Chapter Twenty-Six: The Basket of Blood
Although I am not from the Northeast, when I was young, I also heard the older generation talk about the rumors of the Wumen Immortal Family in the Northeast.
As the saying goes, people are divided into three, six, nine and so on, and there are five doors and thousands of families.
Among them, the five doors refer to the five gates of Hu Huang and White Willow Gray, Hu is a fox, Huang is a weasel, also known as yellow skin, white is a hedgehog, Liu is a snake, and gray is a mouse.
Among the gods worshiped in the Northeast, the Five Great Immortal Families can be said to occupy a place, and many villages have temples of the Five Great Immortal Families, and even more will invite the Great Immortal home to worship.
I have liked to listen to these stories since I was a child, among which the yellow wolf worshipping the moon and the fox fairy asking for the seal tell the story of the Huang family and the Hu family.
They have survived in the world for thousands of years, and after cultivating the Tao, they will turn into human form, and even more can practice the art of immortality, even if they have lived in the world for thousands of years, they still look like seventeen or eighteen-year-old teenagers or girls.
When I saw Qin Wenhua's photos on the Internet before, I felt strange, if it was a normal person, how could it be that there has been no change in his appearance for more than 20 years.
Now that I think about it carefully, it is really possible that he has been transformed by a spirit and cultivated the art of immortality, which is why he has not changed at all in so many years.
Just as I was thinking about it, I was kicked in the ass, and then I heard Li Hai's cursing behind me: "What the hell are you doing here, you don't really believe what the old lady said, there are no ghosts and gods in this world, and there are no great immortals, this is all made up by people, if there are really these things in the world, why have you never seen a news report?" ”
Seeing Li Hai's eagerness, I glanced back at him and said in a low voice: "Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean that you haven't, you'd better be in awe of this kind of thing, don't get into trouble, you give me some time, if this rat hole is really okay, I will definitely leave here with you when the time comes." ”
As I spoke, I glanced up at the sky, it was already sunset, and it was estimated that it would be completely dark in another half an hour.
At present, we are about a kilometer away from the mouth of the alley, not to mention that it will take a quarter of an hour to go out, thinking of this, I looked at Li Hai and said: "Lao Li, if you are really afraid, go out and wait for me first, this matter has nothing to do with you, and I don't want to drag you into the water." ”
"I'm afraid of a bird, didn't I say I don't believe in these things, I just think that there are no street lights in this alley, if you wait for it to get dark, the road will be difficult to walk, since you want to stay and observe this mouse hole, then I'll wait for you on the side, when will we go after the observation." After speaking, Li Hai leaned against one wall, and then began to smoke a smoking.
Seeing that Li Hai didn't say anything more, I didn't care about him, and after leaning down, I looked at the mouse hole in front of me, and then shouted in a low voice: "Qin Wenhua!" Are you in there......"
After a few shouts, there was no response from the rat hole, and I began to tap the clod of dirt above the rat hole with my hand, and there was no sound as the dust fell from the hole.
Li Hai, who was standing on the side, couldn't help but laugh when he saw my operation: "Chen Mo, you are really a fucking knife today!" ”
"What do you mean?" I looked at Li Hai, who was full of mockery behind me, and asked.
"Open your eyes, it's the first time I've seen someone shouting into the mouse hole, if you really want to get the rats out of it, it's simple, find some firewood and put it at the mouth of the hole, light it and fan the cigarette inside, I'm sure the rats in the hole will be choked and crying!" Li Haibian said as he spat smoke rings into the air.
As the old saying goes, the speaker has no intention and the listener has the intention.
Li Hai was just joking with me, but what he said sounded to me was very reasonable.
It's just that now I'm in the alley, and there is no dry wood in the four places, and it's definitely impossible to smoke the rat hole with smoke, and just when I was looking for a countermeasure, I fell on the cigarette in Lihaikou.
Li Hai saw that I was staring at his cigarette and hurriedly covered his pocket, and without waiting for him to speak to dissuade him, I stepped forward and directly pressed his arm.
"You're still so stingy with a few cigarettes, you didn't look for me to smoke in the dormitory at the beginning, I didn't say a word, but now you're inked."
"That's for people to smoke, you're going to smoke for rats now, haven't you heard of a saying that smoking doesn't hurt blindly!" Li Hai desperately covered his pocket and said.
"That's called eating doesn't hurt, it hurts blindly! Okay, I'll buy you a bag of Huazi when I get out! I looked at Li Hai and gritted my teeth.
Li Hai's face was overjoyed when he heard this, and he quickly let go of his hand, and then said to me: "Then I want to be soft and hard and cough!" ”
In the face of Li Hai's unreasonable demand, I ignored him, poured out three or five cigarettes from the cigarette case, put them in my mouth and lit them.
The moment I inhaled the smoke, my throat felt like it had been pricked by thousands of needles, and I choked on tears.
I coughed violently and stretched the cigarette towards the mouth of the mouse hole, and when the cigarette was less than five centimeters away from the hole, there was a hoarse cry behind me: "What are you doing, I just joked with you, why are you still serious!" ”
Looking back, the old lady with the basket was standing a few meters behind her, staring at me with her eyes straight into me, and her face was angry, as if she was going to eat me alive.
Seeing this scene, Li Hai couldn't help but sneer: "I said a long time ago that this old lady is playing tricks on us, you stupid boy is really fooled, how can there be any great immortals in this world, what he said is true, now that we know the truth, let's leave quickly, if you don't leave, those big immortals will come out of the hole!" ”
Li Hai has a straightforward personality and no door on his mouth, and his eyes have been looking at me when he speaks, but he didn't notice that the old lady's eyes were staring at him.
