Chapter 20: Hare in the Grave
Summer night, the east side of the canal can be seen everywhere three or five groups of villagers carrying small stools sitting on the roadside, holding a fan, while the child beat the fan to drive away mosquito bites, while the child chatted about some short and long things.
And winter streets are always cold and quiet different, summer night people will come out to cool, chatting nonsense until after ten o'clock, and then have to go back home to sleep, some simply to the roof, laying a mat, a sleep until dawn, than in the house to sleep, to be a lot cooler.
Well, at that time the family press fan less, not to mention air conditioning such high-grade things, that thing in the big city are few people use. Moreover, even if the rural families were a little better off, they bought fans at home, but at night, there was basically no electricity in the first half of the night, so what the hell does it matter if they have fans?
Our group of people naturally will not be sitting in the street to cool off and chat, if you can really sit still, that is still called young people? As for drinking, that's less, after all, in the summer, who wants to drink that fire white wine ah, and beer this kind of thing, uh-huh, belong to the expensive things, the village kiosk is not, even if there is, for us at that time, that thing what good to drink? It tasted strange and had no strength at all, so it wasn't wine. It was just stinky water.
There was nothing to drink, so naturally we had to think about food.
At that time there was no shortage of food in the summer, not to mention not because you want to satisfy your craving to the temple to steal some meat to eat. Inside the river can fish during the day, if not that patience, simply a few people with a large screen or mosquito net as a net, undressed jumped into the river, two people grabbed the two ends of a clump of water plants in front of a blockade, sticking to the bottom of the river, the other several people scampered to the middle of the water plants a mess jumped, and the fish, ah shrimp, ah, all run to the net, if it is good luck, may also be able to get two big fish, or even get a king's eight may also be possible.
At night, we can go down to the bag fishing eel to go, eel is a good thing, this thing is less meat meat, and meat is delicious, deep-fried or grilled to eat, are particularly fragrant.
That night, several of us ate dinner early, and then carry bamboo poles and eel hooks, with a flashlight and pockets, sickle to the north.
After arriving on that canal in the center of the Northland, the brothers began to split up and do the previous preparatory work.
Some go to dig earthworms, must be the kind of extra large special thick earthworms, and there is a stink of that kind; some go to get some small trunks, small thumb thickness on the line, the length of more than a foot can be; some take the sickle to the side of the canal, the growth of water plants in the canal side to cut out the half-meter square notch, revealing the water to the edge of the canal on the water is shallow, only more than a foot deep only, the water plants cut out, does not affect the line of sight, so the small The block of places to cut out more than twenty places to come.
After the completion of these jobs, we sit around a do eel bag, which is very simple, with a palm-sized piece of cloth, put a few large coarse earthworms inside, and then tied up with a thin rope to make a small bag, tied to one end of a small wooden stick. After doing the eel bag, each tied with eel bag of small wooden stick inserted in the side of the canal those cut the water plants in the water, eel bag suspended in the water on the line.
Every place to insert the eel bag, the earthworm smell will attract eels to peck the bag, they will never tire of pecking and pecking, but never pecked through the cloth bag. At this time, we can take a bamboo pole, bamboo pole on the top tied with a strong wire, wire a section, tied tightly on the earthworm eel hooks, the eel hooks are used on bicycle wheels on the steel grinding, very strong, well, ordinary hooks can not catch eels to eel, eel strength, can pull the hooks to straighten it. Take a hand lamp, shine in the water, see the eel bag in front of the eel in front of the eel pecking bag, the eel hook slowly into the water, the eel pecked half a day did not peck the bag to peck open, and now see the ready-made earthworms, it is not crazy as if swallowed into the mouth? This swallow, just by the hook, we can pull the rod to catch it. Well, don't worry, as long as the light of the flashlight slowly moved to the place where the water plants are vacant, the eel in most cases will not run, specifically why, we really don't know, I guess it is the eel packet attracts it can't leave it.
The general eel package under a good after, have to board twenty minutes, and then one by one inspection again, there are eels on the fishing to, there is no on the past, so more than twenty locations have checked, and then come back to sit down, and so on twenty minutes and a half an hour, and then go to the turn once again. Hey is not bragging ah, more often than not, a night can catch more than ten pounds of eel it, enough for several people tomorrow the whole family move fishy.
