In a seemingly ordinary village, the men are all listless, short of breath like tuberculosis ghosts, and they even tick a shoe, what about the women?

After entering the village, the fourth child and the three of us carefully observed, and found that although the men in the village were so weak that they couldn't straighten their waists, the women in the village couldn't see anything unusual.

This is even stranger.

Seeing this, the three of us decided to find someone in the village to ask what was going on, but on the road, even men and women stopped three or four passers-by, and as soon as this strange phenomenon in the village was mentioned, everyone was so frightened that they quickly said that something was wrong, and then left in a hurry to ignore us.

This made the fourth child more curious, and we didn't need to ask to know that there must be something hidden in this village!

We continued to walk forward, and as we walked, we saw the courtyard door of a house next to us open, and we looked in along the open courtyard gate, and looked through the courtyard to the central hall, and saw a woman in her early thirties squatting in front of the stove to cook on the fire, and a staccato coughing sound came from the back room.

We were looking at it, and we saw the curtain of the door of the inner room move, and then a skinny arm stretched out from it.

But when I looked closely, it wasn't a ghost, it was a man, and then I saw the man out of the house panting breathlessly, yes, not walking, let alone running, but crawling, sticking to the ground and crawling out.

The woman who was cooking on the fire heard the movement and looked back at the door of the inner room, and when she saw this strange scene, she didn't have any panic at all, but just stood up and lifted the lid of the pot, and picked out two cornmeal dishes from the steaming big steamer with a bowl, and placed them on the corner of the pot, and then turned her head to look at the man who crawled out, and said, "Eat, go down to work in the field after eating." ”

The man nodded, and continued to crawl forward, crawling to the edge of the pot and propping up the pot with both hands, then he staggered up from the ground, grabbed the bowl and squatted beside the woman, and began to devour the vegetables and dumplings.

While the man was eating, the woman who was burning the fire looked at him a few more times, and her eyes became more and more angry, and suddenly she sighed and asked coldly, "What, she came to you again last night?" ”

The man was stunned and nodded.

Looking at the woman again, she actually wiped her tears and choked up, trembling and muttering to herself: "How can this be done, why did she come to you again, you were the strongest in the whole village before, and now you are the most empty in the whole village, if you continue to toss like this, I don't think you will last a few years......"

When the woman complained, the man squatted on the side and lowered his head without saying a word, and then saw the woman suddenly stretch out her hand, grabbed the man's wrist, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and said, "Boss, let's run!" We don't want this anymore, let's go out and find a place to work! ”

The woman's words were sincere, and when she looked at the man again, she pushed away the woman's hand, raised her eyelids and glanced at the woman listlessly, and shook her head.

"Why, even you're fascinated? If you don't leave, you won't be able to live, you forgot Zhang Laosan next door......"

"Don't, don't talk about it......"

The man finally opened his mouth weakly, and there were a hundred impatience and a thousand unwillingness in his words, and then he continued: "If you talk nonsense again, let her hear, even you will not live......"

"But you ......"

"I'm not leaving...... I'm not going anywhere, I'm not going anywhere......"

The man's mouth babbled and turned for a while, and he didn't know what he remembered, but he smirked as he spoke.

I was shocked to see this, his smile, that look, was almost like the old madman we had seen in the grove at night.

The fourth child also saw the strangeness and asked me, "Little Liuzi, let's not delay, let's go in and ask." ”

I nodded, and was about to follow the fourth child into the courtyard, but the mother stopped us and said, "Don't you go in yet, can't you see it?" This man is stunned, even if you ask, he can't tell you anything......"

"So, what then?" I asked.

She replied: "Don't worry, he is not going to go to the ground after eating, and when he is on the ground, let's ask the woman." You see the woman's face is full of reluctance, maybe you can ask something out of her mouth......"

Hearing this, the fourth child and I both nodded, so we hid outside the gate and waited.

After about ten minutes, the man finally devoured the two vegetables in the bowl, put down the bowl, stood up with the pot table, bent over and hunched over the door frame and began to walk towards the yard, then picked up the hoe and carried it on his shoulder, and went out with a crutch in the other hand.

It wasn't until I saw the man disappear across the corner that the fourth child and the three of us looked at each other, and then they entered the courtyard gate and walked straight to the middle hall.

The woman was still burning the fire, turned her head and saw me and the fourth child swaggering into the yard with a sheep, and immediately got up to greet her, and asked, "Two, who are you looking for?" ”

When I saw outsiders, I didn't dare to speak, for fear of scaring people, so the task of questioning naturally fell on me and the fourth.

