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The darkness, do not go out.
These words have spread many years in Disabled Elderly Village, from hands down from generation to generation specifically, was unable to research. However these words are actually the truth, does not need to suspect.
Disabled Elderly Village's Grandma Si sees setting sun little conceal after the mountain, is at heart anxious. As the setting sun falls, the last wisp of sunlight vanishes, among Heaven and Earth suddenly all of a sudden silent incomparable, without any sound. Sees only darkness slowly from the West submerges, swallows the mountains rivers path trees along the way, then arrives at Disabled Elderly Village, submerges Disabled Elderly Village.
The Disabled Elderly Village's four corners/horns are setting upright four ancient stone statue, stone statue is motley, old, even if Grandma Si does not know that who this stone statue is carves, when sets upright here.
darkness arrives, four stone statue send out spooky rays of light in darkness, stone statue is shining as before, lets Grandma Si and village's elderly relaxed.
darkness outside village is even more rich, but there is a stone statue light, Disabled Elderly Village then is also safe.
Suddenly, the Grandma Si ear moves, stayed, loses the sound said: „You listen, outside has child's crying sound!”
Nearby Old Ma shakes the head saying: „Is impossible, you misunderstood...... Eh, has the weeping sound of baby really!”
Weeping sound that in darkness outside village transmits baby, in village other old man except for Deaf heard this weeping sound, old man look at each other in dismay, Disabled Elderly Village is remote, how to have the baby to appear in the nearby?
„I have a look!”
Grandma Si is excited, stands on tiptoes small feet to run up to near stone statue of village, Old Ma passes hastily: „Old Woman Si, are you crazy? The darkness, left the village dead!”
„Leaves village at the back of this stone statue, the thing in darkness fears stone statue, I will meet half unable dead!”
Grandma Si bends the waist, wants to carry stone statue, but she is humpbacked, cannot carry. Old Ma shook the head: „I come. I accompany you to go at the back of stone statue!”
One side elderly limping walks, said: „Grandfather Ma, you only have an arm, how long carried stone statue unable to support, my two completeness, I carried.”
Old Ma stares his one eyes: „Dead Cripple, you broke a leg, can walk? Although I only have an arm, but this arm strength is very big!”
His one arm holds stone statue, heaviness that steady the step, stone statue has been hard to imagine: „Old Woman Si, we walk!”
„Do not call me the dead old lady! Cripple, Mute, you must be careful, in the village has been short of stone statue, in the thing by darkness should not be touched!”
......
Old Ma and Grandma Si go out of Disabled Elderly Village, in darkness do not know that has any strange thing to walk randomly regarding two people, but by a stone statue rays of light photo, then squeak squeak cried out strangely to return in darkness.
They go forward following that weeping sound, go out 110 steps, arrives at a great river, the weeping sound of baby transmits from the waterfront. stone statue sends out spooky rays of light, according to is not quite far, two people catch the sound bearing carefully, walks toward the upstream along this river, goes out dozens steps, the weeping sound in the, Old Ma one arm was very difficult to support. Grandma Si eye one bright, sees a wee bit fluorescence, that is a basket stops near the river bank, the fluorescence transmits from the basket, the weeping sound also transmits from the basket.
„Has a child really!”
Grandma Si goes forward, mentions the basket, slightly is actually startled, cannot raise, under that basket is one results in the blanch by the river blister the arm, this arm picks up the basket and basket child, has held the shore.
„Relax, the child was safe.” Grandma Si said to underwater that female in a low voice.
That female corpse as if heard her words, the palm loosened, was washed away by the river water, vanishes in darkness.
Grandma Si raised the basket, in the basket was baby in a swaddling clothes, swaddling clothes above is putting jade pendant, jade pendant sent out the fluorescence. This jade pendant rays of light and stone statue rays of light is very similar, but actually wants to be weaker, jade pendant is protecting the basket child not in thing the violation of darkness.
jade pendant rays of light is very weak, can only protect the child, actually could not protect that woman.
„Is a boy.”
