In a few days, it will be the heavy snow season, and it is already very cold, with snowflakes falling in twos and threes in the early morning.
Such a cold wind would have blown the villagers back to their homes early in the day. However, at this time, the crowd gathered strangely into a group, and the crowd was so crowded that it was filled with excitement.
"Every night he goes out for night walks and says he is unconscious and is dreaming. I see that he is clearly possessed by evil spirits and needs to find someone to exorcise the evil spirits."
"What kind of evil are you trying to drive out? After you drive out the evil ghost, you can't let someone else possess you? Just burn him and the ghost to death!"
In the middle of the crowd, a man was kneeling on the ground. His whole body was tied up with finger-thick hemp rope and he couldn't move. He looked dazed and restless.
The elderly mother kneeling next to him raised her head and screamed: "Village chief, security chief, my son is definitely not possessed by a ghost. Please let him go - he is sick, he is sick... Find the doctor." Look, just take some medicine and you'll be fine..."
The village chief and the security chief stood aside in embarrassment, while the young and old men in the village sneered.
"You said he was sick? A month ago, I had an argument with him, and he said he would kill me sooner or later, and everyone heard it! But now, he actually walks outside my house at night from time to time! Like this, you How can I feel relieved?"
"In the beginning it was once every three to five days, but now it's more and more frequent, almost every other night, or every day! In the middle of the night, he hangs out in front of other people's houses. Do you think he is sick? I see that he is clearly possessed by evil spirits!"
The old mother knelt on the ground and cried and begged: "Guys, please give my Tiehu a chance. He really doesn't know what's going on with him... He just talks fiercely but is very timid at heart... Hey, Huzi, you Instead, talk about it and explain it..."
The middle-aged man was shaken back to his senses. When he saw his mother kneeling down in front of everyone for him, he was forced to shed a few tears and shouted hoarsely:
"Mom! Mom, I really don't know! I didn't mean to do anything bad, and I wasn't possessed by evil spirits... I don't know why I went out for a walk at night. I was unconscious. I thought I was sleeping... "
"Huh, you don't know either? That's ridiculous."
In the crowd, someone suddenly sneered and stepped forward.
He was a man in his forties with cunning features and eyes. He was dressed in coarse cloth, but he was luxuriously wrapped in thick cotton and kept warm.
The man squinted his eyes and said, "Looking at it, Sun Tiehu doesn't look like he's possessed by an evil spirit, but he looks like he's trying to steal something. How could he not know if he went out for a walk by himself? He's just talking nonsense. If you ask me, just take the village rules. Give him a good beating first and he will be honest."
Sun Tiehu burst into tears: "Xia Wei! You just want to occupy my family's farmland, and you are deliberately trying to harm me at this time! I, Sun Tiehu, am upright and disdainful to do some sneaky things! How is it like you? Your brother is dead, and you only think about it You want to take away the inheritance from their orphaned and widowed family! You are the heartless person!"
Xia Wei was so upset by what he said that he became angry and said, "You can't get away with it. You started to pick on people randomly! Village chief, we can't keep Sun Tiehu here anymore. Gagged him and sent him to the official!"
"Send him to an official?" Sun's mother's eyes dimmed. "You can't send him to an official. If you send him to an official, won't my son be convicted... He really didn't do anything bad first..."
Sun Tiehu was also frightened and gnashed his teeth: "What case will the county magistrate judge? If I go, I will be beaten with a stick! I am injured, who will take care of my mother? Village chief, you know, My family is just me and my mother. If something happens to me, what will my mother do?"
At the end of the story, Sun Tiehu, a dignified man, had no choice but to blush and cry and beg.
Xia Wei laughed: "You are sick, who can prove it? I think you are just making up excuses-"
Outside the crowd, there was a sudden shout.
"I can prove it."