Chapter 16 Saving the Girl Back to the Village
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The two guys were frightened when they saw my great-grandfather come up, and the green ghost wanted to turn around and play with my great-grandfather, but the old man grabbed him.
The old man threw a handful of quicklime at my great-grandfather, but my great-grandfather was already on guard, and covered the whole door with the placket of his clothes, and blocked the quicklime.
This pause was run out of distance by the two guys. My great-grandfather gritted his teeth and chased after him again. This time, when I was about to catch up with the two guys a few steps, all of a sudden, from the mess of grass beside my great-grandfather, I heard the cry of a child, whoa, wow, crying very badly.
My great-grandfather couldn't help but turn his head to see that in the moonlight, in a grass nest on the right behind him, a small black shadow slowly stood up, and the cry was made by the little black shadow.
My great-grandfather took a closer look and felt that this little black shadow was very familiar, as if it was the little girl who was taken away by the "red ghost" before. My great-grandfather's purpose in chasing those two guys at this time was for this little girl.
My great-grandfather immediately stopped, stood in place with wide eyes and looked carefully, because the distance was relatively close, only six or seven meters, and he vaguely saw a little black shadow with a pigtail on his head.
Who is the little girl? My great-grandfather immediately dismissed the idea of chasing after the two guys, and walked quickly towards the little black shadow.
When I walked to the little black shadow, I saw that a little girl of five or six years old, standing in the grass nest, with a pigtail on her head, wearing a small pair of shorts, barefoot, with a pair of big eyes looking around helplessly, wah-wow-wow, crying, a little face had already let the tears hang flowers, it was the girl possessed by the demon that my great-grandfather had seen before.
The little girl was crying pitifully, and my great-grandfather bent down and picked her up from the hay nest. The little girl was visibly frightened, and let my great-grandfather hold her, and she didn't struggle, but kept crying.
Then, my great-grandfather turned his head to look in the direction of the two guys' escape, and gritted his teeth in his heart, but at this time he couldn't see the two guys anymore, he had already run away, and it was impossible to chase them anymore. Besides, my great-grandfather is holding a child now, not to mention that it is inconvenient to run, but he caught up with him, and he started with those two guys, what should I do with this child.
My great-grandfather walked back along the road while holding and coaxing the little girl.
After about half an hour of walking, my great-grandfather walked out of the barren slope, and when he returned to the southeast of Sanwangzhuang Village, he happened to hear his friend beating a watch.
"Bang-Bang! Bang Bang! On the fifth watch, the rooster crows and gets up...... Bang - Bang Bang! Bang Bang! On the fifth watch, the rooster crows and gets up......"
It was already the fifth watch, and at this time, the little girl was tired from crying and fell asleep in my great-grandfather's arms.
My great-grandfather looked up at the moonlight, and the jade plate was falling in the sky, and he didn't expect that he would be tossing all night in the barren slopes. At this time, my great-grandfather couldn't help but stop, standing at the entrance of the village and looking back at the barren slope, his friend's beating still echoed in his ears, but he felt a chill in his heart for some reason, he felt that the disappearance of these children was not so simple, this may be just the prelude to a storm......
After entering the village, my great-grandfather went all the way to the village chief's house, knocked on the door, and told the village chief about the things he had encountered on the barren slope that night, and finally asked the village chief to do two things immediately: first, report to the official, because this is no longer a ghost crime, this is a man-made pretending to be a ghost, the purpose is to abduct children, should be handed over to the government for investigation, it is best to let the government send officials to search the area of the barren slope, maybe you can find some clues in the barren slope, It may also be possible to indirectly find clues to the disappearance of other children. Second, see whose five or six-year-old girl was lost last night, find her parents, and ask her parents to take the child back.
The village chief of Sanwangzhuang is one of the most respected old people in the village, about 70 years old, and has a good friendship with my great-grandfather's master, Wang Shoudao.
After listening to what my great-grandfather had said, he didn't say a word, but immediately woke up his sons, and asked his sons to report to the official, beating gongs and drums in the village to shout and lead the children.
Finally, the village chief asked my great-grandfather, what is this little girl doing now? My great-grandfather said, I will take the child home first, and when the child wakes up, I still want to ask her something, and if I find her father, I will ask them to come to my house and hold the child.
Later, my great-grandfather left the village chief's house with the child in his arms, returned to his own house, and put the little girl on my grandfather's cot.
At this time, my great-grandfather looked at the sleeping little girl, and for a moment he was touched by the scene, and he actually remembered my grandfather and my great-grandmother, and thought in his heart, when this matter passed, he would take their mother and son back from their mother's house.
