Chapter 1: The Upside-Down Man

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It's Sunday, I woke up at ten o'clock in the morning, what do people do first thing when they wake up? Playing with mobile phones, of course.

I opened the QQ space, swiped the page down little by little, and wanted to see if the goddess of my crush had anything new to say, so that I could like and comment in time, although she didn't reply to me once, but I still enjoyed it.

Suddenly, a statement caught my attention, "MMP, one day I went to the construction site again, and I was hot to death." ”

"Hey, Li Jin, the turtle son, can do it, he actually went to the construction site for an internship." When I saw that it was Li Jin in the bedroom next door, I was immediately happy.

This guy is my classmate, a rich boy who is usually out of tune and hippie with a smiling face, and he actually went to the construction site to suffer from the sun and rain, which really makes me look at it a little differently.

"Really? Take me a look! As soon as Luo Peng, who was on the bed, heard it, he immediately brought his baby face to my mobile phone.

"Haha, this shit, usually even the bottled water has to be carried to the second floor by a worker, so quickly become diligent?" Luo Peng laughed, "Eh, is this a grave?" ”

The word grave immediately touched my sensitive nerves, and I snatched the phone back, "You big man who picks your feet away from Lao Tzu's mobile phone, a big smell of foot, I thought I didn't see you use this claw to buckle your stinky feet just now?" ”

Luo Peng's baby face suddenly turned red, and his tone was disdainful, "Pick it up and get out, it's not uncommon for Lao Tzu to touch your mobile phone." ”

I didn't pay attention to the illustration just now, thinking it was just an ordinary excavator, a pile of loess and a few people holding walkie-talkies and wearing hard hats. When I clicked on the picture and enlarged it, I took a closer look, only to find that there was a pit in front of the excavator, and there were a few blue rags sprinkled on the low pile of loess, and there were a few white bones scattered on it, and I immediately understood what was going on.

This kind of thing is not uncommon on construction sites, and many construction teams often dig up human bones when working in rural mountain villages. Generally speaking, this kind of ownerless solitary grave is very old, the upper structure of the tomb is often washed away by flash floods and torrential rains, and the life and death of the descendants of the tomb owner are unknown, no one repairs, the orphan grave will eventually be forgotten by people, often until a few years after the land here is constructed, the remains of the tomb owner can be rediscovered.

In the comments, I learned that the boss of their department "disposed of" the owner of this grave by finding a ditch and throwing it away, saving the construction period from delaying, and no one claimed it anyway, so I didn't worry about disputes. Judging from their tone, this kind of thing is not less, and it is no longer strange.

"Hmph, the ignorant are fearless." Seeing this, I can't help but feel resentful. Of course, I know that for construction companies, time means money, but money makes them lose their basic respect for human nature.

Luo Peng said indifferently: "Forget it, this kind of thing is not easy to say, besides, if the owner of the tomb is really angry, the first one to jump up at night and pinch their necks, you are blindly worried about a fart." ”

"You kid knows a fart, the bones are particular about going into the soil for safety, you can't see the sun, and you're afraid that if you expose yourself to the sun, you're afraid that there will be trouble." I'm really too lazy to explain.

"Oh no, how did I find out that your kid is sometimes Shinto, and the tone is as if you've seen a ghost." Luo Peng was also a little unconvinced.

"I've seen ghosts." Speaking of this, my tone and expression became serious, "But it's not a ghost yet, strictly speaking, it should be 'a few', similar to one of the zombies." ”

"You just brag." Although Luo Peng's mouth was hard, his eyes were clearly a little curious, "Come and tell you Uncle Luo, who is afraid of who is the grandson." ”

"Okay, you're up to date with this grandson." When I heard this, I laughed angrily.

So, I told him about a strange thing that happened when I was twelve years old, and I still feel creepy when I think about it.

