Chapter 18: The Lonely Grave
As I said, we all like to dig graves nearby, so it's not clear how many graves there are, old and new, along the way. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
About a mile out of the entrance of the village, there is a pavilion made of bluestone for pedestrians to rest. Outside the road is a steep slope and overgrown with weeds. In the 90s, there was no car in the village, and the oil and grain were carried back from the foot of the mountain by themselves.
The section of the road near the pavilion, I don't know why, it is said that several donkeys rolled down before and after, fell half to death, and finally had to kill and eat meat.
In the winter of the first semester, I got up at 5 o'clock as usual, and it was still dark, so I went out with the cooked dishes I had prepared last night and a flashlight. I didn't say hello to my sleeping parents, and they certainly hadn't woken up anyway.
The winter morning is very cold, but the youth is full of vitality, who knows what it means to be cold. Especially after the conditioning of the Three Spiritual Heart Sutras, my body is obviously much better than before.
Holding a flashlight, I walked with a few classmates while talking, and on the long stone road, sporadic flashlights swayed. Passing by the stone pavilion, there are about 150 stone steps down. After going down the stone steps, it is a long bluestone pavement.
In the cold morning, the morning star hung in the sky. There was an occasional sound in the grass, startling the night owl and a long hiss across the sky.
"Ye Qiao!"
With a loud shout, an object flew in the air, I subconsciously flew up a kick, only to hear a poof, the thing was scattered with fragments, and I kicked it far away, smashed behind the tea tree and there was no movement.
"Hahahaha......" In the tea tree field on the side of the road, a few leather boys came out and laughed.
"Ye Cheng, you are looking for death." I rushed up with a flashlight and beat me on the head and in the face, laughing and begging for mercy as they dodged. They are all neighbors in front of the house and behind the house, we have all grown up like this since we were children, and at this time, there is no defense between men and women.
I wanted to go up and see what it was, but Xiao Shu pulled me to walk quickly, saying that I was almost late for self-study. Although we don't care about evening self-study, we can't help but have a homeroom teacher who is extremely serious about morning self-study.
This teacher who just graduated from college is very good to us, because he is not fierce, so he can't stop the naughty students in the class, and several times he was angry and cried, but she still stays at the door of the classroom at half past 5 o'clock every morning, and those who enter the classroom at more than 6 o'clock are forced to stand at the door of the classroom by him, and stand all morning self-study.
I don't want to stand in the hallway.
In the afternoon, when I was out of school, I passed by the tea grove again, and I deliberately went around to see what the boys had smashed at me in the morning.
A yellowed and slightly dusty thing was quietly stuck in the middle of the tea tree, and I took a branch and stroked it twice, it seemed to be some animal bone, in a semicircular arc.
"Ye Qiao, don't look at it, what's so beautiful about the bones of dead people." Ye Shu pulled me and wanted to continue walking.
"What dead man's bones?" I was shocked. Cultivators are taboo against the dead. Unlike the general stupid boldness, what to talk about science and break feudal superstitions, I have seen Ye Chun's walking corpse and soul with my own eyes.
"I heard what Ye Cheng said today, and I didn't make it clear, you can ask him." She pointed to Ye Cheng, who was still laughing and messing with her classmates.
"Ye Cheng, get out of here for me. Fast! ”
"Yo West...... Arrive! He trotted a few steps in front of me with a grin, raised his hand with a grin, saluted, and glanced at the bone: "Hey Yeqiao King, your feet are domineering, and your skull will be kicked to pieces." ”
He took a branch and poked it on the bone, picked it up in front of him and looked at it carefully: "Tsk, there is only a forehead hijab left." ”
Nima, it's actually a human skull.
I really want to beat him up, what's not fun, I'm going to touch the dead.
I dug into it, but I didn't find half a piece of paper, all the books and stationery were left in the school, and there was only a small vegetable jar in the basket on my back. Ye Shu took a small plastic from her bag and gave it to me. I carefully picked up the bone and searched around, but unfortunately it was too dark in the morning, and my kick was too strong, and the broken bones were not found.
According to Ye Cheng, this lonely tomb was discovered by my cousin Ye Wu, and after a few days of heavy rain, the mountain had some landslides, and the original stone bricks were squeezed and a few pieces collapsed. They took a few of them together and began to dismantle the remaining stone bricks.
I took a closer look and found that it was not a pit for burial like an ordinary grave, it was directly dug a hole in the terraced wall, and then a pit about a meter deep was dug down, and the coffin was pushed flat and put down, and a layer of stones was used on the outside, and there was not even a tombstone. Because of the age of the year, the entire terraced rice fields washed away by the heavy rain collapsed, the stone walls collapsed, and the coffins inside were exposed, and they were almost rotten.
They hooked the corpse with a tree branch, dismantled the bones of their hands and legs, and forcibly dismantled a complete skeleton.
I put the skull back into the coffin hole and looked again, and it was a mess with bits and pieces. Some couldn't bear it, so he ordered them to move a few big rocks to block the entrance to the cave.
Those stinky boys were not happy, and they were reluctant to help.
The next day, I went to school as usual, but I didn't see Ye Cheng. His house is next door to my house, and when he went home, he asked his father, and he said that he had a cold and a fever last night, so he didn't go to school. I didn't take it to heart, everyone has a headache and a cold, it's normal.
As a result, I didn't see him for three days. When I asked my mother, I found out that Ye Cheng was sent to the hospital. The high fever of 41 degrees has not gone away, and I don't know what is wrong, I have been sent to the county hospital, and I don't know what happened.
I sighed in my heart, Ye Cheng's kid has always been as strong as a cow, not a weak person, there is no reason to have a fever and not go away for a long time. Thinking of what happened a few days ago, I have a hunch that he is a hitter.
I told Chen Po about the before and after and conjectures of the matter, and she also felt that it made sense.
"Qiaowa, you go to see it with Luhua at night, maybe you will find something."
"What? I? ”。 I waved my hand again and again, I don't want to go to the field at night, every time I go out, there is nothing good.
Chen Po smiled gently: "Don't be afraid, with Luhua, nothing will happen." ”
It's because it's more terrifying, right? The devil knows where it will drop me. How can I run over the sky on my two legs? If there is something really wrong, the old lady must be cannon fodder.
Chen Po patted me on the shoulder and sighed slightly: "Now that you have entered the cultivation process, how can you be as greedy for life and afraid of death as ordinary people. I let you act alone to train you. You know, practice is important. At this age, it is impossible for the old woman to be with you all the time, you have to learn to be independent sooner or later. ”
"No, mother-in-law, you look so young, you will definitely live a long life." I quickly slapped my ass.
Chen Po smiled, sure enough, no matter how old she is, any woman has to boast in the direction of being young, and she will be accurate at a time.
"The little girl knows how to make my wife happy. Forget it, you and Luhua go first, and I'll accompany you for a while. ”