The rhythm of the knocking was inconsistent, but the movement was quite obvious, and Ge Zhuang and I were both frightened.

"Who's knocking on the door?" Ge Zhuang's eyes rolled, and he reached for the rolling pin on the board.

We both lowered our breathing, cautiously walked to the door, waited for a long time, and didn't see any movement at all, Ge Zhuang couldn't stand it, opened the door barrier, and kicked the door open, ", who are you!" ”

As soon as the door opened, a cold wind blew in front of him, freezing into people's throats, Ge Zhuang's tongue was knotted, and he spitted, and we both turned our eyes to the door at the same time, not even a single human hair was seen.

I breathed a sigh of relief and said to Ge Zhuang Fat man, look at your surprise, it should be the sound of the wind blowing on the door, where is there anyone in the middle of the night?

The door of Xiaoyizhuang was facing the coffin, and it was strange in the middle of the night, so I quickly closed the door again and said go back to sleep. After all this trouble, we both had no urge to urinate, so we lay back on the bed, and were about to fall asleep wrapped in a bed, but we never thought that it had been less than two minutes before we had just laid down, and there was another knock on the door.

Bang, Bang, Bang!

It was still knocked three times, as if the hand of the person outside was knocking on the same place twice, the movement, the frequency, and even the rhythm of the pause were exactly the same.

Ge Zhuang and I sat up at the same time, looked at each other, and couldn't sleep anymore.

There are many taboos about fishing corpses on the river, the backwater bay is located in the downstream of the sharp knife gorge, which is naturally a place to hoard corpses, whenever someone falls into the water in the upper reaches and is washed by the undercurrent in the waterway, it will basically run aground in the backwater bay, and people who are too timid do not dare to live here.

Lao Luo said that it is best not to answer when knocking on the door in the middle of the night, and you have to wait until the person outside speaks first, otherwise you can't tell who is knocking on the door.

Ge Zhuang's throat and eyes became sharper, and he said Little pumpkin, what is the situation outside, could it be that the coffin is making trouble?

This dead fat man has been with me for almost half a year, and I have never heard anyone call the door in the middle of the night, one is that we have a high mountain and a long road, and no one will go over the mountains and mountains to find it in the place where we don't pee and, and the other is unlucky to fish out the corpse, and the people in the mountains are very taboo, and they would rather walk around, and rarely run the door.

Tonight is no different from usual, except that there is an extra coffin at the door, and Ge Zhuang unconsciously thinks about it.

I said to Ge Zhuang with a tiger face, "Don't talk nonsense, have you forgotten Lao Luo's explanation when he left?" ”

There are too many taboos in the line of retrieving corpses, and I can't finish talking about it for three days and three nights, in short, the first is not to go to Backwater Bay in the early morning. The second is to knock on the door in the middle of the night, and you can't make a sound, at least you have to wait until someone outside speaks first.

There is also the most important taboo, when you encounter evil words, don't call other people's names, if you hear others call you, you must not respond, because if you call your name, friends outside will remember you.

Lao Luo explained a lot to me when he left, and the more he talked about it, the more evil it became, and I gradually felt that something was wrong with this matter today, and I thought about it in my heart, and suddenly my face changed,

"By the way, fat man, did you just call me by my name?"

Ge Zhuang shook his head and said Where can I be, how can I ......

As he spoke, his throat seemed to be suddenly stuck with something, and he didn't say any more, and his face turned blue.

After waking up from the strange dream, Ge Zhuang did call me by my name, and I called him, and both of us responded to each other at least once.

I remembered a lot of taboos, and my tone began to tremble.

"It's okay, we're talking in the house, 'he' can't necessarily hear you, right?" Ge Zhuang wanted to laugh very much, but his grinning mouth showed a miserable blue color, and he couldn't laugh at all.

I was about to comfort him, but I saw this dead fat man desperately pulling out his big pants and tying them with a red rope, I asked him what he was going to do, Ge Zhuang said with a bitter face, "Didn't you say that underwear can ward off evil spirits?" ”

In such a tense atmosphere, I almost didn't give him a word to amuse, "Dead fatty, you don't wash your pants all day long, it stinks as if you have opened a fertilizer bag, I am ashamed of you, I don't know if your big pants can ward off evil spirits, it is true to smoke people to death!" ”

When did Ge Zhuang say this, and you still squeezed me? Pull out your pants and go out with me.

As soon as this joke started, I was much more relaxed, forget it, I've been here for more than ten years, and I've never seen a water ghost calling the door, the wind is blowing so hard outside, maybe the door panel is broken, and I can't bear the wind.

Ge Zhuang was right to think about it, so he sat back on the bed, clutching the rolling pin in his hand, and the two of them stared at the door and kept their eyes open until dawn.

We kept watch all night, and the strange wind blew all night, and finally kept watch until dawn, and the light outside the window diluted a lot of fear in my heart, and I poked Ge Zhuang with my elbow,

"Fatty, it's dawn, quickly rip the tape off your eyes, let's go out and have a look."

Ge Zhuang ripped off the tape stuck to his face, grabbed a rolling pin and accompanied me to the door, I went to push the door, he hid with a stick on the side, as soon as the door opened, the dead fat man didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, and slammed a stick at the door,

"Fuck your balls, scare your fat man!"

There was nothing at the door, he pounced too hard, rushed to the ground and fell into the mud, got up with a dirty face, snorted twice, and said Little pumpkin, why don't you drag me?

I said you get up quickly, don't crush the threshold again, I'll just say there's nothing outside, right? Scare yourself!

Ge Zhuang put on his flower pants, slipped his white buttocks, and quickly jumped up and said, "No, I've been holding my urine all night, the urine bag is about to explode, I have to quickly open the gate and release the water!" ”

He said while looking for a place to pee, there is no bathroom in Xiaoyizhuang, and the ten-mile green gauze tent is a good place for us to solve physiological problems, Ge Zhuang said that this is environmentally friendly, feces and urine fall to the ground, and it can also fatten the crops.

In fact, the conditions are difficult, and we don't have the leisure time to dig thatched pits, drill buds in the summer, and come back with swollen buttocks several times, and buy flower water in boxes.

There is no one else in Xiaoyizhuang, Ge Zhuang is dressed casually, he can't care about wearing pants when he is anxious, and he goes out with big pants.

I didn't have to wait long before I heard someone shouting to catch the hooligans, and I quickly ran out of Xiaoyizhuang to take a look, and found a few people from the city who were dressed quite well ('zhutuo' is a local dialect, that is, neatly dressed), and were chasing the dead fat man with stones.

Ge Zhuang ran in front with his bare big buttocks, his hob was shiny, and several people in the city chased after him, shouting "hooligans" as he ran!

Ge Zhuang ran back to Xiaoyizhuang, found a piece of white cloth to hold his big buttocks, and shouted back angrily,

"You guys are so sick, what are you doing in Xiaoyizhuang early in the morning, this is the fat man's place, I want to pee where I want to pee, can you manage it? I haven't broken the yet, so you're chasing me! ”

I asked Ge Zhuang not to make trouble, and saw that the people who were chasing Ge Zhuang should have come down from the county to inspect the work, urged him to go to the door first, put on his clothes, and politely opened a pack of cigarettes in front of the door, and handed it to a few young people who threatened to beat Ge Zhuang.

"The leaders have worked hard, they all come to extinguish the fire, no one passes by here all the year round, the fat man wears casually, don't be like him!"

The leader was an old professor with eyes, pointed to Ge Zhuang, who had just run into the house, and said Young man, you have to pay attention to your image when you work here, don't frighten the accompanying comrades, there is a big girl in our scientific expedition team.

Expedition team?