Chapter 67: A Woman Possessed
If someone in this world said they had seen something strange, I wouldn't believe it easily. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoBecause even though I'm still young, I've heard from my teachers that some of the things I see are not necessarily true.
I took my teacher's words as the truth, but when I found out one day that the teacher herself didn't believe what she said in reality, I had doubts about what I had learned.
I don't know enough about Uncle Luo, but I've heard too many legends about him. Whether it's groundless or not, I'm sure some of you must have seen it with your own eyes. Whether it's to seek peace of mind or to have conjectures in my own heart, I believe that I will slowly understand, and after I have come into contact with some things, I will slowly become convinced.
What we did in the cave that day, Uncle Luo didn't ask for anything else, and he still said that I should not talk to others. I don't know why he would believe a man who is a child in the eyes of others.
But because of his instructions, I never mentioned it to others, not even with my own friends. This may be due to the education at home, although grandpa they did not deliberately teach anything, it is often just a simple thing, as long as they mention it, we will generally remember it.
After Uncle Luo came out of the cave, he obviously seemed to be in a better mood. But here's the problem, because we started walking from the side of the national highway, and I estimated that there were at least three or four miles of path, and if we walked back, we would still have to walk back to the side of the national highway. Uncle Luo actually asked me if I would feel tired. I was obviously a little excited, so I shook my head and said I was okay.
What I didn't expect was that when I went back to the village that day, Uncle Luo took me to a road that I hadn't thought of, that is, along the mountain road of this Baizhang cliff, down to a ridge road, and then from the ridge to the bottom of a big mountain. The mountain was almost bare, littered with cleanly cut thatch roots. A looming mountain road leads all the way to the top of this mountain.
I was already very hungry when I said something in my heart, and Uncle Luo seemed to understand, and when he passed by this ridge, he saw a woman working in a ridge, so he asked her for a few cucumbers that had fallen on the ridge. After eating two cucumbers, my energy seemed to be much better, and I followed Uncle Luo slowly up the mountain.
When I walked halfway up the mountain, I looked back and saw the Baizhang Cliff in the distance, which seemed to be a little short. Then there was a relatively gentle mountain road, and we gradually crossed two low hills, and we saw patches of square terraced soil in front of us.
I looked ahead with some surprise, it turned out that there were still people on the top of the mountain, although there were only a few households, and they lived in adobe houses, but seeing the people on this barren mountain, I was still a little shocked. Because the first thing that comes to my mind is, what should they do if they drink water in such a high barren mountain?
However, Uncle Luo quickly cleared my doubts, because when we walked to the side of these houses, although we did not see anyone coming out, we saw that there was a pond at the door. And by the edge of the pond, there was a clear well. I looked at the well dumbfounded, looked at Uncle Luo with some incomprehension, and couldn't help but ask him why there was a well in such a high place, and how could there be a well in a barren mountain.
Uncle Luo smiled and said, "There is a mountain over there that is higher than here, although there are stones everywhere, as long as there is soil, there are water veins." After digging up the water veins here, it is easy to have a well! Uncle Luo looked around, sighed softly and said, "Back then, this was not a barren mountain, there were big trees everywhere, but they were cut down later!" ”
I vaguely understood that it might be the big leap back then, and this place will become like this! I also looked at these people's homes, but I didn't see any people, but I faintly heard the barking of dogs. Then he saw two yellow dogs standing under the eaves over there, and saw two of us, and they stood there with their tongues and teeth bared and did not come.
I don't know who lives here, what if you live in such a barren mountain and wild place, what if it's dark at night? During the day, when I saw the mountains and wild grasses everywhere, I couldn't see a few trees, and I couldn't see a single person, and I felt a little panicked when I thought about it.
We didn't stay too long, because it was hotter at this time, and even though we ate cucumbers, we couldn't afford to be hungry for long. If I hadn't had this well, I guess I'd soon be feeling it again.
There are a lot of terraced soil on one side, and we walk slowly along the mountain path next to the terraced soil. The trail was smooth, and it was evident that people walked it every day, and I was even more surprised that I was not at all working hard compared to these people who were working hard.
Turning around a mountain col, I saw a pear grove, and these pear trees were planted in the terraced soil of a mound. Surprisingly, there are many pears on these pear trees, but each one is not very large. I could see that there were a lot of broken branches, some of the trees could not see hanging fruits, and the ground was overgrown with some weeds, even I could see that there was no one to take care of these pear trees.
