Chapter 17: Cheekiness
I suddenly remembered the locust tree in the yard, and looked at the swarthy yin and yang pile statue in front of me, and a thought suddenly flashed in my heart: Could it be that the village chief is the one behind all this?
The thought made my heart pound, and at this moment, the sound of gasping again came from the room.
I searched for the sound and found that it was coming from under the bed, and when I climbed down to look, I found that there was a coffin under the bed!
It's just that this coffin is particularly strange, with white silk hanging around it, and there should have been a place with the word "lay" in the middle, but at this time it was a white word "Xi".
I paused, and a terrible word suddenly appeared in my head: Secret marriage!
I quickly got under the bed and found that there was plenty of space inside, enough for an adult to squat underneath.
The gasping sound sounded again, and this time I could hear it clearly, it was coming from the coffin!
"Little dumb!" I shouted, and quickly pushed the lid of the coffin open, looked inside, and hiss-
I gasped in fright and almost collapsed to the ground.
Lying in the coffin was a man in a shroud, and this person turned out to be the village chief himself!
The sound of gasping stopped abruptly, and my mind was stirring like a mess.
The village chief was pale and stiff, and looked dead for some time, but he didn't smell a peculiar smell.
At this moment, I suddenly heard a noise from above, as if someone had come in.
I hurriedly closed the lid of the coffin and shrunk inside.
Then I watched a guy walk in, and I cowered under the bed, and all I could see was the man's legs.
I saw the man walking around the room, and suddenly came to the edge of the bed, and I was so frightened that I quickly shrank behind the coffin.
Although I couldn't see it, I could feel the man leaning down to inspect the coffin, and I hid behind it, not even daring to catch my breath for fear of being discovered.
After a long while, I heard the footsteps leaving, and I relaxed a little, and my whole back was already soaked.
I peeked out half of my head from behind the coffin, and saw the man, after walking around the room for a while, suddenly walking up to the idol and kneeling.
It didn't matter if he knelt, but I almost screamed in fright.
Because when he knelt down, I could just see this man's face, and I realized that this man was also the village chief!
But I just saw that the village chief was dead in the coffin, so who was this kneeling at this time?
Two village chiefs?
The kneeling village chief's expression is particularly pious, and the way of kneeling and worshipping is also different from ordinary worship, the two hands are crossed and spread on the chest, and then kowtow again and again, and at the end the two hands are crossed and raised above the head, which looks particularly weird.
After bowing down, I saw the village chief walking to the dresser, making a squirming sound, not knowing what he was doing.
Although I was scared, I didn't know if it was curiosity or some other force that pushed me, so I slowly crawled out some distance, and poked out half of my head from under the bed, just enough to see the village chief's whole body from the side.
I saw that the village chief was like a woman, and he actually changed into a big red wedding dress, took out all kinds of strange small bottles from the cabinet of the dresser, sprayed them on his face, and patted them lightly from time to time.
After a while, I noticed that the village chief's face had become a little puffy.
Then there was a horrific scene, I saw him suddenly pinch his chin and pull hard!
That puffy face was ripped off with a hiss!
I was so frightened that I almost screamed, but instead of seeing a bloody face as I had expected, it was the face of an old woman.
The old woman's face was wrinkled, crawling with dense earthworm-like wrinkles, and her cheeks were sunken on both sides, which looked particularly scary.
However, I felt that this face looked a little familiar, and when I thought about it carefully, I was suddenly frightened again.
Isn't this the face on the back of the head that I saw the village chief turn around after he was in the ecstasy?
Then I saw the old woman take out a bag of things from the dresser cabinet, hold it in both hands like a treasure, and then carefully open it.
Then he took out a strange thing from it and put it on his face, and after a few pounds, I suddenly noticed that she had changed into a different face!
I know this face, the face of a widow in my village, Widow Zhang can be regarded as a good appearance in our village, I heard that she was also a daughter-in-law who was bought from outside before.
The old woman seemed very pleased with this face, and looked in the mirror for a long time, and her expression was very much like that of a widow, and if I had not seen it with my own eyes, I would not have seen any clue if I had met it outside.
Then the old woman tore off the widow's face again, picked up another face and pasted it on, and in an instant she became another person.
She kept putting on different skins one by one, and I knew all of them, all of them were people from the village, both men and women, and every time he put on a face, he would look in the mirror for a while.
