The north wind was whistling and snow was covering the ground. I moved forward all the way, and soon came to the north end of the village, and successfully found the house that the uncle mentioned.
It was a very dilapidated small courtyard with thatched cottages and mud walls. The top of the walls was covered with thatch. Several places had collapsed, and the gate was rotten and black. It felt like the gate might fall apart if pushed hard.
In the middle of the yard, there was indeed an old mulberry tree. The tree was as thick as a hug. It was the middle of winter. There were no leaves on the tree, and the branches were whitened by heavy snow, which made the tree look a bit dignified.
I didn't know who lived in the yard, so after hesitating for a long time, I stepped forward and patted on the door.
"Who is it?"
Not long after the knock on the door, there was a humming sound, and then a little girl in a ragged cotton jacket and a blue wool hat on her head opened the door for me.
"Who are you looking for?" The little girl looked at me suspiciously and asked.
I looked at her and found that her face was thin, her complexion was yellow, her eyes were a little dry, and her lips were terribly thin. It was obviously a symptom of long-term malnutrition, and I felt a little suspicious in my heart.
"Oh, that, hello, I'm passing by, the snow is too heavy, I want to take shelter from the snow at your house, is that okay?" I looked at the little girl and said.
Hearing this, the little girl turned her head and thought for a while, maybe she saw that I didn't look like a bad person, so she made way for me and said to me: "You can come in and avoid it, but don't make too much noise, grandma is sleeping in the east room , She is not in good health, and she can't fall asleep when she wakes up."
"Well, I see." I nodded, and as I walked in, I asked, "Are you and grandma the only ones at home?"
"That's right, my parents are both dead," the little girl said to me.
I nodded, and couldn't help feeling a little sympathetic to her.
"This mulberry tree is not bad, it's quite big." I walked to the middle of the yard, couldn't help but stop, and looked up at the mulberry tree.
"What's the use of it? It never bears mulberry, and grandma doesn't sell it. She keeps it for nothing." The little girl walked up to me, looked at the mulberry tree, and said with a pouted mouth.
"Such a big tree doesn't bear mulberries?" These words aroused my curiosity, and then I subconsciously opened the gate of heaven, poured out my vitality, and scanned the yard.
As a result, after seeing this, I was a little stunned.
The yin, cold and blood-bad air, as thick as clouds and as thick as fog, enveloped the three broken thatched huts of the little girl's house.
How is this going?
Now I turned my head to look at the little girl again, only to find that her body was also surrounded by black air, especially the top of her head, which was glistening with blood. It looked like she was about to die.
Now I'm a little stunned, and I understand why the Black Moon Demon God wanted me to come here.
If nothing else happened, he should have known about the situation here a long time ago, but because of the issue of jurisdiction, he might not be able to deal with the evil things here for a while, so he sent me here.
"What's your name?" I looked at the little girl and asked.
"My name is Dai Red Riding Hood," the little girl looked at me and asked.
I am stupid!
Hearing this name, I immediately ran across my heart. I couldn't help cursing at the Black Moon God, thinking, you bastard, why didn't you speak clearly? What little girl in the red hat? People obviously call it wearing a red hat, okay?
"What's wrong with you? Is my name strange?" The little girl looked at me and asked with some doubts.
"No, no, I just remembered something," I sneered, stretched out my hand and said to her, "My name is Liu Yihen."
"Hello," she held out her hand and shook it with me. I found that her hand was skinny and very cold. It was a symptom of cold and weak body.
"Go in and sit down. I'll pour you some hot water." Dai Honghou led me into the room, asked me to sit down, and then poured me a bowl of boiling water.
While drinking water, I chatted with Dai Red Hood casually, and at the same time focused my attention on the door of the east room.
The black air on the door was like ink, and it was eerie and abnormal. It was definitely not a normal phenomenon.
"Little muddleheaded, go in and have a look." My mind moved, and little muddleheaded has floated out.
However, what I didn't expect was that the little muddleheaded man came to the door and then backed away.
"Brother, I can't get in. There is a ban on the door, blocking me. The whole house is covered by the ban." Xiaotuan said to me helplessly.
"Okay, you come back first." I settled the little fool, then stood up pretending to be casual, and walked towards the door of the east room, while asking Dai Red Riding Hood: "Is your grandma sleeping in there?"
"Well, keep your voice down, don't wake her up, or she will get angry." Dai Hong hat pulled me back, and then chatted with me, "Where are you from, and how did you come to our village?"
"I'm, uh, from Guanchen Town. I'm here to visit relatives. The snow is too heavy and I got lost," I said to her with a smile.
She smiled and didn't speak, pinching her fingers together, she seemed a little shy, and said to me after a while: "It's good that you are here, I am usually bored at home alone, grandma won't let me go to school , and didn't let me do any work, I felt almost suffocated."
"Oh, you dropped out of school?" I looked at the red hat curiously and asked.
"Well," she responded in a low voice, looked up at me for a long time and said, "You must be in school, what grade are you in?"
"I'm in the first grade of junior high school," I said to her.
"Oh, I forgot about this. I haven't read it since the fourth grade of primary school," she sighed, pulled a sewing basket and started sewing.
"Your hands are very skillful," I found that she was sewing a colorful doll, which was very beautiful, and couldn't help but praise it.
"Grandma asked me to make it. I didn't know what it was useful for, so I just sewed on it," she said shyly, and then began to sew seriously, while I sat and watched silently.
"Brother, her head is so disgusting!"
Just when I was in a trance, Little Muddy's words woke me up.
"What do you mean?" I asked suspiciously.
"You can tell by yourself, well, I'm going to vomit—" Little muddled words made me wonder, because I rarely saw her like this, so I couldn't help but look at the head wearing the red hat looked over.
Wearing a red hat with a thick woolen hat and wrapping her head, I couldn't see the top of her head, but my vitality could penetrate her hat, so I finally saw the top of her head clearly.
But, I have to say, when I really saw it clearly, I also had a nausea, and I almost vomited it out.
It was full of rotten sores and hairs, especially at the position of Tianling Gai, it was a palm-sized red flesh tumor, the situation was so hideous, I am afraid that after anyone saw it, they would not be able to bear the goosebumps all over their body. pimple.
Seeing this, I couldn't help but stared at the red hat in astonishment. I couldn't understand how such a girl could become like this. Did that thing on her head suffer from some strange disease? Could it be leprosy?
"Ahem, Red Hood, come in!"
Just as I was staring at Dai Red Hood in a daze, suddenly there was a coughing sound from the east room, and then a stern and hoarse voice sounded, calling Dai Red Hood into the east room.