Ah Ba has been in full swing recently, and he has been preparing for a fishing trip to the first mountain of the first year.

According to him, the water hole at the foot of the mountain, I don't know how long? How deep? How big is it? No one has ever entered the tun.

I only know that the sound of the dragon roaring and roaring on the first day of the lunar calendar came from this water hole, and the strange fish with horns on its head and legs on its body also swam out of that water hole. The bone-chilling water of the River of Broken Desire also flowed out of that hole.

"This water hole is really weird, but not only are there many fish in it, but the fish are also very large, with more than 100 catties. It's up to you to see if you dare to go. ”

Flying Fish Boy was a little angry at Ah Ba's disbelieving tone, and he said in a contemptuous tone: "How many times have I been to Nansha Islands and Dongsha Islands, and I haven't seen any strong winds and waves?" Besides, I still have three treasures with me, and I'm afraid that the water ghosts and monsters won't make it? ”

In the past few nights, Flying Fish Boy bought some canned beer to drink whenever he was free, and went to the county seat to buy a hundred powerful cupola cannons, and made the empty beer cans into soul grenades to exorcise demons and subdue demons.

When my father heard that there were big fish in that hole, he was eager to try it. His fishing addiction is a little smaller than that of the flying fish, but I heard Ah Ba say that there are hundreds of catties of fish in the water hole. He thought that if he could catch a big fish of more than 100 catties with his own hands on this border trip, it would be a worthwhile trip! Besides, my father has been studying politics for half of his life, unless he sees it with his own eyes, otherwise, even if he is killed, he will not believe that there are demons and monsters in the water hole, he thinks that the so-called demons and monsters are just some people with ulterior motives who make up scary things, maybe some anglers prevent others from fighting with him for territory, so they specially made up this kind of appalling thing.

Ah Hai and Wei Xiaotang are young and vigorous, and they seem to be willing to take any risk, as long as they catch a big fish.

The two of them heard that Ah Ba said that the water cave in this first mountain was full of big fish, so they hurriedly urged Ah Ba to take them there.

Although Ah Ba is a farmer, as mentioned earlier, he has never planted in the field, never helped a plow, and never planted seedlings. He always seemed to have something to do outside all day.

He was away from home all day, and his wife quarreled with him a lot about it.

Ah Bacai doesn't care about her, no matter how he scolds him, he still goes his own way, running around outside every day, and he is happy to die.

Ah Ba heard that the flying fish boy said that he was going to fish in the water cave of Chuyi Mountain, and he immediately helped Zhang Luo.

He went to a friend's bamboo grove in the neighboring village and cut more than 20 bowl-thick bamboos to make a bamboo raft for fishing.

When cutting bamboo, there was an old woman cutting corn near the bamboo forest, and the old woman asked Ah Ba, "What are you cutting so much bamboo for?"

Ah Ba said truthfully: "Don't hide it from your old man, I cut bamboo to make a bamboo raft, and I want to go fishing in the water hole at the foot of Chuyi Mountain." ”

When she heard that Ah Ba was going to go fishing in the water hole at the foot of the first mountain, the old woman was startled.

"Are you going to fish in that water hole at the foot of Hatsuichi Mountain?"

"Yes, I heard that there are a lot of fish in that place, and the fish are also very large, but I am not going alone, I am going to bring a few friends." Aba said.

"Your friends aren't native, are they? Are you from a foreign country? ”

"They're from Guangdong."

"I said, if you are a native of the country, who would dare to go fishing in that place? They don't understand the weirdness of Chuyi Mountain from other places, so you have to make it clear to them, don't take people to that place to fish, you won't even have your life at that time, you have to bear this responsibility! ”

Ah Bahaha laughed, "Oh, you old man, how can you kill someone if you catch a fish?" What are you scaring me for? ”

There is a saying that no book can be written without coincidence. This old woman was none other than the old woman we saw on the side of the road when we turned into the highway that day to go to Clam Tun, she was 96 years old, and she obviously read some books when she was a child, because when we saw her throwing seedlings that time, she was throwing and reciting an ancient poem.

"You can't go to that water hole, my grandmother said."

"Oh, you said you can't go, why do you want to go to your grandmother?"

Ah Ba knew that this wife and her grandmother were more than 130 years old, and she was a famous old birthday star for dozens of miles in Fang Yuan. Her grandmother was born in the Qing Dynasty, and was educated in the Qing Dynasty when she was a child, and she still often calls strange men "guest officials".

"When I was naughty and disobedient when I was a child, my grandmother used to say something about that water hole to scare me." ，

"Did your grandmother say that every first day of the new year, there is a terrifying sound of a dragon roaring and a tiger roaring, and then the water in the mountain pond is sucked into the water hole, and there are many fish in the mountain pond jumping around, and then the dragon and tiger roar, and the mountain ...... in an instant Isn't that so? ”

"Who doesn't know about this kind of thing? But that's not what I'm talking about. ”

"Ah, tell me about it."