Nonsense not to mention, and say we are ready to work, but also skipped two rounds after the harvest, caught a dozen eels, there is a big one, almost seven or eight taels, right? We are all happy, sitting around the edge of the canal on a dry place, of course, from the eel bag under the place to be a little farther. A few people fan, smoking cigarettes, chatting happily.
After chatting for a while, is planning to go around again to catch a few eels when the west side of the child suddenly came a burst of children's cries, is the kind of months less than a year old size of the child's cries, babbling, in this summer night, all around the uninhabited rice paddies, sounds particularly creepy.
The cries sounded for a while, and then suddenly disappeared.
Several of us looked at each other, damn, this is going to hit a ghost, right? In the rural legend, if you hear a child crying at night, it is most likely that there are ghosts in the field, scaring people, they use it for fun, and if they can scare people out of the disease is even better, they will simply suck the yang of the human body, to take the yang to make up for the yin.
Honestly, at that time, a few of us believe is to meet the ghost, because many people in the village have encountered this kind of thing, absolutely not made up, although, a few of us this is the first time to encounter.
A few brothers and sisters, no one said, tilted his head carefully listening to the source of the sound, but for a long time and then no sound came out.
Chen Jin said, "Hey, hey, ran away! Scared away!"
"What scared away? Who scared off who?" Liu Bin asked.
"Nonsense, of course it's us who scared away the ghosts." I smiled and patted Liu Bing's shoulder, said: "Ghosts this kind of thing counts for a hair ah, we can be a big storm over the people, demons and monsters what things have not seen, each child with a gas on the body still want to find a dirty thing to practice it, you say, these little ghosts can not be afraid of touching us? We can all be masculine ah ……."
"But, I heard that the little ghost child specializes in sucking people's Yang Qi." Yao Jing said cautiously, looking around constantly.
Chen Jin heatedly said, "Yes, it is sucking people's yang qi, but that depends on who, if you Yao Jing's, it will like, because your yang qi is less, yang qi is weak, the brat child is happy to eat, but when it comes to the likes of us, then it wouldn't dare to eat it, and it will burn it to death."
"What ah, the old man let go and let it eat, not to put it hold up to death? We have a man's Yang Qi child." I interjected.
Yao Jing said, "Bullshit, I have enough pure and abundant Yang Qi!"
"I think you are stupid enough, haha!" Chang Yunliang pointed at Yao Jing's nose and made fun of him.
The brothers then all laughed.
At this time, as if they were dissatisfied with our uncaring attitude, the cries of the children in the distance came again, and this time the sound was louder, brighter, and clearer, babbling, and in the quiet fields, it sounded creepy.
A few brothers and sisters coincidentally stopped laughing, especially Guo Chao and Liu Bin two people, that mouth do not dare to close.
Along the direction of the sound came to the west, everywhere is more than a foot high seedlings a handful of a handful of inserted in the field, rice paddies in the water flooded with light a shaking, and then to the west to see, the Zhou family grave that piece of several mounds of darkness, the night, looks extraordinarily eerie.
If I'm not mistaken, that child's cry, is from the Zhou family grave that piece of the sound.
Is a few of us breathless and concentrated searching for the source of the sound, and all of us pay attention to the Zhou family grave when the child's cry suddenly paused, and then sounded again, but this time it is not a cry, but a little bit like in the laugh, laugh ghastly, miserable …… that sound, really, let a person listen to can not help but Cold hairs stand upright, back numb and whoosh.
Chen Jin suddenly elbow touched me, I was scared ah jumped up, a look is Chen Jin this kid, angry I scolded: "What do you do? Want to scare me to death ah?"
"Fuck, why not? Look at your guts, when did you become so small?" Chen Jin said with contempt.
"Bah, is this a matter of guts or no guts? Ah? This is …… this is ……" I secretly scolded myself in my heart, this is not bullshit, shame ah, face lost big, I forced the face of the disdain of the sneer, said:"". I was just thinking about how to touch the past to catch the ghost, just thought of touching into the grave circle, you gave me a damn, can not be nervous?"
