Chapter 64.1: Ghost cough
That year, Yongchang was eleven years old and experienced the first terrifying encounter in his life with his hair standing on end and cold sweat dripping!
Especially in the remote Xiaowangzhuang, the sparse houses are scattered on the banks of the Yellow River, and the surrounding area is not the current restaurant, supermarket, and commissary, but the old cemetery of Gangzi.
The villagers walked on the winding road, and saw the ancient tombs, new tombs, and barren grasslands! All kinds of evil spirits are often encountered by people, such as black dog spirits, sow spirits, Wong Tai Sin, hanged ghosts, half-cut posts, snake spirits, tree monsters, ghosts, ghosts, black and white road gods, etc., or scary and harmful, or revenge, or tricks on people, or people to avoid trouble, etc., so that the ups and downs of the legend are well known!
But Yongchang, Mei Yuzhang, Silly Big Man and a few other people are not interested in this, and they don't know what it means to be afraid, one is because they are young and inexperienced, and they have not experienced anything, and they are only interested in delicious things!
Although the three of them did not marry Jin Lan, they were also like-minded, because they had a common ideal since childhood, and they firmly believed that it was the highest pursuit of all human beings at that time, and this ideal was: to eat meat often!
Yongchang even thinks that the reason why so many people are vying for their lives to be high-ranking officials or even the emperor and president is actually just to be able to eat meat at once!
This seemingly ridiculous ideal has its profound practical origins!
Because in my memory, the most common dream I had when I was a child was eating meat, and when I woke up, I still reminisced about the happiness of eating meat in my dreams!
At that time, it was always sweet potatoes and coarse grains and wild vegetables that coaxed the belly, and eating meat basically had to wait for the New Year's Festival.
And the best thing is the oily and thick hare! But the smell of hare meat is not fake, the process of catching a hare is not all passionate, sometimes, tired and sweaty, scared soul scattered, may not even catch a rabbit hair!
In the early winter of that year, when the wheat was just four fingers high above the ground, and there were no corn stalks and sorghum trees to get in the way, the hare was the season to be fat and strong, and it was also a good time for us to improve our lives.
The three of them took his big dog "Huzi" and made an appointment to catch hares.
Huzi was indeed a good dog, not only first-class speed, but also very righteous, and in less than an afternoon, two hares were brought in, and three of them were so happy that they ran around in the wheat field and laughed loudly!
Towards evening, they found a fat and big old hare, from a distance it looked like the size of a little piglet, but unfortunately, the ginger is old and spicy, and the rabbit is big and fast, only to see it run and turn sharply, and soon get rid of the tiger! Seeing that most of the pot of fragrant rabbit meat was about to run away, they were not willing to give up easily, so they followed Huzi closely and chased after them!
Due to the fast running of 100 meters, they were panting and sweating after a while, and followed Huzi to the deserted yard in the backyard of Mei's house.
After a few glances, I saw that this pine and cypress shade, disorderly, deep grass and dense trees, people do not come often, it is indeed a good place for hares to hide!
Huzi stopped in front of a deserted house, circled around the big tomb, and was so anxious that he whined in his mouth, and rushed over to see that there was a hole in the barren grass by the side of the big house, and Huzi couldn't get through, so he was so anxious to turn around.
"That big guy must have gotten into here", Yongchang is very confident in his own tiger.
"Yes, there is definitely more than one rabbit in it, maybe a big litter, hahaha......", Zhang Da thought higher.
"Make sure to get it out, the three of us are exactly one for each of us" I walked around the grave, but found no other exit.
Yuzhang and Zhang Da guarded the entrance of the cave to prevent the hare from escaping, and Yongchang turned around to find a way.
Since there were no other holes, there was only one way to go, and that was to enlarge the hole so that the tiger could go in and pull the hare out!
The guy who was looking for a shovel was too slow, so Yongchang and Zhang Da found a stick at hand, and couldn't wait to dig the side of the grave to expand the hole.
Digging and digging, I suddenly heard a cough of "cough ---", Yongchang thought it was an illusion, but Zhang Da also stopped his hand at the same time and looked up at Yongchang.
They looked at each other and asked each other almost at the same time, "Who is coughing?" ”
"Ahem---" As if in answer to them, the man coughed again, and this time he heard it clearly, and the cough came from the hole, from the hole at the edge of the grave they were digging, that is, there was a cough in the grave!
As if their hands were on fire, they threw away the sticks in their hands and stepped aside.
Yuzhang standing next to him didn't believe it at all, it wasn't dark yet, and there was a tiger next to him, what were you afraid of! He bent down and looked into the hole!
"Ahem ---", this time the voice was louder and clearer, and all three of them heard it clearly! It was indeed the sound of a human cough, and it was indeed coming from the grave!
The consequence of hearing it clearly is that he didn't even ask for the two hares that had already been in his hands, so he pulled out his legs and ran home!
And that's not the end of the story. When Zhang Daxiao's elder brother Zhang Daxiao heard about this, he resolutely did not believe in evil, and secondly, he felt deeply sorry for the loss of two hares, and thought that it might be the base camp of the hares. Decided to take us there the next day to see and see, and more importantly, catch some hares to satisfy our hunger!
Here is an explanation, the big one's father, nicknamed Zhang Daring, is well-known in the village for not being afraid of heaven and earth, and once took the lead in going to the old turtle nest and the water ghost. His two sons are bold and personal, especially the eldest Zhang Daxiao, who is five years older than him, and is also the master who does not shed tears when he sees the coffin.
About Zhang Daxiao, there is another episode. It is said that when Zhang Daxiao was five or six years old, he once went into the water with his father to dig out yellow cockroaches, boldly lowered his head in the water to find holes and explore holes, and after a while, he took out several big yellow cockroaches, which made the big man who was playing alone on the shore very unhappy, clapping his hands and eager to try, and after a while, Zhang Daxiao shouted loudly, saying that he had caught a big guy.
Zhang Daring looked up, the cold sweat on his head brushed out, only to see that Da Xiao's two hands tightly grasped not a yellow python, but a big snake like a child's arms, excited to report the good news to his father, Zhang Daring hurriedly ran over, told Da Xiao that this is not a yellow python but a big snake, let him let go quickly, what is surprising is that the big man is not timid at all, said nothing, said that it does not matter whether it is a yellow python or a long worm, and insists on taking it home......
The next day, Zhang Daxiao took the three of them, took a shovel, called Huzi, and rushed to the empty house with a fierce momentum.
Before he could get there, he saw a field of grass moving in the graveyard from a distance, and when he got a little closer, he saw a fat hare running backwards like an arrow, and burrowing into the grave of yesterday.
They were overjoyed, and hurried around the hole, and Zhang Daxiao asked them to greet him, and he himself enlarged the hole with a shovel, so that the tiger could get in and the hare out.
"Ahem---," the familiar and frightening voice came from the cave.
Zhang Daxiao also stopped, as if he didn't believe his ears, and bent down and stuck his head into the hole to look into the cave.
"Ahem---", the voice raised his voice again and coughed loudly, and at the same time, Hu Daxiao seemed to have seen something terrifying, and turned around sharply and ran!
Daxiao, who has always been not afraid of the sky and the earth, turned around and left directly in broad daylight, his face was pale. Several of them scattered at the same time......
Yongchang also didn't know if the coughing sound in the grave was imitated by the hare, or if the people in the grave told them not to dig again!
In either case, of course, it sends chills down the spine: if a hare could imitate it to such a level of realism, it could not be an ordinary hare; And if it is the latter, the bones of the corpse that have been in the ground for many years will cough, and it will make people sleep even hard!
Since then, they've been a little skeptical.