Take a sip of tea and continue to listen to Grandma Zhang

"Hey~~" Grandma Zhang sighed and continued, "Since something happened to Zhang Jun, our village has not stopped, and after a few years, the young people who participated in the Red Guards in the village have left one after another. ”

The first is Niu Qiangqiang, the pond was filled in at that time, but the source of water for a village is the pond and a well next to the pond, people use the water in the well for cooking, usually wash clothes, chickens, pigs, cows, these livestock are fed with pond water, and then the village leader discussed digging another well in the original pond location. Everyone worked together to open the well, but I didn't expect that a strange thing happened on the day the well opened the water, the water that came up from the bottom of the well was red and bloody, and I could smell a smell of blood when I approached it. As a result, a few people from the county who said they were experts came and took some machines to make them tumble for two whole days, and then told the villagers on the village loudspeaker. It is said that the water in this well is groundwater, which brings out some underground minerals, so the color of the water is blood red, so everyone should not use it for the time being, and the water will be clear after the precipitation of minerals for a period of time, and everyone can use it with confidence.

At first, no one dared to use the water in the well, but after a while, everyone found that the water in it was very clear, and even some small insects in the water could not be seen. One person took the lead and the others began to use it, but everyone knew that the strange things that had happened in this well were timid, and the rural people were timid, and this water was okay to wash clothes normally, and no one had ever drunk the water in this well.

I vaguely remember that it was seven or six years, because of the weather, that year the rapeseed matured earlier, the harvest began in the fifth month of the lunar calendar, rural people will have a few buckets in each kitchen, usually not very busy when everyone will use water when to go to the old well to draw water, as soon as the farm is busy, everyone will get up early in the morning to beat the water, and then add it to the kitchen bucket for backup.

One day when I was eating at noon, I don't know what was going on in the old well, there was no water in it, the well had been used for I don't know how many years, since I married to Yucun, the well was there, the people in the village used the water in the well, and the water had never been cut off, Niu Qiangqiang was lazy, and his mother-in-law asked him to make the water good in the morning, and he used it for cooking at noon, and he said that he would go to fetch water when he was cooking at noon, but who knew that there was no water in the old well, and then his mother-in-law asked him to go to the neighbor's house to borrow some water. He picked up the bucket and was going to the neighbor's house, but when he thought about it, he never helped in the village at home, and had no contact with the people in the neighbor's village, if they didn't give it, wouldn't it make him ugly, so he asked his mother-in-law to borrow it, at this time his mother-in-law had seven or eight months in the belly of the doll, how could he lift a bucket of water, think about it, then he thought that there was not a well next to the old well, so he simply went to the well to play, the village animals have been drinking the water in it, and it is okay, people and animals are not all open mouths to eat, Since the animals are all right, the people will be fine.

Then Niu Qiangqiang carried two buckets and told his wife to borrow water, and went out.

Niu Qiangqiang went to the new well to open the manhole cover, looked inside, the water inside was so clear that he could reflect his own shadow, but the shadow inside was so weird, looking at him directly, the shadow had a weird smile on his face, as if another person was looking at himself at the well, and the reflection in the well was himself, he shook his head and thought, maybe it was too hot, and he didn't think about anything else. After I got two buckets of water, I picked it up and went home, and when I got home, I told his mother-in-law: Make me a sour rice tonight, I want to eat it. I stopped eating at noon, I went to Zhang Bin's house, drank some wine, and came back at dinner in the evening.

His mother-in-law thought to herself, didn't this strong man never like to eat churned dough, why did he let me make sour rice and stir dough today. Maybe it's because it's too hot.

At night, when the sun was about to set, Niu Qiangqiang came back, and the whole person was drunk and unsteady when he walked. Seeing this, her wife went over and helped him to lie down on the kang, saying that you lie down first and I will cook. Then he turned around and took the apron on the table and tied it, and then took the basin under the kang head and said that if you want to vomit, you can vomit in the basin, don't vomit everywhere, and when I looked up, I sat on the ground in fright. Niu Qiangqiang sat on the kang so upright, staring at his wife with two eyes, his whole face was purple and blue, with a weird and evil smile. It always felt like it was someone else.

You scared me to death, Mrs. Niu Qiangqiang gently patted her heart with her hand, then stood up and said: You fall asleep first, I'll cook. I turned around and went to the kitchen to cook, and when I walked to the door, I only heard Niu Qiangqiang behind me say in a hoarse voice: "I want to eat sour rice and stir the dough." ”

Although the voice was hoarse, Niu Qiangqiang's wife always felt so harsh and creepy.

I didn't think much about it and went to cook, and after about forty minutes, Niu Qiangqiang's wife walked in with a bowl of sour rice and stirred the dough, put it on the kang and turned around to serve rice for herself.

At this time, Niu Qiangqiang, who was lying on the kang, sat up straight like that and said, "You go and eat, I'll go outside and eat." After saying that, he stirred the sour rice in one end of his hand, took a pair of chopsticks and went out.

In the past, when people in rural areas ate their meals, they liked everyone to put the rice in their hands and then hold it in their hands, go out to find a place, and everyone gathered together to eat while chatting. Niu Qiangqiang's mother-in-law didn't think much about it, so she served herself a meal.

It was almost eight o'clock in the evening, and it was almost nine o'clock in the evening, when it was completely dark, and it was overcast that night, and there was no moonlight, and I couldn't see my fingers. Grandpa Zhang Yi and I had just blown out the oil lamp and were about to go to bed, when we heard someone knocking on the door, and lit the oil lamp and asked Zhang Yi and his grandfather to take a look. Zhang Yi's grandfather is a good person in the village, so he likes to find Zhang Yi and his grandfather to solve everything in the village, and after a while, I heard Zhang Yi and his grandfather say, "Erxiu, is there something wrong with it so late, come, come in and talk." ”

I also put on my clothes and got off the kang, thinking to myself what happened to this Niu Qiangqiang woman so late.

Erxiu walked in, sat down on the edge of the kang and said, "Niu Qiangqiang went out with a meal, and he hasn't come back yet, I'm scared alone." I want my uncle to accompany me to find Niu Qiangqiang. ”

"Oh, Niu Qiangqiang hasn't come back so late, why is this baby's heart so big, you said Erxiu, your belly is so big, Qiangqiang won't go home at night to take care of you, hurry up and let your uncle accompany you to find it, find it back and clean it up."

After I finished speaking, I took a flashlight for Zhang Yi and his grandfather, and then went out with Erxiu to find Niu Qiangqiang, and after more than an hour, Zhang Yi and his father came back alone, and I asked if I found it

Zhang Yi's grandfather said, "Everyone in the village went to look for it, but they didn't find it." I'll send Erxiu back, and I'll look for it tomorrow. ”

When I got up the next morning, it was about five o'clock in the morning, almost six o'clock in the morning, I asked Zhang Yi and his grandfather to see if there was water in the old well, if there was two buckets back, at this time the sun also came out immediately, his grandfather opened the door and heard the commotion outside, and then went out to see, more than a dozen people were talking about the new well, and walked over to ask.

Some people say that people have drowned in the new well, and there is a bowl of sour rice on the side of the well. Zhang Yi and his grandfather said: "Why are you still stunned when you drown, hurry up and report to the township." ”

At nine o'clock, someone from the township came, and when they fished up the corpse, they saw that it was Niu Qiangqiang.

Niu Qiangqiang's wife Park cried bitterly on Niu Qiangqiang until she fainted and everyone sent her home.

Speaking of this, Grandma Zhang Yi sighed and said: "People are doing it, the sky is watching, everything is done and there is karma!" ”