Chapter 41: Desert Birds

The sixth is dead.

His body was covered with knife wounds, large and small, and it was bloody and miserable. In the end, it was cremated according to the custom of the village, and became a pile of unpleasant ashes.

Da Lei and Xiao Hai buried his head at the entrance of the village and buried it with the fifth master.

And Sister Zhu was tied up by the villagers and went to the patriarch's house. Sister Zhu was still wearing that dirty wedding dress, she sometimes cried and laughed, sometimes sang and sometimes roared, and when she was taken away, she turned her head and shouted desperately at Da Lei: "Leizi!" I'm getting married! Look! I'm not beautiful today! Hee-hee-hee-hee..... Look at it!! ”

Da Lei sighed, took out the bracelet given by Sister Zhu, looked at it again and again, the emerald green jade also revealed a trace of blood red, exuding an alluring light in the sun. I have an indescribable feeling in my heart, a good person, and if I say crazy, I will go crazy...

"Brother, what do you think these people will do with her?" Xiao Hai asked from the side.

"I don't know." Da Lei shook his head: "I guess there is no good fruit to eat." ”

"Is she evil? Why is this all of a sudden..."Xiao Hai muttered: "But at the beginning, I thought that this person's brain was abnormal, do you remember when she first came?" I saved her when she fainted, but this eldest sister woke up indiscriminately, pointing at my nose and shouting, which made me inexplicable...."

"Alas..."Da Lei sighed again, then suddenly remembered something, suddenly grabbed Xiao Hai's hand, and said, "What did you just say?" Obsessed??! ”

“... Be... Oh, yes. Xiao Hai looked at Da Lei strangely, and was startled by his sudden move: "What's wrong with you?" ”

"Evil .... That's right... Why didn't I think of it..."Da Lei let go of Xiaohai and sat on the ground with his buttocks.

Xiao Hai couldn't help but panic a little when he saw his strange behavior, and he also sat down next to Da Lei, reached out and touched his forehead, and asked cautiously, "Brother, don't scare me?" What the hell is it? ”

Da Lei looked around and made sure that there was no one around, so he slowly spoke: "I told you that I and Lao Liu are both people who have stepped into the ancient tomb and have been cursed by the tomb owner, but who dies and who lives is not something we can say, it depends on the will of the tomb owner..."

Xiao Hai suddenly realized: "Ah, you mean, Sister Zhu suddenly went crazy, it may have something to do with the tomb owner?" ”

Da Lei nodded.

"That means that the death of the sixth child is the will of the tomb owner?"

Da Lei nodded.

"That's... That that.... Does that mean you can walk out of the village and out of the desert with us? Xiao Hai's tone began to get excited.

"Shhhhh That's right. Da Lei glared at Xiao Hai and signaled him not to be so excited, although this result is undoubtedly the best for himself, but the sixth child has just left, and he has helped himself a lot, so he can't have the least respect for the deceased.

"That's great." Xiao Hai patted his chest and let out a long breath.

In fact, Da Lei still had some doubts in his heart, he always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it. Thinking of the strange behavior of the sixth child that night, and his "I'm sorry", what does it mean?

At night.

Da Lei couldn't fall asleep over and over, and Xiao Hai was also woken up by him, rubbed his eyes, and asked, "Brother, what's wrong with you?" ”

"It's nothing, it's just insomnia, maybe I've slept a little too much lately." Da Lei always felt tightness in his chest, sighed again, and remembered that he couldn't sleep at night before, and he would always go out with the sixth child, but now he is suddenly gone..... I can't help but feel sorry for him again.

But sad is sad, his death is actually a good thing for himself.

