"Young man, it's raining, where are you going?"
Yan Chu has lived in the village for three days, and during these three days, the rain on the mountain has never stopped. On weekdays, he stays in the room of Lao Gentou's house, and only comes out to walk around when eating.
He is very quiet, and I haven't seen him groping around in the village these days, and the villagers' vigilance towards him has gradually dropped to the lowest level.
But now it was raining and the sky was getting dark. He was holding an umbrella as if he was going to go out, which made Lao Gentou suddenly refreshed. He looked at him with dim eyes and his voice was a little low.
"I see that the rain is a little lighter now, so I thought about going to the back mountain. The forest in the light rain has a different kind of beauty, and it is a good photography material."
Yan Chu pretended not to understand the hidden precautions in his words, holding up the camera in his hand, with the appearance of an ordinary college student obsessed with photography.
Apart from a camera hanging around his neck, there is also a small backpack on his back. It is not the big hiking bag he carried when he went up the mountain. It is probably a spare small bag that was put in the mountaineering bag at the beginning. It is flat, not like It looks like it's loaded with too many things.
In addition, it is the umbrella in hand.
"It's getting dark now, but there are wolves in the back mountain, Housheng, are you going to die?"
The old man wondered why the dolls in the city were so strange. The climbers in the past were the same. There were only trees on the mountain, but they thought this mountain was very beautiful, and they didn’t see those abducted girls who liked it as much as they did. The scenery is willing to stay.
"It's okay, sir, my mother brought me a blessing of peace before I came here."
Yan Chu smiled and took out a yellow triangular charm from his pocket: "My mother said, this peace blessing can keep you safe, let alone a wolf, even if the villain wants to harm me, he will pay for it with his life."
I don't know if it's the old Gentou's illusion, but he always felt that what the young man said meant something. After listening to the second half of his words, his whole body was chilly, and he didn't feel any energy.
But upon closer inspection, the boy was still smiling, as if it was just his illusion.
"Then remember to come back early, when the sky really darkens, those wolves and bears will really come out."
Lao Gentou didn't persuade him too much. Wasn't that daughter-in-law of the old Zhang's family sneaked out in the middle of the night and was bitten to death by wolves without a whole body? If he killed him, who would he ask for the lodging and board expenses for the next few days? That would be a lot of money.
He hoped that the rain would last for a while longer, and in a few days, he would be able to save enough money to buy a wife for his son. His son is 40 this year, and if he doesn't marry a wife, their family will really be ruined.
Yan Chu nodded, holding an umbrella and walking into the rain.
"Da Zhu, follow up and keep an eye on him to see if he has gone to the back mountain."
The old people in such a village are not easy to fool. Although there is nothing suspicious about Yan Chu, he still asks his son to follow behind and watch quietly to see if he has gone to the back mountain or is he holding the camera in the village. Random shot.
Lao Gentou's son gnawed on raw sweet potatoes, answered in a muffled voice, put on his own coir raincoat, and followed closely behind Yan Chu not long after he left, keeping a distance of tens of meters.
Yan Chu didn't seem to notice that there was someone behind him, and walked leisurely all the way to the other side of the village. That road led to the back mountain.
Now the sun is getting darker, and the continuous rain has added a bit of gloom to this small village. He looks at the children playing on both sides of the dirt road without fear of the rain, and the old men sitting under the eaves of their houses, smoking old-fashioned dry tobacco. old lady.
Joy, comfort, everything is in shadow.
Yan Chu smiled, his eyes were clouded with blood, and he really wanted to destroy everything.
Lao Gentou's son followed him from a distance, saw that he had left the village, walked towards the back mountain, gnawed the last bite of sweet potato from his hands, sucked his fingers, and complained that his father was too careful, It caused him to walk so many unjust roads in this rainy day.
Not to mention that this young man looks quite normal, but he has evil intentions. There are so many young and middle-aged men in their village, how can he please him
He looked again to make sure that Yan Chu had gone far away, and headed home shaking his head.
*****
It rained for several days in a row, and the path in the mountains was extremely muddy. Yan Chu was wearing a pair of hiking boots, the toe and heel of which were covered with yellow mud. He seemed to be walking aimlessly, but he seemed to be determined in his heart. Turn left, turn right, not exactly following the path stepped on by the predecessors.
I don’t know how long I’ve been walking. At this time, the sky has completely darkened. A full moon in the sky appears and disappears under the cover of clouds and mists. If you look up at this time, you will be surprised to find that this full moon is actually Red.
The silent mountain forest and the dark road ahead are creepy.
Yan Chu stood under a big tree surrounded by four people, took the backpack behind him and opened it in front of him. It was empty inside, only a folded small hoe. He squatted down and opened a layer facing the edge of the tree. Exuberant overgrown weeds were shoveled up.
One stroke, two strokes, three strokes... The soil has been soaked by rainwater for several days, and it is so soft that it can be dug up with almost no effort.
