Chapter 26: Poorly Considered Dangerous Situation
I must frankly confess, that day we sold the eel, earned three hundred and sixty-four dollars, dinner and drink spent forty-five dollars, gave Hu Laoshi two hundred and nineteen dollars, a few of us divided the remaining one hundred dollars, and then returned home, all of them to the public.
After all, busy all night did not go home, the morning hurried back home to ride a bicycle out, and then another day.
Although the family generally will not ask what we have done, but from our buddy heart, not to give some account to the family, really can not be justified. Besides, if we pay more than ten dollars to our family, it will make our parents happy, and it's not like we don't have a small treasury in our hands, so why not take advantage of it?
Besides, if something goes wrong tonight, when the family blames us, they have to remember that we have contributed to the family's finances, at least …… when they get beaten up they will be a bit lighter, is that not true?
And Hu Laoshi in the receipt of our money, indeed glowing, evening departure, energetic, even the yellow robe, also changed a brand new, head wearing a hat with a coffin like, above a round of gossip clearly visible, shoulders across the bag, the bag is also yellow, embroidered above the gossip, one hand holding the mahogany sword, between the brows of confidence, overflowing with dominance.
Brothers in the back followed by snickering, it seems that this old man really need to use the money to hit the point, otherwise, he has no enthusiasm for work, alas, pedantic people ah, how to forget the old age in the world, the kind of willingness to pay , do not ask for a return on the spirit of it?
The most important thing is to learn more about it, not as much as our brothers and sisters, to eliminate the demons, when I thought about money ah?
But think carefully, it seems that we also have a purpose, either for their own safety, in order to retaliate for their hatred, or for the righteousness of buddies, only this time some special it seems to be for the villagers and future descendants, which is a bit chauvinistic, selfless dedication to the meaning.
But think carefully, now a pondering pressure is not so much, we are purely idle, is to find stimulation to go.
Liu Binniang seems to know this matter, see where the hope is, years of repression and pain in the moment swept away, spirit up. Do not need us to help, changed into brand new clothes, as if to go to the relatives as if, followed us to the north of the road. The heart did not think at all, they are so old, a woman, with us this bunch of hairy children fooling around ah?
On the contrary, we are a few brothers and sisters are nervous, especially Xue Zhigang, Chen Jin and I, the three of us have witnessed and experienced the corpse toad's power, that thing can be big or small, a mouth spraying poisonous gas can instantly let a person lost, not to mention the gas it spewed out toxicity, alone that kind of people want to vomit the stench, is enough to let a person recall the endless, endless to the point that think of it on the nausea.
Halfway, I have a feeling of uneasiness in my heart, more and more uneasy, then walked two steps to follow Hu Laoshi, asked: "Grandpa Hu, do you have a way to make that corpse toad not spray poisonous gas not? Block its mouth first."
"No." Hu Lao Si shook his head and said doubtfully, "Why are you asking this? If it doesn't spray poisonous gas, it won't hurt anyone, and the black cat won't show up to protect Liu Binniang."
I said with a bitter smile, "Of course I know, the problem is that this thing spews out poisonous gas, it will hurt other people ah, do you have any method, uh, with a charm ah or casting spells ah, so that everyone is not afraid of it that poisonous gas."
"No." Hu Lao Si replied seriously, he said, "The poisonous gas of this corpse toad is too strong, I can cast a spell to protect myself and that's good enough."
Upon hearing this, my heart thumped, isn't this nonsense?
Chen Jin heard on the side, immediately exasperated, said: "Fuck, in that case, then you are early to say ah, so a large group of people to come, all let the corpse toad to the poison over, save can not save ah!"
"What? Can't prevent it? I'm not going." Yao Jing was the first to stop immediately.
"I'm not going either, isn't this looking for death?" Chang Yunliang then said.
Guo Chao said, "Grandpa Hu, you can't joke with our lives, this is not a joke."
A few of us surrounded Hu Laoshi, glaring at him with some anger, Grandma, the wages are paid to you, you can't just leave things alone, right? I Zhao Yin Le is okay, carrying a belt made of Wu Ting leather in his hand, not invulnerable to all poisons, Chen Jin also make do, at least this belt can help him, then the others? What about the others? So many living and breathing lives, do you take it as a child's play?