"Aren't you still unwilling to be for the sixth child? Everyone else is gone! Now we can only care about ourselves! Xiao Hai found that his voice was too loud, and said in a low voice: "Brother, wait a minute, I just ran back with Ganu, and there is such a thing in the village, even if we leave, we have to slow down, after all, there is no water and food." ”

Da Lei nodded: "I know." Then he asked, "How was your time in the desert?" As soon as I left, it was two months younger, and my mind was too chaotic at that time, and I didn't have time to ask you. ”

"It's peaceful." After a pause, Xiao Hai said: "I always thought that something special would happen, whether it was a sandstorm, a sandflow, a ghost, or an insect, but I didn't touch anything, not even a strong wind." Sometimes when I'm sleepy, I just find a place to squint for a while. Oh, I've been walking and walking in the desert, and in the end I forgot how many days I had been out and what direction I was in. It feels like time has stood still! If the only fear is that the food and water are gone, and finally die in the desert. ”

"And how did you find Ganu?"

"Once I was so tired, I hurried day and night, and finally fell on the sand, and I fell asleep in a daze, and my face hurt from the sand burning, but I was too lazy to get up, I don't believe you, I have scars on my arms and feet on my face." Saying that, Xiaohai stretched his feet in front of Da Lei's eyes.

Da Lei covered his nose in disgust and punched him: "Pick the serious one!" ”

Xiao Hai retracted his feet with a smile, and then said: "After a while, I felt itchy on my face, and I was afraid that insects would burrow into my ears, so I quickly got up, and I saw Ganu's little hand scratching and scratching on my face. ”

"In other words, in the end, it was not the Ganu you found, it was he who found you."

Xiao Hai shrugged indifferently: "It doesn't make a difference, as long as you come back safely." ”

"yes, as long as I come back safely." Da Lei repeated, and said suspiciously: "This kid is really not simple, it's quite strange that he has nothing to do in the desert for so many days." ”

"Well, but he grew up in the desert after all, and he certainly doesn't like us." Xiao Hai was not surprised.

"But this time I walked for more than 20 days, so long.... So what does he eat and drink? ”

"He's not stupid, food and water will definitely be ready. Besides, he lives in the patriarch's house, and there is a well at the door, so it is too easy to get some. ”

"Alas.... This kid ran for so many days to come back, and it is estimated that the punishment will not be light this time. ”

"The people in the village are now on Sister Zhu, the murderer, and they will definitely not be able to take care of Ganu for the time being." After Xiao Hai finished speaking, he yawned a long time: "I'll sleep first, if you don't worry, let's ask Ganu again tomorrow morning." ”

The next day

After Da Lei woke up, Xiao Hai was gone, he turned his head to look at the vacant seat next to him, and reached out to touch it cold. It seems that Xiaohai has been awake for a long time.

The house opposite the sixth child was already empty, and the same was true of Sister Zhu's room next to him, Da Lei sighed, and began to feel inexplicably sad again.

He shook his head, a person is dead when he is dead, Xiao Hai is right, now no one can take care of him except himself.

Da Lei stretched his waist and walked out of the door, looking up at the gray sky, he was a little relaxed. Then as soon as I turned my head, I saw Xiao Hai walking over with Ganu, this kid was obviously a lot more lively, talking and laughing with Xiao Hai, and he didn't dislike him as much as before.

It seems that the beautiful picture in my mind has come back to my eyes.... The three of them go to the market to sell pancakes together during the day, and find a restaurant to eat in the evening... When you settle down again, send Ganu to school, go to Uncle Xiang's house with Xiaohai to eat, or play chess with the uncles in the park....

"Uncle Lei!" Suddenly a force of gravity pounced on himself, Da Lei was unprepared, a fart fell to the ground, and he grinned in pain, and when he eased up, he saw Ganu's grinning face.

I don't know why, I think this kid is quite delicate.

