Chapter 3: The Well
I often play football in school, I have good physical strength, and I am a young man, but this time reality gave me a slap in the face, and I just chased out of the village, but only a few dozen meters, I actually chased people away.
Outside the village is a wilderness, with an unobstructed view under the moonlight, and the Huai River in the distance, not to mention people, there is not a single ghost to see.
There was a noise behind me, and I was yelling just now, and the villagers were awakened and went out to check.
"Brother Xiaoxi, what's wrong?"
Someone behind me asked, and I smiled wryly and gave up the idea of catching up, and turned around. The woman had run so fast that she had no direction to find.
The questioner was Mai Xiang's sister-in-law, she gave birth to a tall cow and a big horse, her temperament was like a fire, and she was resolute in her work. In comparison, her man was thin and small, cowering behind her, looking around weakly.
When I was a child, I also ate the milk of my sister-in-law, and I was very close to her, because she was only 18 years older than me, so I usually called her sister-in-law.
More villagers gathered around and asked me what had just happened.
After thinking about it, I lied and said, "Just now I was passing through the middle of the village and I saw a woman jumping into the well!" ”
It's so bizarre that I can't explain it, so I can only do it like this.
The villagers were shocked and rushed to the well, ready to get the people.
I was just about to follow, Wang Yunfeng came out of the crowd, stopped in front of me, looked at me with dead fish eyes, and asked in a deep voice: "Son, someone jumped into the well, why don't you go down to save people, what are you doing at the entrance of the village?" ”
I was choked by him, and I couldn't speak, this old blind man was too good to deal with as well as the villagers.
Without waiting for me to answer, the blind man asked with pity: "Son, what else have you seen?" Say it all, it's just the two of us here, no one else. ”
The blind man threw a meaningful expression when he spoke.
At this time, there was a "poof" sound in the direction of the well, and someone went down to the well to catch people, so I pretended to be ignorant and went around, and casually responded, "I don't know what you're talking about, I have to save people." ”
Fortunately, this time the blind man did not entangle, and I ran back to the well.
As soon as I lay on the edge of the well, a man broke through the water and poked his head out, and when he saw me, he said impatiently: "Xiao Xi, what nonsense are you talking about?" There is no one in the well. ”
"No?!" I was stupid, "How can this be?" I saw ......"
My eyesight is very good, and I don't have mental problems, I can see clearly just now, the female corpse was thrown into the well, why is it gone in the blink of an eye?
When I couldn't help but think, the man had already crawled up cursing, and there was a murmur of complaining all around, and the crowd began to disperse.
"Uncle, lend me your flashlight." I came back to my senses and shouted to the man that he had a rechargeable flashlight in his hand, which the boatman used to make it waterproof.
That female corpse is probably my relative, maybe it is my own mother, I can't let her be thrown into the well, I must find it!
The man glared at me, but eventually handed me the flashlight and turned to leave.
In the blink of an eye, the crowd walked cleanly, and only the bodies of me and the fifth aunt remained by the well.
Seeing the fifth aunt lying there upright, the corpse was stiff, but the man didn't know where to go, I couldn't help but feel sad, kowtowed to her, and then prepared to go down the well to fish for the corpse. Speaking of which, almost all of these elderly women in the village have fed me milk, and I have never had a mother when I was a child, and I have always treated them as mothers.
A good person, how can you say that if you don't say it's gone......
I turned on the flashlight, bit it in my mouth, plunged headlong into the icy well, and began to dive.
This well has been the treasure of Wutou Village for many years, no matter whether it is a drought or a flood year, the well water has always remained constant, and the water quality is clear and sweet.
When I was a child, there was a great drought one year, the Huai River was cut off, and the riverbed was exposed and dried, and people from nearby villages could not eat water, so they came to our village to beg. The village head, Guo Jiazhu, just didn't agree, and sent people to guard it every day, and when he saw someone stealing water, he started to beat him, and almost killed people several times.
It's summer, the temperature is very high, but the well water is cold and biting, as soon as I enter the water, a huge temperature difference hits, I can't help but shiver, goosebumps. Fortunately, this well is not deep, only a few meters, and I can still carry it in a short time.
After taking a few deep breaths, I turned around and began to dive head-down on my feet.
Swimming slowly all the way, under the light of the flashlight, the well bricks swept by layer by layer.
These bricks are very strange, not boxy, but elliptical with diamonds, layered on top of each other, I don't know what era of design, I majored in archaeology in college, but I have never seen it.
The underground is deep and deadly, and you can swim in it as if you are in another world.
This well is inseparable from the whole village, and when I was a child, I used to come here to draw water, and it is hard to imagine that it would be like this across a layer of water.
The well was not deep, only six or seven meters, and in a short time I was at the bottom of the water.
Under the light of the flashlight, the bottom of the small well can be seen at a glance, and there is a layer of cyan sediment below, which is tiled, and nothing else.
It's strange, I obviously saw the female corpse being thrown down, and I heard the sound of water, how could it be gone?
