Chapter 123: The Story of the Oil Lamp (2)

1. The man in red on the ridge

This is my grandmother's experience, and I'm sure she wouldn't lie to me. At that time, my grandmother was not married, and she was busy with farm work at home. In those days, they all worked collectively, in the production team and the commune, doing farm work is called earning work, and today's young people may not understand, anyway, everyone works together and eats big pot rice, which can also be called the big pot rice period, this period does not last long, and a few years later, they began to contract land individually, and it has continued until now. My grandmother went through that period, and it was very lively, and everyone was in full swing to produce food, and of course, there were no lazy people mixed in. Without further ado, let's talk about the strange things that happened to my grandmother.

One day at noon, when the sun was very poisonous, my grandmother went to harvest cotton with the people on the production team. My grandmother was a little tired after picking two sacks of cotton, so she went to rest on the ridge of the field, and the ridge she went to was against the one on the other side of the ditch, where there was no people coming and going, and there was no water in the ditch, and it was full of deep grass. Grandma pushed aside the branches and leaves of the cotton tree and walked there, and when she approached the ridge, she saw a man in red standing on it, which looked particularly dazzling against the white cotton. Grandma instinctively had to stand still, thinking that this was too strange, because at that time, it was mainly simple, no one dared to wear too bright clothes, people's clothes were generally gray, Mo Lan and other dark colors, of course, people who got married can wear red on the day of the wedding, but there are no married people in the neighboring villages recently. Grandma quietly came closer, looked there on tiptoe, and saw that the man's trousers and shoes were also red, and the man's hair was drooping, and she stood there motionless, because the man was facing the ditch, and she did not see her face. Surrounded by vast cotton fields and yellow sunshine, there was no shadow of a person, and the few people who came together did not know which piece of cotton was hidden underneath, so grandma did not dare to greet that person rashly. Grandma walked back secretly, trying not to make a sound, and went to find the people who had come with her. I don't know why, my grandmother said that when she walked back in the silent cotton field, she suddenly became afraid, she always thought that the person would catch up, she looked back, but in fact, no, my grandmother was still very scared, and felt that there was a swish behind her, and she walked faster and faster. When they found those people, they all said that their grandmother's face was ugly, and their grandmother told them what had just happened, and several people were also taken aback when they heard it, but there were many people with great strength and courage, so everyone followed Grandma to see it together. But when you get to that place, where is the shadow of that man? There was only a slight hot wind blowing on the lonely ditch ridges. Later, she asked many people who went to the ground if they had ever seen a woman in red, and everyone said no, and said not to scare people, it was weird. Grandma was even more puzzled, but also more afraid. One day, when she came back from the field, she saw several old grandmothers getting together to do the housework, so she walked over and told them what she had experienced that day, thinking that they were old and had experienced a lot, and perhaps knew what was going on. Sure enough, when several old people heard this, they were first startled, and then told my grandmother, saying that it was fortunate that you didn't talk to her, that was not a person from the yang world, that thing must not be a good death, and the resentment was very heavy.

From then on, my grandmother never dared to go to the cotton field alone.

2. The story of the brother-in-law

My brother-in-law had a strange thing when he was 7 or 8 years old.

It happened during the busy farming season, when the adults went to the fields to collect grain, and the brother-in-law had the keys to the house in his hand, and he played crazy outside for a while, and went home at noon. The adults brought dry food to work, and did not go home at noon, my brother-in-law took steamed buns in the pot to eat, and then he saw a child in a flower dress running into the house, circling around him, and then asking for steamed buns to eat, my brother-in-law did not know whose child this was, but he thought that this child was very funny, so he gave him a piece of steamed bread, but this child was very greedy, and even that piece was taken away, how could my brother-in-law give it all to him? I was about to take it back, but the boy ran out of the house, and the brother-in-law chased after him, and you chased after me, and ran to the hill behind the house. A villager drove the ox cart down the mountain, and when the brother-in-law passed by, the cow suddenly panicked, and the man asked the cow to stop, and he saw my brother-in-law running up the mountain with a smile and a smile, and felt very strange, so he pulled him and asked, what are you smirking at? The brother-in-law suddenly sobered up, and he couldn't see the child, so he asked in wonder: What about the child? When the villager heard this, he said, "If there is a child, you can run here by yourself."

My brother-in-law still can't forget the appearance of that child. It is said that cows can also see things that humans can't.

