Chapter 13: The Devil
Demon, this word is not unfamiliar, it is different from demons, let alone ghosts. It's a kind of thing that stands on its own. In a remote place like a mountain village, all kinds of things are mixed, and demons are also real, this kind of thing is much taller than ordinary people, with long hair, blood-red eyes, and fangs, which is extremely terrifying.
But the devil is also divided into two kinds, one is the white devil, as the name suggests, this kind of demon is covered with white hair, mild temperament, is a harmless species of humans and animals, it has an item in its hand, it is a scale. If people get this scale, they can use it to weigh anything and turn it into gold.
The other type of demon is the black devil, which has black hair all over its body. This kind of demon has a tyrannical temperament and harms people and animals. If you do, your life is in danger.
Today, I will talk about a demon encounter, which also happened to Liu Wuye. The fifth master still talks about the demon color change.
It was still in the seven decades, when the big pot rice was popular, and each village and household responded to the call of the state to set up production teams according to the village, and people worked together to cultivate and work together, and then distributed collectively, and individuals matched rations by earning centimeters. At that time, Liu Wuye was also a member of the village, so he naturally needed to assign work in the team.
It is said that it was the autumn of one year, the crops in the field were harvested, and all kinds of grain crops were classified, and they were concentrated in the courtyard of the village one by one, because they were afraid of being stolen at night, so the team would arrange personnel to be on duty in the yard, and Liu Wuye was assigned as a duty officer. A day-long guard has always been peaceful.
On this day, it was Liu Wuye's turn to guard the yard again, and the fifth master had dinner early. Carrying a steel fork for grain and a pot of hot water, he walked to the yard. Because it is at the edge of the village, a grass hut was built on the edge of the yard for resting at night.
Slowly it got dark, and the fifth master squinted in the grass shed for a while, then picked up the steel fork and walked around the yard without any movement. Then he went back to the hut and continued to smoke dry tobacco to rest, normally three times a night. The fifth master is not in a hurry.
Unconsciously fell asleep again, when I woke up it was midnight, the fifth master sat up and smoked a bag of cigarettes, ready to inspect for the second time, at this moment suddenly heard the outside of the grass hut, there was a rustling sound, listening to the sound seemed to be very close, in the yard, the fifth master came to the spirit, thinking if someone was stealing food, quickly picked up the steel fork and walked out.
It was pitch black all around, but you could see the black grain stacks, which were high and low looming around. And by this time, the rustling sound also stopped. The fifth master carefully patrolled around the courtyard and did not find anything suspicious. It may be a wild animal, the fifth master imprinted such an idea in his mind. Because in autumn, all kinds of wintering animals also come out at night in search of something to eat. In particular, the tun rat in the field, this animal is big and eats a lot, which was extremely common in the mountain villages at that time.
The fifth master felt that there was nothing wrong, so he returned to the grass shed, and as soon as he entered the grass shed, the sound outside sounded again, and the sound was clearer. The fifth master turned around and came out quickly, and he must catch this thing that stole food. Thinking in his heart, he quickly circled around the yard. After checking the stacks of grain, and still no special circumstances were found, the fifth master began to wonder, what kind of thing is this.
The fifth master had a heart this time, and walked to the grass shed, but he did not enter the grass shed, but just squatted quietly on the edge of the grass shed. After a quarter of an hour in this way, I heard a clear rustling sound behind the pile of soybeans facing the grass shed, and the fifth master thought that he could be regarded as catching you, so he lowered his body and gently approached the pile of grain.
As it got closer and closer, the sound became louder and louder, and the fifth master went to the bottom of the grain stack, moved sideways and moved back little by little, and when he stretched his head to the back, he finally saw it clearly. I saw a humanoid thing, crouching behind the grain stack, so black that I couldn't see what it was. But I can vaguely see that it is a person's figure, but it seems to be very large.