Perhaps I was justified in saying this, perhaps the brothers didn't want to lose my face, so everyone nodded their heads and thought it was so. Chen Jin repeatedly apologized to me, and then said, "Not to mention, we thought of the same thing, I also thought of discussing with you, let's touch over and see what it is."
"Yes, let's go over there, hey, which one of you is going?" I nodded my head yes, by the way, turned my head and asked the others, more people more helpers.
"Hey don't ah, let's not go to attract ghosts, that dirty thing stained, will get sick." Yao Jing hurriedly said.
I glared at him and said, "Go go go, if you are afraid, stay here, don't disturb the army, are you guys going? If you don't want to go, we'll go, I'll tell you, if we really catch any treasure, hey, don't say we're not good enough to take it all."
"That's right, come on, are you going or not?" Chen Jin also said with a smile from the side.
While we are talking, the Zhou family grave side of the child also occasionally came or crying or laughing voice, really is eerie, let a person's scalp numb, back raw cold. But in the heart of it, our men's words have been put down, and then do not go then that face can be a big loss of face, and then again, we and the essence of the ah monsters ah what the dirty things have done a number of fights, but also afraid of these little ghosts do not? I think, if it's really a kid, it's just scaring us from a distance, when we really walk over, we'll have to scare it to death, didn't the old man say before he left? Chen Jin was born with a strong destiny, full of masculinity, ghosts and monsters do not invade, I'm a person even dipped in the ancestor's great advantage, there is Fuming immortal gas protection, we are still afraid of the ghosts and monsters do not?
Chang Yunliang seems to understand me and Chen Jin's mind the most, he waved his hand and said: "Well, if you two want to go to hurry to go, we do not share the treasure with you two."
His words were immediately supported by many people, all of whom sat down in front of Chang Yunliang, yelling for us to hurry up and go, and from time to time looking vigilantly at the Zhou family grave.
Chen Jin and I have no choice but to clench our teeth, holding a flashlight and stood up, the two looked at each other, damn, go, look at the go! Let's go and see what the hell is going on.
We both backed up a few steps, and then accelerated a few steps, ran to the edge of the ditch after a single-legged straddle, easily from the ditch leaped over, just landed stable, the ditch over there came Xue Zhigang's voice: "Wait for me, I also went over to see."
The sound fell, Xue Zhigang has jumped over, I heart a happy, this is good, and a good helper, seriously, a few brothers, Xue Zhigang is the most tall and big, and the courage is also in a few others above, once what happened in the fight, he is a good hand, frankly speaking, if regardless of the skills, purely rely on the strength of the dead fight, then, I'll fight with him one on one definitely not a rival.
The three of us along the side of the canal to the north for a period of time, and then turned left, stepped on a relatively hard and wide ridge, along this ridge can go to the middle of the three teams and two teams of the road, and Zhou's grave, is next to that road it.
After all, it's night, the ridge is wide and hard, in the paddy field also have slippery place, there is water everywhere, the ridge during the day by people walking around, some places will collapse, and out of the mud to, careless will slip. The three of us are wearing slippers, walk more carefully, and flashlight is not open, afraid that in case the Zhou family grave stuff was scared away, we are not a trip in vain?
All the way carefully, walked to the second team and the third team land in the middle of the road, Chen Jin whispered: "Hey hey, let's walk slowly, wait until the Zhou family graves in front of the child, and then turn on the flashlight, know it?"
"Uh, understand." Xue Zhigang and I nodded in agreement.
At this time, that weird eerie sound was much smaller than before, I pondered in my heart, can't it be that this thing knows that a few of us came over and got scared?
The three of us dragged our shoes down and held them in our left hands, holding the flashlight in our right hands, and slowly walked towards the Zhou family tomb with our cats at waist level.
When we reached the Zhou family grave, the sound suddenly stopped, the grave circle is dark and can not see anything.
Chen Jin and Xue Zhigang lifted the flashlight, was about to open, I reached out to stop them, signaling them to wait, if we hear the sound, we can open the flashlight can be accurate, now nothing can be seen in the darkness, once the light is not the right place, it may be out of the question.
