Chapter 29 Chapter Twenty Nine

(..."He's sick...") Uncle didn't want to go on, so I didn't say any more, and asked if he could take me to the village. He agreed, and he was wearing a hunter's outfit again, and he also carried his gun. "As soon as I came back, I felt uncomfortable here and there. If I don't wear this clothes, I'm afraid I won't be able to do it." After walking around the West Village, I went to the central village and three other small villages. Many children died. They have followed us all the time, and they always have a pair of slingshots in their pockets. Whenever they see a bird flying by, they will shoot, and there will be no response.When we arrived at the embankment at the southern end of the basin, the sun was shining red, and waterfowls would often perch on the rocks by the river. The children clamored to use their uncle’s shotgun, but of course the uncle would not agree, so they shot one with a slingshot. , Waiting for another one to appear, and beat five in a row.A soft-shelled turtle climbed up from the water on a rock to cover it. The stones shot by the slingshot were concentrated on the cover. The cover was not rotten, but the turtle turned over and fell into the water and disappeared.At this time, my uncle picked up the gun, and with just one lift, a ball of water splashed on the water.

"No hit, no hit!" said the children. But a green snake turned up its belly and floated on the surface of the water. It floated leisurely and stopped in the shallow water.I saw that the snake was more than two feet long, and it was not dead. It began to twist violently. The green color of its body mixed with the red blood was creepy, but the children were excited and ran over to catch the wounded snake. They used bark to fix the snake's tail to the branch, and the snake was still twisting slightly. They played slingshots ten meters away, and the snake was shortened one by one.

The behavior of the children disgusted me, and I would not let my uncle aim the gun at other small animals, nor let the children follow us, so I asked about what happened at the banquet last night: there were many questions that I could not understand, such as why people People have red cloth around their waists?Why did Xisheng say that he transferred to the East Village as soon as he transferred to the West Village? What is going on?Xisheng is a debt collector, so what's wrong with Shuanzi?The uncle said: "Which pot is not open, which pot do you carry upside down!"In the first five years, a Feng Shui master came to see the topography here and thought that there was a good acupuncture point on the plateau. As a result, several families wanted to occupy this acupuncture point, and later it became a sectarian struggle. You suspect me, and I hate you. And each of them invited the gods and witches from other places to read incantations and draw {.One night, the cave was blown up with explosives.No one can tell who blew it up.Without a good acupuncture point, people would die one after another in the village, and it would often happen in one village first and then in another village, making people panic, not knowing whose turn it would be next.Because of this, the bell tower was built, and it was suddenly reported that wearing red cloth strips on the trouser belt can avoid disasters. Men, women, old and children all wore red cloth strips, and even the red cloth that had been overstocked in the store for many years was snatched up.Shuanzi's mother-in-law bought a batch of red cloth from Deshun, but the money was delayed, so Deshun hired Xisheng to collect the debt. If it wasn't for the banquet last night, Shuanzi would have been given a meal by Xisheng Beat up.

"It's such a mess," I said, "the township government doesn't care about it." "No matter what, the township government only has a few people. It's enough for them to urge food and money, curettage and abortion! If your grandfather is here, there will be someone who can mediate fairly. Once your grandfather dies, there is no one with high reputation. People can hold back." "I think uncle can do it wrong." "He can talk, but he is timid." Uncle said, "When there were many wolves, he and Ergou went to Beishan to chase wolves, but the wolves didn't catch them, so the wolves chased them up a tree. There were many wolves around the tree, and I went to solve the siege. Er Gou shook his head and salivated in fright, and your uncle was so scared that he fell asleep for ten days. After that, he never joined the wolf hunting team. Now we can’t see the wolves. As he said, you have to take another guy when you go out. Didn’t you see that there are white circles painted with lime on the front and back walls of his house to scare wolves? This..."

Uncle suddenly remembered something, stopped talking, and called me: "Ziming." I said: "Yeah." "Are you dreaming or not?" "Why don't you dream, you often do." "I know what I think about during the day and what I dream about at night, but I don't dream about what I think about during the day, and I have dreams when I don't even think about it. Please explain it to me." I asked my uncle what dream he had?The uncle said that last night, he had a strange dream. He had been hunting for decades, and he had never dreamed of a wolf, but last night he dreamed of the wolf that had caught him when he was a child.The wolf was very old. He was sitting at the door. When he looked up, the wolf stood at the door and called him: Fu Shan, Fu Shan!He was not afraid, just asked: Are you a wolf there, among the fifteen wolves?The wolf said that among the fifteen wolves, you don't recognize me. I have held you!He looked again, and it was indeed the wolf that had held him.He said: Are you still alive? !The wolf said: I am still alive, I am one hundred and fifty years old!That's when he woke up.

