Chapter 13: Singing in the middle of the night
The sky is full of stars blinking, a full moon hangs in the treetops, with a soft and cold light, the summer night fades from the heat of the day, and the breeze is breezy, with the moist smell from Qingshan Lake.
At that time, in the countryside, unlike today, there were such magical objects as air conditioners, and every household carried bamboo beds to the threshing yard at the door to enjoy the cool. At seven or eight o'clock in the evening, the huge field was full of beds, children were running and frolicking around, and adults were shaking fans and talking about the sky in twos and threes, bragging about the sky.
The night is quiet, the moonlight is like practice, and the faint croaking of frogs and insects seems to be a lullaby song urging people to sleep.
Xu was eating half a watermelon at night, the bladder was uncomfortable, but I slept soundly, I turned over and continued to sleep, but the bladder was uncomfortable, I had to rub my eyes and go to a slightly farther place to solve it.
It's just that when I was sleepy-eyed and half-open, I was frightened by the scene in front of me, and there was a faint mist around the venue, and there was a faint smell of water in the air, and there was an ethereal and ethereal singing in my ears.
The singing voice is soft and lingering, Wu Nong's soft words, with infinite charm, although I am young, I also listen to it with a red face. There was a slight movement behind me, I was startled, and after a long time, I slowly looked back, only to see my father like a walking corpse, mechanically got out of bed, and then walked away woodenly.
"Daddy, are you going to pee? I'm going too. I shouted quietly, my voice very low, as if I was afraid to wake up the soul of the night.
Dad didn't respond to me, and walked in the direction of the mountains and forests like a puppet, and as the singing became clearer and clearer, there were more and more men like wandering spirits, and they lined up in a long line, swaying towards the dense forest.
I felt that the hairs on my body stood up, and there was a hot and humid feeling in my crotch, and there was a smell of urine. I'm not angry about peeing my pants. At this time, I was thinking that they were all zombies that I had watched on the black and white TV of Ergouzi's house before.
Seeing that the long line was about to disappear into the distance, I didn't know where I got the courage to quietly follow, maybe it was because my father was there, or maybe it was curiosity?
By the light of the moonlight, I bent my waist, not daring to follow too closely, nor daring to follow too far. Far hanging from the tail of the team.
The humidity in the air became heavier and heavier, and the fishy smell became stronger and stronger, so I covered my nose and quietly walked a few steps forward, hiding in the middle of the group, but the men in the village seemed to be unable to smell it, and they all showed expressions of enjoyment, and the corners of their mouths were smiling.
As if the men had heard the command, they lined up along the edge of the lake, and I took the opportunity to hide in the bushes next to me, keeping my eyes on the situation outside.
Qingshan Lake is a lake in the deep mountains, it is calm on weekdays, but in the blink of an eye, I saw a wave of more than ten meters on the surface of the lake, and the lake surface seemed to be vigorously separated, just like in Journey to the West, Tang Seng and his entourage crossed the quicksand river, and the river rolled to both sides, revealing the silt river and aquatic plants at the bottom of the river.
I covered my mouth in fright, for fear that I would accidentally scream out. It's just that what happened next really made me feel like I had entered the world of Journey to the West, so much so that I thought for a long time that the real world was the same as in Journey to the West.
Out of the separated water came a group of groups with fish heads on the upper body and two miserable white legs on the lower body, and on the slender legs with dark blue color were huge fish heads, and the gills opened and closed, as if they were breathing.
And above the huge wave, there stood a slender woman, the woman looked up to the moon, and a huge round bead slowly flew out of her mouth and hung above the woman's head. It glows softly with the full moon in the sky.
The woman sat cross-legged on the wave, her hands pinched, and her eyes slightly closed. The woman's face also has a few scales that glow with a dark light, otherwise it looks like a normal beauty.
As the pitch of the song changed, the half-human, half-fish monsters actually walked up to the men one by one.
It wasn't until years later that it dawned on me.
I was so young and simple!
When the allure of the song was reached to the extreme, the men all collapsed limply, and the half-human, half-fish monsters returned to the water in turn.
The smell of the air permeated. It was a little pungent and I couldn't help but sneeze.
The woman on the wave looked very alertly in the direction of the bushes, and I could almost feel her sharp gaze. He only covered his mouth and lay on the ground and didn't dare to move.
For fear that if I am not careful, I will be like Tang Seng, caught by monsters and eaten.
The woman's eyebrows frowned slightly, and the fox retracted her gaze suspiciously, the woman raised her head and opened her mouth, saying that the person's mouth could only open at a thirty-degree angle, but the woman's mouth opened very wide, and she sucked the beads hanging in the air into her mouth. Turning over and disappearing into the water, Qingshan Lake also returned to its former calm.
The mist is also dissipating at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the breeze blows, and the fragrance of plants and trees is everywhere. The man who had fallen to the ground walked back like a puppet in a soft song.
I moved, perhaps because I had been lying on my stomach for too long, my arm was sore, and after a few shakes, I felt a little better, and then turned my head to look at the calm lake a few times, and then limped to follow.
On a summer morning, the dawn was very early, perhaps because I was too tired last night, and when I woke up, I found myself lying on my bed, and suddenly remembered the strange things of last night, and was thinking about getting out of bed to ask for clarification, but found that my pants had been changed. I suddenly felt panicked.
"Up? How old are you and still wet the bed? Don't make people laugh out of their big teeth when you say it. My dad shook his head.
I blushed, and I didn't know how to answer.
"Dad, did you feel something was wrong last night? Is there anything uncomfortable in your body? I digressed and asked.
My father's dark face showed a rare look of embarrassment, and said, "Why do children ask so much?" Have you finished your summer homework? School is about to start. Don't hurry up yet. ”
I stuck out my tongue and ran out of the house, what is the summer vacation homework? It knows me, I don't know it.
Ling Dajun looked at his son's lively figure, and was full of emotion for a while, sitting on the steps in front of the door, lighting a dry tobacco. Rattle twitching.
It has been nine years since his wife left, and he is still single and unmarried, and he raised his son as a father and a mother, in order to be afraid that marrying a daughter-in-law will not be good for his son.
Last night, he dreamed of his wife Li Juying......