Chapter 5: Midnight Terror

Section 1 Arrival at the station

At more than ten o'clock in the night, all the members of the Hedong County Hybrid Rice South Breeding Team successfully arrived at the station, the seventh production team of the Tangfeng Brigade of Banpo Commune, Ledong County.

Through the bright starlight and moonlight, Marlinsi could vaguely distinguish the scenery outside the window. It took more than two hours to leave the city of Sanya and travel west, almost on the road between the coastline and the railway.

The sea surface is dark, with occasional sporadic lights, like glowing fireflies, flickering and disappearing. The sound of the waves is very loud, earth-shattering, surging, and breathtaking. Only then did Ma Linxi feel what a momentum it was to overwhelm the mountains and seas.

Suddenly, the front of the car turned at a right angle, and after crossing the long line of railways, a huge black shadow appeared in front of Ma Linxi's eyes.

He hadn't gone far before he could see a small village standing still on the left. In the middle of guessing, the car stopped at the fork in the road.

"It's here, it's here. ”

"Hey, get out of the car. ”

"Take things slowly, people come down first. ”

"Oh, I'm sleepy. ”

"I've been sleeping in Sanya until now. ”

"Slow the, step on my feet. ”

Everyone stood up from their seats, chatting and laughing excitedly. Some stretch their waists, some pat the dust on their bodies, and the carriage is particularly active.

"Hurry up, people. Good, pour, pour again. The people in the back, hey, who are standing in that area? Why don't you go away? Okay. Stop. Deputy Director Ji Xuebin commanded the reversing behind the butt of the car.

"Hello Camp Chief Lin, I've made you wait so long. Stationmaster Cheng Houbo tightly held the hand of a short, thin and energetic middle-aged man and said.

"I reckon you'll be there before the sun sets. I didn't know it was so late. Let's eat first. Camp Commander Lin said.

"The section of the road that Qionghai came over is being repaired, and the driver is driving slowly. Stationmaster Cheng Houbo took out a cigarette case, popped out a stick, and handed it to Camp Chief Lin.

Camp Commander Lin was also polite, and pulled out the one of the sponge's mouths showing half a finger. Cheng Houbo turned to Yang Hongru next to him and said, "This is our Yang County Magistrate." ”

"County Magistrate Yang has worked hard all the way. Camp Chief Lin stretched out his hands to shake them, and the cigarette on his mouth shook and shook.

"Oh, Director Yu, you're here too. Cheng Houbo stepped forward and held a middle-aged woman's hand tightly.

"I heard you were coming, so I can't come. Director Yu said heartily. It seems that they are quite familiar.

Xing Yiyou, a veteran player who came last year, whispered in Ma Linxi's ear: "Director Yu is an old girl." ”

Director Yu is of medium height, with a round face, and a plump body line, which is concave and convex. She is the women's director of the brigade, and she still has no in-laws, and she is in her thirties. I heard that she was engaged in her early twenties, but then for some reason, the man gave her back, and she has not been married until now. It's either that she doesn't look down on others, or that people don't look down on her. She's a straightforward person, a little bit arrogant, and she doesn't take her jokes seriously. Stationmaster Cheng Houbo came here last year, and she and Deputy Battalion Commander Lin of the brigade militia battalion were combined with the seventh team, so they have long been familiar with it, and now they are old friends.

Soon, the bus was dumped on the threshing floor of the production team.

The threshing floor is cement-poured. It seems that the breeding in the past few years has really made the seventh team a lot of money, otherwise, who would be willing to use cement to pour the threshing floor? In his hometown, only the county agricultural department has a decent cement field, Ma Linxi thought to himself.

Although the site is not very large, it is only two or three hundred square meters, with sugar cane fields to the north, and a road leading to the village to the east, close to an irrigation canal. To the west and south are two tiled houses, probably warehouses where grain is stored. Sitting in the south and facing north of the house is also a way to adapt to the climate of Hainan, with the sun on its back, which can alleviate the high temperature in summer.

