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Cha Wenbin and the others slipped away from the inn in the chaos, and when they returned to their hometown, they were already in a much better state of mind than before. 【Baidu Search Member Login//

The biggest difference between the countryside and the city is that miracles are staged every day in the city, while legends are repeated in the countryside.

Some legends sound ridiculous, for example, people in our village often say that there is a kind of ghost in the mountain called "White Ghost Ghost".

The first time I heard this word was when adults told me. Rural children, fields, rivers and mountains are our biggest playground, adults are usually busy with farm work, rarely empty children, so they make up some myths and ghosts to scare the children.

It is under such circumstances that the "white ghost" has reached our ears.

It is said that there was a ghost dressed in white that would take the form of a small animal and lead people up the mountain, and then people would get lost in the mountain, until a few days later it was found that only a human skin was covered with white bones. This story, which sounded a little scary back then, did prevent us from going up the mountain to play to a certain extent, but there are still children who are not afraid to challenge the limit. Because the temptation of the mountains is too great for us, all kinds of wild fruits, when we are lucky, we can dig out one or two birds' nests or turn over a turtle.

This kind of "white ghost" has only been heard of in the past, but not seen, and slowly, its image in the minds of our children began to blur, and it is not so terrible. Over time, the intimidation of adults began to wear off.

Ah Fa is a middle-aged man with a crippled right leg, a few years older than my father, and he also has a son named Long Long, who is a year older than me and can be regarded as a childhood playmate.

They are all farmers, and they inevitably have to deal with the mountains all year round, and their families also live on the side of the mountain, with a bamboo forest behind them. At that time, the countryside still used earthen stoves, that is, firewood burning.

It is very difficult to point this firewood directly, so people use dry bamboo branches, fold them into small handfuls, light them, and put dry firewood on them, which is called ignition. Therefore, usually, we also call this bamboo branch a match.

Because there are large bamboo forests in the northwest of Zhejiang, there is no need to hoard matches. When it's time to cook, go to the back of the yard and pick up a little bit and break it.

That day, our family had finished dinner, and the family was chatting in the yard. Autumn is already in the middle of the night, and although it is not as hot as in the middle of summer, it can still keep people awake in the first half of the night.

At eight o'clock, a flashlight shook and rushed into our yard, and a woman's voice asked with a little anxiety: "Have you seen my family?" ”

The person who came was Ah Fa's wife, a woman with very big breasts, not much smart, but a very straightforward person, with a loud voice and a little anxious to do things. Ah Fa's leg disability was a child, and this woman did not dislike him, but gave birth to a pair of children.

When my mother saw that she was coming, she got up and prepared to give her a seat, and said, "No, what's wrong?" ”

The woman panted heavily, shook her voice and said: "Ouch, I'm in a hurry, let him find a match before I cook dinner, he went to the backyard, I waited for a long time and didn't see it, so I went to look for it, how do I know that there is no one." I thought it was a temporary matter, and I waited for a long time, but I still didn't see anyone, you also know that his legs and feet were inconvenient, I went outside and asked and said that I hadn't seen him, and a good person didn't know how to disappear. ”

It would not be surprising if someone else disappeared, for example, the men slipped out to play cards. But it was at the meal, Ah Fa usually rarely interacts with people, basically either working or staying at home, he disappeared at this point in time, which really makes people feel a little abnormal.

Seeing that the mother-in-law was about to cry urgently, Grandma hurriedly sent Abba to help find it, Abba muttered at first that a big living person could still be lost, maybe there was an emergency in which house.

Our village is not big, there are about 100 households, but it is not concentrated, it is laid out along the direction of the river, it takes about two kilometers from the head of the village to the end of the village, but every household knows it, and it is not difficult to inquire about a person's whereabouts.

The situation was obviously a bit bad, and the first half of the village asked them all over again, and they all said that they had not seen anyone. Because if Ah Fa is out of the village, then he will inevitably pass through this road. Since they all said that they had not seen it, then the person must still be within the confines of the village, so they continued to look inside.

