Chapter 11: The Cruel Truth
"In the afternoon, I seem to have heard the village chief say that after the evening ceremony, the victim's family will invite the witch doctor to drink." Gou Xiaoxiao said, "The witch doctor is willing to come back at any time, and we can hurry up and find more clues while he is away." ”
The other two nodded hurriedly, and the nervous hands of the three began to tremble, still rummaging through the boxes and cabinets to find something. They are like the most honest poor students in the class, they don't even have the psychological quality to copy answers, especially Gou Xiaoxiao, her heart is about to beat out of her throat, and she has to force herself to use her potential to find clues quickly.
Now that Sister Lin has kicked her, Gou Xiaoxiao, who has no thighs to hug, also wants to live.
The three of them fell into a strange euphoria, and no one paid attention to the baby in the New Year's painting on the wall, and actually blinked his eyes.
The house was very small, Li Jun rummaged through some big places where people could hide, but still didn't find Wang Mengxi, he sat on the ground and blamed himself. He remembered why he was able to escape from the bite of countless monsters, because at that time, Wang Mengxi's voice kept saying to him: "Li Jun, I believe in you, don't give up." ”
"Gou Xiaoxiao, I think something is wrong with that painting, you put the painting away and don't make a noise." 0521, who had always been silent, suddenly spoke, it seemed that it had been online a little longer today than yesterday, Gou Xiaoxiao suddenly had this illusion.
It was a very strange New Year's picture, and the doll on it actually wore a pair of red shoes. didn't think about it so much, Gou Xiaoxiao tore off the painting and stuffed it into her pocket while people were not paying attention.
"I seem to have found something strange." Shi Ruan walked over with a black jar, "This jar is locked in a box, and there happen to be some gossip patterns on the outside of the box that I have cracked, and I feel that this is something very important." ”
Gou Xiaoxiao opened the jar and found a small paper bag inside, which contained some finely crushed medicinal powder.
As soon as he saw this medicinal powder, Li Juntang's eyes suddenly shot a terrifying light: "I have seen this thing, in my mentor's laboratory, this is the medicine of flowers to grass." The main ingredient is that the flower turns into grass, mixed with other herbs, and if we get this, don't we get the biggest secret of the village? ”
Looking at his ecstatic look, Gou Xiaoxiao had a bad intuition.
Sure enough, Li Jun became depressed again the next moment: "Even if I find this and get out, I don't know where Mengxi is." I'll have to take Dream Creek with me. ”
"Perhaps, I know where she is." Gou Xiaoxiao said uncertainly.
"What are you talking about-" Li Jun's words were interrupted by an angry roar, heavy footsteps sounded in the yard, and a hoarse and ugly voice roared, "What bed bugs have mixed into my house?" God will punish you on my behalf, these damned people, my house is a forbidden place for the whole village, and no one is allowed to step in. ”
The witch doctor actually came back at this time, and the three of them were so shocked that they quickly jumped out of the window on the back wall and ran away.
Before leaving, Shi Ruan didn't know what he tripped over, but Gou Xiaoxiao reacted quickly and pulled him. The three of them ran silently, Li Jun ran the slowest with inconvenient legs and feet, but Gou Xiaoxiao, who ran at the front, did not forget him, and dragged him with his crutches desperately.
Fortunately, the witch doctor only scolded a few words, and didn't really chase it out.
Several people ran with a lack of oxygen in their brains, and finally stopped in a clearing, and they all fell to the ground and gasped for breath.
"Thank you...... Xie ......" rolled his eyes, but Li Jun still said thank you.
Gou Xiaoxiao waved her hands and panted, she really didn't expect that she would be able to run the fastest one day.
Shi Ruan's eyes were red, and he whispered in Gou Xiaoxiao's ear: "Brother dog, when I fell down when I went out just now, someone was deliberately tripping me." ”
Gou Xiaoxiao's eyes widened, and Shi Ruan continued to say fearfully: "I vaguely saw a baby's arm flashing by, as if it was broken, and I didn't see it clearly. ”
"Don't say anything yet." Gou Xiaoxiao said while learning the lines in the TV series.
"Brother Dog." Now Li Jun is really convinced of this righteous gangster, "You just said that you know where Mengxi is?" His face was full of anticipation and apprehension.
"Hmm." Gou Xiaoxiao's face pretended to be a row of profound, but in her heart she was begging for 0521, "System, then I'm going to ask a question now, do you know where Wang Mengxi is?" ”
"It's actually this kind of low-end problem." The system was very dismissive, but still answered the question compassionately, "The answer is simple, well." You can find the specific bite yourself, and by the way, I remind you that although she still has vital signs, if you can't save her before dawn, she really won't have a chance. ”
Li Jun looked at his dog brother expectantly, stood up with a god, stretched out a finger and pointed in a certain direction: "Over there, in the well." ”
"I won't be in the well, I've looked for it." Li Jun's face was full of disbelief.
"If you don't believe me, then I can't help it, and she'll die in a while." Gou Xiaoxiao said coldly.
"Oh, you're stupid." Shi Ruan said angrily, "Can't someone put her in after you went to the well to see it, why are you so brainless." ”
Realizing the limitations of his thinking, Li Jun immediately couldn't sit still, and rushed over to the well to look inside. This is a man's well, and the well is empty, and he shouted a few times, but no one answered him.
Gou Xiaoxiao and Shi Ruan were not idle, they walked to the women's well and looked around, but they didn't find anything. Gou Xiaoxiao was suspicious, thinking that system was really so unreliable, but soon, she found that she couldn't move, and she seemed to have entered another world.
Countless smiling faces of babies appeared on the surface of the water below, all giggling and innocent. But Gou Xiaoxiao sweated like rain, because her ears were full of cries from the other side of the stage, heart-rending cries. She raised her head suddenly, and the stage was like a movie, and it was still the witch doctor dancing the gods, but looking at the costumes of the people around her, it should have been hundreds of years ago.
There was still a pregnant woman in the middle, but she was crying and struggling, and the people around her were cold and numb, until the witch doctor poured her the bowl of medicine. Flowers turn to grass, harmonious gender perfection, thousands of years of resource balance and continuity, these words change one by one in Gou Xiaoxiao's heart, and she seems to have finally caught the biggest secret of this village.
She suddenly remembered the strange little girl in the village chief's house, she had called her brother, brother, brother, but now she recalled it with great fear, and at first Gou Xiaoxiao thought she was shouting herself. Actually, no, if she was really calling herself, she only needed to call her little brother once, Zijiang was very smart, and she definitely didn't stutter.
She shouted her own brother, but not the living Chijiang, but her five dead brothers. Because they are not girls, they were chosen "naturally". The so-called flower to grass is just a big scam, so Li Jun and his teacher can't check the active ingredients in the potion at all, because this thing can't choose gender at all.
The only thing that can really choose gender is providence and human means.
The villagers here have always had this pious and almost ignorant method, insisting on the harmony of a son and a daughter in every family here. The witch doctor, who seems to have brought a godsend to people, has countless dead babies enshrined in the room.
It's not just him, it is estimated that the duty of the witch doctor in Japu Village in the era was to worship the souls of these babies and prevent them from coming out to make trouble because of their grievances, but now they still come out in the thick fog to attack people, and they still play marbles in the corridor in the middle of the night, just like Zijiang's brothers, maybe they don't know that they are dead, and they still want to continue to play with their sister.