Chapter 18 Chapter 17 Night of Thunder and Lightning

As expected, the middle-aged woman rushed over, and the news she brought was like a bomb.Father Li, who was locked up at home, ran away at some point. Old man Hu Jie originally planned to report to the police station in the county town tomorrow. Now that there are no criminals, he is the most anxious person.In fact, I have never believed that Father Li is a murderer, but now he is absconding in fear of crime, isn't it self-inflicted? When Li Xiuzhu heard that Father Li had run away, she stood at a loss by the gate of the village. She couldn't make up her mind whether to return to the village immediately, or continue to stand where she was waiting for the tree coffin.According to the old man Hu Jie, it is best for the relatives of the deceased to greet the chopped tree coffin as soon as possible, otherwise the buried deceased will have no peace and will run back to the village to eat people.I saw that the gate of the village had been painted and the cement road had been paved, so I took up the job and asked Ying to find Father Li back.

In front of the girls, Zhao Shuai didn't say a word, and when he turned around, he complained that I shouldn't make my own decisions.I don't understand why Zhao Shuai blamed me, and Liao's second son who was on the side woke me up when he saw this. It turned out that they thought that since Mr. Li killed his wife, he slipped away while others were unawares, obviously wanting to get away with it.If someone were to arrest him and bring him to justice at this time, then Father Li would definitely resist with all his might, and he might be destroyed. I slapped my thigh fiercely and scolded: "Why didn't you say it earlier, why didn't I think of this!"

Both Zhao Shuai and Liao's second child looked at me innocently, and I looked back at Li Xiuzhu in the distance, and finally made a decision: "Since we have all taken care of it, let's do it, let's three big men, fight back against the enemy!" But an old man with a broken leg?" "I'm an old man too, so don't count me in." Liao Er flinched, "I'll go to the village to rest for a while. I'm old and my bones are not as good as before. Today my bones have been ringing non-stop." I thought to myself angrily, today Liao Erer was alive and well in the Yaozhai, but now he is pretending to be dead and screaming tired.However, I didn't explain it, because Liao's second son is a treacherous and slippery man, even if he refuted this point, he would have other excuses.People who live to a certain age are better than anything else, especially those who do business.In order to maintain his image in the hearts of the girls, Zhao Shuai just complained a few words, and it was his duty to find Father Li.

Maybe old man Hu Jie was worried that we were not familiar with the terrain of the village, so he asked another young man to follow and let the young man take care of us.The young man is an authentic Boni. Although there are Han people in the village, his Chinese is not very good. He can understand but can't speak it.After asking for a long time, we didn't know the boy's name, because he was tanned, so I called him Xiao Hei. Xiao Hei has never been to the county seat, and has been walking around the village since he was born, so he is very simple.I learned later that it was not Hu Jie who asked him to come here, but he asked for it on his own initiative.Because Xiao Hei yearned for the outside world very much, he saw that Li Xiuzhu had brought back a lot of good things, so he asked us how the outside world was going along the way.I only picked good ones and said that I didn't dare to reveal the fact that Li Xiuzhu was a young lady. At the end of the sentence, I said that the outside world may not be better than the village.

After returning to the stockade, I first found Lao Wang and asked Lao Wang to arrange accommodation for Liao's second child, and then I went to Li's house to check on the situation.The Li family was in a mess. Old man Hu Jie locked Papa Li in the room, but now that the door of the room was wide open, Papa Li had long since disappeared without a trace.Just in case, old man Hu Jie put a lock on it. Unexpectedly, old man Li was so strong that he could break through the door from the inside.Looking at the crime scene, I couldn't help shaking my head. If Mr. Li is really so fierce, then we must have some knives on us to be safe.

Xiao Hei asked me in a daze, why he didn't go to find Father Li, but went to Li's house to dawdle.Zhao Shuai didn't know the reason, but he was happy to have a leisurely time, so he didn't want to go all the way to find Father Li, otherwise he would be stabbed if he found him.I'm not being lazy, I just wanted to see if Father Li had brought anything with him before he ran away, maybe we could guess where he went from the things he took away.However, apart from being messy, the Li family didn't seem to have lost anything, but I always felt that the mess was very strange.

Since old man Li didn't bring anything, he just ran away after breaking the door, why did he make the house such a mess.Besides, this is Father Li's own home, so if you really want to take a few things on the road, it's not easy, just pick them up and run away.Now the house is in such a mess, it seems like a thief has entered, and seems to be rummaging through boxes and cabinets to find things.I felt something was wrong with this situation, so I asked Zhao Shuai and Xiao Hei if they felt this way, but unfortunately they both said no. After thinking about it, I suddenly had a flash of inspiration. Looking at the broken door, I finally understood what was wrong.Old man Hu Jie put a big lock on the door. After the door was smashed, the big lock disappeared, and the big lock couldn't be found anywhere in Li's house!To determine this, I searched carefully again, but still to no avail.After the door was broken, the lock should have flew to the door, but there were only sawdust.Could it be that Suo Tou has grown legs and hid himself, but the Li family is only about the size of a palm, so even if a needle is hidden, it is easy to find.