After a night of tossing and turning in the barren slopes, when I came home, my great-grandfather relaxed from the inside out, he was tired, sitting on the big bed next to the small bed, feeling like his body was falling apart, sleepy, tired and hungry, and there were several places on his body that hurt terribly, these places were injured by two guys, of course, those two guys were more seriously injured than my great-grandfather, and his body hurt more.
My great-grandfather sat on the bed and rested for a while, got up from the bed, went to the kitchen to get something to eat, took out another bottle of soju, and sat down in the living room to eat and drink.
At this time, the village was lively, and there was the sound of gongs and drums beating everywhere, while knocking, shouting, "After the night (last night), who Lenier lost her heart, and went to Xuanyi's house to hug Jia Ni...... The night is dark, who is Lenier, hurry to Xuanyi's house to hug Canier, Xuanyi rescued Canier......"
Until my great-grandfather was full of food and drink, the shouting outside still did not stop, although my great-grandfather was honest, but he was not stupid, he couldn't help frowning, feeling that this little girl may not be lost by the village, otherwise the gongs and drums outside for so long, there should have been parents of children to come to the door to pick up the child.
After my great-grandfather cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, he wanted to go out and consult with the villagers who were beating gongs and drums outside, to see if he could go to a few nearby villages to shout again, and at this time, there was a child's cry in the back room, and the little girl woke up.
My great-grandfather hurried into the back room, and by this time the little girl had already climbed out of the crib, stood barefoot on the ground, looked timidly around the room, and cried.
My great-grandfather went over and tried to pick her up from the ground, but the little girl was no longer so obedient as she had been on the barren slope, and she cried and pulled away to prevent my great-grandfather from holding her.
My great-grandfather couldn't help it, so he coaxed her and took her to find her father. After a while, the little girl stopped crying, and my great-grandfather hurriedly brought some food from the kitchen for her. The little girl appeared hungry and devoured the food.
While the little girl was eating, my great-grandfather went to a neighbor's house to borrow clothes for her. My grandfather was only three years old at the time, and there were no clothes for a child of five or six years old, and when the child finished eating, my great-grandfather dressed her again and took her out the door.
At this time, the street was still beating gongs and drums and shouting. In ancient times, the folk customs were pure, and the human touch was also strong, and the whole village helped when the family had something, and the villagers who got up early heard that whose child had brought back to my great-grandfather, so they hurried out and shouted with them.
The sound of gongs and drums broke the calm dawn at this moment, making the entire Sanwangzhuang boil.
However, no villager has ever come forward to claim the child.
My great-grandfather walked out of the house with the little girl and towards the sound of gongs and drums. While walking, I coaxed the little girl to ask, what is your name, what is the name of your father, and where does your family live.
Five or six-year-old children are already sensible, and if you put it now, the little girl should basically go to the first grade of primary school, and there is no longer an obstacle in language communication.
The little girl was patiently questioned by my great-grandfather, and said her own name and her father's name, but he could not say the name of her village, and the name of the little girl's father sounded very unfamiliar, and my great-grandfather was sure that he was not from Sanwangzhuang.
Later, my great-grandfather asked the little girl, why did you run alone in the middle of the night into the barren slopes? The little girl thought for a while and said, after she fell asleep at night, she felt that someone was pushing her, and calling her name, she opened her eyes and saw that there were several children about the same size as her standing beside her bed, and those children wanted to play with her, so she followed the children out of the door, and then the children ran in front, and she chased behind, and chased and chased, and she knew nothing.
When my great-grandfather heard this, several children stood by the little girl's bed in the middle of the night and woke her up to play with her...... It must be a ghost!
My great-grandfather asked her again, do you know those children? The little girl replied that she knew one, a neighbor of hers, whose name was Fat Boy, but she hadn't seen Fat Boy for a while.
After getting this information, my great-grandfather stopped asking anything, and took the little girl to find the villagers who were beating gongs and drums, and then told the villagers what the little girl said, hoping that there were people in the villagers who knew the girl or the girl's father. Of course, my great-grandfather did not tell the villagers about the little girl being woken up by several children for fear of scaring them.
The little girl's name is Wei Sisi, and her father's name is Wei Damao. When one of the villagers named Wang Yushu heard the name, he hurriedly said that he knew this Wei Damao, and his younger brother Wang Liushu was working as a long-term worker in Wei Damao's house, and Wei Damao was the richest family in Weijiazhuang.
When my great-grandfather heard this, the child was finally settled. At this time, Wang Yushu said again, I know where Wei Damao's family lives, I will go to Wei Damao's house and say something, and ask Wei Damao to pick him up.
After Wang Yushu left, the villagers also dispersed, and only a few villagers who had lost their children surrounded my great-grandfather to ask questions, hoping to get the whereabouts of their own children from my great-grandfather, and even begging my great-grandfather to get his children back