Chapter 34: Returning to Consciousness
The Zhang family has been on the mountain for so many years, and the people in the village have only seen the two brothers of the Zhang family, and no one has ever seen the old man of the Zhang family at all, so no one knows what he looks like, so how can he know whether he is familiar with the terrain or not?
Besides, the old man of the Zhang family disappeared during the Republic of China, which has been nearly 20 years. The old man was almost sixty years old when he ate the child, and if he could live to 52 years, it would be the year of the incident, that is, Gu Xi was in his seventies and nearly eighty.
The third and fourth brothers used to be porters at the dock, carrying a hundred-pound weight, and ordinary people can throw them out if they are older, if the old man of the Zhang family can live until now, it is simply a fantasy that the two brothers can be singled out at such an old age, that must be a person with infinite strength, and he also knows the fourth, but the village really hasn't heard of anyone with so much strength, and now it will be even more chaotic for the blind man to say this.
Lao Wu regained some physical strength, he was always worried about the situation of the third child, and he couldn't understand what was wrong with the third child. It happened that Blind Langzhong was beside him, so he asked: "Blind Jiang, you just go back with me, you can help me see what is wrong with the third child, whether it is to prescribe medicine or use acupuncture, as long as it can cure him." ”
The blind man sniffed, smiled and said: "Lao Wu, it's nothing to do with your third child's situation, you don't need to take medicine or anything, you go back and take some burning paper to fold thicker, and then light the front while the fire is not yet big, use the burning paper to smoke the third child's face, when the fire on the burning paper is extinguished, then when the third child will come back to his senses, and he will be able to call him back." ”
Xiao Qi was dumbfounded when he heard this, and he asked Blind Langzhong: "Master, you are talking nonsense, why do you use burning paper to smoke my third brother?" You prescribe me that kind of anti-convulsive medicine, and I can take it back and give it to the third brother to eat. ”
Lao Wu stretched out his hand to stop Xiao Qi and didn't let him continue, then leaned forward, came to the blind man, raised his head and asked in a low voice: "Jiang Blind, do you mean that the third child is evil?" ”
The blind man replied: "Otherwise, Wu Ye, do you have something else to say?" I've been walking the rivers and lakes for so many years, and I haven't seen anything, just like Xiao Qi described the situation of the third child, I have seen a lot of it before, and the method that works is to use burning paper to smoke the face, which can beat out the evil that is attached to people, so to speak, this method is tried. ”
On the country road at night, Xiao Qi helped Lao Wu and slowly walked to the dormitory of the grave team, and on the way, Xiao Qi kept saying that the blind man was, and he used burning paper to smoke the face of the third child, and he had to let the fire burn it. During this period, Lao Wu didn't speak, just kept his head down and hurried, during which he occasionally answered a few small seven voices, and finally left the door of the dormitory when he heard the second child's loud voice talking in the room.
"Hey, third brother, it's not my brother who doesn't take care of you this time, it's you, hey. Look at you to provoke this, and bite off such a large piece of meat on Lao Wu's hand, this old Wu is careful and will have to slap your big mouth when he comes back, besides, if you are hungry, you can tell the second brother, can the second brother take you to eat a good meal, then what is delicious about Lao Wu's broken meat? How? What do you see? Do you want to drink too? Okay, okay, just take a bite, oh mom, you still want to bite me? You're really underdrawn. ”
When the fifth child entered the door, he saw Hu Da Arm lying on the side of the kang and teasing the third child, and the third child couldn't move when his hands and feet were tied, but when he saw that a hand was stretched out, he opened his mouth and bit it randomly, almost biting off Hu Da Wing's fingers, which scared him, and he wanted to reach out to hit the third child's head.
Lao Wu leaned on the door frame and entered the back room, and when he saw that his brothers were there, Hu Dabo had also drunk a little wine, and he was leisurely. Without saying a word, he walked over and grabbed the wine glass and threw it into the outhouse, and then said: "It's all here, do me a favor to get it out for the third child, and let's give the third child back to his senses." ”
Since Lao Wu went to find the blind man and bandaged him back, the whole person was in a bad state, and his face was particularly gloomy and gave people an invisible pressure.
The fifth, sixth, and seventh men pressed down the struggling third child from behind, tied his mouth with a rope to prevent him from being bitten again, and then got out of the house and sent him to the backyard like escorting prisoners.
There were also a lot of coffins and bones piled up in the backyard, and it was a bit cold to come here on this hot and windless summer night, and a strange resentment always surrounded me.
The third child became more and more crazy, staring at the red eyes, chewing the rope in his mouth, and squeaking from time to time, the third child himself was strong, and the three people couldn't suppress him at the moment, so they had to put him down and then sit on him to suppress it.
Lao Wu asked Xiao Qi to bring the burning paper, and after lighting it, Lao Wu walked to the third child with one hand.
