Thirty small bowls by the grave
Just after walking for a while, Li Dazui's cry came from behind. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoEveryone stopped and looked back in unison. I saw that Li Dazui was holding a flat pole for carrying water in the inn, and he was trotting over with Wu who was carrying a bar with a dish-selling merchant last night.
When they got closer, everyone suddenly laughed, it turned out that Wu stammered that he didn't find a guy in the inn, and he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to catch up with everyone, so he rushed to everyone empty-handed, and Li Dazui, who was holding a flat burden, rushed to everyone. After passing the turn of the intersection, he saw a watering spoon on the edge of a family's garden, and he didn't care about it, and he copied it, put it on his shoulder, and trotted all the way with Li Dazui.
It turned out that he drank too much last night and had a few words with the merchants, and in retrospect, it was all because of Li Dazui's provocation. In the morning, I thought to myself, and I didn't pay attention to this nasty Li Dazui anymore. Who knew that when it was almost noon, Li Dazui trotted all the way to his house.
He was just about to pull down his face and say a few words of relief from his mouth as usual. Who knew that Li Dazui had already mysteriously put that big mouth to his ear: "Second brother, do you know that the merchant who raised the bar with you last night is gone, I don't know when." Now, Gongsun, that stingy ghost, is in a hurry to find people everywhere, and he is almost going through the town. ”
"You said the big guy from last night was gone?"
"Yes! Now, that stingy guy from Gongsun is looking for someone to go to 'that' place with him. I heard that the merchant was unable to get off the stage because he was talking to you last night, so he really carried his bowl and went to 'that' place at night. Li Dazui whispered.
"It's all your stinky mouth, it's okay to mess around, if you hadn't provoked it, how could I raise the bar with him?"
"You don't have to rely on me for everything, Wu stammered, it's not a day or two since you carried the death bar."
"Hey, I'm dead-eyed, I don't know how much I've broken. Your big mouth is also causing a lot of trouble. Now Gongsun, a stingy ghost, must be scolding the two of us there, let's go and have a look, it's good to help someone. Wu stammered.
The shopkeeper of Gongsun grew up with the two of them since he was a child, and he knew that the two of them had a dead eye and a natural stinky mouth. However, the two of them have never had bad intentions towards people and things on weekdays. Seeing the two of them coming, his heart was also hot, but his face pulled down, and said: "It's all you two old things, I see who bites who every day, it's okay." Hey, don't say anything, hurry up and find someone with me. ”
"You, you old thing, where is it, where is it, it's good, stingy like a mother-in-law, the same." Wu stammered and said while following behind Gongsun's shopkeeper.
"You are embarrassed to say, I didn't secretly erase it in which year, you and Li Dazui have more than a dozen bad debts that they don't repay." The shopkeeper of Gongsun said angrily.
The three of them, while walking, still pulled out some old accounts without stopping.
A dozen or so people walked along the border between the foot of the mountain and the plain, towards a place full of weeds in the distance. Everyone had already held the guys in their hands tightly, close to each other, and used the sticks in their hands to remove the grass in front of them. Some of the grass had long since withered, while others were still growing vigorously, intertwining with each other, making people walk slowly.
Entering the depths of the grass, some of the dead grass has already covered people's heads, and under the sun, the shadows are so dense that it makes people feel like walking under a broken fishing net. In the air, it is quietly contagious, and everyone's uneasy mood is infected.
As soon as they rounded the foot of the mountain, a small open field appeared in front of everyone, and in the sun, a dark cloud, as if shrouded over the barren pasture on the west side of the open field. Everyone had only heard of this place, and although it was not very far from the town, no one had ever visited. Standing in front of the open, for a while, everyone didn't know what to do.
Suddenly, at some point, a gust of mountain wind blew and swayed the weeds in front of us, which were half a person high. In the swing of the weeds, small bare graves appeared in front of everyone's eyes from the grass.
