Chapter 9: Headless Claim
The fog was thick, and I was so scared that I couldn't do it, and the shock I had just received at home made me even unconscious, and I only knew that I kept walking in a fixed direction.
But the strange thing is that this road never seems to be finished, and I am still walking around the edge of the village.
It wasn't until I was running out of energy that I realized something wasn't quite right.
I've been walking the road out of the village for 12 years, and I can find the exit even with my eyes closed.
But now I have walked for nearly two hours, but I don't know where the exit from the village is.
"How so?"
As I leaned wearily against a tree, I suddenly remembered a saying among the old people in the village that ghosts hit walls.
It must have been a ghost hitting the wall, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to get out of the village.
My body was exhausted to the top, and I was also scared to the top, looking at the fog that shrouded the village, the familiar environment was completely obscured by the thick fog, so confused that I couldn't even make out the southeast and northwest.
After trying for a long time and not being able to get out, I gave up in despair and looked back at the village chief's house, intending to go there and hide.
There were only a dozen or so households in Chenjiagou, and almost every family was related by blood, so I lost the courage to go home and could only stumble to find the village chief for help.
As I walked, I came to the bottom of a large banyan tree in the west of the village.
This banyan tree is more than 100 years old, and its branches and foliage are very dense, and the villagers like to cool off here in summer.
It's not summer, so there's not much sound under the trees.
I staggered forward, and just wanted to rest under the tree, but in a daze, I saw a man sitting under the tree, with his back to me, as if his neck hurt, and his head was drooping.
I took a closer look, and found that the back was very familiar, and suddenly my eyes lit up, and I shouted,
"Dad, are you back, I'm Zhou Xuan!"
Although it seemed strange for my dad to be here, I didn't hesitate to run towards him.
Since that day, my grandmother cried and fainted in the third uncle's mourning hall, and my father sent my grandmother to the township medical center, and the person also disappeared.
I hadn't seen my dad for two days in a row, and even though he didn't have a good attitude towards me, I couldn't wait to get close and tell him what was going on at home.
"Zhou Xuan, come and help me."
My father heard my cry, but instead of turning his head, he continued to put his hands on his neck as if he was in pain.
I had too many questions to ask, and I said as I walked up, "Dad, where have you been in the past two days, you don't know that there is such a big thing at home, didn't you send grandma to the hospital that day, why did grandma run home alone in the middle of the night, but you weren't there?" ”
My dad didn't answer me, he still struggled to hold his neck with his hands, and his mouth was "ouch, ouch".
I was taken aback and asked him what was wrong with his neck?
My father said, "When I went back to the village, I fell and fell under the stone bridge. ”
As he spoke, he put his hand on my shoulder, but I couldn't help but shiver, feeling his arm cold and a little stiff.
My dad continued, "Take me home, I'm going to go home and rest." ”
Where is there a home?
I was so sad that I didn't care about my father's eccentricity, and cried and cried, "The family has been ruined, and the third uncle and the third aunt have cheated the corpse...... I just ran out. ”
"Nonsense, how can you cheat the corpse, you take me back to see it."
My father's tone was cold and hard, and his attitude was already fierce, and he spoke in a commanding tone.
As he spoke, he pulled his body over, leaned on my back, and urged me to take him home, saying that his neck hurt too much, and he wanted to go home and rub the medicine and wine.
My dad was so heavy that most of his body leaned up, and I almost couldn't straighten my waist.
I struggled to carry him away, "Dad, I really can't go back to that home, and I'll die if I go back now." I'll take you to the village chief's house, he also has medicine and wine. ”
My dad didn't seem to care what I said, and replied vaguely, his whole body pressed against my shoulder.
I struggled even harder, so heavy that I could barely walk, and said with difficulty, "Dad, how did you fall under the bridge so well, where did you hurt, is it serious?" ”
My dad didn't speak, his hands were on my shoulders, and he slowly tightened back.
After realizing it, I finally realized that something was wrong, my father's hands were too cold, his arms were completely hanging on my neck, his body was very heavy, I couldn't even move, I really didn't have the strength to carry him, I turned my head very hard, and wanted to ask my father if he could walk by himself.
It's good that I didn't look back, but this time it was almost in vain, and I was so scared that I cried.
My dad was still hanging on my back for most of his body, in a dragged position.
But the head on my neck was left under the banyan tree, and the face was hooked by the branches, looking at me gloomily,
"You dead boy, why don't you have your back on your back, how can I go back to see your grandmother like this?"
Yes!
I was so frightened that I jumped up again, and I didn't know where I got the strength to push away half of my father's dead body, and ran away.
My father's cold voice kept lingering behind, "Don't run, help me put my head back and take me home!" ”
"Dad, don't hurt me."
I was almost bald with fright, and I felt cold behind me, and I ran forward, but after running for a while, I had to stop, and then I realized that I was just running around the big banyan tree, running around and running in that place.
My father's headless corpse lay on the dirt and didn't move, his head still hanging on the branches, keeping an eerie grin,
"Can you run? Stinky boy, it was because of your birth that you brought misfortune to the whole family, we are all dead, why can you live alone. ”
The branches swayed in the cold wind, and the dead man's head dangled like a basketball dangling in the air.
My body was completely straightened, but my father's desperate laughter was getting closer,
"You can't run, now that the village is besieged, you're dead everywhere you run, giggle...... Come with me, take me home, our family will be on the road in order, and you will be the only one. ”
The headless corpse slowly crawled towards me in a strange and exaggerated shape, my eyes blackened, and I sat down on the ground completely, completely unable to speak.
Fortunately, at the most critical moment, I heard the familiar shout again, "Resentful ghosts blocking the way? Hello big bold! ”
The sudden sound was like thunder, which shook my eardrums, and before I could come back to my senses, a copper coin sword shot out from my back, impartial, and hit the dead man's head hanging on the tree.
Ahh
My father screamed so badly that the dead man's head was smoking, and a large amount of jet-black corpse water was oozing, and it rolled to the ground with a thud.
At the same time, the headless corpse also stopped crawling, completely frozen in place, and lost its movement.
At this time, there was a familiar sigh around me, and I turned my head numbly, and saw Taigong limping over, walking in front of the dead man's head, shaking his head, and pulling out the copper coin sword inserted in it.
The headless corpse oozes black blood, and it smells terrible, and I think my father has been dead for a long time.
Taigong walked over with a copper coin sword, and said with a sad face, "Baby, your father died yesterday, and he has already walked in front of your grandmother." ”