Chapter 62: The Strange Scarecrow 5
Li Xiaocheng kicked the girl sleeping in his bed with a kick in the middle of the scream.
The girl rolled in the ground a few times, and her clothes fell apart, revealing the orange-yellow straw inside. Only then did the woman realize that it was not a woman who slept in her son's bed, but a scarecrow. And this scarecrow is from the hand of his son Li Xiaocheng◎ All the tricks of the night are made by the scarecrow.
At the same time, a black wild cat leaped down from the windowsill, its yellow pupils particularly noticeable.
Li Mason's woman remembered the appearance of the matchmaker last night, and then she realized that the matchmaker was originally a cat.
"Mom, did you put my scarecrow in my bed?" Li Xiaocheng's face turned pale, as if it was a piece of paper. At first glance, he also looks like a scarecrow.
The woman of the stonemason hurriedly told everything she had seen and happened last night.
Li Xiaocheng didn't believe his mother's words.
Stonemason Li, who was woken up, hurried to his son's room to testify for his wife.
Li Xiaocheng still didn't believe it. He thinks that his parents have been enchanted in order to force him to get married, deliberately stuffed the scarecrow into his bed, and then teamed up to deceive him.
After Li Xiaocheng got up, he immediately went to the storage room where he put the scarecrow. All the scarecrows that had been made before were gone, and only the unfinished scarecrows remained in their original places. Li Xiaocheng used to tidy up the storage room, stacking straw on the suspended floor and paper in a wooden box. Now it's a mess, straw is scattered everywhere, paper is not only scattered, but also footprints are being stepped on.
Li Xiaocheng had a big quarrel with his family, and rarely talked to his parents after that.
Li discussed with his woman secretly, and gradually became inclined to believe that he had been deceived by a scarecrow made by his son. They felt like they were being tricked by a scarecrow. However, they believe that they were tricked by the scarecrow because they wanted their son to find a daughter-in-law too much. That's where the scarecrow comes in. Devils are often done because people have loopholes to exploit. If there is no hole to exploit, there is no way for the ghost to do it.
Li Mason's woman thought that her son would be hit by this blow and would ignore the women for a long time, and deliberately stubbornly angry with them. But within a few days, she found out that her son was dating a strange woman.
Because Li Xiaocheng was still fighting with his family, he had never mentioned this woman in front of his parents, let alone introduced him to his parents. He secretly dated the strange woman, in the fields, in the fields, in the mountains. The strange woman appeared from time to time, sometimes early in the morning, sometimes at noon, sometimes late in the evening.
The woman of the Li stonemason thought it was a good thing, so she didn't bother them. Although her son avoided her as much as possible, she also avoided her son as much as possible to fulfill her son's good deeds.
This caused Li Xiaocheng to fall suddenly, and the woman of Li Mason's still didn't know anything about the strange woman.
After Li Xiaocheng dated the strange woman for two or three months, the strange woman suddenly disappeared.
On the day the strange woman disappeared, the woman of the Li stonemason had already premonited all this by her intuition. That morning, as soon as she woke up, she heard crows chirping outside. She hated the crow so much that she picked up a stone and threw it at the crow to get rid of it. But she threw it inaccurately, and she couldn't scare it.
After listening to the crow's call, she had a faint feeling that something was going to happen, and although she didn't do anything, she was still afraid that the rice would burn too much, and the rice was half-cooked. I didn't feel comfortable holding the bowl, and as a result, I broke three rice bowls. When I drank tea, I panicked, and I choked on it.
Li Xiaocheng had been making a new scarecrow woman in that storage room that day≡ since he met that strange woman, Li Xiaocheng had not added a newly completed complete scarecrow woman to his storage room.
Li Mason's woman said that she knew that although her son still stayed in the storage room every day, his mind was no longer as good as before. The work he had in hand was fake, but he was actually waiting for the arrival of the strange woman. He sometimes waits from early morning to noon, and if he doesn't come at noon, he doesn't eat well and is not in a good mood. He sometimes waited from early morning to evening, and if he didn't come before dinner, he would sigh and even throw the scarecrow out of the storage room, saying that he didn't know how to make a scarecrow, that his hands were not in the right proportions, that his facial features were not well drawn, and so on.
Li Mason's woman knew that her son was not angry with a scarecrow, but with the anger of that strange woman.
In fact, she will also wait for the strange woman with her son. If a strange woman comes early in the morning, she will be very happy all day without any worries. If a strange woman comes at noon, she is often absent-minded in the morning, embroidering flowers of the wrong color, and sewing stitches crookedly. When Li Mason came back and put on this kind of clothes, he would scold. If a strange woman comes in the evening, she will walk around in the afternoon with itchy feet, and instead of walking around in her own house, she will definitely go to this house and that house to talk about daily life. Sometimes she is more anxious than her son.
