Going down the mountain, I saw Jiang Bin chatting with Mr. Sun who was supporting Ouyang Xiong, he didn't talk much on weekdays, I thought maybe Ouyang Xiong was engaged in real estate, he wanted to climb the relationship, go to the city to find some work to do or something.

Zhang Peng caught up with me, took out the two talismans from his pocket and handed them to me. "This charm is for you."

"You believe in him too?" I've wanted to ask for a long time.

"I draw talismans with cinnabar, and people draw talismans mixed with blood, so I have to believe it. But whether it's useful or not, I won't know until something happens. ”

"Blood?" I asked with a frown, I looked at the charm and sniffed it, but I didn't smell blood.

"That's right, this talisman is mixed with human blood, so it can be seen that this Huang Xuan is not so simple."

"Better than you?" I don't understand why Zhang Peng said this, in my opinion, Huang Xuan is a liar who doesn't learn and doesn't know how to do it, he pretends to be a ghost every day, he has lived here for decades, he really has the ability, it should be considered very scary, he can hide it for so many years.

"It's not a problem worse than me, oops, I can't tell, it probably means that the bell must be tied to the bell, and a key can open a lock, I'm afraid only the person who buried the coffin can take it off."

"Are you saying that Huang Xuan may be the person who buried the coffin?"

"I don't know, guess, the profession of the coffin is very secretive, I don't know much about it, I just reasoned according to the basic logic. But he is only about fifty years old, and it is unlikely that he will be a coffin burial person, and I don't think the hanging coffin of the guillotine cliff will be within thirty years. Now people don't have to worry about food and clothing, who will do this. ”

"His father, Huang Fang's old way?" I asked.

"It's more likely that he'll go to Old Man Huang tomorrow and talk about it. Don't pick and buy, buy two good cigarettes. Zhang Peng said.

I took the talisman given by Zhang Peng, and was just about to put it in my pocket, and was seen by Xiong Lao Liu and Huang Xuan, but I don't care if they are happy now, I am barefoot and not afraid to wear shoes, and the grievances of the past should not return to my life.

Nothing happened at night, so there may be a difference between burning the coffin and opening the coffin. When I got up the next day, I first went to the commissary to buy two Yellow Crane Towers, and I was going to buy ten yuan of cigarettes, because I also smoked ten yuan myself, but after all, I went to ask the old man Huang to tell me a secret, it was too cheap and not good-looking, and he was reluctant to smoke, so he could exchange it for cheap cigarettes.

This old man Huang belongs to the type that wants to smoke in his dreams. For the first time in my life, there is a kind of fresh excitement.

Huang Fang's family is at the foot of the mountain, a single family, others have built a two-story house, their house is still a adobe black tile house, it has been many years, tinkering inside and out, it stands to reason that Huang Xuan's income is good in Angelica Village, after all, it is a monopoly industry, and he often has something to do in the next few villages, and he doesn't know where his money is spent, so he is not sure that he was taken away by the second aunt. And that Uncle Jiang, I don't know if I'm pretending to be stupid or I really don't know.

There is a big reservoir on the mountain behind their house, called the Horse Waist Mountain Reservoir, the origin of the name is that there are mountains on both sides, and the concave part is the reservoir. In the past, some old people said that the water in the reservoir was poured through the pond, I don't know how deep it is, no one has taken care of it, it should not be artificially dug up, what do you want the reservoir to do by the river, the fish are tired of eating.

But I think they are nonsense, there are many small lakes, reservoirs, ponds and so on in the Yangtze River basin, all of which are borrowed from the light of the Yangtze River, and there are three mountains from this reservoir, do you have to come from there?

Huang Xuan's son, Huang Zhang, drowned in the reservoir when he was six years old, and according to the time, it was exactly the same year that my mother fell into the pond. Children by the river are born to love water, and the Yangtze River is strictly controlled by parents, and they are caught and beaten for three days at a time. The edge of the reservoir is not so steep, and it is not flowing water, Li Bald's home is next to it, and adults often go down in summer, so he is caught by his parents and beaten for a day at most, but the reservoir does often drown children, mainly a group of bear children stealing, parents can't control it, water and fire are ruthless, this is the sore spot of living by the water.

There are a few abandoned ponds in Angelica Village, but the water stinks so badly that no one maintains it all year round, after all, it is particularly uneconomical to raise fish by the river, and the river fish is so delicious. The creek where my mother's body was found was of good quality, and now even children are afraid to go there, and it is in the ravine again.

