Chapter 44: One Mountain Cannot Accommodate Two Tigers
When I was woken up by a burst of noisy sounds, angrily opened my eyes and sat up, but I was shocked to find that those messy noises, instantly disappeared, as if it had never been issued in general.
Due to the reason that it is the west house, the window is open to the east, so although the moonlight outside is as frosty as silver, but inside the house is really dark.
Liu Bin and Chen Jin were sleeping sweetly, slightly soundly.
Did you dream again? I took a deep breath, gradually adapted to the light in the darkness, looked around the house, there is a big table on the bed, there is a candlestick on it, the vat and sacks of grain are piled up under the root of the wall on the opposite side, and some agricultural tools are scattered under the root of the wall on both sides. The old wooden door could not be closed tightly, between the two doors flashed a gap of six or seven centimeters wide, if not for the cotton curtains hanging outside, inside the house stove, I am afraid that the house will not have a little heat.
I sat in silence for a while, feeling coolness all over my body, then hurriedly shrunk into the quilt, but without a trace of sleepiness.
Wrapping myself tightly with the bedding, only my nose and eyes remained exposed. After warming up for a while, I fumbled for my fall coat inside the quilt, and directly fumbled inside to put the clothes on. The movement was a little big, so it inevitably bumped into Liu Bin who was sleeping in the center, this kid grunted twice in dissatisfaction and then continued to fall into a deep sleep.
Rolled over and climbed up, felt the cigarette on the table, lit a smoke on, I began to lie on the bed and swallowed clouds.
I frowned and thought seriously, that loud noise just now, where did it come from? If it was a dream, what kind of dream did I have?
The answer was affirmed after half a cigarette was smoked, I did dream, but I couldn't recall what I did in the slightest.
I seem to have been guilty of this a lot before, right? With a bitter smile, I shook my head and stopped taking it seriously. I quietly smoked a cigarette, naturally remembering the recent events, and the always palpitating and disturbing outburst of strange events and questions.
Just after I had taken the last drag of my cigarette and flicked the butt to the floor, splattering a few sparks in the darkened space, an unexpected visitor also crept into the house.
It was that black cat, it seemed to have casually walked through the doorway, and the weird thing was that the width of that doorway definitely couldn't accommodate its relatively large body, to put it in another way, even if there wasn't that doorway, I think it could have easily walked through the door and entered the house.
My heart instantly raised to my throat, my eyes opened wide and stared at the black cat.
The black cat didn't seem to care about my hostile gaze, or perhaps it didn't give a damn about my hostility. With typical cat steps, it walked to the empty space less than two meters in front of me, curled up on the ground, and then looked squarely at me.
Instead of the green aura that I had seen before, those bright cat eyes flashed with a chilling black aura, yes, you can't realize what that kind of black aura looks like in a dark space that still lets you see clearly and feel the cold. Or I should say that it is like in the dark environment, occasionally burst out of the white bright light, white piercing, such as a needle piercing the eye.
Don't feel contradictory, it is that kind of feeling, it is indeed a black cold aura.
It's cold, lies in letting people back cold, hands and feet seem to not listen to the numbness.
Its awn, because let a person feel straight to the heart, with a current popular words, this is probably able to hurt the eyes, right?
"Hi, you, hello ……" I don't know what I thought at that time, held back for a long time did not dare to speak, but all of a sudden came out of such a polite words, more let me until now feel incredible, I sparsely then said: "Smoking …… cigarettes not? Five …… golden flowers ……"
Said the words, my hand raised to go to touch the table on the cigarette, but only just raised to the mid-air, stopped no longer move. Because that black cat perhaps mistakenly thought that the action of my raised hand, it is not good for it, so whoosh jumped back more than a meter away, his body hair stood up, full of hostility glaring at me, his tail straight up at the end of the buttocks, like a flagpole.
I can see the black cat's vigilance, so want to touch the cigarette hand had to temporarily stopped in mid-air, very difficult to grin smile, want to let the black cat to see my face, written on the word "peaceful coexistence". I did not speak again, because the heart is regretting for their own recklessness just now, grandmother, perhaps I directly turn over on the blanket to sleep, is the best choice, why with the black cat to say hello ah? Why did you say hello to the black cat?
