Chapter 131: Listening to the Story in the Birch Forest (4)
The name of the story is - Zheng Nu.
Industrial South Road and Industrial North Road two traffic arteries converge near Jigang, there is a very big village at the intersection, the south of the village is the railway freight yard of Jigang, there are more than 20 strands of rails, usually densely parked with all kinds of freight trains, all kinds of tank cars, and then to the south is the Jiaoji Railway. To the south of the village, a culvert under a marshalling station connects the South Industrial Road to the village.
It is said to be a village, but there is very little arable land here, and most of it is sold to some surrounding enterprises, and many villagers usually work in the city. There was a madman in the village, about sixty years old, in fact, this man was usually very good, and he was very kind to people, and he did not see any mental problems at all, but when it was cloudy and rainy, he rushed out of his house, ran around the village, and shouted something, and if you listened carefully, you could hear: Don't come! Stay back!
Not many young people in the village knew how this madman was crazy, but a few old people sighed while looking at him, saying that it has been a lifetime, a lifetime! How he went crazy has to start from that long ago.
Let's take a look at the culvert first, this culvert is in the north-south direction, because the railway freight yard above is more than 100 meters wide, this hole also has more than 100 meters, there is a small ditch in the west of the hole, and the water flow is continuous all year round. There was no light in the cave, it was dark, and the roof was made of cement. Standing at one end of the hole on Gongye South Road and looking into the hole, there is only a little white light in the distance, which is the exit of the hole, and the road surface is uneven, there are few people walking during the day, and there is no one at night, only occasionally a few cars, tractors, or motorcycles go in with the lights on. The villagers would never dare to walk from here, and if they go to Gongye South Road, they would rather walk east from Gongye North Road and then detour to Gongye South Road.
This cave is very evil, it is not hot in summer and not cold in winter, and it is strange that if it is windy outside, the cave is still calm; But if it's cloudy and rainy outside, especially in summer, there will be a gust of wind blowing in the cave. It is also said that if you ride a bicycle through the hole, you can't look back, because as long as you turn around, the car will shake up~~
Time back to that long ago, there was a couple from other villages moved here, now the old people in the village say that the woman surnamed Zheng is very good, very kind to people, but her husband (is now a crazy man) has a bad temper, often beats and scolds her, sometimes even on the street, the woman wants to divorce several times but does not dare, I have never heard of a woman has a maiden family, the man seems to be the master of life, the woman does not dare to divorce him is helpless.
At that time, there was a railway freight yard in the south of the village, but the scale was not as large as it is now, and of course the culvert was there at that time, and it was not as long as it is now. At that time, the conditions were not very good, and the top of the cave was made of large stone slabs, and the railway was on top. At that time, the people were very poor, there was an iron collection station in a nearby village, and many villagers sold their iron to the iron collection station, this kind of behavior was not allowed by the social environment at that time, and they had to enter the bureau if they caught it, but the iron collection station didn't care about it in order to make some money, and the secrecy work was very good, and no one knew.
When the iron at home was almost sold, some people pointed their eyes to the railway freight yard, where the wagons were loaded with large iron mounds, iron slag and other things, as well as coal that was very short at that time. Some people climbed over the wall at night, one climbed on the wagon and moved down, and the other person followed below, or directly took advantage of the noise of the train outside when it entered the station (all steam locomotives were very loud), and used homemade hooks to hook down iron slag and coal and steal them.
It didn't take long for the staff of the freight yard to find out and start to arrest people, but the freight yard was short of manpower and couldn't prevent it at all, in fact, the villagers also understood that once they were caught, it would be over, and they would eat guns.
So there is the following scene: at night, several trains were parked in the depot, and in the middle of the two trains, some people were holding poles to hook things, and suddenly heard a broken shout: What are you doing! Immediately, the men took bags of various sizes, slipped under the trains, and climbed over the fence back to the village. Those staff did not dare to chase after the village to arrest people, for fear of being besieged by the villagers.
At that time, the consequences of stealing such things were very serious. Most of the people who steal iron and coal are women, because women can cry, make trouble and hang themselves when they are caught, so that they can deal with it.
One summer night, with heavy rain and lightning, the woman surnamed Zheng came with a few people to steal something, and when she was holding a hook, there was another cry behind her: What are you doing! Everyone picked up things and ran, was about to drill the bottom of the car, but the train behind them actually started, everyone kept running east, Zheng Nu ran at the back, it may be that those staff were stolen really hot, this time they have been chasing, as mentioned above, the top of the culvert is made of large stone slabs, there is a big gap between the two large stone slabs, it was pasted with mud at that time, but it was washed by the heavy rain, and the soil was a little loose, just like that, Zheng Nu stepped on it in a panic, All of a sudden, the whole person was trapped, but she didn't fall into the hole completely, her head was stuck in the gap, and her body was hanging in the hole. The two staff members chased here to take a look, only to see that the blood on the slate was quickly washed away by the rain, they reached out and grabbed Zheng Nu's hair and pulled it up, but it was too tightly stuck, and they couldn't pull it up, so they went back to report. That night, the wind and rain, the telephone line was hung up, they ran to the headquarters to report, two hours later the headquarters came, but there was no way to pull Zheng Nu up, the slate is not so easy to pry open, until after dawn, someone pulled Zheng Nu's body in the culvert, someone pushed her head down, she fell into the culvert.
