This time of year should be at the end of summer or the beginning of autumn. The sky is clear and the air is bright, the stars are shining brightly, and the whole Zhuangzi gradually becomes quiet.
There is only one house left in the village that still has a little light reflected in the window, and that is the house of the head of the village not far away.
It is also the only one of the few black-tiled houses in the village.
The remaining households are basically made of adobe, thatched house, and fenced yard.
But Cheng Yu couldn't see any of these scenery. After the sun set, his eyes were completely dark.
It turns out that all sparrows are night-blind. No wonder I couldn’t find a single sparrow at night in my previous life.
Unable to see anything around me, my mind gradually became drowsy, and even my hunger became much lighter...
On the first day he traveled here, he only drank a few drops of water.
Unknowingly, Cheng Yu had turned his head back ninety degrees and buried it half in the nest of his wings. He moved skillfully like holding his left hand with his right hand, and fell asleep after a while.
……
"Rustling, rustling..."
I don't know how long it took, but Cheng Yu vaguely heard a rustling sound.
The frightening encounter during the day, coupled with the fact that he was unfamiliar with this world for the first time, made him more vigilant than in his previous life.
Cheng Yu, who was sleeping lightly, suddenly woke up completely with a jolt.
It was still invisible outside the earth cave, so it was judged that it was still dark at this time, but the rustling sound was clearer than before, which was obviously not a dream.
It would be better if the eyes could see at this time, but the most terrifying thing is that one can only hear but cannot see what is causing trouble.
Cheng Yu suddenly had a personal understanding of the pain of being blind.
I listened attentively for a while with my ears raised, and the rustling sound was gone, and everything fell silent again.
Cheng Yu didn't dare to be careless, so he steeled himself to stay on guard for a while, but when there was no movement, he felt sleepy and fell into a deep sleep.
Unexpectedly, not long after I fell asleep, there was another small sound. It was different from the previous sound, and it came from another direction. The movement was much louder than before.
Fortunately, the earth hole Cheng Yu chose was very high off the ground, making it difficult for ordinary wild cats and dogs to climb up.
Thinking of this, Cheng Yu had just calmed down when two screams of "Zhi Zhi!" suddenly came from not far below.
Rat!
Although Cheng Yu had no mysophobia in his previous life, he was also very averse to mice.
Normally, there should be no mice in the house, otherwise he would not be able to sleep well at night, always worrying that mice would suddenly crawl onto his face at some point.
It can't find me...
It can't find me...
While Cheng Yu was praying silently over and over in his heart, two sounds of "Zhi Zhi!" were heard again. This time the distance was obviously closer than before!
Here we go...
Cheng Yu suddenly felt ten thousand grass and mud horses jumping around in his heart.
What to do?
Risk your life and fly out?
It's dark outside, and there are many dangers during the day, let alone now?
It can't come up...
Height seems to be Cheng Yu's only hope at the moment.
Fortunately, at this moment, there was a "wow, woof, woof" sound coming from the courtyard. It turned out that the rat was making a noise that disturbed the black dog in the courtyard.
Long live the black soil dog!
Who said dogs are nosy with mice?
Cheng Yu loved this local dog to death at this moment.
As soon as the dog barked, the rustling and rat noises suddenly disappeared, but the black soil dog refused to let go and kept barking towards the hole.
"Master, the dog is howling, can you go out and take a look?"
It turned out that the backside of Cheng Yu's earthen cave was the earthen bed of Gu Er's family in the house. A woman's voice reached Cheng Yu's ears through the cracks in the wall, and it was the stout daughter-in-law of Gu Er's family who spoke.
"Are you here? The dog is just playing tricks."
The rough man Gu Er muttered impatiently.
"Go quickly, the monkey is so impatient, the dog is howling so hard that I can't do anything at ease. Maybe there is another picky guy lying on the wall. Go quickly, don't let the dog get away again."
After the woman complained for a while, the sound of rustling clothes was heard in the house.
"Squeaky"
The door hinge turned, and Gu Er cursed under his breath. He bent down and carefully walked out of the house with a wooden stick as thick as a bowl in his hand.
"Clang!"
"Woooo..."
I think the wooden stick didn't hit the dog, but it frightened the native dog quite hard. It only whimpered twice and then stopped moving. Even the insects were silent.
"Howl your motherfucker!"
Gu Er's sudden shouting and scolding seemed particularly loud in the silence.
After scolding the dog, Gu Er didn't move. He hunched over and raised his ears to listen quietly to the movement around him. After confirming that there were no footsteps around him, he straightened up and put his hands on his hips and cursed again:
"Keep yelling and I'll break your legs!"
Picking up the stick and dragging it on the ground, he patrolled around the courtyard, then tightened the fence and wood door, turned back to the house and gently closed the door with a "squeak", and then the sound of the latch was heard.
"There is no one. It must be the plagued rat that makes the dog howl. Instead of going to Zhuangtou's house to eat white flour steamed buns, he went to my place to catch the autumn wind."
Gu Er went back to the room and muttered, and soon a harmonious sound that was no longer suppressed could be heard in the room.
After about half a cup of tea, Gu Erjia cursed a few words softly, and then there was no more movement...
After a while, there was a sound of alternating strong and weak snoring in the house.
Everything returned to calm, and the insects in the fields began to chirp and chirp again. Cheng Yu gradually felt at ease.
Already exhausted, sleepiness hit him like a torrential flood.
"Wow... Wow..."
"Zhizhi"
Cheng Yu had just fallen asleep when the damn rat screamed again.
That's all. After all, the cave where Cheng Yu was located was quite high from the ground. But what killed him was that this time the two squeaks came from directly below him, and they were closer than the previous ones. I guess
The distance is only the length of a few sparrows.
Here I go!
Did you really climb up?
Can this mouse fly over walls and walls?
At this time, Cheng Yu had identified the previous clattering sound as the rat's claws pulling at the earth wall, and now he could smell the rising dust.
This surprise was no small matter to Cheng Yu. He felt as if all his feathers were exploding, and a pair of small eyes with dim light appeared in his mind, charging towards him with white teeth bared.
While Cheng Yu was contemplating the picture, he suddenly felt as if his paws were lightly brushed by a few hairy objects.
"Pulling!"
Cheng Yu, who had been nervous all the time, suddenly felt like his hair was on fire, and his skin was all covered with pimples. He no longer cared about the cramped and cramped earth cave, spread his wings and fluttered blindly, bringing up dust and thatch flying everywhere.
At this moment, Cheng Yu suddenly fell into a trance, as if time was slowing down, his body became lighter and lighter, and he floated upward in mid-air involuntarily.
It's still dark all around, but...
A pair of white hands appeared in front of me.
At first he didn't take it seriously, but when he realized that he was now a sparrow, he suddenly became excited again.
What's going on?
Whose hand?
Take a closer look at these hands. The fingers are long and slender, the palms are broad, and there is a mole on the inside of the middle finger of the left hand.
It was clearly his own hand in the previous life.
But if you look closely, there is something different. They are a pair of translucent hands.
Looking further down, the clothes on the body are still the same as the secular fashion before time travel, but they are also translucent.
Cheng Yu imagined that at this moment, he was a translucent jellyfish suspended in the dark chaos.
What's going on?
He subconsciously stretched out his hand to scratch his head, but his forehead seemed to be nothing, and his fingers penetrated directly through it.
Ah?!
He pulled his hands out in disbelief and tried to cross his hands again. Ten fingers passed through his palms again without any hindrance...