3. Long-distance strange things

When my uncle was young, he was a long-distance truck driver, and once he went to Daxinganling in Heilongjiang Province with a colleague of his uncle, and he had to pass through the dense primeval forest to get to that destination. The uncle's colleague said that he wanted to go for convenience, so the uncle stopped the car, and the colleague got out of the car with the straw paper and walked a long way, turning to a corner of the invisible woods, but after a long time did not see the colleague come back, the uncle was a little worried, he followed the footprints to find it, and on the way, he saw the colleague squatting in the snowdrift, constantly stuffing snow into his mouth, and his face was frozen to blood. The uncle was frightened and shouted: What are you doing! The colleague was agitated, came back to his senses, looked blankly at his uncle who was standing in front of him with a fierce expression, and then looked at the snow in his hand, suddenly, he panicked, stood up and pulled his uncle and walked to the truck. Back in the car, the colleague said that when he finished untying his hands and walked back, a woman came out of the woods and said that she would invite him to eat white sugar, and stretched out her hands as she spoke, and there was a handful of white sugar in her hands, and he somehow wanted to eat it at that time, so he took it and took a bite, and then he couldn't stop, and the woman said that there was white sugar everywhere here, so you can eat it to your heart's content, and it disappeared after speaking. As for him, he really ate white sugar, but it was actually cold snow.

Uncle said: Oops! If I hadn't come to you, I'm afraid you'd have froze to death, and the snow would have eaten into your stomach, and it would have been cold inside and out, and you'd have frozen, and then you'd die.

The colleague nodded sheepishly.

Uncle asked, what does that woman look like?

My colleague said: Nothing special, wearing a large cotton jacket unique to the Northeast and combing big braids.

The two of them couldn't help but look out the window, the sky and the earth were white, how could there be anyone、、、、、、

4. Dad's experience

In the past, there was an open space two miles outside my hometown, and when my father was young, it was the place where the prisoner was shot. Once, my father went to a neighboring village to play with his buddies, and when he came back, it was dusk, and the sun was about to set, and the surrounding area was even more desolate, because the villages were far apart. When I passed by the execution ground, my father suddenly saw several people kneeling there, and my father thought, there are prisoners who have been shot again? I haven't heard of it, not to mention that it is impossible to carry it out during this time period, and what is even more strange is that the surroundings are empty, there are neither armed police nor military vehicles, just a few people who look like prisoners bow their heads and kneel there. Dad was very curious, so he walked over to take a look, and as he walked, he felt that something was wrong, and no matter how he walked, the people were still so far away from him, that is, he couldn't go to him at all. Dad suddenly realized something, hurriedly ran back, there was a terrible laughter from behind, as the saying goes, if you are not afraid of ghosts crying, you are afraid of ghosts laughing, Dad quickly covered his ears, lowered his head and ran quickly, and ran back to the good buddy's house in one breath, stayed at his house for one night, and only dared to return to his village the next day, and never dared to play until the night came home.

5. Paper horses

This story also happened in the hometown, that day, someone in the hometown went out of the funeral, when there were a lot of people of the same race standing outside the mourning hall, there were paper people and paper horses in the yard, there was a boy who was more naughty, secretly poured urine on the legs of the paper horse, and was found by adults, and threw it out with his ears. At the time of the funeral, the paper man and paper horse had to be burned in front of the grave, but as a result, the paper horse that was urinated on by the little boy could not be burned, and in the end there was no choice but to put the paper horse in front of the grave. The next day, the family of the little boy who peed on the paper horse came to the funeral family with the child, saying that the child talked nonsense as soon as he got home last night, and said that he always heard the sound of horses barking outside the window, and the family remembered that the child was naughty and mischievous, and may have offended the ancestors, so they wanted to take the child to the grave to apologize. When they got there, they were surprised to find that the paper horses that had been placed in front of the grave were gone, and they were so frightened that they all knelt down and kowtowed, saying that the ancestors should not blame the children for what they knew.

Eventually, they found the paper horse behind the peeing child's house and knelt down and kowtowed. The paper horse was finally incinerated.

6. A woman who combs her hair at the grave

This is what my junior high school roommate told me about the strange things that happened in her village.

When I was a child, I was still buried in the countryside, and after I died, I stayed at home for a few days before being buried in the ground. Once, an old woman died in her village and was buried according to normal procedures. There was a tree next to the grave where the old lady was buried, and the trunk of the tree was curved, and the children could easily climb it, and not long after the old woman was buried, two little girls went there to play, and they climbed up the tree very quickly, and sat on the branch to pick the leaves, and then tore them into small pieces, and threw them into the air, which was a very boring game, but they mainly felt the comfort of sitting on the tree and getting off the ground. Suddenly, a little girl whispered to another: stop playing. He motioned her to look under the tree, and saw an old woman in white sitting on the grave not far from the tree, where she was slowly combing her hair. Because of their high position, the old woman could not be seen, only the top of her head. The little girl who was warned not to play yelled at the old woman: Mother-in-law! Frightened, the other hurriedly covered her mouth. The old woman had already heard the voice, and stopped combing her hair to follow the voice, and because the two little girls were on a high place, she looked around and did not see them, and then the old woman circled the grave and disappeared, and the little girl whose mouth was covered realized something. The two were too frightened to come down from the tree, and it was not until noon that a villager passing by from the field passed by and returned home in a villager's cart.