Chapter 8: Death Row

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After a long time, I was afraid that it would pass, and I felt bored at home every day, and my heart drifted to the mountains and trees and rivers and water early.

Watching TV at noon, we listened to the local children talk about the fun places.

There is a place that one person said successfully attracted me, and he said Dazhai.

This Dazhai was built by bandits during the Republic of China, on the top of a mountain not far away.

If you ask carefully, isn't this Dazhai a bandit village!

I slapped my thigh, "We used to have bandits." ā€

Chuan Chuan answered, "Yes, I've been there." ā€

"Oh?" I looked at Chuanchuan, "You continue. ā€

Chuan Chuan is too young to explain many things, but he said it very truthfully. He has been repeatedly saying that Dazhai is very big, and the road up is very steep. But the more I say that, the more interested I am in Dazhai, and I want to go there to see it.

A child sitting next to him interjected, saying that there were still dead people on the mountainside of Dazhai.

Ma Chengcheng leaned over, "Dead man? ā€

The kid answered her question.

About a month or two ago, a few children were digging for birds' nests on the mountain, and they climbed over a beam, and a sharp-eyed child noticed a small slide on a slope not far away. This slope is not on the main road, and there is no arable land nearby, so they were among the first to find it. The sunlight was a little dazzling, and the other child caught a glimpse of what seemed to be something more in the soil after the landslide.

He immediately informed his partner, and then several people went over to see it in groups.

There was a corpse in the ground.

Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, and a bold child pulls his head off the carcass. He used the corpse's head as a target and smashed it with stones.

Regarding the origin of this corpse, some say that it was a dungeon for bandits. Because at first, it was discovered that the corpse was held in the earth by stones and sticks of wood, as if the man was locked.

After Ma Chengcheng listened to this child's words, she was a little curious, "Who said this is a bandit dungeon?" ā€

The child thought for a moment and replied, "That's what everybody says." ā€

Ma Chengcheng didn't ask again, but said, "Can you lead the way?" I want to check it out. ā€

When I heard her say this, my heart was a little drumming, to be honest, I was quite interested in Dazhai, but I was really a little scared of this corpse. I've never seen a real corpse when I've grown this big, a rotting corpse coming out of the dirt...... I feel my scalp tingle just thinking about it.

Ma Chengcheng was very resolute, and she said she was going to take a look.

I didn't understand, "What kind of excitement are you looking for, what's so nice about this corpse?" ā€

Ma Chengcheng is still very stubborn.

I could only say to her: "In this case, let's go together, when we get to the place, you go to see the corpse, I don't go to see it, and then after you finish reading, we will go to Dazhai together." ā€

Ma Chengcheng nodded.

The child promised to show us the way, and Ma Chengcheng found a carton of milk from the house and gave each of us a carton. Everyone grabbed another handful of candy, and then they went out the door.

Following the children who led the way, I looked around a little dumbfounded.

Why is this coming to the back mountain again?

We say that mountains will be divided into shady slopes and sunny slopes, and we have heard adults say that the origin of this yin and yang is that the light on the sunny slope is better than that on the shady slope. The last time I saw the old locust tree was on the sunny slope of the back mountain, this time the body leaked out because of the landslide is on the shady slope of the back mountain.

When I got to Liang, I presented it to Ma Cheng and said, "Then you go, we are waiting for you here." After speaking, I looked back and saw that there was no one behind me, and when I turned my head again, a group of people followed Ma Cheng to Liang Liang.

I stood still.

There are many trees on the shady slopes of the back mountain, and there is very little arable land. I don't know how long these trees have grown, and their shadows are enough to obscure the sun, which has no light in the first place.

Cuckoo.

The wild bird, whose name it didn't know, let out a cry.

Fluttering.

I don't know what bird flew from this tree to that side.

I swallowed, looked at Ma Chengcheng, who was already about to turn over the beam, and couldn't help but shout at the top of my voice, "Hey! Wait for me! ā€

I ran over.

Turning over the beam, I thought about the corpse I might see in a moment, and I was a little worried. In the middle of the heart, the child who pointed the way suddenly said. I squinted my eyes from afar, and then my heart was put back in my stomach.

It's not very precise to say that the corpse is just a white skeleton.

I felt much less afraid of bones than I did about corpses, so I didn't hesitate and immediately walked over with a quick pace.