Hu quickly waved his hand and smiled, explaining: "Look, look, look, I said you young people are bad-tempered, calm, right? The corpse toad can spray poisonous gas, but can't you stay away from it? It's poisonous gas is Yin and wet breath, heaven and earth can't allow, after spraying, as long as you can hold your breath in a split second, the poisonous gas will dissipate in the air in a while, absolutely harmless to the human body, heaven and earth is very strong to kill this kind of poisonous gas."
"Hold your breath? How long would that take?" I asked, stunned.
"A few seconds, ah no, more than ten seconds it ……" Hu Laoshi tone is not too sure.
"How long exactly?" Chen Jin glared.
Hu Laoshi explored his hand and said, "I've never encountered a corpse toad in my life, and this is the first time ah, only to hear the master once said that it does not take long, as long as you hold your breath, you can avoid poisoning."
The brothers all froze, pondering how credible Hu Laoshi's words were, thinking about how long it would take to hold their breath.
Who was willing to take this risk?
Liu Bin suddenly said: ''Come on, come on, I think whoever of you is afraid shouldn't go, Yin Le, Jin Zi, you two are not afraid of poisonous gas, good, just the three of us! Plus Grandpa Hu, that's enough! It's just a corpse toad, right? Let's do it!"
I heard well, Liu Bin this kid really put his life on the line, just for the sake of his mother, this kid does not care about anything. Since things to this point, I Zhao Yin Le natural can not not agree, I nodded and said: "That into the four of us, brother a few of you go back first, or in the bridge pump room that waited for the news of our victory it!"
"Center!" Chen Jin nodded, turned his head and said with a disdainful smile, "Brothers, prepare to sing a song of triumph!"
"Bullshit! What have we ever been afraid of? What's the big deal? If we hold our breath for a while, can we still suffocate to death? I'll go too!" Chang Yunliang said uncaringly.
Chang Hanqiang laughed and said, "If that's the case, I'll go too. We're buddies anyway, so the big deal is to stay away."
"I guess I should be immune after having suffered once, I'll go too." Xue Zhigang said smilingly.
After everyone had made their stance, Yao Jing was left, so the brothers all cast contemptuous glances at him, this kid would not dare to go. Who had thought, Yao Jing a head, majestically said: "What to look at? If you all go, how can I not go? Black Cat vs. Corpse Toad, after this village, there won't be this store anymore, can I miss this good show? Let's go!"
Liu Binniang looked at the side of the stunned, she is really a long time from home out of the house, but also rarely heard, rarely contact with us young people, do not know why their son's gang of friends are some rash, know that it is a danger, but also to stand up the chest with the head to hit the front, she wondered, "Children, what toad, is not it very She said doubtfully, "Boys, that toad, isn't it very powerful? Will it hurt you? Why don't you guys don't go, I'll go alone, anyway, anyway, isn't there a black cat to protect me? Alas ……"
The brothers hurriedly accompanied the smiling face and said all right, all right, all is Hu Lao Si in the blind bullshit scare people, not so terrible, the night, we can let aunt you alone to the middle of nowhere? I don't know what to say, but I'm sure we'll have to follow you around and escort you at all times!
Turning his head to look at Hu Laoshi, the old man is standing there muttering low, in addition to the hand in addition to the mahogany sword, there is a compass, he is concentrating on fiddling with something.
We all understand that Hu Lao Si is looking for the corpse toad, to see where this thing is.
After a while, Hu Lao Si raised his face to look at us and said with a smile, "Have you discussed everything? Who's going and who's coming back?"
"Bullshit, all go!" Chen Jin said rudely, "Hurry up, have you found where it is yet? Cut the crap!"
Hu Laoshi laughed and did not get along with Chen Jin, he said, "The corpse toad is still in Zhou's grave, this stupid thing doesn't know how to be afraid, it can't even move its nest."
"Then what's the point of wasting words, walk, brothers! Go plow the Zhou family grave!" Chen Jin immediately waved his spade and shouted.
