Chapter 4: Merit Soup and Shredded Bodies
When I saw these black shadows appearing in my sight, a mass of flesh in my left abdomen was trembling slightly. This time it didn't hurt, it just felt uncomfortable, and an inexplicable sense of fear rose up from my heart, a sense that was unfamiliar to me, but at that time I was able to clearly distinguish it as the consciousness of another creature within me.
It was as if it was begging me: stay away, stay away ......
And my heart surged with a wave of ecstasy: the book said that the golden silkworm parasites are the most spiritual things, not afraid of beasts not afraid of people, but only afraid of the yellow crown and golden claws ten years of the big cockerel, and the short mules in the deep mountains and old forests. Since it has this kind of consciousness out, then, come to these black shadows must be the short mule I have been looking for a long time.
I composed myself and waited for these black shadows to approach, then stopped. I counted, a total of five, walking jumping, the night is too dark to see the appearance of clear, at first also looked around, after a while, a few guys grabbing and eating up. Overcast clouds drifted over, the moon emerged, along the moonlight I saw these legendary short mules, they seem to have a face between man and apes, covered with hair, grass green; hands are very long, more than thirty centimeters, almost equal to the height.
They had been very boisterous, making grunting noises like monkeys in a zoo, squeaking, with short but sharp syllables.
I don't know how, but I felt that their eyes were very bright and had a very spiritual look to them.
I waited for about five minutes for them to focus a bit, then slowly stood up, grabbing a handful of fresh glutinous rice mixed with egg whites and joss stick ashes in my left hand, and a hunting net in my right. I moved little by little, the route was determined before, there was not a sound, only the heartbeat "pounding pounding pounding". Fifteen meters, ten meters, eight meters ...... When I moved to the eighth meter, suddenly the short mules have stopped, turning their heads to look at my side.
Without delay, the new glutinous rice on my left hand sprinkled out at once, like rain falling from the sky, brushing all of them fell on the head and body of these short mules, and suddenly there was a burnt smell of battered rice coming out. I was overjoyed, the book said that short mules are most afraid of the new glutinous rice mixed with egg white and incense ash, and it is like a red-hot iron when it is dipped in the body, which is true. My left hand was free, and I immediately matched my right hand to spread the hunting net out. Hunting net is to find the nearby mountain people to buy, specially used to snatch grass to hunt rabbits kind of, not good to spread, I practiced for a long time during the day also did not have a look, did not expect this moment surprisingly successful.
A piece of coarse polyester net with thistles and iron nails is like a black cloud, covering them.
I did not expect these short mules reacted very sensitively, in addition to a slightly taller guy was covered, the other body a short, pricked a scattered and fled. Inside the net is still struggling violently, squeaking, I rushed over a foot on the edge of the net, the pocket inside the new glutinous rice all dumped on its body. This glutinous rice is more than two pounds, once it fell on it, a black smoke, simply amazing.
When this guy stopped struggling, I touched out the red thread, through the net will be wrapped up all over it, and then put the tail finger thick binding rope to tie the net solid, look around, fleeing short mule has disappeared.
Late at night, I carried the net to the forest-keeper's house. Inside the net pocket of this furry guy looks not big, but heavy, full of thirty or forty pounds. Very stinky, there is the burnt smell of paste rice, there is also a stinky smell of urine, my heart is in my throat, there is phlegm in my throat, I can not spit it out, choking uncomfortable. The dark night, like the devil's mouth, a moment of my heart was fear gripped tightly, can not distinguish between myself, or the body inside the golden silkworm compulsion, the footsteps are getting faster and faster, a few hundred meters of the mountain road did not take much effort to arrive.
Knock, knock, knock ......
I knocked on the door, inside came one after another to my uncle and Li Dezai's inquiry, I said it was me, and then the lights on the inside of the house, and then the door opened, uncle cloaked coat came out, sleepy eyes, said what time it is, how to just come back. I mentioned the net in my hand and said, "I caught a short mule!" Little uncle a jolt, people immediately spirited up, pulling me into the house, closed the door, under the lamp to see what happened.
