Chapter 4: The Phantom (3)
What time is it? Zhong Fei didn't know anything, and the mobile phone and watch that could let him know the time were left in the tent at the top of the mountain, and he had a habit of always taking off his watch before going to bed, no matter where it was. The phone had no signal at the tip of the club, so he put it in his bag. When he walked out of the tent, he didn't bring anything out but a flashlight and a dagger. Now the flashlight was still there, but the dagger was gone, and he searched the floor of the cave but couldn't find it. What he found were the white bones that were strewn up and scattered, and judging by the way the bones appeared, these people must have suffered painfully before they died. He couldn't imagine what period these people were, how they came to this cave. Maybe it was the same as him, and he slipped in inexplicably, and Zhong Fei felt creepy when he thought about it.
He stood in the middle of this cave, thinking about Shen Yuyu and Zhu Future, they didn't know what was going on, was they also led into another dark cave by that mysterious voice like him? What he thinks more about is his lover Song Li, what is she doing at this time? If she can't go back and dies in this cave, what will happen to her, will she be sad, will she cry?
A long sigh seemed to come from somewhere in the cavern.
Zhong Fei had goosebumps all over his body.
The sigh came from somewhere in the cavern. Is there anyone alive in this cave besides Zhong Fei? Zhong Fei turned on the flashlight in the corner, and the beam of light of the flashlight fell on a standing person, the standing person's face was blue, his eyes were bloodshot, he made a strange gesture towards Zhong Fei, and then he fell. Zhong Fei said loudly, "Who are you-"
No one answered Zhong Fei.
Zhong Fei was a little frightened. He mustered up his courage and walked towards the corner where the man had fallen. The sound of his footsteps echoed through the cavern, as if there were other people walking in the cavern. Zhong Fei walked to the corner and used a flashlight to shine on the place where the man fell, and the person who was standing just now was no longer on the ground, and what he saw was a skeleton. Zhong Fei rubbed his puffy eyes, could it be that the person standing just now was an illusion? The two eye holes in the skull's head were unfathomable, one of the skelet's legs was curled, and he saw a rusty bullet under the knee. Has this person been shot before in his life? Zhong Fei bent down and picked up the rusty bullet, he put the bullet in the palm of his hand, the bullet was cold and cold, and it had long lost the heat when it was shot out. Zhong Fei imagined a gun, a man with a gun to aim, and those eyes full of hatred...... Zhong Fei was chilling, a bullet could make a person lie dead in this dark and damp cave, in a place he couldn't see, was there also a gun pointed at him?
Zhong Fei heard the sound of squirming.
The voice was so close to him that it seemed right in front of him. It couldn't be the sound of a bullet in his palm, right?
No way! He clutched the rusty bullet tightly in his palm, looked down at the skull on the ground, and exclaimed, "Ahhh
Zhong Fei saw a thumb-thick silver snake coming out of one of the skull's eyes.
The whole body of the silver krait emitted a gloomy light, and the cold light burned Zhong Fei's eyes, Zhong Fei couldn't help but take a few steps back, and now in addition to the flashlight in his hand, it was the rusty bullet. He simply didn't know how to deal with this beautiful and venomous snake. If he had a stick in his hand, he wouldn't have been so afraid.
After the krait emerged from the hole in the skull's eye, the krait swam towards Zhong Fei.
Zhong Fei stepped back in fear.
The krait snake was mercilessly closing in on Zhong Fei.
Zhong Fei stepped back, his foot on a skeleton, and heard the sound of the bones crackling and crackling. Zhong Fei had an idea, threw away the bullet as fast as he could, bent down and picked up a leg bone, shone a flashlight on the silver krait snake swimming over, and said in his heart: "Snake, I have no grievances with you, you must not get along with me, otherwise I will smash you with the leg bones of the dead man!" ”
The krait continued to swim towards him with impunity, and sped up.
Zhong Fei's retreat also accelerated, and he retreated to the stone wall of the cave, and there was no way back. Zhong Fei's right hand held the leg bone tightly, his eyes stared at the silver krait, and he said hatefully in his heart: "If you come over again, I will fight with you!" ”
Zhong Fei's long, scarred horse's face was twisted, and there was fire in his eyes.
His heavy wheezing echoed through the cave, as if there were many people in the cave hiding in dark corners to breathe.
The krait snake stopped just a step away from Zhong Fei.
It raised its head and spat out blood-red letters at Zhong Fei, who thought it would fly towards him. Unexpectedly, after confronting him for a while, the krait turned around and swam in another direction. After the sound of the snake squirming died away in his ears, he let out a long breath and collapsed against the stone wall.
After Zhong Fei sat down on the ground, he found that he still had the leg bone in his hand, and he hurriedly threw it out. In order to save the battery of the flashlight, Zhong Fei pressed the flashlight to extinguish it. The cave suddenly sank into darkness again, and there seemed to be many ghosts wandering and shaking in the darkness......
