Scholar Lao He looked at everyone sincerely, "Okay, okay, we are back, let's go see the girl, everyone, let's go, my Ah Qi has a stubborn temper, he won't open the door if you are all here. After you leave, we will go in and see, if the girl is really hurt, we will let Ah Qi call Lu Yaofu."
"Okay." The old village chief nodded, turned around and waved his hand, and everyone left, with a look of disappointment on their faces. Everyone wanted to see what the girl He Shiqi picked up looked like.
The old village chief worriedly told Mr. He: "Mr. He, you have to take a look at that girl and ask her clearly..."
"I know, I know." Lin Yu Niang drove the old village chief away impatiently.
The old village chief had a worried look on his face: "If the girl is injured, we can treat her in time. Also, don't let Aqi touch her. The clothes on the girl don't look like those of an ordinary family. If her parents come looking for her, how can we explain it..."
"I know~~" Lin Yu Niang pushed the old village chief out of the courtyard gate and turned away.
In the setting sun, the old village chief looked at Lin Yu Niang's small steps and scratched his head: "Why are you walking so fast at this time?"
Lin Yu Niang trotted back to the door of He Shiqi's room. The old scholar He had already taken out his pipe and squatted in front of the door and started smoking.
The small, shabby house has only three rooms: one for the old couple, one for He Shiqi, and one for the kitchen. All of them are very small rooms.
Lin Yu Niang looked at her old man, and Mr. He took two puffs of his cigarette and looked at his old wife. Both of them showed guilt on their faces, but they still gritted their teeth and suppressed the hesitation in their hearts. They went back to their room together, closed the door, and waited for the night to pass early.
As the dusk fell, a dark cloud slowly moved in from the southeast, slowly covering this originally peaceful mountain village.
At the northern foot of Pingshan, a group of people walked on a mountain road as thin as a duck intestine in the gray sky, shouting as they walked: "A Liu Qiang—A Qiang—"
Liu Qiang has a younger brother named Liu Dong. When the fire fell from the sky, not only Mr. He and his wife were anxious, but Liu Qiang's family on the other side of the mountain was also anxious.
As soon as the earthquake stopped, Liu Qiang's younger brother Liu Dong went up the mountain with everyone to search for his brother. He roughly knew where his brother had set the trap. Everyone talked about the falling fire along the way.
The higher you go, the more shocking it becomes.
When they arrived at the place where Liu Qiang had set the trap, everyone was stunned by the scene before them.
All I could see was that the forests in front of me had been flattened! The place that was originally covered with forests had now become a flat land. There were broken trees and branches everywhere, sparks and black smoke, and the whole place was desolate. It was like hell on earth!
"Brother! Brother—" Liu Dong became anxious.
Everyone looked around with pale faces. Ordinary mountain people had never seen such a natural disaster. It was good that they were frightened to the point of having their legs go limp. Not running away was already a favor to brother Liu Qiang.
"This, this, Dongzi, I think Brother Qiang is in great danger!" Everyone was panicking and trembling with fear. No one wanted to stay in this hell any longer. The place was still hot!
"Dongzi, I heard from my grandma that these are three true fires sent from the sky, and they are going to burn the goblins on this mountain to death!"
"Dong, Dongzi, let's go." Everyone was scared.
Liu Dong's tears fell. He was also afraid, but it was his brother who was missing. When he went up the mountain, he promised his parents that they would find him alive or dead. Who would have thought that it would be like this up there? He was so scared that he just wanted to run away.
The sky was gradually getting darker, and the broken tree and black smoke in front of us were even more frightening.
"Oh, it's getting dark, hurry up and leave. What if the sky fire doesn't burn the monster to death?"
Everyone became frightened and looked around in horror.
The sky darkened, the wind rose, and the black soil and broken branches looked like countless evil beasts crawling out from the entrance of hell. They stared at Liu Dong and his companions ferociously among the broken branches, ready to tear them apart and have a feast on them.
"Ah——" Suddenly, a terrified scream scared everyone and made them jump up. They immediately panicked and screamed: "Ah!"
Everyone was bumping into each other like headless flies.
But only Zhuzi was frightened and stood there, his face pale, pointing in one direction. It turned out that he was the one who started the frightened scream. He was so scared that his mouth was trembling: "Dong, Dong, Dongdong, you, your brother, brother..."
He pointed his trembling finger into the air in the direction he came from.
Everyone looked up in the direction of Zhu's hand, and immediately fell to the ground in fright.
I saw Liu Qiang's body stuck on a broken tree, blood gushing out of all his orifices, his eyeballs bulging out, the tree trunk was stained with Liu Qiang's blood, and the whole tree turned red in the flickering light of sparks. There was also a piece of white intestine hanging on the tree. The death was extremely tragic and it was terrifying to look at.
“Ah! Ah!” Liu Dong collapsed to the ground in fear, wailing as he crawled towards the tree where Liu Qiang was stuck. “Brother—Brother—Brother—” Liu Qiang crawled under the tree, hugged the blood tree and began to wail. “Ah—Brother—how could you die so tragically—you are not a monster, God is blind—blind—”
"Wow—" Suddenly, heavy rain fell from the sky, instantly extinguishing the sparks all over the mountain. Immediately, the entire mountain forest was covered with water vapor, like morning mist, enveloping everyone. Only Liu Dong's miserable cry could be heard.
The rain washed away the blood on the tree trunk, and Liu Dong's face was also covered with blood.
No one cared about being afraid anymore and started chopping down trees with the tools they had brought with them.
"Crack." The tree fell, and Liu Qiang's body fell on the muddy ground along with the tree. Liu Dong rushed over, hugged Liu Qiang's body and continued to cry: "What will my parents do if they see you like this - ah -"
The rain gradually became lighter, dripping and washing away the ashes on the ground.
Among those who came with him, a few brave ones hurriedly cleaned up Liu Qiang and put him on a stretcher. There are some rules for cleaning up the body, you have to close the eyes of the body first, and if you can't close the eyes, you have to cover them with a white cloth.
There are many explanations for this, but it is actually a respect for the dead. Another point is, if a corpse stares at you with eyes wide open, would you be cautious? Closing your eyes is like sleeping, which makes people feel better.
"Put a copper coin in it." Someone took out a copper coin and stuffed it into Liu Qiang's mouth.
"Do you want to tie another red string?" someone asked tremblingly.
"It's not like he's been possessed by evil spirits. Why are you afraid of his resurrection from the dead? If you're afraid, just get down the mountain quickly!" Everyone hurriedly wrapped Liu Qiang's body tightly with white cloth. The four of them lifted the stretcher together, and everyone hurried down the mountain.
"Pah!" Suddenly, something fell from above to the ground. Everyone looked and saw that it was a white wolf! No one knew whether it was dead or unconscious, it fell and lay motionless. (To be continued)