Chapter 9: The Familiar Suspect
Liu Zixuan never linked the lame wolf with his father's death, before this day, he didn't know its true identity, the old lady didn't tell the truth until she was dying, and in the days after the old man passed away, he didn't seriously consider the cause of his father's death, but coincidentally, when he came to Yanggongjing today, Gu Mason casually mentioned the wolf, and Liu Zixuan finally connected the two things. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info father once broke one of its legs, could it be that thing killed his father? A mystery that has plagued Liu Zixuan for more than three years finally has a glimmer of eyebrows today.
After thinking for a moment, Liu Zixuan quickly continued the previous words and said, "And my father had a gun in his hand at that time. ”
The Gu stonemason then said, "That's weird, what is the reason for this? ”
"I've been thinking about this for three years, and I still haven't figured it out."
Seeing Liu Zixuan's frustration, Gu Laohan didn't ask any more, and none of them knew what kind of danger he would encounter when he went into the mountains to hunt.
After taking a few more puffs of cigarette pouches, Gu Laohan said: "Some things about your father, little brother, you may not know everything, have you seen the well in our yard?" The old man pointed to the old well in the yard and said, "More than ten years ago, our family drilled this well. That year, the family raised a nest of chickens, not long after the well was laid, one morning when the door of the chicken coop was opened, I found that there was one missing, and after looking for a long time, I found a dead chicken in the well, but I couldn't figure out how a chicken could die in the well. Later, I sealed the chicken coop tightly and covered the manhole cover, but within a few days, there were still chickens dead in the well, and the chicken coop and the manhole cover were open. Next, such a strange thing will happen every three or five times, when our swallow was still young, and was scared by this incident and became sick for more than half a month. Later, there was really no way, so I called your father, and when he came, he didn't say anything, but walked around our house, and he only stomped his feet three times beside a pile of rocks behind the house, coughed twice, and told me that he would be fine in the future. At the beginning, I didn't believe it, how can there be such a thing of God? Who would have thought that since then, there has really been no loss of chickens. Later, I asked your father what was going on, and he said that it was the yellow skin that made the blame, and that the stone used to press the manhole cover was picked up from the pile of stones behind the house, and it happened that there was a yellow skin nest in the pile of stones, and after the stone was taken away, the yellow skin's nest would probably leak into the rain, so they wanted to take revenge. I guessed it was the yellowskins who did it, but why did your dad know where their nests were? Why did he stomp his foot three times, and the yellow skin didn't dare to do anything more? Your father is really capable, even the yellow skin is afraid of him. ”
The strange thing that Gu Laohan mentioned was not surprising in Liu Zixuan's opinion, although he knew the reason, but he didn't have the heart to explain it to him, at this moment, his mind was full of the lame wolf.
After chatting a few more gossips, Liu Zixuan explained his intention and said: "Uncle Gu, I came here today to ask you for a favor, I want to erect a monument in front of my father's grave, and I want you to engrave a few words." ”
"I know about this, your mother told me about it a year ago."
"The stone has already been prepared, I think if I move the stone over, and then move it back after it is ready, it will be too troublesome, so I want to invite Uncle Gu to my house to carve it, do you think it is convenient?"
"Well, that's the easiest. I'll prepare the guys today, and I'll come to your house tomorrow after breakfast, and I guess it will take five or six days to carve it. ”
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The matter was settled, and Liu Zixuan got up to go home. At parting, Miss Swallow sent him to the gate of the courtyard and returned the tarpaulin umbrella to him. Although the girl of the Gu family is not big, there is a huge power hidden in her body that is easy to perceive, and on that rainy day, her sentence smashed a hole in Liu Zixuan's heart, "I hope that I can also be buried in your family's ancestral grave after I die!" If his father is still alive, if his mother is also alive, just this sentence, Liu Zixuan is also willing to live with her family, support the elderly together, and it is worth suffering for her all her life, but now that his mother has just passed away, it is really not the time to think about these things......
