C3 Whose curse
Second Uncle's situation scared us all. After hearing it again, Second Uncle still couldn't say anything. As long as we could make a sound, it would be like a pig feeding on its food.
Second Aunt was so scared that she almost couldn't speak, and when she saw us coming, she could only cry, unable to come up with a solution.
After typing, I thought of a way. I immediately took out my phone, opened a message, and handed it over to the Second Uncle for him to type.
There was a problem with the pork, this was Second Uncle's first sentence.
My father and I looked at each other. We also thought that was the problem, because neither of us had eaten that piece of pork. Only the Second Uncle had eaten it, so this was the first thing we thought of.
"Save me!" Following that, Second Uncle typed two more words, he was also extremely anxious, at least he had calmed down a little now that he has us here.
My father and I had been comforting Second Uncle and told him that we would definitely save him. We comforted him for a long time before he finally quietened down.
Then my father took me to a place where there was no one, and told me it wasn't that simple. Let me see if anyone else had had any problems with the pork, and he had to find someone to deal with it.
I looked at the time. It was six o'clock in the morning, and most of the villagers were up early, so I ran to the families who had brought the pork yesterday. I remember that there were four families who took the meat yesterday, and they were easy to remember, because they were the poorest people in our village.
I was almost sure that the problem did not lie with the pork side, if not why would they be fine. There was still the fourth house, I did not want to run anymore, but when I thought about the situation in Second Uncle, I raised my foot again.
The fourth family was at the other end of the village, the furthest, and they all had to pass through the entire village, but halfway through, I stopped. Because I passed Old Lady Wang's house, and because Old Lady Wang asked my grandfather to kill the pig demon that was about to mature, there were some things that happened later on. However, my father and the Second Uncle didn't say anything about Old Lady Wang, and it seemed like they didn't even see her at her grandfather's funeral.
Old Lady Wang's yard is very small and smelly, one third of it is a pig's nest and it has already collapsed. I just looked at the nest and saw Old Lady Wang carrying a bucket out.
None of our pig-eating children are unfamiliar with this place. We just boil the duckweed in the pond, then add some leftovers and some rice bran. I often do these things when I'm still young, but Old Lady Wang's pig nest has all collapsed, so where did the pig come from for her to feed?
Before I could think of this question, Old Mrs. Wang had already asked me what I was here for.
I told her that I had only come to take a look, and then asked her how the old sow was doing.
However, I didn't expect those words to infuriate her and she actually started swearing at me. She even wanted to raise the spoon that was used to feed the pigs to hit me. Luckily, I ran away quickly.
Old Lady Wang's temper was something I didn't expect, so I didn't care too much about it. I went to the fourth house to take a look and after confirming that they were all right, I ran back home.
When I returned home, Second Aunt was feeding porridge to Second Uncle. It seems that Second Uncle had calmed down already.
"Dad, I went to take a look. Those four families were fine yesterday, so it doesn't look like it's a matter of pork …" I said to my dad.
My father frowned and said he knew. He had already contacted Master and sent him to Second Uncle after dinner.
"Oh, I'll go take a look when the time comes. Oh yeah, I just went to see old lady Wang. She's so fierce. I was just casually asking and she wanted to hit me with a pig feed spoon."
But just as I finished speaking, I felt something was wrong with the atmosphere. The moment I raised my head, my parents and second aunt of Second Uncle looked at me with frightened eyes.
"Pa Da", my mom's hands went soft and the chopsticks fell onto the table. She grabbed my hand and started to cry. She kept crying to my dad about moving house. I couldn't live here anymore, so I was confused about what was going on.
"Yangzi, did you really see Old Lady Wang just now?" My father said to me in a very harsh tone.
I nodded and told them it was.
But with that, my mother cried even harder.
My father sighed, said something wrong and stopped talking. He started to eat.
I kept asking what was wrong with my mother, and it was only after a long time that my mother told me that Old Lady Wang had long since died. When my grandfather helped her kill that old sow, she was suddenly hit by a pig, and Old Lady Wang quickly went over to take a look, but unexpectedly, the pig's nest was pressed down on her, and finally she was bitten to death by that old sow. It was a very tragic death.