"How did I dream about it?" said the uncle. "I'm afraid that you drank too much wine last night, and your scars became inflamed and painful. Subconsciously, you recalled the time when wolves picked you up when you were young." "..." Uncle seemed to believe me, but also didn't seem to believe me, he said, "Tell me, nothing will happen, right?" I said, "That wolf really lived to be a hundred and fifty years old. Can it come to pick you up again now?" "That's true." When we came back from the river embankment, I noticed the courtyard wall of my uncle’s house. There were indeed many white and gray circles painted on the courtyard wall, and the wolf clip placed in the corner of the courtyard actually clamped Cuihua’s front paws. Cuihua unloaded the wolf clip, and scolded her uncle: "Where are there still wolves now, did you put this clip to catch your bones?"

"It's better to be careful, the more there are no wolves, the more you have to be on guard against wolves!" The uncle replied, and when he saw us entering the hospital, he stopped talking and asked me with a smile: "Is the place good, good place?" what! I said: "An apple eaten by worms is the best apple. Of course, a place visited by wolves is a good place." "Don't dare to say such a thing!" said the uncle, "You are a nobleman, and your mouth is poisonous, so you can say whatever you want!" He looked at me seriously, and said in a low voice, "I have something to ask you. There were wolf feces at the entrance of the southwest village more than ten days ago, and wolf hoof prints were also found in the river beach. Why are there wolves again? Someone said After the state government promulgated the regulations prohibiting the killing of wolves, a new batch of wolves came from other places and came to Shangzhou, it must be?!"

I shook my head with a smile, but I wondered in my heart: Why do people from Xiongerchuan have such thoughts? "The wolf poop in the past was lumpy, but the pile of wolf poop at the entrance of the southwest village is huge, the size of a wooden bowl!" "Don't you think that the wind is the rain, even I don't know, who knows?" said the uncle, "It's just that the introduction of new wolves, the new wolves are here?!!" The two uncles were talking in the yard, and I went back to the house, sitting on the edge of the kang with my rotten head and yellow face, my head didn't hurt anymore, but I was still listless.I asked him in a low voice if he could walk. What did the rotten head say? I said that a wolf was found at the entrance of the southwest village. I don’t know if it’s true or not.

The bad guy and I went to Southwest Village with a camera, and there was no wolf shit at all. An old lady said that the confused old man picked up the shit frequently, did he pick up the wolf shit?I found an old man named confused. The old man was chatting nonsense with several young wives. When he mentioned that the son of so-and-so had become a leader in the provincial capital, the old man was very emotional. He didn't know how to be such a big leader. How many good things are occupied, "If I become an official," he said, "No one can pick up the dung in Xiong'erchuan!" We asked the old man if he had picked up wolf dung, and the old man said: "Wolf dung is white. There was hair in it, it seemed that we had picked it up or not. We were taken to check in the cesspit, but we still found nothing. In the afternoon, a group of people came to my uncle’s house and asked if he was an administrative office. New wolves were released to the Shangzhou area?So many people asked about the release of new wolves with serious faces, which once again aroused my vigilance. The release of new wolves was a whim on our way to investigate and take pictures, and I did write to the commissioner based on this, Kexiong Where did Erchuan's rumors come from? "It's absolutely impossible!" the uncle explained to people, "I can tell you the truth, this nephew of mine was sent by the commissioner to investigate wolves. We released wolves, where did we bring them in, did you draw them on paper? Did you squeeze them with mud?"

"Fu Shan, you're the only hunter here, don't dare to have another wolf!" "No prospect, so afraid of wolves?!" "Afraid of wolves? What a joke! If there were new wolves, Xiongerchuan wouldn't be in such a mess!" My uncle helped me out, but he exposed my identity. Everyone in the village knew that I suggested that the commissioner put in new wolf species, so they became indifferent to me. What's more serious was that they thought that since I wrote the suggestion, maybe The administrative office has really launched it.Uncle’s words did not eliminate doubts, but gave the villagers more reason to panic. When Lantou and I went to the river beach to look for wolf footprints again, there was always someone watching from afar, pointing and pointing. They asked about wolves, their eyes were anxious, hateful, flustered and vigilant, but they kept asking me if I had released new wolves, "You dare not coax us!" I sincerely said Explaining, even pointing at the sky and swearing, I felt that it was not suitable for me to stay here any longer. At the same time, I felt a little sad, and looked down on the people of Xiongerchuan: without wolves for a long time, they have become wolves in the struggle for survival. Very weak.

