Chapter 141: Listening to the Story of the Fireplace (4)

1. Feiyundu

Feiyundu is a very treacherous place, and disasters often occur when the boat capsizes.

There was a young man who lived a dissolute life, and once asked a fortune teller about his life and wealth when he was born. Many fortune tellers have the same result, telling him that you can't live longer than thirty years old. As a result, young people think that they will not live long in this world, so they will not marry and have children (this shows that this person has a kind of contemplative thinking and wisdom), and they do not engage in livelihood work, and often take light wealth and righteousness as their job.

He once waited for a boat at a ferry and saw a maid walking around, full of sorrow, as if she was about to commit suicide by throwing herself into the water. The young man hurriedly dissuaded her, asking, "Why did you commit suicide?" The maid replied: "I was originally a little maid of a family, and the master's family wanted to do a marriage, so I temporarily borrowed a pair of beaded earrings from a relative, which were worth more than 30 ingots. Later, the master's family lost the earrings, so he took more than 30 ingots of silver and ordered me to return them to my relatives' house, but I came to return them today, and I lost them on the way. The young man said, "I just picked it up." So he gave his survival silver exactly to the maid.

Soon after, the master's family, angry with the maid for what she had done, married her to a man who worked as a shaver near the ferry. A year later, when the young man was about to make a transition with a few of his companions, he met a woman on the road and bowed down to him to thank him, and the young man saw that it was the woman who had lost her earrings, and the woman told her husband the reason for this, and the husband appreciated the young man's righteousness and asked the young man to stay and eat. Everyone else got on board, and soon there was a storm and a great storm, and everyone on board was killed, but the young man was left alone.

Later, when the young man was over 30 years old and had no illness or disaster, he went to tell his fortune again, and the fortune teller was surprised to find that the man's fortune had changed.

2. Empty pool scoop shadow

This is a story I heard when I was a kid.

We were all in the mountains, and at that time, there was no running water for people in the mountains, so they all used buckets to eat.

There is a family in our village with only two daughters. The parents are busy with farm work, so most of the water in the family is picked by their daughters. It is said that after a heavy rain that year, the mountain spring, which often carries water, turned from a trickle to a thick column of water. Everyone in the mountains knows that the cleanest and sweetest thing is when the water clears after a storm. Therefore, as soon as the mountain spring became clear, the sisters went to fetch water. My sister is older and carries a bucket, and my younger sister is young and only takes the kettle at home. The way to receive water is to fill it with a water scoop and pour it into a bucket. The elder sister first took the water, then handed the water scoop to the younger sister, said to take it slowly, and then took a few steps back with the bucket, resting and waiting for the younger sister. But after waiting for a while, my sister has not come over, my sister went back to the mountain spring to see, my sister is gone, the kettle and the scoop are gone, my sister thinks badly, my sister must be in the water when receiving water, even someone with the pot was washed under the water column to the pool, my sister hurriedly ran back to tell her parents.

The villagers all went to help find someone, but there was no shadow of my sister in the waterhole, not even the shadow of the scoop and the pot.

It is said that since then, whenever it rains in the mountain, people passing by the mountain spring will hear the sound of someone pouring water into the pot with a ladle, but when they look over, there is no one.

3. The mandarin duck died

In ancient times, there was a falconer, and one day, the hunter went out to hunt as usual, but he was busy for a long time and did not get anything. On the way home, he passed by a small river, and when he was about to cross the river, he happened to meet a pair of mandarin ducks playing in the water. Hunters had never thought of taking mandarin ducks as prey before, because in the eyes of the locals, hunting them would bring bad luck. However, he has been quite unlucky lately, and he has been hungry all day, and he is already in a trance. He picked up his bow and arrows and shot them at the pair of mandarin ducks, who were originally carefree. Then there was a flutter of wings and a chaotic wail - the arrow hit the male mandarin duck, and the female fled in panic and hid deep in the thick grass and disappeared. The hunter picked up the male mandarin duck and brought it home, cooked and ate the dead prey.

That night, the hunter had a dream that terrified him.

In his dream, he vaguely saw a beautiful woman enter the house, come to his pillow, and weep incessantly. How sad the cry was, like a heartbreak. Listening to this cry, he felt a palpitation in his heart, and he was terrified. The woman cried for a long time, and finally spoke, her tone full of resentment.