"Whoever doesn't have the guts is a bear! Charge!" I didn't talk any nonsense at the moment, swinging my belt and shouting, I ran towards the Zhou Family Tomb in the first place.
Brothers were stimulated by me, also no nonsense, wailing and holding up spades and sticks to follow me and Chen Jin and the two people ran and rushed.
Rice paddies and ditches that croak non-stop calling frogs seem to be frightened as if, all hold their breath and no longer call, quietly listening to this is where to play a gang of psychopaths, even broke into their territory arrogant and domineering with their competition singing.
When a group of us raged to the Zhou family grave in front of the time, the brothers that full of bravado suddenly disappeared without a trace.
This is really going to do it, under the grave, buried a corpse toad, once disturbed, popped up that is a mouthful of poisonous gas, or even in the ground below the spray poisonous gas, so that you can not defend.
Also, we suddenly realized that this is digging up a grave, digging up people's ancestral graves is not a joke, maybe tomorrow the village people know, the Zhou family will find us and our gang to fight for their lives.
This is a very immoral thing to do! The grandchildren!
"Yinle, it just occurred to me that if we really dig a grave tonight, it would be too unethical."
"Yeah, do we really have to do that? If people find out about this, they'll peel our skin off."
I frowned and said, "Negligence, really fucking did not think about this, or …… we dug the grave, and then give him a good burial? The bottom of this buddy will not blame us, right?"
"Fuck, the bottom of the buddy blame or not blame another, the problem is that the bottom of the buddy his descendants are not happy with us." Xue Zhigang said.
Chen Jin yelled impatiently, "Bullshit, it's all bullshit, since you want to do it, don't bullshit! What are you afraid of? Just dig, dig and bury it. Whoever doesn't like it, let him come to me! Just say I, Chen Jin, did it."
"And me, Liu Bin!" Liu Bin immediately stood up his waist and said, appearing to be in charge.
While talking, Hu Laoshi and Liu Bin's mother also came to the front, Liu Bin's mother said: "Children, digging up people's ancestors' graves is wrong, we can't do this, didn't you say that the corpse toad can't be messed with and can't be disturbed? Don't you say that the corpse toad can't be disturbed? You all stay away, I'll go there to stir up the water, maybe the corpse toad will be impatient to come out and bite me."
"I'm afraid that won't work." Hu Lao Si shook his head and said, "When I came I thought well, the grave can not be dug ……."
"Then what to do?" I frowned and asked, thinking that stirring up the water does not work, and the grave can not be dug, this is not bullshit?
Hu Laoshi said: "If the corpse toad left here, in other places, we can move the spade to dig, if the corpse toad is still here, it is also good to do, you do not say that there is a hole in the head of the grave? Take the spade and shove it in to poke it, one time not two times, we don't have to poke the corpse toad, anyway, we can't let it be quiet in the ground."
"Good idea! I'll do it, I'll do it, get out of the way, stay away!" Chen Jin spat and rubbed his hands together to start.
Hu Laoshi stopped him, "Chen Jin, let Yinle come, he has a belt made of Wuzui leather and is not afraid of poisonous gas. Then who, Liu's daughter-in-law, you follow Yinle and stand in front of the grave, when that corpse toad comes out, you scratch it, kick it, whack it, it's best if you can provoke it."
"Success!" I nodded, will be ready to WuZhou leather belt simply hung on the neck, one hand took over ChenJin's shovel, stride to that night found the hare hole, turn over the head of the spade, ready to shovel handle into the hole and stir to go, thought in my heart that this time must stir it a heaven and earth, so that corpse toad that old girl in the head to stay in the province of peace.
Waiting for Liu Bin Niang to come over, but Liu Bin Niang at this time, but looked around, like looking for something.
Liu Bin asked: "Mother, what are you looking for? Hurry over."
"Wait, Mother hasn't found the black cat yet." Liu Bin's mother whispered with some fear, "Didn't you guys say that there is a black cat that has been plaguing me and protecting me? This, in the middle of the night, what kind of corpse toad are we messing with, and why hasn't the black cat come? What if it doesn't come or doesn't care?"
