Chapter Eighty-Eight: Wearing a Red Riding Hood
The north wind was howling and the snow was all over the ground, and I went all the way, and soon came to the north end of the village, and successfully found the house that the uncle had said.
It was a very dilapidated small courtyard, with mud walls of thatched huts, and the walls were covered with thatch, and in some places they had collapsed, and the gate was rotten and blackened, and it felt like the door might fall apart if you pushed it hard.
In the middle of the yard, there was an old mulberry tree, which had to be hugging thick, it was the middle of winter, there were no leaves on the tree, and the branches were dyed white by the snow, which made the tree look a little dignified.
I didn't know who lived in the yard, so I hesitated for a long time, but I still stepped forward and tapped on the door.
"Who?"
Not long after the knock sounded, a muffled voice sounded, and then a little girl wearing a torn cotton jacket and a blue woolen hat on her head, looking only ten years old, opened the door for me.
"You, who are you looking for?" The little girl asked, looking me up and down with some confusion.
I looked at her and saw that she had a thin face, a yellow complexion, some shriveled eyes, and frighteningly thin lips, which were obviously a symptom of long-term malnutrition.
"Oh, that, hello, I'm passing by, the snow is too big, I want to avoid the snow at your house, is it okay?" I looked at the little girl and said.
Hearing this, the little girl thought sideways, maybe she didn't look like a bad person, so she got out of the way for me and said to me: "You come in and avoid it, but don't be too noisy, grandma is sleeping in the east room, she is not in good health, and she can't sleep when she wakes up." ”
"Well, I see," I nodded, and as I walked inside, I asked, "Are you and Grandma the only ones at home?" ”
"Yes, my parents are dead," the little girl said to me.
I nodded, feeling a little sympathetic to her.
"This mulberry tree is good, it's big," I said as I walked to the middle of the yard, and couldn't help but stop and look up at the mulberry tree.
"What's the use of being big, I never produce mulberries, and my grandmother doesn't sell them, but keeps them for nothing," said the little girl, who came up to me, looked at the mulberry tree, and pouted.
"Such a big tree, but it doesn't bear mulberries?" These words aroused my curiosity, and then I subconsciously opened the gate of heaven, and my vitality poured out, and I glanced around the courtyard.
As a result, I was a little stunned at this time.
The cold and bloody aura, thick as clouds and thick as mist, shrouded the three broken grass houses of the little girl's house.
What's going on?
At that moment, I turned my head to look at the little girl, but I found that her body was also covered with black gas, especially the top of her head, which was even more bloody, and the situation was already dying.
Now I was a little shocked, and I also kind of understood why the Black Moon Evil God wanted me to come here.
If nothing else, he should have known about the situation here a long time ago, but because of the jurisdictional problem, he may not be able to deal with the evil things here for a while, so he sent me over.
"What's your name?" I looked at the little girl and asked.
"My name is Red Riding Hood," the little girl asked, looking at me.
I grass!
Hearing this name, I suddenly felt 10,000 grass and mud horses galloping past in my heart, and I couldn't help but scold the black moon evil god, and said in my heart, why don't you bastard make it clear? What little girl in a red hat? People obviously call it wearing a red hat, okay?
"What's wrong with you? Is my name weird? The little girl looked at me and asked, a little confused.
"No, no, I just remembered something," I sneered, and stretched out my hand to her, "My name is Liu Yiji." ”
"Hello," she reached out and shook my hand, and I noticed that her hand was bony and very cold, and it looked like a sign of cold and weakness.
"Come in and sit down, I'll pour you some hot water," the red hat led me into the room, sat me down, and poured me a bowl of boiling water.
As I drank water and chatted with the red riding hood for a while, I focused my eyes on the door of the East Room.
The black air on the door was as black as ink, eerie and abnormal, and it was definitely not a normal phenomenon.
"Little fool, go in and have a look," my mind moved, and the little fool had already floated out.
However, what I didn't expect was that the little fool went to the door and then retreated.
"Brother, I can't get in, there is a ban on the door, blocking me, and the whole house is wrapped in a prohibition." The little fool said to me helplessly.
"Okay, you can come back first," I settled the little fool, and then stood up as I pretended to be careless, and asked the red riding hood as I walked towards the door of the east room, "Is your grandmother sleeping in there?" ”
"Well, be quiet, don't wake her up, or she'll be angry," the red hat pulled me back and chatted with me, "Where are you from and how did you come to our village?" ”
"I'm, uh, from Guan Shen Town, I'm here to visit relatives, the snow is too big, I'm lost," I said to her with a smile.
She smiled and didn't speak, her fingers pinched together, she seemed a little shy, and then said to me after a while: "It's good that you're here, I'm usually bored to stay at home alone, grandma doesn't let me go to school, and she doesn't let me do any work, I feel like I'm about to suffocate to death." ”
"Oh, you dropped out of school?" I asked, looking at Red Riding Hood with some curiosity.
"Well," she replied in a low voice, looking up at me for a long time, "You must be in school, what grade are you in?" ”
"I'm in my first year of junior high school," I told her.
"Oh, I forgot about it, I haven't been in the fourth grade," she sighed, pulled a needlework basket in her hand, and began to do needlework.
"You've got a lot of skill," I said, and I couldn't help but praise her when she found her sewing a beautiful rag doll.
"Grandma asked me to make it, and I didn't know what it would do, so I sewed it blindly," she said shyly, and then began to sew it in earnest, while I sat silently and watched.
"Brother, her head is so disgusting!"
Just as I was in the middle of my trance, I was awakened by a little confused word.
"What do you mean?" I asked, confused.
"You'll know if you see it yourself, well, I'm going to throw up—" The little foolish words made me wonder for a while, because I rarely saw her like this, so I couldn't help but look at the head of the red riding hood.
She wore a thick hat with a woolen yarn on her head, so I couldn't see the top of her head, but my energy could penetrate her hat, so I was able to see the top of her head clearly.
It's just that I have to say that when I really saw it clearly, I was also sick to my stomach and almost threw it up.
It was full of rotten sores and miscellaneous hairs, especially the position of the Tianling cover, and it was a palm-sized red sarcoma, which was hideous, and I was afraid that anyone who could not help but get goosebumps after seeing it.
Seeing this, I couldn't help but look at the red riding hood with some astonishment, I couldn't understand how such a girl could become like this, did the thing on her head have some strange disease, could it be leprosy?
"Ahem, Red Riding Hood, come in!"
Just as I was looking at the red hat in a daze, suddenly there was a coughing sound in the east room, and then a dark and hoarse voice sounded, calling the red hat into the east room.