Halfway through the dirt road, Zhu Jia pointed to a dirt slope about two meters higher than the ground next to the field stalk on the right and said to Xu Tiantian: "That is the big pond that my hometown used to use the most, and we all call it Qingtang." ”

"The ponds on our side are relatively large, and your house won't be filled up like the big pond before." In fact, Xu Tiantian is a little unbelievable, because it is really short, and there are also in her hometown, but the water, very, deep, and the surrounding rice fields basically rely on this for irrigation.

Zhu Jia didn't reply to her, his heart was a little excited, quickly pushed aside the field grass on both sides to his waist, and ran towards that side quickly, the ditch between the path and the Qingtang was filled with soil as before.

On the way to school in Wanggang in his childhood, especially in May and June, September and October, it often rained heavily, and a few of their friends waited here with small nets as soon as they had time.

He didn't understand that there was no big ditch in the upstream, there were always a lot of small fish seedlings flowing over, the water was always very clear, and he could clearly see the soil and stones underneath.

Xiaogou has a large number of bushes on one side of the rice field since childhood, and they generally do not dare to go barefoot for fear that a snake will suddenly emerge from the bushes.

I used to hear Zhu Yi, who was a few years older than them, say that someone was bitten by a cobra and died, and now I think that it may be that he deliberately came to pamper himself, but when he saw the bush later, he hid some distance.

Inside was a low-lying space the size of a football field, and the two of them looked like they were standing at the corner kick from the edge of the bush, and the depth in front of them was quite long, not much different from what he thought was wide in his childhood.

There is a depth of four meters from the top to the bottom of the pond, and the distance between the ridge and the pond is five or six meters inside, and it is full of reeds, and in this season, many of the reed leaves in front of her that are more than 20 centimeters taller than her have withered and yellowed, and the branches and leaves that are not very wide are scattered in all directions.

There are a lot of small insects chirping in the reeds. Call. Non-stop, not loud, quite clear. Quiet. Yes, if he is here, he really doesn't dare to stay for a long time.

In the past, the ancestors of their family used to bury coffins in the surrounding fields, and he would definitely not dare to leave at night.

The little brother went to Shen Street to play with a girl from a family in Wanggang, and one night at seven or eight o'clock outside the dark hand and couldn't see the five fingers, the little brother didn't come back, and the second one, who was still alive at the time, said to Zhu Jia, who was still young: "It's so late, your little brother may not dare to come back, I'll pick him up." ”

At that time, she was holding a flashlight like this, and the strong light brought a small circle of bright light on the dirt road in Zhuzhuang Village, and then it was pitch black, and someone used to tell him: "In the wild, this kind of flashlight is not very bright outside, and it may attract large animals such as foxes to attack you." ”

At that time, he remembered that there were a lot of cornfields planted on both sides of this road, which grew quite tall and vigorous, and there were often ghost fires running around in the sky inside, which was really scary.

In the deepest part of the center, there was a small puddle that stretched to the other side of the pond, and the mud at the bottom of the pond in front of him had cracked one after another, and the part he had stepped on was already dry and grayish-white.

"Do you want to go down and stomp on it?" He glanced at Xu Tiantian beside him, the girl stood next to him for a while, not saying a word.

"Don't, this bruising. Who knows how deep it is in the mud, and if you want to sink into it, you can't pull it out. She didn't move.

"Haven't you ever been in such a big pond? That's right, the girls on our side generally don't go to the pond. ”

He tentatively stepped on the black cracked ground with his foot, and continued: "Actually, there is no need to worry about sinking into it, when I was a child, I once encountered a big pond like this, when I came, there were already several villages a few years older than me digging here, believe it or not, now I turn over this cracked clod, you will see a lot., mud., loach., drilling holes in it." ”

"It's an earthworm, an earthworm, a mud, a loach, and when I was a child, I used to dig the black ground behind my house." Xu Tiantian was a little unconvinced.

"If you don't believe it, forget it." Leaning closer, stepping on the mud, there is also a little sinking, the smell of the mud that has not been turned over for a long time is very strong, not very good, but it is also very kind, after all, I have often smelled it before.

"Let's go, big brother, it's almost the same after reading it, the sun is quite sunny." Xu Tiantian is not very interested in this either.

"Let's go." He was also very crisp, and glanced around the inside of the pond again, and as he walked up, he stepped on the ground with the withered yellow reeds, and the crisp sound drowned out the sound of insects around him.