Chapter 14: Ghost Stories

Although Cai Gaoli is already a veritable backer, the Chinese people have always paid attention to their own names, and their words are not good. In Tunli, no one dared to call him Deputy Captain Cai, but when he went to the company for a meeting, the captains of other production teams always had to bring this sub-word, so disgusting that Cai Gaoli had a toothache when he heard the commune meeting.

In the past two years, Cai Gaoli didn't know how many times he had run to the commune, district, and county, so he removed this adverb. Supposedly, what is he sleeping on - there are people on it, remove the sub-word in front of the captain of a small production team, and he is not holding a handle. But whoever thinks that this is a kick at the door, he just can't step over.

This time, Cai Gaoli heard the news that a new captain might be sent down, and he immediately became furious, and hurriedly went straight to the mansion of his brother-in-law, Guo Minjia, director of the county revolutionary committee, and asked his brother-in-law to give him the sub-word anyway.

Cai Gaoli has been there for more than a week, and it just so happened that Xue Xiang reported to Chengtian County, and was half intercepted by Geng Fulin and Chen Guangming, and went directly to the happy shop. Cai Gaoli is afraid that he doesn't know the news at this time, if he knows that the position he has pursued for many years has been intercepted, it turns out that the world of his Cai family has been poked into a big hole at this time, and he has to crook his nose.

Because of such twists and turns, coupled with the fact that Xue Xiang overturned Cai Guoqing, the most ferocious backer in Shantun, when he first arrived, and Xue Xiang's identity as a native of Beijing, everyone said that he had an extraordinary background. Therefore, Li and Han, the two soy sauce parties, made up their minds to move closer to Xue Xiang.

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"Come on, let's find a place to talk slowly, Zhong Yuan, you go and inform everyone to rest today, and we'll talk about burning the mountain tomorrow." In addition, we can't give up on those members who need education. You work harder, and when they pour the ginger soup, you call the militia to press and go to the southern slope to repair the canal. The farm is not far away, and this can not be delayed. Xue Xiang said as he led everyone towards the old locust tree. Because the land under the locust tree is the most flat, and there is a stone stone that has collapsed most of the time to be used as a lectern.

After Zhong Yuan received the order, Xue Xiang led everyone to sit under the locust tree, took out a bag of jade, and dispersed. When he went to the countryside this time, he packed a few shirts and military pants in a box of salutes, and the rest were five cigarettes, a small thousand banknotes, various bills, a bunch of batteries and a tape recorder. Plus a box of bullets and that M20.

These cadres are all smokers, but they can't get enough on weekdays, and where do they have spare money to buy cigarettes, they mostly use straw paper to roll leaves and make homemade cigarettes. At this moment, seeing that the captain took out the pack of cigarettes that they had been hungry for a long time, and began to smoke, no one opened his mouth to salute, and they all took it busily.

The snow-white slender body, the delicate filter, the thin gold thread that is wound at the junction of the cigarette body and the filter. All of them made everyone's eyes widen. After everyone took it, none of them lit it, and each of them put it in his jacket pocket preciously.

Xue Xiang felt sour in his heart. Extinguished the jade that had only been burned in half, stuffed it back into his pocket, and ordered the name of Han Donglin, the first talent in the backer, and asked him to speak. Unexpectedly, Han Donglin had not yet spoken, but the conversation was intercepted by Li Yongjun.

"Captain, don't look at my Lao Li as a rough person, but you want to talk about the evil son of this Taurus Mountain. I know better than Han Xiu. In five or eight years, Han Xiucai was studying outside. My old Li had just been demobilized and had arrived home less than a year ago. That year, I organized logging in the mountains, and I was the team leader. Present at the time. So, Captain, you're still a little tired, listen to me. Although our old Li is not as good as Han Xiucai's speech, it is as if you can see it with your own eyes. Li Yongjun didn't say a word, he turned Han Donglin into a soy sauce party, which provoked Han Donglin to stare at him, but he turned a blind eye.

Without waiting for Xue Xiang to speak, Li Yongjun moved his buttocks, leaned his back against the collapsed stone, and said: "It was July of the fifth or eighth year, when the county had just issued a notice of large-scale steelmaking, and the black iron pot in my hometown with more than half a crescent mouth was collected by the production team, and other iron locks, shovels, and even keys were taken away..."

Speaking of this, Han Donglin cut off Li Yongjun's words: "Lao Li, let's talk about the point, no one listens to you, if you don't say it, I'll start talking." ”

Li Yongjun had a rare opportunity to show his eloquence in front of everyone, especially in front of the captain from the capital, he seized the opportunity to show off, and was taking out 120,000 points of spirit, ready to tell this magical and mysterious story completely, and was about to explain the background of the times and the cause of the story, but was interrupted by Han Donglin.

Li Yongjun was extremely dissatisfied in his heart, glared at Han Donglin fiercely, and then started to speak, but he didn't continue to explain those broken things that digressed for thousands of miles, "I remember the time very clearly, July 15 is my family's birthday. At that time, the brigade arranged four teams to go into the mountains to cut down trees, each group of 10 people, and I happened to be the leader of the second group. That night, the moon thief was round, and the Golden Bull Mountain was also brightly illuminated, and it had been cut for a day, and everyone was tired, so they looked for a place, lit wormwood, and prepared to sleep. Cai Gaoli came over at this time, he was not the captain at that time, sitting on his son now, oh no, the former position - the militia company commander. ”

As soon as Company Commander Cai came, he shouted at everyone to work hard, strive for the top, and take advantage of the moonlight to work overtime. He also said that several other groups had already started to work and wanted us to keep up, and the blast furnace in Qidaoling had run out of firewood, so they were waiting. At that time, we were all honest, and the tasks assigned by the organization were explained, and whoever dared to slack off, then get up and continue to do it. As soon as I had not struck two axes, I heard a terrible howl from the northwest group, and the howl was so sharp and sharp that it pierced my spine. At that time, the bright moon, we saw it in our eyes, and it was also miserable and white, and now we are still panicked when we think about it. When Li Yongjun said this, he stopped, and a gust of wind blew, blowing off a few leaves, and he tightened his clothes intentionally or unintentionally.

