Chapter 18: A Journey into the Village

I saw that Liu Qing brought me as much fear as seeing a ghost.

After many days of not seeing him, he was still the same as before, skinny, wearing a torn cloth shirt, and his right eye was like an emerald.

I put the old man on a bench and was lying on the ground with his head covered and moaning.

Seeing this, the village chief hurriedly stepped forward and helped Liu Qingqing up. Scolded:

"You little doll, why are you so impulsive, look at the old man's beating"

Liu Qingqing stood up, waved his hand and said:

"If you don't worry, you can't die"

Under the influence of Sixth Uncle and Liu Yunbo, I have always had a hostile attitude towards Liu Qingqing, and looking at his wrinkled face, he really doesn't look like a good person.

But I have to say that from the first time "don't carry too many people" to last night's "knock on the door, don't open it", Liu's celebratory words did give me some warning.

I asked, confused:

"Old man, why are you here?"

Liu Qingqing looked up at me and said

"What's the matter, this village is owned by your family?"

I knew that Liu Qing had a bad temper and didn't want to continue to choke with him, so I didn't speak again.

The village chief gave me a blank look and said:

"Why are you talking about this little baby, if you can come, others can't come, it's a guest, old man, come into the house and sit."

Liu Qingqing was carried into the house by the village chief and sat down, and beckoned me to go to the village Dongtou restaurant to fry two dishes.

This village chief is really tactful enough, and he has been a good person, but I have to pay for the groceries.

I didn't sleep all night last night, and I started to get drowsy on the way to the hotel.

Passing by the intersection, a large group of villagers were discussing something at the edge of the field, and I squeezed in curiously.

Surrounded in the middle of the crowd was a miserable cow with bloodshot eyes.

It was like seeing something horrible.

The neck was torn by something, and the blood flowed all over the ground, which was extremely cruel.

A little girl next to the scalper was kneeling and crying, and I recognized her at a glance, it was the little girl who was looking for the cow yesterday evening.

An old man was pulling the little girl on the side, but the little girl not only got up, but also cried more and more sadly.

"Woo... The old ox is dead, and without it, I don't have the money to buy a school bag."

When I saw that the little girl was crying, I took out 200 yuan from my pocket and handed it to the little girl, saying:

"Don't cry, little sister, take this money, just treat it as a brother to give you a schoolbag"

The little girl, with her eyes red from crying, looked up at me, and took the money timidly.

The old man deliberately stopped and said:

"I can't take your money, this is a ....... thing."

"It's okay," I patted the little girl on the head, and then turned around and came out of the crowd.

After a few steps, the old man caught up.

"Young man, I don't think you're from this village, you're here to find a visit?"

I nodded and said, "Uncle, I'm here to play."

When the old man heard this, he approached me and whispered.

"Young man, what's going on in this place, listen to the uncle, let's go quickly"

I nodded, "Okay, uncle, thank you for reminding me."

When the old man saw that I had agreed, he turned back to look for the little girl.

If the old man had told me this a month ago, I would have gone back to the city in fright.

But now that I have experienced fifteen nights of thrills, I have become a spectator of the bronze bell killing, and I can be regarded as a man who has licked blood on the tip of the knife, and I have a certain psychological defense.

I bought two dishes at the restaurant, bought a few bottles of liquor and went back to the village chief's house.

What I didn't expect was that these two old men were sitting cross-legged on the kang and chattering hot.

Seeing me come back, the village chief put the small table and set up the wine and food, and said with a smile:

"Come, Brother Liu, you've traveled so far, eat something while it's hot"

My face is dark, these two old men are so good at kung fu that they have begun to call each other brothers.

During the meal, Liu Qingqing didn't even look at me, and only cared about talking to the village chief.

I had no presence at all on the side, and forced a sentence.

"Uncle Village Chief, it wasn't you who knocked on the door last night, who is that?"

The village chief was still smiling, but when he heard this, his face darkened.

"If it's not anyone, it's not a knock on the door"

I was intrigued by that.

"It's not a knock on the door, what is that?"

The village chief lifted a glass of wine, and sighed as soon as the glass was put down.

"In our village, there is a rule, that is, every day when it is dark, every family has to lock the door, no matter what kind of living thing, as long as they don't watch outside, they won't survive the next day."

I was amazed and asked:

"What the hell is that, a tiger on the mountain or something?"

The village chief waved his hand and said:

"Don't ask what, blame me yesterday, I got drunk before I could tell you about this stubble"

I was about to open my mouth to ask something, but Liu Qingqing gave me a look on the other side.

I thought to myself: You old man, I'm not with you, you have an asshole with me.

After the meal, it was already afternoon, and I went out for a stroll with a sense of wine, but I didn't expect Liu Qing to chase after me with a stick.

