Urban Oddities: Strange Tales of Mountain Villages

Chapter 3 Mutations

Dasha is erecting the fence again.

He first dug the soil loose, then inserted the thick wooden sticks he picked into the soil one by one, and then pressed the soil around the wooden sticks tightly with his palm.

High and low wooden slats surround the dilapidated house, and the old mother sits in front of the door, holding a cane and watching her son set up the fence.

Dasha erected a fence in his own house.

For the first time this time, he didn't go to Uncle Liu's house, and he went far away, preferring to walk on the dirt road rather than approach Uncle Liu's house.

Maybe he was afraid that Uncle Liu would beat him?

"Silly, the fence is so beautiful." The old mother praised.

Dasha stood outside the fence, looking at his mother through the fence, laughing, and raised his muddy palm to show to his mother.

The old mother rubbed her son's hands and said to take him to wash.

Dasha refused to go, and was busy erecting the fence.

Dasha erected the fence, and started digging the soil with a wooden pole, as if he wanted to dig a ditch outside the fence.The old mother said: "Silly, don't dig too deep, it's not good to fall."

Dasha smirked and buried himself in the dirt.

The old mother shook the fence, the burial was so tight that it couldn't move after a couple of shakes!

I really don't know why he was so eager to build the fence. The family is poor and has no valuables. What is the purpose of setting up the fence?

Lin Yang and Huang Dafa went to explore the road, looking for the route for tomorrow's play.

There are not only streams in the mountains, but also many wild fruits. Huang Dafa found some wild mushrooms and said he wanted to pick them back to try them out. Lin Yang couldn’t tell whether the mushrooms were poisonous or not. He asked Huang Dafa to throw them away. Huang Dafa was reluctant to throw them away and said he would take them back. Give Luo Yi an appraisal.The children in the village were playing in the woods. Huang Dafa pointed to the wild fruits on the tree and asked them if they dared to go up. Unexpectedly, those children climbed up the tree all at once using both hands and feet.

"This fruit is sour and not tasty, but the one from that tree is better!" The child sat on the branch and pointed to the distance, "It's sweet and crisp!"

Huang Dafa said: "Boy, can you pick one for brother?"

The child jumped off the tree and made a grimace: "No! I'm going back to eat!"

The little friends also jumped off the tree and ran away laughing.

Seeing that it was getting late, Lin Yang and Huang Dafa followed the children back, passing Dasha's house on the way, the children threw stones at Dasha, and the bearded Dasha was digging a ditch, laughing happily.Lin Yang grabbed the child, grabbed the brick in his hand and shouted, "Hey, using a brick will kill you!"

"Silly, stupid, stupid, stupid!" The troublemakers sang a jingle and ran away.

Dasha was still giggling, Huang Dafa said to Lin Yang: "Haha! Look at that fool!"

Lin Yang: "Let's go!"

Walking back to the farmhouse along the path, Lin Yang suddenly had the illusion of going home with the strong smell of food.

"It smells so good! What is the proprietress cooking?" Lin Yang walked into the kitchen and saw Luo Yi cooking in an apron, and Jin Minxian and Wang Jingxiang peeling garlic.

Lin Yang wondered, "Where is the proprietress?"

Luo Yi said: "Her daughter has a high fever."

"Oh, do you see if this mushroom can be eaten?"

Luo Yi took a look: "Yes, go and wash."

Luo Yi heated up the pot and waited to fry the mushrooms, but only one mushroom went into the pot.

Luo Yi: "...Only one?"

Lin Yang: "Yes."

Huang Dafa: "Hey, we don't know if we can eat it, why don't we pick one and come back for you to identify it! Shizuka, throw in the garlic and fry it together!"

Wang Jingxiang: "Fool, garlic is for side dishes, let's fry cabbage with mushrooms!"

Baijiu was poured into the pot, and it threw an arc on the fire. Luo Yi, like magic, poured the freshly fried cabbage into the plate. Come on, it's fragrant and beautiful.This technology is simply amazing, and the crowd applauded.

After serving the dishes and setting up the bowls and chopsticks, Lin Yang went upstairs and knocked on the door of Pu Junying's room: "Come down to eat!"

The door opened slightly, Pu Junying's pale face startled Lin Yang.

"are you uncomfortable?"

"Shh! Come in!"

Pu Junying dragged Lin Yang into the room, closed the door and locked it, and asked nervously, "Is there anyone else?"

"……what?"

"The little girl didn't follow you, did she?"

"Oh!" Lin Yang understood that what Pu Junying was talking about was Liu Qi, "She has a fever, and the proprietress is taking care of her."

Pu Junying rubbed her hands and walked back and forth, then suddenly stopped and said, "Lin Yang, be careful of that little girl!"

Lin Yang couldn't help laughing, Pu Junying studied medicine, he was considered half a doctor.He is said to be very hygienic and uses specially ordered hand sanitizers.

In other words, there is cleanliness.

"Are you afraid of getting infected? It's okay, the little girl is at the same table as the proprietress, and she won't eat with us."

