Chapter 04: Tornado
The sky is covered with lead clouds, the cold wind is raging, the sound of whimpering. The sun looks like a big round dish that has not been cleaned, hanging listlessly in the middle of the clouds.
The south river embankment is only a mile away from our village, we ran all the way to the pump house on the south river embankment in a short while.
That piece of snake monument is planted on the west side of the pump house, the south side of the embankment in front of the big willow tree.
The big willow tree is as thick as two people's arms, and its wrinkled bark shows that it is already very old. Green snake monument exposed to the ground is more than one meter high, the front to the south of the Busan River, the back to the north. Front in addition to the "Snake Chopper Tablet" three big words can still be clearly seen, the following small words are not very clear, vaguely recognizable, less than half, and because of the age of the reason, many of the font place, have been buried by the soil. On the back of the engraving of a picture has been not very clear, vaguely wearing a green cloth armor of the strong man, feet on a strange snake, holding a sword raised high, for the potential to cut down. Said the snake strange, because the snake head, very clear long a horn, which reminds me of the legend, well, grandpa said in the mouth of the Wuzui, yes, my belt is the Wuzui leather made.
Chen Jin rushed to the front, no nonsense, directly is a shovel shovel down, feet hard a step, two hands hold tight shovel handle, make a pluck, a small shovel of soil was shoveled out and thrown to the side, winter soil is frozen, hard hard hard digging, Chen Jin said: "Grandma's, I do not know more than an hour late, will there be something else happen ah? "
"Turn around and ask Hu Laoshi." My mouth said words, people have come to the front, without saying, down the spade shovel soil, dig!
Brothers and sisters confused, see us up on the two without saying a word to start digging, is not good to ask what immediately, rushed forward to take the guys help dig ah!
Fortunately Xue Zhi just came, more than a thought with a pickaxe, he carried a pickaxe let us first let, and then waved a pickaxe in front of the snake monument in front of a few planes, and then let us dig out the loose soil thrown on the side of the speed of a lot faster.
Brothers without tools had to watch quietly for a while, and then replaced us to continue digging.
The snake monument was not buried too deep into the soil, less than a meter, probably when the monument was buried, it was buried more than half a meter deep.
When Chen Jin and I replaced Guo Chao and Liu Bin, the bottom of the monument was quickly dug out, and the perimeter of the monument was dug out to a width of about half a meter wide.
With a slight push, the Snake Chopper Monument would shake a few times.
"Alright, alright!" Chen Jin greeted, let the brothers all gather around, reaching out to hold the stone monument, Chen Jin said, "Luckily, the brothers are all here, or else Yinle and I really can't get it, come on, listen to me, let's pull it out together, pull it out and throw it to the ground on the line!"
"Okay, come on!" The brothers agreed.
Only heard Chen Jin shout, "One, two, three ……"
"Up!" The brothers shouted in unison, their arms exerting force.
The stone monument slowly rose, the brothers' faces were red, their eyes were wide open, and the veins on their hands were taut.
When the bottom of the monolith was about to be exposed outside the pit, Chen Jin shouted, "Zhigang, Guo Chao, you two get out of the way, push!"
As soon as Guo Chao and Xue Zhigang got out of the way, several of us pushed at the same time, and the Snake Chopper Monument collapsed to the west with a loud bang.
The monument just fell to the ground, a cold wind from the south to the north of the steeply blowing, whistling from the river rushed to meet the cold north wind hard hit, in the field not far north of the riverbank crashed into each other.
Bang …… rumble ……
Strange huge sound shook the sky, a wall of wind accessible to the naked eye rises up in the sky, followed by rotating and twisting, gradually formed a roll of large tornado, the diameter of four or five meters thick, the wind whistling up, a huge whirring sound came from the next, the wind around the wind rose up, whimpering and wailing mournful wail scraping toward that thick tornado, like to grow the might of the tornado, and as if it could not help but be forced to make the tornado Sucking in the general, unwilling to wail like.
Several of us were surprised by this bizarre change to the river bank, stretching hands hard to fasten the roots of some weeds, Chen Jin and I simply lie on the back of the big willow tree, grasping the gnarled roots protruding out of the ground, while the child poked his head out, extremely curious to look at the ground that rises to the sky tornado.