Uncle Luo seemed to see my question, and said with a faint smile: "These pear trees were planted when the people in charge of the school were devolved, but now the eyes of the people are low, presumably no one in this village is willing to climb so high to take care of them, but they are slowly degrading!" It won't be long before all these trees are going to die! ”
"Aren't they in charge?" I pointed to the families I had just passed by, which were right on the doorstep! These people are really too lazy, these fruits are more or less an income, so it's no wonder they will be poor if they don't take care of it so closely.
"Go further ahead and you'll understand!" Uncle Luo pointed to the hillside in front of the pear orchard, where the hillside was not high, but he could not see the scenery from there. Uncle Luo stopped talking, and then his feet sped up. When he passed by a dwarf pear tree, he saw that there were more fruits on the tree, so he actually stopped, and he picked a few more for me.
I didn't eat it right away, this green pear is not big, but it looks like it should be edible. We walked along this side of the path, and when we reached the hill in front of us, I understood at a glance.
It turned out that from the small hill here, there was another slightly lower hillside, and under the hillside of the hill was a row of houses made of large stones, which looked like a huge concave shape, and sat on the slope of the slope on that side. I suddenly felt a little familiar, and suddenly remembered, it turned out that this was actually the house left by our cadre school back then.
Teal stones, yellowish mortar, gray linen with black roofs. Looking at the hollow and broken windows, these are exactly the houses that have been abandoned for a long time. Although I haven't come up to see it, I know that this is the old cadre school in our village.
I really didn't expect that Uncle Luo took me over a few hills, and what I saw in front of me was the mountain behind our village. I was actually a little tired along the way, but I didn't take a good look at it. Looking back, you can't see the side of Baizhang Cliff, but you can see that below is the Yaoju Village next door, and the Xiangjia Village that extends to the past. Less than 500 meters down from here is the pomelo orchard in our village.
It used to be a large pear orchard, but now it is all deserted. Separated by patches of terraced soil, down are the houses of the dry schools. And some distance down from the cadre school, there is a grapefruit orchard in the village that is still contracted by people. Because the grapefruit is still some time away from ripening, there must be no one to guard it yet. Nowadays, grapefruit is very popular, because whether it is fresh or used to boil sugar, it is an excellent fruit, but I didn't expect this pear grove to be forgotten.
Knowing where I was, I knew that the two hills I had moved over were the tea gardens contracted by my uncle Yuyuan, and I had followed the adults to pick the tea. Uncle Luo saw that I didn't squeak and told me that this pear grove orchard also belongs to our village and has nothing to do with the families above. No one in our village was willing to contract to take care of it, and probably didn't want to pick up cheap for these people above, so they wasted these pear trees.
As we walked down slowly, we were about to get closer to the stone houses when I suddenly saw two cows. It was a common buffalo in the village, and it was leisurely eating thatch as if no one was around. Uncle Luo didn't say anything more, but looked around from time to time, I saw that there seemed to be some emotion in his eyes, so I guessed in my heart that he might have participated in the construction of these terraces back then!
But what made me suddenly a little excited was that I saw a large number of cold potatoes in the roadside terrace soil on the way down the mountain. This is my favorite food when I was a child, and although I also grow it at home, where have I seen so much? But these things are obviously not in their own homes, if you pull them out, in the words of the villagers at this time, it is to steal them without telling them.
I was thinking about how to talk to Uncle Luo when I suddenly heard Uncle Luo whisper softly. Because it was quieter at this time, I could hear it clearly, and I looked at him curiously. Uncle Luo's eyes were staring in one direction, and I couldn't help but be startled when I looked over it.
It turned out that we had already walked to the stone house of the dry school, and at this time there was a window in the middle of the house, and a man was lying on the stone by the window, looking straight at us with a pair of eyes.
At that moment I felt like I was standing in the sun and shivering, and many people don't know if it will feel that way, but there have been many experiences like this. When you see something with your own eyes, you will definitely be emotional and frightened, there are many things in this world that you don't understand.
I couldn't help but grab Uncle Luo's right hand, even when I was in Baizhang Cliff just now, I was not so afraid. "Don't be afraid!" Uncle Luo's hand was very warm, and when I heard his voice, I slowly came back to my senses and looked over in horror.
It was a woman, a young woman, even a good-looking woman. He wore a thick braid, his face was a little pale in the stone house, and his eyes were big and round, as if he was a little unfocused, but he looked at us directly, and he did not speak quietly.
I'm sure I've never seen this woman before, and she's wearing a very ordinary men's military uniform that has been washed and somewhat whitish. Her eyes were like two deep black pools, and there was a little bewildering look.