I don't have time to think, my qi is almost at the limit, and the water pressure is so deep, my eardrums are in sharp pain, "buzzing", and if I don't go up, my body will be almost overwhelmed.
But just as I was about to go up, the flashlight flashed from the bottom of the water, and suddenly, a touch of emerald green flashed.
I immediately turned my head again, got to the bottom of the water, and shone into the glowing part.
I saw that in the mud and sand, there was a green arc half-buried, which seemed to be ......
Holding back the pain in my head, I waved away the surface sand with my hand, revealing a familiar object.
It is a jade bracelet, very slender, in the shape of a snake, head and tail, entangled into a ring.
It was the bracelet on the wrist of the female corpse!
I read that right, it wasn't a hallucination just now, the female corpse was really thrown into the well, and this bracelet is proof of that!
At this point, I was already at my limit, and I quickly reached out and prepared to scoop up the bracelet and float it up.
At the moment when my finger touched the jade bracelet, an unexpected situation happened, and a triangular head suddenly emerged from the bracelet lying in the mud and sand, the color was snow-white, and the eyes were red, and it was actually a snake!
Before I could react, the little white snake opened its mouth, revealing a pair of sharp teeth, and it launched like lightning and bit down on my eyebrows.
There was no pain, nothing else, I just felt black in front of my eyes and I lost consciousness.
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I was woken up by a shout, and I could tell that it was Sister-in-law Mai Xiang and someone else. I tried to open my eyes, but my eyelids seemed to be filled with lead, and I couldn't open them.
I could feel myself soaked in water, cold and bitter, my body stiff as wood, I didn't feel anything at all.
With the sound of water, I was lifted up and placed on the ground with my hands and feet.
That's when my memory returned, and I remembered what had happened. At the bottom of the well, I saw the bracelet worn by the female corpse, and then a snake bit her eyebrows.
The moment I was bitten, I could see clearly that it was a poisonous snake, and my body was at its limit at that time, I thought I would definitely die, but I didn't expect it to be alive.
Many people were shaking me, and I secretly tried to see them, and finally, a line of sight was opened.
After seeing the scenery in my sight, I was stunned, it was not the picture I saw every day, all I saw was a humanoid halo, colorful, like gas. These halos are of different sizes, there are men and women, adults and children, some of them I can actually recognize, and the tall woman among them is Mai Xiang's sister-in-law.
"Brother Xiaoxi, why did you fall asleep in the well? It's over, and it's going to be cold. "Sister-in-law Mai Xiang is so anxious that the six gods have no master.
A red figure came out of the crowd, squatted down beside me, stretched out a hand to my line of sight, and said, "It doesn't matter, the soul is very stable, this guy has a pure yang life, and he won't die in the water anywhere." ”
It was the blind man who spoke, and he pressed a finger on the center of my eyebrows, and I was shocked to realize that the part I had just seen was not my eyes, but in the center of my eyebrows, which was the place where I was bitten by a snake last night.
Can you see things with your forehead?
My eyes were held down by the blind man, and I couldn't see anything, and the next moment, my eyes suddenly opened, and a normal picture unfolded in front of me.
I was lying on the bluestone by the well, surrounded by many people, and the blind man squatted beside me, looking at me suspiciously.
Through the crowd, to the east, the red sun had risen over the horizon, and it was dawn.
I feel like my brain is going to break, what did I go through yesterday?
I first waited at home for the woman to arrive, and then the fifth aunt had an accident in the Huai River, I went to save people, but I fished the woman out of the water. I just didn't expect that she turned out to be a corpse, a female corpse that had not changed for twenty years, and came to me at the appointment.
The female corpse appeared without warning, and no one saw her along the way, who carried her away and threw her into the well? I went down to retrieve the body, and there was no delay in the meantime, how could it be gone?
Just when I was about to give up, I found the jade bracelet on the wrist worn by the female corpse and wanted to pick it up, but I didn't expect that there was a poisonous snake at the bottom of the well, and I was bitten!
It's June 14th, my birthday, and I couldn't have guessed that so many weird things would happen if I was killed beforehand......
The sun shone on me, warm, and my stiff body quickly regained consciousness.
In full view of everyone, I tried to sit up without the slightest discomfort. It seems that what the blind man said may really make sense, I am a pure yang life, and I can't die in the water.
"Sister-in-law Mai Xiang, you just said that I slept in the well?" Thinking of what Mai Xiang's sister-in-law just said, I asked suspiciously.
I was bitten by a snake and soaked in the cold well water for a long time, so even if I didn't freeze, I wouldn't fall asleep, right?
Mai Xiang's sister-in-law sighed and said, "No, the three men came to fetch water in the morning, and before they reached the well, they heard someone snoring in the well......
She gestured as she spoke, and her voice was full of emotion, "You guy, it's hot, it's hot, how can you be greedy in the well?" You're still young, your daughter-in-law hasn't begged for anything, how can you get it if you freeze your body! ”
It seems that they all thought that I was soaking in the well because it was too hot.
No one will believe it, I went into the water around 12 o'clock last night and soaked in the well for most of the night!