My name is Xie Xiaopi, and my ancestors originally lived in Lingnan.

Decades ago, Grandpa Xie Dibi took the family and moved to the edge of the Yellow River for some reason.

After settling in a small village by the Yellow River, Xie Di's family was quickly accepted by the local villagers, and the old Xie family gradually integrated into the life of hunting and fishing by the Yellow River.

Xie Dibi, a strange person, often ran alone in the middle of the night to the Yellow River wax crossing, staring at the rushing river, and saw the sky fish belly turned white.

On a dark and windy night in the moon, Xie Dibi wore a fishing helmet on his head, waterproof high boots tied to his feet, and carried a long water rifle in his hand, nervously telling my father and mother that he was going to sail out of the Yellow River to the wax crossing at night, and asked my father and mother to guard an object in the back room, don't overturn it.

What is it?

A footbath filled with clean water, and a small paper boat on the water.

After seeing my father and mother solemnly agree, Xie Dibi hurriedly went out.

My father was less than thirty years old that year, and he was full of energy, and my mother was also a well-known beauty embryo in the village. After lulling me to sleep, the husband and wife couldn't help it anymore and began to do things.

Originally, this matter had nothing to do with Xie Dibi's mysterious boat out of the Yellow River, but coincidentally, the young couple was enthusiastic, and accidentally overturned the basin of clear water that the old man had entrusted them to guard, and the paper boat on it also fell to the ground and was doused with water.

My father was dumbfounded, his face turned pale, the sweat on his forehead flowed down instantly, and he lifted his pants and ran to the Yellow River.

When it was dawn, my mother saw my father soaking wet, dark and sad and coming back.

My mother asked him how the old man was.

My father shook his head, and after saying the ball, the paper boat capsized, and the old man's boat also capsized, and the corpse may have been eaten by the beast.

My mother was scared and cried at the time, and asked what the hell was that, we were hurting the old man.

The husband and wife cried while holding their headaches.

My father was holding back a breath of anger in his heart, and vowed not to disembowel that thing, take out the bones of the old man, and swear not to be a man.

He began to look for wax crossings on the banks of the Yellow River in the middle of the night, just like my grandfather.

My mother persuaded him several times, saying that our son is only six years old, and the old man can't be resurrected after death, and the old Xie family will never do this business again in the future, and have a peaceful life. But my father feels guilty in his heart, where can he listen to it?

After half a month of searching, my father rushed back and told my mother that the beast had gone up the mountain, and he had touched its lair, and that the hiding place of the dog was so secret, that he would slaughter it in a few days. After saying that, he began to sharpen his knives in the yard.

My mother began to use the usual tricks of women, sprinkling and rolling and hanging, but no matter how much she tossed, she couldn't persuade my father.

A few days later, my father prepared some bits and pieces, lit a candle with the thickness of a baby's arm and more than a meter long in the back room, inserted it on the big radish, and told my mother that the candle was the guiding light when he went up the mountain to slaughter animals, and he must be watchful, don't put it out, as soon as the candle is extinguished, he may get lost, fall to death, and be eaten on the mountain, but he will not come back at all.

My mother didn't speak, but packed up her things and wanted to go up the mountain with my father.

My dad said you're up the mountain, who's going to see the candles, and if something happens to the two of us, what should we do?

My mother told my father that she had sent a message to Tong Zi, he will come home tomorrow, we can come back, everything is fine, if you don't come back, Tong Zi will take care of Xiaopi.

The Tong Zi in their mouths, called Tong Tianwang, is my uncle, who is more than ten years older than me.

My father couldn't resist her, and looked back at me who was asleep, so he had to lock the doors and windows until no wind came in, and deliberately covered the outside of the candle with a glass cover of the pupils, and the two of them put their hearts at ease and went up the mountain in a state of worry.

At that time, mobile phones were not popular, fixed phones were rare, and people were asked to send messages in case of trouble.

It stands to reason that the doors and windows are closed, and the candle is very thick, and the locals call it "everlasting candle". It is generally burned in front of the main Buddha in the main hall of the temple, and it is not easy to extinguish, and it is no problem to burn it for a few days in the pupil glass cover.

But unexpectedly, Tong Tianwang received a message, thinking that something had happened to my family, so he didn't wait until the next day, pedaled a broken bicycle, and rushed over from a mountain road dozens of miles away in the dark that night.

When I got home, I saw it, good guy, the fire in the house was blazing, the doors and windows were locked, and my brother-in-law's house was afraid that it was on fire.

The person who carried the message also forgot to put the key under the threshold and told Tong Tianwang that Uncle Qing loved to watch Bruce Lee on weekdays, and took himself as the master of the raptor crossing the river, carried a bucket of water in the yard, kicked the door to pieces, poured the bucket buckle towards the firelight, and extinguished the candle with a "snort".

