Chapter 5: The Dogs Are All Dead
The second uncle was silent for a while, and suddenly chuckled inexplicably and said, "With the second uncle here, no ghosts and evil spirits dare to come here." ”
At that moment, his voice sounded cold and strong, and it seemed very unfamiliar, and my heart jumped, and I looked at him speechless. The second uncle suddenly smiled gently at me, reached out and patted me on the shoulder and said, "It's okay, don't worry." ”
After saying this, he went on to tear off all the charms from all over the house. When tearing the portrait of the door god, the second uncle suddenly sweated profusely, trembling inexplicably, and looked a little difficult. After barely tearing off the portrait of the door god on the left, he gasped heavily, looked up at me and said, "Help me tear off the door god on the right." ”
I didn't say anything more, and tore off the portrait of the door god on the right. Seeing this, the second uncle seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and said with a smile on his face: "This time the house looks much more beautiful." ”
I didn't know what he meant, my heart sank a little, and I didn't answer.
When I walked outside the house alone, I began to be suspicious of my second uncle, and I felt that my second uncle's behavior was becoming more and more abnormal. However, immediately after the second uncle's move, I suddenly dispelled my worries again. The second uncle came out and said that it was getting dark soon, and Erniang and Xiaomei hadn't come back yet, so the two of us should use flashlights to pick them up.
I nodded heavily, took out a flashlight from the house, and walked with my second uncle to my grandmother's house in the neighboring village. As soon as my second uncle and I walked into the entrance of the village, a big wolf dog suddenly rushed out, baring its teeth at us and barking wildly. I was startled, but the second uncle was very calm, protected me behind me, and quietly looked at the big wolf dog.
I found that although the big wolf dog was fierce, it always dared to stand one meter away from us and bark wildly, barking a few times and jumping in horror, which looked funny. Just then, I heard a cold voice shouting, "Damn rotten dog, get out!" ”
The voice had a vicious connotation, giving the impression that the person who spoke would immediately strangle the big wolf dog in front of him. I found out that the voice was made by the second uncle, and I shuddered.
After listening to the second uncle's shouting, the big wolf dog suddenly fell to the ground as if it had been lit to death, trembling all over, whining and wailing. The second uncle snorted coldly, stopped caring about the big wolf dog, and continued to walk forward with me. I don't know if it was affected by the big wolf dog, but the place where my second uncle and I passed by, it was like a dog barking and shaking the entire Longbao Village.
When I came to my grandmother's house, Erniang and Xiaomei were speechless about the sensation caused by me and my second uncle. Then when I went back, there was not a single dog in Longbao Village barking loudly. They make a muffled whining sound, as if they are crying.
Erniang said that all this must be my reason, I don't think so, but I understood what Erniang meant, and quickly admitted it. My little sister has seen my strangeness since she was a child, and she is not surprised by these things, but enviously says that I am very majestic.
Before I got home, the sky suddenly changed, and the originally clear night sky was shrouded in dark clouds, and the wind was blowing, making the leaves on the roadside whirl. The shadows of the trees swaying in the darkness are like ghosts with teeth and claws. Then lightning and thunder roared, and the whole world flickered brightly and darkly. My little sister was so frightened that she grabbed my hand tightly and said that she was afraid. I comforted her repeatedly, and I was also very anxious. The rain is coming, and we have to hurry back or we're going to get drenched.
Our family picked up the pace, and as soon as we got back to the yard, the rainstorm came as expected, crackling down and making the roof tiles clange. We literally rushed into the house from the yard, and the moment we closed the door, a wave of rain swept over the door like a bullet from a machine gun.
Thankfully, we were able to get home in time for the last minute.
With a home, no matter how big the storm is outside, we are not afraid.
The torrential rain poured down in a sparse manner, and the whole world flickered brightly and darkly.
We had just been sitting in the house for a while when suddenly the lights went off and the power went out. My little sister and I hurriedly went to the kitchen to find lighters and candles, and when we lit the candles and walked back to the house to light up the house, we found that there was only Erniang alone in the house, and the second uncle was not there. Erniang was obviously taken aback when she saw that the second uncle was not there, she said that when I went with my little sister to find a lighter candle just now, the second uncle was obviously sitting in the house with her, although it was dark, but she didn't hear the sound of the second uncle walking out, she thought that the second uncle had been sitting in the house with her.
I was so frightened that I quickly looked out of the window and found a figure standing quietly under the eaves outside the gate, and the lightning shone on him.
"Second Uncle is outside." I was stunned, and then walked out of the house to find my second uncle.
It was windy and rainy outside, and as soon as I walked out of the door, a wave of raindrops hit me in the face, I blocked the front with my hands, walked to the second uncle, and said loudly: "Second uncle, what are you doing standing here?" The clothes are getting wet. ”
The second uncle quietly turned his head to look at me, and under the light of thunder and lightning, I saw that he had an inexplicable smile on his face, looking terrible in this thunderstormy environment. The second uncle looked at me for a while, then turned his head to look at the thunderstorm in the night sky outside the eaves, and sighed lightly and said, "It's raining." As soon as he finished speaking, he let out an inexplicable laugh.
I didn't know what he meant, but I just said loudly, "Second uncle, go into the house, the lights are on." ”
The second uncle was quiet, turned around and walked into the house with me.
On that thunderstorm night, no one expected that something like that would happen.
The next day, the heavy rain stopped, and the whole world was **. My little sister and I were about to put on long plastic water shoes to mow the lawn, but before we could go out, we heard a shocking news.
