Paper horse incense shop

Chapter 103 Looking for the Dog Man
  After listening to what the old man said in stunned silence, I only had one thought left in my mind -

This old lady is indeed very capable.

No wonder when Bai Zhaodi recounted the scene of the old lady's death three years ago, she repeatedly said that her uncle and aunt had quarreled and that the old lady was embarrassing. She did not allow the old lady's body to be recovered at home, but directly threw it into a remote barren mountain and old forest, without even talking to her. The old man was buried together.

Under normal circumstances, even if it is for reputation, there will actually be filial sons and grandsons.

Unless it is, this old lady is really too inappropriate!

Look at everything this old man described, it’s too outrageous!

I took a deep breath and finally asked:
  "Old man, are there many dogs around here?"

The old man was happily sharing other people's romantic stories with me, and wanted to make some disparaging remarks. When he heard my question, he didn't react for a while:

"dog?"

"It's not bad. It's cold in winter. If there are more people who freeze to death, just eat less. In summer, when it's hotter, there are more vendors selling food on the streets. If they have meat or bones to eat, just eat more."

"But when there are too many, there aren't many. After all, if there are more dogs, there will be more people beating them, so it won't be able to sustain the climate."

Hearing the last sentence, I was stunned and asked:

"Uncle, how can any of us eat dog meat? Is there such a thing?"

"I look at dogs quite pitifully. Killing dogs for meat doesn't make everyone feel bad. Shouldn't you be panicking?"

The old man was really impatient this time, with a look of disgust on his face:
  "What's wrong with this? In my day, people ate Guanyin soil and tree bark. When they were the hungriest, they had to trade children with others."

"Isn't it just about eating some dog meat now!? There are many people in the older generation who kill dogs and eat meat. In our era, the poor were afraid of the bad, and the bad were afraid of starving to death. Not to mention eating dogs, they were eating people. Once you take the butcher's knife, what can you do to us?"

As soon as I heard this, I knew there was something wrong with what I had thought. I immediately said goodbye to the talkative old man and walked back.

Only an old lady tortures and eats dogs, and many people eat dog meat are two different concepts.

From what the old man said, he had killed dogs and eaten dog meat, so the possibility of revenge was much lower.

In this case, the IQ of the 'dog man' needs to be lowered.

Excluding the least probable possibilities, there is a high probability that the 'dog man' did not come for revenge, that is, it was really an accident.

One summer day three years ago, an old lady who was left in the wilderness with no one to keep her body was devoured by wild dogs, leaving only a head.

Then there was a 'heterogeneous' member of the population who wanted to become an adult, so he stood upright, lifted the old lady's head with his head, and began to dress up as a 'living person'.

Perhaps because no one had discovered it over the years, the dog began to slowly fuse with the skull, resulting in no significant damage or signs of decay on the old lady's head.
  I came to a conclusion in my mind, and after thinking about it, I called Hu Xiaowu again.

Hu Xiaowu quickly answered the phone:

"Oh, you have said more to me in one day than before. Little sister, if you miss me, I will go see you. You don't have to make excuses to find me, hehe."

In just over ten hours, Hu Xiaowu became the familiar Hu Xiaowu again.

I was a little speechless and said directly:
  "Let's talk about business."

"Now I have found out that many people among the older generation here seem to have eaten dog meat. The statement I said before that killing dogs leads to attracting capable spirits seems untenable."

"Now I'm roughly sure it's a dog trying to pretend to be a human."

Hu Xiaowu listened quietly, and when he heard my speaking slowed down, he asked:

"Then what? Isn't this done?" "Isn't it enough to find the dog and scare the other party, such as tapping the shoulder or kicking the dog out?"

It's hard for me to say:
  ".Then I can't find the dog?"

Hu Xiaowu was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't hear clearly, so he asked again.

This time I felt a little more confident and confident:

"My paper figurine technique requires personal items or blood relatives to find things!"

"Where can I find personal belongings for dogs now? Dogs don't wear clothes. It's even harder to find blood ties. Pingyang County is so big, where can I find a dog that can run better than me?"

Hu Xiaowu seemed to be covering his mouth, suppressing his laughter until the pig squealed several times. After a long while, he said:
  "Auntie, I want to say, is there a possibility? Well, dogs are very territorial creatures."

"Where did you see it first, and where does it usually appear?"

I was stunned for a moment, and I felt a numbing feeling of embarrassment, which went from my scalp to the soles of my feet. I wished I could get a three-bedroom apartment in an instant.

Yes!

Dogs pee to mark their territory. The book says that the patrol territory of an adult dog is about one to three kilometers, but the dog I was looking for was a little more special.

Because it was holding the old lady's head and its feet were its own, it couldn't hide it, but it was afraid of being exposed, so the scope of the search could be further narrowed.

When I was studying, my second uncle once said that I was a bit of a book-reader.

Although I can remember everything in the book and think of it when I use it, sometimes it is too rigid and I don't know how to adapt.

Now this is a shame and has been thrown to the Northeast!
  I took a deep breath and figured out the key. I stopped listening to Hu Xiaowu’s pig braying and thanked him. Then I found the wheat field where I saw the ‘Dog Man’ for the first time.

Taking into account the dog's routine and the time when I first saw the dog-man, I waited until the sunset filled the sky, then slowly walked to the edge of the wheat field and began to search carefully along the field ridge.

If my estimate is correct, there will definitely be no trace of dogs on the ridges.

Because the wheat here is harvested two to three times a year, people come and go very frequently.

If the dog man settles on the ridges of the fields, every time he plants seedlings and cuts wheat, it will be an earthquake for him.

Therefore, the most likely place to settle is at the edge of each field, that is, the field ridge.

And there must be a place to hide the old lady’s head so that no one can find it.
  There must be a hole!

For example——

This one in front of me!

My eyes lit up, and through the thin sunset glow, I saw an imperceptible hole at my feet.

The opening of the hole is only the size of the mouth of a bowl. Small holes of this size are usually not easily opened by farmers because they are afraid that there will be snake holes or rat holes inside, which will make escaping after drilling more troublesome.

And that just gave the dog a chance to breathe.

I leaned down, pointed at the hole, and turned on the flashlight in my hand——

I happened to see a human face in the cave, facing the entrance.

　Scared babies can still hide in the author’s arms~
  　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)