Case XVII: Once upon a time 1
introduction
In a remote mountainous area of Province G, there is a village that is about to be forgotten by the world. It is hidden in the mountains, silently waiting for time to tear it away from history until it is forgotten by the world.
But an old man in the village remembers something.
The old man said that once upon a time, there was a woman who had no children for many years after marriage, was kicked out of the house by her mother-in-law and lived in the mountains, and was found at the entrance of the village after being missing for more than eight months.
The woman behaved insanely, unkempt, and ragged, but what was even more surprising was that she was carrying a baby less than a month old in her arms.
The villagers said that the child was born of a madwoman and a long-haired wild man in the mountains.
The old man also said that in the past, in the mountains more than ten miles away from the village, there used to be a mysterious small city, in which a mysterious army was stationed.
Occasionally, a few fur-haired monsters with strange furs would run out of the town, and they would either be killed by guns and dragged back, or they would disappear into the mountains.
Afterward......
body
"Long ...... Hair...... Blame? Jiang Tian frowned at Xu Ang, and said angrily: "Brother Xu, is it a Shennongjia savage or a Changbai Mountain savage?" Big brother, I'm about to take the college entrance examination, and I'm not interested in caring about any wild man or some hairy monster. ”
"Hey, Xiaotian, wait don't go." Xu Ang hurriedly grabbed Jiang Tian, who was about to return to the classroom, "It's not that simple, remember Zhang Jie?" ”
"Zhang Jie? That one...... You mean......"
Xu Ang nodded and said, "We got the news that someone in a mountain village in Province G said that they had seen long-haired monsters of different colors appear in the nearby mountains, so I wonder if those long-haired monsters were also injected with 'angel' potions like Zhang Jie." ”
“so?”
"So, we need to go to that mountain village, anyway, aren't you about to have a long May Day holiday, just go on vacation."
"It's not...... Brother Xu, three days is also called a long holiday? ”
“……”
G Province, Yingshan, Yingshanling Plank Road.
"The inexplicable May Day 'long' holiday, inexplicably running to such a remote place, and inexplicably crawling half to death." Jiang Tian stepped on the stone steps one by one, panting.
"It's almost there, little brother." A young man in his twenties in the lead looked back and smiled and said, "Let's walk another mile to the corridor in front of us, and then we can rest for a while." ”
"Xiao Zhang, what is the corridor?" Xu Ang asked.
Xiao Zhang said: "The corridor is what we call it here, in fact, it is a cement pavilion, where people can rest for a while when they are tired of walking. When I arrived at the corridor, I was almost at the Yingshan Reservoir, and after crossing the reservoir dam, I walked a little further to my house. ”
Ten minutes later, the group arrived at the corridor in Xiao Zhangkou.
This is a simple cement house built on the inside of the plank road, with only a few stone benches in it, and the roof paved with tiles has been somewhat dilapidated after years of wind and rain.
"Oh my God, I can finally rest for a while." When Jiang Tian saw the stone bench, he sat down without caring whether it was clean or not, rubbing his swollen and numb legs.
Xu Ang looked at Jiang Tian, smiled helplessly, and then turned his head to look at Xiao Zhang and asked, "Xiao Zhang, while you are resting now, you can tell us in detail about the long-haired monster." ”
Xiao Zhang nodded, sat on the stone bench and said slowly to Xu Ang and Jiang Tian.
"This year, my grandfather is 90 years old, and my parents told me that they would have to come back for their birthday party anyway, so I asked Captain Shensen for a day off. The Shen team is very good, and they actually gave me three days off to let me accompany my family. When I got home, my grandfather was very happy to see me, saying that I had been in college in province Z and had been a police officer for so long, that I hadn't seen him for six or seven years, and that he had been talking to me all the time, and that he had to tell me stories like I did when I was a child. I feel very bad in my heart, I haven't seen him for so many years, and I can't fulfill my filial piety. I joked with my grandfather that I was tired of hearing your story when I was a child, and I can still recite it. ”
But Grandpa said that in the past few years, he has inexplicably remembered many things that he had forgotten or remembered very vaguely. It stands to reason that people live older and remember less and less, and I don't know if it is because of the providence in the dark or what, he said that it is necessary to tell me about it, even if it may be just a dream he once had. ”
Grandpa said that the first thing he remembered was about that crazy woman more than fifty years ago. Once upon a time, there was a family surnamed Li in the village, and the old couple had only one disabled son. Without a left hand, he married a woman from a neighboring village in his thirties. Although the woman doesn't look very good, and her son doesn't like her very much, the old mother said that it has been a matter of concern for many years anyway, and she just hopes that the woman will lay an egg as soon as possible to continue the incense for the old Li family. But the days passed, and the woman's stomach was stunned. The old mother's face is getting darker day by day, the grievances on the woman's face are getting more and more day by day, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are also quarreling every day. Mother-in-law scolds women for being useless, they can't even give birth to a son after so long, what are you going to eat, what's the use of raising you. The woman had been gnawing books in elementary school for a few years, saying that women didn't treat her as a human being, and that the problem was her son, who had been stunned for two years and couldn't get into her. ”
