"You're the village chief, aren't you? A few of us are from Hedong, and we came to the village to ask people. ”

The old man's face was flushed, and he smelled of wine, and he glanced at the ham sausage and eight-treasure porridge in my hand, and burped us before letting us into the house.

"I am the village branch secretary and village head of Niutou Village, so you can call me Uncle Xing! What's the house talking about? ”

There was a small square table in the middle of the living room, which was full of leftovers, and there were two wine bottles crooked on the ground.

Xing Dashu smiled embarrassedly: "You can sit casually!" I...... I'm home alone during this time, and it's a mess. After that, he went to pick up the dishes and chopsticks, Liu Liwei hurriedly glanced at Wu Jinghan, and the two girls reacted quickly, so they hurriedly went up to help.

After wiping the table, Uncle Xing made another pot of tea, and a few people chatted around.

"Brother, we are from Hedong, come to the village to ask someone!" Liu Liwei went straight to the point.

"Oh! Ask whom? There are more than 900 people in the village, and I know them all very well. After saying that, he smiled.

"That's the thing, an old guy named Bo Daya in our village, came to his daughter's house for the elderly five or six years, her daughter's name is Donghua, forty-five or sixteen years old! We're looking for Thin Big Tooth. ”

"Thin big teeth? Winter flowers? Uncle Xing smacked his tongue, "There don't seem to be these two people in the village...... You didn't misremember the name, did you? ”

Liu Liwei and I looked at Wang Shengjia at the same time.

Wang Shengjia waved his hand again and again: "No!" No! I asked several people about the name of Bo Daya - and I made it very clear when I called just now. ”

Uncle Xing lowered his head and pondered for a moment: "That's it!" Later, I will go to the village branch to check the household registration register in the village, and I may not remember the names of some daughters-in-law...... This...... This thin tooth is not from our village. ”

"Uncle, no matter what the name is, there shouldn't be many old men who come to my daughter's house to care for the elderly, right? Five or six years ago, it was even less. Wu Jinghan interjected.

That's right! According to rural customs, it is the responsibility of the son to provide for the elderly, and if there is no son, it will be the nephew, in short, there is no way to do it, and he will not come to his daughter's house to support the elderly.

Uncle Xing pondered for another half minute.

"You may not know much about our customs, we have children here to get married, furniture and electrical appliances are prepared by the woman, so it is not uncommon to care for the elderly in the girl, I remember five years ago, there were three families to come to the mother-in-law."

As he spoke, there was a thunderclap outside.

"Yo! It's almost winter, and it's raining so much, it just rained a few days ago! Uncle Xing stood up, "I just dried the stick in the morning, I have to put it away quickly!" ”

A few of us comprehended, and also helped to the yard to harvest corn, almost as soon as the drumming was finished, the soybean-sized raindrops fell down, followed by lightning and thunder, and the sky was instantly dark and gloomy.

"Look at this day...... You have to wait for the rain to stop, and then I will go to the village branch to help you check. ”

"Okay! Brother, there's no hurry. ”

I thought to myself: It's not that I'm not in a hurry, it's raining outside, what's the use of being anxious?

Drinking tea and chatting around the small square table, Wu Jinghan's occupational disease was committed again.

"Uncle Xing, our village is so close to the Yellow River, there are a lot of fishermen!"

"There used to be a lot, but not in the past few years! There aren't many fish in the Yellow River. Uncle Xing said and lit a dry cigarette and took two puffs.

"That's right! When we entered the village just now, we saw more than a dozen neighbors holding yellow incense and burning paper in their hands. ”

"Oh! Worship the Yellow River Niangniang. ”

Yellow River Niangniang? This is the first time I've heard of this statue.

He took a drag on his cigarette and continued:

"Two weeks ago, Yang Shuhui and his wife in the village fished a statue of a god in the Yellow River, and the appearance of the statue is very strange, with two heads, each head has three eyes, which is very scary! At first, the two of them didn't want others to know and wanted to sell it secretly, but both of them had a high fever that night, and the fever did not go away when they hung the bottle, and they were still talking nonsense. ”

"What are you talking about?" I asked casually.

"Saying 'Niang Niang spares her life', it's a little messy, and I can't hear it clearly. Look like this. Yang Shuhui's daughter-in-law was scared, so she said that she had fished up the stone statue, and seven or eight good things happened that day, and she went to his house to see the statue, and a few of them also touched it, who knew that these few people also had a high fever that night, and they also muttered nonsense such as 'Niang Niang's life'. ”

I couldn't help but gasp when I heard this, this plot is so familiar, similar to the scenes in many horror movies, but looking at the way he tells it seriously, it doesn't look like teasing us.

Wu Jinghan was even more curious.

"Uncle, where is the idol now?"

The old man sighed two more unhurriedly before he slowly spoke: "There are many people who know, and I don't know who was the first to pass it on, saying that this god statue is the Yellow River Niangniang, disturbing the Yellow River Niangniang, she will blame, about the fourth or fifth day, a few old people in the village discussed with me, and first enshrined this statue in the Niutou Temple outside the village...... I agreed. ”

So that's the case, just now the dozen or so neighbors went to worship the Yellow River Niangniang.

It's raining heavily, and it's a different taste to sit here and listen to stories.

"Uncle, how are the two of you talking about now?" Wu Jinghan asked again.

"I'm still delirious, I just came back from the district city hospital two days ago, I spent tens of thousands, and I didn't find out the cause, and it's still like that!"

Liu Liwei knew that Wu Jinghan was a graduate student studying the ancient customs and culture of the Yellow River, so he asked her: "Xiao Wu, do you know what kind of god the two heads and six eyes are?" ”

Wu Jinghan smiled bitterly and shook his head: "As far as I know, since the Qin and Han dynasties, there has been no belief in such a god in the Yellow River Valley, as for the pre-Qin era...... There are many religions, and the gods they believe in are also different, maybe there is such one, specifically...... I'll have to look at it to figure out. ”

In fact, Liu Liwei also said casually, we originally planned to find Bo Daya, and quickly take him back to be a witness, how can there be an idler to let her see the statue.

"That's right! Dude. Your five big tiled houses are very magnificent! Why do you live alone? Liu Liwei continued to ask without words.

"Oh! My wife left a few years ago, my daughter went to college in Yantai, my son and daughter-in-law got married in the spring, and now I am working in Texas, so I am the only one left! ”

After two or three hours, the heavy rain outside still didn't catch his breath.

"Yo! It's noon, you wait, I'll go make some food. ”

Uncle Xing laughed twice, put the cigarette bag and pot on the table, and turned around and went to the kitchen.

"I'm so embarrassed! Dude, I'm sorry for your trouble! Liu Liwei hurriedly stood up and wanted to follow him to the kitchen.

"There are brothers all over the world, you're welcome! You just sit and wait. ”

It wasn't until three o'clock in the afternoon that the heavy rain gradually stopped, and we just wanted to follow Uncle Xing to the village branch when we saw a wet young man running into the courtyard.

"Oh no! Oh no! Chief...... Village Chief, the bridge at the entrance of the village has collapsed! ”