Chapter 4: A knock at the door in the middle of the night
The squad leader is a native of the Northeast, born at the junction of Heilongjiang and Jilin, and has been very familiar with the customs and habits of the two provinces since he was a child, and he has heard and experienced a lot of things, including a very bizarre story, which is the famous yellow skin in the Northeast. Some people may know that the yellow skin is the local name of the weasel, but in the old customs, the weasel is a yellow fairy, and the fox, the snake and the like are a kind of Baojia fairy, which means that the tablet of these animals is enshrined, and these animals will not come to disturb the family, this is an old tradition, as for whether it works or not, we don't know, but if you don't get it, it's really easy to cause strange things.
In the old days, in the Japanese area, there was a family living in a relatively remote mountainous area close to the primeval forest, the so-called relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and rely on the water to draft water is very effective here, many people have not received any impact, living in the dense forest is not bad, there are wild vegetables and game to boil soup and drink, and some of the precious ingredients collected can be exchanged for staple food, for them what is happening in the outside world is not too clear, a shotgun, a forest, some animals are all.
There is a saying in the Northeast: "Beat the roe deer, scoop the fish, and the pheasant flies into the rice pot." "This is enough to show how many species and numbers there are in the forest, and if there is no large-scale hunting, it will definitely be enough for a few people to live a lifetime.
In the period when the devils were sweeping everywhere, there was actually nothing in the Orion's house, at most it was a homemade bow and arrow, or a spear, these things the devils were not interested in, what they wanted was antiques or practical resources such as coal and grain, after many sweeps, the Orion family in the forest still lived as usual.
One night when I was sleeping, there was a knock at the door, and the sound was so soft that if you slept deeply, you would not have heard it at all. But Orion develops a sense of vigilance the day after tomorrow. Even if you sleep at night, you can't sleep well, it's easy to hear the knock on the door, listen to the crisp and slow knock on the door, it feels very strange, who still comes here in the middle of the night? If it were devils, they would have had to sleep that night, and besides, they would never knock on the door. That's just kicked open, when did it become so civilized, and you still know how to knock on the door?
Because he felt strange, Orion was a little careful, got up lightly, grabbed a piece of clothing and put it on his body, and picked up the shotgun in the house and walked slowly to the door, intending to see who knocked on the door, and in case the situation was not right, there would be an insurance. But when Orion walked behind the door with his gun in hand, the knock stopped abruptly and became unusually quiet, as if he had just misheard. There was not even a ghost outside, and he didn't dare to shout who it was, so Orion pulled the bolt open and opened a crack in the door to peek out.
At that time, the houses were all detached, and there were no other homes within a few kilometers nearby, so the blocking wall of the yard had no effect, as long as the gate was strong. Through the crack in the door, I could see the black oppressive trees not far away, and the cries of night owls who came out to forage for food at night. It was an ominous omen, and Orion was a little scared. For he did not see any person or anything outside the door, but only the dead leaves that were blown up by the wind, making a rustling sound, and through the crack in the door, a few leaves were blown into the house, which attracted the hunters to look for it.
When the hunter reacted and looked outside, he found an animal squatting in the doorway. The fur of the whole body is smooth, it can shine in the moonlight, and the eyes are still green at first glance, and the first reaction at night is that the wolf is back. When hunting in the mountains and forests, I was afraid of the black blind man with rough skin and thick flesh. The second is to be afraid of the wolf who is not ready to attack from the back. Reflexively, he raised his gun, and the fire on the top could be fired at any time, but in the blink of an eye, there was nothing at the door, and Orion was a little frightened from a daze, because he had never encountered such a rarity, let alone let an animal knock on the door.
For the next few nights, every twelve o'clock there would be a knock at the door, like a watchman in the town, and it woke the hunter like an alarm clock. But the family slept soundly, and neither heard a knock at the door, nor did they notice that Orion looked out through the crack in the door every night with a gun. But the hunters couldn't stand it all the time, and almost every time they could see a wolf-like beast fleeing into the distance, it must have been the thing that knocked on the door, making their family unclean. ,
But Orion is always Orion, he lives by hunting, and he has the best way to deal with wild animals. After tossing and turning for several nights and not being able to catch anything, the hunter took out his own condom and put it at the door before going to bed, and lured it with a little bone residue. Orion was also old, and he didn't think that this simple cover would catch the beasts that came to toss him every night, that thing should be very smart, and would never be caught by the cover, but there was one exception, and there was no knock at the door again that night, but a low neigh, more like the wailing of some animal before death.
This voice is too familiar to Orion, it must be the prey that has been tricked, and he immediately got up from the kang, and rushed to the door without caring about his clothes, and he didn't look at it secretly, and directly opened the door, but then the thing at the door made him dumbfounded, and the metal cover actually caught a child's head, and the child was four or five years old, and after being caught by the jagged sleeve, the blood flowed down the side of the head to the ground, and he struggled and shouted with a pair of small hands, and the sound made people feel particularly uncomfortable to hear.
Orion just gasped, thinking that he had caught a child, and quickly rushed out of the door to open the sleeve with both hands, trying to let go of the child, but when he got closer, he noticed that the child was not wearing any clothes, his whole body was naked, and the proportions of his head and body were particularly incongruous. But after letting go of the cover, the child didn't move, and when he blinked his eyes, he was suddenly startled, what kind of child was in front of him! It turned out to be a fat yellow skin, and it turned out that this thing had always knocked on the door at night to make trouble.
At first, I thought it was a wolf, but after a long time, it turned out to be just a yellow skin, but this yellow skin is really not small, much bigger than the yellow skin I usually encounter, and there is a white beard on the triangular head, which looks like it has lived for many years. The fur of the yellow skin is not worth much in the summer, but the one peeled off in the winter is a good thing, both warm and cold, and it can be exchanged for a lot of things in the county. But although the skin was peeled off, after going out in the morning, there was only a long skin left, and there was no meat thrown aside, but I saw a string of bloody footprints, and I kept walking from the door to the kang at home along the outside. (To be continued......)