Volume 3 Riding the Horse and Raising the Might, Nor the Pole Tailai Chapter 75 The Past of the Village (3)
The frost dew, the night is cold, and the wind blows the moonlight.
When the little girl woke up again, it was midnight. A few escaped cats and dogs gently licked the girl's cheeks on the side. The man and the young men were gone, leaving only the corpses of cats and dogs and blood stains on the ground, soberly reminding her that none of this was a dream.
Xiao Hei was lying on his stomach and slumped on the ground, his neck had been completely broken; Rhubarb only has half of his face left, his body is full of blood holes, and even his jaw has been smashed; There are also radish, flower, small shadow, big ball......
The girl carefully arranged the corpses of the cats and dogs, and her little hands gently brushed their hair, as if she was saying her last goodbye to her closest friends.
Suddenly, the girl raised her little face and screamed desperately at the dark night sky. The originally delicate and lovely little face became distorted and hideous, and looked extremely terrifying against the background of the moonlight.
With the girl's roar, several cats and dogs that were originally around the girl also began to roar at the night sky.
These roars tore through the silence of the night, and completely tore everything in Qingfeng Village.
That day, a villager happened to come back a little late because of some things.
The villagers, who had been a little drunk, were so frightened by the girl's screams that they sobered up when they passed near the girl's house.
In the distance, he saw the girl in a very violent position, on all fours, throbbing wildly and screaming near the corpses of the cat and dog. In a trance, it seemed that the girl's teeth also began to sharpen, and her eyes still flashed with a terrifying red shimmer.
After a while, something seemed to be converging from all directions, pouring into the girl's thin, thin body.
As if discovering the existence of the villagers, the surviving cats and dogs suddenly rushed to the villagers like crazy, so frightened that the villagers were scattered and ran desperately to their homes. The next day, I was seriously ill, and it took more than half a month to start getting better.
The next day, the girl's instructions to the cat and dog to hurt people and go crazy in the middle of the night quickly spread throughout Qingfeng Village. Indignant, the people spontaneously organized a group of people to go to the girl's place, intending to expel the girl from the village, but unexpectedly found that the girl and the cats and dogs were nowhere to be found.
As time passed, people gradually forgot about the existence of this girl. It is only when the one-eyed young man and the man with half of his face missing appear that people are reminded of the disaster girl who once brought bad luck to the village.
After Grandma finished telling this story, she let out a long sigh and said, "If that girl can grow normally, maybe there will be no follow-up series of things at all." More than 40 years have passed, and I still can't forget the girl's simple and warm smile - I only blame myself for being too cowardly and conformist at the time, and I couldn't pull the girl hard. The other day, I went to the church to confess and told the priest about it, and the priest said that the girl would be able to feel my heart and forgive me. But I don't think she'll forgive me. ”
"Grandma, you don't have to blame yourself." Xiaofeng handed a tissue to Grandma and said softly: "It is human nature to seek good fortune and avoid harm. What's more, the girl was abnormal at that time. You're not causing additional trauma to the girl, it's already a support for the girl. ”
"But what does this have to do with the name Faint Village?" I couldn't help it, so I interjected coldly.
Grandma wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and continued: "Since that incident, people in the village have begun to move out of Qingfeng Village one after another. At first, the people in the village didn't care. After all, Qingfeng Village is not a treasure of feng shui, and it is normal for some people to leave and some to come. But as the number of people who moved away changed from one or two to three or five, to seven or eight, people gradually noticed a trace of abnormality. ”
"Anomalous? What anomaly? Are all the people who moved away dead? ”.
"How is that possible?" Grandma snorted and said, "That girl is not impermanent, how can she be ......?"
"What's going on?"
"The families who moved away all had one thing in common." Grandma suddenly lowered her voice and said, "There are pregnant women in the family!" ”
"What!?" Xiaofeng and Mao Du and I said in unison: "Could it be that the pregnant women in the village have problems with the babies they gave birth to since that incident?" ”
"Nope." "It's because they don't have that that the families who have moved away are so strange that most of them have never even had direct or indirect contact with the girls, and they really can't figure out why they moved away." ”
"Oh yes, I just said, the villager who was scared by the girl in the middle of the night, his daughter-in-law got pregnant not long after, and gave birth to a very healthy child without any problems. But because of this, those who moved away seem even more inexplicable. Grandma continued.
"The name of the village came from the families who moved away, but few people in the village knew it. I also had a sister who had a very good relationship with me at the time, and she said goodbye to me before leaving, which I heard from her at the time. She also told me not to say this name, otherwise it would cause great trouble. ”
"Since she knows that speaking out will cause great trouble, why do you want to tell Grandma?"
"Probably because I don't think so." Grandma smiled bitterly and said: "It was her husband's opinion that they moved their family, and she didn't want to leave, and she didn't believe anything about the village at that time - in fact, it wasn't just her, even I, after hearing her statement, didn't think so." ”
"But then something happened that made me have to believe it."
"What happened next? What is that? Xiaofeng asked.
"More than a year later, my sister's family has moved back!" Grandma said: "But on the day they came back, their whole family had extremely heavy helplessness and sadness on their faces. ”
"Forced to come back?"
"Then I don't know." "Actually, it's not just my sister's family, more than half of the families of those who moved out will move back in a year to two years, and only a very small part of them never show up again." The families who moved back also had one thing in common: the whole family was extremely depressed, and almost never communicated with anyone. ”
"How so? Didn't the village chief and his ilk at that time care? ”
"Tube? How? Grandma said helplessly, "These people have not violated the law, and they have not affected others, and the village chief organized personnel to come to inquire, and they also know everything, and they have nothing to say." I've said everything that needs to be said, you can't use a knife to force people to be happy and be gregarious, right? ”
"That's right. This kind of soft problem has always been the most difficult to solve. Xiaofeng echoed.
"Seeing them like this, I wondered at the time if it was related to what my sister leaked to me about the village." Grandma continued, "So I took the time to go to her house. As a result, she didn't even admit that she had told me about the end of the village. And according to what my sister said before, there are several families who also call Qingfeng Village in private. But as more and more of the relocated households returned, the title gradually disappeared, as if it had never existed. ”
"That's weird. And what about the little girl? Has it ever been seen in the village again? ”
"No, it's like the world has evaporated. Maybe she's found something else to live in. Grandma said: "And after so many years, although the name of Duwan Village is rarely mentioned again, it seems that it is no longer a taboo, and Qingfeng Village has also returned to the quiet and peaceful state it used to be." With the rapid development of the economy in recent years, it seems that that gray history has long been submerged in the torrent of years. ”