Chapter 25: Red Chopsticks
Little Pepper's mouth grew bigger and bigger, and it didn't take long for his mouth to expand to the limits of the human body. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
But even so, Pepper's mouth was still creaking, and the sound was like the sound of ligaments and frontal bones being pulled desperately. It was like something was crawling out of his throat.
Under that harsh, mechanical voice, my fear had reached a critical point. And as his mouth got bigger and bigger, I couldn't think back to eating beauty bass and spitting out my hair, and I subconsciously felt that my throat was also itchy, as if something was stuck in it.
I know, it's a hallucination caused by fear.
Earlier, the vaccination given by the old squad leader and me had a little effect, and I looked at this picture that made my scalp tingle, and silently recited "fear is born from the heart" over and over again, so that my heart could be comforted and feel a little better.
Because of this, I didn't throw up at the time, and I felt like a little miracle afterwards.
After a while, Pepper's mouth finally stopped ringing, and the "thing" inside him finally crawled out.
At first, I saw a silver-gray shadow, which grew larger and larger as the candle flame flickered, like a white lotus flower blooming in the mouth of a little pepper.
But as time went by and the White Lotus continued to "open", I suddenly saw that the thing was actually ...... A hand that stretches out of a man's mouth!
A long, pale white human hand stretched out of Little Pepper's mouth.
Five slender fingers, like a baby's tender willow, and like a woman's green onion, slowly stretched out along the traces of egg whites, and slowly grabbed the egg on Little Pepper's forehead.
As the process progressed, I soon discovered that the "hand" stretched out from the mouth could only see the fingers, but could not see the palms and arms, and the most jaw-dropping thing was that the length of the fingers soon exceeded the limit of the human fingers, almost like five slender and pale chopsticks, almost "endlessly" extending to the eggs on the top of the little pepper's forehead.
In the dancing of the candle flame, the old squad leader's face was illuminated from time to time. He held a cigarette in one hand and chopsticks in the other, holding his breath and ready to go.
Soon, the five fingers gently "held" the egg, and with a few sounds of "fluttering", the five fingers crisply pierced the egg and plunged into the egg...... Motionless.
The old squad leader still didn't move, he didn't even stare at the "finger" that punctured the egg, but lowered his head and looked indifferently at the slowly burning cigarette in his hand, if it weren't for his eyes still open, I really thought he was asleep.
In this way, we all spent a cigarette in dead silence.
When the cigarette in the old squad leader's hand was about to burn out, he suddenly threw away the cigarette butt, and at the same time quickly raised the red chopsticks, quickly and accurately clamped the "finger" stretched out from the mouth of the little pepper, and then pulled it hard!
I only heard a "bang", and the "finger" was easily pulled out of the mouth of the little pepper by the old squad leader's red chopsticks.
This was followed by the second, the third...... But when the old squad leader caught the fifth "finger", the fifth finger was not "sitting still"!
Just when the old squad leader was about to put down his chopsticks, the last finger suddenly sensed the crisis.
Immediately after, the ghost finger sprang out of the eggshell on Little Pepper's forehead and quickly retracted into his throat, the whole process so fast that he didn't have time to react at all.
Seeing this, the old squad leader's face was black and white! He nagged "not good", and then quickly withdrew the chopsticks in his hand and picked up the half of the white wax.
After the old squad leader glanced at me and Zhao Hong, he commanded with extreme seriousness: "Press his limbs to death!" ”
After the order, the squad leader quickly lit the tip of the chopsticks in his hand close to the candle, and forcefully opened Xiao Chili's mouth, and then gently clicked the carbonized chopstick tip on Xiao Chili's tongue vomit area.
Just that lightly! Pepper's whole body trembled like an electric shock.
His shaking force was sudden and enormous, accompanied by constant coughing and moaning, and although we tried our best to restrain his limbs, he broke free a few times in the irregular swing, and the situation almost got out of control.
I don't know how long I struggled, but Pepper suddenly coughed up a mouthful of turbid blood, and after the blood spurted out of her throat, a slender shadow was mixed in the haze.
The old squad leader looked at the arc of the shadow, stretched out his hand and grabbed it suddenly!
Then, he put what he had caught on the table and ordered me to turn on the light.
Sweating profusely, I immediately fumbled to my bed, turned on my flashlight, and shone it on the table.
At this time, we really saw what the thing looked like, and we were shocked to find that this thing was not a finger, but a kind of human finger that was quite similar to it...... Meat worms!
From my point of view, those insects were the thickness and color of human fingers, except that this thing was much longer than a human finger, and I deliberately stretched out my hand to compare it, and it was at least twice the length of my middle finger.
After the old squad leader pulled them out, those things were still alive, but it seemed that they had left Little Pepper's body, and they couldn't make waves, at most, they squirmed a few times on the table, just looking at it made people's scalps numb and extremely disgusting.
The old squad leader picked up the red chopsticks again, put the insects into the white porcelain plate one by one, and then took the insects into the kitchen...... Fried.
