"Ghosts?"

I calmly shook the needle on his shoulder and took over the conversation.

"Yes, it's a ghost, anyway, I think it's a ghost, it must be a ghost!" Zhang Tianba had palpitations.

In the process of recalling, he didn't look calm, and he no longer had the domineering majesty of a brother on Hainan Road, so he suddenly opened his mouth and asked, "Do you smoke here?" Afraid that I would not agree, you hurriedly added, "Young man, I have a story, do you have a cigarette?" ”

I couldn't stop crying or laughing.

The underworld boss is also very good at telling jokes, it is estimated that he is an old smoker, the kind that makes him uncomfortable if he doesn't smoke for a day, and pointed to the "no smoking" sign next to the fingerprint body room, saying that smoking will affect the skin in the tattoo process, so that the skin is tight, which is a big taboo.

He didn't ask for anything more, after all, his life was at stake.

In the process of my tattoo, plus I echoed from time to time, seduced him to continue, and slowly told me a strange thing when I was a child.

He is not a native of Hainan, and later went south and north to get to that place to become famous, is a native of Guangdong, there are many mountains in the Liangguang area, the trees are lush and damp, Zhang Tianba grew up in the mountains since he was a child, at that time in the eighties and nineties, unlike now, there are tigers, black bears, and wild boars on the mountains.

It happened when he was six years old.

That year, there was a drought and the harvest was not good, so the people in the village formed a hunting team to go up the mountain to hunt and hunt some animals to fill their stomachs, and the animals on the mountain also came down to attack people, and there was a famine, and people and animals wanted to live.

It's just that year, the village is particularly weird, many cattle and sheep in the village were bitten to death in the middle of the night, the whole village was boiling, the old people in the village looked at the tooth marks and marks in the sheepfold, and said that it was the big insect on the mountain that came down to find food, and the men in the village were so angry that they went crazy!

How can people get food if they don't have to eat themselves, so they give it to animals?

At that time, the village organized several people to take earthen guns into the mountain together to defend the village, this big insect went down the mountain to eat cattle and sheep today, and may eat people tomorrow!

"But later, five or six strong men in our village who entered the mountains were bitten to death, and my father was the one who took the lead in the mountains, the old hunter with the best marksmanship, does the black bear know? I have a special leather hanging in my house! Showing off his achievements, in addition to hanging more than a hundred animal skins, there are also a few black bear skins. My father once went into the mountains alone and killed a big black bear and his three cubs, and hung the skin on the wall, he was a well-known hunter in ten miles and eight towns, and his first-hand pistol skills were superb, legendary, if he was born in the era of devils, it was indispensable to create a famous, but even he died in the mountains. ”

He didn't show sadness when he said this, obviously he was too young at that time to experience his father's actual feelings at all, and the impact was very weak, like talking about a passerby.

"Brother, you said it yourself, it's not an ancient time, the hunting team has a gun in hand, five or six good hands, what animals can't be beaten when they go into the mountains together? But it was dead, so many people died in the village in one breath, everyone was afraid, saying that the big worm had become a sperm, but later, something even stranger happened. ”

What's weirder?

I was intrigued.

Zhang Tianba didn't have my appetite, lying on the bed and opening his mouth and said, "The night after my father's death, the village didn't dare to enter the mountain, saying that the mountain was the territory of the big insect, and it was a dragon that had to be coiled when it entered, and the big insect became a sperm, and everyone was afraid of so many deaths, so they turned to attack and defend, and someone began to keep vigil in the village, but my mother disappeared inexplicably that night, and was eaten by a big insect." ”

I was immediately puzzled and asked, but if someone keeps vigil, how can there be people missing in the village? Did the big insect go to the sky, and this can enter the village and attack people?

"Didn't enter the village! At that time, some people in the village said that they saw my mother stumbling out in the middle of the night, and took the big worm away, and then on the third night, my brother also disappeared, and the village watched more closely at that time, but he passed through the defense line by himself and staggered out, and it looked the same as my mother, and people said that it was an evil one, and on the fourth day, it was my turn to disappear......"

A family of four, one missing one in one night, or did he go out of the village to be eaten by a big worm and a sheep into the mouth of a tiger?

I think it's a little interesting, his words are very short, very urgent, but I can feel the panicked atmosphere of the people in the village at that time, must be frightened, things are too strange, the hunting team into the mountain really angered the big worm, no longer a night raid on sheep and cattle pens, it is a direct cannibalism, it may also be because of eating several strong men of the hunting team, taste the sweetness of cannibalism.

