Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Fog Country
The bandits in the Northeast are called beards, and as mentioned before, most of the beards are too poor to be forced into the widows, not that people want to be beards to rob homes and houses, there is no such thing, but this can not be said so absolutely, because some beards are really ruthless in their hearts, blocking roads, robbing money, killing people and setting fires, not only robbing the pointed heads of those merchants, but also robbing the chicken feather shops that originally had many rations. This chicken feather shop means village in the countryside, and this black phrase is very wonderful.
The Paphead Forest is a primeval forest that grows around lakes and the Everglades, acting as a natural green barrier and a green warning of death. After passing through the forest, what you see is the boundless swamp, although there are many kinds of animals, but it is inaccessible, and people nearby never enter the swamp casually, because this large swamp surrounded by forests has a nickname, called Fog Country.
We all know that there are the meaning of rural towns and towns, but this foggy township has been mentioned several times, but it is not the meaning of township. It is said that in the first month of spring every year, for ten days, the swamp in the middle of the forest will be shrouded in a thick fog, and the fog will not pass through the forest, and will only appear at the edge of the forest as farthest, and then disappear after reaching the flat terrain.
The nearby water and soil are good, suitable for the growth of crops, there are many villages around the Patou Forest, large-scale reclamation of farmland to grow crops, the fog in the swamp is also the meaning of spring, at first this way, until one year after two children disappeared near the Patou Forest, this swamp began to show its horror.
It was a normal year, and no one can remember exactly when it was. It's just that it was probably the end of the Qing Dynasty when the Republic of China was about to arrive. In the previous year, there was a lot of rain and heavy snow in winter. After the beginning of spring, the fog in the forest began as usual, but I don't know if it was because of too much rain. This fog actually spread through the Patou Forest to the surrounding villages, the fog is so thick that you can almost stand on the opposite side and can't see people clearly, you basically get lost when you get out of the village, you can't tell the east and west, north and south, and this fog is so thick that people are a little breathless, so those days people in the nearby villages are hiding in their own homes and don't go out, all call this "avoiding trouble".
But how do the children know what is going on here, they have never seen such a big fog when they are young and playful, and those children are crazy. If you want to go out and play, but the adults won't let you, forget it. But some children are too naughty, the head of the family did not see for a while, so they secretly ran out, three or two gangs in the village in the thick fog to play peek-a-boo, the guy was very happy, and finally I don't know which child said that he saw a black rabbit running over, the big ears looked fun, the child chased over to see the excitement, and they left the village and got lost in the fog. It was white everywhere, and the terrain under his feet was flat and he couldn't tell the direction at all, so he walked into the pickpocketing forest all the way.
The child was gone, and the adults in the family must have to come out to find it, so they found a few people and children near the Patou forest. But two of the children were gone, and according to the other children, the two children chased the rabbit into the woods, and the other children were too timid to go in. I just sat where I was and cried, and when the adults came, I picked them up. But the children who walked into the woods never came out again.
Because the fog gets bigger and bigger the further you go into the forest, it's impossible to even go in and find the child. At that time, the hearts of the people were more united, in order for a child to mobilize the whole village, the big guy made a lot of torches, I wanted to play a certain role in the fog, but I didn't expect to just take the torch into the thick fog of the head forest, it was immediately extinguished, and I reached out to touch the torch The head was wet, the fog was too big, and it was difficult to breathe after entering, and it was simply into the lake.
It was only after a few days that the fog would dissipate after a certain period of time, and the villagers dared to go into the woods to look for them, but they did not find the two children until they reached the swamp, the surroundings were too wide and damp, the ground was wet and muddy, and there was no way to find footprints, and if no one was found, it would be gone.
At that time, the world was not good, human life was not worth much, there were countless children who died of illness and starvation a year, and it was nothing to lose a few, and when I was in the countryside, few city officials asked, and it was useless to look for it, so I thought I was unlucky and had a good memory and was optimistic about other children not to go into the fog.
But no matter how ugly this child is, it is his own flesh and blood, and it is impossible to say that he will lose it, so it doesn't matter. There is a father who has lost his child and looks for it outside the Papa Forest every day, and sometimes he goes inside, but he doesn't dare to go in after it gets dark at noon or dawn, and everyone nearby can see the evil nature in it.