Because it was late at night, Marlinsi judged from the location that the threshing floor seemed to be located northeast of the village.

The luggage of the breeding team members, including the sacks of rice seeds that they carried with them, was removed from the cart and piled up in the middle of the threshing floor. With the help of a makeshift electric light, Marlinsi found his canvas duffel bag.

Everyone had nothing to do, and when they were talking enthusiastically, Station Chief Cheng Houbo shouted loudly: "Everyone, pay attention, everyone should take stock of their things first." And those who had taken it went to eat in the house on the west side. Hurry. ”

"Let's go. What are you still looking like?" Wang Changsong touched Ma Linxi with his arm and said, "Let's eat." I cried out in my stomach that I was dead. ”

"Don't mention it, I'm hungry too. Marlinsi followed them into the room that sat west facing east.

Section 2 Tidying up dormitories

The room was brightly lit, and three large bulbs with a hundred lights illuminated the corners and corners.

Makeshift beds lined up along the perimeter of the wall. Two large thick logs are laid parallel to each other, end to end, and covered with rough coconut tree planks, four of which together form a bed. The cement floor is a little old, but it is clean. In the middle of the room are two knee-high lead buckets, holding steaming braised pork and green vegetable and tofu soup, and stacks of white enamel bowls and bamboo chopsticks next to them.

As soon as Ma Linxi got the enamel bowl and chopsticks in his hand, the cook, Lao Hou, came in with rice.

In the basket of hugging, there is a fragrant mist. Everyone gathered around the basket, orderly to the bowl to serve rice, and then sat on the smooth paving, some people simply held the rice bowl, beat the braised pork on top of the rice, scooped a spoonful of soup, squatted on the ground and devoured it.

It was still lunch in Qionghai, and it was now more than ten o'clock in the evening, and Ma Linxi's stomach was already growling, and he filled a bowl full of rice and picked it up.

After dinner, everyone hurriedly began to make the beds.

Before the breeding team arrived, the production team had prepared the planks in advance, some of which were already laid out on the beds, and many were piled up under the eaves outside. Because the personnel had just arrived, they didn't have time to divide the specific group, so they combined freely, and the two of them shared a shop, and Ma Linxi and Qi Moxiang shared a shop.

The bed frame is made of wood, some are padded with bricks, and two very long logs are set up on it to make the bed frame, some are short and unstable, and everyone is gossiping about ideas.

"One more brick. Wang Changsong picked up the wood and said.

"What's the line?" Xu Feng stuffed another brick up. And he said, "Raise it up a little more." ”

"Mom, I can't take it anymore. Wang Changsong put down the wood, shook his head, and turned to Ma Linxi: "You are young, you come." ”

"Where did you eat the two bowls of rice just now?" Ma Linxi bent down and put his hands under the wood to hug it: "It's so heavy?" It was too heavy, and he hurriedly put it down again.

"You haven't eaten either, have you? Wang Changsong smiled and stimulated Ma Linxi.

"What a piece of rubbish. Qi Moxiang, who stepped in from outside the door, saw that everyone had no opinion, so he put down the brick in his hand, hugged the log with both hands, lifted it gently, and moved the wood high, and then said: "Quickly take the brick pad." ”

Everyone handed over the bricks one by one. All of a sudden, the height increased from two to ten, which is about the same height as the big bed at home.

"That's pretty much it. Jiang Sigui has been standing by and watching everyone busy, and he has never done anything.

"You're afraid of back pain when you fart, and you know how to evaluate it. Xing Yiyou, a veteran player who came to Hainan last year, immediately ridiculed him.

"Where can I get my hands in?" Jiang Sigui quibbled, cutting his hands and crossing to the other side.

"No, it's a little shaky. "Qi Moxiang is tall and big, more than one meter and eight meters tall, and he is strong and steady. He was a veteran, and with the inertia of a scout's mind, he sat on the bed and shook the bed vigorously.