Hearing this, I was dumbfounded. Old Mrs. Wang is dead? Are you kidding? I was almost chased and beaten up by her a dozen minutes ago, so what did I see? Is it a ghost?
I couldn't stop myself from asking this question. I believed in my eyes, even though I saw a living person today, I still couldn't understand why my parents would say that Old Lady Wang had died. In the end, I decided to visit Old Lady Wang's home again.
However, my father threw down his bowl and chopsticks, not allowing me to go. Then he went to the courtyard and drove the van out. Then he told us to get in the van and go to the master that my father had found and ask for help.
Second Aunt helped Second Uncle into the car. I also wanted to go, but at first my mother wouldn't let me go, but my father forbade me. He said that if I wasn't allowed to go, I would definitely go to Old Lady Wang's house to look for her again.
Our village's location isn't that good. In the mountains, there are twenty miles of mountain roads leading to the town. Some of them are quite dangerous, with cliffs on one side and cliffs on the other. The road wasn't too big, it was only two lanes, so we only needed a few boulders to block the road, but we didn't expect the traffic jam to be like this.
Because we were blocked by a group of pigs, not domestic pigs, but a group of wild boars with fangs. There were a dozen of them wandering by the side of the road, not even afraid of people.
He continued to let out pig howls, but he did not have much rationality left, he actually wanted to rush out of the car, the two of us could not hold on any longer, in the end, my father quickly backed away from the group of wild boars, and made the Second Uncle stop.
The change in the Second Uncle and the wild boar that was blocking the way gave us a bad feeling. Even a fool could tell that this was coming towards us.
My father's brows were scrunched up. Anyone who thought about the situation right now would be scared. It would be considered very daring of us not to collapse.
My father called his master again, told him what had happened, and asked him what to do.
The master on the other end of the phone was silent for a long time before he told my father that he could not deal with this matter, that we were cursed, that the curse would not end until it was over.
Hearing this, our hearts turned cold, is this saying that Second Uncle is dead for sure? Second Aunt even started bawling, while Second Uncle was so excited that she kept on bawling.
My father's eyes were red. He kept begging the teacher to tell him that as long as he was willing to help, he would be able to spend as much money as he wanted and that it wouldn't matter if he went bankrupt.
He only told us that he was not strong enough to deal with this matter, but he promised to find someone to deal with it. He said that he had a martial uncle, and if he could contact him, he should be able to settle it, so my father thanked him profusely.
After hanging up the phone, my dad turned around and drove the van back to the village. In order to prevent the villagers from panicking, my dad asked us to strictly prevent the news of the Second Uncle from being leaked to the outside world. Grandfather's matter has already become very serious, if the matter regarding the Second Uncle gets exposed again, our family can forget about staying in the village.
After returning home, Second Uncle quickly fell asleep with someone lying on his side, snoring loudly, sounding more and more like a pig. Second Aunt was so scared that she didn't even dare to sleep in the same room as Second Uncle anymore.
My father told me to go back and rest, and now he has entrusted all his hope to that teacher, waiting for him to find his martial uncle.
This kind of thought was really hard for me to accept. Why would we not be able to think of a way to hand over the lives of our entire family to someone else? However, this thought was reprimanded by my father, who said that we were all ordinary people, so how could we fight against those things.
I wanted to argue with him, but I felt that it was meaningless since we were already at this level. There was no point in talking about it, I might as well calm down and think about it.
For example, that master said that we were cursed, but whose curse was that? Grandpa, or that pig demon, or that Old Lady Wang? If we didn't know who came, there would be no other way around it.
But for a moment I couldn't figure it out, and when I thought about it a little longer I felt sleepy and fell asleep on the table in my room.
"Xiao Yang!" After sleeping for who knows how long, I suddenly heard someone call me. I immediately woke up, because I could tell that the voice belonged to my grandfather.
However, when I looked around, I didn't see my grandfather's figure. When I raised my hand, I was stunned because there was a knife in my hand.