At that time, seven children went down, six children came up, and the bear children who were secretly swimming left in a swarm and didn't notice it at all. It wasn't until it was dark that Huang Xuan couldn't find his son, and he knew that his son might have drowned in the reservoir, and the father and son rowed a wooden boat to salvage all night before finding the body under the branches of the old willow tree hanging down to the water at the foot of the mountain inside.

Huang Xuan had a bad attitude towards me, so I could only hide under the big camphor tree diagonally opposite their house and wait for him to go out and visit.

In Angelica Village, there are no less than twenty camphor trees with a diameter of two or three meters thick, and this one at the entrance of Huangxuan is a little stranger, everyone calls it a twin tree, and the main trunk below is estimated to be more than three meters in diameter, and two branches of one meter thick grow on it, and the exposed roots are as thick as my thighs.

There is a position at the waist of a horse between the two branches, which can squeeze four children at the same time, and when I was a child, I often watched them play games here, that is, five or six went up at the same time to see who was squeezed down first. Now there is only one twin tree left, and children don't come here anymore to play.

After all, the Huang family is engaged in metaphysics, probably wanting to borrow the light of this tree to have more children and more blessings, and occupy the treasure land of feng shui early, eager to have twins. It's a pity that the sky is not as good as people, the only son was not saved, Huang Xuan's wife also went crazy after that, and none of his daughters gave birth to one.

When I was four years old, I was ignorant and played with children my age, but I didn't make any friends. One evening, I saw Huang Xuan holding a big hammer under the camphor tree, scolding in his mouth: ghost snake, roll, roll, keep screaming at night, frightening my son. The camphor tree made a buzzing sound, it was hollow inside, there was indeed a big hole under the camphor tree, we children did not dare to look closer, it was dark from a distance, according to those children, only Huang Xuan's son dared to get into it to hide and seek.

At that time, he was not sensible, so he felt so terrifying, and he didn't dare to go there to play anymore, but now he thinks about it, Huang Xuan's son has been dead for almost five years at that time, how can he say that the ghost snake frightened his son? His son's grave seems to be in the back mountain, and it is still a little far from here. So maybe Huang Xuan hadn't come out of the pain of losing his son that year, and even had mental problems like his wife, but now he looks quite normal.

Thinking of this, I looked at the big black hole under my feet, and quickly moved it, the broken branch of the camphor tree seemed to be a heavy snowfall in 98, which crushed the branches above, Huang Xuan simply sawed it off and sold it, and then the village asked him to settle accounts and divided half of the money.

An ant climbed on the back of my hand, and I wanted to pinch it to death, but when I remembered these old events, not only did I become melancholy, but I gently popped the ant out, and as for whether it would fall and become crippled, I didn't care. People are like ants, is it pitiful for an orphan like me who lost his parents at a young age, or is it more pitiful for him to lose a middle-aged child? I guess he's more miserable.

Huang Xuan came out of the house with his hands hooked on his head with a cigarette in his mouth, and his crazy wife, cloaked and scattered, followed behind his buttocks. Huang Xuan turned his head and yelled at her, "Crazy, go back!" ”

The crazy wife was obviously afraid of him, grinning and smirking, her teeth were yellow, her lips were chapped, Huang Xuan was about to hit her, the crazy wife was so frightened that she shrank into a ball, obediently went back and leaned against the corner, raised her head and frowned at the sun, and then watched Huang Xuan disappear at the end of the road, grinning and pursing, rubbing her long yellow hair, and her eyes actually focused on me.

It is said that madmen see the world from different angles, for example, I only showed half of my head for fear that Huang Xuan would find out, and she was also discovered.

Huang Xuan was already far away, and I came out from behind the tree, walked up to the crazy woman, and shouted, "Auntie, I'm looking for Grandpa Huang." ”

The crazy woman grinned again, I don't know how long it had been since I brushed my teeth. I saw that she couldn't ask anything from her mouth, so I shouted inside: "Grandpa Huang, I am an aquatic student, and I came to you to chat." ”

"There's nothing to talk about, don't be embarrassed, step into the threshold and break your legs." Old man Huang replied in the room, this kind of old house has poor light transmission, it is the same as my old house, it is dark inside, there is a coffin on the right side of the hall when the door enters, and it is made of the cheapest paulownia tree, our old man, who is in good health, will prepare the coffin at the age of sixty, and if he is not in good health, he will start to prepare at the age of fifty. This coffin is rough in workmanship and has not yet been painted, it is estimated that Old Man Huang prepared it for himself.

"I bought two Yellow Crane Towers." I shouted, this trick was rather shameless, as if no one had smoked a good cigarette.

"Smoking my cigarette hurts the most people, smoking your cigarette is terrible, get out of here!" Old man Huang's temper is so stubborn, it is estimated that there is no hope.