Chapter 12: Wielding a shovel
At this time, the fat man took me and planned to go on the road, and the fat man stopped the car after walking more than ten meters.
"What?" I asked.
"I seem to have seen our family Huanhuan also run to Ercui's house." The fat man replied.
"I guess you're blind, right?" I turned on the flashlight and shone it in the direction that the fat man was pointing, but I didn't even see a single hair.
"Forget it, let's go to Sanlihe first." The fat man got on the bike and shouted to me, "You take a picture of me, it's almost midnight, and you will fall on me again." ”
I rolled my eyes, although my hand lit him up, my mouth sarcastically said: "You are still Ercui's son-in-law, you can't even recognize the road, you deserve to make trouble for your family." "Fighting is a fight, I just see it, and ask about the matter, "Why are you going to Sanlihe in a hurry?" ”
"I understand Ercui, she is not the kind of person who is treacherous. The half-meter-deep underground on the bank of the Sanli River she said was where I hid my money......" The fat man snorted a few times, and his breathing became heavier, and he didn't know if he was tired or stressed.
I wondered, "Huh? You're not going to hide all the money you've saved over the past few years, are you? Sanli River is far enough from your home, huh? Ercui said that the money was eaten by rats and insects, could it be that you were poor to make trouble with you? ”
"Her family is not sensible, is Ercui the one who is not sensible? It's hard to say, so let's go over and take a look. Don't say it, this thing is also weird, Ercui usually sings a song out of tune, what's wrong today? ”
I replied: """Funeral Flower Yin" I know, is an episode in the TV series "Dream of Red Mansions". But the later Kunqu opera lyrics ...... How to listen to how miserable and euphemistic. ”
"Kunqu Opera? Can you still hear Kunqu Opera? ”
I smacked my mouth: "What? You look down on people. ”
"No, no. Ercui's mother likes to listen to opera, and I heard her mention Kunqu Opera. It is said that the representative works of Kunqu Opera include Wang Shizhen's "Song of the Phoenix", Tang Xianzu's "Peony Pavilion", "Handan Ji", "Nanke Ji", Shen Jing's "The Story of the Righteous Heroes", Kong Shangren's "Peach Blossom Fan", Hong Sheng's "Palace of Eternal Life" ......"
"Hey, fatty, you've really worked hard to please your mother-in-law. Usually I ask you to remember more things, you look at your impatient face......"
"Don't mess around. Ercui's mother likes the "Peony Pavilion" in Kunqu Opera the most, if Ercui's words are sung by Du Liniang...... "Orchid Pavilion Preface" is also called "The Peony Pavilion Returns the Soul", she wants to separate from me? It's not like that...... What the fuck does this mean? This woman is just trouble, it's okay what kind of dumb riddle you play, and it's such a dumb riddle......"
"Hey, you're right. The previous paragraph of "Funeral Flower Yin" sang so poignantly. Like these women who are a little cultured, if they really play Fengyue for you, we people who have no ink on their chests are really unreliable. This woman just has nothing to do, Gu Ying is self-pitying and emotional. "I have to say that this is my guess, and now I am still practicing Tongzigong. The master said that only women and villains are difficult to raise, so I pushed the boat down the river to persuade the fat man.
"Don't make a mess, you can scold me if I say a word, and don't let people live."
"Yes, you ...... it"
"I'm talking a fart...... "The fat man kicked the stirrups a few times, and we got faster.
When I reached the Three Mile River, the fat man took out a shovel from an abandoned and broken house, and shouted for me to follow the path into a dense forest beside the ditch.
I complained, "I told you a few years ago, you can save your money or buy something real and stock it up." It's better for you to bury all your money in this dirt pit. ”
The fat man found a place and began to dig a pit, and when I complained to him, he answered: "I can't help it, my father doesn't believe me, and I don't dare to deposit in the bank." No, I got married, and just thought about exchanging all this money for gold and then finding a place to hide it, but I didn't expect to go out and play for half a year......" The fat man stepped on the shovel and gasped a few times, and said, "This is also strange, you look at this soil, no one has touched it at all, why did Ercui say that my money was eaten by insects." ”
"Dream on......" I swore I wasn't sincere in slapping the fat man, mostly just casually. After I came out of the house, I kept thinking about the strange mountain spirit that Li Laodao said was behind the fat man. At this time, the sky was dark again, and beside him was the shadow of the tree stretched by the moonlight, and in addition to the sound of the wind and the sound of water in his ears, it was difficult to enter this situation.
"Well, you're right, it's possible that Ercui had some kind of dream. Their family, it was really poor and feudal, especially her mother, her father still listened to her mother's everything...... But Ercui's mother almost listens to Ercui now......"
