Chapter 11: The Plague Is Coming
I pulled out my legs and rushed out, heading straight for Jiaolongpo.
Jiaolongpo had already surrounded a circle of people, and when they saw that I had come and all of them got out of the way, I rushed over and saw that the grave that had been buried last night had been dug up again, and a layer of camellia petals had fallen inside.
"Who? Who took my mother's body? Don't you want to live? I yelled at the villagers around me with red eyes.
Not just because of grief and anger, but more because of fear.
Grandma worked hard to suppress her mother's corpse, there must be a reason, and grandma died suddenly, this matter has always been in my heart, she has been raising Gu for decades, how can she be so easy to be counterattacked?
The appearance of the man in the cape last night made me even more suspicious that everything was not so simple.
Now that my mother's body is passive, I can't estimate what the consequences will be.
The villagers talked a lot, saying everything, and most of them were unbearable words.
Wang Tiezhu tried to persuade me to calm down, my mind was very confused at the time, and I didn't have the energy to deal with those who love to chew the root of the tongue, and I realized that things seemed to have become complicated from the night I didn't marry my brother.
No, before my grandmother died suddenly, to be exact.
The more I thought about it, the higher my heart raised, and I always felt that in the dark, there was a pair of gloomy eyes staring at me, and I subconsciously grabbed Wang Tiezhu's shoulder: "Find, carpet search, we must find the body back in the shortest possible time, otherwise something terrible may happen." ”
Grandma said that the resentment of the living Gu reached the highest three years after the death of the body, if it was the revenge of the living Gu, then the whole village would not be at peace.
As soon as my words fell, a man hurriedly ran over, shouting madly: "It's over, it's all over, the plague is coming, everyone run, run!" ”
"What are you yelling about, old lame, it's okay to drink your wine, don't get in the way here." Some villagers said impatiently.
The old lame man is more than eighty years old, the body is surprisingly strong, it is said that the family was quite wealthy in the early years, one-third of our Jiaolongpo tea plantations are his family, he himself is also good at management, the family business is thriving, and he was also elected as the patriarch of our village at that time.
But in the third year of his tenure as the patriarch, I don't know what happened, he seemed to be a different person overnight, one foot was still lame, he only did three things all day, drank and beat his wife and beat the children, the shot was quite heavy, he spent money outside, and the tea garden was not taken care of, and after a few years, his wife was overwhelmed, and secretly sold the remaining tea garden at a low price, left the village with the children and money, and never came back.
The old cripple didn't look for it, and continued his absurd life, and in a blink of an eye, more than fifty years passed, but now he looked more and more crazy, and the villagers didn't treat him as a human being at all.
He dangled the wine gourd, and his feet floated vainly: "Miao...... Miao Xiaosan got the plague, spots, all over the body, just like the old Gu woman, exactly the same, it's terrible, the plague is coming, it's too late to go, it's too late......"
After saying that, he fell to the ground with a bang, and leaned on the roots of the tree next to him and died of drunkenness.
And when I heard the name 'Miao Xiaosan', I chuckled in my heart, and then ran in the direction of Miao Xiaosan's house.
This Miao Xiaosan, the one who smashed the corpse with a stone last night, is not very old, in his thirties, but his parents died early, and he was raised by his grandmother, who had never been to school, and had no brute strength, and lived by helping the tea garden and lifting weights all year round.
As soon as I entered the courtyard of Miao Xiaosan's house, I heard a miserable cry, and when I rushed into the room, I saw Grandma Miao lying on the side of the bed crying hoarsely.
And Miao Xiaosan was tied to the bed, struggling all the time, his eyes were round, and his mouth was stuffed with cotton cloth, just a glance, I gasped.
Miao Xiaosan's body, all the exposed skin on the outside, was densely covered with something like ringworm, dark red, and his abdomen was slightly bulging, which reminded me of the bulging lower abdomen of my mother's corpse wrapped in red cloth.
I reached out to lift his shirt, but was grabbed by Wang Tiezhu, who followed me: "Don't touch it." ”
"Xiaocha, Xiaocha, you're here, save Xiaosan, please save Xiaosan." Grandma Miao hugged my leg and knelt in front of me, I tried hard to pull her up, but she didn't move.
She burst into tears: "Xiaocha, Xiaosan is the only blood and blood of our Miao family, if it weren't for him, I would have followed his parents a long time ago, I can't live without him, you help me, I'll give you whatever you want." ”
I opened my mouth, and my heart beat a drum, Wang Tiezhu stepped forward and said, "Grandma Miao, don't cry first, I'll do the ideological work of making small tea." ”
Grandma Miao let go of me, Wang Tiezhu took me outside the door, and I wondered: "Brother Wang, why don't you let me check Miao Xiaosan's body?" What are you asking me to come out for? Also, why did the old lame man say that Miao Xiaosan was exactly the same as my grandmother? ”
"Xiaocha, there's something I don't know how to tell you." Wang Tiezhu's face was full of solemnity, and he sighed, as if he had made some great determination, "The day before your grandmother died, I went door-to-door in the village to distribute heatstroke prevention leaflets, it was evening, your grandmother was lying on a rattan chair in the yard, and her spirit was not very good...... What is ringworm, I didn't think there was anything at the time, but now I think about it is very abnormal. ”