I gave him a bad look and continued walking.

"Don't you want to know what knocked on the door last night?"

Liu Qingqing followed closely behind and whispered.

I didn't look back, and said coldly:

"Animals, this Tiger Waist Mountain is on the edge of this big mountain, and there are many beasts, it's normal"

"It's not an animal, it's a man knocking on the door"

I laughed, looked back at Liu Qingqing's emerald eyes, and said:

"Uncle, the village chief said that it wasn't someone who knocked on it, why did you raise the bar, so who did you knock on the door?"

"Dead Man Knocks"

Liu Qing didn't hesitate to say this, and I was thrilled when I heard it.

"Aren't you looking for tiger striped copper coins, you can stay for another night tonight, and I'll take you somewhere"

I wanted to go back today, but after listening to Liu's words, I couldn't help but be stunned.

"How do you know I'm looking for copper coins?"

Liu Qingqing didn't answer me directly, and said shallowly:

"You have to ask me a lot, come with me tonight, and I will tell you the truth one by one."

That's what I'm waiting for!!

It's been so long, and I've been enigmatically dominated by this person and that person, and what I want to know most in my heart is actually the truth!

"You know what I want to ask you?"

Liu Qingqing's emerald eyes slowly contracted.

"Old Tang, Old Wu, Liu Yunbo, Sixth Uncle, and all my secrets"

Liu Qingqing's words really shocked me, these are the questions that were suppressed in the deepest part of my heart, but they were broken by him.

I gritted my teeth and nodded.

"Okay, I'll go with you tonight, you have to talk"

Liu Qingqing smiled and didn't say anything more.

The wind was blowing, and his bony body swayed left and right in the wind, and it seemed that it could be blown away by a strong wind.

That night, Liu Qingqing and I stayed in the Westinghouse, and the village chief drank some wine for dinner, and he was drunk and unconscious.

At ten o'clock in the evening, Liu Qing saw that it was dark, so he beckoned me to follow him to walk around the village.

I actually resisted in my heart, after all, I had seen the tragic death of the scalper with my own eyes.

But he Liu Qingqing hasn't seen it, is it reliable?

But Liu Qingqing said that he knew all the secrets, and that was simply too tempting for me.

I followed him out of the house after his scrawny body, trembling and feeling insecure.

The night in the countryside was so quiet that there were no frogs or insects in the fields.

Fortunately, by the bright moonlight, we could barely see the faces clearly, and we crossed the village path to the outside of a house with a lamp still on.

Liu Qingqing whispered:

"That's it, wait"

The two of us hunched over behind a pile of firewood, staring at the house of the lamplighter.

I just stared motionless, squatting until twelve o'clock, and I was really impatient, and I was about to speak.

But I heard a "creak", and the door of this house opened, and out came a young man of about twenty.

When the man came out, he staggered out of the courtyard.

Liu Qingqing gave me a look, and the two of us cautiously followed at a distance of twenty meters from this person.

The man walked very slowly, and after about twenty minutes came to a dilapidated house in a field at the west end of the village.

The young man had stopped moving as soon as he entered the house, and I yawned when suddenly a seeping scream came from the dilapidated hut.

I shuddered and stared at the dilapidated house.

I was concentrating on this room when Liu Qingqing nudged me and pointed to the other side of the house.

A man walked from the west towards the dilapidated house, and he was not tall, and there was a long thing dragging on the ground, which seemed to be not very honest, and would often toss around.

I didn't even dare to breathe, I wondered what this man was dragging like, like?

Like a person!!

I secretly glanced at Liu Qingqing, but his expression remained unchanged.

After a few more minutes, the piercing screams were heard again in the dilapidated room.

In the quiet of the night, listening to the tragic movement, I clenched my fists and sweated on my forehead.

The screaming stopped in a few seconds, the old door was opened, and the two men walked out of the house one after the other.

I looked at the backs of these two people by the moonlight, and suddenly came to my senses.

"Isn't this the little brother and the eldest sister who drove the cattle when I first arrived in the village?"

The two of them went out of the house and went around to the back of the house, and they saw no one anymore.

Lao Wu glanced back at me and said:

"You stay here first, I'll have to go inside and have a look."

Before I could say a word, he got up and left.

I've never seen this before, and my heart is pounding like it's about to pop out.

This Liu Qing went in for three or five minutes, and he didn't come out, and my nervous fingernails were about to pinch into the flesh.

Suddenly, I felt as if something was getting closer and closer to me behind me.

I jerked my head back.

That's right, it's the stupid cowherd boy I met during the day, the boss with his grinning mouth, and his big face is less than five centimeters away from me.

I was so scared that the hairs on my body exploded.

Just as I was about to run for my life, I couldn't help but curse loudly.

", my legs are numb"