Raising Ghosts Records

Chapter 20 The Huge Whiptail Scorpion
The three people filled the soil very quickly, and none of them wanted to let the bugs escape, so they were all panting from exhaustion. The old man didn't know whether he was frightened or tired, so he sat down on the ground directly, and asked whether he had dug it. Let's go to the Landlord's house!That would be a life-threatening alas!
The young man lifted the grass with a stick and checked around until he found no bugs before asking the old man: "What are the origins of those bugs just now? They are really scary. He has never seen them in his 20s." .”

With lingering fear in his heart, the old man squeezed out an ugly smile and said: "When he was a child, he found this bug on a fishing net at night, but he never saw it again, and he didn't know what it was called."

Seeing these two people's frightened faces turned ashen, I wanted to laugh but I couldn't hold back. They probably have never seen such a weird phenomenon. From their point of view, they can only guess that they dug up the house of the Landlord, and then the Landlord sent these bugs come out.

In fact, these insects were brought by Tongtong, so many climbed up at once, it is estimated that all the blood centipedes in the river section with a radius of several hundred meters were dispatched, and it is unknown how much strength Tongtong lost.

I was about to strike up a conversation with these two people, but Tong Tong urged me to leave quickly!After talking too much nonsense, I got stuck, so I left immediately, where the boatman was still waiting for me, and got on the boat and headed back.

It was a small boat, probably made by the boatman himself, with a tractor head as the engine, and the speed was fairly fast. It didn’t take long for me to return to the river bank opposite Jiangkou Town, and I boarded the car back to Shepo.

It was past four o'clock in the afternoon when I got back to my uncle's house. I opened the door and went back to the room, and pulled out the bronze knife from the ground.Tongtong told me that all the ghosts in the room are gone, but when you leave, they will definitely come back.I asked Tong Tong how she got so many blood centipedes at noon, and she told me that she attached a centipede king to attract so many blood centipedes.It stands to reason that these insects hide and sleep in the sand at the bottom of the river during the day, and it is really hard for Tongtong to get so many at once.Tongtong said that she thought she ran out on land during the day and thought her soul and body were damaged, but in the end nothing happened, and she couldn't figure out why.

The last time Tongtong's soul was damaged was the time I stabbed the fish body to death. Fortunately, she hid in the sorceress Zhang's locust tree card in time, and she had eaten more than a dozen virgins, otherwise she might not even be able to kill her. The souls are scattered in the river, never to exist.

After tossing all day and night, I also felt a little tired, so I went back to my room and wanted to sleep.My room was empty, with only a wooden bed and a corner full of sweet potatoes, most of which had sprouted.I tidied up the moldy bed boards, took out the quilt and mat from the cabinet in my uncle's room, and laid it on. It felt so good to lie on it.

Although I haven't slept in this room for nearly a year, I don't feel unaccustomed to it. After all, this is my house, at least it is the house of my grandparents. My daughter should have a share even if she is not married. Thinking of this, I even have the idea of ​​kicking my uncle out of the house. .

When it was dark, I got up and went to my aunt's house for dinner. Her house was only three houses away from my uncle's house. The uncle and uncle were cousins ​​from the same ancestor.When I got home, they happened to be cooking, and several children in the family were playing around.Uncle Tang greeted me to sit down, asked me how I was, and said why you ran out by yourself last year. If your uncle doesn't let you live, you can come to live in my house!
I know this is just polite words, every family is already poor, who wants to raise a child who is not their own!The reality is cruel, and the people who really think about themselves are their parents or grandparents.

Of course, I knew in my heart that Uncle Tang was speaking politely. Of course, I couldn't say that he was hypocritical. I just said that I wanted to find my younger sister, but came back when I couldn't find her.

After dinner, my aunt asked me where I had been this year. I made up a random story for them. The story probably went like this
After my uncle kicked me out of the house, I took a hoe to dig herbs for sale, and accidentally found a place with a lot of herbs. After digging for more than half a month, I made about 50 yuan, and then used the money to go to Wuzhou to give people Domestic ducks raise fish.While digging herbs, I lived in a small temple, usually stealing corn and sweet potatoes and fishing to eat.
When the meal was almost finished, I asked my cousin and aunt if they knew where my uncle had sent my sister to someone in Hunan.At this time, my uncle's answer made me almost jump up for joy. He heard that it was a place called Dao County in Yongzhou, Hunan, but they couldn't remember the details.

Even so, this news is already great news for me. The original scope of my search was the entire HUN province, but now it has shrunk to a county.So even if I asked this county door to door, it would not take a year!
I was so excited that I almost kowtowed to my aunt and uncle, but it would be too exaggerated to kowtow.I asked my aunt and cousin if they were studying, and my aunt said that they would read it in two years, and they couldn't afford it now.

