Chapter 15: The Man Who Bends His Waist
"It's really those four! Run first! "I don't even care about wiping my hands, I just drag Qin Huai and run!
There was a village not far ahead, brightly lit, and at most a kilometer away, so it would be safe if we could run into it.
I don't believe that those four robbers dared to rush into the village and spread wild!
I listened carefully as I ran, and the chasing and scolding behind me slowed down, they must have been taking care of the drunkard who had broken his hamstring.
Although this tendon-breaking spell is thrilling, the strategy is very correct, otherwise we will run hard with them at the speed of Qin Huai and me, and death will be a foregone conclusion.
We didn't stop for a second, we ran all the way into the village, and under the surprised eyes of the villagers, the two of us almost lay on the ground gasping for breath.
Qin Huai breathed heavily, causing the pair of well-developed breasts to rise and fall, "Wu Yan... They must have only seen the third child at first... If you see us first, it's over... The axe must have come from our heads..."
I nodded and didn't reply, and hurriedly walked up to an aunt who was watching the excitement, "Auntie, is there a place to stay in the village, we want to rest here at night." ”
The aunt looked at us a little puzzled, but still stretched out her hand and pointed to the depths of the village, "There is a small shop ahead, but it has been abandoned for a long, long time, you can go and take a look." ”
I thanked my aunt, patted Qin Huai and walked to the center of the village.
It was already dark, and this should be a mountain nest, and the terrain around the village was a little higher, and the forest that had been lush and dense half an hour ago had melted into darkness.
Along the way, the air smelled a little damp and heavy, and I was a little uncomfortable.
And I noticed a very strange phenomenon.
That is, in front of the gates of all the houses in the village, whether it is a dirt road or a stone road, a pit about half a meter deep has been dug.
Without exception, there is a dead fish in the pit, and most of the fish are already rotten, and we dare not lean over, it is simply stinking and smokey.
Qin Huai was also puzzled after looking around, so he asked me, "Is this a fish breeding?" ”
I was happy when I heard it, and I forgot all about the thrill just now, "What do you think about this little brain, if you can grow fish, it is better to breed chickens, at least chickens can lay eggs." ”
After walking for a long time, we came to the front of the store that my aunt said, and I have to say that this store is really broken.
In fact, a village like this, hidden in the mountains, is difficult to develop because of inconvenient transportation, and it is normal for all aspects to be backward and dilapidated.
But this shop looks like an old haunted house that has been abandoned for more than ten years, not only is there a thick layer of dust everywhere, but there are also a lot of cobwebs, and even the door panel is broken, and I can see inside from the door.
According to my observations along the way, this should be the only wooden house in the village, although it does not occupy a large area, it is actually built with three floors, there is no taller building in the village, and the pestle stands out here.
I looked through the hole in the door, and the house was a mess.
Tables, chairs, benches collapsed, broken pieces of wood scattered all over the ground, said to have been abandoned for a long time, but I think this place is more like a catastrophe.
I knocked on the door and said aloud, "Is there anyone, we want to stay at the hotel." ”
After waiting for a while, there was no movement inside.
I reached out and was about to knock again, when a voice behind me stopped me.
"If you don't have a place to live, go in by yourself, there's no one in here for a long time."
Looking back, I've never seen such a hunched back.
The old man's face in front of him was almost close to his crotch, and he was still holding a cigarette bag and pot in his hand.
This degree is certainly not enough to describe hunchback, and it is more appropriate to say that it is deformed.
"Uncle, I see it's a mess inside, what's wrong with this store, has it been robbed?"
The old man shook his head, but it seemed to me that he just wiped his face with the base of his thigh.
"There was a strange thing in our village a long time ago, and it is probably this time every summer, when a damp water ghost comes to the village after midnight."
I usually don't believe in these gods and ghosts, but now that I am infected by this old village located in the mountains, the words in my uncle's mouth actually make me sweat.
"The water ghost was all white, his hair was long and curly on his face, and he wanted to climb up when he saw the gate, this little shop was the tallest building in the village, and the water ghost came on time every night to climb to the top of this little shop."
"And then?" Qin Huai was very curious about what was going on, but I could see that her little hand holding the hem of her clothes was squeezed tighter.
The master knocked on the ashes of his cigarette, and then said, "One night, when the shopkeeper had drunk and forgot to close the door, the water ghost went in and climbed up the stairs to the roof, where he sang for most of the night. The owner disappeared the next day, presumably eaten. ”
Seeing that we listened to the gods, the uncle finished the story and planned to leave.
I came back to my senses and quickly stopped my uncle, and asked straight to the point: "Uncle, you must not be hunched back when you are young." ”
The uncle's back was stunned for a while, and then he turned around with some effort, "How do you know... I was fine until I was thirty-five years old, just like a normal person..."
Qin Huai glanced at me meaningfully, and probably guessed the reason.
This uncle should have been cursed, as long as the descendants of the future generations give birth to a person who has fulfilled the curse, the curse of the spell caster will be fulfilled on the old man.
"Uncle, you may not believe what I said, but I still have to tell you, your body is like this because of your child, this is a curse." I'll be honest.
There were tears in the uncle's cloudy eyes, and he didn't mean to question or refute me at all, "I don't know if it's a curse, but I remember it very clearly, as soon as he gave birth to my back, it broke off." Overnight, it curled up like this... It's like a stinky shrimp..."
In fact, I am not idle to mention this matter, and naturally there are my intentions in it.
Seeing that the uncle was desperately wiping the tears on his face, I said sincerely: "That's it, we can't live in this store if it's so broken, uncle, if you have a vacant room at home, let us go in for one night, I can find a way to see if I can help you solve this curse." ”
"Good! All right! I've been living alone for a long time, and I've always had an empty room at home, so come with me. After speaking, the uncle led the way, and Qin Huai and I followed.
After walking a little back, we turned into a small alley, and at the end of the box was a small slope with a brick house on the slope, and behind the brick house was against the woods.
After entering the house, the uncle insisted on boiling water and pouring tea for us, I was afraid that he would be inconvenient and persuaded him to forget it, but the uncle glared at me, it seemed that I had violated his dignity.
When he entered the kitchen in the courtyard, I hurriedly told Qin Huai: "At this moment, we have already seen a ** poisonous curse, it seems that evil arts are prevalent in this place." Don't drink the water poured by the uncle for a while, and don't take the things he has ever had, and keep a snack. ”
After the instructions, I visited the living room with my hands behind my back, the living room is quite large, but in fact, there are three kinds of furniture in the living room.
There is a table of eight immortals in the middle of the living room, and there are four chairs on all sides of the table, and then there is an incense stand for the ancestral tablet against the wall in the front of the living room, and there is nothing else.
I came to the incense stand and suddenly a picture caught my attention.
There is a photograph on the incense platform of a young man in his teenage years and a middle-aged man who is so stiff that it is exaggerated, which at first glance was taken by the old man and his son when he was young.
At this time, Qin Huai also came over to watch with me, but she just glanced at it, and immediately took a breath of cool air from between her teeth.