The two of them thought about it and nodded, understanding what I meant.
The three of us slowly squatted down, holding our breath, waiting for the sound to ring again.
After a while, the thing in the grave circle guessed that there was no movement outside, no one, right? It began to cry and laugh again.
The three of us were energized, this time we can determine the direction, in the biggest grave and the north of the small grave in the middle. The three of us neglected to glance at each other, our arms raised, three flashlights turned on at the same time, and three beams of light immediately shot there.
"Holy shit!"
The three of us coincidentally cursed out, his grandmother, also thought it was what the ghost thing it, after half a day is a wild rabbit. Also strange ah, this rabbit well how to squat to the grave circle screaming it? Also called so hard to hear, so horrible, so …… gloomy.
Walked to the front of a look, the three of us happy, ouch my good boy, the poor rabbit, feelings let clip to clip, the hind legs are clamped by the clip are out of blood, the pain of it screaming, before really do not know, this rabbit is clamped pain, will scream out this sound. This is not right ah, we used to under the clip also hit the wild rabbit, did not hear this kind of sound ah, so miserable, really strange, and, who is this under the clip ah?
Chen Jin suddenly slapped his head and said with a smile, "Grandma, I said that some days ago there was a clip missing, this clip is my clip here to clip the yellow wolf, came a few times did not clip, and then forget about it, get, not counting the effort in vain, waiting for two months can still clip a wild rabbit, good good, tomorrow stewed hare to eat."
Xue Zhigang and I laughed, Chen Jin hung the flashlight on his waist, stooped down to catch the rabbit, reached out to break the clip, a pull on the rabbit, but did not pull, Chen Jin "eek" a sound, take the flashlight, found that the rabbit's other hind legs are deeply sunk in the side of that small mound of a hole in the side, and then look carefully! At a closer look, the hare's stomach seemed to be sucked in by the hole.
"Damn, can't it be that the buried one is also craving for a rabbit?" Chen Jin cursed and said to the two of us, "Come on, I'm breaking the clip with this hand, Yinle give me a hand and pull it out."
"Hey." I agreed, holding a flashlight in one hand, bent down, and grabbed the rabbit's neck with my other hand.
We both shouted "One, two!" With a simultaneous push, we yanked the hare up with a bang.
Xue Zhigang was beside him with a flashlight and could not help but exclaim, "Fuck, the legs are torn off, what the hell sucked the hare?"
Chen Jin and I took a look, yes, in addition to the hare was clamped broken leg bloody still long in the body, the other hind leg was we two just tore hard broken, the hole must have something else biting the hare's leg, or something stuck, but this rice paddy in the grave mound, can there be what things? The hare's leg is so short that it can't reach the coffin.
Look carefully at the grave and the hole, seems to be nothing strange, bowl-sized hole, filled with water, is a rabbit hole or coyote hole it?
Looked at half a day, did not find anything strange, Chen Jin squatted down to reach inside the hole and touched it, pulled out a ball of mud, said: "Grandma, could it be that there is a big lobster living here?"
"Bullshit, how big a lobster has such a big appetite? Eating wild rabbits?" I laughed and said, "Come on, what the hell, go back, the brothers are still waiting for us over there in the canal."
"Uh-huh." Chen Jin nodded his head, swished his hands in the rice paddy next to him, stood up and walked back with the two of us.
The three of us hadn't taken a few steps yet, when two sounds of cooing suddenly came from behind us, the sound was dull, muffled like thunder, and a bit like a toad's kind of cry.
The three people violently stopped steps, at the same time turn their heads to look, three flashlights also opened the past, no movement.
Probably the toad in the paddy field was just startled by us, right? The three of us all laughed and turned around to walk back.
Waiting for us to walk down the road to the ridge in front of us, the road in front of the middle of the road suddenly appeared a large grave mound, more than a meter high, more than two meters wide, blocked the road to a tightly.
"Holy shit, what is it?"
The three of us exclaimed at the same time, at the same time the flashlights opened in unison and shone towards the thing that suddenly crossed in front of us blocking the way.