Chapter 016: Pig's Tongue (5)
If someone in this world told you that the villagers were changed by pigs, and the pigs were changed by villagers, would you think that this person is crazy?
Although Liu Hanshan didn't know who Nan Jinyi was, he could tell him that what she said was true. Compared with the tongue-cutting case in the restaurant, he wanted to know why the villagers in the dumb village were all pigs, and what kind of relationship they had with the restaurant.
He left Qin Ye in the restaurant to deal with the aftermath, and he followed Nan Jinyi to the dumb village.
Along the way, neither of them paid attention to anyone.
As we approached the dumb village, the sky suddenly darkened, and the black clouds on the horizon rolled one after another. Suddenly, there was a rumbling thunder, a bolt of lightning pierced the sky, and in a few moments a bean-sized drop of rain fell from the sky. Nan Jinyi unhurriedly opened the umbrella, and saw Liu Hanshan raise his hand above his head, tilting the umbrella slightly to block his head.
"Thank you!" Liu Hanshan said, putting down the hand that was blocking his head.
"It's not the first time." Nan Jinyi replied casually, but Liu Hanshan was stunned.
When the rain fell on his head, he realized that Nan Jinyi had gone far, so he took two quick steps, walked side by side with her, and hid under the umbrella.
The rain hit the umbrella and made a thunderclap sound, and the trees on both sides of the road were blown to and by the wind, and the deafening thunder sounded like a deafening sound. Although he hid under the umbrella, he was blown by the strong wind and couldn't move an inch, and just when Liu Hanshan signaled Nan Jinyi to find a place to hide, a carriage arrived in front of him.
The coachman wore a hat and a coat with a collar held high and blocked most of his face.
At the signal of the coachman, the two got into the carriage, and the carriage rode the wind and rain all the way to the outside of the mute village. The coachman did not enter the village, but parked the car in the Taoist temple outside the village, that is, the Taoist temple dedicated to King Yama, which everyone knew in the dumb village.
It wasn't until the coachman removed the hat from his head that they could see what he looked like, he was a half-man, half-pig monster. Xu was worried that his appearance would scare people, so he took out a black cloth from his arms and covered the lower half of his face. When he took off his robe, Liu Hanshan noticed that he was wearing a Taoist robe in the Taoist temple.
Suddenly, he thought of what the shopkeeper had said to him, he said that this Taoist temple was to fool people, so that the villagers of the dumb village would believe that those tongues were cut off by the little ghosts sent by Lord Yama. Regardless of whether what the shopkeeper said is true or not, this Taoist temple must be related to the restaurant. He first reminded Nan Jinyi to pay attention to this pig-faced Taoist priest, and then remembered Nan Jinyi's other identity, thinking that she deliberately pulled herself into the carriage of the pig-faced Taoist priest and deliberately followed this Taoist priest to the Taoist temple.
Thinking of this, he glanced at the red umbrella in Nan Jinyi's hand and asked her, "Do you want to do it?" Am I standing here in the way? ”
"What kind of hands, he's not a demon." Nan Jinyi casually put the red umbrella aside: "He is a human being, a cursed person." ”
"The girl has a discerning eye." The pig-faced man made a Taoist salute, "I am indeed a human being, a sinner in this mute village. ”
Before the appearance of dumb villages, it was still called Kang Nai Village, and most of the people in the village made a living from farming and raising pigs. The Taoist priest's surname is Xu, and he is a butcher and butcher in Kangnai Village, and most of the pigs in Kangnai Village are killed by their Xu family and sold by the Xu family. Because they know how to do business, the conditions of the Xu family are much better than those of other families in the same village.
When the Taoist priest was eighteen years old, he fell in love with a girl from the same village. Although the girl's family is poor, she is born with a beautiful face and a moon-like appearance, in order to propose, he not only asked her father to carry most of the pork, but also prepared ten taels of silver for the girl's family. These ten taels of silver are enough for the expenses of ordinary people in Kang Nai Village for more than half a year, or even a whole day.
The Taoist priest was full of confidence, but he closed his door in front of the girl. The girl said that she didn't like to kill pigs, and felt that killing pigs was too angry, and she liked to read people, so she really didn't deserve it, so find someone who farmed steadily.
As soon as the discerning person heard it, he knew that this was the girl who didn't take a fancy to him, but he was not convinced, so he broke into the girl's house by getting drunk, and wanted to make raw rice into mature rice to force the girl to comply. Unexpectedly, the girl looked weak, but she had a lot of strength, and in the middle of the dispute, she pushed the Taoist priest into the pigsty.
The girl pointed at the Taoist priest's nose and scolded, saying that he might as well be a pig.
The Taoist priest wanted to refute the girl, but his tongue was so hard that he couldn't say a word. By the time he woke up from the pigsty, it was the next morning. In addition to the pigs around him, he was also covered in pig manure. When he staggered back home to wash, he was kicked out by his own parents. They said he was a monster and cried and shouted for someone to catch him.
He was wounded by the villagers who rushed to hear the news, and he hid outside for a day, and when it was dark, he climbed over the wall tremblingly. He thought that his father and mother didn't recognize him because of the pig manure on his body, and when he cleaned himself and went to look in the mirror, he realized that he had become a half-man, half-pig monster.
"Then, you hid in this Taoist temple?" Liu Hanshan asked, but the pig-faced Taoist priest shook his head.
"At that time, I had just turned eighteen, and I couldn't accept the fact that I had become a pig demon, and I wanted to use that pig-killing knife to kill myself, but I lost my courage when the blade hit my neck. I'm afraid of death, I want to live well, but I don't know how to face the fact that I have become a pig demon. I took advantage of the night to climb over the wall and hide in the land temple outside the village. ”
The pig-faced Taoist priest said and pointed outward, and there was a dilapidated land temple not far from the Taoist temple.
The pig-faced Taoist priest said: "I curled up in the land temple, thinking about what happened to me over and over again, the more I thought about it, the more angry I became, the more angry I became, and I didn't notice that the moon above my head turned red, and in front of me, there was a cloud of floating black smoke. ”
"On fire?" Liu Hanshan frowned.
The pig-faced Taoist priest shook his head: "I don't know what it is, but he tricked me and said that it would be easy to change back to my original appearance." I asked him how he could change back, and he said that he could get back to the same as if someone else replaced me as a pig and cut off the pig's tongue for himself to eat. ”
People don't die for themselves, and who doesn't have a hated person in their hearts. The pig-faced Taoist priest felt that this deal could be done, not only to restore himself to his original state, but also to make the person he hated turn into a pig and disappear, which was simply a good thing to kill two birds with one stone. He said a man's name, and the pig-like features disappeared immediately.
Black Smoke told him that if he took that person's tongue and ate it before noon tomorrow, the base of his tongue would become soft, and he would be able to laugh and curse as before.
The pig-faced Taoist priest was full of anticipation, his eyes flashed with expectation, and he couldn't wait for dawn to go to that person's house. Black Smoke didn't lie to him, and the down-and-out scholar lying in the firewood room turned into a white and pure pig.