"Master, where is my dad?" As soon as I entered the house, I couldn't wait to take off my shoes and get on the kang. I waited around but didn't see my dad.
"The entrance to the village was sealed. Your father couldn't come in, so I asked him to go back."
My grandfather frowned and lit a cigarette. At this time, several villagers came in one after another. My grandmother quickly asked a few people to sit down.
"Uncle Chen, what do you think about the Zhao family?"
The speaker was Wang Hongjie, who ran a small shop on East Street. He and the village chief were brothers. There were not many people in the village. When I was young, my grandfather was warm-hearted and would help anyone who had something to do. Over time, people in the village came to ask my grandfather if they had anything to do. Everyone who has ideas regards my father as their backbone.
"Bah! It's retribution, I say!"
Before my father could say anything, Widow Liu in the front yard spat and licked it with her foot, and said viciously.
"Guifang! Don't talk nonsense in front of the children!" My father scolded Widow Liu in a low voice and started smoking again. At the age of eight, I keenly felt that the atmosphere in the room was not right, so I simply turned my back and lay down pretending to sleep. .
"You said that as soon as the old Zhao family came back, the entrance to the village was sealed. Who would believe that there is nothing fishy inside?"
Widow Liu seemed to be asking everyone, or talking to herself. I pricked my ears and couldn't help but wonder what the weird thing she was talking about was.
"Okay, tell your children when you go back. Don't run around if you have nothing to do. It's getting late today. Let's go back. If you have anything to do, we'll talk about it tomorrow!"
My father persuaded everyone to come back home. The miserable cries of the old Zhao family could still be heard intermittently. When I saw that everyone was gone, I turned over and started working.
"Master, I really saw a giant monkey last night. I was so scared that I didn't dare to say anything. I took off my shoes at the door and came back barefoot!"
"Bang!" Grandma, who had just brought in water, knocked over the basin in her hand.
"I asked you why something was wrong when you came back last night! Old man, what should you do?"
"Don't be afraid. From now on, Qi Jin will go to the outhouse when he goes to the toilet. We will guard him every step of the way! Once the road is dug outside, we will send Qi Jin back to the city!"
I am the only grandson of my grandparents. If something like this happened in the village, they would risk their lives to protect me.
But no one expected that from this moment on, the village was destined to no longer be peaceful.
For the next two days, the village seemed peaceful. The adults went to work in the mountains as usual, but there was no longer the laughter of children on the roadside.
Uncle Zhao went into the back mountain with a kitchen knife that day and came back in despair at night. Grandma Zhao almost cried her eyes out and her aunt was also stimulated. She held her remaining daughter in her arms all day long, mumbling and not daring to let go.
A strange atmosphere enveloped the entire village, and everyone's calm appearance was filled with uneasiness.
Finally, on the third night after the accident at Lao Zhao's house, something happened again.
As the New Year is approaching, it gets dark early in the mountains. Every family turns off the lights and goes to bed at almost seven o'clock. But in the middle of the night, a shrill and piercing scream broke the tranquility of the night.
Even though I usually sleep as heavy as a pig, I was so frightened that I sat up. Every house turned on their lights, and the men from each house found their own weapons and gathered in the small shop.
The screams came from the tuck shop!
"Mistress, what do you think those two yellow things are?" My father was gone and I couldn't sleep. I opened the window and looked out. There were two round yellow things outside the window that seemed to be staring at me. Just as he was calling me to watch, the thing suddenly jumped up, and then opened its big mouth full of fangs at the window.
It's a big horse monkey! When you get closer, you can see there is blood on its teeth and claws!
"Oh my god!!" My grandma also saw it, so she pulled me and rushed to the store. Fortunately, the big monkey didn't chase me.
When I arrived at the small shop, I found that not only my family, but almost everyone in the village was here. I found out that they were also women taking care of their children at home, but they all saw the big horse monkey at the same time and were frightened by the big horse monkey.
"This is the Hong Jie family..."
Widow Liu pushed her way to the front and ran out vomiting in less than three minutes. I looked through the gap in the crowd and saw Wang Hongbo lying on the sauerkraut vat in front of his house. His face was ashen and his eyes were wide open. I wanted to make them pop out. There were deep scratches all over his body, and the heavy cotton-padded clothes were scratched, exposing the flesh and blood inside.
His wife and daughter were lying on the kang. They must have been under the covers when the accident happened. They were only wearing shirts. Now they were even more naked. Their faces were scratched to pieces, their blood-red flesh was turned out, and there was a lump on their stomachs. Blood was pouring out of the big hole, and my intestines were pulled out. Even my hair was pulled out and thrown all over the floor. I wanted to scream, but found that no sound came out of my throat. My mother quickly covered me with her hands. Her eyes held me in her arms, and I heard the cry of a child in my ears. When I thought of something, I broke away from my breast and shouted to them.
"Stop crying! If you cry again, the monkey will come and catch you!"
As soon as I finished speaking, the children immediately stopped crying and huddled in the arms of adults, not daring to make a sound.
"Monkey! Monkey!"
Yaya, the four-year-old granddaughter of the village chief, was trembling and pointed behind us and shouted. Everyone turned back in the direction of her finger and saw a black shadow quickly disappearing into the dark night.
"What a sin! What on earth is going on?"
The village chief's wife slapped her thighs and cried.
"Hmph, what's going on? Don't you all know it?"
Widow Liu snorted coldly, waved her hands and went home first.