Hearing that I caught a short mule alive, Li De Cai, who was still lying in bed, also climbed up and put on his clothes to see.
Under the 100-watt bright incandescent light, I finally got a good look at it - in addition to a face full of wrinkles and blackened, almost like an old man's face, eyes large and bright, pupils are purplish-red, spreading, and occasionally opened its mouth, a mouthful of snow-white fangs, staggered and densely packed; the face and neck did not have much hair, but the body did furry green hair, now interspersed with grayish-white glutinous rice, as if blackened by burning; ape-like, with a tiny tail, sharp claws on its limbs, and five-fingered hands.
Most importantly, it really had a red straw hat on its head.
This straw hat is a kind of red fern rhizome woven, very scribbly and rough, like a child's haphazard knitting, but if it is a short mule's knitting, it is amazing, the straw hat is in the shape of a bird's nest of potsherds, properly attached to its head. There was a lot of white and black pulpy dirt on it, bird feathers, animal hair and many other unknown things present. It was disgusting to look at, but I was so happy that I carefully pulled the hat out of the net and balled it up for storage. Little Uncle looked at it for a while and asked me, "What are you going to do with this thing?"
I shook my head and said I hadn't thought about it, Uncle said excitedly, "Tomorrow at dawn, we will go down the mountain and send it to the Forestry Bureau. This is a rare animal, right? If you offer it, you may get a bonus. Xiao Zuo you're really good, this thing has been heard from the old generation, but I've never seen it in most of my life, and you've caught it. Awesome ah awesome." I laughed bitterly, if not for the broken book that has a way to catch the dwarf mule, if not for those handfuls of glutinous rice sprinkled out, how could I have caught this fast as a phantom little thing.
If it s not ...... me dying I don t know how to die Oh.
On the side of Li De Cai rubbed his hands on the side and said worriedly, "This short mule is a mountain ghost raised in the house of the land eunuch of the mountain forest, we'd better let it go. If they remember it and come to the door to retaliate some other day, a few lives won't survive it."
"Afraid of a ** ah?" Uncle Junior said with disinterest.
The two were at loggerheads, and then Uncle asked me how to deal with it, after all, it was me who captured it. I now have in mind only to hurry to take this straw hat home, to purchase the relevant things to solve compulsion, where there is the mind to care about these. Look at the two of them arguing red in the face, I said you do not have a leader, tomorrow morning call for instructions on it. Now the two do not fight, the younger uncle said good, and Li De Cai is worried about not talking, lit a Axiom cigarettes, squatting in the threshold smoking.
At this time are almost five o'clock, summer light early, and then half a variety of dawn, I guarded the night, sleepy, so I asked my uncle to help take care of, he climbed into bed to go to sleep. Before going to sleep, I purposely put the straw hat with a plastic bag, put in the travel bag I brought with me. I'm too sleepy, almost a body on the bed, a closed eyes fell asleep, I do not know how long, vaguely heard somewhere rumbling for a while, at first thought it was a dream, and then was a warm hand shook me awake, I struggled to open, and found that my brother-in-law stood in front of me with a face of blood.
I hurriedly got up and asked what happened. Uncle "ouch ouch" screaming, obviously in great pain, I remember him saying that the table drawer inside the wound medicine, barefoot jumped out of bed, first to the basin stand there to bring a towel to him to wipe his face, and then rummage through the drawer, to find a kind of white powdered hemostatic medicine to get a little water to help him wipe the blood on the left side of the face after seeing four bloody scratches to, I gave him a little bit of medicine to put the blood, and I saw a little bit of the blood, and then I saw four scratches. I put the powder on him bit by bit and asked Li De Cai.