As soon as the strange woman appeared, these symptoms disappeared.
But that day, she walked up and down the house all afternoon, and did not see the strange woman she was very familiar with.
At dinner, she couldn't help but go to the village with a bowl, expecting to meet the strange woman, expecting the strange woman to just walk with her. She wouldn't say hello to the woman, but her eyes would definitely be all on her.
But the expectations were disappointed.
Until it was almost time to go to bed, the strange woman still did not appear.
When she saw her son's eagerly anticipatory look, she silently prayed in her heart: "You show up quickly, you show up quickly." She is more anxious than any lover in love who is looking forward to the arrival of his other half. It was literally a love affair between her and the strange woman.
When the lights were on, she guessed that the strange woman would not appear.
When the lights went out, she tried her best to keep the lights for a while. She was worried that the strange woman would come late at night, and that when the woman came, she would turn around and leave when she saw that there was no light in the house.
She also deliberately ran to the head of the village to look back to see if the lights in her house were bright enough, and whether they would be blocked by the window lattice. She imagined how she felt when she saw the lights as the woman.
The lights in Lee's house were on all night.
But there was no one waiting to see him.
Lee's mason's woman heard the sound of her son tossing and turning.
The next morning, Lee's woman went to her son's room as usual and told him to get up for dinner. But after shouting several times, she still didn't see her son get up≡ since the last time he thought they had stuffed the scarecrow into the bed, she no longer went to the bedside to uncover his son's quilt.
When Li Mason's woman saw that her son could not get up, she grabbed her son through a layer of quilt and shook him and told him to get up.
She thought that her son would be unhappy the next morning, maybe with deep circles under his eyes, maybe with an ugly face, maybe he deliberately quarreled with her. She never imagined that her son would become a living corpse. Except for his faint breath and body temperature, there was no sign of him being alive anywhere else.
She dragged her son up and sat against the wall, but her son still had his eyes closed and his mouth closed, as if he were asleep.
She panicked. Mason Lee was not at home. She had to deal with it on her own. She ruthlessly gave her son a few resounding slaps, trying to wake him up. But Li Xiaocheng didn't react except for a few finger marks on his face. She scrubbed her son's face and hands with cold water, but he still didn't open his eyes.
After trying all the methods she could think of, she immediately decided that the strange woman had stolen her son's soul. And that woman stopped coming here because she had succeeded in seducing the soul.
After her premonition came true the day before, she firmly believed that this time the hunch - her son's soul was taken away by the woman.
She had long heard of the reputation of Ma Xiucai in Thrush Village, and hurriedly came to her grandfather for help. So, this happened when she met her grandfather at Lao He.
She didn't expect her father to bring a beautiful woman to Lijiaao, and she didn't expect a strange mouse to follow her father to her house.
As she spoke about the matchmaker dressed in black, a mouse squeaked at Ma Xiucai's feet.
She was about to hit the mouse, but Ma Xiucai said that the mouse was his friend.
"Ma Xiucai, can you help me recover my son's soul?" After saying the whole thing, the woman begged for the stonemason.
Grandpa was embarrassed: "You don't know who the strange woman's name is, and you don't know where she lives, I'm afraid it's not so easy to recover your son's soul." ”
Xie Xiaomi said: "Aren't you very good at pinching? I tried it with Granny Wu's side just now. Now you can calculate it in the same way, treat Li Xiaocheng's soul as an animal, and calculate where he will go. Isn't that okay? ”
Li Mason's woman hurriedly echoed: "Yes, yes." I've heard that people will go to you to find out where they lost their things. Count my son's soul as a lost thing, and count where my son's soul is now. ”
Grandpa first explained to Xie Xiaomi, and then to Li Mason's woman, and said: "Just now I calculated and predicted which yellow dog and black dog would get up first, because the dog didn't understand what we were talking about, and I didn't know which of them would get up first." If they can understand people and deliberately go against you, then the calculation will be meaningless. As for what is lost, it doesn't move, you count it wherever it is, it stays there, it doesn't change. And if Li Xiaocheng's soul was really taken away by that strange woman, she would definitely know that you had to find it, so she would deliberately avoid it. It's like a dog can understand human speech, and a lost thing can move on its own, which is not accurate. ”
"What then?" Li Mason's woman said worriedly.
Grandpa glanced at the bamboo slipper at his feet and said, "I have a solution." But it's going to be a big risk for my bamboo friends. ”