57. The past of the nameless village
"Oh, the old man is also a prescient man." I knew he had something to say, so I went along with it.
"Young man, I have been herding sheep for more than forty years, do you know what I am best at?"
"Control the flock and don't let it go." I said.
The old man smiled slightly: "It's really not, herding sheep is not a university question, fools can learn, the most rare thing to be a shepherd is not to herd sheep, but how to deal with wolves, we are just two or three people, dogs are only a few, once you encounter a large group of wolves can only confront each other, absolutely can not shoot, once a wolf is killed, the result can only be the destruction of the sheep, so the best thing for the shepherd is to observe from the wolf's eyes whether the determination of the wolves to attack the sheep is strong, if it is not a group of hungry wolves, We intimidate and deter, if it is a group of hungry wolves, we will throw some food to them, wolves are very intelligent animals, they will not fight with people to break the net, so they will leave when they get something, so the skill I learned is to observe a person's eyes, whether this person is good or evil, whether the determination to do things is resolute, through the eyes I can see eight or nine without leaving ten. ”
"Did I look ...... yesterday?"
"After hearing what happened to Huahua, I could see that your eyes were very angry, and I knew that you would definitely come back, and I was right." The old man's face was full of approval and relief.
"Old man, since you believe me, can you tell me what happened in this place, and what kind of road are the three brothers of the enemy family? I don't believe in any real dragon messenger, even if such a character exists, it will definitely not be such a scumbag. ”
"I didn't know much about you yesterday, so I didn't tell the truth, but today I can tell you these things, I don't hope you can get justice for me, but I hope that good people will not be harmed."
"Old man, is this three brothers of the enemy really some kind of powerful character?"
"These three boys grew up with me since childhood, their parents and I have a good relationship, originally said that they were going to follow me to learn to herd sheep, but in six or four years, we came here with a sloppy Taoist with a relily head, he entered the village and said that our land here is unstable, if you want to have long-term peace and stability, you must give him a boy boy, otherwise the village will perish, and the people in the village will inevitably die, no one believed what he said at that time, the village chief also took a few young people to beat this Laili head Taoist out with a broom, As a result, one of our dirt mountains collapsed that night, and the village chief happened to live at the foot of the mountain, and the family was buried alive in the rubble, and the people who pulled it out were crushed and shapeless. ”
"This place used to have dirt mountains?" I asked, looking at a flat patch of mud.
"Yes, you look at the farmland in the northeast corner, six or four years ago, that farmland is a dirt mountain, the mountain is not big, more than ten meters high, the surface is all loess, but there are many big stones buried in the soil, there was no wind and no rain on the night of the accident, but the soil mountain collapsed in an instant, there was no warning before, and the collapsed earth mountain revealed a dark purple stone, the shape of this stone is very similar to the appearance of the head of the Reilly, it is like carved out according to his appearance, nose, eyes and eyebrows, Even the Taoist robe on his body could be seen clearly. ”
"Old man, let's not tell stories here, this is all something you saw with your own eyes?"
"Everything is what I have seen with my own eyes, this stone statue is in the stubborn stone area of the Lingquan City Tourism Art Museum, and I will definitely be able to see it now."
I nodded and said, "Understood, you continue." ”
"After seeing this stone statue, the people in the village knew that they had offended people who should not be offended, and then something happened, the village chief's family set up a mourning hall according to the reason to practice transcendence, although the people of that era were poor, but the witch god Han managed a meal, so as long as it was a dead person, the goddess would be invited to come to the soul of the dead, and the witch invited that day, walked into the mourning hall and fell, and after getting up, the ground where he fell was not injured, but there was a black slap mark on the left face, Now no one in the village dared to provoke the village chief's family and was ready to be put out and buried after two days, but in the afternoon the whole village was very smelly, and all the dogs ran to the mourning hall where to bark, I herded sheep all the year round, and I was bold, so I covered my nose and went in to take a look, and found that the corpses of the village chief's family were rotten into green pus. ”
Hearing this, I was so disgusted that I wanted to vomit, Lao Tianwang sighed and said: "That scene is really miserable, as a result, we have no recruitment, we can only light a fire to burn down the village chief's house and the mourning hall, that afternoon the black smoke from the village chief's house covered half of the sky, that scene is really terrifying." Speaking of this, Lao Tian Wang couldn't help but sigh before continuing: "After that, no one dares to say anything after the old way comes again, he said that we will have three days to select a boy for him, otherwise our village will be ruined and ......" Speaking of this, Lao Tian Wang smiled bitterly and said: "In those three days, I saw the most dirty and ugly scene, the villagers in the township have become like enemies, especially those who have half a teenager in the family, all of them are like feuds, and they all say that they should hand over each other's children to protect the peace of the villagers." ”
"That's right, when the catastrophe is coming, it can best reflect the psychological state of people, and in the final analysis, people are selfish animals."
Lao Tianwang sneered: "Later, there was a man named Ma Lin in the village, the family and the Qiu family had a grudge, so they contacted other villagers in private, saying that the Qiu family has three sons, and sending one out will not affect the succession, these people originally thought that others would be unlucky and protect themselves, so they formed a group to bully the enemy family and let them hand over the boss of the Qiu family, but this matter soon became a whole village to deal with the Qiu family, the family was forced to be helpless, and finally gave the Qiu boss to Lao Dao, the result was beyond everyone's expectations, Seven days later, the boss of the enemy family returned. ”
"I've liked this kid since he was a child, he was very sensible and obedient, but since he came back, the whole person seems to have changed, he doesn't talk much, he stays in the room all day, and then he keeps running into the woods." There is an orchard in the western suburbs, there are many peach trees and orange trees, covering a vast area.
He continued: "Then Ma Lin's son disappeared, according to Ma Lin, the child disappeared on the day he went to the fruit forest, and then never came back, so the people in the village went to the fruit forest to look for the child, and finally found a child under a peach tree, other than leaving no clues, after this the village has been missing one after another, everyone knows that this matter is related to the boss of the enemy, but no matter what you think, you just can't catch his flaws, so some villagers moved away from the local area, as long as they didn't leave." Except for my family, everyone else disappeared in broad daylight. ”
"Isn't there anyone looking into this?" I was simply shocked.
"At that time, who could care about the disappearance of people in a remote mountain village, of course, someone came to check later, but there was definitely no discovery, and today there are only the Tian family and the enemy family left in this village."
"So your relationship with the Qiu family is not bad? In that case, why would he hurt your son and daughter-in-law? And such a small baby is not spared? ”
"Young man, do you believe there are dragons in this world?" The old man suddenly asked me a strange question, but it was related to a local legend.
I thought about it carefully and said, "I believe it, but I don't believe that this will be a dragon breeding field, and I don't believe that the enemy brotherhood is a true dragon messenger. ”
"Yes, my son and daughter-in-law don't believe it either, so they can only die." With that, he suddenly drew a scythe from under his seat and slashed at me.
The rat demon was not by my side, but went to the big pit yesterday to continue to "think hard", and the green-haired giant rat naturally followed it, so no one could help me.
It's also strange to say, with my "strength", this sudden knife is supposed to say that I don't have the ability to dodge, but today my reaction seems to have become extremely fast, I clearly saw his hand move and wave the knife, and I can see the trajectory of the whole movement clearly, so I didn't hurry to the left and dodged the first blow.