"Canu! Don't mess around! Xiao Hai criticized a little seriously, and then helped Da Lei up and said: "I said that we could leave this place together in two days, and he was very happy." ”

Seeing Da Lei's puzzled expression, Xiao Hai explained: "I didn't tell him anything else, kid, he doesn't understand anything, I just told him about the world beyond the desert, he was very curious and excited." ”

Da Lei bent down and patted Ganu's little head: "In a few days, we will be able to leave this place, you wait." Then he got up and asked Xiaohai, "How is Sister Zhu?" ”

"I went to the patriarch, but I didn't see her, and when I asked the patriarch, he said that they had their own way of dealing with it." Xiao Hai scratched his head, then suddenly remembered something, pointed to the sixth child's house and said: "By the way, the patriarch said that we and the sixth child are both Han Chinese, and besides, we have lived in the village together for so long, and we are half of the family, according to the custom here, we have to take away one of his personal belongings." Why don't we go to his house and have a look? ”

Da Lei glanced at the house of the sixth child, but he didn't feel anything new, the houses of each family were similar, the same thing, and there was really no interest. Alas.... But he always felt that something was weird, Da Lei looked down at Ganu, and the little guy also looked up at him, smiling with a spring breeze.

It seems like... Ganu came back this time, and he was not reprimanded or punished....

Is it because of the sixth child that no one pays attention to this child? Or is the patriarch too old to be punished? It shouldn't be.....

Da Lei is not psychopathic or wants Ganu to be punished, but he just thinks that he has been running out for so many days, is it a little too calm to come back this time?

"Brother?" Xiao Hai stretched out his hand and shook it in front of Da Lei's eyes: "What do you want?" ”

"Oh, nothing." Da Lei came back to his senses: "If you are interested, you can go in and have a look, I will go to the grave of the sixth child and give him a cigarette." ”

said that it was in front of the grave, but in fact, there was not even a small drum bag.

At that time, Da Lei buried the sixth child's head in the ground and stepped on it flat with his feet, just like burying the fifth master's head that night. However, he inserted a small wooden stick in the soil of the two of them, buried the rice and sprinkled water, hoping to grow a man white after a while, although the leaves could not return to the roots, but this can be regarded as "falling flowers".

Da Lei sat on the ground, looked at the dry little wooden stick in front of him, took out a water bag and sprinkled the water on the ground, and said: "There is no wine and no tea here, I'm afraid you will be thirsty on the road, drink some water first, brother, when I go out, the wine will definitely be enough!" Now I owe it. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a gurgling roar.

Then there was a short fluttering sound, and sure enough, it was the vulture.

It flapped its wings and landed beside the small stick, then looked down at its feet.

Da Lei couldn't help but feel chills in his heart, in fact, the vulture was originally eating the corpses of animals, and it was extremely sensitive to the smell of blood, even if it was interested in the head of the sixth child, it was not surprising. It's just that I don't know why, Da Lei feels at the moment that this beast must know the sixth child.

The vulture looked at his feet for a while, and then raised his head to look at Da Lei, his eyes were cold and gloomy.

Da Lei also looked at it, the vulture was red all over, and there was a red ribbon tied around its neck.

He had seen this beast before, and that was when he was lost in the desert, and the ribbon was torn from his clothes. It's just that it was obviously dead at the time, standing on the fork of the tree, the body was stiff, and then somehow, it disappeared inexplicably.

Could it be that it was just a hallucination of oneself at the time? It's not dead at all?

But how many years have passed....

In fact, Da Lei is not afraid of it, in the final analysis, it is just a bird.

Thinking of this, Da Lei suddenly stretched out his hand, he really wanted to touch it to see if it was alive or not.

Before he could meet it, the vulture flapped its wings hard, and seemed to be very wary of Da Lei. Its eyes were even more fierce and cold than before, and it was even seen that Da Lei shuddered in the sun.

It gurgled in its mouth and flew away.

After a while, it disappeared from the sky.

"You shouldn't provoke it." A gloomy voice came from behind.

Da Lei was startled, and when he looked back, he saw that it was Drup, who was one of the younger villagers, and he could occasionally chat with Da Lei. Da Lei hurriedly stood up and asked, "What do you mean?" ”

Drupp glanced at Da Lei, looked at the gray sky, and said, "That's a desert bird, it only soars in the sky, and never gets close to people." Unless...."

"Unless what?"

"It's the one who is going to die."