The wind from the ground, a burst of urge people cold, I shivered, slowly will have lifted the sore arm put down, slowly retracted to the bedding, the face of the hard squeeze out of the self-considered very "easy-going" smile …… was going to quietly kick the person next to me, but I still have to kick the person next to me, but I still have to kick the person next to me. I was going to quietly kick the person next to me, but I still held back, after all, next to me is Liu Bin, not Chen Jin.
The black cat stared at me with those heart-stopping eyes, and a flash of green light turned on the round cat's eyes and then dissipated, so I once again felt a little dizzy and sleepy.
Was it bewitching me with its evil arts? I was suspicious in my heart, and did my best to gaze and be on guard, so that I would be more awake, at the same time retracted to the comforter of the right hand began to move cautiously, from one side quietly toward the bedding outside, I know that my pants are next to the bedding under the pants, pants, there is that waist belt. I needed something most of all a weapon of defense, just in case.
God knows what this creepy black cat was doing in this room of ours, and I would never be so naïve as to think that it had come into this room to protect us or to be lonely and looking for someone to talk to for company.
Just then, I felt a strange smell, from the heel of the child, damp or cold? Neither, or both, anyway, it was strange, my hand had explored the comforter, felt the coolness, and then it touched my belt, and I fumbled to catch the belt buckle while watching out for the black cat's movements ……
The black cat's eyes, which were originally staring at me, suddenly looked above, or rather behind, us ……
I turned my head sideways and looked with the corner of my eye, only to see that above the three of us, a faint greenish colored mist floated and slowly began to spread toward the entire house, carrying a faint fishy, wet smell.
Gold bar! Evil aura? The first time these two words appeared in my mind, thinking of the words Hu Laoshi had said, damn it, gold bars would really emit such a gloomy and wet evil aura.
The black cat came into the house to protect us?
I once again the eyes to the black cat, at the same time my hand has touched the belt buckle, began to slowly draw down from the pants.
A low whimpering sound came from the black cat's mouth, the cat's mouth grinned, revealing chilling teeth, its appearance became fierce, its eyes exploded with an intimidating cold aura, and a gloomy aura exuded vigorously from the black cat's body. I admit, this is my feeling, I didn't see what the so-called gloomy atmosphere, but I clearly felt the pressure, the atmosphere in the room definitely steeply tense up at this moment.
By the looks of it, the black cat had become angry, it looked like that night when it met the black snake spirit. I suddenly thought, this evil qi'er, could it also turn into some kind of object to fight with the black cat?
The black cat moved, extremely agile and rapid, like a shadow in the darkness, instantly jumped to the left, in my eyes have not followed its movements, it has jumped to the window edge, and then in the edge of the window fell slightly, the body once again jumped up, like a light bat, flying across the sky, straight to the kang's inside next to the wall of the place, in mid-air the cat claws cut out the road of cold aura ……
Steady, steady, steady …… I hand tightly grasped the belt, the heart kept suppressing themselves, because every muscle in my body is taut, just now the black cat jumped, the body is almost unconscious control to rise up to the black cat to start the attack, but fortunately, I control myself, the black cat pounced to the kang Inside.
My mouth opened, and as much as I could without making a sound, I took a big deep breath and slowly exhaled.
Slowly turning my body sideways, I let myself lie down on my side, tilting my head back and staring inward, the black cat landed on the footrest bedding, and underneath it was covered with Liu Bin's feet, wasn't it?
The black cat s head shook, at the same time the eyes looked around, this is the anon's twitching nose, seems to sniff the air that flavor, and then coldly swept me a glance, this is the low head, the rear leg force, a stomp …… no more.
No? I rubbed and sat up, mother, where did the black cat go?
I twisted my head to look around, did not find traces of the black cat, the only thing is, my head is dizzy for a moment, which realized that my head has been completely drilled into the green mist, the fishy breath inhaled into the nose, immediately let a person dizzy and dizzy plus nausea. I hurriedly lay down my body and tilted my head back to look at the green-colored mist slowly spreading in all directions.
Should I hurriedly call Chen Jin and Liu Bin to get up and run out? Otherwise, in case this evil gas fucking toxicity is very strong words, our three lives …… now but all the gold bars are stuffed in the back of the three of us feet, the strength of that evil gas child emanation, the scourge of the three of us, it can be more than just a cold and fever, right? Perhaps a moment's effort will have to let the three of us each hiccup cold.
I touched Liu Bin, trying to wake him up, but the boy did not move at all.
