Chapter 16 Returning on a Snowy Night
I saw my grandson standing in front of me looking at me with a smile, this is the first time I saw him laugh, quite uncomfortable, this grandson has always been iron-faced, scratching the squeaky nest and not changing his face, this time I opened my eyes, but the more I looked at this smile, the more awkward I looked, the eyes squinted, I always felt gloomy, but I couldn't tell what was wrong, I was looking for something in my heart, maybe I was not used to it.
Entering the house with his grandson was a tall and thin man, he stood aside, dressed in mink, with black boots on his feet, looking very rich, although the man's face was delicate, but the sharp-beaked monkey cheeks and fox eyes made people feel uncomfortable.
I saw the man pat the snow on his shoulder and said,
"When you wake up, we will pick the herbs for you and fry them for you"
After that, the man went to the stove, he did not seem to be very familiar with the house, and after searching for a long time he found a broken pottery bowl, took out a few handfuls of hay from his mink pocket, and threw them into the bowl, and I inadvertently saw the man's nails, which were long and thin, and were half the length of his fingers, and the man smiled when he saw me looking at his hand.
"Ha, I'm going to fill some snow," he said, and pushed the door open.
I escaped from the dungeon and saw my grandson again, it should have been a very happy thing, but even I didn't expect that I was actually such a reaction, this grandson and this man look more or less wrong, but I can't say what is wrong, maybe I have gone through a lot of hardships these days, and I am in a trance.
My grandson seemed to see my thoughts, stepped forward and sat on the kang with his arms around me, and said,
"You escaped, I thought I'd never see you again!" The grandson grinned widely, as if he was very happy
"When did you get out?" I asked
"I would have run out a long time ago, it was this uncle who saved me, or I would have almost died!" The grandson pointed to the man,
When the man entered the house, there were sharp pieces of snow in the bowl, and he squatted down to pull the firewood, and put the bowl of soup on the stove.
"Why didn't you call someone to save me when you came out?" I asked my grandson
"Call someone? We can't call anyone! None of them dared to see me! The man took my words.
This will, the sun has gone behind the mountain, every winter evening, is the most uncomfortable, I don't feel a little hope, the snow moths outside are still flying arbitrarily, the roof of this small cabin has accumulated half a meter of snow, no one has cleaned up the old forest in the deep mountains, the snow outside has fallen waist-deep, I can't help but look out the window, found a strange phenomenon, suddenly the scalp is numb, hair stands on end.
Through the window, I clearly saw that under the cover of heavy snow, the door could faintly see a collapse more than one meter wide, obviously much lower than the thickness of the snow on both sides, very neatly leading into the distance, this is clearly a road that has just been cleaned not long ago, a discerning person can understand at a glance that this is the usual route of the owner of the house, but when the grandson and this man came, the direction was very different from this road, and they seemed to have suddenly appeared from the wild slope, and they were not the owner of the house.
Suddenly, I noticed that a strand of yellow hair was peeking out of the man's mink coat behind his buttocks, and then a tail popped out! I stood up and thought to myself, what the hell is this grandson, a human or a ghost!
"Who are you!" I was shocked.
The man hurriedly looked at his tail, panicked, and hurriedly laughed again.
"Hehe, it doesn't matter who we are, you drink this bowl of medicine first"
After that, the man picked up the medicine bowl and walked towards me, and I got up and was about to run, when my grandson grabbed my arm, pressed my shoulder, and said
"Mazi, what's wrong with you, are you sick again! Take your pills! ”
The man came up and poured medicine into my mouth, and I was already recovering my body, although a child had no strength, but I clearly felt that the strength of these two people was not very strong, I slapped the medicine bowl away, broke free and ran outside. As soon as he opened the door, he let the biting cold wind freeze, and he didn't take a few steps and fell to the ground, and the two people chased after him with their teeth and claws.
"Smack-"
"Smack-"
Two gunshots rang out suddenly, and then the grandson and the man fell to the ground, and after a few counts, their bodies turned into two fox-like green smoke, and drifted away into the depths of the forest, leaving only two piles of cotton clothes on the ground, and the mink coat and black boots lay silently on the ground.
