Volume 1: Once Upon a Time in Mankind Chapter 4 Watermelon-flavored village opera

After the rain, a rainbow hangs above the village.

A postman in a green uniform in the village brigade passed by the outside of Pantian First Courtyard.

"Is Liu Chunlan at home, Panyu's letter has arrived!"

"Yes!" Pan Tianyi's mother was overjoyed, took the envelope, carefully carried it in her arms, and returned to the courtyard to tear open the envelope with trembling hands.

The letter contained two photographs of her husband, dressed in a green military uniform, standing straight in front of a huge tank, with a particularly striking red antagon on his hat, which set off the resolute cheeks. Another photo was taken next to the train station, with a happy smile on his face and a luggage package in his hand. The back reads: Go home after the mission! Pan Tianyi's mother naturally didn't recognize these words, and it was Pan Tianyi's sister who told her mother later.

The third master's house next door.

The third master looked at his grandson Guo Yang, and sighed that these children kowtowed a few times, and the old Guan Ye appeared to rain, which was really amazing. He smoked a cigarette and walked towards the village chief's house, planning to set up a stage. He believed that in this world, gods still existed. When I was young, who didn't encounter one or two strange and incomprehensible things, whether it was superstition or truth, only when I experienced it firsthand, I would empathize.

More than a month later, the wheat field was full of harvest, and the villagers piled up the golden wheat straw in the wheat field in the field, and there were patches of wheat drying next to it.

When the sun was in the sky, Pan Tianyi hid under the paulownia tree to enjoy the shade, and looked at the dried wheat by the way. My sister wore a white dress and a straw hat, helping her mother harvest the ripe wheat. The mother stared blankly at the large golden wheat field, and couldn't help but clench the sickle in her hand and continued to get busy. At some point, a rice grain size grew under the base of my mother's nose, and it didn't look so comfortable. So her grandparents didn't want to see her, and she didn't call her sister and brother Shangpan Tianyi if she had anything delicious, and her mother often sulked because of this. Now that it's a hot day to harvest wheat, I haven't seen my grandmother come to take a look, Pan Tianyi's young heart seems to have a glimpse of the life world of adults, and secretly feels sorry for his mother, who works hard day and night.

After the farm was busy, the small corn seedlings in the field all grew, and the older generation of the village brigade and the village chief began to sing operas. It is said that these troupes were invited from the county, but before the people arrived, a cart of wooden shelves on the stage was transported to the open space in front of the Guanye Temple early. There are weeds for the elderly in the open space here, a few tall poplar trees planted not far away, and below are the courtyards of the villagers and some low earthen walls.

In the past, this kind of open-air stage was very popular in the ten-mile village, and at the beginning of the play, adults and children from several miles next door came to join in the fun.

The sun was in the sky, the summer breeze was blowing, crackling, and the firecrackers on the left and right sides of the stage exploded. On the stage more than one meter high, there is a red carpet, and a piece of red cloth is hung on the huge ceiling, and there are several spotlights in front of the stage, which makes the scene inside the stage particularly brilliant and eye-catching.

The jujube wood bangzi sounded crisply, the gongs, drums, cymbals and cymbals played in unison, and all kinds of drama roles appeared. Wu Chang spear short sword, you chase me, dashing; Hua Dan flowers and branches, light singing, Ana colorful; The brass hammer has a majestic demeanor, a majestic and loud singing, and the clown is exaggerated in his costume and his behavior is ridiculous. The square under the stage, from near to far, is full of long and short stools, tall and short Putan, early and early. Uncles and aunts are full of tea and food, and they are intoxicated with the plot. Young people are showcasing their flowers, and their eyebrows are affectionate. The most amusing are the children, who compete among the crowd to chase after each other, stealing some melon seeds and touching watermelons.

The sound of bangzi is crisp, and the gong is deafening; From near to far, it reached a large willow tree a few feet away in front of the stage. Pan Tianyi, Pan Liang and Guo Yang, a few children, knocked melon seeds on the tree and looked at the stage from afar. I saw a woman on the stage, wearing a phoenix crown and a xia veil, a red hijab half-covered and half-hidden, red lips and white teeth slightly opened, a delicate and charming body, lightly lifted the hijab and smiled at the audience, and suddenly I don't know how many young uncles I was fascinated by.

