The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 73 Congratulations to the Groom (12)

The dog jumped onto the path and burrowed into the bushes beside the road. The patriarch, Yang Sizhao, and I chased it to the path, and immediately found that the path was covered with bloodstains.Seeing this, Yang Sizhao slowed down, seemed to be surprised, and said to the patriarch, "This is...the place where Siyuan jumped off the cliff."

When I heard this, I immediately understood that this was also the place where Hu Xiaoshan was bitten to death by wolves, and the blood on the ground was left by Hu Xiaoshan.It's just why this dog fled all the way and came here?Just as I was thinking, there was a sudden movement in the bushes, and the dog poked its head out, looked at us with hostile eyes, and showed a mouthful of sharp white teeth.

I was frightened by its eyes, and immediately fell silent, staying where I was and not daring to move.Yang Sizhao and the patriarch didn't move either, as if they were holding their breath and waiting to take it down in one fell swoop.Seeing that we didn't move, the dog took another step outside, and then stuck out its tongue to lick the blood on the ground.

"This dog has been running straight here, as if it has been here before." I turned to the patriarch and said, "Don't the patriarch think it's a bit weird?"

"It's really weird." The patriarch nodded, suddenly panicked on his face, shivered, pointed behind me and said, "What is that?"

"What?" I was surprised when I heard the words, turned around to look, but saw that there was nothing behind me, so I turned my head back.Unexpectedly, as soon as I turned around, I saw the patriarch with a ferocious face, raising the machete in his hand, and slashing at me.

He made an attack suddenly, and I was caught off guard. In shock, I tripped over a clump of grass and fell to the ground, but I narrowly avoided the knife.The patriarch didn't hit me with the knife, so he immediately yelled at Yang Sizhao: "Why are you standing there, why don't you hurry up!"

Yang Sizhao hesitated and did not move. The patriarch slapped him and cursed angrily, "Are you going to kill the whole village?"

Only then did Yang Sizhao grit his teeth, and uttered a few words between his teeth: "I'm sorry, sir!" Then he rushed towards me as well.

As soon as I rolled on the ground, I regretted that I shouldn't have followed them into the mountain so much.I knew early on that the patriarch probably saw that I had broken his trap, but I didn't expect him to kill me at all.Now in this deep mountain and dense forest, the heavens should not be called the earth is not working, how can I alone be the opponent of the two of them, and they still have knives in their hands.

I secretly groaned in my heart, and hurriedly yelled on the ground: "Wait a minute! I don't intend to tell Hushan what I know, otherwise why didn't I mention it at the entrance of the village?"

Yang Sizhao slowed down when he heard the words, and the patriarch's expression changed, but he gritted his teeth and said, "This matter concerns the lives of hundreds of people in my Xiaoyang Village. I can only be sorry, sir."

Hearing this, Yang Sizhao didn't hesitate anymore, and rushed towards me again.I rolled several times on the ground, already reaching the edge of suspense, and if I moved again, I would fall down.Yang Sizhao swung the mountain machete, the blade hadn't touched the body, but the light of the blade had already killed the courage.When I was terrified, I heard the dog in the bush bark suddenly, and the sound was also full of panic.

I thought to myself that my life is in danger right now, and no one wants your life, so why are you barking.However, as far as I know, this dog almost never makes a sound, and it is a bit surprising to suddenly bark at this time.I was desperate, thinking that even this dog couldn't bear to see the behavior of the patriarch, is this an injustice on me?
At this moment, the patriarch suddenly screamed, as if he had been frightened by something, he couldn't stand upright, and sat down on the ground.Yang Sizhao heard that there was a change behind him, and hurriedly turned his head. I had survived the knife, and before I had time to rejoice, I saw a few pairs of claws quietly walking out from behind the patriarch.

The fur on these claws is as hard as needles, and the claws are rigid and powerful.I followed the paws to look up, and suddenly my back felt cold, because it was a few wolves who walked out from behind the patriarch without a sound!

