Chapter 66: The Old Man
Zheng Pei couldn't help but knock on the cymbals, but a man who looked like an old man immediately came out and said, "Child, we are not bad people, we will not harm you, please don't knock that thing again." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”
"And who do you say you are? What are you doing here? Zheng Pei decided to figure out the situation first, but he still held the cymbal tightly in his hand and did not let his guard down.
The blue flames jumped incessantly on the torches inserted into the rock wall, and the already modest light heated up the terrifying atmosphere around them again. The old man hesitated for a moment and said, "Child, don't ask about the things here, while it's daytime, you can leave quickly, and never come back." ”
Zheng Pei heard that the old man seemed to have something unspeakable, but he did not listen to the old man's advice, and said: "My mother was brought here, and I can't leave until I find her." Zheng Pei paused, and his tone became stern: "If you don't help, don't interfere with me, otherwise I will be unkind to you!" ”
The old man sighed and said, "Child, don't be stubborn. This place is not something you can come and go in at will. If you really want to save your mother, you should hurry down the mountain. Find a place called Qishan Village and tell the village chief that Zhang Lao Kidnapper begged him for help and asked him to bring the villagers to dig up this place. That's how you can save your mother. ”
"Old crutch Zhang?" Zheng Pei was shocked when he heard this name, and asked in disbelief, "Are you Grandpa Zhang?" ”
The old man slowly raised his head and asked, "Child, are you?" ”
"I'm ......" Zheng Peigang wanted to identify himself, but swallowed his words back and asked suspiciously, "Are you really Grandpa Zhang?" Didn't you die a long time ago? ”
The old man said slowly: "Child, don't be afraid, I am dead, but I will not harm you." We've been stuck here for years......"
Hearing Grandpa Zhang's helpless voice, Zheng Pei instantly awakened the memories of his childhood. The old man was an old Red Army when he was alive, and he was shot in the leg and disabled when he was fighting against Japan in his early years. Later, after the liberation of New China, the old man returned to his hometown to enjoy his old age, and Zheng Pei's deepest impression of him was his lame leg and big smoking pot. The old man has an odd temper, is not good at getting along with people, and lives on his own on government subsidies and pensions. The old man himself had no children or daughters, but he was very fond of children, and the children in the village often gathered around him to listen to the old man's story of fighting devils in the past. But I don't know for some reason, the old man always takes special care of Zheng Pei. Always take out a fruit candy stained with tobacco from his pocket and give it to Zheng Pei when there are no other children. When Zheng Pei was peeling the tobacco little by little, the old man was smoking his big cigarette pouch and pot, and when Zheng Pei finished licking the sugar, the old man touched Zheng Pei's head and limped away with his hands behind his back. Zheng Pei was too young at that time, but he remembered that he suddenly never saw Grandpa Zhang again. When Zheng Pei grew up, he learned that Grandpa Zhang had been dead for many years in a casual conversation with his mother.
Zheng Pei walked up to Grandpa Zhang and said excitedly: "Grandpa Zhang, I'm Zheng Pei, do you remember me?" ”
Grandpa Zhang looked Zheng Pei up and down, his originally worried expression gradually bloomed, and he said with relief: "Oh, Zheng Pei, this has grown into a young man." But the old man's brows instantly condensed again, "Child, listen to grandpa's words, hurry up and go to the village to find someone to blow up this broken place!" ”
Zheng Pei asked suspiciously: "Grandpa Zhang, can this underworld also be blown up?" ”
"Hey!" Grandpa Zhang slapped his thigh, and said angrily and hatefully: "What kind of dungeon is this!" This is a sin made by a **** little devil! ”
Grandpa Zhang's anger resonated with the other black shadows, and the dim cavern reverberated with the suppressed but infinitely vicious invectives of the black shadows, almost blowing out the blue flames on the stone walls. Looking at Zheng Pei's frightened and puzzled eyes, Grandpa Zhang told the truth. Zheng Pei's imagination of this so-called "Yin Cao Difu" is actually a shrine built in a natural cave after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, a Japanese army team that could not retreat but was unwilling to surrender, used local bandits to drive the villagers of the mountain village to build a shrine in a natural cave. The members of the team gained evil power by worshiping the evil gods of Japanese Shinto, became local evil spirits after death, constantly blocked the life force, and controlled the gods of the local people in the cave after death, in a vain attempt to become the internal response of Japan to invade China again.
Grandpa Zhang sighed and said, "After Little Japan finished repairing the ghost temple, he asked the bandits to kill all the villagers who were working, and used their ashes and mud to make clay statues of livestock, and cursed them to be animals forever. Then the **** killed all the bandits, directly wrapped the corpses in mud, and made them slaves forever. And these **** people hid in the ghost temple, let the bandits arrest the dead people in the village, and prevented them from reincarnating, and more than 100 people of all ages in the village have been imprisoned until now, what a sin! ”
"Then my mother was also arrested by them?" Zheng Pei asked gloomily.
Grandpa Zhang sighed, which was a tacit acquiescence. But he seemed to suddenly think of something, and asked eagerly, "Son, come with me!" ”