Chapter 14: Ghost Stories
The Li family built a total of three and a half houses, three of which were main houses and half of which were simple kitchens. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
Li Mo turned around happily.
It's still a straw house, but it's no longer crowded in that broken shed in the hot summer, and when it rains, there is no need to use pots everywhere to catch the rainwater.
The east side is where grandma and Li Mo's brothers and sisters live, and the east side of the countryside is the largest, even if a bungalow is built in the future, grandma is still allowed to live in the east, although they usually quarrel and fight, which shows that some traditional things are still retained in the hearts of parents.
It doesn't matter to this Li Mo, is there a difference between living in the east and the west? Usually less quarrel and less beating yourself is the real thing.
He went to the back of the east wing, which he had requested, to make a small house to the north of the east wing, and to open a larger window in the wall, and to plaster it all around. It's not a waste, it's about protecting your eyes.
Now every household has no electricity, so at night lighting is poured with vegetable oil in a small bowl, and then twisted into a wick with straw paper, and a small oil lamp of unknown light comes out. This will undoubtedly hurt the eyes, Li Mo was like this in his previous life, he became myopic before graduating from primary school. In this life, he never wanted to go out with a myopic glasses again. Is it really that there is no difference between one more glasses and one less glasses?
His writings and the notebook were still hidden in his grandmother's box, but he could take the book out.
Seeing that his son was done, Li Guangping said: "Little Mozi, Erbao has also started fishing for soft-shelled turtles." ”
Erbao is also surnamed Li, a native of Tangwan Village.
Li Mo said lightly: "Fish, fish." ”
"There are so many people fishing that you won't be able to sell them. ”
"There won't be many people fishing next year, it's too hard, people who are not diligent won't go fishing, and people who are timid won't go fishing. ”
It's not diligence, it's called hard work.
After being busy all day during the day, there is no rest, and there are dozens of miles to run at night, which is bound to be unbearable for ordinary people.
It's a bit funny if you're bold.
Although there have been many activities to dispel superstition over the years, there are still many people who are superstitious in rural areas.
For example, in the past, there was a nearby village where a patient was not dead, but was in shock. The people of his family thought he was dead and put him under a coffin to be buried. That night, the four of them were playing finch cards while they were on duty.
The patient came back to life and pushed the lid of the coffin. However, I have been sick for a long time, and I don't have much strength, so I can't push it open, so I can only shake the coffin lid. At once, the four people on duty were frightened and cried wolf, and returned to the village, calling the people of the village, saying that this person had become a zombie, and burned it along with the coffin and the big living person.
A few years later, a carpenter from the back village went to the front village to work and came back in the evening, and it was already dark. There were several graves on his way, and next to the graves was a field of rice seedlings, and a scarecrow was planted on the edge of the rice field. The key is that the owner of the rice field is careful, and this straw is woven like a real person.
When the carpenter came here, there were no people around, and there were several graves, and his heart was empty, and then he saw a man hanging in the air in front of him, fluttering like a fly. There are no more gods at night...... The carpenter fled, and it took a while for him to come back again. It's still floating somewhere.
The carpenter ran back to the house where he was doing the work with his head in his hands, and said to his master, "I have met an evil man tonight, so let me stay at your house for the night." The next morning he came back and found out the truth, but it's hard to say, I can't say that I was scared to pee by a scarecrow. So from the mouth of the person who did the work, it came out that the carpenter had met the ghost that night, and he himself made the truth public a few years later.
But it's not just superstition that is the majority.
There is no electricity in the countryside now, and it is pitch black at night.
If there are no people around, and there are some dense vegetation, or a group of graves, walking here, people are indeed a little panicked in their hearts.
Li Mo himself encountered it twice.
That night he fished for a black fish, and in the second half of the night he picked up the fish and took a shortcut home, but there were many ditches and ponds, and there was fog again, and he was a little lost. Then I walked to a large ditch, where there was a long row of graves and many old trees.