At first, all the dug out was soil, but gradually, a few white bones with some carrion came out.
"This is my sister's hand bone."
Yan Chu piously wiped the excavated bones clean, and carefully put them in his backpack.
"This is my sister's breastbone."
He was chanting words, his originally clear face looked eerie in the dim environment, especially those eyes, which were blood red in their coquettishness, like a complete lunatic.
"Yin Yin, my brother is here to look for you. My brother will take you home. There are father and mother at home. Our family will never be separated."
He kept on digging holes and searching for bones, until he dug a deep pit one or two meters deep, and he was sure he couldn't find any bones, then he stopped.
Fragmentary bones, many of which are incomplete, were gnawed by wolves and other ferocious beasts, and even the bones were crushed and swallowed until they were digested.
Yan Chu searched for two hours, but none of the bones he found could fill a small cloth bag.
His yin and bones are gone.
"Ah-ah-ah-"
Yan Chu looked at the tattered talisman soaked in rain and blood, and could not see the original trace of a small ball of yellow talisman paper. This ball of talisman paper was tightly held in the palm of the half-gnawed hand. It looks like the amulet on Yan Chu's body, and it was asked by their mother before she and her friends went out to play.
There is one younger sister, Yan Yin, and one older brother, Yan Chu.
"Yinyin, brother will take you home."
After crying enough, he wiped away his tears. He who had been kneeling on the mud floor supported the tree trunk beside him and stood up. He turned slightly and said softly to his side.
A little girl in a white dress, dripping with blood, stained with mud and rain, has no eyes of normal people, and there are two fist-sized blood holes in her eye sockets. She looks at him and smiles.
*****
"Village chief, the young man who lives in our house has been up the mountain for several hours, and it's getting so dark now, do you think something happened?"
Lao Gentou originally thought that the young man was going to take pictures in the mountain forest near the village, and the time to go back and forth should not be too long, but who would have thought that it was already past the meal time, and people who waited left and right would not be able to wait for him .
He wondered what was wrong, so he hurriedly brought his son to find Lin Youde, who had the most right to speak in the village.
"Going up the mountain on a rainy day, he is looking for death by himself. At night, all the beasts in the mountain come out to look for food. I don't dare to let people go in to find someone."
Lin Youde was gnawing on the chicken legs, and he patted his wife's hand with chopsticks. His wife pouted, and put the chicken wings that had been put in her bowl into the bowl of her brother-in-law Lin Youcai, and took another piece of chicken Neck to eat.
"But the village head, when the young man came to our village, he said that before he came, he told his mother to come to our village to take pictures. If something happened to him, what if his mother called the police and made a big fuss? What to do? I'm afraid we'll have to search the mountains, and we won't be able to hide all those little wives in the back mountains."
What Lao Gentou said made Lin Youde angry immediately.
"Damn it, if you didn't say it earlier, you still let him into the back mountain just like this." Lin Youde became angry and stopped eating chicken. He got off the kang and put on his shoes to organize his staff.
"Dad, he's back."
Lao Gentou's son was waiting on the road outside, and from a distance he saw Yan Chu, who was holding an umbrella and carrying a backpack, coming back from the mountain.
When Lao Gentou, Lin Youde and others heard what he said, they hurried out.
"You child, why have you been here for so long? Everyone is going to go up the mountain to find you, and what happened to your clothes and shoes?"
Lao Gen was a little angry, if he wasn't greedy for money, he wouldn't be willing to let this person live in his house anymore, it would only cause trouble for him.
"The road is too slippery on rainy days. I just fell into a pit to pick mushrooms, and I just climbed up now."
Yan Chu opened his bulging backpack, which was filled with small white-brown mushrooms, a dense bag, and he had picked a lot of mushrooms.
This thing is not rare in the eyes of the villagers, especially in the mountains after the rain, one picks a big basket, that is, these city people are rare for this thing, every time outsiders go to the mountains, they always have to buy something from the villagers. go back.
"It's fine, young man, you don't want to go to this mountain at night, you know?"
Lin Youde waved his hand, he was too lazy to care about these trivial matters, he just taught Yan Chu a few words, then turned and went back to his home.
A gust of wind blew by, and the goose bumps on the two brothers Lin Youde and Lin Youcai rose.
Strange, why did it suddenly drop in temperature
Especially Lin Youde felt that his back was so sore, as if he was carrying a weight of several tens of catties.
But the coldness only lasted for two or three seconds, and the brothers felt that the temperature had become normal, and the soreness in Lin Youde's shoulders also disappeared.
They didn't see any of them, just now, Yan Chu waved at the place where Brother Lin Youde was standing.
The little girl who was lying on Lin Youde's neck with a blood hole all over her body, looking at him with blood hole-like eyes, hesitated for a long time, and followed Yan Chu to leave.