After tossing for a while, she put on the village chief's skin and clothes again, and slowly left the house.
I was already paralyzed by fright when I lay under the bed, and then I gasped for breath, beads of sweat the size of beans continued to flow down my forehead.
Just as I was about to leave, I felt something behind me, and instinctively turned my head to find that the coffin behind me had been opened at some point!
I clearly remember that I had closed the lid before, and I gritted my teeth and looked into the coffin, and I was dumbfounded: it was empty, and the body of the village chief had disappeared for no reason!
In such a short period of time, and in the narrow space under the bed, the coffin lid opened silently, and the corpse inside disappeared silently, which ......
I was so frightened that I rushed out from under the bed and ran upstairs as hard as I could, and as I ran, I could clearly hear footsteps chasing me behind me.
I didn't dare to stay for a moment, and ran all the way in the direction of my home, but there was still no one to be seen on the road, and the silence around me was surprisingly quiet, only the sound of my footsteps and panting, and the whole village seemed to be the only one left alive.
When I got home, I quickly locked the door behind me and leaned against the door, gasping for air.
The scene was so strange that my mind was so confused that I didn't know how to explain it, and it took a few large glasses of water to ease it down a bit.
At this time, there was a sudden knock at the door.
I was just about to open the door, but I was suddenly stunned and asked vigilantly, "Who!" ”
No one answered, except that the knock on the door was still slamming.
I asked again, "Who!" ”
Still no one answered, I was relieved, and my heart suddenly rejoiced.
"Little dumb!"
I shouted happily, because the little mute could not speak, so naturally he would not respond.
I quickly ran over and pulled the door open, but it was empty.
"Little dumb!" I shouted, and found it empty and eerily quiet.
I thought to myself, and then closed the door as if it was okay, but instead of going back to the house, I picked up half a brick and quietly hid in the doorway.
In less than a minute, as I expected, there was another knock on the door.
"Who!" I pulled the door open and was about to smash the brick outside, but my hand was in the air, for I still didn't see anyone.
I suddenly felt an unwarranted fear in my heart, if it was a human being, it would definitely not be so fast!
But after thinking about it, I suddenly felt less scared again.
After so many things, the little mute is gone, the little fat man is gone, and the whole room is alone, if I really meet something against me, I can't hide anyway, whatever I want, at most I will die.
Thinking about it this way, I simply didn't close the door again, since those things have found the door, it is better to open the door and let it in, it is better than being scared to death.
Just as I opened the door and turned around, I suddenly felt a strong wind blowing behind me, and I instinctively turned my head, and was suddenly knocked to the ground by a figure.
"Oops!"
The figure screamed, I listened to the familiar voice, and when I looked, I found the little fat man sitting at the door grinning and rubbing his buttocks, and before I could speak, he looked at me and complained, "I said you kid, what are you doing at the door in broad daylight, you fell to my death!" ”
I was stunned, and suddenly said loudly, "Shi Fatzi, your uncle, where have you been!" ”
The little fat man paused, as if he remembered something, quickly got up from the ground, closed the door, and then pulled me to the back room in a hurry.
"Pack your things and get out of here!" The little fat man said as he ran to the kitchen to rummage through everything he could eat, looking very anxious.
I was confused and asked him what was going on, and he knew where the little mute had gone.
The little fat man stuffed a few steamed buns into his bag and said, "The little mute is gone?" ”
I nodded, "I haven't seen her since I woke up today." ”
Then I suddenly remembered something, and quickly told him what I had just seen at the village chief's house.
But he didn't react much, just stunned slightly, and then continued to pack his things, "No matter how much, hurry up and pack your things, we must leave this village before dark." ”
"Why?" I asked, "Isn't the entrance to the village sealed by the Ecstasy?" ”
"I can't care so much!" The little fat man carried the bag stuffed with food on his shoulder, and said, "I can only break in, if we can't get out before dark, we will both die here." ”
I asked why, and the little fat man was very anxious and said, "Don't ask, hurry up and pack your things, it's getting dark!" ”
Seeing that he didn't look like a joke, I vaguely sensed that something big might happen in the village, so I hurriedly ran outside.
"Why are you going!" The little fat man shouted from behind.
"Go and inform the rest of the village, you have to go together, you can't leave them all here!" I said as I continued to walk outside.
The little fat man ran up and stopped me, looking at me almost with a shout, "All the people in this village are dead!" ”