Chapter 312: The Disappeared Child
By noon, the forest had already been settled by us! I also looked at Lin Zi's symptoms in detail, and the root cause was determined to be that the Gu was doing trouble! It's just that she still reminded us in advance, saying that she didn't have a great grasp of pulling out the Gu in Lin Zi's body, and if we wanted to, we could give it a try; But what will the end result look like? Then no one can tell.
At the moment, it is difficult to find someone who has understood the Gu of the Mantis, and we are definitely not willing to give up; After asking Granny Jiang for details, she finally decided to let her give it a try. If it really doesn't work, just find someone else!
When Granny Jiang saw that we agreed, she didn't say anything more! Just told us that we had to prepare first, and that we would have to wait at least until evening to solve the Gu for the forest; We naturally don't have any opinions on Granny Jiang's statement, just follow the host.
Lunch was eaten at Granny Jiang's house, but it still makes me feel a little sick when I think about it now! Because most of the special foods of the Miao people are related to insects, Granny Jiang got us a few dishes at noon, including insects such as silkworm chrysalis and grasshoppers. Although the taste is very good, but the appearance still makes me can't help but get goosebumps when I think about it again.
But fortunately, not long after lunch, the villagers in the village came to the door, and I also transferred the diaphragm in my heart to the matter of the dead people in the village.
There are more than a dozen people who came to us, most of them except the village chief have died in the family before, and there are a few younger young men, who should have come to see the excitement, and probably want to know what it is that killed the villagers?
Because there is a driver on the side to translate, I can barely communicate with the villagers! So he didn't have too much politeness, and asked them directly about the dead people in the village.
According to the villagers, the dead man happened from a month ago; The first person to die was a little boy named Dong Dewa (because the Miao name is usually the last surname, so the surname here should be Dewa; Dewa Sinicized the surname as "Hou". To prevent tongue twisting, the following chapters are called by the Chinese name: "Hou Dong").
It is said that on the day of Hou Dong's drowning, he made an appointment with a few friends in the village to go to the river to play, which is a very common thing for them who grew up near the water, and the family will naturally not pay too much attention to it.
According to the accounts of the children who came back that day, Hou Dong was competing with them in the river that day, which actually meant to see who held their breath for a long time?
Such an ordinary game is not a dangerous thing for a few children who are very good at water; As usual, they jumped into the water one by one, and when they couldn't hold their breath anymore, they came out of the water one after another.
After waiting for a while, except for Hou Dong, all the other children came out of the water; At first, they thought that Hou Dong was just holding back a little longer and would come out after a while. But when they waited for a long time, they didn't see Hou Dong's figure on the water.
Although the children are not very old, they still have some understanding of the time they hold their breath, and they know that Hou Dong can't hold his breath underwater for so long! So after a few people discussed, they decided to go down to the river to look for it and see if they could find Hou Dong?
Among the few people who went down to the river to look for him, there was a child named Hou Bao, because he had a good relationship with Hou Dong, so he deliberately dived a little deeper in the water, wanting to find Hou Dong as soon as possible. But when he had found nothing and was about to go up to the river to take a breath, he suddenly felt that his feet were seized by a fluffy hand; Moreover, the fluffy hand grabbed his feet and pulled him down the water.
After being caught by the fluffy hand, Hou Bao was suddenly so frightened that he couldn't even breathe, and hurriedly kicked his feet to go upstream; But the more he struggled, the harder the hand became, and then Hou Bao not only did not swim up, but was pulled by the hand and continued to sink to the bottom of the river.
At this time, Hou Cai, another child who went down to the river with them to look for Hou Dong, seemed to see Hou Bao's strange appearance, and hurriedly paddled the water and swam over, pulling Hou Bao back. After Hou Cai joined, the plush hand under the water probably couldn't pull Hou Bao, so he let go of his hand and gave up on him.
Hou Bao, who was struggling desperately, suddenly felt a lightness on his feet, and suddenly knew that the thing under the water let go of his hand, so he hurriedly seized the opportunity to swim upstream, and finally fled back to the river bank panting with the help of Hou Cai.
After arriving on the riverbank, Hou Bao found that there was a black handprint on his ankle, and hurriedly told Hou Cai and a few other friends about something at the bottom of the river; When those children saw the black handprints on the ankles of the waiting guards, how could they dare to continue looking for them? Immediately, the birds and beasts scattered, and each went home to find the adults.
When the adults in the stockade learned of this, they hurriedly gathered their men to the river to find Hou Dong; But whether it is launching or salvage, whether it is upstream or downstream, the villagers have been finding it late at night, and they have not even seen Hou Dong's shadow!
It wasn't until dawn the next day that someone in the stockade suddenly found Hou Dong's body reappeared, and it appeared on the surface of the river that they had searched countless times last night but could not find.
When the villagers salvaged Hou Dong's body, they saw that Hou Dong's death was extremely miserable, not just because he had been sucked dry of blood? Even the eyeballs and fingernails were gone...... Since that day, the adults in the village have never allowed their children to play by the river.
But before this matter could be settled, a few days later, another child disappeared from the village, and this child was the one who escaped from the water that day!
Hou Bao's parents told us that they had not been to the river on the day they disappeared, and that they had been staying at home very peacefully, and that they had gone to bed after dinner.
But a very abnormal thing happened that day, that is, the parents who were waiting for protection, originally they didn't sleep heavily when they usually slept, and they could wake up as long as there was a little movement! But on the night when Hou Bao disappeared, the couple slept to death for the first time, and they didn't hear any movement at night?
It wasn't until they got up the next day that the villagers in the village woke them up because they found the body of Hou Bao on the river...... (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. For mobile phone users, please go to M. to read. )