Yuanbao led me all the way across other people's roofs to the west end of the village.
"Shh..."
"Keep your voice down and get down quickly."
He pursed his lips and said, "It's that group of people, have you seen them?"
I lay on the eaves and looked down.
A total of four men came from the chieftain's descendants, two of them carrying hoes.
Among them, there was an elderly man holding a strange goat in his hand. The old man wore a square-brimmed cloth hat on his head. He was short and his face was covered with wrinkles and age spots.
They were talking, but because of the distance, I couldn't hear them clearly.
Can't hear it, but I can see it.
Why blame the goat?
Because this is a deformed goat!
Aren't the horns of normal goats always grown upward?
But this goat's horns grow downwards... It's obvious that it may have affected the view.
In addition, there is a rag doll hanging around the goat's neck. The doll cannot tell the difference between male and female, but it looks very shabby in appearance.
Yuan Bao said in a low voice: "Did you see that? That old man is the chieftain wizard. I heard that the strange goat called "Sheep Trouble" can find dead people."
At this time, villagers came over one after another to inquire. Seeing more and more people, I patted Yuanbao and said, "Go down, you can't hear anything here."
Climbing down the ladder of this house, an old lady in the yard was washing clothes. Suddenly she saw someone coming down the ladder of her house. The old lady was stunned.
I nodded slightly in greeting, then opened the door and went out.
"Master, we have never seen the cowherd. It's a waste of time for you to ask us. If it doesn't work, just call the police and report a missing person."
Some villagers echoed: "That's right, just report him missing."
This male wizard named "La Jin" looks older than his head. Mr. Li said that they fled famine in Henan in 1942. After so many years, they can naturally speak the local dialect.
When this old wizard looked at people, his eyeballs felt very cloudy and white. He wondered if he had cataracts.
His voice was deep and thick, and he said: "The sheep took me to this village. It sensed that Apo might not be here anymore, and that someone had harmed Apo."
We felt guilty as thieves, and the "Apo" he mentioned was the person we buried.
I heard one villager reply: "Hey, you said it was weird, but did you, the sheep, tell you who harmed the younger generation in your family?"
The old man's white and cloudy eyes scanned the crowd one by one.
Yuanbao and I were mixed in the crowd, with expressionless faces.
The old man's eyes passed over me. He slowly shook his head and said, "I don't know who it is."
"Laye, don't tell them. No matter whether you are dead or alive, you must find Apo. Let's start now."
The old wizard nodded. He took out a stick of earthen incense from his arms and lit it. Then he put the incense head down and inserted it into the "god doll" tied around the sheep's neck.
Tuxiang rushed down towards the ground.
The white smoke drifted away, and from a distance it looked like the sheep was on fire and smoking. I looked at it and felt it was a bit strange.
Then, the old wizard asked for two more things from another person.
A brand new straw sandal and a hand-cranked iron bell.
He put the straw sandal on his head with one hand and shouted loudly: "Apo! Apo! We are coming for you! If you hear it, lead the way!"
After reciting, ring the bell.
The old wizard was shaking all over, his eyelids were twitching, and he seemed to have entered a state of ecstasy as if there was no one around.
When the deformed goat heard the bell, its ears suddenly stood up like a dog!
The onlookers were talking quietly, and I heard someone ask, "Does that straw sandal belong to the missing person?"
Another person replied: "Who knows? But this posture looks quite scary, like a ghost."
"Clang!"
With the sound of the bell, the goat suddenly turned around and started walking. I looked in that direction...it seemed to be the direction of the entrance to Mang Mountain.
"Come on, follow me. I won't sleep tonight. Are you going?"