On one side of the hillside there is a shallow hole, and only one vertebra is exposed in the soil, which looks like a normal animal bone. I was wondering where the skull was, when the kid who was leading the way suddenly shouted to me to stop, and he pointed to something at my feet and told Ma Chengcheng that it was the skull. I was startled and left the place with a stride.

The boy picked up a twig and rummaged through the skull in the ground to show the horse, and I looked at the skull that was so deformed that I couldn't recognize it for a while, and the facial features on it were gone, and if someone hadn't said I'd have known that it was a human skull.

Not only me, but Ma Chengcheng also felt strange, she looked at the skull with a puzzled expression, "Is this a human skull?" It's not even a facial feature......"

The kid patted his chest and promised, "It's human, we had everything when we first took it out, and we were more accurate than anyone else, and we used stones to drill all our teeth." ā€

I looked at him in amazement, speechless at their behavior, I thought it was too disrespectful to the deceased, and these children, who said that the bear children were a little light. They say it's a bandit's dungeon, but I don't think so, eighty percent of whose graveyard was damaged by a landslide, which leaked the bones of the ancestors. It's really bad luck to meet this group of bear children.

I sighed, shook my head, and looked at the skull on the ground for a while, which startled me.

Ma Chengcheng picked up the skull.

I watched her palms feel uncomfortable for a while, and quietly took a few steps back, away from her. Ma Chengcheng looked at the skull with a serious face, and she asked the child again, "Did you really see the facial features of the skull at the beginning?" Have teeth or something? ā€

The kid nodded, "There really is." ā€

Ma Chengcheng looked at the skull again, and then put it into the hole where there was only a spine. I wanted to leave a long time ago, but seeing her slowly put it in, I hurriedly urged, "You hurry up, put it in and let's go." ā€

Ma Chengcheng put his skull and slowly glanced at the shallow hole caused by the small-scale slide, and then turned around and beckoned us to go.

This was what I wanted to hear, and I immediately ran.

When we followed the original road from the yin slope of the back mountain over the beam and walked a long way, we finally arrived at the mountain with Dazhai. The mountain is not very high, and the weeds on both sides have almost died due to the arrival of winter, so it happens that the path up the mountain has been cleared for us.

The trail is steep, the mud on the ground is frozen hard, and it is easy to slip in some places. Just like that, you helped me and I helped you to the halfway up the mountain, and the child who led the way found an open grass for us to rest and rest.

I looked at the dense trees and said, "How long will it take to go up?" ā€

Ma Chengcheng walked up to me and sat down, "I'll tell you a few things, don't be afraid." ā€

I took out a carton of milk and opened it and took a sip, "Don't talk about it, I'm scared." ā€

Ma Chengcheng gave me a look, "I'm serious." ā€

I nodded, "You say, you say, I listen to my aunt." ā€

Ma Chengcheng stretched out his left hand and spread five fingers, and said, "The first thing is that bone, I found several skulls in the cave, and there was more than one person buried. ā€

She put her thumb in her palm, and I was a little surprised, "Wait, how do you know?" ā€

"What I saw, when I put the skull, I saw that there were some pieces of soil on the wall of the cave that were not quite right, and when I touched it, I saw that it was also a skull." As she spoke, she gestured on my head, "It's this bone on top of my head, a lot of skulls." ā€

She gestured to me for a while, and pulled her hand off a little unhappily, "Don't compare me, it's really ...... So what are you going to say? ā€

Ma Chengcheng withdrew his hand and continued, "Those bones are definitely not anyone's graveyard. ā€

"Not necessarily." I grabbed a handful of dead grass from the ground, "How do you know?" ā€

Ma Chengcheng put his index finger to his palm, "There is no coffin, and so many people are buried together......"

"Maybe it used to be a mass grave." I casually played with the dead grass in my hand.

Ma Chengcheng nodded, "It's possible to ......"

She put her middle finger to her palm again, "A lot of things happen in the back mountains, don't you think it's too coincidental?" ā€

I also felt that something was wrong when she said this, and since we went back to my grandmother's house, we have encountered a lot of things. First of all, there was the sound of knocking on the slate, although in the end it was understood that it was a weasel playing a prank, but in fact, this matter was not over at all, we directly lifted the fuzzy veil and entered the fog of confusion, and this cloud and fog is not something we can cover.

