Chapter 17: A Loving Mother Seeks Her Son
The sound came too suddenly, but Wu Zheng was startled, and before he could calm down, there was another loud shout outside, and then there was a babbling rap with the wind, both male and female, mixed with the beating of many musical instruments, and accompanied by the humming of the bell, which can be said to be very weird.
It wasn't until the wall clock rang twelve that all the sounds suddenly stopped, and the whole world fell silent, but only two or three seconds later, there was another bang outside, similar to a bang, and then a female voice sang in a hanging voice: "Child-"
The voice was ethereal and ethereal, distant and near, as if it had come from another world.
After singing a few words, Wu Zheng heard the famous local opera "Mother Seeking Child", which tells the story of an old woman who walked through countless mountains and villages in more than ten years, and finally found her lost child.
This opera is deeply moving, and it is also quite well-known in the local area.
However, it is now a veritable midnight, there are no stars in the dark sky, there are no lights on the dark road, not to mention people on the street, not even a wild dog, where will there be a troupe singing at this time? Do you want to sing it to ghosts?
Thinking of this, Wu Zheng's scalp instantly tingled.
The more the female voice sang, the more miserable it became, and finally became crying and crying, very sad, and the old mother's feelings of missing her son were vividly expressed.
If it had been changed to hear this drama on weekdays, Wu Zheng would inevitably choke up and cry, but now he couldn't sympathize at all, but in an instant, he had goosebumps all over his body and cold sweat on his back, and his hairs stood up, almost pushing the heavy cotton clothes off his skin.
It's so weird! Hearing this mournful tune in the middle of the night when no one is around, the timid are afraid that they can be scared to death directly.
Immediately afterwards, Wu Zheng found an even stranger phenomenon, the mouse has been in a daze since he woke up just now, his eyes are hazy, and now he is a little delirious, not only is he not afraid of the weird opera, but he squints and listens carefully, smiling, and enjoying it very much!
Could it be that the white powder medicine that Liu Banhang has not passed yet? The only brother who could fight side by side with him also became this stupid, Wu Zheng was completely panicked and at a loss.
The mouse suddenly stiffened, his smile disappeared, he took a step forward with one foot, slowly raised his hands, compared various movements in the opera, and opened his mouth to call out: "Mother-"
When the female voice outside heard this, she immediately sang a sentence back, and the mouse kept pacing back and forth in the room with her feet, and her hands kept moving, and she began to babble and sing, singing and harmonizing with the female voice, it was clearly singing "Mother and Child"!
When he sang to the emotional part, the mouse burst into tears and trembled, as if the woman he sang to him was really his mother.
Wu Zheng was stunned for a moment, he knew the mouse very well, he didn't know that the mouse could sing a big opera, and he sang it to such a standard, this is really too strange and weird, thinking of the fox spirit he had just experienced, Wu Zheng was suddenly shocked, could the mouse be possessed by evil spirits?
At this moment of stunnedness, the mouse suddenly shouted "mother", pulled out his legs and rushed out of the door, disappearing into the night in the blink of an eye.
Wu Zheng was suddenly anxious, hurriedly found a flashlight, and chased after him without thinking about it.
It was midnight, the whole village was quiet and terrible, there was only a light from the flashlight on the winding village road, the mouse was running in front of him while posing, his mouth was singing, Wu Zheng was chasing after him slowly, but he couldn't catch up with the mouse, and there was always a distance of ten meters between the two.
Wu Zheng was chasing after him, while muttering faintly in his heart, he always felt that something was wrong, but he just couldn't think of a reason, until he passed through the courtyard of seven or eight villagers, he suddenly realized that something was wrong was too quiet!
Why do you say that, because the rat sings all the way, the voice is very loud, floating back and forth in the whole village, for a long time, if the villagers are tired during the day, and it is not easy to be awakened by sleeping at night, then it is understandable, but none of the watchdogs raised by the villagers make a sound, which is wrong.
Wu Zheng hurriedly shone the light of the flashlight on the courtyard door of one household, and found that it was locked, and then looked at the other one, which was also hung with a lock, and looked at seven or eight houses in a row, and every household was actually guarded by General Tie! It seems that the people and animals of the entire Yin-Yang Village have disappeared inexplicably......
Surprised, worried, scared, Wu Zheng didn't know what happened this night, only knew that this village had become very weird, but he couldn't care so much at the moment, it was still important to chase the mouse, and ran forward for more than ten meters, and the mouse disappeared!
Wu Zheng hurriedly stopped, shook the flashlight everywhere, and found no trace of the mouse, I don't know when it started, a thick fog rose around it, it was white, and it could only be seen two or three meters if you wanted to see it, even if there was a flashlight, it was useless, and it was hazy in the distance.
The fog surrounded Wu Zhengtuan, and he couldn't find the way to advance or retreat, and he suddenly thought of his grandfather's instructions when he left: "Stay in the house, no matter what happens outside, no matter who comes to the door, don't pay attention, just wait for me to come back!" ”
Thinking of this, Wu Zheng's heart suddenly cooled half, grandpa must have known that the village was not safe to have such an arrangement, if he listened to his grandfather's words and stayed at home, at least there was that whip mark protection, and now he was trapped alone, and there would be any danger of raising him if he couldn't keep it in the fog.
At this moment, suddenly a mouse sang from the mist, but the sound disappeared immediately, and the next second it sounded again, over and over again, intermittently, like a radio cassette.
But this still pointed out the direction for Wu Zheng, he didn't care about anything, rushed into the mist towards the place where the sound came from, and ran wildly all the way.
If you want to say that you are not afraid, it is fake, after rushing into the fog, the flashlight completely lost its effect, and the light was completely impenetrable, but Wu Zheng had no extra choice, and he couldn't save the mouse when he saw death, but the mouse never made a sound again, and Wu Zheng finally became a headless fly and ran around.
I don't know how long I ran on a rampage, until Wu Zheng's legs were weak, he stood up and gasped, and a gust of northwest wind suddenly came out, whistling by, and the fog was blown away, and in an instant, a large area of sunlight shone directly in.
Wu Zheng took a look, my obedient, the sun was shining in front of him, it was already daylight, and he was not in the village, but standing in his own yard, looking through the window, I saw that the house was crowded, talking and laughing, very lively, a middle-aged woman stood up, smiled and waved to him.
Wu Zheng fixed his eyes and saw that it was his mother, and the next moment, his father also stood up, his grandfather sat on the Taishi chair and closed his eyes to recuperate.
In an instant, excited, aggrieved, happy, all kinds of emotions were overturned in his heart, Wu Zheng's nose was sour and he almost cried, he couldn't care about anything else, and was about to run to the house.
But before his feet were raised, Wu Zheng felt a burning sensation in his chest, looked down, and found that the black jade pendant had changed at some point, it was extremely red, and the heat was unstoppable, like a red-hot soldering iron, and the skin on his chest was smoking, and it had been scorched.
The intense pain came instantly, Wu Zheng was suddenly dizzy, fell to the ground, and when he struggled to stand up, he found that everything in front of him had changed.