Chapter 33: Mountain Ghosts
Blind Langzhong's trick blinded Xiao Qi, how could he ever use chicken to mend wounds, the hand holding the oil lamp trembled, and he leaned over and asked the blind Langzhong in a trembling voice: "Master, why did you get this chicken to press my brother's hand, and if you have chicken blood, you still have to die?" ”
Blind Langzhong didn't reply, one hand held Lao Wu's arm, and the other hand held the chicken and pressed it vigorously on the wound of Lao Wu's arm, Lao Wu writhed in pain, and his face, which was originally pale due to excessive blood loss, became blue at the beginning at this moment.
Xiao Qi immediately became nervous when he saw this situation, the room was dark and numb, and he couldn't see anything at all by the light of a small oil lamp, and the faces of the three people were reflected in the dim oil lamp, and a thick bloody breath could be smelled in the air and Lao Wu's heavy panting sound because of the pain.
Xiao Qi suddenly remembered that he had heard Lao Wu talk about Jianghu Langzhong before, and in his impression, this Jianghu Langzhong was wandering on the street to cheat and sell dog skin plasters, so looking for them for treatment is not looking for death. At this moment, Lao Wu's situation is so serious, I remembered that the blind man was a liar who ran the rivers and lakes before, and after the decoction he prescribed for the second and fourth children was boiled, the fishy smell alone could smoke and vomit people, how could he forget to let him treat Lao Wu's injuries.
Blind Langzhong is quite skilled in his busy work, he looked at Xiao Qi and frowned, saw his concerns and said: "Hey Qi'er, don't be afraid, I have treated Lao Wu's injury before." ”
He really didn't say nonsense, it was a few children in the village who went to the mountains to play together and met a wolf, but fortunately the nearby hunters met and saved the children, but one of the children had been licked by the wolf on the buttocks, and the tongue of the carnivorous beast was full of barbs, and the whole piece of the child's ass meat was licked by licking.
By the time the boy was returned to the village, he was in a very serious condition, and if he had been delayed for a few more moments, he would have died of blood loss. Although Blind Langzhong was a liar who used to run the rivers and lakes, but he still learned a little medical skills, he once heard people say that after letting the beast bite, even if the wound is bandaged and treated, but those injured people will still die because of the poisoning of the saliva in the mouth of the beast, that is, they are infected by bacteria and die, they must first use the secret powder as an introduction, and then use the breast meat of a live chicken to apply it to the wound, so that the beast poison can be pulled out, and then it is not much of a big deal whether it is bandaged or sutured, Because he knew these things, the kid paper really saved his life, and since then, this blind man has become a local man in the village, specializing in collecting some food or giving some money to treat people.
Blind Langzhong thought that Lao Wu was also bitten by wild dogs and other animals, so he used the breast meat of live chickens to pull out the poison, and then he asked Xiao Qi Lao Wu what he let bite? Xiao Qi said: "What, it's not an animal in the mountains, and it's not someone whose dog bites, it's my third brother who suddenly went crazy and bit it." ”
Blind Lang Zhong was dumbfounded when he heard Xiao Qi's words, and he originally pressed Lao Wu's hands and sent some strength, Lao Wu lost too much blood and was already delirious, because it had always hurt Lao Wu also struggled, but when the pain was the tightest, he suddenly struggled and pulled his hand back, and the chicken breast that was originally used to pull out the poison also fell off.
The chicken breast meat "snapped" and slapped on the ground, at this time the blind man reacted, and quickly took medicine again to bandage Lao Wu's wound, and when all the treatment was completed, Lao Wu's complexion was much better than just now, and he stopped struggling and gradually fell asleep.
Xiao Qi saw that Lao Wu's condition was improving, so he was relieved, and after being nervous for a long time, his head was full of sweat, and he also felt that this blind man was really not a charlatan, so he couldn't help but admire him a little, and just wanted to say thank you and ask how much it was.
But the blind man waved his hand, bent down on the ground, groped for the bloody chicken breast, shone under the oil lamp, and couldn't help but say: "This is not good." ”
Xiao Qi heard him say this, and wondered what was wrong, wasn't Lao Wu already much better, but seeing that the blind man had been staring at the chicken that was still bloody, he also leaned over to take a look, I don't know if this is because the small oil lamp is too dim or has been in the dim environment for too long, at this moment, there is a black thing on the chicken breast, especially like the paper ash after the paper money has been burned.
Tonight is incomparably long, Xiao Qi looked at the chicken breast meat in the blind man's hand and was stunned at first, and then he was a little hungry and swallowed his saliva and said, "Master, can you still eat this chicken if it is dirty?" No, I'd like to say it's still available. ”
Blind Langzhong turned his head to Xiao Qi and said, "Why can't you understand the situation, this kid? What is this that gets dirty when it falls to the ground? The black ash on this was pulled out of Lao Wu's wound, this is the poison. ”
Xiao Qi was happy when he heard it, and said, "What poison? What's poisonous? Let my third brother take a bite and bring poison? What has become of the third brother? ”
"What has it become? Hmph, it's not that the ghost is on the body, then it has to be cursed. The blind man's gloomy face and voice changed.