The brothers thought about it, yes, in case the black cat does not care about how to do? It won't let Liu Binniang die, that is, it will let Liu Binniang be poisoned by the corpse toad and then suffer, what should we do? It's a living hell anyway, so what if she's poisoned by the toad? We all froze, the arrow is on the string, to send, or not to send?
Hu Laoshi said, "Even if that black cat isn't there, I will ensure your safety, go ahead and stand by Yinle."
"Then what am I doing here?" Liu Biniang hesitated, she was still afraid.
Chen Jin suddenly said, "Yo, isn't that the black cat? It's on the grave!"
"Where is it? Where is it?" Liu Binniang immediately looked toward the graves.
The others also rushed to look, and I was wondering why I didn't see it.
Liu Binniang said, "No ah!" She looked at the others, who also looked perplexed.
"Aigoo my auntie, don't you know? Evil things like this, only Yinle and I can see it, we two are born with yin and yang eyes, don't believe you ask Hu Laoshi, ask your family Binzi, that, and our gang of buddies." Chen Jin said.
As soon as I heard it, I understood what Chen Jin meant, and hastily nodded my head and said, "That's not true!" Mouth so say, my heart but flooded with ambiguity, we are not taking the life of people Liu Binniang joke it? We're really going out on a limb, aren't we? Chen Jin, this kid is also, in case the black cat really does not care, we are not live to torture Liu Binniang?
Brothers really believe me and Chen Jin's words, especially Liu Bin, pushed his mother to persuade: "really really, mother, you hurry over it!"
In my heart, I said to Liu Bin, "Son of a bitch, aren't you pushing your mother into the fire? What kind of son are you?
Hu Laoshi at the side of a word, of course he understands that Chen Jin and I are talking nonsense, but he understands in his heart, the black cat if you do not want to let people find it, no one want to see it, as for it in the end did not come, frankly speaking, Hu Laoshi heart is not the bottom of the barrel.
Liu Binniang hesitantly stood in front of me, I clenched my teeth, thinking in my heart grandma, give up, big deal, the corpse toad came out, I fought with it, absolutely can not let Liu Binniang be harmed. So decided, I held the spade handle into the water hole with a diameter of about ten centimeters.
The inside of the water hole is not straight at all, crooked, but the spade handle is straight, so it is impossible to go down the hole inside. The good thing is that this is a paddy field, the soil underneath has become mud, soft, spade handle to poke down, a little force, go down more than a meter deep. I thought in my heart, grandma, anyway, the corpse toad is in the ground below it, it is not likely to hide in the coffin, we do not care whether the hole is straight, as long as we have this spade handle straight, directly poked down, will be able to poke the coffin, the result is the same, harassment of the corpse toad well.
After poking down a meter deep, then down to the soil on the hard, a little bit of effort, I pulled up a little bit, and then hard hard to poke down, pulled up a little bit, and then hard hard to poke down, the piston movement ……
The deeper I poked, the deeper I poked, not a moment later, the whole spade handle was poked down.
I was happy in my heart, grandma, start stirring! So I grabbed the spade blade, twisted vigorously, spade handle in the water hole back and forth activities, and now and then twitching down, bring out the water, issued the sound of puffing puffing, splashing, and the surrounding muddy piece.
This is really a forceful work, grandma's province up and down with force! Tired me panting, heart anxious ah, dog day corpse toad you really calm, hurry to freak out ah, out ah! I know you're in there, don't hide, have some backbone and lose your temper, okay?
As I was struggling to stir up the spade handle, I suddenly heard Hu Laoshi's terrified voice from behind me: "Quickly, don't breathe in, the corpse toad is behind us!"
A group of people immediately messed up, running around scattered, no one dares to shout, all closed mouth and nose, who dares to breathe ah?
In Hu Laoshi issued a cry of alarm in that split second, my heart thumped, bad, how to forget that we met the corpse toad when that shit did not appear in front of the grave, but the road ah!
I just turned my head, I saw Liu Binniang to the road ran two steps, good suddenly body crooked, plopping sound paralyzed.