The old lady looked at Li Hai's eyes wrong, in addition to being ruthless, there was also a sense of viciousness, I was worried that Li Hai had hit some taboo, so I hurriedly looked at the old lady and said: "Grandma, my friend is open-mouthed, don't care, let's go now, it's almost dark, you can go home early." ”
When the old lady saw that I said good things, she put away her vicious eyes, and then raised her hand and said, "Okay, you should go back early, this hat brim alley is not safe at night, don't touch anything unclean." ”
Hearing this, I nodded hurriedly, and then pulled Li Hai to prepare to leave here.
As I passed by the old lady, I suddenly smelled a strong smell of blood, which was very pungent and seemed to emanate from her vegetable basket.
When I noticed the vision, I looked back and saw that the ground under the basket was already bright red.
I was shocked when I saw this scene, and as soon as I raised my head, I saw that the old lady was looking at me with that weird and vicious look, and I felt a chill in my heart between my eyes, and I quickly turned around and continued to walk forward with Li Hai.
After walking a few steps, there was a sound of the door closing, I stopped and looked back bravely, and at this moment the alley was empty, and there was no longer half a figure.
"What are you doing in a daze, hurry up, it's going to be dark soon!" Li Hai hurriedly urged when he saw that I was stopping.
"Lao Li, did you smell a smell of blood just now, you see there is still a pool of blood on the ground." I turned my head and pointed to the ground not far away.
Li Hai just wanted to leave this place of right and wrong as soon as possible at this time, and after a perfunctory glance, he said: "What's the matter, you can't let people buy some meat to open meat, when did you become so nosy?" ”
"The meat sold in the market has long been emptied of blood water, how can it be dripping to the ground, I don't think something is right, you wait here, I'll go back and take a look and I'll be back immediately!" As I spoke, I ignored Li Hai's dissuasion and walked quickly towards the gate of the old lady's courtyard.
When I came to the door of the courtyard, I first listened to the movement in the courtyard, and at this moment there was a dead silence in the courtyard, and there was no sound at all, and then I carefully stuck to the door and looked towards the courtyard along the crack in the door.
When I saw the scene in the courtyard, I felt a sigh in my heart, and my legs and stomach were weak in an instant!
The courtyard is overgrown with weeds, almost half a person's height, the houses are dilapidated, most of the houses have collapsed due to disrepair, where does it look like a normal place for people to live.
I was about to take a closer look at the rest of the courtyard when an arm fell on my shoulder, and in an instant I was so frightened that I almost screamed.
I looked back and saw that it was Li Hai standing behind me.
"You're sick, aren't you, what are you doing on my shoulder at this time, scare me!"
Although I was angry, I kept my voice low now in front of the old lady's courtyard, for fear of disturbing the old lady.
"I think you're sick, people are lying on the wall of the big girl's courtyard to look at the little daughter-in-law's kang bed, you can be good, holding the old lady is not letting go, this old lady is more than enough for your grandmother, what are you rare, besides, you are not afraid of being found out that you are a hooligan!"
Li Hai is worthy of being an anchor, but this mouth is really bad.
I ignored him, and pointed directly to the crack in the door: "I'll just say that this old lady is weird, if you don't believe it, you can take a look inside, and if you can still say these things later, I'll call you grandpa!" ”
"That's so embarrassing, I'm two generations taller this time, and your father won't call me Uncle Sheng when he sees me in the future!"
When I heard this, I went up and gave Li Hai a kick, and in Li Hai's oops, he finally leaned on the crack of the door.
"How about it, do you see anything, this yard is overgrown with weeds, do you think normal people can live in this kind of place?" I looked at Li Hai and said.
Li Hai did not respond, and after a while he withdrew his body, looked at me with a complaining face, said that the crack in the door was red, and he couldn't see anything at all, and asked me if I had seen the split.
I saw clearly just now, the courtyard was overgrown with weeds, and there were ruins and broken walls everywhere, how could I see it badly.
I was just about to ask for clarification, when I suddenly found that one of Li Hai's eyes was red, just like the rabbit's eye, and this eye was the same eye he had just opened the crack in the door!
"Lao Li, why are your eyes red, are you okay?" I looked at Li Hai and asked worriedly.
"Red-eyed? I don't think so? Li Hai looked at me with a puzzled expression, as if he really didn't feel anything unusual.
Seeing that Li Hai's eyes were red like blood, I quickly took out my mobile phone from my pocket, opened the selfie and handed it to Li Hai.
When Li Hai saw himself in the camera, his face changed suddenly, and then he shouted in panic: "What's going on, why are good and duan's eyes red like this?" ”
"Is it infected by some fungus, I'll take you to the outside clinic to see!" With that, I put my phone back in my pocket and prepared to leave the hat brim alley with Li Hai.
Just as we turned to leave, there was a sound of the door opening behind us, and when we looked back, a middle-aged woman in her thirties was carrying a bag of garbage out of the house, apparently preparing to throw out the garbage.
"What are you two doing standing at this door, you can't be here to see the house, are you?" The middle-aged woman said as she threw the garbage into the trash can next to her.
"No, our brothers just come in and hang out when they have nothing to do, by the way, eldest sister, who lives in this family, how do I see that there are some weeds in the yard?" I looked at the middle-aged woman and asked.
The middle-aged woman glanced at the courtyard door next to her, shook her head and smiled: "Who is anyone, there was an old lady in this courtyard who lived by herself, and after she died more than ten years ago, the yard was deserted, and no one rented it for so many years, so it has been empty. ”