But before Xiao Qi could speak, suddenly Lao Wu's voice sounded.
"What did you say, blind ginger? Why did you say that the third child let the ghost get on his body? Aren't you out of rambling? ”
Xiao Qi saw that Lao Wu woke up and wanted to sit up, so he hurriedly wanted to stop him and was afraid that he would move, Lao Wu patted Xiao Qi on the shoulder to signal that he was fine, and when he sat up, he panted heavily, looking at the wound on his arm that had been bandaged thoughtfully.
Blind Langzhong went to wash the blood on his hands, and then wiped a handful of the water on his face, and then returned to the bedside and sat down and said to Lao Wu: "Lao Wu, I heard about what you have encountered in the past few days, and you are unlucky to be involved in this matter, by the way, what is the name of the county and how to say that, it is your head, hey, you go to him and tell him everything, don't mix it again, do you understand?" ”
Lao Wu reluctantly sat down, let Xiao Qi hold himself and stretched out his arms, and took a few breaths before asking Blind Langzhong: "Jiang Blind, why do you say that we are in trouble?" What's going on? What do you know? Is it possible to know who attacked us? ”
The blind man stroked the white beard with his hands, and the two eyeballs reflected the oil lamp, and said with a half-squinted eye: "You ask me so many things now, how can I know so much, but according to your statement, the person who put the floating corpse in your hut and then injured the fourth child in the village knows that only you come late and don't know what is going on here." ”
Xiao Qi was impatient when he heard this, so he said to the blind man: "Hey, what are you talking about? Who did it, you know you can tell me, we can arrest and send it to the police station, don't talk so much nonsense. ”
The blind man sneered and said, "You can't catch that thing when you say it, no one can catch it, it's a mountain ghost in the forest." Later, the blind man told a lot of legends about the mountain ghosts in the forests of Bears Ears Mountain.
Mountain ghosts are also called mandrills or Xiaoyang, the legend says that this mountain ghost lives in the deep mountains and old forests of a kind of one-legged monster, and the people who have seen the mountain ghosts are mostly forest keepers or mountain logging workers, they stay in the mountains all year round, and they have an understanding of every grass and tree within a range, if an abnormality suddenly occurs, they will be aware of it, and they usually have to guard against wild beasts and birds of prey in the mountains and forests, so the vigilance is relatively high, so they are the discoverers of mountain ghosts and the narrators of legends.
In their mouths, the mountain ghosts are as tall as adults, with long arms and knee-length fingertips, and black hair all over their bodies, which look like upright gorillas. Legend has it that mountain ghosts like to eat salt, and those mountain lumberjacks will have some salt used for cooking in their huts, and mountain ghosts will take advantage of people's inattention to enter the house and steal the salt and take it back to eat. Even if they are bumped into by someone, they are not afraid, and they can scare people away by throwing up two long arms, but they mainly feed on some small mammals in the mountains and shrimp and crabs in the river.
In folklore, mountain ghosts are not harmful, they are very curious, and often peep into people's houses. Some people live on the edge of the mountains, and fall asleep at home in the middle of the night, and suddenly wake up to find a strange face lying on the window, which is frightened, but they can't go to fight the mountain ghosts, saying that it is the most unlucky behavior, and they will suffer bad luck, and they will be retaliated by the mountain ghosts.
According to the blind man, there are mountain ghosts in the forest of Bears Ears Mountain, and the villagers have always thought that the Zhang family on the mountain is very strange, and there are many missing children and animals in the village, but the Zhang family actually drove the mountain ghosts to be caught and eaten in the mountain, and there are special taboos about things on the mountain, especially the Houtang Temple on the mountain. In the minds of the villagers, the Zhang family will use evil magic, can drive animals to help them do bad things, and killed countless people, but fortunately, the Zhang family fled many years ago, and the Zhang brothers have already been shot. Originally, I thought that this matter should end here, but since two floating corpses appeared in the small river, people began to disappear one after another, and the grave team encountered attacks, and they naturally understood that the mountain ghosts of the Zhang family had returned.
Lao Wu sat on the bed with his back against the wall and his hands were still held by Xiao Qi, the whole person was like he had just been fished out of the water, he finally had the patience to listen to what the blind man said about the mountain ghosts, he sneered, and said weakly: "Jiang blind, do you still believe this?" What mountain ghosts? Where are the mountain ghosts? That night, I saw with my own eyes that the man who attacked us was a sturdy man, wearing clothes and covering his face, and the fourth child also said that the man had a local accent, and he was particularly familiar with the terrain of the pine forest, did you tell me that this was a mountain ghost? ”
The blind man said: "I didn't believe it, I just told you the rumors that were circulating in the village, what are you calling me?" But in other words, if it is not a mountain ghost, and he is particularly familiar with the terrain on the mountain, then it is likely that the old man of the Zhang family has not been found. ”
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