Thinking about it now, maybe I was too careful, so the force was too small, the sleeping Liu Bin could not feel it? But at that time I did not think so ah, I suddenly worried that this kid may have let the evil gas to smoke to death ah? So I hurriedly side hand support himself half sit up, pressed the voice shouted: "Bin son, Bin son ……"
At this time, suddenly a hand from the other side stretched out straight to touch Liu Bin's cheek. I was shocked, my right hand quickly reached out from the quilt, holding the belt in his hand and raised it high as a gesture to draw ……
"Not dead, is asleep." Chen Jin explored Liu Bin's nostrils, feel out of the air smooth normal, this is a sigh of relief said, looked up and saw me raise the belt to draw down, quickly raised his hand in front of his face, greeted: "Hey hey, Yinle you do what?"
My spirit of relief, almost paralyzed on the bed, grandmother's scared me to death! Heart cursed a sentence, sharp gasping a few times, I just whispered reprimanded: "You a dog day, I thought you died it, messed up half a day, you dog day also woke up early ah?"
"Hey …… scared is not it?" Chen Jin did not think, climbed up and said, "I woke up when you got up to smoke, just lazy to take care of you, just now that black cat came in, your kid just focus on staring at the black cat, even I climbed up did not notice ……"
"Huh?" I was speechless.
Chen Jin touched out a cigarette to light one, said, "You really think how capable you are, even with this evil cat want to get close, I really convinced you!"
I didn't say anything, sat up straight, stunned for a moment, and then drilled out of the quilt and rushed to the foot there to lift the bedding to see how the black cat suddenly disappeared? Why did the black cat suddenly disappear? Could it have gone into the hole under the bed to dig out the gold bars?
That's it. Knowing that Chen Jin had woken up made me much bolder. I think most people are like that, aren't they? I think most people are like that. When someone walks at night with you, you are much more courageous than when you are alone.
Chen Jin also sat up, while smoking a cigarette and said, "Don't look for it, it must have caught the evil spirit."
"How did it drill down?" I squatted in the kang with my bare ass and didn't feel cold.
"How did it get into the house?" Chen Jin asked back.
"Oh ……" I suddenly realized, yes, the black cat this thing can go through the door, naturally also able to go through the wall to hide.
……
"Are you not cold?" Chen Jin looked at me who was baffled and squatting there, and said with a smile, "The old man does not want to view your big ass …… Not to mention, your kid's ass is quite white, whiter than your face."
I came back to my senses, suddenly felt the cold dip body, quickly twisted squatting back to the bed, into the nest, wrapped tight body, looked up at the thin layer of hazy green mist, frowned and said: "Gold, we have to hurry out, this day of the green mist eighty percent of the evil child, will hurt the body."
"Go out to do what? It is so cold outside …… that it will catch a cold." Chen Jin did not hesitate to deny my opinion.
"The evil qi will also make people catch a cold, and they will also have a fever." I said so on my lips, in fact, also do not want to get out of the quilt, so cold weather, who does not want to drill in the warm quilt?
Chen Jin into the quilt, rolled over on the bed, smoking a cigarette and said: "The evil spirit of the evil spirit, in fact, is not the Yin Qi? Hey, I've heard that Yin Qi is harmful, but if I'm so masculine, Yin Qi can't hurt me."
"Well, words can not say so, not just you, is us."
"Oh yeah, it's us." Chen Jin nodded.
I did not say anything else, tilted my head and looked at the layer of green gas floating on the upper level is getting fainter and fainter, probably the black cat is below to get rid of the evil qi, right? As for how to get rid of, we don't know, one thing leads to another. Or, Chen Jin and I two people's masculinity will be evil, Yin Qi, to drive away?
Quiet for a while, Chen Jin suddenly said with a disdainful tone of contempt: "Yinle, your masculinity is enough?"
"Well, it's not quite sufficient, but it's stronger than you." I said shamelessly.
"Isn't that true?" Chen Jin hemmed and hawed.
I twisted my head, looked at him and said, "Don't you think you're talking nonsense?"
"Well, since you are virile enough, that ……" Chen Jin paused, smoked a cigarette, and pointed to the stove near the door and said, "I'm not as virile as you, afraid of the cold, you go down and open the stove dampers, and then change the block of coal, the house is really cold ……"
"Fuck you!" I cursed him, rolled over on my stomach, and stretched my arm out of the comforter, "Give me a cigarette ……"
"I'll have one too." Liu Bin also rolled over and lay on his back.
