Chapter 20: A Strange Sheep
What Brother Hui said was so weird that Sister Li and I were dumbfounded. I can't imagine that the mysterious box, and the mysterious manuscripts in the box, can hide so many amazing secrets.
Through these descriptions of Brother Hui, it can be inferred that the freaks born by the two sheep are likely to be the product of the "human-sheep hybridization" after the high blind man and the sheep**.
Regarding **, I remember reading relevant information before, it is said that Cleopatra once trained a group of dogs, and then smeared honey on her **, so that the dogs would come to "**" for her. Ancient Rome even established special institutions to keep animals for human mating. But this "**" experience of a tall blind man is really amazing!
But the tall blind man is really a "strange person", for example, why can his sense of smell be as sensitive as a dog? This shows that his genes or physique are indeed different from ordinary people.
"Did the manuscript in that box say what happened to the freak who survived?" I asked Brother Hui curiously.
"The monster has been living with the old Taoist priest, and about ten years later, the old Taoist priest died of illness, and the monster lost its protector. So, the other Taoist priests in the temple decided to get rid of the monster, and they took sticks and blocked the monster in the cave, and after a miserable, human-like howl, the monster was beaten to death. ”
After listening to Brother Hui's words, a very complicated feeling came to my heart.
Brother Hui continued: "About a month after the monster was killed, there was a vendor who had been delivering tofu to the Taoist temple, as usual, to the Taoist temple in the early morning to deliver tofu, but he knocked on the door for a long time, and still no one opened the door for him. Later, people said that it must have been done by the blind man, because he was avenging his 'child'. ”
I can't imagine that such a strange and bloody incident has happened in our place.
More than a day passed quickly, and on Sunday afternoon, we got on the return train, and the box was left for Brother Hui to continue his research. For me and Sister Li, this trip is really beneficial. Now that an expert person like Brother Hui has joined our "team", we have a greater sense of security and more backbone than before.
After I returned to the village, according to what Brother Hui said, I began to investigate Grandpa Gao's life history to see if it was really as Brother Hui boldly speculated that Grandpa Gao was a blind man more than 300 years ago.
The first thing I asked my dad was, of course, to know if he had seen Grandpa Gao when he was young, or if he had seen Grandpa Gao's father, etc., but the answer I got shocked me.
My dad said that for as long as he can remember, Grandpa Gao has been like that, and in the past few decades, Grandpa Gao's appearance has hardly changed, neither getting younger nor getting older.
My father also said that he heard from the elders that Grandpa Gao was an outsider, and no one knew his exact age, and that he came from somewhere shortly after liberation. However, at that time, he seemed to have a letter of introduction from the place where he moved out, and he took the letter of introduction to settle down in our village. And after he came to the village, it seems that he has been deliberately keeping a certain distance from others, and he has no close contact with anyone.
And all these signs have made Brother Hui's ridiculous inference more and more reasonable, and Grandpa Gao is a blind man more than 300 years ago.
The tall blind man with the dog-like sense of smell, the tall blind man with a different physique and genes from ordinary people, may really live to be more than 300 years old! If Grandpa Gao is really blind...... Thinking of this, my sweaty pores can't help but stand up.
I sometimes think that if only people were like trees, you can see how many years you live by looking at the rings. Although people can determine their age by measuring their bone age, it is still very limited. However, from Brother Hui, I learned how to verify whether a piece of bone is ancient or modern, this method is still very simple, so what is the method? Quite simply, it is to use the tongue tian.
It's no joke, it's true.
Because calcium will flow on the bones, the ancient bones lost more calcium, and the residual calcium on the bones would be less, so if you use the tongue, it will feel very smooth, and the tongue will not have a sense of sluggishness. Modern bones are the opposite, because there is more calcium on them, so tian will feel very astringent and will pull the tongue.
Grandpa Gao has another point, which is more in line with the behavior pattern of the blind man Gao's love for sheep. Grandpa Gao did not seem to be in good health on the surface, but he insisted on raising a few sheep, and in the summer, he would brave the scorching heat to cut grass to feed the sheep or herd the sheep almost every day.
But if the blind man really lived for more than 300 years, and came to our village and became a grandfather in our eyes, then why did he do this? Why don't you find a famous mountain and river and live in it like the hermit in the story, wouldn't it be longer and more detached? And if why does he keep pestering me? Yes, not only me, but also Xiaohui, who is already half-paralyzed, his illness must also be related to Grandpa Gao.
I still live alone in that yard, after the mysterious failure of the motorcycle brakes, I did feel very scared, I originally wanted to move to the yard where my parents lived, but I was afraid that those mysterious and terrifying things would still follow me, in that case, maybe it would affect my parents.
For a long time after visiting Brother Hui, there were no more terrorist incidents. Every day when I go to work, Sister Li will ask me if there is anything abnormal, and I say no. She would say half-jokingly and a little teasingly, "It seems that Zuo-ai can really ward off evil spirits", and whenever she does, she thinks she is cute and sexy.
Before you know it, the Spring Festival is approaching. During the Spring Festival, we rarely go to the market to buy meat, but choose one of our own pigs and sheep to be killed for our own New Year's use.
Our family decided to slaughter a sheep as well, but which of the seven or eight sheep should we choose? My dad chose and chosen, and finally decided to kill the pure white sheep. The pure white sheep, fat, thin, size, and age, are very suitable for killing and eating. But what I didn't expect was that just a few days before the slaughter, strange things began to happen frequently.