Song Gang rode a tricycle and led me all the way to the town hospital, while the rest of the people held their palms on both sides, for fear that the tricycle would turn into a ditch on the side of the road.

The doctor on duty was just a trainee doctor. But fortunately, he can do two simple things: cleaning the wound and getting the rabies vaccine.

In order to prevent wound infection, the doctor also prescribed me anti-inflammatory drugs, which made me a little unacceptable for a while, since I was a child, I have never taken Western medicine, when I was sick, my grandfather boiled herbs for me to drink, and then I learned from the master and never got sick again, I didn't expect it to fall to such a point at this time.

It's cool in the north. An Xiaowu was afraid that some of us would catch a cold, so he simply went to the pharmacy in the town and bought a lot of medicines.

When we went back from the town, the sky was numb and bright, and when we returned to Miaozi Village, we had to pass by a field of artemisia grass, these artemisia grasses generally grew too tall, I don't know why the artemisia grass near Lao Yeling grew so tall, I remember when I was a child, the artemisia grass I saw in the area of Jiangsu and Shandong was only half a person tall.

When passing through these artemisia grasses, the artemisia grass bushes will make a rustling sound, in patches, and the artemisia grass swings very much, it is impossible for small things such as mice and insects to make movements, An Xiaowu and the others are afraid that they will rush out of some wild cats and wild dogs to bite people, and when they came, they picked up a stick with a thick wrist in their hands to defend themselves.

When we arrived at the back of Miaozi Village, we saw from afar that the old lady who had come yesterday was sitting on the side of the road looking at the place where the sun was rising, with her neck tilted and motionless.

Song Gang stopped the car again. He whispered, "Why don't we go back, you see that there is a morning when the moon has not set and sitting at the door watching the sun, I feel that there is something wrong with this old lady." ”

Song Gang said this, everyone hesitated, only Ji Zizheng objected, he said: "I grew up here when I was a child, and the people in the village are very good, don't you see that they all have shadows, how can they be ghosts?" ”

"I didn't say it was a ghost!" Song Gang was a little annoyed. He looked back at me and said, "Yang Zai, is there anything wrong with that old lady?" ”

I shook my head and said, "He still has twilight on him, which is a smell peculiar to the elderly, not a ghost." ”

Although I can't use the yin and yang eyes at this time, I can see that she is okay with my years of experience, when we pass by her. Ji Zizheng greeted her, and the old lady smiled and nodded at us, and then continued to look at the sun, which was half blocked by the mountains and forests.

I sat on the three-way bus and watched the old lady gradually disappear from sight. You can still see the strip of blue cloth tied around her head.

After returning to Ji Zizheng's grandmother's house, everyone consciously reduced the movement so as not to disturb the old man's sleep, and after Ji Zizheng and An Xiaowu helped me to the bed, they also returned to their own room to rest.

About noon, Shi Xiaoxue began to knock on the door to tell us to get up, she and Grandma Wang had already cooked dumplings, let us get up and eat some dumplings to warm up and warm up, a few days ago we were still in Beijing with a temperature of 30 degrees, this time to the bottom of Lao Yeling, the temperature was not even ten degrees, after a few people got up, stood in a row and brushed their teeth in the sun, An Xiaowu finished brushing his teeth and looked at me and said: "Wang Yang, you brush your teeth with a little effort, save your brains and make it off." ”

An Xiaowu was originally joking, but when he said this, I couldn't help but think of what happened last night, why did that big black cat scratch my neck?

After we finished eating, I asked Grandma Wang whose cat was that last night, and why was it so fierce?

It stands to reason that the average poultry will gradually become human as they grow older, especially cats and dogs, the big black cat's beard is hard and white, and you can know that it is an old cat at a glance, why does such a cat have hurtful behavior for no reason?

Grandma Wang listened to my description, as if remembering the black cat, he said that the black cat used to be a wild cat, and then saw that there were many cats in Miaozi Village, and gradually got acquainted with these cats, so she stayed, and has been in the village for a few years, usually looks obedient, and has never seen it bite.

I think of when I was a child, the old people in Wangjia Village often said that cats can be psychic, especially when they see a person who is about to die, they will go around the side of that person and are reluctant to leave, maybe my soul was out of my body at that time, so the big black cat thought I was dead?

But it's all around us, why do you have to grab me by the neck?

After we finished eating, we came to the emptiest part of the village, which happened to be the only way for us to enter the village, and before we got there, we saw a big black cat squatting on the bench where the old lady was squatting, looking at the sun.

