Chapter Twenty-Six: The Bald Horn
Feng Cripple drank the remnants of wine in the bowl in one gulp, and looked at the frightened girl with tears on her face with some puzzlement.
"Something happened at home?" After watching for a long time, Feng Cripple suddenly asked.
"......" The girl was still stunned for a while, and then she came back to her senses, muttering something in her mouth, nodding first, looking at Feng Cripple, and shaking her head desperately.
"Then ......" Feng Cripple also looked at the girl in some astonishment, and suddenly didn't know what to ask.
After a moment of silence, he stretched out a hand and touched the girl's head with some pity.
"Ah!" the girl screamed, and hurriedly ducked, taking a few steps back, tears gushing out.
"This ......" Feng Cripple looked at the girl, feeling more and more puzzled. He could no longer sit still, and slammed himself to his feet, and looked at the girl, and at the shepherd.
The shepherd also had his mouth wide open, and his saliva was two feet long, and his face was stupid.
Feng Cripple was helpless, sighed, and looked at Second Sister-in-law You again.
In the end, Second Sister-in-law You was calmer, she stared at Feng Cripple's face, and for a long time, she suddenly burst out: "Feng Cripple, what's your name?"
What a strange question!
The Feng cripple was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile: "Second sister-in-law, I-I'm Feng Cripple!
Meng Erdan, who was sitting next to him, also laughed, his tongue stiffened, he staggered to stand up on the table, looked down at Second Sister-in-law You, and stammered incoherently: "This-this-this-this-second, second sister-in-law, this Feng-Feng, Feng's second sister-in-law, this-Feng Ye, Feng Da-big brother, know, know-know the second sister-in-law, know, know, know Feng-Feng-Feng's second sister-in-law......"
A room of idlers laughed, and a few steps forward with fast legs, looked at the face of Second Sister-in-law You, and hurriedly said, "This is Feng Cripple, Feng Cripple!"
Second sister-in-law You still had a stiff face, staring at Feng Cripple, and asked coldly, "Who are you, Feng Cripple?"
Looking at the big black and red face, Feng Cripple couldn't laugh, he coughed, cleared his throat, and said, "I am Feng Cripple." ”
The idlers stopped laughing, and looked at Second Sister-in-law You and then at Cripple Feng in a strange way.
"Aren't you dead?" Second Sister-in-law You stared at for a long time and asked coldly.
"Dead, dead, buried in the back mountain, dead, dead......" Without waiting for Feng Cripple to answer, the shepherd standing next to Second Sister-in-law You suddenly wiped the hara on his chin, pointed at Feng Cripple, jumped and shouted.
What's going on? Obviously I've been sitting here drinking, how can I say he's dead? The idlers in the room were all stunned, looking at Feng Cripple in puzzlement, and then at the second sister-in-law of the sheep herd, their faces were full of doubts, and the shop suddenly fell silent.
Only the girl stood at the base of the wall, sobbing incessantly.
No one stepped forward to comfort them.
"Second sister-in-law, speak slowly, what's going on?" Niu Ye, who had been sitting behind the counter silently, suddenly spoke, looking at Feng Cripple with a pair of deep-set eyes, motionless.
"Uh!" Second Sister-in-law You replied, looked back at Niu Ye, turned her head to look at Feng Cripple, pondered for a moment, and spoke word by word.
It turned out that just two men in black went to the store to "borrow money" and killed them, Meng Erdan took out a silver bracelet and asked the shepherd and the second sister-in-law You to "clean up", the two walked to the back mountain, and the shepherd started digging a pit, just dug a few times, and didn't want to dig out something - a corpse. It seems that he has only died a short time, and his face has not stiffened, and if he looks closely, he knows both of them, it is Feng Cripple, who often comes to the tavern to drink. But said that this Feng Cripple, life is really hard, his daughter-in-law ran away at some point, leaving only a girl, it was easy to pull until she was fifteen or sixteen years old, and now that he is dead, I really don't know how his girl will live in the future - Thinking of this, Second Sister-in-law You hurriedly ran to the town and called Feng Cripple's girl, and the girl saw Feng Cripple's body from afar, and fainted all of a sudden. When he was woken up by You's second sister-in-law, the shepherd suddenly remembered that Feng Cripple was sitting in the tavern drinking, and the three of them threw down the corpse, trotted all the way, returned to the tavern, and met Feng Cripple sitting beside the wooden seat drinking in a good manner, and was immediately shocked by the five thunders and didn't know what to do......
This-Second Sister-in-law You was dumbfounded, and a group of idlers, including Feng Cripple himself, were dumbfounded, only that Meng Erdan, who drank too much today, leaned on the table, and talked incoherently and non-stop.
What the hell is going on? A room full of people stared at each other, completely unaware of their ugliness.
Only Niu Ye sat behind the counter and made no sound.