"It's okay, I feel good to sleep with a little shaking. Jiang Sigui, who is always oily and smooth, said. In fact, he is afraid of work, and some people know that he will always be opportunistic.

"Bring the wood down again and make the bricks steady. Ma Linxi said, and turned to Qi Moxiang: "Let's ask Lao Qi to come again." You Hercules. ”

"Forget it. Wang Changsong, who is always afraid of trouble in everything, interjected and said, and hurriedly put the grass on the bed: "The first will be done, and it will be adjusted tomorrow morning." ”

"Funny, it's more than twelve o'clock, but you don't have a bed and don't sleep?" Fan Guangjie, who was a little short and chubby, and always acted unhurriedly, also connived.

"What are you anxious about? If you want to sleep, you can sleep soundly. Luo Yufu of the Agricultural Science Station of Yongfeng Commune said. He has done the craft of trimming stalks, and he has the shrewdness of a businessman who has seen the world in the rivers and lakes, and shook the bed board with his hand, and when he saw some shaking, he continued: "It's fun to fall down at night." ”

"Don't talk about the frieze. Fan Guangjie was busy spreading the mats. He turned his head to Xing Yiyou again: "It's not a corpse, if you're at home, you'll go to bed early." ”

"Hey, your plank is a bit high over there. What? It's not my side, pad again. Well. Good. Xing Yiyou said.

"Can you compare with your little old man, what do you think? I said so. Fan Guangjie said.

"Look at you, this paving board is not flat at all, how can you sleep? "Hu Longbiao is less than 1.6 meters tall, as thin as a monkey, and he is also smart. Seeing that the bed was uneven, he quickly lifted the grass and pulled out the narrow, curved board of coconut trees and walked out.

Just when Ma Linxi was about to hang the mosquito net, he only heard a "bang" outside, followed by a miserable scream from Hu Longbiao.

Everyone hurriedly ran outside the house, it turned out that the wooden plank pile was accidentally collapsed by Hu Longbiao when he pulled the plank, and more than a dozen wooden planks pressed on his body, unable to move, and he screamed in pain.

Fortunately, there were many people, and everyone moved the wooden plank and pulled him out of it. Fortunately, it was just that the arms and thighs were scratched a little bit, and there were no major injuries. It hurts, he grinned, and the others laughed, gloating.

After making the bed, he found that the bedding on Ma Linxi's side was a little short, and he couldn't sleep Qi Moxiang, who was more than one meter and eight meters, so he changed to the row by the window, and Wang Changsong was transferred to Ma Linxi's side from that side to share the bunk, and both of them were about the same size.

Fan Guangjie and Hu Longbiao, both of whom are small people, sleep opposite Ma Linxi. There is a one-meter-wide aisle in between. Wang Changsong is older than Ma Linxi, and taking care of him sleeps in it, just leaning against the window, which is a better position. There was a brick-wide windowsill, and he put bits and pieces and tooth jars on it. The towel is hung on the head of the bamboo pole through the mosquito net, and a string is tied in the middle of the chopsticks, and the mosquito net hook is tied from the bamboo pole. The travel bag is just a temporary pillow.

As soon as the bed was made, the three leaders came in. They went out after a brief check-up.

Deputy Director Ji went out and came back to tell everyone: "Rest early." If you want to urinate, go to the back of the house. ”

This statement really reminded Ma Linxi, and she immediately had the feeling of wanting to pee: "I really want to pee." ”

"Wait. Wang Changsong said.

"Go together. Otherwise, I don't know where to pee at night. Hu Longbiao said.

"Your little trick is not easy to do. Just go out. Fan Guangjie said.

"Go, go, go. You don't have anything good to say. Hu Longbiao pushed him.

When I went out, I walked forward from the alley on the right, and I turned to the back of the house. I can vaguely see a large pond in the southwest corner, and behind the house is a tall and impermeable sugar cane plantation. The four of them lined up and peed facing the sugar cane plantation.

