Chapter 55: A Strange Request
I followed their gaze and looked to the ground, and there was a lot of black cotton wool mixed in with the foul-smelling vomit. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info I was a little surprised, but I didn't think too much about it, and urged them to take advantage of this gap to escape. The crazy woman stared at the ground with wide eyes for a long time, then suddenly raised her head sharply and rushed towards us. I thought she sensed that we were trying to escape, and rushed desperately, only to hear a thudding sound behind her.
I turned my head in a panic, but I froze all of a sudden, and pulled Zhang Siyuan blankly and said strangely: "What are they doing?" ”
The large group knelt on the ground in unison, their heads parallel to their knees, and the tips of their noses had touched the loess. The mad woman took the lead and knelt at the front, her posture more humble, and her body trembled slightly.
Zhang Siyuan said strangely: "Hey, what is this for?" Could it be that this group of people are so impressed by the smell of your vomit that they decide to respect you as the source of the smell? ”
I glared at him fiercely, exchanged blank glances with Wang Linshuo, and tentatively shouted, "Why are you kneeling here? ”
There was silence all around, except for the faint echo of my voice. The little girl who had just dealt with us caught up panting, and was startled when she saw this scene, and cried: "Mother...... What do you guys do here? ”
The mad woman didn't wait for her to finish speaking, but jumped up like a spring, grabbed her by the arm, and pressed her to the ground, her expression as solemn as marble. I was taken aback, and hurriedly walked over and persuaded, "What are you doing here?" How can you make children kneel here, get up quickly! ”
The crazy woman didn't even dare to raise her head, and whispered in an extremely respectful tone: "We didn't dare to get up until you agreed to our conditions." ”
Wang Zhen threw a surprised look at me and asked tentatively, "What conditions?" ”
The crazy woman knelt motionless on the ground, deaf to Wang Zhen's words. Somewhat surprised, he raised his voice and asked again, but the villagers remained silent as if they were deaf.
Wang Zhen scolded in a low voice, rolled up his sleeves and was about to step forward. My heart moved, and I stopped him and asked, "What conditions do you have?" ”
Her body trembled slightly, and she said in a low and firm voice: "If you are willing to save our children, all of us in Liujiawan are willing to go to the soup and fire for you, and even sacrifice their lives." ”
I couldn't help but be a little funny, I said in my heart, how can I be virtuous, I don't understand medicine or human body structure, how can the plot in this kind of novel appear to me, could it be that I have the aura of the protagonist? No, the author of the novel would certainly not tolerate the protagonist living for twenty-four years and remaining single.
Suddenly, a hand reached over and tugged at my sleeve, interrupting my thoughts. I raised my head a little confused, Wang Linshuo pointed at them with his chin, and said in a low voice: "They are serious." ”
Their heads were a little lower than their knees, almost buried in the earth, their backs arched in an arc, their hands tucked at their sides. Some of the skinny women were already a little unable to hold on, sweat running down their foreheads, their faces were red, and their faces were begging. I couldn't bear it, so I waved my hand and said, "I'll tell you in advance, I don't know how to heal and save people." But seeing how hard you are kneeling here, I am embarrassed to get up, and I have to agree to your request. But if you hurt me and my companions in the process of healing your children, then I'm sorry. ”
The crazy woman breathed a sigh of relief, and she didn't have time to pat the dirt on her body when she stood up, and a pair of somewhat cloudy eyes stared at me tightly and said, "Thank you, I promise I won't hurt you." ”
I was still very confused, and wondered, "How do you want me to save your children?" ”
She whispered something to a man beside her, turned around and beckoned us to follow her, who nodded slightly, bowed to us, and ran in the direction of the back mountain.
Wang Linshuo followed the back of the team, looked back vigilantly from time to time, and said in a low voice: "What kind of moth are they doing, there won't be any conspiracy, right?" ”
Wang Zhen didn't care about the movement of his wrist and said: "What are you afraid of, it's a big deal, just fight again." ”
I looked at the crazy woman who was fast-paced, and I was extremely worried, I didn't know what to do, and I thought it would be good if Uncle Lu was here now.
