XXXI: Ghost Town

Wang Mingming came to the small forest on the side of the road, she observed the situation on the road, she saw pedestrians and passing cars on the road, and occasionally a car would pass by on the road. The situation on the road showed that the massacre of the devils was over, and she was relieved. She took out a long scarf and wrapped her head and face, leaving only one pair of eyes. No one will know her true face of Lushan anymore, she will not scare others and no one will be afraid of her.

This time she was going east, and she had walked from there, and in her memory there was a large village, and in front of the village was a small market. Her turnips can be sold there. If there is a vegetable seller who collects vegetables, it will also appear there.

She climbed a small hill, and stood on the hill to see the village hidden by the morning mist on the side of the hill, and she vaguely saw that most of the old houses in the village had been burned down. What is multiplied is the broken wall of the remnant wall. The village has become smaller than it used to be.

She walked slowly towards it. The newly built thatched houses on the side of the street are made of bamboo, and the walls are plastered with yellow mud. It's very simple. Cooking smoke floated over the village, and there were a few rooster crows that no dog barked for.

Farmers selling vegetables on the side of the road are dressed in patched clothes, and their thin yellow faces are the color of wild vegetables. At first glance, you can see that the people here are not even full of food. They saw Wang Mingming coming with a bag on her back, and no one paid special attention to her arrival. People who come here to buy vegetables and rice and oil come and go, and it is very popular.

She put down the bag, and a dealer strode over, he didn't ask what it was, he didn't ask if it was for sale, he untied the bag to see if it was a turnip, and he didn't ask how much money it was, he picked up the bag and weighed it. He shouted, "Twenty-one pounds." Then he said to Wang Mingming, "Look at the scale." ”

He saw that Wang Ming did not react, and he did not ask her anymore, he poured the radish into the cart on the side of the road and threw the bag in front of her. He took out the money from his bosom and counted a few sheets, handed it to her, and said, "Give more, and then." ”

His demeanor is very bold, he speaks and does things very happily, Wang Mingming likes to deal with this kind of person, this kind of person does things clearly, does not play with his heart, and does not treat others with bad intentions.

She forgot to retract the hand that took the money for a moment. The dealer looked at her and said, "It's more than 20 pounds, and I've already weighed it." Although he said this, he still took a ticket and gave it to Wang Mingming. He also said: "I can't see how heavy the goods you can carry if you are not thin!" And, I don't think you're struggling at all. Good physique. There is a foundation. ”

Wang Mingming looked at this person carefully, he was 1.75 meters tall, with broad shoulders and a triangular waist, and straight legs. The muscles on his face were tense and he looked very energetic, like a martial arts practitioner. But his white face and eyes were majestic. He's a man of people.

In Wang Mingming's eyes, this person is not a vegetable seller, nor is he a person who practices martial arts, he is very much like an officer. A [***] officer with rigorous military training. She thought of the commander of the artillery battalion, the commander of the company, and the chief of staff of the battalion, both of whom had the majesty of a soldier. When they retreated, they should have crossed the river, they are all capable people, and this big river can't stop them.

The person in front of me is very similar to them. Wang Mingming thought of this and had a good impression of this person. Although he was not an officer and a vegetable seller, he was the person she was looking for, and she wanted to talk to him about going up the mountain to pull goods. As long as he is willing to go up the mountain with her, she will have a better life in the future.

She was still a little uneasy about this person. In case it is a bad guy or a Han anniversary, taking him up the mountain is to lure the wolf into the house. She decided to talk to him first and touch the details of this person, just be reliable.

She looked at the dealer's cart and judged that he would not leave for a while. I'll talk about it when I buy something good. She collected the money and went to see what she wanted to buy first. She wanted to think about how to talk to him while she was shopping.