Hu Da was idle and had nothing to do, he was curious, so he also limped out, and when he finally walked to the backyard, Lao Wu was already holding the burning paper and preparing to do it, he hurriedly shouted: "Hey, Lao Wu, you really want to smoke the third child, don't do it later, just kick him a few feet to relieve his anger, don't really fight, what should you do if you scratch him again?" ”
Lao Wu said: "Why are you everywhere?" You leave me to stay and stop the meeting. ”
After speaking, Xiao Qi helped the third child up, and then took the burning paper and slapped his face. The burning paper was still on fire, and when it was drawn to the third child's face, there were sparks everywhere, and the third child screamed. Everyone else is blinded, what is this for? Why are you still playing really, and I'm thinking about whether to stop the fifth child from fighting.
Suddenly, the third child shouted: "Okay, okay, don't fight, I'll pay back the money, I will pay back, don't fight." ”
Hearing this, Lao Wu stopped his hand, threw away the burned paper that had been extinguished, and sat down on the ground softly, his face was pale and panting heavily, and the whole person was about to collapse.
When the third brother saw that Lao Wu had collapsed and fell to the ground, he hurriedly let go of the third brother and ran over to help Lao Wu. The third hand was still tied behind his back, and no one dragged him to the ground, and when he was lying on the ground, he shouted: "Hey, what did I say, what are you doing?" What's wrong with you, don't I just owe that money? I said that I will send it over when I open the money next month, why bother to arrest me out this big night, I tell you, my brothers are not vegetarians, I said, when they see that I am gone, they will definitely have to come out to find me, if I see you treat me like this, not only will you not be able to get the money, but you will also have to be beaten, I am not scaring you. ”
After leaning against the wall and listening to the third child's shouting, Hu Da Arm couldn't help but laugh out loud, and then he laughed back and forth, his voice was loud and the sound of laughter was also loud, this sudden smile startled the third child, but then he heard that it was the old Erhu Da Arm, so he called him: "Second brother, are you here?" Come over and help, these grandsons are going to kill me for so much money, don't laugh, come and beat them up. ”
The fifth brother walked up to the third child, patted his head with his hand and said, "Third brother, what is wrong with you?" After you bite Lao Wu, are you going to pretend to be stupid now? ”
The third child suddenly woke up Lao Wu with burning paper, and now he is still guilty, he went to the county to gamble a while ago and lost a lot of money, and owed some money to others, so he thought that those people came to ask for money, but he listened to the movements of the brothers around him, he couldn't figure out the current situation, so he asked: "Hey, I said, are you idle and have nothing to do?" Is it fun to tie me up again? Hurry up and untie me that I'm going to pee. ”
Hu Dafang slowly rubbed over, and also learned from the fifth child to reach out and pat the third child's head and said, "You kid is coming back to his senses?" By the way, I want to ask you, tell me, tell me what that human flesh tastes like? ”
A month later, on the day of high sun, the grave team worked on the grave slope. Because the task was not completed last month, the salary of the month was deducted, and the brothers were poor, so they could only work hard to complete the work as soon as possible to receive the salary for these two months.
In the past month, the grave team has not encountered any strange things, and no one has disappeared, everything seems to have returned to normal, but some people have always disappeared and have not been found, and the person who attacked the fourth child has never appeared again.
The injuries on the brothers' bodies are basically good, only the wounds on Lao Wu's arms are still growing flesh, and he can't do too much work. Hu Dabao told him all the things he did when he committed evil that night, and he was particularly bad at biting a mouthful of meat on Lao Wu's arm and eating it carefully, the third child vomited at the time, and he didn't come back for more than half a month.
At that time, when he mentioned the evil thing, the third child was about to vomit, and he didn't dare to ask him anything, and when he came to his relief, he learned that it was when he followed the footprints on Bear's Ears Mountain that day, he was hot and tired, and when he saw the clear stream water, he drank a few big sips, and then he didn't know anything, but he vaguely heard someone talking, and he was in a semi-comatose state all the time, and he couldn't remember what he had done.
Lao Wu has been thinking about these things, and he thinks that Blind Langzhong may be right, the third child is either possessed by something, or someone has cursed him.
He can still understand some of this digging wells, tomb robbing, and folk legends, but when it comes to things like ghosts and gods, he doesn't believe in Lao Wu, and the most taboo thing about tomb robbery in the past is to believe in ghosts.
If you encounter any strange situation in the tomb, then the timid and superstitious people will naturally think of ghosts, saying that the tomb owner is alive or that there are unjust souls who come out to ask for their lives, then don't rob the tomb and have to be scared to death inside, so they can't believe these things, and they usually can't even think about it.
When the blind man heard Lao Wu say this, he knew that he might not believe in evil, so he said a strange thing that happened in the village during the Republic of China that was very similar to the situation of the third child.
The most chaotic years of the Republic of China were not good, the people were miserable, the people were miserable, and living was a crime, and there were many who really had no life to buy, so they used all their belongings to buy a small piece of meat, and the whole family wrapped a meal of dumplings to eat, and died after eating, because the dumplings were put in the mouse medicine, just to be able to eat a good meal before death.
At that time, many people did this, and they couldn't afford to live without dying, at least they could eat enough before they died.
said that there was such a family back then, bought meat, wrapped dumplings and mixed them with mouse medicine, and the whole family happily ate it, and it must have been waiting for death after eating. As a result, when the others found out, none of the family died, but their appearance changed, and they became monsters with rat heads and human bodies.
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