Suddenly, an idler proposed: Anyway, the mountain behind it is not far away, why don't you go and see it?
Yes, yes, look! The idlers responded, and the store suddenly became lively.
"Take a look?" Feng Cripple looked at Niu Ye and asked.
"You go first, there can't be no one in this shop. Niu Ye politely stood up and answered, and looked ahead motionlessly.
"Okay!" Feng Cripple was helpless, looked at Niu Ye, sighed, and followed a group of idlers out.
The last to go out was the girl, who wiped her eyes and nose with her tattered sleeves, and went out with her.
The store fell silent.
Niu Ye was still sitting behind the counter, his eyes motionless and looking into the distance, like a statue, like a mountain rock......
"No, no!" said the shepherd's voice through the cotton curtain, and the whole person jumped up with it.
He was followed by a large crowd of idlers—more than when he went out.
A large group of people squeezed in with a "hula", and the small hotel was almost squeezed out
"No, no!" the shepherd clapped his hands, jumping to himself, his eyes slanted and glazed, as if he had fallen into an evil spirit.
"It's obviously there! The shepherd dug it up, it's placed there, it's obviously there......" Facing everyone's questioning eyes, Second Sister-in-law You muttered, looking very aggrieved.
Looking at the girl again, she couldn't say a word except crying.
A large crowd of people ran over in a hurry, and saw only the pit that the shepherd had dug, and what corpses were there?
The idlers were clearly not satisfied.
"I'm afraid I met something unclean, right?" Niu Ye sat behind the counter, staring at Feng Cripple's face, and said slowly.
"Maybe something unclean has happened...... Feng Cripple hurriedly agreed, he patted the girl's head very lovingly, and asked her to go back first.
The girl looked at Feng Cripple and walked out crying with tears in her eyes.
"Wait!" an idler saw the girl walk out of the tavern, hurriedly shouted, stopped the girl, jumped into the back kitchen again, walked out with a bundle of firewood and grass, went straight to the dirt road in front of the door, piled the firewood and grass on the ground, lit a fire, took care of the girl and jumped over the fire, turned his head and shouted at the shop: "Shepherd, second sister-in-law, come out quickly, come out! Over-fire! Over-fire! Over-fired, over-the-fire, over-fired, over-fired......
"Maybe I've come across something unclean......," the idlers muttered, finding a place to sit down on their own.
Today's matter, whether it is true or not, is definitely a miracle to stay in this barren mountain of the two realms! How can you rest assured that you don't talk about a good topic for three days and three nights?
Meng Erdan followed and walked around, the wine woke up a little, and when he looked up and saw the shepherd who came back from the "over-the-fire", he reached out and took out a piece of silver, stuffed it into the shepherd, and shouted loudly: "Brother, serve the wine, let the big brothers have a good ......."
"Good!" the idlers applauded, and the shop was filled with a cheerful air......
"Ahh
Niu Ye had already finished chopping firewood, walked to the front and just started a fire, heard the sound, secretly screamed "not good", looked back at the bedroom with the door closed of the shepherd and Second Sister-in-law You, frowned, and ran out.
The screams came from Feng Cripple's house.
The town is not big, and after crossing the dirt road, you will soon reach the door of Feng Cripple.
The residents of the town who got up early rushed over when they heard the news, and when Niu Ye arrived, there was already a flood at the door of Feng's house.
Niu Ye squeezed through the crowd and saw Feng Cripple head-on.
I saw him with his hair disheveled, his eyes were red, kneeling on the ground, crying and shouting.
"Tsuiwa! Triwa, my Tsuiwa......"
Cuiwa is the girl's milk name.
Niu Ye was shocked, took the opportunity to look over, and was immediately stunned.
I saw Cuiwa lying on her back in the dirt yard, defenseless, brainy, bloody and blurred, which was really shocking and miserable.
A poor little girl, who did such a bad thing to her?
Niu Ye looked at Cui Wa lying on the ground, and after a while, he turned around, pulled up Feng Cripple, who was still kneeling on the ground and crying, and asked sharply, "Who did it?"
"Niu Ye......" Feng lame looked at Niu Ye, tears poured out all of a sudden, his body weakened, and he fell down again.
Yesterday, Meng Erdan generously donated money, and a group of idlers teased Feng Cripple "back from the dead", insisted on toasting him, several times, Feng Cripple was drunk early, he stumbled home, fell on the earthen kang, fell asleep all night, got up in the morning, and just got out of the door, he saw Cuiwa lying in the yard......
The idlers crowded at the door, pointing at the yard, talking a lot, shaking their heads and sighing one by one, looking extremely sorry.
Feng Cripple knelt in the yard, cried for a long time, seemed to remember what to do, crawled up softly, looked at the crowd outside the door blankly, and when he was at a loss, his own enthusiastic neighbors plucked up the courage to walk in, supported Feng Cripple, comforted a few words, and prepared to help take care of Cuiwa's funeral.
