Chapter 6 The Mandrill Drives the Child
In the dim light of the flashlight, the back turned out to be mango-headed, this kid has always been timid, and even dared to jump to dig a grave. He didn't dig a few times www.biquge.info pen "Fun" pavilion, and even took out a large wooden box from the grave bag.
Luo Dascar jumped up and snatched the wooden box in the mango head's hand, and out of curiosity, I also went up. Luo Dascar carefully opened the wooden box, and suddenly my heart tightened again. I saw that the wooden box was full of some gold and silver jewelry, as well as pearls and gemstones, which shone beautifully under the light of the flashlight.
Although we were still young at that time, we already had a certain concept of possessions, and if I took out these treasures, I was afraid that I would not have to worry about it for the rest of my life, and what books would I read. I glanced at Luo Dascar on the other side, and saw that he was also happy, and he also looked at me.
But all of a sudden, a thought came to me, so many treasures, if three people divided them, each of them would get so many pieces, what if one person took them all? An evil thought instantly appeared in my mind, and I found that Luo Dascar's face on the other side had also changed, maybe he was thinking about the same problem as me, and a fierce light flashed in his eyes.
The first strike is strong, as soon as my body moved, Luo Dascar pounced. He was already stronger than me, and he threw me down at once, and grabbed my neck with both hands, as if I were his father's killer, and his face was hideous, and even the scar on his face became bright red.
I struggled desperately, but my neck was like a band, and it tightened and tightened. Instinctively opened his mouth to scream, but made a "hehe" sound. Just when I was dizzy, I suddenly saw a strange face, with pointed ears and fangs, like a mixture of a mountain monkey and a soil dog, with a strange mouth and a strange smile, appeared behind Luo Dascar, looking at us coldly.
My whole body was shocked, and I remembered the story often told by the old people in the village, the mandrill chasing the mountain boy. But in front of me, Luo Dascar, this kid has committed an evil crime, and he wants to strangle me to death so that he can swallow the box of gold, silver and jewelry. Seeing that I was about to be strangled to death by him, I came up with all my strength, and I didn't know where I got the strength, and as soon as I exerted my strength from my waist, I threw him off my body.
But as soon as the boy hit the ground, he pounced on me again, and it seemed that he had to strangle me to death. Damn, who is afraid of whom, I was also stunned, and when I saw him pinching me, I also pinched him back, so the two of them lay on the ground and pinched each other fiercely.
Luo Dascar's hands are like iron pliers, and I feel that my eyes are getting darker and darker, and I am about to lose consciousness. Suddenly, I faintly heard someone calling my name, which seemed to be the voice of a mango's head, and then the hand that grabbed my neck was released, and I inhaled it in one breath, and I couldn't get out for a while, and fainted.
When I woke up, I found that it was lying on the old bed in the village home, and it was Mango Head sitting in front of my bed. He was glad to see me wake up. I hurriedly asked him what had happened. He said that I had slept for a day and a night, and the day before yesterday we went to the east of the village to catch the lynx, and just saw the lynx appear, Luo Dascar and I were like crazy, running towards the lynx. The lynx turned around and ran, and we didn't say a word, but kept running towards the thief's mountain, and no matter how much he shouted at us, he didn't answer.
I was stunned and asked him if the lynx had broken his leg by the trap? Where is the mango head, when the lynx appeared, he happened to secretly fart, afraid of being scolded by us and bowed his head and didn't dare to look at us, who knew that the two of us wanted to lose their souls and rushed into the mountain.
Later, Mango said that he had been chasing us alone for a long time, but he couldn't find us, so he began to be scared and ran back to the village to call someone to find him. Hundreds of people were dispatched from the village to search along the mountain road all night before they found us in front of a crack in the Thief Mountain. When he found us, he found the two of us lying on the ground, desperately pinching each other's necks, and as soon as he shouted, we let go and fainted.
Mango Head looked like he wanted to speak and stopped, in fact, I knew what he wanted to say, but I was afraid that we had fallen into the illusion of the lynx who had become a sperm, and we were led to be the mountain boy of the mandrill. As soon as it appeared, we fell into its way, but the mango head just lowered his head, so he avoided it. It leads us to the crack in the mountain, and the mandrill conjures up our imagination of the treasure of the thief's mountain, and transforms into the shape of a mango's head, pushing us towards death step by step.
No wonder I always felt that the appearance of the mango head was wrong at the time, and the strange face I saw in the end must have been a mandrill. It saw that the purpose was almost achieved, and only then did it reveal its true face, but fortunately, in the end, the mango head and the villagers came to find it, and the mandrill saw that there were many people, so he left. As soon as it is gone, the illusion will naturally be solved, and we can save our lives.
After that near-miss, my dad refused to let me go back to the countryside. I was also scared in my heart, and I was busy studying and going to university, until I finally went out to study, and I never went back.
Later, I remembered that I always blamed the failure of the silver needle to the mandrill's illusion, just imagine that even I don't know what the silver needle looks like after insertion, how the mandrill can be conjured. One year, during the winter vacation, my second uncle came to my house, drank a few more drinks with my father, and talked about his father, who was my grandfather's life. My grandmother died early, and he relied on him to raise my father and second uncle and two brothers with hard work, and he was also a hard-working farmer
I also had a few drinks at that time, and my heart moved, so I asked about the plowing technique that my grandfather had taught. Dad was disdainful of this, and he didn't want to talk about it, and the second uncle was originally reluctant to talk about it, but when he was drunk, he was asked a few more words by me, and he said that silver needles can be used to test poison in traditional Chinese medicine, which is related to the characteristics of silver. I really want to explain, the old tomb in the deep mountains has accumulated corpse gas over the years, and there is nowhere to vent, and the silver needle is probed, and it is attached to it, and the corpse gas and yin gas are actually a kind of poisonous gas, since it is poisonous gas, it is naturally divided into grades, and the color on the silver needle is only afraid that it is separated.
