At first glance, I knew that the woman had already fallen asleep, and when she ran out in a hurry, she didn't care about wearing a coat and was barefoot.

"Zhihui daughter-in-law, what do you say?"

Chen Laosan didn't know if he was afraid of hearing it wrong, or if he didn't understand it at all, so he asked rhetorically.

"My son Xiao Zhen took it away to the black dog! You guys...... Help me get it back! ”

"Ahh Chen Laosan looked around at the darkness around him: "Where is the black dog going?" ”

The disheveled little daughter-in-law pointed to the west: "Over there!" Over there! ”

"Good! Let's chase! ”

Our group ran wildly to the west, and ran out of the village in one go, with crops in front of us, and still did not see the shadow of the black dog.

"Third brother, I haven't heard of dogs holding children!" A short man gasped and muttered, wondering if he doubted the little daughter-in-law's words just now.

"How old are you, there are so many things you haven't heard of - can people lie when they are mothers?"

The short man smiled, knowing that he was wrong, and said no more.

At this moment, I heard a baby's cry from the ground in front of me, and Chen Laosan and the others heard it at the same time.

"It's a child of the Zhihui family! Take the good guys, let's go over and have a look. ”

Several people raised the farm tools in their hands and followed Chen Laosan in the direction where the baby's cry came from.

In front of it is a sorghum field, and the sorghum ears have been cut and brought home, leaving only sorghum stalks.

It was from this field that the cry came.

I followed closely behind Chen Laosan, holding the wooden stick tightly in my hand, and the baby's cry was getting closer and closer.

Suddenly, a black rooster jumped up from in front of Chen Laosan, frightening Chen Laosan to retreat again and again.

I recognized it at a glance, this is the "night owl" that Old Man Hu was holding before.

The "night owl" looked at us like a human, turned his little head and glanced at us, and then swaggered in the direction of the village.

"It turned out to be a chicken—what about the kid?"

After a false alarm, the crying also stopped abruptly.

"Let's look around, it should be nearby!"

Eighty or ninety of us searched separately, and searched the entire sorghum field, but we couldn't find the baby's shadow.

Gathered again, everyone was puzzled.

"Did you hear the child cry just now?" Chen Laosan scratched his scalp and asked everyone.

Several people nodded.

"That's weird, there wasn't anything but that black chicken just now!"

It was the short guy just now who asked in a low voice: "Third brother, do you think it could be that black chicken imitating the child's call?" ”

Chen Laosan patted him: "You kid have watched too much Journey to the West!" How can a chicken imitate a child's crook. ”

This reminded me, and I suddenly remembered what Old Man Hu said in the afternoon when we asked us to look for chickens.

He also said that his "night owl" screams like a baby, and it seems that his words are true!

While everyone was wondering, suddenly another baby's cry came from our left, and several people looked at each other and rushed over with flashlights.

Rushing out of the sorghum field, there were several big trees in front of them, and there was a big stone two or three meters high on one side of the tree, looking for a cry, and all the flashlights shone on this big stone.

Sure enough, there was a baby lying on it, and his legs were still kicking.

A few people shone a flashlight, and a few others set up a ladder to let the thinnest little country climb the stone and carry the child down.

At the moment when the child was held in Xiaoguo's arms, I inadvertently turned my head and happened to see the pure black "night owl" standing on the branch of a tree, and after looking at me, it flapped its wings and jumped into the darkness on one side.

None of them saw this scene, and several people simply checked the child, but fortunately, only the left foot and the back of the neck were scratched.

"Third brother, the stone is so high, this baby is not yet a year old, how did he climb up?"

Chen Laosan snorted and said, "The child didn't come here by himself!" ”

"Black dogs can't fly!"

Chen Laosan was speechless all of a sudden, opened his mouth, and immediately changed the topic: "Okay!" It's okay if the child is fine, hurry up and take the child back! Zhihui's daughter-in-law has to be in a hurry - in addition, we have to patrol, and if something happens tonight, it will be the responsibility of our second team. ”

The group hurriedly turned on the flashlight and walked in the direction of Zhihui's house.

I heard the woman's cry in the distance, the sound was simply resounding in the sky, shocking more than ten miles, more than a dozen people were holding flashlights in a big circle, and the cry came from among them.

Someone saw us and shouted, "Chen Laosan, they're back—bring the child!" ”

Everyone turned to look at us.

Zhihui's daughter-in-law rushed out of the crowd, as if she was crazy, twisted her body and ran wildly, and hugged the child like a hungry wolf, and then sat on the ground and cried.

"O my poor boy!"

She cried, but the others laughed, and two of them came up to Chen Laosan and asked him how he found the child.

Chen Lao was hesitant, and he didn't say anything, which made the others scratch their heads.

No matter what, it is better than anything else to find the child back, look at it is already half past eleven o'clock in the night, several women accompanied Zhihui's daughter-in-law home, and the others also went home separately.

We continue to patrol.

Most of the families in the mountain villages have chickens, which makes it very difficult for us to patrol.

After a walk around most of the village, the whole village is very quiet, and it seems that there will be no accident tonight.

Chen Laosan looked at the time on his phone and yawned: "Okay!" Let's ...... tonight."

Before he could finish speaking, he heard a heart-rending cry from a family: "My chicken, my chicken! ”

"It's the fourth aunt's house! Come on! ”

Follow Chen Laosan to the front left side of the courtyard gate of a house, through the fence gate, I saw an old man and an old lady standing in the yard, and it was the old lady who was crying.

"Fourth aunt? What's wrong! ”

When the old lady saw us, she clapped her thighs with her hands and shouted, "Someone just bit me to death several chickens!" This is my lifeline! ”

"What about the man?"

"Climb the wall and run! Just ...... Just run! ”

The old lady pointed to the low wall on the east side.

Chen Laosan glanced at it and yelled: "Let's chase, we will definitely catch up with this dog day tonight." ”

The others also red-eyed, and in response, they lifted up the guy and chased in the direction the old lady had said.

I chased more than 100 meters in one breath, and by the halo of the flashlight, I saw a figure in front of me, because the distance was far and the light was not strong, so I couldn't see it clearly, and I saw that the figure ran forward in a very strange posture, not so much running, but like a gorilla, every two steps of running, with both hands to support the ground.

Chen Laosan, they also saw this figure.

"Damn! That's him, don't let him run! ”

All of a sudden everyone was in a hurry, and all that was heard was the sound of wheezing and footsteps all around.

After chasing for a few hundred meters, there was a dead end in front of him, and the black shadow was probably not familiar with the terrain of this village, so he ran in.

The black shadow ran to the end of the dead end and tried to climb the wall, but unfortunately tried several times and couldn't climb up.