"It turned out to be ...... It's a good uncle, is there something, yes, what's the matter? "The cripple is like a frightened bird, and his voice trembles, obviously afraid of my grandfather to the core.

My grandfather smiled at him: "Don't be afraid, I just want to ask you something." ”

When the cripple heard this, he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and hurriedly said, "Uncle, you ask, as long as I know, tell you all!" ”

"Okay, then I'll ask." My grandfather nodded and asked directly, "Did the wolf boy you are looking for really hurt the people in your town?" ”

The cripple was stunned for a moment, the expression on his face became a little strange, and he didn't answer and asked: "Uncle Haohan, you, why are you asking this?" ”

The master glanced at him, withdrew the smile on his face, and said coldly, "You don't know, or don't you want to answer?" ”

"Uncle, don't be angry...... cripple's face changed again, and his voice trembled, "I, I, I know, I know...... Here's the thing, the wolf child hurt Master Zhu in our town, and Master Zhu found the three brothers of the Hu family and wanted the three brothers of the Hu family to kill the wolf child. ”

"Okay." My grandfather asked again, "Since you know that he is a wolf child, why did you lie to me that he was a monster before?" ”

"Monster ......" The cripple replied: "That, that's what Master Zhu said himself, in fact, the wolf child ......" The cripple wanted to speak and stopped, and swallowed the words back.

"Actually, what is that wolf child? Don't hide it, be honest! My grandfather raised his voice.

The cripple was frightened, "Actually...... In fact...... More than ten years ago, Master Zhu ...... "My grandfather suddenly waved his hand and interrupted the cripple, "Don't Master Zhu, Master Zhu, what is his name?" ”

Zhu ...... Zhu Dada. ”

"Go on."

Zhu ...... Zhu Da he more than ten years ago, has a good friend, named Zhao Hong, the two often go to the field to do business, once, Zhao Hong came back, in the tavern drank too much, he told the people in the tavern, this time he went to the field, caught a treasure, said that it is very valuable, as long as the baby is sold, there is no need to run around to do business in the future...... Others asked him what kind of treasure he was, and before he could say it, he fell asleep on the table...... A few days after this incident, Zhao Hong took his wife and children to ...... Go...... Just go there! As he spoke, the cripple turned around and pointed to the temple on the hill, "Zhao Hong took his wife and children to go there to offer incense, but as a result, he was killed in the temple, Zhao Hong died at the gate of the temple, his wife died in the hall, and when his wife died, she was not wearing clothes, as if she was ...... by someone and someone."

My grandfather frowned, and then asked, "Were there no monks in the monastery at that time?" ”

The cripple shook his head, "There should be, but when the two of them were discovered, there was not a single monk in the temple, and then someone reported to the official, and the official of the county government went there to inspect it, saying that they had encountered robbers who killed people and robbed money, and the official sent to the town to find Zhao Hong's family to claim the corpse, but Zhao Hong came from other places, no family, the best thing with him in the town was Zhu Dada, and the official found Zhu Dada, and wanted him to take the body home and bury it, who knows, Zhu Dada said to the official, He and Zhao Hong are ordinary friends, and they don't want to claim the corpse, but Zhu Dada said that he knows where Zhao Hong's hometown is, and he can send someone to his hometown to find someone......"

Later, the county government went to find Zhao Hong's family according to the address given by Zhu Dada, and the bodies of Zhao Hong's two sons were placed in the temple, and the county government also specially found someone to look at the corpse in the temple, who, who knows...... Look at the corpse of the man, in the middle of the night in the temple to see Zhao Hong and his wife, covered in blood in the temple walking around, scared him ran home in the middle of the night, the next day, this matter spread in the town, no one dared to go there, after the county lord heard about this, afraid that the matter would be big, he sent an official to the temple, wanted to get the body down and bury it, who knows, after the official sent it, there was only Zhao Hong's body left, his wife's is gone...... Later, the official of the county government buried Zhao Hong's body, and the people who went to Zhao Hong's hometown did not find his relatives in Zhao Hong's hometown......

When the cripple said this, my grandfather turned his head to look at the temple on the top of the mountain, and asked, "Didn't Zhao Hong and his family have a child, why are there only the corpses of the two of them, the child?" ”

"Child......" The cripple swallowed dryly, and said in a slur "Listen...... And they heard from those who saw it, and said, Give it, give it to a wolf, and take it away. ”

"Taken by a wolf? Did anyone really see it? ”

"It's true!" The cripple nodded fiercely, "Zhao Hong and his family went to the temple at noon, in the evening, there was an old woman in our town, who went to the temple to make a vow, and just walked to the door and saw Zhao Hong crawling on the ground, covered in blood, the old woman was frightened, and before she left, she saw a wolf coming out of the temple with a child in her mouth. The old woman fell ill when she returned to the town, and her son went to the county government to report the case. ”

Hearing the cripple say this, my grandfather nodded deeply, in fact, when the cripple was halfway through, my grandfather had already vaguely guessed the life experience of the wolf child.