I was just about to open my mouth to close it, when I heard the fourth child laugh and said, "Little sister-in-law, we want to ask you something, why do all the men in your village seem to have kidney deficiency?" ”

As soon as the fourth child said this, he saw that the woman was trembling unconsciously, the expression on her face instantly froze, and she didn't answer, she took two steps back in a panic, and ran back to the middle hall with a twist, and then turned around and closed the door with both hands and 'snapped', and tightly inserted the door bolt.

The woman's movements were done in one go, and by the time we could react, the door was closed.

This made the fourth child angry, and he rolled his arms and glared and shouted, "Hey, what do you mean? I'll just ask something, is there a case like you? ”

At this time, I heard a woman's voice from the door: "You guys go quickly, don't make trouble for me!" I don't know anything! Come on! ”

I glanced at him beside him, and said angrily: "Fourth brother, fourth brother, what do you say are you in a hurry, even if you want to ask about business, you have to be almost familiar with each other first, right?" You see, scare people away......"

I walked to the door and quickly apologized, but it was useless, the woman inside just wouldn't open the door.

For a while, I was out of line, and then I heard the fourth child glaring and saying: "This little girl seems to be hard and not soft, I'll kick the door open!" ”

He was about to kick when he got up, but fortunately, he hurriedly stopped him and persuaded: "Fourth, calm down, don't look at a little daughter-in-law who is easy to bully at home, if you really kick the door, the little daughter-in-law shouts, and turns around to lure out the men, women and children in the village to catch hooligans, even if they are all sick seedlings, you can't hold it if you spit on you?" ”

The fourth thought about it, and then he fell to his feet.

Immediately afterwards, I saw that I looked up at the roof, rolled my eyes and smiled: "If you really want to help, I have an idea, fourth, you climb up their house along the courtyard wall." ”

"What for?" The fourth child was stunned.

She said again: "Isn't she cooking on the fire, you find two bricks to plug their chimney, the smoke can't go up the road, pour it into the house, I don't see her coming out......"

To say that this kid is really bad, but this idea is a good idea, the fourth child is also obedient, and he went to the room after a few steps, found two bricks and threw them along the chimney pipe.

This made her angry and yelled, "Cover it! Just cover it! If someone's chimney is broken, you can't fix it! ”

However, it was too late, and after a while, we felt a thick smoke choking out along the crack in the door, and we stood at the door and waited for about five minutes, when suddenly we heard a 'bang', accompanied by a violent cough, the door of the middle hall finally opened, and a puff of smoke poured out of the middle hall, and the little daughter-in-law ran out with a dirty face covering her mouth and nose......

After a cough, the little daughter-in-law turned around and scolded us—

"You two who kill a thousand knives lack great virtue!"

Where was the fourth child and I embarrassed to talk back, we could only stare at the little daughter-in-law and smirk, and when the little daughter-in-law scolded for a long time and dissipated her anger, I respectfully asked again: "Little sister-in-law, we are passers-by, you can tell us, what happened to your Xiaohuzhuang?" What if we could help? ”

"You guys? Help? Hearing this, the little daughter-in-law was stunned.

I smiled slightly, and said calmly: "Don't look down on us, we are warlocks, your village is not clean, this is a favor other than us, no one really can help ......"

As soon as she heard this, the little daughter-in-law suspiciously began to sweep the fourth child and us, and as she was sweeping, she couldn't help but speak: "Don't look at it, he didn't lie to you." ”

The sheep actually opened his mouth and said human words, and for a while he was so frightened that the little daughter-in-law "Mom" turned around and almost ran away, but fortunately he was grabbed by the fourth child who stepped forward quickly, and said with a smile: "Little sister-in-law, look, this is not an ordinary sheep, it is a sheep demon, we caught it on the road when we came, we can catch the sheep demon, and we can't solve the problem of your village?" ”

"Sheep, sheep demon?" The little daughter-in-law's face was full of panic, and she asked, "Then, why does it have a human face?" ”

I joked next to me: "It's actually not a pure sheep demon, it's a sheep demon and a child of life, commonly known as a sheep demon ......"

She glared at me angrily and scolded, "You're a sheep's kidney!" You're still a dog basket for you! ”

After some bluffing and deception, the little daughter-in-law was finally moved, and when she saw that the house was full of smoke and fire, no one could get in, so she simply moved out a few small benches and sat in the courtyard and told us the truth......