The wind was getting stronger and stronger, the clothes on our bodies were all whistled by the cold wind, slapping our bodies, our cheeks and the backs of our hands were red from the cold wind blowing through them, which caused a needle-like stinging pain.
At that time, I really want to communicate with Chen Jin, what the hell is this thing, although I know that the exchange is also a waste of time, but this situation, doubt and tension and the heart of the unknown things of inexplicable panic, making you just want to immediately find someone to say a few words, together to explore the ……
The rumbling sound was getting louder and louder, the bottom of that tornado was gradually getting thinner and thinner, but the top was getting bigger and bigger, just like a huge trumpet erected between heaven and earth, the thick leaden clouds in the sky were all sucked into that wide trumpet mouth, the tornado kept twisting and dancing, and then traveled sharply to the north.
"Bad food! The tornado is coming into the village!" Chen Jin yelled, getting up and running northward.
I hurriedly got up and pulled Chen Jin down to the ground, shouting, "What the hell do you care if you go back? Can you block the tornado? Can you run through it?"
Speaking, the tornado has been wrapped with unparalleled momentum into the village, only to see the tornado wherever it passes, the trees were rolled up, slightly dilapidated houses collapsed, weeds, wooden beams and rafters were rolled up to the sky, there are also some bed sheets and bedding and other things were also thrown up, in the tornado's surroundings speedily rotating to the sky.
In the village there were noisy cries of alarm, although in a moment it was drowned out by the tornado's loud whistling, but you could still see the villagers from the village to the outside of the village running out of the village in a hurry, their panicked appearance, as if the world is coming to an end.
The tornado soon entered the middle of the village, the crackling sound and the rumbling sound of collapsing houses were endless, and more debris was thrown up into the sky. This gigantic trumpet was raising its head to the sky, blowing an arrogant and incomparable victory horn, proclaiming its invincible power to the world.
South river embankment this side, the wind has gone, a few of us in a state of disarray climbed up from the ground, stupidly stood on the river embankment, looking at the distance that huge straight into the sky trumpet in the village twisted the horror of the bizarre body, more and more villagers ran out of the village, helplessly watched the tornado in the village arrogant and domineering.
Just at this moment, our village rose up a black fog, instantly swung up more than ten meters high, the tornado surrounded the center of the village. The tornado seems to sense the black fog is not good, began to angrily twisted up, rotating faster and faster, black fog can not withstand the tornado's huge attraction, there is constantly a wisp of black fog was involved in it.
Gradually, the tornado straight into the clouds of the trumpet began to spread in all directions, more and more big, more and more big, the color is also getting deeper and deeper, in a short while, it will cover a large half of the sky, the sky suddenly darkened.
Suddenly, high in the sky tornado trumpet hideous twisted and changed, even formed a huge dragon cloud, teeth and claws, body twisted and rolled, it seems like a real black dragon in the sky like flopping and flying, big mouth open, empty eyes looking down, terrifying to the extreme.
Just a few seconds of time, the black dragon disappeared in a moment, as if it had never appeared in general.
Those black fog, at this moment, but suddenly rolled and surged, as the sea in the baptism of the gale, completely enraged, lifting up huge waves, with the sky fight, with the wind fight.
The tornado is still a wisp of sucking the thick black fog, gradually, the tornado is like a monster that has eaten enough, began to gather up their own devouring everything mouth, the thinnest section of the bottom of the tornado began to close up to the air above, getting higher and higher and more and more thick, gradually, and finally rose into the sky, and the mouth of the trumpet convergence of a place to become a flat surface, and then there is no difference between the heights and the lows.
The sky suddenly brightened a bit, and the black fog above the village disappeared in an instant.
The wind stopped, and everything was as if it hadn't happened, the village was peaceful and quiet, the only thing different from usual was that outside the village, the villagers in twos and threes were still staring with jaws agape at the dark cloud-strewn sky.
Snowflakes sprinkled from high in the air drifting down, a piece, two pieces …… not long ago, goose feather snow flurry down.
The twenty-eighth day of the Lunar New Year in 1981, fifteen kilometers south of Handan City, Hebei Province, near the Busan River section of the Shuanghe Village, suffered the baptism of a tornado, but also for the first time in history, such a huge tornado, strange is that, from the emergence of the tornado to disappear, the duration of less than ten minutes, the action of the weird as well as the scope of activities, are controlled in the village of the Shuanghe Village, and ultimately disappeared in the sky over the village of the Shuanghe.