Returns to Disabled Elderly Village, the villagers in village have encircled, is some old, weak, sick, and disabled. Grandma Si lifted the swaddling clothes to look at one, grinned to smile, remnant tooth fallen: „Our Disabled Elderly Village, had a perfect person finally!”
Cripple of one leg said surprised: „Old Woman Si, do you plan to raise him? We are very difficult to support! I think or deliver......”
Grandma Si is angry: „Old lady depending on the child who the skill picks, why can see somebody off?”
Villagers are timid, does not dare to refute her, Village Chief sits the stretcher to come, he is more pitiful than other people, other people have the hands and feet, is are only less than the normal person, but he does not have the foot without the hand. However everybody respects to him very much, even if Grandma Si of devils does not dare presumptuous.
„Since must raise him, then should give a name to him?”
Village Chief said: „Old lady, you looked that what things in the basket also has other?”
Grandma Si flipped, shakes the head saying: „Only then this jade pendant, does not have other paper anything. On jade pendant has the character, was Qin character. This jade pendant does not have the impurity, inside also has the strange strength, is not every, should stems from the rich people?”
„He calls Qin, was surnamed Qin?”
The Village Chief thinking, said: „Makes him surnamed Qin, the name is the herd, Qin Mu. Has grown up, then asked him to go to herding, the good and evil can earn a living.”
„Qin Mu.” Grandma Si looks at the baby in swaddling clothes, the baby does not fear her, unexpectedly eyah eyah smiling.
......
The waterfront, the whistle sound transmits, Herding Boy sits in a cow carries on the back to play the flute, the whistle sound is clear. This Herding Boy 11 or 12-year-old age, is good-looking handsomely, the clothing partly opens, the chest front is hanging jade pendant.
This youngster is 11 years ago Grandma Si baby who picks from the waterfront, these years village's old man suffers great hardships this child raises, Grandma Si does not know where makes a cow, when making baby Qin Mu drink the milk every day, endured the easy early young time.
Although Disabled Elderly Village's villagers devils, but is very good to him, Grandma Si is a tailor, usually in Qin Mu cuts clothes from cloth along with the Grandma Si study, picks medicine refining medicine with the Apothecary study, with Grandpa Cripple study leg art, with Grandpa Blind study hearing sound to discern position, does not have the Village Chief study breath expiration and inspiration of hands and feet, the day also to cross but actually quickly.
This cow was the wet nurse of his childhood, Grandma Si planned to sell out, but Qin Mu did not abandon, therefore the Cowherd duty also has then given him.
He frequently in waterfront Cowherd, mountain like the black eyebrow coloring, the ocean waves white clouds, is very satisfied.
„Qin Mu, Qin Mu, saves me!”
Suddenly, the cow under his body starts talking, Qin Mu had a scare, carries on the back to jump down from the cow hastily, sees only in that cow eye with tears, the mouth spits the criticism, said to him: „Qin Mu, you eat my milk to grow up, I am your half mother, you must save me!”
Qin Mu blinks, the probe said: „How do I save you?”
That cow said: „Your waist has the sickle, digs up my skin, then can save me to get out of trouble.”
Qin Mu hesitates, the cow said: „Did you forget the graciousness of nurture?”
Qin Mu holds up the sickle, lacerates cowhide cautiously, mentioned also strange cowhide to be bared, actually did not have a blood stream to leave, moreover in cowhide was unexpectedly spatial, did not have the flesh and blood and skeleton.
When cowhide peels to 50%, tumbles out a 20-30 years old woman from inside, two legs wrap as in the corbel, the body and cowhide are connected, but the upper limb withdrew from cowhide.
The female has hair dishevelled, has snatched already has been scared the sickle in Qin Mu hand, 2-3 cut open cowhide on leg and foot, looks to Qin Mu, lives to the guts wickedly, the sickle tool rest on the Qin Mu neck, sneers saying: „Young evil person, because you and me was turned into a cow, for 11 years I can only graze, but must feed your milk to drink! Pitiful, before I turn into the cow, just had a child, was plotted by that seductive woman, turns into a cow to nurse to you me! Today finally gets out of trouble, first killed you to conquer by killing this village's evil person again!”
