He sat up and looked under the bed in the moonlight. It was pitch black and nothing could be seen.
I lit the candle again, walked to the kitchen, and checked the rice vat. There were no mice.
Li Chuan carefully checked the three rooms with the light of candles, but there were no mice.
Forget it, let's look for it again during the day tomorrow.
Turn on the lamp, go to bed, close your eyes.
squeak squeak.
When I was about to fall asleep, the sound came again.
This time, Li Chuan did not get up. He closed his eyes to listen to where the sound came from.
After a long time, I was about to fall asleep, and I heard another "squeak" sound, very close, as if...
Li Chuan suddenly opened the pillow.
No, no mice.
Forget it, Li Chuan gave up, put down the pillow, and went to sleep with the quilt covering his head. If he heard the sound again, he would never get up. If he didn't get bitten, he wouldn't get up!
In his sleep, the squeaking sound kept coming from far and near. Li Chuan ignored it and just fell asleep. When he fell into a very deep sleep, the squeaking sound stopped.
The next day, Li Chuan got up and searched all over the house. No trace of mice was found, but as soon as he went to sleep, he heard rustling and creaking.
He also wondered if there was a rat demon causing trouble.
He has encountered chicken demons, crab demons, and it is not impossible for him to be targeted by rat demons again.
But later I discovered that when he closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep, there was no sound. He had to fall asleep. When he was half asleep, the sound started.
It seems that the problem lies with himself. It is probably the scholar Li Chuan who thinks too much on weekdays, so he has auditory hallucinations. Psychological problems will be reflected on the body after a long time, so he also heard it.
As for why I haven’t heard it before. It may be that the situations he went through were more stressful and exciting, so he ignored them. Now that he is back in a safe place, his psychological problems have returned.
After placing the problem on the original person, Li Chuan calmed down.
What can be done?
After thinking about it, his mind turned elsewhere - go to the street to cut a few pounds of meat and come back to make up for it.
So after packing up, he went to the street.
There were two butchers selling meat on the street. Li Chuan came out a little late and one of them was closed. Only Butcher Pan's butcher shop was still open.
Butcher Pan has been ill these days, and the person looking after the stall is his daughter, named Xiaohua.
Pan Xiaohua was born with great strength. When she was six or seven years old, she could run around the streets with a piglet weighing more than 50 kilograms. At the age of eleven or twelve, she started helping butcher Pan and learned how to butcher pigs and sell the meat.
Li Chuan looked at the stall and saw that only a pair of pig's feet were left, and some pigs had fallen into the water.
He was a little disappointed. He originally wanted to buy some lard and go back to make lard.
But pig’s feet were not bad, so he said, “I want this pig’s feet.”
"Okay." Pan Xiaohua weighed the pig neatly, tied the pig's feet with a straw rope, and handed it to Li Chuan.
When Li Chuan took it over, he finally saw Pan Xiaohua's appearance clearly. She had an apple face, willow eyebrows and almond-shaped eyes. There was a heroic spirit between her eyebrows. The hands holding the straw rope were small and fleshy, with the joints hidden in the flesh. Like radishes.
I really can't imagine that these hands can kill pigs.
Li Chuan didn't dare to look at it, paid the money, picked up the pig's feet and left.
After taking a few steps, he heard a noise not far away. He followed the crowd and gathered around to watch the excitement.
It turned out that two neighbors were quarreling.
One family's surname is Liu, and the other's surname is Wang.
The Liu family lost their chicken, and he suspected that the Wang family next door had stolen his chicken.
why? Because the Liu family's rooster has been crowing desperately in the middle of the night these days. The wife of the Wang family had just given birth to a son, not even a hundred days old yet, and she cherished him very much.
In the middle of the night, the chicken crowed so loudly that it woke up the baby, crying loudly.
So the Wang family came to the house several times and asked the Liu family to take care of the chickens at home. When the quarrel got fierce, they even killed the chickens.
So now that the Liu family's chicken is missing, the biggest suspect is the Wang family.
Of course, the Wang family did not admit it, and while gloating about the misfortune, they mocked the Liu family, saying that their chickens had committed too many sins, and they finally suffered retribution and were stolen.
The Liu family lost their chicken and were said to be retribution, which made them even more angry.
Neighbors often have stumbling blocks, big and small. After the quarrel got angry, old and new grudges came to mind. I don’t know who made the first move, but a fight broke out!
When the onlookers saw that they were fighting, they began to break up the fight.
But Liu and Wang were so angry that they couldn't get away from each other at all.
Wang, a master, has great strength; Liu, although his movements are dexterous, has lost his strength over time and has gradually fallen behind. When he was about to lose, Liu suddenly pulled out a chisel and pointed it at him. Wang's head was stabbed.
It turned out that Liu was a carpenter and carried working tools with him.
Someone is going to die!
Li Chuan made a snap and immediately threw the pig's foot out, hitting the chisel.
The chisel was crooked an inch, and it made a hole.
The pig's feet fell to the ground, rolled a few times, and were stained with dust.
Liu was stunned for a moment, and Wang realized that he had just missed death. His anger surged and he was about to fight back. However, Li Chuan stepped forward and grabbed Wang's sleeve.
Wang wanted to break away when he heard Li Chuan say loudly: "You are so ignorant! If I hadn't taken action just now, your life would have been lost. Is this how you did to your savior?"
Wang couldn't find anything to say to refute for a while, so he was pulled away.
The onlookers also quickly pulled Liu aside.
Then, Li Chuan walked up to Liu and said, "You committed murder in broad daylight. Have you thought about the consequences?"
Liu scratched his head and said, "He stole my chicken!"
Li Chuan said: "You want to kill a person just for a chicken? Kill your neighbor in front of so many people. Do you think you can escape? Even if you can escape for a while and carry a life on your body, After hiding from the government all your life, do you think you can still be a carpenter? Can you still settle down and raise chickens?"
Liu gradually became dejected as he listened.
Li Chuan looked at him and said, "So you tell me, did I save you from fire and water? Am I your savior?"
Liu couldn't find anything to say in reply. He glanced at Wang and repeated, "He stole my chicken!"
Li Chuan asked: "Do you have evidence that he stole your chicken? For example, did you see him steal the chicken? Did you find the feathers of your chicken at his house? Or did you see him eating the stewed chicken?"
Liu shook his head, "But besides him, who else? Can a chicken run away on its own?"
"You can't say for sure," Li Chuan said as he picked up the pig's feet that fell on the ground and patted the ashes. "Look at Zhang Yuanwai's chicken. Didn't he just run away and hook up with a girl?" The ghost is coming to harm the old master."
There was already a lot of commotion about Zhang Yuan's family being attacked by a demon. Yesterday, Taoist Wen's methods were spread, and the story of the chicken, demon, and ghost became even more certain.