Chapter 14: The Legend of the Snow Monster
When Zhu'er heard the words of the restaurant proprietor, she immediately became interested, and hurriedly asked, "Is the snow monster you said true?" Have you ever seen what it looks like? Is it male or female? Isn't it pretty? ”
When the lady heard that we were interested in what she said, she pulled a plastic chair and sat down, looked left and right, as if afraid that someone would eavesdrop, and lowered her voice and said, "I told you, don't tell anyone else......"
Zhu'er's eyes lit up, and she also whispered, "Have you really seen that snow monster?" ”
The proprietress glared at her and said, "Of course I haven't seen it, if I've seen a snow monster, can I still sit here and talk to you?" Let me tell you, this snow monster is unsightly. In the past, I used to have some unbelief in evil and said that I wanted to see what this snow monster looked like, but all of them disappeared, and I couldn't even find the body! ”
Zhu'er was startled and whispered, "Can't even find the body?" Wasn't Mo eaten by wild beasts? ”
The two women spoke in a sneaky voice, low voice, but we at the table could hear it.
The proprietress said, "It's just that it's eaten by wild beasts, and some bones will be left, right?" But everyone went to look for it, and they didn't even find a single bone slag, and those people seemed to have disappeared from this earth, don't you think? They say that it is not the beasts that eat them, but the snow monsters! Only snow monsters eat people and nothing will be left. The old people said that when the snow monster ate people, the first bite, sucked the soul of that person; If he sucked like this again, he drained all the blood from his body; Finally, like eating an apple, it eats the person's body with a click! ”
As she spoke, the proprietress looked around with a pale face, as if she was afraid that her words would be heard by the snow monster, and she would eat her like an apple.
Zhu'er said, "Didn't you say that everyone who saw the snow monster died? How can anyone know how it eats people? ”
The proprietress said, "Then how do I know? Maybe someone saw it before, right? Anyway, this legend has been passed down for a long time, and I don't know how it was passed down. It was also said that the snow monster would sit in the snow at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night and cry, crying pitifully. And you know what? The tears that come out of the snow monster's crying will be turned into very precious pearls, each the size of a thumb. It sits there crying all night, and it cries out a whole bunch of pearls piled up there! ”
Speaking of this, the proprietress came and went, as if there were two pearls shining in her eyes.
Zhu'er said with great interest: "Then has anyone picked up this legendary pearl?" ”
The proprietress said, "No one can say this clearly." The richest of us here is Liu Laosan's family. Liu Laosan, that guy, used to be a single, and he was so poor that he had to ask for food. But I don't know why, he suddenly made a fortune, built a three-story building, married a daughter-in-law, and bought a luxury car. Where does his money come from? Even if it's stealing, it's not so easy to steal, is it? Everyone said that he must have picked up the tear pearls left by the snow monster! ”
Zhu'er said, "Didn't anyone ask him directly? That Liu Laosan. ”
The proprietress said, "Of course." But the guy pretended to be something, neither saying yes nor saying no, no matter how much he asked, there was no result. ”
Ye Shunchang pouted and said, "What age is it now, and you still believe that there is such a thing?" It's a man-eating snow monster again, and it's a pearl that cries tears? Are you really a fairy tale? ”
When the proprietress heard Ye Shunchang say this, she couldn't help but feel a little angry, and she glanced at him and said, "Believe it or not, I don't have to believe you." Some people have never seen pigs, so they say that there are no pigs in this world, and they don't believe what people tell them. Some people are ignorant and self-righteous, thinking that they know the whole truth about this world, which is ridiculous and ridiculous. ”
I couldn't help but look at the proprietress twice, and I couldn't imagine that the proprietress of a small restaurant in this remote place would say such profound words.
