Tianya Question: What is the most bizarre and terrifying thing you have ever encountered?
"Red eyes, green nose, four hairy hooves, clattering when walking, will eat the children alive." This is a nursery rhyme that my grandma often used to scare me, but on the night when my grandparents were killed, the nursery rhyme came true.
The kerosene lamp suddenly lit up on the stove. The green flame jumped and turned scarlet. There was the clatter of hooves outside the wall, and laughter like the pumping of air from an old bellows. The next day the whole village held a meeting, and the men held torches and shotguns to go up the mountain to take revenge. The ninety-year-old grandpa grabbed my clothes tightly: "Don't look directly into its eyes..." "That thing holds a grudge. As long as you don't kill it, it will squat outside your window and wait for three generations." "It recognizes you now - because your grandfather drew an eye on the palm of your hand with blood before he died.