My aunt's family has three children, one daughter and two sons. The eldest son is studying, and the second daughter is 7 years old this year. In two years, she will be nine years old. It is not good to go to school late.

I knew very well what it was like to have no books to study, so I offered to send my cousin to study, but my cousin and aunt refused repeatedly, saying how can I use your hard-earned money!Just take care of yourself.

After dinner, I still go home to sleep. After leaving home for a year, the village has been connected to electricity, but my uncle’s house has not installed it, so I still use kerosene lamps.I lay back on the bed, thinking about my plan to go to Hunan, and fell asleep before I knew it.

I had a dream about the stone duck.In my dream, I was floating on the river on a bamboo raft, the water surface was covered with fog, and there was a huge black shadow swimming below the river surface.The bamboo raft I was sitting on floated to Xiangsizhou, and I heard the noise above, so I ran up to watch the excitement, only to see dozens of small men chiseling a big rock, which had already carved out the shape of a duck.

These dwarfs are as short as a beer bottle, and taller as a normal adult's knee. They speak a language they don't understand.

I approached these villains curiously, but they seemed to be unable to see me, just doing their own thing.I reached out to catch a small person, but the hand passed through their body, as if they were just projections and couldn't catch at all.

Even after trying several times, I couldn't catch one, so I squatted down and watched them carefully. At this moment, a palm suddenly stretched out from the ground, grabbed my face, and dragged it to the ground.

I woke up suddenly, and felt uncomfortable on my face, as if I was really caught by something, so I touched my face with my hand, and caught a soft and hard thing.After being caught by me, the thing was struggling, and I was so scared that I immediately threw it out, and the room immediately filled with an unpleasant sour smell.

I immediately reached for the flashlight and shone it on the ground, and this time I saw the thing I threw out.OMG!There was a huge whiptail scorpion on the ground, it was as big as a leather shoe, probably the size of Yao Ming's leather shoe.

The whole body of this whiptail scorpion was black and shiny. After I threw it to the ground, it didn't run away. Instead, it raised its two pincers, as if preparing to fight someone.

No one in the countryside has ever seen whiptail scorpions. They often appear in the grass in the corners at night, catching cockroaches, spiders, earthworms and other insects for food. If they encounter enemies, they will emit an unpleasant sour smell, which is used to scare the enemies away and then take advantage of it. run away.

But our common whip-tailed scorpions are only the size of a thumb. Where did such a large whip-tailed scorpion come from?I walked around it carefully, went to another room and took a basket of rice, aimed at the whiptail scorpion, covered it, and caught it.

The sour smell in the air was so bad that I felt like passing out after sniffing it. I found a piece of clothing to wrap my nose up and soaked in a little water to feel better.Back in the room, he made a snare with a rope and put it on the belly of the whiptail scorpion, then lifted it up and hung it on the bamboo pole for drying clothes at the kitchen door.

This whip-tailed scorpion looked terrifyingly big, but it could only struggle blindly when it was tied up and hung up. I saw that it couldn't escape, so I went back and washed my face. I looked in the mirror and found no wounds on my face.

It's scary enough to think about it, but such a big whiptail scorpion crawled into my face at night, I don't know what it wants to do.Thinking of someone saying that there were bugs crawling into the ears and laying eggs at night, I couldn't help but get goosebumps.

I checked the room with a flashlight, but found nothing but a few cockroaches, lit the kerosene lamp and fell asleep again.

At dawn, I got up early and wanted to take this whiptail scorpion to the village to ask the old man, but I saw that there was only rope left on the bamboo pole.I went over to take a closer look, and there were still a few broken legs and some residue on the ground. The big whiptail scorpion didn't seem to have escaped, but was eaten by something.

This is even scarier. I don't even know what monsters are hiding in this room.To be honest, I would definitely not be afraid of it coming out, but I don’t know what it is or where it hides. It’s just lying to myself if I say I’m not afraid. The so-called fear comes from the unknown.

But no matter what kind of monster it is, it cannot stay in my house. I plan to find out what the monster that ate the whiptail scorpion is.

I bought two chickens from my aunt's house, one was used as bait tonight, and the other was sure to be my dish today. After putting the chicken in the cage, I went outside to wander around.

I haven't been back to this village for a year, and the changes are not big, except that there are more telephone poles.I went to the ditch where I used to catch small fish with a dustpan when I was a child, the field where I often caught frogs, and the trees I often climbed.Although my childhood was not happy, these are things worth remembering.

I don't have any friends in this village, and they didn't play with me at first, saying that I have neither parents nor parents, so it's fine if they don't bully me.Secondly, I have to work every day since I was seven years old, and I rarely have time to play, but most of them are in school.

(End of this chapter)