Niu Ye Tie blushed, a breath came out of his nostrils, took off the sheepskin jacket on his body, covered Cuiwa, looked at it for a long time, glared at Feng Cripple viciously, turned around, squeezed out of the crowd, and walked away without looking back.
Back at the tavern, Second Sister-in-law You had already climbed up, and the shepherd was still asleep.
They don't seem to know anything about what's going on in the town.
Niu Ye sighed and sat down behind the counter without a sound.
A pair of deep-set eyes stared at the barren mountains ahead.
The strange thing is that in those deep eyes, there is no peace and quietness in the past.
When covering Cuiwa's clothes, Niu Ye clearly saw that Cuiwa's smooth shoulders were clearly engraved with a pattern.
A very strange pattern.
A pattern deeply imprinted in Niu Ye's mind.
Nothing else, a rabbit with two horns on its head.
It was bloody, and at a glance, it was clear that it was carved with a sharp blade when the person was still dying.
The lines are clean, the techniques are skillful, and they are lifelike.
A long-sealed past came to Niu Ye's mind again......
Thirty years ago, a bloody storm set off in the martial arts.
The initiator is a demon called "Bald Horn".
No one has ever seen him.
All those who saw him died.
It is rumored that he was tall, strong, ugly, vicious-looking, with a bare head, and two sarcomas on his forehead stood tall, as if he had a pair of horns.
Hence the name "Bald Horn".
More than thirty years ago, like a gust of wind, he stirred up the entire martial arts.
Strong martial arts, cruel heart, strange behavior, mysterious whereabouts, greedy for money and lustful, good at harming good women, and extremely brutal means, every time after success, the victim woman will be destroyed to the point of incompleteness, smash the head, scratch the body, use a sharp blade to strangle the lower body, and finally, engrave a unique pattern on the shoulder: a rabbit with horns.
Moreover, unlike ordinary flower thieves, this "bald horn" never cares about the other party's old and young ladies every time he makes a move, as long as it is a woman, once he is targeted, it is almost impossible to escape his black hand.
Of course, he didn't just kill women.
In fact, he killed far more men than women.
Many times, in order to infringe on a woman, this demon does not hesitate to wash a huge mansion in blood, and the blade is everywhere, and the chickens and dogs are not left.
Back then, in order to get rid of this martial arts nuisance, how many chivalrous high-rollers took action, and as a result, how many people went out and never came back.
Hardly anyone can escape his poisonous hands.
As with women, every man he kills will have a horned rabbit carved on his shoulder......
It was a horrible experience.
It was a painful memory.
Unexpectedly, after so many years, this guy is back in the rivers and lakes!
Moreover, this demon actually ran to the Two Realms Mountain.
It seems that another bloody storm will set off on the rivers and lakes......
Today, the horned rabbit on Cuiwa's shoulder clearly met the eyes of Niu Ye.
Gradually, he pondered, the bloody rabbit seemed to come back to life. I saw it smiling, dripping blood, and running towards Niu Ye with a jump......
Niu Ye was full of excitement and woke up suddenly.
Second sister-in-law You didn't know what to do in the back kitchen, and kept making the sound of ping-pong, the shepherd had already gotten up, there was no one in the store, and he was napping against the table.
"Whew!" the cotton curtain was lifted.
An old woman walked in trembling, hunched over, with a wrinkled face, gray hair, ragged clothes, and a red willow whip in her hand.
At first glance, you can tell that it is coming from the desert.
Niu Ye looked at her in a little surprise, and before she could speak, the old woman walked to the counter tremblingly, looked at Niu Ye, her mouth trembled, and asked cautiously: "Old shopkeeper! Old shopkeeper! Did you see my two babies? went out to collect firewood, and never came back, some people said, I saw them taken away by several horseback riders, riding horses, wearing red clothes, running in this direction—two babies, in their twenties, have-yes, some-so-so tall......" The old woman said while desperately straightening her waist and gesturing with difficulty.
The two babies went out to fetch firewood, and Niu Ye thought that in the past few days, he had not seen such two people in the town.
Seeing Niu Ye shaking his head, the old woman sighed helplessly, slowly turned around, and slowly moved towards the door, while walking, she muttered: "Two babies, go out to fetch firewood, and they haven't come back, they haven't come back......!
Riding a horse, dressed in red? Isn't this the execution warrior of the backing gang? I am afraid that something is not good when they are taken away.
Looking at the rickety back, Niu Ye suddenly felt a sour nasal cavity, he stood up suddenly, and shouted at the old woman: "Old sister-in-law, please stay!"
When the old woman heard this, she hurriedly stopped, turned around, raised her head and looked at Niu Ye, her face full of longing: "Old shopkeeper, remember?"
"Alas!" Niu Ye shook his head, looked at the old woman, and said slowly: "Old sister-in-law, haven't you eaten yet......?"