After taking the umbrella from Miss Gu's hand, Liu Zixuan turned around and left Gu's house.
Out of Yanggongjing Village, Liu Zixuan's heart became heavier and heavier, and his thoughts were all focused on the lame wolf. Could it be that his father's death really had something to do with it? As soon as this question arises, it is like the growth of some kind of liana, and in an instant it crawls every inch of his heart. If the matter is really related to the lame wolf, then, when you meet the original family dog in the future, you must not take it lightly.
Although he has not dealt with real wolves, Liu Zixuan is not ignorant of the habits of this animal, his father has told stories related to wolves many times when he was alive, just by hear, he already knows something about this species, but, despite his understanding, he still can't imagine that a wolf that has been domesticated by hunters and regained its wild nature, what kind of skills it has. Walking and thinking, turning his head to look at the Niutoupo mountain in the south, Liu Zixuan's eyes became deep and confused. He knew that at this very moment, the wolf was hiding somewhere in the forest of Niutoupo.
Looking at the mountain forest in front of him with a radius of more than ten miles, Liu Zixuan felt more and more sad, this hill standing on the vast plain is the only decent woodland within a hundred miles of the vicinity, and it is also his father's favorite hunting paradise during his lifetime, he has always been complacent about it as his own manor, and even after death, he asked to bury his bones in it. But now in Liu Zixuan's view, there is a mystery hidden in this forest, a mystery that has entangled him for three whole years, like a thousand-pound stone pressing on his heart, making him restless and making him sleep. Looking around this ancient woodland, Liu Zixuan suddenly had a strong premonition, he had a premonition that one day he would go to the forest, one day. Regardless of whether the hunter's death was related to the lame wolf, whether he could find out the cause of his father's death in the end, he would go to the forest, he wanted to see what kind of road the old hunter had walked, he wanted to experience what kind of mood this forest had given his father, and of course, he also wanted to see the wolf, the wolf who had been with him for two years and then had one of his hind legs broken......
From his father's mouth, Liu Zixuan learned many habits of wolves, knowing that they are brutal and suspicious by nature, and are one of the most dangerous beasts in the forest.
Liu Zixuan knows that the wolf is the ancestor of dogs, but if you want to compare wisdom and scheming, a dog is far from being the opponent of the wolf, this theory has long been proven by facts, Zixuan's father once raised a hunting dog, in the forest of Niutoupo was bitten alive by a wolf, and then Zixuan's father took a lot of effort to finally kill the wolf that bit the hunting dog with difficulty, Liu Zixuan was still young at that time, although he couldn't see it with his own eyes, but the whole process of this incident, he heard his father talk about it more than once.
There were wolves in the woods of Niutoupo, and that was more than ten years ago.
In the early years, there was an old saying: 'The farmer's family is poor overnight', which is quite reasonable: a wild boar, as long as it takes one night's work, can arch an acre of peanut land to the sky, and one or two wolves can bite a large group of livestock to death in a moment. More than 10 years ago, a wolf came down from the bull head slope, often went to the village of Yanggongjing to steal livestock, it was like a ghost, came and went without a trace, the villagers were deeply affected, before and after a month, they lost countless chickens and sheep, a long time, made the whole village panic, as long as it was dark at night, every house was closed, and there were fewer people going out to move around. After repeated requests from the villagers, Zixuan's father finally decided to hunt the wolf.
Since the wolf often came to the village to steal chickens and sheep, Zixuan's father took advantage of its activity law to set up several traps around the villagers' sheepfolds.
The villagers reveled in the excitement of getting rid of the wolves, and just when they thought that there would never be any more wolves, something surprising happened to everyone. Late at night the day after killing the wolf, a wolf howl was heard in the forest of Niutoupo for the first time! The howl pierced through the forest of Niutoupo, and plunged straight into the hearts of the villagers like an arrow. Those who heard it were all terrified and terrified.
(To be continued)