Chapter 15 Five Rats in the Street
The main entrance of the granary was blocked by many victims, and the people standing behind to watch the excitement could only stand on tiptoe and look inside, all wanting to see what was going on inside.
The old man, who first noticed that there was someone in the granary, was sitting on one side, his legs weakly tilted to the side, his eyes glazed and deaf to the commotion around him, as if the soul had been dragged away, and the rest of the body was sitting in a pose.
When the victims who went to the rich man's house to make trouble arrived at the granary, they saw the old man sitting alone, and the old man's son came forward to inquire but there was no response, and no one knew what was going on. I was thinking, "Don't you say that the nursing home with the next clip and Fuxing is in the granary?" What is this old man doing here? ”
When the old man and his son saw this situation, they were also worried, afraid that something would happen to his father, so they shook and shouted all the way to make the old man make a little noise. After the old man came to his senses, he first looked at the crowd around him, and then at the granary, his body trembled, raised his hand, pointed to the half-open door of the granary, and trembled for a long time before he said: "It's all inside." ”
Now it was dark, and the light of the torches was not very bright, and it was only possible to see it when it was very close. The old man seemed to be frightened by something, and he only said that it was all in the granary, and he didn't say what the old man was in the granary, and there were a few brave people who went into the granary with a torch to see what was going on inside.
A few people just went in for a while, suddenly a few strange screams, and then pushed open the door and ran out, after those people came out, they squatted by the wall and vomited, but they couldn't vomit anything without food in their stomachs, so they could only retch, and the heart-rending vomiting made people look uncomfortable.
People outside can't understand, what's going on inside the granary? What's wrong? How is it that all those who go in are so virtuous? After a while, two more people came out of the granary, and they didn't look like the few who ran out before, they were quite calm, but their faces were a little pale from blood shortage.
The people standing outside began to talk nonsense, and one of the last two people who came out shouted: "Okay, don't talk about it, go home, there's nothing to do inside, it's just a few dead rats, just leave a few people to clean up, everyone else go home, don't gather here, let's go." ”
The shouting worked, and the people around the granary gradually dispersed, and they all went home to sleep. But this is not because the man said that there were dead rats in it, so he didn't look at it, but they all felt that something might be wrong in the granary, and they didn't have the courage to look any further, so go home and go to bed early, and stand here at night in the province to be cold and hungry.
The others were almost gone, and the remaining few frowned and looked at each other, and the man who had been retching for a long time just now sat on the ground and said, "My own mother and grandmother, this is too scary, what's going on?" ”
After talking for a long time, I didn't mention what happened in the granary, so that everyone who went in looked like that, and it was really a bit infiltrating to talk about it.
At first, the old man took his little grandson and planned to go to the house of the rich man Sun to bring his son back, he was afraid that if something happened, the pillar of the family would be gone. At that time, the grandfather and grandson were walking on the path in the dark, and happened to pass by the big granary of the rich man Sun, and found that the granary door was not closed and was hidden by the light of the small moonlight. The old man was happy, he thought he had forgotten to lock the door, and hurriedly walked over with his little grandson, he lightly opened the door and stretched out his head to look inside, but it turned out to be too dark and he couldn't see anything clearly, but there was a strange smell.
The old man asked the little grandson to squat to the side and watch the door, and he sneaked in to get some food to eat at home. The old man had nothing to illuminate, so he could only probe the way with his feet, and before he had taken a few steps he stepped on a slimy thing, and he stomped it a few times with his foot, and it didn't feel like a sack of grain, and wondered what it was, so he squatted down and touched it with his hands.
This thing is cold, and a little soft, and there seems to be a slimy liquid on it, and then there is a strange smell that goes straight to the brain, the old man's neck shrank, he gasped, and crawled out of the granary with a strange scream, and lay on the ground and did not move.
The little grandson was startled by his father's trouble, and hurriedly went to help the old man to sit by the wall, and asked him what is wrong with you? The old man was still conscious at this time, so he asked his little grandson to hurry up and call his father over, saying that it was best to find the rich man's nursing home to come over.
The little grandson didn't understand what his father said vaguely, and when he found his father's message, he said that he had found some nursing home in the granary, and he led these people over, which could be regarded as inadvertently saving the life of the rich man.
The next day, at dawn, a group of people returned to the granary, and when they opened the door, a foul smell came out, choking a few people at the door coughing, and then they all covered their mouths and noses with their clothes and walked into the granary.
There was no food in the granary for a long time, so the rich man Sun moved to the house, and at this moment in the empty granary lay five corpses that had been stripped of the skin below the neck, because the skin was still there, so they could still recognize who it was. They all know these five people who were skinned to death, one of them is the nursing home of the big white mouse who put a clip on it a few days ago, those are all brothers who are good with him, although they are not bad people, but the farmers who follow Sun Caizhu and the nearby farmers do not want to see them.
At this moment, seeing their tragic death, I can't say that I am afraid here, let's kill them if you kill them, how can you be so ruthless and rip off their skins, this is also too scary.
At that time, superstitious thinking was also heavy, and when you encounter strange things that you can't understand, you will always blame the gods and monsters. One person present said that it was because they killed five mortal lucky stars who transformed into big rats, so they were skinned and cramped by the big white rats and never overborn?
