All Chapters_Chapter 3: Decapitation
"The Qiang River is not dry, and the Chen family is endless!"
Hearing what my grandfather said, I was a little confused.
Qiang River, I do know, the Tsing Yi River that passes through the city at the foot of the mountain seems to be called the Qiang River. This river is nearly 300 kilometers long, irrigating a large area of land in Xichuan, and it is called "Pingqiang River" in the section that flows through Leshan.
It's just that what this river has to do with my family, I can't figure it out anyway.
"Okay, your baby is going to sleep quickly." Grandpa said something to my dad, and at the same time glanced at me, intentionally or unintentionally.
I was suddenly clever, and trotted into the bed in a few steps, and the feeling of getting up in the middle of the night to eavesdrop on the conversation of adults was quite exciting. However, the child was forgetful, his eyes were closed, and he soon fell into a dream.
In my dream I seemed to see a graceful woman, dressed in clothes embroidered with all kinds of exotic animals, with a strange bronze mask on her face, and the eyes on the mask bulging out in a cylindrical shape, as if beckoning to me, and I saw her and stretched out her hand......
Dreams, shattered.
I opened my eyes and saw that the sun was already shining on my buttocks, I rubbed my eyes and got dressed and got up. I had some doubts in my heart, although it was summer vacation and I didn't have to go to school, but usually my mother would wake me up very early and not let me sleep, but today I was allowed to sleep until the sun was high, which is really strange.
I wore slippers into the hall, there were two steamed buns on the table, probably for my breakfast, but the strange thing was that there was no one at home, I called a few times, and no one responded, so I took a steamed bun and walked out while eating.
As soon as I went out, I saw my neighbor's Ermao running back from the direction of the back mountain, his face was a little pale, as if he had been frightened by something.
"Ermao, what's wrong with you, why is your face so white?" I asked vaguely as I nibbled on a steamed bun in my mouth.
Ermao glanced at me, stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction of the back mountain, and said with some trembling: "There are dead people in the old temple, alas, you can go and see for yourself." ”
I'm a little curious, and when I heard what Ermao said vaguely, I suddenly felt like I had been scratched by a cat, and I was itching, and I spread my legs and ran to the place where the original Snake Jun Temple was located.
I was very fast, trotting all the way, and soon arrived in front of the Snake King Temple, because the temple was demolished, this place seemed a little wider, and at the moment there were circles of people around me, and the voices of people were boiling, some noisy and chaotic.
From a long distance, I saw my dad and my mom standing outside the crowd, my mom was squatting on the ground, her face was a little pale, and there was a mess of vomit under her feet, it seemed that this was my mom's handiwork, and my dad was standing behind my mom, patting her on the back and whispering something.
I hid behind a few men and squeezed into the crowd, deliberately avoiding my mom and dad outside, I was afraid that they would see me and wouldn't let me in to watch the excitement.
I walked back and forth in the crowd, and because of my small size, I was very agile and quickly squeezed into the inner circle. On the way, I bumped into a few men, they were a little annoyed, and when they were about to open their mouths to scold, they found that it was the grandson of Chen Youcai, the patriarch of the Chen clan, who bumped into them, so I could only give up stupidly, I grimaced at them, and continued to squeeze into the crowd.
As soon as I squeezed into the innermost part, I saw my grandfather standing inside, his waist straight and erect like a pine. I hurriedly ran over, grabbed his hand, and called "Grandpa".
When Grandpa saw that it was me, he showed a hearty smile on his face and said, "Good grandson, you also came to see the dead man, your mother was so frightened that her face turned white just now." ”
"I haven't seen it, and I'm so bold." I held my grandfather's hand and was coquettish, and then looked in the direction of my grandfather's gaze, and I was suddenly startled, and the blood on my face instantly faded, and I was a little trembling with fear.
In the middle of the crowd, where the white coffin was yesterday, there were more than a dozen people kneeling on the ground, wearing gray-blue uniforms, exactly the same as the clothes of Li Daoscar's group of men yesterday.
The most terrifying thing is that these kneeling people have no heads, no, to be precise, their heads are held by their hands, the neck junction that originally had a head is uneven flesh skin and cartilage, and some people's trachea and esophagus are pulled out, shrugged and hung on their chests, as if they were twisted off their heads alive, and under them are full of blood red, scarlet blood almost converges into a pond, dazzling, foul smell.
The headless corpses formed a circle, and in the middle of them knelt a fat corpse, the miserable appearance was no different from the people around him, but I recognized the human head he was holding in both hands, and the distorted left side of the human head had an oblique scar, which looked particularly hideous in the sunlight. His eyes widened, bulging into their sockets, and filled with fear.
He's Lee Scar! It's the Li Scar who claimed to have smashed the Bodhisattva's head yesterday!
"Vomit ......"
All of a sudden, I felt a churn in my stomach. I let go of my grandfather's hand, squatted on the ground, and spit out the steamed bun I had just eaten, my body was a little twitching, and my hands were cold.
It was the first time I had ever seen a dead person, and it was the most horrific and tragic death I had seen, and it had left an indelible shadow on my childhood.