This father has a heart, but God doesn't seem to be so merciful, a year has passed, and no trace of his child has been found, and the people in the village have persuaded him that the child must have entered the swamp and was swallowed by blisters, so how could he find it? Isn't it? So forget it.
But this local man always thinks that his child is still alive, and he is still waiting for him in the woods. At the beginning of spring the following year, the fog reappeared, completely enveloping the entire chopping forest, giving people a chilling feeling. When the father saw the fog and thought of his child, he unconsciously walked to the edge of the woods, and coldly saw two small black figures running over in the fog in the forest, looking particularly like his children, this father went crazy, and ran into the forest, but then he was squinted by the fog and couldn't see anything, every time he inhaled a breath, he felt that water was in his lungs, and he coughed, but he tried to open his eyes and look for traces of his children everywhere.
I ran in the woods, but I ran into the depths of the woods, but the fog in front of me was much smaller, but it was not those desolate swamp blisters, but a rural scene. The nearby dirt road is pressed very smooth, all around are stacked with stones, it looks particularly regular and neat, there are many fields on both sides, each piece is the crop seedlings just planted in the spring, and in the middle is many houses, not the flat-headed houses in the northeast, but the kind of houses with special ancient style and ancient charm, all very large and very high, you can see the gate battlements far away, and the two stone beasts squatting at the door do not know what they are.
It's strange, I've never heard of a village in this woods, and there is a village that feels like this, what's going on? Could it be that he was dazzled and misunderstood?
The father rubbed his eyes, raised his eyes and saw that it was still a village, but when he turned back, he found that the forest was full of fog, which made him a little confused, and he didn't know where he had run.
Just as he was wondering where he had come, he suddenly noticed a figure moving in the distance, it seemed to be a child, and his father's instinct found it. As a result, he ran along the road until he reached the figure, and only saw that it was not a child at all, but a man digging a pit, his legs in the pit, and only his upper body was exposed, so he looked quite small like a child.
The father slowly leaned over, but when he heard the man's "poof" digging in the soil, he asked him a little strangely, "What are you doing?" ”
"Dig people!" The man's voice was low, and he replied coldly.
Before the father could react, the man suddenly bent down and reached into the place where he had just dug up, and pulled something out of his feet with all his might. But after pulling it out, the father's face turned white with fright, and what the man was holding in his hand was actually a child's head, and there were several sections of neck bone flesh below the neck, which seemed to be dragged off the shoulder.
"Boom!" With a bang, the man casually threw his head behind him, and as a result, he fell in front of his father's feet, and just now he was a little far away and saw that it was a child's head, but when he threw it at his feet and saw it clearly, it was actually his child's head.
"Ahh The screams pierced the fog, and the father sat down on the ground in fright, but when he raised his eyes, he found that the person who dug the pit was gone, and there was only a hole left, and the surroundings were unusually calm and there was no movement. He got up tremblingly, and looked into the hole, where there were many people on top of each other, and there were all kinds of clothes and styles, but there were no heads.
When people are superstitious because of their superstitious thoughts, they will inevitably pull on the ghosts when they encounter strange things, and this father feels that he has not come to the underworld, that is, he has entered the ghost village, and a cold that has never been seen before swept through his body, and fear entered the body through the pores, and his frightened soul was about to fly, and he didn't dare to look at anything, and he gritted his teeth and bent down to pick up his child's head and hold it in his arms, and rushed towards the forest with his stuffy head.
The fog in the forest is thick, nothing can be seen, the thick feeling is like there is a soft and damp thing around him, the most terrible thing is when the back is full of that feeling, the hair that is scared of this father is blown up, all the way to the head of the head of the crazy run out of the pickpocketing forest, when running back to his own door, the sky is already dark, his daughter-in-law is just waiting for him at the door, recklessly ran back into the door almost did not knock his daughter-in-law over.
The daughter-in-law asked what was wrong? Let the wolf get rid of it? What are you running?
The father sat on the ground gasping for breath, and suddenly thought that he still had something in his arms, so he trembled and lifted his clothes and took them out, and his daughter-in-law fainted the moment she saw her child's head. After careful identification, it was indeed his child's head that the father brought out of the Papa Tou Forest, but the strange thing was that the skin and flesh of the head were very fresh, and it felt like it had just died. (To be continued......)