The woman said that there was a cave in that place, and that she would have to go back and ask her grandmother exactly where, but it must have been by the pond at the foot of the first mountain.

No one has ever dared to approach that cave, why?

Because that cave was a place for the government to deal with leprosy patients during the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.

As you know, our place has a heavy miasma, a hot climate, and poor medical conditions in the past, and there were still many leprosy patients in the past, and leprosy is very contagious.

In order to frighten the child, the adult did not let the child get close to the leper, and said that the leper eats the liver of a child, and that he must eat the liver of a hundred children in order for his illness to be cured.

When the child heard this, he knew that he should never go near the leper.

My grandmother said that during the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the government's treatment of leprosy patients was cruel and inhumane. At that time, they were afraid that the lepers would run around and infect others, so the government sent soldiers to search for them, and after catching the lepers, they asked their families to cook a delicious meal for him to eat, and then sent it to the cave in Chuyi Mountain, and the relatives saw him off at the cave gate, told him to change into good clothes, burned incense for him, and asked him if he had anything to say, and then asked him to carry a rope and go into the cave to hang himself.

You know, when a leper is alive, as long as you don't get in touch with her and don't eat in the same bowl with him, you will generally not be infected, but I heard that after the leper dies, the bacteria on his body quickly spread out, so if the leper dies at home, the family does not dare to enter, and if he dies in the village or village, the whole village will run away.

So while he was not dead, he told him to take a rope and go into the cave. In the past, the government had built many wooden shelves in the cave to facilitate lepers to hang themselves and tie the knots.

"What if he goes in and he doesn't hang himself and he runs out?"

"Oh, you little official, the government is naturally much more thoughtful than you."

Every time they caught a leper, they forcibly brought him to the entrance of the cave, gave him a rope, and ordered him to go in by himself.

After entering, the people of the government piled up a large pile of dry firewood at the entrance of the cave, and after the leper went in for half an hour, he had already lost his breath after hanging himself, so he set fire to the dry firewood at the entrance of the cave, and the smoke was billowing out.

Originally, the fire at the entrance of the cave was used to disinfect the disease, but it was also to prevent the lepers who did not hang themselves from escaping. In short, hanging is death, and if you don't hang yourself, you will also be burned to death by fire.

Many lepers, although they know that hanging is painful, they choose to hang themselves.

But there are also some patients, he doesn't want to die, he is forced by force, take a rope to go in, after half an hour, he does not hang, when your government at the door of the fire, he desperately rush out of the door, can you think you can escape? There is a special person in the government who guards the entrance of the cave with a gun, and if he dares to run out, he will make up the gun, oops, my grandmother saw several of them with her own eyes, and they are all relatives of my grandmother, and when they went in, they told their relatives well, saying, this is all fate, I admit it, I went in and ended it myself, don't be too sad......

Who knows, after he took the rope and went in for half an hour, he thought that he had hanged himself, but when the fire was raging at the entrance of the cave, he rushed out of the cave with all his life.

"How many corpses are there?"

"Who knows? Who dares to go in and count this corpse, you know that my grandmother is over 130 years old, and she doesn't know how many leper corpses there are, but she said that from the time she was sensible until the liberation, the government has treated lepers in this way. If you count ten people a year, if you count like this, won't there be hundreds of corpses in that cave? ”

"Oh, it's scary."

“...... That cave can't be the one where water flows out and in, right? If there is water, it will not burn the fire, and besides, if the body of a leper is thrown into the water after death, the water will infect others. ”

"It's not the water hole, but it's near the water hole, and I can't say exactly where it is, but it's there anyway."

"You are from your own country, and you are from outside, and they don't know it, but you know it. You're going to make a raft to take them to that place to fish, and what if you get leprosy? The old woman seriously criticized Ah Ba.

Ah Ba was told by the old woman that he almost didn't dare to take back more than 20 bamboos, and if he hadn't spent money to hire a carriage, he would definitely not have pulled the bamboos back.

In the evening, Ah Ba came to the store car to find us, told us about it, and asked us if we could still make a bamboo raft? The implication is that you still want to go fishing there?

Flying Fish hesitated, he looked at my father and was silent for a long time.

My father studied politics and didn't know anything about medicine, but he thought that the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China have been going on for tens or hundreds of years, so after such a long time, can bacteria still survive? Besides, didn't the old woman say that she wasn't in that water hole? I'm afraid it's in the mountains, we're fishing in a hole at the foot of the mountain, and we haven't run to the mountains, what are we afraid of?

Father told everyone what he thought.

"Dog's day, even if I meet a demon Gu water ghost, the three treasures I carry with me are not vegetarian!" Flying Fish said fiercely.