……
"Fuck, you're not awake either?" Chen Jin is very surprised, I am also full of doubts, Liu Bin should not be also woke up early, right?
Liu Bin directly reached from Chen Jin pillow edge over the cigarette, pulled out and handed me a, he also stuffed into the mouth of a, take the match swish sound rowed, and then first to me on the point, and then to their own point, smoked a mouthful, quite some deep meaning of a bitter smile, said: "you two turn over and turn around, I can sleep?"
So the room was quiet, the three people together smoking cigarettes.
It seemed to have been forgotten that the black cat was probably in the kang where the three of us were lying, and was probably now fighting to the death with the evil spirit.
"Scared?" I first couldn't resist the quiet and opened my mouth to ask.
Liu Bin knew that I was asking him, hesitated for a moment and said faintly, "Not afraid."
"Really? Don't you think it's cold now?" Chen Jin some doubt Liu Bin's courage, to be honest, I also doubt, more is not willing, even I Zhao Yinle, are a little afraid, you Liu Bin this famous coward, even not afraid? This will make me feel very ashamed ……
"What's so cold? The dead bird facing up, nothing." Liu Bin smoked a cigarette, very rare, his tone was a little bullish.
Chen Jin appreciated nodded his head reached out and patted Liu Bin's bare shoulders outside, encouraging: "Uh-huh, this is called manly, that what, I feel cold, go down, open the stove dampers, and then change the block of coal it."
"Poof …… cough!" I let a mouthful of smoke to choke, heavy coughing, hard to curse: "Chen Jin, you a dog day ……"
Liu Bin did not think, laughed, then drilled out of the quilt, naked jumped out of bed, dragged his shoes and ran to the stove heel ers, opened the dampers, changing coal.
Chen Jin smiled smugly, and I cried and laughed.
Just at this time, the whole kang suddenly shook, or rather, the whole house trembled, and on the roof of the old house, the dust fell down with a rustle.
"Fuck! Earthquake!"
Chen Jin and I almost simultaneously leapt up from the comforter, jumped out of bed and casually put on our shoes and ran outside, Chen Jin ran to the door ahead of me, and as soon as he pulled the door open, he leaped out, shouting, "Pull Liu Bin out!" Chen Jin has run to the center of the courtyard, shouting: "Uncle, aunt, quickly come out, earthquake!"
At the same time, I had already pulled Liu Bin, who was in a daze, and leaped out of the house.
Liu Bin's parents that house, immediately came the sound of panic, and then is to wear clothes, urging each other's voice.
The three of us do not need to greet, step on the hall to run ……
This is absolutely not bragging, really, I and Chen Jin young, although said the quality is not high, the most mischievous, usually selfish and bullying, but the character, from the root, or kind, or courageous to help others. In the sudden critical moment, each of us forgot all the dangers and rushed into the house without fear to choose to save people.
The three of us rushed into the house as a fierce tiger as the next mountain, regardless of everything and Liu Bin's father and Liu Bin's mother all helped the sickly Liu Bin ran out, but only ran out of the bedroom door, just into the hall, Liu Bin's father shouted: "Hey, hey, stop, where is the earthquake? Where is the earthquake?"
The three of us were dumbfounded, yes, it seems that just now when we got to the yard, there was already no movement, just that the strong sense of crisis in our hearts made us forget about other possibilities.
The current situation, everything is nothing different from the usual, where there is a trace of signs of an earthquake?
Liu Bin's mother had not even put on her clothes, and her already weak body was shivering because she did not have time to put on thick clothes.
Liu Bin father reached out to pull open the hall light, face with a hint of anger, but he did not send out, after all, their own children are also involved, and this kind of thing, no one will eat enough to fool around.
Do not need anyone to say anything, Liu Bin ran to the inner room to bring cotton coat to the mother to put on, and then helped his mother to sit down.
Whether it is true or not, temporarily can not go back to the bedroom, in case it is really an earthquake, that bigger earthquake will come, according to the yard should now go to …… but the problem is that Liu Bin's mother's body is too weak, so cold weather, even during the day, she rarely go out, and now suddenly get her outside, will make her sick more serious. I don't know what to say. What's more, the three of us suddenly felt uneasy in our hearts, in the end, is it an earthquake? Or is that black cat playing tricks on us?
