Chapter 145: Listening to the Story of the Fireplace (8)

1. Windows

The following story is from the experience of a colleague of mine in 2008.

My colleague is from Xi'an, and we usually call him Xiao Yang, which happened when he went to live at his aunt's house.

In the evening of that day, Xiao Yang and his girlfriend came to his aunt's house, and his aunt had a tumor on her neck before she had undergone surgery.

Xiao Yang and his girlfriend lived in his aunt's backyard, and it was a very good night, the moonlight shone through the window into the narrow hut, and there was no wind outside, it was a very good clear night.

Xiao Yang and his girlfriend were chatting hotly in the bed, and suddenly, the window opened with a "bang", and Xiao Yang unhappily got out of the bed and got up to close the window. He wondered in his heart, how could the window open when there was no wind? Perhaps the latch was aged and not locked, so he reached out and felt for the latch and found that it was broken. He didn't think much of it, closed the window and went back to the bed.

The couple is still chatting.

"Phew", the window opened again.

This time, Xiao Yang simply didn't go to close it, it was troublesome.

And then - the sash squeaked and swayed back and forth, very gently and slowly, as if there was a hand slowly shaking it.

Xiao Yang and his girlfriend looked at the shaking window sash at the same time.

"What's going on?" Xiao Yang's girlfriend asked, a little scared.

"Maybe it's a little wind, right? I'm going to turn it off. Xiao Yang said.

Xiao Yang also felt a little evil, there was no wind today, even if there was wind, but the frequency of shaking was not like wind at all. He walked to the window, and looked out boldly, the courtyard was quiet, there was really no wind, and there was no one under the window, which made him even more afraid, and in order to prevent the window from opening again, this time he took a piece of cardboard and stuffed it in the gap of the window sash to fix it.

Xiao Yang lay back on the bed, and the two of them were not interested in chatting, listening quietly, as if waiting for the window to "open automatically" again. The girlfriend said if she wanted to tell her aunt, Xiao Yang said how to do it, it was late at night, how could I bother, except here, where to live, and I am not a child, bear with it.

Fortunately, the window did not open again, and the two fell asleep unconsciously.

In the second half of the night, Xiao Yang went to the toilet, and in the hazy sleepy eyes, he found that the window was open again, and he suddenly lost his sleepiness. He was suddenly a little annoyed, he really wanted to take a brick and smash this window, as soon as this anger came up, he didn't feel afraid, he went straight to the window, this time he thought that even if he couldn't break the window, he had to knock it hard, just when he stretched out his hand, the window creaked and squeaked~

Xiao Yang was stunned. At this time, my girlfriend was also awakened by the sound of the window.

The two didn't care about anything else, and quickly fled the backyard.

Afterwards, his aunt felt very sorry, and said that the backyard was originally the neighbor's house opposite, and a few years ago, that is, when the backyard did not belong to her aunt, the man and the hostess of the family had a dispute, and the man was very cowardly, and in a fit of anger, he committed suicide by drinking medicine, right under the window. It's just that I don't know, after so many years, that thing hasn't left yet, and it seems that I have to find someone who knows how to do it.

2. My sister is carrying a rag doll on her back

Since my father lost his job, our family has been supported by my mother's meager salary. My mother gets up early every day and is greedy for darkness, and I don't have time to take care of me, and my father is anxious about his livelihood every day, and he never ignores me. I sometimes have the illusion that I don't have this home at all.

I also have a five-year-old sister who is already of school age, but because the family is really difficult, I can only let my sister play outside every day and then go home dirty.

Our family of four is crammed into a 20-square-meter house, and this kind of day is really sad and bitter. If my parents cared about me, I might still feel that this home is very warm, but 、、、、、、 my existence, like a stranger, has long been ignored by them.

I'm ten years old now, and I spend every day at home, doing nothing, and living a mess. When I was five years old, it was also because I didn't have money to go to school, so I picked up garbage outside every day and came back at night. My parents' attitude towards me may be because of the car accident, I was hit by a truck in order to pick up a plastic bottle in the middle of the road, and even my arm was knocked out of my body.

Later, my mother hugged me and cried for a long time, and then they didn't care about me anymore. I can't remember how I recovered, but the pain of my broken arm made me unforgettable, is it because I didn't have hands and became a wasted person, so my parents didn't want me and gave birth to a sister? I haven't been out of the house since, I'm still wearing my old clothes, and I've been abandoned from the bottom of my heart by my parents.

My sister is now playing with a rag doll in the corner, looking at her dirty appearance, sometimes I think my sister is so pitiful, why wasn't she born in a good family? But she's still young, she doesn't understand anything, she doesn't know anything, and she's unconscious, which is also a kind of happiness, right? But she has the love of her parents, much better than me, and I should envy her.

