Chapter 3 Legends of the Village
Grandpa swallowed his saliva, but he already had a plan in his heart, even if he was scared half to death, it was better than being blind. Helpless, Grandpa Tai could only slowly open his eyes, and his heart began to become restless, as if he wanted to flee from his original position. But the man looked at himself, and could only desperately keep his eyes open, and for a while his eyes were bloodshot as if they were about to drip blood.
"You want to pull a few pads, don't you? It's a pity that my fingers are bloody and my throat is sealed, what can this country baby make a fuss? The man looked very proud, and the overtone was that killing one or two people was like stepping on an ant.
"No, no, I want to tell you that the second uncle wants to kill you two for money." Grandpa Tai saw that his careful thinking was broken, but he wondered in his heart that since this was the case, why didn't this man do it when he was decisive?
"Oh? Then let me ask you, do you hate your second uncle? The man seemed to have known it for a long time, and he was not surprised at all, let alone breaking his grandfather's sophistry.
"Hate, I can't wait to eat his flesh and drink his blood." Although my grandfather resented what the second uncle had done, he was worried about a trace of family affection in his heart after all. But in the face of the man's obscenity, where does the grandfather dare to say the truth, he can only pretend to hate.
"Very well, I saved your life, and now you have to pay it back." The man whispered in his grandfather's ear, and the rope broke as soon as his fingers moved.
Grandpa Tai moved his limbs, thinking that he would take the opportunity to escape, but he didn't want to hand over his life again. Although my grandfather was a child at that time, he was thoughtful, and he always felt that this man would not let him do anything good.
"Don't expect to escape, you can't do that, just go and accompany him." The man glanced at the grass baby coldly, and then continued: "Listen, what I want you to do is to kill your second uncle." ”
Then the man stuffed a black object into his grandfather's hand, pulled the girl and walked out. When my grandfather saw that the man was about to leave the kitchen, he was about to follow him out, but he saw that the door in front of him was "slammed" shut.
"When your second uncle comes back, I will naturally let you out." The man's voice came faintly, as cold as a ghost crying from the depths of the Yellow Spring.
Grandpa Tai's eyes widened, and he only felt that his toes touched a soft object, which was obviously the corpse of a grass baby. The panicked grandfather hurriedly dodged, but how big the kitchen in the countryside could be, there was only a small corner for the grandfather.
The small body shrunk in the corner full of cobwebs, and then looked at the black object in his hand, it was the gold-inlaid black knife. Grandpa Tai suddenly remembered what he was going to do later, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly looked around to find someone to rely on, but he could only see the dead corpse on the side.
At the age of eleven or twelve, I encountered too much for a while, and my nerves were relieved by being scared stupid at first. But now that he had recovered his strength, he could only hold the gold-inlaid black knife as long as a dagger and cry loudly, crying until he was hoarse at the end.
I don't know how long I cried, but my grandfather was hungry and sleepy, so he fell asleep in a coma. After sleeping like this, the man had long forgotten the task he had given him.
In the dream, my grandfather remembered a legend, a well-known legend, a taboo in the countryside.
It was fifty years ago, about an old man, about seventy or eighty years old. This old man can also do some work on weekdays, and his body can be regarded as tough. But after all, I am getting older, and I am bedridden with a little cold, and I still need to be taken care of by my family on weekdays. The family has to let people take over the work of the elderly, and they have to spend money to treat the elderly.
The family is not wealthy, except for the old man, there is only one son and one daughter-in-law left. This son is loyal and honest, but he married a tigress and went home. Usually the old man can help earn some extra money, and the daughter-in-law naturally has nothing to say. Now that the old man is sick, the tigress naturally does not have a good face.
But it was so coincidental that the old man felt that his body had recovered a little that day, so he wanted to find something to do. At that time, it was the time of the Republic of China, and there were landlords and squires, and a landlord had a good heart to take in the elderly.
Seeing that the old man couldn't do any heavy work, he simply asked the old man to help in the kitchen. But who knew that the old man preferred to take a puff again, and it was a coincidence that his hand shook when he lit the fire. And the fire fell on the pyre beside it. Originally, it wasn't a big deal, but there were shavings in the pyre. Villagers like to use shavings to light firewood, and when the weather is dry, the flames start in an instant.
The old man had a serious illness, and his old eyes were dizzy and he didn't even see it. But the fire didn't care so much, and when the people found out, the fire had already burned half of the house. Fortunately, the old man was rescued, but half of the kitchen of the landlord's house was destroyed.
The old man's son and daughter-in-law were in debt because of this. The son was loyal, but he only comforted his old father, who knew that he had done something wrong, so he hid in the corner and secretly wiped his tears. But the more she thought about it, the more angry she became, and she struck at the old man with a stick.
The villagers heard the daughter-in-law's cursing and the old man's painful moans that night. However, soon the old man stopped shouting, and everyone thought that the daughter-in-law was just a few sticks, and the matter passed like that.
But the world is unpredictable, but it can't be passed, and it is those sticks that take the life of the old man. After that, no one knows, only one child said a word.
"I remember that day there was a blood-red hairy moon hanging in the sky."
It wasn't until the next day, when someone smelled blood outside the old man's house, that someone found out. When the villagers came, they saw three people lying on the ground, and they were all dying. Half of the sons and daughters-in-law's necks were gnawed off by something, and one of the old man's mouths was like a lipstick, dripping blood.
Some people saw that long black hairs had grown on the old man's hands and feet, and some people found that the old man's nails had become very long.
Grandpa's dream, the dream is real, and he seems to be standing among the villagers. The difference is that my grandfather saw it and saw the old man with a smile on his face, which was a very satisfied smile.
Suddenly, the old man's confined eyes opened, and he looked at his grandfather with a twist of his neck.
"Ahh Grandpa Tai screamed in fright, his back was soaked in cold sweat, and it took a long time to realize that it was just a dream.
Grandpa instinctively touched the side, only to feel that something was touching his fingers. Looking down, half of the grass baby's face was half gnawed by a mouse, and he buckled one hand into the grass baby's eye socket. And the eyeball, which has no black eyeballs, is firmly falling on the palm of his hand.