Chapter I
At the end of the 80s, the spring breeze of reform and opening up blew into southern Jiangxi more or less, and without the idea of imprisonment, those extremely poor people more or less began to use their brains to "get rich". Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Those who are more capable and courageous all go to the Southern Special Economic Zone, but not everyone has that opportunity, and Chen Erquan is one of them. Chen Erquan's mother died early, his father was so lazy and lazy, he was a famous lazy man in Fang Yuan Erli, and he drank too much alcohol and fell out and froze to death in January last year.
Although the village is said to be acquaintances, but for Chen Erquan's prickly father is really not a good impression, although the mother-in-law died, but there is a son, collect the body, bury, this thing should not have been brought forward by the villagers, but this Chen Erquan did not learn from his father's good, he was lazy and did steal chickens and dogs all day long, and the villagers could no longer find anyone, and after waiting for two days, the villagers were scolding Chen Erquan for having no conscience, and he didn't even give his father's coffin money.
At this time, although everyone has more or less some ideas of market economy, most people are still simple, seeing that Chen Erquan is really not the same, and he can't let Chen Erquan and his father lie where he has been lying all the time, so he can only grit his teeth and endure this breath and bury Chen Erquan's father at the expense of the village committee.
How do you know that Chen Erquan, who had just been buried and had not seen anyone everywhere when the red painting on the standing stele had not dried up, appeared in the village again.
"Erquanzi, your baby is really enough, why did you run out when you saw that your father was buried in the village? Are you not afraid that your old man will jump out of the ground and knock you out of the ground? The brothers who wandered around with him on weekdays couldn't stand Chen Erquan's actions, and while tilting his body to eat sunflower seeds, he teased Chen Erquan, who had not seen anyone for more than 20 days.
Chen Erquan is only eighteen this year, but under the "edification" of his Lao Tzu day and night, the leper is simply from the inside out, he waved his hand indifferently and said: "Doesn't the old man like to drink two sips?" One day, when I earn money, I will go to his grave and offer two cups, and the matter between our two will be settled. ”
The people who came were shocked when they heard Chen Erquan's rogue words, and he opened his mouth in surprise and said: "Hey, look at what you say, if you don't know, you will think that the person lying on the ground is not your father, but your enemy." ”
Chen Erquan didn't care about loosening his shoulders: "He didn't treat me as a son when he beat me before." ”
After speaking, he looked left and right, patted the shoulder of the person who came, and whispered: "Brother, I will come back this time to prepare for a big ticket, and after I get the money, I will go to the South Special Zone and never come again." Kuizi, I remember that your family has lived here for seven or eight generations, right? It has to be here in the early Qing Dynasty? ”
Kuizi was still wondering what idea Chen Erquan, who was teasing cats and dogs, when he heard him ask, he subconsciously replied: "Ah, my family wrote it, because I migrated from the north to escape the war at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and I never moved a place after I arrived here, why do you ask this?" ”
Chen Erquan put his arms around Kuizi's neck and lowered his voice: "Then do you know that there is a big tomb in the north of our village?" ”
Kuizi gasped when he heard this, stared at Chen Erquan with huge bull's eyes and scolded in a low voice: "You kid are going to rob the tomb?" You don't want to die? ”
Kuizi didn't suppress his voice for a while, so frightened that Chen Erquan hurriedly reached out to cover Kuizi's mouth and whispered: "Good brother, you have to be quiet, if the old lady knows that I will go to the squatting room." ”
Kuizi angrily pulled away Chen Erquan's hand covering his mouth, and said disgustingly: "You haven't washed a bad smell on your hand for a long time." ”
Chen Erquan didn't know what the word "hygiene" was since he was a child, so he rubbed his hands on his clothes and asked, "Good brother, do you know?" ”
Kuizi wiped his mouth again and again and said: "I advise you to forget it, since the Republic of China, I don't know how many heroes have the idea of hitting that tomb, but who do you see come out?" When it came to the Cultural Revolution and the Red Guards in the city wanted to clear the feudal remnants, a group of more than 20 people went in vertically and came out horizontally, and the rest were crazy, you dare to go to that place? ”
He knows about the place in the north, and when he didn't say anything, he was told by his grandmother that there were monsters in that place, and he couldn't get out if he went in, and he listened to the old woman in the countryside with the most simple but effective words to scare the children Chen Erquan, who grew up with the story, didn't step into the scope of "that place" for the first time until he was more than ten years old.
That time actually didn't happen much, but the three bear children wandered around for a day and didn't find the way, and then they were found on the hillside to the south, and were caught by the anxious adults and whipped hard, although the three of them were afraid, no one dared to say that they ran to "that place" to play, because they couldn't explain why the three people in the north of the village ended up inexplicably appearing in the south.
Kuizi was also one of the parties involved in that incident, and since that time, Chen Erquan has never moved the idea of "that place", as for why he will move that fateful thought this year, it is also a love word.
Chen Erquan grew up to the age of eighteen and has always lived a life with today and no tomorrow, but only from the fact that he looked at Da Ni, who was known as a flower in Shanggang Village, that idea was as hard as a stone and his heart was like spring water in March.
Although Chen Erquan is full of problems, the only thing that can be done is that he has a pretty good face, as long as he has a normal expression and is dressed cleanly, the eyes of those little girls and young daughters-in-law will always turn to him.