Her father bought her the doll for her fifth birthday, and I shuddered when I saw it, it was so realistic, and there was a strange smile on the corner of her mouth. Since then, my sister doesn't go out to play, holding the rag doll and talking to herself every day, and later, she doesn't even eat or drink, her face is getting whiter and whiter, and her lips are bloodless, and her parents are anxious and send her sister to the hospital in a panic. At this time, I clearly saw the doll laughing, laughing silently, but the mouth was grinning, and they didn't see it.

When I was the only one left in the house, the doll spoke, and her voice was as childish as my sister: "Sister、、、、、、"

I can't help but shiver, monster! No wonder my sister became like this, all because of this monster.

The doll said grinning and said, "Sister, do you think you're still alive?" β€œ

Do you think you're alive? This sentence was like a thunderclap to my body, I suddenly remembered, it turned out that I died as early as five years old, that car accident, I was reluctant to my parents, imagined that I was still alive, living with them like a human being, but they couldn't see me.

I turned my head to look at the doll: "But who are you?" Why did you come to my house? ”

The corners of the doll's mouth were bleeding, her mouth was almost to the base of her ears, her thin and small teeth were clenched, and her face was torn apart and fell down, but she cried and moaned:

"Once upon a time, I also had a home, and my dear father and mother;

One day Dad got drunk and picked up the axe and walked to Mom.

Daddy, Daddy, I cut it so much, and the red blood stained the wall!

Mom's head rolled under the bed, and her eyes were still looking at me!

Then my father told me to help him, and we buried my mother under the tree.

Then Ah, Daddy picked up the axe and skinned me to make a doll! ”

、、、、、、

The doll cried and said, "Daddy sold me to the toy store、、、、、、 now I have a home again." I made your sister sick, and she had better get out of a home like this. Sister, let's wait for sister, let her go with us. ”

I nodded, tragic fate, it shouldn't go on.

One night, I, the rag doll, and my sister, held hands and left!

3. Hate

In the seafood wholesale market, Lao Wang's business is the best, there are always a wave of customers to patronize his store every day, and every day he and his wife Yumei are smiling from ear to ear when they count the money. But this was two years ago, since the old Luo next to him settled in the market, with low prices, thoughtful service, Lao Luo always has a Maitreya Buddha-like smiling face, no matter how tricky and difficult the guests come, he can always solve it with ease. In this way, he robbed most of Lao Wang's business, making him worse and worse, and he couldn't make ends meet.

Lao Wang is adjacent to Lao Luo's shop, and the old customers are attracted by Lao Luo's hateful smiling face on weekdays, and Lao Wang sees it in his eyes and hates it in his heart. Even Yumei and her son are distressed, Yumei always proposes ideas to improve the business with a straight face, and her son always shouts that the pocket money is not enough. As soon as he thought of this, his hatred for Lao Luo increased day by day.

Look at the endless stream of customers in front of Lao Luo's shop, and then look at his own store alone; Look at the seafood and fish that are alive in Lao Luo's shop, and then look at the lifeless inventory in front of you that has not been updated for a long time; Looking at Lao Luo's round smiling face with schadenfreude, and then looking at Yumei's cold face, Lao Wang came up with an idea - he wanted to ruin Lao Luo's business! Make your store popular again!

Sure enough, Wang's plan succeeded.

When the customers and Lao Luo found that Lao Wang's body was floating in the pool that should be full of seafood, they were all scared to the point that their hands and feet were numb, and they had no master.

Although the police later determined that Lao Wang was too angry and chose to commit suicide due to excessive pressure, although Lao Luo still greeted people with a smile and a more favorable price, no one patronized him anymore. In the end, he had to close the shop and leave from here.

And Lao Wang's shop, after his wife took over, the business was booming again, and the grand occasion was no less than that year.

4. Hell yes

This kind of thing. I've had one of my best friends too.

He said that when he was in the sixth grade of primary school, he went to the teacher's house in the evening to make up for the lessons. Every night after tutoring, I walked home by myself. One night, after he finished tutoring, he walked that way

When he went home for more than ten minutes, he found that his mother went to the balcony to collect his clothes and found that his son was wandering around at the door of his house, so she called him and asked him to go home. As a result, my friend suddenly found the corner in front of his house.

This incident made him depressed for a long time.

I've seen it too, when I was sixteen.

At that time, I was too mixed, my family asked me to study for a year to work on my father's side to experience life, my father is from the railway bureau, his job is to repair bridges, like Jiujiang, the Yangtze River Bridge He has participated, I went to my father's side when he was repairing a bridge in Changsha. A few days after I arrived in Changsha, I heard that a boat capsized on the river, killing three men and two women, and the body of a woman had not been salvaged for two days. On the fourth night of the capsizing, my father and I took a dozen workers to the bridge to catch up with the bridge, which had not yet been merged, and we had to take a boat to get to our pier.

