Chapter 53: The Secret of the Village
Zhou Hexuan took a closer look, and found that the portrait was actually the old woman he met in the cemetery just now......
"Young man, your quilt ......"
Just when Zhou Hexuan was looking at this statue and was a little distracted, a voice suddenly came from his ears, which startled Zhou Hexuan, and when he turned around, Zhou Hexuan found that it was the uncle standing behind him.
Zhou Hexuan looked at the old man a little undecided, and squeezed out a smile in front of him.
"Thank you, uncle......"
"Huh..... It's nothing, young man, I've got two quilts for you, it's cold at night here, you should be careful not to catch a cold......"
Zhou Hexuan nodded, took the quilt, and just as the old man was about to turn around and leave, Zhou Hexuan suddenly asked, "Uncle, did you stew something?" ”
"Oh, old man, I stewed a pot of meat, stewed for a while, old man, I have bad teeth, I don't stew a little rotten I'm afraid I won't be able to bite, young man, are you hungry, or uncle will give you a bowl to taste first......"
Hearing what the old man said, Zhou Hexuan hurriedly shook his head.
"No need uncle, in order not to be hungry, it's just a little strange, I smelled the fragrance when I entered the yard."
"Huh..... That's okay, young man, you go to sleep first, and I'll stew it for a while when the old man comes, and I should be able to eat it early tomorrow morning, and then you can taste the old man's handiwork......"
The old man said that he would turn around and leave, but Zhou Hexuan couldn't be happy when he looked at the old man's back, and he always felt like something was going to happen in his heart......
"Why is this smell getting stronger and stronger....."
Zhou Hexuan lay on the bed tossing and turning and couldn't fall asleep, always feeling that the fragrance was dangling on the tip of his nose, making his originally not very hungry stomach more and more hungry.
"What kind of meat is so fragrant.....
Zhou Hexuan couldn't sleep when he smelled the smell, so he simply got up and got out of bed to see what the old man was cooking.
touched the kitchen, but there was no one in the kitchen, and Zhou Hexuan slowly touched in.
"This tastes ......"
Zhou Hexuan took a deep breath, the taste came from the pot, Zhou Hexuan walked to the earthen stove and lifted the lid of the pot......
"Suck ~"
A fragrance instantly rushed to the tip of Zhou Hexuan's nose, giving him a feeling of appetite.
The white gas slowly dissipated, Zhou Hexuan looked down at the pot, and this glance frightened Zhou Hexuan's pot lid directly to the ground.......
Zhou Hexuan unexpectedly found a few fingers rolling in the soup in the pot, as well as an arm that had been cut into several sections, and Zhou Hexuan's stomach suddenly twitched......
"Are you hungry, young man?"
Just when Zhou Hexuan was so frightened by the scene in front of him that he didn't come back to his senses, a voice suddenly came from behind him.
Zhou Hexuan's heart trembled, and when he turned around, he saw the old man standing behind him, and the old man stared at him with a smile.
"No... Not.... Uncle, you ...... You're stewed... What kind of meat......"
"Huh..... Young man, don't you think it's particularly fragrant? You must not have eaten this meat, old man, I have lived most of my life and I have never seen it before, and then we had a famine, many people starved to death, and the young people were gone, leaving only us old people who were still struggling to survive......"
The old man said that he didn't know where to find a bowl and began to go to the pot to get meat.......
"One night, I heard a knock at the door, and it was strange at first, but then I opened the door and found a two-legged sheep standing outside the door...... It's so fragrant......"
The old man took a deep breath as he picked up the bowl full of meat.
"Boy, come and have a try......"
Zhou Hexuan glanced at the meat bowl that the old man had brought to him, and there was a boiled eyeball mixed in it......
Zhou Hexuan listened to the old man's narration, looking at the meat that was still tumbling in the pot, where is this two-legged sheep, this is obviously a living person who was killed and boiled in the pot.
Zhou Hexuan was speechless for a long time, and the old man was not in a hurry at all, looking at Zhou Hexuan with the bowl, as if waiting for him to bring the bowl over.......
"Uncle...... I'm not hungry, you..... Let's keep it for myself......."
Zhou Hexuan felt that this old man was either crazy or a murderer, and the only thought in his mind now was to get out of here......
But when Zhou Hexuan just turned around and was about to open the door and go out, he found that the door was locked, and it was not locked from the inside, so he couldn't open it no matter how he pulled it......
"Young man, why are you in such a hurry, aren't you hungry? Let's go back after eating......"
The old man's voice echoed in Zhou Hexuan's ears like a talisman, and Zhou Hexuan turned his head and found that the old man didn't know when there was an extra knife in his hand, a sharpened and shiny pig-killing knife.
Zhou Hexuan: If you can't see what the old man is going to do now, what he has in his head is tofu brain.
"Old man, do you know what you're doing now? You put the knife down, or I'm welcome....."
Zhou Hexuan said as he moved to the firewood pile next to him, but if he wanted to say that Zhou Hexuan was really afraid of this old guy, but the knife in the old man's hand still made Zhou Hexuan feel bottomless.
Zhou Hexuan's hand touched back, and soon touched a wooden stick.
The old man seemed to be unable to wait, put the bowl on the ground to the side, and stabbed Zhou Hexuan directly with a knife......