It's a little cold outside, and Ma Linxi unconsciously shuddered: "It's a little cold." ”

"Pee, pee, cold, forbid—little jolly. Fan Guangjie said with a smile on his pants.

When he returned, Ma Linxi found that the house next to the hill with them was also a warehouse, but it did not put grain, it was used to store tools, and the three rooms were connected, and the tools were piled up to the east end, and there were three shelf beds side by side, and an old desk was placed in front of each bed. Deputy county magistrate Yang Hongru has the best position here, there are windows on the south and west walls, the north side faces the door, and there are ceiling fans overhead, which is a very luxurious thing.

The windows and doors were wide open, and the four of them gathered around Deputy County Magistrate Yang to study what was going on. Maybe it has something to do with the local area, because Camp Chief Lin was also present. They involuntarily peeked out of the window and quickly returned to the dormitory.

Good guy, almost all of them went to bed, and there was a sound of snoring coming from the corner.

I don't know who is whispering: "Luo Yufu, this guy has a pig's head." Then there was a heavy turnover. The bed slabs creaked on one side, and not only the mosquito nets shook with it, but also the hanging light bulbs.

Ma Linxi thought, how heavy is this guy's body.

Now, it's Marlinsi's turn. As soon as he sat down on the bed, his buttocks were still firmly seated, and the whole bed shook like an earthquake, and he was so frightened that he propped his hands on the bed and said to himself, "Will it collapse?"

"Say all the bad things, hurry up and raise the corpse. Wang Changsong said.

"You're in the middle, how can I sleep?" Ma Linxi put his leg against Wang Changsong's back.

"Cow. It's too big for a small place. Wang Changsong moved his body inside.

When she first lay down, Marlinsi was still very sleepy. However, I don't know who couldn't fall asleep after tossing and turning, and the chain reaction of the bed boards in a row was just about to fall asleep in a daze, and I was woken up by the sound of "squeak, squeak".

I was sleepy, but I couldn't sleep, and my mind began to think wildly.

Section 3 Bed, bed

The first thing that came to Marinsi's mind was the double rack bed when she was in middle school.

A big dormitory, as big as a classroom, full of crowds all around and in the middle, he slept in the lower bunk of the six shelf beds in the middle, the upper bunk was Yu Yunhai of Qinnan Commune, this guy has a fat head and big ears, his lips are a little turned out, a tooth on the left side of the top is a little protruding, a big round face and two dimples, and the ears are also very special, there is no curl like a normal person, some classmates said, it is a fussing ear. When walking, he always dragged his heels on the ground, and the most uncomfortable thing was in summer, when the wooden slippers were like beating a drum on the ground, and people who slept to death would be woken up by him. The most intolerable thing is that this guy has a lot of fart, and it is loud and smelly. In the summer, the indoor air is not smooth, and he can put seven or eight stinky farts in a nap, which makes everyone follow the "fart sauna". However, he is honest and thick-skinned, and everyone seems to be accustomed to his farts, and he has many nicknames: fart king, fart worm, fart stick, whatever you shout, he laughed it off. If you want to put it on, you can put it on your face, and there are two very narrow dimples on your face. People fart is also a normal physiological phenomenon, and of course everyone will not take it seriously. And the most hateful thing is his fart performance. He can freely control how to fart, long, short, and loud, and sometimes he can even fart for minutes like Yang Zirong sang "Fighting the Tiger on the Mountain" when he sang "Through the forest and sea, across the snowfield...... Peking Opera singing. If anyone in the lower bunk becomes the target of public criticism, then he will inevitably think of Yu Yunhai's "fart punishment". When you are sleeping soundly, he puts his ass close to your nose in full view of everyone, and buries it lightly, and it is a loud stinky fart, so the whole room laughs.