Zhao Shuai stayed for half the salary, and then said to me: "Father Li only took the big lock from home. Is the big lock very valuable? If that's the case, let's stop looking for Rentoucha, and grab the lock." If you don’t come here, you’ll have to.” "That lock is really valuable. Is Mr. Hu Jie willing to take it out? It seems that Mr. Li is crazy. It is better to carry anything than a lock. Besides, he doesn't even have a key." I wondered. Xiao Hei was not interested in the missing lock, so he asked in broken Mandarin, "Can I go to see Father Li, or else it will be dark."

I don't know why old man Li took the lock away, but since he promised old man Hu Jie, he pretended to look for it nearby.It's not that I say one thing and act another, but it's just that Father Li can't run too far. First, he broke a leg, and second, the mountain road is difficult. Even if he grows four legs, it's useless unless he grows a leg. on the wings.Zhao Shuai saw that I was serious, so he worriedly gave me the daggers he was carrying, and looked at him again, he had hidden five or six daggers.Apart from going to the bathroom, Zhao Shuai and I even slept together, but I don't know when he brought so many weapons.

Xiao Hei told us not to be afraid. He also had a self-made knife on his body. Although it was not sharp, he had killed many ferocious beasts.I have long heard that the people in the mountains are very fierce. Seeing Xiao Hei pull out a sharp knife, a naive young man immediately showed a murderous look. These things are indeed not made up.I saw that it was getting late, so I planned to take a look around the village and find out the terrain of Manlong Village by the way.Unexpectedly, just after we walked out of Li's house, there was a muffled thunder in the sky, but the sky was cloudless, and there was no sign of heavy rain.