The crowd emboldened each other and tentatively walked towards the cemetery. The excitement of fear and exploring the unknown world is repeatedly intertwined in everyone's heart, leading everyone forward together.
As soon as I reached the edge of the 'mass grave', a flat pole was lying in the grass, and a few steps further in, more than a dozen small bowls with brown edges and white backgrounds appeared in a mess among the weeds.
Everyone stubbornly used the flat poles and sticks in their hands to tentatively remove the wild grass in front of them and walked inside. There are a few people who already have a posture of turning around and running away when they see that the situation is not good.
After a dozen steps inside, several small headless tombs suddenly appeared in front of everyone's eyes without warning, and everyone shrank back in fright. Everyone froze, and I don't know who exclaimed softly "ah", and Wu's stammering sweat instantly came out of his back. If it weren't for the fact that he was naturally timid, he would have been caught in the middle of everyone early, and he would probably have run away.
In that exclamation, everyone saw that on the corners of the three tombs, dozens of small bowls were scattered. On the body of the grave, there are long marks from top to bottom, straight and curved. These long marks are obviously drawn by human footprints. Moreover, on the shoulders and heads of each grave, there are densely trampled on human footprints, which are covered by the breeze and look very strange. Some of the footprints are stepping on the nest; Some of the footprints were slid straight from the shoulder of the grave like a thread to the border between the bottom of the grave and the plane.
Some of the grass, trampled by the scratched footprints, lay on the grave, still spilling juice outward. The small bowls, lying flat, upright, broken, or diagonally scattered around each headless mound. There are messy footprints at the bottom and around each headless mound, and there are traces of crawling between each grave. The degree of messiness is like the traces left by dozens of people, in these three headless mounds, disorderly stumbling and crawling.
Originally, most of the people came out of coaxing and curiosity, but when they arrived here, they were first frightened by the deception in front of them. The fears that were originally hidden in the depths of everyone's hearts were instantly stimulated by the subconscious and reality. Although it was under the high sun at noon, everyone's backs still felt cold, and a crosswind blowing from the side of the mountain made everyone shiver in their hearts. A few timid ones have quietly fallen from the position of standing in the crowd to the back, with a posture of running away when the situation is not good at any time.
Although it was early summer, the grass was already growing everywhere. However, the 'mass grave' does not have the slightest sense of vigorous vitality, but is outlined by those messy small bowls and footprints, outlining a strange and murderous image.
The innkeeper of the inn saw that everyone had no intention of moving forward. He even felt that Wu behind him stammered, and his shaking big hand touched his arm from time to time. The shopkeeper of Gongsun took a few steps forward, but his ears were listening to the footsteps of the people behind him, who knew that he took a few more steps inside, but he still couldn't hear the sound of the people behind him. As soon as he turned around, he saw that everyone was standing in the same place and did not move, and everyone put on a posture of relying on him as a weather vane.
Everyone was waiting for him to take a few more steps inside, and if nothing happened, everyone would follow. Once they saw that the shopkeeper of Gongsun encountered a little abnormality, everyone could run away, anyway, he was behind the palace at the end.
When the shopkeeper saw everyone's feet, it was as if they were nailed to the spot, and in this atmosphere of mutual contagion and fear, he himself couldn't help but feel cowardly and took two steps back. It didn't matter if he retreated, those few cowardly, deliberately lagging behind, had already trembled their legs and turned sideways, as long as they waited for the shopkeeper Gongsun to take another step back, those cowards would jump out. Especially Wu Stammer, who came to fill the number of people and help people, his hands were already trembling, and the dung spoon on his shoulder was also shaking with his trembling hands.
Suddenly, a slight moan came from the mass grave. Before the groans fell, a dark, withered hand stretched out from behind the grave in front of the shopkeeper Gongsun. The voice was like a tormented ghost hair from hell. The sound of a few timid "Mom" was like seeing a rabbit with a hound suddenly popping out of the grass and jumping straight out of the way.