Verse 65

Strange things happened in Zhaojia Village one after another, first the cat and dog barked in the middle of the night, and then the guide before the search and rescue team died in the village, all of which seemed to be shrouded in a fog, faintly shadowy, making people feel confused in it, and it was impossible to accurately capture that key clue in the confusion.

The village chief was asked if there had been a similar situation before, and his face showed embarrassment, Zhang Guanghou saw this and wanted to ask, but it was inconvenient to break the village chief's mind, so he turned around and said: "Village chief, if there is anything unspeakable, then I didn't say hello." ”

In those days, it was a big crime to hide it from the organization, and when he heard Zhang Guanghou's words, the village chief suddenly became anxious and hurriedly said: "Alas.... Comrade Chief, it's not that I can't say it, and it's not that there's anything unspeakable, but I don't know much about the specific thing you asked, but I vaguely heard my grandfather's old man inadvertently mention a similar strange thing, but at that time I was still young and only listened to this as a story, if you want to hear me tell you slowly. Saying that, the village chief looked at the rising sun in the east and smiled and said, "Inside, Chief Zhang, you see it's not too early, why don't we go to my house first and chat while eating?" ”

Zhang Guanghou turned his head and glanced at the sky, it was true that he was out of the scene in a hurry early in the morning, and now it was time for dinner, so it didn't matter if he didn't eat, but the village chief was also old, so he thought about it and said, "Okay, then I'll bother." ”

"Don't bother, don't bother, please." The village chief said that he was leading the way, and Zhang Guanghou was inconvenient to excuse himself too much, and after explaining to the deputy manager of the body, he took a guard and followed the village chief to his house. When he arrived at the village chief's house, Zhang Guanghou took a look at this house, which is indeed much better than Liuzi's house, the yard is much bigger at night, and the ground is paved with gravel, and the ground is also very smooth.

"Chief, the family is simple, it makes you smile, it's all some coarse tea and light rice, you can eat some of it." After the village chief asked his family to bring the prepared breakfast to the table, he waved his hand and asked his daughter-in-law to bring a small jar of wine and put it on the table, and said with a smile: "This is the sorghum wine brewed by the village itself, you can taste it." ”

Zhang Guanghou hurriedly pressed the village chief's hand with his hand and said: "Village chief, it's really troublesome for your family, I'm just here today to catch up on the old days, even if the wine is disciplined in the army, you don't let your sister-in-law and children be busy, sit down and eat together." ”

Seeing that Zhang Guanghou didn't drink, the village chief couldn't help but feel a little pity, but he forcibly arranged in a tough tone: "Chief Zhang.. You are a distinguished guest in the family, and their juniors will not serve the table, they can go to the back room to eat, and we will eat ours. ”

"This, how embarrassing this is, village chief, or we..."

Zhang Guanghou wanted to say something, but was directly interrupted by the village chief: "Alas, Chief Zhang, after all, there are some things we say that are inconvenient for them to hear, you say yes." ”

Seeing that the village chief said this, Zhang Guanghou couldn't make any more excuses, so he had to sit down with the village chief at the living room dinner table, the two of them first picked up two mouthfuls of food, and said some short face-saving words in the parents, and then the conversation fell to the topic, as soon as he said this, the village chief sighed silently: "Comrade Zhang, I just heard this, if there is anything, you have to bear more." ”

Zhang Guanghou smiled and said, "Village Chief, it's okay for you to say it. ”

With this sentence, the village chief said: "It was a summer, I remember, I was naughty when I was a child, and I often wore open crotch pants to the beach to touch the fish, and one day suddenly a wave came fiercely, I almost fainted to death in the sea, but fortunately I was rescued by the villagers who came back from fishing........."

Although Zhang Guanghou was not interested in the village chief's experience of these old things, he listened quietly when he saw what the village chief said, and only heard the village chief say: "Later, my father was afraid that if I went to the sea and ran into trouble, he would tell me a story to scare me, and wanted to use this story to dispel my idea of longing for the beach to run. ”

Speaking of this, the village chief was quite nostalgic and his eyes were red, but in a blink of an eye, he realized that he had deviated from the topic, and quickly wiped his eyes and apologized: "I'm sorry, Comrade Zhang, I made you laugh, it's easy to miss the old when people get old, and I can't help it when I talk about it..."

Zhang Guanghou smiled and signaled that it didn't matter, this is all human nature and understandable. After the village chief calmed down his mood, he slowly said the incident: "Calculate the time, it was probably 1947 when the New Year was about to be celebrated, the weather was very cold that day, and the cold made people shiver when they went out wearing cotton jackets and cotton pants, and the old people said that this was a sign of heavy snowfall, and sure enough, it snowed that night." Speaking of the snow, the old people in the village said that they had never seen such a big snow in our territory, and it was said that the pigsty of several families in the village collapsed at that time, but those families were distressed to death. It was on this day that the fisherman, who had planned to go out to sea to try his luck, suddenly found that the sea was frozen and the boats were frozen on the beach. And the ice is still very thick, and a hammer can smash a hole in a thin place, but not a thick place. Later, I inquired again, not only us, but also more than ten miles of sea, everyone said that they had lived on this beach for a lifetime, and it was the first time they had encountered this incident, some people said that it might be that we had some grievances here, and some people said that the dragon lord was going to ascend to heaven, and there was everything to say during that time. It didn't take long for a notice from above to say that due to the harsh and abnormal weather, the entire surface of the Bohai Sea was completely covered with ice. ”

Speaking of this, the village chief filled a glass of wine to himself, took a sip, and said with a hissing expression a little serious: "Since the notice was sent above, everyone didn't take it seriously, but who knew that the next day the whole sea suddenly became foggy, and the fog gradually spread to the land within a radius of several miles, it is said that when the fog was the largest, most of the distant counties were covered, and the fog covered the sky and the sun could not see the five fingers, and the door had to be tied to the waist, or not afraid of losing it." ”

Suddenly, the village chief changed his words and said mysteriously to Zhang Guanghou: "Comrade Zhang, do you know how long the fog lasted? ”

Zhang Guanghou frowned slightly and asked, "One day?" ”

The village chief shook his head again and again, lowered his head and put down the wine glass, counted his fingers, stretched out seven fingers and whispered to Zhang Guanghou: "Seven days and seven nights." The village chief stared straight into Zhang Guanghou's eyes, shook his hands again, took another sip of wine, and sighed: "It is said that the fog did not dissipate until the night of the seventh day, and that night someone heard a cry similar to the dragon's groan, which was so loud that it almost woke most of the people in the village from their deep sleep. ”

Afraid that Zhang Guanghou would not believe it, the village chief continued: "The most bizarre thing is that the next day someone said that they smelled a fragrance when the fog cleared, I don't know where the fragrance came from, and other villages are said to have smelled it. ”

When Zhang Guanghou heard this, his brows wrinkled even tighter, the story told by the village chief was really a little too bizarre at first hearing, and it was not an exaggeration to say that it was a fantasy, but these things happened before the liberation, and there was no way to verify this.

At this time, I suddenly heard the village chief sigh and said: "The old people in the village all say that it is the merit and gift of the dragon lord who has successfully ascended to heaven, so you see that every family in this family has enshrined the god of the dragon lord since that day.....