"Why、、、、、、 why, why did you kill him? What sinful thing did he do? For more than 、、、、、、 years, we have been living a loving life here、、、、、、 why would you take his life? Is this 、、、、、、 he has done anything bad? Do you know what you've done? Do you know that what you are doing is so cruel? 、、、、、、 my life has been taken by you! My husband is gone, and I will never be able to live alone. I'm here today to tell you all about it、、、、、、"

After the woman finished speaking, she began to cry bitterly again. The incessant cry was so terrible that it seemed to penetrate the hunter's body, and struck deep into his bone marrow, causing him to suffer from heartache. The hunter only felt a chill hit him, and he began to shiver.

Soon after, the woman began to sing with tears in her voice:

Morning and twilight with the king is gone,

In the past, it was difficult for the couple to continue their relationship.

Lonely and lonely in the bushes,

There is only one person left to sleep.

Such a mournful singing, word by word, was sung by the woman vigorously, which made people feel miserable. At the end of the song, the woman shouted to the hunter in a higher voice:

"Ahh You won't get it! What did you do yourself! You won't get it! It's just that 、、、、、、 when you come to the river tomorrow, you will know 、、、、、、 you will know all this、、、、、、"

When the woman had finished speaking, just as the hunter thought she would continue to weep, she turned around and left in tears.

The next morning, when the hunter opened his eyes, he remembered the dream of the previous night, and he was still frightened, and he remembered the woman's words: If you come to the river to-morrow, you will know 、、、、、、

Whether last night's memories were dreams or real events, the hunter wondered. In order to verify, he immediately got up and went to the river to find out.

The hunter came to the river with trepidation, and suddenly saw the female mandarin duck floating on the water, lonely, very pitiful. At this time, it also saw the hunter, but did not flee in panic as it had done yesterday. The unthinkable happened, and the female mandarin duck stared straight at the hunter, swimming straight towards him without blinking her eyes. The hunter and the female mandarin duck looked at each other, and before they could react, the female mandarin duck actually used her beak to peck at her body violently, only to peck the feathers scattered, covered with scaly wounds, and finally pecked herself to death.

The hunter was shocked and cried on the rocks by the river, thinking that he had hunted so many animals before, and their families were as sad as the female mandarin ducks. But now they are still alone.

From then on, the hunter stopped hunting and became a monk.

4. Do you want to add salt?

Every day at noon, he would go to the restaurant across the road to eat.

The home cooking here is well done, and the taste suits him well, just a little light.

"Sir, do you want to add salt?"

Every time I went to that shop, the owner would ask him affectionately.

And he, every time, because the dish is indeed lighter.

At noon today, he was surprised to see that the hotel had been sealed.

"The owner of this house is a psychopath!" Passers-by said, "I was arrested by the people from the mental hospital just now." ”

"yes, it's unbelievable, to put the ashes as salt in the dish." Passers-by sighed.

He felt nauseous and retched. A puff of white dust puffed out of his mouth like a puff of smoke.

5. Cabinets

He always dreamed of his hometown, an ancient town. In the dream, there is his family's ancestral house. There is also a cupboard, antique, with a large brass lock on it.

When he was in his hometown, he had never seen this cupboard. The dream, which was repeated every night, finally made him unbearable.

He returned to his hometown, in his ancestral house, looking for that cupboard.

After searching to no avail, his uncle told him that his great-grandfather's younger brother had unfortunately suffocated in a cupboard while playing hide and seek. After being pointed out by a master, the cabinet was buried deep in the back of the ancestral house.

After much talking, he was allowed to dig.

Cabinets, exactly like in the dream. When the big brass lock was smashed, a boy dressed in Qing Dynasty clothes, staring at him curiously, walked out.

Alive.

6. Dating in the cinema

It started on the day she was on duty, she worked in the hospital and was a nurse.

That night, she suddenly had an extra movie in her pocket. She went to the appointment with trepidation.

Five minutes into the film, a young man sits next to him.

She looked sideways, and the side lines of the man's face were slender and delicate, full of heroism.

The movie is very good, but she doesn't watch it carefully, and the handsome man makes her feel ape. She could feel it, and the man stole at her from time to time.

Before the end of the show, the man got up and left.

When she was on the night shift again, she had another movie ticket in her pocket.

It's still him, still coming five minutes after the opening and leaving before the end of the game.

Such an appointment lasted three days. Not a word was spoken, not once held hands.