Wolves and dogs are natural enemies. When the dog saw these wolves appear, the hair on its back stood on end, and it bared its teeth and growled, full of vigilance.Those wolves didn't take it seriously at all, and immediately separated a few wolves to block the dog after it appeared, and then the remaining wolves walked towards the patriarch and Yang Sizhao step by step. He was forced to the edge of a cliff by Yang Sizhao, but now he is hiding behind him instead.

Originally, wolves, like dogs, would not attack people without saying a word, at least they would observe them before attacking.But somehow these wolves are like that dog, they will come up and fight people desperately without saying a word.Before I had time to be surprised, a wolf jumped up in the air and bit its teeth towards Yang Sizhao. Yang Sizhao held a knife to protect the front door, turned sideways, aimed at the wolf's neck, and swung the knife.

The wolf nimbly dodged in the air and fell to the ground, right behind him, and was face to face with me immediately!As soon as I met the green wolf eyes, I was frightened out of my wits. At this moment, I don't even have a wooden stick in my hand. If I don't want to sit still, I can only bite it.

The wolf didn't wait for me to react, so he kicked his hind legs and rushed up.My liver and gallbladder were torn apart, and I screamed hysterically. I rolled back on my back again, but I forgot that there was a cliff behind me. Scratching the ground, the scenery around me flashed by, and there was only one thought in my mind-my life is over!My life is over!

Just when I almost collapsed, another black spot suddenly appeared on the top of the cliff, and it fell down at the same speed. It looked like a patriarch.A thought flashed in my mind, was the patriarch also forced to jump off the cliff by those wolves?

Before I had time to think about it, I was already at the bottom of the cliff, and I closed my eyes in pain, preparing to welcome a torn self.Unexpectedly, as soon as his back touched the ground, there was a strong sense of rebound, as if he had fallen on a huge spring.

Because of the huge elastic force, I was bounced back into the air again, and then fell down again. After repeating this several times, I finally stopped bouncing.I got up from the ground in amazement, and found that I was unscathed. I immediately lowered my head and took a look at the bottom of my body—under my body was a huge rattan bed, each measuring several feet in length and width.

The rattan bed is woven with all kinds of tough and thick rattan, no matter who falls from the cliff, it will fall on it impartially.The person who erected the rattan bed was afraid that one bed would not be able to withstand the weight of falling off the cliff, so they deliberately erected several layers. Even if the top bed was broken, there were still beds below that could catch people.

At this time, the patriarch also climbed up from the rattan bed. I turned my head and glanced at him, and my heart suddenly became clear. It turned out that he was not forced to jump off the cliff by those wolves, but jumped off by himself, because he already knew that the bottom of the cliff would be dead. There is such a rattan bed.At this moment, the patriarch fell to the bottom of the cliff without a machete in his hand.He was an old man, no stronger than me, so he couldn't kill me naturally, so he looked at me rather awkwardly.

I jumped off the rattan bed and smiled at him. Although he had murderous intentions towards me, he was thinking about the safety of Xiaoyang Village, so I didn't blame him too much in my heart, but said: "I If you tell about that matter, you won’t stay and enter the village with you.”

"Then why did you stay?" The patriarch stared at me motionless, his eyes fixed, as if he wanted to see my heart.

"I have done such a big favor to the patriarch, and I have to know whether this favor is worth it." I looked at the patriarch and said, "After all, Hu Xiaoshan's death is inseparable from me, isn't it?"

The patriarch was silent for a while, "I know that sir saw something strange, but how did you see the flaw, I have never been able to understand it, can you please enlighten me, sir?"

"Originally, the layout of this whole matter is so subtle, far beyond my imagination," I shook my head and said, "If you didn't neglect one thing, I would never see anything wrong with it."

"Oh, what's the matter?"