When she walked to the middle, an old lady was burning paper money, and she was probably in a bad mood. But it was three or four o'clock in the morning, and the firelight made her face green again. Seeing Li Mo, the old lady stared at Li Mo with her eyes and didn't say a word.
Li Mo was really bold, but he was also frightened by the old lady that night, walked over carefully, and began to flee with his legs. It was only after fleeing two miles away that a beating heart calmed down.
It's people who scare him, and another time it's people who scare people.
It was a soft-shelled turtle fishing daytime, and during the day he wore a white shirt and a large straw hat. In the evening, when it rained lightly, he went fishing. At a small intersection, on both sides of which were relatively tall hybrid rice, he happened to bump into an old man who was also fishing.
Li Mo is 1.75 meters tall, and in the area along the river, and in the case of malnutrition in the 80s, he is relatively tall.
The old man was not as tall as him, and almost at once he struck him into his arms, and he looked at it, ignored the old man, and walked on, and in front of him was a group of graves, and in the middle of it was a pond. Where he laid a few fishes, he really let him catch a small turtle in that pond. After finishing the fishing, the soft-shelled turtle was brought up, which was delayed for a while.
Then he saw a shadow in front of him, turned on the flashlight, and when he turned on the flashlight, it was still the old man, who stood still, but trembled like chaff. He walked over embarrassedly and said, "Uncle, I'm human." Then he ran away.
But these are words of consolation.
Now it's a big collective, and it's trapped together during the day, and even next year, it won't be popular.
As for the year after that, fishmongers began to appear in Cao Town, trafficking these fish to Jiucheng, and there was a big market in Jiucheng, and no matter how many soft-shelled turtles and black fish could not be sold.
But the actual situation shows that everyone's information is still closed, and it is better to sell it to the provincial capital than to sell it to the provincial capital.
Although Jiucheng is near, there is no Yangtze River Bridge at this time, and it is necessary to cross the river by ferry, so how troublesome is it? Moreover, Jiucheng is on the edge of the Yangtze River, and the price of aquatic products is not high.
However, it has nothing to do with Li Mo, and Li Mo didn't have this idea at all.
It's small and doesn't make a lot of money. The scale is large, and if the crackdown is not done well in a few years, something will happen.
I remember that he was only in his first year of junior high school that year, and all the teachers and students of the school went to Zhazhen to watch the trial meeting, and several of the criminals were rehabilitated and released after a few years. But whether it is rehabilitated or not, people have been locked up for several years.
And from next autumn onwards, Tian is his own, and he can toss as much as he wants, and when the time comes, he doesn't even want his father to fish for soft-shelled turtles and black fish. It's too hard to earn. In the future, even if the family doesn't work, he can raise the family well.
But there is another reason why Li Guangping is unhappy, that is, Erbao has copied the "creativity" of the Li family.
Li Mo wants to be happy, isn't this happy? Then in the future, the shareholders of those foreign companies will not have to die of anger, and they will die again when they are angry. Why die and die, you can't vent the anger in your heart after you die, and if you want to completely dissipate your anger, you have to die at least four or five times, seven or eight times.
Li Guangping was still unhappy.
Li Mo continued to comfort: "Originally, one person earned this money, everyone was red-eyed, and it was a good thing for my family to have two guarantees to share." ”
Erbao's eldest brother is the production team leader of Tangwan Village, which was originally a production team in Tangwan Village, but later changed and divided into two production teams, a production team in Tangwan Village, and the remaining three small villages were combined into a production team. But in their hearts, everyone still regards the four villages as an old production team.
Seeing that his father was fine, even the house was built, and no one asked about it, so Erbao started fishing for soft-shelled turtles.
Of course, as peasants of this era, visionaries could see a slight loosening of policy, but no one could have expected the subsequent changes.
The days passed day by day, and in a blink of an eye, it was almost time for school to start.
On this day, a few people came to the Li family.
Li Mo looked at one of them, and his mind was a little cloudy: Could it be that God asked me to continue the frontier?