Chapter 3 Embroidered Shoes
At night, my father was worried that I would toss and turn and could not sleep, and I fell asleep soon because I had no strength and was too frightened, but there was always a white-faced young lady floating around in my sleep, and it did not disappear until the rooster crowed.
The dwarf's father came early in the morning, in fact he was not much taller than the dwarf, and the village friends used to call him Uncle dwarf, probably because he had killed people, and I always thought he was very fierce.
As soon as the dwarf uncle came, he urged me and dragged me out of the bed, and my father gave him a five-dollar yuan, which I thought should be left by the strange Taoist, and I didn't dare to intervene, and after following the dwarf uncle across the reservoir, the dwarf and Liu Datou shook their hands at me in a languishing state.
"Little bunny, hurry up and get in the car, don't waste time"
Uncle Short urged a three-wheeled motorcycle, I recognized this motorcycle as the owner of the small shop in the village, thinking that he was so stingy, how could he lend the car to Uncle Short?
The dwarf and the big head pulled me up, and the dwarf kicked me violently, and the three-wheeled motorcycle ran forward with a whin, and the mountain road was very bumpy, and the three of us were already in bad spirits, and we all vomited after walking for a few minutes.
"Your father is so good, he can still borrow a car from that stingy guy's house" I smiled bitterly, took out the money I won yesterday and stuffed it into the big head, and said, "We are all brothers, can we win your money"
The big head looked weak, and his face was very ugly, he glared at me and did not take the handful of diminel notes, but said weakly: "Cut, I am willing to gamble and lose, I don't look down on these small money, let me tell you, when you borrowed the car in the morning, did you not see the spirit of the short uncle......"
Uncle Dwarf turned his head and glanced at it, opened his mouth and scolded: "Little rabbit, sit quietly, and talk nonsense, I don't care about you."
The big man and I were a little scared and too scared to speak, but the short man glared at him, as if he was not satisfied with the fact that we were scolded, but he didn't dare to say anything.
The motorcycle was running very fast, and it took more than half an hour to reach a forest farm in the township, knock on a small wooden house, and I looked up and just happened to see a beautiful woman walking out of it.
The woman's hair was all white, but there were no wrinkles on her face, and she was wearing snow-white clothes, because she was too far away, and she didn't know what Uncle Shorty told him, and the woman seemed to be very angry and drove Uncle Short back.
"Little rabbit, listen to me, don't tell anyone about this place, she saved your life, we can't harm her"
Uncle Daddy got on a motorcycle and told us, and I later learned that he was worried that the people who broke the Four Olds would trouble her, but I never saw her since, but I saw her in the newspaper, saying that she had been arrested and sent to prison.
"I'll go back later, you all said it's okay, I can warn you, this matter is very troublesome, you little bastards have to find the embroidered shoes in person and burn it, outsiders can't help, have you heard clearly?"
Uncle Short started the motorcycle, and after a few words, he didn't speak again, I thought to myself, this is terrible, the reservoir is constantly rippling, and the embroidered shoes don't know where to blow, do you really want the three brothers to die early?
After a glance at the big head and the short man, they fell asleep, and I had to close my eyes to rest, and it was not long before the short uncle sent us to the reservoir, and after a few words of advice, he left us to return the car.
I looked at the vast reservoir and said to the dwarf and the big head, "Do you want to die or live, if you want to live, go away if you want to live."
"It's really evil, you said that this reservoir is good, when did you ever die a girl?"
The dwarf looked at the water and said, I could see the horror on his face even in the daytime, but fortunately he did not coax, but urged me to row quickly.
The big head was very wealthy and bold, and he was lying on the canoe, hanging with his feet in the water, making a splash, and when he saw the dwarf say, "Dead girl," he suddenly turned over and sat up, and looked at me and the dwarf and said.
"My father told me that there was a big official in our village in the Qing Dynasty, and such small embroidered shoes could only be worn by the girls who used to wrap their feet, but the rain washed away her family's grave, and the shoes ran to your reservoir."
I was taken aback, and looked around with some horror, at this time the canoe had rowed to the middle of the reservoir, and there were only a few fish-catching waterfowl circling around, and the water in the reservoir was wrinkled with waves and snorting sounds, so frightened that I hurriedly squatted down and scolded at the big head.
"In broad daylight, if you say anything nonsense and scare me, if you scare me again, I will tell your classmates about your father and Widow Zhang"
Liu Datou smiled embarrassedly, saying that it was a joke, and after turning his head to look at a few hills in the reservoir, he asked me to lean over, saying that I had a stomachache and wanted to.
In fact, there are many hills in the reservoir, not far apart but also not connected, it should be said that the island is more appropriate, I struggled to row the canoe over, tied the boat and climbed the island with the dwarf with the big head.