When we arrived at the bridge pier, we saw a woman in white sitting on the side of the pier crying there, and wondered how the woman came up, and several workers had already walked over to ask the woman, but before they passed, they saw the woman jumping directly from the bridge, everyone was frightened at once, and quickly rushed over to see, but there was no drop in the water at all, and the sound of falling into the water was not heard, and then everyone heard the crying behind them, and when they looked back, the woman sat on the other side of the bridge pier and cried, Then someone shouted, "There are ghosts!" "A dozen people all ran down from the bridge and got on the boat, and when they got on the boat, they didn't dare to leave alone when they returned to their quarters, and all of them crowded into a room and drank all night.

Another group of workers who had taken over during the day laughed at us, but after two days they had been working at night, they all ran back with their belts on the ground.

If you don't work at night, you won't be able to meet the scheduled deadline, and everyone will be anxious. Someone suggested finding someone who knew how to do it.

Eventually, the woman's body was found under the pier and recovered.

It turned out that the female corpse had been hanging on the steel bars under the bridge and had not floated up.

5. Kitchen

"Notice: The restaurant's traditional famous dish roast pig is well-known at home and abroad, and its reputation is far and wide. In order to further develop the ancestral craft, apprentices are being recruited today. Requirements: male, age 16~22, healthy, junior high school or above, no bad habits, preferential treatment, intentional speed. β€œ

Zhang Xiaoshu sat alone in the big room, looking a little cramped and uneasy, this was his first job, he had applied for jobs at least a hundred times before, but none of them were successful. Not long after, two more young men came into the room, who looked as fledgling as he was, and even a little more earthy than him, and his heart was a little more settled. The three of them sat honestly around a square table, not daring to speak, waiting for the boss to come out and give orders.

The door opened, a burst of aroma wafted in, and the two masters walked in with a steaming wooden barrel and said, "Don't worry, everyone, try our famous broth first, if you want to learn to cook, you must first know how to taste the food, and if you eat too much, you will naturally make it." As he spoke, he took out three large bowls and filled them with a full bowl, "After eating, add it yourself, and you must eat nothing left." After saying that, the two clapped their hands and went in.

Zhang Xiaoshu took a small sip, the fresh and sweet taste was delicious, the indescribable fragrance, his appetite was released at once, he picked up the big bowl and drank it, and the other two were not far behind, eating "tsk" out loud, sweating profusely. After half an hour, a bucket full of broth was swept away, and the stomachs of all three people bulged out, as if each was holding a leather ball. It seems that this is the "preferential treatment" mentioned in the advertisement.

"Have you finished eating? Young people are just in good physique, not bad! "The two masters walked in again, and this time they pushed three larger buckets, more than one person high, and then connected them to the faucet, and unscrewed the water valve, and the barrels were steaming." After eating, wash it cleanly, and being a chef is to pay attention to hygiene. ”

Zhang Xiaoshu and the others took off their clothes as instructed, and climbed into the bucket, the water was a little hot, overflowing their chests, but it was very comfortable. They only showed one head, looked at each other, and let the hot water burn their skin, and there was indescribable comfort from the inside out.

"Have you soaked enough? Then get up! The two masters reappeared and pulled them out of the buckets.

Zhang Xiaoshu's body was red, weak, and a little dizzy.

"Everyone sit down, bake the fire first, and dry your body." The master dragged in three stoves from outside, and the fire burned brightly, like a big red sun.

The three of them sat on chairs in front of the fire, and after a while, a layer of grease appeared on their bodies, and judging from the taste, it was obviously the taste of the broth that they had just drunk, and now, the broth began to seep out of their pores. Zhang Xiaoshu was soft all over his body, he sat there with his head drooping, he didn't bother to move, and suddenly his body turned, and it turned out that the master was spinning the chair and began to roast his back.

The other master also began to get busy, and he took a bowl of burnt yellow sauce and used a brush to quickly brush the color on them, and the fire also increased. Zhang Xiaoshu saw that his skin had blistered, and then slowly turned into a layer of golden hard shell. He glanced at the other two, both of whom were shrinking into a ball, unable to make out their original shapes.

Finally, the master dimmed the fire, then took out some tools and began to work on them. Their hair is shaved off, their ears are cut off, they are flattened with a mold, and then they are placed at the temples and secured with toothpicks. Then dig out a cylindrical piece of meat from the thigh, put it under the nose, then process the arms and thighs into the shape of pig's trotters, and finally take a green onion and stick it on the buttocks, which is considered a tail.

Zhang Xiaoshu and the others were placed in a large tray and pushed into the restaurant on the car, and the guests were already waiting、、、、、、