I shook the ink needle on the side of the bed and stabbed him in the shoulder, asking what to say later.

"The others don't know how I left the village, but I know that I was taken by the ghosts. Anyway, that night was particularly evil, the wind was gusting, I had a dream, the missing eldest brother came to me, knocked on the door, told me to go out, said that there is a cave in the mountain with countless treasures, enough for our family to eat for a lifetime, I followed him out of a trance, unconsciously stepped out of the village, and then took the tiger away, and I don't remember the rest of the matter. ”

I thought to myself and said it might be a ghost.

How do you say one word? Fight for the tigers!

How did this allusion come about? As the saying goes: Tiger poison does not eat children, but ghosts are not, legend has it, those who are eaten by tigers become ghosts, that is, ghosts, controlled by tigers, specifically to seduce their relatives to let tigers eat.

This is a conjecture, the tiger has become a sperm, because of the drought, there is really nothing to eat in the mountains, there is a shortage of food, and when he is hungry, he can only go down the mountain to eat people, knowing that the village is heavily guarded and cannot enter, so he let the ghosts of the people who have been eaten go to call the relatives in those villages and go out of the village to feed him.

"The old man in the village said the same thing at the time, saying that it was a ghost, and that the tiger had become a spirit and lured the people of the village to go out to eat." Zhang Tianba said seriously.

I was in a hurry, and said no, brother, let's not change the topic, you were captured by that ghost, what happened later?

Zhang Tianba lay on the bed and snorted, "Cut, what can I do later?" Of course I survived, otherwise how would you see me now? ”

He talked about what happened.

It is also wonderful to say, it happened that a master passed by a mountain village, at that time no one thought that he was a master, a painter, the painting was lifelike, very really, with a unique charm, when the middle-aged man took a drawing board to the village, let the villagers of the village find him the best mountain and forest scenery, the kind of overlooking the landform, he wanted to draw a map of the rivers and mountains.

After all, in the eighties and nineties, everyone thought that he was a young man from the city who went to the countryside for literature and art, and everyone wanted him to let him go what happened in the village, but after he knew about the affairs of the village, he carried a clay gun into the mountains alone, and half a day later, he brought back the unconscious Zhang Tianba, saying that the matter was solved, but it was a little late, and everyone else was eaten by the big worm, and this little baby was left.

I'm confused, it's that simple?

The whole village was in an uproar, and so many people died that it was solved like this, what about the big worm that was making trouble? Was he shot to death by the middle-aged man?

"It's that simple, anyway."

Zhang Tianba's eyes showed a trace of deep admiration, "That's a real master, it's been seven or eight days at that time, and the people in the village think that my baby is dead, and was eaten by that big worm, who knows that I am still alive, and he also carried a soil gun into the mountain alone and brought my baby back." ”

The master returned the gun to the villagers, saying that he had seen a colorful tiger as big as a foal in the deep mountains, with a big white-fronted insect with hanging eyes, and a black king character engraved on the top of his head, running like the wind, after all, the mountains were full of dense and complex forests, the terrain was not open and flat, the big trees were all bunkers, and it was normal for the hunting team in the village to miss the shot, and the whole army was annihilated.

People said that they knew how to repay the kindness, but the villagers at that time had a different mind.

They begged the masters to tell them the location of the bones of the dead man, and where the body of the tiger was, in fact, everyone understood at that time that it was the attention of the corpse of the big worm, such a big tiger, the meat has been able to eat for a while, and the tiger skin the size of a foal alone is worth a fortune, and it is enough for the village to take to the city to sell, enough for the village to survive the famine, and the loss caused by the relatives eaten by the strange tiger.

I think it's normal for a village to live, although the practice is a little done, but it's understandable.

But when it came to this, Zhang Tianba was so angry that he was indignant and said loudly, "Those bastards of the dog days! People helped our village to kill the big worm, it is already a righteous thin cloud, it is natural for the master to take the tiger corpse as a reward, this thing is also killed by others, it is something that belongs to others, just because your village was bitten to death by a tiger, you want to take the tiger's corpse as compensation? This is unreasonable! ”

I hurriedly held him down and said Big brother, don't get excited, otherwise you will get the wrong tattoo.

At this time, Zhang Tianba, who was lying on the bed, also took a deep breath, soothed his nerves, looked at me, sighed, and said, Brother, do you say this is the reason?