Xie Xiaoxiao looked at Zhu Yuzi and was stunned, but after a long period of contact with her father, she knew that Zhu Yuzi would not approach her casually, so she was not as scared as before.

"What risk do you want it to take?" Although Xie Xiaomi is afraid of it, he is still worried about its safety.

Daddy tells her that he is going to lure the black wildcat out with a bamboo slip and let the black wildcat catch it. When the black wildcat is caught, it will carry the bamboo slipper to its hiding place. In this way, he can follow to find the hiding place of the black wildcat.

"What if the wild cat doesn't take it to its nest and eats it when it catches it?" Xie Xiaomi is still worried.

Grandpa said, no, I have a way.

In the evening of the same day, the bamboo slipper really lured the wild cat out. The wild cat easily caught the bamboo slippery and was about to bite it when it suddenly changed its mind, grabbed the bamboo slipper by the neck with its teeth, and carried it into the woods.

Daddy hurriedly followed with his cat's foot kung fu.

After walking about three miles, my father followed the wild cat to the halfway point of a mountain. In fact, before he reached the halfway point of the mountain, my grandfather found that there were scattered scarecrows everywhere.

Grandpa thought to himself at the time, it seems that the scarecrow who teased Li and his wife that night has come here.

And Daddy probably guessed why the wild cat teased Mr. and Mrs. Li Stonemason. Maybe it's because the feral cats were chased away by the couple when they were stealing food.

Grandpa remembered that Li Mason's woman said that the matchmaker's eyes were very pious when she looked at the moonlight, and at that time he thought that this wild cat that transformed into a matchmaker should be a cat who worshipped the moon. When my grandfather used to travel all over the country and pass through Zhejiang, he heard that people in Zhejiang would kill the cats as long as they saw the black cats bowing to the moon, for fear that they would become demons. And the people here in Thrush Village don't know this statement.

When he walked to the cat's nest, Daddy saw the only intact scarecrow. If the scarecrow hadn't been stuck in a piece of wood, Grandpa would have mistaken it for a living person. This scarecrow is very good-looking, with sound limbs, delicate facial features, and gorgeous clothes. However, in this barren mountain range, this thing is indeed a little infiltrating at first glance.

Grandpa expected that this scarecrow was the woman who stole Li Xiaocheng's soul.

Daddy immediately grabbed a few large rocks and threw them at the wild cat, so frightened that the wild cat dropped the bamboo slip and fled for his life.

So, Grandpa picked up the scarecrow and led the bamboo slipper back to Li Stonemason's house.

After returning home, Grandpa put the scarecrow next to Li Xiaocheng's bed. After a while, Li Xiaocheng's eyelids fluttered, and then his breathing became smoother and smoother, and his chest rose and fell a lot.

Li Mason's woman was pleasantly surprised, and grabbed her father's hand and shook it incessantly.

Xie Xiaoxiao hurriedly said, "Go get some hot water for your son to drink." ”

The woman of the stonemason let go of her hand, went to get hot water, and slowly fed her son some with a small spoon.

Sure enough, Li Xiaocheng opened his eyes after drinking hot water. He looked at his mother, then at his father and Xie Xiaomi, and finally at the scarecrow beside the bed. He said to the scarecrow, "Mao Raincoat, why are you doing this to me?" Then tears flowed.

Only then did Li Stonemason's woman know that the strange woman's name was Mao Rainshirt.

Then, Li Xiaocheng told the whole story.

That day, he waited at home all day and didn't see the rainshirt coming, and he was anxious. He couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, and he read the name of the rainshirt in his heart.

He knew that his mother had already found out about him and Mao Yushan, and he knew that his mother was secretly concerned about it but did not say it. As he tossed and turned in bed, he knew that his mother couldn't sleep either. Fortunately, when he was in time, he heard his mother's slight snoring.

Just as his mother's snoring sounded, Li Xiaocheng's footsteps sounded outside his window.

Li Xiaocheng thought at first that it was the wild cat that often came to his house to steal food, but he got up to drive it away∵ only to find out by the window that it was not the wild cat that made the noise, but the thatched rainshirt that he was haunted by.

Mao Yushan saw Li Xiaocheng, beckoned to him gently, and told him to go out.

In the past, the rainshirt came early in the morning, at noon, and in the evening, and never came near the hour. Li Xiaocheng hesitated, but this hesitation passed through his heart, like a dragonfly dotting water.

He came outside, pleasantly surprised to hug her. He hadn't embraced her boldly before, and tonight he was a little excited because his anticipation might have been suppressed for too long.

Mao Yushan gently avoided his embrace, pointed to the bright moon in the sky, and said, "Look, how good the moonlight is tonight!" ”

Li Xiaocheng looked up at the moon and felt that the moon tonight was no different from the usual moon, and it was not much better than other times.

"Once upon a time, the moon went down before the flowers. Today next year, the end of the cape. Mao Yushan sighed.

