Chapter 24 Section 2

As mentioned earlier, there is a secret hidden in the severed head: who ordered her or him to kill Xue Song.Xue Song is eager to know this secret.I have a weird idea about this: let Xue Song split that head open, eat the brains, and then think for a while, maybe he can figure out who is going to kill him.But this idea is not feasible: if the head belongs to a beautiful woman, it must be a delicacy, but Xue Song will not bear to eat it; if the head belongs to a mighty man, Xue Song will feel disgusted after eating it.Since the idea is not feasible, the secret cannot be revealed. According to detective novels, this secret should be revealed at the end, because it is the basis of the whole book and is very important.In my opinion, Fenghuangzhai was built on a laterite hillside, a labyrinth of tropical forests, which has a more important meaning in this story.In the center of this village, lived a profligate little prostitute and an old-fashioned prostitute.The little whore often stayed in the tree, which was a precaution, because she was afraid that the old whore would plot against her.Then it will be seen that this precaution is justified.As for the old prostitute, she has a body that looks like a human being without a child. If this body is going to be seen by a man, she will first stick white paper to her drooping nipples, then shave off her pubic hair, and powder her private parts.Thus her body was as white as a painted wall.It was she who wanted to kill Xue Song, and then the little prostitute.After dark, she came out of the house, looked at the human head hanging on the tree, spat on it, and cursed in a low voice: You idiot!waste!Just go back to the house.After a while, she came out again and released a white dove with a letter tied to its foot, telling her accomplices that the first assassin had failed and his head hung from a tree, and asked to send a new one. Here come the assassins.She also reminded those people: Beware of wasps in Xue Song's back garden.In this way, it was the old prostitute who wanted to kill Xue Song.But I doubt that's being said too much - I don't like having acquaintances kill each other.At dusk, a pigeon fluttered in the sky, which looked suspicious.At this time, Hongxian was touching the eel in the nearby ditch. When he saw it, he hurried to the bank to get a crossbow arrow and shot it down.But it was too late, the pigeon had already flown away.

On the edge of the ditch in Fenghuangzhai, a red castor grows densely. The leaves are bigger than cattail leaves, the fruit is as big as a fist, and the seeds are as big as chestnuts.Peel off the hard skin of the cinnamon seeds, the meat is very oily, but you can't eat it, and you will have diarrhea after eating it.The only use is as a light.The red thread stripped a lot of hemp seeds, and tied them into a string with bamboo sticks. After lighting them, they caught eels according to the same rules, and threaded the caught eels into a string with strips.Of course she knew that an assassin had come to a village, which meant that there were spies in the village, so she remained vigilant.She knew better that carrier pigeons are a means for spies to contact the party, so she wanted to shoot the carrier pigeons, but she missed it a step too late.Then she hesitated: whether to rush home and tell Xue Song about it, or continue touching the eels.At this moment, she found a leech on her thigh sucking blood.She grabbed the leeches and burned them to death on the fire. Then she only remembered one thing: she had to go into the water to touch the eels.She was a little puzzled, what she was hesitating just now, but she couldn't remember it after much deliberation.If she ran home immediately and told Xue Song, Xue Song would know that there was a spy living in the middle of the village.To be sure, the spy was one of the two whores.With Xue Song's ingenuity, he can immediately find a way to determine who the spy is: the assassin's head is hanging high in the sky, he must have seen who released the pigeon, so he can put it down Just ask, it just needs to pout or close one eye to point out who is a spy.This assassin's head must also like to have another human head hanging side by side with him--it's not lonely.What's more, if it doesn't talk, it can be roasted on the fire and boiled in water.Some heads are often treated like this, so they can take it easy.But the troublesome pig is not the human head—the human head cannot stand this kind of treatment and will confess.But Hongxian wanted to touch the eel, so he forgot about it.

Xue Song therefore missed the opportunity to catch the spies.But Hongxian didn't go into the water to touch the eel. He lowered his head to look at the wound on his leg that had been bitten by the leech, and found that his breech was very high—in other words, his legs were long.After turning it over and over for a while, she decided to go to the little prostitute. On the surface, she wanted to give her some eels, but in fact she asked her to give her some opinions on her legs.The little prostitute didn't want to say that she had long legs, but she liked eating rice field eels very much, so she said something against her will; then they fried eel slices and ate them.As a result, the red line came home very late.The carrier pigeon flew away with the information.After nightfall, a large number of assassins will arrive.This is a very bad thing for Xue Song.But this is Xue Song's own fault.If at home, he didn't ignore the two legs of the red thread—for example, when he fell on the floor to sleep and the red thread walked in front of him, he saw the pair of long legs from underneath, he should sit half up , Shouted: Wow!The legs are very long!Red line will feel happy.For a girl, getting praise from a man is definitely a greater satisfaction—she won't always go to the little whore, and she will bring home the eels she touches.But he always puts on airs of a master and refuses to say anything.As a result of putting on this air, a large number of assassins came to kill him, and he was still kept in the dark.I completely agree with the author: this is his own fault.