Chapter 123: The Strange Death of Livestock
Soon, we continued to hurry, and after almost half a day's trek, we returned to Liang Qiang's house, and as soon as we arrived home, Qingfang's sister-in-law greeted her with red eyes.
"You're finally back, and after so many days, the phone can't get through, and I thought something happened to you, and I'm going to die. As soon as Liang Qiang entered the door, Qingfang's sister-in-law's eyes immediately lit up, and she took three steps and two steps into Liang Qiang's arms.
Liang Qiang is a man who is not good at words, and at this moment, he saw that his wife was worried that he was worried about being like this, and he kept stretching out his hand to wipe his eyes: "Oh, it's okay, I'm not back, why are you crying like this, I don't know if you think I can't come back when you look like this hahaha." ”
Liang Qiang hugged Qingfang's sister-in-law while patting him on the shoulder and whispering comfort, it could be seen that this man had nowhere to vent his tenderness, so he could only comfort his wife clumsily with words.
"What are you talking about, bah, I can't speak, you see, I haven't seen you for so many days, everyone has lost weight, hurry up and come in to rest, I just went back to my mother's house and caught an old hen, and stewed chicken soup for you to drink." ”
Qingfang's sister-in-law was amused by Liang Qiang's words, and the smile in her red eyes couldn't be hidden, and she beckoned us to come into the house while holding her husband's hand, and Jiang Shuai and I exuded an unconscious smile on our faces like an old mother.
What is love, this is love, this scene in front of me made my eyes sour, I turned my head and wiped my eyes, and the tears in my eyes were held back.
After entering the house and greeting for a while, Qingfang's sister-in-law's parting meaning was almost relieved, and began to ignite the natural gossip nature of women, we were all watching TV in the living room, and she came in from the kitchen with an apron to wipe her hands.
"It's not been peaceful in the village lately. With such a sentence, she opened the chatterbox, looking at her solemn eyes, Jiang Shuai on the side was attracted to the past, and hurriedly asked her what was wrong, what happened, she also mysteriously walked to the window and closed the curtains, and then whispered.
It turned out that according to Qingfang's sister-in-law, in the past few days, there are always inexplicable livestock deaths in the village, the first is that three days ago in the east of the village in a family in the old cattle suddenly died, the next day the family was almost scared to death when feeding the cow, because the old cow died, not to mention, but also turned into a dry corpse, all of which were sucked dry blood, the cowhide was dry and sticking to the skeleton, skinny, and it looked particularly mad.
Then the inexplicable chickens and ducks in the village began to die, the same way they died as the old cow, the blood was sucked dry, the skin and flesh were tightly attached to the skeleton, and it looked like they were sucked dry and died.
"Everyone in the village is spreading that it was the mountain flood on the other side of Nanshan that released vampires, so they came to the village to harm people. Qingfang's sister-in-law said in a low voice.
"Vampires? It seems that they are indeed made by vampires, and the animals that usually eat chickens and ducks are yellow-skinned, but they will not directly suck blood, but the entire corpse will be dragged away, and the scalper is so big, and the yellow-skinned person generally won't start. ”
I listened to Qingfang's sister-in-law's words and fell into deep thought.
Although I said so, but I had a thought in my heart, listening to her description, the death of these livestock is the same as when I saw Wang Meng in the back mountain after eating the corpse of animals, could it be Wang Meng?
Thinking of Wang Meng, my heart began to be depressed again, and soon I reacted, Wang Meng now has my grandfather's blood flowing in his body, suppressing the anger in his body, plus what she said started this kind of thing three days ago.
Three days ago, when we were still on our way to find the dungeon, Wang Meng stayed with me all day long, so it shouldn't be him.
After doing the elimination method in my heart, I had a new reflection in my heart. Originally, I planned to have dinner tonight, rest at Liang Qiang's house for a night, and leave to go back tomorrow.
But now that I have heard about this, it is impossible for me to stand idly by, and it seems that I will have to wait for a long time in Linshui Village.
I was thinking in my heart, I turned my head but found Liang Qiang's gaze that wanted to speak and stopped, I looked at him, and he turned his eyes to the side again.
"Brother Liang Qiang, if you have anything to say, you might as well say it directly. I looked at him with a smile and went straight to the point, in fact, looking at him like this, I could also guess what he meant, and sure enough, as soon as he opened his mouth, I expected it.
"That Jiang Xin, I have a reluctant request...... Liang Qiang just opened his mouth, but he stopped talking.
"Brother Liang, if I guessed correctly, you want me to help investigate this matter, right?" I took Liang Qiang's words with a smile, and sure enough, as soon as my voice fell, Liang Qiang nodded hurriedly.
"Everyone must be panicking when something happens in the village, but we don't have a professional to solve this problem, so we have to rely on you.