Five minutes later, the old squad leader brought me and Zhao Hong the five fried golden meat worms, and while sprinkling pepper and salt, he said to us very lightly: "The two of you have worked hard, I have one, and you have two!" Eat it! Make up for it. ”
"Huh?" Zhao Hong and I were stupid.
This kind of meat worm that can make Pepper go crazy and buy stupidity, no one wants to take a second look...... How can you still eat it?
Faced with our embarrassment, the old squad leader did not blame or blame anything, but slowly told me the origin of this bug first.
The old squad leader said that there are a lot of dead people buried in our backmountain shooting range, and perhaps because of this, it is easy for people to settle down after death, which is similar to the concept of "yin qi" in traditional Chinese medicine, which is invisible and intangible, but can be indirectly felt.
And this kind of worm that resembles a human finger is a kind of harmful thing formed by death row prisoners who have been executed for "pharyngeal execution" in a special environment.
The correct name for the worm should be "egg-eating finger" or "egg-eating bug", and it is said that this thing is the maggot that has absorbed the resentment of the death row prisoner.
When the old squad leader said this, I was completely speechless, he actually ...... Fried a plate of maggots for us to eat!
In desperation, in order to divert my bad stomach, I had to divert the topic first: "That...... Old squad leader, should we put the maggot eating thing first? Tell me what a chopping sentence is! Let us slow down ......"
The squad leader smiled and continued to tell us that this kind of criminal law is an extremely cruel punishment method that has been circulated in the ancient southwest of our country. This criminal law not only satisfies the cruel abusive desires of the rulers, but also cultivates a "Gu poison" that can be used in one middle school for them, and it can barely be regarded as one of the "living Gu" among the five poisons and thirteen Gu in Yunnan.
Before this torture is carried out, people must starve for about seven days, and when they are so hungry that they can endure it, the executioner throws a boiled goose egg to the condemned prisoner.
The old squad leader reminded us that when people are at the limit of hunger and thirst, the most taboo thing is to eat eggs, because appetite will overwhelm people's minds and make people unable to take care of chewing, so swallow the whole egg with the belt meat, which can easily hurt the esophagus and even the trachea.
Goose eggs, on the other hand, are absolutely not to be eaten in that case.
Because the goose egg is large, if you don't chew it, it will definitely get stuck in people's throats and "choke to death" alive. Moreover, the process of death is cruel and slow, and in hunger, thirst and suffocation, death row inmates will instinctively scratch their necks desperately, trying to swallow the goose eggs.
But, this is not possible.
On the contrary, the scratching of death row inmates will only make their necks congested and festering more quickly, and only increase the pain of their own death.
In this way, death row inmates lost their lives in starvation, pain, suffocation and despair. And the last and most poisonous breath of resentment in his body, according to superstition, will gather in the swallowing of people after death, generally speaking...... It's all a place where goose eggs are stuck.
In the future, if Master Tusi wanted to use this person's corpse as a "Gu", he would take out the goose egg from the dead man's throat and use it as a "mother Gu". Casting a secret poison to make that thing grow maggots and corrupt.
The maggots born in the eggs will become the greedy "egg-eating fingers", Guizhou vernacular, this kind of Gu is called "plum".
If this "plum" enters the human body, it will quickly lodge in the human mind, gradually integrate the despair and memory of the person at the time of death with reality, make people gradually lose themselves in the dream, and finally induce the person to "commit suicide".
As a result, the old squad leader also estimated that when Xiao Pepper reported the target trench to take advantage of the coolness, he was likely to accidentally bump into the "choking corpse" abandoned by the old society at the target site.
…… After the squad leader said this, he stretched out his red chopsticks, picked up a fat worm, and put it in his mouth to eat without looking at it.
Looking at his calm chewing and expression, I almost wanted to retch, and Zhao Hong's face was even pale.
While chewing, the old squad leader continued to look at his red chopsticks and said that this kind of egg-eating refers to the most greedy raw eggs, and the most afraid of rooster blood, which must be just a maggot...... These chopsticks stained the blood on the chicken's body, just like the chicken's beak, they can't resist.
That's all the old squad leader's answers, but the questions in my heart haven't diminished at all, because I'm very curious, how could the old squad leader, a Han cook in Shandong, know so much about Miao Gu voodoo, and the ability to detoxify and drive away Gu is so proficient. Also, what does Pepper's semi-physical dream mean?
But before I could open my mouth to ask, the old squad leader made a forbidden gesture presciently, and at the same time pushed the remaining "big maggots" to the two of us.
"Eat!" The old squad leader ordered.
"Squad leader!" Zhao Hong and I twisted our expressions, and tears were about to flow out.
It's purely the rhythm of forcing good people to become prostitutes!
The old squad leader took the chopsticks stained with chicken blood, lit the plate and said, "Do you think I'm embarrassing you?" It's not maggots at all that I'm letting you eat! It's your own 'fear'! ”