Dagou Bay, as the name suggests, is a large ditch with water in it.

In fact, this big ditch bay is one of the dirtiest places around our village.

The dirty here is not dirty in the ordinary sense, but refers to the fact that this place is relatively gloomy.

In fact, if you really want to talk about it, the surface of Dagou Bay is not only not dirty, but also the ecological environment is excellent, it goes from north to south, about one kilometer wide, about ten kilometers long, the whole bay head, are large and small, dotted with water beaches, the water in the beach is not deep, at most it is waist-high, and more places are deep feet, so it is full of aquatic plants and verdant reeds, the reeds grow very strong, some reed poles can be thicker than the thumb, especially in the middle of the water depth, the reeds cover the sky and the sun, dense turns, The human eye can't see through it at all, and once you accidentally walk in, it is difficult to find a way out.

Theoretically speaking, such a place should be a desirable paradise, but why has it become the most sinister place? It all started from a very early age.

The first thing to talk about is the last years of the Qing Dynasty, when there was war and warlords, and this big ditch bay was occupied by a group of water thieves. These people hide in the reeds during the day, and come out at night to block the road and rob, kill people and steal goods, and they have harmed hundreds of women from good families, and many little girls are taken into the reeds, playing and tortured to death, which makes this Dagouwan first become a ghost gate in the hearts of the people, since that time, people near Dagouwan do not like this place, and always feel that this place is not a good place.

Later, when it came to the period of devil aggression, it was even more ferocious. I heard from the old people in the village that in the early years, the devils swept away and arrested all the men, women and children in the village, and the women were taken back by the devils and ruined, and the men were all dragged to the big ditch bay and killed, and after they died, the corpses sank in the most central pool.

The waterhole is also an evil land, to put it bluntly, it is a swamp, and I don't know how thick the silt in it is, so after the corpse sinks, it is difficult to find it, so ah, the corpses of those people who were killed by the devil back then are still rotting in the mud.

To this day, every time it rains heavily in the summer, there are still bones and scum floating out of it, who would not be afraid of such a place?

Of course, not only the corpses of ordinary people have been sunk in that big ditch bay, but also the corpses of devils. This is also what I heard from the old man in the village, saying that the Eighth Route Army came to fight devils back then, chased and fought all the way, and finally threw more than 100 injured devil captives in the village and let the people in the village take care of them, but the people in the village hated these devils to death, how could they have the heart to take care of them? So as soon as the villagers summed up, they killed all the devils and threw them into Dagouwan, which added another corpse to Dagouwan.

It is precisely because there are too many dead people buried in Dagou Bay, and the aquatic plants and reeds in it are dense, so over time, this place has become a ghost land that everyone fears.

This is not a casual remark, this is actually a comparative sentence, which means that there are as many dead people in Dagou Bay as there are bamboo poles on the three mountains.

If you imagine what kind of scene it is, it's hell on earth.

This is not counting, after the liberation of this big ditch bay, in fact, it has not been peaceful, first of all, it is a more gloomy place, there are too many aquatic plants and reeds, few people usually go, and secondly, this place has long been notorious, so the people around it are also broken and broken, and they are more and more unwelcome to see it, who is dead pigs, chickens, or something, they are also thrown in, and sometimes even dead babies are thrown in, which leads to some inexplicable corpses floating in this place for many years, the stench continues, and when the wind is down, it can blow several miles away.

To put it mildly, in this place, if you kill one or two people and throw them in, you will never be discovered, and the corpse will slowly rot inside, and no one will care about it at all.

When I was very young, I heard a lot of legends about Dagou Bay, and some old people in the village said that Dagou Bay was haunted, and there were often women crying in the reeds in the middle of the night, and some people even saw a team of devil soldiers patrolling there, and some people said that there were monsters in the reeds, with two big wings, but they couldn't fly, but ran forward on the reeds, and when they saw people, they took them and ate them.

Seriously, when I was a child, I was scared by these kinds of stories, and sometimes I was so scared that I couldn't sleep at night.

But then I grew up, and because of the cattle herding, I passed by Dagou Bay a few times, and I felt that there was nothing special there, so this alertness was relaxed.

What I didn't expect was that the little foolish father actually buried her here, which made me feel a little unacceptable anyway, because I felt that they were practicing the little fool and insulting her, no matter how bad she was, you might as well find a good place for her to bury it, what does it mean to bury her in this murderous place? Isn't this a clear plan to turn her into a lonely ghost, and she can't even find her bones?