Chen Erquan is relatively self-aware, and he knows that compared with those capable young men in the village, he doesn't want anything at all, so he prepared his sword to go sideways and finger Huanglong, and he was working hard at Da Ni.
This Da Ni is also a wonderful person, in modern terms, she is a face control, facing Chen Erquan's white and tender little face, when she said the love words in her mouth with honey, her heart was moved twice, but she also knew that Chen Erquan would not agree to this family affair if she said anything, the two muttered and discussed for a long time to summarize one word, Chen Erquan wants to marry Da Ni It is one word, money!
But where is the money so easy to earn? If Chen Erquan wants to go farming, he can't marry Da Ni in his life, and he is not the material to do that thing, he racked his brains and thought about it and didn't think of a good way, when he was wandering around the town, Chen Erquan saw a group of people dressed like the foreigners in the town's TV, looking at the material and style, he had never seen it at all, and the style of the whole body was like a national leader, which blinded Chen Erquan's dog eyes.
At first, Chen Erquan hit them with thoughts just like cheating some money while others were not familiar with the place, but he didn't expect that he was dragged to the house and tied up and beaten by them when he first came into contact with money, and when he saw them take off their clothes and reveal the same muscles as iron bumps, Chen Erquan was so frightened that he almost peed his pants. When he was thinking about himself with annoyance, he hadn't even touched Da Ni's towering chest, and when he was going to take the boy on the road, the group had a goatee, and the oldest person stopped the movements of the people below, he closed his eyes and touched his beard, and asked Chen Erquan in fluent Mandarin: "Listen to your accent, are you from Shanggang Village?" ”
Seeing him open his mouth to ask himself, Chen Erquan hurriedly wiped away the snot and tears on his face, nodded, and said tremblingly: "Yes, I am from Shanggang Village." ”
The goatee paused after hearing this, raised his eyes slightly, glanced at Chen Erquan, who was paralyzed on the ground, and said, "You have a place in the north, do you know?" ”
Although Chen Erquan is a bastard, but his brain is very good, seeing this person ask this, he immediately reacted that this was probably his only chance to live, and hurriedly nodded and said: "I know, I know, that place is very evil, and during the special period, those little Red Guards with brain congestion couldn't take that place, and many people died, and no one dared to go after that time." ”
The goatee frowned, "Haven't been?" That... ”
Chen Erquan was shocked and hurriedly added: "I know, I know." ”
Goatee sneered: "Didn't you just say that you haven't been there?" How did you know at this point? ”
Chen Erquan wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, which was only used to steal chickens and dogs on weekdays, and his brain was spinning rapidly, and when the goatee was about to run out of patience, Chen Erquan raised his head and said: "That place is indeed evil, but after all, Shanggang Village has existed for hundreds of years, and that place was just buried in the early Republic of China. Besides, brothers, you see that you are dressed from outside, right? No matter how good you are in that place, don't you need a guide? ”
Looking at Chen Erquan, who was so frightened that his face was pale and his speech was still clever, Goatee thought for a while and sneered: "You are clever, how do you know that we are going to that place?" ”
Chen Erquan licked his dry lips and showed an expression of "you are stupid" and said: "Our village has not produced a valuable thing for three hundred years, only since that thing arrived in the north of the village, the outsiders have not stopped, and then the founding of New China has also stopped for a while, but now that the reform and opening up has been carried out, isn't this also lively?" ”
The goatee was choked by Chen Erquan's licking face and flattering appearance, and he just wanted to go out when he closed his eyes, but was grabbed by the shoulder of a man who was standing on the side and was as strong as an iron tower: "Sir, please slow down, although Mr. is talented, he is not familiar with life in this southern Jiangnan, how many good hands are folded into that place?" Now although there is a husband to help, you can take this little baby to guide the way, isn't it cheap? ”
Looking at the man's dark eyes, the goatee moved, and then looked back at Chen Erquan who was kneeling on the ground with a bitter face, he sat down on the chair and smiled at Chen Erquan: "So as long as you can get a way to enter that place, we will give you this number." ”
Chen Erquan looked at Goatee Hubi's gesture and hesitated: "Twenty? ”
As soon as these words came out of the room, there was a burst of laughter, and Chen Erquan blushed and said embarrassedly: "I... Haven't I been ignorant? ”
Goatee put down his hand and said leisurely: "As long as you bring us to that place, these two hundred pieces are yours." ”
Looking at the banknote in the goatee's hand, Chen Erquan swallowed his saliva, although he was afraid of that place in his heart, but thinking of the two hundred yuan and Da Ni's towering chest, he nodded and said, "I promise." ”
The goatee took out twenty yuan and handed it to Chen Erquan and said with a smile: "This is a deposit, but let's talk about it first, if this matter leaks out, don't think about it." ”
Although it was a goatee's fluttering words, the men standing around him would not make Chen Erquan think that he was joking, and after swallowing his saliva nervously, Chen Erquan nodded: "Don't worry, Shanggang Village is my hometown, and I can bring you in." ”
As soon as Chen Erquan's words came out, all the five people present laughed, Chen Erquan deliberately ignored the faint uneasiness in his heart under the temptation of two hundred yuan, and thought of Da Ni and felt that this adventure was also worth it. After saying hello to the group, Chen Erquan took a thin and inconspicuous man to Shanggang Village first.