C74 (1/2)
The words that came out of his mouth shocked everyone.
After a long silence, I turned around and left.
At two or three o'clock in the afternoon, the opposite neighbor, the Donovan family, arrived. A lot of people had gathered. They were all watching. Because Niu Dewang had invited Blind Old Lady Hu Shizhen to look for the soul of his child. It was going to be the new year soon, so there was no time to lose. Otherwise, if everyone let go of their firecrackers, it would be hard to find them.
I went too. I was the tallest of the crowd. He could clearly see what was in front of him. There was a dustpan placed on a table. There were wheat seeds in the dustpan. There were twelve incense sticks and a candle in the wheat seeds. Twelve incense sticks surrounded the candle. Blind Hu Shizhen was sitting in front of a table, holding onto a mask.
The man was twenty centimeters tall. It was lifelike. It's actually somewhat similar to the Twinkle that I killed. Looking at the yellow mask, my heart couldn't help but tremble. I felt as if the man's eyes, made of two dots of ink, were staring at me. The more I looked at it, the more resentful I felt on the other side.
The mask man had a red pill mouth, but it was open. His mouth was filled with holes. The hole was quite deep, and after making a turn, it continued downwards. It should be opening up its stomach. He wondered if its stomach was empty as well.
He saw the tear from the candle fall onto the wheat seed. The powder from the incense was also broken off and fell onto the wheat seeds. Everyone was silent. No one made a sound as they watched with bated breath. After a long time, the incense was finally burnt out. There was still half a candle.
Blind Old Lady seemed to be able to see it, she stretched out her hand and accurately pinched off the half candle, pulled it out and blew on it before throwing it away. Then, she took out a folded yellow paper. She spread out the yellow paper, covering the dustpan completely. On the yellow paper, there was a mess of symbols.
”All of you move far away! I'm going to play with the Heaven Flame! If we get close enough, I won't be responsible if we burn you all! ” Blind Old Lady shouted.
The surrounding crowd hurriedly retreated. The table was empty for five meters. Blind Old Lady took a match and threw it on the yellow paper. Plop. The yellow paper burst into flames. She didn't know where to go. To say that it was playing with the Heaven Flame, it should have come from the sky. However, no one could tell where it came from or where it came from.
A purplish red flame seemed to appear out of thin air above the dustpan, about fifty centimeters above it. He swam a few laps like a ten-centimeter small dragon, crackling the air like a string of firecrackers. When the yellow paper was almost burnt out. The purplish-red flame drilled into the wok, burning all of the wheat seeds in it in an instant. All that was left was a pile of smoking powder.
In the blink of an eye, the purplish-red flame disappeared.
After a while, the smoke stopped coming out of the dustpan. Blind Old Lady took out another piece of white paper and spread it on the table, then poured the powder from the dustpan onto the white paper. Then she wrapped the white paper into a funnel shape and carefully picked it up to prevent the powder from spilling out. San Geda went over to help the masked man take her position and poured some of the powder from the paper funnel into her mouth. Then she shook the mask and let the powder flow into its stomach.
Just like that, he repeated the process several times. He poured all of the powder from the paper funnel into the Mask Man's stomach. The blind old lady told Niu Dewang to kill a rooster no more than one year old. He took half a bowl of rooster's blood. He showered the man in front of him. A miracle had happened. That person was actually able to move his legs and shake his arms. He stood up from the table. It frightened the crowd so much that they screamed out in fear and backed off in a crowded manner.
One of the children started to cry, and the adults quickly covered his mouth, afraid that the crying would disturb the man in front of them.
When that person jumped down from the table, the crowd immediately made way for him. He walked along the road until he reached the gate. He stopped and turned his head to look, as if he was looking at something. I realized it was looking at me. Others noticed and focused their eyes on me. For a moment, I could barely stand, my hands trembling.
Suddenly something behind me snaps at my waist. It scared my heart out of me. Turning around, he saw that it was a black dog. Its body was as big as a calf. He then looked at the crowd. They were not looking at him, but at the black dog. The black dog bared its fangs and made a low growling sound as it lowered its body. Like a crocodile, it slowly moved towards the 20 centimeter tall masked man.
Blind Old Lady shouted, ”Quick! Get rid of the dogs! ”
But it was too late. The black dog suddenly leapt forward like an arrow that had left the bow, snatched the man in its mouth, and ran out the door.
”Whose dog?” The Blind Old Lady shouted in anger.
Everyone looked at each other and started discussing. They said they didn't know whose dog it was. The fur was shiny, as if it had been smeared with oil. Its entire body was pitch black without a single strand of mixed hair. It was so big that even a calf could chase it down. He had never seen a dog this big before. It was unknown when and where he came from. Just now, everyone's attention had been focused on the blind old grandma's method, so no one had noticed it.
Niu Dewang's eyes were bloodshot with anger. He jumped up and down, slapping his thigh as he shouted, ”I! Fuck his grandmother! Whose dog was it!? Let me catch him and kill him to eat! Whoever didn't stand up and admit that it was their own dog, their entire family would die, and their entire family would be made up of dogs. ”Fuck it!”
Still, no one stood up and admitted that the dog belonged to them.
At the end, everyone looked at Blind Old Lady. Niu Dewang asked anxiously, ”How do we deal with this, Granny?” ”Do you want me to do it again?!”
Blind Old Lady waved her hand, her face was extremely gloomy as she said: ”No way! That dog appeared too strangely! If she were to continue on like this, something big might happen. You said that the dog is black, looks like a calf, and doesn't have a single stray hair, right? ”
Everyone nodded their heads in agreement. Even the eyes of the black dog were pure black, and its teeth were yellow.
Blind Old Lady said, ”Maybe I met a black tiger!”
Everyone cried out in fear. Someone asked, ”Ninth Granny, is it a black dog or a black tiger?”
Blind Old Lady said, ”I'm not sure either! It's not like I can't see you guys don't know. I heard it on all four legs and thought it was a dog! But when you said that the size of that beast had already reached a calf, how could there be such a big dog, so I suspected that it was the Black Tiger! ”
”Ninth Grandma, if it really is the Black Tiger. Where did the Black Tiger come from? There haven't been any tigers in our area either! Why did a black tiger appear here?! ”
”There is no black tiger in the world!” They were all scabby tigers! Having a black cat and a black panther was more or less the same. Maybe it was a black panther that went there just now! ” Someone said.