5
At about three o'clock in the afternoon of this day, Zhang Xiuxiu received a call from her father Zhang Datou, saying that Zhang Changfa was dead. Zhang Xiuxiu cried. Zhang Changfa is a few years older than Zhang Datou, they are like brothers, Zhang Datou's father was very concerned about Zhang Changfa when he was young, as long as Zhang Datou has food, he will not starve Zhang Changfa. Zhang Changfa also treats the people in Zhang Datou's family as relatives. Zhang Changfa never married in his life, and Zhang Datou originally wanted to pass Zhang Xiuxiu to Zhang Changfa as his daughter, but Zhang Changfa was troublesome and did not let Zhang Xiuxiu live with him, but he recognized Zhang Xiuxiu as his goddaughter. Zhang Changfa is usually very serious, but he has a good heart, what is delicious, he always thinks of Zhang Xiuxiu first, who bullies Zhang Xiuxiu, if he knows, he will go to someone to settle accounts. Zhang Changfa died, died of a cerebral hemorrhage, and was not resuscitated in the humble town hospital. After Zhang Xiuxiu learned that Zhang Changfa died, her heart was in extreme pain, she sat in the bedroom in a daze, thinking that Zhang Changfa would never be close to him again, and would not give her anything delicious. What's more, she can no longer see Zhang Changfa's melancholy, deep and loving eyes all her life.
Zhang Changfa's body was carried back to Fenghuang Village at dusk.
The comrades of the town's civil affairs did not let them carry them back to Fenghuang Village, and asked Zhang Datou to cremate Zhang Changfa's body in the town's crematorium. Zhang Datou and the comrades of the civil affairs in the town had a big fire, Zhang Hongliang and they had never seen Zhang Dafa have such a big fire, he shook his huge head violently and said foul words to the comrades of the civil affairs, saying that he would arrest him and shoot him, and he would also carry Zhang Changfa's body back to Fenghuang Village for burial. The comrades of civil affairs had no choice but to report the matter to the mayor, who did not say anything and remained silent. While the comrades of civil affairs were silent for a long time with the mayor in the mayor's office, Zhang Datou and Zhang Hongliang had already carried Zhang Changfa's body onto the sandy road leading to Fenghuang Village.
When the mayor learned that they were gone, he waved his hand to the comrades of civil affairs and said, "Go back too!" ”
The comrades of civil affairs said: "What about the big head? ”
The mayor said helplessly: "Go back, go back, do you still need me to say anything?" ”
The comrades of civil affairs came to their senses and left.
After the comrades of civil affairs left, the mayor sighed and said to himself: "Alas, this big head is affectionate and righteous, but-"
As soon as Zhang Changfa's body was carried into Fenghuang Village, the villagers rushed up, and a woman cried and said: "Changfa is a good person, if it weren't for the flash flood that year, if it weren't for him, my man's bones would have been gone!" Someone continued: "Yes, Changfa is a good person, there was a famine that year...... At this time, two people did not surround him, one was the blind mother-in-law, and the other was Zhang Xiuxiu. The blind mother-in-law stood blankly at the mouth of the alley, her face expressionless, and she listened with her ears to the voices and cries coming from under the old banyan tree, and her hand on crutches trembled slightly. Zhang Wenxiu stood at the door of the house with tears in his eyes, looking at the crowd with a sad face. She was afraid to see Zhang Changfa's corpse, and she didn't know how to face it.
Zhang Changfa's mourning hall was completed in the afternoon, and the mourning hall was set up in Zhang Changfa's home.
The body of Zhang Changfa was carried into the mourning hall, placed on a door panel, and covered with a white linen cloth. Zhang Datou lit the lantern next to Zhang Changfa's corpse. Several village drummers blew suona and beat mourning drums in the mourning hall. The bleak and mournful suona conveys a kind of rural sorrow.
Many villagers came to worship Zhang Changfa, and some villagers even brought their children with them.
Zhang Datou found that there was no Zhang Xiuxiu in the worship crowd, and anger appeared on his face.
Zhang Xiuxiu was still standing at the door of her house, when the sun had set, and she saw a black dead ghost bird on the eaves of Zhang Changfa's house, which made people's hearts panic. Although she was immersed in the grief of Zhang Changfa's death, she still thought about the Shen Yuyu on the tip of the plum blossom, how are they now? Zhang Xiuxiu didn't know anything.
Zhang Datou pulled his daughter Zhang Xiuxiu, who was standing at the door of the house, into the mourning hall, and said to her: "What has no conscience, kneel down for me!" ”
Zhang Xiuxiu knelt down with a "plop" and kowtowed to Zhang Changfa's corpse three times. At this time, Zhang Changfa will no longer smile at her, will he feel the cold when he lies on the door panel? Zhang Xiuxiu really wanted to see what Zhang Chang found here, was he very peaceful, like sleeping? But she didn't have the courage, life and death, between Zhang Xiuxiu and Zhang Changfa, there was a corpse cloth.