Rao is Xue Xiang has always been bold, and his heart is also hanging, and the other few people are not much better, the circle that was originally quite loose was also crowded together at this time.

Li Yongjun hugged his arms, coughed, and continued: "As soon as the howl on the other side of the group started, a few breaths disappeared, followed by a chaotic roar, and I only heard the constant shouting of 'Where is Old Zhao', 'Lao', 'Yan'." Hear this. We knew something bad was wrong, so we picked up the guys in our hands and ran towards the group. When we arrived. The first and fourth groups also arrived, and a group of us asked the second group what was going on. As for Old Man Zhao, no one in the second group could give an answer. If you think about a group of people doing work together, but listening to a miserable howl, people disappear out of thin air, how evil it must be. ”

Speaking of this, Li Yongjun didn't know if he was wearing less, so he shuddered for a while, and actually got out of the pocket of his torn coat. took out the jadeite that he was reluctant to smoke before, took out the flint from his pocket, and prepared to light the fire. Xue Xiang took out a silver lighter from his pocket first and lit it for him. Li Yongjun smiled gratefully, took a deep puff, and showed a look of intoxication, as if he had relaxed a lot.

Seeing that Li Hongjun was smoking comfortably, everyone felt itchy in their hearts, gritted their teeth, and took out their cigarettes. lit it with Xue Xiang's lighter, and Meimei pulled it away. There was a burst of clouds and mist, and the terrifying atmosphere dissipated a lot. Li Yongjun carefully flicked the cigarette ash and continued: "At that time, our four team leaders plus Cai Gaoli, the militia company commander, gathered for a meeting, planning to go separately to find the missing Zhao Lao. In addition, at that time, we forty boys gathered together, and we were bold, so we decided not to disperse, but to gather together. Who knows. Before the meeting ended, there was another scream from the rear. This time it was much shorter, and the word "ah" seemed to be muffled in the cavity. Only half of it came out. This scream together, immediately exploded the nest, forty of us immediately cried dad and shouted motherly and ran out of the mountain, some of them also opened their mouths and shouted, 'There are ghosts', you talk about the zz climate at that time, they are so scared to say this word, isn't that scared and lost? ”

"You deserve

What do you shout in your mouth? This time it was Xue Xiangkou who interrupted the story.

He saw that Han Donglin's face next to him was already pale, and the fine beads of sweat on his forehead were covered with a layer, like fish scales, shining in the sun, a little bit of light, and the other few people were no better, holding their arms and trembling, knowing that everyone was frightened, so he deliberately adjusted the atmosphere.

Speaking of which, don't think that these mountain people are born timider than the people in the city. To know that such a mysterious thing happened around you, in the mountains and forests that are opposite each other every day, the sense of substitution is probably more than ten times stronger than any horror story, how many people can calm their minds? It is also Xue Xiang's contradictory complex, coupled with the baptism of various trends of thought and anecdotes on the Internet, that he will be so calm.

Li Yongjun smiled and said: "Since the captain asked, our Lao Li will not hide it, to tell the truth, among those who shout ghosts, there is our Lao Li." After that, he smiled embarrassedly again, took a deep puff of cigarette, burned out the cigarette column, and then reluctantly spit out the cigarette butt, and was about to continue, Xue Xiang took out another bag of unopened cigarettes.

This time, Xue Xiang didn't let everyone take it for themselves, but two for each person, just splitting a box of jadeite. Everyone smoked with Xue Xiang and listened to the story together, and they didn't feel that the captain who was shouting "killed, old resistance" was as terrifying as before, and suddenly got a lot closer.

Li Yongjun did not light it again this time, but put it in his jacket pocket as before. There was only a jadeite, which allowed him to go back to heaven, and he only felt in his heart: This is the taste of smoke, where was smoking before, it was simply burning leaves.

Fortunately, this feeling is also a flash of thought, and he didn't forget the business: "Forty people went, and eighteen came back, and this time as soon as they were counted, Guo Dazui of the seventh squad was lost." At that time, no one dared to say that they would go in and take a look, and they were all stupid. In the middle of the night that day, several of our team leaders reported this strange incident to the old captain at that time, and I knew that the unlucky one urged Secretary Sun in the district to stay at the old captain's house at that time, and he was here to urge the old men to chop wood. As soon as he heard that we said that two people had disappeared out of thin air, he was angry at that time and criticized us for engaging in feudal superstition. Thanks to the old captain's righteousness, he quarreled with the surnamed Sun in person, saying that he was not the captain, and he couldn't let the backers lose their lives for no reason. The surnamed Sun didn't spend the old captain in the end, and went to the nearby Hongmiao Village overnight. The next day, news came that two people had lost in Hongmiao Village who had gone into the mountains to cut firewood. Now, the whole commune shook! (To be continued)