"Don't think about it. Come, give me a shovel, and we'll dig it instead. I took the shovel from the fat man's hand, spat in the palms of both hands, and then grabbed the shovel with a wipe, and continued to dig down, "Fat man, this soil is rammed enough to be honest, if you want to say that someone has touched it, I don't believe it." ”
The fat man and I switched hands, and I saw that a small hole one meter square was up to my knee.
The fat man shouted "stop", lay down outside the pit and began to carefully pull the soil. In a few moments, a boxy suitcase was revealed. He tossed the dirt aside and pulled the box out.
I was beside the fat man, and when the fat man reached out to pull the suitcase, I saw that the side of the suitcase, which was still sticking to the wet soil, was eaten and tattered by something. As soon as the fat man lifted it in his hand, the downward-facing side of the suitcase immediately cracked, and a gray 100 yuan bill was scattered all over the ground......
Most of these banknotes have been shredded, like a bird's nest in late spring, as if something had nested in a box.
I was amazed and shook the flashlight back and forth up and down the suitcase, and the fat man covered his eyes with his hands and said, "What are you doing?" Don't shake me. ”
Only then did I realize that the fat man didn't seem to know what was going on, and from his point of view, he didn't see it happening at all. I pointed to the box and said, "The money is all in pieces...... Damaged to this extent, you can't stick it together even if you want to. ”
The fat man only then went to look at the other side of the box, and I took a flashlight to help him light it up. The fat man touched the big hole on the side of the box with his hand, and unwillingly reached out like a hole. In an instant, he let out a miserable scream and threw the box to the ground in an instant.
One second I saw the fat man's face in pain, and the next second I saw his face become hideous. He didn't know what was being bitten on his hand, and blood was gushing out.
"Fat man......" I hurriedly stepped forward to drag the fat man, trying to help him stop the blood on his hands first.
The fat man broke free of my hand, stepped over to the box he had thrown out, and raised his foot to step on it.
At this moment, a two-foot-long white creature burst out of the chest. It has a snow-white body and a thick and large tail. The thing jumped forward half a meter high and fell to the ground, and when it turned around, it had triangular ears, a long, pointed mouth, and a fierce face with bared teeth.
"White Fox!" I blurted out, "White Fox ......"
The fat man burst into a loud voice, grabbed a shovel and stepped forward to shoot the white fox, and scolded in his mouth: "I'll fuck your eight-generation ancestors." ”
Seeing this, I hurriedly looked around, and when I saw that there was no one to take advantage of, I had to pick up a brick and go up to shoot the fox.
The fox was not intimidated by the battle between the two of us, and with the dexterity of his body, he jumped left and right, and circled around me and the fat man.
The fat man spat and held up the shovel and said, ", a little cub fox, and you still think you're a leopard?" ”
The fox's eyes lit up, and in the darkness of the night they turned green. I chased the fox's shadow with a flashlight, for fear that it would suddenly disappear and attack from behind. It doesn't matter if I turn around, there are more than a dozen white miserable little figures and more than 20 pairs of green eyes as far as the lights can reach......
I hurriedly said, "Fatty, we are surrounded. ”
"It's wicked, how did I mess with these foxes?"
"Fox, fox ......" countless pictures of the past instantly popped up in my mind, and in this short moment, I actually recalled the years I spent with the fat man in this life! This is the weird mountain spirit that Li Laodao said, this is the one in Taihang Mountain - the white fox!
The fat man held a shovel several times to shoot, but he never hit. The fox seemed to be deliberately playing tricks on the fat man, or waiting for the fat man to run out of energy.
In this short moment, my mind was dragged back to the Japanese military base in the Taihang Mountains - the brown potion was knocked over by a white fox in the hands of a monkey, and the white fox was chased and beaten by the fat man when he slipped out of the showroom.
Li Laodao said that the fat man will bring back a mountain spirit and mountain beast from Taihang Mountain, isn't it just to take revenge?
I blurted out, "Fatty, is this white fox the one under the Taihang Mountains?" ”
When the fat man heard my words, he suddenly shivered, and his speech was a little trembling: "When I came back yesterday, I told Ercui that I saw a group of white rabbits in the back of the car...... Could it be them? ”
"Don't be afraid, beat them up. Can't the two of us fight this bunch of little things? I took the stone in my hand, looked at the right place, and threw it out. Just now when I was talking to the fat man, I felt a trip under my feet, and in a flash, I saw that it was the bronze dagger I had lost. The dagger was stuck in the earth, revealing the handle of the dagger, and I don't know if it was here earlier or if it had been thrown here.