For Marinsi, there is another point that is particularly impressive. Even the wooden floor bed they slept on was old and toothless, and the sides were covered with iron sheets, but the tenons were already loose and swaying like swings. Yu Yunhai was about to fart, and the first person to get the information was Ma Linxi, there was a shaking on it, and it was bound to be accompanied by stinky farts. There are pros and cons to this warning, so he can be prepared, take a deep breath, and exhale quickly the moment he smells the foul smell.

After she was born, until she got married, Marlinsi never had a bed of her own. For as long as Marlinsi can remember, he has shared a bed with others.

Before he went to elementary school, he shared a bed with his brother and sister, and his sister, who was 10 years older than him, slept outside to protect him and his brother. When he was a little older, his sister slept with his grandmother, and he slept with his brother for many years. My brother always told him stories. During the Chinese New Year, storytelling is "taking the bridge", either giving him good things to eat, or buying them with money, buying two stories for a penny, and five cents for a good story. The few corners that I usually accumulate with great difficulty are almost all "taught" by my brother in this way. When I grew up, I realized that his stories were all made up.

The warmest bed in Marinsi's mind was, of course, the big bed she married to her wife.

That knows, just as Ma Linxi was immersed in the sweetness of his newlywed wife, Yan'er, suddenly there was a "ahhhhh

Section 4 Midnight Terror

The sound of the slabs and the wood crashing, the crumbling of the bricks continued.

There was a lot of chaos in the house, Ma Linxi was slammed on the cement floor, the mosquito net was covered on his head, he couldn't see anything clearly in a daze, the lights and shadows kept flickering, and he didn't know whose body was pressing on his body, making him unable to move, some people were hmmmm

"Oh hey, damn it, who's it, it hurts me. Dog's day. "Marlinxi couldn't pull the mosquito net, and one leg was pressed by someone's ass, and he couldn't pull it out.

"Don't move. . Ah. Fan Guangjie shouted above Ma Linxi.

"Quick, reach over. It's okay. Wang Changsong said to Fan Guangjie.

It's incredible.

Wang Changsong and Ma Linxi shopped together, but he didn't press it. Fan Guangjie on the opposite side pressed on his body. With everyone's help from each other, they all got up from the collapsed pavement, and the ground was a mess. Fortunately, the bed was not high, and I didn't fall into a blue face and swollen nose, but I was quite frightened.

"Just eat the loss of 'zombie ghosts'. Luo Yufu rubbed his arm and said.

On the way here, Jiang Sigui was nicknamed "zombie ghost" with the homonym of his name. In fact, Jiang Sigui looks like a talent, and it is said that he was sent from Suzhou to Beijiang Commune with his parents. Even high school was studied in Suzhou.

In Ma Linxi's memory, the people of southern Jiangsu seem to be higher than the people of northern Jiangsu. This feeling came from a Chinese teacher in high school. The female language teacher was tall and long, with a pair of gold-rimmed glasses that made her stand out from the rest. Every time I listened to her in Chinese class, in that kind of gaze, Ma Linxi read that she was an inferior child. often talks about the train in her hometown, the small western-style building, and the description of gray walls and tiles. This made Ma Linxi and other children from the countryside who had never seen what a train was like feeling very inferior in their hearts, and even when they saw that the thumbs on their feet were about to show the cloth shoes, they were embarrassed to describe the thatched houses in their hometown in front of this female teacher.

This inferiority complex from the bottom of her heart often makes Ma Linxi not have the courage to respond to her gorgeously dressed classmates and teachers, not to mention that this Chinese teacher is still from "Suzhou", which is known as paradise.

Having said that, maybe it's because the economy of southern Jiangsu is more developed than that of northern Jiangsu, maybe it's because Jiang Sigui lives in a historical and cultural ancient city like Suzhou, and he is used to living in the city, and he has seen the world, and he has a sense of superiority in his bones for relatively economically backward areas like northern Jiangsu, which is like the female teacher in high school. Therefore, in Ma Linxi's feelings, Jiang Sigui's words and thoughts and even some tones have the shadow of contempt and cynicism of the children of rich and noble families.

