Chapter 42: The Reservoir (I)
Reservoir:
One day in the spring of 2013 at noon, it was a beautiful day with a gentle breeze. I took a nap on the couch in the living room, and soon after I fell asleep, the doorbell rang. It's the house number of the hall downstairs, and I see six or seven people from the screen, two of them are security guards downstairs, and the others are almost shirtless, looking fierce, and the position and expression are obviously a little bit in conflict with the security guard.
I was a little dazed when I saw this scene, I thought to myself, I didn't sin against anyone, so many bare-chested big brothers suddenly came, could it be that they wanted to trouble me?
Is it a blessing or a curse or a curse that can't be avoided, I quickly asked, hello, who are you looking for? After hearing the voice, they did not continue the conflict, and a security guard walked up to the screen and said, "Hello, there are a few migrant workers here, saying that they are looking for you for something, and they can't tell your phone number, so we stopped them and didn't let them in." Do you know these people? ”
Before he could come back, a shirtless boy squeezed in front of the screen and said, "X goo, it's me, remember me?" ”
I made it carefully, and it felt familiar, but for a moment I couldn't remember who he was. He listened to me and said, "Bingu, Huabin."
It dawned on me that it was my childhood neighbor who lived next door to me, but when we grew up, we were busy and hadn't seen each other for many years. When we were children, we had a very uniform nickname, and boys would add "goo" to one word in their names. Girls take a word in the name and add a "sister". Of course, it is also smooth, and there is also a unisex suffix that is "E (U)". Therefore, the children in the village are basically called x goozi x wuzi
X sister several. Sounds very kind.
Remembering who he was, I said, "Oh, I remember, come up." After saying thank you to the security guard, he opened the curfew.
After they went upstairs, I opened the door to greet them, and after a casual greeting and chat, I learned that Reignwood had gone out to work on the construction site after finishing junior high school. Now he has become a family, and there are several children, and their family has moved away, and he is no longer in his hometown, so he rarely sees him when he goes back for the New Year.
Among the few people who came, except for Reignwood, the others were all unfamiliar faces. But judging from his dark skin, they should all be his co-workers on the construction site.
Everyone is from the countryside, so it seems very kind, I beckoned everyone to the bottom left, and took out a few cans of beer from the refrigerator for everyone to drink. After chatting for a while, they didn't get down to business, and I felt a little strange, so I asked: Friends came to me, there must be something wrong, right? Reignwood, just say anything directly, and I will never shirk if I can help. ”
They looked at each other a few times, and then Reignwood said hesitantly: "There was an incident at our construction site, that thing was very weird, maybe it was haunted." My mom said you did this, so I came over to you and asked if I could help. I don't know how to say it, Shunzi, you and Brother Liu can talk about it, you are the parties. Let's be clear. ”
I turned my head to look at Shunzi again and said: Brother Shunzi, if you have anything to say, just say it, I am in this business, if you say it, if I can't solve it, I can also help you analyze and analyze. Don't worry about it, say it.
Junko picked up a can of beer in her hand and drank it down. Then they started telling me about their construction site. Junzi is also talking about fragmentation, there is no continuity, after combing it out, it is probably something like this.
They're just a relatively small construction team. Usually it is also a small construction in some villages and towns, that is, the repair of irrigation canals, small village roads, reservoirs and dams and other small projects. And this time it was a large reservoir dam project. Like many guerrilla workers in the city, they go wherever they have work. The construction team rented two container houses, where the project is, the container house will be transported to where it will live. It can be said that there is no fixed place to live, and the four seas are home. This time, for convenience, the container house was directly placed on a grass field on the east side of the reservoir. It is only about 30 meters away from the reservoir. Although there are a lot of mosquitoes, it is close to the reservoir. It's also cool.
Due to the early rainy season that year, the estimated construction period was shortened by almost one-third. So the construction team began to work in two shifts around the clock. I want to speed up the construction of dams. They work the day shift, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Unified lived in the No. 2 container house. The first three days were fine, everything was fine, but on the fourth day, something very strange happened.