A sweet smell of watermelon wafted from under the tree, and Pan Tian looked under the tree. I happened to find an old Huai Ye sitting next to the watermelon stall under the willow tree, he was flowing Harry, and he was looking at the sedan chair bride on the stage obsessively! The watermelons on the ground were trampled by someone and were dripping with red and sweet watermelon juice. Pan Tianyi glanced at Guo Yang and motioned for him to go down the tree and steal a few watermelons! Three down five divided by two, Pan Liang came down from the tree like a monkey before Guo Yang, and walked to the watermelon stall one after the other. Taking advantage of the fact that the old Huai Ye was sinking into the gentle township, Pan Liang and Guo Yang hugged a big "black beauty", put aside the eyes of others, and secretly walked to the wheat straw stack next to the temple, and then hid the watermelon in it, and waited for a piece to be eaten in the evening.

Lao Huaiye was a bachelor when he was young in the village, and then he married a stupid daughter-in-law out of nowhere, and he relied on him at home and abroad, and sometimes peeked at the widow in the next village washing clothes, but he never did anything bad.

At night, the voices of people are silent and the stars are twinkling.

Pan Tianyi, Guo Yang and Pan Liang sneaked to the side of the stage, only to see a light on the stage flickering, and there was no one in sight. The children opened the stack of wheat straw behind the temple, and the two large watermelons were still there. Under the starry sky, everyone found a clean place to sit down, and couldn't wait to eat the sweet and sweet watermelon......

The night breeze is slightly cool, and the poplar leaves are rattling.

Pan Liang's stomach was full, and suddenly he was very strong in urine, and came to pee under a big willow tree. At this time, he noticed a figure squatting under the tree. Pan Liang was curious, so he stepped forward and asked:

"Who is it?"

The figure was silent, and a cool breeze hit a fishy smell mixed with the smell of wine.

"Who is it?" When Pan Tian heard the sound, he also came over to pee and see what happened to Pan Liang.

No one answered......

Pan Tianyi turned the body of the tree, and was horrified to find Pan Liang sitting on the ground, trembling with his right hand, pointing straight at the figure under the tree opposite, muttering, ghost, ghost...... Pan Tianyi also walked forward curiously, squatted down, and stretched out his head to look at the figure. Suddenly, a pair of eyes the size of mung beans, still glowing green, looked up at him, and there was an inexplicable fishy smell in his mouth!

Pan Tianyi was numb and trembling, and kept retreating again and again! By the way, I pulled up Pan Liang, who was sitting paralyzed next to him.

"Run, everybody! There are ghosts! ”

The others panicked and saw a strange figure coming after them! So, everyone ran away.

The figure, illuminated by the stars, looked like it had a dog's head, a thin waist and long legs, and stood as tall as an adult.

Suddenly panicked and frightened, one or four people in Pantian walked along the edge of the pit (pond) and through the willow forest, and before they knew it, they were all lost and scattered.

At this time, Pan Tianyi glanced back and found that the kobold figure seemed to be still chasing him. He tripped over the roots of the tree and fell into the pit at once, and the lake splashed in waves......

In the dark waters of the lake, time seemed to stand still, and Pan Tianyi struggled in horror. He seemed to remember the story his mother had told him before and told him not to play near the lake. Once upon a time, two little girls in the village drowned in a pit, and it is said that every 12 years they would pull people by the water to find a substitute. I don't know how many twelve years have passed, whether they have been reincarnated.

Pan Tian thought about it, and his body fell weakly.

Suddenly, he noticed that a spherical light appeared in front of him, slowly floating over, enveloping his whole body, and there was no pain of suffocation. This luminous dome took him to a tall and empty space, as if he was on an alien spaceship, full of wandering light lines. A beam of white light from the dome illuminates the smooth cylindrical pedestal of the ground, on which an inverted dark gold pyramid is silently suspended. On each side of the pyramid facing the ground, it seems that there are still inlaid with the eyes of God, and in each eye swims a soft cloud of light, like a trace of consciousness endowed with spirituality. Pan Tianyi cautiously walked forward, contemplating the vision in front of him in horror. I saw a sudden flash in the pyramid, a spherical ball of light instantly submerged between his eyebrows, the sea of consciousness in his mind surged lightly, a magical power spread to his body, the consciousness in the depths of the soul of life quickly awakened, and the genetic shackles were untied......

Syllable! A bright light appeared, and an old man with a white beard appeared next to him! No, an AI robot floating in the air, to be exact. The lower body is a universal wheel, the upper body is a silver-white soft body and a pair of universal mechanical arms, the eyes are shining blue, and occasionally the electric sparks are bubbling magnetically, and the thin silver-white hair on the head seems to be an elder, and at the same time emits an amiable intelligent voice: Congratulations to the human race, get the soul! Congratulations to the master, you have been awakened! I am Ark Gaia!

Gaia explained as she led Pan Tianyi, who didn't know why, to another dimension.