"The legend of the mountain god's mount hundreds of years ago - the patriarch once told me that only the people in Hushan knew this legend. But when Yang Siwei was in Hushan, he said that the mountain god's mount would come back to take revenge on Huxiaoshan. How did he know about the son of a bitch? It's the same as the legend of the mountain god, and maybe the bitch is the mount of the mountain god?"

I looked at the patriarch, "The people in Hushan probably thought that I told him, but in fact I only told you about it. And you have been with me since then, and you have no time to tell Yang Siwei about it I hadn't thought of this until Yang Sizhao told me last night that no one in Xiaoyang Village had seen the statue of a mountain god riding a dog for so many years. Then how did he and Yang Siwei know about it?"

The patriarch was startled, and then smiled wryly: "I never thought that we would show our feet in such details."

"Since he shouldn't know about this, but he did. I was wondering if the purpose of what he said was to tell everyone that if Hu Xiaoshan died, it was because the bitch came back to take revenge. Last night, the patriarch was anxious In fact, half of the reason for bringing the young people out of the mountain is because of Yang Siwei's injury, and the other half is to keep myself out of the village so that I can disassociate myself from Hu Xiaoshan's death, right?"

"That's right." The patriarch probably felt that since I had seen through him, there was nothing to hide, "Just as Mr. expected, Hu Xiaoshan died under Xiaoyang Village's calculations."

"So, Hu Xiaoshan was actually killed by the dog raised by Yang Sizhao, right? You only fed it raw meat, starved it often, deliberately stimulated its wildness, just to wait for this day! This can also explain why That dog will come here because it has killed people on the cliff before, and subconsciously thinks that there are still corpses to eat here!"

"Not bad." The patriarch's face was gloomy, but he was not ashamed.

"Then Hu Xiaotian's death should also have something to do with Xiaoyang Village, right? There has never been any murder of a mountain god. The reason why Hu Xiaotian and his party were killed without firing a shot was because they met Xiaoyang Village. I never thought that you would attack him. You killed them when they were not prepared, and then let the dogs bite the corpses. When the people in Hushan found out, the corpses had already changed beyond recognition. How could they find out that in fact, Hu Xiaotian It was not killed by wild animals."

The patriarch listened to me without saying a word.I took a deep breath and looked at him, "Because the old patriarch gave his life to save Hu Xiaotian, Hushan never suspected that Xiaoyang Village was related to Hu Xiaotian's death. This is what I don't understand. Yangcun has murderous intentions towards Hu Xiaotian, why did the old patriarch save him back then?"

"Sir, don't you understand?" The patriarch raised his head and looked back at me, and said word by word, "Because the old patriarch never thought of saving Hu Xiaotian, but just happened to go to Hushan at that time, and Hu Xiaotian forced him to take drugs to heal his injuries , ruined his life."

It turns out that the old patriarch was forced to save Hu Xiaotian!

The patriarch said again: "Sir, do you know why the old patriarch appeared in Hushan?"

I shook my head in bewilderment, Hu Xiaotian was such a person, it was beyond my expectation, but considering Hu Xiaoshan's actions, it is not surprising that he would surround other people's villages at every turn.

"At the beginning, the old patriarch went to Hushan to send filial money to Hushan. Do you know what filial money is?"

I was shocked to hear that the so-called "filial piety money" is actually money to buy peace.In many places where banditry is serious, the national government is unable to govern, and the local villages and towns will raise a sum of money to give to the bandits every year in exchange for a year of peace.It turns out that Xiaoyang Village sends filial piety money to Hushan every year. I thought to myself, and I suddenly understood that the last time Yang Sizhao and I went to Hushan together, it must be to pay this money.

In other words, even if the old patriarch risked his life to save Hu Xiaotian, Hushan still didn't exempt Xiaoyang Village from the tribute money.It's no wonder that Xiaoyang Village hated Hu Xiaotian and his son so much, and tried their best to get rid of them.

(End of this chapter)