Since they live right next to the reservoir, they have a habit of running to the reservoir to bathe first thing after work at night. It's also convenient. On the evening of the fourth day, six of them went to take a shower together. There is a place in that reservoir that is more suitable for launching water, but it is far away from the container house. It's about 500 meters. Need to walk through a ridge. On the north side of the reservoir. That ridge is very narrow. You can only walk in line. At that time, one of Junko's cousins was at the back of the line. There are five people in front. But as I walked, I found that there was a person behind me. Due to the day's work is very tiring. He didn't care, he didn't ask questions, he just thought it was another co-worker. Even the co-worker hit him twice from behind. He didn't care either.
Since the moon was very big that night, no one brought a flashlight. Just take the basin and shampoo and soap or something. After arriving at the place. Junko's cousin counted carefully again. There are really only six people. But he clearly remembered that there was a man behind him. Indeed, it is gone again. So when he talked to everyone, everyone said that he must be dazzled. Because except for the six of them who are on the day shift, the others are on the night shift. There's no way anyone would come and take a shower before the night shift. And the people on the night shift have already started work. Junko also comforted him and said: You are afraid that you are tired during the day and have hallucinations. Everyone didn't care. They took their own baths quietly.
Junko's cousin also accepted their statement, but he was really dazzled. Didn't think much about it. So many people are here. There's nothing to be afraid of. So I took off my pants and went into the water to take a shower. Since everyone has to wash their hair, it's in the reservoir again. Water is not flowing. So it's not good to stand too close. Just every few meters there is a person standing. Junko's cousin was the last to go into the water. So there is no good location. And because the water is not very good, I don't dare to go too far inside. He washed it up in a place under the ridge. That location is not the farthest from the shore. Junko and another co-worker are further inside than he is. Everyone is humming a song and taking a shower. Every now and then someone dives into the water. Then he sneaked up on the others and suddenly rushed out and yelled. Fight each other. It's also a lot of fun. Everyone knows that Junko's cousin is not good at water, but no one goes back to make fun of him. Just when everyone is having fun. Suddenly, I heard my cousin scream, and then I dived underwater. And the hand kept tapping the water, and the body slowly moved towards the center of the reservoir.
Junko looked anxious. Hurriedly shouted: Who, don't him. He doesn't know how to water. No kidding.
But no one rushed out of his cousin's side. And the cousin's slapping of the water is getting bigger and bigger. The head is also still on the water. It's been screaming. It didn't look like a joke or a deliberate one, it was clearly made with the extreme of fear.
Junko was a little annoyed, and at this time everyone also gathered over, seeing that his cousin was about to be pulled down to his side, and then he was pulled to the reservoir. At this time, there are even workers laughing. Apparently I thought my cousin's movements were funny. They also think it's just a prank by some co-worker. But Junko is different, he knows that his cousin is afraid of water. The wateriness is also poor. When he came out to work, his uncle told him not to take his cousin to touch the water. But he thought it was okay to be in a shallow place, and it wasn't once or twice that he came out of the reservoir to take a bath. So didn't pay much attention to it. But if you are teased like this, your cousin will be very scared.
Junko almost roared and said: Who the is this, I'm messing with my cousin and I'm going to kill you.
Then he began to follow the moonlight to see who was missing. But it doesn't matter. After reading it, Junko rushed to her cousin's side almost like crazy, and shouted while rushing: Come here to save people. It's not our people who pull it.
Everyone looked at each other, and sure enough, except for my cousin, there were five of them. There is no one missing, in this case, who pulled the cousin's legs??? Watch the straight pass. They also hurried over because the water inside would get deeper and deeper. At that time the cousin will definitely be pulled down and drowned.
At that time, Junko was not far from her cousin, and her cousin's head had just sunk into the water. The cries also began to mix with the sound of drumming bubbles. Less and less clear.
As soon as he grabbed his cousin's hand, he pulled it in the direction of the shore. But what he didn't expect was that even though he pulled out with all his might, it didn't stop his cousin from moving towards the middle of the reservoir at all, just a little slower.
Within a few seconds, the other workers also came, and then one by one, holding hands, began to work together. Pulling Junko, Junko pulled his cousin and walked outside.
A group of people pulled for a long time, and finally pulled the cousin up, and each of them was exhausted, as if they had fought a very hard battle, and each of them lay on the ground panting. And at this time, the cousin had no struggle at all, his face was pale, and there was no movement at all.<