"Haha, you melon baby knows how good wow, do you really think you're not afraid of anything?" Grandpa laughed at the look he looked at me, and he put a big hand on my back.
I suddenly felt a wave of warmth coming from my grandfather's hand, the churning in my stomach subsided, and my body felt much more comfortable.
I wiped the stains from the corners of my mouth with my sleeve, and when I looked at the headless corpses, I was still a little frightened, but not as strong as Shicai.
"Grandpa, why are they dead? Wasn't it okay yesterday! I looked up and asked my grandfather. After all, Li Daoscar and his group of younger brothers were still a group of living people yesterday, and as a result, one night's kung fu turned into a circle of cold headless corpses, which is really incomprehensible.
Grandpa looked at the hideous head held in his hand by Li Scar's headless body, and sneered: "Didn't he say yesterday that he wanted to twist his head off and kick it as a ball." ”
I nodded as if I didn't understand, in fact, I just wanted to see the excitement, and I didn't care how these people died. After all, a ten-year-old child is still very scared in the face of these bloody things.
"The police are coming!"
There was a shout from the crowd, and suddenly the crowd made way for a small path, and several policemen emerged from it.
The leader of these policemen is a middle-aged fat man, his small eyes are narrowed together, and his fat face is smiling, looking like a smiling Buddha.
Behind him were two young men, a man and a woman, the man was wearing a pair of glasses and a mole on the corner of his mouth, looking quite elegant, and the woman was dressed in *, with a beautiful face, but her face was cold, making people feel like an iceberg, difficult to approach.
"Uncle Cai, this is Officer Lin from the County Public Security Bureau." A middle-aged man trotted over and said to my grandfather, his name is Chen Dafa, he is my grandfather's son and nephew, and he is also the village chief of this Tsing Yi village, just because of my grandfather's strength in this village, he is very aggrieved as the village chief.
Grandpa answered softly, waved his hand at Chen Dafa, and signaled that he could go. Chen Dafa was a little embarrassed, glanced at my grandfather, lowered his head and walked away quickly.
"Chen Youcai, the patriarch of the Chen family in Tsing Yi Village, I am Lin Yaowu from the county public security bureau, and this case is taken over by our county public security bureau." The middle-aged fat man explained to his grandfather that in the past, ordinary cases were solved by the town's police station, but now it is someone from the county public security bureau, and it seems that the leaders of the county government attach great importance to this matter.
When I heard the fat man's name, I suddenly thought of an idiom taught by a teacher in school, and couldn't help muttering: "Lin Yaowu, show off your might." ”
Poof!
The four-eyed policeman behind Lin Yaowu couldn't hold back his laughter, and even the policewoman with a frosty face turned up at the corners of her mouth and her eyebrows crooked. My grandfather even touched my head and laughed.
Lin Yaowu glanced at me a little embarrassed and said, "The children are very smart, they should be among the best in the school." ”
I blushed a little, pouted, embarrassed to say that my grades in the class were backwards.
After my interruption, the atmosphere became relaxed. Although the tragic situation of the more than a dozen headless corpses made these policemen unbearable to look at directly, with their good professional quality, they quickly calmed down.
Fat police officer Lin Yaowu asked my grandfather some questions, nodded, and then asked me for some details, after all, I and my grandfather were the only ones who survived the demolition of the temple yesterday, and they probably thought that what the child said would be more credible.
I glanced at my grandfather, who had a calm expression and said to me, "Say whatever you see." ”
Since Grandpa opened his mouth, I told everything I saw yesterday like pouring beans. When I finished speaking, the three policemen in front of me were all stunned, looking incredulous.
"Are you saying that a white coffin was dug up under the temple, and then the woman in the coffin turned to ashes, and the coffin turned into a white snake skin?" The policewoman said, the frost on her face gone.
"Yes!" I nodded, and gestured with both hands to her as a large coffin.
The three policemen glanced at each other, and Lin Yaowu shook his head, as if he didn't believe what I said. He asked my grandfather again, "Uncle Youcai, how do you think these people died?" ”
Grandpa took out a dry tobacco stick and took two puffs, and said slowly: "You ask me why they died, how do I know." ”
After a pause, my grandfather said, "But look at their brains, even the trachea is pulled out, do you think it's a human thing?" ”
Lin Yaowu listened to my grandfather's words, his face turned white, he hesitated for a moment, and said, "You mean, they were killed by monsters?" ”
Grandpa spat out a smoke ring in his mouth and said, "This is your policeman's business, don't come to ask me." ”
Lin Yaowu didn't speak this time, he whispered a few words to the four-eyed policeman behind him, as if asking him to record something. On the contrary, the policewoman who had not spoken next to her opened her mouth, and she said: "Chen Youcai, what you took out of the coffin yesterday may be an important clue, and you have to hand it over to us." ”
The policewoman's voice was so nice that I couldn't help but look at it a few more times.
"Yes." Grandpa said with a calm expression.
When I heard that my grandfather had promised to hand over the mask, I was in a hurry. Although I wasn't interested in that weird thing, after all, my grandfather said that it was left for me, and now I feel so bad about giving it to the police.
I took my grandfather's hand and hoped he would refuse, but he looked down and smiled at me without speaking.
I saw a sly flash in his eyes.