81.Chapter 81: Two Past Encounters
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It was one night, and I remember it very clearly, it happened to be Qi Hao's sixth birthday, the nineteenth day of the ninth lunar month.
Because there was no electric light at that time, as long as the weather was good, it was a happy time for the friends in the village at night. According to the usual practice, before and after going out to play, I must go to the fish pond contracted by my family with Qi Hao to inspect it to prevent it from being stolen by thieves, which is a rule set by my father.
And it happened when we inspected the pond for the second time.
The weather was very nice that night, so we had a great time with our friends in the village. When everyone dispersed, my two brothers walked out of the village.
Outside the village, there is no wind, the moon has begun to set in the west, and the clear light sprinkled on the stone road in the field can still be seen very clearly, the nights in this season are usually cool and comfortable, and it is a little pleasant to walk in the fields at this time.
After looking at the three ponds, we didn't find anything unusual, so the two of us walked over to the last pond. When we walked to the pond, we both felt that we were anxious to urinate, so we stood on the ridge of the pond to pee farther than anyone else.
was urinating, and suddenly heard Qi Hao say, "Brother, what is that?"
As he pointed in the direction, we saw a round object the size of a ping-pong ball floating slowly from east to west on the surface of the pond, less than five meters away from us. The thing glowed pink, very soft, about a meter above the surface of the pond, and was floating there.
We were almost stunned! For the children in the countryside at that time, it could not be compared with the children of today. In places where electric light is not even popular, I don't know much about many things in the world except for what I see in books. Therefore, curiosity about the world cannot be described as thirst and hunger. So, seeing this kind of sight, in addition to surprise, is more of a novelty.
"Brother, is that a ghost fire?" Qi Hao asked me.
I shook my head and said, "It's not like we haven't seen ghost fires, it burns like a lamp, and it burns like a torch when it's bigger, and the light is blue or yellow, it's different from this thing!"
At that time, the children in the countryside were very bold, and we often helped our parents to guard the grain when we were robbing.
This sun-grained flat is located on one of the largest grave hills in our area, there are no trees on the mountain, some are just grass, it is shared by several surrounding villages, almost all the deceased are buried here, and for thousands of years, this hill has been densely packed with large and small graves. There are many because of the age, it is impossible to see that there were people buried there, so even if many of the new burial locations coincide with them, everyone does not care about these, and never taboo anything.
On hot nights, you can often see dotted "ghost fires" wandering on this mountain. Maybe the people here are used to all this, and basically no one makes a fuss, even if they think of us as children, they are never afraid.
So, of course, when I saw this thing, it was only a novelty! After all, this thing was completely different from the "ghost fire" I had seen before.
"Then what the hell is this?" Qi Hao asked again.
"Could it be some kind of baby?" I scratched my head and frowned, "The book says that babies usually glow!"
"You read too many garbage books, right, there is such a flying baby? This is not a myth!" Qi Hao at that time, although he was young, he had been elves and eccentric since he was a child, and it was not something I could fool around.
At that time, I was choked up and couldn't answer for a while.
At this moment, the pink round object suddenly flew straight towards us, first stopping above Qi Hao's head, and then flying above my head, also stopping for a while. The moment it rested on top of my head, I suddenly felt as if my head had been pricked by a thin needle, and there was a slight burning sensation, but it was very short, probably only a few seconds, and the slight stinging pain quickly disappeared.
The whole process lasted less than a dozen seconds, because it happened so suddenly, and neither of us reacted until the thing left our heads and began to fly northwest.
Seeing that the object was about to fly to the other side of the pond, we reacted.
The child's curiosity prompted us to quickly end the "race", pull up our pants and chase after it as fast as we could.
But suddenly the thing rose a lot higher, almost two meters above the ground, and we couldn't reach it even if we ran to its vicinity.
Coming out of my mother's womb, I have never seen such a thing, and my interest has increased, and I want to jump up and grab it, but I can't reach it. It was as if it was deliberately amusing us, and it was still flying so unhurriedly.
Soon, it flew over the middle of the rice field next door, and we had no choice but to run along the ridge, but we couldn't catch up with it. After all, it was flying in the air and in the field, so what could we two little children do with it!
In order to catch it, the two of them hurriedly pulled a bamboo pole from the ridge of the field to stumble bean seedlings, trying to knock it down. However, no matter how much we tried, it was in vain, and the thing seemed to be a little "naughty", "teasing" us all the time, and finally, it slowly flew to the northwest.
In this way, my two brothers chased after me for about half an hour, and suddenly the thing swooped like a meteor, and soon disappeared without a trace.
Back home, we told my father about this strange encounter. But he disagreed, saying that it was phosphorus fire, which is often referred to as ghost fire.
What my father said was not unreasonable, there was indeed a burial mountain in the field, the Little Funeral Mountain, and it was on the edge of the Zaozi Pond, although I had some doubts in my heart, but I felt that my father might be right when he said this, so I didn't care anymore.
However, there were still some doubts about such a strange phenomenon, so we went to see it a few more times over the next few days, but never saw it again.
Two more years later, I'm in sixth grade, but our daily activities are no different from two years ago.
It was also an autumn evening, and my two brothers had to do their business again that night.
Unlike in the past, there was no moonlight on this day, when the two walked to the jujube pond, Qi Hao said that he was thirsty, I said that the hill field below the pond was planted with horseshoe (scientific name water chestnut), although it is not yet in season, it is not very sweet, but it can quench thirst, you can touch some and eat it.
"Brother, can you really touch it? If others find out and tell Dad, we will be beaten again!" Although Qi Hao was greedy, he probably thought of his majestic father, because he was still a little hesitant when we were beaten by our father after we made mistakes.
"Haohao, it's not your birthday, so let's get some horseshoe to eat, even if others find out, Dad won't beat us!" I laughed.
"Hehe, I almost forgot this!" Hearing this, Qi Hao was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "Then let's hurry up!"
So, the two slipped to the bottom of the pond ridge, pouted and began to touch the horse's hooves.
The position below the pond ridge is not very good, it is really tiring to touch the horse's hooves in the field half-lying on his stomach, and this posture is still very uncomfortable, not long after touching, I can't bear it, straighten up and say to Qi Hao: "Haohao, it's almost enough, if you make too much fun of scolding, you will really be beaten at that time!" After speaking, he began to climb to the top of the pond.
I was only halfway up when I stopped suddenly, for I saw something floating above the surface of the pond, a small ball that glowed pink, to be exact—wasn't that the same thing we had seen two years ago? I hurriedly kicked Qi Hao, who was still touching the horse's hooves below: "Look, that thing is here again!"
Qi Hao was feeling hard, and when he was kicked and screamed like this, he stood up while muttering: "What the hell, can't you touch a few more?!"
Why didn't the brothers expect the same thing to happen in the same place again two years later, and the two of them stayed on the ridge like that, unable to even move, watching the pink ball of light disappear in the northwest direction......