I suddenly remembered that Ma Chengcheng said that she would not get goosebumps when she passed by the grave in the back mountain.

We had known that Ma Chengcheng could see some strange things, but it wasn't until she said it herself that we realized that she could tell where the grave was.

It's a bit of a Shinto, and if it hadn't happened to my own sister, I wouldn't have believed it. When we were children, we were bored to try her, that time she said that there was a grave in a place, we saw that this piece was a family's land, the field of vision was wide and nothing, and she was damaged at that time, Ma Chengcheng was still a little girl, only eleven or twelve years old, and we were so angry that tears rolled in her eyes, and she stomped her feet and deflated her mouth with tears.

As a result, within a few days I passed by, and a new grave had been built in the field.

Ma Chengcheng didn't strictly feel the graveyard or any elf weirdness, if I want to say, this is the cemetery that she can feel suitable for burial. After knowing this, I hurt her all the time, this is going to be put in ancient times, she shouldn't be a goddess to dance the gods, it's just a tyrannical thing.

Thinking of this, I asked her, "Did you get goosebumps on that death row?" ā€

Ma Chengcheng shook his head, "No, I suspect that this entire back mountain is not suitable for burying people." ā€

She said and put her ring finger in her palm again, "The fourth thing, you didn't look at that skull properly, and the wound on it was wrong." ā€

I was taken aback, "...... Wait, why is it the fourth thing all of a sudden? ā€

Ma Chengcheng tapped her left index finger with her right hand, "The second thing is that there are no coffins for corpses, and there are many of them." She nodded her middle finger again, "The third thing, it's all happening in the back mountain." ā€

I nodded, "...... Right...... Yes, you go on ......"

Ma Cheng nodded his ring finger, "The injured dead are not the same as the living, do you know the difference?" ā€

I rolled my eyes helplessly, and Ma Chengcheng came again to follow the temptation, "I know, one is alive and one is dead." ā€

Ma Chengcheng ignored me and continued: "After the injury, I just looked at the skull, if the kid didn't lie, they destroyed the skull very badly, it stands to reason that the fracture on the bone should be very serious, and there should be bone stubble on the fracture surface, but do you know...... Forget it, I don't need to answer, when I looked at it, I found that although the bone was destroyed, the wound was flat and smooth, as if it had been injured and healed......"

I let go of the dry grass in my hand, "Wait, do you mean that skull has grown on its own?" ā€

Ma Chengcheng frowned when he heard this, "That's pretty much what it means." ā€

I shuddered, "Don't scare me, it's a skull." ā€

Ma Chengcheng nodded, "This is also where I wonder. She tucked her little finger into her palm, "The last thing, do you remember when you said that there was someone in the back mountain who didn't move away?" ā€

I nodded.

Ma Chengcheng clenched his left hand into a fist, "This is also the most critical thing, that person, has nothing to do with all this." ā€

I also fell into deep thought, to say that I didn't feel anything in my heart when I encountered these things, it would really be a lie. The weasel incident left some shadows on me, so much so that I now see someone else's dog on the road, and as long as the dog has a short leg, I think it's a weasel. This matter was discovered by Ma Chengcheng, and she was still clamoring for a corgi every day...... Far from it. Having said that, I always thought that I knew Tiger Gully very well, but now that I have experienced this, I have also begun to feel that I am indeed still a big person.

I'm also an ordinary senior high school student, and the purpose of going back to Laohugou is not to figure out what these have, I just want to have a good New Year. Sometimes I think of the dream I had when I was poisoned by carbon monoxide, and the master of heaven and earth who was repeatedly chanted in it, I knew that no matter how I pondered, I couldn't figure out a flower, so I simply slowly forgot about this stubble, I looked at Ma Chengcheng's expression, and sighed with some emotion, "You said a while ago that I was on the line, and this time I will persuade you to see it......"

Ma Chengcheng shook his head and did not speak again.

I looked at the shadowy woods, and then looked at the Dazhai looming on the top of the mountain, "Ma Chengcheng, don't think about these things, let's go to Dazhai for a while, take a good break, the New Year is to eat, drink and have fun." ā€

Ma Chengcheng smiled, still holding her left hand.

I looked at her clenched hands, and suddenly I thought of something, and my whole scalp began to tingle.

I couldn't help but wail.

"Ma Chengcheng!"

"You haven't washed your hands even after touching your skull!"

"You just touched my head!"