At this moment, I don't care so much, I picked up the dagger and put it across my chest with a low body and half squatted, and shouted: "Come on, come on!" I'm afraid you're grandchildren! ”
After I finished howling, the white fox that was spinning in a circle stopped, and the rest of the white foxes hidden in the dark also came out one after another. These white foxes were the first to hide in the fat man's box, and the remaining more than a dozen foxes of all sizes were behind the leading white fox. The foxes let out a "whoa, whoa, whoa, The fat man was ready to move when the white foxes gathered, and now he seized the opportunity, and pounced on a shovel, and this shovel went down, and in an instant, a few little foxes who had no time to dodge were slapped to death on the spot.
The foxes were no longer at ease for a moment, and they all pounced on me and the fat man. I was just wondering why these white foxes chose to confront us, but the fat man coldly went down with this shovel, and the two sides went to war directly.
Originally, this was the end of spring and the beginning of summer, and the fat man and I were already wearing short sleeves and shorts, and this battle was nothing more than a pyrrhic victory.
The foxes rushed left and right, and each one of them jumped more than a meter high. The fat man wielded his shovel so much that I had to distance myself from him. There weren't many white foxes attacking me, and the few of them just surrounded me, and I would pounce on me and drive me back to my place at the slightest movement. Most of the white foxes were concentrated on the fat man's side, and these white foxes turned around and jumped up when they landed, and after a while, the fat man saw many bloody wounds.
I tried several times to help the fat man, but this time I broke through the bore of a jumping fox with a single stroke of my knife, leaving a pile of entrails on the ground after it fell. At this time, several foxes around me also had red eyes, and when they attacked again, they had already begun to bite me, and they were much more fierce.
The dagger was also a short weapon, and it didn't take long for a few foxes to stand on the peak, often tearing off a piece of flesh from my body with a single jump. I don't have time to estimate the fat man, so I can only secretly say that he is asking for more blessings.
I don't know if it's because of the injuries on my body, my physical strength is getting weaker and weaker, or if these foxes are getting more and more excited when they see the blood, and the white fox in front of me is moving faster and faster, and there are more and more wounds on my body.
"Li Xiao, can you still do it?" The fat man shouted.
I encouraged support, and it wasn't long before I reached the end of the crossbow. I shouted to the fat man, "Fatty, you have to hold on." ”
In this fight, all the bits and pieces on my body didn't know where they flew. I remember that when I called for help, Big Brother had already been thrown out as a weapon by me earlier.
"Fuck, fuck, planted a mess on your own doorstep. I knew I couldn't beat it and ran away, but now I don't have the strength to run. ”
I replied, "That's bad luck." "I'm still a little bit of a fluke, and I'm a little bit of expectation. Now that the fat man and I have reached the end of the mountain, Li Laodao is like a god, he should also arrive, right? Besides, the bronze dagger is back in my hand, can it be a coincidence? Lu Fengqin and Li Tong have both said that I have a protective body, do they want to watch me die?
Just as I was stunned, a white shadow flew above my head in front of me and swooped down on my face.
In the distance, several flashlights shuttled through the forest, and bursts of dog barking sounded.
What's the most painful thing in the world? It's the despair that sees hope and can't turn over right now.
The white fox opened its claws and grabbed at my front door, and I subconsciously closed my eyes. The pain came very slowly, and I was wondering if it would blind my eyes and bring a few scars on my face that would never be repaired for a lifetime, when a familiar smell flew in front of me with the sound of the wind.
"Big dog!" I spoke before I opened my eyes.
The fat man was also pleasantly surprised, and shouted loudly: "Huanhuan, Taotao, Li Dada!" ”
Fortunately, our dog is called Li Dada, if it is called Uncle Li...... I'm sure I'll hear it as "your uncle".
The big dog landed on the ground, biting a white fox splattered with blood in its mouth. It opened its mouth and spat out, looked at me deeply, and then screamed a few times and threw itself at the fat man. At this time, the barking of dogs sounded, Huanhuan, Taotao and I exchanged battlefields with the big dog, the big dog fought alone with several white foxes led by the leader of the white fox, and the three puppies who were only half a year old ran to my side.
As soon as the three dogs arrived, the white foxes that attacked me were immediately frightened, one of them turned around and ran, and the remaining two stood stupidly and did not dare to move.
I pointed to the fleeing white fox and said to the three dogs, "Kill them for me, kill them!" Huanhuan and Taotao were slightly larger than Li, and they bit two little white foxes lying on the ground and trembling on the spot, and Li Da was my dog after all, and he was not white in size, so he jumped over the two frightened foxes and obeyed the order to chase the fleeing fox.
I got out here, and I didn't bother to check the injury, so I hurried to help the fat man. I shouted Huanhuan and Taotao and rushed towards the white fox where the fat man and the big dog were fighting. To say that this group of foxes fighting fat men is really powerful, with the presence of a leader, even if there are dead and wounded, their prestige will not be reduced. They seem to have come with a mortal heart, and even if they have already lost the upper hand, they will not retreat.