"You don't sleep properly, and you blame me!" Jiang Sigui scratched a little skin on his head and covered it with a towel.

"It's not like you're in a hurry to make the bed. "Hu Longbiao's knee was broken, and he looked at the light to see what the injury looked like. Then he said, "If you find something to cushion the wood, how can it collapse?"

"Who told you not to pad. What kind of fart are you padding now? Do you think you can roll around on the bunk in your house?" Jiang Sigui didn't give an inch.

"What's the noise? If you want to quarrel tomorrow, hurry up and get the bed. Yo. Damn it. My neck is twisted. Qi Moxiang bent down to carry the wood, and kept twisting his head.

"What the hell? How did it collapse? It didn't hurt anyone, did it? No? That's good. It's three o'clock, and we'll talk about it tomorrow, and it's dawn in two or three hours. Stationmaster Cheng Houbo was also woken up. He stood at the door with his hands on his waist and sleepy-eyed in his big pants and white undershirt, and did not enter the house. Seeing that there was no injury, he said a few words and walked away.

The situation has been ascertained, the bricks of the bed pier are unstable, the wood on top is a log, the slightest instability will be rolled, and the plank is not well fixed, the eight beds are lined up, affecting each other, some people turn over too heavy, and finally the wood falls off, so that the whole bed collapses.

Fortunately, there is no danger. Everyone worked hard for a while, then set up the bed again and continued to sleep.

Soon, Marlinsi fell into a deep sleep.

Section 5 Schadenfreude Laughter

In a hazy sleep, Marlinsi pretended to fill in a poem again.

"Qingpingle Hainan Breeding"

Late autumn comes to Canton,

Needless to say.

For the road of breeding good seeds,

Leap into the moon for nine days.

Treasure Island breeds for home,

Ambition to 300 peaks.

Start a business in the autumn and winter

The spring breeze is good in China.

When I woke up, it was already sunny outside, and the room was full of light.

Ma Linxi looked up at the window, the green was full of eyes, the fresh and humid air was leisurely, and his spirit was suddenly lifted. The fatigue of the long journey, the thrilling scene of last night, has long been forgotten, everyone got up happily, and the room was full of pleasant laughter.

After getting up, everyone was busy tidying up the bedding and washing.

First, roll up all the coverings and put them on the cement yard outside the door, then lift the plank, remove the wood, and re-stack the bed piers.

This time, we learned the lesson of last night's collapse, and used whole bricks to build and cement sand paddles to fill the joints, and the height was also lowered. In the place where the wood is connected to the brick pier, it is flattened one by one with a machete, and the plank is laid only after it is completely in contact with the pier and compacted. The plank was carefully selected, the length, thickness and width were basically the same, and the slightly uneven places were carefully padded with small pieces of wood. In this way, the bed is smooth and stable, and it no longer shakes at all.

Two brand-new thick wires were pulled in the middle of the house, which were used to hang mosquito nets, towels and clothes.

Walls and window sills are freshly painted with lime. Personal belongings such as wooden boxes, bags, basins and the like are all numbered one by one, bright red paint, very eye-catching, neatly placed on both sides of the bed, a bit like a military camp.

The doors and windows were also thoroughly scrubbed. The front and back of the house are cleaned, and even the weeds are pulled out, which is really new inside and out.

The poultry that had been foraging in the drying field were also far away, and only the brave dogs were lying under the shade of the trees and napping in this direction.

Early in the morning, Camp Commander Lin came to the breeding team.

Seeing that everyone was busy in full swing, after he took a turn in the dormitory, he praised the stationmaster Cheng Houbo: "It's really good." So well packed. It's just that the place is a little small, there is really no way, there are few houses in the seventh team, I'm sorry. ”

"The one on the east side where the seeds are placed can also be vacated after the Spring Festival. I told Captain Ho. Director Yu interjected on the side.