Zhou Hexuan didn't care about the weight of his hands at this time, and directly waved his hand and threw the wooden stick he touched from behind at the old man's head......
"Bang~"
The wooden stick smashed on the old man's head, instantly bringing a splash of blood......
The old man's body fell to the ground, knocking over the bowl of human flesh on the ground.
Zhou Hexuan looked at the corpse of the old man on the ground, and he didn't know why, but he didn't have the slightest fear in his heart.
Just when Zhou Hexuan thought that the matter was over, there was a sudden sound of footsteps outside the door......
Zhou Hexuan's heart that he had just put down instantly rose again.
There was a "clang", and it was not opened from the outside, and a person walked in from the door.......
"Huh..... Young man, why are you here? I remember locking the door when I left, how did you get in? ”
It was still the "kind" face in the clothes, and as soon as he entered the house, he found Zhou Hexuan standing next to the earthen stove with a wooden stick in his hand, and as for the corpse on the ground..... The old man didn't seem to see it at all......
The sweat on Zhou Hexuan's head came down instantly......
"Young man, are you hungry? I just said that you must be hungry in the middle of the night, come, the meat should be almost cooked, I'll give you a bowl to taste......"
The old man didn't pay any attention to Zhou Hexuan's willingness or not, and said that he walked towards the pot, and the "corpse" on the ground was still lying there, but the old man didn't even look at it, and stepped directly over the corpse......
Zhou Hexuan watched the old man find a bowl and start scooping meat for him with a spoon, and his heart instantly sank to the bottom.
"Come, young man, this meat is the meat of a two-legged sheep, you must not have tasted it, taste it......"
The old man said this, and directly handed the bowl in his hand to Zhou Hexuan......
It's the bowl of meat.... Or the bowl of meat.......
Zhou Hexuan looked at the exact same bowl and the exact same meat, and his eyes instantly shrank.....
"Bang~"
Zhou Hexuan looked at the stick in his hand, and the old man's body slowly fell, still with that look, that ..... There was a sneering smile in the weirdness......
"Papa~Papa~"
The familiar sound of footsteps came from outside the door again.......
......
There were six corpses lying on the ground, the corpses of the old man, all of them died under Zhou Hexuan's stick, it seemed that everything was seen like that, but Zhou Hexuan was afraid.......
Zhou Hexuan looked at the seventh old man standing in front of the pot with his back against him, Zhou Hexuan's hand holding the wooden stick was raised, his wrist was forced, and he smashed it down, everything seemed so ordinary......
Just when this roll was about to hit the back of the old man's head, a phantory shadow suddenly flashed in Zhou Hexuan's mind, his hand was instantly stunned, and the wooden stick stopped at the back of the old man's head......
Zhou Hexuan took a step back, touched the wall with his left hand, and touched three words.....
"Get out of ......"
"Get out of here...... Get out of ........"
Zhou Hexuan remembered...... He finally understood the meaning of these three words.......
"Bang~"
The wooden stick fell to the ground, and Zhou Hexuan turned around and ran out directly.......
.......
"Hey, wake up, young man, why are you asleep here......."
"Uh-uh....."
Zhou Hexuan seemed to wake up from suffocation in the water, and the whole person sat up instantly......
It was a familiar place again, but he remembered everything, this ..... It's the ninth time he's woken up from here......
"Young man, why are you asleep in this place, this is not the place for you to sleep.......
Another familiar word sounded in Zhou Hexuan's ears, Zhou Hexuan turned his head, and met the old woman's kind smiling face.
"Young man, it's so late, you better hurry up and leave......"
This time, Zhou Hexuan was not in a hurry to leave......
"Mother-in-law, you... I guess I'm already dead......."
Zhou Hexuan's words made the smile on the old man's face suddenly freeze.
After a moment, the old woman sighed.
"yes, it's been two years...... Two years ......"
Hearing the old woman answer herself, Zhou Hexuan's heart couldn't help but move.
"Mother-in-law, you ..... Are there any loved ones alive? ”
"Relatives....." The old man's eyes couldn't help but be a little pale......
"Dead..... They're all dead......"
"That'..... Where's your wife......"
Zhou Hexuan finally asked what he wanted to ask.
"He's dead, too, and we're having a famine here...... A lot of people died, the famine had been going on for many years, and there were still some young people who wanted to escape, but they came back not long after they went out, and brought back the news, the outside is even more miserable than ours, we still have bark and grass roots to survive, and the outside world has even eaten up the bark and grass roots.......
The days passed like this, and I thought that the coming year would be better, but I didn't expect it...... The famine was still there, and the grass that had just sprouted was cut out and eaten before it could grow, and then we didn't even have the bark and grass roots to eat.....
Everybody is starving, starving, it's terrible, because it drives people crazy.......
Later, I don't know when, we spread the rumor of a two-legged sheep here, that day, I remember clearly, the people in the village laughed, everyone seemed to be happy, I and the old man of my family were only two people, at that time we went out to find some bark and dig some grass roots, those people would come to rob, and then there was no bark and grass roots, we never went out again, but that day, someone took the initiative to knock on my door, and gave us a bowl of meat.......
I still remember her, the widow Liu from the village, and he told me that this is the meat of the two-legged sheep, and that there will be a lot of meat of the two-legged sheep in the future......."