The so-called cat corpse is also called corpse transformation in rural areas, but this situation is extremely difficult to form, and it can only occur once in decades or even centuries.

When the dead husband and the man-eating cat are pointed at her, the wife feels a kind of despair that is about to come. She can die, but her children cannot. So, while holding the child, she quickly picked up the broom she had used to clean before, and first hit the wild cat. The wildcat meowed and dodged. Immediately after, she went to beat her husband again, but she still couldn't do it after all. The broom hit the man's chest, and the man held him, jumped twice in place, and fell to the ground, unable to move.

The sound alarmed the neighbors, and everyone hurried to see the situation at the scene, and their scalps were numb. An old gentleman, who knew a little better, instructed a few young men with young strength to move the man back to the door panel, and told the man's wife that the man must be buried at noon, when the sun is at its highest. As for the man's mother, the mother-in-law who was bitten to death by a wild cat, she asked that it be burned that night and buried together at noon on the next day. ”

Chang Tai had heard similar statements, but at this time, he was more interested in the wild cat that bit people to death.

Rouge looked at him and said, "Gone, no one knows where that wild cat went?" ”

"Then what does this cat's corpse have to do with the grave in front of it?" Chang Tai asked, faintly feeling an unusual coolness.

"Because that lady is a cat!" Rouge said word by word, and pointed to the grave again, only this time to the grave of the lady. Chang Tai saw that there was a cat nesting on the top of the head without a grave, staring at them with green eyes.

If it's just a cat, Chang Tai is not afraid, after all, he is a fast catcher, in addition to a righteous body, there is also a strong spirit. The so-called demon is afraid of the wicked, and the blood-stained sword in his hand is no less than the executioner's broadsword that looks at people's heads. But now, he saw not just a cat, but a monster with the head of a cat.

The monster opened its mouth and made a sound like a spring, but its hands and feet crawled over in strange postures.

Chang Tai looked wary and blocked Rouge behind him. Rouge glanced at it, and did not object, but just reached into the cloth bag and silently took out a hand-rattled bell.

The monster shook its head from side to side, staring at the bell in Rouge's hand, took a small half step back, followed its body, but quickly pounced towards Chang Tai and them.

"Meow"

The monster screamed, clutching Chang Tai with both hands, but the cat's head went around his neck and tried to bite Rouge.

The monster was extremely strong, and it smelled of carrion that had just crawled out of the dirt, and even some maggots were crawling around there. Chang Tai was worried about Rouge's safety, but he couldn't break free for a while.

"Attacking her, this thing, except for the head, is just a rotten corpse." Rouge said, holding the bell up in front of the monster's cats and shaking it gently.

Chang Tai saw the opportunity, raised his foot and kicked the monster's right leg, the monster was unsteady on its feet, and pounced ahead. Chang Tai took advantage of the situation and broke the monster's hands and flashed aside. The monster was not bad, at the moment when the body fell, he actually wanted to bite Rouge's neck, but unfortunately, she only had one cat head to use after all, Rouge took a half step back with a cold face, and the bell in his hand shook again.

The monster seemed to feel some kind of pain, opened its mouth, and let out another "meow", and the cat's head stretched forward desperately, as if to struggle out of its body. Rouge's eyes changed, and he said to Chang Tai: "It wants to escape!" ”

"Run?" Chang Tai didn't know why, just looked at the thing lying on the ground. The woman's body, the cat's head, is indescribably weird.

"It wasn't hers, it was cut down by the stupid villagers after the cat was shocked. If you look at the neck, the incision is extremely uneven, and it looks like the same stupid knife used to cut vegetables at home. After the burial, the cat followed the smell into the grave, but was taken as his own head by the shocked corpse, and was forced to press it back, so it became this half-cat, half-human monster. ”

The first time Chang Tai heard about such a thing, he just looked at that monster, and it was difficult to accept it for a while.

Rouge, however, seemed to be accustomed to seeing it, and pointed to the monster on the ground and said, "Cut off her cat's head, and it will be good!" ”

Chang Tai saw that Rouge didn't seem to be joking, so he took out the long sword he was wearing and slashed it neatly.

Grunt, the cat's head rolled aside, and the woman's body lay quietly, not moving.

Rouge bent down, pinched the cat's ears, picked up the cat's head, looked at the grave not far away, and said, "The village should not be far from here." ”

Chang Tai hummed lightly and pointed to the female corpse lying on the ground: "What should I do about this?" ”

"Keep it, after dawn, the villagers will deal with it."

After Rouge finished speaking, he took the cat's head and left first.

Chang Tai glanced at the headless female corpse on the ground, thinking to himself that if he got up tomorrow morning and was seen by the unsuspecting villagers, he didn't know if something else would happen. But this idea also turned around, followed in the footsteps of Rouge, and entered the village.

