Chapter 16: The White-Haired Wolf Child
My grandfather looked at the wolf child carefully, and the more he looked at it, the more he looked like a child, still a boy, at most fifteen or sixteen years old, but there was no human gentleness in the boy's eyes, only vicious and ferocious like a wolf. My grandfather couldn't help but sigh, even if a child like this helps him find his parents, can his parents accept it?
When the wolf child saw my grandfather looking at him, he stared at my grandfather vigilantly, his eyes flickered, and in addition to being vicious and ferocious, there was actually a trace of fear in his eyes, as if he was worried that my grandfather would attack him.
My grandfather smiled, he could see that the wolf child was very afraid of himself, just imagine, a person who has killed a dragon, how heavy the evil qi should be on his body, you can imagine. The wolf child has little human nature, heavy animal nature, and some aspects of spiritual sense are stronger than humans, and he definitely feels the evil spirit of my grandfather. Just like many people are not clean, or with evil spirits, as soon as they go to the baby, the baby will cry, if the person holds the baby, the baby will stand up and struggle, because the baby's spirit platform is clear, the sensing ability is relatively strong, and it will be afraid and cry when it senses bad things. There is also a situation of smell, the baby's sense of smell is also very sensitive, everyone's smell is different, and the baby is also particularly sensitive to unfamiliar smells.
"Don't be afraid, I won't do anything to you." With a smile on his face, the master squatted down and untied the rope on the wolf child's leg, and the wolf child immediately jumped up from the ground, and Xiao Chujiu next to him suddenly shouted: "Liu Daxia, you, what are you doing here?" ”
The wolf child was about to run, my grandfather grabbed his arm, and with a slight force on his five fingers, the wolf child immediately felt pain and didn't dare to move again, the grandfather turned his head and said to Xiao Chujiu: "The ground is wet and cold, let's tie him to the tree." ”
"Oh." Xiao Chujiu then understood, Han Han agreed, and tied the wolf child to the tree with my grandfather.
Half an hour later, there was a noise from outside the forest, my grandfather and Xiao Chujiu were vigilant at the same time, the grandfather held his breath and listened carefully, it seemed that someone had entered the forest, and the number of people was quite large, not like Xiao Laodao them.
My grandfather immediately instructed Xiao Chujiu and the ghost monkey, "You wait in place and don't move, I'll take a look outside." ”
Following the sound, my grandfather quietly touched it from the side, and saw that there were more than a dozen people in the place where the horses were tied before, shouting and shouting back and forth, as if they were looking for something.
My grandfather hid behind a big tree, and looked at them, it turned out to be the four people from last night, three brothers and a cripple, but in addition to the four of them, there were five or six people, all of whom had something in their hands, and looked at the comer badly.
Then one of them shouted, "Found it, there are horseshoe prints here, and they have run deep into the woods." ”
When my grandfather heard this, his heart sank, and it seemed that he was here to find himself to turn over the accounts. A group of people gathered around the horseshoe prints on the ground and looked at them.
The eldest and second of the three brothers looked at it and said to the eldest brother: "Big brother, that kid is not easy to mess with, there are three horses in the forest, which means that there are at least three of them, just a few of us, I'm afraid it's not their opponent, let's go find the wolf child......
When the boss heard this, he hurriedly raised his hand, stopped the old man and the second, turned his head and said to the cripple next to him: "Cripple, brother, I will give you a chance to make meritorious service and atone for your sins, we will wait here, you follow the horse's hoof prints to the forest to see." ”
When the cripple heard this, he grinned as if he had eaten a yellow lotus, and said with a bitter face: "Big brother, they may ...... I may have run down the forest a long time ago, I'm a cripple...... I can't catch them. ”
The boss suddenly glared at him, "You asked that kid yesterday to scare you out, how do you know that they ran away, hurry up and show Lao Tzu!" ”
"Hey!" The cripple wept and followed the horse's hoof prints on the ground and walked deeper into the woods. When my grandfather saw it, he couldn't let the cripple discover the whereabouts of a few people, especially the wolf child. However, a few of them did lie to themselves yesterday, saying something about the white-haired monster, it turned out that they also knew that it was a wolf child, but why didn't they directly say it to themselves as a wolf child?
My grandfather didn't want to think so much, because this matter had much to do with him, leaving the three brothers behind, my grandfather quietly followed the cripple from behind, and after walking in the forest for a while, my grandfather looked back at the three brothers, and there was no longer half a figure in sight.
At this time, the cripple was already very close to where Xiao Chujiu and the others were, and my grandfather immediately sped up his pace......
"Hey, cripple, where are you going?"
The cripple suddenly shuddered, and my grandfather's voice came from behind the cripple, and as soon as the cripple turned around, he saw my grandfather standing behind him with a smile on his face, and suddenly as if he had seen a ghost, his face changed greatly, and he was about to shout when he opened his mouth, but before he could shout, my grandfather raised his hand and grabbed his throat, "If you dare to shout, you will break your neck!" ”
The cripple suddenly trembled like chaff, and when he was stunned, he was about to kneel on the ground, but he was pinched by my grandfather's neck, and he didn't kneel.
"Uncle spare your life, uncle spare your life...... I'm a hard-working person, and I broke my leg for them, and I can't help it! ”
"Be quiet!" My grandfather lowered his voice and said, "If you want me to spare you, you can do it, now go back and tell them that they haven't found anything in the forest, let them leave the forest!" ”
"Hey, I'll go, I'll go......"