Huanhuan and Taotao rushed forward, and I also carried a dagger and planned to join the battle group.
The fat man suddenly said, "Li Xiao, come and help me." ”
As soon as I saw the fat man, I was scared into a cold sweat, and at this time, the fat man was splashed with blood all over his body, and he became a bloody man completely. I walked two steps to his side and said with concern, "Someone is coming over there, don't worry." ”
The fat man helped me and slowly sat down on the ground: "Oh, my mother, I'm tired." ”
At this moment, several dogs and foxes were fighting, and people in the distance also entered the field of vision of me and the fat man. As expected, it was Li Laodao who came with a few people.
I complained: "Uncle Li Dao, if you don't come again, I'll explain it here." ”
Li Laodao waved his hand, shouting that a few people would kill a few foxes first. Li Laodao checked the injuries of me and the fat man, and said: "Rabies vaccine and tetanus injection are inevitable, you two can keep it honestly in the past two or three months." ”
At this time, the big dog bit the white fox leader in his mouth, and the white fox finally admitted defeat, with deep sadness in his eyes. The leader of the white fox was defeated, and the remaining foxes were killed and wounded, and Li Dada, Huanhuan and Taotao, who took back the booty, were killed on the spot.
I pointed to the fox leader in the mouth of the big dog and said, "Uncle Li Dao, this is the one you are talking about?" ”
Li Laodao nodded: "This fox also has a history, and now it is different from the past, and it is also its blessing to be lowered by me." ”
"Surrendered by you?" Obviously he was bitten in the mouth by a big dog, isn't this Li Laodao talking nonsense with his eyes open?
"Who do you think this dog belongs to?" Li Laodao said with a smile, "In the sky and on the ground, things that happen by chance are either beautiful in heaven or deliberately arranged by someone, do you think all this is a coincidence or inevitable?" This is the Word. ”
Li Laodao called the big dog to his side, reached out and took out the white fox from its mouth and put it into a gray pocket, with a smile on his face, as if he had obtained an amazing treasure.
Li Laodao said to me and my father a long time ago, "A big mouse can't fight a cat, and a shrewd fox can't fight a dog", and he has already reached this point. Looking back, since the big dog arrived at the store, the abnormality of being familiar with Li Tong and Li Laodao has always had nothing to do with me. The friend Li Tong said was arranged to protect me from the first moment I met, and it was also the black dog I named "Big Dog".
I squatted down and shouted the name of the "big dog" to my side, and reached out to touch its head: "Big dog, will I never see you again?" "People can be ruthless, and they have been with the big dog for so long, how can they easily give up this relationship.
The big dog barked "whining", and there were tears flashing in his eyes.
Li Lao said: "This matter is over, and the big dog should leave this mortal land with me." Li Xiao's eldest nephew, don't be sad, isn't its child still by your side? By your side, by his side, by that girl's side. ”
I nodded and silently hugged the big dog's neck.
The fat man looked a little confused on the side, he didn't understand what was going on at all. The fat man didn't know Li Laodao either, but he could also see that Li Laodao was dressed as a Taoist priest, and he said: "This Taoist chief, you are the Li Dao uncle of the Li family that Li Xiaochang mentioned?" Thank you so much this time. ”
"Amitayus Buddha Heavenly Venerable." Li Laodao drank a word and said, "I will send these dogs home to you one by one." Now that you two are injured, I will entrust these donors to take you to the city hospital, and then you can contact your family yourself. The stakes are so high that I hope you will keep your mouth shut. This white fox is very vindictive, I can't guarantee that it will run out and harm people again. ”
Li Laodao told us a lot of coaxing and fright, and finally gave a lot of money to the people he brought to settle the matter. Separated from Li Laodao and Dagou, several people separated two people to carry me and the fat man on the road, and got in the car to send us to the city hospital.
At the request of me and the fat man, and because our injuries were similar, the doctor gladly gave us two a double room.
Along the way, the fat man and I didn't talk much to those curious people, after all, talking too much would hurt them.
At the hospital, the doctor asked us how we were injured, and the fat man and I lied that we had been bitten by a dog. The doctor looked incredulous, and after I pulled out a small stack of 100 yuan bills, he proposed a neutralization plan for us to do a blood test and then prescribe the right medicine.
I was admitted to the ward with the fat man, and it was not until the nurse had withdrawn from the injection that he asked me questions in a lonely way. In desperation, I told him the prophecy of Li Laodao, who had concealed him, and denied the statement that this white fox was the white fox from two years ago.
The fat man glared at me and shouted, "Why didn't you tell me about such an important matter earlier?" ”
I lay on the bed and turned my head to look at the ceiling, gasping in my mouth because of the pain, and said flatly, "Do I dare to tell you?" Do you believe it? I didn't even believe it and told you......"