Rouge is wearing a robe, but Chang Tai is wearing civilian clothes, such a combination, when he enters the village, it is inevitable that he will not attract the attention of others, especially Rouge is still carrying the cat's head and directly finds the patriarch's house. Chang Tai asked Rouge how he found the patriarch's family. Rouge didn't raise his head, but only said, "Look at the house!" Then, Chang Tai understood. In such a poor and remote place, only the patriarch can live in the best house in the village. Moreover, the ancestral hall is still a little different from other places.

There was three knocks at the door, and the patriarch came out in a garment, and according to his age, he was about fifty years old, and his hair and beard were all white. Looking a little tired, seeing Rouge and Chang Tai, he originally wanted to ask a few words according to the custom, but his eyes met the cat's head that Rouge was carrying in his hand, his lips touched up and down, and he went out again, looked left and right, and said to the two of them: "Come in!" ”

Chang Tai felt that the old man's behavior was strange, especially the actions just now, it was like the bandits were connecting. But Rouge had already gone in with the cat's head, and Chang Tai could only follow in.

The patriarch closed the door and led them all the way into the room, only to look into Rouge's eyes and ask, "Is there an accident on the mountain?" ”

In the first sentence, he didn't ask about the identities of the two, let alone the intentions of the two, but directly asked if something happened on the mountain. Rouge nodded, resting the cat's head on the table, the two cat's eyes were still dripping and turning.

The patriarch was frightened for a while, and missed his eyes, so he asked the first sentence: "I don't know where the two of you came from, where they went, and how they met this evil thing." ”

"Jingshi catches Changtai quickly!" Chang Tai said, took out a brand, this is the identity tag worn by the Jingshi catchers, although the patriarch has not seen it, but from the workmanship of the brand, as well as the pattern carved on the head of the card, it is very expensive.

"It turned out to be Chang Daren from the capital, so this girl is"

"Rouge!" Chang Tai just wanted to open his mouth to introduce the patriarch, but Rouge reported his name first, but he just reported his name, and didn't say anything else.

The patriarch sighed and didn't ask, Chang Tai naturally didn't need to explain anything else, he only asked about the female corpse on the mountain and the cat's head.

The patriarch often sighed, invited the two to sit down, and then said: "Since Wang Chong's daughter-in-law went to the ground, I have always felt that this heart is not steady, you think about it, a good person, even if he dies, you can't let the family be in a different place?" This is to be a ghost, but I am afraid that there will be resentment. When I saw you, and then I saw the cat's head in the hand of the rouge girl, I knew that there must be something wrong on the mountain, but we were lucky enough to meet two of them, so that the Wang family would not harm our entire Zhuangzi. ”

"You said that the female corpse is the daughter-in-law of Wang Chong's family?"

"It's not, don't talk about this female corpse, even this cat belongs to Wang Chong's family. What a wickedness, what a wickedness! The patriarch kept pounding the table, and the cat's eyes turned around, and finally fell gloomily on the patriarch's face. The patriarch was startled, hurriedly put his hand down again, leaned slightly sideways, avoided the cat's gaze, and said: "This matter, speaking of which, is also an ugly thing for our Wang family, which can be regarded as a family misfortune, a family misfortune." ”

"What the hell is going on?"

"Alas!" The patriarch thumped his hands, sighed often, and said, "Speaking of which, this matter is all about Wang Chong's uncompetitive father." The Wang family has been a soil doctor for generations, don't look at it, my lord, this soil doctor is nothing when he arrives in a big place like your capital, but in our poor and remote country, he is almost like half a god. In this Zhuangzi, no matter whether it is a major or minor illness, a man is injured, or a woman gives birth, it is impossible to leave Wang Chong's family. Wang Chong's father is in charge of seeing a doctor, and Wang Chongniang is a stable woman, so even I, the patriarch, have to look at them a few times, who told us to have a time to beg others?

When Wang Chong was sixteen years old, he said that his daughter-in-law was Zhuangzi next door, and her name was Shui Ling, and she looked like a Shui Lingling. In less than a year after entering the school, he added a big fat boy to the Wang family, and added a girl the next year. Wang Chong's father didn't hide his selfishness, and taught Wang Chong all his skills. On weekdays, Wang Chong's father treats people in Zhuangzi, and this Wang Chong is diligent in his legs and feet, so he goes to the village to see it. In addition, this child is motivated, and he has to go to a big place to learn some skills from time to time, and Wang Chong's father also supports it.

On the surface, this Wang family can be described as prosperous and harmonious. But you don't know, this Wang Chong's father is good at everything, it's not good at all, he likes to harm little girls, little daughters-in-law or something, but he only does it occasionally, and he hasn't made any big trouble. The people in Zhuangzi, with one eye open and one eye closed, have also passed. But no one expected that this old thing would actually use this crooked head and crooked brain on his daughter-in-law. ”

Chang Tai's face changed, obviously he didn't expect that there was such a secret behind this female corpse.

Rouge stared at the cat on the table, his eyes were still cold, and he couldn't see any change in his heart.

(Education 123 Literature Network)