"Don't play tricks on the master, or you will be the first to kill!"
"I don't dare, I don't dare ......"
My grandfather let go of the cripple, and the cripple touched his neck with palpitations, and snorted at my grandfather, "Thank you uncle for sparing my life, thank you uncle, thank you uncle, thank you uncle......"
"Stop talking nonsense, hurry back!"
"Hey!"
The cripple turned around and returned the same way, and my grandfather blinked his eyes twice and thought, no, the forest is no longer safe here, and he must leave immediately.
Back at the resting place, my grandfather didn't say a word, beckoned Xiao Chujiu to pack up his things and leave the forest immediately. Xiao Chujiu looked puzzled and asked my grandfather what happened, and while my grandfather was packing his luggage, he briefly told Xiao Chujiu the ins and outs of the matter.
After listening to this, Xiao Chujiu asked my grandfather, "Liu Daxia, where are we going now?" ”
My grandfather said, "Go to the town to find your master." "As he spoke, my grandfather glanced at the wolf child in the tree, and there was nothing wrong with them, mainly because this wolf child had to find a place to hide him before entering the town.
After packing his belongings, he untied the wolf child from the tree and put him on his own horse. The master rode in front, Xiao Chujiu put a few burdens on the other two horses, and led a horse with the little ghost monkey to follow, they didn't return the same way, the west of the forest was the main road, and they walked along the forest to the south.
This forest is deep horizontally from east to west, and shallow from north to south.
My grandfather debated the direction and walked along the edge of the woods towards the western road, which was the only way to reach their town.
Soon, when I came to the main road, my grandfather looked back at the mountain behind him, and at this time he was already two or three miles away from the foot of the mountain, and he saw a few figures faintly on the mountain beam, which should be the cripple group going up the mountain.
The master breathed a sigh of relief, beckoned Xiao Chujiu and the ghost monkey to stop, the master took out the ghost monkey's clothes from his baggage, let the ghost monkey put them on, and took out a robe, covering the wolf child on horseback, regardless of whether the wolf child can understand or not, my grandfather explained to the wolf child, don't be afraid, we won't harm you, now we will take you to the town to find your parents. The wolf child didn't react at all, but he was probably tired and no longer struggling.
Along the main road, in the direction of the town can be walked for about half an hour, the sun climbed up to the middle of the sky, it is already noon, however, this way, I did not meet Xiao Laodao and Xiao Shiyi, according to the time, the two of them should return, my grandfather is afraid of going wrong with them.
After walking not far, there was a small fork in the road in front of the west, and when I came to the fork in the road, my grandfather turned his head and looked at the fork in the road, it was a small road more than one person wide, and it zigzagged to a small hill not far away, and my grandfather looked at the hillside again, and there was actually a courtyard on it, which flickered in the jungle.
At this moment, the wolf child, who had always been honest, suddenly leaned back, jumped off the horse, quickly threw off his robe, and ran down the fork in the road towards the hillside.
When my grandfather and they came back to their senses, the wolf child had already run out for a distance, and my grandfather scolded, and chased after the horse, but they were all plain horses, and it was okay to run on flat ground, and they couldn't run up the hill at all.
My grandfather jumped off the horse, and chased after him, and he was very annoyed at this time, and he had already known that he should not let go of the rope on the wolf child's legs, but fortunately the wolf child's hands were still tied upside down, and he was not running too fast.
After chasing a few steps, the ghost monkey swept past my grandfather, its speed was much faster than my grandfather, my grandfather was stunned, turned around and glanced down the slope, and saw Xiao Chujiu alone leading three horses from behind.
My grandfather hurriedly explained to the little ghost monkey, "Just catch him, don't hurt him!" When the ghost monkey heard this, he ran forward, put one of his front paws behind his back, and shook his paw at my grandfather, as if to say that there was no problem.
The wolf child seemed to be running towards the courtyard on the mountain, but before he could run to him, he was pounced on by the ghost monkey from behind and pressed to the ground, but the ghost monkey was not as big as the wolf child, and the wolf child turned over, lifted the ghost monkey off his body, got up and continued to run towards the courtyard desperately.
The ghost monkey caught up again, and threw him to the ground, and the wolf child suddenly roared angrily, and stood up and wanted to lift the monkey down again, but the monkey learned to be obedient after suffering a loss, and attached to the wolf child's back and could not survive, and a wolf and a monkey rolled up in the middle of the slope mountain.
After coming and going, my grandfather arrived, pulled up the ghost monkey, and trampled the wolf child to the ground with one foot, and my grandfather gasped and said, "You kid, run, run, run!" ”
The wolf child was trampled on by my grandfather and screamed on the ground, and the grandfather bent down and grabbed the rope on his wrist, lifted him from the ground, and threatened fiercely: "If you dare to run again, Lao Tzu will pick your hamstrings!" ”
The wolf child ignored my grandfather at this time, his eyes looked at the courtyard on the top of the mountain, and his mouth made a strange whining sound, but he struggled vigorously. My grandfather was stunned, because the howl of the wolf child at this time sounded like a cry.
My grandfather grabbed the wolf child's hair and twisted his face to look at him, and the grandfather was stunned, and saw two lines of tears flowing from the wolf child's eyes......