I followed the sound of the gunshot, and a tall and burly man stood not far away, with a cat standing on his right shoulder, and I recognized at a glance that it was the red cat that had saved me, and the man put down the shotgun he was holding in his hand and walked towards me.
"Get up, two fox demons, don't be afraid!" He said very calmly, the bobbin sound was very strong and very intimidating.
This man is estimated to be about 50 years old, with a strong aura, standing like a stone statue in the wind and snow, his eyes seem to be sharper than an eagle, his expression is very resolute, and he feels particularly secure. He wore a military coat and stared at a pair of military hook shoes at his feet, and he glanced at me and went into the room, his feet creaking in the snow. I was already cold to death, so I hurriedly followed.
"I thought it was Sun—" I shuddered as I recounted what had just happened
"Needless to say," the uncle interrupted
"Sun Chi is dead, if you see him again in the future, don't hesitate to kill him directly!" This sentence surprised me very much.
"What? That's—"
"Your mother is dead, too!" As if he knew what I was going to ask, he said directly,
"What! How did my mom die, don't lie to me! ”
"In a way, you should have died!"
"Uncle, don't scare me!" I burst into tears.
Seeing me crying, he didn't turn his head, as if he had expected it, calmly put a kettle on the stove, and the red cat staggered from his shoulder to the kang, and slept peacefully on the kang.
"Huh!" He smiled
"I say, in a way," the uncle repeated
He hung up his military coat, and he was directly shirtless inside, revealing very strong muscles.
"Uncle, I don't understand what you're saying!" I wiped my tears twice and asked,
The uncle walked to the wooden table under the window, tore a piece of cigarette paper from the drawer, scratched it in the tobacco box a few times, wiped some saliva and rolled an old dry tobacco, lit it with a match, and smoked it. The older generation of people smoke this kind of dry tobacco, this kind of smoke has a taste - spicy, but it is very suitable for the appetite of Northeast people, especially in this five or six months of ice and snow, light a dry tobacco, the whole body immediately warms up and down, and the effect is no less than three or five sips of soju.
The uncle kept looking at the old forest outside the window, at this time it was slowly nightfalling, the house was gradually darkening, the cigarette butt in the uncle's mouth, with his swallow emitting a bright and dark fire, he seemed to be thinking about something, for a while, finally spoke.
"What color is the big cat you're seeing?"
I was stunned by the question and said,
"What big cat?"
"The one in the hole, it's very big, what color do you see?"
"Oh, you're talking about that big monster, white, white, what's wrong, uncle?"
Speaking of which, I wondered how this man could have known that I had been in the cave and that I had seen the cat.
The uncle took the last puff of cigarette tail, threw it on the ground and crushed it with his military hook shoes, and said,
"I'll tell you something, this is the first time I've told you, and it's the last time I've told you, and after I'm done, don't ask me any more questions, all the words, you must remember, I ask, you answer, I say, you listen, understand?"
The uncle's tone was very strict, and very majestic, I was afraid,
"Uh-huh"
"You're actually dead after you've been operated on in the dungeon"
"What!" I was so shocked that I almost dropped my jaw on the ground
"Don't ask you, don't talk!" Uncle scolded,
"Your current body should have rotted a long time ago, but my cat, I want to save you once. The hole where you see the four paintings, it's very human, you need thirty-nine civets to spend it together before you can step in, I've lived for so many years, I only know that two people have entered this hole, one is you, the other is me, I ask you, how did your grandfather die? ”
"My grandfather, my grandfather, got tuberculosis and died!"
"When you were born, was there a cat next to you?"
"I, I don't know, my mom didn't say it!"
"Have you ever seen your dad drink human blood?"
"I, I, I don't know, don't ask me!"
"Boy, listen up, you can't be called a living person yet"
"I've actually killed Gross!" I angrily shouted at my uncle,
"You can say that!"
"I'll take revenge on him now, my mother, Sun Chi, I, one life for another!"
"Stop! You must not go out of this forest, the matter of the eternal forest farm, you forget it, the surname Ge is just a dog's leg, once you get out of the forest, what you encounter is not as simple as the two fox demons just now! When the time comes, I won't be able to help you! ”