Chapter 165 Adding fuel to the fire

The fishy smell wafted in the air with the slight cold wind. The old village chief was so smoked that he took several steps back. He frowned and said to Xiao Ran: "This young man... why did a plague cat come over and choke?

If he’s dead, Huanhuan’er will carry him out!”

Xiao Ran also covered his nose and said to the village chief: "Uncle, isn't this the Laoshan?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the villagers who had not dispersed at the door gathered around again, stretching their necks and looking around, their faces full of novelty. And their novelty made Xiao Ran full of curiosity.

Xu Er came up with a wooden stick, and in front of everyone, without covering his nose or frowning, he caressed the hairless body, earning waves of admiration from the surrounding villagers.

He looked up at Xiao Ran and asked with gleaming eyes: "Is this quack thing a giant frog? It's the first time I've seen it, but it looks like a cat..."

The village chief frowned and said: "You little blind man, who said this is a larvae? This is just a wild cat. He ate too much dead meat from graves and got infected with that... bacteria! Look at that.

Moss bumps!"

After the village chief said this, Xiao Ran took a closer look at the corpse on the ground. At this time, the sky was bright and the corpse in front of him was clearly illuminated. If he looked carefully, it looked like a dead body that had become swollen and enlarged and covered with cat moss.

Cat. Several pieces of cat moss have grown and thickened, turning into a bulging bulge covered with black downy mold.

Xiao Ran took a closer look at the cat's sides. The spikes that were originally like legs had turned into black and green powder and stained the tattered quilt, leaving only a few holes in the cat's body. These spikes,

It's probably some kind of keratinous growth caused by infection with bacteria.

Could it be true, as the village chief said, that this was just a big wild cat that ate too much corpse meat, was infected with some kind of bacteria that could be understood as corpse poison, and produced some special mutations?

Xiao Ran pulled the village chief and asked: "If this isn't a Lao Cong, then what is a Lao Cong?"

The village chief hurriedly wanted to go back to the house, broke away from Xiao Ran's hand and said: "It's definitely not this, that's just a joke...I'll get some Lysol, you Huanhuan'er, take this thing out and burn it! See what happens.

A plague..."

From the old village chief's simple and sullen expression, Xiao Ran couldn't see a hint of concealment. He was now almost certain that those fabricated legends had nothing to do with Futou Village.

He had no choice but to ask Liu Shengli to wrap up the body with him. Under the leadership of Xu Er, he went to find a sheltered wasteland outside the village and burned the body hastily.

Looking at the burning fire, Xiao Ran thought carefully about last night's adventure. He was sure that he had not misunderstood, and all the strange things that happened to this corpse were real.

He asked Xu Er: "Did you see it yesterday? Something flew out of its head."

Xu Er scratched his head and said: "Xiao Dagang, actually I didn't see anything flying out of its head. I just saw something flying in the sky. I thought it was a bird and shot it. That thing was a bit strange. It melted as soon as the sun came out.

Already..."

Xu Er also saw it, so he didn't run away. Xiao Ran believed that the village chief did not lie to him, but the village chief himself might have never seen that kind of insect.

Returning to the old village chief's house, he wore a cotton mask and cleaned the yard with his wife. The whole yard was filled with this unique hospital smell.

"Fortunately it's winter, otherwise something big would happen..."

When the old village chief saw them coming in, he frowned and muttered.

Xiao Ran decided not to dwell on the issue of Lao Lao, but took out the bag containing the hair mound seal fragments and the ghost mother statue from his bag, and took out the ghost mother statue.

At this time, the bronze statue was very quiet, just like an ordinary copper lump. He handed the bronze statue to the old village chief, saying that it was a recovered cultural relic and wanted to return it to Futou Village.

The old village chief glanced at the bronze statue indifferently and said: "What are you going to do with this? I don't want to use it. It's all feudal superstition. Either throw it away or ask Xu Er to take you back. Why don't you steal this one too?"

Gone..."

Next, the old village chief said something rambling. Xiao Ran couldn't understand it completely, but he knew that the main idea was to scold the three bridge guests, and included the words "send to the police" in the swear words.

Xiao Ran looked at the stooped bodies of the two old people and felt a little sorry, so he and Liu Shengli helped clean the yard and disinfected himself and the jeep. Xu Er followed behind to help, and he had become Xiao Ran.

's little follower.

When cleaning the jeep, Xiao Ran discovered that there was a lot of mold from the plague-stricken wild cat on the bottom and butt of the car. He speculated that maybe the wild cat last night had first scratched the car under the car with the scarecrow in its mouth.

, so there was a strange scene where the straw man disappeared and followed the car all the way. After that, they threw the straw man away and drove the car behind a barren grave, and the wild cat got out from under the car.

After the yard was cleaned, the old village chief relaxed and asked Xu Er to take the two of them home to arrange accommodation and meals. He would subsidize the food stamps. This was another bright spot for Xu Er. Of course he was happy.

It's incredible.

Xiao Ran had brought enough food stamps and money from across the country, so naturally he couldn't put any pressure on the old village chief or Xu Er. He left two bottles of Erguotou and two kilograms of air-dried beef as a thank you to the old village chief, and then drove towards the village chief.

Go to Xu Er's house.

The person who opened the door was Xu Er's mother, who was only over forty years old. It was difficult to describe her with the word "old woman." Xu Er's two younger brothers were twelve years old and ten years old.

People in the village get married early. According to Xu Er, her mother gave birth to her eldest brother at the age of nineteen and her younger brother in her thirties. When her father died, her eldest brother had already joined the work, so the family did not suffer from the loss of orphans and widowers.

Too much suffering.

Xiao Ran criticized Liang Baofu time and time again in his heart. This guy was too talkative. Maybe the bridge guests only added a certain amount of jealousy, but Liang Baofu must have added at least another fifth of jealousy.

Xu Er's mother placed Xiao Ran and Liu Shengli in the room on the west side. Xiao Ran asked Xu Er when he was going to return the bronze statue. Xu Er waved his hand and said there was no rush. No one wanted this thing anyway, so it would be okay to leave it for a day. There will be a lot of fire tonight.

, every household had to prepare something to eat and drink, and he had to go and help his mother, so he told the two of them to have a good rest first.

After a lot of trouble last night, Xiao Ran and Liu Shengli were really tired. He looked at Xu Er busy burning the kang, and his eyes were in a trance. Liu Shengli next to him also snored. Xiao Ran didn't know when he would

Fell asleep.

He was awakened by a burst of quiet laughter. He opened his eyes in a daze and saw Xu Er's little brother sitting between him and Liu Shengli through the oil lamp. He used a brush that someone brought to draw pictures for Liu Shengli, who was still snoring.

Got two beards.

When he saw Xiao Ran wake up, he was not afraid of life. He just looked at Xiao Ran with a smile and handed a walnut-sized copper sculpture to Xiao Ran.

Before Xiao Ran had time to look at the thing, Xu Er suddenly ran in excitedly, bringing in the smell of fried food. Seeing that Xiao Ran had woken up, he quickly greeted: "Xiao Dagang, come on! The fire is on."

, let’s go eat something delicious!”

Xiao Ran agreed while stuffing the copper knot in his hand. He woke up Liu Shengli, and the two of them followed Xu Er out and walked towards the gleaming wheat field.

Looking at the fire getting closer and closer, Xiao Ran finally knew what a real fire looked like.
Chapter completed!