I nodded and told Liang Qiang that it was okay, after all, this time we entered the mountain thanks to his guide who led the way for us, and now that our business is done, since they are in trouble, I will naturally help them to the end.
After hearing me say this, Liang Qiang immediately smiled, and excitedly beckoned his wife to fry a few more dishes, and then serve some wine tonight if she is not drunk and will not return.
"But Brother Liang, I also have something to say ahead, in fact, I haven't been in this business for long, so I can't guarantee that I will be able to solve the matter now, so I can only try my best to investigate the cause of this matter. “
I looked at Liang Qiang's excited face, and I still planned to talk about the ugliness first, otherwise it would hurt my feelings if I started talking about these things later.
"That's for sure, we are already grateful in our hearts for you to help us, just do your best, just do your best. “
I nodded, and acquiesced in Liang Qiang's words, Liang Qiang is a person worthy of deep friendship, both righteous and unsophisticated, such a person will bring us great help in the future.
At the dinner table, Liang Qiang and Jiang Shuai pushed the cups and drank cup after cup, and in the end, the two of them were drunk again, and it was Qingfang's sister-in-law who cooked two servings of sobering soup before pouring them in.
At ten o'clock in the evening, I lay on the soft bed, as if I was in a different world, obviously the last time I lay on such a soft bed was a few days ago, but now it feels like the same as the previous life, maybe I have experienced too many things in the past few days.
At night, after I fell asleep in a daze, I always felt that someone was touching my face, and when I opened my eyes, I saw a person sitting next to the bed in a trance.
"Wang Meng, hee-hee. I smashed my mouth, rolled over and continued to fall asleep in a daze.
Early the next morning, I woke up, looked at the time on my phone, it was only eight o'clock, and after seeing me get up, Qingfang's sister-in-law immediately greeted me and told me that something had happened again.
She hadn't said what was going on, but the thought that it should be another livestock accident came to my mind, and when I asked, sure enough, this time it was Liang Qiang's next-door neighbor.
Just when Qingfang's sister-in-law got up to make breakfast, there was a scream from the house next door, she hurriedly ran over to look, only to find that the sister-in-law Liu next door was so frightened that she collapsed to the ground.
It turned out that this time it was the scalper of the Liu family next door who was sucked dry.
Under the guidance of Qingfang's sister-in-law, we came to the house next door, and before I entered the door, I heard a sound of a woman crying.
"What can I do about this, the family relies on this old cow to plough the fields and pull the goods, what kind of sin has this done, an old ox is worth a few thousand, which ghost thing who kills a thousand knives, you come out, the old lady can't kill you." ”
The woman's crying was so loud that she could hear that she was already sobbing with tears.
"Sister-in-law Liu, don't be sad, this is a distant cousin of mine, she studied forensic medicine in college, let her come and take a look, the village is not very peaceful these days, it can be seen that the cause of death of these livestock is the same, I just want to call my sister to take a look, it's convenient." ”
Sister-in-law Qingfang told the woman what we had just discussed, because I was afraid that they would not accept it because of the particularity of my profession, and in order to prevent them from treating me as a god, I told Sister-in-law Qingfang to tell her to say this.
Sure enough, at first, the woman was still a little wary when she saw me, but after hearing Qingfang's sister-in-law introduce me like this, she immediately changed her face and greeted her.
"Oh, that's a good dare, big sister, you come to help my sister take a look, such a big cow, how much work can you do for the family in a year, it's gone, my heart is really painful, so dead is unknown, you said that if you die, it would be good to eat meat, please show me what this thing bitten to death, can this cow bone be used to eat, boil soup or something." ”
The old scalper has worked hard all his life, but he will be reduced to a meat eater until he dies, and after this woman finished speaking, my heart was a little uncomfortable at first.
But in the end, it makes sense, not everyone in this world is so compassionate, rural people are like this, raising a cow is to plow the field and pull goods, and when you are old, you will kill and eat meat, and give full play to their maximum value.
Otherwise, why do people always say to the person who gives them kindness that they will be a cow and a horse in the next life, and the life of a cow and a horse is like this.
"Well, where is the carcass of the cow, you can take me to see it. I nodded, and deftly avoided Sister-in-law Liu to take my hand, although I didn't dislike her, but I also didn't want strangers to touch me.
"Okay, it's in the cowshed, you come with me. Sister-in-law Liu said, and took me to a tiled house, the buildings here are probably like this, the owner's family lives in the building, and then another tiled house will be built next to the building as a kitchen and livestock shed.
As soon as I entered the livestock shed, I smelled a big smell, it should be the smell of pigs and cows, and I didn't have these animals at home before, so I just got used to it a little and it was fine.
Sister-in-law Liu led me to the cowshed, and before I got closer, I saw a large yellow object on the ground, and when I got closer, I realized that it was the old cow.
At this time, the old ox was completely shriveled and cold, and only a huge bull's head remained, and his eyes were still open, as if he was telling his grievances.