The dogs of the whole village are dead!
On the night of the thunderstorm last night, when people were sleeping deeply, the dogs in the village were bitten to death by some wild thing.
My little sister and I went to my uncle's house to see it, and his greyhound was not spared and died in the grass nest next to the cowpen. According to the uncle, last night there was a thunderstorm and a power outage, and they all slept early and fell asleep, and they didn't hear any movement. When I woke up in the morning, I saw that my greyhound was dead.
The greyhound didn't know what terrible thing he saw before he died, his eyes were wide open, he couldn't blink to death, he was fatally wounded in the neck, and there were two rows of tooth marks and blood holes, as if he had been bitten to death by something. Everyone was talking, and I looked closely at the tooth holes in the gray dog's neck, and suddenly my heart was shocked, and I found that those tooth marks did not seem to be animals, but more like ...... Human!
I was stunned by this discovery.
Why are it human tooth marks, who can bite the dogs of the whole village to death overnight? Not to mention that the fact that a person bites a dog to death is already appalling.
I didn't dare tell you what I had discovered, but in the morning, when my little sister and I were back to the village with the grass on our backs, we heard some people talking about the dog being bitten to death, and we also saw two men in police uniforms appear at the uncle's house, asking about the situation of the villagers who had gathered. The two men were police officers from the police station, and I guessed that the uncle might have reported the case, and they came to investigate the case.
My little sister and I stood by and watched for a while. I saw that the two police officers frowned after listening to the villagers' reports, as if they felt that the case was very difficult. At this moment, suddenly Li Mazi, a famous bachelor in the village, came over drunken and shouted loudly: "These dead dogs, die well!" Ha ha! ”
The two police officers were worried about solving the case, and when they heard Li Mazi say these words, they were clearly suspicious, so they stepped forward to grab him and asked if he had bitten the dogs in the village. Li Mazi was drunk and bold, and he was not afraid to be caught by the police, and said with a hippie smile that it was him, and those dogs died well.
Li Mazi was once bitten on the leg by the vicious dog of the Chen family in the village, and he was very resentful of the dog in his heart, and now he must be the happiest to see that the dogs in the village are dead. I suspect he was drunk in celebration of this, but I don't think the village dog was bitten to death by Li Mazi. Not to mention that Li Mazi's character is not bad, just say that biting so many dogs without being found is an absolutely impossible task for him.
It's just that the two police officers don't think about it so much, they feel that Li Mazi is very suspicious and want to take him to the police station for interrogation. Some villagers next to him said good things for Li Mazi, but it was useless, Li Mazi was still taken back to the police station for interrogation. In the afternoon, Li Mazi was taken back to the village by the police. In front of the whole village, Li Mazi bowed his head and admitted that he had bitten the dogs in the village, and said that he was willing to compensate everyone.
Everyone thought it was incredible, and someone asked Li Mazi why he did this, and Li Mazi said that he was annoyed by the dog barking at night. Now that the parties have admitted it, what do you have to say? After the two police officers left, the old village chief personally came forward to question Li Mazi, and Li Mazi changed his words again, saying that he didn't do it, he was forced to be helpless.
Then the matter was over, and the villagers were willing to believe what Li Mazi said, and the death of the dog was like a shadow entrenched in everyone's hearts. At the request of the old village chief, the second uncle took me to the village to sprinkle talisman water. This time, he also asked me to bring his peachwood sword. After splashing the talisman water at the entrance of the village, the village chief standing next to him sighed and said that he didn't know if the death of the dog was a bad omen, and the second uncle asked me to hand him the peach wood sword.
The moment the second uncle just took over the peachwood sword, he bent down inexplicably, as if the peachwood sword was too heavy.
I saw him holding a peachwood sword, his hands trembling, and his face was ugly. The old village chief asked him what was wrong, and the second uncle shook his head and said that it was okay, and then waved the peachwood sword with some difficulty and began to do it. After the practice was finished, the second uncle was sweating profusely, his face was gloomy, he trembled, threw the peachwood sword on the ground, looked at me and the old village chief and said, "There will be no accidents in the future." ”
The old village chief and I felt that the second uncle was so tired and abnormal, it must have consumed too much, and we didn't suspect anything else. And the second uncle seemed to be so serious, which also reassured the old village chief. When I went back, I held a peachwood sword for the second uncle and asked the second uncle if he knew what the dog had bitten to death, and the second uncle shook his head solemnly, looked in the direction of the back mountain, and did not speak.
A day later, in the morning, Erniang suddenly had a severe fever and couldn't get out of bed.
My little sister and I were in a hurry, and my second uncle asked me and my little sister to stay at home and watch Erniang, and go to the street to ask for a doctor by myself. Not long after the second uncle left, Erniang suddenly woke up, saw us, and hurriedly asked where the second uncle went. I told her that my second uncle had gone to the street to call a doctor for her, and my second mother listened to it for a while, and then told my little sister to cook ginger soup for her, deliberately leaving me alone.
I feel as if Erniang has something to say to me alone, looking at her, waiting for her to say. Erniang wanted to speak and stopped, but in the end she didn't say anything. I asked Erniang what was wrong, Erniang turned her head and quietly looked at the floor above, and whispered that it was okay, but she was a little cold.
In fact, I have long noticed that there is an inexplicable coldness in the bedroom of the second uncle and the second mother, and the second mother said that it may be the resurgence of the foundation, but I didn't take it seriously, and I didn't think much about it. Now it seems that Erniang obviously realized that something was wrong.