It was the morning of the fifth day that I made up my mind to leave. When I arrived in Xiongerchuan, my uncle told me that there are a lot of mosquitoes here, and they are big and have patterns on their bodies. The white and yellow colors are like wearing a navy shirt. Now, the weather is getting hotter, and the sweat is not happy. The skin feels sticky and sticky, and the mosquitoes cannot be driven away.There are a lot of paddy fields and thatch, and the villagers all use water latrines. Every family in the village alleys dug unobstructed water latrines behind their houses, but they are also in front of the doors of the next row of houses, exuding a hot smell all day long. In the air, mosquitoes and flies are brewing and gathering in groups.Every year in the village, there are stories of children falling into the water latrine. On the third night of our arrival, a drunk man fell headlong into the water latrine at home, and his stomach swelled like It was only discovered after floating out of the drum.When we went out at night, the bad guy and I both had horse lanterns, and we were careful that nothing would happen. Every time we went to the toilet, we would take a handful of wheat straw and simmer fireworks beside the squat pit to prevent mosquitoes from attacking.But the lunch break is hard to close your eyes. Mosquitoes will bite you suddenly, and you will slap a pool of blood. You don’t know if it’s the mosquito’s own blood or your own blood. , the pain is not painful, but it is more uncomfortable than the pain.When it gets dark, mosquito nets have to be hung in the room. I sleep on the same earthen kang with Lantou. Lantou sleeps dishonestly. In the middle of the night, there will always be a hole in the mosquito net, and the mosquitoes will come in. You are in a daze Zhong kept patting the parts of his body with his hands, feeling really bored, closed his eyes and said in his heart: "Ding, ding, you can't eat me all!"But his patience was really limited, so he got up and lit the lamp to burn the mosquitoes, and almost ignited the mosquito net, creating a fire.The hateful thing is that Rotten still likes to sleep with Cuihua in his arms. Cuihua's body is a good place for fleas to hide. I grabbed Cuihua's legs and threw it under the kang, and finally lost my temper: I can bear feeding tigers, but I can't bear feeding these things Small animals!The rotten head laughed hehehe, at the squeamishness of the people in the provincial capital, at the white skin and thin flesh of the intellectuals and their lack of body hair. He was even interested in telling me that two kinds of criminal laws can be created. One is that prisoners can be stripped naked without torture. Spread honey and tie it on the pillars so that mosquitoes bite. Second, the death row criminals don’t have to be shot. They are tied there and set up a foot, so that sheep and dogs can lick the soles of their feet and make them laugh to death. "You deserve a headache!" I took the mat and went to sleep on the threshing field at the entrance of the village. Sleeping on mats on the threshing floor is a scene my grandma used to talk about. It was so hot that people wanted to take off their skin, but men dared to sleep on the threshing floor, and the sidelines There should be a bonfire at the four corners, and wolves are afraid of fire. "Sleeping until midnight, I woke up from urinating, and I could see a dozen or dozens of green lights flashing far away from the campfire, that's where the wolf was lying." Grandma said, the timid people are hot and itchy I don’t dare to go to sleep on the threshing field. At worst, I will lay mats in my own yard. When I sleep, I am still very old. The old ones sleep in the outer circle, and the children sleep in the middle. in the hand of an adult.Today, there are many people sleeping in disorder on the wheat threshing field, some old and some young. The slight wind blows over the skin and nourishes the skin, and there are no mosquitoes. I heard someone laughing comfortably, and the people next to me asked what they were laughing at. , the answer is that I laughed at the emperor, the emperor's big deal is that he can sleep comfortably every night!In the middle of the night, people almost cooled down, and the dew began to flood. Some people rolled up their mats and quilts and went back, while some people still slept soundly.After I slept on the threshing floor for the first time, my uncle also came to sleep on the threshing floor the next night, but my uncle never came. Not afraid of mosquito bites, "My meat is bitter!" he joked.It's true, we all have red bumps from mosquito and flea bites, but he has none of them.I share a mat with the bad guy, he sleeps in the southwest corner of the wheat threshing floor, he snores loudly, I sleep in the northwest corner of the wheat threshing floor, someone went home in the middle of the night, I looked up in a daze Bad head, he still slept like the red-haired ghost