The island at the foot of the island was small and barren, and it was overgrown with all kinds of small miscellaneous trees, among which half of the cyan slate was faintly exposed, and the big head squatted down in the bush.
The dwarf and I sat downwind, smelling the smell that made people want to vomit and thought, "This Liu Datou didn't eat last night, how can it stink like a dead snake?" ”
The dwarf was next to me, stabbed me nervously, and said in a low voice: "Brother Shanzi, the big-headed father and Widow Zhang really have a relationship, I saw his father coming out of Widow Zhang's house that day, and his pants were not even put on."
I spit out a mouthful of phlegm into the water, and watched it slowly dissipate before saying to the dwarf: "Our brother has also experienced life and death, don't scare him with his father and Widow Zhang in the future, as a village head, it is also appropriate to go to her house to guide the work."
"Ah...... There are ghosts ......."
I glanced back, and the big head came out of it with his pants in his hand, and ran up to me like crazy, gasping for air and saying, "You guys...... That...... Dead Body"
He pointed to the place where he just now, and said breathlessly, so scared that my dwarf almost retreated into the water, I looked at the reflection of the sun in the water, gritted my teeth and said.
"Isn't it a brother, I'm still afraid of his mother's ghost in broad daylight, go, take a look"
Although the dwarf was bold, he seemed to be very afraid of ghosts, and he raised his hand and pointed to the edge of the island and said, "Brother Shan, look what it is, embroidered shoes"
I glanced in the direction he pointed, and sure enough, I saw two embroidered shoes in the crack in the stone, and immediately I was so frightened that I stepped back and stepped into the water, but the big head leaned back and sat on the ground with a thud, and the pants that had not had time to be pulled up were torn in half with a pop.
The dwarf didn't know where he got the guts, so he rushed up and brought over the two embroidered shoes, threw them in front of the big head, and then looked at me and stretched out his hand and said, "Brother Shan, give me a dime, you pick up some firewood here, and I'll go buy a foreign fire to burn it."
The big head couldn't take care of his pants anymore, he got up with his bare cheeks, looked at the dwarf with his eyes and said, "You have to come back and save us."
I gave the dwarf a few cents, and he nodded and rowed away, and then looked at the strange embroidered shoes, thinking that you have suffered a lot for Lao Tzu, and see that Lao Tzu will not burn you to the point that you have no hair left.
The big head was very arrogant on weekdays, and I was afraid that he would delay things by collecting firewood, so I had to take it personally, and bring some dead branches and rotten leaves over and pile them on the embroidered shoes, and then sit down next to the big head and wait for the short man to bring the fire.
I don't know if I'm anxious or something went wrong with the short man, I didn't see him come back when I waited left and right, and I was hungry, and I saw that there was a big bunch of April fruit growing in the place where the big head just now, and I was ready to get some to eat.
"Shanzi, you come back, there is a grave there"
It turned out that the big head was too frightened just now, and said that the grave was a dead body, and I broke off a branch, and laughed at him for being a coward while beating the bushes to drive away snakes and insects, but I didn't expect to provoke him so much that he also followed.
"You are the coward, no one in the whole village knows that I am Liu Daring, damn it, if you dare to go, I will dare to go"
Liu Datou muttered after me, got into the bushes and broke off the string of April, stretched out his hand to give it to me, I looked at the bluestone slab behind him, and my heart was suddenly terrified, and I forgot to reach out to pick it up.
There are words on the slate, but I am only in the second grade, and I only recognize the word "Yipin", that Liu Datou squatted down and picked up a pile of grass, revealing a large piece of white cloth, he didn't know where he got the courage, and pulled the cloth violently, and he didn't want to poof, the cloth made him tear off, and the soil faintly revealed a white light.
"What is this?"
Liu Datou was curious, and reached out to pull the dirt away, until he revealed a round, bone-like thing He stopped, I glanced at it, hurriedly pulled him out of the bush, and said in fear.
"Big head, the embroidered shoes came out of the tomb, the one just now was a skull, and your guts are too fat."
Liu Datou gestured his head with his hand, and rushed up again, and after three or two minutes, he happily walked down from above, holding up the glowing thing in his hand and said.
"How can there be a skull as small as a bottle cap, this is a silver ingot, ten taels, there are several of them in my house"
I took it and took a look, and it shimmered brightly, and although it was only the size of a bottle cap, it was heavy in my hand, and I thought it should be worth a lot of money!
I laughed happily, stuffed it into my pocket and said, "Don't talk about it, brother, I'll come back to see it later."
Liu Datou touched his stomach, turned around and went up to take down the April child, and after eating a few of them, he muttered: "The sun is about to set, isn't this dwarf cowardly to leave me alone."
As I was talking, there was a commotion in the reservoir, and I looked up, but it was the dwarf who had rowed back, and hurriedly waved at him to make him paddle faster.
Within a few minutes, he went ashore and lit his embroidered shoes and firewood......