Adventure Code

Chapter 26

It's not a big deal for a child to have a birthmark, but Brother Wei's birthmark looks exactly like a snake's head.

In Huangquan Village, there has been a legend of a "snake demon" since ancient times. According to legend, there is a Huangquan River outside Huangquan Village, and there is a big snake cave in the Huangquan River.

This big python has a profound way and makes waves, causing the villagers to suffer terribly.

Later, a Taoist wandered past here and stopped the snake demon.It's just that although the big snake is under control, the little snake is still there, and many strange things happen in the village from time to time, so any relationship with the snake monster is quite unlucky.

The village is poor and there is no entertainment. They go to bed when the lights are turned off, conceive and have children when they go to bed, family planning, and prenatal and postnatal care.

After Brother Wei was born, he was thrown away because of the birthmark on the snake's head. If he wasn't thrown into the pond and drowned, it was considered a good deed.

There are many people in the village, unlike the only child outside, who cherish and value it. Here, if you lose a child, the mother will cry for two days, and the father will sigh, and the matter will be over.

After Brother Wei was thrown out, he could only wait to die, but there was a hunched bachelor in the village who wanted to have a child to take care of him, so he took him in.The hunchbacked bachelor is a target that everyone in this village can bully. It is natural to imagine what kind of life a demon fetus and an old bachelor lead.

Soon, the two were squeezed out and could no longer live in the village.

The head of the village had seen the world at least, had read books, and was not so feudal. Seeing that the two were pitiful, he asked the two to visit the grave.

As I said before, strange things often happen in this village. One of the strange things is that there are always 'pheasants' in this cemetery.

Chickens belong to yang. According to the old saying, flying chickens in the cemetery will collide with the ancestors and make the deceased uneasy.

Ever since the "pheasant trouble" began in the cemetery, people in the village have frequently dreamed of their ancestors coming to complain, and some simply had nightmares, in which the dead relatives in the dreams turned green-faced and fangs, with bloody mouths, scaring people to abort In a cold sweat.

People in the village chased the pheasants, and left after they were driven away, and came again after leaving, and they had more and more nightmares. After being so troubled, they asked Brother Wei and his father to see the cemetery.

The money is very little, and I give it once a year, but fortunately, I will not be squeezed out, and the things I plant will not be pulled out for no reason. Discrimination is better than too much.

So sometimes, the living are far more terrifying than the dead.

The two of them set up camp near the cemetery, and Brother Wei patrolled the cemetery during the day, chasing pheasants when he encountered them, and caught some pheasants from time to time for meat.

Bachelor Wei, who is lame and hunchback, works in his own field and grows something. He barely makes a living and is more comfortable than before.

When Wei Ge was 14 years old, he discovered a strange thing.

Almost every three or five days, Bachelor Wei would put three handfuls of rice in a bamboo dustpan outside the yard. At first he didn't pay attention, but later he noticed, and asked Wei Bachelor what he was doing with the rice.

Old Bachelor Wei glanced at him at the time and scolded him not to ask so many questions.

In fact, he didn't have much relationship with the old bachelor Wei. The old bachelor adopted him for a very clear purpose, that is, to provide for someone to take care of him.

Now I support you, and you will support me in the future, that's all.

If you want to talk about redundant feelings, there is no such thing.

The two of them seldom communicate emotionally on weekdays. They are both taciturn, one old and one young, and they both look sinister and unlovable.

After being scolded by the old bachelor Wei, Brother Wei didn't ask any more questions, but he couldn't help paying attention.

After that, he noticed a strange phenomenon, that is, the rice that was put in the dustpan that night was definitely gone the next morning, and Old Bachelor Wei didn't care at all.

Brother Wei felt strange, the mountains are densely forested, the terrain is undulating, it is not easy to cultivate land, and it is even more difficult to grow crops, white rice is not eaten all at once, how can old bachelor Wei be willing to waste rice so vainly?

He regularly put rice outside the door, obviously feeding something.

First of all, it’s impossible for the chickens and ducks in the yard. The chickens and ducks are kept in pens. After they are cooked, they are released during the day to look for food, and they come back by themselves when it gets dark; secondly, it is impossible to feed wild birds and the like. There is no reason, and the second is that the rice dustpan is covered, and wild birds can't eat it even if they want to.

So, what exactly is Old Bachelor Wei feeding?
That thing obviously comes over every three days, and it should come at night. After all, people in the mountains get up early, usually at five or six o'clock in the morning.Remembering this, Wei Ge was secretly curious, intending to see the true face of that thing.

When the time came that day, the old bachelor Wei put three handfuls of rice into the dustpan as usual, covered them with things, and drove Brother Wei to sleep.Brother Wei couldn't sleep, he was full of curiosity, and listened to the movement outside in a daze.

Until about two or three o'clock in the morning, accompanied by the snoring sound of the old bachelor Wei sleeping soundly, Brother Wei suddenly heard a very small sound coming from outside the door, creaking, like footsteps, or something The sound of crawling on the ground.

The voice stopped all the way outside the yard.

Obviously, the thing that Old Bachelor Wei was feeding came.

Brother Wei immediately got up carefully from the bed, and got out of bed lightly.

People who grew up in the mountains are used to the darkness in the mountains where they can't see their fingers, so their night vision is better than ours.

Although no kerosene lamp was lit at the time, Brother Wei could still see some outlines vaguely. He gently opened the wooden door a crack, and opened his eyes wide to look in the direction of the rice dustpan.

Looking at it, Brother Wei actually saw a figure!
The man seemed to be about his own age, squatting in front of the rice dustpan, not knowing what to do.

Brother Wei saw that he was furious, and thought, why is he a little thief?We couldn't get enough to eat, yet we came to steal our rice!Immediately, he shouted: "What are you doing!" The man was frightened and turned his head suddenly in the dark.

Because it was too dark, it was hard to see what that person looked like, so Brother Wei could only see an outline, but it was the other person who turned his head that scared Brother Wei very much, because the outline of that face , obviously different from ordinary people, obviously an inverted triangle!

If I had to describe it, then the outline of that face resembled a triangular snake head!
Seeing this, Brother Wei suddenly yelled in shock, and slammed the door shut. At this time, Old Bachelor Wei was startled awake, jumped out of bed, lit the kerosene lamp, pushed Brother Wei away and ran outside. , but the weird figure outside has disappeared without a trace.

Seeing that the rice in the dustpan was still there, the old bachelor Wei slapped his thigh and said to Brother Wei: "You're going to kill me! Why can't I figure it out so much, what are you doing raising a debt collector like you!" After finishing speaking, angrily Throw the kerosene lamp to the ground.

The kerosene spilled out, and a pile of flames ignited on the ground. In the light of the flames, Old Bachelor Wei turned around and ran deep into the dense forest, missing.

(End of this chapter)