My father and my mother never came back.

A family of four, except for a six-year-old me, was wiped out in this abrupt and funny way.

I asked him how he knew so many details, and he replied that he was half-guessing and half-ignorant.

In the days after my father and mother died, Tong Tianwang wandered around the mountains all day long, but he couldn't find the body.

After we cried and were sad, we gathered a few clothes at home, burned them, made a few tablets, kowtowed, and gave away our relatives.

Tong Tianwang took me to prepare to go back to my grandmother's house dozens of miles away.

But as soon as we went out, we heard a whimper, wow wow in the village, and the villagers rushed to the Yellow River in a panic.

The child stammered and told us that something was wrong at the wax crossing, and Ping's daughter-in-law was undressing and dancing there.

Daughter-in-law Ping is a well-known beauty in the village, and she is even more beautiful than my mother.

So we ran to the wax crossing.

When I went to the wax crossing, I saw a bunch of villagers pressed by Wuyang. Ping's daughter-in-law had beautiful eyes, standing on the edge of the river, shaking the flesh of the white flowers, giggling, and singing while laughing. What is frightening is that she is still holding a baby crying in her infancy.

Ping's daughter-in-law's family sat on the ground and cried loudly, the old village chief shouted loudly, and in the chaos, I only heard the old village chief telling her to put down the child, and I couldn't think about anything to sit down and chat.

But I saw Ping's daughter-in-law smiling and looking around the surrounding crowd, saying that my cub is dead, and the cubs in the village are going to die!

The old village chief said angrily, don't talk nonsense, isn't your cub crying in your arms, are you crazy?

Ping's daughter-in-law glanced at the child in her arms, and suddenly went crazy and said that this is not my cub! Then, her eyes looked at me directly, the Xie family's little baby, the most damned thing is you, wait!

Where have I seen this meeting, I was scared to tears by her vicious eyes on the spot.

The crowd exclaimed, and Ping's daughter-in-law threw the child in her arms into the wax road entrance.

The wax crossing is a whirlpool on the edge of the Yellow River, the water is turbulent, and after the child is thrown into it, he disappears for a moment.

Ping's daughter-in-law's in-laws immediately fainted when they saw this scene.

Her man, I usually call him Uncle Mingda, went crazy in an instant, picked up the head on the ground, his eyes were bulging, and scolded, crazy woman, I want to kill you. After finishing speaking, he rushed to the wax road entrance, but Ping's daughter-in-law laughed, slipped naked, like a loach, three steps and two bumps, and ran alive from everyone's eyes.

The villagers couldn't care about Ping's daughter-in-law anymore, and began to hurriedly tug the boat down the river to save the child.

Half an hour later, the body of a swollen and white baby entangled in aquatic plants was fished up.

It's a big deal that something like this has happened.

Ping's daughter-in-law's sentence "The cubs in the village are going to die" can scare everyone, the tiger poison does not eat the cubs, Ping's daughter-in-law is crazy to throw her baby into the Yellow River and die, and the safety of the baby in the village can no longer be guaranteed.

The old village chief ordered the intersection to be sealed, gathered the young and middle-aged people in the village, and beat gongs and drums to find Ping's daughter-in-law.

The intersection is closed, and we can't go.

Tong Tianwang had no choice but to lock me up at home and join the team looking for Ping's daughter-in-law.

In the evening, Tong Tianwang looked tired and came back in a hurry, as soon as he entered the door, he carried me to the attic, and asked me with a solemn expression: "Xiaopi, are you afraid?" ”

I said scared.

Tong Tianwang said, if you are afraid, stay in the attic, no matter what you see or hear, don't make a sound, Ping's daughter-in-law threw the army to the wax road mouth and drowned.

Junjun is my good playmate, but I didn't expect him to be killed by Ping's daughter-in-law.

I remembered the vicious look in Ping's daughter-in-law when she said to me at the end, "Xie Xiaowa, the most damned thing is you", I was very scared, I was so scared that I trembled with fright, and I peed at that time, and I cried loudly.

Tong Tianwang was angry, gave me a slap, and scolded: "Cry your grandma is a bear, if you want to live, don't keep quiet, otherwise I won't be able to save you!" ”

I had to hold back my tears.

Tong Tianwang pasted a strange rune paper at the entrance of the attic, hurriedly ran down the attic, and removed the ladder upstairs, turned around and went out.

The attic was full of rats, and I would have been screaming in fright, but fear made me grit my teeth and not make a sound.

I stayed until midnight, hungry and scared, and was about to fall asleep in a daze, but I heard someone downstairs calling me: "Xiaopi, where are you, I got you milk beads, come down and play......"

The army is calling me.

But didn't the uncle say that Junjun had been killed by Ping's daughter-in-law?