"Ah, that's a long story. In my hometown, it is really poor and broken, it turned out to be very poor and broken, and in recent years, the local government has been engaged in construction, land acquisition or something, and many people there are really very angry. When I passed, I walked along the road, and I saw a lot of people, looking at me like that. In broad daylight, the streets are lifeless, and some people sit at the door, or stand at the door, and look at people like that, how to say...... It's like watching a dead cat and a dead dog. My old house is still there, I went for five or six days, and I lived there. The first morning, I woke up choking. There are still some fields, and some people are burning straw, right next to my house, and the smoke ...... At first, I thought it was on fire, but when I looked over, it was straw burning, and they were burning it and sprinkling something into it. When I was a child, I went to Minqing City with my parents, but my grandparents still stayed in my hometown, and then my grandparents left, and our family didn't go back. Really, I don't know the people over there, I don't understand the local dialect very well, and they probably don't understand Mandarin either, so when I ask them, they just look at me like that, and then continue to sprinkle things there. And a couple of old women who threw it on me. I think it's the ......."

"What did they spill?"

"I don't know."

"What kind of thing?"

"It looks like rice, but it's bigger than a grain of rice. I really don't know what. ”

"Is there anything else going on besides this?"

"And dogs. They...... I was walking around the village, and one of them, as if he had seen me, pulled a dog out of his house, hung it on a tree at the door, and strangled him...... The dog kept barking, very pitiful, and the countrymen don't know how to raise dogs, it's not a pet dog in the city, it looks cute, very beautiful, it's all hairless, a little hairy, it's also dirty. The dog's eyes were still red, and his tongue was sticking out. was hanged directly by them. They watched me do this, and they just watched me hang the dog. I also took a knife out, a kitchen knife, but it was a circle bigger than an ordinary kitchen knife, and just like that, such a knife cut down, and the dog's stomach was cut, and everything inside fell to the ground...... I felt like throwing up. When they cut, they still look at me, stare at me, and don't look at the dogs. I ......"

"Have you done anything or something that your family has done before?"

"Nope! When I went back to my parents when I was a child, and when I held a funeral for my grandparents, I remembered, no! I think they're xenophobic, probably thinking I'm that kind of profiteer. Not really! It was because of the land expropriation there, and the land and house in my hometown were also expropriated, and I needed to go back to go through the formalities. On the first day I went, I greeted my neighbors and brought a small gift for them about what our company produces! They just close the door, you know? It's like in that kind of thriller, I knock on the door, they open the door and take a look, slam it shut, and then close the window, the curtains, everything. I'm inexplicable! I was gone, and when I looked back, I could see them lifting the curtains a little to look at me. That's it......"

"Did you leave after seeing the killing of the dog?"

"No, because the land acquisition has not been done yet, I am not in a hurry to leave. I went home, I didn't run around, I was either at home, or I went to the village committee, the police station, or something, and I didn't deal with them anyway. But, that night, while we were having dinner, there was a knock on the door. I was scared to death, several of them were standing outside, all middle-aged people like me, one of them, I had seen my grandmother when she was mourning, and I had drunk with him, but he had that expression now, that kind of expression, the same expression as if he was looking at the enemy. They knocked on the door loudly, just slamming on the door, and then several people blocked the door like that. I took a stick and opened the door again, and there was a crack in it, and the chain was still fastened, so I asked them what they were going to do. ……”

"How did they answer?"

"He, the man I was talking about, had an enamel bowl in his hand, and inside it was ...... The first time I looked at it, I didn't know what it was, it was pitch black and it looked slimy. Very...... How to say, it's disgusting, and the smell is disgusting...... That stinky smell is not the smell of stink...... He said to give me food, but of course I refused! ”

"Hmm."

And then ...... And he ......"

"Just what?"

"He said, this was specially made by Maozi and given to me."

"Who is Maozi?"

"The hairy man came with them and stood in the back. They got out of the way, and I saw ...... He was covered in blood...... It's blood. It's the one, the one who killed the dog...... It's that guy...... That thing...... He said again, Mao Zi specially slaughtered his rhubarb and gave it to me to eat...... I, I almost threw up, literally almost threw up. All of them looked at me, and they all had that expression, the kind of expression that wanted to smile or not, it was very fake, and it was not normal to look at it! I took ......"

"You took it?"

"Yes, I took it, but I didn't eat it, and it fell right away. That thing is really disgusting, I don't know if it's because it's not done well or if there's something wrong with that dog...... That dog doesn't look like a healthy dog. Anyway...... Ah! ”

Syllable!

"That's it. I poured it out, returned the bowl to them, and closed the door. I looked inside the cat's eye, and they looked at each other, and then they both smiled. I feel like they're going to kill me...... They're trying to kill me...... After that, I stayed in a small hotel. Isn't this a village? About an hour's drive, it's another place, a little more bustling, with hotels. I'm going to live there, ask the village committee or something, call me about something, I'll go over again. ”

"Hmm. Did anything else happen to you after that? ”

"No, that's it. I didn't deal with them after that. ”

"Are the people in the village council normal?"

"Well, they're normal."

"After returning to Minqing City, you started to have nightmares?"

"Yes, I didn't start until I came back. That thing, that stuff went down my throat, I felt like smoke, the same smoke I saw that day, but when it got down my throat, and then down, to my esophagus, and then down, it felt like that dog...... It's slimy, and it smells weird......"

"Are you back home alone?"

"Yes, just me. Ah, no, I'm the only one in the back, and at the beginning, on the first day, my wife was there. We were going to want that kind of tour like a farmhouse for a few days, but when we got there, just on the first day, my wife was uncomfortable with them and was leaving. I just sent her away and went back. I didn't expect that either. I used to be, more than ten or twenty years ago, when my grandparents died, it was really not like this. ”

"How did your grandparents die?"

"I'm old, and I've eaten badly. They live in the countryside, don't they have those wild vegetables and wild mushrooms? They ate the wrong thing. When the villagers contacted us, they were in the hospital. This must be true, my grandparents are very popular in the village. Our family arrived at Minqing very early, and the conditions at home are very good in the village. Every year when I go back to my hometown, my parents bring a lot of things back and help the people in the village. ”

"Later, because of the death of your grandparents, you completely cut off contact with your hometown?"

"Huh? This one...... Hiss ......"

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