The fifth master couldn't care so much, so he jumped out and shouted loudly: "What person? ”
I saw that the thing also trembled, as if it was shaken by a sudden roar. Squatting there, he slowly turned his head around. I saw a pair of fiery red eyes looking at the fifth master, these eyes were like light bulbs, which seemed very clear in the dark night. The fifth master screamed, frightened, and sat on the ground. Then the thing stood up, as tall as two people, and opened its large mouth, revealing a pair of fangs. The whole body is covered with hair, dark and shiny.
said that it was too late, and then it was fast, this thing stretched out its claws and rushed towards the fifth master, only to see that the claws were like steel claws, and the nails were several inches long, as sharp as knives. The fifth master was frightened by this, his legs didn't obey the call, and he couldn't get up if he wanted to climb, at this time the claw had come to the eyes of the fifth master, and the fifth master picked up the steel fork casually, and the claw just grabbed the wooden handle of the steel fork. At this time, the face of that thing was only a few inches away from the fifth master, and mucus flowed out of its mouth and dripped on the fifth master's face. The fifth master didn't care so much, let go of the steel fork, and a donkey rolled to the side, and ran when he got up.
That thing was caught in the air, shook the steel fork, and grabbed the back of the fifth master, at that time the fifth master wore a thick torn cotton jacket, and the nails of the claws were inserted into the back of the fifth master, but the cotton jacket was too thick and did not grasp through. The fifth master had already gotten up at this time, only to hear a loud sound, and tore a few long openings in the padded jacket. Taking advantage of this stall, the fifth master got up and ran. That thing is not far behind.
Fortunately, the fifth master is young and quite agile, but that thing is tall and very flexible, and the claws are stretched straight, just behind the fifth master's head. The fifth master could even feel the cold wind on the back of his neck. If you run like this, you will definitely not be able to outrun this thing, so the fifth master ran in a circle along the tall grain stack, and that thing also rotated with it.
I don't know how long it took to turn around like this, and suddenly I felt that the thing behind me was gone, the fifth master stopped and gasped, and looked back, it was pitch black, and there was nothing. The fifth master didn't dare to stay, so he hurriedly ran towards the grass shed, entered the grass shed and closed the wooden door, sat in the grass shed with his buttocks, and gasped for breath against the grass shed behind him. That's when I started to remember what had just happened. Look like this is to meet the devil, in the past, I heard the old people in the village mention this kind of thing. Looking at the appearance, it is a harmful black devil. The fifth master's heart was still not calm, and he lit a bag of cigarettes tremblingly.
As soon as he put the cigarette in his mouth, he listened to the haystack on his back, and with a bang, he stretched out a claw and grabbed it on the left shoulder of the fifth master impartially, and the force was very great. The fifth master's cigarette pouch was also scared off. The right hand unconsciously grabbed the claw that pierced into the shoulder. But the strength of that thing was too great, just listening to a pop, the head of that thing also drilled in, the big mouth was just in the back of the fifth master's head, the thing gasped, dripping like saliva, and bit directly at the back of the fifth master's neck.
At this point, the fifth master is also anxious. Tilting his head to the left, the mouth of that thing just bit the right hand on the fifth master's shoulder. The fifth master only felt that the little thumb of his right hand hurt like a prick. With a sharp tug of his hand, his little finger was broken, and blood sprayed on the fifth master's face. The fifth master's left hand touched the ground, and just touched the kettle with hot water, picked it up, ignored it, and poured it on the head of the thing behind him.
I heard a thud, and then the thing shrank its head and hands back. At this time, the fifth master's eyes were dark, and he lay down on the ground.
When the people came to the courtyard at dawn, they saw the fifth master lying in the grass shed with a bloody face, and they were all messed up. probed the fifth master's snort, knew that the fifth master was still alive, and quickly rescued the fifth master and carried it home. Then the doctor from the township was invited. Examined the wound of the fifth master. I saw that on the fifth master's left shoulder, something grabbed five blood holes, two inches deep. And the little finger of the fifth master's right hand, Qi Gen'er's break, the little thumb is gone.
Liu Wuye rested at home for more than ten days before he could barely get out of bed and move, and no matter who asked about what happened that night, he kept silent. It has long been speculated that it was attacked by wild beasts. But the real thing, only the fifth master himself understands in his heart, and he picked up a life.
After so much time, the fifth master was fortunate to tell me about it. I did meet the black devil that night, and the fifth master was fated and was not bitten to death. For the many people who were bitten to death in the countryside at that time, they were often not all beasts in the mountains, and they could escape under the claws of the black devil, I think it was the fifth master alone.