After walking along the uneven dirt road for more than ten minutes, she suddenly stopped, said goodbye to the villagers behind her, and pointed to the gate that I was somewhat familiar with: "Please come in." ”
The little girl stared at us and stopped at the door, looking at us angrily. The crazy woman ignored her at all, pushed her aside and walked in first, and said as she went: "If you are hungry, there are brown sugar baba and spring rolls in the kitchen, if you don't want to eat this, I can make you a pot of rice noodles with chicken soup." ”
Zhang Siyuan and I looked at each other awkwardly, and Wang Zhen took a step forward and said, "Can you tell me first, what exactly are you asking him to do?" ”
She turned her head suddenly, her hand that was about to push open the door was frozen in the air, her expression was extremely complicated, she was stunned for a while and walked straight towards the little girl, put her half-coaxed and half-dragged to the back of the room, pushed open the kitchen door and motioned for us to enter, and said while skillfully putting water and chicken into the pot: "I don't know what you came to the back mountain for, and I don't know how you got that piece of jade......"
Before she finished her words, Zhang Siyuan suddenly interrupted and shouted, "You don't know, I'll tell you now." We are here to find a man who was given to me by a homeless man. At that time, we were deceived by treachery and almost died in a cave on the side of a road from Lijiang to Yongsheng. Just when we were cornered, a man suddenly appeared behind us - it was him. We tried to communicate with him, but we couldn't understand his Yunnan dialect. When the two sides were anxious, he suddenly took out a piece of jade with a strange fragrance. I know you may not believe me, but I can assure you that none of the above is false, and he wasn't killed by us. Bytheway, when will you return the jade to us? ”
The mad woman listened to him quietly, and after a while tears crackled and fell. She sobbed and sighed, "Presumably, he also knew that his life was short, so he dared to hand over the jade to you for safekeeping...... Did he say anything before he died? ”
Wang Linshuo frowned and recalled: "It seems to be in the small mountain col east of Chenghai Lake......"
When the crazy woman heard this, she burst into tears even more, she was almost speechless, and she sobbed for a while before calming down a little, and said with a crying voice: "In the small mountain col east of Chenghai Lake, isn't that Liujiawan!" He must have wanted to go home before he died, and he would have wanted you to hand over the jade to me. ”
Seeing her crying bitterly, my heart felt uncomfortable, and I whispered, "I'm sorry, I couldn't prevent the tragedy from happening." However, the killer who killed him is dead, and he can be regarded as avenging you. ”
She nodded with tears in her eyes and said to us: "My real name is too earthy, I'm embarrassed to tell you, you can just call me Lao Jiu, everyone here calls me that." ”
Zhang Siyuan solemnly stretched out his hand: "Hello Lao Jiu, my name is Zhang Siyuan." ”
Lao Jiu slapped his hand away and scolded: "Don't you see that I'm busy, how can I have time to shake hands." As for my daughter's illness, I'll make a long story short, just save her as soon as you're full.
Did you not see any children on the way but her? In fact, those children are locked in the house by adults, and they will never be released unless they have to. Our village is like a curse, and since the past few years, every child born in the family has been crazy. ”
I looked at her in surprise, she wiped the sweat from her head with her sleeve and continued: "When the child is born, it is fine, but once it grows to two years old, it will gradually foam at the mouth at night, twitch its hands and feet, and say crazy things that adults can't understand. The strange thing is that there are so many children in the village, many of whom have never even met each other, but their dream talk is exactly the same. ”
She glanced at us with a weird smile on her lips and whispered, "Do you know what they're talking about?" It's a string of numbers that we don't understand: "44400890."
It was as if I had fallen into an ice cellar, and my heart was colder than the well water in winter. The whole person seemed to have been hit head-on, and my brain went blank, and it wasn't until Zhang Siyuan's shout pulled me back to reality.
He and Wang Zhen glanced at each other strangely and asked, "What's the matter with you two, why are your little faces suddenly pale, especially Lao Wang, who is sweating like water." ”
Wang Linshuo's body trembled slightly, he wiped his sweat and said, "No, it's nothing, you continue." ”
Lao Jiu gave him a strange look and continued: "We used various methods and means to check the meaning of this string of numbers, but we couldn't find anything. One day, the child's father came home with a strange face and told me that the string of numbers seemed to be the phone number of a medical clinic in Xinjiang. ”