The dealer took two steps closer to Wang Mingming and asked, "Boss, how many goods are there at home?" ”

Wang Mingming didn't expect that the trafficker would take the initiative to solicit business, her psychology was very happy, she was afraid that her voice would scare him, she pretended to be dumb according to what she had thought in advance. She gestured word after word and said: "I, I planted a lot of radishes, a lot, a lot, in, in the mountains, in the mountains, out, can't get out, you want, if you go, such a big cart can't be loaded." ”

Because she was dumb, the voice of her voice did not frighten him.

The trafficker asked her seriously, "Can the car go up?" Wang Mingming nodded and said, "Yes." There is an avenue up the hill. ”

The trafficker said, "I'll go." Catch the cart. I don't know where your house is, you lead the way. It's still the same price when you get to the mountains. Satisfied. ”

Wang Mingming felt that there was no need to bargain anymore, she said: "I live on the west side of this road, not far, on the mountain on the other side of the Shogunate Mountain, you know!" ”

He was stunned for a moment and said, "I haven't been there, I heard that thousands of people there were shot by devils." The unjustly killed people are settling accounts with devils every day. During the day, there is a gloomy atmosphere, and the wind and grass are full of eerie horror. At night, the ghosts wailed all night, and the sound of howling was heard far away, and those who heard it were terrified. It was not clear whether the voice was a man or a woman. Is it an old man or a child. A hoarse voice poured out the crimes of the devil to heaven and earth. At night, the houses at the foot of the mountain are closed, and no one dares to go out. The big devils and the two devils dare not enter the mountain. ”

Wang Mingming thought that there would be such a legend outside. Is this mountain ghost himself? During the day, it is an eerie and terrifying white ghost, looking for trouble with devils. In the dead of night, he is a wailing ghost on the mountain, looking for revenge.

She said indignantly: "That is where the ghost lady lives, she wants the life of the devil, and the big devil and the second devil will be scattered when they mention it." You're different from them, you're a man, what are you afraid of? Not even as good as a woman. ”

He smiled and said, "You live there!" Presumably someone who escaped death. You went through that massacre, you saw your loved ones, your neighbors die under the butcher's knife of the devil. You hate, grit your teeth with hatred. You have escaped the Holocaust, and you have survived for them in the most difficult of days. It's not easy for you to live. You're good. ”

Wang Mingming said: "Hearing you say this, you have also experienced the massacre, are you the one who escaped death?" ”

He said: "I don't know how many people this soldier killed when they entered the city of Nanjing, but what I know is that the streets are full of dead bodies. Not only did they kill people on the streets, but they also went to people's homes to kill people, and many families were destroyed by devils in the place where I lived. Under the slaughter of the devils, Nanjing's population of more than 700,000 suddenly decreased by half, that is, the devils killed more than 300,000. It's really a ghost singing in the depression of ten thousand households. Anyone who heard it was shocked.

"There are too many ghosts outside the city of Nanjing, and the yin qi in the city is too heavy. It's not an exaggeration to say that Nanjing is a ghost town. There are female ghosts with their heads covered in blood, and they go around looking for the devil who killed her in the long night, and they want to repay the blood debt from the devil. There are male and female headless ghosts looking for devils who cut off his head everywhere in the streets, and they are asking for their heads from the devils who killed him, and they can only see them when they have heads, and they can take revenge on the devils. There are grandmothers who have been killed by devils stumbling on the streets calling for their grandsons who have been killed by devils. There are also those fierce ghosts and unyielding ghosts who are buried alive, and they disturb the devils all night. ”

An old man selling vegetables next to him said, "Aren't you afraid to talk like this?" You be quiet. Let the two devils hear the report, and the devils will kill you. ”

He said to him, "Don't be afraid, there are ordinary people here, and I can see that there are bad people." ”

He said to Wang Mingming: "I live in this ghost town, and during the day I am in the company of man-eating ghosts, that is the devil, am I afraid!" No. Because I am a white ghost who makes the devil afraid. At night I am with the unjust ghosts, and I am not afraid, those unjust ghosts are my compatriots.

"Although I am alive, living under the iron hooves of devils and living like ghosts, I am no different from unjust ghosts."