Li Xiaocheng looked at her stunned, not knowing why she suddenly said these words.

"Let's take a walk." Mao Yushan took the initiative to hold Li Xiaocheng's hand. This relieved Li Xiaocheng's frustration of embracing Chengkong just now.

The two of them took a walk together. In the past, they sat down to rest after a short walk. This night, the thatched rainshirt did not mean to rest, and went farther and farther, and went more and more deviantly. She led Li Xiaocheng all the way up the mountain.

Li Xiaocheng saw that she was acting strangely tonight and had gone too far, so he asked worriedly, "Where are we going?" It's the middle of the night, and I don't know what's on the mountain. It's not good if you get bitten by a snake. ”

Mao Yushan said ambiguously: "I came so late tonight because something was delayed." The reason why I say this year, the end of the cape, is because I want to be away for a while. Therefore...... Tonight I want to be somewhere no one can see...... Give you the body...... Do you want me to be in this place where people can be seen at any time......" Mao Raincoat's eyelids drooped, and his voice was too low to be heard.

Li Xiaocheng softened when he heard this, as if he had drunk too much wine.

Mao Rainshirt pulled him up the mountain.

The mountains are even darker. Li Xiaocheng didn't see the scarecrows scattered around him, he only heard his heart pounding, and only heard his ears buzzing.

When they arrived at a place where the grass was overgrown and there were few trees, the thatched rainshirt stood. She turned around, looked at Li Xiaocheng with extremely gentle eyes, and then reached for her collar and unbuttoned the top button. Then, her hand moved down two inches and unfastened the second button......

Soon, the Mao rainshirt unbuttoned all the buttons......

Li Xiaocheng breathed rapidly, as if he was a puppet controlled by a Mao rainshirt, and as if he was pushed by a force behind him, he suddenly pounced towards the Mao rainshirt like a hungry wolf......

He threw his raincoat to the ground. His mouth bit into the mouth of the thatched raincoat.

At the same time, he heard the hissing of the straw being weighed down. The voice was too familiar for him to hear wrong.

Could it be that the thatched rainshirt has already laid straw here for the convenience of tonight? Li Xiaocheng thought.

He put his hand on the ground and didn't touch a single straw.

The sound came from the body of the thatched rainshirt. He was taken aback, could it be that the Mao rainshirt was a scarecrow?

The thought popped into his head when he realized that he couldn't move.

Immediately after, he found himself being lifted up by someone. He tried to turn his head, but he couldn't. He wanted to bow his head, but he couldn't bend his neck. He felt stiff.

When he was erected by someone, he saw his own body lying in the grass. Frightened, he struggled to scan his surroundings with the rest of his eyes. He saw his arms, which were stiff, and the clothes on his arms were the ones he had just worn. He was horrified to find that he had become a scarecrow, and someone had planted him in this barren mountain.

Then, a black-haired and yellow-eyed cat jumped out, grabbed him by the collar, and dragged him down the mountain.

He watched as a feral cat dragged his body away. He wanted to scream, but he couldn't make a sound, he tried to rush over and regain his body, but he couldn't even move his fingers.

He finally understood that the thatched rainshirt was originally transformed by a wild cat and attached to the scarecrow. She took the initiative to approach herself, and had an affair with herself for two or three months, just to take away his soul tonight, so that his soul could possess the scarecrow.

This scarecrow was the one he had made with his own hands, and it was the same scarecrow that his mother had secretly stuffed into his bed. It was only then that he remembered this. Before that, his heart was charmed by the thatched rain shirt, and he couldn't remember what the scarecrow he had ever made looked like, and he couldn't remember what the scarecrow he kicked out of the bed looked like.

In the darkness, Li Xiaocheng felt unprecedented despair. What does a scarecrow do to get the attention of others? There has never been a scarecrow that has attracted the attention of people to move it to a sheltered place. They all end up rotting.

After a while, the moon moved, and the place that had been shadows was shining with moonlight. Li Xiaocheng saw a lot of scattered scarecrows lying in the barren grass.

Those were all scarecrow women that he had worked so hard to make. He thought that his parents had deliberately made up lies to remove all the scarecrow women, and only then did he realize that everything was the work of the wild cat. It turned out that I had been wrong about them.

In the past, when he saw scattered and rotten scarecrows, he would feel pity and even sympathy, because he was the one who liked scarecrows the most. But he never felt anything but pity and sympathy.

But seeing the scattered scarecrows tonight, he was as frightened and disgusted as he was when he saw a dismembered person. He knew that it was because he himself became one of the same kind as a scarecrow. He once heard an old man say that if a dog accidentally touches a piece of dog meat while eating meat, the dog will suddenly wilt. He felt that he was like a dog that accidentally ate dog meat.

He didn't know if those scattered scarecrows had ever had this kind of experience with him, or if they had been deceived by this wild cat and came to this mountain to become a spirit attached to the scarecrow.