"Anything else?" My grandfather glanced at the cripple and asked.

"Yes, and there's more." The cripple continued: "A few days after this incident, Zhu Dada went far away, and walked for more than a month, and when he came back, he was in a big carriage, and the car brought back a lot of good things, porcelain, silk, and seemed to have made a fortune...... After that, he stopped buying and selling, built a house and bought land, and the family also bought a maid and a wife, hired a long-term worker, and became a master. ”

Later, someone in the town said that he paid someone to kill Zhao Hong's family and take Zhao Hong's treasure, so he made a fortune...... This time the wolf boy hurt him, and it spread in the town again, saying that it was Zhao Hong's son, and now that he has grown up, he has come back to find Zhu Dada for revenge. ”

My grandfather asked, "How old was the child when he was taken away by the wolf?" ”

The cripple thought for a moment, "Probably ...... There are three or four years old, in fact, in the past, the wolf child at night, often wandered around the town, very good people have seen him, but, never hurt anyone, just two days ago, the wolf child suddenly entered Zhu Dada's house in the middle of the night, bit Zhu Dada's arm, almost gave him an arm to bite, Zhu Dada is now a person with a face in the town, he may have heard about the wolf child, this time to the wolf child bite, he wanted to kill the wolf child, out of five hundred taels of silver, found the three brothers of the Hu family, these three brothers are a tyrant in the town, Only recognize money, not people. ”

My grandfather smiled faintly, "It seems that Zhu Dada really has something to do with the death of Zhao Hong and his wife, otherwise, how could he pay such a big price for the life of the wolf child, there are no three hundred taels of silver here." ”

"yes, that's what I thought." The cripple hurriedly chimed in.

"Alright." My grandfather nodded at the cripple with satisfaction, "I'm done asking, you can go, if I have anything else I want to ask, I will naturally go to you." ”

"What?" The cripple turned his face bitter, and said to my grandfather as if pleading: "Uncle Haohan, if you, if you look for me, don't let the three brothers of the Hu family see it, otherwise, they will really kill me." ”

Hearing the cripple say this, my grandfather subconsciously looked at his lame leg and asked, "What's the matter with your leg, was it really broken by the three brothers of the Hu family?" ”

The cripple was stunned, there was a layer of fog in his eyes, and he said in a trembling voice: "I...... I used to be unlucky, good gamblers, and owed them a lot of gambling debts, and they ...... They asked me to pay back, but I didn't, so they wanted to use my sister to pay off the debt, and I didn't agree, so they broke one of my hamstrings and paid it back...... I also sold my sister to ...... Sold to a brothel! ”

When my grandfather heard the cripple say this, Jian Mei immediately raised, "They treat you like this, why do you still want to help them?" ”

"I'm ...... me" The cripple looked like he couldn't say what he was suffering for, and finally said very cowardly: "I, I can't help it, when my father and mother are alive, the family is okay, just because I gamble, alas...... Later, my father and mother were angry with me, and my sister was also sold, I was alone, with a lame leg, I couldn't do anything, I ran errands for them, and I still had something to eat......"

"Waste, pigs and dogs are not as good!" My grandfather was so angry that he almost didn't kick the cripple, and roared: "Get out! How far is it, how far is it for the master! "Originally, my grandfather was still a little pitiful cripple, but at this time, only the anger aroused by the cripple remained.

There will be something hateful about the wretched!

The cripple limped away, the master returned to the temple with a stomach full of anger, the little ghost monkey was still squatting at the gate of the temple at this time, the master said hello to it, walked into the hall and looked at the wolf child, the wolf child was still squatting in the corner of the wall with a human head.

My grandfather looked at the dry bones on the ground again, and wondered in his heart, if this dry bone belonged to the wolf child's mother, then why didn't the officials in the county government at that time find it? Could it be that someone removed the body of the wolf child's mother and then brought it back? But why move it back again, isn't that redundant?

My grandfather walked up to the wolf child, squatted down, and asked softly, "Child, let me ask you, is your father's name Zhao Hong?" ”

The wolf child raised his head and looked at my grandfather, blinked his eyes twice, and my grandfather asked again: "Zhao Hong, have you heard of this name?" ”

The wolf child still looked at my grandfather, neither shaking his head nor making a sound, and the grandfather suddenly sighed, got up and left the hall again.

When he came to the yard, he took out the cigarette pouch rod from his package, went outside, sat down with the little ghost monkey, and smoked one cigarette at a time.

My grandfather also smoked, and he didn't learn well since he was a child, but he rarely smoked again when he grew up, and when he was old, maybe the hero was late and the world was vicissitudes, and he smoked very badly.

Unconsciously, the sun was in the west, and the sky was dark, at this time, my grandfather and the ghost monkey were already hungry, and their stomachs were purring, but Xiao Lao said to them, and they still didn't return, where did they go, if it was really in the town, would something happen?