When I opened my eyes dimly, I found that I was lying on the kang in my room, and my father and mother were sitting on the edge of the kang and talking about something.

"Xiao Ling, you finally woke up, you scared me and your dad to death, you have been in a coma for two whole days, if it weren't for the town doctor saying that you are fine, your dad and I would have taken you to the hospital in the city."

My mother said as she put the back of her hand on my forehead.

"Fortunately, the fever has subsided, it's all your fault, there are so many strange things in the village, you still let the baby run around, not to mention that Beiquan has become like that, I looked at it and panicked, and you didn't tell Xiao Ling."

My mother took her hand off my forehead and complained to my father.

"Who knew that the baby would go there as soon as he came back, I saw that he was not at home and immediately went out to look for it, the first place I went to find was Beiquan, and the baby was already lying there when I went, Xiao Ling, what happened to your eyes? The doctor said that he was infected, but he didn't have time to take medicine and he got better. ”

My father tried hard to defend my mother's complaints, and finally stared into my eyes and asked.

"I don't know, it's just that my eyes hurt so much all of a sudden, and I don't know anything when it's over."

I shuddered when I remembered that moment when I felt like a needle in my eyes.

But after I finished speaking, I watched my parents listen to my words, and the worry immediately appeared on their faces, and they quickly continued:

"It's better now, really, it doesn't hurt at all."

I thought that it was fortunate that I didn't say that I heard the hallucination in my ears, and that there was an illusion in my head, otherwise, the two elders would have to send me to a psychiatric hospital for the doctor to study carefully.

"That's good, hey, I don't know what's wrong, the spring water of this North Spring used to be very clear, and it tasted a little sweet, and the village lived on these two springs, although later there was tap water, but the spring water was really uncomfortable like that, fortunately, there was no accident in Nanquan. I don't know what happened in the village, what it has to do with this Beiquan, and if it goes on like this, the people of the whole village are afraid that they will be cut off. ”

As he spoke, the father found a stool and sat down, and began to roll up a dry tobacco with a newspaper.

After listening to my father's words, my mother sighed and walked out of the room, probably seeing that I hadn't eaten a drop of water for two days, and hurried to cook for me.

"Cut off children and grandchildren? Father! What the hell is going on in the village? Just tell me, I'm not a child anymore. ”

After listening to my father's words, I immediately jumped down from the kang, looked at my father in surprise while putting on my shoes, and asked, not like a person who has not eaten or drunk for two days.

My heart is full of questions, but as my father said, the village has been connected to running water for many years, and it is no longer the previous water from the sky, so even if the North Spring becomes turbid, it has nothing to do with the loss of children and grandchildren, right?

My father rolled up his tobacco, took a sharp puff, and then slowly opened his mouth and told me what had happened.

Things have to start from the year before last, near the Mid-Autumn Festival, a seventy-year-old grandmother came to the village, saying that she had no children and no daughters, and lived by begging, and lived wherever she went.

When I arrived in our village, I happened to be sick, and I wanted to borrow a place to live for a while, and I left as soon as I was cured.

Everyone saw that this old woman was really pitiful, and her legs and feet were inconvenient, so of course they all agreed.

At that time, it was not like today, whether it was in the city or in the countryside, there was no such deep routine as now, everyone believed in the words of this old grandmother, and my father and several uncles still wanted to invite this old woman to live in their own house.

But this old grandmother didn't go to anyone's house, but went to live in a cave in Beishan, saying that she would live there, it happened to be close to Beiquan, and she didn't have to worry about drinking water.

Father, of course, disagreed, saying that how could the cave be inhabited, no one had used it for decades, and it must be very trendy.

What's more, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the weather has become cooler, and the cave is halfway up the mountain, and it is inconvenient for her to go up and down as an old man.

Who knew that this old woman was very stubborn, she wanted to go to live in that cave, and whoever spit lotus flowers in her mouth, she would not be able to enter the oil and salt.

Fortunately, although the cave is old, it is also where the ancestors of the village lived, and there are roads up and down the cave, so everyone can only rely on her temperament.

My father and several uncles also brought her some bedding from home and helped her clean it up.

When I first lived in the cave, this old woman still came down from time to time to take a turn and talk to my mother and a few aunts in the neighborhood.

But who knew that after more than a month, the old woman suddenly disappeared, and her luggage was still there in the cave, but the person suddenly disappeared.

After saying this, my father stopped, re-rolled a dry cigarette, lit it and took a few heavy puffs, his face was a little ugly, and I knew that what happened next must be even more bizarre.

Sure enough, within a few days of the old woman's disappearance, strange things in the village followed.

Several half-aged children of seven or eight years old cried non-stop in the middle of the night, and the younger three or four years old often smirked at the air.

The people who were close to Beiquan heard the baby's cry in the middle of the night, and they had the courage to see it during the day, but there was nothing.

The water in the North Spring slowly became turbid, and it didn't take long for it to become what it is now.

After saying this, my father finished smoking one of his dry cigarettes, he threw away the dry tobacco butt that was already in the end, glanced at me who was already sitting on the threshold, and stopped talking.

I knew there was something else my father hadn't said yet, so I stared at him expectantly, hoping that he would continue.

"There are not many people in our village, only more than 50 families, from the year before last to the present, only three babies have been born, but these three babies have been born dead, and there is a gray mark on their foreheads, like willow leaves."

"Ahh

I screamed and looked at my father in horror.

All three babies were stillborn, and they had the same symbol mark on their foreheads, which sounded so weird and scary.

"When the first baby appeared in this situation, everyone just felt very sad, thinking that the symbol was a birthmark or something, but the next two babies also died in the mother's womb, and the willow leaf mark was also printed on the forehead, so everyone felt that this was definitely not a coincidence. We are more superstitious in the countryside, and after the second child was gone, I went to the town to find Mr. Yin and Yang. But this Mr. Yin and Yang couldn't see anything when he came, so he said that the village was full of yin and energy, and he would just break it, and he collected 3,000 yuan before leaving, but the was not topped, and the baby born this year was still like this. ”

The father gritted his teeth and said, suddenly heard his mother cough, immediately glanced out the door, and saw that his mother did not come in, so he quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

's father's appearance has betrayed the little Jiujiu in his heart.

There must have been a share of my father's share in the three thousand dollars, probably a large share.

In our village, although my family's conditions are average, once something happens, my father always takes the lead, and the matter of money is not ambiguous.

Sadly, I also inherited this from my father, although I am not good at socializing, but I rush to pay for dinner with my classmates or something.

When my father said those babies just now, I felt that my back was cold, and I wanted to jump on the kang immediately, pull my back and get in.

My father stopped talking, got up and walked out into the courtyard, I think he knew that he was done.

But my father walked a few steps and stopped, turned his back to me and said:

"Xiao Ling, we can't stay in this village, the better conditions in the village have moved to the city, and the slightly worse ones have also moved to the town, our family conditions are poor, your mother and I will save some more money, and strive to move as soon as possible, and now there are less than twenty families left in the village."

After saying these last few words, he went out with a shovel, presumably going to work in the field.

Looking at my father's back, I suddenly felt so sad and blamed myself.

If it weren't for the fact that I spent all my family savings on college, my parents wouldn't have had to work so hard, but now I have nothing to do, no job, and they can't move out of here, but they don't say anything, not even a word of reproach.

Just as I was in a deep sense of self-remorse, I suddenly saw a figure walk through the door of my house.