Everyone saw that because Zheng Nu fell off in the middle of running at that time, her neck was pulled off in the huge force of falling down, without the support of bones, and hung overnight, the neck skin and flesh were stretched very long, and it looked like the neck was long, but, what was even more terrifying was that when she was brought down, because the card was too tight, the flesh of the entire face was squeezed out after coming down, and it turned up, revealing the bones of the white flowers, which frightened people away and stared at the corpse in horror.
Zheng Nu's husband didn't show much grief, and pulled Zheng Nu's body back and buried it hastily. But the matter did not end there, and those people pointed the finger at this man, saying that he instructed Zheng Nu to steal iron. Originally, the villagers took pity on him, and when his wife died at a young age, he didn't tell him about his frequent beating of his wife, otherwise he would have been guilty. This man didn't know what kind of punishment he received in the bureau, and he was a little nervous when he came out.
On the first seven days of Zheng Nu, it was another stormy night, and the man took some yellow paper burned for the dead and went to the culvert nervously, it seems that he still has a little conscience, he went to burn a few piles of paper money for Zheng Nu. He walked through the culvert with a dimly lit flashlight (the flashlights of those days were not very bright, and the light was still yellow), and from time to time rain drifted in from the cracks in the stone slabs overhead. He was about to walk to the place where Zheng Nu had an accident, and he couldn't help but shine a flashlight on it. At this photo, he shouted, and the tone of his voice changed, and he saw a man's body hanging there, his head stuck in the gap in the stone slab. He quickly turned around and ran back, and when he ran, he heard movement behind him, he turned around and shone a flashlight, and the "person" was shaking towards him with the wind! His toes seemed to be pointing in his direction, and his whole body was shaking! It seems that I want to come down but can't do anything!
The man ran out of the culvert and has been even more abnormal since then. I also do farm work, but I hurry home before it gets dark. When he was not working, he sat under the wall where there was the sun, and never went to a shady place. The dark culvert, even when he heard people talking about it in small talk, he trembled with fright, and when the villagers asked him what was wrong, he did not hide it, and told what he saw that day, some believed it, and some did not. The believer comforted him, don't be afraid, that's because she is reluctant to leave you, how can it hurt you, that's the first seven, it's normal to come back, she won't bother you in the future, don't worry.
But in the middle of the night, he slept on the kang, and was suddenly awakened by the call outside the door, he opened his eyes in the darkness and listened quietly, it was a woman calling his name, and again and again, he took a stick and walked to the door, turned on the lamp in the yard, and looked through the crack in the door, and there was nothing outside, but he found that the wind outside was earthy, and there was thunder rolling in the sky, and it seemed that it was going to rain, and he was scared again, but the stick in his hand gave him courage, and he opened the door in confusion, and stretched out his head to look out, but there was still nothing, And the voice disappeared after he opened the door, he saw that there was nothing, and he was about to close the door to sleep, when he wanted to close the door, he suddenly saw a person standing under the old locust tree in the yard, a woman leaned straight under the tree, she couldn't see what color clothes she was wearing, only saw her face pale, and what was hanging next to her face~~ He was so frightened that he was about to pee his pants, and the excessive fear made him unable to move, the woman's body was tilted over at this time, her feet stretched forward, and she wanted to come over, but her head was still leaning against the tree, It was as if something was stuck in her neck~~ The man stared at her nervously, so that he could see clearly what was hanging on the woman's face, which was a lump of meat!!
The man finally shouted, rushed out of the house and ran out of the courtyard, the house was unbearable, but the courtyard door had been closed by him, he would not open the door, so he "banged" the door, shouting for help while smashing. The neighbors were awakened by him and came to the gate of his house, and when they smashed open the door of his yard, they found him lying on the ground, and carried him into the house and looked at him.
When the day was breaking, he awoke, and immediately ran out again, and could not stop him, and after a while he came back, and got a torch out of nowhere, and said that he would burn the house and the trees. Everyone quickly stopped him and held him down. After a few days like this, everyone understood that he was crazy. Everyone took away all the things that could light a fire in his house, and the neighbors took turns to take care of the meal when he ate, although he was crazy, but he didn't hurt people, usually like a normal person, but one day it rained again, he actually set all the furniture on fire in the room somehow, and everyone struggled to save it without much loss. In the future, when it rains, people will watch him, and he never dares to approach the big locust tree, and when he is working in the village, he never dares to approach the culvert.
At that time, there were many women who were stealing iron with Zheng Nu and woke up in the middle of the night by nightmares, and they were so frightened that they trembled.
The railroad yard had already been expanded, and the culvert had been topped with cement, and it was stronger, and the women who stole the iron at that time were now old ladies, but they still did not dare to go through the culvert. There was once an old lady who stole iron and occasionally walked through a culvert, and when she walked through that place, she felt that something was touching her headγγγγγγ