The thunder was very loud, and there were bursts of echoes. Before the echoes disappeared, several bursts of thunder rang out again.I looked at the blue sky and felt suspicious. Although the usual thunderstorms in dry weather are only heavy thunder and no rain, but there is not a single cloud in the sky. How can there be such a clean sky that can make such loud thunder.Suddenly, I remembered what the mysterious woman said, that the entire Manlong village will soon be wiped out. Could it be that the village will suffer a catastrophe from five thunderbolts? I put aside my thoughts and followed Xiao Hei to find people near the stockade. After walking for a short while, I became dizzy.The center of the deep green sea in Manlong Village is surrounded by layers of mountains and forests. Insects are flying everywhere, and it is easy to be dazzled when walking inside.We walked to a red-haired tree that pierced the sky, and Xiao Hei suddenly shouted that there was someone. Zhao Shuai and I thought that Old Man Li had appeared, so we quickly pulled out the dagger.However, after a quick glance, that person was not old man Li, but the mysterious woman who had saved Zhao Shuai just now. The woman was alone and unarmed, and I put away the dagger when I saw it, so as not to frighten her.The woman still had a blank expression, she didn't seem to be frightened at all, she ignored us and went her own way.I wondered why such a woman ran into the mountains of Menghai. She obviously didn't look like a local, and she was pretty, so she wasn't afraid that a pervert would come out of the mountains.As soon as I thought of this, Zhao Shuai got carried away and ran up to the woman, blocking her way. Earlier, Zhao Shuai thought it was a woman who pushed him down the mountain, but now he may have thought clearly, so he regained his playboy personality and wanted to meet women.But the woman didn't buy it. She bypassed Zhao Shuai and walked deep into the forest, not knowing what to do.Apart from Li Xiuzhu, who has seen countless men, this woman is probably the second person who ignores Zhao Shuai's handsomeness, and Zhao Shuai is also very confused because of this. The mountains and forests in the 1990s were not like they are now. At that time, there were still many wild animals, even ferocious beasts such as tigers and leopards.I was worried that the woman would be in danger, so I reminded her to be safe and not to run around. Unexpectedly, the woman turned her head back suddenly, and she stared at me intently: "You should worry about yourself, if you have nothing to do, leave the village as soon as possible, you are the one who is in danger." This woman is abnormally white. I remembered that Liao's second son said she was not human, so I wondered whether she might be a monster in the demon house.It is said that monsters can transform into human forms, and can calculate the past and future by pinching their fingers. Could it be that this is how she knew that Manlong Village was about to suffer a catastrophe.However, apart from the murder incident in the village, everything seemed to be peaceful, and there was no sign of disaster at all.Just as I was about to ask the woman's name, Xiao Hei suddenly yelled. Although he couldn't understand what he was yelling, he could hear the danger! Sure enough, a grinning tiger ran out of the woods at some point, which scared me so much that I almost called my father and mother.On the way to Menghai, Li Xiuzhu said that there are ferocious beasts in Menghai, especially in the area of ​​Bulang Mountain. There are not only tigers, but also wolves, bears, and wild boars.All tea collectors who go to Menghai will bring automatic rifles to guard against wild animals.We didn't believe that we would be so unlucky to meet wild beasts. We didn't expect the tiger to take advantage of it and kill it when people were not prepared. The tiger jumped up and rushed towards us, Xiao Hei protected Zhao Shuai and escaped, but I was forced to retreat by the tiger, so I had to stay with women.The tiger chased Xiao Hei and Zhao Shuai away, I looked at the tiger going away, and suddenly felt that the tiger's hair was very black.Of course people can't outrun tigers, Zhao Shuai and Xiao Hei are in danger, I was about to step forward to help, but I found another tiger appeared.I instinctively grabbed the woman and ran away in another direction. The other tiger was chasing after me. It seemed that it was reluctant to part with this delicious meal. The strange thing is that this tiger does not run fast, and we always keep a distance from it.In a panic, we got farther and farther away from the village, until I saw a wild old tea tree, and I dragged the woman to climb up.The tiger's speed is very slow, and it came panting after we climbed up.I used to hear that tigers in Yunnan can climb trees. I was just worried that tigers would climb up trees and bite people, but I saw the tiger lying under the tree and didn’t move. I also understood why it ran so slowly. It turned out that the tiger's hind leg was injured. I don't know what hurt it. The hair around the wound was very black, just like the one chasing Zhao Shuai.The tiger's wound was also very strange. It didn't look like a monster's. It was only seen that its wound was large and bloody.The tiger didn't die, it just sat there and refused to leave.The tiger's patience was extraordinary, until nightfall, the tiger was still lying under the old tea tree. "Can you let go?" the woman broke the silence. Then I remembered that there was another person on the tree, so I asked impolitely: "What's your name, where did you come from, are you not afraid of tigers in the mountains?" As soon as the words came out of my mouth, I thought it was terrible, the woman looked like an iceberg, and asking these questions was not fun.The woman was quiet for a while, she stared at me for a long time, and finally said: "My name is Mu Qingxiang, what about you?" I was very surprised by this, and immediately replied: "My name is Lu Jianxin. My ancestral home is Tianmen, Hubei. I have always lived in Wuhan. Later, when I went to Beijing, I was with Zhao..." "I just asked what your name is." Mu Qingxiang interrupted me, "Why are you talking so much?" I said oh, and the two of them fell into silence again, and Mu Qingxiang didn't speak any more, and couldn't even hear the sound of exhaling.Mu Qingxiang looks to be about the same age as Li Xiuzhu, but she is more tenacious than Li Xiuzhu, and there is an indescribable beauty in her unearthly feeling.Unknowingly, I stared at Mu Qingxiang for a long time, until the sky was full of thunder and lightning, I wiped the drool from the corner of my mouth and turned my head away. The thunder and lightning came as soon as it was said, and once it came, it was like setting off a firecracker, and it couldn't stop at all.I was terrified by the thunder and lightning, and at the same time worried about the safety of Zhao Shuai and Xiao Hei, maybe they had already lost their heads.However, the tiger's hind legs were also black, and it was probably injured. Zhao Shuai and Xiao Hei might not die. The continuous thunder and lightning made me unable to concentrate. I was afraid that the lightning would hit the old tea tree, and we would suffer as a result.Menghai is located in Xishuangbanna. Xishuangbanna is one of the centers of thunderstorms in China. Thunderstorms are more concentrated in Menghai County and Jinghong City. Among them, Menglong Town in Jinghong City has 158 days of thunderstorms every year. This phenomenon is common all over the country. extremely rare.Not only televisions, circuits, etc., but even cattle and sheep, and even people have been struck by lightning. Just when I was hesitating, Mu Qingxiang jumped off the old tea tree suddenly, and I yelled whether she was crazy or not afraid that the tiger would eat her.Taking a closer look, the tiger ran away at some point, maybe it was also afraid of thunder and lightning.Mu Qingxiang was about to leave after going to the ground, I hurriedly followed her down and asked her if she wanted to go to the stockade, but she told me with a paralyzed face again, leave the stockade quickly, disaster is coming.I half-believe this sentence, since she refuses to go to Manlong Village, then let her do it. Neither of us said goodbye, and we each picked our own way to walk away. This kind of separation was the first time in my life.With the astonishing thunder and lightning, I ran by feeling, always feeling that there were countless eyes staring at me in the dark forest.I know that it is difficult to find Zhao Shuai in this situation, so I have to go to the village to seek help, otherwise I may even get lost in the forest.Thanks to the help of Thunder and Lightning, I vaguely found a way out and escaped from the dense forest. After leaving the forest, I began to recognize the way, and after a while, I saw the faint outline of the village.However, I felt that something was wrong, but the non-stop thunder and lightning urged me to return to the village for help.We didn't show up for a day, and the villagers didn't come out to find someone, which is really strange.Just as I ran to the gate of the village against the rumbling thunder and lightning, I suddenly stopped. Against the backdrop of the thunder and lightning, I saw a strange and terrifying scene.