Chapter 1: The Dead Man's Ditch

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My name is Wu Xiaofei, and I was born in a small mountain village called Wushan in the northeast, which is very backward, surrounded by mountains, closed traffic, isolated from the world, and difficult for birds to fly out

Wushan is very poor, there is no electricity, let alone television, the only entertainment is that after dinner, a group of old and young masters under the big willow tree to take a cool, smoke a pole of dry tobacco, nonsense, tell some ghost stories to scare children, just entertain themselves, but now I think about it I miss that kind of life

When I was born, I weighed only three pounds, less than half of a normal baby, and the midwife who delivered me at that time almost threw me away with a shake of her hand, and afterwards he said to himself: "The child is cold, and holding it in his arms is like holding a corpse"

My family is very simple, my father, my grandfather and I, my father is a country doctor, my mother is a good wife and mother, and my grandfather is a madman in the eyes of everyone. 【Reading.com】

My grandfather's name is Wu Youdao, a very earthy but very simple name, in my limited memory, my grandfather has always been crazy, sloppy, and a smile shows a mouth full of yellow teeth.

Although my grandfather is crazy, he is very good to me, and he will always send me some candy across the mountain, and I am also more attached to my grandfather, always like to pester him, pull his beard, and grab his clothes and swing

I have been frail and sick since I was a child, I can't walk, and I always cry inexplicably in the middle of the night, as if something is deliberately scaring me, crying non-stop, only when my mother holds me in her arms and sings nursery rhymes to me and tells stories, I will sleep peacefully

Although my father is a doctor, he is helpless about my illness, and he has used all the methods he can use, chicken soup, fish soup, how to make up for it, but he is getting thinner and thinner, and his spirit is getting worse and worse

Whether it is a neighbor or a relative, they are all muttering in secret, has the old Wu family done anything wrong, the old one is crazy, this little one is also sick and can't get out of bed, I'm afraid that he will become a ghost, but it's a pity for this little doll

And every time he heard someone say this, his grandfather would have a crazy attack, pick up the stones on the ground, and throw the clods at everyone, which surprised everyone, although Wu Youdao was crazy, he still loved his grandson very much.

Until one day my illness was suddenly cured, overnight, which made the neighbors and relatives secretly amazed, inexplicable, only I understand, I vaguely remember that it was a rainy night, lightning and thunder outside the house, there was a roaring and manic sound, grandpa walked in from the outside in rain, looking very tired, and finally stopped by my bedside, silently watching me

I heard my grandfather let out a long sigh, his wet hands kept tapping and kneading on me, and finally turned me over, his fingers drawing something behind my back, I felt a hot current flowing behind my back, it was very comfortable, and then I fell asleep in a daze.

And when I woke up the next day, I felt full of energy, and without my mother's support, I jumped directly from the bed, which made my mother very surprised, touched me, covered my mouth and tears flowed out.

When I was young, I quickly forgot about it, and it wasn't until something else happened that I realized that my grandfather wasn't crazy and was very mysterious

I was twelve years old, healthy, strong, much taller than the average child of the same age, and I was playful, naughty, basically the kind of person who uncovered the tiles when he had nothing to do, and was the head of a dozen children in the neighborhood.

Among them, there is a friend with whom I have the best relationship, named Da Zhuang, who is my loyal little follower.

In the fields, in the caves, in the forests, there is nothing we dare not go, digging birds' eggs, digging sweet potatoes, stealing fruits, there is nothing we dare not do.

Because of our accumulated achievements, it has successfully become another big harm in the village, and those old people told us a series of horror stories in order to scare us, although these old people are not highly educated, but the stories they tell are as if they have experienced it personally, and they are very vivid and scary, including a story about the ditch of the dead.

There is a ravine more than ten miles away from our village, surrounded by mountains on both sides, the road is no more than a meter wide, and two people can just pass through it shoulder to shoulder, and the mountain nests on both sides of the road are covered with countless earth graves, stretching for dozens of miles, and there is no end in sight

It is said that these mounds have been around since the Qing Dynasty and have been there until today, so we can know how many dead people were buried here, so this road is also called the road of the dead, which means the road for the dead.

At that time, even in the daytime, the strong men did not dare to walk alone, and at night no one came out from where they walked, so gradually fewer people walked, and the road was slowly deserted.

Twelve-year-old, I was in the fifth grade of primary school, and there was no school in the village, so I had to go to a town twenty miles away to go to school, and there was a bus to take us to school at 6 a.m. and back at 6 p.m.

It's only two trips a day, and if you can't catch the bus, you can only spend the night at school.

And this happened in this case, that day Da Zhuang and I skipped class in the afternoon to go to the woods behind the school to dig out the eggs, because the trees are very tall and thick, and it is difficult to climb, and the two of us did not take the eggs off until the sun went down in the afternoon.

Holding the bird's eggs, I and Da Zhuang's proud fart, ready to go back to show off to my friends, how do you know that I ran back to school, the shuttle bus has left, I and Da Zhuang, you look at me, I look at you, and decided to walk back.

And the reason why we decided to go back is also ridiculous, in order to show off our achievements in front of our friends, it is not easy to dig out bird eggs, which can enhance the prestige of my child king

At first, the two of us chatted with each other, bouncing along the way, very cheerful, but gradually getting tired, walking more and more slowly, twenty miles is still too far for two teenagers.

After walking for more than ten minutes, Da Zhuang and I couldn't walk anymore, and at this time we had walked into a mountain col, and it was already dark all around, and the night wind was blowing and blowing on my face, and my body was very cold.

Da Zhuang and I were both children, we were scared, and we couldn't walk anymore, and we were sitting on the big rock on the side of the road holding our mouths, and we were about to cry.

After sitting for a while, Da Zhuang said that his stomach hurt and he wanted to relieve himself, and I wanted to accompany him, but he was embarrassed and had to go by himself.

After Da Zhuang left, I sat alone on the stones, and it was darker, and the wind blew harder, and the chirping of owls and the roars of some wild beasts came from the mountains, and I was even more afraid.

"Ahh

At this moment, I heard a loud cry, I immediately stood up, walked towards the source of the sound, just walked a few steps, suddenly a gust of wind blew, and this wind was very strange, it was a small tornado, just three meters in front of me spinning, lifting some soil particles, smoke

I took a step forward, and the tornado took a step back, and suddenly I seemed to see an old woman in sackcloth standing in front of me, smiling, outstretching her arms, waving to me, as if to say, "Come on, come on"

At that time, I was very scared, but I was worried about the safety of Da Zhuang, gritted my teeth, was bold, and strode forward, and when I passed through the tornado, my first feeling was cold, quite cold, as if an ice cube was suddenly put on my chest, and the blood seemed to be coagulated.

The second reaction was that my head became groggy, as if someone was telling me to sleep in my ear, and at that moment the cold seemed to be gone, and I returned to my mother's arms, warm

"I'm sleepy"

I felt my eyelids getting heavier and heavier, and someone kept talking to me in my head, and then I fell to the ground, my eyelids were almost closed, and I would fall asleep at any moment.

"Heavenly Dao, demon, you dare"

With an angry shout, a yellow flame roared, conspicuous in the dark night. Hue. Book. bar

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