At that time, I was really angry, but because I had a high fever all the time, my stomach was also rolling, and I had no strength in my whole body, so I didn't say anything, so I could only follow my mother and Bai Xinghua to the edge of Dagou Bay in a daze.

When we reached the edge of Dagou Bay, we stopped, condescended, and looked down there, but saw only a large expanse of clear reeds and aquatic plants, and no freshly dug stubble.

At this time, Bai Xinghua looked left and right, and said to us: "Let's go to the north, there are woods over there, and there are a few paths to the bottom of the ditch, maybe the small picture will be buried over there." ”

Hearing this, we walked north along the edge of the gully, first past a cornfield, then a pine forest, and then a few winding paths leading into the ditch.

It was the height of summer, and the pavement of the path was white, and the soil was swirling with the wind, making the path like a big snake crawling in the grass and shedding its skin, which looked a little mad.

All the way here, we didn't find a place to bury a little muddy, which made us all a little anxious, after all, it was too hot, and if we stayed any longer, people couldn't stand it.

It was at this time that I leaned against an old pine tree on the side of the road, raised my eyes and looked into the big ditch bay, and inadvertently found something.

I noticed that the reeds seemed to be a little red in the swing, and from a distance it looked like a plastic bag, but it didn't look like it, which made me a little curious, so I pointed out to my mother and the white apricot blossom.

When they saw it, they were also a little curious, so they took me along and walked over there.

After walking a short time, we had gone down to the bottom of the ditch and entered a meadow, surrounded by high and low, sparsely ballasted reeds, some of which had just emerged from the ground, shaped like bamboo shoots, with pointed leaves and bulging bellies, swaying in the wind, as if to greet and talk to us.

We walked a little further and soon found something. It was a pair of kid's sneakers with a lot of patches on them, but even so, one of the shoes had a hole in the big toe part, and if a human foot had been put in, the big toe should have been able to leak out of the hole.

The shoes had been thrown into the mud puddle, already soaking wet and smelling rancid, and the white apricot blossom had taken a look at it with a basket and threw it away.

Walking further, I saw some clothes, all of them were children's, pants, gowns and something, some of which I still have an impression of, I remember that Little Fool wore them, so I knew that these things should be items of Little Fool before her death, and they were thrown here by her father.

At that time, looking at those scattered and discarded clothes, I was really sad in my heart, I felt that the little fool was very pitiful, she was really born in the wrong place, just imagine, if she was born in the city, there is a pair of very rich parents, the situation will definitely be different, this will not know what it will be like to be spoiled.

With this in mind, I kept walking, and finally saw the red I had seen earlier.

It was a little muddy little padded jacket, a big red color, which was her best dress, and she used to wear it proudly every time in winter, and had a lot of fun with us in snowball fights. She cherishes the padded jacket very much, never gets dirty, and will cry for a long time if it gets a little dirty, but she didn't expect the padded jacket to be thrown away.

Strange to say, though, the weight of the padded jacket was not very light, even the heaviest of all her clothes, but this padded jacket was blown high by the wind and hung right on a reed, which made it like a flag, as if it was issuing a declaration and a challenge to this cold and cruel world!

The cotton jacket swayed on the reeds, and it seemed to be about to fall off at any time, but it never fell off, and it hung like that, which made people worry about it for a while.

I was in a very sad mood, and as I stood there stunned and looked at the padded jacket without speaking, my spirit fell into a state of chaos from which I could not extricate myself.

At this moment, suddenly Bai Xinghua shouted: "Found it, it's here!" ”

Hearing this, my mother hurriedly grabbed my arm and ran over.

When I looked over, I found that a piece of mud had been dug up inside the reeds, and the stubble on it was very fresh, and many weeds were still entangled in the mud, like a taut earthworm, which seemed to be broken at any time.

I took a look at the dirt and found that it was only a meter wide, and the depth was not much, that is, the little fool was buried so hastily, she was so pitiful, really pitiful, my heart was a little sour.

It's just that what I didn't expect was that just when I was hurting something, Bai Xinghua suddenly pulled me forward, and then pointed to the mud pile where the little fool was buried, and said to me: "A trace, scold me, scold as much as you can, you must scold her so much that she doesn't dare to pester you, hurry up, start scolding now!" ”