Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Deserted Courtyard Makes Waves
As the saying goes, I'm not afraid of angry King Kong, I'm only afraid of squinting Bodhisattva, this group of soldiers caught me in this white house, saying that I don't kill, I don't want to chop, and I don't know how to deal with it, compared to the evil old ghost, this move makes people's hairs stand on end, I can't figure out the intention, I can't help but have a layer of cold sweat on my back, and there is always a sense of foreboding in my heart.
The TV was covered with snowflakes all over the screen, flickering non-stop, and there was nothing at all. I stared blankly, and suddenly recalled in my mind that in the Eternal Forest Club, every day there would be more than 100 people gathered in three layers and three floors, around the fourteen-inch Panda brand black and white TV set to watch Journey to the West, every time it was time to play, the club was always full of water, head to head, face to face, other people's children had their own fathers to take them to watch, and my father wandered between the gambling games every day, and had no time to take care of me, I could only listen outside the crowd. At that time, how I longed to have a TV at home, how I longed to be able to watch quietly by myself. Now I have made this little wish come true by mistake, but it is really embarrassing that it is such a scene.
Just as I was immersed in sour memories, the TV screen suddenly popped up with such a shot:
It was a barren and overgrown yard, and it was autumn, and the grass and trees were growing a withered yellow, and a few wisps of reeds that could not withstand the wind were constantly swaying. The style of this courtyard is very old, about a hundred years old, at least not a contemporary building, through the vicissitudes of life that have been corroded over the years, you can still see the appearance of its original carved railing. There is an old tree in the middle of the yard, which must have died a long time ago, and there is not much dead bark left, and only the thickest branches on it remain, but this old tree still stands stubbornly, and the shape seems to tell his unwillingness to die of life.
Next to the old tree is a well, the mouth of the well seems to be cleaned often, and the ground near it is quite tidy, which is in stark contrast to the cluttered and decaying environment around it. I don't know when, a raccoon cat slowly walked into the picture and sat lazily next to the old well. It squinted its eyes, looked at the sun in the sky very pleasantly, opened its little mouth and yawned, and stretched its waist again, so uncomfortable.
Seeing this calm scene on the TV screen, my panicked and frightened mood gradually recovered, and I let out a long breath.
The courtyard was surrounded on all sides by a circle of low brick walls, and the ruins were broken, and they had long been disconnected. Suddenly a few more tanuki cats appeared on the brick wall, standing quietly and looking around, licking their furry paws from time to time, squinting at the sun. After three or five counts, a civet cat has gathered on the wall, their purpose seems to be very clear, they jumped off the brick wall, came to the old well, and the flower cat that was lying on the side of the well got together, rubbing against each other, rubbing constantly, and the tail was erect.
Suddenly, there seemed to be some noise outside the broken wall, and the tanuki looked in one direction, and the cat hair stood up, very excited, and I looked in the direction they were staring at, and was surprised to find that the red cat had been standing on the wall at some point.
This cat is blood-red, with oily hair and shiny hair, and a sharp cold light in its eyes, which I recognize at a glance, this is the red cat! The red cat that followed the uncle!
This red cat has been kind to me several times, although it can not speak, but it is smarter than people, I saw this long-lost "acquaintance", just calmed down the mood, suddenly made waves.
I saw the red cat brush jumped to the ground, as strong as a lightning, the group of raccoon cats have made way for the red cat, the red cat is like a king, straight to the old well. It circled around the old well a few times, looked down at it, as if wondering about something, and the dozen or so tanuki also surrounded the well, constantly wandering, all of them were very nervous and anxious.
Suddenly, the group of cats seemed to be greatly frightened, and in an instant they scattered and fled, embarrassed, only the red cat, still standing dead by the well, making a posture of preparing to pounce on the well, opening its mouth and baring its fangs, as if something terrible was about to climb up from the well.
I watched the TV, I didn't know what was in this well, I just thought it was terrible, and there were few people in the world who could make this red cat so aggressive.
The red cat's posture was lowered, and he stretched out his right paw sharply and scratched the well a few times, his expression very fierce. But even so, it seemed that it couldn't stop the things in the well from crawling outward, forcing the red cat to keep retreating. Finally, I saw something on the broken bricks at the mouth of the well, and slowly climbed up!
It's one hand!
It's just that this hand, which is too small, is a baby's at a glance. Before I could come back to my senses, another small hand appeared on the mouth of the well. The red cat was even more irritable, and roared at the two little hands. Although this TV only has pictures and I can't hear any sound, I can clearly feel its anxiety and fear from the form of this red cat. The red cat tried its best to prevent the baby from crawling to the ground, and again and again it tried to jump forward and bite the little hands, but it did not dare to take a step, as if it was very afraid. Finally, the baby, with its head exposed.
I looked at the baby-faced, no different from the child elsewhere, who saw the red cat on the other side and giggled and looked like he was not in the world.
But how could this baby climb up from the wall of the well! I watched it there, I didn't know where this video came from, I didn't know if it was true or not, and I didn't know how intentionally this group of soldiers had arrested me in this white room and released such a video, was it hinting at me something? Or are you doing some general test on me? I instantly felt like my head was a mess, and I couldn't figure out any more ideas.
By this time, the baby had crawled to the ground completely, and he sat on the edge of the well, looking around curiously, and I could not see anything terrible about this baby, which could scare the cats so much. Before I could think about it, the red cat seemed to have finally mustered up the courage, leaned back with all its body, and violently slammed its limbs into the baby's body, and fell into the old well with the baby with a grunt.
The TV was turned off.
I hadn't come back to my senses, still staring blankly at the TV screen, from which I saw myself sitting on the floor with my back against the leg of the bed, dumbfounded.
Suddenly, my stomach was unusually itchy, as if there were countless centipedes crawling inside my belly, which was unbearable. I lifted my clothes and looked at it, and this scene almost made me vomit.