"No! That little girl is abnormal!" Park Junying lowered her voice, "You all don't know it outside. When I went to boil the water, I saw that little girl alone in the kitchen. Guess what she is doing?"

"what are you doing?"

"She's eating meat!"

Lin Yang didn't understand, thinking that children were greedy and ate the meat from the vegetables.

Pu Junying's eyes widened: "You may find it unbelievable, but I saw that she was really eating meat...frozen meat taken out of the refrigerator!"

"Frozen meat? How is it possible... How hard is that! Can she bite it?"

"I don't know if it's hard or not. The problem is that the piece of meat is raw meat, and she was eating raw meat!" Pu Junying frowned and said, "Like a hungry wolf, I ran away at that time, and I don't know if she noticed it. I."

"So you've been hiding in your room?"

"Of course! What if she goes crazy and eats me?... Hey, don't laugh, I mean it!"

Lin Yang patted him: "Okay, okay, let's go down to eat, everyone is waiting! There are so many people, even if she eats people, can she swallow you in public?"

Accompanied by Lin Yang, Pu Junying walked out of the room. He nervously told him all the way: "Lin Yang, you have to lock the door. Remember to lock the door when you sleep at night!"

"Got it! You go down first!"

"Hey, where are you going?"

"I'm going to call the proprietress for dinner."

"You still dare to go there...?!" Pu Junying trembled and hesitated for a moment, as if wondering whether to go with Lin Yang, but in the end he didn't say anything, and ran downstairs as if fleeing alone.

Lin Yang came to the door of Yang Chunhua's room and called softly, "Miss Boss?"

"Hey! Here we come!" Yang Chunhua opened the door.

"Go down and eat." Lin Yang glanced at the room, where Liu Qi was lying on the bed under the quilt, seemingly asleep.

"It's really troublesome for you." Yang Chunhua apologized, closed the door, and went downstairs with Lin Yang.

Lin Yang asked, "Is Qiqi okay?"

Yang Chunhua said: "After taking the medicine, I went to sleep, and the temperature dropped a little...it should be fine after a night's sleep!"

Yang Chunhua brought in beer and offered them to drink it for free. Everyone opened two bottles deliberately, and they were full. Jin Minxian and Wang Jingxiang cleaned up the dishes.Wang Jingxiang wanted to clean the dining table and drove them upstairs, so Huang Dafa moved the peanuts and melon seeds to his room, and everyone played cards around the bed.

Pu Junying didn't tell them about Liu Qi, maybe even he thought it was incredible.The Japanese like to eat sashimi, and some indigenous tribes even eat raw beef and mutton, which is not surprising.

While having fun, suddenly a dog barked downstairs, followed by a loud bang, and Wang Jingxiang's exclamation came.Huang Dafa dropped the poker and rushed downstairs.Luo Yi and Lin Yang saw that something was wrong, so they ran out immediately.Park Junying was half a beat late before recovering: "Hey, wait for me!"

Several men ran to the kitchen and saw Jin Minxian hugging the trembling Wang Jingxiang.Huang Dafa was anxious when he opened his mouth: "Jingxiang! Jingxiang! What happened?!"

Jin Minxian said: "It's nothing, there was a big yellow dog outside the window, it hit the glass all of a sudden, it scared her."

Lin Yang came to the window, the window was an old window that was pushed out, covered with a layer of water vapor, Lin Yang wiped it clean with his hands, leaned against the glass and looked out, it was pitch black outside the window, where is there any dog?

Lin Yang pushed open the window, and he found that the window could not be opened wide, people could not get out, and dogs could not get in.

"Wow, woof!" The dog barked again.

Jin Minxian suddenly said, "Close the window!"

Lin Yang immediately closed the window and locked it, and drew the curtains.Huang Dafa rummaged through boxes and cabinets, found a rolling pin, and said viciously: "I want to see where the mad dog came from!"

Luo Yi stopped him: "You stay, I'll go."

Lin Yang followed Luo Yi and met Yang Chunhua when he went out to the gate.

Panting, Yang Chunhua waved her hand: "The dog ran away, I don't know where it went... Hey, where are you going? Take this pole."

Luo Yi took the pole, threw it to Lin Yang, and went around to the back of the farmhouse empty-handed.

The lights in the kitchen were on, and Huang Dafa leaned against the window to look around and waved at them.

Luo Yi looked up, and above the kitchen was the proprietress' bedroom, without turning on the light, Luo Yi saw a small figure standing by the window.

"Did you find the dog?" Huang Dafa asked.

Luo Yi said, "No."

Luo Yi walked around the farmhouse, and when he was about to return to the gate, a big yellow dog rushed out diagonally.The big yellow dog barked at them from a distance, Lin Yang waved his shoulder pole at it: "Go, go! I'll beat you again!"

The big yellow dog ran away a few steps with its tail between its legs, watched them from afar, and barked again when it saw them walking towards the farmhouse.