This natural disaster caused a total of eleven houses to be destroyed, thirty-three houses became dangerous and uninhabitable, one villager died, and seventeen people were injured to varying degrees, two of whom were in serious condition.
……
The sky was overcast and a bit scary, goose feather-like snowflakes fluttered down, clothing everything in white.
A few of us topped the snow, without a word to the village, drooping head, and from time to time secretly rolled up his eyelids to look around the busy villagers. Suddenly inwardly have a kind of sinner feeling, as if that tornado, is a few of us created, exactly, Chen Jin and I, is to create this tornado incident culprits.
Some of the houses that collapsed because they were dilapidated and could not withstand the ravages of the tornado became a pile of ruins, with broken bricks and tiles spread out into a large area, splashing all over the ground. Under the cover of snow, revealing a patch of black and green, gloomy and depressed, full of bleakness.
In the front street bridge, everyone is ready to break up, Chen Jin greeted the brothers together, said seriously: "This matter today, no one is allowed to say anything, hear me?"
Brothers a little hesitation, will understand the meaning of Chen Jin, this day this thing is too strange and weird, obviously, and that piece was a few of us planed down the snake monument has something to do, so everyone absolutely bar can tell this thing, otherwise, we will be all the villagers hate into the bone, after all, this time, the village in the disaster is serious, the loss of a lot of great ah!
No more nonsense, everyone go back to their own homes.
Chen Jin and I, Liu Bin, the three of us all the way, along the east side of the canal to the north, passing by the door of Hu Laoshi's house, I said to Liu Bin: "Bin Zi, you go back first, Chen Jin and I still have a little thing."
"Hm? Oh, good." Liu Bin agreed and walked back with his head hanging down.
Looking at Liu Bin walking away, Chen Jin said, "Yinle, do you really want to tell Hu Laoshi? He'll give us a hard time!"
"Are you still afraid of him lecturing us?" I sighed and said.
"The problem is …… justified ah! Say good twelve o'clock." Chen Jin face some embarrassment, today is really unlucky, in order to brotherhood, to help Chang Yunliang to go to war, the results of the delay, resulting in such a big disaster …… This is also even unlucky it, more depressing is that we help also did not fall into a good ah, people Chang Yunliang also fell out with us!
I said, "Bullshit, always have to talk to Hu Laoshi." After saying that, I walked to the fence gate of Hu Laoshi's house, moved it with force, and walked in.
Seeing this, Chen Jin shook his head and followed.
Without the need for greetings, I walked directly to the door of the house, lifted the cotton curtain and walked in.
Inside the house, what surprised both Chen Jin and I was that apart from Hu Laoshi who was standing in front of a table waving a brush and drawing a talisman, Guo Laohan was actually sitting on the side of the kang, to be exact, it was the old taiyou who was sitting on the side of the kang, and it was surprising that it wasn't in the cellar.
"Yo, all, all there?" I smiled a little unnaturally and walked to the edge of the kang, moved a chair and sat down, Chen Jin simply sat next to me on the kang.
Hu Laoshi looked at me, didn't say anything, and continued to lower his head to draw talismans.
The old woman sat listlessly on the edge of the kang, slightly raised her eyelids, and said feebly, "This tornado is rare this day, it's coming from the south, and the humidity is very heavy, what did you people do?"
"Planed the snake decapitation monument, just pushed it, and then the wind started." I didn't hide it, and said bluntly, "No, the tornado got up, what's going on here? The Snake Chopper Monument is what Grandpa Hu told us to plow."
"I told you guys to plow it at twelve o'clock!" Hu Laoshi heavily placed the brush stained with red ink and vermilion sand on the table, glaring at me and yelling, "What time is it now? Look!"
Chen Jin got angry when he heard Hu Laoshi talking loudly and immediately glared at him, "Do you think we are all like you, with nothing to do? Do you think we're all like you, with nothing to do, just waiting to do this kind of work? Who doesn't have something to do? It's just an hour's delay, isn't it? Do you think we're willing to do it or do you think we're doing it on purpose?"