Liu Tang in "Water Margin", with his limbs spread out and his belly open, so I lay down again.I lay down but didn’t feel sleepy, looked up at the sky, the moon was as thin as a banana, and the clouds kept passing in front of it, like strands of silver yarn, the dog in the village barked, and then He yelled twice more, and I recognized Fugui's accent.There seemed to be someone's footsteps, and there seemed to be no footsteps, and the thunderous snoring suddenly disappeared. I think this stupid guy turned over and fell asleep again.However, it has been a long time since the snoring disappeared, what happened to the rotten head?He stopped snoring when turning over in the past, but soon started snoring again, could it be that he was holding his breath this time?I half-crawled up and took another look, which almost made me scream. On the mat, the rotten head was lying on its back, and a furry wolf was sitting on it. The wolf raised its head and shook its head. After a few shakes, he took two things from his chest and put them on the mat.It turned out to be two extremely huge peaches, and the wolf propped its front paws down, raised its buttocks high, and then flapped them, making a loud bang.My first reaction was how can a man and a beast have sex, and it was with a wolf, and the noise was so loud, those villagers who fell asleep not far away would notice it immediately!Also, will this wolf hurt the bad head?I sat up suddenly, coughed suddenly, the rotten head quickly pushed the wolf away, the wolf stood up, but a woman with disheveled hair stood up.Is it a woman?It's really a woman. This woman left the bad head and walked along the sidelines with one foot high and one foot low.God, she passed by my table, and I saw that she was a middle-aged woman with a bloated face and an ugly face. The short gown opened her arms, and her two fat tits were gurgling and shaking, but her eyes were The ones that were closed walked past my mat, and then walked into a crowd of sleeping people in the threshing floor, and fell asleep on a wide mat, and everything was silent.I jumped up all of a sudden, rolled up the mat and went to the rotten head, but the rotten head fell asleep peacefully. "What did you do?" I said. "Duke Meng Zhou!" He gave me a sloppy look. "What happened just now?" I said, "Did I meet a wolf or a ghost?" "You see it all?" he said. "It's not a wolf or a ghost. She's nocturnal." "Then you did that...?!" "She was the one who found me at the table, and it's not...don't you bite the meat when it's delivered to your mouth?" As soon as I pulled him up, I rolled up his mat and quilt, and walked to my uncle's house: This woman is suffering from nocturnal wanderlust, do you treat her like this?You are a hooligan, so you should restrain yourself. Nocturnal wanderlust sometimes wakes up. What if you wake up and know that you have suffered a loss? !Walking from the threshing field to the village alley, the rotten head broke free from my hand and said: "It's all right now, she found me, I don't admit what can happen to me?" At first glance, it wasn't a woman who was a wolf. Could it be that the woman was transformed by a wolf? "So what if it's a wolf?" He even told me a story brazenly, saying that a group of examiners tested the rat's ability. Put it in your mouth and chew it loudly, and the mouse will be passed.The second mouse came in, and the examiners let it try the mouse trap. It swung the mouse trap to perform acrobatics, knocking on its legs and arms, and finally sat on the mouse trap. The mouse trap was crushed into a flat shape. Rats were also passed.It was the turn of the third mouse, and the examiners thought, the mice are not afraid of rat poison and mouse traps, so what else can they do for the test? If they can’t pass the test questions for a while, the mouse gets a little impatient and says: “Hurry up!” Ah, I'm still in a hurry to go to xmao!When I got home and saw my uncle, it was not yet dawn, and my uncle felt strange. I said that I had to leave Xiongerchuan immediately at dawn. After my uncle asked about the situation, his face changed suddenly. He made Lan Tou take off his pants, and Lan Tou took off his pants. Uncle He touched the root of the dust with his hand, pulled out a thin thread, and slapped his face with his hand, but he cried. "Captain, captain..." Rotten was ready to be beaten again, he was at a loss now, the five finger marks on his face turned from red to white, protruding. "Rotten head," said the uncle, "you already have a headache that makes you want to die. Do you want to get sick again? Haven't you seen what my ankles and wrists are like?" Uncle's crying startled my uncle and my sister-in-law to get up. When they learned that we were leaving, they were full of doubts and tried to persuade us to stay. Finally, we finally agreed to have breakfast before leaving. However, while eating breakfast, someone in the village shouted out of tune: "Wolf is coming!" The wolf is coming--!