Director Yu looked in a good mood today, and he also wore a flower dress that looked more trendy, and the black skirt was also more decently matched, and the bamboo bean hat was oily, which set off the originally slightly fat figure more plump and graceful. This charm makes the eyes of the breeding team members brighten.

"It's okay. Let's overcome it. Stationmaster Cheng Houbo said politely, turned around and led them to the room.

The water used in the village is well water, and there is a large pond behind the house, which is said to be used for fish farming, but the water is very dirty and cannot be drunk, and the farmers use their own well water.

There is a well on the side of the path behind the breeding team's station. After the dormitory was cleaned up, Marlinsi went to wash. Wash the dirty clothes that you have changed.

It's been more than a week away from home, and the boat changes along the way, almost no stops, so there is no time to wash clothes, and several sets of clothes are so dirty that they can't be dirty anymore, and a lot of them have been changed.

When Ma Linxi came to the well platform, he was immediately dumbfounded, more than a dozen people, almost surrounded the well platform. Ma Linxi held the basin and looked at it with a smile, a little at a loss.

The well is located behind the house of Deputy County Magistrate Yang, separated by a path on both sides of the road with small trees, shrubs, wildflowers, and thorns forming a natural fence wall.

Judging by the location, the well is inside the village, and the warehouse where the breeding team is stationed is outside the village.

The well may be a public one. There is also a road on the west side of the platform, which is also separated by a fence wall. The road was narrow, like an old and wide rut. Perhaps, when it rains, it may be a small ditch for drainage. Such a road is a bit similar to the flood channel in northern Jiangsu. When the flood comes, the flood is discharged, and after the flood, it is a road open to traffic and pedestrians. The path that passes by the well platform leads south to the farmhouses with a series of houses.

The hexagonal abutment is surrounded by a half-man-high fence of branches, with a high bulge in the middle, and the concrete floor is surrounded by green moss. The platform is shaded under a cloud-covered banyan tree. But that's also a quarter of the shade. It was the first time that Marinsi had seen a forest of solitary trees, and under the huge canopy, dozens of aerial roots thicker than the mouth of the bowl were gathered.

How long the cultural history of Hainan Island is still unknown to Ma Linxi, and the study time in high school is like a white horse. After graduation, he has been focusing on the promotion of agricultural science and technology and hybrid rice breeding, and he knows the history of Hainan very pitifully. With the cultural intuition generated by his family's influence, there should be a rich history. It is not known when and why this wellhead began. However, it can be said that the well platform at the entrance of the village is the window of the village, and through the phenomena and stories that occur in the well platform, you can get a glimpse of the local village customs and characters.

The stone circle at the wellhead is ground out of smooth and deep groove marks by the well rope of the water hanging. The blue-brown stone is shiny and shiny, and you can see a faint figure.

It was a long time before Marlinsi had the opportunity to fetch water.

The bucket is smaller than the basin, and the wooden plank has a faint layer of moss along the mouth and at the bottom of the bucket. In the sunlight, it feels like an oil painting framed in some exhibition hall. There are a lot of well ropes, and the thickness of the hemp rope is connected, and there is a knot every one or two meters. Ma Linxi had never drawn well water, and of course he couldn't tell why the good end of the well rope should be knotted.

He didn't have the heart to continue to think, but just followed the example of others, carefully put the bucket into the well, imitated the appearance of others, held the well rope, and swayed for a long time, and did not turn the bucket upside down. At that time, the feeling was that the eyes of everyone around him were focused on him, like a thorn in his back.

I don't know how long it took to toss, but Marlinxi finally had the feeling of hitting the water. So, he cautiously began to reel the rope upwards.

After a lot of effort, the bucket was finally lifted to the wellhead. Although there is only less than half a bucket of well water, no matter how little it is, it is the result of my first hard work. There is an indescribable complacency in my heart. Hehe, it turns out that digging well water is not as difficult as others describe.

However, just as he was about to reach for the bucket, the bucket fell into the unfathomable well.

On the well platform, a wave of schadenfreude laughter immediately erupted.