"You ……!" Hu Laoshi was stunned for a moment, shook his head in anger, frowned and said, "If it's late, don't plow it, wait for tomorrow and plow it again! Why do you have to go and plow the Snake Beheading Monument?"
"Fuck!" I muttered, crying and laughing, "It's my fault, it's my fault, why the hell didn't I think to come back and ask you why we were in such a hurry to plow that monument!"
Seriously, I was in the heart of that aggrieved ah, how we did not think of this ah, after half a day, we can wait for a day, waiting for the twenty-ninth day of the Lunar New Year, twelve o'clock at noon, you can also get ah! People Hu Laoshi also did not say, have to be 28 this day at 12 noon can plow ah!
Chen Jin dissatisfied waved his hand and said: "Say these useless why, anyway, the matter has been out, what else can be done ah? Tell me, is not another big trouble, to be a big deal?"
"Tornado …… is this thing still small?" Hu Laoshi cocked his head and arched his eyebrows and asked.
Chen Jin and I both looked at each other and stopped talking.
Loss of reason ah, to say the least, tornado this matter, although only a small period of time, but the consequences, obvious ah! Very serious, very serious!
The old woman muttered, "Someone is dead, someone is injured ……"
The room was quiet, a little surprisingly quiet.
Gurgling ……
A series of odd sounds rang out, and both Old Taiyang and Hu Laoshi looked at both Chen Jin and me in surprise.
The two of us blushed in embarrassment and smiled sarcastically. I said, "This, sorry, the two of us, haven't, haven't had lunch yet."
"Laughing, you can still laugh! Do you know that someone died in the village?" Hu Laoshi coldly admonished.
"Who died?" Chen Jin and I asked at the same time.
Hu Laosi glared at the two of us, shook his head and sighed, "Old Mrs. Xu ……"
"Still?"
"Nope." Hu Lao Si was stunned, frowned and said, "What do you two mean? Still think there are fewer people dead in the village aren't you?"
"No, no, absolutely no such meaning." I quickly waved my hands to deny it.
The old woman said with drooping eyelids next to me, "God has eyes, such a big disaster, those who died deserve to die, those who don't deserve to die, haven't died yet."
"Highly insightful!" Chen Jin gave a thumbs up.
Hu Laoshi glared at Chen Jin and the old woman, his lips moved, but he didn't say anything after all.
The room fell into silence again.
I really couldn't help it, I was hungry and panicked, so I hurriedly said: ''Grandpa Hu, tell me, what else do you want us to do? If there's nothing else, I'll go back first, I haven't eaten yet."
"What's going on in the village now? You still have the heart to eat?" Hu Laoshi glared at me with dissatisfaction and said.
"Then again, we have to eat, don't we? You can't starve, right?" Chen Jin retorted.
The old woman said, "Well, well, you back, really fortunate, the village in addition to those dilapidated houses, other are not yet damaged, alas, remember tomorrow at noon, go to that snake cutting monument to the buried, that is the whole village of the acupoints, can not be moved."
"What's the acupuncture point?" Chen Jin poked me with his elbow and asked with a suppressed voice, "I've heard that there are acupuncture points on people's bodies, I haven't heard that there are acupuncture points in this village."
"Feng Shui." I answered him two words very simply.
"Oh ……," Chen Jin nodded in realization and said, "I don't understand."
I skimmed my mouth and said helplessly, "Let's go, go back and eat." Saying this, I twisted my head and walked outside.
Chen Jin was stunned for a moment and hurriedly followed.
Just as I walked out of the house, I heard Hu Laoshi shout from the house, "Come to my place at night."
"Hey, got it."
Chen Jin and I both agreed and walked out together.
The snow was still falling, the snow on the street was already more than half a foot thick, and it creaked when stepped on it.
The streets are not as cold as in the past, the villagers are panicked and hurry to walk in the streets and alleys between, not because of the busy New Year's Eve, but in the busy work to help friends and relatives, neighbors, who suffered a disaster at home, the need to help ah!
I suddenly feel a little gratified in my heart, the villagers poisoned by the evil, these days, there have been signs of mobbing, but after the disaster, the original simple, loyal and kind heart, once again vigorously beat up.
In the midst of danger show true feelings, that is, the scourge of the evil, the destruction of the disaster, still can not completely extinguish the conscience of mankind.
That is the potential and deep conscience.