When the others heard it, they all said that it was right, what kind of big white mouse appeared, it is useless for people who do bad things to hide, where they kill the lucky star they kill, they have to die even worse, they cannot be reincarnated after death, and they have to be a lonely soul and a wild ghost for the rest of their lives.
At this time, those people insisted that those big rats did it, so they didn't say anything about finding a place where there was no one nearby, so they buried the skinless corpses, and then went back to their respective homes and didn't mention it, thinking that the famine would pass if the nursing home died, and the future would be much better.
As a result, not only did the famine not ease, but rumors spread that the Japanese soldiers were about to fight, and people everywhere were panicked. Last time, I was about to rush in, but I heard that the guard of Fuxing was in the granary, and most of them left the granary, and the remaining people were too few to rush in and had to give up, this time I must go in and kill Sun Datou to take his money, silver and food.
Many people had already discussed how to do it at that time, and how to divide the things when the time came, and they were basically decided. As a result, he was about to start for half a day, and the rich man suddenly said that he would open the door and deliver food to the victims.
It is not a good thing to say that the weasel gives the chicken a New Year's greeting, but the rich man Sun said that he wanted to share the grain, which can be regarded as the most sensational news, at that time everyone was hungry, and he could live if he had a bite to eat, otherwise he would not be able to earn so much food.
Rich Sun didn't tell a lie this time, as long as he went late that night, he could receive a small bag of grain. They didn't sleep anymore, and they lined up to get food according to their heads. But after receiving the food, it was dark in the middle of the night, and I couldn't chop wood to cook, so I planned to wait until the next morning to eat.
Sun Caizhu he is an extremely stingy person, especially now that the situation is not good, although his family has food, but not enough to eat, the last time the disaster victims came to make trouble, almost rushed in and killed him, scared for several days did not sleep well. He knew that these victims would not die, and they would definitely come back when they were hungry, so he ruthlessly mixed some highly toxic drugs into some rice, and took advantage of the darkness to give them to the victims to eat.
But he forgot one thing, how many days have the victims not eaten anything serious, and there is no firewood at home, so they can't eat raw food, right? So they had to wait until after dawn to chop some firewood to cook and eat, but a strange thing happened that night, and many lives were saved.
At night, the man of a family slept untruthfully, and when he finally got some food, he was afraid that someone would steal it. After sleeping for a while, I looked up at the bag of grain on the table, and when I saw that the food was in my heart, I could put it in my stomach and sleep for a while.
Just after he had just finished looking at the food on the table, he was going to squint and sleep, when he suddenly heard the sound of rustling in the house, he thought that someone had come in and quickly looked up, but found that there were two green dots on the ground that appeared here and there, which surprised him a lot, thinking what the hell is this, and before he could react, he heard someone talking.
"You unfilial son! What about stealing food at home? ”
In the dead of night, the voice was heard clearly, and the man had peed his pants at that time, because it was definitely the voice of his old lady who had been starved to death not long ago. He married a daughter-in-law and forgot his mother, and he has always been bad to his mother, and this famine he patronized his own home, and he didn't go to the old lady's house for a long time, but a few days ago someone came to him and said that the old lady was starving to death at home, and asked him to collect the body. He said at the time: "What's the matter, how can I get it if I don't die at such an old age, if you want to drag us to death, I won't collect the corpses, you take a roll of straw mat and throw it in the field, you don't have to come to me again." ”
What he said at the time was so desperate that others felt chilled when they heard it, and they all said that raising children to prevent old age, but as a result, he raised a white-eyed wolf, and the old man was unwilling to deal with the aftermath after he died. Now in the middle of the night to hear the old lady speak, almost didn't scared him to death, and when he trembled to find where the old lady was talking, then he found that the food on the table was gone, the outer door was still open, and he forgot to be afraid at that time, he didn't wear a shirt, and chased out of the door with a wet crotch.
It was a lively night, all the families recruited thieves, the food given by the rich man Sun was stolen before they could be eaten, and they were all chased out of the door, and all the people on the street were looking for food.
One night did not even find a grain of rice, those who chased out sat on the ground in despair at this time, helpless and powerless, now there is no way to live, can only dig a pit for the whole family, waiting for the hungry to lie in it.
The next day was also a coincidence, someone found a few dead rats in a mass grave, the smallest of those rats was more than half a meter long, the big one was much longer than a fox, and the whole body was white, which was simply a strange story for the ages. No one has ever seen a mouse grow so big, but then found some scattered grain and sacks of grain nearby, they only then knew that it was all these big rats to dry, not long ago some of the big rats were killed by the nursery, but there were five more, I don't know why they died.
It may also be a coincidence, saying that there were a total of ten strange big white rats at that time, but five were trapped by the nursery. At that time, the dream of the poor people in the vicinity may have been just a false rumor, and the remaining five big white rats stole everyone's food in retaliation, and ran to the mass grave to eat, and the grain was poisoned by the rich man Sun, who wanted to poison the victims, and ended up poisoning the remaining five big white rats. This incident was still remembered after the liberation, and it is a coincidence that the place where the five big white rats were poisoned happened to be the grave slope today.
Later, after the memories of the people who stole the grain at that time, they heard the voices of the dead before throwing the grain, but there was only one sentence, and the voice was empty and strange, and no one could explain it clearly.
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