he was somewhat envious.
"What do you like or dislike, it's not for the sake of his future, if you don't supervise him every day, he won't learn at all, he won't give him food when he's hungry, or he will be confined and beaten in the palm of his hand, so he can sit quietly in front of the piano for a while, the child is too playful, so I thought about taking him to the countryside to remember the bittersweet and sweet." Wang sighed and complained when he was full.
"What does he like to play?" Zhang Su continued to ask.
"It's all messy stuff, buy some paint and dig a pot of mud from the outside and say what kind of clay puppets are going to be made, and it's a day to make a mud, you say, what's the point of playing with mud? If he doesn't listen to me, he will starve to death sooner or later when he is older. When Wang Fengshi mentioned his son, he seemed to have a feeling of hating iron but not steel.
After listening to Wang Saoshi's words, Zhang Sushi's nerves trembled suddenly, his eyes looked at Wang Saoshi's face, as if he had thought of something, and his eyes stayed in front of the door in a daze.
"Master Zhang? Master Zhang? Wang Feng saw Zhang Su staring at him, shook his hand in front of Zhang Su's eyes, and easily called.
Wang Saoshi's call called Zhang Su back from his lost soul, Zhang Sushi looked at Wang Saoshi, and then looked at the piano and clay puppets in the study room of the inner room, walked out of the door of Wang Saoshi's house, and said goodbye to Wang Saoshi: "Don't be hungry anymore." ”
Afterwards, Zhang Su walked down the stairs from the stairs.