Outside, the moon is sinking in the west, the sky is light, a thin mist fills the yard, hazy.
About half an hour later, the three of us drooped our heads, very frustrated and full of guilt walked back to the west house.
It seemed that there was no earthquake, but that the west house had trembled a little for some unknown reason, or that the bed had trembled a few times, causing the whole house to tremble.
Once in the house, the three of us rush to the kang to jump, too damn cold ah, just in the hall, in addition to me also wear a piece of autumn coat, Liu Bin and Chen Jin two people, only wearing big pants, freezing three of us around the stove for warmth, but also still shivering, sneezing non-stop, if it is not for the fear that in case of an earthquake, we still have to help Liu Bin's mother, or even need to carry, we would have run back to the west house to drill the quilt. .
"Ouch! Ouch ……"
The three people all cried out in pain, pounced on the bed has not yet drilled into the quilt it, it was suddenly what hard things to the pain body.
Hurriedly pull open the electric light, the three of us are dumbfounded.
Just see the kang, scattered with a piece of gold bars, yellow, very dazzling, very …… surprising.
The bedding in the kang was lifted, the mat under the bedding was also uncovered, and the place that covered the hole was still torn, and the small hole where the gold bars were stored was empty.
All the gold bars were thrown out and scattered on the kang.
The three of us looked at each other in dismay, and we all understood in our hearts, this thing, besides that fucking black cat, who else would do it?
"What's going on?" Chen Jin was a bit annoyed, grasping a piece of gold bar in his hand and pawing it for fun.
I grabbed the clothes to wear on the body, while the child said, "Less nonsense, wear clothes, pick up pick up, grandma, the gold bar can not be put in Liu Bin's house."
"Well, it can't be put in my house." Liu Bin slowly began to wear clothes, face expression some gray heart some sad.
Things are clear, originally we were planning to put the gold bar in Liu Bin's home, the gold bar emits evil gas scourge people, the black cat naturally will not be happy, as for why, we have already said, this winter's several evil things, plus Hu Laoshi and the old woman said those words, all explain one thing, that is, the black cat is to scourge Liu Bin's mother, but will never kill Liu Bin's mother, but only to let her suffer, even dragged the whole family to suffer, and if the whole family suffered. The whole family suffered, and if any other evil things, want to come to the scourge of Liu Bin family, then the black cat is absolutely not allowed, not hesitate to go to war with it.
Moreover, it has been proved that the black cat is very powerful among the evil things.
After the three people dressed, pick up the gold bars on the bed, and then some discussion, always decide down, where to put the gold bars? This thing is even more fucking dangerous, can not throw away, and Hu Lao Si said, I and Chen Jin's home can still be stored.
In the end, Chen Jin and I decided to take half of it each.
I really admire, Chen Jin this kid how so big courage, how so confident? This kid seems to have a kind of almost crazy courage and unconcern no matter what he does.
When the three of us early in the morning on the street, skating along the east side of the canal, once again talked about the black cat, this thing is too scary, too bizarre. Even Hu Laoshi and Lao Taiyi, they have said that this black cat can not be messed with, the reason is too much ……
So the three of us were clueless, frustrated and angry.
Finally Chen Jin said, "Alas, at least it won't kill anyone, it can still protect the whole family, let's make do for now."
Liu Bin and I had to nod our heads, as the saying goes, it is a blessing in disguise ……
Chen Jin added: "Yinle, this day at noon we should eat that black dog essence meat, right? A few other buddies won't eat it, do you think they're stupid? Really no interest ……"
"Well, let's go to my house for lunch today, and we'll drink some." I cheer up, the thought of eating the meat of the black dog spirit, I'm energized, grandma, let's also taste fresh, arrogant once, this winter can let these evil things to the scourge of not light ah! Eating its meat, relieving gas, relieving gluttony, relieving …… rarity.
Looking at Liu Bin is still looking down and contemplating, I asked tentatively, "Binzi, do you dare to eat?"
"Dare!" Liu Bin looked up and said very firmly.
Chen Jin and I were once again stunned for a moment, Liu Bin, he still hasn't given up the idea of killing people with a knife in his heart.
People will go crazy when they are forced to go crazy without any help, and Liu Bin is really crazy now!