Lin Yang waved the pole, and it ran away again, and started barking again after running away. Lin Yang chased it and waved the pole, back and forth, but it stopped running. The dog was smart enough to know that Lin Yang was scaring it.

"I hit you!" Lin Yang yelled, "I really hit you!"

The big yellow dog wagged its tail at him, as if saying that he had the ability to hit me.

Lin Yang knocked on the ground with his shoulder pole, and drove the big yellow dog a few steps before heading to the farmhouse, and the dog would bark as soon as he left.Luo Yi picked up a piece of rotten fruit and threw it far away. The big yellow dog chased after the fruit wagging its tail. When it came back with the fruit, Lin Yang and Luo Yi had already entered the big iron gate.The big yellow dog chased to the door barking and stretched out its claws to grab the iron door.

"Go, go!" Yang Chunhua knocked on the door with a pole, and there was a loud "bang", and the big yellow dog ran away with its tail between its legs.

Yang Chunhua locked the door and muttered, "Has this dog gone crazy recently?"

Lin Yang wondered, "Whose dog?"

"It used to be the dog of the bachelor Lao Li's family. After Lao Li passed away, he became a stray dog. He usually rummaged around in the garbage, and went back to Lao Li's dilapidated house to sleep when he was full." Yang Chunhua wondered, "Usually quite obedient. Dog, why do you always run towards me when you get nervous recently?"

That night, Yang Chunhua locked all the doors and windows on the first floor, and drew the curtains tightly.Lin Yang went back to the room, lying on the bed, the more he thought about it, the more strange it became. Why did the big yellow dog bump into the glass and scare the girls?Does it smell the food?Or... did it see something strange?

Lin Yang couldn't fall asleep, so he simply got up, opened the door and walked out.There was a click as the door closed, and the sensor lights for the stairs came on.Lin Yang glanced downstairs, there was bottomless darkness pervading beyond the reach of the sensor light, Lin Yang's scalp felt numb, and he walked quickly to a door and knocked.

Lin Yang heard the sound of seeing the lock inserted horizontally, followed by the sound of unlocking, and Luo Yi opened the door.

Luo Yi's room was clean and tidy. He hadn't slept yet. The quilt folded into tofu cubes was placed squarely on the bed. Lin Yang couldn't help poking it with his finger.

There was only one chair in the room, and Luo Yi let Lin Yang sit on it, and he unwrapped a pack of Oreos and handed it to him.

"No tea, poor hospitality." Luo Yi sat by the bed, watching Lin Yang eat Oreos.

After half a bag of Oreos was eaten, Lin Yang opened his mouth and said, "Ask you something."

Luo Yi: "Yes."

"Did you see any frozen meat when you were cooking?"

"Frozen meat?"

"It's the meat taken out of the freezer."

Luo Yi thought back for a moment: "There is a spare rib and half a chicken that has been cut up."

Lin Yang was startled: "But didn't you eat chicken tonight?!"

Luo Yi said: "I think there are ribs, so I didn't make chicken."

"Oh……"

"There is no stock in the refrigerator, and the half chicken will have no meat after eating."

"Then do you want to eat chicken tomorrow?"

"Well, eat tomorrow."

"That... When you were making the meat today, did you see that the meat was still intact?"

"'... what?" Luo Yi didn't understand.

"I mean... just... Is there a piece of thawed meat missing?"

"...I didn't count how many ribs there were."

Lin Yang scratched his head: "No."

Luo Yi was silent for a moment, and asked, "Are you saying that there are wild cats stealing meat?"

"exactly."

"No." Luo Yi said firmly, "Not even a tooth mark."

"what……"

"Besides, no matter how hungry a wild cat is, it won't eat hard frozen meat!"

Lin Yang immersed himself in thinking, and unknowingly ate the last piece of Oreo.

Luo Yi took out another pack of Qu Duoduo, but Lin Yang didn't have the nerve to unpack it, so he quickly declined and said he was going back.Luo Yi sent him outside the door: "It's getting late, go to bed early."

Lin Yang said casually, "Go back and sleep."

Luo Yi closed the door, and the corridor was quiet. Lin Yang heard his footsteps were particularly obvious, so he stood on tiptoe, careful not to make a sound.

When he came to his door, the sensor light suddenly turned on, and the dim light illuminated the corridor. Lin Yang looked downstairs, and an idea came to his mind, he wanted to go to the kitchen to have a look, so he walked downstairs cautiously, groping in the dark Go to the kitchen.There is no door installed in the kitchen, and the smell of leftover food can be smelled from afar.Lin Yang touched the wall, pressed the switch, and the light came on to dispel the darkness.

Lin Yang opened the refrigerator, and there was a hard bag left in the freezer. Lin Yang opened the bag and touched the chicken.The half-chopped chicken froze into a big lump of frost. Lin Yang tried it, but he couldn't break it apart, let alone eat it.

Lin Yang put the chicken back into the refrigerator, thinking that there was no need to count it, as it was impossible to count, so let's take it out and see it tomorrow!