In the Qin Mu brain loudly, does not know this female who drilled from cowhide is saying anything.
The female is just about a blade to hack to death him, suddenly back of the body one cool, looks down, a blade puts from her chest front.
„Mu'er, your Grandpa Apothecary made you go back to take a drug.” The female corpse drops down, what is standing is village's Grandpa Cripple, the benign countenance, a face is simple and honest, in the hand is carrying a blood dripping blade, said with a smile to Qin Mu.
„Grandpa Cripple......” the Qin Mu body became tender, looked at that cowhide and female of corpse ground, has not recovered.
„Goes back, goes back.” Cripple has patted his shoulder, hehe said with a smile.
A Qin Mu foot high foot lowers to walk toward the village, turns head to look, actually sees Cripple to throw into Jiang inside the corpse of that female.
This gives his impact too to be really big, he does not know when oneself is return to the village.
„Qin Mu! Did damned brat, tell you? Don’t go outside when it’s dark!”
The night falls, Disabled Elderly Village four corner/horn stone statue automatically has shone, Grandma Si calls to plan that slips away the village to go to the waterfront to examine cowhide Qin Mu, has towed him.
„Granny, why can't the darkness go out?” Qin Mu raised the head to ask.
„Darkness time, will have some fearful things to move in darkness, exits dead.”
Grandma Si said seriously: „village's stone statue will protect us, the thing in darkness does not dare to enter the village.”
„Do other villages have such stone statue?” Qin Mu curious say/way.
Grandma Si nods, the facial color somewhat is anxious, does not live looks to the village, said in a low voice: „Cripple should come back...... Should not make Cripple exit, this fellow only has a leg......”
„Granny, has the strange event today......”
Qin Mu hesitates, said the matter that in tripe drills a woman, Grandma Si said careless: „You say that woman? Cripple has told me, he processes very well. When your four years old of being weaned I had said that has sold the cow, but you do not give up, therefore makes you feed. You looked, now had an accident? I said that nurses to eat to four years old, will have the sentiment to the cow.”
Qin Mu blushed, weren't four years old were weaned some too to be indeed long, but probably essential weaned in four years old?
„Granny, that woman had been killed by Grandpa Cripple......”
„Kills well.”
Grandma Si said with a smile: „That was cheap she. 11 years ago she should die, if not want the milk you, she can live now?”
Qin Mu is perplexed.
Grandma Si shoots a look at his one eyes, said: „This female is Border Dragon City Madame City Lord distance here thousand miles away, Border Dragon City Lord is lascivious, but she is jealous friendly, Border Dragon City Lord likes being a womanizer outside, plunders the respectable family female. But Border Dragon City Lord has gone bad a pureness of female every time, this Madame City Lord will then send for killing that female while still alive. I sneak Border Dragon City, the plan killed her, saw that she just had a child, the child three months, thinks that you did not have the milk to drink, but she has the milk, therefore turns into a cow to come back the milk her you. Has not thought that this female has worked loose the seal unexpectedly, can start talking, has almost harmed you.”
Qin Mu stares dumbfounded, loses the sound said: „Granny, how can the person turn into the cow?”
Grandma Si hēi hēi smiles, reveals half mouth fallen tooth: „Do you want to study? My Cult you...... Cripple came back!”
Qin Mu looks, sees only Cripple one to lean on the walking stick, the prey that grabs to carry on the back, limping walks. darkness is similar to the tide fast wells up to village, Grandma Si called out hurriedly: „Dead Cripple, hurry up, hurry up!”
„What to be anxious?”
Cripple is at a moderate pace walks toward the village, walks into the flash of village in him, strong darkness happen to submerges the village. The prey that he carries on the back is variegated Fierce Tiger, has not died, tail was swept by darkness, suddenly Fierce Tiger sends out sorrow howl, Qin Mu looks hastily, saw only Fierce Tiger tail unexpectedly only remaining a successively bone, fur and flesh and blood on tail all disappears, probably by general that any thing gnawed.
He looked at darkness outside village curiously, there jet black piece, anything cannot see.
„What is there in the dark?” In his heart wonders.
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