Zhu'er clapped her palms and said, "You make too much sense. ”
Ye Shunchang was robbed of white, and said unconvinced: "If you have the ability, you can catch a snow monster and show it to me, or take two tear pearls to show me, then I will believe that what you said is true." ”
The proprietress said, "I told you, and I didn't ask you to believe it, believe it or not." If you have the ability, you go to the mountain next to Yuanbao Village for a night, and you will know that it is powerful. ”
Ye Shunchang said angrily: "For no reason, why should I go to that ghost place for a night?" Am I insane? ”
Zhu'er hurriedly said to the proprietress, "Ignore him, he is a fool." What's wrong with the mountain next to Yuanbao Village you said? ”
The proprietress immediately became interested again and said: "In the mountains next to Yuanbao Village, about two or three miles away from Yuanbao Village, there is a flat land, surrounded by mountains, and the whole looks like a footbath, so it is called a footbath." ”
I once practiced in the mountains next to Yuanbao Village for a month, and I had seen the place the proprietress said from afar, the radius might be the size of two or three football fields, and the scenery was also very good, but I didn't know that it had such a place name.
"What's wrong with that place?" I also asked with interest.
The proprietress said: "People who know feng shui say that the place where you wash your feet is a dragon's den. When the old man dies, if he is buried in that place, the future generations will surely prosper. But the strange thing is that the people of Yuanbao Village never buried their immortals in that place, but buried them on the mountains on both sides, and I don't know why. Later, some people said that the snow monster was sleeping in the foot washing machine, which was the snow monster's nest! ”
Zhu'er asked again: "Is there any specific phenomenon that indicates that the washing * foot is the nest of the snow monster?" ”
The proprietress thought for a moment and said, "I don't know if it's true, because I don't dare to look at it myself." Didn't you just say that we get cold here for ten days a year? It was unpleasantly cold, but during these ten days, it was much colder inside than outside. In these ten days, whether it is a person, a cow, a horse, a pig or a dog, as long as you walk in, you will never be able to get out. ”
By this time, the other people at the table had already eaten almost enough, and they were gathered around the fire while listening to the proprietress talk.
When the proprietress said this, everyone began to talk about it.
"Wow, what the boss lady said about that Yuanbao Village is so evil, is it true or false?"
"We're going to Yuanbao Village tomorrow, no...... Nothing could go wrong, right? ”
"What could be the problem? Maybe we've picked up a bunch of tear pearls too? Wouldn't that be a fortune? ”
"You want to be beautiful? Didn't you hear about it just now? There's a snow monster that sucks your soul in one bite, sucks your blood in another bite, and eats you like an apple. ”
"These are all legends, and no one has really seen them."
“……”
The proprietress continued: "There are some things that you can't believe if you don't believe it. I won't say anything else, but there's one thing I've seen with my own eyes, and you can't believe it. ”
"Why, did you really see a snow monster? Or do you see the pearl of tears? People leaned their heads closer and asked.
"Ahh The proprietress took a sip and said, "I'll die when I see the snow monster!" I'm talking about something else. I remember the year before last, it was still cold for 10 days, and I heard that six people were missing during those 10 days. Everyone said that the washing of the feet was too evil, so everyone discussed it and invited a Taoist priest who was said to be very powerful to exorcise evil spirits. On the day of the practice, there were a lot of people who went to see the excitement, and I went too. But we didn't dare to go close to the inside of the Xi*jiaotai, and we looked from a distance on the mountain, and only the Taoist priest went in with his two apprentices......"
Speaking of this, the proprietress swallowed a mouthful of saliva "grunt".
Zhu'er also became nervous, and hurriedly asked, "What happened later?" ”
"Later?" The proprietress said a little distractedly, "The Taoist priest was wearing a Taoist uniform, holding a wooden sword, and placed an incense case in the center of the foot washing, lit incense candles, and burned paper money. Doing it, I don't know how, the Taoist priest desperately chased after his two apprentices and bitten! ”
Zhu'er's face changed drastically, and she said, "Chasing them and biting?!" ”
"Yes!" The proprietress turned pale and trembled, "Like a mad dog!" It's the same with his two apprentices, the three of them are in the foot-washing platform, you bite me, I bite you, like three mad dogs! ”
The faces of the people around him turned white, you look at me, I look at you, speechless.
"After ...... And then? Pearls asked, trembling.
The proprietress said, "Later? Then all three died! ”