Little uncle endured the pain and said, this kid is crazy, actually will that short mule to let go, people do not know where to run away. He also said that he was caught by the dead short mule, fierce it. I felt a pang of remorse in my heart, if I hadn't brought this ghost back, my little uncle wouldn't be like this. I helped him to finish the bandage, and then helped him to dial the county forestry bureau duty room phone.
The call took a long time, almost twenty minutes before it was connected, my little uncle informed the situation, the people there were anxious, said that my little uncle and I first in the forest guard house to stand firm, they immediately notify the colleagues of the township forestry station to come over to meet the rescue.
During the waiting time, my brother-in-law talked about the situation, saying that the two of them had been smoking and watching the forest, but somehow Li De Cai went crazy, ripping off the red thread and then untying the rope, and he couldn't even stop him. My little uncle in the side to stop, the result was his fist knocked over to the ground, before he reacted, I saw the green hair short mule from the net inside scurried out, towards his face to grab a hand. The guy was so weak that he didn't continue to scratch, but ran toward the bottom of the slope. When my little uncle climbed up, it was a mess, and even Li De Cai, the son of a bitch, had disappeared.
Since we didn't dare to go out alone, we waited for three hours until nine o'clock in the morning, during which time Li De Cai never came back, making us even more worried. Finally, the door was knocked, came in four of my little uncle's coworkers, all dewy, one also with a shotgun.
After explaining the situation clearly, they agreed that two of them would stay behind to wait for Li De Cai, and two of them would send my brother-in-law down the mountain first.
After a lot of trouble, until one o'clock at noon we arrived at the county people's hospital.
I was at the hospital until seven o'clock in the evening, after the suture surgery, awake uncle advised me to go back first, treatment is important. My brother-in-law's two children, an eighteen-year-old son and a fifteen-year-old daughter, as well as my aunt, look at me in the eyes are a little bad, the doctor said that may leave scars on the face, they probably think that my brother-in-law so, all because I caused.
I was also very remorseful and did not say anything.
Although my brother-in-law is considered a work-related injury and is entitled to public medical care, the next day I handed over 20,000 dollars to my aunt as nutritional expenses.
As my aunt and cousins are not welcome me, after these things I did not go to see, I returned home, according to the instructions in the book, procured black donkey, black dog, black cat's lower uterine blood, cinnabar, firewood, toadstools ingot, purple snow, amber, cocoon, oxalis, scorpion and gall bladder star, with these and dismantled dragon ferns boiled and simmered for three days and three nights, will be a big pot of herbal water boiled into a bowl of black tea broth, with the Dunzhaitang Temple After chilling the water from the well behind the dojo, at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, I endured nausea and drank it in one gulp.
After drinking it, my whole body felt relaxed and my heart seemed to be much more spacious.
As a result, more than an hour later, I began to have diarrhea. Began to dilute, and then began to pull out thick black blood, blood inside also mixed with unknown pieces of meat, thin molted skin, silk flotsam, keratin, to the end of the almost nothing can be pulled out, feel from the throat to the chrysanthemums is simply a line, the air exhaled from above, the bottom of the stinking farts. And I was sweating like hell, heavily dehydrated, and my father was scooping up water for me next to the toilet, feeding me spoonfuls of it after a few minutes.
Then he couldn't take it anymore, so he put the bucket of boiling water next to the toilet, and he went outside to get some air.
So I squatted and drank the water while pulling, and that night, I was almost in the toilet and almost didn't hang over.
At home I raised three days, just like women compatriots sitting in the moon, can not go out of the house, but also can not see the wind, my mother boiled old hen soup every day for me to drink, but also do not put salt, that taste ...... until now every time I go out to eat, other people point chicken soup, I will not drink even a mouthful of it, this is that time to drink afraid. On the morning of the fourth day, I felt a little better in spirit, ready to go out to meet the sun, but I heard someone talking in the hall, several people s voices.
After a while the door of my room was thrown open and a couple of policemen came in.
They told me that I was connected with a case of a broken body, and that they had come to ask me to go back and do an investigation.