An Xiaowu saw that it was the black cat, picked up a stone from the side of the road and smashed it, just hit the top of the black cat's head, the black cat was smashed down by a stone, and let out a terrible scream, it shook its head and stood up, saw An Xiaowu chasing after him, ran away, and got into the artemisia grass next to it.

"Grandma's legs are dripping, and a brute also catches people, and the master will beat you once when he sees you, and he will pick you up sooner or later!" An Xiaowu shouted.

At this time, Song Gang's face was a little ugly, as if he suddenly remembered something, and he wanted to stop talking.

Ji Zi saw Song Gang's ugly face, so she asked him what was wrong?

Song Gang hesitated and said, "First of all, I have to ask if there are any tigers here?" ”

We looked at each other and shook our heads.

Song Gang said: "I heard the old man say when I was a child, after the cat grows up, it is psychic, especially the ordinary domestic cat, if it gives birth to the kitten on the day, there is no tiger person watching, then after giving birth to the kitten cub, there can be no tiger person to see the kitten, otherwise it will cut off the kitten's head." ”

"Intercepted?" Shi Xiaoxue almost screamed when she heard Song Gang say this.

"What do you mean by interception?" An Xiaowu asked.

Ji Zizheng said: "It's just that the head is cut off." ”

Song Gang nodded and said: "When I was a child, I asked my grandmother, why is this happening, my grandmother said that she doesn't know, there are such taboos in many places, when the old cat gives birth to kittens, either find a tiger person to watch on the side, or you can't show the tiger person within seven days, otherwise the kitten will be divided by the old cat, but I don't know what Wang Yang is doing, but he must want to amputate Wang Yang's head." "Bean Jutai blood.

"Could it be that the big black cat has human nature and doesn't want to kill his own child, so he goes to kill Wang Yang?" An Xiaowu was suspicious.

Ji Zizheng said: "The key is that Wang Yang is not a tiger at all, and most of the rumors you said have nothing to do with Wang Yang's matter." ”

A few of us were talking, and we saw the old lady with a blue cloth on her head at the back of Miaozi Village walking slowly, Ji Zizheng saw her coming, and hurriedly ran over to help, the old lady sat on the bench, smiled at us, and then kept looking at the sun with her neck up, and let us ask her nothing without saying anything.

Ji Zizheng said that when he was very young, his grandfather used to take him to hunt in the nearby mountains, and then a group of police came to the town to collect hunting tools, and his grandfather had feelings for the old shotgun that he had played with for decades, and it was already the last one, and he didn't want to hand it over, so he took him to the side of the mountain nest not far from the village and buried it, so that he would definitely dig it out when he grew up.

Everyone thought it was fun, so they were about to dig out the shotgun, but at this time, the old lady sitting behind her suddenly shouted the name of Ji Zizheng.

We all looked back at the old lady, who looked intently at the sun, but the movements of her hands beckoned us to pass.

Ji Zizheng hesitated for a moment and walked towards the old lady, attached his ear in front of the old lady, the old lady suddenly glanced at us, we were all startled, and wanted to let Ji Zizheng stay away quickly, but the old lady did not bite Ji Zizheng as we imagined, but whispered a few words in his ear, and then looked at the sun, motionless.

Ji Zizheng frowned and motioned for us to leave, and An Xiaowu asked him what the old lady said.

Ji Zizheng said: "She told us to leave quickly." ”

Except for An Xiaowu's heartless and heartless feeling interesting, everyone's hearts were shrouded in a layer of clouds, we carried a shovel and followed Ji Zizheng to the edge of the mountain nest not far from the head of the village, Ji Zizheng found the place where he buried the gun with his grandfather according to his vague memories when he was a child, where I don't know what wild cats and wild dogs died, and the smell was a little disgusting.

We dug up a camphor box with iron edges in the earth, and when the box was opened, there was a shotgun wrapped in sheepskin, this shotgun was a smoothbore single-barreled gun, which seemed to be intact, and after so much time, although it was tightly wrapped, the ground was damp, and the barrel and the boring inside were somewhat rusty.

Song Gang had never touched a gun, he said that he liked to watch war movies since he was a child, so he took the shotgun from Ji Zizheng's hand and played with it curiously.

Song Gang walked to the mountain nest with his gun, but when he looked at the bottom of the mountain nest, he was suddenly frightened and cried wolf, threw the shotgun in his hand and ran towards us.

We looked at each other and walked to where he had just stood, with our shovels in hand.

We saw patches of cats and dogs in the mountain nests.