Finally, one day the mother-in-law kicked the woman out of the house and asked her to go back and forth, and the Li family did not raise idlers. The woman's family is ashamed, and in order to keep her other two sons from being looked down upon, they also say that they don't recognize this daughter. The woman has since been in this vast mountain and has disappeared without a trace. Eight or nine months later, just when everyone was about to forget about the woman who didn't lay eggs, the woman suddenly returned. ”
Strange to say, it was her mother-in-law who drove the woman out of the house, and it was her mother-in-law who was the first to see her at the entrance of the village. When the old man saw her, the woman was crazy, unkempt, ragged, and blind, babbling something in her mouth. Seeing the old man, the woman's eyes suddenly had some light, and she frantically stuffed a thing wrapped in rags in her arms into the old man's arms, and kept shouting: Yours, you want, you want, yours, you want eggs! You want eggs! Only then did the old man see that in the rags was a baby less than a month old, staring at him with a pair of clear eyes. ”
"Wait." Jiang Tian said, "Officer Zhang, do these things have anything to do with the long-haired monster we are looking for?" ”
Xiao Zhang smiled, "Of course it matters." My grandfather said that there used to be a legend of a hairy monster in Yingshan. It was also more than 50 years ago, when the village's production brigade was smelting earth steel at the entrance of the village, a villager pretended to add a few pieces of firewood and then ran to the nearby mountains to lazily sleep. In a daze, I felt something licking my face. When he opened his eyes, his soul was almost gone. I saw a thing with more than ten centimeters of green hair all over his body, stretching out his light green tongue and licking it around on his body. This thing looks like a human, and you can see the eyes, nose, and mouth, but the whole body is an eerie green. The pupils are dark green, the skin on the face that is not covered with green hair is also green, the lips are dark green, and you can see that the nails of this thing are dark green, like an orangutan dyed with green paint. ”
"Humph!" Jiang Tian thumped his thigh hatefully, "'Angel' Elixir." ”
"Huh? What elixir? "Xiao Zhang is a little confused.
"Oh, it's okay, something else, Officer Zhang, you go on."
"Okay. Uh, where are you talking? Oh, the villagers were very frightened when they saw the green-haired monster, and hurriedly ran back to the entrance of the village, but the green-haired monster did not chase after him. The villagers told the others about it, saying they had seen a ghost. As a result, when the others heard this, they began to point their heads at the villager and scolded, saying that he was lazy, that he was a traitor to the collective, that he spread the superstition of cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods, and hung him from a tree at the entrance of the village for three days and three nights, and did not give him anything to eat or drink, and by the time his family got permission to put him down, the people had already run out of anger. ”
"A bunch of maniacs." Xu Ang scolded.
Later, a villager who went out to collect medicine returned to the village two days later covered in blood. He said that when he was collecting medicine more than ten miles away, he saw a small city in the dense forest, dozens of large cement houses, and troops wearing military uniforms and carrying guns, and he also said that he saw a group of long-haired monsters of different coat colors lined up in a row. He wanted to take a closer look, but was spotted by the troops. The troops fired a shot at him, hitting him in the left forearm. He thought he wouldn't be able to run away, but when the hairy-haired monsters heard the gunshots, they suddenly went crazy and fled in all directions. Some of the hairy monsters attacked the troops, and then they were shot and killed by the troops, and some ran into the mountains. ”
The villagers took advantage of the chaos and hurried away. At this time, the people in the village were a little convinced, because the villager who was shot had always been an active member of the village, and it was impossible to lie. A day later, a few people in military uniforms came to the village and chatted with the village chief for a while, and the village chief summoned the villagers and said that the place where there was a hairy monster was a secret base of the state, a place that could not be known to foreign sabotage forces or domestic reactionary forces, so everyone must keep it secret and must not go back to that place. When the villagers heard that they were keeping secrets for the state, they were very enthusiastic, and they bit their fingers one after another and swore that they would keep it secret. ”
Later, one after another, some villagers saw long-haired monsters in the nearby mountains, and they may have escaped from that base. However, the hairy monsters did not attack people, but just crouched on the ground from a distance and watched people. Some villagers said that he had also seen hairy monsters in tears watching them. ”
"I see." Jiang Tian thought for a moment and asked Xiao Zhang again, "Then what does the crazy woman you said have to do with the long-haired monster?" Wait, you mean, that kid? ”
"The boy is quite smart, yes, when the people in the village saw the madwoman's child, they called him mongrel. They all said that the child was born to a madwoman and those hairy monsters. ”