This time, there was a word on the movie ticket, "I'm leaving, one last time, never to see you again." ”

She was heartbroken.

Half an hour after the opening of the movie, he arrived in a hurry.

The first time she took his hand, it was so cold, just like his heart.

Towards the end of the movie, it felt like he was leaving again. She gritted her teeth, and finally used the prepared flashlight to shine on his face. She wanted to remember him forever.

It turned out that she recognized him, he was in the hospital where she worked, he had been lying for more than three months, and he was about to be sent away.

Half of his face was so handsome, but the other half of his face was burnt black.

When the pale glow of the flashlight hit his face, droplets of water were flowing down, whether it was his tears or the melted ice in the freezer in the morgue.

7. Dice game

The friends went away with understanding.

In the private room of KTV, only he and this half-drunk girl were left. They're going to carry this dice game to the end.

Under the influence of alcohol, the girl's reserve is gone, leaving only madness and coquettishness.

With the sound of rattling dice, the girl had less and less clothes on her body.

"Nasty, I'm losing again."

The girl said drunkenly, taking off the last piece of clothing - panties.

There was fire in his eyes, and so was his heart, and he was about to step forward to hug her, but the girl was upset and said, "What's the matter, people haven't finished taking it off yet, what's the hurry." ”

He smiled and said, "You're drunk, okay, I'll let you lose again, and see what else you can take." ”

The girl really lost again.

She smiled softly: "People have lost again!" ”

Then he pulled up his hair and took off his entire skin as if he were undressing.

The voice is still so ecstatic: "Handsome guy, shall we have another one?" ”

8. New children

In the morning, his five-year-old daughter clamored for him to hurry up to kindergarten. This has never happened before. Pleasantly surprised, he asked his daughter why.

"Because there is a new child in the kindergarten, named Xiaolan, she is very cute and likes to play with me." The daughter said.

The daughter is very introverted and often bullied, it is not easy to make friends, and no one will bully her if she has a partner, he is very happy.

However, slowly, he found that his daughter had an abnormality, her face was sallow, and she was often sick. My daughter likes to draw, and one day she drew a very strange little girl, standing among the flowers, with pigtails, everything was normal, except for those eyes, there were no eyeballs, and two black holes. He asked his daughter what it was, and she said, "This is Xiaolan." ”

He was frightened and rushed to the kindergarten to find his daughter's teacher in a panic with the painting.

The teacher was also shocked and said that there were no new children.

Nervous and scared, he sent his daughter to a psychiatrist and transferred her to a new kindergarten.

The daughter cried and said that she didn't want to leave Xiaolan.

However, gradually, the situation improved, and the daughter stopped crying and calmed down.

He asked tentatively, "You don't want Xiaolan anymore?" ”

The daughter lowered her head and played with the blocks: "I don't want to." ”

He breathed a sigh of relief.

"Because Xiaolan has already lived in our house." The daughter said lightly.

9, Sun Xiaomei

"Have you seen my Sun Xiaomei?"

The mother-in-law, who lived on the 17th floor, asked him with a panicked look.

He replied impatiently: "I didn't see it!" ”

"If you see Sun Xiaomei, please tell me, it's only been raised for a short time, and it's easy to be frightened."

These old people, raising cats and dogs, and taking people's names, are really funny.

After a perfunctory departure of the old woman, he returned to the bedroom.

The girl in the bedroom was still asleep, curled up on the big bed, purring softly like a cat.

He stroked her hair gently. They met yesterday afternoon, and she came to the neighborhood to look for relatives, but the relatives had already moved away. She was crying anxiously downstairs, and he went up to comfort her. The main thing is that she's too cute, and he's a little bad.

The girl also wore a pink collar around her neck, and when she took it off, the collar fell in response, and he held it in his hand and looked back and forth, like the kind of collar that pets wear. Could it be that this girl is Sun Xiaomei? The kitten or puppy that my mother-in-law raised on the 17th floor?

He laughed out loud at his thoughts.

The girl woke up and asked him what he was laughing at, and he told him the truth.

The girl glanced at the collar he had thrown at the head of the bed and smiled.

"Actually, my mother-in-law doesn't have puppies or kittens."

She leaned on his shoulder and blew softly into his ear:

"She's raising a snake~"

With a gentle sip, a small scar, his eyes widened and he stopped breathing.