I asked again about the method of positioning the pin, the second uncle shook his head, burped and said that he didn't know, he also asked at that time, the old man (my grandfather) said that it was lost a few generations ago, so until my grandfather's generation, no one in the family used that plowing technique to plow the ground, so he lived so poorly.
When he said this, he settled down, looked at me and said, "Tomb robbery and grave digging, our so-called land digging technique, compared with other people's inverted fighting and sand digging, is an amateur, purely a small fight of the poor class, and it is not allowed to make a big scene, and warned me not to deal with such people, so as not to get into trouble."
I smiled and said that I am an ordinary person, where can I be on top of these, but I am also a little unconvinced, and said that our family's craft, although it may not become a big climate, but in the tomb robbery industry, it can be regarded as a small sect. The second uncle laughed, his eyes narrowed into a slit, patted his chest and said that is, if it is described by the Chinese medicine of looking, smelling, asking, and cutting, he will fight and dig the sand, at most it will be the first three things, although we will only be the last one, but everything in the end, which is like them, sometimes it takes several holes to find the master.
I also laughed with the second uncle, wondering how the second uncle could know so much about the way of doing here, and when I wanted to ask more carefully through the wine, my father came out of the bathroom, and when he heard that we were talking about this, he slapped the second uncle on the head, and helped the drunken second uncle back to the house to sleep. Since then, no matter how much I asked, the second uncle didn't talk to me about these things again, but I was afraid that it was because I woke up later and my father scolded him harshly.
The next day, I went to the station to pick up Luo Scar and Mango Head. When the bus arrived on time, I recognized people as soon as they got out of the car. I haven't seen it for more than ten years, Luo Da Scar hasn't changed much, the deep scar on his face is still obvious, wearing a vest and a body of muscles, but it has become stronger. Mango Head and I often talk on the phone, but I haven't seen him for two or three years, and the fat has increased a lot, and he is not tall, but now it is better, and it will soon become a round ball.
As soon as we met, Luo Dascar gave me a bear hug, strangled me half to death, and kept saying how is it possible, how can you be taller than me. I laughed and said that whoever made you get nutrition out of your muscles, but with your current size, you can deceive some little girls.
I haven't seen you for many years, and it is natural to eat and drink a meal in the sea. When I saw the meal, I immediately took the two of them to one of the best restaurants in the city, booked a room, and ordered a full table of dishes. In the early 90s, most people in the city were still relatively simple in consumption, and there were really not many people like me who ordered.
As soon as the dishes were delivered, Luo Dascar and Mango Head opened their mouths wide and looked at me in a daze, and Mango Head said for a long time: "Uncle, your company's wages and benefits are so good, your table is almost worth half a year's salary." Mangotou finally graduated from high school and couldn't get into college, so he took over his father's position and stayed in the village committee as an accountant.
I smiled and said, "Where, I haven't seen you for many years, it's rare for you to come to me, and I can still wronged you on eating." "In fact, this table also cost me three months' salary. However, I am single, as the saying goes, the whole family is not hungry when one person eats enough, and I have not had the habit of spending money for many years, so I have a loose hand.
Luo Dascar didn't say a word, opened three bottles of beer, handed me one, and said, "Huang Shang, I haven't seen you for many years, you are still so righteous, so what else is there to say, let's do it." ”
I drank a bottle with him and was busy beckoning them to eat. The two of them passed the beginning of their lives, chatted about the past, and with the addition of alcohol, they soon regained the feeling of the year. The three of them came and went, swept a table of dishes clean, and looked at the waiter so dumbfounded that they forgot what they were doing when they came in, and they were afraid to scold us for being reincarnated as hungry ghosts.
Full of wine and food, I burped and asked Luo Dascar, where has he died all these years, even if he dies, he has to report his funeral. Luo Dascar shook his head and said, bitter, I couldn't read back then, and when I was a soldier, I was selected into the special forces because of my good physical condition, and for several years, I trained in a deserted place in the northwest. Later, thinking about returning from a new job, I was transferred to the southwest by the old chief, and I went for a few years, and finally the old chief changed jobs, and when I left, he arranged for me to go to the exploration unit, saying that I learned this craft, and I was not afraid of running out of food in the future.
"Exploration troops? So what are you doing now? I asked.
Luo Dascar took a few mouthfuls of vegetables and threw them into his mouth, and said lightly: "I was transferred a few years ago, but I stayed in the engineering team under the exploration team, and I was still doing some geological exploration work." ”
At this time, Mango Tou interjected: "Uncle, Big Scar is now the captain of the exploration team, and in our town, he is equivalent to a contractor, and he has more work on his hands." ”
Luo Dascar shook his head, which was already a little drunk, and laughed at himself a little: "I, the captain, have been running around with a bunch of stinky men all day long in places where birds don't, how good is Huang Shang, how good is this city, that girl is all foreign and smart, I almost forgot what a woman is." At the end, when talking about women with Mangotou, the more they talked, the more excited they became, and regardless of the waitress's eyes, the two of them laughed.
I thought they were drunk, so I put them in a nearby guest house. I was just an ordinary person, living an ordinary life, and I never thought about it, and soon, a small thing, brought me into a strange thing.