My name is Yu Kangyang, the origin of this name is not unusual, it is said that the day I was born was at noon, the sun in the sky was so big that the soil was scorched, and the heat was unbearable, so my father, who only read the second grade of primary school, slapped his thigh with his eyes: Today's weather is Kangyang, and the third child will be called Yu Kangyang.

When I was in junior high school, "fortune telling" was very popular among my classmates, and I was curious to check the time of my birth, and I found that it was the "Four Suns Gathering at the Top, God Blessing the Man" in "Destiny", which is said to be a rare person in 360 years. Ever since that happened, I've been a little noncommittal about fate. Paradoxically, as much as I hate to admit it, something did happen that upended my perception.

I'll never forget that hot summer.

I was 12 years old that year, and the solar energy in May peeled off a layer of skin, and as soon as I got out of school, I met with a few friends to take a bath in Langtang Bay. Rotten Pond Bay is a waterhole in the east of the village, which is named because it is surrounded by muddy fields. This pond area is about five or six square meters, the water depth in the middle of the pond is about two meters, its source is a bowl of mountain spring water on the cliff, because we are here in karst landform, so most of the water is immersed in the stone crevice, and then after a series of chemical reactions, it slowly precipitates out of the stalactite, and the mountain spring water finally only leaves a small stream to flow into the pool.

As soon as we arrived at Rotten Pond Bay, a few of us couldn't wait to take off our essence, jumped into the water one after another with bare buttocks, laughed and played, and our bodies were soaked in the cool and secluded pool, so happy! When we had enough of fighting, we started to play the game of "leakage" again, which is a competition in which several people hold their breath in the water. I pinched my nose and squatted in the water, trying to beat my companions, knowing that I usually practice at home with a basin full of well water, and the longest record can reach more than a minute mile.

Sure enough, I heard my partners surrender one by one, and in the end, only me and Xiao Fuxing on the other side were left to confront each other, and no one refused to admit defeat. Soon I felt like the oxygen in my lungs was being used up, and I felt like I couldn't hold it anymore.

The pressure of the water created tension in the pinna, causing the outside sound to sound a muffled hum in the water, and faintly I seemed to hear someone calling my name, and when I hesitated to get up to look, Xiao Fuxing's head surfaced.

I won! I stood up from the water excitedly, only to see Xiao Fuxing's big fat round face suffocating red at the moment, I don't know if he was angry or tired after losing the game, he just had to pant for breath, his eyes were full of unconvinced, hey, no, there was a hint of schadenfreude. I looked back and saw my dad standing behind me with a grim face! I hurriedly covered my crotch with both hands, and at the same time my heart sank: crutch (bad)! The companions around me squeezed their eyebrows at me with a wicked smile, and I was so angry that I scolded in my heart: You puppies, my father won't give me a hint when he comes, and he will clean you up later.

Because drowning people often occur in the ponds in the countryside, my parents did not allow me to bathe in the ponds. My father was short-tempered and strict with me, and he often taught me with sticks, but he didn't take me lightly because I was the only boy in the family. When I thought that I might inevitably have a meal of "fried lean pork with golden bamboo strips" (golden bamboo is a thin bamboo commonly used by rural parents to beat their children, and lean meat means children's buttocks), I was afraid for a while.

"You dress Lao Tzu and leave immediately, I have something to tell you." My father's eyes glared at me, and he didn't have a good breath.

I put on my clothes and followed my father with heavy steps.

"It's not dangerous to take a bath in Rotten Pond Bay, and the water is not deep." I tried my best to suggest to my father that there had been no drowning in Rotten Pond Bay, and at most it was not that the corpses of dead babies had been released on the top of this cliff.

"I'll settle accounts with you when I go home about this matter, and now you go with me to your godmother's house." Who knew that my father didn't reply, and for a while I was at a loss for the second monk, but listening to the tone, it seemed that my sins today were offset by something going on in my godmother's house.

"What's the matter?" I hurried to keep up with my father's pace, full of curiosity.