There is a collective forest farm in the village, on which lives an old couple, who are usually mainly responsible for seeing if the forest farm has been stolen and cut down. They usually go down the mountain once a week to buy daily necessities, and their family lives a little in the village. On that day, it happened to be the day when the old couple went down the mountain to purchase, they were afraid of the sun during the day and were afraid of the heat, so they picked the evening and took advantage of the dawn to catch up with the mountain road.

When I was halfway there, I met a man with a handful of dried bamboo branches in his hand, his head down, and he kept walking up the mountain road.

When the old man saw that this person was not Ah Fa, why did he run up the mountain in the evening, so he shouted.

But Na Ah Fa was good, he didn't say a word, just pretending not to know, just caring about himself, and made the old lady a little unhappy: "Look at him like that, like a plague!" ”

The old couple was the last person to see Ah Fa that day, and when they told Ah Abba about the situation, Ah Dad thought that something might be wrong.

There are countless forks on the road, the northwest of Zhejiang is a mountainous area, the altitude is very high, there are many places that no one has ever been to the deep mountains and old forests, experienced farmers usually do not go up easily, not to mention a lame man with inconvenient legs and feet to run there with a match.

When Ah Fa's wife heard this, she cried violently and kicked on the road with her feet, saying that their man had let the "white ghost" lure her away.

It's all from the villagers, and if something happens, as long as you shout, the person who helps can gather half the village in five minutes.

All the young men were armed with guns, some with firewood knives, all kinds of flashlights, miner's lamps and torches, and some with dogs. When a man enters the forest at night, God knows if he will see a living man tomorrow, not to mention that there are wild beasts, and there are cliffs everywhere, and without a single light, it is very possible to step on the air.

The search for the mountain began almost immediately, and along the place where the old couple had last met, the people of the village shouted all the way to find it.

The mountain roads are rugged, and what makes it even more difficult is that there are too many forks in the road. The local dogs raised in the countryside look at the yard is still good, but after all, it is a search and rescue dog without professional training, a frightened rabbit can make the dog excited everywhere, and people can only run with the dog, without a sense of direction at all.

The forest was too deep, and everyone didn't dare to go, so they could only pray that Ah Fa didn't get into it, it was a road that people could walk, and almost all of them were turned over that night, and we, the children at home, could hear the shouts of "Ah Fa, Ah Fa" everywhere on the mountain. With Ah Fa's leg strength, in fact, he can't go far, because it is inconvenient for him to walk, let alone such a difficult mountain road.

But as a result, until dawn, Ah Fa's traces were still nowhere to be found, and no valuable clues were found.

The first wave of people went down the mountain to sleep with all kinds of speculations, and the second wave of villagers took over their work and continued to search the mountain. For a while, all kinds of rumors about Ah Fa flew all over the sky, some people said that he was crazy, some people said that he committed suicide, and some people said that he was arrested by the "white ghost".

This repetitive search lasted about three days. Three days later, the villagers gradually gave up, because they had drilled the most difficult old forests, and with the manpower and material resources of these days, they were to catch wild boars, and at least one row of wild boars was caught, not to mention finding a big living person.

Where is Afa? In fact, he was on that mountain, and there were many times when people were really close to him, but no one could spot him, or rather, he was going around in circles.

Ah Fa was finally found, and just when people wanted to give up, someone saw Ah Fa standing in front of the 10,000-foot cliff, still holding the match in his hand, standing there, motionless.

shouted that he didn't react, and everyone didn't dare to get close, for fear that he would jump down, a few bold ones slowly touched it, and hugged Ah Fa's waist, but he didn't have any resistance, you must know that he hasn't eaten or drunk for four days, where is there still strength to resist.

Ah Fa, who was carried down the mountain, didn't say a word, his eyes were empty, and the doctor couldn't say why, except for some weakness, there was nothing wrong with his body, and he left after hanging a drip.

In this way, it dragged on for a whole week, and Ah Fa's eyes never closed, just staring blankly at the ceiling, no matter day or night, his eyes were open like this. What's even more incomprehensible is that the match in his hand can't be taken down no matter how hard you try.

Still relying on how the women and children in his family cried, Ah Fa was still indifferent. So, just like that, Abba went to invite Cha Wenbin and wanted to ask him to see if he had fallen into any evil?

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