Chapter 1700: The Strange Paper Boat (1)

Old man Zhou smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Old Butt Zhang, don't be half-understanding." People think that the Wudou Rice Sect and Fengdu are famous, but in fact, the origin of this paper money may indeed have a relationship with the Wudou Rice Sect, but the origin is not big. However, what I will tell later, the story of my personal experience, old man, is not very pleasant. Listen to it, forget it, don't sit in the right seat. ”

The old people around him coaxed: "Don't hang your appetite, talk quickly." ”

Little Lori Niuniu and I were standing near Old Man Zhou, and we were also looking at the paper money. The more I looked, the more I felt that something was wrong. Paper money flows down from the river, and the Oriental Cruise also flows along the river, and there is an engine as a power. But why is the speed of these paper money faster than that of ships?

The paper money that was still behind the ship just now had already exceeded the hull of the ship and floated far downstream.

What's going on? Is there still a mechanism on some ordinary paper money made of white paper? Otherwise, there's no reason for them to drift faster than the boat!

Obviously, very few old people noticed this, and everyone's eyes were focused on Old Man Zhou's face.

Old man Zhou hadn't been paid attention to for a long time, and said proudly: "When I cut the line, old man, I didn't have this white beard and white beard, and I wasn't blind in my right eye. The whole person is still very handsome. The place where I cut the queue in the first place was around there. ”

He casually pointed to a certain position downstream of the boat: "The name is about Qianjiagou." Ordinary names, when I went, were popular. As the only intellectual in the village, the old man usually does farm work and lectures and lectures, except for the hustle and bustle, it is quite comfortable. But it didn't take long for me to feel that there seemed to be too many strange places in the village. ”

Speaking of this, Old Man Zhou's eyes narrowed, and his gaze suddenly sharpened. His eyes pierced the river, more and more paper money, and sank to the bottom of the river.

The story also seems to have lifted up the hidden things under the turbid Yangtze River.

[(1) Showmanship: dialect, which means to like to show off.

(2) Queue insertion: Queue insertion usually refers to a model of urban intellectual youth in Chinese mainland "going to the mountains and going to the countryside" before 1980. 】

The countryside was originally the hardest hit area of feudal foolishness, and villages all over the world are the same. As an ancient civilization and one of the long rivers in the Yangtze River Basin, which gave birth to Chinese civilization, superstitious things are even more rampant.

More than 6,000 kilometers of the Yangtze River, the surging river has been rushing for tens of millions of years. How many strange things are hidden, what are facts, what are superstitions, have long been drowned in water. Mixed with the turbid water, it is impossible to find out who is real and who is fake.

When Mr. Zhou went to Qianjiagou to cut the queue, he stayed for a long time, and gradually felt that the water in this Qianjiagou was a little deep, which was different from ordinary villages.

The village is not far from the banks of the Yangtze River, and the feudal mentality is very stubborn. The village chief is an old man in his eighties, who is familiar with each other, and often tells Old Man Zhou about some of the particulars of finding food on the Yangtze River.

It is said that the Yangtze River basin, especially near Qianjiagou, is not very peaceful. It can even be said that after the ancestors of Qianjiagou built a village here thousands of years ago, the whole village has not been normal.

The village chief didn't have much ink in his stomach, and he didn't know a few words. Therefore, what he told Mr. Zhou is said to be his own personal experience, about the strange news about the Yangtze River Basin.

For example, in Xining Township, where crops are not grown in the farmland, stones are planted from local mines. Swarthy and magnetic. The iron is sucked on it, and you don't even want to pull it down.

Every autumn harvest, the locals will dig deep pits and traps a few hundred meters away from the farmland, pick up the moon and stars in the early morning, and lie down in the deep pit to hide. In a short time, when the sky is so dark that you can't see your fingers, there will be a burst of rustling sounds crawling out of the ground. At this time, the peasants lit torches and beat gongs and drums to pounce on them.

The village chief said that he once happened to see the appearance of those things, and his hair stood on end. The farmland is densely packed with strange insects that have never been seen before, half a meter long, similar in appearance to centipedes, but much uglier.

It's a monster out of hell. The worms were thick and long, with two shiny whips on top of their heads the length of an arm. One by one, they lay on the black ore and kept gnawing, and the hard stone was as soft as tofu in their mouths.

The villagers were wearing rattan armor made of bamboo, and they swarmed with sharp weapons in their hands to knock out strange insects. When someone pounces on them, the strange insect will whip the whip on its head.

The person who was hit was almost skinned, and it took half a year of rest for a lucky person to be cured. If you are unlucky, you will be poisoned, your whole body will be black and red, and your body will emit a foul smell, and you will die if you don't last a few days.

Later, Grandpa learned that the locals called that strange insect Black Newhead, and no one knew where Black Newland came from. The villagers have lived on it for generations, and the black button likes to eat the magnetic black stone, so the villagers put the black stone in the field to tempt it.

This kind of strange insect only appears on the day of the 11th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, when there is no moon and no stars, but that time is close to the Mid-Autumn Festival when the moon is the roundest and brightest, so it depends on luck to trap black buttons, sometimes there is a good harvest for several years, and sometimes there is no harvest for ten consecutive years.

Therefore, the people in this village hate the moon the most.

It is said that black buttons are dried and ground into powder, which cures all diseases. As soon as the ninth lunar month arrives, many folk doctors who know about this specialty will flock to buy this medical holy relic at a high price. The village chief didn't believe it, but it happened that there was a person in Qianjia Village who had a carbuncle in his throat, which is now esophageal cancer, which is already in an advanced stage. I can only eat some liquid food every day, and the pain is so painful that I want to die or live.

After eating a few patches of black button powder, the condition was actually relieved a lot, and the disease was completely cured after half a year.

Thirty years ago, the village chief's grandmother fell seriously ill, and the village chief went to look for that village again, but he never found it again. Grandma died of illness, which became the regret of the village chief for the rest of his life.

What's even more bizarre is that 25 years ago, in the same village not far from Qianjia Village in the Yangtze River Basin, there was a famine. The village chief ran to the village to beg for food, and saw the golden farmland disappear without a trace overnight.

There was only a huge trace left around the farmland, like a giant beast that was 15 meters long and more than 4 meters wide. It ate more than ten acres of crops and climbed back into the Yangtze River not far away. The locals were furious, vowing to catch the beast and slaughter it.

Old man Zhou was young and vigorous, so he naturally didn't believe it: "Village chief, now they are all breaking the four olds and defeating the cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods." The story you are telling is superstitious. I've also read books for a few years, how can there be such a big monster in this world. ”

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