"If you know what is verbose, you will recognize it in the past." My dad gave me another slap of training on my head, which made me confused and aggrieved, but as long as he didn't pursue the fact that I sneaked out to take a shower today, I would be thankful.

As soon as I walked to my godmother's house, I saw that the courtyard was full of villagers, and they were noisy and noisy, and I didn't know what was going on, but it seemed to be a big deal.

Although my father was thin but had a lot of strength, he grabbed my left arm to prevent me from running away and pulled me nimbly through the crowd and into the yard of my godmother's house. When I stood firmly, I found that a few people stood in front of the gate as if they were discussing something, and when I looked closely, it turned out to be the village chief and the officials of several major families, and then they all looked back at me, and I was a little flustered: I remember that I didn't seem to have done anything bad? I don't know why, these people looked at me like a monster drooling when they saw Tang monk's meat.

"Wait until now." After the explanation, my father walked up and said a few words to the people, and I pricked up my ears and only heard a few intermittent "go in...... OK...... Don't scare him. ”

After a few words to my father, they nodded, and my father walked over to me. As soon as I looked at my father's face, I knew that nine times out of ten, I was going to be cannon fodder and do dangerous things. Seeing that the posture was wrong, I began to "rebel" against my father: "Dad, I am the only son of your Yu family, think clearly, it is not easy for you to have another son when you are dozens of years old, don't risk me......"

Before I finished speaking, my father was furious and rewarded me with a burst of chestnuts on the head: "Bastard boy, hear me clearly, slow down when you come into the house and call your godmother a few times, see if she should be you, if not, you should come out quickly; If you say so, ask her what she's doing and coax her out. ”

I hugged my head in pain and nodded as if I didn't understand, did something happen to my godmother? In my memory, my godmother treated me very well, and even loved me like a son, leaving me with any delicious and fun things. Speaking of which, I haven't seen her for a long time, I thought I was going out to find my godfather, and I was busy reading and herding cattle for a long time, so I didn't put this matter at ease.

My father seemed to be extremely worried about me, so he grabbed my ear again and said, "Remember, if she wants to catch you or bite you, you should run quickly, don't look back, do you hear clearly?" ”

As soon as I heard this, my heart immediately trembled, "Dad, is my godmother crazy?" ”

My godfather hasn't been back for several years, and my godmother says it's not necessarily crazy.

"No, don't guess, just remember what I told you, we'll be up outside the door, don't worry." My dad patted me lightly on the shoulder, and his face was never so solemn.

Although I was a little apprehensive in my heart, I quickly calmed down, my godmother was so good to me, what was I afraid of.

There was a crack in the door, and I pouted my ass and looked into the room a few times, but there was no one. So I mustered up the courage to push the door hard, and the wooden door creaked open, and I searched the rooms in turn, but I found no one, so I decided to go to the kitchen again. At this time, the weather was hot, and the kitchen was located in the room on the west gable, because there was still half of the wall unsealed, and the scorching sun shone in directly, and a knotted thick hemp rope hung on the beam near the gable, and a bench was poured underneath, which looked a little desolate in the dazzling sunlight. Seeing this, I suddenly got goosebumps for some reason, so I paced back to the hall.

Just when I was wondering, my eyes accidentally caught a glimpse of a shadow in the corner of the roof of the hall, and it was this glance that almost scared me: my amiable and respectable godmother was hanging upside down on the cat beam at the moment, and I saw her hands and feet together, and her limbs tightly wrapped around the beam, and the scene in front of me was indescribably weird. I was so shocked that I gasped: I'm in a good day, why didn't anyone tell me that my godmother had practiced light skills?

It's still a hairy boy, where have I ever seen this kind of scene, but after thinking about it, I realized that something was wrong: how could she, an ordinary woman, climb onto the cat beam and still hang upside down? The main thing is that there are no ladders or anything around her, how did she get there?

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