"The child didn't look injured..."
So when the child's mom asked him this question, the onlookers didn't disperse. Instead, they edged closer.
When they heard the child say he'd been chased by a pig with two heads, some of the people around them couldn't help making strange faces.
Their gazes were full of suspicion.
Was a two-headed pig all the rage this year?
Why did one person after another say they'd seen a two-headed pig?
Little Wang had been drunk when he saw the two-headed pig.
But this child...
Of course he couldn't have been drinking.
Then why had he seen it?
Could the child know about what had happened to Little Wang?
Some people cast probing looks at the child.
Others, who didn't know what was going on, noticed the odd expressions of those around them and couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?"
They assumed the others were reacting that way because they didn't believe what the child had said.
"He's just a little kid."
Someone spoke up.
It was perfectly normal for children to say naive, illogical things.
But in this situation, a story that sounded so obviously made up was rather out of place.
They'd all come running after hearing the child cry for help.
They'd been worried he was in danger.
And now...
Wasn't he just making a joke out of them?
Someone in the know explained what had happened on New Year's Day.
The news that there was another eyewitness made the people who had naturally assumed the child was talking nonsense freeze.
One child's word wasn't reliable.
But what about an adult's?
Still... though he was an adult, he'd been dead drunk.
Neither eyewitness was particularly reliable.
Everyone was left uncertain.
But a pig with a head at each end?
No matter how